Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei swallowed the Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill and absorbed its overwhelming medicinal power as North-Subduing City watched and wagered on how quickly he would break through. Before midnight, he finished absorbing the pill and raced out of the city beneath gathering thunderclouds.

• The Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill resisted Lin Fei until he seized and refined it in his palm.
• Lin Fei swallowed the pill on the roof of the city lord's residence and drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to absorb its power.
• Residents of North-Subduing City debated how long Lin Fei would need to break through, and Ye Wudi bet that he would do it in less than a day.
• As night fell, Lin Fei drew in the essence of the stars and moon while continuing to cultivate.
• Just before midnight, Lin Fei finished absorbing the pill, released a beam of divine radiance, and raced out of the city as thunderclouds gathered overhead.

Lin Fei broke through to Earth Immortal First Rank and survived a powerful lightning tribulation while advancing another layer. The Human Race climbed in the Ten Thousand Races ranking, prompting the furious Heavenly Serpent Race to send a Golden Immortal to investigate its losses.

• Ye Wudi collected his gambling winnings while Youyue lectured the gamblers and proposed banning gambling.
• Lin Fei underwent a massive lightning tribulation, fought off its beasts, and reached Earth Immortal First Rank Second Layer.
• Lin Fei sensed his new ability to manipulate earth veins and began laying a Spirit Gathering Array around North-Subduing City.
• The Human Race rose from 3,992nd to 3,582nd in the Ranking of the Ten Thousand Races, while the Heavenly Serpent Race fell from seventy-eighth to seventy-ninth.
• The Ancestor of the Heavenly Serpents ordered an investigation, and a Golden Immortal left Heavenly Serpent Mountain through a teleportation array.

The Heavenly Mastiff King investigated the destruction of Dog Mountain, but a blood-colored fortune initially blocked his attempt to see the past. After the image revealed the Old Peng King’s looting and mockery, he threatened the Peng Race but decided to negotiate instead, while the Old Peng King felt an inexplicable unease in North-Subduing City.

• The Heavenly Mastiff King arrived at Dog Mountain and asked who had killed the Dog Race’s Ancestor and Progenitor.
• A Dog Race cultivator said the newcomers knew nothing about the attack, and the Heavenly Mastiff King used a method to retrace the past.
• Blood-colored mist blocked the Heavenly Mastiff King’s vision until it dispersed and revealed the Old Peng King plundering Dog Mountain and joking about eating Dog Race meat.
• The Heavenly Mastiff King angrily blamed the Peng Race and threatened the Old Peng King, but erased the image and decided to negotiate with the Peng Race rather than start a war.
• In North-Subduing City, the Old Peng King sneezed and wondered why a Human Immortal could catch a chill.

The Heavenly Mastiff King found Heavenly Spring Town devastated and suspected a human powerhouse was behind the attacks, but Cai Beiyu confronted him and rewrote his memories. He awoke believing Cai Beiyu had personally destroyed his territory, while she departed to pursue a greater threat to the Human Race.

• The Heavenly Mastiff King arrived at Heavenly Spring Town and found its people gone, its buildings ruined, and its spirit herbs plundered.
• He used retrospection to investigate the attacker but saw only blood-colored mist, then suspected the culprit was a powerful human, possibly the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.
• Purple lightning struck near the Heavenly Mastiff King after he cursed the heavens, and he stopped speaking recklessly.
• Cai Beiyu appeared and used her united yin-and-yang power to subdue the Heavenly Mastiff King, then entered his sea of consciousness to rewrite his memories.
• Cai Beiyu thought that the foremost race was plotting to seize the Human Race's blood-colored fortune and ascend to the imperial throne.
• The Heavenly Mastiff King awoke believing Cai Beiyu had destroyed his territory, and he fumed over her threat to fight him if he declared war on the Kunpeng Race.

Cai Beiyu was tortured by the Human Emperor’s projection, who demanded she find the person who took his blood-colored fortune and betray Lin Fei. She pretended to comply, then used the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree’s power to bind and destroy the projection, accepting that she would likely die when he returned.

