Recaps

At an exchange gathering in the Giant Palace, Qin Ming reunited with familiar disciples and faced the attention of young prodigies from many paths. Chu Pianran presented an ancient scripture written on immortal skin for the gathering to interpret, while the purple-haired girl recognized Qin Ming and plotted to confront him.

• The purple-haired girl learned that Qin Ming was the man who had ridden her twice, but Talking Finch stopped her from confronting him at the gathering.
• Qin Ming exchanged greetings with Ling Yu, Xin Youdao, Zhao Yaoting, and Cai Jingcheng, who praised his recent achievements and discussed his difficult path ahead.
• Zheng Maoze, Cui Chonghe, and Li Qingxu watched Qin Ming from elsewhere in the hall, while Sun Jingxiao reassured Li Qingxu that the New Life Path would eventually fall behind.
• The gathering began discussing cultivation questions and scriptures, and Chu Pianran presented an ancient book made from immortal skin.
• Zhao Shuyu and a Ghost Path prodigy realized that Chu Pianran's scripture was notoriously difficult and suspected she meant to challenge the gathered prodigies.

Qin Ming studied the Immortal Path scripture on immortal skin, cautiously tracing its black-and-white circulation routes while Li Qingyue and others sought their own insights. After more than four hours, Qin Ming remained the only one still examining the text, and black-and-white light suddenly burst from him.

• Luo Yao recognized Qin Ming as the former hunter from Black White Mountain, and they argued before agreeing to exchange the Eight Sceneries Scripture for teachings Qin Ming could decipher.
• Qin Ming noticed the Violet Lightning Beast approaching with a hidden hammer, then met Li Qingyue and went with her to study the scripture.
• Chu Pianran allowed Qin Ming and Li Qingyue to read the original immortal skin, which revealed only twelve pages of the scripture.
• Qin Ming cautiously followed the scripture’s black-and-white diagrams with his heavenly light and repeatedly checked his understanding against the original.
• Cui Chonghe, Su Shiyun, Zhao Yaoting, Li Qingyue, and others gained insights, while Qin Ming continued studying after everyone else stopped.
• After people questioned what Qin Ming had learned, black-and-white light suddenly erupted from his body, silencing the Giant Palace.

Qin Ming astonished the gathering by comprehending the Black White Scripture, then arranged to pursue an exchange for the Eight Sceneries Scripture. The next day, he entered a Heaven Reaching Tower to test whether he could withstand heavenly light, despite Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan’s concerns.

• Qin Ming’s black and white luminous mist drew attention, and Chu Pianran revealed that the immortal skin’s method was called the Black White Scripture.
• Chu Pianran asked Qin Ming how he had comprehended the scripture, and he claimed that it was a Heavenly Light Force method practiced in the wrong direction by the others.
• Qin Ming offered to teach Li Qingyue and tried to trade the Black White Scripture with Luo Yao for the Eight Sceneries Scripture, but Luo Yao lacked authority to make the exchange.
• Li Qingyue promised to arrange the exchange through Luo Yao’s sister, while the gathering wound down without another scripture attracting comparable attention.
• Qin Ming asked Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan to let him enter the Heaven Reaching Tower, persuaded them that heavenly light would not corrode him, and entered the tower that day.

Qin Ming endured summer thunder’s heavenly light to temper his body and advance his cultivation, while the news of a Founding Ancestor’s decline heightened his concern about the dangers ahead. After thirty-six waves of heavenly light, he mastered the Wither Bloom Scripture and Black White Scripture and formed a flawless Golden Core, leaving Li Qingyue to compare the ordeal to an ancient heavenly tribulation.

• Qin Ming endured summer thunder’s heavenly light in Mountain River Academy’s tower, and Little Wu tried it too before Qin Ming rushed him out when he nearly collapsed.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan told Qin Ming that a Founding Ancestor had coughed up blood during the ongoing Founding Ancestor Assembly and predicted that half the Ancestors might perish attempting nirvana.
• Li Qingyue visited Qin Ming, and he taught her and Wu Yaozu about the demanding requirements for cultivating the Black White Scripture.
• When a waterfall of lightning arrived, Qin Ming used the heavenly light to advance his extraordinary arts and cultivate the Wither Bloom Scripture and Black White Scripture.
• Qin Ming used the Dragon Tiger Pill Combination to refine his methods into a Golden Core, and Yu Gensheng counted thirty-six waves of heavenly light as Li Qingyue likened them to an ancient heavenly tribulation.

