Chapter Summaries

Qian Ying created a Flesh-and-Blood Clone, and Qin Yan returned with knowledge and secret arts from beyond the Canggu Realm. After discussing the danger posed by the visitors from beyond the realm, Qin Yan used Qian Ying’s refined secret art to create a clone of his own.

• Qian Ying created a Flesh-and-Blood Clone, impressing Huang Chao with his talent and his simplified secret art.
• Qin Yan returned and told Huang Chao and Qian Ying about the vast universe and humanity’s place in it.
• Qian Ying warned that visitors from beyond the realm carried valuable knowledge, and Huang Chao volunteered to capture Xun Yin’s clone.
• Qin Yan shared jade slips containing divine abilities, secret arts, and records from ten thousand years ago, prompting Qian Ying to return to his experiments.
• Qin Yan used the refined secret art to form a clone from a drop of blood, infused it with his soul, and placed restrictions within it.

Qin Yan traveled into the Western Desert while his clone studied secret techniques and Qian Ying developed powerful weapons. He reached the Demon-Suppressing Bureau’s forward camp and found its abandoned guards still protecting the people of the thirty-six cities.

• Qin Yan left his clone to study divine abilities and secret techniques while he continued cultivating to repay his debt for them.
• Qian Ying built a lightning-powered Rune Gun and planned increasingly advanced weapons with help from four clones.
• Qin Yan carried two mountains across the Western Desert, and a caravan mistook them for mountain demons.
• Qin Yan reached a dilapidated forward camp and met Demon-Suppressing Bureau guards Deng Guozhong and Zhang Fu.
• Qin Yan told Deng Guozhong and Zhang Fu that Great Li existed in name only and urged them to go home, but Deng Guozhong insisted that they had to protect the people of the thirty-six cities.

Qin Yan arrived in the Western Desert and began bringing its starving, disorganized forces under his control. After securing the Demon-Suppressing Bureau’s loyalty, he learned that the Black Mo Cult controlled Shuowu City and threatened the region.

• Qin Yan offered Zheng Guozhong and Zhang Fu relief and the option to return home, leaving them stunned by the choice of whether to submit to him or remain loyal to Great Li.
• Qin Yan entered the Demon-Suppressing Bureau outpost, where Qu Fu urged Ming Xuanxiang to lead their starving, isolated people out of the town.
• Qin Yan revealed his identity and declared that he would take over and retake the Western Desert; Ming Xuanxiang and Qu Fu knelt and pledged their loyalty.
• Qin Yan summoned rain and provided the outpost’s people with food, vegetables, and fruit.
• Ming Xuanxiang told Qin Yan that the Black Mo Cult controlled Shuowu City, had killed nearly fifty Bureau members, and sought to unite the Western Desert under a religious state.

Qin Yan entered the Ancient Royal City at night despite Ming Xuanxiang and Qu Fu warning him of its countless powerful undead. He destroyed wandering ancient corpses and fed their Corpse Sha Qi to the Little Jade Turtle as he approached the city walls, where undead factions fought endlessly.

• Ming Xuanxiang explained that the Demon-Suppressing Bureau guarded the royal city to stop wandering ancient corpses from escaping.
• Qin Yan told the others to remain behind and left alone for the Ancient Royal City.
• Qin Yan crushed a five-hundred-year-old ancient corpse and absorbed its Corpse Sha Qi with the Little Jade Turtle.
• Qin Yan drew in and destroyed many wandering ancient corpses as he crossed the desert toward the city.
• Qin Yan reached the city walls and saw undead and ancient corpses fighting in an endless battle.

Qin Yan entered the fallen Ancient Royal City, where resentment made the horrors of its destruction repeat, and destroyed the ghosts that attacked him. In the palace, he witnessed the old king kill the Princess of Yu, then fail to take his own life and stumble away, leaving her resentment behind.

• Qin Yan walked through the fallen city as its soldiers, rioters, and victims relived the invasion.
• When the dead husband and his wife blamed Qin Yan for not saving them, he crushed the husband and destroyed the other attacking ghosts with crimson lightning.
• Qin Yan killed the blue-faced female ghost, and the Little Jade Turtle absorbed the ghosts’ Sha Qi.
• In the palace, the old king refused the Princess of Yu’s plea to flee and strangled her, claiming he was protecting the royal family’s dignity.
• The old king tried several times to kill himself but lost his nerve, dropped his sword, and left the hall as the Princess of Yu’s resentment surged.

Qin Yan fought the Princess of Yu inside her Ghost Domain after she showed him her tragic past and tried to trap him. The Princess broke through to the fifth realm, but Qin Yan defeated her, and she vanished with the first sunlight.

