Recaps

Qin Empire Ming returned to Black White Mountain, kept out of the public eye, and cultivated while Old Man Liu struggled with strange dreams and the approach of death. During spirit cultivation in the night sky, Qin Empire Ming encountered a terrifying black-robed creature, which a Blood Kite destroyed, before he broke through to the third layer of the Spiritual Field; the chapter ended with Kunling summoning the Ancestors of every path.

• Qin Empire Ming returned to Black White Mountain and assured Old Man Liu that he would help him live to ninety-five and begin anew.
• Qin Empire Ming secluded himself to study scriptures, strengthen his cultivation, and undertake daily spirit journeys into the night sky.
• Qin Empire Ming encountered a pale, black-robed creature in the firmament, but a Blood Kite destroyed it as it pursued him to the ground.
• Qin Empire Ming absorbed the remaining meteor shower and advanced from the second layer to the third layer of the Spiritual Field.
• Kunling rang its bells and summoned the Ancestors of the New Life Path, the Esoteric Sect, Beyond the Mundane, and other paths.

The Golden Bell warned Night Prefecture that Sixth Realm visitors from the Outer Domain had entered Kunling, but the apparent threat turned out to be Ancestors who had left Night Prefecture centuries earlier. Their return revealed a flourishing human civilization with Earth Immortals and Seventh Realm cultivators, while Qin Empire Ming continued cultivating at Black White Mountain.

• The Golden Bell rang, and Jade Bell messengers warned Night Prefecture that suspicious Outer Domain experts had appeared in Kunling.
• Night Prefecture's Ancestors confronted the visitors outside Kunlun City and discovered that Zhao Lin, Lu Yuzhang, and Slaying Dragon were long-lost seniors returning from the Night Mist World.
• He Lian Chengyun, Zhuo Qingya, and the Present Tathagata recognized former companions, turning the tense encounter into a reunion after more than five hundred years apart.
• News spread that more than eighty visitors had returned from a distant, prosperous human kingdom, and Sky-Pillar reunited with his missing second son.
• Reports described the distant kingdom's Earth Immortals, Seven-Day Accumulators, and shortcut through a mist region, prompting widespread discussion and interest in traveling there.
• Qin Empire Ming remained at Black White Mountain and continued cultivating beneath the Black White Tree as the news stirred Night Prefecture.

Qin Ming left Black White Mountain to seek resources and opportunities, but found that Night Prefecture’s best sites were already occupied and survived a haunting encounter in a mass grave. In the Great Yu Capital, Yao Ruoxian told him that powerful visitors had returned from a distant human civilization and invited him to meet a possibly living Ancestor of the Silk Book Method, but Qin Ming declined to make a pilgrimage for now.

• Qin Ming cultivated on Black White Mountain, strengthened his body and spiritual field, and decided that ordinary training was too slow to reach the Fourth Realm.
• Qin Ming left the mountain, said goodbye to Liu Mo, Talking Finch, and Red Squirrel, visited Meng Xinghai in Red Haze City, then searched Night Prefecture for unclaimed resources.
• Qin Ming and the Thunder King Bird disturbed a mass grave and suffered nightmares from an Old Woman Bleeding From Seven Orifices until they cleansed themselves in the Great Yu Capital.
• Yao Ruoxian told Qin Ming that returning travelers from a distant human civilization were investigating Night Prefecture’s ruins and that one young New Life Path cultivator wanted to exchange ideas with him.
• Yao Ruoxian revealed that a living Ancestor who mastered Chaos Force might reside in that civilization and suggested Qin Ming make a pilgrimage, but Qin Ming said the journey was too dangerous and distant.

Qin Ming searched the Great Rui Dynasty’s black markets for rare resources, then agreed to attend a gathering of young talents from Pu Gong Country. As the exchange began, he spotted the Cui Household bringing out the Silk Scripture he had lost as a child.

