Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan healed an emerald-green immortal insect, which led him to a treasure guarded by two powerful artifact spirits. After claiming the Star-Seizing Gauntlets and entering the core layer, he encountered formidable beings and continued searching for his companions.

• Qin Yan healed the emerald-green immortal insect, and it guided him to a restriction atop a towering stone pillar.
• Qin Yan broke the restriction and defeated the two artifact spirits, revealing a pair of powerful gauntlets.
• Qin Yan claimed the Star-Seizing Gauntlets, learned their divine ability, and spent half a year gaining a rudimentary grasp of it.
• Qin Yan said goodbye to the immortal insect, entered a passage through the stone pillar, and arrived in a realm filled with dense immortal spiritual Qi and powerful creatures.
• Qin Yan encountered an Aurora Leopard, then sensed it defeat another peak eighth-realm combatant in an instant.
• Qin Yan avoided the Aurora Leopard and traveled through the realm to search for his companions.

Qin Yan encountered the powerful immortal beast Bai Ming and barely survived their fierce battle. Immortal Master Yunchen and Heavenly Star Lord helped him escape, while Bai Ming was left raging in the ruined forest.

• Qin Yan hid as Bai Ming toyed with and devoured an Eighth Realm Ghost Cultivator, then detected Qin Yan and attacked him.
• Qin Yan fought Bai Ming in the ancient forest, where Bai Ming’s law-powered phantom wounded him and suppressed his healing.
• Bai Ming unleashed silver lightning that annihilated matter, forcing Qin Yan to defend himself with the Star-Seizing Hand and retreat.
• Xiahou Jun, Immortal Master Yunchen, and Heavenly Star Lord recognized Qin Yan and prepared a formation to help him escape Bai Ming.
• Qin Yan rushed toward the formation, and Immortal Master Yunchen and Heavenly Star Lord trapped Bai Ming with a Soul-Killing Formation long enough for the group to escape.

Qin Yan and the others traveled into the Immortal Palace’s core region to find Fu Cheng Sword Venerable. They found him injured but alive, and learned that he had gained an immortal sword and comprehended a new sword intent.

• Qin Yan gathered Immortal Spiritual Qi so he and Xiahou Jun, Heavenly Star Lord, and Immortal Master Yunchen could restore their strength while searching for Fu Cheng Sword Venerable.
• After two years, the group headed for the core region, where Heavenly Star Lord sensed Fu Cheng’s location near a vast Star Ancient Tree.
• Qin Yan and the others avoided waking a gigantic sleeping divine bird and found Fu Cheng healing on a leaf of the tree.
• Qin Yan began drawing the Ghost Qi from Fu Cheng’s severed arm, which Fang Zhanxian had injured.
• Fu Cheng told the group that he had found an immortal sword in an immortal beast’s cave abode and gained a new sword intent.

Fu Cheng Sword Venerable and the others headed toward the Immortal Palace’s core region after he recovered and strengthened his control over the immortal sword. A great will announced that the gates would open in three years, and the group witnessed a Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng defeat three Heavenly-Horned Dragons, with one dragon escaping.

• Fu Cheng Sword Venerable restored his strength, and the five companions set out for the core region.
• A vast consciousness announced that the Immortal Palace gates would open in three years, drawing powerful beings toward the core region.
• Qin Yan and his companions encountered a Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng fighting three Heavenly-Horned Dragons and watched from a distance.
• The Heavenly Peng shattered the dragons’ combined attack and pierced one dragon with its feather sword.
• Two Heavenly-Horned Dragons sacrificed themselves to help their remaining brother escape, and the Heavenly Peng began eating one of the fallen dragons.

Qin Yan avoided the fighting around the Immortal Palace’s core and secretly gathered powerful Primordial Spirits and materials from its battlefields. After mastering the Sky-Rending Claw, he ambushed the Fallen Heaven Demon Tiger and pierced its chest.

• Qin Yan discussed the dangers of the core area with Fu Cheng, Heavenly Star Lord, Xiahou Jun, and the others, then left to explore while they chose to cultivate.
• Qin Yan concealed his presence near the core area and collected Primordial Spirits and other spoils from battles between powerful creatures.
• Qin Yan analyzed a Mahayana Stage being’s claw bone and integrated its earth law and claw technique into his own Martial Dao.
• Qin Yan mastered the Sky-Rending Claw enough to shatter a small area of space and collected the immortal crane’s wing bones.
• Qin Yan ambushed the resting Fallen Heaven Demon Tiger with the Sky-Rending Claw, piercing its chest and slashing its head.

Qin Yan strengthened his body and refined the Sky-Rending Claw while hiding beneath the earth, then went looking for danger to raise his Assassination Technique’s proficiency. He discovered four powerful beings attacking a Molten Mountain Giant for its giant axe and watched as the battle continued.

