Chapter Summaries

Chu Feikong activated the Boundless Blood Sea Body, revealing a blood-demon form with Foundation Establishment-level physical power, and detected Qing Chen hiding nearby. Qing Chen summoned a powerful Netherworld Demon Spider to fight him, but Chu Feikong badly wounded it and turned his next attack toward Qing Chen.

• Chu Feikong sealed the secret passage, transformed into a blood demon, and broke through to a new level of power.
• Chu Feikong sensed Qing Chen hiding in the rock and challenged him to come out.
• Qing Chen emerged and summoned a Netherworld Demon Spider with the Spider-Mantis Essence-Devouring Formation.
• Chu Feikong evaded the spider's assault and battered aside its netherworld demon fire with Blood Demon Iron Claws.
• Chu Feikong formed a Flying Blade Blood Claw that pierced the spider's defenses and grievously wounded it.
• Chu Feikong began forming another Flying Blade Blood Claw, now targeting Qing Chen.

Qing Chen summoned the Foundation Establishment Pojun White Bone Demon God and used it to overpower Chu Feikong in the underground cave. As Qing Chen recovered, Chu Feikong revealed that he had secretly mastered the Boundless Blood Sea Body and had let outsiders infiltrate the Condensed Jade Sect Base as part of his plan.

• Qing Chen summoned Demon General Pojun, sacrificing his other banner abilities to control the Foundation Establishment demon with his strained spiritual sense.
• Chu Feikong fought the White Bone Demon God with his Blood Demon Iron Claws, Flying Blade Blood Claw, and Boundless Blood Sea, but Pojun broke through his attacks and wounded him.
• Qing Chen threatened Chu Feikong and refused his offer to share the blood pool, insisting he would claim it after killing him.
• Chu Feikong dismissed the Xu Household and admitted he had secretly mastered the Boundless Blood Sea Body instead of using the Unbroken Suffering and Joy Secret Art they gave him.
• Chu Feikong revealed that he had deliberately let outsiders infiltrate the Condensed Jade Sect Base so he could send Xu Baichuan above and carry out his plan.

Qing Chen escaped Chu Feikong by stealing a hundred cultivator skeletons and fleeing underground with an Earth-Escaping Talisman. He emerged near Xu Baichuan's Cave Abode, where Qin Zigu and Pan Yuelian became his next targets.

• Chu Feikong offered Qing Chen the blood pool's power and the Blood Cliff Scripture, but Qing Chen refused to trust him and attacked with Pojun.
• Chu Feikong activated the blood formation and drew power from the blood pool, stopping Pojun's bone sabers with a barrier.
• Qing Chen gathered the hundred cultivator skeletons into the Pojun Demon Mara Banner and fled with an Earth-Escaping Talisman, enraging Chu Feikong.
• Qing Chen escaped through the earth and surfaced near Xu Baichuan's Cave Abode.
• Qing Chen spotted Qin Zigu and Pan Yuelian, then unleashed the White Bone Demon Mara Banner's Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching power against them.

Qing Chen escaped with Qin Zigu and Pan Yuelian, brought them to a hidden refuge on Island Number Two, and began interrogating Qin Zigu about whether Mo Qiuxian had betrayed the Condensed Jade Sect. Qin Zigu denied knowing anything, and Qing Chen tortured him until shame and fear overwhelmed him.

• Qing Chen used the White Bone Demon Mara Banner to subdue Qin Zigu and Pan Yuelian, sealed their powers, and carried them away in the Green Bamboo Boat.
• Qing Chen sent Su Zixuan to meet him at Island Number Two, where he entered a concealed underground cultivation abode and restored his magical power.
• Su Zixuan arrived, and Qing Chen ordered her to take the prisoners to the interrogation room while warning her to prevent their escape or suicide.
• Qing Chen questioned Qin Zigu about Mo Qiuxian's involvement in the Condensed Jade Sect's betrayal, but Qin Zigu claimed he had made a mistake.
• Qing Chen activated the torture devices and water torture against Qin Zigu, who broke down in terror and humiliation.

Qing Chen tortured Qin Zigu until he revealed Mo Qiuxian’s dealings with the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island, then killed him and enslaved Pan Yuelian with a demon seal. Months later, Qing Chen sailed back toward the Condensed Jade Sect after advancing to the eighth layer of Qi Refining and strengthening his demonic banner.

• Qing Chen tortured Qin Zigu and forced him to confess that Mo Qiuxian had dealings with the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island.
• Qing Chen planted a Dao Heart Seed Demon Secret Seal in Pan Yuelian and later had the White Bone Demon Mara Banner devour Qin Zigu, whose soul became a Grudge Ghost.
• Qing Chen spent the following months commanding Pan Yuelian and using the banner’s blood essence to advance to the eighth layer of Qi Refining.
• Qing Chen’s spiritual sense reached more than thirty-six zhang, and the White Bone Demon Mara Banner grew stronger after refining another hundred cultivators’ skeletal bodies.
• Qing Chen sailed on the Green Bamboo Boat toward the Condensed Jade Sect and called Pan Yuelian over.

