Recaps

Qin Ming joined Yao Ruoxian’s expedition into Kunling Territory, completed his final new life transformation, and reached the peak of the first realm. As the expedition prepared to enter the Central Grand Palace, his Torn Cloth reacted to its yin aura, while the vanished Ancestors discovered a scrap of cloth enshrined beside the coffins of Godlike beings.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu returned to Qionghua City, gathered information about Kunling Territory, and learned that major powers were recruiting expedition teams.
• Qin Ming joined Zhao Wencheng and Zhao Wenqian’s group as an archer, entered Kunling Territory, and survived their first dangerous expedition with four teammates dead and no treasures found.
• Qin Ming completed his final new life transformation and mastered his eighth extraordinary art, fusing them into a Heavenly Light Force that surpassed the Ancestors’ first-realm achievements.
• Little Wu entered the second realm, while Qin Ming continued exploring with the expedition and watched most of its original members die or leave.
• Yao Ruoxian arrived for the planned expedition into the Central Grand Palace, where Qin Ming’s Torn Cloth trembled and absorbed a trace of Lunar Yin Aura.
• The vanished Ancestors found several coffins of Godlike beings and a Nine-Colored Altar, where one Ancestor moved to take the scrap of cloth enshrined upon it.

Qin Ming explored the Great Yu Dynasty’s haunted Giant Palace, where he discovered a ghostly medicinal plant and a mysterious seal before the Torn Cloth began drawing in dangerous Lunar Yin Force. Meanwhile, Cao Qianqiu and the other Ancestors followed a rune tunnel to a corpse-strewn city, then retreated in fear.

• Cao Qianqiu attacked the scrap of cloth, and the fighting damaged the altar until it shattered beneath it.
• The first two teams sent into the Giant Palace suffered heavy losses, prompting the Fourth Princess to provide protective garments and Windstride Talismans for later explorers.
• Qin Ming joined the fourth team, chose the Nether Scripture, and obtained a protective garment and twelve special arrows.
• Inside the Giant Palace, Qin Ming spotted a nine-flowered ghostly plant and a black seal, then fought Ghost Cultivators while the Torn Cloth absorbed the pool’s Lunar Yin Force.
• Qin Ming threw the Torn Cloth into the pool, used his arrows against the Ghost Cultivators, and withdrew with his surviving teammates.
• The Ancestors followed the rune tunnel to a distant city covered in corpses, then retreated and wondered whether to destroy the passage.

Qin Ming retrieved his Torn Cloth from the Giant Palace and found a second piece that merged with it, then escaped as Yao Ruoxian’s theft of the Black Seal unleashed the ghosts. After a Great Yu Dynasty elder tried to rob and kill him, Qin Ming revealed his full Heavenly Light Force and cut the elder down.

• The Ancestors severed the six divine coffins from the Torn Cloth, and Cao Qianqiu briefly caught it before it escaped into the earth veins.
• Qin Ming volunteered to reenter the Giant Palace for payment, retrieved his Torn Cloth, and watched a second piece leap from the pool and merge with it.
• Yao Ruoxian took the Black Seal and ghost herb, awakening the old ghosts and forcing everyone to flee the region.
• Qin Ming escaped by letting small ghosts cling to him, while a wounded Great Yu Dynasty elder tried to redirect pursuing ghosts toward him.
• The elder later demanded Qin Ming’s money and Extraordinary Arts, then attacked him, but Qin Ming’s full Heavenly Light Force overwhelmed him and split him in two.

Qin Ming left the Yin Soil, reunited with Little Wu, and naturally broke through into the Outer Saint Domain while resting on a pleasure boat in Qionghua City. After celebrating, he and Little Wu set out for the Great Rui–Great Gan border, where Qin Ming hoped to find his old friend Ning Siqi.

• Qin Ming defeated the old man from the Great Yu Dynasty in the Yin Soil and escaped with several thousand pieces of Day Gold.
• Little Wu went out to temper himself with large organizations, earning Day Gold while surviving dangerous encounters with treacherous people.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu toured Qionghua City, shared their painful pasts, and Qin Ming worried about his missing grandfather.
• Qin Ming naturally advanced to the Outer Saint Domain aboard a pleasure boat, where he comprehended his transformed strength and the Silk Scripture's manifestations.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu decided to leave the Great Yu Dynasty for the Great Rui–Great Gan border, hoping to find Ning Siqi among the trapped Esoteric Sect disciples.

