Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu how her family abused her and her sister, how she died resisting them, and how she returned from the dead. She revealed that the Zhang Clan's old matriarch was her older sister and that she intended to destroy the Zhang Clan, leaving Chen Qingyu to confront her resolve.

• Zhang Yanqing recounted how her relatives preyed on her and her older sister, and how her grandfather killed her when she tried to escape and resist.
• Chen Qingyu realized Zhang Yanqing was a Corpse Demon, and Zhang Yanqing insisted she was a living person given a new life.
• After they calmed down, Chen Qingyu asked why the Zhang Clan's old matriarch had helped Zhang Yanqing, and Zhang Yanqing revealed that the matriarch was her older sister.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that her older sister had considered destroying the Zhang Clan but could not harm her descendants, while Zhang Yanqing had the resolve and ability to do so.

Zhang Yanqing revealed that she had infected the Yanggu Zhang Clan with Corpse Demon Poison and planned to destroy it, while Chen Qingyu tried to stop her. When his great-grandfather failed to answer, Chen Qingyu realized Zhang Yanqing had used the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror to erase traces of herself and alter memories.

• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that her dying sister had tacitly allowed her revenge against the Zhang Clan and confirmed she had infected the clan with Corpse Demon Poison.
• Chen Qingyu realized that Zhang Yanqing had also infected physicians who insisted on treating the clan, and she revealed that Master Jia was an ally from the Sage Evolution Palace.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that she had arranged their meeting at the Plucking Osmanthus Pavilion so Chen Qingyu could witness her destruction of the Yanggu Zhang Clan.
• Chen Qingyu objected that her plan would unleash a calamity on innocent people and called on his great-grandfather, but no one responded.
• Zhang Yanqing said she had erased records of her existence and fabricated memories, leading Chen Qingyu to identify the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror as the means she used.

Zhang Yanqing revealed that the Sage Evolution Palace had sealed Chen Qingyu inside an illusion with the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror’s power, intending to kill him and turn him into a Corpse Demon. As Zhang Yanqing attacked, Chen Guangsheng realized he had also been trapped and was blocked from escaping by Master Jia.

• Chen Qingyu realized Zhang Yanqing had used the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror to conceal their surroundings and trap him.
• Zhang Yanqing admitted that Chen Qingyu was her target and said she planned to kill him, resurrect him, and turn him into a Corpse Demon.
• Zhang Yanqing erased the garden into a boundless void and attacked Chen Qingyu with a powerful palm strike.
• Chen Guangsheng mistook an illusion of Chen Qingyu and Zhang Yanqing being intimate for reality, then realized he had been trapped by the mirror’s power.
• Chen Guangsheng tried to flee the sealed region, but Master Jia appeared in an azure blaze and blocked his way.

Master Jia blocked Chen Guangsheng from reaching Chen Qingyu while the Zhang Clan’s Corpse Demon Poison erupted, turning many of its people into demons. The Zhang Clan’s surviving mighty figures gained the upper hand briefly, but a far more powerful Corpse Demon emerged and left Zhang Hechu despairing.

• Master Jia confronted Chen Guangsheng and revealed that an envoy had already moved against Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Guangsheng and Master Jia clashed, preventing Chen Guangsheng from reaching the Ninth Ancestor.
• Wu Su'e saw Zhang Clan members transform into Corpse Demons and escaped through the void using her golden hairpin.
• Zhang Hechu led the surviving Zhang Clan mighty figures against the Corpse Demons, and their forces began to gain the upper hand.
• A powerful white-haired Corpse Demon emerged from the deepest part of the Zhang Clan inner city, and Zhang Hechu despaired.

Chen Qingyu fought Zhang Yanqing in the Plucking Osmanthus Pavilion’s sealed void, revealing his greatly increased cultivation and countering her draining ability. Zhang Yanqing used the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror to redirect his sword attack, then unleashed her innate divine ability against him.

