Recaps

After ten thousand eras of cultivation left him stalled as an Intermediate Universe Venerable, Qie Qiong met Lian Luo in Chaos City and took him as a disciple. He left Lian Luo with instructions to visit him in the Virtual Universe after choosing a Chaos Stele.

• Qie Qiong watched the new Genius Battle recruits arrive in Chaos City and recognized Lian Luo from the original story.
• Qie Qiong appeared before the group and asked Lian Luo to become his nominal disciple.
• Number 11 identified Qie Qiong as a Venerable, and Lian Luo bowed and accepted him as his master.
• Qie Qiong helped Lian Luo rise, reflected on his long cultivation and Lian Luo’s future, then told him to meet in the Virtual Universe after choosing a Chaos Stele.
• News of Qie Qiong taking a disciple spread through Chaos City, though the other powerful figures soon lost interest in Lian Luo.

Qie Qiong reflected on his cultivation and the new disciple he had taken before discovering the All-Heavens System, which required a costly recharge to draw other worlds. After paying to use it, he received three world options and began deciding between them.

• Qie Qiong recalled his rise from a home-planet genius to an Intermediate Universe Venerable and considered how to guide his new disciple, Lian Luo.
• The All-Heavens System appeared, revealing that it could create an otherworld clone and convert manuals from other worlds into techniques for this one.
• Qie Qiong learned that recharging required rare resources, including a Life Fruit, and bought the needed items through the Virtual Universe.
• Qie Qiong recharged the system and drew Douluo Continent, Battle Break the Firmament, and Lord Xue Ying as possible worlds.
• Qie Qiong ruled out Douluo Continent and weighed the remaining choices before preparing to select a world.

Qie Qiong chose to reincarnate into the Lord Xue Ying World with his self-created manual, Golden Light, as his golden finger. Reborn as the son of a Title Rank knight and a Silver Moon Rank mage, he recognized the world and asked his father to teach him to become a knight.

• Qie Qiong selected the Lord Xue Ying World and chose his manual, Golden Light, as his initial item, with the goal of reaching the High-Level Deity realm within a hundred thousand years.
• Qie Qiong was reborn as a baby and discovered that his parents were Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang, and that he had the same name as in his previous life.
• Qie Qiong learned that he lived in Cloud Sea Prefecture City in the Thunder Empire and saw his parents demonstrate their formidable abilities.
• Two years later, Qie Qiong asked Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang to teach him cultivation after witnessing their sparring.
• Qie Yunzhou explained the cultivation realms, and Qie Qiong realized they matched the Lord Xue Ying World he knew from a novel.
• Qie Qiong chose to learn the knight path from Qie Yunzhou, who was a Title Rank knight.

Qie Qiong chose two sword manuals to cultivate and began building his foundations under Qie Yunzhou’s guidance. His training started at the clan’s practice ground with no set timetable for reaching Unity of Man and Sword.

• Qie Yunzhou showed Qie Qiong the clan’s four Transcendent secret manuals and its Dou Qi technique, Thunder’s Five Transformation Technique.
• Qie Qiong rejected Mad Sun Saber because of its aggressive style and effects on the practitioner’s state of mind, then compared the remaining manuals.
• Qie Qiong chose Thunder Light and Flowing Light Sword, and Qie Yunzhou agreed with his choice.
• Qie Yunzhou told Qie Qiong to first practice Seventy-Two Earth Fiend Swords and Thunder’s Five Transformation Technique before attempting the advanced sword manuals.
• Qie Yunzhou brought Qie Qiong to the clan’s practice ground, where he instructed him to practice sword thrusts against an alchemical dummy and perfect all seventy-two swords.
• Qie Qiong began training under Qie Yunzhou’s guidance in the days that followed.

After three years of sword practice, Qie Qiong struggled to reach Unity of Man and Sword until a sparring match revealed that he had to find his own understanding rather than copy a manual. He achieved the breakthrough, defeated his two sparring partners, and sent them to claim their promised rewards.