Qin Ming and Little Wu reached the Kunling ruins, where New Life Evolvers could enter an ancient sect through focused consciousness. Qin Ming seized the chance to rise above the role of a strongman, but his clash with a powerful woman coincided with someone awakening inside a crystal coffin.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu arrived in Yellow Sand City, learned about the Kunling ruins from the Red Beauty Tavern, and met New Life Path seniors and familiar faces there.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Torn Cloth could store objects, then traveled with Little Wu to the mist-shrouded ruins and learned how New Life Evolvers could enter them.
• Qin Ming entered a vast ancient sect, rejected the role of a strongman, and became an inner disciple by defeating an Immortal Path Disciple who tried to inscribe runes into him.
• Qin Ming sent Zheng Maoze and Zeng Yuan out of the sect with powerful attacks, then obtained access to secret manuals and medicinal formulas as an inner disciple.
• Qin Ming challenged a woman in purple whose consciousness spirit light resisted his Five Colors Saber, while a woman inside a crystal coffin opened her eyes.

Qin Ming fought Chu Pianran in the Maple Tree Forest and proved strong enough to injure her spirit-light manifestation, earning praise as the Strongest Young Laborer. After Chu Pianran awakened in a crystal coffin, she told her master that changes in Kunling made it time to break out, while Qin Ming considered using the Immortal Dojo’s resources to test his path.

• Qin Ming battled Chu Pianran in the forbidden Maple Tree Forest as ancient disciples and Present World visitors gathered to watch.
• Qin Ming realized that ancient people in the drama saw him as an inner disciple, while people from the Present World recognized him as a laborer.
• Qin Ming combined his extraordinary arts and combat techniques against Chu Pianran’s Pure Yang Sword Array, eventually injuring her and severing her sleeve.
• Chu Pianran praised Qin Ming as an unprecedented laborer who could contend with a religious order’s strongest disciple, then departed as a shower of light.
• Chen Bingyan wondered whether Qin Ming was their old friend, but Lu Zhenyi doubted it.
• Chu Pianran awakened in a crystal coffin, told her master that changes in Kunling made it time to break out, and Qin Ming considered using the dojo’s resources to test his methods.

After surviving Zhao Shuyu’s attack in the Immortal Dojo, Qin Ming returned to test arts and refine his heavenly light. His experiments exposed how difficult advancement was and left him seeking rare, dangerous substances his rank could not normally access.

• Qin Ming fled Zhao Shuyu, a living third-realm Core Disciple who attacked him for offending Chu Pianran, and was injured by the blast of Zhao Shuyu’s saber.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan confirmed that Zhao Shuyu was a living ancient survivor, protected Qin Ming, and told him to return to the dojo while they stood guard.
• Qin Ming reentered the Immortal Dojo, became a Quasi-Core Disciple, and used its accelerated experience to test cultivation and advance his arts.
• Qin Ming spent one or two simulated years fusing earth mother qi, nether fire fiend, and heavenly pure spiritual qi, but found his progress too slow and the change to his heavenly light disappointing.
• Qin Ming learned that his rank barred him from the dojo’s priceless divine substances, including undying resin, and asked to study dangerous Extraterrestrial Abandoned Objects instead.

Qin Ming tested cultivation methods across the ancient Immortal and God Paths, gained scriptures, and discovered that living practitioners remained in several sealed traditions. After the Ghost Path reappeared and Kunling was sealed again, the returning Ancestors defeated the Auspicious Beast and launched a hunt across the plateau, offering rewards for capturing Demon One.

• Qin Ming endured dangerous abandoned objects in an Immortal Dojo, collected prescriptions and scriptures, and left after dying in his role.
• Qin Ming defeated a formidable white-haired disciple in another dojo, forced Zheng Maoze and Zeng Yuan to serve as laborers, and cultivated his Heavenly Light.
• Qin Ming tested methods in several dojos, defeated a powerful Esoteric Sect disciple, and concluded that living people remained in at least three ancient traditions.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu left Kunling as the Ghost Path emerged and Kunling was sealed again.
• The Ancestors returned from the sealed land and killed the Auspicious Beast and its allies outside the Third Forbidden Land.
• The Ancestors ordered a hunt across the plateau and offered double Auspicious Beast Blood to whoever captured Demon One.

Qin Ming fought through the battlefield at the Third Forbidden Land, claimed credit for killing a weakened Third Realm demon, and discovered a precious cache of starfire essence. He left after defeating Li Qingxu, while the Cui Household considered using his growing reputation to draw powerful enemies toward him.

