Chapter Summaries

Wu Su and Wanyan Meng battled the Ten Great Families as Chang Er arrived and ordered the Zhuanlun Family Head to prove his loyalty. The Zhuanlun Family Head revealed Great Ascension Stage cultivation and fought Wushen Ji while Wu Su and Wanyan Meng faced the other family heads, leaving Feng Jiutian and Zhu Jingtian considering whether to join the battle.

• Wu Su and Wanyan Meng helped the Witch Clan drive back the Ten Great Families' experts with Flying Swords and Curse Power.
• Chang Er arrived with the Ten Great Families' heads and ordered the Zhuanlun Family Head to kill Wu Su as proof of loyalty.
• The Zhuanlun Family Head reversed Wu Su's Infinite Sword Domain, blocked Wanyan Meng's Curse Power, and revealed Great Ascension Stage cultivation.
• Wushen Ji urged the Zhuanlun Family Head to return to the Witch Clan, but the Zhuanlun Family Head attacked him with two dharma wheels.
• Wushen Ji and the Zhuanlun Family Head fought while Wu Su and Wanyan Meng attacked the other nine family heads.
• Feng Jiutian and Zhu Jingtian watched from inside the defensive formation, and Zhu Jingtian suggested joining the fight.

Zhu Jingtian challenged Chang Er but was trapped by his Stasis Heaven and Earth Dao Script, and Feng Jiutian intervened to free him. Chang Er demanded the Witch Clan and Phoenix Yao Holy Land submit, while Qin Wang and Zi Xuan arrived in Fengdu City as the confrontation continued.

• Zhu Jingtian left the defensive formation and attacked Chang Er, who blocked his blows and wounded him after he transformed into his Candle Dragon Body.
• Chang Er used the Stasis-Character Heaven and Earth Dao Script to immobilize Zhu Jingtian and demanded that he submit or die.
• Feng Jiutian freed Zhu Jingtian with the Flame Dao and reminded him to obey Qin Wang's orders.
• Feng Jiutian proposed dividing Fengdu City between the Ten Great Families and the Witch Clan and Phoenix Yao Holy Land, but Chang Er rejected the offer and demanded their submission.
• Qin Wang and Zi Xuan entered Fengdu City and heard Chang Er's demand, while Feng Jiutian confirmed that no one in his forces surrendered or betrayed them.

Chang Er pressured the Witch Clan and Phoenix Yao Holy Land into submission, but Feng Jiutian and Zhu Jingtian joined forces to destroy him. Chang Er reappeared with Earth Immortal Realm power, and Qin Wang and Zi Xuan arrived behind him.

• Chang Er unleashed Human Immortal Realm pressure, forcing the Ten Great Families to kneel while the Witch Clan and Phoenix Yao Holy Land resisted.
• Feng Jiutian and Zhu Jingtian coordinated an attack, using the Fire Dao Script and Annihilation Death Ray to erase Chang Er.
• The Witch Clan and Phoenix Yao Holy Land celebrated Chang Er's apparent death, though Wu Su worried that his defeat had come too easily.
• Chang Er re-formed in golden light and released Earth Immortal Realm pressure, forcing Feng Jiutian and Zhu Jingtian to the ground.
• Chang Er demanded the survivors submit, and Qin Wang and Zi Xuan appeared behind him.

Qin Wang exposed Chang Er as a newly formed puppet and stopped him from escaping, but Chang Er self-destructed to break free. As Qin Wang pursued him, the Ten Great Families tried to flee, and Zi Xuan sealed them inside an energy barrier.

• Qin Wang identified the Chang Er before him as a puppet and demanded that his true body appear.
• Chang Er fled, but Qin Wang caught him with a giant hand; Chang Er then self-destructed and broke free.
• Qin Wang ordered Zi Xuan to keep the Ten Great Families from escaping and pursued Chang Er.
• The Zhuanlun Family Head detonated his Dharma wheels to distract Wushen Ji, while the other family heads fled.
• Zi Xuan drew a circle and sealed the Ten Great Families inside a spherical energy barrier.

Qin Wang trapped Chang Er, captured his divine soul after forcing him to self-destruct, and used it to find Chang Er’s true body. Chang Er fled with the Six Souls Banner, but Qin Wang intercepted him by traversing through space.