• The Human Emperor’s projection beat Cai Beiyu and demanded that she reveal who had taken a share of his blood-colored fortune.
• Cai Beiyu claimed she needed seven days to investigate, while the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree gathered power around the palace.
• The projection threatened Cai Beiyu with the Kunpeng Race’s destruction unless she killed Lin Fei, and Cai Beiyu promised to obey.
• The Kunpeng Ancestral Tree burned its vitality as a Kun and a Peng appeared, binding the projection with chains of order.
• Cai Beiyu said the Human Emperor’s return in a hundred days would likely be the day she died, and declared that she feared no deaths as long as the Heavenly Venerable remained unharmed.

Cai Beiyu destroyed the mysterious figure’s projection with a grand array, but suffered grievous injuries and collapsed. In North-Subduing City, Lin Fei prepared to pursue the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Heavenly Court’s great storehouse of power, as he and Ye Wudi set out to obtain it.

• Cai Beiyu revealed that she had spent three thousand years preparing the array to destroy the mysterious figure’s projection, sacrificing her blood energy and Immortal Essence as its core.
• After the projection vanished, the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree withered, and Cai Beiyu collapsed from her injuries while longing for Lin Fei before losing consciousness.
• Lin Fei established a Spirit Gathering Array around North-Subduing City, and Ye Wudi’s team completed repairs to the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array.
• Lin Fei explained to Ji Yaoguang that the Thirty-Three Heavens contained vast immortal medicines and Great Dao spirit roots that had once strengthened the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Fei declared that obtaining the Thirty-Three Heavens would bring the day of reckoning closer, then drank from a flask and departed with Ye Wudi.

Lin Fei and his companions traveled toward Jiangjin City on the Old Peng King's back, using his Peng identity to deter trouble. They stopped in a Heavenly Dog Race town, where Lin Fei posed as a mysterious young master and revealed a golden Peng phantom that terrified the town's lord.

• Ye Wudi warned the group that Jiangjin City was under the Heavenly Dog Race's jurisdiction and that Golden Immortal experts might be present.
• Lin Fei and his companions ate fish soup on the Old Peng King's back while he continued flying, exhausted and resentful.
• Lin Fei ordered the Old Peng King to descend into a Heavenly Dog Race town, where the lord, Gou Wude, asked what brought them there.
• Ye Wudi rebuked Gou Wude for asking Lin Fei's name, and Lin Fei claimed they had stopped to buy supplies on the way to Jiangjin City.
• Lin Fei displayed a golden Peng phantom that left Gou Wude trembling and the gathered residents in an uproar.

Lin Fei, posing as a young master of the Kunpeng Race, frightened Gou Wude into letting him and his companions enter town. After learning Gou Wude planned to capture and torture humans, Lin Fei concealed his killing intent and decided to wait for the returning Heavenly Dog Race members so he could rescue the captives and catch them all at once.

• Lin Fei intimidated Gou Wude by claiming the status of a Kunpeng Race young master, and Gou Wude knelt, apologized, and slapped himself.
• Gou Wude ordered the gate guard to open the restriction, then led Lin Fei, Ye Wudi, Ji Yaoguang, and Old Peng King into town.
• Gou Wude offered Lin Fei beauties and described plans to capture humans hiding in the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range.
• Gou Wude described torturing and eating humans, prompting Lin Fei to release a brief burst of killing intent.
• Lin Fei held back from attacking and decided to wait for the returning Heavenly Dog Race members so he could rescue the captives and catch them all at once.

Lin Fei demanded every human in the town from Gou Wude, offering only a single low-grade spirit stone in return and refusing to spare Gou Wude’s servants and concubines. He then chose to stay at Drunken Fragrance Pavilion, leaving Ji Yaoguang uneasy as she wondered whether she and Lin Fei were visiting a brothel together.

• Lin Fei criticized Gou Wude’s treatment of humans and asked how many remained in the town.
• Lin Fei took a jade hairpin without paying and gave it to Ji Yaoguang.
• Lin Fei demanded all three thousand humans in town and tossed Gou Wude a single low-grade spirit stone as payment.
• Lin Fei refused Gou Wude’s request to keep his maidservants and concubines.
• Gou Wude led Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, Ye Wudi, and the Old Peng King to Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• Ji Yaoguang felt uneasy at the tavern and wondered whether she and Lin Fei had come to a brothel together.

Lin Fei met Qingqiu, a human courtesan brought to his room, and treated her with compassion rather than as an entertainer. He asked whether she had ever hoped to escape her life and suggested that her freedom might come soon.