• The Cui Household debated Qin Ming's strength and decided he should be killed if he proved extraordinary, despite someone protecting him.
• An Ancestor's Diamond Parrot stopped older experts from stealing kills, allowing Qin Ming and Little Wu to gain battle merits as Jin Xiang hauled their trophies.
• Qin Ming joined youths attacking a dying Third Realm demon, killed it, and drove off Li Household members who tried to take the credit.
• Qin Ming found starfire essence hidden in a charred stone in the demon nest's treasury and concealed it in his Torn Cloth Space.
• Li Qingxu blocked Qin Ming's escape from the underground palace, but Qin Ming defeated him and left the battlefield.
• The Cui Household gathered reports of unusually strong New Life Evolvers and considered publicizing Qin Ming's feats to attract Cao Qianqiu's attention.

Qin Ming tested the power of starfire essence and continued battling across the Blood-Red Plateau to earn auspicious beast blood. Meanwhile, the Cui and Li Households maneuvered to provoke one another over rumors about Qin Ming’s Silk Book Method, and the Cui Household learned that its own people had already gone to kill him.

• Cui Cheng persuaded his fellow Cui Household members to spread rumors about Qin Ming’s Silk Book Method and draw the Li Household and others into the conflict.
• Qin Ming briefly fused his heavenly light with starfire essence through the Torn Cloth and witnessed a destructive burst of power before storing the stone and continuing his hunt for demons and fiends.
• Masked Li Qingxu swept through the plateau while the Li Household received intelligence claiming Qin Ming had mastered the Silk Book Method and investigated his past survival after his skull was shattered.
• The Cui Household used the rumor to tempt the Li Household into acting, while the Li Household planned to let the Cui Household test the situation first.
• Cui Cheng and the other Cui Household members were dumbfounded when they heard that their household had intercepted information and sent people to kill Qin Ming.

Qin Ming was ambushed by four Cui Household members who suspected his identity, but he overwhelmed them with his saber and Starfire Essence. He killed the group, leaving the Cui Household’s attack in ruins.

• The Li Household learned that Li Qingxu had encountered a formidable masked opponent, while Qin Ming sensed the Cui Household approaching as he hunted demons.
• Cui Xueying, Cui Chongsheng, Cui Changkong, and Cui Chongyun confronted Qin Ming and tried to take him in, but he refused to acknowledge them.
• Cui Chongsheng attacked Qin Ming and lost his right arm in their first exchange.
• Cui Changkong charged Qin Ming, who pierced his chest with Heavenly Light fused with Starfire Essence.
• Qin Ming beheaded Cui Chongsheng, while hidden arrows killed Cui Chongyun and the spirit birds watching overhead.
• Qin Ming killed Cui Xueying as she tried to retreat.

Qin Ming realized the Cui Household had identified him and killed Cui Changkong and Cui Chongsheng before defeating another group of Cuis. The chapter left him trying to extract the Abiding World Scripture from the wounded Cui Qing as news of another clash reached the Cui elders.

• Qin Ming recognized that the Cui Household had used eyewitnesses and Memory Crystals to identify him and suspect he had mastered the Silk Book Method.
• Qin Ming killed Cui Changkong in rhinoceros form and Cui Chongsheng, then destroyed nearby spirit birds and left the battlefield.
• Cui Changming and Cui Cheng learned that Cui Changkong and Cui Chongsheng had died and feared that Qin Ming had powerful protection.
• Qin Ming defeated Cui Qing and four young Cui men, then tried to obtain the Abiding World Scripture from Cui Qing.
• A thunder falcon reported that a second group had encountered Qin Ming, leaving the Cui elders fearing another massacre.

Qin Ming killed several Cui Household teams and obtained the first two volumes of the Abiding World Scripture, while the Cui Household’s leaders rushed to retaliate. Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan learned how dangerous the situation had become and hurried toward the approaching confrontation.

• Qin Ming killed Cui Qing, took a fragment of the Abiding World Scripture, and left after concluding that his identity as Shen Wubing had been exposed.
• Li Qingxu lost another battle to Little Wu, then renamed his masked identity Li Bai and recalled Cao Qianqiu’s advice to break first and rise anew.
• Cui Changming and Cui Cheng learned that Cui Qing had died and set out to retaliate, but then received news that Cui Chongkong’s seed team had encountered Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming attacked Cui Chongkong’s group, killed the green-haired elder and Cui Chongkong, and obtained the first two volumes of the Abiding World Scripture.
• A Higher Aberrant Bird told Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan that Qin Ming had killed third-realm experts, prompting them to race toward him as the Cui Household’s pursuers closed in.