• Qie Qiong practiced the Seventy-Two Earth Fiend Swords but could not understand what was missing from his technique.
• Qie Qiong sparred with two Heaven Rank Knights, offering each an intermediate-grade Dou Qi cultivation method if they helped him break through.
• The two knights attacked Qie Qiong together, and he realized their different-looking saber techniques shared the same moves.
• Qie Qiong understood that Unity of Man and Sword required his own interpretation, then struck the black-clad knight and defeated the white-clad knight soon after.
• Qie Qiong congratulated the knights on their sparring and told them to choose their rewards at the Dou Qi Pavilion, then continued training alone.

Qie Qiong comprehended Perfect and Unified Force, became a Heaven Rank Knight, and tested his new speed and strength. Meanwhile, Qie Yunzhou faced an ambush by Xiong Biao and Xiong Li, who attacked him with the Mountain Cage and Mountain Splitter.

• Qie Qiong shattered an alchemical dummy with one thrust after comprehending Unity of Man and Sword and Perfect and Unified Force.
• Qie Qiong practiced Thunder's Five Transformation Technique, formed a pale blue dantian Qi sea, and became a Heaven Rank Knight.
• Qie Qiong tested his Dou Qi and found that his speed could rival some Silver Moon Knights, then decided to seek the rest of Thunder Light from his father.
• Xiong Biao and his black-armored knights surrounded Qie Yunzhou in the mountains and threatened to kill him.
• Xiong Li trapped Qie Yunzhou with Mountain Cage as Xiong Biao launched Mountain Splitter at him.

Qie Yunzhou revealed that he had reached the Myriad Existences Realm and defeated the Xiong brothers’ attacks with ease. The brothers escaped using a spatial scroll, while Qie Yunzhou’s sword strike killed their accompanying knights, and he decided to investigate how the Xiong Clan had learned his route.

• Xiong Li and Xiong Biao attacked Qie Yunzhou together, but his cyan shield absorbed both of their techniques.
• Xiong Biao recognized that Qie Yunzhou had broken through to the Myriad Existences Realm, and Qie Yunzhou confirmed that he had advanced two days earlier.
• Qie Yunzhou drew the Thunder Star Sword and unleashed Ten Thousand Shadows Return to Truth against the Xiong Clan’s party.
• Xiong Biao opened a spatial scroll, teleporting himself and Xiong Li away as the sword light killed the knights they had brought.
• Qie Yunzhou suspected someone in his clan had leaked his route into Cloud-Resting Mountain and ordered his knights to return home.

After Qie Qiong reached Heaven Rank Knight and Unity of Man and Sword at six, his parents discussed whether he should join the Thunder Sacred Land. He chose to stay home for a few years, leaving his parents to continue their private discussion.

• Qie Qiong returned from training and announced that he had reached Heaven Rank Knight and Unity of Man and Sword.
• Lin Wantang and Qie Yunzhou praised Qie Qiong’s talent, and Lin Wantang arranged food for him.
• Qie Yunzhou explained that the Thunder Sacred Land trained exceptional cultivators and had Saint Rank and Demigod Rank experts.
• Qie Qiong decided to wait a few years before joining, partly because his nameless manual had not activated yet.
• Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang agreed to let him stay home, and Qie Yunzhou said he would give Qie Qiong pointers the next day.

Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang suspected Kang Zhixuan and Qi Lingfei might be Xiong Clan spies, but decided to warn Qie Qiong rather than act without proof. The next morning, Qie Yunzhou demonstrated the Heaven and Man Unity Realm by effortlessly stopping Qie Qiong’s sword attack.

