Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang met Long Wuji, Donghuang Taiyi, and Shakyamuni aboard Long Wuji’s flying vessel as they gathered for the battle between Xing Tian and Ao Long. As the Luo Family made its move in Luocheng, the gathering’s purpose came into focus.

• Qin Wang and Long Wuji exchanged praise aboard the flying vessel while Guo Jiwen admired its treasures.
• Donghuang Taiyi arrived and took a seat beside Long Wuji, then dismissed Qin Wang’s introduction and argued with Guo Jiwen over his Golden Light of Earth Travel.
• Shakyamuni arrived on a path of golden lotuses and explained that he had come because he and Xing Tian were old acquaintances.
• Guo Jiwen recounted Shakyamuni’s origins and recovery, while Shakyamuni meditated using the Lesser Vehicle Buddhist Dharma.
• Bells rang across Luocheng as divine radiance shot skyward beside the phantom Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda, and cultivators announced that the Luo Family had moved.

Qin Wang clashed with the Luo Family after its elders insulted Donghuang Taiyi and attacked Guo Jiwen. When Luo Wudi tried to crush everyone aboard the flying vessel with his Sky Cutting Pagoda, Qin Wang shattered it with one punch, leaving the watching experts stunned.

• A Luo Family elder provoked Donghuang Taiyi by calling his clan former servants, and Ao Long killed the elder when he attacked.
• Another Luo Family elder targeted Guo Jiwen and Qin Wang, but Qin Wang cut him down with the Qingping Broken Sword.
• Luo Wudi challenged Qin Wang to survive one attack, while Qin Wang declared that one punch would kill him.
• Luo Wudi enlarged the Sky Cutting Pagoda and used it to suppress the flying vessel and everyone aboard.
• Qin Wang punched upward and broke the Sky Cutting Pagoda in two, astonishing Long Wuji, Shakyamuni, and Xing Tian.

Qin Wang killed Luo Wudi’s body and captured his soul, but the Luo Family ancestor’s intervention drew powerful figures from several factions to Luocheng. After Xing Tian turned the gathering against Qin Wang and attacked him, Ao Long protected Qin Wang, and the assembled experts departed for the Chaos Land to witness Xing Tian’s coming battle with Ao Long.

• Qin Wang shattered Luo Wudi’s body with a punch, pinned his escaping soul with the Qingping Broken Sword, and secretly captured it with the Soul Gathering Tower.
• The Luo Family ancestor attacked Qin Wang, but another powerful figure broke his divine ability before Mo Hou and Demon Race experts arrived and challenged the Western Extreme Demon Palace.
• Hongjun and others declared their grievances against Rahu, while Donghuang Taiyi, Shakyamuni, and Xing Tian questioned Qin Wang’s identity and connection to the Devil Palace.
• Xing Tian attacked Qin Wang with his divine axe, but Ao Long blocked the strike after Long Wuji signaled him to intervene.
• Xing Tian headed for the Chaos Land and challenged Ao Long to meet him there, prompting the gathered experts to follow.

Qin Wang was trapped inside the Luo Family ancestor’s pagoda, where he discovered Dao Patterns resembling those of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda. He used the Soul Gathering Tower to expose and copy the patterns into the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus, leaving the Luo Family ancestor furious as the Lotus devoured the pagoda’s power.

• Long Wuji told Qin Wang that Xing Tian and Ao Long were friends, then explained that Ao Long’s Mountain River Society Diagram and Dragon Race abilities gave him the advantage in their battle.
• Xing Tian blocked Ao Long’s attacks with the pagoda’s radiance and struck back with his imitation Sky-Opening Axe while Qin Wang searched the void for hidden threats.
• The Luo Family ancestor ambushed Qin Wang and drew him into a pagoda, where Qin Wang recognized Dao Patterns like those of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda.
• Qin Wang brought out the Soul Gathering Tower, which revealed the pagoda’s hidden Dao Patterns and startled the Luo Family ancestor with its aura.
• Qin Wang degraded the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus to copy the Dao Patterns into it, then used the Soul Gathering Tower’s Soul Absorption Divine Light as the Lotus devoured the pagoda’s energy.

