Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang learned that taking Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s spine bone had strengthened his fortune and driven the Heavenly Chu Dynasty’s fortune to ruin, while a Blood Crocodile devastated the imperial city. As Qin Wang headed for the Luoxia Mountain Range to seek the Mysterious Fragment, Chu Yunxiao ordered the capital moved to Tianji City.

• Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu to spread Bad Luck Bathing Soup through the cave before sealing it and leaving for the Luoxia Mountain Range.
• Qin Wang’s updated intel revealed that the spine bone belonged to Immortal Emperor Qingshui, carried his fortune, and could lead to his inheritance in the Ninth Heaven Palace.
• Qin Wang learned that the Heavenly Chu Dynasty’s fortune had collapsed and that a ten-thousand-year Blood Crocodile had awakened beneath its imperial city, killing Chu Wushang and driving cultivators to flee.
• Chu Yunxiao gathered with his surviving followers in Imperial Scenery City and ordered the clan to move the capital to Tianji City.

Chu Yunxiao weighed Tuoba Xiongfeng’s offer of a Heavenly Longevity Sacred Fruit in exchange for studying the Deity Transformation Inheritance. Meanwhile, Qin Wang joined cultivators searching Yan Qingxia’s inheritance in the Luoxia Mountain Range and approached Li Qiye, hoping to benefit from his luck.

• Tuoba Xiongfeng offered Chu Yunxiao a Heavenly Longevity Sacred Fruit and an ancient treasure to jointly study the Deity Transformation Inheritance, and arranged to meet him at Heavenly Extreme Peak.
• Chu Yunxiao considered the offer because the sacred fruit could extend his dwindling lifespan, but he still did not admit that he possessed the inheritance.
• Qin Wang and his disguised companions gathered beneath a cliff in the Luoxia Mountain Range, where Qi Yunjie was breaking the formation around Yan Qingxia’s inheritance.
• Qin Wang watched Qi Yunjie work and planned to use his Intelligence Panel to learn more about the formation and improve his own formation skills.
• Qin Wang spotted Li Qiye in the crowd, approached him under the alias Li Yunye, and asked whether the formation concealed any treasures.

Qin Wang learned that Yan Qingxia’s formation concealed ten Dust Settling Pills and a Primordial Spirit waiting to seize a body, then planned to send his puppet through the formation’s life gate. The next morning, he followed other cultivators toward the ninth peak to open it.

• Li Qiye befriended Qin Wang after discovering that his alias, Li Yunye, differed from Li Qiye’s name by only one character, and spoke of his hopes of finding Dust Settling Pills.
• Qi Yunjie and the others continued trying to break the self-restoring formation while Qin Wang returned to cultivating.
• Qin Wang’s Daily Intel revealed Yan Qingxia’s survival plan, the location of the life gate at the ninth eastern peak, and ten Dust Settling Pills in the cave abode.
• Qin Wang decided to have his puppet open the life gate and let other cultivators enter first to test the danger.
• The next morning, Qin Wang followed cultivators searching for the formation gate toward the ninth peak.

Chu Ba and other cultivators investigated a Teleportation Array near Yan Qingxia’s cave, while Qin Wang suspected Yan Qingxia was using the inheritance to lure victims for body seizure. Yan Qingxia trapped the gathered cultivators in a sealed space, and Qin Wang arrived alone in another formation-sealed cave with Wu Su and Situ Yunfei.

• Chu Yunxu told Chu Ba that Heavenly Chu Dynasty had moved its capital to Tianji City after blood crocodiles occupied the old capital.
• Qin Wang revealed that he had lured cultivators toward the Teleportation Array but warned Zhang Fujiang, Yan Cangwu, and Wanyan Meng that Yan Qingxia might be alive and seeking a body.
• More than three hundred cultivators gathered at the mountain’s stone cave, where Qi Yunjie identified the array as a life gate that could teleport them inside.
• Yan Qingxia, whose Primordial Spirit had been hidden in the Heavenly Vein Hidden Soul Formation for five hundred years, activated the formation and teleported the cultivators near the array away.
• Qin Wang was pulled into a separate sealed cave despite standing fifty zhang from the array, and Wu Su told him she could break the formation if given time.

