Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang used Gou Hui as part of a ploy to intimidate the gathered cultivators and draw out her senior brother, Zhang Youren. When Luo Wude attacked and a Grand Unity Supreme struck at him, Qin Wang repelled the Supreme and killed Luo Wude, leaving the crowd terrified of his strength.

• Qin Wang threatened the gathered cultivators and called Gou Hui his furnace cauldron, and Gou Hui flew into his Soul Gathering Tower while warning him about the dangerous experts present.
• The cultivators condemned Qin Wang and demanded that he release Gou Hui, but none dared attack while they recovered their strength.
• Qin Wang told Gou Hui that her strand of divine sense in Zhang Youren’s Haotian Mirror would bring her senior brother to them, then challenged the crowd to surrender their treasures and command flags.
• Luo Wude emerged from the Chaos Qi and attacked Qin Wang with his precious mirror, while a Grand Unity Supreme sent a giant hand to strike him.
• Qin Wang used his Dharma manifestation and Soul Gathering Tower to repel the Supreme’s attack, then suppressed Luo Wude and killed him in one move.

Qin Wang subdued the cultivators in the Chaos Land and collected half their magic treasures while letting them keep their Command Flags. He reunited with Zhang Youren, Gou Hui, and Guo Jiwen, then planned to hide with them until he could refine his gains and prepare for the Wasteland Secret Realm.

• Qin Wang killed a cultivator trying to escape with a Cosmic Shift Talisman and persuaded the rest that surrendering half their treasures was better than resisting.
• Qin Wang forced a young cultivator to hand over half his treasures but let him keep the Command Flag, prompting the other cultivators to surrender their shares.
• Qin Wang collected 878 magic treasures and reunited with Gou Hui, Zhang Youren, and Guo Jiwen.
• Gou Hui chose Snow Lord's hairpin, Zhang Youren claimed three treasures, and Qin Wang gave Guo Jiwen the Mountain Driving Whip.
• Qin Wang revealed that the group had seven Command Flags and agreed with Zhang Youren to stay together and conceal themselves from their enemies.

In Yanjing City, cultivators mistook the prodigies returning from the Chaos Land for casualties and learned that Qin Wang had robbed them after driving off the Primordial Chaos Snow Master. As rumors spread that Qin Wang had faked his overwhelming power with help from Gou Hui and Zhang Youren, the humiliated cultivators formed an Anti-Qin Alliance.

• Mo Laoxie's corpse and more than a hundred returning prodigies appeared above the grand formation, alarming the cultivators in Yanjing City.
• The City Lord of Yanjing City explained that the prodigies were recuperating, and one survivor said the Primordial Chaos Snow Master had lured them into a deadly battle.
• The survivor accused Qin Wang of rescuing them and then taking half their magic treasures, claiming he had defeated a peak Grand Unity Realm cultivator and repelled a Grand Unity Supreme.
• Extreme Yin Supreme revealed that the apparent Grand Unity Supreme had been a Guardian Dao Soldier made by Qin Wang, while a cultivator from Central Province suggested Gou Hui and Zhang Youren had staged the fight with him.
• The cultivators recalled Qin Wang's influence on Guo Jiwen, condemned him, and established the Anti-Qin Alliance of the Demon Race Plane World.

Daoyan confirmed that Gou Hui was Queen Mother of the West’s reincarnation and agreed with Aurora Star Lord to target her and Qin Wang. After a tiger demon took Guo Jiwen and Zhang Youren away, Black Heaven Supreme warned Qin Wang that Daoyan and Aurora Star Lord had locked onto him and Gou Hui.

• Daoyan used his Minor Destiny Divine Ability to confirm that Gou Hui was Queen Mother of the West’s reincarnation, and Aurora Star Lord agreed to kill her in exchange for killing Qin Wang.
• Qin Wang and Zhang Youren encountered the tiger demon, who took Guo Jiwen and then Zhang Youren away with her.
• Qin Wang and Gou Hui decided to retrace Guo Jiwen’s route through the Eastern Wasteland and rescue them if they were in danger.
• Black Heaven Supreme awakened inside Qin Wang’s Soul Gathering Tower and warned him that Daoyan and Aurora Star Lord had targeted him and Gou Hui.

Aurora Star Lord identified Gou Hui as Queen Mother of the West’s reincarnation and attacked her, while Daoyan confronted Qin Wang over the death of the Buddhist Sect Holy Son. Daoyan tried to seize Qin Wang’s Soul Gathering Tower, but Black Heaven Supreme emerged from it and killed him.

