Recaps

Qin Ming used Spirit Travel to reach Taihe Town and rescue Ning Siqi, then slaughtered the attacking fiends and shattered a heavenly demon seed’s spear intent. After the Talking Finch warned him that Violet Lightning Beast and other fighters were battling in nearby Huaian Town, he rushed there and landed on her dragon horn.

• The Talking Finch told Qin Ming that Ning Siqi was in danger at Taihe Town, so Qin Ming left his physical body under the Thunder King Bird’s guard and traveled there as consciousness spirit light.
• Qin Ming killed Ning Siqi’s four-armed fiend opponent and helped the Night Prefecture fighters defeat several third-realm fiends.
• When more fiends returned with a heavenly demon seed’s spear intent, Qin Ming destroyed the spear intent and wiped out the fiend force despite An Zhongyi’s warning.
• The Talking Finch asked Qin Ming to help at Huaian Town, where Violet Lightning Beast and other seeds were fighting, and Qin Ming hurried there.
• Qin Ming spotted Violet Lightning Beast in battle and landed on one of her dragon horns.

Qin Ming arrived at the battlefield near Huaian Town in spirit form and helped the Violet Lightning Beast repel the demons. After killing the Five-Colored Lotus Armor demon and forcing the Fiend Sword Immortal to flee, he left to protect Taihe Town, while the Violet Lightning Beast still did not recognize him.

• Qin Ming met the Violet Lightning Beast and learned that the demons were trying to persuade her clan to abandon humanity and that the Fiend Sword Immortal and a spear-wielding demon in Five-Colored Lotus Armor were nearby.
• Qin Ming attacked the Silver Butterfly after it threatened the Violet Lightning Beast, drawing the Fiend Sword Immortal and the armored demon into battle.
• Qin Ming used the Sun Immortal Sword Art and the Black White Scripture to defeat the Fiend Sword Immortal's Sword Intent Incarnation, but the demon escaped underground.
• Qin Ming pursued and killed the Five-Colored Lotus Armor demon, destroying her consciousness with his black-and-white sword light.
• Qin Ming asked the immortal seeds and god seeds to watch over Taihe Town, then departed; the Violet Lightning Beast asked Talking Finch who he was, and Talking Finch realized she still had not recognized Qin Ming.

After defeating Yu Lian through Spirit Travel, Qin Empire Ming escaped an ambush by three powerful demon-humans and returned to his body to recover. A War Horn then sounded across the battlefield, where a blood moon revealed that a god had entered the decisive battle.

• The demons mourned Yu Lian and discussed recruiting powerful Fiend Sword Immortals, while the human camp learned Qin Empire Ming had defeated her and speculated about his Immortal Path abilities.
• Qin Empire Ming flew toward Green Maple Town but was intercepted by Jin Gui, Wu Youdao, and Xin Yuan, three demon-humans who concealed their demon aura with supreme Immortal Path arts.
• Qin Empire Ming escaped their encirclement using the Twofold Yin-Yang Escape Light and cut part of Xin Yuan's tail with his Exotic Metal Small Sword.
• Jin Gui recalled his Exotic Metal Ring when Qin Empire Ming threatened to take it, and the three demons withdrew rather than pursue him into Night Prefecture.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to his body near Green Maple Town and recovered as Li Qingxu broke through into the Third Realm and regained his confidence.
• A War Horn sounded as the great battle began, and a blood moon appeared over the western border, revealing a god on the battlefield.

Night Prefecture and the Demon Race launched a full-scale war on the Ancestor Battlefield, where Ancestors, Grandmasters, Masters, and younger fighters joined the slaughter. Sky-Pillar returned to battle and killed a powerful demon, while the fighting spread across the plain with heavy losses on both sides.

