Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng and Sushang taught the children to cultivate, while Ze Ling practiced through the night. The next morning, Cang Tong and A Ning went into the forest, where they killed an injured giant snake and found two unusual golden scales.

• Xie Feng demonstrated Sword Qi, and Cang Tong and the other children learned to release it under Sushang's guidance.
• Ze Ling absorbed Origin Power until she could take in no more, then practiced the Xuanji Sword Art through the night.
• Cang Tong and A Ning headed into the mountain forest to look for prey and argued about their mixed-blood heritage and strength.
• A wounded giant snake attacked Cang Tong, but A Ning shielded him from its venom and Cang Tong struck the snake's eyes with his sword.
• A Ning cut the snake in two, and Cang Tong found two golden scales and gave one to her.

Xie Feng entered Hidden Cloud Valley and waited with Gu Yuan for the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Queen to be born. When its energy erupted across the valley, Gu Yuan and Xie Feng began collecting it.

• A Ning and Cang Tong recovered the golden scales and snake meat, then talked about protecting each other as they grew stronger.
• Xie Feng left Sushang at the stronghold and traveled alone to Hidden Cloud Valley.
• Xie Feng used a token to pass through the valley’s successive formations and met Gu Yuan beside the purple sphere.
• Gu Yuan told Xie Feng that the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Queen was a stillbirth of pure energy and warned that Earthborn Devil Creatures and human factions might come for it.
• The sphere cracked and released a pillar of light that filled Hidden Cloud Valley with energy, and Gu Yuan and Xie Feng began collecting it.

Xie Feng and Gu Yuan absorbed the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Queen’s energy in Hidden Cloud Valley until four Flame Spirit Blood Wolf elders arrived to seize it. As the elders attacked Gu Yuan during his suppression period, Xie Feng came over to help.

• Xie Feng entered the queen’s pillar of light and absorbed its energy while Gu Yuan collected energy with his bottle.
• Four Flame Spirit Blood Wolf elders broke through Hidden Cloud Valley’s formations and confronted Gu Yuan and Xie Feng.
• The elders recognized Gu Yuan’s weakened state and decided to take his bottle and the queen’s energy.
• Gu Yuan prepared to fight the four elders, then Xie Feng patted his shoulder and walked over to him.

Xie Feng killed the four Flame Spirit Blood Wolf elders who had threatened Gu Yuan, then let Gu Yuan collect the remaining energy. As Gu Yuan explained the Origin Realm’s peoples and the Imperial Evil Realm’s deadly curse, he revealed that the Devil Emperor had left the realm over two hundred years ago and now sheltered his people outside it.

• Xie Feng killed the four Flame Spirit Blood Wolf elders with four strokes of his Azure Profound Fan and told Gu Yuan he could take the remaining energy.
• Gu Yuan collected the energy and explained the conflict between humans, devils, and Earthborn Devil Creatures in the Origin Realm.
• Gu Yuan said the Devil Emperor had left the Origin Realm after taking the Imperial Evil Realm, and had tracked Xie Feng with the Divine Mechanism Mirror while Xie Feng was in the Dao Realm.
• Gu Yuan explained that his cultivation was weakened during a suppression period and recounted how the Human Emperor’s curse killed everyone in the Imperial Evil Realm every hundred years.
• Gu Yuan said the Devil Emperor had built a floating island and enclosed it with the Imperial Evil Realm so devils could shelter outside the world when the curse struck.

Xie Feng began his Transcendence Tribulation Crossing in Hidden Cloud Valley after inviting Gu Yuan to his stronghold in the Demon Spirit Domain. His tribulation destroyed the valley and transported him, along with the lightning, to a corner of the universe.

• Gu Yuan showed Xie Feng the Ring of No Calamity, then accepted his invitation to visit his stronghold in the Demon Spirit Domain.
• Golden lightning struck near Gu Yuan, and Xie Feng explained that his Tribulation Transcendence Stage had arrived.
• Gu Yuan fled Hidden Cloud Valley, while Little Sword and Kong Qiusu also left to avoid the tribulation.
• Xie Feng faced the gathering thunderclouds as the lightning destroyed Hidden Cloud Valley and killed every other living creature there.
• Xie Feng caught a thunderbolt with his palm, lost his flesh and blood, and released powerful Qi from his skeleton.
• The power of the myriad Daos erupted and transported Xie Feng and the lightning to a corner of the universe.

Xie Feng endured the evolved lightning of his Transcendence Tribulation Crossing and absorbed its power with Solar Zhuzhao before the strain opened a rift into a second universe. He followed a starry road to a black sea and found a golden tomb whose presence felt connected to him; its doors opened as he approached.