Qin Wang refined the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus into his Natal Magic Treasure and fought the Luo Family Ancestor, who attacked him to seize the Soul Gathering Tower. After Qin Wang advanced to the Earth Immortal Realm, the tower revealed a terrifying presence that the Luo Family Ancestor recognized, leaving him frozen in fear.

• Qin Wang seized and destroyed the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus's artifact spirit, then merged his Life Soul with the lotus to complete his Natal Magic Treasure.
• The Luo Family Ancestor attacked Qin Wang with his pagoda and divine abilities, while Donghuang Taiyi, Long Wuji, Shakyamuni, and the Golden Crow Great Sage watched and debated whether to intervene.
• Qin Wang blocked the Luo Family Ancestor's assault with the Soul Gathering Tower and met his attacks with the Great Dao Laws of Body Cultivation and the Death Great Dao.
• Qin Wang revealed the Soul Gathering Tower's Grand Unity Supreme Treasure aura, and the Luo Family Ancestor mistook him for Fang Yantian before deciding to kill him and claim the tower.
• Qin Wang swallowed more than ten spirit pills and rose from the Human Immortal Realm to the peak of the Earth Immortal Realm, while the Luo Family Ancestor tried and failed to separate him from the tower.
• The Soul Gathering Tower blasted apart the Luo Family Ancestor's giant hand, and a pair of blood-red eyes appeared in the chaos, terrifying the Luo Family Ancestor.

Qin Wang destroyed the Luo Family ancestor’s Sky Cutting Pagoda and killed him, drawing the fury of the surrounding cultivators. When the Luo Family summoned the true body of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda, Qin Wang fled, but the Golden Crow Great Sage blocked his escape.

• Qin Wang claimed to be a direct disciple of the Devil Palace and used the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus to shatter the Luo Family ancestor’s Sky Cutting Pagoda.
• Xing Tian unleashed the Sky-Opening Axe against Ao Long, but Ao Long’s imitation Chaos Pearl overpowered it, forcing Xing Tian to retreat.
• The Luo Family guardians pursued Xing Tian instead of helping their ancestor, and Qin Wang seized the ancestor’s soul and destroyed his body with a punch.
• The Golden Crow Great Sage revealed his true form and joined the cultivators gathering against Qin Wang, while a Luo Family guardian summoned the true body of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda.
• Qin Wang fled from the approaching pagoda, but the Golden Crow Great Sage cut off his escape route.

Qin Wang fought the Golden Crow Great Sage, then battled Donghuang Taiyi, Shakyamuni, and other cultivators who tried to stop his escape. The Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda emerged and suppressed the battlefield, and Qin Wang stabbed Shakyamuni to death with the Qingping Broken Sword.

• Qin Wang used the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus to withstand the Golden Crow Great Sage’s Samadhi True Fire and fought him in close combat.
• Qin Wang unleashed the Soul Gathering Tower, badly wounded the Golden Crow Great Sage, and continued fleeing as Donghuang Taiyi, Shakyamuni, and other cultivators blocked his way.
• Qin Wang killed a close-range attacker and used the Soul Absorption Divine Light to seize the souls of several cultivators, but Donghuang Taiyi and Shakyamuni pressed their assault.
• Shakyamuni summoned a Buddhist projection to confront Qin Wang, while Long Wuji and Ao Long watched from their flying vessel.
• The Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda emerged and suppressed everyone’s magic and treasures, leaving Qin Wang unable to escape.
• Qin Wang stabbed Shakyamuni through the neck with the Qingping Broken Sword, killing the reincarnated Buddha Patriarch.

Qin Wang escaped the Luo Family’s suppression with Fang Yantian’s secret aid, then hid beneath the sea to evade his pursuers. He discovered an ancient underground Blessed Land and began exploring its ruins, hoping to recover and find whatever treasures remained.

• The Soul Gathering Tower carried Qin Wang away as a giant hand reached from Central Capital, and Fang Yantian secretly helped him escape the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Pagoda’s suppression.
• Donghuang Taiyi escaped aboard Long Wuji’s Immortal Boat and declared that he would meet Qin Wang again at the end of the Dao, while Guo Jiwen announced he would go to the Western Extreme Demon Palace and was tied up by his retainers.
• Qin Wang dove beneath the Boundless Sea and used the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus to conceal his trail while he evaded the Luo Family’s search.
• Qin Wang followed traces of ancient Dao Patterns deep underground and broke through into an enormous cavern containing a palace complex.
• Qin Wang recognized the cavern as the ruins of a Blessed Land, whose formation concealed him from pursuers, and resolved to explore it for treasures.