• Qin Ming told Yao Ruoxian he was not rushing to seek the returned Chaos Force Ancestor, and she shared news about the Immortal Grave and the scarcity of recovery resources.
• Yao Ruoxian noticed Qin Ming’s hair turn from silver to black when she touched it, and he explained that he had been practicing the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture.
• Qin Ming searched seven black markets in Rui City, killed two groups who tried to attack him, and later met Wu Yaozu by the Spirit Lake.
• Wu Yaozu invited Qin Ming to a gathering with Pu Gong Country’s young talents, and Qin Ming agreed after hearing they would exchange scriptures rather than fight.
• Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu arrived at the gathering, where Qin Ming recognized the brocade box containing the Silk Scripture that the Cui Household had kept since his childhood.

Qin Ming attended the exchange meeting between Night Prefecture and Pu Gong Country and recovered his inherited Silk Scripture before the Cui Household could trade it away. The gathering turned to the Life Altering Scripture and a mysterious page of related true scripture, leaving Qin Ming poised to study their connection.

• Qin Ming learned that Cui Chonghe planned to use his Silk Scripture in a private exchange with Xie Lin, so he confronted them aboard the ship and demanded its return.
• Cui Chonghe handed Qin Ming the Silk Scripture, then continued toward a private discussion with Xie Lin despite briefly revealing his killing intent.
• Mu Yunzhou invited Qin Ming to spar and exchange scriptures, and Qin Ming agreed to trade if he could see an Ancestor's handwritten notes and original true scripture.
• Jian Huaidao and the visitors from Pu Gong Country requested the Life Altering Scripture, then presented a densely illustrated page they suspected was its original continuation.
• The gathered cultivators struggled to understand the Life Altering Scripture and the mysterious page, and Wu Yaozu asked Qin Ming to try studying them.

At a scripture exchange on Spirit Lake, Qin Ming impressed the gathered prodigies by comprehending passages that stumped them, winning a booklet from Cui Chonghe and drawing attention to his abilities. He then returned to seclusion, but after two months emerged to hear that a world-shaking event had transformed Night Prefecture.

• Qin Ming considered the fragile understanding between Night Prefecture and Pugong, then turned his attention back to the scripture exchange.
• Xie Lin, Jian Huaidao, Mu Yunzhou, and others used their bloodline gifts to study the Life Altering Scripture, but they were injured when they tried to cultivate its diagrams.
• Wu Yaozu wagered a booklet with Cui Chonghe that Qin Ming would understand more of the Life Altering Scripture, and Qin Ming won by demonstrating his insight.
• Qin Ming studied Pugong's Exotic Metal scripture page and explained that it was difficult to comprehend, while the other prodigies continued to struggle with it.
• Cui Chonghe left resentful after Wu Yaozu's nickname for him spread, and Qin Ming returned to seclusion to strengthen himself.
• More than sixty days later, Qin Ming emerged from the mountains and heard that a major event had shaken Night Prefecture and changed its course.

After returning from two months in seclusion, Qin Ming learned that Night Prefecture had opened the Golden Light Cave, a one-way route to a resource-rich mysterious world. He reunited with Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu and prepared to explore the new realm, whose treasures and distant dawn promised major opportunities.

• Qin Ming entered a city and learned that Night Prefecture had opened the Golden Light Cave to a mysterious world through research at the Immortal Grave.
• Qin Ming heard that the unstable route led to a world rich in spiritual matter, where early explorers had found rapid cultivation gains and valuable treasures.
• Qin Ming considered the possible return of powerful figures from Pugong and reflected on how his own Silk Book Method differed from theirs.
• Qin Ming sent the Thunder King Bird to summon Xiang Yiwu, then met Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu in Rui City two days later.
• Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu told Qin Ming about the realm’s lush greenery, distant dawn, exotic metal, and a turtle shell inscribed with valuable runes, prompting him to consider joining the exploration.