• The Ten Great Families’ heads failed to escape Zi Xuan’s energy barrier, and they realized her strength surpassed the Great Ascension Stage.
• Zi Xuan approached Wu Su and Wanyan Meng, praised them as worthy of being Qin Wang’s wives, and Wanyan Meng introduced herself.
• Qin Wang demanded that Chang Er serve him for ten thousand years, but Chang Er chose to self-destruct rather than submit.
• Qin Wang captured Chang Er’s escaping divine soul in the Soul Gathering Tower and used it to locate Chang Er’s true body.
• Chang Er fled with the Six Souls Banner, but Qin Wang tore through space and appeared ahead of him.

Qin Wang killed Chang Er and discovered that the Six Souls Banner could consume his Great Dao Power to kill a named enemy and transfer that enemy’s cultivation insights to him. He used the banner to kill the Zhuanlun Family Head, reached the Great Ascension Stage, and then targeted the Yanluo Family Head, who perished in Fengdu City.

• Qin Wang saw through Chang Er’s afterimage and crushed the real Chang Er to ash, leaving the Six Souls Banner behind.
• Qin Wang wrote the Zhuanlun Family Head’s name on the banner and bowed six times, exhausting his Magic Power and Great Dao Power before receiving the man’s cultivation insights.
• Qin Wang’s cultivation advanced from the late Void Refining stage to the Great Ascension Stage, and he realized he could replenish Great Dao Power with reputation data.
• Qin Wang wrote the Yanluo Family Head’s name on the banner and replenished his Great Dao Power so he could bow to it again.
• In Fengdu City, the Yanluo Family Head sensed that someone was killing him, begged Zi Xuan for help, and crumbled away before she could act.

Qin Wang used the Six Souls Banner to kill the Yanluo Family Head, then tried to curse Elder Xia from afar. Elder Xia sought help from the Three Sovereigns, but Fuxi's Sixty-Four Hexagrams trembled while attempting to remove the curse.

• The Yanluo Family Head vanished under a curse, and Wanyan Meng sensed Qin Wang's aura in the Curse Power but kept her discovery quiet.
• Zi Xuan told the remaining family heads that the deaths were backlash for betrayal and sent them away to await Qin Wang's return.
• Qin Wang gained little from killing the Yanluo Family Head, then wrote Elder Xia's name on the Six Souls Banner and found that it strongly resisted.
• Elder Xia sensed the curse and rushed to the Three Sovereigns in Fire Cloud Cave, asking them to remove it.
• Fuxi used his Sixty-Four Hexagrams to dispel the curse, but the disk began to tremble.

Fuxi discovered that Elder Xia’s curse came from the Six Souls Banner and sent him to seek its successor, Qin Wang, while inviting Qin Wang to Fire Cloud Cave. Qin Wang returned to Fengdu City, where Zi Xuan’s explanation of Biyou Palace and the Six Souls Banner revealed the danger of the Ten Thousand Races learning he possessed it.

• Fuxi found that the Six Souls Banner’s curse on Elder Xia was tied to the inheritance of a powerful figure and told Elder Xia to find that figure’s successor and invite him to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Elder Xia revealed that the successor had killed the current Human Emperor, Huang Tianwudi, and the Three Sovereigns identified the Six Souls Banner as a threat to the Nine Provinces.
• Qin Wang sensed that trying to curse Elder Xia to death could drain him dry and that an unknown powerhouse was protecting Elder Xia, so he stopped and flew to Fengdu City.
• Qin Wang saw that Zi Xuan had named the newly built hall Biyou Palace, and she explained that ancestral courts of the Interception Sect had traditionally borne that name.
• Zi Xuan told Qin Wang that the Six Souls Banner was renowned throughout the universe and warned him to keep its possession secret from the Ten Thousand Races.

Elder Xia arrived in Fengdu City to request an audience with Qin Wang, and Qin Wang agreed to meet him at Biyou Palace. There, Elder Xia recognized Zi Xuan and revealed his youthful appearance as an attendant to the Three Sovereigns.