Qin Wang explored the long-abandoned halls of an ancient sect, discovering treasures and formations far beyond the Western Extreme Demon Palace. He left the most dangerous relics untouched, secured a material-storage hall for possible future use, and began examining the sect’s surviving manuals.

• Qin Wang found a Grand Unity Supreme Treasure Dragon Platform guarded by an active formation and decided not to take it while injured.
• Qin Wang collected a valuable screen and several preserved sticks of sandalwood incense, but avoided the Treasure Pavilion because its formations remained active.
• Qin Wang discovered that the artifact-material storage bags crumbled when touched, so he sealed the hall with a spatial isolation formation for possible future use.
• Qin Wang inspected a library and found that its outer room held mostly ordinary cultivation methods, none exceeding the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Qin Wang entered a restricted inner library and began removing the restrictions from its more carefully preserved bamboo-slip manuals.

Qin Wang discovered the Great Dao Samsara True Scripture among the bamboo scrolls, then watched the Qingping Broken Sword disappear into a mysterious painting. He entered another palace and found what appeared to be a breathing Grand Unity Supreme, only to realize it was a corpse.

• Qin Wang removed the restrictions from more than three thousand bamboo scrolls and found the Great Dao Samsara True Scripture, whose cultivation required the body of a Great Dao Divine Demon or a Primordial God or Demon corpse.
• Qin Wang judged the Great Dao Samsara True Scripture, Yi Tian True Scripture, and Wish Treasure Codex valuable mainly as references, while reaffirming his commitment to the Corpse Slaying Saint Method.
• Qin Wang approached a strange painting, and the Qingping Broken Sword flew into it after he saw the figure turn toward him.
• Qin Wang left the room, unaware that the painting now showed the figure holding the restored Qingping Sword.
• Qin Wang entered another palace and found a giant whose breathing released spiritual energy and whose aura belonged to a Grand Unity Supreme.
• Qin Wang sensed that the giant had no vitality and realized that the apparently living Grand Unity Supreme was a corpse.

Qin Wang explored a ruined dojo in the Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace and discovered that its lone resident was a self-made zombie. The zombie learned that its master, the Donghua Emperor Lord, had supposedly died long ago and erupted in rage, while Qin Wang restrained it with the Soul Gathering Tower.

• Qin Wang entered a town laid out in the Eight Trigrams and found traces of powerful Dao Laws where two structures were missing.
• Qin Wang discovered a zombie in a courtyard, smashed its head, and watched it regenerate and awaken.
• The zombie identified the place as the Blessed Land of the Eastern King Duke and called it the Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace.
• Qin Wang told the zombie that the Donghua Emperor Lord had reportedly perished in battle against two Demon Court Supremes.
• The zombie rejected the news of its master's death, surged from the Golden Immortal Realm to the Great Luo Realm, and Qin Wang trapped it with the Soul Absorption Divine Light.

Qin Wang subdued the zombie Zhong Hanli and learned that he had been Donghua Emperor Lord’s chief disciple, cursed after confronting the ancient monster Hou. Zhong Hanli offered to guide Qin Wang through the ruined Blessed Land and lead him to its formation core.

• Qin Wang used the Soul Gathering Tower to restrain Zhong Hanli and discovered that the zombie possessed an unusually powerful soul and had cultivated a profound ancient secret art.
• Qin Wang weakened the Soul Absorption Divine Light, and Zhong Hanli explained that he had become a zombie after confronting Hou in the western lands and later following Donghua Emperor Lord’s instructions.
• Qin Wang told Zhong Hanli he had fled into the Blessed Land while being pursued, and Zhong Hanli agreed to show him around and let him take any unimportant items he found.
• Zhong Hanli led Qin Wang through the former settlement of registered disciples and servants toward the pavilion containing the Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace’s formation core.

Qin Wang and Zhong Hanli discovered Golden Armored Immortal Gods whose Nirvana Qi was being drained by a formation in the ruins of Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace. Qin Wang traced clues suggesting Zhong Hanli was behind the scheme, fled the building, and faced Zhong Hanli’s open admission that his deception had been exposed.