• Qie Yunzhou told Lin Wantang that the Xiong brothers had ambushed him after learning his route, and he suspected Kang Zhixuan and Qi Lingfei might have leaked it.
• Lin Wantang urged Qie Yunzhou to eliminate the pair, but he persuaded her to keep them under watch, protect Qie Qiong, and tell him to be cautious.
• Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang turned from their discussion to planning for another child, while Qie Qiong continued eating, unaware of their plans.
• The next morning, Qie Qiong attacked Qie Yunzhou at the rear mountain training grounds with the Flowing Light Sword and Thunder's Five Transformation Technique.
• Qie Yunzhou used the Heaven and Man Unity Realm to gather the wind around himself, grind away Qie Qiong's sword light, and push him back, leaving Qie Qiong astonished.

Five years after Qie Yunzhou explained Heaven and Man Unity, Qie Qiong reached the realm through years of training and finally sensed the breath of Heaven and Earth. He then drew thunder energy into his body, beginning to turn his Silver Moon Knight virtual core into a solid core.

• Qie Yunzhou explained how Heaven and Man Unity let a person's will merge with Heaven and Earth and wield nature's might.
• Over the next five years, Qie Qiong advanced to the third level of Thunder's Five Transformation Technique, reached the Ten Thousand Swords Realm, and became a powerful Silver Moon Knight.
• Qie Qiong quieted his mind beneath a tree and sensed the breath and rhythm of Heaven and Earth.
• Qie Qiong swung the Azure Peak Sword without using Dou Qi, briefly halting the wind and movement around him as he attained Heaven and Man Unity.
• Qie Qiong drew thunder energy into his dantian, and his virtual core began turning into a solid core.

Qie Qiong broke through to Title Rank and activated the ancient Golden Light book in his sea of consciousness, which granted him profound insights into the law of metal. He hurried home to share his achievements with his parents, but found only Lin Wantang there and revealed his new realm to her.

• Qie Qiong's illusory core solidified into a black Solid Core, advancing him to Title Rank and his Thunder's Five Transformation Technique to the Fourth Layer.
• The golden book in Qie Qiong's sea of consciousness opened and flooded him with insights, secret patterns, and techniques related to the law of metal.
• After recovering from the torrent of information, Qie Qiong realized Golden Light would greatly accelerate his comprehension of the law of metal.
• Qie Qiong went to the main hall to share his good news, but learned that his father was inspecting an ore vein at Cloud-Resting Mountain.
• Qie Qiong led Lin Wantang into the main hall and demonstrated his Unity of Heaven and Man realm by drawing on the Power of Heaven and Earth.

Qie Qiong revealed to Lin Wantang that he had reached Title Rank at just eleven and advanced his Thunder's Five Transformation Technique. After concealing his breakthrough from others, he left the Qie Residence with Kang Zhixuan and Qi Lingfei to find his father.

• Lin Wantang sensed Qie Qiong's Unity of Heaven and Man and learned he had reached Title Rank and the Fourth Layer of the Thunder's Five Transformation Technique.
• Lin Wantang celebrated Qie Qiong's breakthrough and warned him to keep his true realm secret.
• Qie Qiong told Lin Wantang he would go out to find his father rather than send a messenger.
• Qie Qiong met Kang Zhixuan and Qi Lingfei at the Qie Residence's side gate and told them he had only just begun cultivating Dou Qi and was an Earth Rank Knight.
• Qie Qiong, Kang Zhixuan, and Qi Lingfei rode toward the gates of Cloud Sea Prefecture City as people made way for the young master.

Qie Qiong and his companions were ambushed by Xiong Clan knights outside Cloud Sea Prefecture City, but the attack exposed Kang Zhixuan as a traitor. The chapter ended as Qie Qiong stopped Kang Zhixuan’s poisoned dagger and confronted him.

• Qie Qiong, Kang Zhixuan, and Qi Lingfei left Cloud Sea Prefecture City and encountered an ambush on the road.
• Xiong Zhendong revealed himself and declared that the Xiong Clan intended to kill Qie Qiong and his companions.
• Xiong Zhendong ordered his knights to attack, and Qi Lingfei engaged two Meteor Rank enemies.
• Kang Zhixuan secretly drew a poisoned dagger and tried to stab Qie Qiong in the back.
• Qie Qiong stopped Kang Zhixuan’s dagger with an invisible barrier and identified him as the traitor.

