Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen, Tie Qingyao, and Tie Ming tested the north pole magnetic jade platform, which healed their injuries and assessed their grasp of primordial magnetism. Tie Ming was sent to cultivate in the Spirit-Nurturing Mystic Chamber, leaving Qing Chen and Tie Qingyao alone to discuss their betrothal.

• The platform’s dark gold magnetic light healed Qing Chen, Tie Qingyao, and Tie Ming’s injuries, though it could not restore Tie Qingyao’s lost lifespan.
• Tie Ming struck the platform repeatedly with his Silver Gang Law-Shattering Fist, but its light reached only the first gradation.
• Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure judged that Tie Ming had no fortuitous opportunity to cultivate primordial magnetism and sent him to the Spirit-Nurturing Mystic Chamber for up to ten years of cultivation.
• Tie Ming discovered the chamber’s abundant, easily refined Spiritual Qi and a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone containing a strand of the power of fortune power of laws, then began cultivating.
• Alone with Qing Chen, Tie Qingyao acknowledged their betrothal and said she would share hardships with him but would never become dependent on a man.

Tie Qingyao demonstrated her Primordial Magnetism Azure Phoenix Formation on the trial platform and earned access to the Outer Sect Primordial Magnetism Hall. Qing Chen then tested the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel, reached eight marks, and impressed Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure with his rare mastery.

• Tie Qingyao formed the Primordial Magnetism Azure Phoenix Formation and struck the trial platform with a seal created by four magnetic phoenixes.
• Tie Qingyao illuminated five marks, qualified to cultivate the Dao of primordial magnetism, and received ten years of access to the Outer Sect Primordial Magnetism Hall.
• Qing Chen judged Tie Qingyao's skill and resolve favorably as she left the platform.
• Qing Chen formed a Primordial Magnetism Divine Boat and drove it into the trial platform, lighting the first six marks in one breath.
• Qing Chen pushed the boat's power further and briefly illuminated the eighth mark before the trial ended.
• Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure praised Qing Chen for bringing the spell close to great achievement and using Turning Back to Accumulate Power.

Qing Chen received a Low-Grade Spirit Crystal containing the direct-impartation inheritance of Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder and was admitted to the Inner Sect's Primordial Magnetism Hall for ten years of contemplation. After years of cultivation, he remained just short of condensing a complete Magnetic Origin Rule Thread and drank Blood Ginseng wine to prepare for another attempt.

• Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure awarded Qing Chen a Low-Grade Spirit Crystal containing the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder inheritance, sealed until his Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel reached great achievement.
• Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure assessed Qing Chen as having superior aptitude and granted him ten years in the Inner Sect's Primordial Magnetism Hall.
• Qing Chen entered the Primordial Magnetism Hall and cultivated amid its dense magnetic origin power.
• Qing Chen struggled to merge his three strands of magnetic origin rule power into a complete Magnetic Origin Rule Thread, while a meridian injury from a failed attempt continued to hurt.
• Qing Chen decided to restore himself before trying again and drank several swallows of Qing Sanxiao's Blood Ginseng wine.

Qing Chen consumed powerful medicines to break through his cultivation and force the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel into great achievement. He condensed a complete Magnetic Origin Rule Thread, then began refining the remaining medicinal energy alongside the flesh of three great demons.

• Qing Chen drank the last of his Blood Ginseng Spirit Wine and swallowed three Scarlet Marrow Infant Pills and a Sea-Soul Dragon-Origin Pill to fuel his breakthrough.
• Qing Chen used the violent medicinal energy to resonate the Divine Boat with all three strands of magnetic origin rule power.
• The Divine Boat reached great achievement, and Qing Chen condensed the strands into a complete Magnetic Origin Rule Thread.
• Qing Chen realized the Divine Boat's advancement would let him undo the seal on the Spirit Crystal and learn the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder.
• Qing Chen summoned the Six White Bone Demon Banners and began refining the remaining medicinal energy with the flesh and blood of the Azure-Faced Lion King, the Red-Mane Boar, and the Black-Scaled Ghost Python.

