Recaps

Qin Yan defeated Lei Li, took his treasures, and spent the next two years growing stronger in the Fifth Realm. He developed a new form of the Nirvana Method and neared the realm’s physical limits as the threat from Yu Jianfei and Xun Yin remained unresolved.

• Qin Yan ordered Zheshen and Blood Child to kill everyone on the island and seal their souls in Fold-Life Hell, then imprisoned Lei Li’s Primordial Spirit.
• Qin Yan destroyed the island’s formations, blocked teleportation and communication, and seized Lei Li’s spatial ring and its treasures, including the Luo Jade Treasure Realm.
• Qin Yan returned to the Wu Kingdom and studied the outside world’s cultivation techniques and divine abilities while cultivating in seclusion.
• Over two years, Qin Yan and the others repaid his debt and advanced rapidly, while Qin Yan created the second form of the Nirvana Method, Tracing the Origin.
• Qin Yan’s physical stats approached the Fifth Realm’s limits, and his body became capable of resisting powerful Sixth Realm attacks without injury.

Qin Yan prepared to break through after building the Wu Kingdom into a technological and martial power, and he promised Qian Ying a clone to help advance his research. He cast off his mortal body and reconstituted himself as an energetic form, leaving his old flesh separate from him.

• Qin Yan reviewed the Wu Kingdom’s rapid progress and its growing ranks of powerful martial experts.
• Qian Ying showed Qin Yan the Heavenly Punishment System and asked him to help with his research; Qin Yan promised to create a clone before attempting his breakthrough.
• Qin Yan dealt with corrupt officials, then returned to his cultivation grounds and absorbed Spirit Crystals to begin breaking through.
• Qin Yan’s body dissolved into bloody mist as his flesh transformed, and he rebuilt himself from energy into a new form without fatal physical weaknesses.
• Qin Yan realized that his new body had no bloodline connection to the original body of the form he had occupied.

Qin Yan broke through into the sixth Martial Dao realm, the Divine Nirvana Realm, and discovered that his new body and soul had become immensely powerful. After he casually destroyed a vast stretch of sea, Heavenly Star Lord and the others recognized his handiwork and returned to training.

• Qin Yan absorbed Spiritual Qi from the Canglan Sea Region and completed his transformation, naming the sixth realm the Divine Nirvana Realm.
• Qin Yan sensed the future and saw an enormous whale approaching, then shattered its soul with a shout when it demanded a treasure.
• Qin Yan discovered that his strength had surged past 110 million times that of an ordinary person and casually blasted a trench thousands of li long into the seabed.
• Heavenly Star Lord and the others sensed the destruction and traveled to the sea, where Xiahou Jun identified Qin Yan's Primordial Magnetism disturbance.
• Immortal Master Yunchen and the others concluded Qin Yan had likely entered the sixth realm and returned to their training grounds to cultivate.

After reaching the Martial Dao Divine Nirvana Realm, Qin Yan used his new glimpses of cause and effect to track down Xun Yin, only to find and kill one of Di Feng’s clones. He brought the clone’s blood to Heavenly Star Lord to help locate Xun Yin’s true body, and Xiahou Jun arrived with the others, congratulating Qin Yan on reaching the sixth realm.

• Qin Yan adapted to his new strength and foresaw Di Feng’s presence, using a causal treasure to follow the direction of the vision.
• In Desolate Province, Qin Yan confronted a wandering swordsman and discovered that he was Xun Yin, a clone of Di Feng.
• Qin Yan subdued the clone, learned that Xun Yin’s true body came from beyond the domain and was being hunted, then crushed the clone and collected its blood.
• Qin Yan brought Xun Yin’s blood to Heavenly Star Lord and asked him to divine the true body’s location.
• Heavenly Star Lord contacted Yun Chen, Xiahou Jun, and others, and Xiahou Jun arrived and congratulated Qin Yan on reaching the sixth realm.

Qin Yan and the other ancient experts agreed to hunt Xun Yin and seize his Mahayana body rather than trust him, while Xun Yin and Di Feng recovered their strength and plotted revenge against Qin Yan. The chapter ended with Xun Yin preparing to fight his way back and take Qin Yan’s body.