• The Princess of Yu hanged Qin Yan in her Ghost Domain, but his secret soul-defense art and blood flames resisted her restraints.
• The Princess summoned a giant made from countless ghosts, but Qin Yan trapped it inside a black prison.
• The Princess gathered Sha Qi and broke through to the fifth realm, becoming the first fifth-realm Ghost Dao existence.
• Qin Yan shattered the Ghost Domain's barriers and struck the Princess repeatedly, dispersing her body into Ghost Qi.
• The Princess welcomed her freedom as sunlight reached the Ancient Royal City, and her body turned to nothingness.

Qin Yan used his Primordial Magnetism Domain and Dark Star to destroy the Ancient Royal City and consume more than a hundred thousand evil entities, awakening the Little Jade Turtle. The turtle revealed its Fortune Dao could grant wishes by consuming luck, misfortune, and destiny, but warned Qin Yan that its previous masters had all perished from the power’s backlash.

• Qin Yan trapped more than a hundred thousand Yin Souls and ancient corpses inside his Primordial Magnetism Domain, where its gravity and magnetic field destroyed them.
• Qin Yan formed a Dark Star that devoured the Ancient Royal City and the earth beneath it, leaving a vast hollow.
• The Little Jade Turtle absorbed the black sphere’s gathered matter and awakened, then told Qin Yan he was its new master and that it had existed since heaven and earth first opened.
• The Little Jade Turtle explained that it could grant wishes by drawing on good fortune, but excessive wishes brought lethal backlash, as its past masters had learned.
• The Little Jade Turtle said it could consume and transform misfortune, luck, and destiny, and urged Qin Yan to gather mortal faith or defeat other destined talents.
• Qin Yan felt uneasy about the turtle’s warning but privately wondered whether his Infinite Physique and transmigrator status could let him control it.

Qin Yan learned from the Little Jade Turtle how luck shaped his fate and gained the ability to see it, then returned to find the Ancient Royal City Ghost Domain destroyed. With the Demon-Suppressing Bureau finally free to leave, he and Ming Xuanxiang turned their attention to the Black Mo Cult and its powerful lord in Guixing City.

• The Little Jade Turtle warned Qin Yan that his great luck would draw conflict and taught him how to condense dynastic luck and see fortune.
• The Little Jade Turtle revealed that its previous owner had died after using a wish to resurrect her lover, and Qin Yan connected her death to the battle ten thousand years earlier.
• Qin Yan returned to town and told Ming Xuanxiang and the Demon-Suppressing Bureau that the Ancient Royal City Ghost Domain was gone for good.
• Ming Xuanxiang explained that the Black Mo Cult had a powerful branch in Guixing City and that its lord, Ba Chi, had joined the cult and cut off their supplies.
• Ming Xuanxiang described Ba Chi’s three Yin Souls: the Coughing-Blood Ghost, the Door Ghost, and the mysterious Blood Child Ghost.

Qin Yan reached Guixing City and used his Slaughter Divine Aspect to destroy its city wall, then declared the people his own. Ba Chi watched in fear as Qin Yan entered the city, doubting that the Black Mo Cult could oppose him.

• Qin Yan claimed the Western Desert from Ba Chi and said he would kill anyone who fought him for it.
• A Shu Wu barred Qin Yan and his companions from entering Guixing City, but Qin Yan summoned his towering Slaughter Divine Aspect.
• Qin Yan ordered the giant to strike the city wall, and its saber blow erased the wall and terrified the city’s people.
• The people of Guixing City knelt before Qin Yan’s divine image, and Qin Yan told them to stand and declared them his people.
• Qin Yan rode toward the city over a road of stone pillars, while Ba Chi and a Black Mo Cult bishop feared they had no chance against him.

Ba Chi betrayed Na Chou and tried to submit to Qin Yan, but an attack by hidden ghosts exposed his treachery. Qin Yan killed Ba Chi and his bonded ghosts, then captured the Blood Child Ghost and sent Ba Chi’s soul to Fold-Life Hell.

• Ba Chi killed Na Chou and presented his head to Qin Yan, claiming he had turned against the Black Mo Cult.
• Ming Xuanxiang denounced Ba Chi as a traitor, and Qin Yan told Ba Chi to accept a restriction if he wanted to join him.
• A Coughing-Blood Ghost attacked Qin Yan while Ba Chi struck at him, but Qin Yan destroyed Ba Chi’s blade and the Zheshen Ghost tore apart the Coughing-Blood Ghost.
• Ba Chi tried to escape through the Door Ghost, but its power failed, and the Zheshen Ghost killed it after Ba Chi stabbed it.
• The Zheshen Ghost pulled the Blood Child Ghost from Ba Chi, and Qin Yan killed Ba Chi, restrained the Blood Child Ghost, and sent Ba Chi’s soul into Fold-Life Hell.

