Chapter Summaries

Divine Lord Zhenyuan used Cynomorium to help Zhang Xuezhou strengthen his body, but warned that its power could overwhelm him if his cultivation could not keep pace. Zhang Xuezhou pushed ahead despite the pain, trying to build enough capacity to survive until he could return to the real world.

• Divine Lord Zhenyuan recognized that Cynomorium juice had triggered the fish’s rapid growth and warned that Zhang Xuezhou risked bursting from the power accumulating inside him.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan gave Zhang Xuezhou Cynomorium, asked Queen Supi about nearby demons, and flew away with the Purple-Gold Red Gourd.
• Zhang Xuezhou swallowed the Cynomorium and advanced his Fleshly Body Technique as Qi and Blood, Divine Ability Law Power, and Demon Power accumulated within him.
• Zhang Xuezhou endured worsening pain and continued enhancing his acupoints, knowing he had to stop before the Cynomorium’s power exceeded his body’s limit.

Divine Lord Zhenyuan harvested Blood Essence from the Wisdom King Peng and watched Zhang Xuezhou endure the Cynomorium’s deadly effects by strengthening his body. As Zhang Xuezhou’s cultivation advanced, Divine Lord Zhenyuan taught him the Heavenly Form Technique, leaving him to decide whether to follow Zhenyuan’s method or adapt it.

• Divine Lord Zhenyuan extracted Blood Essence from the Wisdom King Peng and gave it to Zhang Xuezhou, who consumed it despite his swollen, dangerously unstable body.
• Zhang Xuezhou’s golden light suppressed the swelling as his Fleshly Body advanced to the strength of a Golden Body.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan recognized Zhang Xuezhou’s extraordinary ability to endure the Cynomorium and keep cultivating through the danger.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan offered to teach Zhang Xuezhou a body-strengthening Technique, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan explained the Heavenly Form Technique and its many forms, though he could only teach Zhang Xuezhou the method he had cultivated himself.

Zhang Xuezhou used Blood Essence and the Heavenly Form Technique to contain the swelling power of the Cynomorium, rapidly adapting the cultivation method to his needs. Though his body stabilized and he grew to a golden, zhang-tall form, he still needed a passive way to restrain the Cynomorium after he stopped cultivating the technique.

• Zhang Xuezhou took high-quality Blood Essence and, as his Fleshly Body Technique slowed, began learning the Heavenly Form Technique from Divine Lord Zhenyuan.
• Under the pressure of his condition, Zhang Xuezhou memorized and adapted the technique with remarkable speed, discussing its principles with Divine Lord Zhenyuan.
• Zhang Xuezhou recited a passage about Vast Righteous Qi, blending the Heavenly Form Technique with body refinement and growing to a zhang tall as golden light covered him.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan said they could return to Soul-Severing Ridge to cultivate and dissolve the Law Power trapped in their bodies.
• Zhang Xuezhou realized his transformed state could not last and that he needed a passive ability to restrain the Cynomorium's power when he stopped using the technique.

Zhang Xuezhou used Unity of Celestial Person and Heaven to merge the Heavenly Form Technique with his body-refining cultivation, gambling that his powerful body could withstand Cynomorium’s effects. As he began drawing on Heaven and Earth through the Vast Righteous Qi Chapter, Divine Lord Zhenyuan recognized the possibility that Zhang Xuezhou was developing Heavenly Form and Earthly Aspect.

• Zhang Xuezhou combined Unity of Celestial Person and Heaven with the Heavenly Form Technique and sensed it connecting with the One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints Fleshly Body Technique.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided to push through the dangerous effects of Cynomorium, reasoning that his powerful body, Yang Corporeal Soul body, and Law Power might help him survive.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan warned Zhang Xuezhou that he could likely restore his body by adjusting his cultivation over the next two days, but Zhang Xuezhou explained that his demon wings would continue refining whether or not he could endure it.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Divine Lord Zhenyuan to refine more demon blood with the Purple-Gold Red Gourd, and Divine Lord Zhenyuan agreed to squeeze the Wisdom King Peng dry.
• Zhang Xuezhou recited the Vast Righteous Qi Chapter while drawing on Unity of Celestial Person and Heaven, and Divine Lord Zhenyuan wondered if he was cultivating Heavenly Form and Earthly Aspect.

