Chapter Summaries

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.

Ten years after Qie Qiong secretly became Transcendent, he completed the first level of the True Meaning of Metal and learned that the Golden Light secret manual contained the secrets of space. When a group of Transcendents emerged from a Space Gate and attacked the Qiyun Mountain mine, Qie Qiong was called to respond.

• Qie Yunzhou became Transcendent, entered the Thunder Sacred Land with Lin Wantang, and left Qie Qiong behind to protect the clan’s secrets.
• Qie Qiong became a Title Knight at sixteen, then spent six years cultivating while Fang Yun managed the mine and Qi Lingfei handled the city’s affairs.
• Qie Qiong comprehended the first level of the True Meaning of Metal, and the Golden Light secret manual revealed its teachings on space.
• Qi Lingfei brought Qie Qiong the shattered mine token, while a month earlier a Space Gate had appeared in an abandoned tunnel at Qiyun Mountain.
• A dark-red-armored Title Rank warrior led dozens of Transcendents through the mine, where they slaughtered miners and guards.
• Fang Yun ordered the mine guards to fight, but the attackers overwhelmed them, so he crushed the ancient token to summon help.

Qie Qiong arrived at the mine after golden specks annihilated the invading Savage warriors and discovered their silver Space Gate. He entered the gate into a world with far denser energy, hoping to claim its resources and advance his cultivation.

• Golden specks disintegrated the bare-chested Savage warriors, and Qie Qiong appeared and wounded the surviving armored leader.
• The leader tried to self-destruct and warned that his master would avenge him, but Qie Qiong killed him.
• Fang Yun’s guards found a silver Space Gate in an abandoned mine tunnel, and Qie Qiong ordered the mine sealed and investigated the gate.
• Qie Qiong recognized the gate as a passage to a Transcendent World and sensed that it could help him obtain resources and master the True Meaning of Space.
• Qie Qiong felt the Space Gate clarify the mysteries of space, then stepped through and emerged in a forest where energy was at least ten times denser than in the mortal world.

Qie Qiong confirmed that the Extreme Thunder World was a small Transcendent world and learned that five powerful figures ruled it. After killing the Rock Claw Tribe warriors who threatened him, he gathered intelligence and set off toward the God of Vajra’s holy city.

• Qie Qiong measured the world by flying to its boundary and determined it was a small Transcendent world about sixty thousand li across.
• Qie Qiong entered a village of the Rock Claw Tribe, where its Meteor Rank leader demanded his clothes and possessions.
• Qie Qiong killed the leader’s warriors, forced the survivors to answer his questions, and learned that five Deities and more than twenty Demigod lords ruled the Extreme Thunder World.
• The surviving giant told Qie Qiong that the God of Vajra’s holy city stood atop the Steel Ridge Mountain Range, and Qie Qiong killed him to protect his origins.
• Qie Qiong discovered Origin Stones and other Transcendent materials in the village, then flew toward the God of Vajra’s holy city.

Qie Qiong infiltrated the Steel Ridge Mountain Range and killed the God of Vajra after a fierce battle, then took the god’s body, Space Ring, and nearby treasures before escaping. The other four Deities arrived too late, and the Sea God, God of Hurricanes, and Fire God left together, wary of Extreme Thunder.

• Qie Qiong silently entered the God of Vajra’s temple and wounded him with a golden attack, identifying him as a third-level seventh-grade Myriad Existences Realm expert.
• Qie Qiong fought the God of Vajra with his True Meaning of Metal, cutting through his defenses while the god’s strength and resilience prolonged the battle.
• The God of Vajra unleashed a vast attack, but Qie Qiong used the Extreme Metal Flowing Light Sword to pierce his brow and kill him.
• Qie Qiong took the God of Vajra’s Space Ring and body, gathered the temple’s treasures, and fled the Steel Ridge Mountain Range before the other Deities arrived.
• Extreme Thunder, the Sea God, the God of Hurricanes, and the Fire God found the ruined temple and confirmed that the God of Vajra had fallen.
• The Sea God, God of Hurricanes, and Fire God departed together for Hurricane’s territory, leaving Extreme Thunder at the scene.