• Zhang Yanqing ambushed Chen Qingyu, but he blocked her palm and seized her hand, explaining how she had lured him into a trap.
• Chen Qingyu revealed his Spirit Origin Realm Eighth Heavenly Layer cultivation and used [Drawing Out Primordial Yang] to drain Zhang Yanqing’s strength.
• Zhang Yanqing dispersed into ripples to escape, and Chen Qingyu struck with the Nine Hells Heavenly Punishment Sword’s sword soul.
• Zhang Yanqing’s jade mirror reversed Chen Qingyu’s lightning Sword Qi, but he recalled the sword soul and survived the resulting blast.
• Zhang Yanqing gathered the ripples into a huge vortex and attacked Chen Qingyu with her innate divine ability.

Chen Qingyu escaped Zhang Yanqing’s ripple vortex with [Standing Upright Without a Shadow] and unveiled his newly created ultimate art, Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, which began overwhelming her. Zhang Yanqing’s presence rapidly weakened under its attacks, and Chen Qingyu declared that he had won.

• Chen Qingyu became intangible with [Standing Upright Without a Shadow] and passed through Zhang Yanqing’s ripple vortex unharmed.
• Chen Qingyu realized that Zhang Yanqing’s jade mirror could reflect attacks, then decided to use his new ultimate art.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, combining wind, snow, sand, lightning, and the devouring power of [Drawing Out Primordial Yang].
• Doomsday Heavenly Calamity struck Zhang Yanqing’s widespread ripple form, shattering her ripples and weakening her presence by more than thirty percent.
• Chen Qingyu told Zhang Yanqing that she was already dead and that he had won.

Chen Qingyu defeated Zhang Yanqing by overwhelming her with the Five Elements Lightning Dharma and devouring her primordial Yang, then returned to find the Zhang Clan in ruins. He saw the Old Matriarch kill Zhang Hechu, apparently completing the clan’s extermination.

• Chen Qingyu split his Five Elements lightning attack to bypass Zhang Yanqing’s ancient jade mirror and struck her with four bolts.
• Chen Qingyu seized Zhang Yanqing and used Drawing Out Primordial Yang until she crumbled into dust.
• The Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror’s power dispersed, returning Chen Qingyu to the Plucking Osmanthus Pavilion, where he found the surrounding land devastated and the Zhang Clan under attack by Corpse Monsters.
• Chen Qingyu recognized the Old Matriarch of the Zhang Clan among the attackers and realized Zhang Yanqing had triggered the Corpse Demon Poison.
• The Old Matriarch smashed Zhang Hechu’s last clan-guarding Mystic Artifact and killed him, ending the Zhang Clan’s direct line.

Chen Qingyu survived the trap set by Zhang Yanqing and the Sage Evolution Palace, while the Ninth Ancestor arrived and killed Master Jia. With the Zhang Clan’s descendants and Corpse Monsters eliminated, Chen Qingyu was asked to explain what he had learned from Zhang Yanqing.

• Master Jia sensed Zhang Yanqing’s death and Chen Shaojun’s escape, then tried to flee as Chen Guangsheng pursued him.
• The Ninth Ancestor emerged from the void, seized Master Jia, and destroyed him with the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell after explaining that a secrecy oath made soul-searching dangerous.
• The Ninth Ancestor wiped out the Corpse Monsters that had turned their attention toward Chen Qingyu.
• The Ninth Ancestor and Chen Guangsheng met Chen Qingyu, checked that he was unharmed, and apologized for the danger he had faced.
• Chen Qingyu said he had underestimated Zhang Yanqing and the Sage Evolution Palace but had escaped with important intelligence, prompting Chen Guangsheng to ask what he and Zhang Yanqing had discussed.

Chen Qingyu revealed that Sage Evolution Palace had orchestrated the wilderness disaster and the Corpse Demon calamity, using resurrected Corpse Demons who retained their minds and memories. He and the Ninth Ancestor concluded that the upheaval at Heavenly Sword Mountain had been bait to draw the Liangshan Wang Clan into a trap, and Sage Evolution Palace remained a hidden threat.

