Chapter Summaries

Li Qiang entered the Illusory Devil Pearl with Mei'er and discovered a passage to the Spirit Ghost Realm, where his growing Heart of Darkness made him frighteningly cold and powerful. After they crossed over, a spirit general confronted them and accused Li Qiang of capturing Mei'er.

• Li Qiang sealed the immortal palace after hearing how Bi Wuzi's captives had escaped, then stood alone through the night as he began cultivating the Heart of Darkness.
• Mei'er completed her Spirit Sword Body, received the Illusory Devil Pearl, and gave Gan Ling'er, Hai Hongfen, and Bing Yu frost pearls before letting them hide in Hidden Soul Beads.
• Li Qiang and Mei'er entered the Illusory Devil Pearl, where Mei'er was attacked by evil spirits; Li Qiang helped her destroy them and refined their leader into a pearl.
• Li Qiang and Mei'er found a passage to the Spirit Ghost Realm and crossed through it, arriving amid vast black mist.
• A spirit general and ten Spirit Sword Bodies approached Li Qiang, who unnerved them with his power; when the general saw Mei'er, he angrily accused Li Qiang of capturing a Spirit Sword Body.

Li Qiang fought the Spirit Ghost Realm’s forces after Mei’er was transported to Spirit Gate Tower City, then calmed them with his Sound of Heavenly Melody and asked them to help find her. He learned Mei’er might be undergoing a baptism that would erase her memories, and struggled to control his renewed fury as he demanded they take him to the city.

• The spirit general transported Mei'er away, and Li Qiang captured him and forced the Spirit Sword Bodies to lead him toward Spirit Gate Tower City.
• A spirit army confronted Li Qiang, and he used Golden Snakes Dance Wildly to scatter its formation and rout its forces.
• Li Qiang used Sound of Heavenly Melody to end the fighting, emerged from the Heart of Darkness, and apologized to Spirit Marshal Xianmu and Spirit General Panshi.
• Spirit Marshal Xianmu explained that Mei'er might be undergoing guidance in the Guidance Pool, where spirit bodies forgot their past.
• Li Qiang demanded that they take him to Spirit Gate Tower City immediately as golden light flared in his eyes and the Heart of Darkness threatened to take hold again.

Gu Mei'er was taken to the Guidance Pool, where her resistance drew the Spirit King Supreme into a fight with Li Qiang after he arrived to rescue her. The Ghost King Supreme’s interference sent Li Qiang into the Guidance Spirit Formation, where he freed Mei'er but then suffered a dangerous backlash from his shifting states and had to begin cultivating.

• Gu Mei'er refused to enter the Guidance Pool and blasted the Spirit King Supreme and his followers with Flame Thunders and a Thunderbolt Pearl.
• Li Qiang arrived, shattered the Spirit King Supreme’s Star Lock, and attacked him after finding Mei'er bound.
• Li Qiang and the Spirit King Supreme exchanged attacks until the Spirit King activated the Guidance Spirit Formation.
• The Ghost King Supreme disrupted Li Qiang’s hand seal, causing the formation to pull him and Mei'er into the castle.
• Li Qiang reunited with Mei'er inside the formation, then suffered a divine cultivation backlash and told her to hide in his Fire Essence Immortal Armor while he cultivated.

Li Qiang entered the Heart of Darkness and destroyed the Guidance Spirit Formation, then pursued Spirit King Grand Venerable and Ghost King Grand Venerable into their trap at the Nether Pool. After regaining his clarity inside their formation, he turned invisible, prompting the two rulers to unleash Mystic Qi to expose and capture him.

• Li Qiang entered the Heart of Darkness, unleashed Hundred Tribulations Divine Thunder, and shattered the ancient castle and Guidance Spirit Formation.
• Li Qiang attacked Spirit King Grand Venerable and Ghost King Grand Venerable with Heavenly Fire Purple Flowers and Heavenly Darts, while Spirit King Grand Venerable fled toward the Nether Pool.
• Ghost King Grand Venerable summoned the realm’s forces and prepared the Spirit Ghost Mystic Yin Grand Formation at the Nether Pool.
• Li Qiang ignored Mei’er’s warning and charged into the formation, where he attacked its illusions with Heavenly Darts, Heavenly Fire, and Demon-Extinguishing Divine Thunder.
• Spirit King Grand Venerable revealed that Mei’er was a Spirit Light Body and argued with Ghost King Grand Venerable over who would take her as a disciple.
• Li Qiang regained his clarity, stopped fighting, and turned invisible inside the formation, so the two Grand Venerables began using Mystic Qi to force him out.

