Recaps

Qin Yan blocked the Core Immortal Hall entrance and captured 106 powerful souls, greatly strengthening his Soul Banner. After reuniting with Heavenly Star Lord and Xiahou Jun, he explored the Immortal Hall alone, where he swiftly killed a Kui Star Beast and claimed its treasures.

• Qin Yan sealed another expert's soul inside the Soul Banner, bringing its total to 106 souls.
• Heavenly Star Lord and Xiahou Jun met Qin Yan at the Core Immortal Hall and learned that Fu Cheng had obtained the Immortal Sword Wuxin while Yun Chen had found a divine pill.
• Heavenly Star Lord and Xiahou Jun declined Qin Yan's offer to explore together because they distrusted him, and the three parted ways.
• Qin Yan passed through the core gate and headed away from the fierce battle for the Ascension Token to seek other treasures.
• Qin Yan killed a peak eighth-tier Kui Star Beast with the Sun-Moon Wheel and captured its soul with his chains.
• Qin Yan collected the beast's treasures, including two Spiritual Root immortal plants, while nearby experts recognized his strength and feared provoking him.

Qin Yan retreated underground to refine a jade pearl immortal fruit, awakening an Undying and Imperishable Body and a new life-creating secret art. He emerged with vastly improved survivability, though his strength was only around the Mid Mahayana Stage.

• Qin Yan escaped the battlefield and examined two immortal herbs taken from a peak eighth-tier Kui Star Beast, including a dangerous flame and a life-rich jade pearl fruit.
• Qin Yan chose to swallow the jade pearl immortal fruit, then traveled deep underground and sealed himself inside a formation space to refine it.
• The fruit transformed Qin Yan’s body into life energy fused with his soul, allowing him to complete the concept of the Undying and Imperishable Body and transform his avatars as well.
• Qin Yan demonstrated that he could reshape his body and create living forms, including a venomous snake, a phoenix, and a Star Ancient Tree, using his Art of Creating Life.
• Qin Yan estimated his strength at the Mid Mahayana Stage and rejoiced that his new body made him far harder to kill.

Qin Yan drained the Immortal Mansion's Immortal Spiritual Qi and drew a crowd of greedy experts who tried to seize his supposed cultivation treasure. He used his Self-Detonation Style Fighting Method to wipe out most of them, collect their treasures, and kill three more survivors.

• Qin Yan sat atop a peak and absorbed Immortal Spiritual Qi from more than ten million kilometers around him.
• Experts arrived, and the snow-white strange beast urged them to take the treasure they believed Qin Yan was using.
• Qin Yan sent out a clone, charged the experts, and made the clone self-detonate, killing most of the crowd while the Shining Crystal Bell shielded him.
• Qin Yan collected the scattered treasures as the snow-white strange beast and several others survived behind a secret treasure; one young man escaped.
• Qin Yan sent three clones after three survivors, and all three clones self-detonated, killing their targets.

After returning from the Immortal Hall World vastly stronger, Qin Yan confronted Fang Zhanxian, who had come to Central Capital to avenge his fallen followers. Qin Yan overwhelmed Fang Zhanxian and sealed him in the Soul Banner.

• Qin Yan was expelled from the Immortal Hall World after absorbing Immortal Spiritual Qi and returned to Central Capital, where he reunited with his clone and learned that the Great Wu Dynasty had flourished during his absence.
• Fang Zhanxian arrived with Underworld experts and threatened Qin Yan, while Great Wu's veterans feared the ninth-realm enemy was too powerful for their emperor.
• Fang Zhanxian attacked Qin Yan with ghostly Qi, but Qin Yan erased it with a finger and struck with a blood-red hand.
• Fang Zhanxian summoned a crimson curved saber, but Qin Yan's attack shattered its saber light, dispersed the Ghost Mist, and killed countless Ghost Cultivators.
• Qin Yan crushed Fang Zhanxian's body, then captured him with the Soul Banner and suppressed him.