• Gou Wude ordered the brothel to clear the seventh floor, provide Lin Fei with food and drink, and send Qingqiu to attend him.
• Gou Wude warned the proprietress not to serve food made from sapient races and left to gather the humans in town for Lin Fei.
• Old Peng King enjoyed the food, wine, and company in his room, while Ye Wudi dismissed most of the women sent to him.
• Lin Fei dismissed the women of other races and kept Qingqiu because she was human.
• Lin Fei spoke with Qingqiu as a friend, asked whether she had hoped to escape her life, and told her that day might not be far off.

Lin Fei killed Gou Yuanlin’s two lackeys after they attacked him, then forced Gou Yuanlin to his knees. Gou Yuanlin pleaded for his life by invoking his father, Gou Wude.

• Qingqiu mistook Lin Fei’s kindness for an offer to buy her freedom, but he did not explain his intentions.
• Gou Yuanlin learned that Qingqiu was entertaining an important guest and stormed into Lin Fei’s room with two lackeys.
• Gou Yuanlin ordered his lackeys to break Lin Fei’s limbs, then lewdly propositioned Ji Yaoguang when Qingqiu tried to intervene.
• Lin Fei sent his wine cup flying like a blade and killed both lackeys.
• Lin Fei crushed Gou Yuanlin with invisible pressure, forcing him to his knees as Gou Yuanlin cried that his father was Gou Wude.

Lin Fei crippled Gou Yuanlin and threw him into the river after Gou Yuanlin tried to use his family’s status to threaten him. Gou Yuanlin ran to his father for help, but Gou Wude recognized the danger and slapped him.

• Lin Fei mocked Gou Yuanlin’s demands, then immobilized him and broke his arms and legs.
• Lin Fei kicked Gou Yuanlin through the window into the river while Qingqiu opened it.
• Lin Fei asked Qingqiu to cook dog meat and warm wine, and she realized he meant Heavenly Dog.
• Gou Yuanlin went to Gou Wude and reported that Lin Fei had attacked him at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion with Qingqiu present.
• Gou Wude slapped Gou Yuanlin and cursed him for bringing him into danger.

Gou Wude beat Gou Yuanlin for provoking Lin Fei, a young master of the Kunpeng Race, while Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, and Qingqiu ate heavenly dog meat at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion. Gou Wude arrived to apologize, saw them dining, and shut the door in fright.

• Gou Wude learned Gou Yuanlin had provoked Lin Fei and beat him while cursing his recklessness.
• Qingqiu prepared heavenly dog meat as Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang waited in his room at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• The smell of the meat alarmed the Heavenly Dog Race and frightened the proprietress, but Qingqiu joined Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang in eating.
• Gou Wude brought Gou Yuanlin to Lin Fei's room, saw the three eating dog meat, and slammed the door shut, thinking he had opened it wrong.

Lin Fei forced Gou Wude and Gou Yuanlin to apologize after serving heavenly dog meat, then promised Qingqiu that he would restore her and her mother’s freedom the next day. He and his companions went boating while the Heavenly Dog Race’s merchants complained that Lin Fei was taking everything in sight.

• Gou Wude brought Gou Yuanlin to apologize to Lin Fei and offered a thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones, which Lin Fei accepted before dismissing them.
• Qingqiu pleaded for Lin Fei to save her and her mother, and Lin Fei promised to restore their freedom the next day.
• Qingqiu invited Lin Fei and his companions to take a pleasure boat, and Lin Fei went to fetch Ye Wudi and the Old Peng King.
• Lin Fei and the others sailed along the river with wine, courtesans, and Qingqiu playing the pipa, while the Old Peng King joined them after playing with seven women.
• Vendors and shopkeepers along the river complained as Lin Fei took whatever caught his eye.

Lin Fei returned to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion after a night of taking goods from the Heavenly Dog Race’s town, where Gou Wude sent nine human concubines to serve him. Lin Fei offered the women freedom and a home among his people, then killed one after discovering through soul search that she had committed atrocities against humans to gain Gou Wude’s favor.

• Lin Fei gave the goods from the outing to Qingqiu and returned to his room.
• Lin Fei found nine human women whom Gou Wude had sent as his concubines.
• Lin Fei rejected the women’s service and offered to take them to his race’s home, but several feared losing their protection.
• Lin Fei used the Soul Search Technique on the voluptuous woman and discovered she had devised a human-brain dish for Gou Wude and abused her fellow humans.
• Lin Fei killed the voluptuous woman and ordered the others to remove her body.