• Qin Wang and Zhong Hanli found Golden Armored Immortal Gods turned into zombies, with divine weapons extracting their Nirvana Qi through a formation.
• Zhong Hanli said the zombies were not former disciples of Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace, and he agreed to trace the Nirvana Qi’s destination.
• Zhong Hanli offered to teach Qin Wang the Origin Tracing Technique, while Qin Wang noticed the zombies’ armor and Great Dao Laws reflected different eras.
• Qin Wang suspected Zhong Hanli was responsible for capturing and refining the immortal gods, so he escaped to the ruined formation outside.
• Nirvana Qi surged from the building as Zhong Hanli asked why Qin Wang had left, then admitted Qin Wang had seen through his scheme.

Qin Wang faced Zhong Hanli inside the Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace, where Zhong Hanli activated its grand formation and unleashed his full power. After Qin Wang advanced to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, he shattered Zhong Hanli’s defenses and began overwhelming the formation, leaving Zhong Hanli scrambling to survive.

• Zhong Hanli activated the palace’s grand formation with Nirvana Qi and invoked the Hou manifestation to raise his cultivation to the late Great Luo Realm.
• Qin Wang swallowed a pill formed from the Luo Family ancestor’s soul and advanced to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Zhong Hanli transformed into his zombie god true form and attacked Qin Wang, who revealed his strength and shattered the Dao Patterns with a punch.
• Zhong Hanli tried to flee and proposed stopping the fight, but Qin Wang refused to repeat his earlier mistake and pursued him with a death-qi fist seal.
• Qin Wang’s death qi began eroding the palace formation, whose depleted spirit veins left it dependent on Zhong Hanli’s limited supply of Nirvana Qi.

Qin Wang defeated Zhong Hanli, absorbed his divine soul, and used it to raise his cultivation to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm. After learning of Mo Hou’s interest in a Luo Family ancestor, Qin Wang left the palace and decided to lure the Luo Family cultivators after him into a fight.

• Zhong Hanli activated the Dutian Douzhuan Fengshen Great Array, but Qin Wang used the Soul Gathering Tower to break it and overpower him.
• Qin Wang extracted Zhong Hanli’s divine soul and later sealed it into a spiritual pill, which raised his cultivation to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Qin Wang searched Zhong Hanli’s memories and learned that Mo Hou was seeking a Luo Family ancestor to settle a karmic entanglement in the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Qin Wang left an array and an offensive formation in the Donghua Heavenly Emperor Palace before returning to the Central Province coast.
• Qin Wang seized and killed several Luo Family cultivators, then resolved to lure more of the family after him and use their divine souls to advance his cultivation.

Qin Wang headed for the Heavenly Demon Hall and reunited with Guo Jiwen, whose cultivation had risen to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm after an encounter with his family’s founding ancestor. Qin Wang realized Hou’s karma was inflaming his bloodlust, then clashed with Luotian Sect disciples Gou Hui and Zhang Youren, leaving with Gou Hui’s magic treasure after she introduced them.

• Qin Wang learned that the Heavenly Demon Hall lay within the Boundless Sea and set out toward it, hoping to draw the Luo Family into a fight away from their supreme treasure.
• Qin Wang met Guo Jiwen, who explained that he had escaped his family’s forbidden ground after dreaming of the Guo Family founding ancestor and had awakened with peak Heavenly Immortal cultivation.
• Qin Wang sensed an urge to kill Guo Jiwen and traced his bloodlust to Hou’s karma, which he suspected had transferred to him after he killed Zhong Hanli.
• Gou Hui and Zhang Youren of the Luotian Sect mocked Qin Wang and Guo Jiwen, and Gou Hui attacked them with her Golden Wheel Alms Bowl.
• Qin Wang shattered Gou Hui’s attacks, seized and claimed her magic treasure, and Gou Hui introduced herself and Zhang Youren as direct disciples of the Luotian Sect.

Qin Wang learned from Zhang Youren that an ancient Underworld secret art for dividing the divine soul might let him transfer the karmic power affecting him, though its inheritance was nearly impossible to obtain. He then discovered that Zhang Youren and Gou Hui were also heading to the Heavenly Demon Hall, where Chan Sect-related ruins were about to emerge, and they agreed to travel together.

