Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuezhou forced Dao Lord to explain the three versions of his Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger Technique, exposing how each had changed and weakened. Dao Lord began revealing the unfinished third technique, leaving Zhang Xuezhou with the knowledge he had demanded.

• Dao Lord swore oaths and, with Holy Mother Wudang as guarantor, reluctantly agreed to explain his guarded technique to Zhang Xuezhou.
• Dao Lord described his first Flying Dagger Technique, which used Kunlun cold iron and an innately nurtured gourd, but Zhang Xuezhou rejected it as unlike the attack he had endured.
• Dao Lord explained his second technique, which refined fragments of the flying knife inside the body and used an Incantation to damage the target's soul.
• Dao Lord admitted that his attacks on the Emperor, the New Emperor, and Zhang Xuezhou had grown weaker with each use after his first strike failed to kill the Emperor.
• Zhang Xuezhou pointed out that Dao Lord had struck him with a third technique, and Dao Lord began explaining its use of Qi as a guide.

Dao Lord explained his unfinished Innate One Qi Technique to Zhang Xuezhou, who judged that its fusion-based approach could never succeed. Zhang Xuezhou released Dao Lord from their conflict, but Dao Lord left devastated and coughing blood as his hope for the technique’s future collapsed.

• Dao Lord described his third Flying Dagger Technique, the colorless and formless Innate One Qi Technique he had tried to cultivate for 132 years.
• Zhang Xuezhou identified the technique’s flaw, arguing that Dao Lord had fused too few elements and had pursued the wrong direction for too long.
• Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated his grasp of the Flying Dagger Technique by spitting a nut hard enough to crack a floor tile.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Dao Lord to leave and declared that he would no longer pursue their grievances.
• Dao Lord staggered toward the underground palace gates, coughed up blood, and despaired over the collapse of his hopes for his technique and legacy.

Zhang Xuezhou praised Dao Lord’s Innate One Qi Technique and warned Holy Mother Wudang that former members of the Yedie River Holy Land might seize its wealth. Holy Mother Wudang left to collect her belongings and sent a sword containing her master’s Sword Qi to help the New Emperor advance to the True Self Realm.

• Zhang Xuezhou recognized the Innate One Qi Technique as a powerful mental attack and admired Dao Lord’s work developing it.
• Holy Mother Wudang considered delaying her visit to Dao Lord’s secret realm, but Zhang Xuezhou warned her that Venerable Yellow Sand, Venerable Hongku, and Venerable Weaver Emperor might take its treasures.
• Zhang Xuezhou described Venerable Yellow Sand and Venerable Weaver Emperor as crooked, while his praise of Hongku made Holy Mother Wudang more suspicious of him.
• Holy Mother Wudang gave Zhang Xuezhou a sheathed longsword containing her master’s Sword Qi to aid the New Emperor’s cultivation.
• Holy Mother Wudang hurried to the Northern Kuru Continent to collect her belongings and told Zhang Xuezhou to leave once the New Emperor reached the True Self Realm.

Zhang Xuezhou and Holy Mother Wudang waited beneath Mount Li while the New Emperor completed his breakthrough to the True Self Realm, then left by underground carriage. The New Emperor returned to the imperial palace with new sword insights and a persistent sword-whistling sound in his ears, which he suspected was a new ailment.

• Zhang Xuezhou examined the Dao Lord's fragmented flying dagger while Holy Mother Wudang warned him that the Dao Lord might still summon it.
• The New Emperor ended his seclusion before the agreed seventh day and left Mount Li with Zhang Xuezhou and Holy Mother Wudang.
• Holy Mother Wudang drove them through the earth to Old Tree Alley, then disappeared underground with the bronze carriage.
• The New Emperor described the sword techniques and Broken Green Duckweed Sword he had seen, but Zhang Xuezhou had already run off to lie down.
• The New Emperor chased after Zhang Xuezhou and heard swords whistling in his ears, then decided he had developed a new ailment and returned to the imperial palace.