Qin Ming realized that his breakthrough required a coordinated accumulation of unusual substances and set out for the Evil Land to find them. There, he and Little Wu discovered a lifelike Human-Shaped Lantern resembling someone Qin Ming had known in Double Tree Village.

• Qin Ming completed the internal refinement of his Ten Great Miraculous Skills into a Golden Core, but realized his transformation was still incomplete.
• Li Qingyue suggested that Qin Ming could accumulate the substances he needed by repeatedly enduring thunderfire and worldly heavenly light, and she offered to provide information about them.
• After attending Yu Shaohua's scripture lecture, Qin Ming heard that Li Qingxu had broken through to the late-second realm and then left for the Evil Land.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu searched the fog-shrouded Evil Land for rare baleful substances, but several promising ones escaped them.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu found a paper Human-Shaped Lantern that closely resembled someone Qin Ming had known in Double Tree Village.

Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu discovered an ancient hut whose writings described a powerful being’s struggle to recover his original human body and warned against abandoning the human path. The notes pointed to something dangerous behind the hut, leaving Qin Ming to investigate the mysterious Human-Shaped Lantern and the ground beyond.

• Qin Ming found that the foggy hut and lantern appeared only when he approached, while Wu Yaozu had to follow him to keep them visible.
• Qin Ming read ancient notes describing perfected Seven-Day Stacking, powerful gods and immortals, and a distant outsider stranded in the Night Mist World.
• Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu learned that the writer had suffered greatly while trying to regain his original body, and Wu Yaozu wondered whether the Human-Shaped Lantern was the writer’s skin.
• Qin Ming considered whether the lantern could be connected to Old Man Liu, but noted that their ages and histories did not match.
• Qin Ming read the writer’s warning that only those bound by benevolent affinity could enter, along with instructions to approach the abnormal ground behind the hut cautiously and not rush to become a deity.

Qin Ming and Little Wu explored the desolate land beyond the hut and found a mountain where the hut's owner had left a trial against a Crystal Person modeled on a prodigy from the Night Mist World. Qin Ming defeated the formidable opponent, and the trial began revealing the reward while warning him not to grow complacent.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu searched the barren land beyond the hut, endured the black-haired winds, and reached a mountain stockade where the storm fell silent.
• The Crystal Person revealed that successors had to defeat it to claim the hut owner's legacy, and that four peaks held trials modeled on the disciples of a Seven Days Superimposed Perfection Expert.
• Qin Ming chose to challenge the Crystal Person, which attacked with a barrage of Sword Radiance and fought using powerful Night Mist World techniques.
• Qin Ming countered with his Five Colors Saber and multiple Extraordinary Arts, then broke the Crystal Person's arm and battered half its body apart.
• The Crystal Person mistakenly delivered a speech about Qin Ming's defeat, corrected itself, praised his victory, and warned him that even gods could fall.
• The ground opened beneath the Crystal Person as it offered to give Qin Ming what he needed most.

Qin Ming and Little Wu followed the Crystal Person’s fishing line to the Fish Pit, where Qin Ming caught the legendary Yin and Yang fish. Their union formed the Yin Yang Great Medicine, a treasure ideally suited to Qin Ming’s cultivation.

• The Crystal Person explained that the fish from the Evil Land formed a Yin Yang Great Medicine that could temper consciousness, then sent Qin Ming and Little Wu toward the Fish Pit.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu reached the Fish Pit and read accounts of powerful cultivators, including Cui Chonghe and Jiang Ran, failing to catch the black fish.
• Qin Ming used his Legendary Domain Heavenly Light Force to restore the fading fishing line, and the Crystal Person revealed that Qin Ming had extended its life.
• Qin Ming used the line to catch the Yin Fish and stored it in the Torn Cloth Space, breaking the balance in the Fish Pit.
• Qin Ming caught the Yang Fish as it emerged, then stored it beside the Yin Fish, and the two joined into a Yin-Yang Black-White Diagram.

Qin Ming and Little Wu were ambushed by people seeking the Yin Yang Fish, but Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan intervened and killed the attackers to keep the discovery secret. Back in Kunlun City, Qin Ming obtained the Eight Sceneries Scripture and prepared to refine the Yin Yang Great Medicine during a thunderstorm.