• Aurora Star Lord and Daoyan caught up with Qin Wang and Gou Hui, and Aurora Star Lord recognized Gou Hui as Queen Mother of the West’s reincarnation.
• Aurora Star Lord attacked Gou Hui, who used her Spirit Transformation Art to flee after sensing he had a treasure made to counter her.
• Black Heaven Supreme explained that Aurora Star Lord had refined a magic treasure specifically to restrain Gou Hui, then Aurora Star Lord pursued her.
• Daoyan asked Qin Wang whether he had killed Shakyamuni, and Qin Wang summoned the Soul Gathering Tower when Daoyan declared he would subdue him.
• Daoyan captured the Soul Gathering Tower and launched his strongest attack, but a giant hand emerged from the tower and killed him.

Qin Wang defeated and killed Monk Daoyan after seeing through his divine ability and overwhelming him with the Guardian Dao Soldier and magic sword. He then saw Gou Hui struggling against Aurora Star Lord in the Void Turbulence, where she searched desperately for the Innate Fortune he sought.

• Qin Wang recognized that Monk Daoyan’s apparent death was a decoy and struck the real Monk Daoyan when he attacked from behind.
• Qin Wang used his magic sword and Guardian Dao Soldier to break Monk Daoyan’s attacks, leaving the wounded monk unable to escape.
• Monk Daoyan begged for mercy and threatened Qin Wang with retaliation from the Chan Sect, but Qin Wang refused to spare him.
• Qin Wang beheaded Monk Daoyan and used the Soul Gathering Tower to capture his soul.
• Qin Wang looked into the Void Turbulence and saw Aurora Star Lord overpowering Gou Hui while demanding the Innate Fortune within her.
• Gou Hui searched herself for the Innate Fortune, but could not find it and feared she was destined to die.

Qin Wang arrived to save Gou Hui and revealed that he had killed Monk Daoyan, then faced Aurora Star Lord in a fierce battle. After Qin Wang refused to retreat, Aurora Star Lord unleashed his Aurora Secret Arts, leaving Qin Wang trapped beneath its relentless attacks.

• Qin Wang reached Gou Hui after breaking through the void barrier and reassured her that Aurora Star Lord would not harm her.
• Qin Wang summoned Monk Daoyan's soul from the Soul Gathering Tower, shocking Gou Hui and confirming Aurora Star Lord's fears.
• Aurora Star Lord attacked Qin Wang, whose counterstrike with the Yin-Yang Great Dao Law and Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire was overwhelmed by Aurora Star Lord's power.
• Aurora Star Lord offered to spare Qin Wang, but Qin Wang refused to leave and challenged him to use his full strength.
• Aurora Star Lord invoked his Aurora Secret Arts, and Black Heaven Supreme warned Qin Wang that its attacks would continue wherever he could see or sense.

Qin Wang and Gou Hui survived Aurora Star Lord’s assault when Qin Wang’s Guardian Dao Soldier blocked his ultimate attack, and they drove him away by threatening to summon Gou Hui’s master. They then set out to find Zhang and Guo in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where Gou Hui suspected a tiger demon had inherited a Demon Race Supreme’s legacy.

• Aurora Star Lord unleashed a devastating attack on the Soul Gathering Tower, but Qin Wang’s Guardian Dao Soldier shielded Qin Wang from the residual force.
• Qin Wang broke Aurora Star Lord’s void restriction and bluffed that Gou Hui could summon a Grand Unity Supreme from the Luotian Sect, causing Aurora Star Lord to withdraw after threatening Qin Wang.
• Qin Wang and Gou Hui waited in the Soul Gathering Tower until they believed Aurora Star Lord was gone, and Gou Hui thanked Qin Wang for saving her.
• Qin Wang and Gou Hui left the void to search for Senior Brother Zhang and Guo Jiwen, following Guo Jiwen’s route.
• Qin Wang and Gou Hui reached the Hundred Thousand Mountains of the Eastern Wasteland, where Gou Hui explained that a Demon Race Supreme had once established a dojo there and Qin Wang guessed the tiger demon had inherited its legacy.

Qin Wang and Gou Hui searched the Hundred Thousand Mountains for Guo Jiwen and Zhang Youren while Qin Wang continued forging an uncanny Dharma sword with guidance from Black Heaven Supreme. They reached the Qingyuan Ancient Path, where Gou Hui found Guo Jiwen’s trail, and encountered Demon Race Cultivators fighting tiger demons.