Li Qiang emerged from three years of cultivation in the Spirit Ghost Mystic Yin Grand Formation having transcended the Heart of Darkness stage, then fought off Spirit King Grand Venerable and Ghost King Grand Venerable. He arranged for Mei'er to become their shared disciple and prepared to leave, while the Grand Venerables asked to inspect the Illusory Devil Pearl passage.

• Li Qiang spent three years cultivating in hiding, overcame the Heart of Darkness stage, and entered the Ordinary Heart stage while Mei'er advanced through his Yang power.
• Spirit King Grand Venerable and Ghost King Grand Venerable trapped Li Qiang with Mystic Qi, but he resisted their attack, seized the Nether Pearl, and made it explode in Ghost King Grand Venerable's hands.
• Li Qiang ended the fight and persuaded Mei'er to stay in the Spirit Ghost Realm as the shared disciple of Spirit King Grand Venerable and Ghost King Grand Venerable, who gave her tokens.
• Li Qiang told the Grand Venerables that the Illusory Devil Pearl had brought him to the Spirit Ghost Realm, and they asked him to take them to see the passage.

Li Qiang found the ancient teleportation formation on Goulan Planet, but two armies were charging across it, so he intervened to protect the ruined site. After stopping their advance, he recognized Shanxiong among the soldiers.

• Li Qiang sent Mei'er to cultivate in the Spirit Ghost Realm and accepted Spirit Marshal Xianmu and Spirit General Panshi as companions while searching for the formation.
• Li Qiang and his companions searched the grassland, where Gan Ling'er showed him a vision of his homeland, Illusory Tree Planet.
• A Spirit Sword Body led Li Qiang to a battlefield, where he discovered the ancient teleportation formation between the armies of Chelie Kingdom and Mengzhan Kingdom.
• Li Qiang covered the damaged formation with the Heavenly Silk Purple Gold Xun and raised a golden barrier to stop both armies from colliding.
• Li Qiang recognized Shanxiong among the soldiers after the cavalry crashed into his barrier.

Li Qiang seized territory on Goulan Planet, restored an ancient teleportation formation, and escaped after marking routes to other planets and ordering Tufu to erase the site. Years later, the Lonely Old Immortal tracked down Bi Wuzi, learned that Li Qiang had destroyed his formation and treasure chamber, and set out to find him.

• Li Qiang stopped Shanxiong and Tufu's battle, used Spirit Marshal Xianmu to frighten Chelie Kingdom's army into retreating, and claimed the contested land.
• Li Qiang asked Tufu to destroy the teleportation site after he left, while Spirit General Panshi repaired the ancient formation and Li Qiang used the Star-Fixing Disc to mark possible destinations.
• Li Qiang teleported from Goulan Planet to a remote planet, and Tufu ordered his soldiers to smash and scatter the formation stones.
• The Lonely Old Immortal Tianshi found Bi Wuzi, tortured him for information about the ruined formation and missing treasures, and learned that Li Qiang was responsible.
• The Lonely Old Immortal took Bi Wuzi's Nascent Soul and announced that he would go find Li Qiang.

Li Qiang ran out of Immortal Stones while fleeing across planets, but reached Linming Planet, a major cultivation center, and entered Wondrous Dragon City under the alias Muzi. After demonstrating overwhelming power in a cultivation test, he received the city’s highest treatment and learned that a tournament would be held in his honor.

• Li Qiang used the Star-Fixing Disc to search for a habitable planet and spent his last Immortal Stones reaching an apparently barren world.
• Spirit Marshal Xianmu and five hundred Spirit Sword Bodies joined Li Qiang to search underground for Immortal Stones, while Li Qiang discovered a distant city and flew toward it.
• Li Qiang reached Linming Planet and introduced himself as Muzi to guards from Wondrous Dragon City, who escorted him to meet Xuanyuan Yiqing.
• Heng Shifeng tested Li Qiang by asking him to mark profound restriction stone, and Li Qiang effortlessly smoothed its surface before leaving a deep palm print with his power.
• Heng Shifeng awarded Li Qiang a Crystal Dragon Plaque and the city’s highest treatment, prompting Wondrous Dragon City to announce a tournament for him.

Li Qiang gave mystic ice essence to the Spirit Sword Bodies, then traded Bai Canglao a fire-natured flying sword for a rare sealed box and gifted Xuanyuan Yiqing another sword. He visited the Thousand Treasures Pavilion with them and ended the chapter facing off with the arrogant young sect master Qi Xianyu.

