Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan trapped the Blood Flesh Ancestor inside his Primordial Magnetism Domain and fought to keep him from escaping. The Blood Flesh Ancestor unleashed his Boundless Blood Sea, but Qin Yan countered with Blood-Burning Heartfire and a sword strike, leaving the ancestor withered and weakened amid the ruins.

• The Blood Flesh Ancestor pierced the rock walls with Blood Shadow Piercing Heaven, but Qin Yan struck him with Heaven-Splitting Style and sealed him inside the shifting domain again.
• Qin Yan and the Blood Flesh Ancestor clashed repeatedly, with neither able to overcome the other's defenses as the ancestor's magic power dwindled.
• The Blood Flesh Ancestor spread his Boundless Blood Sea through the cage, cracking the walls and forcing Qin Yan to struggle to contain it.
• Qin Yan noticed the ancestor aging as their powers clashed and unleashed Blood-Burning Heartfire to burn the Blood Sea.
• Qin Yan cut through the star-shaped domain with Heaven-Ploughing Sword Finger, and the Blood Flesh Ancestor collapsed among the ruins, withered and growing weaker.

Qin Yan fought the Blood Flesh Ancestor and resisted his attempt to seize his body, destroying the blood needle at the cost of a severe wound. Di Feng took control of the dying ancestor and escaped after Qin Yan struck him, leaving both enemies vowing revenge.

• The Blood Flesh Ancestor sent waves of Blood Sea Asuras against Qin Yan while fighting him with the last strength of his failing body.
• The ancestor drove a rune-covered blood needle into Qin Yan, paralyzing him and sending blood-colored mist to attack his soul.
• Qin Yan used the Heaven-Ploughing Sword Finger to destroy the blood needle, piercing his own chest and stopping the ancestor's body-snatching attempt.
• As the Blood Flesh Ancestor's lifespan ran out, Di Feng took control of his body and changed its appearance to his own.
• Qin Yan attacked Di Feng with the Slaughter Divine Statue, but Di Feng escaped in scattered light while he and the Blood Flesh Ancestor threatened revenge.

After surviving a fight with Di Feng’s true body, Qin Yan recovered and focused on strengthening his combat abilities while Huang Chao grew more cautious and expanded his use of clones. Qin Yan also advanced his cultivation and connected roads between two provinces, leaving his industrial and military plans underway as ancient experts remained a threat.

• Qin Yan recovered from his injuries, reflected on Di Feng’s power, and resolved to improve his magnetic-field techniques and combat strength.
• Qin Yan secretly told Huang Chao about Di Feng’s true body, prompting Huang Chao to send a clone to Cangzhou as bait and plan to create more clones for safety.
• Huang Chao hid in a seabed lair while another Third Realm clone devoured demonic beasts’ blood Qi.
• Over the following months, Qin Yan improved his magnetic-field control, cultivated the Golden Origin Nine-Aspect Realm to the fifth world, and learned the Origin Soul Counter-Technique and Heart-Soul God-Slaying Technique.
• Qin Yan completed roads connecting two provinces, cutting travel time in half, while his Ministry of Industry continued working toward railways and automobiles.

Qin Yan reviewed the Yunqing Two Prefectures’ military and industrial development with Zhang Xin, then supplied gems worth more than a hundred million taels to fund further growth. He planned to advance Martial Dao and technology together while cultivating powerful fighters, as Zong Xiaoshan prepared to attempt the Fourth Realm.

• Zhang Xin reported that road construction was underway, railway development awaited better mining equipment, and the prefectures’ banks held nearly seventy million taels alongside forty million in Qin Yan’s private treasury.
• Qin Yan produced twenty chests of gems and told Zhang Xin to sell them in controlled quantities across Great Li and neighboring countries.
• Qin Yan considered how industrial development could support Martial Dao and argued that technology and Martial Dao were complementary paths.
• Zhang Xin began distributing the gems through the commerce department, while Zong Xiaoshan prepared to attempt a breakthrough to the Fourth Realm.

Qian Ying tested his Soul Power Growth Potion on a demonic beast, which gained greatly increased soul strength and intelligence. As the potion entered clinical trials, Qian Ying pressed to accelerate his research amid the looming threat of ancient cultivators.