Divine Lord Zhenyuan recognized Zhang Xuezhou’s cultivation as a rudimentary form of Heavenly Form and Earthly Aspect and supplied him with the Heavenly Court’s technique as a reference. As Zhang Xuezhou grew to four zhang tall and continued refining his body, Divine Lord Zhenyuan also subdued the Purple-Gold Red Gourd’s mysterious presence.

• Divine Lord Zhenyuan realized Zhang Xuezhou had combined the Heavenly Form Technique with his bodily refinement art to create a rudimentary Heavenly Form and Earthly Aspect.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan recited the Heavenly Court’s Dharma Heaven and Earth Technique for Zhang Xuezhou to use as a reference.
• Zhang Xuezhou ate the Cynomorium, grew to three zhang tall, and continued strengthening his acupoints as his bodily refinement advanced.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan considered whether Zhang Xuezhou’s Western Sect bodily refinement art was complete and capable of producing a Fleshly Body saint.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan threatened the presence inside the Purple-Gold Red Gourd, calming it as it refined Wisdom King Peng’s demon blood into Blood Essence.
• Zhang Xuezhou grew another zhang taller while Divine Lord Zhenyuan continued feeding Law Power into the gourd.

Zhang Xuezhou’s body and demon wings merged as he broke through to seven zhang and underwent the Demon Race’s Entering Sainthood Lightning Tribulation. He fled the lightning in panic, bringing it down on Divine Lord Zhenyuan as both men continued to suffer the misfortune tied to the Cynomorium.

• Divine Lord Zhenyuan watched Zhang Xuezhou’s growth stall, then saw his feathers and body turn jade-white as he grew to seven zhang.
• Dark clouds gathered, and Zhang Xuezhou began enduring the Lightning Tribulation for Entering Sainthood; the Supi people prostrated themselves and prayed to him as a god.
• Zhang Xuezhou fled the painful lightning by flying away, while Divine Lord Zhenyuan urged the Supi people to find shelter from the falling bolts.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan reflected on the Grand Empress Dowager’s warning that taking on her grudges brought misfortune and wondered why Zhang Xuezhou shared his bad luck.
• Zhang Xuezhou returned with lightning in pursuit, crashed down near Divine Lord Zhenyuan, and a bolt struck Divine Lord Zhenyuan when it slid off Zhang Xuezhou.

Zhang Xuezhou endured a lightning tribulation while believing an Otherworldly Heavenly Demon was pursuing him, and he flew toward Soul-Severing Ridge for protection. Divine Lord Zhenyuan later found the ridge devastated, with the Grand Empress Dowager dead and Zhang Xuezhou alive but gravely injured.

• Zhang Xuezhou saw enormous blood-red eyes through the tribulation clouds and insisted an Otherworldly Heavenly Demon had locked onto his location.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan told Zhang Xuezhou that the visions were a Heart Demon Tribulation and urged him to endure the lightning.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan told Zhang Xuezhou to hide in the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Grand Formation at Soul-Severing Ridge, and Zhang Xuezhou flew there at tremendous speed.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan made his way back toward Soul-Severing Ridge after the lightning stopped.
• Divine Lord Zhenyuan found the formation destroyed, the Myriad Longevity Fruit Tree scorched, the Grand Empress Dowager dead, and Zhang Xuezhou alive but severely injured.

During Zhang Xuezhou’s Lightning Tribulation, he encountered a gigantic Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon and heard powerful beings threaten it, then later discovered that his transit with the demon had become prolonged and distorted. He realized he was beginning to understand the exchange and considered resisting it or eventually controlling when it happened.

