Chapter Summaries

Wu Su fought Zhu Jingtian to test her newly gained strength and nearly defeated him with her Infinite Sword Domain. The other experts stopped her when Zhu Jingtian threatened to destroy the Storage Bag containing the map to Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance.

• Wu Su attacked Zhu Jingtian, and he transformed into his Candle Dragon true form to fight her in the air.
• Wu Su pierced Zhu Jingtian's Dragon Breath and broke through his Time Stop, wounding him with her sword.
• Zhu Jingtian unleashed Light of Time while Wu Su countered with her Infinite Sword Domain, and the two attacks clashed.
• Wu Su's swords exhausted Zhu Jingtian's golden beam, pierced his body, and forced him out of his Candle Dragon form.
• Zhu Jingtian threatened to crush the Storage Bag containing the inheritance map, prompting the experts to block Wu Su and ask her to stop.
• Wu Su withdrew her Sword Domain after Qin Wang nodded.

After Wu Su devoured the Sword Domain, Qin Wang agreed to lead the cultivators in searching for Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance. When Zhu Jingtian placed the skull on the map, the artifacts absorbed spiritual energy and formed a Black Vortex, leaving everyone to face the mysterious portal.

• Wu Su put away the Infinite Sword Domain, and Zhu Jingtian feared she might kill him.
• Qin Wang agreed to begin the search and told Zhu Jingtian to take out the map.
• The cultivators examined the map but could not identify its terrain, so Qin Wang brought out Immortal Emperor Qingshui's Skull.
• Wanyan Meng felt inexplicably sad at the sight of the skull, but told Wu Su that nothing was wrong.
• Zhu Jingtian placed the skull in the map's center, causing both artifacts to merge and draw in spiritual energy.
• The map and skull began rotating and formed a mysterious Black Vortex.

Qin Wang and the other experts entered the Black Vortex, which Qin Wang believed was a teleportation array leading to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s Inheritance Land. Qin Wang arrived alone in a vast, desolate realm and spotted a distant city.

• The experts debated whether the Black Vortex was a teleportation array or a trap, then chose Wanyan Meng to enter first.
• Qin Wang reassured Wanyan Meng that she would be safe, and she stepped into the Black Vortex.
• After Wanyan Meng vanished, the experts entered one by one, with Wu Su going before Qin Wang.
• Qin Wang emerged alone beneath a dark red sky in a gray, barren landscape filled with cold, deathly aura.
• Qin Wang flew upward about ten thousand zhang, found he could rise no farther, and saw a city in the distance.

Qin Wang reached the Immortal Emperor’s Tomb, learned from a guard that its inhabitants were trapped in cycles of reincarnation, and asked how to obtain Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance. After the guard advised him to enter through the main gate, Qin Wang tested it and struggled against its escalating force.

• Qin Wang flew to the enormous city and noticed that people entered through a side gate despite the main gate standing open.
• A guard told Qin Wang that this world was the Immortal Emperor’s Tomb, where wandering souls endured a cycle of death and renewal every hundred years.
• Qin Wang asked how to obtain Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance, but the guard said he did not know and advised him to try the main gate.
• Qin Wang entered the main gate and withstood increasing repulsive force as he took three steps, but the fourth step’s peak Nascent Soul Realm force made him sway.

Qin Wang used the Heaven Ascending Gate’s immense pressure to cultivate the Star Body Tempering Method, reaching its fourth stage and raising his physical strength to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. He endured pressure that astonished the guards, while another Integration Stage Expert gave up on the main gate and entered the city through a smaller one.

• Qin Wang sensed stellar power rising from beneath his feet and began actively cultivating the Star Body Tempering Method at greatly accelerated speed.
• Qin Wang took a fifth step, endured pressure at the Spirit Transformation Stage, and advanced the Star Body Tempering Method to its fourth stage.
• Qin Wang took a sixth step and faced pressure at the Void Refinement Stage, increasing his cultivation speed to one hundred thousand times its usual rate.
• The guards and passersby watched Qin Wang resist the gate’s pressure through body refinement, and the guard captain questioned who he was.
• An Integration Stage Expert approached the main gate, found its pressure too dangerous to endure, and entered the city through a smaller gate.

Qin Wang reached the fifth tier of the Star Body Tempering Method by cultivating under the Heaven Ascending Gate’s pressure, then moved to the seventh step. While he continued cultivating, Feng Jiutian, Wanyan Meng, and Wu Su protected him at the city gate, leaving other Integration Stage Experts free to pursue Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance.