Qin Yan refined the Little Underworld into the Little Samsara Heavenly Pearl, then spent years studying the Immortal Mansion’s worlds to find a way out. He finally broke through its boundary and reached the vast universe, but the attacks destroyed nearly all his avatars and left him with little divine power.

• Qin Yan studied the Little Underworld’s Dao patterns and spent ten years refining it into the Little Samsara Heavenly Pearl, with a Spirit Realm for the Great Wu Dynasty’s meritorious dead and a Prison Realm for enemies.
• Qin Yan used the pearl to guide fallen subjects, including the old veteran Li Changfu, into the Spirit Realm, where he restored their youth and taught them soul cultivation.
• Qin Yan told Zong Xiaoshan that escaping the Immortal Mansion World would take time, then entrusted the pearl to his emperor avatar and left to seek a breakthrough.
• Qin Yan traveled between the Immortal Mansion’s worlds, studying their legacies and structure until he gained insight into the Great Dao of Space.
• At age ninety, Qin Yan opened a spatial passage and sent hundreds of millions of avatars through the boundary; attacks destroyed nearly all of them, but he reached the vast universe with less than one percent of his divine power remaining.

Qin Yan escaped the Immortal Mansion World's suppression and began restoring his power as he traveled through the universe. About a month later, he arrived on Cenan Star in the Taolan Empire and quietly explored its cultivation-and-technology civilization.

• Qin Yan discovered that his full strength was no longer suppressed outside the Immortal Mansion World and teleported beyond its sphere of influence.
• On a dead planet, Qin Yan used Immortal Spirit Crystals and Spirit Veins to restore some divine power, then refined the planet into Starry Sky Gold.
• Qin Yan traveled through space for half a month, collecting resources and recovering his power to twelve thousandths.
• About a month after leaving the forbidden zone, Qin Yan entered the Taolan Empire, a galaxy-spanning cultivation nation ruled by a Body Integration lineage.
• Qin Yan descended onto Cenan Star, concealed his presence, and observed its prosperous population, cultivation factions, and advanced technology.

Qin Yan explored the Taolan Empire’s virtual network and learned how resources and information favored powerful Lineages, then witnessed Chen Chi’s body being occupied by a Body Integration Cultivator. As Qin Yan left the restaurant, he sent divine sense into the cultivator’s sea of consciousness, making Chen Chi tremble.

• Qin Yan browsed the empire-wide virtual network and considered how wealth, cultivation resources, and information shaped people’s prospects.
• Qin Yan recognized that Chen Chi’s body and Primordial Spirit did not match, realizing that a Body Integration Cultivator had taken over his body.
• The Body Integration Cultivator ignored Yu Chuqing and Qiao Xiaoxiao, ordered a meal, and left the women surprised by his change.
• Yu Chuqing and Qiao Xiaoxiao discussed upcoming recruitment at higher immortal cultivation academies while Qin Yan enjoyed his meal.
• Qin Yan paid and prepared to leave, then sent a strand of divine sense into Chen Chi’s sea of consciousness, making Chen Chi tremble.

Qin Yan confronted Chen Chi, a reborn Body Integration Realm cultivator, and enslaved him with a Soul Restriction. After sensing Qin Yan's overwhelming Mahayana power, Chen Chi accepted him as his master, seeing him as a possible opportunity to advance.

• Chen Chi hurried home after realizing Qin Yan had detected him and that he had little chance of escaping.
• Qin Yan told Chen Chi he needed a guide and chose him to serve.
• Qin Yan overwhelmed Chen Chi's resistance and placed a Soul Restriction on his Primordial Spirit.
• Qin Yan revealed his vast presence, and Chen Chi recognized that he was a powerful Mahayana cultivator.
• Chen Chi bowed to Qin Yan and greeted him as his master.

Qin Yan learned that Chen Chi had once joined a group of Body Integration experts in trying to seize Gu Xiao’s cultivation system, only to be defeated by him. After hearing that Gu Xiao may have died when Mahayana experts intervened, Qin Yan gave Chen Chi cultivation resources, and Chen Chi discovered they contained Immortal Spiritual Qi.