Qing Chen met Gu Jianchun at sea and gave him edited footage implicating Chu Feikong and the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island in a major conspiracy. He offered Gu the credit for the intelligence, and Gu agreed to report it to the sect and pass Qing Chen the rewards.

• Qing Chen considered using the essence blood stored in the White Bone Demon Mara Banner to advance toward peak Qi Refining and began thinking about Foundation Establishment.
• Gu Jianchun arrived by spirit ship and told Qing Chen that Chu Feikong had fled after the Mysterious Mountain Island unrest and could not be found in the Azure Wave Archipelago.
• Qing Chen claimed he had barely escaped Chu Feikong's pursuit and presented Gu Jianchun with an edited Projection Stone showing Chu Feikong, the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island, and an unidentified Golden Core sect's involvement.
• Gu Jianchun praised Qing Chen's contribution and recognized that the intelligence could make him a target.
• Qing Chen offered Gu Jianchun the credit, and Gu promised to report the matter to the Condensed Jade Sect and give Qing Chen all the resulting rewards.

Qing Chen handed Gu Jianchun a projection stone that could help him secure merit, then returned to the Condensed Jade Sect. There, Gao Yuliang warned Qing Chen that the sect’s factions would matter once he became an Inner Sect disciple.

• Qing Chen agreed to let Gu Jianchun take credit for the projection stone, and Gu promised to help him and tell him something after they returned to the sect.
• Qing Chen flew back to the Condensed Jade Sect with Gu Jianchun, who departed soon after arrival while Qing Chen sent a Voice Transmission Talisman to Su Zixuan.
• Qing Chen met Gao Yuliang, who noticed his cultivation had reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining and warned that Mo Qiuxian had reached the ninth layer.
• Gao Yuliang advised Qing Chen to find backing before entering the Inner Sect and explained that factions competed over the sect’s limited cultivation resources.

Qing Chen learned about the sect’s factions from Gao Yuliang, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate and practice Demonic Blood Aperture-Rushing. After a month of painful training, he stopped when a visitor sent a Voice Transmission Talisman and touched his cave’s formation.

• Gao Yuliang explained the sect’s factions and advised Qing Chen to seek powerful allies, offering help if trouble arose.
• Qing Chen thanked Gao Yuliang, considered him a potentially useful subordinate, and returned to Cave Abode Number 5533.
• Qing Chen began refining the blood essence held by the White Bone Demon Mara Banner and prepared to practice Demonic Blood Aperture-Rushing.
• Qing Chen endured a month of intense cultivation, tempering his divine sense with Demon Seed Golden Lotus and strengthening his body with Demonic Blood Aperture-Rushing.
• Qing Chen sensed a visitor at his cave abode, stopped cultivating, and cleaned himself before receiving them.

Qing Chen was summoned to the General Affairs Hall, where Xu Jiuling initiated his promotion to Inner Sect disciple and gave him a Mystic Blood Token. The chapter left Qing Chen preparing for an unspecified future opportunity and receiving advice to strengthen his combat abilities.

• Li Feiyu visited Qing Chen and summoned him to the General Affairs Hall by order of Xu Jiuling.
• Xu Jiuling confirmed Qing Chen's promotion to Inner Sect disciple and led him to offer incense to Patriarch Xuanji.
• Xu Jiuling used Qing Chen's blood to make Mystic Blood Tokens and gave him one, explaining that it recorded his identity and death location.
• Xu Jiuling counted Qing Chen's previous promotion mission as an Outer Sect mission and awarded him five hundred contribution points.
• Xu Jiuling urged Qing Chen to prepare for combat and told him that another opportunity would come later.

After Qing Chen became an Inner Sect disciple, Li Feiyu explained his new benefits and warned him about the sect’s cultivation requirements. Qing Chen headed to True Disciple Peak to meet Gu Jianchun, carrying a voucher to choose a free technique or secret art from the Scripture Repository.

• Xu Jiuling finished Qing Chen’s promotion ceremony, and Li Feiyu gave Qing Chen his Inner Sect benefits.
• Li Feiyu explained Qing Chen’s stipend, supplies, and the cultivation milestones he had to meet to retain Inner Sect status.
• Li Feiyu told Qing Chen that Gu Jianchun wanted to see him and gave him a Voice Transmission Talisman.
• Qing Chen left for True Disciple Peak and inspected his new robes, spirit stones, pills, artifacts, and Scripture Repository voucher.
• Qing Chen decided that mastering multiple complementary secret arts was more useful than relying on a single technique.