• Chen Qingyu explained that Sage Evolution Palace had stolen the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror's authority, manipulated the wilderness disaster, and colluded with those behind the Corpse Demon calamity.
• Chen Qingyu revealed that Zhang Yanqing had been a Corpse Demon who could think and act like an ordinary person, and that Sage Evolution Palace could control other Corpse Demons.
• The Ninth Ancestor and Chen Guangsheng inferred that the blue-robed Master Jia was a resurrected Corpse Demon who had used the Cangliu Xie Clan's Heaven Substitution Art.
• Chen Qingyu reasoned that Sage Evolution Palace probably could not command many ancient experts, since major powers preserved their ancestors' bodies in Great Yin Grottos.
• Chen Qingyu explained that Zhang Yanqing had arranged evidence and used a Yanggu Zhang Clan treasure to make the Heavenly Sword Mountain upheaval look like the Yanggu Zhang Clan's work.
• Chen Qingyu warned that without his presence, the Liangshan Wang Clan would have investigated the disaster, followed the planted evidence to the Yanggu Zhang Clan, and walked into Master Jia's trap.

Chen Qingyu explained how the Sage Evolution Palace planned to infiltrate the holy lands by turning their elders into Corpse Demons, then revealed that Zhang Yanqing survived and the scheme depended on closing the Supreme Void Dao Realm. He concluded that the conspiracy’s architects may have engineered a chain of deaths to force the realm’s closure, even if he had never exposed Xu Yuanxian.

• Chen Guangsheng described how Master Jia and Zhang Yanqing intended to turn holy land elders into Corpse Demons and use them to destroy the Yanggu Zhang Clan and infiltrate the holy lands.
• Chen Qingyu said he had disrupted the plan by killing Zhang Yanqing’s incarnation, but warned that she was not truly dead.
• The Ninth Ancestor noted that Master Jia had been killed in his original body, and Chen Qingyu reasoned that Zhang Yanqing held a higher position in the Sage Evolution Palace.
• Chen Qingyu pointed out that the scheme depended on the Supreme Void Dao Realm being closed, which prevented the holy lands from communicating and sharing information.
• Chen Qingyu proposed that Xu Yuanxian’s death and the later deaths of Chen Qinghan, Wu Su'e, and other heavenly prodigies were planned to provoke an investigation and force the realm to close.

The Ninth Ancestor revealed that the Sage Evolution Palace had stopped being able to steal the Supreme Void’s authority and had engineered the Supreme Void Dao Realm’s closure to advance its plans. He agreed to reopen the realm while continuing the investigation and advised Chen Qingyu to finish his visit to the Spirit Clan Royal Court before returning to the Divine Capital.

• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the four ancestors had found a barrier preventing further theft of the Supreme Void’s authority.
• Chen Qingyu worried that his efforts had been wasted, but the Ninth Ancestor said he had saved prodigies, strengthened alliances, and exposed the Sage Evolution Palace.
• Chen Qingyu suggested reopening the Supreme Void Dao Realm, and the Ninth Ancestor agreed that it should be reopened while the investigation continued.
• Chen Guangsheng asked whether reopening the realm would give the Sage Evolution Palace another chance, and the Ninth Ancestor said the four ancestors would expel its exposed portion of authority.
• The Ninth Ancestor warned Chen Qingyu that the Sage Evolution Palace had targeted him and advised him to complete the blood replacement ritual at the Spirit Clan Royal Court before returning to the Divine Capital.

After the battle in Yanggu City, Chen Qingyu prepared to continue south to the Spirit Clan Royal Court while the Ninth Ancestor returned to the Divine Capital to report on the Sage Evolution Palace. The chapter ended with Chen Qingyu and Chen Guangsheng departing through the void after Wu Su'e returned to the Taihuang Imperial Capital.

• The Ninth Ancestor left for the Divine Capital and instructed Chen Guangsheng to escort Chen Qingyu to the Forest of Eternal Night.
• Chen Qingyu remembered Wu Su'e, and Chen Guangsheng found her enclosed in a sphere of Human Dao Dragon Qi and freed her.
• Chen Qingyu explained that the Yanggu Zhang Clan's upper ranks and nearly all its direct descendants had been wiped out.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e agreed to part ways, and a golden-robed elder arrived to take Wu Su'e back to the Taihuang Imperial Capital.
• Chen Guangsheng teased Chen Qingyu about Wu Su'e before taking him through the void toward the Spirit Clan Royal Court.