• Qin Wang learned from Zi Xuan that Suirenshi, Shen Nong, and Fuxi were the Three Sovereigns of Fire Cloud Cave, while she knew nothing of the Five Emperors.
• Elder Xia arrived at Fengdu City and formally requested an audience with the Sect Master of Jie Teachings.
• Qin Wang agreed to see Elder Xia after wondering whether he had come to seek justice for Huang Tianwudi.
• Elder Xia met Qin Wang at Biyou Palace and recognized Zi Xuan, who said she was now merely a member of the Interception Sect.
• Elder Xia changed from his old-man appearance into a young attendant, and Zi Xuan recognized him as an attendant of the Three Sovereigns.

Qin Wang accepted the Three Sovereigns’ invitation to Fire Cloud Cave seven days later, despite his followers’ concerns, and chose Zi Xuan to accompany him. As he prepared to investigate the Three Sovereigns’ long silence, the system revealed the locations of the remaining Azure Nether Small Swords.

• Elder Xia invited Qin Wang to Fire Cloud Cave on the Three Sovereigns’ orders, and Qin Wang agreed to go in seven days.
• Zi Xuan, Wushen Ji, Wu Su, and the others warned Qin Wang that the invitation could be a trap, but Qin Wang explained why the Three Sovereigns would not fight him there.
• Qin Wang decided that Zi Xuan would accompany him to Fire Cloud Cave while everyone else stayed behind.
• Qin Wang questioned Zi Xuan about the Three Sovereigns and grew more suspicious of what they had been doing during the 120,000 years since the last Myriad Spirits War.
• The system revealed that all 108 Azure Nether Small Swords had emerged, with 36 held by Qin Wang and the other 72 scattered among cultivators whose names and locations had been provided.

Qin Wang learned that the Three Sovereigns wanted to assess him as a possible Child of Destiny and that Fang Yantian might seize his body if he reached the Ninth Grade Primordial Grand Luo Realm. After uniting the Nine Provinces and assembling the Qingping Sword, he prepared to visit Fire Cloud Cave before heading to the Star Sea.

• Qin Wang learned that Huang Tianwudi’s True Spirit remained in Fire Cloud Cave and that the Three Sovereigns might name him the Nine Provinces’ Child of Destiny if he passed their assessment.
• Qin Wang resolved to gather the Azure Nether Small Swords and leave the Nine Provinces, while taking care to hide the Qingping Sword’s full power from watchers.
• Qin Wang assembled the one hundred and eight Azure Nether Small Swords into the Qingping Sword and confirmed its immense power.
• Qin Wang’s Witch Clan unified the Underworld, while Phoenix Yao Holy Land took control of the former Great Yu Immortal Dynasty’s territory and became the Nine Provinces’ dominant power.
• Wanyan Meng asked Qin Wang to take her and the others to the Star Sea, but he refused and said he would take Zi Xuan to Fire Cloud Cave before leaving.

Qin Wang brought Zi Xuan to Fire Cloud Cave, where the Three Sovereigns offered him two choices regarding Huang Tianwudi and the Nine Provinces. Qin Wang rejected both, and Shen Nong released his Primordial Grand Luo Realm aura against him.

• Qin Wang ordered Zi Xuan to accompany him to the Star Sea, and she followed after he warned her to accept her responsibilities or surrender Ancient Zi Xuan's memories.
• Qin Wang and Zi Xuan met Xia Yan above Tiandu City, and he opened a light gate that led them to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Xia Yan brought Qin Wang and Zi Xuan to the central immortal mountain, where the Three Sovereigns waited; Xia Yan stopped Zi Xuan from entering their pavilion.
• Shen Nong told Qin Wang that he could become the Nine Provinces' Child of Destiny and face the Myriad Spirits War, or leave the Nine Provinces forever.
• Qin Wang refused both choices, declaring that he would follow his own will, and Shen Nong pressed him with the aura of a Primordial Grand Luo Realm expert.

Qin Wang tested his strength against Shen Nong, then persuaded Fuxi to allow him to kill Huang Tianwudi and name Xia Yan the next Child of Destiny. After Qin Wang left with Zi Xuan, Fuxi summoned Xia Yan into the pavilion, leaving him stunned by the prospect of his new role.