Zhang Xuezhou returned to Sinkhole No. 2 and prepared to guide Zhou Rihui through advancement to the seventh sequence while the Scarlet Alliance State faced growing pressure from the spider tide and Mengtesi Badun’s predicament. The chapter leaves Zhou Rihui ready to begin the experiment, with Luo Burang hopeful that he may surpass Zhou Xin.

• Zhang Xuezhou returned to the real world, told Ren Anran he had resolved a problem, and promised to translate an opponent’s Technique Method later.
• Ren Anran explained that the spider tide was expanding through the Aomeijia Alliance’s Northern Lands and that Mengtesi Badun was being relentlessly pursued by Ferocious Beast spiders.
• Zhang Xuezhou called Zhou Rihui to prepare for the seventh-sequence experiment as Ren Anran and Luo Burang assembled supplies and discussed the risks of delayed data.
• Zhang Xuezhou reassured Luo Burang that Zhou Rihui’s strength and recovery should help him withstand the procedure, and predicted he might surpass Zhou Xin at the seventh sequence.
• Luo Burang gave up on trying to enter Sinkhole No. 2 for now and said he wanted to explore other civilizations and learn from them to prepare humanity for future threats.

Zhou Rihui endured painful shocks while deriving the Human Body Equation, and Zhang Xuezhou summoned Xuanming to awaken his bloodline. After briefly gaining the power of Control, Zhou Rihui began recovering, while Zhang Xuezhou planned to involve Xuanming in the investigation of the Spider God Cave.

• Zhou Rihui endured electric shocks as Ren Anran adjusted the equipment and Zhang Xuezhou guided him through deriving the Human Body Equation.
• Zhang Xuezhou had Zhou Rihui recite the Tomb Scripture before Xuanming's bronze turtle statue, and Xuanming agreed to help after hearing Zhou Rihui acknowledge him as an ancestor.
• Xuanming awakened Zhou Rihui's bloodline, causing his body to transform and briefly letting him use Control to lift genetic fluid.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that Zhou Rihui had entered the Seventh Sequence but needed to strengthen his mental power before he could use Control again.
• Ren Anran realized Zhang Xuezhou intended to bring Xuanming into the Spider God Cave, where he might act against Spider God Liao Meng.

Zhang Xuezhou prepared for the dangers of Spider God Cave while helping the committee’s Sequence Holders advance to the Seventh Sequence. Li Yingbo successfully completed the experiment, and the group received another alert about Mengtesi Badun.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhou Rihui discussed how they might handle the Ferocious Beast spiders and seek Xuanming’s help if Spider God Cave proved too dangerous.
• Ren Anran regretted that Mengtesi Badun had shared little about the cave, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that Badun might not know enough to give reliable information.
• At the A6 Laboratory, Li Yingbo learned about Badun’s offer of Ferocious Beast extracts and entered the gene-solution tank for the Seventh Sequence experiment.
• Li Yingbo used Zhang Xuezhou’s Human Body Reaction Equation repeatedly and successfully formed a Resistance Layer, entering the Seventh Sequence.
• As Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang reviewed Li Yingbo’s data, the custom alert for Mengtesi Badun sounded again.

Zhang Xuezhou coordinated a large-scale hunt in Qinmeng, gathering the Alliance States’ Sequence Holders to confront six Ferocious Beast spiders. The group prepared to leave in two days, while Song Bu’er worked toward the Seventh Sequence and they waited for Zhou Rihui to emerge from Sinkhole No. 2.

• Zhang Xuezhou learned that Mengtesi Badun had brought Zhou Xin aboard because Zhou Xin still sought a Black Tortoise Ferocious Beast, and he asked about Changkong Luo.
• Zhang Xuezhou arranged to meet Mengtesi Badun in two days to deal with the six spiders, and Song Bu’er entered a tank to develop a Resistance Layer.
• Li Yingbo called on Seventh Sequence Holders to join the Qinmeng hunt, while lower-sequence participants protested that they could not take part.
• Wang Haoran named qualified Sequence Holders and urged them to cooperate under Zhang Xuezhou’s lead, prompting the veterans to commit to the operation.
• Wang Haoran and Li Yingbo waited for Song Bu’er to reach the Seventh Sequence and for Zhou Rihui to emerge from Sinkhole No. 2 before the Alliance States’ forces set out.

