Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang killed Chu Yunxiao and fed his Nascent Soul to the Five Ghosts, whose strength advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Liang Guangchen offered Qin Wang his Soul Blood in exchange for a chance to reach Spirit Transformation, and Qin Wang accepted him as a servant.

• Qin Wang and Liang Guangchen killed Chu Yunxiao, then Qin Wang captured Chu Yunxiao's fleeing Nascent Soul with the Barbarian God's Left Hand.
• Qin Wang revealed that he was the Mysterious Person Qin Tiedan and fed Chu Yunxiao's Nascent Soul to the Five Ghosts.
• The Five Ghosts absorbed Chu Yunxiao's Nascent Soul and advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Qin Wang ordered Liang Guangchen to return to the Taiyi Sword Sect and tell Wan Jianyi that he would come in three months to open Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance.
• Liang Guangchen asked Qin Wang to take him as a disciple, offered his Soul Blood when Qin Wang said he accepted only servants, and was accepted.
• Qin Wang's Daily Intel Panel reported that Liang Guangchen was obsessed with reaching Spirit Transformation and would pay any price to achieve it.

Qin Wang prepared for the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile’s ninth-rank tribulation and lured Nascent Soul cultivators from the Great Qi and Great Yan Immortal Dynasties to its site. The chapter ended with a million demon beasts guarding the crocodile as thirteen Nascent Soul True Persons gathered nearby, expecting to attack after its tribulation.

• Qin Wang learned that the Five Ghosts needed the Nascent Souls and divine souls of five Spirit Transformation experts to advance, so he prioritized helping the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile reach the ninth rank.
• Qin Wang sent Zhang Fujiang and two others to prepare, then went to find the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• The Nether Tiger and Black Scaled Demon Ape received the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile’s order to stand guard and chose to protect it despite the risks.
• Qin Wang spread word in the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile would face a deadly tribulation and might be left grievously wounded.
• Eight Nascent Soul experts from the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty and five from the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty gathered at the Azure Sea Plain, where a million demon beasts guarded the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.

Qin Wang watched the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile undergo its six-layer Blood Fiend Lightning Tribulation while Yan Cangwu offered to become his death warrior in exchange for revenge on Yan Changsong. After five tribulations, the crocodile faced the final lightning dragon, whose impact shook the formation and consumed another twenty million spirit stones.

• Jiang Haotian explained that the Nascent Soul cultivators were waiting to ambush the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile after its tribulation weakened it.
• Yan Cangwu revealed his grudge against Yan Changsong and offered to become Qin Wang's death warrior; Qin Wang agreed to let him torment Yan Changsong's divine soul.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile met the first blood-colored lightning dragon head-on, suffered severe injuries, and then activated the Black Tortoise Earth Sealing Grand Formation underground.
• The next four lightning tribulations struck the formation, consuming twenty, forty, eighty, and one hundred and sixty million spirit stones in succession.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile charged out to meet the sixth lightning dragon, and their collision shook the formation and drained another twenty million spirit stones.

The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile advanced into a ninth-rank demon beast, and Qin Wang prepared to take revenge on those who coveted it. Twelve Nascent Soul True Persons fought through a million demon beasts and a hundred thousand human cultivators to reach the crocodile, mistaking its condensed, more powerful form for weakness.

• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile absorbed spiritual energy, healed its wounds, and advanced to ninth rank as Qin Wang sensed its strengthened Soul Blood.
• Qin Wang told Zhang Fujiang and the others that he would deal with those who had coveted the crocodile.
• Thirteen Nascent Soul True Persons debated attacking the newly advanced Demon King; one left, while the remaining twelve flew toward it.
• A million demon beasts formed a defensive wall, but the twelve Nascent Soul True Persons attacked and called on human cultivators with promises to buy demon beast corpses for ten times the market price.
• More than a hundred thousand human cultivators joined the assault, helping the twelve Nascent Soul True Persons break through the demon beasts and reach the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile.
• The twelve Nascent Soul True Persons mistook the crocodile’s shrunken, denser form for weakness, unaware that its attack power had increased tenfold.