Yan Qingxia seized Qi Yuntian’s body and fled the mountain formation while Qi Yunjie’s ancestor tried to stop him. Qin Wang and Wu Su pursued Yan Qingxia, and Qin Wang left him badly injured and collected the three Storage Bags he dropped.

• Yan Qingxia attacked the cultivators inside the mountain and seized Qi Yuntian’s body, while Qi Feng borrowed Qi Yunjie’s body to fight him.
• Qi Feng broke the formation with the power supplied by four Great Qi Immortal Dynasty cultivators, and the cultivators fled through separate passages.
• Wu Su sensed that Qi Yuntian’s soul was suppressed, and Qin Wang pursued him to recover the three Storage Bags at his waist.
• Yan Qingxia turned to confront Qin Wang, but Qin Wang struck him with the giant hand and scattered the three Storage Bags.
• Yan Qingxia escaped using the Blood Escape Technique, and Qin Wang collected the three Storage Bags.

Qin Wang used the Barbarian God's Left Hand to destroy Qi Yunjie and Qi Feng's Nascent Soul divine sense, then fled with Yan Qingxia's Storage Bags. Witnesses suspected he was Qin Tiedan, while Tang Jianzhong and his master recognized the hand as belonging to the Barbarian God.

• Qin Wang took the Storage Bags and fled as Qi Yunjie, possessed by Qi Feng's Nascent Soul divine sense, pursued him.
• Wu Su entered the Barbarian God's Left Hand and used it to unleash a blood-colored palm that killed Qi Yunjie and destroyed Qi Feng's divine sense.
• Qin Wang escaped, while Chu Ba, Li Qiye, and the other cultivators reached the enormous crater and wondered whether he was Qin Tiedan.
• Tang Jianzhong asked his ring-bound master about the giant hand's familiar aura, and his master identified it as the Barbarian God's.

Qin Wang escaped to a concealed cave after killing a Nascent Soul spiritual sense with the Barbarian God's hand, leaving the Southern Region prodigies stunned and wary of him. He examined the treasures from Yan Qingxia and Qi Yuntian's Storage Bags, then met with Zhang Fujiang, Yan Cangwu, and Wanyan Meng as night fell.

• The ring's remnant soul identified Qin Wang's giant hand as one of the Barbarian God's hands and warned Tang Jianzhong to befriend him rather than make an enemy of him.
• The Southern Region prodigies discussed Qin Wang's power, while Chu Ba left to report the news and Wan Daoyi's attendant cautioned him to be wary.
• Qin Wang used Wu Su's help to remove the divine sense imprint from Yan Qingxia's Storage Bag and found seven Mysterious Fragments, ten Dust Settling Pills, treasures, pills, and the Great Yan Immortal Art.
• Qin Wang examined Qi Yuntian's Storage Bags and found spirit stones, formation materials, and a fierce silver insect, then purified the Dust Settling Pills in the Treasure Bowl.
• Qin Wang summoned Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu, and they arrived with Wanyan Meng, assuring him that no one had followed them.

Qin Wang and his companions hid to recover after he killed Qi Yunjie and destroyed Qi Feng’s Spiritual Sense Clone, while Wanyan Meng chose to stay with him as his friend. In Tianchu, Chu Yunxiao learned that a mysterious person had exposed his secret deal with Tuoba Xiongfeng.

• Yan Qingxia survived in Qi Yuntian’s body, lamented the loss of his Storage Bags, and vowed revenge on the cultivator who stole them.
• Qin Wang confirmed to Zhang Fujiang, Yan Cangwu, and Wanyan Meng that he had killed Qi Yunjie and destroyed Qi Feng’s Spiritual Sense Clone.
• Zhang Fujiang urged Qin Wang to hide from the powerful enemies he had made, and Qin Wang agreed to lie low and cultivate.
• Wanyan Meng asked to remain beside Qin Wang, explaining that he was her only friend, and Qin Wang welcomed her.
• Chu Wuya reported that Chu Yuanhai’s demonic nature might return after his Spirit Calming Pill wore off.
• Chu Wuya told Chu Yunxiao that a mysterious person had revealed his secret exchange with Tuoba Xiongfeng, leaving Chu Yunxiao shocked.