• Qin Yan, Immortal Master Yunchen, Heavenly Star Lord, Xiahou Jun, and Fu Cheng Sword Venerable decided that capturing Xun Yin would be safer and more useful than joining forces with him.
• Heavenly Star Lord traced Xun Yin’s bloodline and found ten powerful presences scattered across the Cangtu Continent, including his true self and nine primary clones.
• Qin Yan identified two likely targets, Xun Yin and his clone Di Feng, and the group agreed to ambush them.
• Di Feng killed a red-haired woman, took her spatial ring, and used its contents to recover some strength.
• Xun Yin and Di Feng discussed the threats posed by Yun Li, the Taiyu Immortal Sect, the ancient experts in Great Li, and Qin Yan.
• Xun Yin claimed his body had been preliminarily refined and vowed to return and seize Qin Yan’s body.

Qin Yan and four allies tracked down Xun Yin and Di Feng in the Qi Kingdom and launched a coordinated attack. Qin Yan trapped Di Feng in a magnetic prison, overwhelmed him with flames and brute force, and burned him away despite his repeated attempts to regenerate.

• The Heavenly Star Lord explained that the Great Yong Immortal Dynasty had once fought the Azure Origin Immortal Sect, and that Fu Cheng Sword Venerable's feud with its emperor had caused widespread destruction.
• Immortal Master Yunchen used a karmic artifact to locate Xun Yin and Di Feng, while the Heavenly Star Lord sealed the area against escape through space.
• Qin Yan drew Xun Yin and Di Feng into separate magnetic prisons as four Mahayana experts joined the attack on Xun Yin.
• Di Feng attacked Qin Yan with a small sword and a sea of blood, but Qin Yan's magnetic field divided the blood and disrupted his control.
• Qin Yan smashed Di Feng apart repeatedly and burned his flesh and sea of blood until Di Feng died, cursing Qin Yan with his final words.

Qin Yan and four allies defeated and sealed Xun Yin after cutting him off from his puppet, then set out to eliminate his clones and bloodline. A young man on Xuancang Continent received a treasure and information from a crack in the void and teleported east.

• Xun Yin summoned a Mahayana Realm puppet, but Qin Yan’s black prison separated him from it while Immortal Master Yunchen attacked his Primordial Spirit.
• Qin Yan, Immortal Master Yunchen, Xiahou Jun, Heavenly Star Lord, and Fu Cheng Sword Venerable overwhelmed Xun Yin and destroyed the sea of blood sustaining his body.
• Immortal Master Yunchen sealed Xun Yin’s Primordial Spirit, and Qin Yan trapped his body in a black sphere.
• The group examined Xun Yin’s puppet and agreed that Heavenly Star Lord would restore it using Spirit Crystals supplied by Qin Yan in exchange for Flesh and Blood Dao techniques.
• The group searched the continent, eliminating Xun Yin’s clones and bloodline.
• On Xuancang Continent, a young man received a treasure and information from a crack in the void, then teleported east.

Qin Yan studied the Taiyu Liyan Immortal Scripture and created a powerful attack called Daylight by drawing on its principles. Li Zhuo arrived in Wu Kingdom, questioned Qin Yan about the Flesh and Blood Dao, and confronted him over the death of an immortal sect disciple.

• Qin Yan examined the Taiyu Liyan Immortal Scripture and learned about its three fire-based immortal arts.
• Qin Yan gathered solar energy, compressed it into a speck of light, and unleashed Daylight over the sea, vaporizing the water across a thousand li.
• Li Zhuo investigated the traces of the recent battle and wondered whether unknown experts had attacked Xun Yin.
• Li Zhuo appeared above Wu Kingdom and was surprised by its technological development.
• Qin Yan met Li Zhuo, who questioned him about the Blood Flesh Ancestor; Qin Yan said the ancestor had escaped after trying to possess him.
• Li Zhuo accused Qin Yan of killing a disciple of his immortal sect and demanded to know how long he would keep pretending.

Li Zhuo offered Qin Yan and the four other powerful cultivators a chance to leave their world and pursue immortality by joining the Taiyu Immortal Sect. After handing over Xun Yin’s Primordial Spirit, the group weighed the offer, and Qin Yan chose to stay while the others planned to leave.