• Qin Yan killed the Fallen Heaven Demon Tiger with a surprise attack, drew its soul into the Soul Banner, and took its corpse.
• Qin Yan spent more than three months absorbing the tiger’s flesh and precious bones while comprehending their laws and divine abilities.
• Qin Yan combined wind and space laws to complete the Sky-Rending Claw and grew confident he could fight a ninth-realm expert, though he reminded himself not to underestimate Mahayana experts.
• Qin Yan set out to improve his Assassination Technique, using his nearly erased presence to move unseen through the outer area of the core region.
• Qin Yan found three peak eighth-realm beings and one Mahayana expert attacking a peak eighth-realm Molten Mountain Giant, whose earth-fire powers were suppressed by a Space-Sealing Beast.
• The four attackers demanded the Molten Mountain Giant’s giant axe, while their leader struck with Sun-Moon Wheels that could cut through space; Qin Yan suspected the axe was an immortal artifact.

Qin Yan revealed himself to rescue the Molten Mountain Giant from Xuan Yi and his three servants. After killing the Space-Sealing Beast and seizing the Shining Crystal Bell, Qin Yan helped the Molten Mountain Giant break free, leaving the battle poised for a fierce counterattack.

• Xuan Yi and his three servants steadily overwhelmed the Molten Mountain Giant while trying to force him to surrender his immortal treasure.
• Qin Yan chose to intervene after Xuan Yi detected him, then ambushed and killed the Space-Sealing Beast with Sky-Rending Claw.
• Qin Yan trapped the Space-Sealing Beast's remains and soul in his Soul Banner and sent nearly forty soul slaves to attack one of the six-hoofed giant beasts.
• Qin Yan used Primordial Magnetism Domain to cancel the Gravity Domain and Star-Seizing to block Xuan Yi's attack and seize the Shining Crystal Bell.
• The Molten Mountain Giant broke free, enlarged his body, and swung his giant axe at Xuan Yi.

Qin Yan and Long Shan defeated Xuan Yi and his servants, then divided the spoils from the battle. After learning the Divine Wing Clan would seek revenge for Xuan Yi’s death, Long Shan left and Qin Yan erased the traces before fleeing.

• Long Shan grievously wounded Xuan Yi with his giant axe while Qin Yan killed one six-hooved giant beast and suppressed its soul.
• Qin Yan’s soul slaves killed the other six-hooved giant beast, and Qin Yan suppressed its soul as well.
• Qin Yan sealed the battlefield with his Primordial Magnetism Domain and Liyan Heaven and Earth Shield while Long Shan attacked Xuan Yi.
• Long Shan killed Xuan Yi, extinguishing both his body and divine soul.
• Qin Yan and Long Shan divided the treasures, with Long Shan taking mostly earth- and fire-attribute items.
• Long Shan departed, and Qin Yan erased the traces of the battle and fled.

Qin Yan used Xuan Yi’s treasures and Immortal Spirit Crystals to strengthen his body and comprehend the laws, triggering a massive Mahayana lightning tribulation. He broke through to Mahayana strength and fought the tribulation head-on, astonishing the watching experts as it continued to test him.

• Qin Yan discovered Xuan Yi’s Immortal Spirit Crystals and refined the Sun-Moon Wheel, learning its true name was the Jiu Zhen Yin-Yang Wheel and that it wielded powerful spatial abilities.
• Qin Yan created a clone to practice using the Jiu Zhen Yin-Yang Wheel and the Shining Crystal Bell while he cultivated with the Immortal Spirit Crystals and treasure bones.
• Qin Yan’s comprehension and physical strength surged, drawing thunderclouds that grew to cover the Star Ancient Tree and expand beyond a hundred million kilometers.
• Qin Yan’s body evolved and his strength reached the Mahayana Realm, though his soul and comprehension remained weaker.
• Qin Yan fought the lightning tribulation head-on, destroying its ancient creatures and enduring its soul attacks as onlookers marveled at his power.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, Qin Yan reached the Longevity Realm and secretly refined his strength while others gradually forgot him. When the Immortal Hall opened, he avoided the fight for the Ascension Token and instead entered the hall to capture the souls of fallen experts.

• Qin Yan shattered the tribulation's ancient deities, absorbed the lightning, and attained a nearly limitless lifespan in the Ninth Realm.
• Qin Yan activated his reduced presence and vanished, causing witnesses—including Mi Xuan—to struggle to remember him.
• Qin Yan spent half a year stabilizing his cultivation, refining the Sun-Moon Wheel and other treasures, and creating the Longevity Life Chapter.
• When the Immortal Hall opened, Qin Yan chose not to compete for the Ascension Token and entered the hall after the other experts had rushed inside.
• Qin Yan reached the edge of the battle, used his Soul Banner to capture the souls of dead experts, and imprisoned an enraged Mahayana expert.

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.