• Qian Ying injected test subject seventy-six with the Soul Power Growth Potion and observed its soul strength rise by 310 percent while its brain activity reached 215 percent of its former level.
• Qian Ying found that the demonic beast had developed human-like intelligence and learned to practice a breathing method, then ordered staff to monitor it and kill it if they lost control.
• Qin Yan reviewed Qian Ying’s report and recognized the potential of both the Awakening Potion and the Soul Power Growth Potion, while urging caution with a drug that affected the brain.
• Qian Ying told his assistant that he was confident in the potion but felt pressure to speed up research because of the powerful ancient beings they would face.
• Qian Ying reaffirmed that his research and ingredient proportions were correct and prepared to continue the trials.

Qian Ying tested his Soul Power Growth Potion and unexpectedly gained enough mental power for his Primordial Spirit to leave his body. After Qin Yan made him stop experimenting and cultivate, Qian Ying reached Innate Martial Artist and received a cloning technique that promised to help him pursue his research.

• Qian Ying injected himself with the Soul Power Growth Potion and experienced a dramatic surge in mental power that sent his Primordial Spirit out of his body.
• Qin Yan found Qian Ying's uncontrolled soul, brought it back to his body, and warned him that the experiment had been reckless.
• Qin Yan ordered Qian Ying to pause his laboratory work, study the potion's effects, and cultivate until he reached the First Realm.
• Over the following weeks, Qian Ying's soul grew eleven times stronger, and he broke through to Innate Martial Artist.
• Qin Yan gave Qian Ying the Boundless Sea of Blood Scripture, which included a Flesh-and-Blood Clone technique, and Qian Ying eagerly began studying it.
• Qian Ying reached the technique's introductory stage in one night and learned that he had to reach the Fourth Realm before he could cultivate a Blood Clone.

Qian Ying cultivated the Boundless Sea of Blood Scripture and improved his Soul Power Growth Potion while seeking resources to advance faster. With Qin Yan’s approval, he traveled to the Canglan Sea Region to refine marine demonic beasts, where Qin Yan warned him not to overdraw his potential.

• Qian Ying used the Spirit Refining Art to drain a rabbit and mastered the Boundless Sea of Blood Scripture within days.
• Qian Ying continued researching the Soul Power Growth Potion and studied the Tai Xuan Immortal Sect’s legacy, hoping to reach the Fourth Realm and learn the Flesh-and-Blood Clone.
• Qian Ying decided his cultivation was too slow and asked Qin Yan for help finding demonic beasts to refine.
• Qin Yan approved Qian Ying’s plan while considering the immortal sects’ legacies and his own need to develop suitable cultivation techniques.
• In the Canglan Sea Region, Qian Ying rapidly refined sea demons, and Qin Yan warned him to consolidate his foundation.
• Qian Ying said he was pursuing rapid cultivation to develop a Flesh-and-Blood Clone and might eventually create a body with powerful potential and talent.

Qin Yan broke through into the Fifth Realm, named it the Nirvana Realm, and created the Martial Scripture to redefine and simplify Martial Dao cultivation. The chapter ended with Qian Ying showing Qin Yan a new Blood Dao Control Art that could make creatures obey through changes to their bloodlines.

• While training under deep-sea pressure and studying Xiahou Jun's lightning transformation art, Qin Yan's body evolved toward an energy-based state and entered the Fifth Realm.
• Qin Yan named the Fifth Realm the Nirvana Realm and created the Martial Scripture, organizing the Nine Heavens of Mortal Transcendence and the later cultivation realms.
• Qin Yan completed the Martial Scripture's foundational methods and Qi Circulation Prelude, aiming to make Martial Dao cultivation more accessible.
• Qin Yan surfaced and found Qian Ying on a solitary island, where Qian Ying showed him rows of fish gathered near the shore.
• Qian Ying explained that he had created the Blood Dao Control Art by combining the Flesh Seed, the Blood Ghost Art, and a soul-control technique to alter creatures' bloodlines and compel their loyalty.

Qin Yan and Qian Ying developed the Blood Dao Slave Seal as a way to control demonic beasts, while Qin Yan studied his own adaptive body to create a Nirvana Method. He tested its first layer on an octopus, successfully granting it a Life Core, rapid regeneration, and the ability to survive on land at the cost of rapidly consuming its stored life force.

