Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming discovered that killing creatures in the Astral Battlefield let him plunder law fragments and gain their divine abilities. After three Storm Mountain elders ambushed him and claimed their other elders had attacked Qin Rushuang, he erased them and gained more abilities.

• Dongfang Yueming killed a mid-Golden Core star beast with Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light and gained the yellow-grade divine ability Scythe of Shadow.
• Three late-Golden Core elders from Storm Mountain surrounded Dongfang Yueming and revealed they had tracked him through the tampered Purple Thunder Sect teleportation array.
• The elders attacked with Heavenly Wind Strangulation, but Dongfang Yueming held them off and asked where Qin Rushuang was.
• The elders claimed Storm Mountain's six elders had torn Qin Rushuang to pieces, prompting Dongfang Yueming to kill all three with Two Aspects Annihilation.
• Dongfang Yueming collected the elders' storage rings and gained Wind Walking Step and Heavenly Wind Strike.

After killing three Golden Core experts, Dongfang Yueming converted their Law of Wind fragments into divine ability proficiency and perfected Wind Walking Step, then rushed to find Qin Rushuang. Qin Rushuang was overwhelmed by five Storm Mountain cultivators and Elder Feng’s Wind-Binding Bottle, but just as her enemies threatened to kill her and Dongfang Yueming, an unexpected voice interrupted them.

• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the Law of Wind fragments from three dead Golden Core experts, and the panel merged his wind abilities.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect Wind Walking Step and vanished into the void to reach Qin Rushuang.
• Qin Rushuang transformed with Ice Phoenix Battle Body and fought five Storm Mountain cultivators, driving them back despite being outnumbered.
• Elder Feng and Elder Lin used the fourth-tier Wind-Binding Bottle to trap Qin Rushuang and shatter her battle body until she spat blood.
• As three Late Golden Core elders attacked the weakened Qin Rushuang, Elder Feng threatened to kill Dongfang Yueming too, and an unfamiliar voice interrupted them.

Dongfang Yueming arrived in time to save Qin Rushuang, killing five Storm Mountain Golden Core experts with one punch and obtaining new Divine Abilities from their fragments. Qin Rushuang warned that the teleportation array had been tampered with and that the Purple Thunder Sect might have allied with Storm Mountain, so they had to escape through the Water and Fire Sect’s entrance.

• Qin Rushuang urged Dongfang Yueming to run, but he unleashed My Dao Is the Only One and destroyed the five Storm Mountain experts with a single punch.
• Dongfang Yueming caught the weakened Qin Rushuang and comforted her before collecting the spoils and helping her recover with a pill.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the Divine Ability fragments, gaining Wind Control Shield and the Black-Grade Sharp Wind Spear.
• Qin Rushuang revealed that the teleportation array had been tampered with and that the Purple Thunder Sect and Storm Mountain might have joined forces.
• Qin Rushuang told Dongfang Yueming they had to take the long route and leave through the entrance guarded by the Water and Fire Sect.

Shui Yan'er learned that Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang had killed the Storm Mountain pursuers and urged Dongfang to seek the Water and Fire Sect’s protection, but he refused. Meanwhile, Feng Xiaotian celebrated Storm Mountain’s alliance with the Purple Thunder Sect and wrongly believed his hunters were about to succeed.

• Shui Yan'er embraced Dongfang Yueming, and Qin Rushuang pulled her away while declaring that he belonged to the Martial Sect.
• Dongfang Yueming revealed that he and Qin Rushuang had killed the Storm Mountain pursuers, shocking Shui Yan'er.
• Shui Yan'er warned them that Storm Mountain and the Purple Thunder Sect in the Upper Realm had formally allied and invited Dongfang to the Water and Fire Sect for protection, but he declined.
• After Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang departed, the Water and Fire Sect’s sect master lamented that her sect lacked the strength to support them.
• Feng Xiaotian announced Storm Mountain’s alliance with the Purple Thunder Sect and the promised God-Breaking Pill, then assumed his hunters were tormenting Dongfang and Qin.

