Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang learned that the Silver Tortoise Insect could multiply by devouring magical artifacts and decided to take advantage of the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty’s crisis. After Chu Yunxiao ordered a trap for the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, Qin Wang’s intelligence revealed that the battle would devastate both sides and leave the dynasty in ruins.

• Qin Wang fed discarded magical artifacts to the Silver Tortoise Insect, which split into ten tiny insects, and decided to travel to the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty.
• Qin Wang pieced together eight Old Parchment Scrolls and concluded that the ancient Dan King Sect’s treasure vault was likely in the Central Continent, but postponed searching for it.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile devoured Chu Yuanhai inside the Imperial Palace, interrupting Chu Yunxiao’s cultivation and killing a second Tianchu Nascent Soul expert.
• Chu Yunxiao ordered Chu Wuya to set a trap and kill the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• Qin Wang and his companions arrived in Tianchu Imperial City, where Qin Wang settled down to cultivate and sent Zhang Fujiang and the others to gather information.
• Qin Wang’s intelligence revealed that the battle three days later would leave the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile gravely wounded, kill the other Tianchu Nascent Soul cultivators, and drive Chu Yunxiao to the Central Continent as the dynasty collapsed.

Qin Wang learned that the Heavenly Chu Immortal Dynasty’s campaign against the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile would attract rivals, while Chen Yi’s Hidden Kill Pavilion bounty threatened to expose his identity. Chu Yunxiao responded to the leak by inviting other major factions to join the hunt.

• Qin Wang weighed the coming battle and the risk of Qi Changping intervening, then decided he had to deal with Chen Yi before the bounty exposed his background and endangered Qin Xuemei.
• Qin Wang asked Jiang Haotian to kill Chen Yi, but Jiang Haotian explained that Chen Yi was guarded by the Golden Core Cultivator Lu Xingyang, so Qin Wang postponed the attempt and set a three-month deadline.
• Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang and the servant puppets to spread news about the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• Chu Yunxiao learned that Chu Yunlin’s concubine had leaked the campaign plans, struck Chu Yunlin, and scolded him for the leak.
• Chu Yunxiao ordered invitations sent to the major immortal dynasties and immortal sects, asking them to join the effort to kill the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.

Chu Yunxiao and the allied Nascent Soul True Persons trapped and attacked the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, but it survived and prepared to fight back. While they battled far from Tianchu Imperial City, Qin Wang lured a powerful beast tide to the Imperial Palace, leaving the dynasty under threat.

• Chu Yunxiao ordered Chu Wuya and the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty’s Nascent Soul True Persons to form the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Locking Array around the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• Qin Wang watched the Nascent Soul gathering from a distance, then left to target the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty’s treasure vault.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile broke free of the array’s restraints and withstood attacks from the allied Nascent Soul True Persons, prompting Chu Yunxiao to strike with a massive sword phantom.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile survived Chu Yunxiao’s blow with cracked scales and chose to fight rather than flee.
• Qin Wang’s incense lured a beast tide, including sixth- and seventh-rank demon beasts, toward the Tianchu Imperial Palace.

Qin Wang’s plan to raid the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty Treasury unfolded as a beast tide besieged Tianchu Imperial City. After his allies sabotaged the city’s defensive array, the beasts swept into the city and advanced on the palace, where Qin Wang’s hidden puppets awaited their chance.

• The city guards activated the Zhou Tian Xing Luo Defensive Array as the demonic beast tide struck, while Qin Wang watched from the city and targeted the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty Treasury.
• The array held against the low-rank beasts as the defenders attacked in shifts, while two seventh-rank demonic beasts waited for the two Nascent Soul True Persons inside the palace.
• On Qin Wang’s order, Zhang Fujiang and his allies ignited Beisu Fenglingxiang near the array nodes and prevented low-level guards from supplying spirit stones.
• The Zhou Tian Xing Luo Defensive Array shattered, and the demonic beasts overwhelmed the walls; a Golden Plume Lightning Eagle killed a Golden Core great cultivator and swallowed his Golden Core and divine soul.
• The beasts ignored the fleeing citizens and charged toward the Imperial Palace, whose own defensive array rose as Qin Wang relied on his concealed puppets and the seventh-rank beasts to help breach it.