• Night Prefecture's Ancestors used four Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes and the Four Symbols Formation to destroy the Blood Moon and shatter the Divine Corpse, forcing the old ape and demon Ancestors into battle.
• He Lian Chengyun fought a Peak Sixth Realm old crow with his Sun Shooting Immortal Arrow, wounding its wing as the Ancestors clashed.
• Night Prefecture's Grandmasters and the demon Grandmasters unleashed competing banners, gourds, pagodas, and hammers before the Masters joined the bloody fighting.
• Sky-Pillar returned to the Ancestor Battlefield, killed a rising demon expert with his axe, and fought another old demon as Jade Purity Ancestor and Jiang Zhiyuan also entered the fray.
• Both armies committed their younger fighters and full forces to the war, as battlefields across the plain filled with casualties.

Qin Ming fought across the Western Territory battlefield, killing four Heavenly Demon Seeds and harvesting strange blood as human and demon forces suffered heavy losses. After seeing familiar fighters wounded or dead, he pushed back into battle while an enormous figure in immortal mist wondered whether the demons had been forced to serve as the king’s vanguard.

• Qin Ming led the Third Realm fighters from Green Maple Town and cut down a Quasi-Heavenly Demon Seed with one saber strike.
• Qin Ming slaughtered demon forces, killed a golden elephant with strange blood, and used his emerging spiritual field to destroy demons who tried to surround him.
• Qin Ming defeated and killed Feng Xinglei, then slew a Fiend Sword Immortal and two more Heavenly Demon Seeds as he swept across the battlefield.
• Qin Ming collected strange blood and medicine while fighting on, then spotted Jin Xiang gravely wounded and saw Zeng Yuan, Lu Zhenyi, and Chen Bingyan suffer terrible fates.
• An enormous figure appeared in immortal mist and wondered whether the demons had launched their assault because they were forced to serve as the king’s vanguard.

Qin Empire Ming fought across the battlefield, refining Strange Blood and gathering medicines as his cultivation advanced, then went to Huaian Town to protect his friends. There, after learning that several prodigies had died and facing three Fiend Sword Immortals, he prepared to fight them and harvest their Strange Blood.

• Qin Empire Ming defeated a gravely wounded Fourth Realm great demon, then continued fighting and refining Strange Blood as he felt his cultivation rise.
• The Thunder King Bird broke through to the Fourth Realm, while Li Qingxu also reached the Third Realm and killed a Heavenly Demon Seed at the cost of catastrophic injuries.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that Su Shiyun had died, fought through demon forces, and gathered twelve kinds of medicinal plants as his cultivation neared the Second Layer of the Spiritual Field.
• Qin Empire Ming found the wounded Ning Siqi and Talking Finch in Taihe Town, gave them Auspicious Beast Blood, and then headed for Huaian Town.
• Qin Empire Ming arrived in Huaian Town and learned that Xue Yunzheng and other prodigies had fallen as the fighting intensified and two Fiend Sword Immortals reinforced Wei Jian.
• Copper and Zhu Jianhao challenged Qin Empire Ming, who identified them as valuable Strange Medicines and prepared to fight.

Qin Ming confronted Wei Jian, Copper, Zhu Jianhao, and an insect-race heavenly demon seed, overwhelming the fiend sword immortals with his sword, saber, and spiritual field. He killed Wei Jian, the insect seed, Copper, and Zhu Jianhao, leaving Night Prefecture’s side stunned by his strength.

• Zhu Jianhao and Copper challenged Qin Ming, while Wei Jian agreed to test his strength and waited for a chance to flee.
• Qin Ming defeated Zhu Jianhao’s sword techniques and withstood Copper’s attacks, then crushed their combined Heavenly Net Earth Trap with his spiritual field.
• Wei Jian tried to escape underground, but Qin Ming’s Earth Dragon forced him back above ground, where Qin Ming killed him and collected his purple precious blood.
• Qin Ming killed the insect-race heavenly demon seed while blocking attacks from Copper and Zhu Jianhao.
• Copper and Zhu Jianhao launched desperate attacks, but Qin Ming cut Copper in two and killed Zhu Jianhao with a punch through his forehead.

