Chapter Summaries

Emperor Ying defeated Yin Emperor's dharma body and severed his vitality, forcing him to flee to the Emperor's Mausoleum and enter a coffin. As thunder plasma threatened Li Capital, Qin Yang charged into it to protect the city and temper his body, leaving Wei Xingchao moved by his resolve.

• Emperor Ying overwhelmed Yin Emperor's dharma body with Imperial Decrees, severed his arm, and then cut off his vitality with a sword that reached across Great Ying.
• Yin Emperor's dharma body escaped to the Eastern Sea, entered the Emperor's Mausoleum, and transformed into a streak of light that entered a huge coffin.
• Emperor Ying split the thunder-plasma sea threatening Li Capital into fragments and suspended the Imperial Seal above the city, lifting its usual restrictions.
• Qin Yang charged into a falling thunder tide, using the Demon Hand and the Burial Sea Marrow Refinement Canon to endure and temper his body.
• Wei Xingchao, impressed by Qin Yang's courage, leaped into the air to help hold back another fragment of the thunder sea.

Qin Yang mastered the Thunder Magnetic Divine Rings while absorbing Yin Emperor’s black lightning, helping protect Li Capital from the lightning tides. Afterward, he received new privileges from Emperor Ying and took Yin Emperor’s severed arm to study at Desperate Estate.

• Qin Yang’s Yuan Magnetic Divine Light evolved into Thunder Magnetic Divine Rings, letting him control the black lightning and draw nearby lightning tides into his own.
• Qin Yang absorbed the lightning tides for five days, while Emperor Ying returned to the palace and Wei Xingchao watched over Li Capital.
• Emperor Ying rewarded Qin Yang with permission to fly freely in Li Capital and visit him without an appointment.
• Wei Xingchao asked Qin Yang to search the Eastern Sea for Yin Emperor’s escaped incarnation, and Han Anming arrived with its severed right arm.
• Qin Yang persuaded Wei Xingchao to give him the arm and left for Desperate Estate to study it.

Qin Yang returned to Desperate Estate, survived an ambush by two loyal former-dynasty sisters, and defeated them with the Puppet Master’s help. He gained the sisters’ Embroiderer inheritance and treasures, then resumed making treasure soup with the recovered Golden Pig.

• Qin Yang found Desperate Estate breached and was struck by the twin sisters’ silver needles and poison when he entered.
• Qin Yang summoned the Puppet Master to block one sister’s attack, then used his control over metal to kill the sister holding the Golden Pig and turn a silver thread against the other.
• Qin Yang buried the sisters, refined their silver thread and needles into a hair ribbon, and combined their Skill Books to obtain the Embroiderer inheritance.
• Qin Yang learned that Embroiderer Estate lay in the Eastern Sea and wondered how the inheritance connected to the Lotus Manual he had obtained earlier.
• Qin Yang accused the Golden Pig of leading the sisters to him, then restarted the treasure soup and let the pig soak its hind legs in the cauldron.
• Qin Yang lifted the Golden Pig by one hind leg and said he would try its front legs instead.

Qin Yang investigated why he could not initially use Corpse Touching on Yin Emperor’s arm, then realized the timing of Yin Emperor’s death had made the arm a potential weapon against his original body. He secured the Tian Family Old Ancestor’s support for making Jiayi Crown Prince and went to seek the Huang clan’s backing.

• Qin Yang considered having Junior Brother Zhang cultivate the Lotus Manual and the Embroiderer's Legacy, then tested Corpse Touching on Yin Emperor’s sealed arm and found the skill initially did not react.
• Yin Emperor’s dharma body returned to the Emperor’s Mausoleum and merged with his original body, but its remaining life force eventually vanished; Qin Yang’s Corpse Touching skill then reacted to the arm, which he hid in the Sea Eye.
• Qin Yang decided to push Jiayi into power and persuaded the Tian Family Old Ancestor to support making the Great Emperor Princess Crown Prince, giving him a Strange Fruit to restore his health.
• Qin Yang went to the Huang clan’s residence, presented a coffin as an introduction gift, and asked to meet the clan head.

Qin Yang pressured Huang Clan Head into backing Great Emperor Princess as Crown Prince, using proof that the Huang Clan had secretly supported the former dynasty. As court officials began debating her candidacy, Qin Yang traveled to the Eastern Sea, confirmed the Blue Cave passage had been destroyed, and went to meet Old Crown Prince.