Zhang Rihui safely crossed the North Rehe distortion, and the group traveled toward Qinmeng while Zhang Xuezhou translated the Dao Lord’s Flying Dagger Techniques. During the journey, Zhang Xuezhou gathered several Sequence Holders to study consciousness-based object control, and Ning Que began to suspect they had overlooked something.

• Zhou Rihui arrived safely, then Zhou Yueyan and the others hustled him away after he pretended to cough.
• The twenty-four Seventh Sequence Holders departed for Qinmeng, with Zhang Xuezhou carrying the Poison Tree Staff.
• During the two-day journey, Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Anran translated the Dao Lord’s Flying Dagger Techniques and discussed cultivation.
• Ning Que asked Zhang Manqian about Zhang Xuezhou’s abilities, then Zhang Xuezhou invited him to join a discussion about controlling objects with consciousness.
• As Ning Que struggled to understand the unfamiliar techniques, he listened to Zhang Xuezhou and the others and sensed they had missed something.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others considered adapting Dao Lord’s Flying Dagger Techniques and decided to seek Luo Tianming’s help. Zhang Hao then learned that Lu Ya had struck his original body with a dagger, threatening his plan to reclaim it in Kunlun.

• Ning Que suggested that Luo Tianming’s precise mental control of flying needles could help the group adapt Dao Lord’s techniques, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed to visit him next month.
• Ning Que revealed that Luo Tianming had wanted to adopt him, but he refused because he suspected Luo Tianming was ready to die; Zhang Xuezhou resolved to try to persuade Luo Tianming to keep living.
• Zhu Bufan and Zhang Hao praised Luo Tianming’s abilities, while Zhang Xuezhou hoped he could contribute to the group’s research.
• Zhang Hao learned that Lu Ya had thrown a dagger at his original body in Donghua and feared the wound would eventually destroy it, jeopardizing his plan to reclaim his Fleshly Body.

Zhang Xuezhou gathered his team and flew to Huli Port to rescue Mengtesi Badun and Zhou Xin, who had been fighting two regenerative spider Ferocious Beasts at sea for a month and a half. As the team arrived, the spiders crossed the water toward their ship, forcing Mengtesi Badun and the others to flee in speedboats while Zhang Xuezhou and his allies descended to fight.

• Zhang Xuezhou contacted Luo Tianming and offered two possible ways for him to survive, then reassured Grian about his position as speaker and brought him along to Qinmeng.
• Mengtesi Badun told Zhang Xuezhou that he and Zhou Xin had been driven onto the water by two spider Ferocious Beasts, and they arranged to meet near Huli Port.
• Zhang Xuezhou assigned teams to capture the spiders, while Ren Anran planned to help Zhou Rihui exploit a brief opening against one of them.
• Zhang Xuezhou's group flew toward Huli Port as support ships followed, and they spotted Mengtesi Badun's ship maneuvering among spider corpses on the sea.
• The spider Ferocious Beasts used silk attached to the ship to cross the water, so Mengtesi Badun and the others escaped in speedboats as Zhang Xuezhou and his allies parachuted down.

Montes Badun and the others reached the ship as Zhou Rihui subdued a Ferocious Beast spider with startling strength. The spider was bound and dismembered, while Zhang Xuezhou remained untouched by its attacks.