• Xie Feng used Solar Zhuzhao to devour and store the lightning bolts while dodging their attacks.
• The absorbed lightning strained space until a rift opened, and a river of stars pushed Xie Feng into a second universe.
• Xie Feng walked along a road made of white and purple stars until he reached a pitch-black sea.
• Xie Feng stepped onto the sea, and its waters parted to reveal the seabed.
• Golden light revealed a triangular tomb, and Xie Feng approached it after sensing a familiar presence inside.
• The golden tomb's great doors opened on their own.

Xie Feng entered the golden tomb and found Kong Qiusu’s lifeless body sealed inside a crystal sphere; touching it triggered a chain of explosions that sent Xie Feng back to Hidden Cloud Valley amid countless Golden Dragons of Fortune. The resulting tribulation crossing drew the attention of the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race, whose priestess sensed a human using the queen’s cocoon’s power.

• Xie Feng entered the golden tomb and discovered Kong Qiusu’s body inside a crystal sphere in a star-filled chamber.
• Xie Feng touched the sphere, triggering explosions that engulfed the tomb and the Non-Sinking Sea, while Golden Dragons of Fortune carried him back to his world.
• Kong Qiusu showed Gu Yuan a mist mirror of Xie Feng undergoing tribulation as millions of planets evaporated; Little Sword was struck by a surge of power and knocked unconscious.
• Yu Xiu and the priestess discussed Gu Yuan’s theft of the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm queen’s cocoon and the queen’s faintly emerging presence.
• The priestess sensed Golden Dragons of Fortune and a human undergoing tribulation with the cocoon’s power, prompting Yu Xiu to ask who the human was.

After crossing his tribulation, Xie Feng stored the Golden Dragons of Fortune and headed back to the stockade with Gu Yuan, while Kong Qiusu struck down a priestess spying on him. Xie Feng found the stockade rebuilt as a grand replica of the Xuanji Sect and entered with Gu Yuan.

• A priestess used a divination instrument to investigate Xie Feng, and Kong Qiusu sensed her probing and struck her down from afar.
• Xie Feng finished his tribulation, stored the Golden Dragons of Fortune in his dantian, and met Kong Qiusu, Little Sword, and Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan warned Xie Feng that the Devil Emperor’s enemies retaliated against the Devil Race and advised him not to reveal his connection to Ge Ya.
• Xie Feng invited Gu Yuan to visit the stockade, and Gu Yuan agreed to return with him.
• Xie Feng arrived to find the stockade rebuilt as a replica of the Upper Realm’s Xuanji Sect, then invited Gu Yuan inside.

Xie Feng welcomed Gu Yuan to the Xuanji Sect, where the children feared him because he belonged to the Devil Race. Gu Yuan won them over with lollipops, then identified their mixed-blood origins and described the hardships they had faced before joining the sect; Xie Feng sent Sushang and the children down the mountain for a day of fun.

• Xie Feng introduced Gu Yuan to Sushang and said she could spend his money however she liked because they were family.
• Sushang brought Gu Yuan to meet Ze Ling, Cang Tong, A Ning, and Lei Xing, who recoiled when they realized he belonged to the Devil Race.
• Gu Yuan gave each child a lollipop, and they began calling him a strange uncle instead of Uncle Gu.
• Gu Yuan identified the children’s mixed-blood lineages and explained that mixed-blood Earthborn Devil Creatures were treated as low-ranking servants and slaves.
• Xie Feng gave Sushang a crystal card and sent her and the children down the mountain to enjoy a day off.

Xie Feng learned that Gu Yuan had seen a Golden Tomb in the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race’s territory and traveled to Silkworm Imperial City to investigate. There, Princess Qianying challenged him to fight her instead of her commander, Mo Wu.

• Xie Feng asked Gu Yuan about a Non-Sinking Sea and the Golden Tomb he had seen during his Tribulation Crossing, and Gu Yuan recognized the description from his time in the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race.
• Gu Yuan warned Xie Feng that the race might recognize him because he had stolen their queen’s cocoon, so Xie Feng decided to go alone; Gu Yuan also learned that Xie Feng’s eldest senior brother was the Devil Emperor’s eldest senior brother.
• Xie Feng traveled to Silkworm Imperial City in the Dragon Calcining Domain and found a crowd watching Princess Qianying reject sword experts seeking to become her teacher.
• Qianying noticed Xie Feng and offered to take him as her Sword Dao teacher if he defeated Mo Wu, prompting Xie Feng to step forward so he could gain access to the imperial city.
• Qianying changed her mind and declared that Xie Feng would fight her instead.