News that Chu Yunxiao possessed Old Ancestor Tianxiao’s Deity Transformation Inheritance forced him to negotiate with Phoenix Yao Holy Land, while Qi Feng learned that Qi Yunjie and Qi Yuntian had died. After Li Yunye’s feat sparked rumors that he was Qin Tiedan, Sima Rui expressed admiration for him; the chapter ended with Qin Wang receiving the day’s intel.

• Chu Yunxiao learned that the Deity Transformation Inheritance had been exposed and met Liu Fengchun, deciding to study the inheritance with Phoenix Yao Holy Land while ordering Chu Wuya to keep hunting the Mysterious Person.
• Qi Feng discovered that Qi Yunjie’s and Qi Yuntian’s soul plaques had shattered and ordered Qi Changping to capture their killer alive.
• Qi Shimei and his brothers prepared to return and report the deaths, while cultivators at the Life Gate discussed Li Yunye killing Qi Yunjie and Qi Feng’s Spiritual Sense Clone.
• Sima Rui told Tuoba Shenfeng that he admired Li Yunye and wanted to meet him, as rumors spread that Li Yunye might be Qin Tiedan.
• Qin Wang sat in his cave abode with Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu nearby when the daily intel updated at dawn.

Qin Wang learned that the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty was hunting him and planned to change identities while strengthening his cultivation and seeking the Sima Family’s resources. After traveling to Taikang Immortal City in disguise, he found that rumors about Li Yunye and Qin Tiedan had spread, and Wanyan Meng urged him to lie low.

• Qin Wang learned that Qi Feng had sent five Golden Core cultivators after him and vowed to capture him, so he decided to abandon the identities of Qin Tiedan and Li Yunye.
• Qin Wang examined the axe fragment from Yan Qingxia’s Storage Bag, learned that it came from a supreme treasure shattered in the Myriad Spirits War, and planned to study it for clues about other fragments.
• Qin Wang learned that the Tianxuan Holy Land ruins would open in five years and that the Sima Family possessed Pictographic Script Classics, then chose to visit the family before going to Tianzhu Mountain.
• Qin Wang began absorbing a Foundation Establishment Condensing Law Pill and traveled to Taikang Immortal City in disguise with Wanyan Meng.
• Cultivators at Yufeng Immortal Winery discussed the hunt for Li Yunye and Qin Tiedan, and Wanyan Meng warned Qin Wang that he should lie low while the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty pursued him.

Qin Wang, disguised as Zhang A'niu, reached Taikang Immortal City and sought out Sima Shi to learn Pictographic Script. After helping the heartbroken Sima Shi recover from a drunken night, Qin Wang discovered that Sima Shi knew the ancient writing and could teach him the skill he needed to cultivate the Star Body Tempering Method.

• Qin Wang learned that Wanyan Meng had kept his identity secret and continued traveling with her under the names Zhang A'niu and Zhao Yu.
• Qin Wang's intelligence revealed that Sima Shi possessed Pictographic Script Classics and was mourning the loss of his beloved at Xunxian Wine House.
• Qin Wang arranged for the drunken Sima Shi to sleep in a room he had reserved and introduced himself as Zhang A'niu the next morning.
• Sima Shi explained that he had studied Pictographic Script after discovering he had no spiritual root, and Qin Wang asked him to teach it.
• Qin Wang realized Sima Shi's help would let him cultivate the Star Body Tempering Method.

Qin Wang mastered Pictographic Script, deciphered the Star Body Tempering Method, and began cultivating it under the stars. New intelligence revealed a future ally in Sima Shi, danger from Qi Feng, and an Axe Handle Fragment that could aid Qin Wang.

• Qin Wang studied Sima Shi’s Pictographic Script Classics and gained the Pictographic Script skill.
• Qin Wang encouraged Sima Shi to seek his path in ancient classics, while the Intelligence Panel foretold that Sima Shi would develop a new Dao and become Qin Wang’s right-hand man.
• After a month, Qin Wang mastered Pictographic Script and deciphered the Star Body Tempering Method on the Pictographic Silver Scroll.
• Qin Wang went into the wilderness and began tempering his skin and flesh by absorbing starlight.
• The daily intelligence revealed a Pictographic Gold Script Scroll in the Heavenly Extreme Underground Palace and said Murong Changtian planned to return there.
• The daily intelligence warned that Qi Feng had sent five Golden Core cultivators to hunt Qin Wang and had gone to track him personally, while Chu Yunxiao had obtained an Axe Handle Fragment that could greatly help Qin Wang.

