Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan drained the Spiritual Qi from a wilderness mountain range to refine Spirit Crystals, drawing the fury of the Windwing Jiao, the forest’s powerful guardian. Qin Yan trapped the jiao in a series of stone cages and challenged it to escape, while the creature continued to fight for its life.

• Qin Yan used his Magnetic Field to compress Spiritual Qi from the mountain range into a massive, nearly Supreme-Grade Spirit Crystal.
• The Windwing Jiao sensed the Spiritual Qi vanishing, flew toward Qin Yan, and demanded to know whether he had caused it.
• Qin Yan used gravity to pin the Windwing Jiao to the ground, then nullified its wind-based bloodline power.
• Qin Yan trapped the Windwing Jiao in a stone cage and tested Magnetic Field Strangulation on it.
• The Windwing Jiao smashed through one wall, but the opening sealed itself as it entered the next stone cage.

Qin Yan defeated the Windwing Jiao, refined its soul into the Ink Dragon Banner, and took its corpse to the Underworld to make a Lunar Yin Corpse Puppet. He left the body in the Yinwind Nest to absorb Yin Qi and realized the dangerous place could also serve as a training ground.

• The Windwing Jiao exhausted itself trying to escape Qin Yan’s shifting stone prison, and Qin Yan opened the prison once it could no longer move.
• The Windwing Jiao launched a final attack, but Qin Yan deflected it and used the Ink Dragon Banner to tear out and refine its soul.
• Qin Yan strengthened the Ink Dragon Banner with the Windwing Jiao’s soul, then stored the jiao’s corpse and entered the Underworld through the Copper Pot.
• Qin Yan found the Yinwind Nest and inscribed a million Restrictions on the corpse over seven days to prepare it as a Lunar Yin Corpse Puppet.
• Qin Yan pushed the corpse into the nest’s core, where dense Yin Qi began transforming its body, and blocked the Yin Qi from invading himself with his blazing blood Qi.

Qin Yan tempered his soul in the Yinwind Nest while governing Yun and Qingzhou, where abundant harvests and refugee resettlement brought prosperity. He completed the Windwing Jiao’s transformation into an enhanced Lunar Yin Corpse Puppet and equipped it with magnetic-field cores for speed, defense, and restraint.

• Qin Yan endured the Yinwind Nest’s soul-sound and studied its magnetic field, seeking to develop a soul attack technique.
• Qin Yan stockpiled grain, kept merchants from manipulating prices, and punished those who colluded with officials to exploit people.
• Qin Yan’s officials settled the influx of refugees by providing food and shelter and granting them reclaimed land with five years of tax exemption.
• Qin Yan completed the Lunar Yin Corpse Puppet, which retained and slightly increased the Windwing Jiao’s strength while gaining command of wind and yin power.
• Qin Yan installed three magnetic-field cores in the puppet, giving it layered defenses and the potential for greater speed and restraint.

Qin Yan cleared the Yin Souls near the passage at the Mass Grave Mound and used his copper pot to refine Soul Liquid. After testing it on a Yin Soul, he found that it rapidly strengthened souls and managed to purify the liquid to 99.5%, though a stubborn trace of negative energy remained.

• Qin Yan rode the Windwing Jiao to the Mass Grave Mound and cleared nearby Yin Souls with the Ink Dragon Banner and the jiao’s Spirit-Shaking Strike.
• Qin Yan used the copper pot to refine a defeated Yin Soul into Soul Liquid and examined the Soul-Refining Array Pattern.
• Qin Yan fed Soul Liquid to a weak Yin Soul, which quickly absorbed it and rose from the Vengeful Ghost level to the Evil Ghost level.
• Qin Yan used his Qi and blood to neutralize impurities in the Soul Liquid, raising its purity to 99.5%, but could not remove the remaining negative-energy particles.