• Qin Wang met Shen Nong's punch with his own, and Fuxi repaired the space damaged by their clash.
• Suirenshi welcomed Qin Wang into the pavilion after the Three Sovereigns recognized his strength.
• Qin Wang asked Fuxi to let him kill Huang Tianwudi and proposed Xia Yan as the new Child of Destiny, and Fuxi agreed.
• Qin Wang asked Fuxi whether he knew Fang Yantian, received a denial, and left with Zi Xuan.
• Shen Nong questioned Fuxi about Fang Yantian, but Fuxi rebuked him and Suirenshi urged him to let the matter go.
• Fuxi summoned Xia Yan into the pavilion, and Xia Yan wondered whether he would become the Child of Destiny.

Qin Wang left the Nine Provinces with Zi Xuan after killing Huang Tianwudi, then traveled through the Endless Void to join the Demon Race. On arrival at the Demon Race Plane, he learned that its Western Extreme Continent was ruled by Fang Yantian’s eldest disciple, Mo Ke Wu.

• Fuxi named Xia Yan the new Child of Destiny of the Nine Provinces, and Xia Yan thanked him before leaving.
• Qin Wang told Huang Tianwudi that Xia Yan had replaced him, then erased Huang Tianwudi’s final wisp of True Spirit.
• Qin Wang and Zi Xuan left the Nine Provinces and entered the Star Sea, where Qin Wang said he intended to join the Devil Race.
• Qin Wang and Zi Xuan traveled for a year before reaching the Devil Race Plane, which was more than ten times larger than the Nine Provinces.
• Qin Wang’s system revealed that the Demon Race Plane had seven continents, each ruled by a Ninth Grade peak Primordial Grand Luo Realm powerhouse, and that Mo Ke Wu ruled the Western Extreme Continent.

Qin Wang learned of the dangers surrounding Fang Yantian’s inheritance and the Qingping Sword, then disguised himself and Zi Xuan as Ancient Demons to enter the Demon Race Plane. At the entrance, a Devil Race guard named Huo Kong offered his service and asked Qin Wang to leave a bloodline for his family.

• Qin Wang learned that the Ten Thousand Races Conference would discuss the Qingping Sword, that Abyssal Hidden Wood could conceal its aura, and that Mo Ke Wu had betrayed Fang Yantian.
• Qin Wang told Zi Xuan to pose as his maidservant and taught her an Ancient Demon cultivation method, using his blood to disguise her as a mixed-blood Ancient Demon.
• Qin Wang and Zi Xuan reached the main passage into the Demon Race Plane, where Huo Kong and his guards stopped them.
• Qin Wang released his Ancient Demon aura and claimed he was returning to the ancestral land after growing up outside the Demon Race Plane.
• Huo Kong offered his service, his family’s resources, and help gaining recognition from the Abyssal Divine Throne in exchange for Qin Wang leaving a bloodline for his family.

Qin Wang entered the Demon Race Plane under a fabricated identity and learned that the Abyssal Hidden Wood was in the Gloomy Marsh, which the Zetan Family had claimed. He decided to confront the family, while sensing a mysterious presence watching him from the abyss near the Abyssal Divine Throne.

• Qin Wang accepted Huo Kong's Soul Blood after rejecting his offer of a descendant, then entered the realm using a prepared cover identity.
• Registration revealed that Qin Wang's ancient demon bloodline concentration was eighty percent, impressing Huo Kong and the other Devil Race experts.
• At the Abyssal Continent, Qin Wang told Zi Xuan they would leave once they found the Abyssal Hidden Wood.
• Huo Kong reported that the Zetan Family had surrounded the Gloomy Marsh, where traces of the treasure had appeared, and that its patriarch Zetan Haomiao was a Golden Immortal.
• Qin Wang revealed a trace of his Ancient Demon True Body's aura, ordered Huo Kong to prepare to eliminate the Zetan Family, and told Zi Xuan he intended to show some of his strength.
• Qin Wang sensed eyes watching him from the abyss and decided to approach it.

The Zetan Family searched Gloomy Marsh for the Abyssal Hidden Wood while Qin Wang led the Fire Clan toward them openly. Qin Wang revealed his powerful Ancient Demon bloodline, and Zetan Ancient Demon sensed the challenge approaching.