• A crowd of spies and desperadoes surrounded Qin Ming and Little Wu at the Fish Pit, and several attackers tried to seize the Yin Yang Fish.
• Qin Ming used the Black and White Diagram to repel the attackers, but the Yin Yang Fish became too powerful for him to control and he returned it to the Torn Cloth Space.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan arrived, defeated the attackers, and killed the survivors to conceal the Yin Yang Fish's existence.
• Qin Ming offered Little Wu starfire essence, but Little Wu declined and told him to keep it for his own cultivation.
• Li Qingyue told Qin Ming that the Great Wilderness Expansion would begin within months or, at the latest, two years, and that she had traded for the Eight Sceneries Scripture with Jiang Ran.
• Qin Ming studied the scripture and the Yin Yang Fish, brought himself into peak condition, and waited for a thunderstorm to begin his breakthrough.

Qin Ming joined the Immortal Path’s intensive training as a sparring partner, where he defeated Sun Jingxiao and revealed the danger of his Heavenly Light Force. He then used a violent thunderstorm to refine the Black-and-White Twin Fish, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Qin Ming agreed to train with the immortal seeds in exchange for auspicious beast blood and negotiated for either the Eight Sceneries Divine Illumination Scripture or the location of an evil land.
• Qin Ming and the other sparring partners arrived at Ascension Academy, where six second-realm Near-Immortal Seeds prepared for intensive training prompted by a message from deep within the Night Mist World.
• Li Qingxu, disguised as Armor Six, was beaten in turn by Xiang Yiwu, Wu Yaozu, and Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming used his Golden Cicada Scripture to defeat Sun Jingxiao, then fought Armor Three to a draw and tempered Armor One and Armor Two with his Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming left the arena when thunder approached and used the storm to master the Eight Sceneries Scripture, fuse its forces, and begin refining the Black-and-White Twin Fish into Yin Yang Great Medicine.

Qin Ming spent a month adapting to the dangerous Yin-Yang Diagram by absorbing life-prolonging heavenly light, then used it to break through to the mid-second realm without losing lifespan. He left the chapter with transformed heavenly light, a renewed body, and confidence that he could cut down any opponent at his level.

• Qin Ming realized that fusing with the Yin-Yang Diagram could cost him a hundred years of life, so he searched for heavenly light that could preserve and restore his vitality.
• Qin Ming selectively absorbed longevity heavenly light during the rainy season, repeatedly refining the Yin-Yang Diagram while avoiding the Immortal Path group’s sparring sessions.
• Qin Ming adapted to the yin-yang anomaly after a month of cultivation and began refining Golden Cores with it without suffering harm.
• Qin Ming shattered a perfected Golden Core, gained vitality, and broke through to the mid-second realm after refining the medicine repeatedly.
• Qin Ming underwent new life again and demonstrated that his transformed black-and-white heavenly light could cut down opponents at his level.

After breaking through to a new level of life, Qin Ming returned to sparring while the New Life Path worried over the Sky Bearing Ancestor’s dangerous expedition into the Night Mist World. As Immortal Path disciples gathered ahead of a visit from a mysterious humanoid race, An Youxing challenged Qin Ming and offered him rare Sha if Qin Ming could shake him.

• Qin Ming completed his breakthrough in the rain, and Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan recognized that he had attained new life.
• The Sky Bearing Ancestor entered the depths of the Night Mist World alone, leaving the New Life Path fearing he might never return.
• Qin Ming resumed sparring, defeating Li Qingxu while Little Wu and Xiang Yiwu also showed their growing strength.
• Xiang Yiwu told Qin Ming that the Immortal Path had discovered a territory with ruins and immortal tombs, and that an Elf Race delegation would soon arrive.
• An Youxing challenged Qin Ming to burn his consciousness spirit light and offered him rare Sha if Qin Ming could shake him.
• Qin Ming accepted An Youxing’s challenge.

Qin Ming defeated An Youxing with Finger Flicking Thunder, won the Dragon Tiger Dao Scripture, and learned that the Cui Household had exposed his practice of the Silk Book Method. As the Immortal Path prepared to meet the Sun Elf Race, news from Kunling warned that a monster was about to emerge and the Mad God had left the Jade Capital.