Qie Qiong revealed that he was an eleven-year-old Title Rank expert and used the Power of Heaven and Earth to crush the Xiong Clan’s ambush. He killed most of the attackers, while Xiong Zhendong tried to flee and briefly blocked Qie Qiong’s sword Qi with his saber.

• Qie Qiong exposed Kang Zhixuan as a Xiong Clan traitor, and Kang Zhixuan admitted his allegiance as Xiong Zhendong ordered him to attack.
• Qie Qiong unleashed Unity of Heaven and Man, suppressing the attackers and revealing his Title Rank strength; Qi Lingfei killed the two Meteor Knights he had been fighting.
• Qie Qiong killed four Heaven Rank Knights with a sword sweep and pierced the remaining Meteor Knight with black sword Qi.
• Xiong Zhendong burned his Dou Qi and fled, ordering Xiong Zhixuan to hold Qie Qiong off.
• Qie Qiong sent sword Qi after Xiong Zhendong, who turned and shattered his saber against it, causing the sword Qi to dissipate.

Qie Qiong killed the Xiong Clan attackers and ordered Qi Lingfei to conceal the deaths and handle the spoils. He rode to the mining area to speak privately with his father, Qie Yunzhou.

• Qie Qiong caught and killed Xiong Zhendong, then killed the kneeling Xiong Zhixuan, completing the defeat of all nine Xiong Clan experts.
• Qie Qiong told Qi Lingfei to check the bodies, keep twenty percent of the valuables, and report the dead as bandits killed by them.
• Qie Qiong rode his Cloud-Treading Steed to the guarded mining area and approached Qie Yunzhou, who was listening to a steward's report.
• Qie Qiong told Qie Yunzhou that everything was fine at home and asked to speak with him in private.

Qie Qiong told Qie Yunzhou that he had reached Title Rank at eleven and reported that the Xiong Clan had sent an assassin after him. He then learned that a sixth-rank magical beast rivaling the Myriad Existences Realm had trapped the Qie Clan’s miners, and he insisted on joining his father to fight it.

• Qie Qiong revealed his breakthrough to the Black Thunder stage and Title Rank, and Qie Yunzhou praised his achievement.
• Qie Qiong told Qie Yunzhou that Kang Zhixuan had ambushed him and confessed to being the Xiong Clan spy Xiong Zhixuan.
• Qie Yunzhou vowed to remember the Xiong Clan’s attack and told Qie Qiong that a magical beast had killed miners and a Silver Moon Knight in the mine.
• Qie Yunzhou explained that the beast was a sixth-rank creature capable of rivaling the Myriad Existences Realm and that the mine made it difficult to fight.
• Qie Qiong offered to enter the mine with Qie Yunzhou, arguing that his Thunder’s Five Transformation Technique made him stronger than an ordinary Title Rank expert.

Qie Qiong persuaded Qie Yunzhou to let him enter the mine, where they discovered a powerful Thunder Lizard drawn by thunder adamantine. Qie Qiong wounded the beast, and Qie Yunzhou struck as it broke free of his bindings.

• Qie Qiong convinced Qie Yunzhou that his strength and swordsmanship made him capable of facing the beast, and Qie Yunzhou agreed to take him into the mine.
• Qie Yunzhou cleared the mining site and ordered the guards to keep their distance while he and Qie Qiong entered the mine.
• Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong dodged a lightning attack and found a Thunder Lizard whose scales had been strengthened by devouring thunder adamantine.
• Qie Yunzhou bound the Thunder Lizard with wind chains, and Qie Qiong stabbed through its neck scales with his Qingfeng Sword.
• The Thunder Lizard shattered the chains, and Qie Yunzhou moved to attack it with the Thunder Star Sword.

Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong defeated a sixth-tier Thunder Lizard in the Cloud-Resting Mountain mine and recovered its lightning-attribute Solid Core for Qie Qiong. They emerged to report that the mine was safe, and Qie Yunzhou appointed Fang Yun to oversee it.