• Qin Yang presented Huang Clan Head with the corpse of a hidden agent and demanded that the Huang Clan promote Great Emperor Princess as Crown Prince within a year.
• Huang Clan Head confirmed the corpse was genuine, agreed to Qin Yang's deal, and ordered a clan assembly.
• Luo Liang raised the vacant Crown Prince position at court, and the new Minister of Revenue proposed Great Emperor Princess, sparking fierce debate among officials.
• Qin Yang left Desperate Estate, sent the Book of Myriad Techniques to the Netherworld Auction, and used the Netherworld Secret Realm to reach the Eastern Sea.
• Qin Yang confirmed that the Blue Cave passage's Burial River had been destroyed, then headed to meet Old Crown Prince and investigate the blood-red little snake.

Qin Yang spent three months on Nameless Island with the dying Old Crown Prince, whose peaceful death and burial among the villagers helped Qin Yang settle his mind. After leaving the island, Qin Yang realized Old Man Kong had secretly helped him make major progress in his cultivation, and he flew to Eastern Capital, where he received news of Li Capital and a plea for help from Junior Brother Zhang.

• Qin Yang concealed his aura and traveled with Old Man Kong to meet the Old Crown Prince, then fell asleep on the ox cart and woke with his consciousness feeling unrestrained.
• The Old Crown Prince told Qin Yang he had found peace on the island and expected to live only three more months, so Qin Yang built a house beside his and stayed with him.
• Qin Yang worked and lived among the villagers, gradually becoming accustomed to ordinary life and no longer feeling compelled to personally prepare the dead for burial.
• After the Old Crown Prince died, Qin Yang obtained an incomplete Heaven Mending Immortal Scripture and a blood-colored snake, then buried the Old Crown Prince according to his wishes.
• Qin Yang left Nameless Island and discovered that his soul, divine sea, Thinking Art, and White Jade Divine Gate had advanced during his stay; he realized Old Man Kong was a true master and bowed toward the island in thanks.
• Qin Yang arrived in Eastern Capital, heard that matters in Li Capital were proceeding smoothly with help from the Huang clan, and received a plea for help from Junior Brother Zhang.

Qin Yang investigated a pair of strange letters from Zhang Zhengyi, explored the Heaven Devouring Dao, and met the person who had been impersonating his junior brother. After Qin Yang repeatedly killed and questioned him, the impostor committed suicide, leaving Qin Yang certain the real Zhang Zhengyi was missing.

• Qin Yang received a distress letter and then an invitation to explore an ancient cave from Zhang Zhengyi, and he decided to investigate because the location was near the Embroiderer Estate.
• Qin Yang examined the Heaven Mending Immortal Scripture fragment and discovered that the blood-colored snake was the Heaven Devouring Dao, but it failed to gnaw through his Black Jade Divine Gate.
• Qin Yang reached the deep-sea trench, where Zhang Zhengyi appeared and described an intact ancient cave abode.
• Qin Yang twisted off Zhang Zhengyi's head, revived him, and repeatedly killed and questioned him after realizing his reactions were unlike the real Zhang Zhengyi's.
• The impostor asked how Qin Yang had seen through him and then destroyed himself, leaving Qin Yang convinced that Junior Brother Zhang was not the person he had met.

Qin Yang discovered that a Time Stealer named Xun Mu had begun reviving through Zhang Zhengyi’s hidden backup body and had trapped the real Zhang Zhengyi in a cage. After Zhang Zhengyi escaped by destroying himself and revived from the head Qin Yang held, Qin Yang used a Heart-Devouring Gu to halt the insect marks that were slowly killing him.

• Qin Yang suspected that the Zhang Zhengyi he had killed was a Time Stealer and prepared to suppress him if he revived from the head.
• The real Zhang Zhengyi woke inside a Horned Dragon cage and realized the Time Stealer had used his headless backup body to revive while trapping him with Insect Marks.
• Zhang Zhengyi concluded that the Stealer could not kill him outright, so he destroyed everything inside the cage and died to trigger another revival.
• Zhang Zhengyi revived from the head in Qin Yang’s possession, and Qin Yang killed him several times to confirm his identity by checking his lifespan.
• Zhang Zhengyi told Qin Yang that the Stealer was named Xun Mu and explained how he had been trapped, then fell asleep as the Insect Marks spread again.
• Qin Yang used the Heart-Devouring Gu to force the Insect Marks back to Zhang Zhengyi’s ankle, stopping their spread.

Qin Yang took Zhang Zhengyi to Xuan Li to seek a cure for the Insect Mark, where Old Woman Xuan Li revealed that removing it would require Zhang Zhengyi to abandon an important part of his body. Meanwhile, Xun Mu recovered in hiding and decided to avoid Qin Yang until he regained enough strength to face him.