• Zhang Xuezhou saw a colossal human-bodied, snake-tailed being during the Heart Demon Tribulation and suspected it was an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.
• He heard a being curse the demon for spying on the clan’s seed and threaten it with the Fu Clan’s divination, which eased Zhang Xuezhou’s fear.
• During transit, Zhang Xuezhou heard Hongjun and Fu Yan argue, followed by a voice calling them all good friends if they disrupted her plans.
• Zhang Xuezhou realized the other party might have located him and the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, and that this transit lasted longer because something held him in place.
• As his perceptions and memories distorted, Zhang Xuezhou reasoned that stronger mental strength might let him resist the exchange and eventually control when he transited.

Zhang Xuezhou woke after returning from a crossing and learned that Qimeng Haige had been badly injured by Ferocious Beasts. The committee members hoped to keep Qimeng Haige alive so he could lead them back to the beasts, while Zhang Xuezhou reflected on the cultivation gains he could not bring back to reality.

• Zhang Xuezhou awoke disoriented, expelled his Yang Corporeal Soul, and returned to normal after sending it back into his body.
• Zhang Manqian told Zhang Xuezhou that Committee Member Wang had found Qimeng Haige, who had been injured by Ferocious Beasts, and that Zuo Teng had also been involved.
• Zhang Xuezhou felt relieved that Zuo Teng was safe, then realized his extraordinary cultivation state from the crossing had not carried over to reality.
• Changkong Luo asked Zhang Xuezhou to help save Qimeng Haige, whose injuries Ren Anran could barely slow.
• Changkong Luo and Li Qi planned to keep Qimeng Haige alive and push him to reveal where the Ferocious Beasts were.

Zuo Lianguang tried to persuade Zuo Teng to share what he knew about the Ferocious Beasts that attacked Qimeng Haige, offering access to opportunities within their group. Zuo Teng agreed to reveal the beasts’ identities and possible whereabouts, and Zuo Lianguang hurried him to tell the others.

• Zuo Lianguang repeatedly pressed Zuo Teng to disclose information about the two Ferocious Beasts, while Zuo Teng refused.
• Zuo Lianguang warned that Qimeng Haige might recover and argued that cooperating could help Zuo Teng gain resources and build ties with the elderly Sequence Holders.
• Zuo Teng asked what he would receive and how Qimeng Haige would be treated, but Zuo Lianguang refused to reveal the Alliance States’ top-level secret or promise a reward.
• Zuo Teng, whose memories and perceptions remained closely linked to Zuo Luo, decided to cooperate and reveal what he knew about the beasts.
• Zuo Lianguang urged Zuo Teng to hurry and share the information with the others.

Zhang Xuezhou learned that Zuo Teng had obtained part of Qimeng Haige’s R33 Catalyst formula after surviving an attack by two strange Ferocious Beasts. Recognizing that Zuo Teng’s lucky ornaments had helped him, Zhang borrowed them, hoping to use their fortune for himself and Ren Yisheng.

• Zuo Teng showed the committee drawings of a weapon-wielding saber-toothed tiger and a silk-spitting, tiger-headed creature that had attacked Qimeng Haige.
• Zuo Teng defended his actions, saying he had kept Qimeng Haige alive through painful interrogation and had obtained only the R33 Catalyst formula.
• Zhang Xuezhou examined Zuo Teng’s jewelry and saw that only two of its five pieces still glowed with fortune.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked to borrow Zuo Teng’s lucky ornaments, and Zuo Teng readily handed over his rings, necklace, and bracelets.
• Zuo Lianguang accepted that Zuo Teng’s closeness to Zhang Xuezhou might help keep him alive and preserve the Zuo Household.

Zhang Xuezhou joined the committee’s discussion of the Ferocious Beasts and went to treat the critically injured Qimeng Haige. He used the Supreme Purity True Technique to stimulate Haige’s healing, but the treatment rapidly drained his vitality, so Ren Yisheng fed him a nutrient supplement.