Dongfang Yueming learned that he could collect a million low-grade spirit stones from a small world in the Astral Battlefield and decided to go despite Qin Rushuang’s warning. Before leaving, he kissed Qin Rushuang and promised Hong Ling a treat, while Qin Rushuang resolved to enter seclusion and break through to Nascent Soul.

• Qin Rushuang told Hong Ling about their trip to the Astral Battlefield, and Hong Ling reassured her that the Martial Sect was safe under her protection.
• Hong Ling offered Dongfang Yueming a million low-grade spirit stones to collect from a small world, and he eagerly accepted despite Qin Rushuang warning that Storm Mountain could be waiting for him.
• Dongfang Yueming insisted on going, and Qin Rushuang promised to kiss him if he returned safely.
• Dongfang Yueming kissed Qin Rushuang before leaving, then promised Hong Ling he would bring her something tasty and escaped her embrace.
• Qin Rushuang watched Dongfang Yueming depart, then went to enter seclusion and advance to Nascent Soul.

Dongfang Yueming fused his wind- and shadow-based attack abilities into the Earth-Grade Divine Ability Spear of Wind and Shadow and realized that divine ability fusion depended on purity or mutual generation. As he continued toward the Water and Fire Sect, Shui Yan'er decided to perfect her own divine ability so she could challenge Qin Rushuang.

• Dongfang Yueming raised Scythe of Shadow and Sharp Wind Spear to perfection, then fused them with Heavenly Wind Strike to create the Earth-Grade Divine Ability Spear of Wind and Shadow.
• Dongfang Yueming compared Spear of Wind and Shadow with Two Aspects Annihilation and concluded that powerful fusions required either purity or mutually reinforcing attributes.
• Dongfang Yueming continued traveling toward the Water and Fire Sect, intending to obtain the offerings from the small world.
• At the Water and Fire Sect, Shui Yan'er resolved to bring back the handsome young man and declared she would defeat Qin Rushuang after perfecting Water and Fire Without Interruption.
• A disciple hurried into the sect's main hall as Shui Yan'er celebrated her plan.

Dongfang Yueming returned to the Astral Battlefield, alarming Shui Yan'er, who tried to persuade him not to risk his life. He proposed an arm-wrestling wager for access to the Water and Fire Sect's Nascent Soul techniques, and the sect master agreed to the terms as Shui Yan'er prepared to compete.

• Shui Yan'er hurried to the Astral Battlefield after learning Dongfang Yueming was heading there.
• Shui Yan'er grabbed Dongfang Yueming and urged him to stabilize his newly reached Golden Core realm instead of returning to danger.
• Dongfang Yueming offered to join the Water and Fire Sect if he lost an arm-wrestling match, while asking to study its Nascent Soul techniques if he won.
• The Water and Fire Sect's sect master agreed that Dongfang Yueming could study the sect's techniques regardless of the wager's outcome.
• Shui Yan'er jokingly offered her mother as a bed-warming maid if Dongfang Yueming won, then called for the arm-wrestling match to begin.

Dongfang Yueming defeated Shui Yan'er in an arm-wrestling wager despite her Black-Grade Divine Ability, and the Water and Fire Sect's sect master handed him the Nascent Soul chapter of the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art. After he left, Shui Yan'er argued that her mother should have taken the chance to become his maid, prompting the sect master to ask whether she had deliberately lost.

• Shui Yan'er challenged Dongfang Yueming to an arm-wrestling wager, confident that her strength and body-refining art would win.
• Shui Yan'er unleashed her Black-Grade Divine Ability, Water and Fire Without Interruption, but Dongfang Yueming still pressed her hand down and won.
• The sect master gave Dongfang Yueming the Nascent Soul chapter of the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art as promised.
• Shui Yan'er teased Dongfang Yueming about taking her mother as his bed-warming maid, and the sect master angrily dragged her away by the ear.
• After Dongfang Yueming departed, Shui Yan'er defended her suggestion that her mother become his maid, and the sect master asked whether she had lost on purpose.