• Qin Wang asked Black Heaven Supreme whether his Dharma sword could be completed, and Black Heaven Supreme said it might survive its entry into the world by relying on an escaped one beneath the Heavenly Dao Rules.
• Qin Wang rejoined Gou Hui after months of travel, and she explained that formations had hidden their route and that they were nearing their destination.
• Gou Hui led Qin Wang to the Qingyuan Ancient Path, where she said Guo Jiwen’s aura had disappeared and explained that he likely followed a clan map through the region.
• Qin Wang noticed the ancient road remained untouched by the surrounding spells and realized that a powerful secret art or formation protected it.
• Demon Race Cultivators and tiger demons fought over stolen goods and Demon Stones, and Gou Hui prepared to help the cultivators kill the tiger demons.

Qin Wang and Gou Hui rescued Guo Jiwen’s tiger demons from White Lotus Sect cultivators, then reunited with Guo Jiwen and Zhang Youren at Myriad Monster Valley. They learned that powerful sect disciples often had guaranteed entry to the Wasteland Secret Realm and avoided the initial fight over Command Flags.

• Qin Wang stopped Gou Hui from intervening in the fight until he detected Guo Jiwen’s aura among the tiger demons, then waited for them to be in greater danger.
• Gou Hui disrupted the Demon Race merchants’ attack, and Qin Wang drove off the reinforcements they summoned with the Soul Gathering Tower’s pressure.
• The tiger demons escorted Qin Wang and Gou Hui through Myriad Monster Valley, where they reunited with Guo Jiwen and Zhang Youren.
• Guo Jiwen explained that he planned to remain in Myriad Monster Valley while still honoring his promise to join the Wasteland Secret Realm trip.
• Zhang Youren explained that core disciples of major sects often held Command Flags that guaranteed entry, so they did not join the initial battles to obtain them.

Qin Wang and his companions learned the Wasteland Secret Realm’s opening date and the danger that recorded entrants could lose their places if they died. As cultivators searched for Qin Wang in vain, he and his companions celebrated Guo Jiwen’s wedding in Myriad Monster Valley.

• Black Heaven Supreme explained that worlds used different methods to select entrants for the Wasteland Secret Realm, and Qin Wang worried about facing the great sects’ core Holy Sons.
• Extreme Yin Supreme announced that the Wasteland Secret Realm would open on the eighth day of the ninth month and warned that an entrant’s death could free a slot for another cultivator.
• Qin Wang learned that the Command Flags’ recorded soul information could not be changed, but that a nearby cultivator could take a freed slot if an entrant died.
• The Yanjing City Lord criticized Extreme Yin Supreme for risking Qin Wang, while Extreme Yin Supreme argued that Qin Wang’s fate would reveal his strength and origins.
• Cultivators searching for Qin Wang learned through a Daoist’s divination that he was deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and began seeking another way to seize a Command Flag.
• Qin Wang and his companions celebrated Guo Jiwen’s wedding in Myriad Monster Valley, where the valley was decorated and festivities filled the streets.

Qin Wang gave Guo Jiwen a cultivation-raising pill and a defensive treasure, then returned to the Western Extreme Demon Palace and gave Xu Xian and the Guiding Senior Brother Command Flags for the Wasteland Secret Realm. He learned that Master was expounding the Dao as many disciples gathered to listen.

• Qin Wang offered Guo Jiwen a spirit pill and a Great Luo Realm defensive treasure, and Guo Jiwen accepted after the tiger demon proposed three peak Great Luo Realm divine souls as a return gift.
• Zhang Youren and Gou Hui gave Guo Jiwen congratulatory gifts, and the tiger demon promised to help Guo Jiwen reach the Great Luo Realm and enter the Wasteland Secret Realm safely in a thousand years.
• Qin Wang gave Zhang Youren and Gou Hui a spirit pill each as they parted, then hurried back to the Western Extreme Demon Palace.
• Qin Wang gave Xu Xian and the Guiding Senior Brother a Command Flag each to repay their kindness, and both accepted.
• Xu Xian told Qin Wang that Master was personally expounding the Dao and that many disciples had returned to hear his teachings.

Mokou lectured the Western Extreme Demon Palace disciples on the Dao, and Qin Wang used the opportunity to break through into the Grand Unity Realm. He set out for the Wasteland Secret Realm as rivals and other geniuses across the Myriad Worlds also prepared to enter it.