• Li Zhuo invited Qin Yan to join the Taiyu Immortal Sect and explained that they could reach the Great Universe through soul reincarnation.
• Immortal Master Yunchen, Xiahou Jun, Fu Cheng Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Star Lord arrived, and Li Zhuo invited them to join as well.
• The five agreed to consider the offer and handed Li Zhuo Xun Yin’s sealed Primordial Spirit, with his memories of them erased.
• Li Zhuo gave them a jade token and three days to decide before leaving with Xun Yin.
• The four cultivators chose to leave for the Great Universe, while Qin Yan decided to remain in their world.

After the realm barrier opened, the four ancient experts left the Canggu Realm, and Qin Yan began conquering the rival states after the immortal sects withdrew. He captured the Great Li capital, where Crown Prince Xia Chengqian revealed he had allied with Qin Yan, and Qin Yan declared he would spare the royal family while making Xia Yujin witness Great Wu’s rise.

• Li Zhuo opened the realm barrier, and Heavenly Star Lord and three other experts departed with their Primordial Spirits and possessions.
• Qin Yan watched the experts leave, then decided to eliminate the remaining factions opposing him.
• In the second year of the Wu era, Qin Yan launched a unification war, destroyed Chu, and advanced against Prince Xiang while Huang Chao targeted the noble families.
• As Qin Yan’s forces reached the capital, Xia Yujin berated his defeated army, and Xia Chengqian revealed that he had allied with Qin Yan to protect himself and his mother.
• Qin Yan entered the palace and promised to spare Xia Yujin, Xia Chengqian, and the second prince’s mother, while declaring that Xia Yujin would become a subject of Great Wu.

Qin Yan unified Great Li as the Great Wu Dynasty, rebuilt the realm, and advanced to the Celestial Person Realm. After learning that the Great Yuan Royal Court was challenging Great Wu, he and his commanders prepared to move against it.

• At the end of the second year of the Martial Era, Qin Yan conquered Great Li, renamed it the Great Wu Dynasty, and established the fifth and sixth realms of the Martial Dao.
• At the beginning of the third year, Huang Chao joined Great Wu with the Heaven-Soaring Army, and Qin Yan made him King Wu Cheng; Great Wu later established its capital at Qinghe Town and renamed it the Central Capital.
• Qin Yan secretly turned Xia Yujin into a genuine lunatic after learning that he had begun feigning madness, while he punished corrupt officials and directed disaster relief.
• Over the next several years, Great Wu recovered from war, expanded agriculture and technology, and improved its people's livelihoods as the population and number of martial experts grew.
• Qin Yan broke through to the seventh realm, which he named the Celestial Person Realm, then learned that the Great Yuan Royal Court was testing Great Wu and prepared to take action.

In the twelfth year of the Martial Era, Qin Yan had become the peak of the Seventh Realm and expanded his empire across much of the Canggu Realm. The Immortal Palace appeared above Secluded Mountain as the Underworld opened, bringing Qin Yan face to face with the Great Yong Immortal Dynasty and its Mahayana sovereign, Fang Zhanxian.

• Qin Yan ruled a vast, technologically advanced empire and sensed that the Immortal Palace would appear that year.
• A spatial passage opened above Secluded Mountain, revealing the Immortal Palace, while an abyss split the earth and connected the Underworld to the Yang Realm.
• The Demon-Suppressing Pagoda shattered, and countless Yin Spirits emerged as Qin Yan recognized the Great Yong Immortal Dynasty's Ghost Dao cultivators.
• Immortal Master Yunchen appeared, and Fang Zhanxian, sovereign of the Great Yong Immortal Dynasty, offered Qin Yan a position as a king.
• Qin Yan refused Fang Zhanxian's offer and resisted the pressure of the Underworld cultivators as he faced the Mahayana sovereign.

Qin Yan entered the Immortal Palace, discovered its immense gravity and potent Immortal Spiritual Qi, and killed three nearby Great Yong Ghost Cultivators. With the immediate threats gone, he began absorbing the Immortal Spiritual Qi.