Qin Ming met the powerful Pugong figure Pei Qingwu, learned that she was testing his potential to reach the Jade Capital, and later gained access to the Golden Light Cave with Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu. After crossing into the lush New World, their group fled when people ahead claimed the sun was rising, as Gu Xicheng recognized a terrifying danger.

• Pei Qingwu used zither music and Mind Monkey Tea to meet Qin Ming in a secluded spiritual space, test his potential, and invite him to consider entering the Jade Capital with her group.
• Mu Yunzhou identified Pei Qingwu as an exceptional Pugong figure and sparred with Qin Ming by testing his control of Chaos Force.
• Xiang Yiwu reported that Gu Xicheng had approved Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu's entry into the Golden Light Cave after the Past Tathagata returned to Pugong.
• Gu Xicheng led the group through the Golden Light Cave into the verdant New World, where they explored and sensed the Dao's rhythms.
• When people ahead cried that the sun was rising, Gu Xicheng immediately fled with Qin Ming, Xiang Yiwu, and the others, saying he needed to report the place's terrifying truth to the Present Tathagata.

After Night Prefecture’s explorers discovered a powerful relic site in the New World, its Ancestors began preparing to reinforce the Golden Light Cave so they could enter themselves. At the manor where explorers were confined, Qin Ming confronted Little Tathagata’s disciples over their claims to the orthodox Chaos Force lineage and forced them to bow under the pressure of his Heavenly Light.

• Gu Xicheng led the fleeing Masters out of the New World after sensing a terrifying field, and an Immortal Path Master later reported that a Purple Sword had pinned a creature beneath a golden mountain beside an Earth Immortal Relic and a book.
• Night Prefecture’s Ancestors arrived, studied the Golden Light Cave, and later left to gather treasures needed to reinforce it, while three Ancestors and numerous Grandmasters remained to guard the entrance.
• Qin Ming and the other explorers were confined to a manor, where they exchanged news with familiar faces as word spread that the Ancestors planned to use the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes on the cave.
• Little Tathagata arrived with his elders and disciples, invited Qin Ming to visit the Sage, and his disciples demanded that Qin Ming honor their master as his senior.
• Qin Ming asserted his connection to Lu Zizai and rejected the disciples’ claim of authority over his Chaos Force, then overwhelmed them with his Heavenly Light until they bowed.

Qin Ming suppressed the Pugong disciples who challenged him and joined Xiang Yiwu and Little Wu in gathering heavenly light above the storm clouds. Half a month later, an Earth Immortal passed through Niu Ben City, and a mysterious presence reinforced the Golden Light Cave as the Earth Immortal’s light surged from within.

• Xie Zhaoheng and a female disciple attacked Qin Ming, but his Golden Crow Illuminating Night Heavenly Light overwhelmed them, while Little Tathagata’s lotus briefly clashed with Gu Xicheng’s Great Thunderclap Heavenly Light.
• Qin Ming caught and shattered Little Tathagata’s regenerating lotus, then walked past the fallen disciples as a master from the Past Tathagata Lineage withdrew after facing the Present Tathagata’s foremost disciple.
• The three ancestors guarding the Golden Light Cave confined the newly arrived explorers to the manor and barred them from entering the New World.
• During a winter thunderstorm, Gu Xicheng led Qin Ming, Xiang Yiwu, and Little Wu above the clouds, where Qin Ming devoured varied heavenly light and returned with his spiritual field strengthened.
• Half a month later, an Earth Immortal’s passage plunged Niu Ben City into darkness, while an unknown presence reinforced the Golden Light Cave and a surge of Earth Immortal light rose from it.

Two Earth Immortals entered Golden Light Cave, where one died and the other escaped grievously wounded, leaving Night Prefecture’s Ancestors to investigate the New World and seal the cave. News of the disaster spread to Pugong, while a buried Earthen City in Kunling began to revive.