Qin Yan perfected his Soul Liquid refining process and used it to strengthen Zheshen Ghost, then discovered that absorbing Fourth Realm Soul Liquid could raise his own limits. He left the chapter excited by the gains and with a new way to improve his mental power and strength.

• Qin Yan refined Soul Liquid to 99.99% purity and let Zheshen Ghost absorb some, though he warned that producing enough for large-scale growth would be difficult.
• Qin Yan hunted solitary Third Realm and Fourth Realm Yin Souls in the Underworld, killing hundreds over half a month and refining them into Soul Liquid.
• Qin Yan gave Zheshen Ghost ten portions of Fourth Realm Soul Liquid, raising him from the Third Realm Mid Stage to the Fourth Realm Early Stage before he returned to consolidate his strength.
• Qin Yan absorbed Fourth Realm Soul Liquid and received increases of 3,000 to his mental upper limit and 500 to his strength upper limit.

Qin Yan gave Soul Liquid to Research Institute director Qian Ying to test whether it could strengthen souls, improve Qi perception, or increase intelligence. Initial animal trials showed no adverse effects and suggested the liquid strengthened life force and stimulated intellectual development, leaving Qian Ying’s team to conduct further tests.

• After consuming several bottles of Soul Liquid, Qin Yan gained more than ten thousand spiritual power but resolved to rely on it only as an aid and keep tempering his will.
• Qin Yan gave Soul Liquid to Qian Ying and asked him to test its effects on people and other living creatures.
• Qian Ying quickly began animal trials, and Qin Yan watched as a mouse absorbed the solution without adverse effects while its life force rose.
• Qian Ying tested the Soul Liquid on cats, dogs, rabbits, and other animals, whose biological magnetic fields strengthened and whose behavior suggested greater thought.
• Qian Ying ordered intelligence tests after recording that Soul Liquid might develop the brain and awaken intelligence, while Qin Yan concluded that spiritual power could improve mental abilities.

Qian Ying tested Soul Liquid and Spirit Liquid on animals and volunteer soldiers, finding that the combined treatment improved intelligence, awakened Spiritual Qi sensing, and strengthened the body. Qin Yan agreed to provide more low-grade Soul Liquid, while ordering Qian Ying to keep the experiments secret.

• Qian Ying reported that Soul Liquid increased the animals’ intelligence, and Qin Yan observed Big Yellow’s near-human thoughts.
• Qian Ying injected a mouse with Spirit Liquid; it awakened, escaped its enclosure, and Qin Yan immobilized and destroyed it.
• Qian Ying treated other animals with Spirit Liquid, awakening special genes and turning nineteen subjects into low-level spirits.
• Qian Ying proposed secret human trials, and Qin Yan approved experiments with volunteer soldiers who had not developed Qi Sensation.
• All ten soldiers developed Qi Sensation and gained strength beyond that of some seasoned Qi-Blood martial artists.
• Qian Ying requested more low-grade Soul Liquid, and Qin Yan agreed to refine some while insisting the experiments remain confidential.

Qin Yan gave Big Yellow a protective, Qi-gathering amulet, then stopped the jealous Xiaoxuan from attacking the newly adopted dog. At the City God Temple, Qin Yan discovered that Soul Liquid greatly strengthened Daoist Chen and considered how it could help Yin Gods in the future.

• Qin Yan crafted Big Yellow a Spirit Crystal amulet that protected him and gathered Spiritual Qi.
• Xiaoxuan returned to the marquis's residence and tried to attack Big Yellow, but Qin Yan held him back.
• Qin Yan took Xiaoxuan to visit Daoist Chen at the City God Temple and noticed that the City God's incense power had grown stronger.
• Qin Yan gave Daoist Chen Soul Liquid refined from evil creatures, and Daoist Chen drank it and felt his spirit body grow much stronger.
• Daoist Chen asked whether Soul Liquid could be refined from any soul, and Qin Yan said he would keep the method secret.