Qin Wang exploited the beast tide and the Nascent Soul True Persons’ battle to break the Imperial Palace’s defenses and reach the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty’s hidden treasury. He revealed the treasury and smashed an entrance into it, leaving the group poised to enter.

• Two Nascent Soul True Persons left the Imperial Palace to confront the Nether Tiger and Black Scaled Demon Ape, drawing them away from the beast tide and the array.
• Qin Wang sent puppets to destroy the palace’s array nodes, and the resulting breach let the beast tide pour into the Imperial Palace.
• Qin Wang led Zhang Fujiang, Yan Cangwu, and Jiang Haotian through the chaos to the treasury’s location, where Jiang Haotian detected an illusion hiding a lake.
• Wu Su secretly erased the illusion, revealing a sealed, doorless storehouse that Qin Wang identified as the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty’s treasury.
• Wu Su used the Barbarian God’s Left Hand to smash through the treasury wall, crushing a hidden Golden Core Cultivator and opening a breach.

Qin Wang and his companions looted the Tianchu treasury and escaped as the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty fell to the beast tide. After the Tianchu forces abandoned their battle with the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, Qin Wang learned that the gravely wounded beast was hiding nearby with its soul asleep.

• Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang and the others to fill their Storage Bags with treasures and spirit stones, then left the remaining millions of spirit stones behind.
• After Qin Wang’s group escaped, the Nascent Soul True Persons discovered the treasury had been breached; a Nether Tiger and Black Scaled Demon Ape killed one of them, and the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty fell.
• Chu Wuya told Chu Yunxiao that Tianchu Imperial City and its treasury had been breached, so Chu Yunxiao withdrew his forces from the battle with the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile escaped underground while Qi Changping and the other Nascent Soul True Persons declined to pursue it.
• Qin Wang reviewed the updated Intelligence Panel and learned the gravely wounded Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile was hiding two hundred li away, asleep with its soul at its weakest.

Qin Wang learned that Chu Yunxiao planned to use the Nine-Baby Nine-Soul Ten-Thousand-Person Array and conspire with Wan Jianyi, then gave Wu Su a Soul Stone to restore her strength so she could help subdue the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile. Meanwhile, Chu Yunxiao returned to the ruined Heavenly Chu Imperial Palace and slaughtered the demonic beasts there.

• Qin Wang learned that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile was alive but gravely wounded, and Wu Su said she could help control it if her soul recovered to its peak.
• Qin Wang gave Wu Su the Soul Stone, and she promised to recover within ten hours and help him subdue the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• Qin Wang summoned Zhang Fujiang and the others and revealed Chu Yunxiao's Nine-Baby Nine-Soul Ten-Thousand-Person Array and his conspiracy with Wan Jianyi.
• Chu Yunxiao returned to the ruined Heavenly Chu Imperial Palace with Chu Wuya and the other Nascent Soul True Persons, while the Nether Tiger and Black Scaled Demon Ape fled.
• Chu Yunxiao, Chu Wuya, and the others slaughtered thousands of demonic beasts, leaving the palace grounds covered in blood.

After the Imperial Palace treasure vault was looted and rumors exposed his schemes, Chu Yunxiao abandoned the Southern Region and set out for the Central Continent with Chu Wuya. Meanwhile, Qin Wang and Wu Su reached the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, where Wu Su entered its Sea of Consciousness to subdue it.

• Chu Yunxiao discovered that the jade slip and array core were missing, then learned rumors had spread about his Nine-Baby Nine-Soul Ten-Thousand-Person Array and plot with Wan Jianyi.
• Chu Yunxiao decided to flee to the Central Continent; two Nascent Soul True Persons refused to go, while Chu Wuya chose to accompany him.
• Qin Wang met Wu Su at the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile's sleeping place, and they descended to it without disturbing the beast.
• Wu Su transformed into sword light and pierced the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile's Sea of Consciousness, causing it to twitch and fall silent as Qin Wang hoped she would subdue it.

