Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuezhou and the others encountered a flying white snake Ferocious Beast, whose mental assault incapacitated Shangge Namesi. As Mengtesi Badun tried to retreat in the truck, another Ferocious Beast rushed toward them.

• Zhang Xuezhou recognized the white flying creature as a flood dragon and jumped off the heavy truck with Ren Yisheng and the others.
• Mengtesi Badun ordered the group to wear asbestos helmets and keep their distance, then hurled rebar at the white snake, which dodged.
• The white snake's mental assault overwhelmed Shangge Namesi despite his asbestos helmet.
• Mengtesi Badun called for Ren Yisheng to help attack, but Ren pointed out another approaching threat.
• Mengtesi Badun turned the truck around and activated its electric grid when a Gliding Light Rat Ferocious Beast charged through the forest.

Mengtesi Badun and Ren Yisheng struggled to coordinate while facing the Gliding Light Rat and the flying white snake. After Ren Yisheng wounded the snake and briefly caught the rat in his mental Control, Mengtesi Badun drove a rebar into the rat’s mouth, leaving it thrashing on the ground.

• Mengtesi Badun fled in his truck with Montes Arthur as the other truck overturned while the group tried to escape the Gliding Light Rat.
• Mengtesi Badun and Montes Arthur attempted to evade the rat and find an opening to attack, while Mengtesi Badun prepared to throw rebar.
• Ren Yisheng struck the white snake with a mental wind blade, wounding it and forcing it to flee amid thunder and lightning.
• Ren Yisheng complained that he and Mengtesi Badun had almost no coordination, then used his mental Control to catch the Gliding Light Rat and briefly affect Mengtesi Badun too.
• Mengtesi Badun drove rebar into the Gliding Light Rat’s mouth and bent it into place, causing the rat to roll helplessly on the ground.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng tested their mental deterrence against Mengtesi Badun and discussed how Resistance Layers limited its effect on high-Sequence Holders. After the group captured a Gliding Light Rat instead of the white snake, Ren Yisheng requested that they keep it alive for research and medicine.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discovered their mental deterrence had little effect on Mengtesi Badun and discussed the protection Resistance Layers provided to Seventh Sequence Holders.
• Mengtesi Badun asked whether the Scarlet Alliance State had Sequence Holders who needed rodent genes, while Batia and the others crawled out of their overturned truck after the Gliding Light Rat attacked.
• Mengtesi Badun warned that the Gliding Light Rat was dangerous and might die trying to escape, but Ren Yisheng asked the group to preserve it for research and medicine.
• Mengtesi Badun used rebar to restrain the Gliding Light Rat and discussed how cooperation could make hunting live Ferocious Beasts easier.

Zhang Xuezhou flew to the snake den and discovered a new group of powerful Ferocious Beasts gathered across the valley, apparently protected by a remarkable seven-colored pagoda. He left the group’s leader and the treasure’s purpose unknown as he scouted from his Yang Corporeal Soul.

• Ren Yisheng and Mengtesi Badun discussed transporting the subdued Gliding Light Rat and whether it was worth researching.
• Zhang Xuezhou flew through the night toward the snake den, suspecting a new Ferocious Beast leader had emerged.
• Zhang Xuezhou reached the area near dawn and saw a diverse group of Ferocious Beasts, including the injured white flood dragon, gathered across from the den.
• Zhang Xuezhou sent out his Yang Corporeal Soul to scout the herd and spotted several unusual elite-class beasts.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw a seven-colored pagoda-like treasure radiating light over the Ferocious Beasts and judged it far more powerful than his own Law Treasures.

Zhang Xuezhou watched the Ferocious Beasts awaken and use the seven-colored pagoda to lure snakes from the den so they could eat them. He learned that the beasts had lost track of Feixun after the white flood dragon encountered a dwarf from the Heavenly Craftsman Clan, leaving him alarmed.

• Zhang Xuezhou observed the Ferocious Beasts wake and saw the white giant horse Bai Yin draw criticism for keeping an enormous body.
• The golden-maned lion and blue-furred sharp-toothed tiger discussed human hunters, captured beasts, and their hostility toward the Shadow Clan.
• The sharp-toothed tiger swallowed the seven-colored pagoda, which drew snakes from the den for the Ferocious Beasts to eat.
• Zhang Xuezhou realized the beasts could eat the snake den nearly empty, a method he had never considered.
• The sharp-toothed tiger learned from the white flood dragon that Feixun had gone missing after an encounter with a dwarf from the Heavenly Craftsman Clan, and Zhang Xuezhou reacted with alarm.