• Xun Mu remembered Lord Fu Jun's overwhelming power, mistook Qin Yang for his reincarnation, and chose to hide and recover rather than confront him.
• Qin Yang brought Zhang Zhengyi through the Death Forbidden Land to Xuan Li, where the Sacred Tree recognized Qin Yang and nearly swallowed Zhang Zhengyi before being stopped.
• Old Woman Xuan Li welcomed Qin Yang with poisonous soup, and its effects made the Insect Mark on Zhang Zhengyi's ankle briefly take insect form.
• Old Woman Xuan Li explained that the Sleep Bug had fused with Zhang Zhengyi and could only be removed by luring it into an important body part and abandoning that part.
• Qin Yang suggested that Zhang Zhengyi abandon a different organ in his lower body, and Old Woman Xuan Li agreed while Zhang Zhengyi stared at them in horror.

Qin Yang devised a way to pass scriptures into another person’s dream and gave Zhang Zhengyi the Lotus Manual, which required him to Sever the White Tiger. Zhang Zhengyi chose to undergo the procedure so he could hunt down Xun Mu, leaving Qin Yang baffled by his decision.

• Zhang Zhengyi briefly revived from the poison and misunderstood Qin Yang’s talk of cutting something off as a threat to castrate him.
• Qin Yang explained that he meant Zhang Zhengyi’s Spirit Root, then praised Zhang Zhengyi’s suggestion and revealed he had a Lotus Manual to pass on.
• Qin Yang used the Dream Entering Art to plant the Lotus Manual in Zhang Zhengyi’s dream, explaining that his method could pass on scriptures but had strict limits.
• Zhang Zhengyi learned that the Lotus Manual required male cultivators to Sever the White Tiger, and Qin Yang also gave him the silver needle and thread.
• After an hour of deliberation, Zhang Zhengyi chose to Sever the White Tiger so he could capture Xun Mu and kill him a hundred times.

Qin Yang returned to Li Capital and learned that Yijia did not want to become Crown Prince, while he urged her to pursue what she truly wanted. After discovering that Xun Mu’s emotional power had subtly influenced him, Qin Yang resolved to find and kill him once Great Ying’s affairs were settled.

• Qin Yang left the Xuanli Territory, arranged for his subordinates to watch the Embroiderer’s Cave and keep an eye on Zhang Zhengyi, then headed for Great Ying.
• The Emperor Ying asked Yijia whether she wanted to become Crown Prince, and she said she did not; he allowed her to freely enter and leave the palace garden.
• Qin Yang returned to Li Capital, ignored invitations from the Tian Clan and Huang Clan, and went to speak with Yijia.
• Qin Yang told Yijia that she should retreat from the Crown Prince position if she did not want it, but Yijia reaffirmed that they could not hesitate on their path toward freedom.
• Qin Yang used the Thinking Art to review his memories and discovered that Xun Mu’s emotional power had affected his thoughts after he kicked him away.
• Qin Yang dispelled the lingering power and resolved to find Xun Mu and kill him after settling Great Ying’s affairs.

Qin Yang helped establish Jiayi as Imperial Younger Sister and considered how she could cultivate the Cast Dao Court without being bound to Great Ying. After choosing to pursue the Void Scripture and the Great Bright Palace, he received an epic enhancement from the White Jade Divine Gate and committed himself to opening the Black Jade Divine Gate.

• Qin Yang presented a memorial urging the court to prepare the Ten Thousand Year Ceremony according to the procedures for a Crown Prince, and the Emperor Ying approved his latter proposal.
• Two months later, the Emperor Ying announced that Ying Ying would be established as Imperial Younger Sister, and Qin Yang arranged her enthronement ceremony.
• After Jiayi became Imperial Younger Sister, she showed Qin Yang the Cast Dao Court volume called E'pang Palace and said she did not want to cultivate it using Great Ying as her foundation.
• Qin Yang returned to Desperate Estate and considered using the evolving Heaven Stealing Art to let Jiayi cultivate the Cast Dao Court without depending on Great Ying.
• Qin Yang decided to cultivate both the Void Scripture and the Great Bright Palace, then received an epic enhancement to the White Jade Divine Gate and resolved to pursue opening the Black Jade Divine Gate.

Qin Yang passed the Heaven Stealing Art to Wedding Dress before joining the imperial procession to the Dragon Vein Ancestral Court. As the ancestral gate opened and the ceremony began, Illusory Sea Old Thief appeared amid a sudden disruption, and Qin Yang sensed another presence arriving.