• Immortal Master Yunchen stopped Fang Zhanxian from fighting Qin Yan and warned Qin Yan that the Immortal Palace would separate entrants and that the Great Yong Dynasty might target people of the Yang Realm.
• Qin Yan and Immortal Master Yunchen entered the Immortal Palace as its passage opened, and Qin Yan found himself on a grassland where gravity was more than ten thousand times stronger than outside.
• Qin Yan sensed powerful Immortal Spiritual Qi and three peak Seventh Realm Ghost Cultivators nearby, then moved to confront Cloudstar Marquis Chao Yao.
• Qin Yan shattered Chao Yao's battle standard, sealed the area, overcame his ghostfire with blood-colored flames, and annihilated his soul body.
• Qin Yan killed the other two nearby Ghost Cultivators, found a place rich in Immortal Spiritual Qi, and drew the energy toward himself with his Magnetic Field.

Qin Yan broke through to the Heaven-One Realm and consolidated his strength while waiting inside the Immortal Palace. When three Great Yong Immortal Dynasty cultivators confronted him, he revealed overwhelming power and seized the fleeing survivor.

• Qin Yan fused the Dao of Primordial Magnetism with his body, reached the Heaven-One Realm, and expanded his perception to a radius of 1,000 kilometers.
• Gong Lian, Li Ci, and a Ghost Cultivator tracked the gathering immortal spiritual Qi and demanded that Qin Yan hand over the treasure they believed he had found.
• Qin Yan shattered Li Ci’s soul body with a physical punch, revealing strength far beyond what the cultivators expected.
• Gong Lian, Li Ci, and the Ghost Cultivator attacked with their magic treasures, but Qin Yan broke the Bagua Mirror and wooden ruler and nullified the jade fan’s black gale.
• Qin Yan smashed the soul bodies of Gong Lian and Li Ci, then caught the fleeing Ghost Cultivator by the head.

Qin Yan used the Soul Banner to capture Great Yong Ghost Cultivators and then joined a battle against an immortal insect, helping it defeat Fu Can and the other Ghost Cultivators. Fu Can self-destructed, leaving Qin Yan and the badly wounded insect alive.

• Qin Yan captured a seventh-realm Great Yong Ghost Cultivator with the Soul Banner and set out to kill more of the dynasty's experts.
• Qin Yan captured five fleeing seventh-realm Ghost Cultivators, bringing his tally to seventeen seventh-realm cultivators and one eighth-realm cultivator.
• Qin Yan found Fu Can and other Ghost Cultivators trying to seal an immortal insect, then wounded Fu Can with a blood Sha arrow.
• Qin Yan broke the Ghost Cultivators' formation with the Soul Banner while the immortal insect counterattacked, and together they captured or injured the attackers.
• Fu Can self-destructed rather than become a soul slave, badly damaging the immortal insect while Qin Yan rapidly healed his own wounds.

Qin Yan healed an emerald-green immortal insect, which led him to a treasure guarded by two powerful artifact spirits. After claiming the Star-Seizing Gauntlets and entering the core layer, he encountered formidable beings and continued searching for his companions.

• Qin Yan healed the emerald-green immortal insect, and it guided him to a restriction atop a towering stone pillar.
• Qin Yan broke the restriction and defeated the two artifact spirits, revealing a pair of powerful gauntlets.
• Qin Yan claimed the Star-Seizing Gauntlets, learned their divine ability, and spent half a year gaining a rudimentary grasp of it.
• Qin Yan said goodbye to the immortal insect, entered a passage through the stone pillar, and arrived in a realm filled with dense immortal spiritual Qi and powerful creatures.
• Qin Yan encountered an Aurora Leopard, then sensed it defeat another peak eighth-realm combatant in an instant.
• Qin Yan avoided the Aurora Leopard and traveled through the realm to search for his companions.

Qin Yan encountered the powerful immortal beast Bai Ming and barely survived their fierce battle. Immortal Master Yunchen and Heavenly Star Lord helped him escape, while Bai Ming was left raging in the ruined forest.