Zhang Xuezhou realized Mengtesi Badun might belong to the Heavenly Craftsman Clan and decided he could seek a sincere alliance with him. At the snake lair, Yu’s Law Treasure overwhelmed Huang Snake, while Zhang Xuezhou withdrew and discovered a moving red spot in his vision.

• Zhang Xuezhou connected the sharp-toothed tiger’s remark to Mengtesi Badun and reconsidered him as a potential ally with valuable knowledge of Gene Sequences.
• Yu bombarded Huang Snake’s lair with poisonous fog and multicolored light, blinding him and threatening to take his hearing.
• Yu tried to persuade Huang Snake to surrender the Fire Seed, offering him a chance to become like Suhui and join them.
• Zhang Xuezhou judged that neither he nor Mengtesi Badun’s group could safely challenge Yu, so he withdrew and hoped the Ferocious Beasts would leave behind useful ingredients or miss the Qinmeng Secret Stone.
• After returning to his body, Zhang Xuezhou’s vision cleared except for a red spot, which began to move.

Zhang Xuezhou encountered the Void Furnace as it tried to escape the Quelling Chief’s range, then discovered that its offer of a fortuitous opportunity was a trap to seize his body. As the Void Furnace tried to refine him, Zhang Xuezhou recited the Upāsaka Precepts Sutra, and white lotuses appeared amid the flames.

• Zhang Xuezhou found the Void Furnace fleeing the snake cave and learned that Yu’s Quelling Chief could affect everything within ten li.
• The Void Furnace said Zhou Xin and Zhou Na had awakened it and claimed it could help Zhang Xuezhou refine a body and reach higher Sequences.
• Zhang Xuezhou agreed to leave with the Void Furnace, but tried to bind it with a rope loop.
• The Void Furnace turned into gray fluid, spread over Zhang Xuezhou’s body, and revealed that it intended to take over and refine him.
• Zhang Xuezhou’s Evasion Technique activated, and he recited the Upāsaka Precepts Sutra as white lotuses appeared amid the flames.

Zhang Xuezhou used the Upāsaka Precepts Sutra to overpower the Void Furnace and began questioning it about the world's Origin of Life. The Void Furnace explained that whoever controlled it could remake the world, leaving Zhang Xuezhou to confront the possibility of civilization being destroyed and reset.

• Zhang Xuezhou chanted the Upāsaka Precepts Sutra, shaping his mental power into white lotuses that drained the Void Furnace’s flames.
• The Void Furnace begged Zhang Xuezhou to spare it, offering help with Hu Yu, gene sequences, and the Fire Seed.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked whether the Fire Seed released the burning power, and the Void Furnace confirmed it did.
• When Zhang Xuezhou resumed draining it, the Void Furnace warned that Hu Hao and the others would find the Origin of Life and turn the world into a hunting ground.
• Zhang Xuezhou stopped the lotuses and asked what the Origin of Life was.
• The Void Furnace explained that its owner could remake the world, disrupt time and space, and destroy civilization repeatedly.

As Zhang Xuezhou questioned the Void Furnace about life’s origin and the higher-dimensional world, he learned that its society was dominated by overwhelming elites while ordinary beings struggled to survive. The chapter left him realizing that his world’s cultivation techniques might surpass those of Heaven Beyond Heaven, despite its inhabitants’ far superior Law Treasures.

• Zhang Xuezhou asked the Void Furnace what a World Origin was and how one could be obtained, then questioned whether a crisis had caused Qinmeng’s destruction.
• The Void Furnace said it knew little about Qinmeng’s past and described Heaven Beyond Heaven as a chaotic, brutal higher-dimensional world where ordinary beings served the powerful.
• The Void Furnace explained that its world’s strongest beings possessed World Origins and undying bodies, while Zhang Xuezhou and the Void Furnace would count as minor elites there.
• Zhang Xuezhou learned that Heaven Beyond Heaven favored obvious power and Law Treasures, which had stifled the development of cultivation techniques.
• Zhang Xuezhou concluded that his own Technique Methods might be more refined than those of Heaven Beyond Heaven, even though he and his companions lacked powerful Law Treasures.

Zhang Xuezhou questioned Void Furnace about dimensions, world origins, and the dangers posed by higher-dimensional explorers, then released him after deciding his Fire Seed was too weak to be useful. Seeing a rosy glow in the distance, Zhang Xuezhou suspected Hu Yu had used the Quelling Chief and possibly killed Huang Snake, and worried the group would find the treasures in the snake cave.