The Cui Household surrounded Qin Ming and tried to force him to return so he could help them master the Silk Book Method. As Cui Sixteen attacked, an unknown protector killed him and another Cui Household assailant, leaving Qin Ming stunned by the unexpected help.

• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan decided to record the Cui Household's attack before striking back.
• Cui Sixteen and the Cui Household confronted Qin Ming, who rejected their claim that he owed them and refused to return with Cui Changming.
• Cui Changming revealed that the Cui Household wanted Qin Ming because he had mastered the Silk Book Method, but Qin Ming refused.
• Cui Sixteen lunged at Qin Ming and was killed instantly by a dark iron pellet fired by an unseen protector.
• A hidden Cui Household attacker tried to abduct Qin Ming, but a gaunt gray figure swept past and fatally tore away half his body.

Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan rescued Qin Ming from the Cui Household and killed the clan members who had threatened him. They left the Cui Household’s remaining forces as a possible threat, while Qin Ming resolved to grow strong enough to control his own fate.

• Yu Gensheng arrived as the Cui Household attacked Qin Ming and killed an elder who had been hiding nearby.
• Yu Gensheng drove back Cui Cheng, rescued Qin Ming, and confronted the Cui Household over its actions.
• Yu Gensheng revealed that the Memory Crystal had recorded the Cui Household’s conduct and warned the clan not to target New Life Path talents.
• Zhao Ziyuan joined Yu Gensheng, and the two elders killed the remaining Cui Household members present despite Cui Changming’s attempt to negotiate.
• Qin Ming worried that the elders had endangered themselves, but they said they would protect him from suffering the Overlord’s fate.

Qin Ming fought across the plateau to earn rare blood medicine and lifesaving substances, while the two New Life Path elders recognized his promise and offered to help him obtain scriptures. As the battle ended and the forces withdrew to tally merits, Jin Xiang returned with a cart piled high with demon heads, while the full extent of Qin Ming’s haul remained hidden.

• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan told Qin Ming that the New Life Path was fading, and Qin Ming promised to seek auspicious beast blood to extend their lives.
• Qin Ming revealed his starfire essence and rapid cultivation progress, then asked Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan for the Wither Bloom Scripture and their Earth Magnetism teachings.
• Qin Ming rejoined Jin Xiang and slaughtered demons across the plateau, killing a powerful demon who had narrowly missed becoming a Demon Seed.
• The Li Household learned that the Cui Household had suffered heavy losses after being misled, and clashes broke out between the rival lineages as rumors of Qin Ming spread.
• Qin Ming continued pursuing scattered demons until the battle ended, and an expert ordered the forces to withdraw and tally their merits outside the plateau.
• Jin Xiang returned with a cart piled with demon heads, astonishing the gathered cultivators, while he thought that the cart did not contain all their spoils.

After Qin Ming’s combat record as Shen Wubing earned him four portions of Auspicious Beast Blood, the crowd learned his true identity and the Cui and Li Households reacted with hostility. Pu Heng challenged the New Life Path elders, but a golden bird intervened before a mysterious figure seized and crushed Pu Heng’s head.

• Jin Xiang delivered wagonloads of demon heads, and the crowd learned that one team had collected them.
• The tally announced the leading rewards, including three portions of Auspicious Beast Blood for Li Qingyue and Cui Chonghe.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan vouched for Shen Wubing’s record, and Qin Ming stepped forward to claim his reward of four portions.
• Spectators and members of the Cui and Li Households recognized Qin Ming, while Li Qingxu was shaken to learn that Qin Ming was the person whose skull he had shattered.
• Pu Heng arrived, dismissed Qin Ming’s record as fraudulent, and threatened the New Life Path elders.
• A golden bird attacked Pu Heng, then a figure used Shrinking Space to an Inch to seize him and crush his head.

Lu Zizai arrived to defend Qin Ming and brutally defeated Pu Heng, permanently destroying much of his pure yang consciousness before battling four Immortal Path experts through the Four Royals. As Cao Qianqiu and other Ancestors gathered, Lu Yu and Sky-Pillar also appeared, leaving the plateau on the verge of a much larger confrontation.