• Qin Yan hid as Bai Ming toyed with and devoured an Eighth Realm Ghost Cultivator, then detected Qin Yan and attacked him.
• Qin Yan fought Bai Ming in the ancient forest, where Bai Ming’s law-powered phantom wounded him and suppressed his healing.
• Bai Ming unleashed silver lightning that annihilated matter, forcing Qin Yan to defend himself with the Star-Seizing Hand and retreat.
• Xiahou Jun, Immortal Master Yunchen, and Heavenly Star Lord recognized Qin Yan and prepared a formation to help him escape Bai Ming.
• Qin Yan rushed toward the formation, and Immortal Master Yunchen and Heavenly Star Lord trapped Bai Ming with a Soul-Killing Formation long enough for the group to escape.

Qin Yan and the others traveled into the Immortal Palace’s core region to find Fu Cheng Sword Venerable. They found him injured but alive, and learned that he had gained an immortal sword and comprehended a new sword intent.

• Qin Yan gathered Immortal Spiritual Qi so he and Xiahou Jun, Heavenly Star Lord, and Immortal Master Yunchen could restore their strength while searching for Fu Cheng Sword Venerable.
• After two years, the group headed for the core region, where Heavenly Star Lord sensed Fu Cheng’s location near a vast Star Ancient Tree.
• Qin Yan and the others avoided waking a gigantic sleeping divine bird and found Fu Cheng healing on a leaf of the tree.
• Qin Yan began drawing the Ghost Qi from Fu Cheng’s severed arm, which Fang Zhanxian had injured.
• Fu Cheng told the group that he had found an immortal sword in an immortal beast’s cave abode and gained a new sword intent.

Fu Cheng Sword Venerable and the others headed toward the Immortal Palace’s core region after he recovered and strengthened his control over the immortal sword. A great will announced that the gates would open in three years, and the group witnessed a Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng defeat three Heavenly-Horned Dragons, with one dragon escaping.

• Fu Cheng Sword Venerable restored his strength, and the five companions set out for the core region.
• A vast consciousness announced that the Immortal Palace gates would open in three years, drawing powerful beings toward the core region.
• Qin Yan and his companions encountered a Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng fighting three Heavenly-Horned Dragons and watched from a distance.
• The Heavenly Peng shattered the dragons’ combined attack and pierced one dragon with its feather sword.
• Two Heavenly-Horned Dragons sacrificed themselves to help their remaining brother escape, and the Heavenly Peng began eating one of the fallen dragons.

Qin Yan avoided the fighting around the Immortal Palace’s core and secretly gathered powerful Primordial Spirits and materials from its battlefields. After mastering the Sky-Rending Claw, he ambushed the Fallen Heaven Demon Tiger and pierced its chest.

• Qin Yan discussed the dangers of the core area with Fu Cheng, Heavenly Star Lord, Xiahou Jun, and the others, then left to explore while they chose to cultivate.
• Qin Yan concealed his presence near the core area and collected Primordial Spirits and other spoils from battles between powerful creatures.
• Qin Yan analyzed a Mahayana Stage being’s claw bone and integrated its earth law and claw technique into his own Martial Dao.
• Qin Yan mastered the Sky-Rending Claw enough to shatter a small area of space and collected the immortal crane’s wing bones.
• Qin Yan ambushed the resting Fallen Heaven Demon Tiger with the Sky-Rending Claw, piercing its chest and slashing its head.

Qin Yan strengthened his body and refined the Sky-Rending Claw while hiding beneath the earth, then went looking for danger to raise his Assassination Technique’s proficiency. He discovered four powerful beings attacking a Molten Mountain Giant for its giant axe and watched as the battle continued.

• Qin Yan killed the Fallen Heaven Demon Tiger with a surprise attack, drew its soul into the Soul Banner, and took its corpse.
• Qin Yan spent more than three months absorbing the tiger’s flesh and precious bones while comprehending their laws and divine abilities.
• Qin Yan combined wind and space laws to complete the Sky-Rending Claw and grew confident he could fight a ninth-realm expert, though he reminded himself not to underestimate Mahayana experts.
• Qin Yan set out to improve his Assassination Technique, using his nearly erased presence to move unseen through the outer area of the core region.
• Qin Yan found three peak eighth-realm beings and one Mahayana expert attacking a peak eighth-realm Molten Mountain Giant, whose earth-fire powers were suppressed by a Space-Sealing Beast.
• The four attackers demanded the Molten Mountain Giant’s giant axe, while their leader struck with Sun-Moon Wheels that could cut through space; Qin Yan suspected the axe was an immortal artifact.