Xie Feng defeated Princess Qianying in a swordsmanship duel without using a sword, then accepted her as his student. Qianying declared him her Sword Dao teacher and defended him from Mo Wu, leaving Mo Wu resentful.

• The crowd gossiped about Xie Feng’s looks and speculated that Qianying had taken a fancy to him before their duel began.
• Qianying attacked Xie Feng with her Emperor Sword, but he cut through her Sword Qi and shattered the weapon with a beam from his fingers.
• Xie Feng broke Qianying’s defensive shield and forced her to kneel and kowtow, then released her when she demanded he withdraw the pressure.
• Qianying acknowledged Xie Feng’s skill and named him her Sword Dao teacher, warning Mo Wu and the others not to disrespect him.
• Qianying introduced herself as Xie Feng’s student and kowtowed to him twice, while Mo Wu glared at Xie Feng resentfully.

Qianying brought Xie Feng to the imperial city and introduced him as her teacher, but Grand Elder Xin Zhong objected to a human teaching the princess. After Xie Feng easily overpowered him and spared him, Qianying took Xie Feng to the academy and offered him its resources and a generous teaching fee.

• Qianying showed Xie Feng the imperial city and told him he would live at the academy near her residence.
• Grand Elder Xin Zhong challenged Qianying’s choice of a human teacher and insisted that Xie Feng remain confined to the academy.
• Xie Feng teleported to Xin Zhong, held his fingers to the elder’s neck, and warned that he could have killed him before letting him go.
• Qianying praised Xie Feng and said she trusted him, while he asked whether she believed he had never killed an Earthborn Devil Creature in the Origin Realm.
• Qianying brought Xie Feng to the academy, offered him its facilities, and proposed paying him three million Origin Coins a day.

After Qianying left, Xie Feng explored the underground city and clashed with Xin Zhong, who asked him to save the princess from a life-threatening condition. Xie Feng agreed for thirty million and warned Xin Zhong not to spy on him, then shut himself inside the academy.

• Qianying left Xie Feng to familiarize himself with the academy while she handled her own affairs.
• Xie Feng surveyed the underground city’s powerful defenses before Xin Zhong confronted him for wandering outside the academy.
• Xie Feng traded insults with Xin Zhong, who eventually explained that Qianying was born without a dantian and faced dangerous backlash from the core pearl sustaining her cultivation.
• Xin Zhong appealed to Xie Feng to save Qianying, and Xie Feng agreed in exchange for thirty million.
• Xie Feng demanded that Xin Zhong pay from his own pocket and stop spying on him, then killed the hidden watcher and shut the academy gates.

Xie Feng refined the lightning energy he had absorbed and discovered that both it and Dao Qi could be converted into Origin Power, advancing his cultivation to the tenth stage of the Nirvana Realm. Qianying visited with pastries and revealed that she had been born without a dantian, and Xie Feng began examining her with his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes.

• Kong Qiusu buried himself in Xie Feng's cultivation manuals, while Little Sword drained jars of spirit liquids until Xie Feng sealed it inside one.
• Xie Feng refined the lightning energy in his dantian and found that both lightning energy and Dao Qi could transform into Origin Power.
• Xie Feng reached the tenth stage of the Nirvana Realm and estimated that his combined strength was around the eighth or ninth stage of the Universe Creation Realm.
• Qianying brought pastries to Xie Feng and tried to tell him that she had been born without a dantian, but he said the First Elder had already told him.
• Xie Feng asked to examine Qianying's dantian pearl and used his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes to look at her dantian.

Xie Feng learned that Qianying was born without a dantian and found a pill formula that could help her, but its rare ingredients remained to be gathered. He asked Ge Ya to find creation dust, and Ge Ya agreed after wiping out the alien beasts pursuing him.

• Xie Feng examined Qianying and saw that a black corruption was slowly spreading across the red bead in place of her missing dantian, but he could not yet treat her.
• Kong Qiusu told Xie Feng about the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill and gave him its formula; Xie Feng asked Xiao Tianzi to gather more than two hundred medicinal ingredients.
• Xie Feng contacted Ge Ya to ask about creation dust, one of the pill's three rare primary ingredients.
• Ge Ya took a call from Xie Feng while alien beasts pursued him for stealing their energy stone, then killed them all when they interrupted his conversation.
• Ge Ya promised to find creation dust and planned to use the energy stone to pursue the silver lightning bolts.