• Li Qiang gave a drop of mystic ice essence to each of the five hundred Spirit Sword Bodies, Spirit General Panshi, and Spirit Marshal Xianmu.
• Bai Canglao came to trade local curios for a flying sword, and Li Qiang recognized a black square he owned as a sealed box containing rare dust-tethering wood.
• Li Qiang traded Bai Canglao a fire-natured Layered Flames Sword for the box and gave Xuanyuan Yiqing a flying sword as a gift.
• Bai Canglao led Li Qiang toward the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, where Li Qiang used his Crystal Dragon Plaque to bring him inside.
• At the Pavilion, Xuanyuan Yiqing introduced Li Qiang to Young Sect Master Qi Xianyu, who challenged him to inspect the Immortal Wind Sword.

Li Qiang befriended Qi Xianyu at the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, traded his Cold Frost Shield for Immortal Stones, and revealed his power to Pavilion Master Feng Qianbao. He offered Yan Qianhui help obtaining rock crystal liquid for an injured disciple, then recognized a Browning pistol brought in for exchange and demanded to know who had it.

• Li Qiang identified the Immortal Wind Sword’s features, earning Qi Xianyu’s admiration and an invitation to tour the pavilion.
• Chief Steward Yan showed the group several treasures, and Li Qiang explained the Cold Frost Shield’s refining method before trading it for four hundred middle-grade Immortal Stones and ten thousand Coiled Dragon Coins.
• When Qi Xianyu tried to test Li Qiang’s sword, Li Qiang teleported behind him, and the arrival of Feng Qianbao and Yan Qianhui led to a brief display of power.
• Yan Qianhui tried to trade Cypress Succession Order treasures for rock crystal liquid to heal an injured disciple, but Feng Qianbao refused; Li Qiang secretly told Yan Qianhui he could help.
• A pavilion disciple brought in an object for exchange, and Li Qiang recognized it as a Browning pistol and demanded to know where its owner was.

Li Qiang reunited with Yu Hong, a Chongxuan Sect elder from Earth, who told him Sealed Fate Planet had been rocked by conflict and gave him a route home. After Yu Hong left to prepare for ascension, Li Qiang visited Bai Canglao’s home, where he helped the family and gave Yan Qianhui a rare Heavenly Spirit Seed; the chapter ended with three cultivators arriving to ask for Senior Muzi.

• Li Qiang recognized Yu Hong as a fellow Earth native and Chongxuan Sect elder, and the two revealed their Soul-Releasing Dragon Rings.
• Yu Hong told Li Qiang that Qian Shanyong had stirred up clashes on Sealed Fate Planet and that Fu Shan and Mo Huaiyuan had gone searching for him.
• Yu Hong demonstrated a teleportation message formation, gave Li Qiang a star marker showing the route home, and warned that he might soon ascend.
• Yu Hong examined Li Qiang’s treasures, identified his blue rain sand, declined to spar, and left after Li Qiang sent a message to Fu Shan.
• At Bai Canglao’s home, Yan Qianhui and Li Qiang gave gifts to Bai Shengzhen, and Li Qiang gave Yan Qianhui a Heavenly Spirit Seed in exchange for friendship.
• Li Qiang asked Xuanyuan Yiqing where the Buddha Sect was, and three cultivators arrived outside asking whether Senior Muzi was there.

Li Qiang was lured to the Heavenly Cultivation Garrison under the guise of a spell contest and defeated Dong Xianye and commander Ang Yin without revealing his full strength. As Feng Qianbao and Xia Yuntao entered the arena together to stall him, Li Qiang summoned the Fire Essence Immortal Armor and Supreme Radiance Shuttle, shocking everyone.

• Feixue invited Li Qiang to exchange spells at the Heavenly Cultivation Garrison, where Feng Qianbao, Xia Yuntao, Ang Yin, and other experts had gathered.
• Dong Xianye attacked Li Qiang with his Flame Ring, but Li Qiang strengthened its fire until the Law Treasure shattered.
• Ang Yin fought Li Qiang with the Drifting Sand Sword, but Li Qiang countered his sand and wood transformations with water and fire, then defeated him with a fire phoenix.
• Xia Yuntao asked to face Li Qiang alongside Feng Qianbao, and Li Qiang agreed after realizing they meant to keep him occupied.
• Feng Qianbao and Xia Yuntao entered the arena together, and Li Qiang summoned the Fire Essence Immortal Armor and Supreme Radiance Shuttle, prompting Xia Yuntao to identify an immortal artifact.