• Qin Yan’s enslavement technique made Chen Chi submit willingly, and Qin Yan asked him how he had been reduced to his current state.
• Chen Chi recounted how Gu Xiao rose from an ordinary planet, created his own cultivation system, and defeated geniuses far stronger than himself.
• Chen Chi admitted that he had joined more than a dozen Body Integration experts in trying to seize Gu Xiao’s cultivation method, but Gu Xiao destroyed his physical body and forced him to flee as a wisp of Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Chi said he suspected Gu Xiao had fallen after Mahayana experts descended and sealed off heaven and earth, though Qin Yan considered it possible Gu Xiao had survived.
• Qin Yan gave Chen Chi a spatial ring filled with Spirit Crystals, and Chen Chi recognized that several Supreme-Grade crystals contained Immortal Spiritual Qi.

Chen Chi explained the rarity and power of Immortal Spiritual Qi, then received five wisps and the Immortal Embryo Foundation Establishment Method from Qin Yan. After recovering his Primordial Spirit with a wondrous herb, Chen Chi began preparing his body to establish an Immortal Embryo foundation.

• Chen Chi told Qin Yan that Immortal Spiritual Qi was controlled by powerful cosmic forces and could transform a cultivator’s foundation.
• Qin Yan gave Chen Chi five wisps of Immortal Spiritual Qi and asked him to use the Immortal Embryo Foundation Establishment Method.
• Chen Chi passed the method to Qin Yan, who examined it and gave him a spiritual herb to help restore his Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Chi refined a cosmic treasure and recovered his Primordial Spirit to the peak of Spirit Transformation, nearing Spirit Severing strength.
• Chen Chi absorbed spiritual power from his Spirit Crystals and began tempering his body so it could withstand the Immortal Spiritual Qi.

Chen Chi completed his Immortal Embryo Foundation Establishment breakthrough, attracting the attention of Luo City's forces. He left the Blood Wolf Association dead after they surrounded his building, while the Zhou Family moved to seize the supposed treasure.

• Chen Chi's breakthrough caused a brief spiritual pressure fluctuation, which Qin Yan concealed from spreading beyond the room.
• Zhou Hai detected unusually pure spiritual power in Civilian District No. 9 and secretly reported it to Zhou Zhenhai, who ordered family elites to seal off the area and find the treasure.
• Su Changyun led the Blood Wolf Association to surround Chen Chi's building, hoping to claim the treasure and advance his own cultivation.
• Chen Chi completed his breakthrough and realized his magic power was nearly a hundred times that of a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.
• Chen Chi unleashed his Primordial Spirit power and killed the Blood Wolf Association members who had come to attack him.

Chen Chi faced the Zhou and Su Families after they came to seize him, then unleashed overwhelming soul power and killed their forces. He refined their corpses into Blood Pills as Luo City's Nascent Soul ancestors sensed his terrifying strength.

• Chen Chi confronted Zhou Zhenhai and the Zhou Family after they arrived at the scene of the mass deaths.
• Su Yue arrived with the Su Family and demanded that Chen Chi join them, but he mocked her and refused.
• Su Yue attacked Chen Chi, and Zhou Zhenhai intervened, sparking a battle that devastated Civilian District No. 9.
• Chen Chi released a terrifying soul pressure that alarmed Luo City's Nascent Soul ancestors.
• Chen Chi summoned a giant beast's head and killed Zhou Zhenhai, Su Yue, and both families' forces with a divine light.
• Chen Chi burned the corpses and refined them into Blood Pills.

Chen Chi fought the Zhou and Su Family ancestors at Qin Yan’s command, revealing power that stunned Luo City’s experts. He killed both Nascent Soul cultivators and left the gathered factions facing the consequences.

• After Chen Chi killed a Golden Core cultivator, eight Nascent Soul experts arrived and realized he was an apparent Foundation Establishment cultivator with Spirit Transformation-level power.
• Luo Hong and the other experts apologized, while the Zhou and Su Family ancestors knelt and offered their families’ wealth to win Chen Chi’s mercy.
• Qin Yan ordered Chen Chi to kill the two ancestors without using soul abilities, and Qin Yan transported the group to a wilderness.
• Chen Chi sealed the space with rune chains and attacked the Zhou and Su Family ancestors at close range with his Divine Treasury Thunder Marsh ability.
• Chen Chi tore through the Su Family ancestor’s armor and destroyed his fleeing Nascent Soul, then shattered the Zhou Family ancestor’s Life-Bound Treasure and killed him with a punch.