After reaching Saint Rank Peak and mastering the first layer of the Myriad Existences Realm of Space, Qie Qiong returned to the Extreme Thunder World to hunt its remaining Gods. His clone survived the Gods’ combined attack in Hurricane Canyon, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Qie Qiong discovered twenty thousand pounds of Origin Stones and learned from the God of Vajra’s notes that outsiders had brought Dou Qi techniques to the Extreme Thunder World.
• Qie Qiong used the Origin Stones to reach Saint Rank Peak, then spent six months consolidating his realm and opening a Space Gate through his mastery of space.
• Qie Qiong returned to the Extreme Thunder World and sent a Dou Qi clone toward the Gods’ territories while he headed east to find the God of Extreme Thunder.
• The clone encountered the God of Hurricanes, the Sea God, and the Fire God together in Hurricane Canyon.
• The three Gods unleashed their combined water-and-fire attack, destroying the canyon, but Qie Qiong’s clone emerged from the smoke unharmed.

Qie Qiong’s avatar killed the God of Fire, the Sea Goddess, and the God of Hurricanes, while Qie Qiong confronted and defeated the God of Extreme Thunder by destroying the array empowering him. With the world’s strongest natives dead, Qie Qiong claimed the Extreme Thunder World as his own.

• Qie Qiong’s avatar endured the three gods’ combined attack with the Golden Feather Robe, then killed the God of Fire, the Sea Goddess, and the God of Hurricanes as they tried to flee.
• Qie Qiong headed to the Extreme Thunder Mountain Range and discovered that an elaborate array empowered the God of Extreme Thunder.
• The God of Extreme Thunder attacked Qie Qiong with the array’s lightning, and their first clash left them evenly matched.
• Qie Qiong teleported past the God of Extreme Thunder and struck the metal palace’s core array node, weakening the god and disrupting the mountain range’s lightning.
• Qie Qiong broke the God of Extreme Thunder’s spear and pierced him with a metal-infused strike, then stored his corpse in his Space Ring.
• Qie Qiong declared that the Extreme Thunder World belonged to him after its five great native powers had fallen.

Qie Qiong gathered the treasures left by the fallen deities, confirmed that the Space-Time Temple threatened the Material World, and purged the remaining powerful Transcendents in the Extreme Thunder World. After ordering the Qie Clan to prepare for mining, he used the Ocean World Stone and vast resources to strengthen himself and began breaking through to Demigod.

• Qie Qiong collected the four deities’ treasuries, including 140,000 catties of Origin Stones and an Ocean World Stone, and confirmed the Space-Time Temple had sent reincarnators to this world.
• Qie Qiong decided he needed to comprehend the True Meaning of Space to resist a compulsory summons from the Space-Time Temple.
• Qie Qiong hunted down and killed all twenty-three remaining Sky Realm Transcendents in the Extreme Thunder World, then left a Dou Qi clone to guard the Origin Stone vein.
• Qie Qiong ordered Fang Yun to gather loyal Qie Clan knights and miners for a mining operation in one month, then returned to his cultivation chamber.
• Qie Qiong absorbed 50,000 jin of Origin Stones and broke through to the early stage of Saint Rank with his physical body.
• Qie Qiong ate one-third of the Ocean World Stone, gained sharper insights into the True Meaning of Space and Metal, and began advancing toward Demigod.

Qie Qiong reached the Demigod realm, and the Qie Clan announced his breakthrough as Fang Yun and Qi Lingfei led miners and knights toward the secret Cloud-Resting Mountain mine. The news prompted the Thunder Sacred Land to order Qie Yunzhou to escort his son there, and Qie Yunzhou arrived just as Qie Qiong revealed his new realm.