Qing Chen completed his cultivation in the inner sect Primordial Magnetism Hall, reaching the peak of Nascent Soul middle stage and greatly strengthening his blood path rules and divine sense. As the hall’s ten-year limit approached, he prepared to leave with the Low-Grade Spirit Crystal and the gains he had made.

• Qing Chen absorbed the remaining medicinal potency and demon essence, then broke through to Nascent Soul middle stage peak and completed the eleventh layer of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art.
• Qing Chen assessed how the four Brahma apertures, the Six Demon Banners, and his demon-slaying had strengthened his cultivation, blood path rules, and Blood River God-Slaying Spear.
• Qing Chen sensed that his divine sense had surpassed the Nascent Soul peak level and could reach more than a thousand li outside the Nanhua Realm.
• Qing Chen recognized that the hall’s rejection force was growing as his ten-year term neared its end.
• Qing Chen took the Low-Grade Spirit Crystal into his hand and regarded the opportunity as a tremendous gain.

Qing Chen used the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel to break the Spirit Crystal’s restrictions and receive the inheritance of Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder. As its power and insights flooded into him, he began condensing the spell inside the Primordial Magnetism Hall.

• Qing Chen guided a Magnetic Origin Rule Thread into the Spirit Crystal, triggering its inheritance and a painful assault on his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Demon Seed Golden Lotus shielded Qing Chen as the inheritance showed him how Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder could sever spiritual workings and damage an enemy’s foundation.
• Qing Chen recognized how the new spell could complement the Lawless Demon Seal and take advantage of his powerful Divine Sense.
• Ancient Magic Formulas entered Qing Chen’s Sea of Consciousness while the Primordial Magnetism Hall’s magnetic clouds formed a vortex and poured power into his Sea of Qi.
• The three runes on the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel lit up, and Qing Chen called for Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder to condense.

Qing Chen completed the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder empowerment, strengthening his Magnetic Origin Rule Thread before the ten-year term ended and he was expelled from the hall. Outside, Tie Zhan learned that three great demons guarded the surface, while Tie Ming emerged after breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and found Qingyao and Qing Chen still absent.

• Qing Chen condensed the Thunder Seal and absorbed law essences that strengthened his Magnetic Origin Rule Thread by nearly half.
• Qing Chen stored the spent Spirit Crystal in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda before Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure announced that the ten-year term had ended.
• Tie Zhan discovered three great demons guarding the surface near the group’s route out, while Tie Shou continued recovering from his injuries.
• Tie Ming emerged from Dust-Departure Hall at the end of the ninth year, having advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Tie Ming asked Tie Zhan whether Qingyao and Qing Chen had come out yet.

Tie Zhan discovered that Long Yuan and at least five other Transformed Great Demons had blockaded Bone Claw Plain, threatening the Iron Household when the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds closed. Tie Qingyao emerged with a breakthrough in magnetic origin rule power, but the family waited for Qing Chen before deciding how to face the demons.

• Tie Ming emerged after reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Tie Zhan told him the Demon Race had blocked the way out.
• Tie Zhan used the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to detect Long Yuan above them and later confirmed that at least six Transformed Great Demons, including the Silverback Azure Ape, were waiting at Bone Claw Plain.
• Tie Qingyao emerged at Nascent Soul Early Stage Peak with a strand of magnetic origin rule power and hundreds of formation flags.
• Tie Qingyao learned that Long Yuan was above them, while Tie Ming blamed the Silverback Azure Ape for escaping.
• Tie Zhan held the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and told the others to wait for Qing Chen.

After ten years in the Dust-Departure Hall, Qing Chen emerged with a power that made Tie Zhan sense he could not match him in a fight. The group prepared to face Long Yuan, but Qing Chen's arrival left Tie Zhan stunned by how much he had gained.