• Golden Light Cave’s hidden guardians tried to overcome Five Finger Mountain, but one Earth Immortal emerged severely wounded and flew southwest as the other apparently died inside.
• The three Ancestors of Night Prefecture sealed Golden Light Cave, and the Minotaur chieftain urged them to close the gateway to the Different World.
• Night Prefecture’s Ancestors discovered that mysterious intruders had stolen their components and found the Earth Immortals’ remains near Five Finger Mountain.
• Past Tathagata and more than a dozen Ancestors entered the New World, examined the remains, and then sealed Golden Light Cave against further exploration.
• A secret letter reported an Earth Immortal’s death and chaos in Pugong, while the Immortal Grave revealed that the humanoid ashes had become an Earth Immortal.
• A ripple from Jade Capital reached Kunling, awakening its buried Earthen City and rousing a Peerless Expert.

Qin Empire Ming returned to Red Haze City, where he learned that the Earthen City’s revival was drawing powerful visitors toward Night Prefecture and prepared to use the first spring thunder to advance his cultivation. As spring arrived, he headed to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall to seek thunderfire’s blessing and break through.

• Pugong travelers learned that Earth Immortals had been killed amid turmoil, while the revived Earthen City in Kunling drew Grandmasters and Ancestors to investigate.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to Red Haze City, and Meng Xinghai told him that Golden Light Cave led into the Immortal Grave.
• Qin Empire Ming studied scriptures and visited friends, who told him that Little Tathagata had defeated Fourth Realm challengers but fought an unknown opponent to a draw.
• Powerful beings from distant regions prepared to travel to Night Prefecture because of the Earthen City’s connection to Jade Capital.
• Li Qingyue ended her seclusion, and Cui Chonghe announced that he had succeeded in Sun Taichu’s medicine furnace.
• When spring thunder sounded, Qin Empire Ming went to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall to absorb thunderfire and seek a breakthrough.

Qin Empire Ming used Thunderfire to cultivate the Southern Blazing Fire Scripture and later underwent Divine Cicada Transformation, opening a Secret Treasure that revealed the Divine Cicada Scripture. The chapter left him entering a vision of Great Thunderclap Temple.

• Qin Empire Ming entered the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall and survived its deadly refinement while cultivating the Southern Blazing Fire Scripture with Heavenly Light.
• Qin Empire Ming stayed on Red Haze Mountain and waited for a powerful storm while Foreign Domain youths stirred Night Prefecture with their contests and challenges.
• Qin Empire Ming sat within the Thunderfire-filled hall and drew its power into his body as he cultivated the Golden Cicada.
• Meng Xinghai realized Qin Empire Ming was undergoing Divine Cicada Transformation and had opened a Secret Treasure containing the Divine Cicada Scripture.
• Qin Empire Ming saw a new world, approached Great Thunderclap Temple, and pushed open its courtyard gate.

Qin Ming entered the Great Thunderclap Temple while comprehending the Divine Cicada Scripture and encountered a White-clothed Youth who fought him over a Seven Treasures Pool. After defeating the youth, Qin Ming faced the Red-dressed Woman who had followed him into the temple, and the chapter left them battling after he knocked a golden cloth strip from her hair and seized it.

• Qin Ming entered the Great Thunderclap Temple in a state of enlightenment and absorbed passages of the Divine Cicada Scripture.
• Qin Ming met the White-clothed Youth, and they fought over the two Seven Treasures Pools.
• Qin Ming defeated the White-clothed Youth and pursued him, but the youth escaped the temple before returning to challenge Qin Ming again.
• The Red-dressed Woman emerged from the White-clothed Youth's shadow and attacked Qin Ming after he injured her companion.
• Qin Ming fought the Red-dressed Woman, gravely injured her, and seized the golden cloth strip from her hair.

Qin Ming defeated the Red-dressed Woman and the White-clothed Youth in the Great Thunderclap Temple, gained a new life and advanced to the spirit field realm fifth heaven. After returning to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, he shared treasure liquid with Meng Xinghai and the Thunder King Bird, while the Earthen City fully revived and opened its gate.