• Qin Yang yielded the Ministry of Rites’ work to the Left Vice Minister, who took charge while Qin Yang returned to Desperate Estate to cultivate.
• Wedding Dress visited Qin Yang before the procession departed, and he passed her the Heaven Stealing Art and told her to master it before cultivating E'pang Palace.
• Qin Yang joined the procession to the Dragon Vein Ancestral Court, where the Emperor Ying opened its colossal Divine Gate with the Imperial Seal.
• The Emperor Ying entered the Ancestral Court, followed by a small part of the procession carrying records of Great Ying’s past ten thousand years.
• Heaven and earth briefly changed as Illusory Sea Old Thief entered the Ancestral Court under cover of an illusion, and Qin Yang sensed another presence arrive.

Qin Yang used the Void Scripture to smuggle the Table Painting into the Ancestral Court, releasing the Yin Emperor from his mausoleum and setting him against the Emperor Ying's dharma body. With the foolish exotic beast disrupting Great Ying's national luck, the Yin Emperor trapped the Emperor Ying long enough for the Table Painting to engulf him and carry him beyond Great Ying's territory.

• The foolish bear-and-lion-like exotic beast passed through the Ancestral Court's defenses, and Qin Yang hid rather than confront it.
• The Left Vice Minister brought the scroll into the Heavenly Heart Great Hall while Qin Yang secretly released the seals on the overlapping Table Painting.
• The Table Painting opened into the Emperor's Mausoleum, releasing the Yin Emperor and a flood of deathly aura into the Ancestral Court.
• The exotic beast bit into the Golden Armored Flood Dragon, while the Yin Emperor trapped the Emperor Ying's dharma body with black runes and the power of the One Word Art.
• Qin Yang sent the Table Painting crashing down over the trapped Emperor Ying, sealing him inside and transporting him beyond Great Ying Divine Dynasty's territory.

Qin Yang helped Yin Emperor trap Emperor Ying inside the Table Painting, then saved the Golden Armored Flood Dragon by luring the Foolish Exotic Beast away and having Second Sword Lord stew it in the Treasure Cauldron. He returned to the ancestral court and prepared to advance the plan to secure the Wedding Dress’s rule, while worrying that Emperor Ying might escape.

• Yin Emperor restrained Emperor Ying long enough for Qin Yang’s fully refined Table Painting to envelop and seal Emperor Ying’s incarnation inside its world.
• Illusory Sea Old Thief seized the Table Painting and escaped as Qin Yang was struck down, then Qin Yang rallied the confused officials and sent word of the crisis.
• Qin Yang returned to the ancestral court and entered the wounded Golden Armored Flood Dragon to draw the Foolish Exotic Beast away from its insides.
• Qin Yang provoked the Foolish Exotic Beast by stomping on its head, then fled with it pursuing him and summoned Second Sword Lord.
• Second Sword Lord repeatedly trapped the Foolish Exotic Beast in the Treasure Cauldron, and Qin Yang boiled it into treasure soup while preserving Great Yin’s final Seed of National Luck.
• Qin Yang decided to press ahead with the plan for the Wedding Dress to rule, fearing Illusory Sea Old Thief might help Emperor Ying escape, and found the injured Golden Armored Flood Dragon above the clouds.

Qin Yang persuaded the Golden Armored Flood Dragon that it represented the Great Ying Divine Dynasty rather than Emperor Ying personally, then led it in declaring Emperor Ying dead through a Heaven Worship ritual. The declaration stripped Emperor Ying's dharma body of the dynasty's power in the Death World, leaving it weakened as the Yin Emperor emerged.

• Qin Yang offered the Golden Armored Flood Dragon Yinglong Blood Essence and argued that it should protect the Great Ying Divine Dynasty by supporting the Crown Prince rather than waiting for Emperor Ying to return.
• After rebels seized territory in the west and a scale on the Golden Armored Flood Dragon blackened and fell away, the dragon agreed that Emperor Ying was dead.
• Qin Yang performed Heaven Worship with Dao Artifact sacrificial vessels, and the Golden Armored Flood Dragon declared that Emperor Ying had passed away, sending blood-red clouds and rain across the dynasty.
• Qin Yang gave half his Yinglong Blood Essence to the weakened Golden Armored Flood Dragon and left the Dragon Vein Ancestral Court.
• In the Death World, Emperor Ying's dharma body lost the Great Ying Divine Dynasty's support and fell to the late dharma body stage.
• The Yin Emperor emerged from his mausoleum, laughed at Emperor Ying's weakened state, and declared that he did not step on fried dough sticks.