• Qie Qiong's breakthrough released a vast pressure across the Qie Residence, and Fang Yun confirmed to the gathered workers that Qie Qiong had reached the Transcendent realm.
• Fang Yun and Qi Lingfei warned the miners and knights to keep the Cloud-Resting Mountain mine secret, then organized the group to travel there.
• The Thunder Sacred Land's Elders' Hall ordered Qie Yunzhou to serve as Qie Qiong's Reception Envoy and escort him to the Sacred Land within three days.
• Qie Qiong awoke in the Demigod realm and realized that his soul, Dou Qi, and understanding of the True Meaning of Space had greatly advanced.
• Qie Yunzhou reached the Qie Residence, sensed that Qie Qiong had surpassed the Sky Realm, and heard his son confirm that he had become a Demigod two days earlier.

Qie Qiong learned that the Thunder Imperial Family had imprisoned his mother, Wantang, and drained her life origin to prolong its Demigod ancestor’s life. He promised to rescue her in ten years, then concealed his Demigod aura before going to the Thunder Sacred Land.

• Qie Qiong told Qie Yunzhou that resources from a Small Transcendent World had helped him reach the Demigod level.
• Qie Yunzhou revealed that the Thunder Imperial Family had kept Wantang captive for five years, using a secret art to drain her life origin.
• Qie Qiong vowed to master the True Meaning of Space within ten years and rescue Wantang, and he asked Qie Yunzhou to delay their trip to the Thunder Sacred Land.
• Qie Qiong brought Qie Yunzhou to the Space Gate in the Qiyun Mountain mine and sent him into the Small Transcendent World to inspect its preparations and Origin Stone vein.
• Qie Qiong found the Space Concealment Technique in the Golden Light Codex and used it to disguise his Demigod aura as that of a newly advanced Transcendent.

Qie Qiong concealed his Demigod aura with a secret technique and, with Qie Yunzhou, left the mortal-world mine in Fang Yun and Qi Lingfei’s hands. They entered the Thunder Sacred Land, where Qie Qiong saw the imperial family’s formidable power and arrived at a residence under its watchful attention.

• Qie Yunzhou returned to the mine and discovered that Qie Qiong’s Demigod aura had been disguised by a secret technique.
• Fang Yun warned the miners to remain at the vein and keep its secrets, and Qie Qiong assured them their work would bring benefits.
• Qie Yunzhou entrusted the mine to Fang Yun and the prefecture city to Qi Lingfei before he and Qie Qiong departed.
• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou reached the Thunder Sacred Land and surveyed its capital, while Qie Yunzhou warned Qie Qiong not to challenge the imperial family before he could rescue Wantang.
• Qie Qiong and Qie Yunzhou arrived at a residence, where guards and maids were already waiting under the Thunder Imperial Family’s close watch.

Qie Qiong reunited with his weakened mother, Lin Wantang, and gave her an Ocean World Stone to slow the loss of her life origin. After Prince Lei Xiao confined Qie Qiong and his father to the imperial holy land, Qie Qiong secluded himself for ten years, and space began twisting around him as he neared a breakthrough.

• Qie Yunzhou explained that the imperial family watched him and Qie Qiong, then led his son to Lin Wantang in Qin Garden.
• Qie Qiong examined Lin Wantang's condition, promised to free her in ten years, and gave her an Ocean World Stone to nourish her life foundation.
• Qie Qiong reunited with Lin Wantang and Qie Yunzhou at a family dinner, sharing news of his past ten years and his cultivation.
• Prince Lei Xiao congratulated Qie Qiong with thirty Origin Stones, then ordered him and Qie Yunzhou to remain in the holy land under the guise of protecting him.
• Qie Qiong entered secluded cultivation, while Qie Yunzhou cared for Lin Wantang under imperial surveillance.
• Ten years later, space twisted around Qie Qiong inside the sealed chamber, and he shone like a silver sun as a powerful spatial force gathered.

After ten years of cultivation, Qie Qiong mastered the complete True Meaning of Space, strengthened his body, and created a Space Phantom. He killed Prince Lei Xiao when the prince tried to drain Lin Wantang’s life force, provoking the Lei Clan’s ancestor to erupt in fury.