Qin Yan equipped Daoist Chen and ten Underworld Officials with powerful soul-binding treasures to combat the growing evil entities. After they swept Yunzhou clean of strong threats, Qin Yan and Daoist Chen planned to send five Underworld Officials to help stabilize Qingzhou.

• Qin Yan and Daoist Chen discussed the rising threat of evil entities and the shortage of capable Demon-Suppressing Bureau personnel.
• Qin Yan refined ten Soul-Refining Gourds and gave them to ten Underworld Officials, telling them to adapt to their new strength.
• Qin Yan gave Daoist Chen a soul-controlling banner he called the Human Emperor Banner, and Daoist Chen bound it to himself.
• Daoist Chen and the ten Underworld Officials swept Yunzhou, using Qin Yan’s treasures to defeat evil entities before they could grow stronger.
• After Yunzhou was cleared of especially powerful evil entities, Daoist Chen proposed sending five Underworld Officials to assist in Qingzhou, and Qin Yan agreed the plan was feasible.

After Di Feng died under mysterious circumstances, Qin Yan discovered that his soul was missing and uncovered the lower part of the Great Five-Viscera Immortal Abode in Di Feng’s home. Suspecting someone had left the manual to lure him into cultivation or use him as a vessel, Qin Yan learned it anyway and manifested five elemental gods.

• Qin Yan learned that Di Feng had died suddenly, but his soul did not answer Qin Yan’s summoning.
• Qin Yan examined Di Feng’s body and determined that his soul was missing, then ordered an investigation into the culprit.
• Chen Ergou reported that Di Feng may have been a secret agent for a mysterious faction, but investigators found few leads.
• Qin Xiaoyi brought Qin Yan the lower part of the Great Five-Viscera Immortal Abode, which had been found in Di Feng’s residence.
• Qin Yan suspected someone had arranged for him to cultivate the manual and might intend to possess his body, but chose to learn it.
• Qin Yan cultivated the lower part and manifested five gods corresponding to the five phases.

After perfecting the Great Five-Viscera Immortal Abode, Qin Yan gained five powerful divine abilities and five incarnations with seventy percent of his combat strength. Suspecting that someone might target his body, he decided to prepare for soul attacks by learning defensive and offensive spirit techniques.

• Qin Yan perfected the Great Five-Viscera Immortal Abode and comprehended the Five Elements Incarnations and Five Elements Qi.
• Qin Yan discovered that his five deity incarnations possessed about seventy percent of his combat power and had gained five divine abilities.
• Qin Yan reflected on how ancient methods for slaying Primordial Spirits had once threatened Body Cultivators and how soul defenses had helped protect them.
• Qin Yan concluded that anyone targeting his body would likely attack his soul and chose to strengthen his soul defenses.
• Qin Yan decided to learn the Nine-Aspect Realm of Origin Gold, the Origin Soul Counter-Technique, and the Heart-Soul God-Slaying Technique.

Qin Yan cultivated layered soul defenses before learning that Huang Chao had vanished after fighting a mysterious expert in Cangzhou City. He followed Huang Chao’s trail to a mountain village, found an unconscious man in a hut, and carried him away.

• Qin Yan mastered the Golden Origin Nine-Aspect Realm and developed the Golden Sun Soul-Defense Method, building up strong protection against soul attacks and Body Snatching.
• Qin Xiaoyi told Qin Yan that Huang Chao had requested help after a mysterious expert attacked him and that Huang Chao had disappeared following a battle in Cangzhou City.
• Qin Yan prepared for a possible trap, stocked the Cloud Luo Pearl with Spirit Crystals, and left Qinghe Town for Cangzhou City.
• Qin Yan examined the lingering battle presences and concluded that Huang Chao and his opponent had cultivated extremely similar techniques.
• Qin Yan followed a mark Huang Chao had left to a mountain village, found an unconscious man in a dilapidated hut, and carried him away.