Qin Yang’s plan severed the Emperor Ying’s Dharma Body from Great Ying’s national destiny, weakening it enough for its final battle with the Yin Emperor. After both bodies fell, Wei Xingchao and Qin Yang rushed to stabilize Great Ying and prepare Jiayi to ascend the throne, while Qin Yang awaited another rare opportunity.

• Qin Yang used the Heaven Worship ritual and the Golden Armored Flood Dragon’s cooperation to declare the Emperor Ying dead and cut the Dharma Body off from Great Ying’s power.
• The weakened Emperor Ying’s Dharma Body unleashed a final sword strike that killed it and severed the Yin Emperor’s head from his body, ruining his plans for resurrection.
• Qin Yang left the ancestral court as Great Ying mourned, and Wei Xingchao urged him to return to Li Capital and help Jiayi ascend immediately.
• Wei Xingchao and the Heavenly Order Guard suppressed dissent while officials, clans, sects, and neighboring powers mostly backed Jiayi’s succession.
• Jiayi’s enthronement was scheduled at the fastest possible speed, and Qin Yang rested at Desperate Estate while anticipating another rare opportunity.

Qin Yang reviewed his plans to secure Jiayi’s ascension, prepare for future threats, and push open the Black Jade Divine Gate. He asked Ying Bai to recognize Kui Mountain as Great Ying territory in name, and she agreed, giving him a formal document.

• Qin Yang listed Jiayi’s ascension and the Black Jade Divine Gate as immediate priorities, while marking the Emperor Ying’s true body, Xun Mu, and the Yin Emperor as potential threats.
• Qin Yang reasoned that the Yin Emperor and the Illusory Sea Old Thief might threaten Great Ying, so he resolved to prepare while studying the Heaven Mending Immortal Scripture.
• Qin Yang went to Kui Mountain, where the white fox led him to Ying Bai, and he asked her to recognize Kui Mountain as part of Great Ying’s territory during Jiayi’s ascension.
• Qin Yang offered Ying Bai treasure soup and explained that the recognition would support Jiayi’s ascension and give him a chance to push open the Black Jade Divine Gate.
• Ying Bai stared at the Yinglong Relief on Qin Yang’s divine gate, agreed to his request, and wrote him a formal document on white jade.

Qin Yang secured Mount Kui’s nominal inclusion in Great Ying and reassured the Wedding Dress before her ascension to the throne. As the Yin Emperor’s plans failed and the Illusory Sea’s boundary with the Death World weakened, the Illusory Sea Old Thief offered him a route out in exchange for the Book of Myriad Techniques key and other conditions.

• Qin Yang obtained Ying Bai’s agreement to incorporate Mount Kui into Great Ying as a nominal designation and planned to repay her by supporting the Mountain Ghost Goddess Temple.
• Qin Yang gave the Wedding Dress the jade book and warned her about Mount Kui, the Yin Emperor, and the Illusory Sea; she silenced him and fell asleep on his back.
• Qin Yang returned to his estate, heard the Golden Pig complain that a black snake shadow had stopped it from making soup, and resumed cultivating.
• The Wedding Dress’s ascension day arrived, while the Yin Emperor’s failed rebirth plan left him increasingly transformed into an ominous being.
• Deathly aura spread from the Death World into the Illusory Sea, and ordinary soldier figurines began emerging from the newly dead ground.
• The Illusory Sea Old Thief offered the Yin Emperor a route out in exchange for the key to the Book of Myriad Techniques and a promise not to harm the Illusory Sea, and the Yin Emperor accepted.

On the day before the Ascension Ceremony, Qin Yang began cultivating the Heaven Mending Immortal Scripture and prepared Li Capital for the new sovereign’s enthronement. After confronting the old eunuch about Emperor Ying’s death, Qin Yang realized Illusory Sea Old Thief had interfered and suspected Yin Emperor would appear at the ceremony.

• Qin Yang began cultivating the Heaven Mending Immortal Scripture, which reduced the conceptual difficulty of pushing open his Black Jade Divine Gate.
• Qin Yang traveled to Li Capital and personally checked the preparations for the Ascension Ceremony.
• Illusory Sea Old Thief and the old eunuch trapped Qin Yang in a distorted corridor, where the old eunuch asked whether Qin Yang had been involved in Emperor Ying’s fall.
• Qin Yang admitted that he and Her Highness had plotted to kill Emperor Ying, then explained that Her Highness had the strength and talent to rule Great Ying.
• The old eunuch left without acting against Qin Yang, and Qin Yang recognized that Illusory Sea Old Thief had used the encounter to stir trouble.
• Qin Yang concluded that Illusory Sea Old Thief’s appearance meant Yin Emperor would likely show up at the Ascension Ceremony.