After Chen Chi killed Luo City's two Nascent Soul cultivators, Qin Yan took him away from Cenan Star and strengthened his cultivation with the Nirvana Method and two powerful inheritances. Their journey brought them to a strange region of space where Chen Chi suspected an unexplored Cosmic Secret Realm lay.

• Qin Yan summoned Chen Chi to his palace, asked whether he had anything left to do on the planet, and then left with him.
• The Inspector collapsed in relief after Qin Yan and Chen Chi vanished, while news of the two Nascent Soul cultivators' deaths spread across Cenan Star and Yu Chuqing watched in disbelief.
• Qin Yan examined Chen Chi's potential, taught him the Nirvana Method, and bestowed the Thunder Immortal Tianyi True Method, Volume One.
• Chen Chi rapidly rebuilt his cultivation and reached Golden Core in less than a month with Qin Yan's guidance.
• Chen Chi identified a likely unexplored Cosmic Secret Realm in an unstable region of space, and Qin Yan opened a Spatial Wormhole for them to enter.

Qin Yan and Chen Chi explored the vast Cosmic Secret Realm, where they gathered rare treasures and cultivated amid abundant Primordial Source Power and clear laws. After recovering his strength and studying the laws for fifty years, Qin Yan created a devastating new secret art, Origin Void Annihilation.

• Chen Chi explained the secret realm's Primordial Source Power and identified Cosmic Crystals, Void Crystals, and a high-grade Law Origin Stone.
• Qin Yan found a continent rich in Primordial Source crystals and absorbed seven veins, restoring his divine power to over 90% before reaching peak combat strength.
• Qin Yan and Chen Chi cultivated in the secret realm; Chen Chi advanced to Spirit Transformation Peak and strengthened his Primordial Spirit with three cosmic objects.
• Qin Yan spent fifty years comprehending the Primordial Magnetism and Spatial Laws, reaching comprehension comparable to the Mid Mahayana Stage Peak.
• Qin Yan created Origin Void Annihilation, a secret art that shattered the barrier between the secret realm and the universe and annihilated matter across a vast region.

After fifty-seven years of cultivation in the Cosmic Secret Realm, Qin Yan mastered a powerful secret art and stored the realm inside the Star River Boundary Pearl. He and Chen Chi traveled to Mingluo Star, where Qin Yan began searching for records about the person who had created a new cultivation system.

• Qin Yan completed fifty-seven years of cultivation, deepened his understanding of the laws, and demonstrated the devastating power of his secret art to Chen Chi.
• Chen Chi recovered to the early Void Refinement Stage, while Qin Yan decided they should continue their journey and preserve the Cosmic Secret Realm.
• Qin Yan used the Star River Boundary Pearl to draw the entire Cosmic Secret Realm inside it, then entered the pearl with Chen Chi to inspect its vast inner world.
• Qin Yan chose to travel to the place where Chen Chi had fallen, seeking information about the genius who created a new system, and Chen Chi identified the Cangxuan Star Domain as their destination.
• After two days of travel, Qin Yan and Chen Chi arrived at Mingluo Star and learned about its powerful ruling lineage, outer-space trading base, and coveted treasures.

Qin Yan and Chen Chi visited the Hunting Star Alliance to buy a star map of the Cangxuan Star Domain and its neighbors. After hearing that an ancient grotto-heaven had appeared nearby, Qin Yan became intrigued by the rumors of its Xiantian origin.