• Void Furnace explained that descending between dimensions was dangerous, that a world's origin could make its holder undying, and that explorers could bring other beings to a lower-dimensional world.
• Void Furnace said powerful beings might be unable or unwilling to claim lower-dimensional origins, and described the Void Stone as a tool for descending between dimensions.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Void Furnace to leave his body and refused to take his weak Fire Seed.
• Void Furnace changed from a wooden-stick form into a small human form and offered to become useful if his Fire Seed grew stronger, but Zhang Xuezhou rejected the idea.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted a rosy glow that suggested Hu Yu had brought out the Quelling Chief and might have killed Huang Snake, and he worried the group would discover the snake-cave treasures.

Zhang Xuezhou refused to cooperate with the Void Furnace and left him behind, choosing to wait for a safer chance to investigate the snake den. The Void Furnace’s Fire Seed then lured in a hairless tiger-shaped creature and began refining its body.

• The Void Furnace warned Zhang Xuezhou that Hu Yu had likely set traps near the snake den and urged him to leave with the Fire Seed.
• Zhang Xuezhou rejected the Void Furnace’s offer of help and flew away without him.
• The Void Furnace’s human-shaped spirit collapsed, leaving its ruby-like Fire Seed on the ground.
• A hairless tiger-shaped creature approached the Fire Seed, which vanished and released gray fluid that enveloped it.
• The Void Furnace commanded the creature to be refined, and flames reshaped its limbs into human hands.

Zhang Xuezhou sent his Yang Corporeal Soul to scout the snake cave and discovered a wounded tiger cub and a tree that appeared to be moving in disguise. He watched Hu Yu use the Quelling Chief to put the beasts to sleep, then saw the tree approach the treasure.

• Zhang Xuezhou waited until nightfall, then sent his Yang Corporeal Soul to observe the snake cave from a distance.
• He spotted a wounded tiger cub and realized there were two Giant Ape Ferocious Beasts in the area.
• While searching for Hu Hao and the hairless tiger, Zhang Xuezhou noticed a mottled tree moving toward the snake cave.
• Hu Yu returned with the Quelling Chief, circled the gathered Ferocious Beasts, and set the treasure down to put them to sleep.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw the disguised tree move through the Quelling Chief's light and steadily approach it.

Hu Hao stole the Quelling Chief from the snake den, and Hu Yu pursued him, sparking a fight that carried them away from the den. With Hu Hao’s allies failing to help, the beasts scattered into disarray, leaving Zhang Xuezhou to consider entering the snake den while the brothers fought.

• Hu Hao transformed into a winged tiger, seized the Quelling Chief, and flew away as Zhang Xuezhou shouted a warning and retreated.
• Hu Yu transformed and pursued Hu Hao, attacking him while Hu Hao insisted that the Quelling Chief would return to its true master.
• Hu Hao called for Hu Sun and Ma Liu to attack Hu Yu with boulders, but Hu Yu dodged every stone and no helper appeared.
• Hu Hao realized his plan had failed and ordered the Ferocious Beasts below to withdraw as he and Hu Yu argued about bloodline and strength.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw the brothers fly far from the snake den and wondered whether he should take advantage of the opening to enter it.

Zhang Xuezhou followed Hu Yu and Hu Hao across the sky as they fought over Quelling Chief, then watched them dive into the sea and leave the treasure behind. He found Quelling Chief on the shore and began suppressing his vitality so he could approach it.

• Zhang Xuezhou tracked Hu Yu and Hu Hao from a distance by following the seven-colored traces of Quelling Chief.
• Hu Yu and Hu Hao argued over bloodline and Quelling Chief as their flight slowed, while Zhang Xuezhou reflected on the limits of bloodline-based power.
• Hu Hao threw Quelling Chief away, transformed into a tiger-striped fish, and plunged into the sea; Hu Yu followed after transforming as well.
• Zhang Xuezhou found Quelling Chief lodged in the ground and discovered that a rope snare broke when he tried to retrieve it.
• Zhang Xuezhou reduced his Law Power, Qi and Blood, and vitality, then began edging toward Quelling Chief like a paralyzed man.

Zhang Xuezhou moved the Quelling Chief through the sea, where water greatly reduced the range of its influence, and traveled back to the temporary port. He reached the port and immediately began looking for a boat so he could return to the sea and pursue the treasure.

• Zhang Xuezhou struggled to carry the Quelling Chief until he pushed it into the sea and discovered that water reduced its influence range by about ninety-nine percent.
• Zhang Xuezhou carried the Quelling Chief roughly forty li along the coast before his trembling hands forced him to stop and find his bearings.
• Zhang Xuezhou identified the direction of Huli Port and traveled about a hundred and twenty li to reach the temporary port.
• Mengtesi Badun complained that he had waited for Zhang Xuezhou while Ren Yisheng stayed at the port, then warned that the Qinmeng Waters held few worthwhile hunting opportunities.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Mengtesi Badun there was treasure in the sea and began inspecting a small boat without first looking for Ren Yisheng.