• Qie Yunzhou restrained the Thunder Lizard with solid sword lights, allowing Qie Qiong to pierce its wounded neck and kill it.
• Qie Qiong sensed the Thunder Lizard had something he needed, opened its abdomen, and found a lightning-wreathed Solid Core.
• Qie Yunzhou refused Qie Qiong's offer of the Solid Core and explained that it would better help Qie Qiong cultivate Transcendent Dou Qi and advance his Thunder's Five Transformation Technique.
• Qie Yunzhou stored the Thunder Lizard's corpse, and he and Qie Qiong left the mine.
• Qie Yunzhou told the gathered workers that the danger had passed and ordered Fang Yun to oversee the mine, giving him a purple-gold token for emergencies.
• Qie Yunzhou ordered two knights to remain at the mine while the rest returned to the city with him.

After returning to the Qie Residence, Qie Qiong told Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang about the Xiong Clan’s ambush and learned that the Thunder Lizard’s Solid Core could help him grow stronger. Three months later, he finished absorbing its energy and comprehended the first level of the Myriad Existences Realm of Metal.

• Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong returned to the Qie Residence, where Qi Lingfei reported that he had secured the spoils and Qie Yunzhou rewarded him with access to a martial skill.
• Qie Qiong told Lin Wantang that the Xiong Clan had ambushed them and that Kang Zhixuan had betrayed the Qie Clan, while Qie Yunzhou vowed to settle the feud between the clans.
• Qie Yunzhou revealed that he and Qie Qiong had slain a sixth-tier Thunder Lizard at the mine and obtained its Solid Core for Qie Qiong to absorb.
• After three months of cultivating with the Solid Core, Qie Qiong advanced his Golden Core and used the Golden Light secret tome to comprehend metal.
• Qie Qiong reached the first level of the Myriad Existences Realm of Metal.

After comprehending the Myriad Existences Realm of Metal, Qie Qiong sparred with Qie Yunzhou and revealed his new power. Qie Yunzhou recognized his eleven-year-old son’s breakthrough and reacted with astonishment.

• Qie Qiong tested his Metal of Myriad Existences by splitting a waterfall with a sword strike.
• Qie Qiong asked Qie Yunzhou to spar with him at the training grounds.
• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou exchanged sword techniques, with neither gaining the upper hand.
• Qie Yunzhou used the Wind of the Myriad Existences Realm to launch a powerful strike at Qie Qiong.
• Qie Qiong revealed his own Myriad Existences Realm of Metal and met Qie Yunzhou’s attack, breaking both swords and damaging the training grounds.
• Qie Yunzhou realized Qie Qiong had comprehended the Metal of Myriad Existences and expressed disbelief at his son’s achievement.

Qie Qiong revealed that he had reached the Myriad Existences Realm at eleven, prompting his parents to warn him to keep his talent secret. The family then decided to attack the Xiong Clan while the Qie Clan held a decisive advantage.

• Qie Yunzhou sparred with Qie Qiong and discovered that his son had comprehended the Metal of Myriad Existences.
• At breakfast, Qie Qiong told Lin Wantang that he had entered the Myriad Existences Realm, and Qie Yunzhou clarified that it was not the Thunder variety.
• Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang warned Qie Qiong that revealing his age and progress could provoke a manhunt, and urged him to keep his achievement hidden for ten years.
• Qie Yunzhou cited Kang Zhixuan's betrayal and the feud between the clans as reasons to strike the Xiong Clan now.
• Qie Yunzhou proposed that he and Qie Qiong go directly to Cangshan County City and defeat the Xiong Clan's two Title Rank fighters.

Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou used Lin Wantang’s new secret armor and entered Cangshan County City to attack the Xiong Clan after learning the clan heads were home. They forced their way into the Xiong residence and killed its first defenders, where Xiong Biao and Xiong Li confronted them.