The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile survived the twelve Nascent Soul True Persons’ attack, swallowed two of them, and revealed that it had become a ninth-rank demon beast. As demon beasts across the Southern Region hailed their new Demon King, Tan Zhixing charged toward it, while Qin Wang prepared to confront the Deity Transformation True Monarch.

• The twelve Nascent Soul True Persons attacked the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, then began discussing how to divide its presumed corpse.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile emerged unharmed and swallowed one Nascent Soul True Person before the others fled.
• The Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile swallowed a second Nascent Soul True Person and unleashed the aura of a ninth-rank demon beast, drawing cheers from demon beasts across the Southern Region.
• Tan Zhixing set out to kill the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile, while the remaining ten Nascent Soul True Persons escaped.
• Qin Wang told Yan Cangwu that revenge would have to wait, then hid Zhang Fujiang and the others after Wu Su warned him that a Deity Transformation True Monarch was approaching.
• Qin Wang rose alone to meet Tan Zhixing.

Qin Wang revealed that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile was his demon pet after Wu Su’s surprise attack failed to kill Tan Zhixing. Tan Zhixing tried to retreat, but Qin Wang stopped him from leaving.

• Tan Zhixing arrived and crushed the demon beasts and human cultivators beneath his Deity Transformation pressure, while Qin Wang flew up to meet him.
• Tan Zhixing recognized Qin Wang as Qin Tiedan and explained that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile had advanced by devouring Nascent Soul True Persons.
• Wu Su struck Tan Zhixing’s Sea of Consciousness with a Soul Shocking Cone, and the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile lunged at him.
• Tan Zhixing escaped with the Blood Escape Technique, then accused Qin Wang of colluding with demon beasts and called him the shame of the human race.
• Qin Wang declared that the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile was his demon pet and stood atop its head, leaving Tan Zhixing jealous and wary.
• Tan Zhixing tried to leave, but Qin Wang said he would not let him go.

Qin Wang and his allies fought Tan Zhixing, using Wu Su and the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile to wear him down. Tan Zhixing was trapped in a final struggle inside his Sea of Consciousness as Qin Wang let the surviving cultivators leave.

• Qin Wang revealed that his apparent Spirit Transformation aura came from Wu Su, who appeared behind Tan Zhixing and attacked with the Barbarian God's Left Hand.
• Tan Zhixing shattered the attack with the Heavenly Radiance Five Elements Thunder Law, then fought off the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile with the Heavenly Thunder Strike and Nine Heavens Azure Fall Divine Sword.
• The Five Ghosts surrounded Tan Zhixing, and Wu Su entered his Sea of Consciousness with her Soul Sword while the Five Ghosts formed a vortex and followed her inside.
• Qin Wang stopped the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile from swallowing Tan Zhixing while Wu Su and the Five Ghosts were inside him.
• Qin Wang ordered the demon beasts to open a path, and the surviving human cultivators left after agreeing that the fallen had died because of their greed.

After Qin Wang killed Tan Zhixing, he learned that Gods Palace had identified him and that a powerful Demon Alliance might approach the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile. The chapter ended with Qin Wang asking Wu Su whether she planned to return to the Wu Family Sword Domain.

• Wu Su and the Five Ghosts emerged from Tan Zhixing's Sea of Consciousness, and Qin Wang put them away before taking Tan Zhixing's body and leaving.
• Two Gods Palace Spirit Transformation cultivators arrived, searched a man's soul, and learned that Qin Wang had killed Tan Zhixing with the help of a ninth-rank Demon King.
• Qin Wang's Daily Intel revealed Gods Palace's strength, the Demon Alliance's plans, Wu Su's intention to leave for the Wu Family Sword Domain, and new developments involving Qin Xuemei, the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty, and Wanyan Meng.
• Qin Wang decided the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile would refuse the Demon Alliance and resolved to speak with Wu Su about leaving.
• Qin Wang summoned Wu Su and asked whether she was returning to the Wu Family Sword Domain.