• Zuo Teng showed the group lifelike sketches of the Ferocious Beasts that had gravely wounded Qimeng Haige, prompting debate about their appearance and abilities.
• Zhong Rang asked whether Qimeng Haige was guaranteed to live, while the group debated whether to accept Zuo Teng and how to search for more Ferocious Beasts.
• Zhang Xuezhou left the meeting room and went to the medical room, where Ren Yisheng, Ren Anran, and Zhou Rihui were treating Qimeng Haige.
• Zhang Xuezhou fastened one of Zuo Teng’s lucky bracelets around Qimeng Haige’s wrist and used the Supreme Purity True Technique to stimulate tissue growth.
• Qimeng Haige rapidly aged as the technique consumed his vitality, and Ren Yisheng forced nutrient supplement into his mouth.

Zhang Xuezhou treated Qimeng Haige with the Supreme Purity True Technique, and Qimeng Haige began showing signs of entering the Eighth Sequence. Changkong Luo watched the awakening unfold and realized Qimeng Haige had gained control of the room’s metal instruments.

• Zhang Xuezhou used the Supreme Purity True Technique to heal Qimeng Haige, whose body rapidly grew thinner as the injuries were forced back to normal.
• Zhang Xuezhou reassured Zhou Rihui that he had enough reserves to survive similar injuries, while Ren Yisheng and Ren Anran explained Qimeng Haige’s treatment as an experimental gene medicine.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng noticed that Qimeng Haige appeared to be crossing the threshold of the Eighth Sequence.
• Changkong Luo looked through the treatment room window and saw Qimeng Haige lying motionless as medical instruments crashed and flew around him.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou suggested that Qimeng Haige had comprehended the Dao while near death, and Changkong Luo considered whether to observe or eliminate him.
• Qimeng Haige awakened fully and sent a suture needle toward Changkong Luo’s eye, making him recoil in terror.

Qimeng Haige woke after being rescued and demanded to join the Tuer God Religion, prompting Ren Yisheng to accept him despite Changkong Luo’s warning that this would draw them into conflict with Mengtesi Badun. Haige then revealed that the supposed two Ferocious Beasts were actually a group of more than a dozen, enough to wipe out Scarlet Alliance State’s top experts.

• Qimeng Haige threatened Changkong Luo with a hovering needle, then called out that he wanted to join the Tuer God Religion.
• Ren Yisheng agreed to let Qimeng Haige join, while Changkong Luo warned that taking him in meant opposing Mengtesi Badun.
• Zhang Xuezhou eased the tension, and Changkong Luo accepted Ren Yisheng’s decision after confirming he understood the risk.
• Qimeng Haige complained that Changkong Luo had wanted to kill him and discussed how his new Eighth Sequence strength had changed their relationship.
• Qimeng Haige revealed that the two Ferocious Beasts were actually a group of more than a dozen, and warned that even Scarlet Alliance State’s top experts could be wiped out by them.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others questioned Qimeng Haige about a gathering of bizarre tiger Ferocious Beasts in Qinmeng. Qimeng Haige recovered enough to stand, but he remained uncertain about his condition and wary of Zuo Teng.

• Qimeng Haige described tiger Ferocious Beasts with different numbers of legs, huge mouths, long noses, and wings, but Changkong Luo struggled to believe him.
• Qimeng Haige drank a bottle of nutritional supplement, and Zhang Xuezhou said he would not die for the time being, so Ren Yisheng refused to give him more.
• Qimeng Haige offered Zhang Xuezhou the R33 Catalyst in exchange for more supplements, but Zhang Xuezhou declined because Zuo Teng already had the reaction equation.
• Qimeng Haige complained that Zuo Teng had carved up his heart and liver, though he had no lasting physical scars and the experience still haunted him.

Qimeng Haige warned the group that Ferocious Beasts in Qinmeng had changed and now gathered in groups, but Changkong Luo and the others decided to keep hunting after learning Qimeng Haige had reached the Eighth Sequence. The group prepared to take the risk, fearing they would lose their chance to advance if they waited.