• Qin Wang brought Zi Xuan to Mokou's lecture, where Mokou expounded on cultivation and the Grand Unity Supreme Law for nine days.
• Qin Wang suppressed his breakthrough until the lecture ended, then entered the Grand Unity Realm after experiencing a mysterious vision of a cloud-shrouded island and a shattered sword radiance.
• Xu Xian told Qin Wang that Zi Xuan had returned safely to his dojo and declined to join him in the Wasteland Secret Realm, explaining that he and Guiding Senior Brother had given their Command Flags to others.
• Qin Wang left for the Earth Immortal Realm ahead of the Wasteland Secret Realm's opening, while Donghuang Taiyi vowed revenge and Long Wuji wondered whether Qin Wang would attend.
• Zhang Youren urged Gou Hui to hurry to the Wasteland Secret Realm, but Gou Hui used Divine Sand to conceal her spiritual radiance from Aurora Star Lord.

Qin Wang reached the Earth Immortal Realm and learned that entry was restricted to cultivators carrying a Command Flag. After passing through the North Heaven Gate, he arrived at the foot of a mountain and began climbing toward Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave to await the Wasteland Secret Realm.

• Qin Wang entered the Earth Immortal Realm through a wormhole and witnessed its immense continent, powerful stars, and the Heavenly Pillar connecting it to the Primordial Great World.
• Qin Wang followed a river of stars to the North Heaven Gate, where its guardian gods required visitors to present Command Flags.
• Qin Wang presented his Wasteland Secret Realm Command Flag and passed through the gate into the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Qin Wang arrived at a mountain where a steward told the gathered cultivators to climb to Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave and wait for the Wasteland Secret Realm.
• Qin Wang climbed the mountain under a law that prevented cultivators from flying and wondered whether Patriarch Bodhi and Sun Wukong were at the cave.

Qin Wang climbed toward Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave and learned about Patriarch Bodhi’s reputation and the strict conditions for entering his sect. At the mountaintop, Qin Wang discovered that two divine beast sculptures were developing spirituality and wondered whether Patriarch Bodhi had prepared them for the coming Immeasurable Calamity.

• A Grand Unity Realm cultivator explained that the mountain’s forests had been transformed by the Primordial Golden Nature of an eighth-layer Grand Unity Supreme, and Qin Wang failed to seize any plants with the Soul Gathering Tower.
• Qin Wang asked about becoming Patriarch Bodhi’s disciple and learned that candidates needed deep fortune, exceptional aptitude, and suitable karma.
• Two cultivators warned Qin Wang that even powerful heaven’s favored children might fail Patriarch Bodhi’s strict selection, but Qin Wang remained confident in his own talent and fortune.
• As Qin Wang climbed higher, the Primordial Golden Nature grew denser, and he resisted the temptation to harvest the valuable plants lining the trail.
• At the summit, Qin Wang found that two divine beast sculptures had developed Dao Patterns and spirituality, and he suspected Patriarch Bodhi might have cultivated them in preparation for the Immeasurable Calamity.

Qin Wang entered Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave ahead of the Wasteland Secret Realm and grew suspicious of the welcome he received and the chance to hear Wenqu Star Lord expound the Dao. After fleeing a woodcutter who was secretly Wenqu Star Lord, Qin Wang left the cave’s attempt to draw him away from the demonic Dao unresolved as the Immeasurable Calamity approached.

• Qin Wang admired Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave and its mysteries, then became wary when a Yin-Yang-robed cultivator greeted him and addressed him by name.
• The cultivator announced that Wenqu Star Lord would expound the Dao before the Wasteland Secret Realm opened on the eighth day of the ninth month, and the arriving cultivators celebrated the chance to listen.
• Qin Wang sensed the Daos within Patriarch Bodhi’s laws and was drawn into a mountain forest, where he met an old woodcutter who urged him to visit Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave.
• Qin Wang refused the woodcutter’s invitation and fled, believing he had come to seek a secret realm.
• The woodcutter revealed that he was Wenqu Star Lord and lamented Qin Wang’s choice to cultivate the demonic Dao, while a Yin-Yang-robed cultivator warned that the coming Immeasurable Calamity would decide whether Dao or demons survived.

Wenqu Star Lord tried to guide Qin Wang toward his Dao, but Qin Wang rejected the encounter and decided to avoid Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave’s schemes. At the cave, Qin Wang confronted Donghuang Taiyi and other rivals as they threatened one another ahead of the Wasteland Secret Realm.