• Qin Ming overwhelmed An Youxing's pure yang consciousness with repeated thunderfire strikes, forcing him to concede and promise the vermilion bird evil after a special period.
• Pei Shuyan compensated Qin Ming with the Dragon Tiger Dao Scripture, while revealing that the Immortal Path knew of Qin Ming's Silk Book Method.
• Li Qingyue told Qin Ming that the Cui Household had likely spread the news about his cultivation method, and Qin Ming learned that Ning Siqi had declined his auspicious beast blood.
• Qin Ming heard that his grandfather had left on a long journey after entrusting him to the Cui Household, but he doubted the explanation and worried his grandfather might be dead.
• The Immortal Path prepared to receive the Sun Elf Race in the Great Yu Capital, while grandmasters in Kunling investigated flaws in Ancient Kunlun's seal.
• Grandmaster-level figures warned that a monster was about to emerge, and news spread that the Mad God had left the Jade Capital.

Qin Ming and Little Wu left Kunling after a Mad God emerged from the Jade Capital, while factions fled the city and an Ancestor stopped the threat. Traveling separately through the Night Mist World, Qin Ming reached a forgotten yin pool to fish for manifested Sha, but hauled up three corpses, one of which he recognized.

• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan showed Qin Ming and Little Wu a recording of a deranged Mad God emerging from the Jade Capital and urged them to leave Kunling.
• The Ancient Immortal Dojo identified the Mad God as its Old Ancestor, and Zhao Ziyuan later reported that an Ancestor had stopped him.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu said farewell and split up, with Wu Yaozu heading toward Great Yu and Qin Ming traveling toward Great Rui.
• Qin Ming joined a group of travelers and struck an unseen creature with his Jade Iron Saber; five travelers disappeared from the camp overnight.
• Qin Ming reached a desolate yin pool and fished up three grotesque corpses, recognizing one of them as familiar.

Qin Ming pulled three Mad Gods from the Yin Pool and discovered that the living corpse among them was the Ancestor of the Silk Book Method. The Ancestor gave Qin Ming the complete method and four ancient scriptural passages, then prepared to take the two dead Mad Gods away as his own life neared its end.

• Qin Ming recognized the cracked, living corpse as the Ancestor he had seen in the Divine Temple and cautiously approached him at the Yin Pool.
• The Ancestor awakened, warned Qin Ming that the Silk Book Method led to a fatal dead end, and transmitted its complete teachings after learning Qin Ming had already surpassed the Ancestor's old deductions.
• The Ancestor told Qin Ming he had entered the Inverted Jade Capital, subdued Mad Gods, and slain a deity and its Golden-Furred Divine Howl before his body and spirit shattered for the third time.
• The Ancestor revealed that he came from one of the great sects' ancestral courts and said the other two Mad Gods were effectively dead, which he planned to bury deep underground.
• The Ancestor passed four short passages drawn from ancient scriptures to Qin Ming, hoping they would help him develop the Silk Book Method.

Qin Ming learned the Flesh Body Chapter from the Silk Book Method’s Ancestor, who then buried himself, and survived a dangerous encounter with a mysterious Gui while traveling through the Night Mist World. He returned toward Black White Mountain and reached Double Tree Village, where the Fire Spring and Black White Twin Trees had grown.

• The old Ancestor explained the Flesh Body Chapter and discussed New Life with Qin Ming before departing to bury himself.
• Qin Ming traveled alone through the Night Mist World, fought off a chilling, unseen being with his Heavenly Light Force and Exotic Metal Small Sword, and suspected it was Gui.
• Qin Ming traveled by airship to Maple Leaf City and set out for Black White Mountain, hoping to investigate Old Man Liu’s possible connection to a fugitive from the Jade Capital.
• Er Bingzi learned that Qin Ming had become famous and that using his name had put him in danger, while Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu explored the Great Yu Capital amid the arrival of an elven delegation.
• Qin Ming reached the outskirts of Double Tree Village and found that the Fire Spring was brighter and the Black White Twin Trees were taller and thicker.

Qin Ming secretly returned to Double Tree Village, reunited with his family and Old Man Liu, and shared his suspicions about the old man’s resemblance to a figure from Kunling. He then tested the village’s mysterious night sky by sending the Red Squirrel up as a kite, and it returned carrying a bloodstained kite with faint writing on it.

• Qin Ming returned to Double Tree Village, caught the Red Squirrel trying to challenge him, and promised to leave an Extraordinary Art for the villagers.
• Qin Ming and the Red Squirrel searched Black White Mountain, where Qin Ming caught a fourth-mutation turtle and gathered spiritual matter.
• Qin Ming secretly visited Lu Ze and Liang Wanqing, gave them spiritual matter, and asked them to keep his return quiet.
• Qin Ming met Old Man Liu beside the Fire Fields, asked whether he was a god, and told him about the Human-Skin Lantern and Kunling’s Evil Land.
• Old Man Liu recalled that Black White Mountain had collapsed five hundred years earlier but denied having anything to do with it.
• Qin Ming sent the Red Squirrel into the night sky, and it descended with a bloodstained kite bearing faint writing.