Qing Chen visited True Disciple Peak after Gu Jianchun summoned him, where he received 2,500 sect Contribution Points for his role in a major sect decision. With his existing points, he had enough to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Qing Chen traveled to True Disciple Peak and showed the guards the Voice Transmission Talisman proving Gu Jianchun had summoned him.
• The guards learned Qing Chen had just become an Inner Sect disciple and courteously guided him up the peak.
• Qing Chen reached Gu Jianchun’s palace, where Gu Jianchun welcomed him and said Qing Chen’s help had secured his position.
• Gu Jianchun told Qing Chen the sect would avoid acting rashly against the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island and awarded him 2,500 Contribution Points.
• Qing Chen added the reward to his existing points and realized he had enough to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Gu Jianchun explained that Qing Chen would have to wait for a Foundation Establishment Pill, then offered to obtain one using his larger quota. He also proposed that Qing Chen gain the Yue Household’s backing by becoming Dao companions with Yue Lingshan, a main-line daughter with a middle-grade spiritual root.

• Gu Jianchun told Qing Chen that Foundation Establishment Pills were limited and offered to exchange for one on his behalf.
• Gu Jianchun described the sect’s master-disciple, lineage, and Ascetic Cultivator connections, and said he and Daoist Wine belonged to the Third Grand Elder’s camp.
• Gu Jianchun explained that cultivators with middle-grade spiritual roots had less appeal as disciples to Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Gu Jianchun suggested Qing Chen become Dao companions with a female cultivator of the Yue Household to gain the lineage’s support.
• Gu Jianchun revealed that the Yue Household’s main-line daughter was named Yue Lingshan and had a middle-grade spiritual root.

Qing Chen accepted the Yue Household’s marriage proposal and learned that it would tie him to Gu Jianchun, Xu Jiuling, and their faction. He then sought Gu Jianchun’s advice on choosing a secret art from the Scripture Repository’s second floor, leaving with several promising options to consider.

• Gu Jianchun explained that Qing Chen and Yue Lingshan would become equal Dao companions once Qing Chen reached Foundation Establishment, and described the political motives behind the Yue Household’s offer.
• Qing Chen agreed to the arrangement, recognizing that the alliance could give him powerful backing within the sect.
• Qing Chen asked Gu Jianchun for advice about his one opportunity to choose a cultivation method or secret art from the Scripture Repository’s second floor.
• Gu Jianchun recommended the Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers and Little Soul-Locking Void-Piercing Sword for combat, the Nine-Bend Cloud-Brushing Evasion Technique for escape, and the Spirit-Concentrating Formula to complement Qing Chen’s Brahma Demon-Refining Art.

After choosing a Mystic Grade evasion technique and settling into Inner Sect Peak, Qing Chen spent two and a half years cultivating as tensions built on Earth Jade Island. He joined a large Condensed Jade Sect force heading to Sea Prosperity Island to destroy the Xu Household, but suspected the conspicuous expedition was bait for a greater threat.

• Qing Chen told Gu Jianchun he already possessed a High-Tier Yellow Grade soul-refining Mystic Art, then accepted his advice and left for the Scripture Repository.
• Qing Chen selected the Nine-Bend Cloud-Brushing Evasion Technique, copied accounts of Foundation Establishment breakthroughs, and returned to his residence at Inner Sect Peak.
• Qing Chen wondered why Mo Qiuxian had not troubled him, then spent two and a half years cultivating while trouble brewed over Earth Jade Island.
• Miao Long told the cultivators aboard the War Treasure Ship that the Xu Household had betrayed the Condensed Jade Sect and ordered them to kill anyone who refused to surrender.
• Qing Chen assessed the sect's overwhelming force against the Xu Household and questioned why the sect had spent so long preparing such a conspicuous expedition, suspecting it was bait for a stronger enemy.

As the Condensed Jade Sect prepared to attack the Xu Household, Qing Chen reflected on his hidden ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivation, strengthened arsenal, and plans to use multiple Foundation Establishment Pills. The chapter left him awaiting the expedition, with the challenges of Foundation Establishment still ahead.

• Qing Chen saw the Condensed Jade Sect assemble a massive War Treasure Ship and recognized that Xu Jiuling had been preparing the strike for years.
• Qing Chen noticed Li Feiyu, Xu Jiuling’s three personal disciples, and Mo Qiuxian among the assembled cultivators, while Yue Lingshan was absent.
• Qing Chen reviewed how he had reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining and accumulated powerful artifacts, a strengthened demon seed, and a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Qing Chen recalled Gu Jianchun’s explanation of the mana gate and the risks of taking multiple Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Qing Chen reasoned that his tempered body might let him take two pills together, while the White Bone Dao-Building Pill could serve as a last resort.
• Qing Chen considered the physical body and spiritual sense gates that would follow the mana gate on the path to Foundation Establishment.