• Qian Ying proposed using the Blood Dao Slave Seal to enslave demonic beasts, and Qin Yan approved the plan.
• Qian Ying and Qin Yan discussed the seal’s development and the role of bloodline inheritance in demonic beasts.
• Qin Yan studied how his body adapted to injury, lightning, and the Magnetic Field System, and concluded that adaptability could guide his Nirvana Method.
• Qin Yan used Soul Shadow to control an octopus and infused it with life force to bypass the early accumulation stage.
• Qin Yan created the first layer of the Nirvana Method, Life Spring Rebirth, forming a Life Core in the octopus that enabled rapid healing, extended life, and survival on land while consuming life force quickly.

Qin Yan evolved an octopus into the powerful, intelligent Kesu while Qian Ying developed the Beast Taming Seal and prepared to advance his cultivation. After Qin Yan taught him the Nirvana Method, Qian Ying condensed a life pill and began pursuing breakthroughs to the Third Realm and Fourth Realm.

• Qin Yan used the Nirvana Method to evolve a little octopus into a five-meter amphibious demonic beast with twelve tentacles and a Gene Lock.
• Qin Yan watched the octopus try wielding eight sabers, saw it cut off two tentacles, and comforted it as they regrew.
• Qian Ying showed Qin Yan his giant goshawk and said he had enslaved many sea beasts, including a school of Demon-Scale Sharks, with the Blood Dao Slave Seal.
• Qian Ying told Qin Yan he had simplified the Blood Dao Slave Seal into the Beast Taming Seal, which First Realm experts could learn in a few days.
• Qian Ying said he planned to break through to the Third Realm and use a Flesh-and-Blood Clone, and Qin Yan gave him Soul Liquid and taught him the first layer of the Nirvana Method.
• Qian Ying quickly grasped the Nirvana Method, condensed a life pill, and prepared to break through to the Third Realm and Fourth Realm.

Qian Ying used the Soul Power Growth Agent, Spirit Crystals, and the Nirvana Method to restore and strengthen his body, preparing to break through to the Third Realm. Meanwhile, Huang Chao fled a sea of searching demon beasts, reunited with Qin Yan, and watched him swiftly defeat the pursuing Azure-Winged Beast.

• Qian Ying strengthened his soul and body with the medicine, Spirit Crystals, and Nirvana Method, and expected to reach the Third Realm in less than half a month.
• Huang Chao found himself targeted by a vast search of demon beasts and fled as the Azure-Winged Beast pursued him.
• Qin Yan arrived, accused Huang Chao of misleading him about a mysterious expert, and demanded an explanation.
• The Azure-Winged Beast declared that the king wanted Huang Chao and ordered both men to come with him.
• Qin Yan struck the Azure-Winged Beast with Spirit-Shaking Strike and bound him in a sea dragon, leaving him badly wounded.

Qin Yan and Huang Chao learned that a powerful sea-demon King was searching for Huang Chao because of his Flesh and Blood Dao cultivation. Huang Chao's clone met the King, who identified the technique as Xun Yin's inheritance and suggested that the Flesh and Blood Dao figures had come from another world.

• Huang Chao apologized to Qin Yan for misleading him, then discovered that the Azure-Winged Beast had been ordered to search for someone matching his appearance and scent.
• Qin Yan forced the Azure-Winged Beast to explain the King's orders and proposed sending one of Huang Chao's clones to investigate the King.
• Qin Yan found a Soul Restriction in the Azure-Winged Beast and planted an explosive crystal near its brain before ordering it to take Huang Chao's clone to the King.
• Huang Chao and Qin Yan watched through a blood screen as the Azure-Winged Beast returned to a colossal basilisk-like creature with stone spines and a scarlet vertical eye.
• The King recognized Huang Chao's Flesh and Blood Dao technique as Xun Yin's inheritance, while Huang Chao's clone claimed that Xun Yin was his enemy.
• The King mocked the Flesh and Blood Dao practitioners as outsiders who raised blood food, leaving Qin Yan and Huang Chao surprised by his implication that they came from another world.