Qin Ming and Old Man Liu discovered an ancient Blood Kite tied to a mysterious figure who had returned to the mortal world, then explored Black White Mountain for Sha. After Qin Ming mastered the Black White Scripture, he found a powerful presence hidden in the night sky and began hauling it down.

• Qin Ming and Old Man Liu examined the Blood Kite, whose Phoenix Seal Script described a being returning to the mortal world, and Qin Ming buried it beneath the Black White Trees.
• Qin Ming gave Old Man Liu spiritual matter and two scriptures, then studied beneath the trees and fully comprehended the Black White Scripture, perfecting his yin yang diagram.
• Qin Ming and Old Man Liu searched three suspicious locations in Black White Mountain, but Qin Ming found no manifested Sha.
• Qin Ming suspected the Sha was in the sky and cast his fishing hook into the night fog.
• Qin Ming used the Wu Ji Scripture and Heavenly Light Force to haul in a powerful catch as the night fog churned and the Red Squirrel watched.

Qin Ming subdued a powerful White Tiger baleful essence, then followed the Black White Scripture through the mountains and discovered a hidden golden farmland. The chapter left Qin Ming, Old Man Liu, and Red Squirrel facing an unknown presence that declared the land and its inhabitants belonged to the king.

• Qin Ming fought off a ghostly Heavenly Immortal and subdued a White Tiger baleful essence that had broken its ancient chain.
• Qin Ming sealed the White Tiger and stored it in the Torn Cloth after noticing that Black White Mountain was awakening.
• Qin Ming resonated with the mountain ruins and recovered nine pages of the Black White Scripture, bringing his total to twenty-one pages.
• Qin Ming followed the scripture’s murmurs through dense mist and found a vast field of glowing golden crops, with luminous horses and a distant farming song.
• Red Squirrel asked who lived there, and an unseen being answered that all beneath heaven belonged to the king and all within it were the king’s subjects.

Qin Ming, Old Man Liu, and Red Squirrel entered the revived Black White Divine Land and learned about its destruction in a battle five hundred years ago and the Beast God's mysterious disappearance. At the banquet, White-Haired Old Beast tried to make Qin Ming serve Young Master Lu, and the chapter ended with Black White Divine Land's master reacting to a covert report about Qin Ming and Old Man Liu.

• Old Panda welcomed Qin Ming, Old Man Liu, and Red Squirrel into the Black White Divine Land and explained that the land had lain dormant for centuries.
• The townspeople told Qin Ming that a battle five hundred years ago had shattered Black White Mountain and that the Beast God had vanished afterward.
• Guests from other forbidden lands arrived for the banquet, while Qin Ming and his companions were seated among the lower-ranking attendees.
• White-Haired Old Beast recognized Qin Ming, introduced him to Young Master Lu, and demanded that Qin Ming follow him as a subject of Black White Mountain.
• Qin Ming invoked Meng Xinghai's name and presented his letter, but White-Haired Old Beast dismissed it and destroyed it.
• After the middle-aged man and Young Master Lu secretly reported to him, Black White Divine Land's master stiffened.

Qin Ming faced pressure from the Black White Divine Land at a feast, but his ancestral court tokens forced its leaders to treat him with respect. After Liu Bai recognized Old Man Liu as the former master of the Black White Dao Field, the Divine Land’s Old Ancestor confirmed his identity and warned that provoking him could destroy them.

• Yue Mo and Liu Bai grew alarmed when signs of the old master resurfaced, though Young Master Lu reported that the Bone-Reflecting Mirror showed no disguise.
• Second Young Master Liu invited Qin Ming into the Black White Divine Land, but Qin Ming refused and presented jade tokens from the Six Royals, Tathagata, and Jade Clarity Ancestral Courts.
• Liu Bai learned from the Divine Land’s Old Ancestor that Old Man Liu was the master of the Black White Dao Field and recalled the Beast God’s warning never to provoke him.
• Liu Bai chastised Second Young Master Liu, ordered the young Demon Seed to retreat, and struck the White-Haired Old Beast for troubling the guests.
• Liu Bai feared that his actions had awakened Old Man Liu when he sensed the old man looking at him.