Qing Chen led the Eleventh Mysterious Blood Squad aboard a warship to purge the Wang Household on Yellow Peace Island under the sect’s wartime orders. As the squad approached, Qing Chen planned to offer surrender before destroying the Lineage, while privately anticipating its accumulated wealth.

• Miao Long ordered squads led by Inner Sect disciples to purge the Xu Household’s allied islands within ten days, sparing mortals but leaving no future threats.
• Qing Chen was appointed captain of the Eleventh Mysterious Blood Squad and assigned to Yellow Peace Island, where the Wang Household had nearly fifty disciples and was allied with the Xu Household.
• Qing Chen assembled his twenty-seven squad members and set out aboard a sect-issued Mysterious Blood Warship.
• Gao Yuliang asked how Qing Chen would handle the order to act at his discretion, and Qing Chen said the Wang Household might survive if it surrendered with its entire Lineage.
• Qing Chen acknowledged that Deputy Captain Xu Xiake might oppose the plan, but said the squad had to follow the sect’s wartime laws.
• As he waited for the warship to reach Yellow Peace Island, Qing Chen privately anticipated finding valuable treasures in the Wang Household’s accumulated wealth.

Qing Chen rejected Xu Xiake’s plea to spare noncombatants and led the Condensed Jade Sect’s warship to Yellow Peace Island. The chapter ended with Qing Chen firing the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon at the island’s protective formation, throwing its defenders into chaos.

• Qing Chen offered Xu Xiake a promised reward for cooperation, but Xu Xiake insisted on following sect rules and accepting surrenders instead of slaughtering the innocent.
• Qing Chen claimed Hall Master Xu had privately ordered him to root out staunch supporters of the Xu Household, but Xu Xiake denied receiving those instructions and argued against indiscriminate killing.
• The Mysterious Blood Warship reached Yellow Peace Island and hovered before its Boundless Falling Wood Formation.
• Qing Chen ordered the cultivators aboard to power the warship’s formation and fired its Spirit-Annihilating Cannon at the island’s protective barrier.
• The cannon blast shook the formation, injured its defenders, and prompted Wang Household cultivators to fear that the Condensed Jade Sect intended to wipe them out without offering surrender.

Qing Chen led the Condensed Jade Sect's Mysterious Blood Warship in an assault on Yellow Peace Island, while Wang Anquan tried to protect the Wang Household through negotiation. After the Wang Household refused Qing Chen's ultimatum, the warship's Spirit-Annihilating Cannon destroyed the island's protective formation.

• Qing Chen's warship fired on Yellow Peace Island before the Wang Household could strengthen its protective formation.
• Xu Xiake scolded Qing Chen for attacking without a declaration of war, so Qing Chen sent a disciple to deliver an ultimatum.
• Wang Anquan offered to submit to questioning and surrender people connected to the Xu Household, but demanded that the rest of his lineage be spared.
• After an hour passed, Qing Chen rejected the Wang Household's response and ordered the warship's formation powered to its maximum.
• Qing Chen fired a pitch-black arrow from the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon, shattering the Wang Household's protective formation.

Qing Chen led the Condensed Jade Sect assault on the Wang Household island, destroying Huang'an City with the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon and trapping the survivors. He ordered his forces to kill everyone as the island became a slaughterhouse with no escape.

• Qing Chen fired the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon at Huang'an City, destroying its buildings and killing cultivators and mortals caught in the blast.
• Qing Chen activated the Mysterious Blood Warship's Island-Trapping Grand Formation, sealing the island and nearby waters behind a red mist.
• The Wang Household cultivators tried to resist and flee, but Qing Chen steered the warship through them while Condensed Jade Sect disciples attacked from the air and sea.
• Qing Chen ordered his forces to leave no one alive, and the disciples killed the fleeing cultivators and collected their bodies and Storage Bags for merit records.

Qing Chen led the Mysterious Blood squad against the Wang Household, overpowering its defenders while waiting for a hidden trump card to appear. Wang Anquan revealed a Second-Tier Spirit Talisman bearing the Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers, and Qing Chen answered by summoning the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal.

• Qing Chen rejected Gao Yuliang’s suggestion to wear down the Wang Household from the Mysterious Blood Warship and led the squad into battle.
• Qing Chen used three High-Grade Magical Artifacts to overwhelm Wang Ping'an and the long-bearded elder, while the Mysterious Blood squad crushed the Wang Household forces.
• Wang Ping'an accused Qing Chen’s side of slaughtering the Wang Household despite its surrender, but Qing Chen continued fighting and waited for a hidden enemy to act.
• Wang Anquan retreated and revealed a Second-Tier Spirit Talisman carrying the aura of the Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers.
• Qing Chen recalled his weapons and summoned the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal to counter the talisman.