Qin Ming helped Night Prefecture turn the tide at Huaian Town, then crossed the blood-soaked battlefield as both sides’ losses mounted and old monsters began hunting their greatest fighters. The gods finally entered the conflict, and Night Prefecture’s ancient Fallen Immortals prepared to face the Demon God and die in a final battle.

• Qin Ming killed Copper, Zhu Jianhao, and the other heavenly demon seeds, then led Night Prefecture’s fighters to rout the demons at Huaian Town.
• Qin Ming refined the battlefield’s Treasured Medicines, advanced to the late stage of the second spiritual field layer, and left to help elsewhere.
• Qin Ming rescued Lu Yuzhi, the Five Elements Palace fighters, Zhuo Ya, Cao Wuji, and other survivors while learning that many renowned seeds had died.
• Qin Ming witnessed both sides’ old monsters hunt powerful fighters, then escaped underground when divine weapons clashed over the battlefield.
• The Demon God revealed that the demons had attacked to recover their supreme treasure and Supreme Heavenly Tome, which another civilization held, and refused to withdraw.
• Night Prefecture’s ancient Fallen Immortals revealed themselves and declared they would face the gods in battle, accepting their deaths as they fought.

The Ancestors and Demon Gods fought a series of final battles above God's Fall Plain, dying in clashes that left both camps grieving. As another mysterious woman and a Three-Headed Flood Dragon vanished after their duel, Qin Ming and the survivors were left facing the cost of the war.

• Qin Ming saw Meng Xinghai, Jin Xiang, and other wounded survivors return from the battlefield, while Xiang Yiwu was revealed to have reached the Third Realm through Golden Body Nirvana.
• Ancestor Ye challenged the Demon God and drew him away from the battlefield; the two gods fought beyond the clouds and perished together, with Ye recalling his youth in his final words.
• An old Ancestor of the Esoteric Sect fought a Demon God and died, after the Demon God prophesied that the Demon Race's supreme treasure would return and reveal its true scripture to nine destined Heavenly Fiends.
• The Past Tathagata rejected the Present Tathagata's offer to fight in his place, then faced the demons of Thunder Cloud Cave and Longevity Temple alone and vanished with them in the ensuing battle.
• A Three-Headed Flood Dragon fought an unknown old woman who regained her youth and revealed a longsword; she cut off its three heads, but both combatants ultimately disappeared, and she bade farewell to the mortal world.

Leng Mingkong and He Lian Chengyun used mysterious armaments to slay a Demon God and a Demon Immortal, forcing the Demon Race to retreat from God's Fall Plain. Night Prefecture mourned its heavy losses as negotiations began, but new challenges from the demon youths threatened more fighting.

• Leng Mingkong transformed the broken Measuring Heaven Ruler into silver armor and killed a Demon God in battle beyond the heavens.
• He Lian Chengyun armed himself with a broken arrow and slew a Demon Immortal, while the Present Tathagata and other Ancestors pressed the demon camp to negotiate.
• The Demon Race agreed to withdraw three hundred li, effectively surrendering God's Fall Plain, and both sides began arranging the terms.
• Qin Ming mourned Zhao Ziyuan and Jin Yuan among the many dead, while Chen Bingyan, Helian Yaoqing, Tang Xumi, and Tang Jin survived their wounds.
• The two camps agreed that fighters below their highest ranks could challenge one another freely, and the Jade Emperor called out Jiang Ran, Pei Shuyan, and Qin Ming.
• Wu Yaozu rushed out after hearing the Jade Emperor's challenge.

After the war’s ceasefire, Night Prefecture and the Demon Race sent their rising experts into a series of challenges. Lu Zizai crushed the Demon Race’s Grandmasters, and Qin Ming entered the arena, where he killed the Jade Emperor’s Sword Slave and turned his saber toward the Jade Emperor’s cousin.