• Qin Wang apologized to Gou Hui for his violent reaction and asked Zhang Youren whether he could remove the unusual karmic power affecting him.
• Zhang Youren explained that an ancient secret art created by Black and White Impermanence could divide the divine soul and let one part bear the karmic power, but the art's inheritance was inaccessible by ordinary choice.
• Guo Jiwen and Zhang Youren explained that the Underworld's secret arts were held within the Six Paths of Reincarnation and granted according to compatibility, leaving Qin Wang to consider using his Corpse Slaying Saint Method in the future.
• Gou Hui asked where Qin Wang and Guo Jiwen were going, and Qin Wang said they were headed to the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Zhang Youren revealed that ruins related to the ancient Chan Sect were about to emerge beneath the Heavenly Demon Hall and invited Qin Wang and Guo Jiwen to travel with him and Gou Hui.

Qin Wang traveled with Zhang Youren, Gou Hui, and Guo Jiwen to the Heavenly Demon Hall, where ancient ruins were about to emerge and Luo Family enemies had gathered. Upon arrival, Gou Hui fought Chen Yuanyuan, and Tian Wu attacked Guo Jiwen before a Primordial Demon Venerable appeared and accused Qin Wang of breaking the rules.

• Qin Wang revealed his feud with the Luo Family, then accepted Zhang Youren and Gou Hui's invitation to travel with them and Guo Jiwen.
• Zhang Youren, Gou Hui, and Guo Jiwen explained the Heavenly Demon Hall's history and defenses as the group approached the site of the upcoming ruins.
• A divine sense challenged Zhang Youren and Gou Hui, and Gou Hui immediately attacked Chen Yuanyuan, beginning a fierce fight in the sky.
• Guo Jiwen identified Chen Yuanyuan as a direct granddaughter of Chen Qingping and revealed his interest in collecting unusual tales and following beautiful female cultivators.
• The reincarnated Tian Wu attacked Guo Jiwen, but Qin Wang blocked his weapon with the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus.
• A Primordial Demon Venerable emerged from a fissure, defended Tian Wu's attack, and accused Qin Wang of killing Luo Wudi and creating enmity with Tian Wu.

Qin Wang faced Tian Wu, the Golden Crow Great Sage, and a host of Luo Family allies who had gathered to avenge Luo Wudi. He crushed the Golden Crow Great Sage’s Dharma manifestation, but the wounded enemy swallowed crimson-gold blood and launched a barrage of magical treasures at him.

• Guo Jiwen told Qin Wang that Tian Wu might be Luo Wudi’s brother-in-law, while Zhang Youren rebuked him for speaking against the Primordial Demon Sect.
• Tian Wu and other Primordial Demon Sect disciples arrived with Luo Family allies, and Tian Wu vowed to kill Qin Wang for Luo Wudi.
• Qin Wang asked Zhang Youren and Gou Hui to protect Guo Jiwen, then challenged all his enemies to attack together.
• The Golden Crow Great Sage attacked Qin Wang, who shattered his Dharma manifestation and sent him into the Void Turbulence.
• The Golden Crow Great Sage swallowed crimson-gold blood and summoned countless magical treasures to strike Qin Wang.

The Golden Crow Great Sage consumed his ancestor’s essence blood and attacked Qin Wang with overwhelming power, but Qin Wang’s treasures broke his first assault and shielded him from a deadly guandao. The Great Sage’s ancestor’s divine sense began taking over his body as the battle continued.

• The Golden Crow Great Sage revealed that he had consumed his ancestor’s essence blood and vowed to kill Qin Wang with his clan’s supreme abilities.
• The Golden Crow Great Sage formed ten thousand magic treasures into a divine dragon and unleashed its spells and abilities on Qin Wang.
• Qin Wang defended himself with the Soul Gathering Tower while the Twelve-petal Tribulation Lotus devoured the attacks, advanced to the initial Grand Unity level, and destroyed the magic treasures.
• The Golden Crow Great Sage summoned a calamity-infused Grand Unity Supreme Treasure guandao and struck Qin Wang, who used the Soul Gathering Tower to block its blade beams.
• Zhang Youren saw the ancestor’s divine sense awakening inside the Golden Crow Great Sage and advancing toward his Niwan Palace.