• Qimeng Haige described bizarre, mutated Ferocious Beasts that gathered in groups, and the others questioned his account.
• Qimeng Haige said he had repaid the group for saving him and refused to lure more Ferocious Beasts.
• Changkong Luo insisted they continue hunting and revealed that Qimeng Haige's abilities had grown.
• The group realized Qimeng Haige had reached the Eighth Sequence, alarming Zhao Tianhua and the other Sequence holders.
• Jiang Ying urged the group to investigate the Ferocious Beasts, and the others discussed risking the hunt to advance their Sequences.

Qimeng Haige’s breakthrough inspired the gathered hunters to pursue Ferocious Beasts, while Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discussed their own advancement and the risks of finding a Qinmeng Secret Stone. As the trucks approached the beasts’ territory, Ren Yisheng realized the foul waste around Huli Port could help mask a stone’s Spiritual Qi.

• Qimeng Haige’s success led people to believe that Seventh and Eighth Sequence cultivators would become more common, and six hunting trucks set out from Huli Port.
• Ren Yisheng explained that Twilight Years Mansion’s aging cultivators felt compelled to keep advancing, and Zhang Xuezhou reflected on his own need to improve.
• Zhang Xuezhou concluded that his Sequence offered little benefit below the Seventh unless he found a place suited to advancing his Fleshly Body Technique.
• Ren Yisheng told Zhang Xuezhou that birds had gathered at Huli Port only because of scattered seeds, not a Qinmeng Secret Stone.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng considered whether a Qinmeng Secret Stone might lie near the Ferocious Beasts and discussed hiding its Spiritual Qi from them.
• Ren Yisheng realized the abundant foul waste around Huli Port could be used to cover the Qinmeng Secret Stone with something the Ferocious Beasts disliked.

The hunting party traveled from Huli Port to the mountains where Qimeng Haige had encountered a Ferocious Beast and began searching for its den. Zhang Xuezhou flew ahead to scout, while Ren Yisheng and Zhou Rihui stayed behind; distant tiger roars revealed that many beasts were nearby.

• Changkong Luo told Zhou Rihui to protect Zhang Xuezhou and flee if the hunt went wrong.
• Qimeng Haige led the committee members along the rugged route where he had fled from the Ferocious Beast.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Cloud Soaring Technique to rise high and scout the area.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhou Rihui discussed guarding Zhang Xuezhou while the others searched.
• Ren Yisheng heard numerous tiger roars echoing through the mountain forest.

Zhang Xuezhou watched Changkong Luo and the others draw the tiger-shaped Ferocious Beasts apart so they could attack them, then descended toward the battle after the winged tiger was subdued. He left himself poised to investigate the creatures more closely.

• Zhang Xuezhou found the tiger-shaped Ferocious Beasts gathered in a stone forest but stayed airborne because a winged tiger might catch him.
• Zhang Xuezhou waited for Changkong Luo and the others to lure the Ferocious Beasts away from the group.
• Song Xianzhong fired a powerful shot, and Qimeng Haige drew a nearly three-zhang-long tiger and its cub through the rocks while other Sequence Holders led beasts away.
• Changkong Luo and the others attacked the winged tiger, which roared but did not use its wings to leap.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted an opening behind a stone pillar and plunged down toward the battle.

Zhang Xuezhou found the Qinmeng Secret Stone in a cave packed with venomous snakes, then rushed back to help Wang Haoran evade a saber-toothed tiger. The chapter ended as Wang Haoran’s returning flying blade swept toward the tiger’s eye.

• Zhang Xuezhou used the Treasure-Seeking Technique to locate the Qinmeng Secret Stone inside a snake-filled cave, but found the passage too narrow to reach it easily.
• Zhang Xuezhou repeatedly used his deterrent to kill snakes near the entrance, then left to rejoin the others before the Ferocious Beasts returned.
• Zhang Xuezhou caught up with Wang Haoran, who was fleeing the upright saber-toothed tiger that had nearly killed Qimeng Haige.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Wang Haoran agreed to attack the tiger at a bend, with Zhang Xuezhou stopping it briefly while Wang Haoran targeted its eye.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Cloud Soaring Technique to hinder the charging tiger as Wang Haoran sent his flying blade wide, then swept it back toward the beast’s eye.