• Lin Wantang gave Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou two Thunder Scale Secret Armor garments, and Qie Yunzhou told her to claim they had gone into seclusion.
• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou traveled to Cangshan County City and learned at Cloudwatch Pavilion that the Xiong brothers were home.
• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou killed the guards at the Xiong residence gate and rushed inside, triggering the alarm and the Xiong Clan’s assembly signal.
• Qie Yunzhou severed a Silver Moon Knight’s arm, while Qie Qiong killed the charging knights with his Flowing Light Sword.
• Xiong Biao and Xiong Li emerged from the main hall and angrily confronted Qie Yunzhou.

Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong attacked the Xiong Clan and killed its two Title Rank leaders, then escaped Cangshan County City before the city guards could stop them. By morning, the city’s factions had killed the remaining Xiong clansmen to seize the clan’s wealth, and the pair left through the gates without trouble.

• Qie Yunzhou fought Xiong Biao, who used the Xiong Clan’s Earth Vein Array to match his strength, while Qie Qiong faced Xiong Li.
• Qie Qiong killed Xiong Li with a swift sword strike, and Qie Yunzhou bound Xiong Biao with wind chains.
• Qie Qiong took the Thunder Star Sword and pierced Xiong Biao’s heart while he was trapped, killing the Xiong Clan patriarch.
• The surviving Xiong Clan members fled, and Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong took the brothers’ Space Rings before escaping to a restaurant.
• The city’s factions agreed to kill the remaining Xiong clansmen and divide the clan’s wealth, while the city guards sealed the residence.
• Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong left Cangshan County City the next morning after the guards relaxed their checks.

After destroying the Xiong Clan, Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou returned to Cloud Sea Prefecture City and reunited with Lin Wantang. They inventoried the Xiong brothers’ spoils and began planning how to use the wealth and items to strengthen the Qie Clan.

• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou left Cangshan County City after wiping out the Xiong Clan, then sped back to Cloud Sea Prefecture City.
• Commander Li’s watchers spotted the pair leaving and relaxed, expecting to claim the remaining Xiong Clan wealth.
• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou returned to the Qie Residence, where Lin Wantang welcomed them and learned that Xiong Biao, Xiong Li, and the Xiong Clan were finished.
• Qie Yunzhou and Qie Qiong opened the brothers’ Space Rings and found gold, Earth Vein Jade Marrow, Thunder Adamantine, a spatial-shift scroll, cultivation manuals, alchemy items, and a metal-attribute herb.
• Qie Yunzhou gave the spatial-shift scroll and Thunder Adamantine to Qie Qiong, then handed the remaining assets to Lin Wantang to manage.
• Qie Yunzhou, Qie Qiong, and Lin Wantang sat down to discuss how to use the spoils to strengthen the Qie Clan.

Qie Qiong identified the heavenly treasure as Nine-Leaf Gold-Veined Grass and spent two and a half years using it and other resources to advance his cultivation. He became a Sky Realm Transcendent ahead of schedule, demonstrated his new powers to his parents, and agreed to keep his breakthrough secret for ten years.

• Qie Qiong found the Nine-Leaf Gold-Veined Grass described in the Qie Clan's Illustrated Guide to Myriad Existences and learned it could greatly accelerate his comprehension of metal laws.
• Qie Qiong consumed the grass's nine leaves over two years, raising his True Meaning of Metal to the peak of the Myriad Existences Realm's Third Layer while cultivating with the Thunder Lizard core and Thunder Adamantine.
• Qie Qiong transformed his Dou Qi and body, broke through to become a Sky Realm Transcendent, and gained a middle Flying Sky Rank body and the First Layer of the Thunder of the Myriad Existences Realm.
• Qie Qiong used golden lightning to startle Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang before revealing his breakthrough and demonstrating his ability to transform into lightning and elemental particles.
• Qie Yunzhou praised Qie Qiong's talent and asked him to conceal his breakthrough for ten years; Qie Qiong agreed and said his body had already reached the middle Sky Realm.