Liu Bai and the Black White Divine Land treated Old Man Liu with fearful deference, gave Qin Ming a legendary Black Tortoise Treasure Baleful Essence, and let them leave safely. Qin Ming returned to Red Haze City, learned of the Sun Elf Race’s plans to excavate the Divine Grave and Immortal Tomb, then received an unexpected letter signed by his grandfather and parents.

• Liu Bai repeatedly humbled the White-Haired Old Beast and hosted Qin Ming, Old Man Liu, and the Red Squirrel while the Black White Divine Land feared Old Man Liu might awaken.
• The Black White Divine Land sent Second Young Master Liu and Young Master Lu to apologize and gift Qin Ming a Black Tortoise Treasure Baleful Essence.
• Old Man Liu refused Qin Ming’s offer to leave, and Qin Ming departed alone after the Old Panda escorted them out of the mountains.
• Qin Ming encountered a pale figure on his journey, reached Red Haze City, and told Meng Xinghai about the forbidden-land feast.
• Qin Ming read Little Wu’s letter about the Sun Elf Race inviting people from Beyond the Mundane to excavate the Divine Grave and Immortal Tomb.
• Qin Ming opened a second letter bearing his grandfather’s and parents’ signatures and was shaken by its arrival.

After receiving letters from his grandfather and parents, Qin Ming investigated their uncertain origins while preparing to travel to the Great Yu Capital. A mysterious presence drove a powerful pangolin from the region, and Qin Ming concealed his growing Four-Symbols Diagram before setting out with Meng Xinghai.

• Qin Ming confirmed that his grandfather’s letter was genuine, but Meng Xinghai warned him that his parents’ letter could not be trusted and urged him to investigate rather than rush off.
• Qin Ming endured thunderfire in the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, then met Xu Sheng, Zhou Lin, and Wu Zheng, learning that Xu Sheng’s master had vanished into the depths of the Night Mist World.
• A powerful silver pangolin fled after bowing toward Black White Mountain, and the Three-Eyed Sect received a divine decree to withdraw from the surrounding region.
• Beyond the Mundane invited Qin Ming to the Great Yu Capital to meet the Sun Elf delegation, while Wu Yaozu used Qin Ming’s missing baleful essences to bargain for better terms.
• Qin Ming transformed his yin yang diagram into four saintly evils, and Meng Xinghai reached an agreement with Beyond the Mundane.
• Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai rode a Higher Aberrant Bird toward the Great Yu Dynasty.

Qin Ming reunited with Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu in Chongxiao and spent the night cruising the Shuyu River, where they encountered Li Qingyue, Zhao Qingcheng, Yao Ruoxian, and three sun elves. After the River God first rejected them, Wu Yaozu accidentally provoked her, and the chapter ended as divine radiance pulled their consciousnesses from their bodies and Qin Ming searched for something from Black White Mountain.

• Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai arrived in Chongxiao, where Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu welcomed them.
• Meng Xinghai left to visit an old friend, and Qin Ming explored the bustling capital with Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu.
• Qin Ming and his companions met Li Qingyue, Zhao Qingcheng, and Yao Ruoxian by the Shuyu River, where a Four-Winged Bird publicly mocked their invitation to the women.
• Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu boarded a pleasure boat and learned that a godlike River God lived in the Shuyu River.
• The River God invited Yao Ruoxian and her companions to a banquet but initially rejected Qin Ming and his friends as unqualified.
• After Wu Yaozu relieved himself toward the river and saw eight streams, divine radiance began drawing the three men into the River God's banquet, and Qin Ming searched for an object from Black White Mountain.

After the River God expelled Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu from her residence, Qin Ming began cautiously refining legendary Sha and discovered that it was costing him years of life. The immortal path then suffered four straight defeats against the Sun Elf Race, leaving it with little choice but to seek help from the new life path.

• The River God rebuked Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu, then expelled them despite the Old Woman's intervention and Qin Ming's tokens.
• Qin Ming concluded that his low standing and lack of strength had kept him from being welcomed, and resolved to rise quickly.
• Qin Ming's attempt to refine white tiger evil cost him several years of lifespan, so he decided to proceed gradually and seek ways to replenish his vitality.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that the immortal path wanted its immortal seeds to fight before asking the new life path for help.
• The immortal path lost four consecutive matches against the Sun Elf Race, including two losses by god seeds, and Qin Ming expected the new life path to be called in.