Qin Yan refined Blood Child Ghost into a Demon Head, using blood beads and restrictions to raise its power until it reached the Fourth Realm. Blood Child obeyed him, but its many personalities and concealed nature left its true temperament uncertain.

• Little Jade Turtle explained that Blood Child Ghost was formed from the remnants of ninety-nine newborns and could be refined into a Demon Head or killed.
• Qin Yan placed a soul restriction on Blood Child Ghost and began refining it with blood beads and ancient demonic techniques.
• Qin Yan added two more blood beads, causing Blood Child to evolve, change into a seven-year-old form, and break through to the Fourth Realm.
• Blood Child displayed many shifting personalities before returning to a baby’s form and acknowledging Qin Yan as its master.
• Little Jade Turtle marveled at Blood Child’s unusual aptitude and at Qin Yan’s limitless adaptability and the Nirvana Method he had devised to accelerate his growth.

Qin Yan’s forces conquered Guixing City and advanced across the Western Desert with Qian Ying’s powerful new weapons. Qin Yan then founded the Wu Kingdom and was hailed as the Martial Emperor, leaving the world shaken by his proclamation.

• Ming Xuanxiang reported that most soldiers had joined Qin Yan and that his forces had wiped out nearly all of the Black Mo Cult and Ba Chi’s trusted followers.
• Qin Yan sent Han Chen and others to lead an army of fifty thousand in taking the Western Desert’s thirty-six cities, while Qian Ying supplied advanced weapons and communication artifacts.
• Qin Yan assigned the Zheshen Ghost and the Blood Child to defeat Black Mo Cult experts, and the Blood Child beat bishops apart while apologizing.
• Qin Yan proposed establishing a kingdom, and Han Chen and the soldiers eagerly supported him.
• Qin Yan declared that the kingdom would be called Wu, and the people hailed him as the Martial Emperor as news of the Wu Kingdom’s founding spread.

The Hongwen Emperor sought the Dao One Immortal Sect’s help to kill Qin Yan, whose Wu Kingdom’s military power and rapid development terrified Great Li. The sect master refused, and Immortal Master Yunchen broke through to the Fifth Realm as he prepared to face those arriving from beyond the realm.

• The Hongwen Emperor raged over Qin Yan’s declaration of a state name, while Xia Chengqian reflected on the Wu Kingdom’s growing strength and Great Li’s inability to keep pace.
• The Hongwen Emperor went to the Dao One Immortal Sect and asked its sect master to have Immortal Master Yunchen kill Qin Yan.
• The Dao One sect master refused, saying the patriarch had his own arrangements for Qin Yan, and the Hongwen Emperor left in anger.
• Immortal Master Yunchen absorbed power from Spirit Crystals in a secret cultivation chamber and broke through to the Fifth Realm.

Qin Yan refined a long-range piercing divine ability while his army overwhelmed the Black Mo Cult and won the Western Desert’s people over through reforms. He learned where the cult’s headquarters was and planned to destroy it himself as he continued seeking the pressure needed to grow stronger.

• Heavenly Star Lord and the others broke through to the Fifth Realm but remained wary of Qin Yan and the dangers beyond the realm.
• Qin Yan created the Heaven-Breaking Thunder Spear, a lightning attack capable of striking targets more than a thousand kilometers away, and estimated that reaching the Fifth Realm’s limit would take him another year or two under normal circumstances.
• The Black Mo Cult shifted from open battles to sneak attacks against Qin Yan’s army, so Qin Yan sent Zheshen Ghost to help Bai Yi suppress its northern remnants.
• Qin Yan learned the Black Mo Cult’s headquarters location from a bishop’s memories and decided to destroy it himself.
• Qin Yan’s disciplined army and reforms improved ordinary people’s lives in the Western Desert, strengthening their support for the Wu Kingdom and undermining the Black Mo Cult’s influence.

Qin Yan discovered that the Black Mo Cult was feeding infants and their souls to a Demon Infant Vine, which produced powerful horned creatures. After learning how dangerous the vine could become, he rejected the idea of subduing it and left its fate undecided.

• Qin Yan investigated the oasis and noticed that pregnant women were pampered while children without cultivation aptitude were scarce in the civilian district.
• Qin Yan found an underground Demon Infant Vine with over a hundred flesh cocoons and thousands of infant skeletons beneath a pool feeding its roots.
• Little Jade Turtle explained that the vine consumed flesh, blood, and souls to create Demon Infants, and recounted how one had once killed an Immortal and devoured much of a universe.
• Qin Yan realized the vine's offspring could become extremely powerful, but rejected Little Jade Turtle's suggestion to subdue it because it would require too many resources and invite disaster.