• Montes Badun, Zhou Xin, and Montes Clark circled back to the ship and rescued parachutists who had fallen into the sea.
• Ganghao warned Montes Badun that fighting was underway on the deck, and Zhou Xin and Montes Badun boarded the ship.
• Zhou Rihui pinned the Ferocious Beast spider, tore off its legs, and helped restrain it with Gene Weapons and alloy restraints.
• Zhou Rihui spat out the spider venom and revealed a cyan, diamond-shaped glow on his face, leading Zhou Xin to suspect his bloodline had been purified.
• Zhou Rihui finally found the spider's correct leg after tearing off all eight, while Zhang Xuezhou stood unharmed and remained free of its webbing.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others subdued the Ferocious Beast spider by exploiting its weakness to physical attacks, then began tearing off its legs to keep it from recovering. Zhou Rihui joined the effort, but the severed legs started devouring each other in his hands.

• Zhang Xuezhou endured the Ferocious Beast spider’s attacks and helped the group bind it after it was stunned.
• Mengtesi Badun thanked Zhang Xuezhou and asked how he had used his power near the spider, but Zhang Xuezhou gave a vague answer.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that armor could protect against the spider’s sharp leg hairs and directed the group to remove its legs.
• Zhang Xuezhou called Zhou Rihui to help pull off a leg, and Zhou Rihui tore one free with his strength.
• Zhou Rihui accidentally brought two spider legs together, and they began devouring each other.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others discovered that two Ferocious Beast spider legs had fused, then found that one of the captured spiders was dying on its own and could not be salvaged. They planned how to capture the remaining spiders together, while Nagesi asked Mengtesi Badun whether he could withstand the Scarlet Alliance State team's tactics.

• Zhang Xuezhou and the others examined a fused spider leg as Mengtesi Badun explained that Ferocious Beasts could absorb and fuse their kind’s limbs.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed fluorescent marks on Zhou Rihui’s hand, then found that a trapped Ferocious Beast spider was rapidly losing vitality and dying on its own.
• Zhang Xuezhou rejected Ren Anran’s suggestion to reattach the fused leg, and the group speculated that subduing the spiders too quickly had triggered their deaths.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhong Rang proposed coordinated attacks on the remaining spiders, while Li Yingbo reminded the group to include their Aomeijia Alliance and British Alliance State allies.
• Nagesi asked Mengtesi Badun whether he could withstand the Scarlet Alliance State team’s tactics, and Mengtesi Badun realized he probably could not.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others prepared to reach the Spider God Cave by airdrop, despite the risks of being unable to return quickly on foot. They learned that the nine-headed Fire Meteor being called Nine Heads was nearby, and Zhang Hao warned that he might exploit any opening.

• Zhang Xuezhou explained parachute landing preparations to Zhang Hao and the others, while Mengtesi Badun warned that an airdrop would leave them without an easy escape.
• Zhang Xuezhou said they should move quickly because fluorescent spots on Zhou Rihui, Mengtesi Badun, and Montes Ganghao might be an Incantation Technique marking them for the spider beasts.
• Mengtesi Badun warned that walking back from the Spider God Cave could take up to half a month through dangerous mountain roads, spider tides, and possible pursuit.
• Zhou Xin reported that a nearby Ferocious Beast had nine heads and could revive unless killed nine times quickly or struck at a special moment.
• Zhang Xuezhou recognized the being as Nine Heads, and Zhang Hao judged him difficult to kill but likely to seize any advantage without regard for danger.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others descended by air into the Spider God Cave to eliminate the source of Zhou Rihui’s spreading fluorescent symptoms. They discovered that the Ferocious Beasts and vast spider swarms were prepared for their arrival, forcing the team to abandon its ambush plan and prepare for battle.

• Mengtesi Badun and the others prepared for the drop, loading supplies and testing Song Bu'er’s invisibility suits as Song Xianzhong gave his son a brief approval.
• The team parachuted toward the Spider God Cave, where Zhang Xuezhou noticed that the fluorescent symptoms had spread across Zhou Rihui’s arm.
• Zhang Hao and Zhang Huang reported that four Ferocious Beasts and hundreds or thousands of large spiders were waiting below and had anticipated the team’s approach.
• Zhang Xuezhou ordered the team to open their parachutes, use explosives, and abandon their original plan to hunt the Ferocious Beasts.
• Ren Anran sent out two Yang Corporeal Souls to observe the area and relayed the best landing spot while descending.