Wu Su revealed that Qin Wang would need to gather Azure Nether Small Swords and improve his Sword Dao to become qualified to share in her affairs. After she demonstrated the Qingping Sword’s power and left for the Wu Family Sword Domain, the swords there trembled in response to her strike.

• Wu Su refused Qin Wang’s offer to accompany her to the Wu Family and said he was not qualified to become involved in her affairs.
• Wu Su combined Qin Wang’s twelve Azure Nether Small Swords into the Qingping Sword and explained that the swords were fragments of an ancient famed sword with 108 pieces in total.
• Wu Su told Qin Wang to gather 36 Azure Nether Small Swords, gave him the formula for forming the Qingping Sword, and left for the Wu Family Sword Domain.
• Wu Su’s sword strike split a towering mountain in two, leaving Qin Wang stunned by the weapon’s power.
• The famed swords throughout the Wu Family Sword Domain trembled after Wu Su’s strike.

Qin Wang traveled to the Nanzhan Tribe to obtain Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi and found Central Continent cultivators competing for it. After one of them mocked Qin Wang’s name, Jiang Haotian attacked him, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Qin Wang decided to seek Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi at Tianzhu Mountain because his cultivation was too weak to face his powerful enemies.
• Asule urged Chief Atair to fight the Central Continent cultivators occupying the Nanzhan Tribe, but Atair refused, fearing their hidden Nascent Soul protectors.
• Qin Wang and his companions arrived at the Nanzhan Tribe, learned that Central Continent young masters had come for the Purple Qi, and went to ask the locals when it would appear.
• A Brocade Robe Youth mocked Qin Wang’s name, so Jiang Haotian struck him with poisonous gray mist and hidden gleaming projectiles.

Qin Wang killed the Golden Core Cultivator protecting the Brocade Robe Youth and captured his Golden Core, then faced Xiao Chunan and the Central Continent's Wuji Sect. After the Five Ghosts revealed their overwhelming power, Qin Wang claimed Xiao Chunan's palace, leaving Xiao Chunan to swallow his anger.

• Qin Wang used the Azure Nether Small Swords to break the Golden Core Cultivator's defense, kill him, and capture his Golden Core with the Soul Gathering Bowl.
• Zhang Fujiang mocked the Brocade Robe Youth, while the youth collapsed in fear and the arriving cultivators gathered around Xiao Chunan.
• Xiao Chunan introduced himself as a member of the Central Continent's Wuji Sect and questioned Qin Wang about the killing.
• A Nascent Soul True Person pressed Qin Wang's companions down with his spiritual pressure, but Qin Wang remained standing and summoned the Five Ghosts.
• The Five Ghosts overwhelmed the gathered cultivators, and Qin Wang walked into Xiao Chunan's palace and claimed it.
• Xiao Chunan clenched his fists but restrained himself after the Nascent Soul True Person warned him not to act rashly.

Qin Wang’s clash with Xiao Chunan stirred the Nanzhan Tribe, while Chief Atair reported the newcomer to the Venerable and was told to let him absorb the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi. Qin Wang’s Daily Intel revealed Wuji Sect’s plans for Qin Xuemei and Helian Xianyun, and warned that an Ancient Demonic Thought was growing inside the tribe.

• Qin Wang dismissed Zhang Fujiang’s suggestion to return Wuji Sect’s palace and said he did not fear even a Deity Transformation True Monarch with the Ten Thousand Zhang Blood Crocodile nearby.
• News spread through the Nanzhan Tribe that Qin Tiedan had defeated Xiao Chunan and killed one of his Golden Core Cultivators, pleasing residents who resented Xiao Chunan.
• Asule urged Chief Atair to ally with Qin Tiedan against Xiao Chunan, but Atair refused and told him to wait for both sides to be wounded.
• Atair contacted the Venerable, who said Qin Tiedan should absorb the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi so he could be secretly controlled.
• Qin Wang’s Daily Intel revealed that Wuji Sect wanted Qin Xuemei for its Yin Yang Wuji Secret Method and that Xiao Chunan sought Helian Xianyun to form his Golden Core.
• Qin Wang’s Daily Intel warned that an Ancient Demonic Thought hidden in the Nanzhan Tribe was growing stronger.