Qin Wang reviewed intelligence about those seeking him and the Pictographic Jade Script Scroll, then continued cultivating the Star Body Tempering Method. After giving Sima Shi a cultivation diagram and supplies, he planned to seek out Sima Yun and learn about the Barbarian God Shield fragment.

• Qin Wang learned that Murong Cheng was tracking him in Taikang Immortal City and that the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty might know about the Pictographic Jade Script Scroll.
• Qin Wang cultivated the Star Body Tempering Method through the night, reaching 177 proficiency and feeling his physical strength improve.
• Qin Wang gave Sima Shi a Star Body Tempering cultivation diagram, healing medicine, and herbs before leaving his courtyard.
• Sima Shi accepted Qin Wang’s gifts and resolved to try the cultivation diagram after Zhang A'niu disappeared.
• Qin Wang calculated that Sima Yun possessed the Spirit Locking Breath Concealment Method Golden Core Volume and set out to seek information about his Barbarian God Shield fragment.

Qin Wang learned that the Tianxuan Sacred Pool could improve Golden Core cultivators’ chances of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, while Jiu Zi and the Witch Clan elders were coming for Wanyan Meng. The updated intel also revealed opportunities involving a Dragon Saliva Spirit Fruit and the Barbarian God’s left leg beneath Taihang Mountain, as Qin Wang remained in hiding near Taikang Immortal City.

• Qin Wang heard that Great Qi and Heavenly Chu cultivators were searching the Southern Region for him and learned about the Tianxuan Sacred Pool.
• Jiu Zi told three Witch Clan elders she would bring Wanyan Meng to them after they captured Man Lin and recovered the Sky Crow Plate.
• Wanyan Meng, Yan Cangwu, and Zhang Fujiang urged Qin Wang to find a more hidden place, and Qin Wang agreed.
• Qin Wang’s daily intel revealed that Jiu Zi and the elders were coming for Wanyan Meng and that the Witch Clan could ease her ancient curse.
• Qin Wang learned that Murong Cheng had found a Dragon Saliva Spirit Fruit that could strengthen Little White Rat and that the Barbarian God’s left leg lay beneath Taihang Mountain.

Qin Wang sent Wanyan Meng with Jiu Zi to the Witch Clan, where its members would study and ease her ancient curse. He then traveled east with Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu, where Murong Cheng mistook the group for easy prey and attacked.

• Qin Wang reassured Wanyan Meng that Jiu Zi meant her no harm and promised to visit her at the Witch Clan.
• Jiu Zi arrived and took Wanyan Meng toward the Witch Clan, explaining that its three Witch Kings were waiting in Taikang Immortal City.
• Qin Wang set out east with Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu to find a rogue cultivator's cave and the Dragon Saliva Spirit Fruit Murong Cheng had obtained.
• Murong Cheng found the hidden cave, then spotted Qin Wang's group nearby and decided to kill the two Foundation Establishment cultivators for their Storage Bags.
• Qin Wang asked Murong Cheng's identity, and Murong Cheng drew a top-grade spirit artifact saber and lunged at Yan Cangwu.

Qin Wang and his allies killed Murong Cheng and recovered a Dragon Saliva Spirit Fruit for Little White. After learning that Sima Yun planned to attend an underground trading meet while seeking Xuanjing Iron, Qin Wang visited him under the alias Zhang A'niu to secure an introduction.

• Qin Wang, Yan Cangwu, Zhang Fujiang, and the Earth Dragon Beast King attacked Murong Cheng, and Qin Wang killed him with the Barbarian God's Left Hand.
• Qin Wang captured Murong Cheng's soul, claimed his body as a potential Foundation Establishment Late Stage puppet, and found the Dragon Saliva Spirit Fruit in his Storage Bag.
• Qin Wang gave Little White the Dragon Saliva Spirit Fruit and learned that Sima Yun's subordinate planned to seek Xuanjing Iron at a Taikang Immortal City trading meet in five days.
• Qin Wang decided to attend the meet at Qingsong Valley and visited Sima Yun using the alias Zhang A'niu.
• Qin Wang offered Sima Yun two bottles of Condensing Law Pills and asked him for an introduction to the underground trading meet.