Ren Yisheng and Mengtesi Badun waited around the coast while Zhang Xuezhou went out to sea, with Ren claiming he wanted to contemplate the Sequence. At dusk, Mengtesi Badun saw a multicolored glow offshore and realized Zhang had somehow taken down Qinmeng’s fearsome Quelling Chief.

• Mengtesi Badun complained that Zhang Xuezhou had taken his boat, and Ren Yisheng gave him a two-wheeler as compensation.
• Ren Yisheng drove along the coast, saying he wanted to think about the Sequence by the sea, while Mengtesi Badun followed and waited for him.
• As darkness fell, Ren Yisheng returned in the nearly depleted off-road vehicle, and Mengtesi Badun spotted a multicolored light moving offshore.
• Mengtesi Badun recognized the light as evidence that someone had taken out the Quelling Chief and connected it to Zhang Xuezhou’s claim that there was treasure in the sea.

Zhang Xuezhou brought the Quelling Chief back from the sea and asked Mengtesi Badun to deal with the dangerous treasure. Mengtesi Badun managed to bind it with his staff, but after boarding the boat he suddenly suffered a strange transformation and fled with it, while Zhang Xuezhou was left bleeding.

• Zhang Xuezhou told Mengtesi Badun that he had recovered the Quelling Chief after Hu Yu and Hu Hao dropped it into the sea during their fight.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that the Quelling Chief's force made it difficult to approach or conceal, and urged Mengtesi Badun to help before the Ferocious Beasts returned.
• Mengtesi Badun tested the Quelling Chief with his staff and found that its alloy wires could pierce and bind it, dimming its seven-colored glow.
• Mengtesi Badun accepted the treasure, pulled the boat closer, and boarded it, but his skin turned silvery gray and his face flushed red.
• Mengtesi Badun sent the boat racing across the sea as Ren Yisheng arrived and found Zhang Xuezhou bleeding from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

Zhang Xuezhou traveled toward the Snake Cave to seek a Qinmeng Secret Stone and repair the damage caused by the Quelling Chief. Along the way, he and Ren Yisheng discussed the treasure’s domain-like powers, and they reached the mountain range near the Snake Cave.

• Zhang Xuezhou told Ren Yisheng that he intended to find a Qinmeng Secret Stone at the Snake Cave to recover from the Quelling Chief’s damage.
• Ren Yisheng took Zhang Xuezhou to Mengtesi Badun’s supply truck and drove them toward the Snake Cave.
• During the journey, Zhang Xuezhou argued that the Quelling Chief was a controllable domain-type treasure, while Ren Yisheng suggested its effects resembled radioactive damage.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discussed whether the Quelling Chief’s powers could help them understand or develop domain abilities.
• Ren Yisheng drove the truck to the mountain range near the Snake Cave ahead of Zhang Xuezhou’s estimate, and Zhang Xuezhou looked toward the chaotic area.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng reached the snake den, where the Quelling Chief’s lingering power had left several Ferocious Beasts incapacitated. After Zhang Xuezhou uncovered the Qinmeng Secret Stone and began recovering, Ren Yisheng dug for medicinal herbs until a faint sound came from deeper in the cave.

• Zhang Xuezhou directed Ren Yisheng to fly them up the cliff toward the snake den because his pain made it unsafe for him to fly alone.
• Ren Yisheng saw Huang Snake coiled around several incapacitated Ferocious Beasts and spotted a white flood dragon hanging from a nearby mountain.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng flew through the foul-smelling den without finding the missing golden-furred lion.
• Zhang Xuezhou uncovered the Qinmeng Secret Stone, and its Spiritual Qi eased his pain as Ren Yisheng began digging for medicinal herbs.
• Ren Yisheng found the herbs buried in hard soil, then heard a faint sound from the cave passage.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng followed the Void Furnace into a small secret realm hidden in the snake cave. After the Void Furnace surrendered, Zhang Xuezhou learned about the Fire Seeds and the hardships of the Void Fire Clan.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng hid behind the Qinmeng Secret Stone as the Void Furnace approached with the Fire Seed.
• The Void Furnace leaped into a secret realm above the Qinmeng Secret Stone, and Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng followed him inside.
• The Void Furnace recognized Zhang Xuezhou and surrendered before Ren Yisheng could attack.
• Zhang Xuezhou examined the red crystals in the secret realm and asked the Void Furnace about three glowing objects there.
• The Void Furnace explained that the objects were his clan's inherited Fire Seeds, including those of his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, and described the Void Fire Clan's low status in Heaven Beyond Heaven.