• Tie Zhan worried that Long Yuan still had abundant demonic power and might possess a restoring treasure or an ally among the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clans.
• Tie Ming, Tie Shou, and Tie Qingyao prepared their abilities and equipment while Tie Zhan considered how to protect the Iron Household's future.
• The Dust-Departure Hall trembled, and a sharp aura of annihilation emerged through its opening doors.
• Tie Qingyao sensed that the power within the hall belonged to the Primordial Magnetism path and far surpassed her own condensed magnetic origin rule.
• Qing Chen stepped out of the hall, and Tie Zhan sensed multiple powerful laws and felt that Qing Chen could be beyond his strength to defeat.

Qing Chen learned that Long Yuan and several great demons were blocking the way out of Dust-Departure Hall, then argued that the Iron Household should lend him its Primordial Magnetism Cauldron. He revealed his Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder, leaving Tie Zhan stunned by his mastery.

• Tie Zhan told Qing Chen that Long Yuan and at least five Transformed Great Demons guarded the way back, while Long Yuan’s demonic power had not declined in the Spirit-Severing Land.
• Qing Chen inferred that someone from the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan had helped the demons cross the Spirit-Severing Qi and said three days would be enough to prepare before Dust-Departure Hall closed.
• Qing Chen revealed that he had condensed Magnetic Origin Rule Threads and proposed borrowing the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to improve their chances against Long Yuan.
• When Tie Zhan questioned how much power Qing Chen could draw from the cauldron, Qing Chen revealed his Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder, shocking Tie Zhan and Tie Qingyao.

Tie Zhan lent Qing Chen the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and taught him its preliminary control formula. He then explained that the first tribulation of Rules transformed Rules Threads into a domain, leaving Qing Chen to consider how the surrounding world could incline toward a cultivator's Dao.

• Tie Zhan decided to lend Qing Chen the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron, trusting his mastery of Primordial Magnetism and citing his betrothal to Tie Qingyao.
• Tie Zhan sent Qing Chen the twenty-four patterns of the preliminary Cauldron-Control Formula and warned him that it could only borrow the cauldron's power.
• Qing Chen used the formula to examine the cauldron's Rules and asked Tie Zhan how First-Tribulation Rules differed from Nascent Soul Rules Threads.
• Tie Zhan explained that Nascent Soul Cultivators merely borrowed Rules, while First-Tribulation Rules spread outward into a domain that made heaven and earth incline toward the cultivator's Dao.

Qing Chen learned how true rule domains differed from his pseudo-domain, then spent seven days mastering the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron enough to prepare for battle. As he and the Iron Household members set out to subdue Long Yuan, Long Yuan questioned Wei Yixiao about Qing Chen’s supposed great fortuitous opportunity.

• Tie Zhan explained that first-tribulation rule domains altered their surroundings and were fundamentally stronger than Qing Chen’s divine-sense-supported pseudo-domain.
• Qing Chen practiced with the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron for seven days, gradually activating its control glyphs and resonating it with thunder intent.
• Qing Chen, Tie Qingyao, Tie Ming, and Tie Shou prepared to face Long Yuan, with Qing Chen assigning everyone their roles and declaring he would subdue Long Yuan first.
• Long Yuan waited at Bone Claw Plain with the Silverback Azure Ape and Wei Yixiao while the Demon Race searched the scarred land for what lay beneath it.
• Long Yuan asked whether Qing Chen possessed a great fortuitous opportunity, and Wei Yixiao swore that he was telling the truth.

Qing Chen emerged from underground with the Iron Household cultivators after ten years trapped beneath Bone Claw Plain. Long Yuan attacked him, but Qing Chen deflected the dragon’s tail strike and earned the demon’s attention.