• Qin Ming mocked the Red-dressed Woman and defeated her again, kicking her out through the gate as she tried to leave.
• Qin Ming kicked the White-clothed Youth as the Great Thunderclap Temple summoned him away, then the Red-dressed Woman ordered an investigation into Qin Ming's origins.
• Qin Ming absorbed the Seven Treasures Pool's liquid, glimpsed the Great Thunderclap True Scripture, and returned to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall.
• Qin Ming broke through to the spirit field realm fourth heaven and then the fifth heaven after undergoing a complete new life.
• Qin Ming gave Meng Xinghai and the Thunder King Bird some of the seven-colored treasure liquid, and they praised its taste.
• The Earthen City received a mysterious ripple, fully revived, connected with the territory in reality, and slowly opened its gate.

The Earthen City emerged in Kunling Territory, revealing twelve ancient Golden-Armored warriors who had become immortals and a community led by the composed youth Gao Chan. At a gathering outside the city, mysterious figures appeared, prompting Ancestors and even Past Tathagata to perform a grand ceremony before them.

• The Earthen City appeared through the fog, and its ominous corpses and deathly aura made the gathered factions hesitate to approach.
• A golden rooster's crow cleared the city's black mist, revealing the city and a Blessed Land where armored animal-like inhabitants began restoring and patrolling the streets.
• Ancestors identified the twelve Golden-Armored Warriors as ancient immortals, and the news of the Twelve Variant Immortals spread throughout the world.
• Gao Chan introduced himself, assured the factions that the Earthen City's people meant no harm, and invited the Ancestors to discuss matters and attend an Immortal Peach Gathering.
• Three days later, the Twelve Golden Immortals welcomed the factions as mysterious figures emerged along a Golden Light Path, and Ancestors including Past Tathagata performed a grand ceremony before them.

Night Prefecture's ancient Ancestors returned and warned that Jade Capital's eventual departure could bring calamity, while their call to unite the dynasties stirred debate. After months of secluded cultivation, Qin Ming was confronted by a dangerous Fourth Realm seed during a storm, as several other mysterious figures converged on him.

• The leaders and youths of Night Prefecture and the Outer Domain bowed to the returning Ancestors, who warned that Jade Capital's departure could expose Night Prefecture to disaster.
• Night Prefecture's leaders privately questioned the Ancestors' motives, while a First Ancestor urged the dynasties to unite and public debate over an Immortal Dynasty spread.
• Qin Ming spent more than three months studying scriptures and cultivating at the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, where he worried that thunderfire supplies were becoming scarce.
• A Green-Clad Youth confronted Qin Ming in a storm and summoned a Nine-Colored Flying Sword, prompting Qin Ming to use the Heavenly Demon Force Field.
• A White-Clad Woman and two more figures approached Qin Ming as an almost charred human skin entered the Black White Mountain region and headed toward Double Tree Village.

Qi Yunxiao challenged Qin Ming to a wagered spar, but Qin Ming used the storm and his spiritual field to break Qi Yunxiao’s sword and turn the fight against him. As Qin Ming pursued the wounded Qi Yunxiao, a mysterious human skin appeared near Black White Mountain and Big Yellow Dog spoke to it.

• Qi Yunxiao told his elder that he hoped to obtain the Xin Yuan Medicinal Formula through Qin Ming, then joined his companions in betting that he could defeat Qin Ming with two sword strikes.
• At Red Haze Mountain, Qi Yunxiao attacked Qin Ming with his Nine-Colored Flying Sword, but Qin Ming drew on the storm and struck the sword with lightning.
• Qin Ming overheard Cen Jinghong’s secret message and realized the duel was part of a wager, then intensified his spiritual field with manifestations of extraordinary arts.
• Qi Yunxiao’s second sword strike failed when heavenly lightning shattered his Flying Sword, and Qin Ming pursued him as Cen Jinghong and Mu Xingyao watched in shock.
• Old Man Liu warned that intruders would die if they disturbed his final breakthrough, while Big Yellow Dog confronted a charred human skin and claimed to be its father.