• Qin Wang broke through to the fifth tier of the Star Body Tempering Method and stepped onto the seventh step to cultivate under its pressure.
• Feng Jiutian heard that Qin Wang was cultivating at the Heaven Ascending Gate and found Wanyan Meng and Wu Su being threatened by two Integration Stage Experts.
• The two Integration Stage Experts demanded information about Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance, but Feng Jiutian arrived and forced them to leave.
• Feng Jiutian told Wanyan Meng and Wu Su that he had come to protect Qin Wang, and they went with him to the city gate.
• Wanyan Meng, Wu Su, and Feng Jiutian took up positions as Qin Wang’s Protectors while he continued cultivating on the seventh step.

Qin Wang advanced his Star Body Tempering Method to the sixth tier in Immortal Emperor Qingshui's Inheritance Land, then stopped cultivating and went to an inn with Wanyan Meng, Wu Su, and Feng Jiutian. After settling in, he checked the refreshed daily intel and learned that Wanyan Meng was Immortal Emperor Qingshui's biological daughter.

• Qin Wang reached the sixth tier of the Star Body Tempering Method, but stopped cultivating when the eighth step's star power proved insufficient and the inheritance remained at risk.
• Qin Wang stepped through the eleventh step, where Wanyan Meng and Wu Su caught him as the pressure vanished.
• Qin Wang told Feng Jiutian he planned to rest, then accepted a waiter's offer and went with Wanyan Meng and Wu Su to an inn as Feng Jiutian followed.
• Qin Wang requested four rooms, and the proprietor charged eight strands of Life Force, which Feng Jiutian provided.
• Qin Wang entered his room, set up a warning formation, and checked the daily intel, which revealed that Wanyan Meng was Immortal Emperor Qingshui's biological daughter.

Qin Wang learned that Wanyan Meng was Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s daughter and that his real name had spread, then began considering how to find the ten inheritance sites. As curfew approached, he discovered Wanyan Meng was missing and worried she would be caught outside.

• Qin Wang learned that Wanyan Meng was Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s biological daughter and wondered how she had survived since ancient times.
• Qin Wang realized Feng Jiutian had exposed his real name and worried that the news might endanger his older sister, Qin Xuemei.
• Qin Wang considered searching for the ten hidden inheritance sites, but a wooden clapper announced that curfew would begin in half an hour.
• Wu Su entered Qin Wang’s room and proposed beginning their investigation, prompting Qin Wang to check on Wanyan Meng.
• Qin Wang found Wanyan Meng absent from her room, and Feng Jiutian dismissed the curfew as no threat to them.
• Qin Wang recalled that no one could enter a room without its owner’s permission and wondered whether Wanyan Meng’s room belonged to her or the inn.

Qin Wang discovered that the inn room door could not be opened without its owner's permission, even by Feng Jiutian, and rented four rooms for a year. He returned to find Feng Jiutian still unable to budge the door while Wu Su remained baffled by the inn's strange rules.

• Qin Wang asked Feng Jiutian to open the room door, but Feng Jiutian's Magic Power could not move its bolt even after reaching Integration Stage strength.
• Qin Wang realized the room could only be entered with its owner's permission and went with Wu Su to the inn counter.
• Qin Wang paid one hundred and twenty strands of Life Force to rent four rooms for thirty days, and the innkeeper offered to kill the Integration Stage Experts for a high price.
• Qin Wang dismissed Wu Su's question about the innkeeper's offer as a joke and led her back to the corridor.
• Feng Jiutian attacked the wooden door with a powerful claw strike, but it remained undamaged and motionless.

Qin Wang warned Feng Jiutian and Wu Su to stay in their rooms during the citywide curfew, then went out alone to search for Wanyan Meng. He encountered Yu Shouping flying through the deserted streets, where a mysterious black shadow copied Yu Shouping’s appearance and faced his attack.

• Feng Jiutian failed to open the wooden door, and Qin Wang warned him and Wu Su that no one could enter their rooms without permission.
• Qin Wang told Feng Jiutian and Wu Su to remain indoors until dawn while he went out to find Wanyan Meng.
• Feng Jiutian and Wu Su returned to their rooms, and Qin Wang set off alone through the empty city streets.
• Yu Shouping flew over the city during curfew, hoping to discover a clue to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance.
• A black shadow appeared in the street and transformed into Yu Shouping’s likeness.
• Yu Shouping mistook the shadow’s transformation for an insult and attacked it with his World-Ending Fist.