• Qin Ming and Zhao Lei shared heavenly demon seed meat before Zhao Lei departed for his hometown, while the Thunder King Bird mourned its fallen acquaintances.
• The Demon Race allowed its Grandmasters and seeds to challenge Night Prefecture, and Lu Zizai killed two powerful Grandmasters before the Demon Ancestors conceded the realm.
• Jiang Ran killed Heavenly Phoenix, Pei Shuyan and the Jade Emperor fought to a draw, and Chu Pianran won while the Ghost Path seed lost.
• The Jade Emperor called for Qin Ming, but Pei Shuyan and others challenged him; Qin Ming confronted the Jade Emperor’s cousin Huang Fei and provoked her into entering the arena.
• The Sword Slave attacked Qin Ming, who severed his sword and killed him with Sky Severing Line before directing his next saber strike at Huang Fei.

Qin Empire Ming killed Huang Shang and two demons before facing Xin Yuan, a highly regarded Fiend Sword Immortal who wielded the Calamity Avoidance Immortal Scripture. After a fierce battle, Qin Empire Ming slew Xin Yuan, and Jade Emperor warned him that the killing would bring grave consequences.

• Qin Empire Ming killed Huang Shang with his saber, then cut down the two demons who had accompanied her.
• Jade Emperor called for a Third Realm demon to kill Qin Empire Ming, and Xin Yuan accepted the challenge in exchange for access to Hanging Sky Ridge's Demon Immortal Pool.
• Xin Yuan and Qin Empire Ming exchanged more than a hundred attacks, and Qin Empire Ming wounded Xin Yuan with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Xin Yuan manifested sword-wielding versions of himself, but Qin Empire Ming destroyed them with his Spiritual Field and attacked with the Black White Scripture.
• Qin Empire Ming severed Xin Yuan's head with a Two Forms Saber Light strike, and Jade Emperor warned him that he had incurred a dangerous debt.

Qin Ming defeated Xin Yuan’s mind ape and then Jin Gui’s remnant shell, winning valuable weapons as Night Prefecture maintained the advantage. The Western Territory War ended with the Demon Race withdrawing, while mysterious bloodstained beings looked toward Kunling and discussed visiting the Jade Capital.

• Qin Ming killed Xin Yuan, whose body vanished as its true essence escaped, and the cultivators identified him as a mind ape created through the Subduing Heart Scripture.
• Jin Gui entered the battlefield, but Qin Ming matched his strength with a divine hammer and crushed him using his Yin-Yang Sacred Fiend techniques.
• Qin Ming discovered that Jin Gui was also a remnant shell and destroyed the Golden Ring’s escaping consciousness before claiming the exotic-metal treasure.
• Wu Youdao refused Qin Ming’s challenge, and the two camps fought several more bouts before the Demon Race withdrew and the Western Territory War ended.
• A human skin and other bloodstained beings gazed toward Kunling and discussed visiting the Jade Capital.

After the Western Territory War, Qin Ming returned to Red Haze City, where his battlefield achievements made him a celebrated figure and attracted greater scrutiny. With Lu Zizai’s help, he traveled to the Immortal Land to seek the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture, leaving his future studies about to begin.

• Zhou Wubing and Master Xu Kong left God's Fall Plain as the armies withdrew, while Night Prefecture began surveying the newly acquired fire fields.
• Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu buried Zhao Ziyuan's ashes with Yu Gensheng in Kunling, and Qin Ming later returned to Red Haze City as reports praised his deeds in the war.
• Qin Ming learned from Meng Xinghai that someone had used a letter from his grandfather to set a trap for him, and he resolved to deal with the Cui Household after becoming a Master.
• Lu Zizai achieved new life, entered the sixth realm, and advised Qin Ming which scriptures to pursue and which forces not to fuse yet.
• Qin Ming visited the Immortal Land, where Jiang Ran and a Master personally received him, and he asked to read the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture.

Qin Ming astonished the Immortal Land with his exceptional Immortal Path aptitude, then studied the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture and exchanged insights with Jiang Ran. He borrowed the complete Body Refining and Dao Integration Scripture from the Undying Hall and arrived at the Beyond the Mundane Pure Land, where he gave Lu Zizai a complete Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture.