Qin Yan healed Huang Chao on a deserted island, where Huang Chao revealed that a mysterious opponent had nearly killed him and consumed his Flesh-and-Blood Clones. After comparing their techniques and suspicions, they concluded that someone was cultivating them for a later harvest.

• Qin Yan used the Life Divine Tree and Magnetic Field Healing to restore Huang Chao from near-fatal injuries.
• Huang Chao told Qin Yan that a mysterious, seemingly lifeless expert had countered his abilities and devoured both of his Flesh-and-Blood Clones.
• Qin Yan shared his own suspicions that someone had set their sights on him, and Huang Chao asked to read his techniques.
• Huang Chao studied the Great Five-Viscera Immortal Abode and concluded that it shared a source with his Flesh and Blood Dao inheritance.
• Huang Chao gave Qin Yan a jade slip containing the Boundless Sea of Blood Scripture, and Qin Yan found that the two techniques complemented each other.
• Qin Yan and Huang Chao concluded that someone was raising them like gu worms to harvest them once they matured.

Qin Yan helped Huang Chao restore his cultivation by hunting sea beasts, then led him to an island where a powerful flood-dragon-like beast was receiving a human sacrifice. The chapter ended as the beast appeared before the islanders.

• Qin Yan warned Huang Chao that someone might target him and suggested he recover his strength by hunting sea beasts.
• Qin Yan used his Magnetic Field to capture a massive sea beast, and Huang Chao drained its blood essence to recover to the peak of the Second Realm.
• With Qin Yan guiding him, Huang Chao hunted sea beasts and tempered his body, raising his combat strength beyond what it had been in the Third Realm.
• Qin Yan sensed a powerful presence on a distant island and brought Huang Chao there, where they found a primitive tribe preparing a sacrifice.
• Qin Yan and Huang Chao watched as a giant flood-dragon-like demonic beast emerged from the lake and the islanders prostrated themselves before it.

Qin Yan and Huang Chao watched a sea monster devour a tribe, then gave it a Spirit Crystal to push it toward becoming a flood dragon. After Qin Yan wounded it when it turned its hunger toward them, they waited by the lake as signs of its breakthrough gathered.

• The sea monster swallowed the tribe members who had offered sacrifices, and Huang Chao and Qin Yan chose not to intervene.
• Qin Yan gave the sea monster a Spirit Crystal so it could grow strong enough to transform, hoping to obtain its flood dragon soul.
• The sea monster eyed Qin Yan and Huang Chao as potential prey, so Qin Yan struck it with a gigantic palm and drove it into the lake.
• Qin Yan and Huang Chao waited for the sea monster to transform as mist gathered around the lake and dark clouds covered the island.
• Qin Yan explained that the sea monster's breakthrough would disrupt the magnetic field and make it a target for lightning.

The Deep-Sea Flood Dragon completed his transformation, but Qin Yan crushed him with gravity and captured his soul in the Ink Dragon Banner. Huang Chao refined the flood dragon’s flesh and blood, regained the Third Realm High Stage, and looked forward to confronting the mysterious person who had stolen his power.

• The Jiao beast endured lightning and transformed into a nearly two-hundred-meter Deep-Sea Flood Dragon, awakening his bloodline and inherited memories.
• The Deep-Sea Flood Dragon charged at Qin Yan and Huang Chao, but Qin Yan’s gravity crushed his bones and flattened his body.
• Qin Yan used the Ink Dragon Banner to capture the Deep-Sea Flood Dragon’s soul and took his Jiao pearl.
• Huang Chao refined the flood dragon’s flesh and blood, reaching the Third Realm High Stage while strengthening his foundation.
• Huang Chao thought about seeking revenge on the mysterious person who had stolen most of his power, and anticipated Qin Yan’s strength in their eventual confrontation.