Qin Yan and Huang Chao confronted the serpent monster, who tried to force them into serving him and mistook Qin Yan for Xun Yin. After Qin Yan overwhelmed him, the serpent monster escaped with a talisman and threatened that his master would come for them.

• The serpent monster attacked Huang Chao's clone with a black jade pearl, so Huang Chao detonated the clone before it could be captured.
• The serpent monster tracked Qin Yan and Huang Chao down, claimed he had reached the Spirit Transformation realm, and demanded they become his servants.
• Qin Yan and Huang Chao attacked together, and Qin Yan smashed part of the serpent monster's face while Huang Chao followed with a barrage of blood needles.
• The serpent monster struck Qin Yan with his tail, but Qin Yan blocked the blow and badly damaged the serpent's tail.
• The serpent monster mistook Qin Yan for Xun Yin and used a talisman to open a crack in the void and summon a beam of light.
• Qin Yan struck the serpent monster with the Heaven-Splitting Style, tearing through his scales, and the wounded serpent escaped with another talisman after warning that his master would arrive.

After the snake escaped by sending a message beyond the realm, Qin Yan sought Heavenly Star Lord’s help to track it down. They gathered powerful figures to confront the threat, and the chapter ended with them recognizing that their world might face danger from beyond the heavens.

• Qin Yan collected the snake’s flesh, told Huang Chao to hide with one of his subordinates, and left to seek help.
• Qin Yan asked Heavenly Star Lord to locate the snake and explained that it came from beyond their realm.
• Heavenly Star Lord used the snake’s blood to determine its approximate location and summoned Xiahou Jun, Sword Venerable Fu Cheng, and Immortal Master Yunchen.
• The gathered powerhouses reacted with shock and gravity as Heavenly Star Lord explained the threat.
• Xiahou Jun questioned Qin Yan, but Immortal Master Yunchen silenced him and acknowledged the vastness of the worlds beyond their own.

Qin Yan and the ancient experts prepared to capture the snake monster in the Extreme Ice Sea Region and learn about the world beyond theirs. After the Heavenly Star Lord used Qin Yan’s Spirit Crystals to teleport the group, Qin Yan arrived in the region’s deadly cold.

• Qin Yan explained that Xun Yin founded the Flesh and Blood Dao, could reincarnate through his bloodline, and had created the strange snake.
• The Heavenly Star Lord said the snake monster had been located near the Extreme Ice Sea Region and warned that his spatial talismans made capturing him dangerous.
• Xiahou Jun noted that flying there would take more than ten years, so the Heavenly Star Lord offered to teleport the group one at a time using true essence.
• Qin Yan lent the Heavenly Star Lord ten cubic units of Spirit Crystals, and Immortal Master Yun Chen teleported ahead to prepare the way.
• The Heavenly Star Lord teleported Fu Cheng Sword Venerable and then Qin Yan to the Extreme Ice Sea Region, where Qin Yan faced its bone-piercing cold.

Qin Yan negotiated with Immortal Master Yunchen and Fu Cheng Sword Venerable to trade Spirit Crystals for their cultivation manuals and other treasures. He agreed to buy their extensive collections on credit, leaving him with a huge trove of techniques to study.

• Qin Yan withdrew his force field and used the Nirvana Method to adapt to the extreme cold while speaking with Fu Cheng Sword Venerable.
• Fu Cheng Sword Venerable asked to buy Spirit Crystals, and Qin Yan offered to trade them for items of equal value.
• Immortal Master Yunchen and Fu Cheng Sword Venerable presented their cultivation manuals and treasures for Qin Yan to inspect.
• Qin Yan said he wanted all the manuals, explaining that he needed their knowledge because his cultivation path differed from theirs.
• Immortal Master Yunchen agreed to sell him more than a thousand manuals at ten cubic measures of Spirit Stones each, payable over ten years.
• Fu Cheng Sword Venerable offered his nearly thousand manuals as well, and Qin Yan accepted.

Qin Yan demonstrated that his magnetic ability let him rapidly condense Spirit Crystals and Cold Jade, winning the trust and favor of Immortal Master Yunchen and Fu Cheng Sword Venerable. After Xiahou Jun was put in his place, Qin Yan repaid Heavenly Star Lord for the Heavenly Origin Crystal that had strengthened his magnetic field.