• Qin Ming released his consciousness spirit light in Heguang Hall, and Zhou Rui declared that his Immortal Path potential rivaled Jiang Ran's.
• Qin Ming declined an invitation to join the Immortal Land and studied the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture beside the Bodhi Immortal Tree, enduring painful resonances to restore its missing passages.
• Qin Ming and Jiang Ran privately exchanged insights into the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture, then Jiang Ran saw him off as he left the Immortal Land.
• Qin Ming borrowed the Body Refining and Dao Integration Scripture from the Undying Hall and discovered it contained the full version of the Flesh Body Chapter.
• Lu Zizai accompanied Qin Ming to the Beyond the Mundane Pure Land, where Qin Ming gave him the complete Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture.

Qin Empire Ming entered the Beyond the Mundane Pure Land with Lu Zizai, whose breakthrough to the Sixth Realm made him a New Life Path Ancestor. Celebrated for his achievements on two cultivation paths, Qin Empire Ming reunited with acquaintances and chose to study the Pure Land’s notoriously difficult fragmented Jade Book.

• Lu Zizai arrived with Qin Empire Ming and revealed that he had entered the Sixth Realm, while the Pure Land’s elders welcomed them.
• Ling Canghai led the visitors through the Pure Land, where Qin Empire Ming saw its abundant treasures and learned that its ripe Five-Colored Fruits had been used to treat war casualties.
• Qin Empire Ming reunited with Li Qingyue, Pei Shuyan, Chen Bingyan, and other acquaintances, while Helian Zhaoyu briefly saw Li Qingyue serving Qin Empire Ming tea and left.
• Zeng Yuan apologized to Qin Empire Ming before leaving the Pure Land to live as an ordinary man, and Zheng Maoze privately apologized for having mocked him in the past.
• When Luo Jingxiao asked which true scripture he wanted to borrow, Qin Empire Ming chose the fragmented Jade Book despite warnings that even Cao Qianqiu and many Ancestors had failed to understand it.

Qin Ming studied the shattered Jade Book in the Pure Land, comprehending its first two pages and connecting them to teachings from the Ancestor of the Silk Book Method. After enduring the scripture’s dangerous resonance and attempting to restore its damaged pages, he left the slope and spotted a familiar figure on a distant mountain, hoping to ask about his grandfather.

• Lu Zizai suggested that Cao Qianqiu might be a heart ape who would one day be subdued or refined by his true self, astonishing the Grandmasters and disciples.
• Qin Ming began studying the Four-Page Jade Book and quickly immersed himself in its Dao resonance, impressing the onlookers who had expected him to fail.
• Qin Ming interpreted the first page as teaching that the true scripture arose from the heart, then recognized that the second page corresponded to the Silk Book Method’s teachings on mental combat.
• Qin Ming entered resonance with the damaged pages, endured severe pain, and comprehended the second page while his Eye of New Life appeared to improve.
• Qin Ming studied the remaining pages and tried to restore their missing portions, rising late at night drained and pale.
• Helian Zhaoyu said he wanted to fight Qin Ming, while Helian Yaoqing warned that Zhaoyu was destined for terrible luck; Qin Ming then spotted a familiar figure on a distant mountain and wanted to ask where his grandfather had gone.

Qin Empire Ming learned that his grandfather had left to search for his biological parents and decided to visit the Cui Household with Lu Zizai’s help. After agreeing to spar with Helian Zhaoyu, he met his opponent in the Night Mist World, where their fight was about to begin.

• Qin Empire Ming restored the shattered Jade Book and impressed the elders by revealing that he had understood part of its scripture.
• Qin Empire Ming accepted Tang Xumi’s Upright Demon Ape Scripture and agreed to a wagered spar with Helian Zhaoyu.
• Qin Empire Ming visited Cui Hao and learned that his grandfather had left to seek Qin Empire Ming’s biological parents.
• Qin Empire Ming told Li Qingyue that he planned to visit the Cui Household with Lu Zizai, while Helian Mingxu summoned him to face Helian Zhaoyu.
• Qin Empire Ming and Helian Zhaoyu entered the Night Mist World, where Helian Zhaoyu taunted him before their fight.