Qin Wang learned that the Medicine Sect had infiltrated the Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect and arranged with Asule to kill Xiao Chunan in exchange for Atair’s Barbarian God Shield fragment. After testing the reunited shield, Qin Wang arrived at the Nanzhan Tribe as its Teleportation Array opened the way to the Purple Qi Space.

• Qin Wang learned that the Wuji Sect had targeted Qin Xuemei and decided Xiao Chunan would have to pay, then offered to kill him in exchange for Atair’s Barbarian God Shield fragment.
• Asule agreed to Qin Wang’s terms, and Atair planned to use the fragment to gain Qin Tiedan’s trust and lure him to Tianzhu Mountain.
• Qin Wang reunited the nine Barbarian God Shield fragments and tested the shield, finding it could withstand a Nascent Soul Early Stage attack before breaking and re-forming.
• Qin Wang arrived at the Nanzhan Tribe’s central square, where Xiao Chunan and Helian Xianyun were waiting to enter the Purple Qi Space.
• Asule activated the Teleportation Array, and Atair explained that the Purple Qi Space restricted entrants’ powers to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Qin Wang entered the Purple Qi Space, tested its restrictions, and discovered his magic treasures retained their power despite his ghosts being suppressed. After killing a Brocade Robe Youth and his Golden Core Protector, he took their three strands of Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi and began absorbing all four strands he had collected.

• Qin Wang waited until Xiao Chunan, Helian Xianyun, and their protectors entered the Purple Qi Space before stepping into the array himself.
• Qin Wang found the space’s flight limit and confirmed that his Five Ghosts were suppressed to the False Core Stage while his magic treasures retained their strength.
• Qin Wang captured a strand of Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi with the Barbarian God's Left Hand.
• A Brocade Robe Youth and his Golden Core Protector demanded the strand, but Qin Wang killed them with the Azure Nether Small Swords after blocking their attack with the Barbarian God Shield.
• Qin Wang collected their souls and Golden Core in the Soul Gathering Bowl, found three more strands in their Storage Bags, and began absorbing all four strands.

Qin Wang absorbed Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi, robbed Central Continent cultivators to gather more, and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. As he continued cultivating, four young masters and their Protectors prepared to ambush him, but the Five Ghosts attacked first.

• Qin Wang absorbed four strands of Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi, then searched the Purple Qi Space and found two more.
• Qin Wang sent the Five Ghosts to rob Central Continent cultivators and collected one hundred strands of Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi.
• Qin Wang absorbed three strands and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, then continued cultivating.
• Xiao Chunan found Helian Xianyun and vowed to kill Qin Tiedan if he encountered him, while Helian Xianyun encouraged him.
• Four Central Continent young masters found Qin Wang cultivating and decided to ambush him for his Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi.
• The Five Ghosts spotted the eleven attackers and four of them charged at the cultivators while one stayed to guard Qin Wang.

Qin Wang reached the False Core Realm and discovered that his False Core was pure white, then pursued two survivors to the gathered cultivators. There, Xiao Chunan rallied nearly fifty people against him and brought out three Late Golden Core Protectors.

• Qin Wang's four ghosts killed nine attackers, while two survivors fled using the Blood Escape Technique.
• Qin Wang broke through to the False Core Realm, found his False Core pure white, and noted that his lifespan had not increased.
• Qin Wang followed the two escapees and found them with Xiao Chunan, Helian Xianyun, and nearly fifty cultivators.
• The escapees blamed Qin Tiedan for their companions' deaths, and Xiao Chunan vowed to eliminate him with the crowd's support.
• Qin Wang appeared above the group, and Xiao Chunan confronted him before summoning three Late Golden Core Protectors.

