Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lin sold Qin Yan’s Sacred Stones, returned the Spirit Stones he had been safeguarding, and received two as payment. As experts converged on Qin Yan’s residence, a ruthless veteran slipped into his room at night.

• Xiao Lin sold the Sacred Stones for 104.04 million Gold Stars and delivered the proceeds to Qin Yan.
• Xiao Lin returned the Spirit Stones to Qin Yan, who gave him two and instructed him to spread the news that they had all been returned.
• Xiao Lin warned Qin Yan that the news had already spread, while experts and factions gathered in Holy Sand City.
• A concealed veteran expert entered Qin Yan’s room at night, and an icy chill swept through him.

Qin Yan survived a succession of attempts on his life in Holy Sand City, while the city’s factions debated how to obtain the Spirit Stones he possessed. After a top assassin’s blade shattered against Qin Yan’s armor, onlookers mistook it for a legendary Sacred Artifact, and an old man invited him to meet.

• Blood Child devoured Shalun after Shalun entered Qin Yan’s room, and other would-be attackers stopped approaching for the rest of the night.
• Maren warned five members of his Lineage, including grand elder Keqin, not to confront Qin Yan by force and said the auction was their best chance to obtain his Spirit Stones.
• Qin Yan noticed a concealed assassin in the street, but his black weight-bearing armor blocked the man’s blade and shattered it.
• The assassin fled using a secret technique, while onlookers concluded Qin Yan wore a legendary Sacred Artifact capable of withstanding a Holy One’s attack.
• Qin Yan left the assassin’s pursuit to Zheshen Ghost, then heard a white-haired old man invite him to meet at a pavilion.

Qin Yan rejected the Frost Star Empire royal family's private offer for Spirit Stones, then humiliated members of the powerful Tuken Lineage who tried to force him to meet their leader. After ordering the survivors to summon their Lineage head, he learned that Lord Suo Luo had arrived in Holy Sand City.

• He Qing met Qin Yan, proposed that the royal family buy Spirit Stones, and let him leave after sensing a figure appear behind him.
• He Qing ordered his people to stop watching Qin Yan and warned them not to offend him.
• Qin Yan refused private offers for Spirit Stones while Xiao Lin told him that Holy Sand City had grown lively because of him.
• Five Tuken Lineage cultivators barged into Qin Yan's room, and he forced them to kneel, killed one, and ordered the survivors to clean up and summon their Lineage head.
• Onlookers predicted the Tuken Lineage would retaliate, and word spread that Lord Suo Luo had arrived in Holy Sand City.

Qin Yan left Holy Sand City with a mysterious envoy, drawing pursuit from the city’s powerful cultivators. When Suo Luo attacked him with the Tuken Lineage’s Death Silver Spear, Qin Yan seized the weapon and killed Suo Luo with it, then continued toward the envoy’s master.

• Qin Yan learned that the imperial family had sent a prince to Holy Sand City and considered how his growing strength could help him capture the visitors from beyond the realm.
• A rough-looking man brought Qin Yan a token from his master and invited him to come along; Qin Yan accepted and left the city with him.
• Suo Luo pursued Qin Yan and hurled the Tuken Lineage’s Death Silver Spear at him.
• Qin Yan caught the spear, erased Suo Luo’s mark from it, and used it to kill him as he tried to flee.
• He Qing and the imperial Attendant fled in different directions, while Qin Yan told the envoy to continue onward.

Qin Yan infiltrated Lei Li’s island stronghold while posing as Yu Jianfei, then ambushed and captured Lei Li after learning he had found clues to an ancient faction’s ruins. Lei Li realized Qin Yan was not who he claimed to be, but remained sealed in Qin Yan’s palm.

• Qin Yan detected the island’s defensive formations and surveyed its forces, finding Lei Li inside the central palace.
• Lei Li mistook Qin Yan for Yu Jianfei, bowed to him, and gave him a valuable item to appease him.
• Qin Yan rebuked Lei Li for neglecting the search for Xun Yin, and Lei Li claimed he had been investigating ancient faction ruins that might hold a Mahayana cultivator’s inheritance.
• Qin Yan suddenly struck Lei Li with a lightning spear and a soul attack, destroyed his protective jade pendant, and devoured his body, leaving his Primordial Spirit sealed in his palm.
• Qin Yan removed Lei Li’s spatial ring imprint, and Lei Li asked who Qin Yan really was.

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.