Chen Qingyu entered the Forest of Eternal Night alone, hoping to see how his mother and sister truly lived without the Spirit Clan Royal Court arranging a misleading welcome. He flew deeper into the dark, maze-like forest and began to lose his bearings.

• Chen Qingyu asked Chen Guangsheng to let him approach the Spirit Clan Royal Court alone and explained that he wanted to visit his mother and sister without being recognized as Chen Shaojun.
• Chen Guangsheng agreed, gave Chen Qingyu a starlight talisman to summon him in an emergency, and reminded him not to let the blood replacement ritual be disrupted.
• Chen Qingyu flew into the Forest of Eternal Night while Chen Guangsheng waited outside.
• Chen Qingyu traveled through the pitch-black forest and realized he could no longer see the daylight behind him.
• Chen Qingyu struggled to navigate the winding forest and worried that he might get lost before reaching the Spirit Race.

Chen Qingyu entered the Forest of Eternal Night to fulfill an old agreement between the Chen Clan and the Spirit Clan Royal Court. After Spirit Race patrol guards challenged him, he presented a Bloodline Covenant but refused to surrender it, and told them his parentage would be enough to verify his mission.

• Zhang Yanqing admitted that Chen Shaojun had defeated her, and the Holy Venerable ordered her to return and stay out of outside affairs for a time.
• Chen Qingyu flew deep into the Forest of Eternal Night without finding Spirit Race settlements until a patrol surrounded him.
• Chen Qingyu introduced himself as a direct descendant of the Chen Clan of Changluo and explained that he had come to fulfill an agreement with the Spirit Clan Royal Court.
• The Spirit Race guards sensed the Royal Court's imprint on Chen Qingyu's Bloodline Covenant and asked to take it so they could report his arrival.
• Chen Qingyu refused to hand over the covenant and said the royal court would recognize him as the son of Chen Zhengxing and Ling Qiuxia.

Chen Qingyu waited while the Spirit Race reported his claim of an agreement with the royal court. A deputy hall master came to collect him and took him through the Donggan Tribe’s ancestral tree altar toward the Spirit Clan Royal Court.

• The Spirit Race girl agreed to report Chen Qingyu’s words to the royal court, then left him waiting in the forest.
• The Donggan Tribe’s elder reported Chen Qingyu’s claim through the tribe’s ancestral tree altar.
• An ancestral tree envoy recognized Ling Qiuxia’s name in the report and escalated it to a deputy hall master.
• The deputy hall master decided to bring Chen Qingyu to the royal court and teleported to the forest to meet him.
• The deputy hall master took Chen Qingyu to the Donggan Tribe’s ancestral tree altar, and they vanished in a flash of azure light.

Chen Qingyu arrived at the Spirit Clan Royal Court and settled into his quarters at Jade Firmament Palace while waiting to meet his mother and older sister. As he asked when he could see the Spirit King, his older sister, Princess Cold Mountain, arrived.

• Chen Qingyu entered the Spirit Clan Royal Court and saw that its palaces and homes stood among the vast branches of the Ancestral Tree.
• A tall Spirit Race woman escorted Chen Qingyu to Jade Firmament Palace and left him to settle into his assigned quarters.
• Chen Qingyu considered the blood exchange ritual and asked an attendant when the Spirit King might grant him an audience.
• The attendant explained that summons could take anywhere from a day to several months, and Chen Qingyu decided he could wait.
• A herald announced Princess Cold Mountain's arrival, and the attendant identified her as the daughter of the Princess of Rosy Light and the Spirit King's granddaughter.

Chen Qingyu met his cold sister, Princess Cold Mountain, and was brought to Rosy Radiance Palace to see his mother, Ling Qiuxia. After reuniting with her, he told her Chen Shaojun had been pardoned from guarding the Great Yin Grotto, but Princess Cold Mountain questioned whether he was telling the truth.