Wu Su forced the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile to submit to Qin Wang, who planned to use demon beast corpses in Tianchu Imperial City to restore it. Qin Wang’s new intelligence revealed Chu Yunxiao’s danger at Dragon Ridge Cliff and a threat to the Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect in three months.

• Wu Su grievously wounded the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile in its Sea of Consciousness until it surrendered its Soul Blood and agreed to serve as Qin Wang’s slave.
• Qin Wang accepted the Soul Blood, established a master-servant relationship with the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, and suggested it recover by devouring demon beast corpses in Tianchu Imperial City.
• Qin Wang’s Intelligence Panel revealed that Chu Yunxiao and Chu Wuya were disguised at Dragon Ridge Cliff, where Yan Changkong blocked their path while seeking a Purple Jade Flower.
• Qin Wang learned that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile needed all the demon beast corpses in Tianchu Imperial City to recover and five more Nascent Soul True Persons to advance to ninth rank.
• Qin Wang learned that the Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect would be destroyed in three months after refusing a mysterious Central Continent sect’s demand for the Hundred Flowers Fairy’s inheritance.

Qin Wang planned to seize Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance and restore the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile so he could rescue Qin Xuemei from the Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect's coming crisis. After the crocodile devoured the demon beast corpses in Tianchu Imperial City, it recovered to its peak eighth-tier strength.

• Qin Wang learned that Star Grass and the Primordial Heavy Water were in Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance, which required the skull held by Chu Yunxiao to open, while Wan Jianyi possessed the map.
• Qin Wang decided he needed the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile to grow stronger so he could face the Deity Transformation expert threatening Qin Xuemei's sect.
• Cultivators scavenging Tianchu Imperial City's ruins saw Qin Wang atop the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile and realized he had destroyed the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty.
• The cultivators begged to join Qin Wang, but he dismissed them and said he would only strike those who offended him.
• Qin Wang let the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile devour the demon beast corpses, restoring it to its peak eighth-tier state.

Qin Wang ambushed the four Nascent Soul cultivators plotting to establish a new immortal dynasty, using the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile and Wu Su to kill two of them and collect their divine souls. Yu Zhaochang surrendered, while Guo Longjie remained at Qin Wang’s mercy.

• Kong Daoxing, Guo Longjie, Yu Zhaochang, and You Xingchen planned to claim the remaining territory of the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty and debated who would rule their new dynasty.
• Qin Wang appeared in the Azure Sky Pine Forest and revealed that he had come to kill them, then commanded the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile to attack.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile swallowed You Xingchen, and Wu Su captured his escaping Nascent Soul so Qin Wang could collect his divine soul in the Soul Gathering Bowl.
• Kong Daoxing fled with the Blood Escape Technique, but Wu Su struck him down; Qin Wang collected his divine soul, and the crocodile swallowed his Nascent Soul.
• Yu Zhaochang knelt and begged Qin Wang to spare him, leaving Guo Longjie and Yu Zhaochang as the two surviving targets.

Qin Wang had Wu Su kill Yu Zhaochang and Guo Longjie despite their surrender, feeding their Nascent Souls to the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile. After learning the beast would face the deadly Six-layered Blood Fiend Heavenly Tribulation when it advanced, Qin Wang set his sights on Chu Yunxiao as its fifth Nascent Soul victim.

• Yu Zhaochang knelt and offered his Soul Blood to Qin Wang, and Guo Longjie agreed to submit without kneeling.
• Qin Wang asked Wu Su to act, and she attacked Yu Zhaochang and Guo Longjie with the Barbarian God's Left Hand.
• Yu Zhaochang's Haotian Gangqi Shield and Guo Longjie's Phantom Spirit Bodyguard Shield shattered, and Wu Su killed them and forced out their divine souls.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile swallowed their Nascent Souls, while the Soul Gathering Bowl collected their divine souls.
• Wu Su warned Qin Wang that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile would face the Six-layered Blood Fiend Heavenly Tribulation if it advanced to Spirit Transformation.
• Qin Wang collected the Storage Bags and decided Chu Yunxiao would be the beast's next Nascent Soul victim.