• Qin Yan and Chen Chi passed through a slave market and entered the Hunting Star Alliance’s Hunting Star Pavilion.
• Chen Chi dismissed the displayed slaves as too weak, and Qin Yan asked the branch staff for a star map covering the Cangxuan Star Domain and surrounding regions.
• Mi Xia sold Qin Yan a rough map for one thousand cubic units of Upper-Grade Spirit Stones, which Chen Chi paid and presented to his master.
• Mi Xia told Qin Yan that an ancient grotto-heaven had appeared in the Jiuming Star Sector after a battle several thousand years earlier revealed traces of it.
• Qin Yan and Chen Chi reacted with interest to the rumor that the grotto-heaven might have been created by a Xiantian being.

Qin Yan investigated the ruined Tanyue Galaxy and recognized the traces of a powerful World Cultivation or Inner Universe Cultivation System. He then went to the Grotto-Heaven World’s emergence site, where a major faction ordered everyone to retreat.

• Mi Xia showed Qin Yan information about the devastated Tanyue Galaxy and the unstable Grotto-Heaven World, and Qin Yan praised him for his work.
• Qin Yan rewarded Mi Xia with a Jade White Dragon Leaf, then left with Chen Chi; Mi Xia placed a Soul Restriction on Sen Tuo and warned him to keep silent.
• Qin Yan examined the battle traces in the Tanyue Galaxy and deduced that one combatant had wielded the power of a world through a self-created cultivation system.
• Qin Yan teleported with Chen Chi to the Grotto-Heaven World’s emergence site, where a powerful faction ordered everyone to retreat at least ten million kilometers.

Qin Yan learned why Mahayana Stage experts stayed out of ordinary conflicts as powerful factions opened the Grotto-Heaven World with the Two-World Ring. The factions began sending their forces through the gate, while Qin Yan watched a concealed Mahayana expert among the crowd.

• Qin Yan asked why no Mahayana Stage experts had arrived, and Chen Chi explained the Great Universe’s restrictions and the factions’ customs.
• Chen Chi described the Celestial River Star Belt as a contested buffer zone where Mahayana Stage experts left struggles to their subordinates.
• Qin Yan sensed more than ten hidden Mahayana experts nearby and spotted one pretending to be a Golden Core Stage Rogue Cultivator.
• Five Body Integration Realm experts used the Two-World Ring to open a gate into the Grotto-Heaven World.
• An elder in black-and-gold armor called for the advance, and a vast fleet carrying more than a million Nascent Soul experts passed through the gate.

Qin Yan and Chen Chi entered the grotto-heaven world, where Qin Yan examined its rare energy and ancient formation while Chen Chi went off to explore. Elsewhere, a Dark Heavenly Snake attacked an invading army but was subdued by Mahayana treasures and dragged from the world.

• Qin Yan ignored the conflict over access to the grotto-heaven and secretly entered it with Chen Chi.
• Qin Yan discovered Myriad Spirits Qi, gave Chen Chi permission to seek his own opportunities, and watched him depart to explore.
• A million cultivators entered the grotto-heaven and were attacked by a powerful Dark Heavenly Snake, which killed tens of thousands.
• The Jade God Race cultivator and other experts fought the snake, while Qin Yan studied the formation suppressing the battlefield.
• Experts from the Demon Dragon Domain and Cold Heaven City used Mahayana Life-Bound Treasures to pin down the Dark Heavenly Snake and drag it out of the grotto-heaven.

Qin Yan watched a massive battle in the Divine Medicine Mountain Range before rescuing the disguised Mahayana cultivator surnamed Qi from a group of pursuers. The two agreed to explore the Grotto-Heaven World together and join forces to escape afterward.

• Qin Yan observed nearly a million Nascent Soul Cultivators fighting and studied the powerful techniques used by the factions.
• Qi led a group of more than ten Nascent Soul Cultivators toward Qin Yan, offering him the Myriad Spirit Stone and asking for help.
• Qin Yan killed the dark gold-armored leader with one punch and destroyed the rest of the pursuing cultivators with his clones.
• Qi gave Qin Yan the Immortal Divine Spring to make amends, and Qin Yan accepted his explanation for disguising himself while testing his juniors.
• Qin Yan and Qi agreed to explore the Grotto-Heaven World independently for treasures, then cooperate to break through the surrounding forces; they traveled together as cultivators of apparently different stages.