Xie Feng sought out Yu Xiu to offer a cure for Princess Qianying’s missing dantian while pursuing the ingredients for a pill and keeping his search for the Golden Tomb in mind. He revealed that he could refine the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill, and Yu Xiu urgently asked what he needed.

• Xie Feng learned that the remaining pill ingredients came from powerful dragon and python Earthborn Devil Creatures, then decided to ask Gu Yuan for help.
• Xie Feng demanded that Xin Zhong take him to Yu Xiu, Qianying’s birth father, at the priestess’s temple.
• The priestess died after seeing Xie Feng, and Little Sword and Kong Qiusu revealed that she had probed him during his tribulation crossing and been struck by the bookworm.
• Yu Xiu discovered that Xie Feng could resolve Qianying’s missing dantian with a Dao Grade Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill.
• Yu Xiu’s suspicion turned to hope, and he urgently asked Xie Feng what he needed.

Xie Feng secured the ingredients, a priest’s position, and sixty million Origin Coins from Yu Xiu in exchange for helping Qianying open her dantian. After taking over the priests’ temple, he found a map of the Golden Devil Emperor Silkworm Race’s forbidden grounds and went to seek Xin Zhong.

• Xie Feng asked Yu Xiu to obtain a ten-thousand-year dragon horn and python king blood, and Yu Xiu agreed to pursue the dragon horn while Xie Feng handled the Creation Dust.
• Xie Feng persuaded Yu Xiu to make him a priest and pay him sixty million Origin Coins for refining the Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill.
• Xie Feng explored the priests’ temple, where Little Sword absorbed all its spirit liquid and silenced the protesting priests by invoking Yu Xiu’s support.
• Xie Feng searched the temple’s secret chamber and found a map marking more than a thousand forbidden grounds, including two hundred important sites.
• Xie Feng put the map in his spatial ring and went to find Xin Zhong.

Xie Feng pressured Patriarch Lu Yuan into finding python king blood and paying him to help save Qianying, then returned to teach her swordsmanship. The chapter ended with Qianying choosing to learn Xie Feng’s exclusive secret technique, the Xuanji Sword Art.

• Xie Feng made Xin Zhong take him to Changyuan Hall to meet the second patriarch, Lu Yuan.
• Xie Feng told Lu Yuan that Qianying needed a Dao Grade Exquisite Dantian-Opening Pill and that python king blood was the last ingredient he needed.
• Xie Feng guilted Lu Yuan into agreeing to find python king blood and took ninety million from him for refining the pill.
• Xie Feng returned to the academy, where Qianying greeted him while practicing swordsmanship.
• Xie Feng offered Qianying a choice of sword arts, and she chose his exclusive secret technique, the Xuanji Sword Art.

Xie Feng trained Qianying until she broke through to the ninth tier of the Origin Insight Realm, then accompanied her to eat noodles. When Qianying led him from the underground city to her secret refuge, Xie Feng discovered it was the Spirit Silence Swamp, a super forbidden land.

• Xie Feng stopped teaching Qianying after three moves and set Little Sword to spar with her.
• Qianying fought Little Sword, broke through to the ninth tier of the Origin Insight Realm, and thanked Xie Feng for his guidance.
• Qianying persuaded Xie Feng to eat at a noodle shop called Whatever, where he spoke about his faraway homeland.
• Qianying invited Xie Feng to find a strange creature at her secret base in a forbidden land.
• Xie Feng and Qianying left the underground city and entered the Spirit Silence Swamp, where Qianying guided him past traps.

Xie Feng followed Kong Qiusu’s sense of the Golden Tomb into a hidden space beneath Spirit Silence Swamp and found a stele naming the tomb of a sinner of the Kong clan. A snake-scaled, cat-eyed tomb keeper attacked him, and Xie Feng recognized him as the creature Qianying had sought.

• Qianying and Xie Feng split up in Spirit Silence Swamp to search for a snake-and-cat-like monster.
• Kong Qiusu guided Xie Feng to a hidden space in a valley, where Xie Feng used the Azure Profound Fan to open a rift.
• Xie Feng found a moonlit black forest filled with the power of the starry sky and discovered a projected stele reading “The tomb of the sinner of the Kong clan.”
• Kong Qiusu could not remember why he was called a sinner, so Xie Feng flew toward the moonlight seeking answers.
• A tomb keeper descended from the moonlight and clashed with Xie Feng before revealing his snake scales and catlike eyes.
• Xie Feng recognized the tomb keeper as the creature Qianying was searching for, but the tomb keeper charged at him without answering his questions.