Big Yellow Dog attacked Old Human Skin to protect Liu Mo and Black White Mountain. On Red Haze Mountain, Qin Ming overpowered Qi Yunxiao and turned on Cen Jinghong and Mu Xingyao, leaving Qi Yunxiao crushed by his spiritual field.

• Big Yellow Dog leaped into the night sky and struck Old Human Skin with an enormous paw as Talking Finch and Red Squirrel watched in shock.
• Qin Ming used the storm and his spiritual field to overwhelm Qi Yunxiao, who escalated from a third sword strike to a desperate barrage of attacks.
• Cen Jinghong and Mu Xingyao tried to intervene, but Qin Ming dragged their consciousness spirit light into his field and slapped them.
• Qi Yunxiao escaped above the clouds and launched an Immortal Dao Seal, while Qin Ming continued to draw on thunder and astral wind.
• Qin Ming manifested immense hands within his spiritual field and crushed Qi Yunxiao's Nirvana Black Lotus and consciousness spirit light; Mu Xingyao recognized the methods of the Mount Sumeru Field and the Heavenly Demon Force Field.

Qin Ming defeated Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao in his spiritual field, then crippled their cultivation rather than killing them outright. At Black White Mountain, the Big Yellow Dog tore apart the Old Human Skin and struck down other lurking demons before a Fallen Immortal Incident spread as a rumor.

• Qin Ming crushed Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao within his spiritual field, repeatedly destroying their consciousness spirit lights.
• Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai agreed to leave the three alive but cripple their cultivation, and Meng Zhiyan framed the retaliation as restrained self-defense.
• The Big Yellow Dog fought the Old Human Skin at Black White Mountain, tore him apart, and burned him, though a mass of bloody light escaped.
• The Big Yellow Dog pursued and killed a dark figure with the Bamboo Sword, then destroyed a white skeleton with Heaven-Piercing Sword Qi.
• A rumor spread that a Fallen Immortal Incident had occurred at Black White Mountain.

Big Yellow Dog fought off a rotten Eye of the Candle Dragon and a monstrous creature before its revival began to fade. It returned to Double Tree Village, while news of its battle reached Cao Qianqiu and Qi Yunxiao grew anxious over his missing Consciousness Spirit Light.

• Big Yellow Dog destroyed the rotten Eye of the Candle Dragon with its Bamboo Sword, then slew a giant blood-soaked creature that attacked near Black White Mountain.
• As Big Yellow Dog's strength waned, Liu Mo called it back and warned that one of the two ancient beings had arrived; Big Yellow Dog entered Black White Pure Land and ordered its demons to prepare the Black White Mountain and River Diagram.
• A terrifying figure approached Black White Mountain but withdrew, and the Old Ancestor and Moon Insect carried Big Yellow Dog back to Double Tree Village, where Liu Mo was called to change the baby's diaper.
• Pu Heng rushed to Cao Qianqiu with news of the battle at Black White Mountain, while Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao worried that their distant Consciousness Spirit Lights had not returned.
• Someone reassured Qi Yunxiao that Qin might have kept his party to discuss the Dao after being impressed by Qi's Sword Dao Domain.

After Qi Yunxiao and the other Outer Domain prodigies were captured by Qin Ming, they negotiated their release in Red Haze City, where Qi Yunxiao learned he had been crippled. As summer passed, Earthen City expanded its influence, and Qin Ming became interested in the retired Ancestors’ plans to open another cave.