Qin Yan and the Qi-surnamed cultivator ambushed and robbed cultivators throughout the grotto-heaven while waiting for the major powers to open the core region. When the spatial barrier finally broke, they and the gathered powerhouses saw the enormous corpse of an ancient Xiantian being, and powerful Great Talents began to arrive.

• The Qi-surnamed cultivator knocked out attacking cultivators with his rune-engraved gold brick and used his Treasure-Seeking Hand to take their belongings.
• Qin Yan fashioned a concealed wooden club that could daze souls, then joined the Qi-surnamed cultivator in ambushing and robbing groups across the grotto-heaven.
• The two learned that the major powers had struggled for days to reach the core region, where formations and spatial confinement blocked their advance.
• Qin Yan sensed the spatial barrier weakening, and the Qi-surnamed cultivator noticed that a formation master had arrived.
• The barrier shattered, revealing a colossal ancient Xiantian being's corpse whose blood, bones, scales, and other remains held traces of the Great Dao.
• Terrifying presences descended as the universe's True Great Talents arrived and formed their own law domains.

Qin Yan and the cultivator surnamed Qi watched as Mahayana experts fought over an ancient Xiantian being, whose corpse unleashed a devastating attack that annihilated nearly everyone in the grotto-heaven. The survivors discovered the corpse was nurturing new life and began coveting the chance to seize the Xiantian body.

• Qin Yan and the cultivator surnamed Qi stayed on the sidelines as the experts began fighting over the Xiantian being's corpse.
• Qin Yan pulled Chen Chi into his ring space to protect him from the battle's destruction.
• A twin-sword cultivator of the Heaven-Hating Sword Sect rushed for the corpse, provoking the other experts to attack him.
• The corpse opened its eyes and released black and white light that destroyed the grotto-heaven and killed nearly everyone nearby.
• Qin Yan and the cultivator surnamed Qi spotted the surviving corpse, while the four surviving great powers sensed life growing within it.
• Yuchen Divine Lord and the other survivors realized the Xiantian being was being reborn and considered seizing its body.

Qin Yan watched a Xiantian life-form emerge from its cocoon and recognized that the mysterious man’s soul presence was wrong. When the man unleashed a world that suppressed the surrounding cultivators, Qin Yan realized he might be the founder of the Inner Universe System.

• Qin Yan rejected the cultivator surnamed Qi’s offer to join forces, withdrew far away, and decided to observe the Mahayana experts.
• The cocoon opened amid a manifestation of cosmic laws, and a silver-gold-haired man appeared, claiming to have returned to life and reached the Mahayana Realm.
• The Yuchen Divine Lord urged the gathered experts to unite against the newly reborn man, and they prepared to attack him.
• The man created a vast world that sealed space and suppressed Qin Yan, cutting him off from the Great Universe’s laws.
• Qin Yan suspected the man was the founder of the Inner Universe System and formed a domain of Primordial Magnetism Law around himself to resist the suppression.

Xue Ruochen revealed the power of his world and nearly killed Li Yuanzong, then unleashed a devastating attack that killed Li Yuanzong and wounded the other experts. As the survivors fled, Xue Ruochen confronted Qin Yan and asked who he was.

• Xue Ruochen revealed that he had survived his self-destruction, taken over a Xiantian lifeform's body, and returned to avenge himself on Li Yuanzong and the others.
• Li Yuanzong used his defensive treasure and Life-and-Death Sword River against Xue Ruochen, but Xue Ruochen's attack shattered the treasure, cracked Li Yuanzong's swords, and left him gravely wounded.
• The cultivator surnamed Qi launched a sneak attack, and Xue Ruochen answered with a vast attack of light and destruction that annihilated Li Yuanzong and badly wounded the other experts.
• Yuchen Divine Lord, the cultivator surnamed Qi, and the surviving experts burned their essence blood and lifespans to flee, while Xue Ruochen stayed behind and watched Qin Yan.
• Xue Ruochen sensed that Qin Yan was exceptionally dangerous and asked him who he was.