• Wenqu Star Lord lamented that Qin Wang had fled and considered seeking another candidate to assist as Heavenly Emperor.
• Qin Wang returned to the halls, resolved to avoid Wenqu Star Lord, Patriarch Bodhi, and the benefits offered by Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave.
• Donghuang Taiyi confronted Qin Wang, and Xing Tian challenged him before apologizing after a Demon Court cultivator warned him to yield.
• Donghuang Taiyi and a Buddhist monk threatened Qin Wang over the Wasteland Secret Realm, and Qin Wang taunted them in return.
• Wang Wenzhong and Zhao Wenlong fought until Patriarch Bodhi’s Grand Unity Supreme Law blasted them apart, and Snow Lord silenced Zhao Wenlong when he disparaged her gift to Wang Wenzhong.
• Snow Lord challenged Qin Wang over his past victories, and Qin Wang mocked her for allegedly joining forces with the Buddhist Sect.

Donghuang Taiyi rejected Nine Heavens Profound Lady’s offer to cooperate, while Qin Wang accepted hers with a teasing remark. As powerful Immortal and Demon Race experts gathered at Patriarch Bodhi’s dojo, Qin Wang learned more about the factions and remained wary of the Buddhist Sect.

• Donghuang Taiyi refused to join forces with Nine Heavens Profound Lady, who then offered to cooperate with Qin Wang; Qin Wang agreed while joking about a wedding ceremony.
• Xing Tian challenged Nine Heavens Profound Lady to a future battle, and Donghuang Taiyi praised him as the true God of War, provoking her insult.
• A golden bridge appeared before Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, bringing Holy Emperor Tianyi’s formidable chief disciple and other Immortal Dao Alliance prodigies.
• Qin Wang speculated that Holy Emperor Tianyi expected his chief disciple to gain the Wasteland Secret Realm’s providence, while Donghuang Taiyi argued that the providence alone did not determine who attained the Grand Unity Supreme realm.
• A gate of devilish energy appeared before the dojo, signaling the arrival of a Demon Race Plane World Supreme, while the cultivators discussed the absent Buddhist Sect and its powerful treasures.
• Qin Wang recalled his past killing of a Buddhist Sect Chan Sect Holy Son and resolved to stay wary of the Buddhist Sect.

Qin Wang reunited with Zhang Youren and Gou Hui as the gathered cultivators prepared to enter the Wasteland Secret Realm. After Donghuang Taiyi turned the crowd against him, Qin Wang considered fighting back, but Zhang Youren warned that the geniuses carried protective soul wisps linked to Grand Unity Supremes.

• Zhang Youren and Gou Hui arrived and secretly greeted Qin Wang, while Donghuang Taiyi and Nine Heavens Profound Lady distanced themselves to avoid appearing allied with him.
• Nine Heavens Profound Lady, Donghuang Taiyi, and Xing Tian discussed their grudges against Qin Wang and hoped to exploit a fight between him and Zhang Bairen.
• Donghuang Taiyi publicly declared that Qin Wang would die in the secret realm, prompting cultivators to view him as a target to kill and rob.
• Zhang Youren offered to hide Qin Wang in his magic treasure, but Qin Wang refused and hinted that he might kill his enemies inside the secret realm.
• Zhang Youren warned that many entrants carried soul wisps belonging to Grand Unity Supremes, who would learn what happened and could retaliate, so Qin Wang reconsidered his plan.
• Zhang Youren discovered Qin Wang had entered the Grand Unity Realm, and Qin Wang explained that he had broken through while listening to Mokou expound the Dao.

As the prodigies gathered at Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, Qin Wang learned that Xu Xian had warned him, “Heaven-Hated Land, ten deaths and no life,” and wondered what it meant. The Wasteland Secret Realm then began opening above the cave, with Patriarch Bodhi’s Eight Trigrams Furnace appearing to stabilize its entrance.

• Zhang Youren shocked Gou Hui by revealing through a voice transmission that Qin Wang had reached the Grand Unity Realm, and Gou Hui asked Qin Wang how his Magic Power compared with Zhang Youren’s.
• Qin Wang continued refining his dharma sword and considered how Karmic Power could permanently taint it, then learned from Gou Hui that Xu Xian had sent him the warning, “Heaven-Hated Land, ten deaths and no life.”
• Qin Wang pondered Xu Xian’s cryptic message while the cultivators rested in their guest rooms and studied the Dao Patterns around Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave.
• A bell awakened Qin Wang and the other cultivators, and cracks spread through the aurora overhead as the Wasteland Secret Realm began to open.
• A Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave disciple announced the opening, and Patriarch Bodhi’s Eight Trigrams Furnace appeared to stabilize the secret realm’s entrance.