• Zetan Haomiao ordered the Zetan Family to speed up its search for the Abyssal Hidden Wood and finish turning Gloomy Marsh upside down.
• Huo Kong brought the Fire Clan’s forces to the marsh, where Qin Wang refused to infiltrate and announced they would charge straight in.
• Despite the Fire Clan members’ doubts, Huo Kong chose to follow Qin Wang, who summoned the Ancient Demon Hand and released a powerful bloodline aura.
• Zetan Ancient Demon sensed the approaching Ancient Demon bloodline and warned Zetan Haomiao that a rival had come for the Abyssal Hidden Wood.
• After judging the intruder’s bloodline strength, Zetan Ancient Demon agreed to confront them, and Zetan Haomiao trusted him to handle the threat.

Qin Wang led the Fire Clan through the Gloomy Marsh, killed five ambushing assassins, and confronted Zetan Ancient Demon. After overpowering him and shattering space with a punch, Qin Wang was revealed to be a Primordial Grand Luo Realm expert.

• Qin Wang deflected an assassin’s arrow and instantly killed five hidden attackers as the group entered the Gloomy Marsh.
• Qin Wang and the Fire Clan reached the marsh’s center, where he confronted Zetan Ancient Demon.
• Zetan Ancient Demon attacked Qin Wang with Demonic Flame, but Qin Wang caught his claws and punched him through the withered trees.
• Zetan Ancient Demon used Shadow Clone Technique and attacked Qin Wang from among his demonic shadows.
• Qin Wang’s punch shattered space, forcing Zetan Ancient Demon to retreat and recognize Qin Wang as a Primordial Grand Luo Realm expert.
• Zetan Haomiao reacted in terror, while Huo Kong was exhilarated by Qin Wang’s revealed strength.

Qin Wang ordered the Fire Clan to destroy the Zetan Family, then gave the ancient demon essence formed from its leaders to Huo Kong in exchange for his eternal loyalty. After Huo Kong and the Fire Clan secured the formation, Qin Wang entered the Abyssal Hidden Wood’s hiding place and prepared to destroy the area to force it out.

• Zetan Ancient Demon and Zetan Haomiao submitted to Qin Wang, but Qin Wang ordered Huo Kong to kill the Zetan Family.
• Zetan Haomiao attacked Qin Wang to cover Zetan Ancient Demon’s escape, but Qin Wang stopped them both, killed them, and gathered their essence into a drop of black-red blood.
• Huo Kong pledged his soul to Qin Wang and received the blood, which transformed his body and raised him from the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm to the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Qin Wang ordered Huo Kong to guard the formation around the Abyssal Hidden Wood’s last hiding place and entered it with Zi Xuan.
• Qin Wang explained that the Abyssal Hidden Wood concealed the Qingping Sword’s aura and said he would destroy the area to force it out, while the hidden wood assumed he was bluffing.

Qin Wang learned that the Myriad Worlds Will had cursed the inheritor of a powerful Human Race figure, so he killed the Abyssal Hidden Wood and made its heartwood into a scabbard for the Qingping Sword. After gaining the Hidden Dao and discovering its space concealed him even from the Myriad Worlds Will, Qin Wang returned to the Abyssal Continent, where the Abyssal Divine Throne confronted him about the inheritance.

• Qin Wang forced the Abyssal Hidden Wood to reveal itself and learned that the Myriad Worlds Will governed the planes and had cursed the inheritance’s bearer.
• The Abyssal Hidden Wood revealed that its heartwood could conceal the Qingping Sword’s aura, and Qin Wang killed it and carved the heartwood into a scabbard.
• Qin Wang gained the Heaven and Earth Dao Script for “Hidden,” entered the Hidden Dao, and confirmed that no one—including the Myriad Worlds Will—could sense him there.
• Qin Wang returned to Zi Xuan and Huo Kong on the Abyssal Continent, then the Abyssal Divine Throne froze everyone nearby except Qin Wang.
• The Abyssal Divine Throne appeared before Qin Wang and asked whether he had obtained that person’s inheritance.