Li Qiang learned that the Immortal Realm had ordered Wondrous Dragon City to detain him, then tried to escape the city and fought off its cultivators. Unable to break through the citywide defenses without risking a massacre, he agreed to wait three days and went with Feng Qianbao to the Thousand Treasures Pavilion.

• Feng Qianbao told Li Qiang that a High Immortal Decree bearing his image required Wondrous Dragon City to keep him on Linming Planet, and said Lesser Lin Heaven had been restored.
• Li Qiang broke the restriction field with Hundred Tribulations Divine Thunder, but the city’s defensive spires prevented him from teleporting out.
• Xia Yuntao ordered Wondrous Dragon City sealed for three days and mobilized its cultivators to search for Li Qiang.
• Li Qiang destroyed twelve defensive spires with Heavenly Darts, then fought thousands of cultivators until Ang Yin called them to stop.
• Ang Yin persuaded Li Qiang that he could not escape without causing many deaths, and Li Qiang agreed to wait for the immortal’s arrival.
• Feng Qianbao invited Li Qiang to the Thousand Treasures Pavilion and offered him anything he wanted.

Li Qiang learned that the Immortal Realm had sealed Linming Planet’s large teleportation arrays to keep him from leaving, so he traded flying swords for Immortal Stones and planned to travel to Snow Dragon City. He secretly secured an ancient teleportation array as a possible escape route, then hired Dan Boyu to guide him on foot toward Snow Dragon City.

• After the three-day deadline passed, Feng Qianbao and Ang Yin told Li Qiang that the large teleportation arrays were disabled, and Li Qiang realized they had used the delay to seal them.
• Li Qiang repaired the damaged flying swords of more than seventy cultivators, then bargained with Feng Qianbao for eight hundred mid-grade Immortal Stones by trading two high-quality flying swords for them.
• Feng Qianbao told Li Qiang about Snow Dragon City’s artifact-refining contest, and Li Qiang decided to travel there to study other sects’ crafting methods and seek more Immortal Stones.
• Li Qiang found that the ancient teleportation array in the wilderness gorge still worked, then concealed and protected it as a possible escape route before returning to Wondrous Dragon City.
• Li Qiang asked Xuanyuan Yiqing how to reach Snow Dragon City and chose to walk; when he met Dan Boyu, he hired him as his guide.

Li Qiang traveled toward Snow Dragon City with Dan Boyu, Bai Shengzhen, and Xuanyuan Yiqing, choosing to explore Beiling Mountain’s mysterious main range along the Ascetic Cultivation Road. After they found and extracted an enormous piece of even pure red stone, Li Qiang revealed a living creature inside, leaving the group astonished by what they saw.

• Li Qiang chose the Ascetic Cultivation Road to Snow Dragon City, and Bai Shengzhen and Xuanyuan Yiqing joined him and Dan Boyu.
• Feng Qianbao gave Xuanyuan Yiqing a tracking Law Treasure and promised him a chief steward position if he reported Li Qiang’s whereabouts.
• At Beiling Mountain, Li Qiang led the group into the misty main range, where they found Nanmu Mist Grass and gathered Lingering Mist Tea seeds.
• An Iron-Scaled Thread bit Dan Boyu in a spring, but Li Qiang crushed it and gave Dan Boyu a Cold Marrow Scale pill to counter the poison.
• After the group drained the spring and uncovered a huge piece of even pure red stone beneath it, Li Qiang cut the stone down to reveal a living creature inside, shocking everyone.

Li Qiang and his companions discovered that Beiling Mountain was trapped inside an immortal formation, and Xuan Long confronted them after Li Qiang broke through part of it. Xuan Long captured Li Qiang and tested his strength with the Flying Peak and golden bindings, then spun him helplessly through the air.

• Li Qiang collected red stone with Xuanyuan Yiqing, Dan Boyu, and Bai Shengzhen, then realized their route through the gorge was trapped in a hidden formation.
• Li Qiang used his Divine Sense to investigate the formation, activated it, and blasted its outer perimeter with his bracer before Xuan Long appeared.
• Xuan Long teleported the four to a red-stone clearing, sealed the area, and challenged Li Qiang to make him move his feet.
• Li Qiang attacked Xuan Long with the Supreme Radiance Shuttle and Brilliant Swift Heavenly Fire, making Xuan Long dodge, but Xuan Long extinguished the fire and continued the fight.
• Xuan Long used the Flying Peak to crush Li Qiang, who resisted with Divine Yi Power and his bracer before Xuan Long bound him with seven golden threads.
• Li Qiang endured the threads' painful sensations and tried to burn them with Heavenly Fire, but Xuan Long made him spin rapidly in the air and then ordered him to stop.