Qin Wang witnessed Yu Shouping being killed by dead spirits that copied his appearance and techniques, then searched Qingcheng for Wanyan Meng. The updated intelligence revealed that Wanyan Meng had entered the City Lord's Mansion, while warning Qin Wang that death qi was seeping into the city.

• Yu Shouping tried to flee from the dead spirits, but six copies surrounded him and beat him to death, increasing their number to seven.
• Qin Wang watched the fight and realized the dead spirits could turn their victims into more of themselves.
• Integration Stage Experts discovered that dead spirits copied appearances, techniques, and treasures; two of the experts died, while others escaped.
• Qin Wang searched for Wanyan Meng for two hours, then suspected she had gone to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Qin Wang checked the Intelligence Panel and learned that Wanyan Meng had entered the City Lord's Mansion and that death qi was seeping into the city.

Qin Wang learned that only twenty-eight days remained before the passage to Immortal Emperor Qingshui's Inheritance Land closed and went to the City Lord's Mansion to find Wanyan Meng. He entered after forcing open its enormous gates with his physical strength, impressing the servant who had mocked him.

• Qin Wang learned that the inheritance passage would close in twenty-eight days and considered strengthening his Star Body Tempering Method, but found the underground star energy insufficient.
• Qin Wang suspected the City Lord's Mansion concealed a secret and went there because Wanyan Meng had entered it.
• A servant recognized Qin Wang and invited him through a narrow gap in the mansion's gates.
• Qin Wang tried to push the gates open and gradually increased his physical strength as they resisted him.
• Qin Wang forced the gates into the wall with Void Refinement-level physical strength, leaving the servant stunned.
• The servant dropped his mocking attitude, respectfully led Qin Wang inside, and reflected that the City Lord had warned him to treat Qin Wang courteously.

Qin Wang met Wanyan Meng in Xuandu City and learned from City Lord Xuandu that its residents were defeated alien foes recovering their strength after each curfew. He also discovered that their former cultivation had reached the Golden Immortal Realm, far beyond his own, while the city lord was only a Great Ascension Stage artifact spirit.

• Qin Wang tested Wanyan Meng's identity by asking about the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty, and she answered correctly.
• City Lord Xuandu introduced himself and explained that Xuandu City's residents were not human and that he was an artifact spirit.
• City Lord Xuandu told Qin Wang that the residents were slain enemies of Immortal Emperor Qingshui who regained one realm of cultivation with each curfew.
• Qin Wang learned that the residents had once reached the Golden Immortal Realm, though none had been Grand Unity True Immortals.
• City Lord Xuandu confirmed that his own cultivation was limited to the Great Ascension Stage because he was not an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Qin Wang learned that City Lord Xuandu controlled the Mirror Flower Water Moon world and received a hint about the clues to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance. Outside the mansion, Wanyan Meng revealed that her memories had returned and explained that the dead spirits were human cultivators’ lingering souls.

• City Lord Xuandu explained that he was an artifact spirit who could shatter and restart the Mirror Flower Water Moon world, and warned Qin Wang that attacking the residents would make them hide in their rooms.
• City Lord Xuandu said he did not know where the ten inheritance items were, but hinted that Immortal Emperor Qingshui dearly loved his daughter.
• After Qin Wang and Wanyan Meng left the City Lord's Mansion, three dead spirits approached, and Wanyan Meng's startled cry drew them toward the pair.
• Qin Wang tried to distract the dead spirits with a sound, but they stayed nearby; when Wanyan Meng spoke, they turned toward Qin Wang, then knelt before her.
• Wanyan Meng told Qin Wang that the dead spirits were lingering souls of human cultivators who had died in battle and revealed that her memories had returned.

After recovering her memories, Wanyan Meng led Qin Wang to the old residence where she had lived as a child, explaining that her childhood poems were clues to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s legacy. As another Integration Stage Expert discovered one of the poems and rushed toward a courtyard with loquat trees, Qin Wang sensed an artistic conception in the ripples of the residence’s pool.

• Wanyan Meng confirmed that she knew where Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s legacy was and agreed to take Qin Wang there.
• Wu Su stayed in the inn despite hearing battles outside, while Feng Jiutian failed to contact the ancestor of Phoenix Yao Holy Land and continued cultivating.
• Wanyan Meng brought Qin Wang to her childhood residence and explained that her poems scattered around the city served as clues to the legacy.
• An Integration Stage Expert found an indestructible poem carved into a tree, deduced that a courtyard with two loquat trees was important, and fled as undead pursued him.
• Qin Wang watched a leaf fall into the pool and recognized the ripples as an artistic conception.