After Shui Yan'er admitted that she had fought seriously and still lost the contest of strength, spiritual energy suddenly revived across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent, heralding a new age of conflict. As cultivators celebrated, the Water and Fire Sect master feared the coming of Upper Realm forces, while nine ancient pillars began to rise and repair themselves in a forgotten forbidden land.

• Shui Yan'er told the Water and Fire Sect master that she had given the contest her all, leaving her mother to realize that the newly Golden Core-stage opponent had overpowered her daughter.
• A primordial aura erupted from the depths of the Immortal-Abandoned Continent, causing heaven and earth to tremble as spiritual energy surged across the land.
• Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators, along with holy land masters, emerged from seclusion and celebrated the revival of spiritual energy and the coming great age.
• The Water and Fire Sect master worried that the new age would bring slaughter and that forces from the Upper Realm would soon descend before the young prodigy could grow stronger.
• In a forgotten forbidden land, nine black dragon-carved stone pillars rose from the cracked earth as their ancient seats and damaged shafts began to repair themselves.

Qin Rushuang sensed that the upheaval in heaven and earth had loosened her Nascent Soul bottleneck and given her a chance to reach saint-grade. At the Pleasure Sect, an Upper Realm elder took Su Wurao away and revealed that she intended to make her a cultivation cauldron for the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest's Dragon Son, prompting the sect master to defend Su Wurao's partner.

• Qin Rushuang felt her Nascent Soul bottleneck loosen and realized she might attain a saint-grade Nascent Soul.
• The Upper Realm elder arrived at the Pleasure Sect, inspected Su Wurao, and ordered her to depart for the Upper Realm.
• Su Wurao obeyed the elder's command and entered the teleportation array, longing to reunite with her husband.
• The Upper Realm elder claimed authority over the Lower Realm Pleasure Sect and revealed that Su Wurao would be sent to serve as a cultivation cauldron for the Dragon Son of the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest.
• The sect master protested that Su Wurao already had a partner and declared that he was the man who had helped her forge her earth-grade Dao foundation.

The Upper Realm elder seized Su Wurao’s Love Thread Knot and decided to claim the man linked to it as a cultivation furnace, but learned he was likely in the Astral Battlefield. As spiritual energy revived across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent, Su Wurao arrived at the Ten Thousand Dragons’ Nest and discovered she had been sold to become a stepping stone for the Dragon Son.

• The Upper Realm elder took Su Wurao’s Love Thread Knot and tried to locate the man, but the sect master explained that the knot could not sense someone in another world and said he was likely in the Astral Battlefield.
• A powerful surge of spiritual energy erupted across the Immortal-Abandoned Continent, thrilling the Upper Realm elder and leaving the sect master worried about the coming troubled times.
• Su Wurao awoke in a luxurious palace above a sea of clouds and was escorted by a steward to the Hidden Dragon Garden.
• The steward told Su Wurao and the other Earth-Grade Dao Foundation candidates that they were to become cultivation furnaces for Lord Dragon Son and help him pursue a Dao-Grade Nascent Soul.
• Su Wurao realized her sect had sold her, saw no way to escape the Nascent Soul guards, and wept as she thought of her husband.

Dongfang Yueming pondered whether to pursue a Dao-grade Nascent Soul, then discovered the possibility of forming multiple Nascent Souls from his different divine abilities. He continued through the Astral Battlefield, leaving the newly found path untested.