Xuan Long questioned Li Qiang about the Heavenly Recommendation Scripture and revealed its dangerous history, then showed him Beiling Mountain’s main-vein spirit mountain. After discussing Tianshi, Li Qiang suddenly realized who was coming from the Immortal Realm.

• Li Qiang endured Xuan Long’s attack, then reunited with Xuanyuan Yiqing, Bai Shengzhen, and Dan Boyu as Xuan Long released them from his restrictions.
• Xuan Long asked whether Li Qiang had met Lord Gu Xing, and Li Qiang realized Gu Xing might have been the master of the Star Palace.
• Xuan Long explained that the Heavenly Recommendation Scripture had been stolen from the Azure Emperor, that its former cultivator died after reaching Seven Star Heaven, and that Li Qiang risked Qi Deviation by cultivating it.
• Xuan Long said he would not force Li Qiang to surrender the scripture, gave spirit pills to Xuanyuan Yiqing, Bai Shengzhen, and Dan Boyu, and agreed to let Li Qiang stay on Beiling Mountain.
• Xuan Long showed Li Qiang the main-vein spirit mountain and shared a Scarlet Radiance Fruit with him, then explained that immortals needed Lesser Lin Heaven’s reverse passage to return to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qiang told Xuan Long how he had broken Tianshi’s Brilliant Swift Immortal Formation and taken his treasures, then suddenly realized who was coming from the Immortal Realm.

Li Qiang and Xuan Long traveled with Xuanyuan Yiqing, Dan Boyu, and Bai Shengzhen toward Snow Dragon City, where Li Qiang accidentally broke a fishing line and dove into Heaven-Sealed Lake to make amends. After catching sight of a huge fish underwater, Li Qiang spotted a glowing blue-green mass rushing toward him.

• Li Qiang bet Xuan Long that Lord Gu Xing would come from the Immortal Realm, then invited him to Snow Dragon City and gathered rare medicinal plants from his mountain.
• Xuanyuan Yiqing and Dan Boyu advanced to Nascent Soul Early Stage, while Bai Shengzhen reached late Heart Stirring, and Xuan Long disguised himself before teleporting the group near Snow Dragon City.
• The group walked toward Snow Dragon City, and Xuan Long revealed that an immortal formation lay beneath Heaven-Sealed Lake.
• Li Qiang accidentally snapped the fishermen's line while trying to help haul it in, then jumped into the lake to recover it and catch sharp-mouthed rong fish.
• Li Qiang descended into the lake, caught a huge fish, and saw a glowing blue-green mass rushing toward him from below.

Li Qiang and his companions reached Snow Dragon City as a powerful Loose Immortal attacked the city’s cultivators, then went with Dan Boyu to meet his family. Their reunion was interrupted when a young woman arrived with news that Dan Boyu’s elder brother was in trouble.

• Li Qiang caught a Sharp-Mouthed War Fish beneath Heaven-Sealed Lake but left a strange mass of azure light unexplored.
• Hundreds of sword lights gathered over Heaven-Sealed Lake, and a Loose Immortal’s forces drove Snow Dragon City’s cultivators back toward the city.
• Dan Boxian admitted Li Qiang, Xuan Long, Xuanyuan Yiqing, Bai Shengzhen, and Dan Boyu through Snow Dragon City’s gate as the city activated its defenses.
• Dan Boyu brought his companions to his home, where Li Qiang teased Dan Huan and she threatened to fetch her mother.
• Dan Boyu reunited with his wife and son, but a young woman arrived and announced that something had happened to his elder brother.

Li Qiang used a Death-Averting Pill to save Ying Buli and helped Dan Boyu gain respect in the Ying Household. After Xuan Long destroyed Luo Jiping’s flying sword, Extreme Chasm Cliff’s Luo Duyu arrived demanding to test the two experts, and Xuan Long challenged him back.

• Ying Yan told Dan Boyu that Ying Buli had been gravely wounded, and Li Qiang agreed to go to the Ying Household and treat him.
• Xuan Long described Ying Buli’s injuries, and Li Qiang gave Dan Boyu a Death-Averting Pill and explained how to use it.
• Ying Buli recovered, and Li Qiang made sure the Ying Household credited Dan Boyu and Ying Hui for saving him.
• Luo Jiping challenged Xuan Long, who seized and crushed his flying sword before Luo Jiping fled.
• Luo Duyu arrived with Luo Jiping and four armored cultivators, demanding to see the abilities of the experts in the Ying Household, and Xuan Long asked if he meant him.