• The gray-clad Master returned from Spirit Travel and reported that an Earth Immortal had passed Black White Mountain, leaving Qi Yunxiao’s main consciousness missing and alarming everyone on Feather Transformation Mountain.
• The gray-clad Master later learned that Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao were alive but had been defeated and captured by Qin Ming, so the three prodigies went to Red Haze City to negotiate their ransom.
• Meng Xinghai negotiated the prodigies’ release, and Qi Yunxiao discovered that Qin Ming had completely crippled him; the gray-clad Master backed down when Earthen City’s Ancestors intervened.
• Rumors about the captives spread, damaging Qi Yunxiao’s appraisal and Mu Xingyao’s reputation, while Qin Ming spent the summer in Double Tree Village with Old Man Liu and Big Yellow Dog.
• Earthen City announced an Immortal Peach Gathering, but Qin Ming received no invitation as the city worked to unify Night Prefecture’s forces.
• When the retired Ancestors planned to open another cave, the factions avoided involvement, but Qin Ming grew interested in joining them.

Qin Empire Ming traveled to Kunling to explore the newly opened Purple Haze Cave, hoping to find an opportunity to advance before turmoil spread. After the cave was confirmed safe, he prepared to cross into the unknown world alongside ordinary cultivators seeking a chance to change their fortunes.

• Qin Empire Ming left the Thunder King Bird and Talking Finch behind as he traveled toward Kunling, where he heard rumors about rising cultivators and gossip linking him to Mu Xingyao.
• Qin Empire Ming avoided visiting Elder Yu Gensheng and hurried to Purple Haze Cave, where early explorers were gathering.
• Qin Empire Ming observed prominent Immortal Path seeds, Pugong cultivators, Outer Domain blazing suns, and their elders arriving near Earthen City.
• Puppets repeatedly entered Purple Haze Cave and returned, confirming that it led to a new world without apparent danger.
• Qin Empire Ming prepared to cross through Purple Haze Cave on his first expedition into an unknown Different World.

Qin Ming explored the unknown Foreign Domain, found a vast forest of potent spirit mushrooms, and used them to break through to the sixth heaven of the spiritual field. He then discovered a strange enormous object hanging upside down in the sky, with a pale-gold grass rope dangling from it.

• Qin Ming entered the desolate volcanic region of the Foreign Domain and noticed its unusual Dao resonance and dark heavenly light.
• Qin Ming crossed a sharp cliff into a fertile woodland nourished by pale-gold fire springs and discovered a sea of enormous colorful mushrooms.
• Qin Ming identified five-colored spirit mushrooms as spirit medicine, tested a small piece, then ate several and broke through to the sixth heaven of the spiritual field.
• Qin Ming searched for higher-grade mushrooms and followed the increasingly dense Dao resonance to a majestic mountain.
• Qin Ming spotted an enormous jade-lit object hanging upside down among the clouds and saw a pale-gold grass rope dangling from it.

Qin Ming escaped a deadly hallucination in the mushroom sea, discovered that the five-colored spirit mushrooms could cause mass casualties, and brought survivors back through the Purple Haze Cave. As experts and Ancestors poured into the newly discovered realm, a sentient Ten-Colored Divine Mushroom unleashed a vast tide of spores that engulfed the area, leaving Qin Ming unsure whether he was still dreaming.

• Qin Ming entered the black Heavenly Light Pool in a convincing hallucination of the Jade Capital and Peach Orchard, where he fought Little Tathagata and was killed by Past Tathagata.
• Qin Ming awakened in the mushroom sea, realized the five-colored spirit mushroom had caused his hallucination, and escaped the pool as other explorers died or went mad.
• Qin Ming rescued and subdued the remaining explorers, warned others about the mushroom sea, and carried the survivors back through the Purple Haze Cave to Night Prefecture.
• A Grandmaster examined the mushrooms and helped wake the survivors, while the survivors revealed that they had all broken through; an Ancestor then reinforced the cave and led an expedition into the Different World.
• Experts, promising talents, and outsiders entered the Purple Haze Cave, but a survivor suddenly burst apart and released glowing motes, prompting an Ancestor to suspect spores from a degenerated Great Dream Divine Mushroom.
• A sentient Ten-Colored Divine Mushroom was announced from within the cave, and a flood of spores spread through the night sky and over the Earthen City as Qin Ming questioned whether the scene was real.