• Lu Zizai crushed Pu Heng’s head, shattered his attacks with the Dragon Sword, and captured him with five golden dragons.
• Lu Zizai repeatedly beat Pu Heng, destroyed sixty percent of his pure yang consciousness, and rebuked the Immortal Path for attacking Qin Ming and belittling the New Life Path.
• Wei Yunqi and two of Pu Heng’s junior brothers intervened, but Lu Zizai manifested the Four Royals to fight them while Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan confronted the attackers.
• Onlookers learned that Qin Ming was the Cui Household’s Abandoned Son, and the Cui Household’s members were embarrassed as his combat record drew attention.
• The Four Royals drove Wei Yunqi, Pu Heng, and the other experts into retreat before Cao Qianqiu appeared and Lu Yu and Sky-Pillar arrived, escalating the confrontation among the Ancestors.

The New Life Path Ancestors confronted the Immortal Path over its attacks on their people, then launched a coordinated assault on Cao Qianqiu. As the Ancestors battled, Lu Zizai captured Pu Heng and others while Qin Ming challenged Li Qingxu and the Immortal Path’s younger fighters.

• Sky Bearing Ancestor, Lu Yu, and Present Tathagata faced Cao Qianqiu and the Immortal Path Ancestors, while Yu Shaohua and Jade Purity Ancestor arrived amid rising tensions.
• The New Life Path Ancestors accused Cao Qianqiu’s faction of targeting their juniors and demanded an end to the attacks, but Sky Bearing Ancestor challenged Cao Qianqiu to fight.
• The master of the Yin Yang Temple arrived, and Sky Bearing Ancestor, Present Tathagata, Lu Yu, and other New Life Path Ancestors attacked Cao Qianqiu together.
• Cao Qianqiu suffered severe injuries as Sun Taichu and Zhao Wenhan tried to aid him, and nine Ancestors fought above the plateau.
• Lu Zizai bound Pu Heng, his junior brothers, and Wei Yunqi, then sent Qin Ming to challenge the Immortal Path’s second-realm cultivators.
• Qin Ming challenged Li Qingxu while Lu Zizai called on the Immortal Path’s Personal Disciples to join the fight.

The New Life Path Ancestors battered Cao Qianqiu while Sun Taichu, Zhao Wenhan, and Yu Shaohua tried to protect him. Outside the plateau, Qin Ming defeated Li Qingxu and Lu Zizai killed two of Cao Qianqiu’s disciples; the chapter ended with the Ancestors joining forces to blow Cao Qianqiu apart again.

• The Present Tathagata, Jade Purity Ancestor, Jiang Zhiyuan, Sky Bearing Ancestor, and Lu Yu attacked Cao Qianqiu, tearing him apart until Sun Taichu, Zhao Wenhan, and Yu Shaohua intervened.
• Cao Qianqiu ordered his allies to hold off the New Life Path Ancestors while he fought Sky Bearing Ancestor, and the battle resumed.
• Lu Junhao charged Lu Zizai as Li Qingxu challenged Qin Ming, but Qin Ming cleaved through Li Qingxu’s techniques and nearly killed him before Cao Qianqiu’s lifesaving runes teleported him away.
• Lu Zizai defeated Lu Junhao and killed two of Cao Qianqiu’s Personal Disciples, while Qin Ming stopped pursuing Li Qingxu after Lu Zizai warned him back.
• The Ancestors overwhelmed Cao Qianqiu with repeated attacks, and Sky Bearing Ancestor split him apart and slapped him before all five Ancestors struck together and made him explode.

The Ancestors of the New Life Path battered Cao Qianqiu until he lost more than half his pure yang cultivation, while the Immortal Path’s reinforcements turned the battle into a dangerous stalemate. The Grandmaster-level fighting ended in negotiations, with Sky-Pillar warning that the New Life Path would retaliate against the Immortal Path’s disciples if another Cao Qianqiu appeared.

• Cao Qianqiu was repeatedly shattered by the five New Life Path Ancestors, losing more and more of his pure yang consciousness as Sun Taichu, Zhao Wenhan, and Yu Shaohua tried to protect him.
• Qian Jingxing and Wu Zhaoye arrived to aid the Immortal Path, but a previously hidden sixth New Life Path Ancestor joined the battle, leaving both sides wary of continuing the fight.
• Lu Zizai defeated Pu Heng and refined away most of his pure yang consciousness, then released him; Li Qingxu urged Pu Heng to walk the Destruction-and-Rebirth Path with him.
• The Ancestors ended the battle and discussed the New Life Path’s possible breakthrough and the coming wilderness expansion, while Cao Qianqiu protested his losses.
• Sky-Pillar warned the Immortal Path that the New Life Path would target its immortal seeds and Personal Disciples if another figure like Cao Qianqiu emerged.