• Qie Qiong completed the True Meaning of Space and cultivated the first level of the Cosmic Body and Space Phantom secret techniques.
• Prince Lei Xiao activated a secret technique to extract Lin Wantang’s life force, but Qie Qiong’s Space Phantom seized his wrist and stopped him.
• Qie Qiong appeared before Lei Xiao and killed him with Space Cutting, then disintegrated his body and Demigod artifact.
• A pillar of white lightning burst from the central palace as the Lei Clan’s ancestor roared over Lei Xiao’s death.
• Qie Qiong kept the ancestor’s pressure outside the Qie Residence and faced the lightning with a cold smile.

Qie Qiong fought Lei Wuji and the Thunder Imperial Family in Thunder Sacred Land, destroying their central palace before trapping Lei Wuji and four Divine Realm War Soldiers in a Space Lockdown. He then rescued Lin Wantang and Qie Yunzhou and left through a spatial rift, leaving his Space Phantom to maintain the prison.

• Qie Qiong confronted Lei Wuji, revealed himself as Lin Wantang's son, and traded attacks with him using the True Meanings of Space and Metal.
• Lei Wuji ordered his subordinates to capture Lin Wantang and Qie Yunzhou, but Qie Qiong's Space Phantom defeated the forces sent to the Qie residence.
• Lei Wuji summoned four Divine Realm War Soldiers, and Qie Qiong broke free of their encirclement to destroy the imperial family's central castle and the Core Members inside.
• Qie Qiong used Space Lockdown to trap Lei Wuji and the four war soldiers, then ordered his Space Phantom to maintain the barrier.
• Qie Qiong took Lin Wantang and Qie Yunzhou through a spatial rift and left the trapped Lei Wuji behind.

Qie Qiong returned to Cloud Sea Prefecture City with Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang, where he found the Lieyang Family occupying the Qie Residence and killed those who insulted his mother. After the Blazing Sun Transcendent failed to appear within three days, Qie Qiong attacked the Lieyang Family, learned its Old Ancestor had already died in his battle with Lei Wuji, and left the family’s lower-ranking members alive.

• Qie Qiong brought Qie Yunzhou and Lin Wantang back to Cloud Sea Prefecture City and found the Qie Residence renamed and occupied by the Lieyang Family.
• Qie Qiong killed the lecherous young man and the guards at the residence, then ordered the Blazing Sun Transcendent to restore the Qie Clan’s property and seek forgiveness within three days.
• Qie Qiong began secluded training to advance his True Meaning of Space, while Qie Yunzhou and Fang Yun handled matters outside.
• After Qi Lingfei reported that the Blazing Sun Transcendent had not appeared, Qie Qiong went to Blazing Sun City and fought his way into the Lieyang Family’s main hall.
• Lieyang Jin told Qie Qiong that the family’s Old Ancestor had died in Qie Qiong’s battle with Lei Wuji, and Qie Qiong spared Lieyang members below Silver Moon Knight rank.
• Lieyang Jin and the elders killed themselves after agreeing to return the Qie Clan’s holdings and erect a memorial stele for its fallen.

Twenty years after Qie Qiong dealt with the Lieyang Clan, the Cangyun Empire’s invasion brought its forces to Langya Prefecture City, where Thunder and Chuyun fighters gathered to defend it. Demigod Wuyang crushed the allied defenders and ordered an assault on the city while moving to intercept two approaching Thunder Demigods.

• The Cangyun Empire’s forces besieged Langya Prefecture City, and Azure Flame Sword Saint urged Wang Zhenyue to surrender.
• Wang Zhenyue revealed reinforcements led by Yue Qianshan, and the Thunder and Chuyun Transcendents began to overwhelm the Cangyun forces.
• Demigod Wuyang arrived, unleashed his Dancing Sun Domain, and killed or incapacitated nearly all the allied Transcendents; Yue Qianshan escaped toward Cloud Sea Prefecture City.
• Wuyang ordered the Cangyun ground forces to attack Langya Prefecture City and charged toward two approaching Thunder Demigods.