• Princess Cold Mountain arrived in a royal carriage and ordered Chen Qingyu to come with her to see their mother.
• Chen Qingyu followed his sister through the palace and realized he could read the Spirit Race's writing.
• At Rosy Radiance Palace, Ling Qiuxia welcomed Chen Qingyu and gently rebuked Princess Cold Mountain for addressing him by his full name.
• Ling Qiuxia asked about Chen Shaojun, and Chen Qingyu said he had been pardoned from guarding the Great Yin Grotto.
• Princess Cold Mountain doubted Chen Qingyu's account and accused him of possibly deceiving their mother.

Chen Qingyu spoke with Ling Qiuxia about his father’s pardon and learned why she lived alone in the palace. Ling Qiuxia explained Princess Cold Mountain’s painful past, leaving Chen Qingyu understanding why his sister had become distant.

• Chen Qingyu told Ling Qiuxia and Princess Cold Mountain that his father had rendered a great service and been pardoned, but he could not yet reveal the details.
• Ling Qiuxia explained that she had dismissed the palace servants because she preferred living on her own, then recalled how she and Chen Zhengxing had changed each other’s habits.
• Ling Qiuxia revealed that Chen Zhengxing had hidden his cooking skills from Chen Qingyu, and Chen Qingyu lamented never having tasted his father’s food.
• Princess Cold Mountain sensed something, left the hall to handle it, and told Chen Qingyu to stay there until she returned.
• Ling Qiuxia described how Princess Cold Mountain had witnessed the destruction of their family, been ostracized in the Spirit Clan Royal Court, and gradually grown distant and guarded.
• Chen Qingyu said he understood why Princess Cold Mountain was cold toward him and recognized that the Spirit Clan Royal Court had never been her home.

Ling Suxia explained why Princess Cold Mountain had treated Chen Qingyu coldly and warned him that Princess Yulong might try to delay his blood exchange ritual until the Ancestral Tree’s birthday settled the contest for eldest princess. After visiting his mother, Chen Qingyu left the palace with his sister, who invited him into her royal carriage.

• Ling Suxia told Chen Qingyu that Princess Cold Mountain resented the Chen Clan’s weakness and his premature cultivation, but had always hoped to reunite their family.
• Ling Suxia explained that Princess Cold Mountain was competing with Princess Yulong for the vacant position of eldest princess, which would be decided at the Ancestral Tree’s birthday in half a month.
• Ling Suxia warned Chen Qingyu that Princess Yulong might imprison him to delay the blood exchange ritual, and advised him to remain at Jade Firmament Palace until the Spirit King granted him an audience.
• Chen Qingyu and Ling Suxia agreed that he should undergo the blood exchange ritual, and Princess Cold Mountain returned after dealing with a woman who had resorted to petty tricks.
• Ling Suxia sent Chen Qingyu and Princess Cold Mountain away, and Princess Cold Mountain invited him to ride beside her in the royal carriage.

Chen Qingyu rode with Ling Shuangxue, who questioned him about his cultivation and Chen Shaojun while revealing her own plans and abilities. After their conversation, she promised to take him to their mother the next morning, and Chen Qingyu returned to Jade Firmament Palace pleased with the trip.

• Ling Shuangxue dismissed Chen Qingyu's claim that he had cultivated without the Chen Clan's help and told him her name.
• Ling Shuangxue asked Chen Qingyu about Chen Shaojun, and he described him as an ordinary person who had experienced both success and setbacks.
• Ling Shuangxue explained that she saw Chen Shaojun as a radiant, world-dominating figure, then stopped discussing him and the Emperor Yuan Palace.
• Chen Qingyu asked about Ling Shuangxue's cultivation and travels, learning that she was at the sixth heaven of the True Gang Realm and had recruited followers in the Forest of Eternal Night.
• Ling Shuangxue said she would pick Chen Qingyu up the next morning to visit their mother, then left in the imperial carriage.
• Chen Qingyu returned to Jade Firmament Palace, thinking the trip had been worthwhile.