• Wei Yixiao urged Long Yuan to kill Qing Chen for his treasures and warned that he could become a threat to the Demon Race.
• Long Yuan ordered the purple-eyed black crow to keep Gong Shu maintaining the spatial domain and threatened Gong Shisan if Gong Shu disobeyed.
• Dark gold patterns spread across Bone Claw Plain, and Qing Chen emerged from underground with Tie Zhan, Tie Qingyao, Tie Ming, and Tie Shou.
• Long Yuan swept his tail at the group, and Qing Chen used Heaven and Earth Without a Trace and the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to knock the attack aside.
• Long Yuan recognized Qing Chen’s strength and declared that he would kill him.

Long Yuan sealed off the battlefield and challenged Qing Chen to fight him alone, while the Iron Household group remained trapped. Qing Chen countered Long Yuan's rapid attacks with his spear and spells, but Long Yuan struck him hard and pressed the assault.

• Long Yuan ordered the demons to block every escape route, trapping Tie Zhan and the Iron Household group while Gong Shisan and Gong Shu remained bound nearby.
• Wei Yixiao urged Long Yuan to gang up on Qing Chen, but Long Yuan dismissed him and announced that he would eat Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen evaded Long Yuan's opening claw with Heaven and Earth Without a Trace, then used his spear and magnetic movement to avoid the dragon's tail.
• Long Yuan fired a Black Dragon City-Breaking Arrow, which Qing Chen countered with Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder and the Immortal-Locking Gourd.
• Qing Chen blocked Long Yuan's charge with the Lawless Blood Seal and struck at his neck, but Long Yuan deflected the spear with his water rule and knocked Qing Chen through a boulder.
• Long Yuan immediately pursued the injured Qing Chen with another claw.

Qing Chen feigned exhaustion to catch Long Yuan off guard, then injured him with a calculated combination of attacks. Long Yuan’s humiliation turned to murderous fury as black clouds and water gathered around Qing Chen, revealing a dangerous manifestation of rules.

• Qing Chen endured Long Yuan’s relentless attacks while Tie Zhan watched in alarm and Tie Qingyao restrained herself from intervening.
• Qing Chen pretended to be near defeat, then used Heaven and Earth Without a Trace to draw Long Yuan into a rushed attack.
• Qing Chen struck Long Yuan beneath the jaw with the Lawless Blood Seal, pierced the opening with Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder, and smashed the wound with his spear.
• Long Yuan crashed to the ground, and the onlookers reacted with shock as Qing Chen recognized how carefully he had needed to plan the successful strike.
• Long Yuan rose furious and unleashed black clouds and water that locked onto Qing Chen with a cold presence of rules.

Long Yuan unleashed a devastating rain domain against Qing Chen, nearly trapping him beneath its combined attacks. Qing Chen used Tie Zhan’s Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and combined it with Blood Path Rules, forcing back the rain as he prepared a counterattack.

• Long Yuan’s black rain battered Tie Zhan’s group and Qing Chen, while Tie Qingyao recognized it as an innate ability resembling a Black Water Domain.
• Long Yuan locked down Qing Chen with the rain and attacked as the Purple-Eyed Black Crow and Silverback Azure Ape prevented Tie Qingyao and Tie Zhan from intervening.
• Tie Zhan sent the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to Qing Chen and secretly told him to use the magic formula to control it.
• Qing Chen activated the Cauldron-Control Formula and used the cauldron’s magnetic light to push back Long Yuan’s black rain.
• Qing Chen poured Blood Path Rules into the cauldron, balancing them with its Primordial Magnetism Domain, then commanded it to attack.

Qing Chen used the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to unleash a devastating blood thunder that destroyed Long Yuan’s rain technique and badly wounded him. Exhausted but triumphant, Qing Chen demanded that Long Yuan become his spirit pet.