Ren Anran and the Scarlet Alliance State fighters jumped from the air and battled the Ferocious Beast spiders, while Mengtesi Badun discovered that Montes Ganghao was behaving strangely. Ganghao chased a fleeing spider despite the others’ calls, and Montes Clark feared he was suffering the same fate as Bingo.

• Ren Anran marked a landing point, and the fighters cut their parachute cords and jumped to the ground without serious injuries.
• The group fought the charging Ferocious Beast spiders, with Zhang Xuezhou, Zhou Rihui, Zhou Xin, and Zhou Yueyan intercepting them.
• Montes Ganghao collided with Zhou Yueyan while trying to cover a gap, then became fixated on her and ignored Mengtesi Badun’s command to answer a question.
• Ganghao’s behavior grew more alarming, and he ran after the Ferocious Beast spider that had escaped.
• Montes Clark recalled that Bingo had acted similarly before dying in the caves, and she feared Ganghao would meet the same fate.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others fought through a spider swarm while searching for Montes Ganghao and pressing Montes Badun to reveal what he knew about the Spider God Cave. Montes Badun admitted he sought a divine artifact and revealed an underground glacier that could lead them close to the cave’s end.

• Ren Anran searched for Montes Ganghao but could not catch up with him in the dark, branching caves.
• Ren Yisheng sealed away the healing spider legs, and the group burned the three Ferocious Beast spiders as a huge swarm approached.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned Montes Badun that he had been tainted by the Spider God Liao Meng’s Curse, while Nagesi urged him to reveal what he knew.
• Montes Badun admitted he had suspected a divine artifact lay at the end of the Spider God Cave and hoped to obtain it if the Spider God took it across dimensions.
• Montes Badun told the group that an underground glacier could provide a route to a place near the cave’s end, though he could not promise the way was safe.

Zhang Xuezhou’s group decided how to restrain the fluorescent-marked Sequence Holders before crossing the spider-infested terrain toward the Spider God Cave. They set off down the mountain toward the underground river, with Mengtesi Badun bound and Nagesi disarmed.

• Li Yingbo demanded that Mengtesi Badun explain the fluorescent marks and proposed splitting up if he refused.
• Zhang Xuezhou persuaded Nagesi to surrender his paired swords and let Wang Haoran handcuff him, promising he could flee if danger arose.
• Mengtesi Badun asked whether Clark, Zhou Xin, and Pasteur were marked, then agreed to be bound with nylon rope and put down his Ruyi Staff and wooden case.
• Zhang Xuezhou left Zhou Rihui unrestrained because his strength made him essential to the group and difficult to control.
• The group prepared their invisibility cloaks and insect-repellent perfume, and Li Yingbo pulled Grian along as they hurried down the mountain toward the underground river.

Zhang Xuezhou and the group entered the flooded underground river in the Spider God Cave and found a place to rest and plan their exploration. Grian’s photographs then revealed what appeared to be Montes Bingo, despite the group believing he was dead, raising fresh doubts about Mengtesi Badun’s information.

• Zhang Xuezhou reached the corpse-blocked entrance first, followed by Ren Anran, and marked the way through the flooded underground river.
• Ren Yisheng, Ren Anran, Mengtesi Badun, Nagesi, Wang Haoran, and the others entered the icy water after removing gear that could be damaged.
• Zhang Xuezhou found a dry recessed rock shelf and warned the group that small creatures, rather than giant Ferocious Beasts, might pose the greater danger ahead.
• Zhang Xuezhou advised Ren Anran not to scout with her Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation and suggested testing the route with flares and listening devices instead.
• Grian showed Zhang Xuezhou photographs from the snow mountain, and Zhang recognized a face that looked like Montes Bingo.
• Montes Clark and Nagesi questioned Mengtesi Badun because the group believed Bingo was dead and Badun had previously reported finding his belongings and bones.