After the Ancestors negotiated a truce, Kunlun City filled with powerful figures and rising prodigies as the Great Pioneering Era drew near. Qin Ming received rare scriptures and auspicious beast blood, while Cao Qianqiu brooded over his defeat and Qin Ming resolved to keep advancing quickly.

• The rust-covered spear revived, circled Cao Qianqiu, and flew toward Black White Mountain as the Ancestors watched.
• The New Life Path and Immortal Path Ancestors negotiated an agreement, while Sky-Pillar mocked Cao Qianqiu and the others excluded him from their council.
• Qin Ming received four portions of auspicious beast blood, and Luo Yao recognized him as the youth she had met at Black White Mountain.
• The Esoteric Sect let an unexplained conflict with the Immortal Path pass, while Kunlun City drew Ancestors and cultivators from many paths.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan gave Qin Ming the Earth Magnetism Scripture and the complete Wither Bloom Scripture, and Qin Ming offered them auspicious beast blood.
• Cao Qianqiu contemplated destruction and rebirth as Mu Qingfeng predicted Qin Ming's cultivation would stall, but Qin Ming resolved to maintain his rapid progress.

Qin Ming studied the records of past New Life Path sages and refined his ideas for speeding up cultivation while managing the risks of foreign substances. After leaving the Library Tower, he reunited with Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyun and planned to enter secluded cultivation.

• Qin Ming visited Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan, whose use of auspicious beast blood had restored some of their hair and extended their lives slightly.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan gave Qin Ming and Little Wu access to the ninth floor of the Library Tower to study past sages’ insights.
• Qin Ming studied cultivation methods and concluded that he could use Sha and foreign substances to temper heavenly light without fully absorbing them, while keeping self-cultivation as his foundation.
• Lu Zizai encouraged Qin Ming to test his own ideas, gave him tokens from the great Ancestral Courts, and discussed the uncertain future of the Ancestors.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu left the Library Tower with a clearer view of their paths, and Qin Ming reunited with Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyun.
• Qin Ming said he would enter secluded cultivation to strengthen himself, while Li Qingyun invited him to the Hidden Family and Meng Xinghai joked that he wanted Qin Ming as a grandson-in-law.

Qin Ming set aside the proposed matchmaking with Li Qingyue and stayed in Kunlun, where rumors spread that Ancestors would soon teach their scriptures. At an exchange meeting, he reunited with the ancient cultivator Chu Pianran, whose remark gave him a crucial insight and clarified his path forward.

• Qin Ming tactfully asked Li Qingyun and Meng Xinghai to postpone matchmaking, while Li Qingyun and Meng Xinghai voiced concern that Li Qingyue might drift too far from the mortal world as she advanced along the Immortal Path.
• Qin Ming learned that Li Qingyue had reached the Third Realm of the Immortal Path and had handled the trouble caused by those coveting her Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Qin Ming studied the Wither Bloom Scripture at Mountain River Academy as rumors spread that Ancestors were gathering in Kunlun to discuss Ancient Kunlun, the Great Wilderness Expansion, and public teachings.
• Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu attended Ascension Academy's Young Disciple Exchange Meeting, where cultivators from multiple paths gathered and attendees scrutinized Qin Ming for his performance during the plateau hunt.
• Qin Ming met Chu Pianran, an ancient cultivator he had fought before, and they discussed their respective eras and cultivation methods.
• Chu Pianran made an offhand remark that helped Qin Ming recognize a key advantage and see a clearer road ahead.

Qin Ming discussed ancient strongmen and Heavenly Light with Chu Pianran, then devised a path for refining himself with unusual substances. After learning that a dangerous Evil Land in Kunlun contained the star fiend he sought, he became eager to explore it, while the Violet Lightning Beast learned that Qin Ming had once ridden her and reacted furiously.

• Chu Pianran explained how ancient strongmen were transformed into powerful War Bodies, and Qin Ming connected her account of Heavenly Light to his plans for self-refinement.
• Qin Ming and Chu Pianran spoke as Zhao Shuyu questioned whether strongmen could overpower Immortal Seeds, and Xiang Yiwu silenced him by revealing his identity as Tathagata's Abandoned Disciple.
• Qin Ming reunited with Xiang Yiwu, agreed to exchange scriptures, and learned that a dangerous Kunlun Evil Land contained star fiend and other unusual substances.
• Luo Yao approached Qin Ming but stopped when she saw Tang Jin, who taunted her about her sister.
• Talking Finch told the Violet Lightning Beast that Qin Ming had ridden her near Black White Mountain, and she realized he was the culprit she had been searching for.