Yan Changkong fought the Nine Nether Illusion Snake at Dragon Ridge Cliff, while Qin Wang and his companions watched from hiding and discovered Chu Yunxiao and Chu Wuya nearby. After Qin Wang chose to leave Yan Changkong alone and pursue the original plan, Chu Yunxiao sensed a powerful Deity Transformation True Monarch approaching and shielded Chu Wuya.

• Yan Changkong killed the Nine Nether Illusion Snake in an illusion, then woke when Liu Chuanwu warned him and finished off the wounded beast.
• Qin Wang, Zhang Fujiang, Yan Cangwu, and Jiang Haotian watched Yan Changkong from hiding, and Liu Chuanwu briefly sensed their presence.
• Chu Yunxiao and Chu Wuya waited nearby, keeping their identities concealed while they discussed when to leave.
• Wu Su located Chu Yunxiao and Chu Wuya, and Qin Wang decided to leave Yan Changkong and Liu Chuanwu alone for now.
• After Yan Changkong's trial ended, Chu Yunxiao sensed a powerful newcomer, shielded Chu Wuya, and called out to the approaching Deity Transformation True Monarch.

Qin Wang and Wu Su confronted Chu Yunxiao and Chu Wuya, and the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile and Barbarian God's Left Hand overwhelmed the Chu cultivators. Chu Yunxiao escaped by tricking Chu Wuya into drawing their attention, while Chu Wuya was killed and his soul and Nascent Soul were taken.

• Chu Wuya recognized Qin Wang as Qin Tiedan, and the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile and Wu Su attacked him.
• Chu Yunxiao sacrificed a flying sword containing his divine soul to save Chu Wuya from Wu Su's blood-colored ribbon.
• Qin Wang told Chu Yunxiao that his pet needed Nascent Soul True Persons to advance and that the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty made suitable prey.
• Chu Yunxiao charged Wu Su, then used the Blood Escape Technique to flee while Chu Wuya tried to escape as well.
• Wu Su captured Chu Wuya and crushed his body; Qin Wang collected his divine soul, and the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile swallowed his Nascent Soul.

Qin Wang studied the latest intel and decided to obtain the Chu Family’s Black Tortoise Earth Sealing Grand Formation to help the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile survive its coming tribulation. He began refining five Nascent Soul True Persons’ souls into the Five Ghosts Moving Technique, but the Soul Gathering Bowl shook as the ritual ran short of soul power.

• Qin Wang learned that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile would trigger the Six-layered Blood Fiend Heavenly Tribulation in three days and had no chance of surviving it without help.
• Qin Wang learned that the Chu Family remnants possessed an array disk for the Black Tortoise Earth Sealing Grand Formation and decided to obtain it.
• Qin Wang released the souls of Kong Daoxing, Guo Longjie, Yu Zhaochang, You Xingchen, and Chu Wuya from the Soul Gathering Bowl.
• Qin Wang used the Soul Gathering Bowl to begin refining the five Nascent Soul True Persons’ souls into the Five Ghosts Moving Technique, while Wu Su and Situ Yunfei watched.
• The Soul Gathering Bowl began shaking violently because the ritual lacked enough soul power.

Qin Wang completed the Five Ghosts Moving Technique using Situ Yunfei's soul and tested the Five Ghosts' strength with Wu Su. He then brought them to the Chu Family's hidden stronghold, where their attack shook its defensive formation to the brink of collapse.

• Qin Wang used the Soul Gathering Bowl to consume Situ Yunfei's soul and forge the Five Ghosts.
• Wu Su tested the Five Ghosts, eventually crushing them with the Barbarian God's Left Hand, but Qin Wang restored them with the Soul Gathering Bowl.
• Wu Su judged that the Five Ghosts could contend with Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators, though they would be outmatched by Chu Yunxiao or a Deity Transformation True Monarch.
• Qin Wang found the Chu Family's concealed stronghold beneath an illusion formation in the Blazing Flame Desert and ordered the Five Ghosts to attack it.
• The Five Ghosts struck the defensive formation, leaving it close to collapse as the Chu Family members mocked Qin Wang and relied on their Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Qin Wang impersonated a Taiyi Sword Sect envoy to draw out the Chu Family’s strongest remaining cultivator, Chu Tianhua, and had the Five Ghosts kill and devour him. With Chu Yunxiao away in Central Continent, the Chu Family was left without its Nascent Soul Ancestor.