Qin Wang entered an underground trading fair with Sima Yun and discovered that Lin Chaosheng was offering an Old Parchment Scroll matching one he already owned. He traded spirit artifacts and pills for the scroll, then returned to the fair to seek other items.

• Qin Wang paid Sima Yun two bottles of Foundation Establishment pills to introduce him to the underground trading fair.
• Sima Yun took Qin Wang to Qingsong Valley, where Qiu Bingzhang gave him an entry token.
• Qin Wang entered the mountain cavern trading fair with Sima Yun and learned its rules as cultivators gathered.
• Lin Chaosheng opened the fair by offering an Old Parchment Scroll and Foundation Establishment pills in exchange for Tian Yin Water.
• Qin Wang negotiated with Lin Chaosheng and traded one high-grade spirit artifact, one mid-grade spirit artifact, and five bottles of Foundation Establishment pills for the Old Parchment Scroll.

Qin Wang traded Xuanjing Iron to Sima Yun for a strange egg and the Barbarian God Shield fragment, then discovered Jiang Haotian was following him to steal a Parchment Scroll. He reached Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu and prepared to lure Jiang Haotian into a formation, while Jiang Haotian summoned three silver bugs.

• Qin Wang offered unusual items at the trade meet, and Sima Yun eagerly sought to trade for his Xuanjing Iron.
• Qin Wang exchanged the Xuanjing Iron for the Barbarian God Shield fragment and a strange egg that Sima Yun had failed to hatch for over thirty years.
• Jiang Haotian recognized Qin Wang as the cultivator who had traded for a Parchment Scroll and decided to rob him for it.
• Qin Wang noticed Jiang Haotian following him and hurried to meet Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu at their cave dwelling.
• Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang and Yan Cangwu to prepare a formation to lure in and kill the False Core Stage pursuer.
• Jiang Haotian watched Qin Wang's destination and summoned three fist-sized silver bugs from his Spirit Beast Bag.

Qin Wang was ambushed by Jiang Haotian’s Silver Tortoise Insects but trapped them and Jiang Haotian inside his formation, then struck him with the Barbarian God's Left Hand. Jiang Haotian’s Talisman Treasure survived the first blow, and the chapter ended with him surrendering his Soul Blood and begging Qin Wang to spare him.

• Jiang Haotian sent his Silver Tortoise Insects ahead as he pursued Qin Wang through the mountain forest.
• Qin Wang recognized the insects from Qi Yuntian’s Spirit Beast Bag, destroyed a puppet with the swarm, and retreated into his formation.
• Jiang Haotian entered the formation and was disoriented by Qin Wang’s attacks before the Barbarian God's Left Hand slammed his Talisman Treasure’s golden bell barrier into the ground.
• Jiang Haotian recognized Qin Wang as Li Yunye and used his Soul Blood to activate the bell-shaped Talisman Treasure.
• Qin Wang prepared to strike again, so Jiang Haotian surrendered his Soul Blood, and the golden bell barrier shattered back into a talisman.

Qin Wang subdued Jiang Haotian, acquired his Talisman Treasure, Silver Tortoise Insects, and two Old Parchment Scrolls, then learned from the Intelligence Panel that all eight scrolls could reveal part of a map to an ancient treasure vault. The panel also revealed the location of the Barbarian God's Heart and several dangers and opportunities across the cultivation world.

• Qin Wang refined Jiang Haotian's Soul Blood and made the False Core Stage cultivator his subordinate.
• Jiang Haotian explained that his Silver Tortoise Insects devoured gold and iron, then gave Qin Wang a jade slip and two Old Parchment Scrolls.
• Qin Wang, Jiang Haotian, Zhang Fujiang, and Yan Cangwu retrieved the insects, cleared the scene, and left for a cave abode five hundred li from Taikang Immortal City.
• Qin Wang's updated Intelligence Panel revealed that the Silver Tortoise Insects ranked forty-ninth on the Ancient Strange Insect Ranking and could grow stronger by devouring one another.
• The panel revealed that Qin Wang's eight Old Parchment Scrolls could materialize part of the map to the ancient Dan King Sect's treasure vault, which might hold Nirvana Sacred Water.
• The panel revealed that the Barbarian God's Heart was worshipped as a sacred relic in the barbarian race's holy land.