Qin Empire Ming and Helian Zhaoyu fought in a blizzard after Helian tried to persuade him to give up Li Qingyue and join the Imperial Immortal Sect. Their battle escalated as Helian unleashed the Imperial Immortal Sword, while Qin Empire Ming answered with thunder, fire, and Yin Yang power; the fight remained unresolved.

• Spectators discussed Helian Zhaoyu’s challenge, linking it to his grudge against Qin Empire Ming and his ambition to claim Li Qingyue and the revived Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Helian Zhaoyu argued that Qin Empire Ming was too weak to protect Li Qingyue and offered to keep her safe in the Imperial Immortal Sect, while Qin mocked his cultivation and claims.
• Helian Zhaoyu revealed that he had broken through to the Fourth Realm before tempering himself back down to the Third Realm, pursuing a domain he claimed could rival Ancient Sages.
• Qin Empire Ming and Helian Zhaoyu drew their weapons and fought through the blizzard, exchanging nearly a hundred blows as snow mountains crumbled around them.
• Helian Zhaoyu unleashed the Imperial Immortal Sword, commanding the ice-and-snow world to strike Qin Empire Ming, who advanced with saber light, thunder, fire, and Yin Yang power.

Qin Ming fought Helian Zhaoyu on the Ice Wasteland, breaking through his layered God's Pure Lands and powerful Ancient Sage Domain. Helian Zhaoyu’s final attack failed, and he was sent flying as Qin Ming pierced his yin-yang domain.

• Helian Zhaoyu unleashed the Controlling Immortal Scripture and its avalanche-like torrent, but Qin Ming shattered it with his fists and broke the Seven-Colored Flying Sword.
• Helian Zhaoyu revealed his Inner Landscape and Mountain and River Seal, but Qin Ming’s Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture tore the seal apart.
• Helian Zhaoyu layered a lightning domain and a Blade Insect domain over his pure land, but Qin Ming destroyed the insects and punched through the landscape.
• Helian Zhaoyu revealed his principal Divine Land and froze Qin Ming with nether black water, but Qin Ming broke free from the ice.
• Helian Zhaoyu unleashed his Ancient Sage Domain, combining the Gonggong Dharma Image and Zhurong Golden Body in a yin-yang diagram, but Qin Ming pierced it with the Silk Book Method and sent him flying.

Qin Empire Ming defeated Helian Zhaoyu even after Helian fused his four God's Pure Lands, winning the Nine Tribulation Undying Tree weapon. After the battle shook the surrounding factions, Qin Empire Ming left to obtain the final fragmentary scripture and prepared to visit the Cui Household.

• Qin Empire Ming pierced Helian Zhaoyu's Yin-Yang Inner Landscape and battered him with Heavenly Light Force, but Helian survived by unleashing Divine Wisdom and shielding himself with the Measuring God Ruler.
• Helian Zhaoyu fused his four God's Pure Lands into one and wagered the Measuring God Ruler, which had been refined from the Nine Tribulation Undying Tree's heart.
• Qin Empire Ming tested the Measuring God Ruler with his saber, then used his Black Jade Warhammer and Primal Chaos Force to overwhelm Helian's weapons and shatter his God's Pure Land.
• Helian Zhaoyu fell with numerous broken bones and his confidence shaken, while Qin Empire Ming claimed the Measuring God Ruler.
• Lu Zizai warned Grandmaster Helian Yunji away from interfering, and news of Qin Empire Ming's victory spread throughout the region.
• Qin Empire Ming departed for Heavenly God Palace to obtain the final fragmentary scripture and prepared to travel with Lu Zizai to the Cui Household.

After Qin Ming shared new passages from the Four-Page Jade Book, Lu Zizai suspected that Cao Qianqiu was a severed heart ape and speculated about the identity of his true self. Qin Ming and Lu Zizai arrived at the Cui Household as its elders learned of Qin Ming’s approach and its young men tried to keep him there.