Qin Yan and Huang Chao explored the Deep-Sea Flood Dragon’s underwater lair, found spiritual treasures and a vast cache of gems, and divided the spoils. After Huang Chao left to form a clone, Qin Yan discovered that the lair concealed an ancient mine rich in Qingsuo Stone.

• Qin Yan and Huang Chao searched the lake’s depths and found a Spirit Vein surrounded by young Crystal Coral Worm growths.
• The two discovered the Deep-Sea Flood Dragon’s gem-filled cavern, and Qin Yan took seventy percent of the treasure, including spiritual materials.
• Huang Chao filled his gold-thread storage bag, then parted ways with Qin Yan to form a Flesh-and-Blood Clone and return to Cangzhou.
• Qin Yan used Qi-Reading Technique to identify an underground mineral vein and broke through rock into an ancient mine.
• Qin Yan recognized the mine’s Qingsuo Stone as valuable material containing wind and water spiritual substances.

Qin Yan tried to draw out the mysterious enemy by publicly demonstrating his power while opening roads through the Yunqing Two Prefectures. Meanwhile, Di Feng and the aged master who controlled him plotted to take Qin Yan’s body, and the chapter ended with the master restoring his youthful appearance using Di Feng.

• Qin Yan returned to Youshan Prefecture, learned that the Hidden Dragon Platform had found little about Di Feng or the attacker who had ambushed Huang Chao, and decided to make himself more conspicuous.
• Qin Yan worked with geologists and officials to plan roads through the Yunqing Two Prefectures, then used his power to demolish a mountain as onlookers watched.
• An ordinary-looking man in the crowd recognized Qin Yan’s growth as a threat to his master and resolved to report it.
• Di Feng warned his aged master that Qin Yan rivaled him in strength and needed to be stopped before he grew stronger.
• The old man revealed that Di Feng was one of his Flesh-and-Blood Clones and that he had raised talented people as nourishment, then absorbed Di Feng to restore his body and set his sights on Qin Yan’s vessel.

Qin Yan completed a road through the mountains while strengthening his magnetic-field control, drawing the Blood Flesh Ancestor to confront him. The Blood Flesh Ancestor attacked with the Blood-Carving Art and destroyed Qin Yan’s three ink jiaolong, leaving their images dim within the Ink Dragon Banner.

• Qin Yan used his magnetic ability to carve a road and build bridges between the Yunqing Two Prefectures, then continued training his control over matter.
• The Blood Flesh Ancestor arrived beneath the moon and recognized Qin Yan’s magnetic divine ability and powerful physique.
• The Blood Flesh Ancestor praised Qin Yan’s talent and declared he would take his body before attacking with the Blood-Carving Art.
• Qin Yan summoned three ink jiaolong from the Ink Dragon Banner to fight the blood-colored runes, strengthening them with his blood Qi.
• The Blood Flesh Ancestor’s ribbons bound and burst the three jiaolong, leaving their silhouettes dim on Qin Yan’s banner.

Qin Yan fought Blood Flesh Ancestor, whose terrifying strength and speed overwhelmed him even as his injuries healed instantly. Qin Yan trapped his pursuer in the Primordial Magnetism Domain and intensified its magnetic field, setting up a test of endurance.

• Blood Flesh Ancestor shattered the three Flood Dragon souls in Qin Yan's Ink Dragon Banner and dismissed Qin Yan's chances of winning.
• Qin Yan struck Blood Flesh Ancestor into a mountain range, but Blood Flesh Ancestor retaliated with a punch that broke Qin Yan's arms and caved in his chest.
• Qin Yan's injuries healed as he fled at immense speed, while Blood Flesh Ancestor pursued him and attempted to catch him with a blood talisman and the Blood Escape Technique.
• Qin Yan activated the Primordial Magnetism Domain, suppressing Blood Flesh Ancestor's power and trapping him in a shifting stone prison.
• Qin Yan drew on the Primordial Crystal Stone, strengthening the magnetic field dozens of times as he prepared to outlast Blood Flesh Ancestor.