Qin Yan destroyed the Demon Infant Vine and sent the Zheshen Ghost and Blood Child to slaughter the Black Mo Cult. He found the cult leader hiding in a secret chamber and gave him one chance to land a hit, but the leader's strongest ghost servant was swiftly refined.

• Qin Yan ordered the Zheshen Ghost and Blood Child to kill the Demon Infants, and Blood Child devoured the flesh cocoons.
• Qin Yan reduced the Demon Infant Vine to dust and sent the two ghosts after the Black Mo Cult members.
• The Zheshen Ghost and Blood Child slaughtered the cultists as bishops and elders rushed to confront them.
• Qin Yan killed the Black Mo Cult leader's Ghost Hound and incapacitated the Eyeless Ghost, triggering backlash that injured their master.
• Qin Yan offered the Black Mo Cult leader a chance to hurt him, but the leader summoned the Four-Headed God and Qin Yan refined it instantly.

Qin Yan uncovered the figure secretly guiding the Black Mo Cult, took control of the Western Desert, and traveled across the Sand Sea to the Frost Star Empire. He arrived at the empire’s border fortress, where cultivators guarded against enormous desert beasts.

• Qin Yan killed the Black Mo Cult leader, read his memories, and confirmed that someone from beyond the desert had supplied the cult with its ghost-controlling methods and the Demon Infant Vine.
• Qin Yan praised Zheshen Ghost, gave him the cult leader’s soul, and ordered him to erase the brainwashed children’s memories and take them to the Wu Kingdom.
• Within two months, Qin Yan had taken control of the Western Desert and relocated the people of Moonlight Lake; the Black Mo Cult’s surviving followers were put to work or killed.
• Qin Yan formed an alliance with the three immortal sects, agreeing to share the location of the Immortal Palace passage when it appeared.
• Following the cult leader’s memories, Qin Yan crossed the Sand Sea and reached the Frost Star Empire, where a massive fortress stood against migrating giant beasts.

Qin Yan reached the Frost Star Empire, where he learned about Sacred Stones and encountered Sangja, a wounded Holy Warrior whom he healed before continuing toward a border town. He entered the fortress without inspection and left Sangja unconscious, then observed the empire’s cultivation and magical-artifact trade.

• Qin Yan’s cultivation on his journey led him to explain that Sacred Stones formed inside giant beasts and could aid cultivation and extend lifespan.
• Qin Yan healed the gravely wounded Sangja and read his memories to learn the Frost Star Empire’s language.
• Sangja thanked Qin Yan and tried to become his follower, but Qin Yan ignored him and judged his talent inadequate.
• Qin Yan controlled the fortress soldiers and walked through the gate, while Sangja followed him inside.
• Qin Yan knocked Sangja unconscious with mental pressure and entered a nearby border town, where he observed Holy Spirit Masters and merchants trading beast carcasses and medicinal herbs.

Qin Yan entered Holy Sand City to draw the attention of the mysterious visitor by displaying his strength. At a merchant shop, he revealed a large stash of high-quality Sacred Crystals, stunning the shop owner and the Goda Lineage party.

• Qin Yan learned that the mysterious visitor had a widespread network in the Frost Star Empire and decided to attract attention by showing some of his power.
• Qin Yan visited Holy Sand City’s commercial district and found its marketplace stocked with ordinary goods.
• Qin Yan entered a luxurious shop, where Maren of the Goda Lineage noticed that he concealed his presence.
• Maren’s party negotiated a price of 980,000 Gold Star Coins for their Sacred Crystals with the shop owner, Xiao Lin.
• Qin Yan poured out a much larger collection of high-quality Sacred Crystals and told the maid to process the sale quickly.
• Maren let Xiao Lin attend to Qin Yan first while the younger members of the Goda Lineage watched him warily.

Qin Yan displayed a huge trove of sacred crystals and spirit stones in Holy Sand City, setting Xiao Lin and Maren competing to handle or acquire them. He arranged for Xiao Lin to sell the sacred crystals and publicize an auction for the spirit stones, while his deliberate disregard for the danger left Xiao Lin suspicious.

• Xiao Lin counted Qin Yan's seventeen lower and fifty-one middle sacred crystals, then admitted he could not buy them all alone and proposed involving several merchant associations.
• Dude urged Maren to buy the sacred crystals, but Maren told his group to wait and see rather than risk provoking a more powerful faction.
• Qin Yan revealed spirit stones that could restore or increase spirit power, startling Xiao Lin, Maren, and the others.
• Maren offered to have the Geda Lineage buy every spirit stone, but Qin Yan said he would auction them instead.
• Qin Yan told Xiao Lin to handle the sacred crystals and publicize the spirit-stone auction, then had Sally escort him to a hotel.
• Xiao Lin watched Qin Yan leave and wondered why the mysterious young man seemed to be courting danger.