Qin Wang used the Five Ghosts to overwhelm Xiao Chunan and his allies, then offered everyone but Xiao Chunan safe passage in exchange for the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi. Xiao Chunan remained surrounded with his three Protectors, and one Protector began to unleash his Golden Core Stage power.

• Qin Wang summoned the Five Ghosts, who drove Xiao Chunan's gathered cultivators into a defensive formation.
• Helian Xianyun asked Qin Wang if he intended to kill them, and Qin Wang said he would spare them if they handed over the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi.
• Qin Wang declared that everyone except Xiao Chunan could leave safely, and the other cultivators abandoned Xiao Chunan.
• Xiao Chunan admitted his mistake and offered to bear the consequences, but Qin Wang demanded that he kill himself.
• Xiao Chunan refused, and one of his Protectors asked him to look after his family before unleashing Golden Core Stage power.

Qin Wang withstood the Golden Core Protector’s attacks with the Barbarian God Shield and defeated him with help from the Barbarian God’s Left Hand and the Five Ghosts. Xiao Chunan survived behind a Spirit Transformation ancestor’s protective barrier, and Qin Wang waited him out while asking the crowd for the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi.

• The Protector broke the Purple Qi Space’s cultivation limits to unleash Golden Core power, but Qin Wang blocked his attacks with the Barbarian God Shield.
• The Protector’s Netherworld Shadow Stab nearly broke the shield, but Qin Wang reinforced it with the Barbarian God’s Left Hand and endured the Protector’s blood sacrifice.
• Xiao Chunan sent his two remaining Protectors to attack Qin Wang, but the Five Ghosts held them off until the Protector’s sacrifice ended and he was reduced to ashes.
• Xiao Chunan knelt and begged for mercy, then used a jade slip to raise a barrier that could last twelve hours and be broken only by a Spirit Transformation Stage Expert.
• Qin Wang ordered the Five Ghosts to kill Xiao Chunan’s remaining Protectors, stayed before Xiao Chunan’s barrier, and asked the crowd to return the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi.

Qin Wang collected the Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi from the gathered cultivators and killed one who tried to escape, leaving him at odds with thirty-seven Central Continent forces. Helian Xianyun stayed behind, offered herself as payment for Qin Wang’s help, and asked him to kill her Protector.

• The gathered cultivators tried to bargain with Qin Wang, but he demanded all their Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi and refused to befriend them.
• Helian Xianyun handed Qin Wang twenty-eight strands, and the others followed; when one False Core Stage Cultivator fled, Qin Wang killed him with the Azure Nether Small Sword.
• The remaining cultivators left after surrendering their Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi, while Qin Wang recognized that he had offended thirty-seven powerful forces.
• Helian Xianyun refused to leave with her old woman Protector and offered herself as payment for Qin Wang’s help, saying she first needed to know if he could withstand the Wuji Sect’s retaliation.
• Helian Xianyun asked Qin Wang to kill her Protector, and he killed the old woman with the Azure Nether Small Sword before the Five Ghosts devoured her escaping Golden Core.
• Xiao Chunan cursed Helian Xianyun when he realized she had offered herself to Qin Wang.

Qin Wang rejected Helian Xianyun's offer to help him form a superior-grade Golden Core, but she insisted on becoming his cultivation partner. After returning from the Purple Qi Space, Qin Wang reached Peak False Core Realm, and the Five Ghosts saved him from Elder Wang's attack.

• Qin Wang learned that Helian Xianyun's Mysterious Yin Primordial Goddess Divine Art could help him form a superior-grade Golden Core, but he said he did not need her.
• Helian Xianyun refused to leave and declared Qin Wang her cultivation partner while he cultivated with Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi.
• When the twelve hours ended, Qin Wang, Helian Xianyun, and Xiao Chunan appeared in the tribal square, and the other cultivators hurried away from Qin Wang.
• Qin Wang absorbed his hundredth strand of Golden Core Condensing Purple Qi and reached Peak False Core Realm.
• Elder Wang attacked Qin Wang with a giant claw, but the Five Ghosts shattered it, forcing Elder Wang to flee.