• Dongfang Yueming considered how his cultivation path could surpass the ideal state of a single art without relying on heaven’s blessing.
• He searched eight storage rings taken from Storm Mountain’s Golden Core experts and collected their spirit stones, treasures, and cultivation materials.
• Dongfang Yueming found the Nascent Soul chapter of the Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art and studied how a Nascent Soul inherited a cultivator’s divine ability.
• He realized that his several divine abilities might allow him to form multiple Nascent Souls and resolved to create his own path.
• Dongfang Yueming detected a weak yellow-grade world nearby, judged it unworthy of pursuit, and continued through the void.

A Nascent Soul expert from the Azure Realm descended on Earth to harvest its inhabitants, overwhelming the planet’s technology and hidden cultivators. After completing the blood sacrifice and leaving Earth, he spotted an azure-robed figure in the Astral Battlefield whose qi and physique made him crave the chance to reach Soul Formation.

• A man in a black trench coat froze the outlaws attacking him with a snap, then felt dread as the sky changed.
• The Nascent Soul expert unleashed disasters across Earth and announced that humanity would become his food.
• The world’s weapons failed to harm the Nascent Soul expert, and he killed the Golden Core Daoist and defeated the Foundation Establishment experts who charged him with miniature nuclear bombs.
• The Nascent Soul expert began the blood sacrifice, absorbed Earth’s living beings until he reached Nascent Soul Perfection, and left the exhausted planet with Noah’s Ark still carrying hope.
• In the Astral Battlefield, the Nascent Soul expert discovered an azure-robed figure whose qi and physique stirred his desire to devour him and reach Soul Formation.

The Great Qian Dynasty’s court decided to defy the Martial Sect, with Princess Changle volunteering to receive its envoy as the dynasty prepared for a fight. The demonic path and the fifth prince also made plans to exploit the conflict, but the prince’s master rebuked him.

• Princess Changle urged the emperor to cast off the Great Qian Dynasty’s dependence on the Martial Sect, and he ordered the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Generals to prepare to confront its envoy.
• Princess Changle volunteered to receive the envoy, while the emperor and officials anticipated the dynasty’s break from vassalage.
• A disguised demonic-path elder ordered his followers to wait until the dynasty and the Martial Sect’s envoy had weakened each other before acting.
• The fifth prince learned that the emperor had decided to defy the Martial Sect, then ordered his own forces to prepare for the opportunity.
• The demonic-path leader appeared before the fifth prince, whose Golden Core Seventh Layer aura had exposed his strength, and made him kneel in fear.

Dongfang Yueming collected one million low-grade spirit stones from Great Qian and accepted a Nine-Turn Calamity-Breaking Pill before ending the Martial Sect’s protection of the world. After he left, the Great Qian clans prepared to attack him, while the emperor revealed that he was the Demon Lord and ordered the demonic path to ambush the clans and envoy after they were gravely wounded.

• Dongfang Yueming entered the Great Qian Dynasty and easily outpaced Princess Changle, then sent her fiancé flying when he tried to block him.
• Dongfang Yueming demanded the outstanding tribute and announced that the Martial Sect would have nothing more to do with the world after collecting it.
• The Great Qian emperor agreed to pay one million low-grade spirit stones and added a Nine-Turn Calamity-Breaking Pill, which Dongfang Yueming accepted.
• After Dongfang Yueming departed, the great clan leaders grew greedy over the tribute and pill and ordered their Golden Core experts to target him outside the city.
• The emperor revealed to the demonic-path undercover official that he was the Demon Lord and ordered the demonic path to attack after the clans and Dongfang Yueming had gravely wounded each other.

The Great Qian Dynasty’s families plotted to seize the Martial Sect envoy’s treasure and surrounded Dongfang Yueming with the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Generals. As their combined attack descended, an unseen force watched from the imperial palace wall, waiting for its opportunity.

• The great families decided the Martial Sect was weak and summoned the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Generals to ambush Dongfang Yueming outside the city.
• Princess Changle challenged Dongfang Yueming to withstand one move from her Black-Grade Divine Ability, but Li Hao interrupted her.
• The great families and their Golden Core ancestors surrounded Dongfang Yueming and demanded he hand over the spirit stones and pills.
• Li Hao ordered the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Generals to form their grand formation and attack Dongfang Yueming.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed another concealed aura as Princess Changle closed her eyes, believing the attack would kill him.
• An elder in civil official’s robes watched from the imperial palace wall and smiled, thinking his opportunity had come.