• Qin Yan spread his magnetic field across a thousand miles and quickly condensed Spirit Crystals and Cold Jade from the surrounding energy.
• Fu Cheng Sword Venerable and Immortal Master Yunchen praised Qin Yan, offered him Divine Ability manuals, and each accepted a hundred cubic units of Spirit Crystals as a deposit for his promise to deliver a thousand cubic units yearly.
• Immortal Master Yunchen explained that Cold Jade benefited cultivators of ice-attribute techniques, while Qin Yan drained the Spiritual Qi and cold Qi from the surrounding area.
• Xiahou Jun sneered at Qin Yan, but Fu Cheng Sword Venerable declared Qin Yan his friend and made clear that he would protect him; Immortal Master Yunchen supported him.
• Heavenly Star Lord arrived, and Qin Yan gave him Spirit Crystals to repay his debt and compensate him for the Heavenly Origin Crystal.

Qin Yan joined Heavenly Star Lord, Xiahou Jun, Immortal Master Yunchen, and Sword Venerable Fu Cheng to hunt a snake monster, using his speed and magnetic field perception to locate its hiding place beneath the ice. They captured its Primordial Spirit, and Immortal Master Yunchen determined that it was a split soul whose main body was at least in the Body Integration Realm.

• Heavenly Star Lord offered Qin Yan divine ability manuals, and Qin Yan agreed to buy them from him and Xiahou Jun.
• Heavenly Star Lord used a scroll to narrow down the snake monster's location, while the group agreed on how to attack it.
• Xiahou Jun and Qin Yan raced toward the target, and Qin Yan found the snake monster fifty li away and three thousand meters beneath the ice.
• Heavenly Star Lord sealed the area with the Star Chart Scroll as Qin Yan split the ice and Immortal Master Yunchen struck the monster's soul, destroying its defense treasure.
• Immortal Master Yunchen pulled a Primordial Spirit from the monster's charred corpse and identified it as a split soul with a main body at least in the Body Integration Realm.

Qin Yan and the others interrogated Yu Jianfei and learned that he was a disciple of the powerful Taiyu Immortal Sect from the Huangkun Great Universe, sent into their world to hunt Xun Yin. The chapter ended with them realizing that dozens of other outsiders had entered the forbidden zone, including Mahayana experts.

• Xiahou Jun questioned Yu Jianfei about how he had entered their world, and Yu Jianfei claimed he had crossed a spacetime rift after dying.
• Immortal Master Yunchen tortured Yu Jianfei's Primordial Spirit until his defenses collapsed and he revealed that he was Yu Jianfei of the Taiyu Immortal Sect.
• Yu Jianfei described the sect's vast power, its three eternal Immortals, and the countless life-bearing stars under its control.
• Yu Jianfei explained that their world had fallen into the Great Universe around ten thousand years earlier and restricted the power and lifespans of those who entered it.
• Yu Jianfei said the sect had sent soul-splitting disciples into the forbidden zone to hunt Xun Yin, and that at least several dozen outsiders were already there, ranging from Void Refinement to Mahayana experts.

Heavenly Star Lord and the others realized they had little time before an Immortal could breach the world barrier, while dozens of outsiders and the ancient experts remained unaccounted for. After Qin Yan and the others defeated Yu Jianfei, they discovered his Karmic Treasure could track anyone connected to Xun Yin and divided his spoils, including techniques and treasures from the outside world.

• Heavenly Star Lord warned that an outsider could arrive in about a year, before they had time to regain enough strength to withstand an Immortal's attack.
• Xiahou Jun opened Yu Jianfei's Storage Treasure and examined its artifacts, noting that the outside world's refinement techniques surpassed theirs in intricacy.
• Qin Yan discovered that a crystal ball reacted to him, and Yu Jianfei explained that the Karmic Treasure tracked anyone connected to Xun Yin within ten thousand li.
• Immortal Master Yunchen and the others agreed to divide Yu Jianfei's treasures and resources, and Qin Yan received a Void Refinement Stage saber, three Spirit Severing Stage treasures, and two Talisman Treasures.
• Immortal Master Yunchen used soul control to make Yu Jianfei record his secret arts and divine abilities, giving the group a chance to study the outside world's techniques.