Qin Yan revealed himself to rescue the Molten Mountain Giant from Xuan Yi and his three servants. After killing the Space-Sealing Beast and seizing the Shining Crystal Bell, Qin Yan helped the Molten Mountain Giant break free, leaving the battle poised for a fierce counterattack.

• Xuan Yi and his three servants steadily overwhelmed the Molten Mountain Giant while trying to force him to surrender his immortal treasure.
• Qin Yan chose to intervene after Xuan Yi detected him, then ambushed and killed the Space-Sealing Beast with Sky-Rending Claw.
• Qin Yan trapped the Space-Sealing Beast's remains and soul in his Soul Banner and sent nearly forty soul slaves to attack one of the six-hoofed giant beasts.
• Qin Yan used Primordial Magnetism Domain to cancel the Gravity Domain and Star-Seizing to block Xuan Yi's attack and seize the Shining Crystal Bell.
• The Molten Mountain Giant broke free, enlarged his body, and swung his giant axe at Xuan Yi.

Qin Yan and Long Shan defeated Xuan Yi and his servants, then divided the spoils from the battle. After learning the Divine Wing Clan would seek revenge for Xuan Yi’s death, Long Shan left and Qin Yan erased the traces before fleeing.

• Long Shan grievously wounded Xuan Yi with his giant axe while Qin Yan killed one six-hooved giant beast and suppressed its soul.
• Qin Yan’s soul slaves killed the other six-hooved giant beast, and Qin Yan suppressed its soul as well.
• Qin Yan sealed the battlefield with his Primordial Magnetism Domain and Liyan Heaven and Earth Shield while Long Shan attacked Xuan Yi.
• Long Shan killed Xuan Yi, extinguishing both his body and divine soul.
• Qin Yan and Long Shan divided the treasures, with Long Shan taking mostly earth- and fire-attribute items.
• Long Shan departed, and Qin Yan erased the traces of the battle and fled.

Qin Yan used Xuan Yi’s treasures and Immortal Spirit Crystals to strengthen his body and comprehend the laws, triggering a massive Mahayana lightning tribulation. He broke through to Mahayana strength and fought the tribulation head-on, astonishing the watching experts as it continued to test him.

• Qin Yan discovered Xuan Yi’s Immortal Spirit Crystals and refined the Sun-Moon Wheel, learning its true name was the Jiu Zhen Yin-Yang Wheel and that it wielded powerful spatial abilities.
• Qin Yan created a clone to practice using the Jiu Zhen Yin-Yang Wheel and the Shining Crystal Bell while he cultivated with the Immortal Spirit Crystals and treasure bones.
• Qin Yan’s comprehension and physical strength surged, drawing thunderclouds that grew to cover the Star Ancient Tree and expand beyond a hundred million kilometers.
• Qin Yan’s body evolved and his strength reached the Mahayana Realm, though his soul and comprehension remained weaker.
• Qin Yan fought the lightning tribulation head-on, destroying its ancient creatures and enduring its soul attacks as onlookers marveled at his power.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, Qin Yan reached the Longevity Realm and secretly refined his strength while others gradually forgot him. When the Immortal Hall opened, he avoided the fight for the Ascension Token and instead entered the hall to capture the souls of fallen experts.

• Qin Yan shattered the tribulation's ancient deities, absorbed the lightning, and attained a nearly limitless lifespan in the Ninth Realm.
• Qin Yan activated his reduced presence and vanished, causing witnesses—including Mi Xuan—to struggle to remember him.
• Qin Yan spent half a year stabilizing his cultivation, refining the Sun-Moon Wheel and other treasures, and creating the Longevity Life Chapter.
• When the Immortal Hall opened, Qin Yan chose not to compete for the Ascension Token and entered the hall after the other experts had rushed inside.
• Qin Yan reached the edge of the battle, used his Soul Banner to capture the souls of dead experts, and imprisoned an enraged Mahayana expert.