• Qin Ming showed Lu Zizai new passages from the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture and other incomplete scriptures, and Lu Zizai studied the Four-Page Jade Book’s restored pages.
• Helian Zhaoyu returned to the Ice Wasteland to review his defeat by Qin Ming, where he encountered Li Qingxu and dismissed his ability to study the battle.
• Wang Jingyan learned that Helian Zhaoyu had lost to Qin Ming and objected when reports described the defeated seed as belonging to the Esoteric Sect.
• Lu Zizai proposed that Cao Qianqiu might be a heart ape severed from an unknown expert, and he considered possible origins among the Silk Book Method Ancestors, the demon civilization, and the Immortal Path.
• News of Qin Ming’s victory spread as he and Lu Zizai reached the Cui Household, where young members of the family recognized him and tried to hold him until the elders arrived.

Qin Empire Ming returned to the Cui Household with Lu Zizai to seek news of his grandfather, and confronted relatives who had mistreated him. After Qin Empire Ming beat Cui He, Cui Shuning, and Fifth Master Cui, Lu Zizai helped him enter the main hall to meet the household’s elders and summon Cui Geng.

• Qin Empire Ming returned to the Cui Household and dismissed the false welcomes from his relatives.
• Cui He and Cui Shuning attacked Qin Empire Ming, but he overpowered them and beat them.
• Fifth Master Cui tried to make Qin Empire Ming study the Heart Cleansing Scripture, but Lu Zizai suppressed him and Qin Empire Ming kicked him.
• Father Cui and Mother Cui appeared as Qin Empire Ming continued beating Fifth Master Cui, then invited him and Lu Zizai into the main hall.
• Lu Zizai asked the Cui Household elders to bring Cui Geng to see him, while reports of Qin Empire Ming’s confrontation spread outside.

Lu Zizai confronted the Cui Household over Qin Ming’s treatment, confirmed his grandfather had not been harmed, and forced the family to hand over its secret Abiding World Scripture. After failing to find Cui Geng and recover the Silk Scripture, Qin Ming chose to leave settling his grievances with the Cui Household for himself.

• Lu Zizai pressured the Cui Household’s leaders and examined the memories of two elders, confirming that Qin Ming’s grandfather had left with traveling merchants and had not been silenced.
• Lu Zizai severed Qin Ming’s ties with Mother Cui and Father Cui, then killed a clan elder who refused to provide the secret chapter of the Abiding World Scripture.
• Qin Ming read the secret scripture and demanded the Silk Scripture his grandfather had left him, while Lu Zizai ordered Cui Geng to return it.
• Lu Zizai and Qin Ming went to the Cui Household’s Ancestral Land but failed to find Cui Geng, and Qin Ming said he would settle his grievances with the family himself.
• News of Lu Zizai forcing the Cui Household to bow spread among major organizations, and Cui Chonghe angrily sought out Sun Taichu.
• A group of humans traveled through the night mist toward Night Prefecture after the Mist Gate brought them far from their intended destination.

Lu Zizai’s show of force against the Cui Household drew attention across the major organizations, while Qin Empire Ming continued searching for his missing grandfather and returned to find Black White Mountain transformed. The chapter ended with two travelers entering Night Prefecture after years away.

• Lu Zizai traveled to the Cui Household’s ancestral land to confront Cui Geng, prompting Cui Chonghe to ask Sun Taichu for help.
• Cui Qi and the Cui Household’s Master discussed enduring the humiliation and placing their hopes in Cui Chonghe and Cui Chongxiao, their household’s two rising talents.
• Lu Zizai parted from Qin Empire Ming, promising to wait ahead while Qin Empire Ming continued searching for his grandfather and found that both an Old Traveling Merchant and the grandfather’s old residence had vanished.
• Talking Finch returned to Double Tree Village, fought the Red Squirrel, and learned that Old Man Liu feared he would not survive the winter.
• Qin Empire Ming returned and saw the Black White Twin Trees intertwined around living Yin-Yang Eyes, while a group of travelers entered Night Prefecture and spoke of returning home.