Qin Wang manifested an Autumn Dao Script while comprehending Artistic Conception in the old residence, causing upheaval across the city. As the character began to collapse without enough power to sustain it, he activated his charging formation to pour in spirit stones.

• Qin Wang sensed the courtyard’s Artistic Conception and began writing in the air, bringing a bleak wind and withering leaves across the city.
• City Lord Xuandu, Wu Su, Feng Jiutian, and Zhu Jingtian sensed the Artistic Conception, while Zhu Jingtian searched for the inheritance and fought undead.
• Qin Wang summoned the Qingping Sword to overcome an unseen force and completed the character “autumn,” manifesting a trace of the Heavenly Dao Rules.
• Wanyan Meng warned Qin Wang that the unstable character needed Magic Power to support it.
• Qin Wang found his Golden Core Stage Magic Power insufficient and activated the charging formation to draw on billions of Spirit Stones.

Qin Wang spent most of his spirit stones awakening the Heaven and Earth Dao Script “autumn” and tested it against Long Wu, who had come seeking Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance. The character passed through Long Wu’s saber and marked his forehead, and Qin Wang discovered age spots appearing on Long Wu’s arm.

• Qin Wang let the “autumn” character absorb billions of spirit stones until it was full, leaving him with only thirty million.
• Long Wu attacked the courtyard gate, then confronted Qin Wang and demanded access to Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance.
• Qin Wang refused Long Wu entry, and Long Wu struck him with a saber, forcing Qin Wang back despite leaving him unharmed.
• Qin Wang traced the “autumn” character and sent it at Long Wu, whose saber passed through it before it imprinted on his forehead.
• Long Wu noticed age spots on his arm and demanded to know what Qin Wang had done, while Qin Wang admitted he did not know.

Long Wu's body succumbed to the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, so he tried to possess Qin Wang and claim his powerful body. Qin Wang used the Soul Gathering Tower to injure and trap Long Wu, who threatened to self-destruct inside Qin Wang's Sea of Consciousness.

• Long Wu's body withered from the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, leaving his soul intact and furious.
• Long Wu charged into Qin Wang's Sea of Consciousness to possess him, confident he could overpower Qin Wang's weaker soul.
• Qin Wang summoned the Soul Gathering Tower, which struck Long Wu and forced him to self-destruct to escape its fatal blow.
• Long Wu tried to flee, but Qin Wang summoned the Five Ghosts and blocked his escape from the Sea of Consciousness.
• Long Wu offered his treasures in exchange for his freedom, then threatened to self-destruct and damage Qin Wang's Sea of Consciousness.

Qin Wang lured Long Wu into the Soul Gathering Tower and killed him after rejecting his offer to submit. Long Wu’s soul tried to possess Qin Wang through the pure Soul Power left by his self-detonation, but the Five Ghosts devoured it; Qin Wang returned to the old residence, worried about the cost of using the “Autumn” Heaven and Earth Dao Script.

• Qin Wang demanded Long Wu’s Soul Blood, but Long Wu refused before pretending to agree and entering the Soul Gathering Tower.
• Qin Wang revealed that he intended to kill Long Wu, and Long Wu offered to let Qin Wang plant a divine soul imprint instead.
• Qin Wang vanished, leaving Long Wu trapped in the tower, where Long Wu self-detonated his divine soul.
• Qin Wang summoned the Five Ghosts to devour Long Wu’s pure Soul Power and realized Long Wu had nearly possessed him.
• Qin Wang returned to the old residence and lamented that the “Autumn” Heaven and Earth Dao Script had consumed several billion spirit stones.

After Qin Wang killed Long Wu, he and Wanyan Meng bluffed the other Integration Stage experts into backing down rather than contesting the spoils. They returned inside to study the inheritances and prepare to leave before more cultivators discovered the clues leading there.

• The observers feared Qin Wang after seeing him kill Long Wu, an Integrated Body Late Stage cultivator, and eventually approached to collect the body.
• Qin Wang opened the gates to find Integration Stage experts waiting outside with magical treasures drawn, while Wanyan Meng asked whether they meant to seize the spoils.
• Wanyan Meng threatened to kill the gathered cultivators, and Qin Wang maintained the bluff despite having exhausted the power of his Heaven and Earth Dao Script.
• One expert claimed they had no intention of fighting, and Qin Wang took Long Wu's Storage Bag and robe ornaments before closing the gates.
• Qin Wang admitted he had been bluffing, and Wanyan Meng urged him to comprehend the inheritances and leave before other cultivators found the clues and trapped them.