Dongfang Yueming effortlessly destroyed the Heavenly Star Grand Formation’s attack, while demonic forces ambushed the battlefield and revealed that the Great Qian emperor was the Demon Lord. After forcing the clan elders to submit, the Demon Lord demanded that Dongfang Yueming accept his Demon God Brand, and Dongfang Yueming refused.

• Dongfang Yueming used Two Aspects Annihilation to dissolve the combined attack of the thirty-six Golden Core divine generals, leaving them gravely wounded.
• Demonic path fighters ambushed the great clans, and one of them told Princess Changle that they were on the same side.
• Li Hao killed the demonic Golden Core cultivator threatening him, but the fifth prince stabbed Li Hao from behind and revealed his allegiance to the demonic path.
• The Great Qian emperor emerged as the Demon Lord, killed a clan elder who challenged him, and forced the clan ancestors to submit to his Demon God Brand.
• The Demon Lord ordered Dongfang Yueming to submit and accept the Demon God Brand, and Dongfang Yueming asked what would happen if he refused.

Dongfang Yueming refused to submit to the Demon Lord, who revealed his Demonic Nascent Soul and prepared to kill him. Dongfang Yueming checked his cultivation panel and decided to raise his cultivation rather than keep fighting at Golden Core Realm.

• Dongfang Yueming's refusal enraged the Demon Lord and astonished the assembled clans and demonic cultivators.
• The Demon Lord revealed that he had secretly cultivated the demonic path to overcome the great clans and reach a Demonic Nascent Soul.
• A Blood Refining Sect Nascent Soul elder watched from above and judged the Demon Lord's power comparable to a Spirit-Grade Nascent Soul.
• The Demon Lord summoned a thousand-zhang Demonic Nascent Soul and ordered Dongfang Yueming to die.
• Dongfang Yueming checked his panel, saw that he had 2,855,000 points, and chose to raise his cultivation.

Dongfang Yueming advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and formed a saint-grade Nascent Soul, then killed the Great Qian Demon Lord with one punch. As the battlefield fell silent, a hidden Blood Refining Sect elder launched a sneak attack on him.

• Dongfang Yueming spent 400,000 points to raise I Alone Am Supreme Technique to its first layer, causing his dao-grade Golden Core to shatter and form a Nascent Soul.
• Dongfang Yueming’s My Dao Is the Only One ability became the core law of his saint-grade Nascent Soul, while his other two divine abilities were sealed.
• The Great Qian Demon Lord tried to flee, but Dongfang Yueming killed him in both body and soul with a punch.
• A Blood Refining Sect Nascent Soul elder emerged from hiding and attacked Dongfang Yueming, hoping to seize everything he had.

Dongfang Yueming defeated the Blood Refining Sect elder by rapidly advancing his cultivation to Nascent Soul Perfection, then discovered the Blood God Scripture among the elder’s possessions. Princess Changle pleaded with him to destroy the demonic path and rebellious clans and restore order to Great Qian.

• Dongfang Yueming effortlessly blocked the Blood Refining Sect elder’s attack and shattered his Blood God Claw and Blood River Diagram after advancing his I Alone Am Supreme Technique.
• The Blood Refining Sect elder fled, but Dongfang Yueming recycled the spirit stones he had plundered and advanced to Nascent Soul Perfection before killing him.
• Dongfang Yueming took the elder’s storage ring and found a strange black stone and a jade slip containing the Blood God Scripture, including its Soul Formation chapter.
• The surviving clan patriarchs trembled as Dongfang Yueming descended, and Princess Changle knelt and begged him to purge the demonic path and rebellious clans and restore Great Qian.