• Qing Chen formed a dark-gold pseudo-domain by combining primordial magnetism and blood path rules, then shaped a silver-white Thunder Seed inside the cauldron.
• Qing Chen unleashed Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Blood Thunder, erasing Long Yuan’s black rain and tracing its spiritual mechanism back through the clouds.
• The blood thunder destroyed Long Yuan’s Cloud-Riding and Rain-Bringing divine ability and ground away two digits of his left foreclaw.
• The gathered cultivators watched in shock as Qing Chen’s strike proved powerful enough to wound Long Yuan, while Qing Chen struggled with the attack’s backlash and exhaustion.
• Qing Chen told Long Yuan to become his spirit pet and promised to spare him.

Qing Chen and the Iron Household faced Long Yuan and the other great demons in a standoff after Qing Chen wounded Long Yuan with the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron. A sudden disturbance at the Heavenly Devil Tower suggested the forbidden grounds were nearing closure, while a terrifying force broke into the tower’s top floor.

• Qing Chen concealed the strain of using the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and threatened Long Yuan with another strike, keeping the demons at bay.
• Tie Zhan led the Iron Household cultivators to stand behind Qing Chen as Tie Qingyao deployed a formation and the two sides prepared to fight.
• The Heavenly Devil Tower’s black pillar pulsed and split with dark red markings, prompting Tie Zhan to warn that the forbidden grounds might soon close.
• Tie Zhan and Tie Qingyao recognized that the change was linked to the Divine Ability Realm ancient bloodline sought within the tower.
• Dugu Yifang, Qing Yuanjia, Yuwen Huaji, Linghu Xuanji, Tuoba Shanhai, Gong Xinghe, and the other Great Cultivators continued their ten-year struggle around the ancient bloodline.
• A terrifying presence of blood and fire descended through the Heavenly Devil Tower as something at its top floor was forcibly opened.

The ancient bloodline at the Heavenly Devil Tower split into four portions, which Dugu Yifang, Qing Yuanjia, Yuwen Huaji, and Linghu Xuanji each seized as the tower's top began to stir. Elsewhere, Mad Shark True Lord activated Wu Gui's Jade Talisman during the chaos and invoked his Lord to claim the cauldron soul.

• The ancient bloodline exploded into four portions, and Dugu Yifang, Qing Yuanjia, Yuwen Huaji, and Linghu Xuanji each captured and sealed one in an Ancient Cauldron.
• Dugu Yifang proposed that the cultivators stop fighting and join forces to investigate the Heavenly Devil Tower's top, where terrifying fluctuations had appeared.
• At Bone Claw Plain, Qing Chen sensed that Blood Fiend and Huo Lifei were opening a spatial node at the tower and resolved to go to the Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea.
• Mad Shark True Lord recognized the tower's black-gold reverse patterns and tower heart reversal, then activated Wu Gui's Jade Talisman at the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds.
• Mad Shark True Lord sacrificed his vital essence blood, pressed the Jade Talisman to his brow, and called on his Lord to claim the cauldron soul.

Mad Shark True Lord activated a blood-colored jade talisman, drawing a hidden power from the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds into Wu Gui’s Ten Thousand Gu Source Cauldron. The forbidden grounds then began forcibly expelling everyone, leaving Qing Chen and the other cultivators caught in the closing upheaval.

• Mad Shark True Lord used his blood and true essence to enlarge the jade talisman while Hu Xing Walker and the Gu Dao cultivator held off Yue Hanshan and Chan Master Hui'an.
• The jade talisman exploded above the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds, sending a pillar of blood-black light through the Heavenly Devil Tower and beyond the grounds.
• The pillar entered Wu Gui’s Ten Thousand Gu Source Cauldron, restoring its ancient gu markings and carrying soul light into it as Wu Gui revealed he had pursued this power rather than treasures or inheritance.
• Wu Gui taunted Xiao Canglan and explained that he had made a deal with the High Priest to obtain what he wanted and weaken the forbidden grounds’ suppression.
• Spatial rules surged through the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds, shutting down restrictions and expelling cultivators while ancient halls and treasures vanished.
• Qing Chen circulated his immortality true blood and formed a dark gold protective aura as the forbidden grounds’ repulsive force pressed in from every direction.