Lin Fei killed the human woman who had helped Gou Wude serve a child’s brains, then waited for the town’s returning nonhuman cultivators. At Wude Town’s entrance, he attacked them and revealed his Supreme Yin Physique as the battle began.

• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang that Gou Wude and the woman had eaten a child’s brains, and Ji Yaoguang comforted him as he waited for the town’s cultivators to return.
• More than twenty Heavenly Dog Race and Dog Race cultivators returned to Wude Town with captured humans stored in a porcelain bottle treasure.
• Lin Fei confronted the cultivators at the town entrance and declared that he was there to bury them.
• Lin Fei killed the leading Heavenly Dog Race cultivator with a sword of immortal light from his eyes.
• The remaining cultivators attacked, but Lin Fei moved through their slowed attacks and revealed his Supreme Yin Physique and the Bright Moon Rises over the Sea technique.

Lin Fei massacred the other-race cultivators in Wude Town, freed the humans’ porcelain bottle from its binding, and attacked Gou Wude while claiming to act for the Kunpeng Race. After sealing the town and revealing his golden Peng avatar, he prepared to strike down Gou Wude.

• Lin Fei used the seawater to kill the other-race cultivators, collected their treasures and bodies, and told the humans to remain inside the porcelain bottle.
• Lin Fei killed the Heavenly Dog Race and Dog Race residents and guards along the street, then confronted Gou Wude at the lord’s manor.
• Lin Fei struck Gou Wude, stole the lord’s jade token, and threatened to slaughter Wude Town while blaming the Kunpeng Race.
• Gou Wude transformed into a heavenly dog, ordered his forces to kill the visiting other-race cultivators, and lunged at Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei revealed a golden Peng avatar formed from his protective immortal gang qi and brought its wing down toward Gou Wude.

Lin Fei killed Gou Wude and led the destruction of Wude Town, slaughtering the Heavenly Dog Race and Dog Race forces. By dawn, the town lay in ruins, and Qingqiu had witnessed the vengeance she once thought impossible.

• Lin Fei defeated Gou Wude with golden Innate Grand Void Gang Qi, piercing him and killing him.
• Lin Fei ignored Gou Yuanlin's pleas and killed the survivors in the lord's manor with golden feathers.
• Lin Fei swept through Wude Town, while the Old Peng King and the others purged the Heavenly Dog Race and Dog Race forces.
• Qingqiu trembled as the slaughter recalled the Heavenly Dog Race's past massacre of humans.
• Lin Fei transformed the golden Peng into a black giant fish and unleashed supreme yin across the town.
• By daybreak, Wude Town had been reduced to blood-soaked ruins.

After Lin Fei destroyed the Heavenly Dog and Dog Races in Wude Town, he freed their surviving slaves and directed the human survivors toward a refuge near the Far North Spacetime Fragments. Before leaving for Jiangjin City, Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang gave Qingqiu resources to help her and the other freed slaves.

• Lin Fei told the surviving slaves they could leave, but stopped the humans and asked where they would go.
• After most other races had departed, Lin Fei pointed the humans with nowhere to go toward a location near the Far North Spacetime Fragments and warned them to keep it secret.
• Qingqiu thanked Lin Fei for freeing the slaves, and Ji Yaoguang gave her a spatial ring containing resources to share with her companions.
• Lin Fei told Qingqiu to leave with the others, then departed with Ji Yaoguang and their companions on the Old Peng King's back.

Lin Fei concealed his group’s auras and sent the Old Peng King back toward Qingqiu, then returned when four Mahayana cultivators tried to seize Qingqiu’s spatial ring. He immobilized them as the attack began, and Shu Zimo watched a flash of sword light followed by blood.

• Lin Fei concealed everyone with a talisman and ordered the Old Peng King to fly back toward Qingqiu and her party.
• Qingqiu noticed the Mahayana cultivators acting suspiciously, and Yu Qingfeng and three nonhuman cultivators blocked her path to claim her spatial ring.
• Qingqiu warned Yu Qingfeng that the other three would kill him after she was dead, but he accepted their assurances and let them attack.
• Lin Fei appeared and bound all four cultivators with an invisible force, revealing that Qingqiu had been caught in a trap set for them.
• Shu Zimo watched a flash of sword light, then opened his eyes to see blood splashing.