• The Chu Family’s defensive formation came under attack from the Five Ghosts, prompting the Golden Core Cultivators to summon Chu Tianhua.
• Chu Tianhua emerged and questioned Qin Wang, who pretended to be Chen Yi, a special envoy from the Taiyi Sword Sect, and demanded to see Chu Yunxiao.
• Chu Tianhua revealed that Chu Yunxiao had gone to Central Continent and admitted that he was the Chu Family’s strongest remaining cultivator.
• Qin Wang ordered the Five Ghosts to attack Chu Tianhua, who realized that Qin Wang was an impostor as the ghosts tore apart his body.
• The Five Ghosts bound and devoured Chu Tianhua’s Nascent Soul and divine soul, while Qin Wang chose them as the means to cultivate a ghost king.

Qin Wang obtained the Black Tortoise Earth Sealing Grand Formation after killing the Chu Family, then confronted Chen Yi and Liang Guangchen at Sun Moon Pond. After Chen Yi died, Liang Guangchen offered to help Qin Wang kill Wan Jianyi in exchange for the Taiyi Sword Sect’s Sword Talisman, but Qin Wang’s Spirit Transformation Stage Soul Power left him stunned.

• The Five Ghosts shattered the Chu Family’s defensive grand formation, and Qin Wang took the Black Tortoise Earth Sealing Grand Formation before ordering the family killed.
• At Sun Moon Pond, Qin Wang appeared before Chen Yi and Liang Guangchen, and Chen Yi charged at him to avenge his family.
• Qin Wang used the Barbarian God's Left Hand to break Chen Yi’s limbs and kill him while Liang Guangchen’s Boundless Sword Sea failed to harm the Five Ghosts.
• Liang Guangchen revealed that he had concealed his Nascent Soul Peak cultivation and offered to help Qin Wang kill Wan Jianyi in exchange for the Sect Master’s Sword Talisman.
• Wu Su released Spirit Transformation Stage Soul Power, revealing Qin Wang’s strength and stunning Liang Guangchen.

Qin Wang pressured Liang Guangchen into helping him intercept Chu Yunxiao, promising to join the attack and proposing they lure Chu Yunxiao in disguise. At the Lianyun Mountain Range, Liang Guangchen attacked Chu Yunxiao, who dodged the fatal strike and demanded to know who the two men really were.

• Qin Wang used Wu Su's Spirit Transformation Stage divine consciousness to frighten Liang Guangchen and demanded he prove his allegiance by killing Chu Yunxiao.
• Qin Wang persuaded Liang Guangchen to impersonate Chen Yi and launch a surprise attack on Chu Yunxiao together.
• Chu Yunxiao reached the Lianyun Mountain Range while fleeing pursuers and followed a signal from a communication token toward two apparent Taiyi Sword Sect disciples.
• Liang Guangchen claimed he and Qin Wang had been sent by their master and asked whether Chu Yunxiao had brought the required treasure.
• Liang Guangchen suddenly attacked Chu Yunxiao with his Flying Sword, but Chu Yunxiao dodged the fatal blow and counterattacked.

Qin Wang trapped Chu Yunxiao and pretended to consider joining forces over Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance. After Chu Yunxiao lowered his defenses, Qin Wang struck him with a Spirit Transformation Stage Soul Shocking Cone, leaving him screaming in agony.

• Qin Wang sent the Five Ghosts to attack Chu Yunxiao, who protected himself with a bell-shaped magic artifact.
• Chu Yunxiao revealed Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Skull and explained that it was the key to the inheritance, while Wan Jianyi held its map.
• Chu Yunxiao proposed that Qin Wang and Liang Guangchen cooperate to seize the map, and Liang Guangchen agreed to join them.
• Qin Wang put away the Five Ghosts, and Chu Yunxiao lowered his guard and stowed his artifact.
• Qin Wang struck Chu Yunxiao’s Sea of Consciousness with a Spirit Transformation Stage Soul Shocking Cone, making him howl in pain.