Recaps

Qin Ming endured the Jade Capital’s escalating trials, earned a law-chain baptism, studied rare scriptures, and shattered a series of Law Mirrors while Li Heng misread his success as proof of powerful connections. At the Wishing Pool, Qin Ming and Li Heng both claimed it, and Qin Ming prepared to fight for it.

• Li Heng took the pitch-black path after Li Cang warned him to behave respectfully toward Her Highness, while Qin Ming endured three unexpected trials on his own route.
• Qin Ming summoned the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to resist the law-chain baptism, then studied the Extreme Golden Body and Heavenly Transmission Jade Book at the Scripture Repository.
• Qin Ming advanced through twelve Law Mirrors, receiving useful warnings from the final three, while Li Heng assumed he had cheated with prior knowledge and connections.
• Qin Ming summoned the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella again to absorb another law-chain baptism, and Li Heng hurried ahead after breaking three mirrors of his own.
• Qin Ming and Li Heng reached the Wishing Pool at the same time, each believing it was rightfully his, and Qin Ming gathered his power for a fight.

Qin Ming defeated Li Heng, refined the Wishing Pool to diagnose flaws in his cultivation, and endured the trials on the wrong road before becoming a Saint Disciple. At the end, he challenged the woman in the Divine Flower to a duel on the Fighting God Platform.

• Qin Ming crippled Li Heng with one strike, learned that Li Heng had come to claim the Wishing Pool, and forced him to withdraw.
• Qin Ming examined the Wishing Pool and chose to improve the Silk Book Method rather than replace it, then refined the pool for use with his true body.
• The New Ranking and the Magic Array Spirit discussed Qin Ming's trials, and Qin Ming endured extra battles and received a baptism of Dao Chains.
• Qin Ming cleared the trials and became a Saint Disciple, while Li Heng failed his own road and Li Cang celebrated his descendant's success.
• Qin Ming argued with the Butterfly Woman after admiring the Divine Flower, then accepted the woman's challenge to a Fighting God Platform duel.

Qin Ming fought the White-Clad Woman, Heavenly God, in a duel and broke through her formidable Jade Capital techniques to enter her Pure Land. As their Inner Landscapes merged, Qin Ming called on her to undergo a tribulation and unleashed calamity qi.

• Qin Ming and Heavenly God began their duel, and she cast his consciousness into a terrifying abyss that he escaped with the Nine Heavens Scripture.
• Qin Ming cut through Heavenly God's sacred attack and tore her sleeve, then she summoned the Big Dipper Seven Arrows, which he eventually bound and severed with his Primal Chaos Sword Fiend.
• Heavenly God attacked Qin Ming with her zither, manifesting landscapes, Southern Blazing Fire, and legendary beasts, but he advanced toward her Pure Land.
• Heavenly God detonated her manifested zither and wielded a Nine-Colored Branch, but Qin Ming opened his Inner Landscape, stepped into her Pure Land, and merged their domains.
• The New Ranking learned that its Saint Disciple was fighting Taiyi, while Li Cang saw the bloodied Li Heng return and wondered who had reached the courtyard's deepest part.
• Heavenly God swept the Nine-Colored Branch at Qin Ming, who began evolving calamity qi and told her to undergo a tribulation.

Qin Ming overwhelmed the Heavenly God on the Fighting God Platform, surviving her many Jade Capital techniques and turning her mind-chain attack against her. The Heavenly God conceded and offered to consider becoming his Dao companion, though Qin Ming remained suspicious and struck her once more.

• Qin Ming’s calamity qi withered the Nine-Colored Branch and drove the Heavenly God to tear apart part of her Inner Landscape, but he anchored his own Pure Land and escaped the collapse.
• Qin Ming broke through the Heavenly God’s lunar palace and red-dust domains, then wounded her with his Chaos Sword Fiend and great hammer.
• When the Heavenly God sent a mind chain to seize his consciousness, Qin Ming used Heart Ape Severing to create Xin Yuan and a Will Horse, which attacked her alongside him.
• The Heavenly God fell badly wounded and conceded after the Butterfly Woman urged her to stop fighting.
• The Butterfly Woman said the Heavenly God would consider becoming Qin Ming’s Dao companion, and Qin Ming struck the Heavenly God once more before questioning the offer.

Qin Ming cleared Jade Capital's trials, captured Heavenly God, and tried to claim the Divine Flower, only to learn that neither she nor the flower was his reward. After the New Ranking showed him the Great Dao Tree and invited him to join Jade Capital, eight jade bells rang across the Night Mist Sea, and it sent him back to the Mortal World as the heavens prepared to seal.

• Qin Ming had the Myriad God Banner bind Heavenly God and carried her off the Fighting God Platform, intending to harvest the Divine Flower.
• Qin Ming tried to pick the flower, but Heavenly God explained it could not be harvested yet; Li Cang and Li Heng arrived and found her bound beside it.
• The Magic Array Spirit confirmed Qin Ming had cleared the trials, while the New Ranking clarified that Jade Capital did not award Dao companions or the Divine Flower.
• The New Ranking showed Qin Ming the Great Dao Tree, invited him to become a Core Saint Disciple, and explained the Golden Ranking and Dao Ranking.
• The New Ranking sensed that another faction had claimed the third Divine Flower, then eight jade bells rang across the Night Mist Sea.
• The New Ranking sent Qin Ming back to the Mortal World, warning him that the heavens would probably be sealed and that upheavals might follow.

After returning from Above the Nine Heavens, Qin Ming reunited with Meng Xinghai and his friends, then entered seclusion to repair hidden flaws in the Silk Book Method. As Qin Ming continued his dangerous cultivation, Earth Immortals announced that Heaven-Sealing was imminent and would affect the mortal world.

• Qin Ming returned to Red Haze City, recounted his journey to Meng Xinghai, and gave him two Longevity Leaves.
• Qin Ming met Xu Sheng, Zhou Lin, and Wu Zheng, who discussed rumors about his ranking, Taiyi, and a proposed fight with Cui Chonghe.
• Qin Ming learned that Masters were developing bodily problems, then entered Meng Xinghai's underground chamber to cultivate with the Wishing Pool.
• Qin Ming repeatedly damaged his body while using the Silk Book Method and other scriptures to uncover and remove hidden dangers.
• Strange lightning and Divine Chains appeared across Night Prefecture, and Earth Immortals announced that Heaven-Sealing was imminent and would affect those on the ground.

Qin Ming perfected the Silk Book Method by pushing his body to the point of repeated disintegration, then learned that revived Old Factions Above the Nine Heavens were sealing the heavens to concentrate Dao rhythm and resources. As invitations went out to powerful figures on the ground, Qin Ming hid from the recruiters, but two envoys found him in Black White Mountain and urged him to ascend.

• Qin Ming used the Fundamental Scripture Diagram and the Wishing Pool to repair the hidden flaws in his cultivation, then emerged from seclusion with a stronger body and spirit.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that Old Factions in the Jade Capital had revived and were sealing parts of the heavens to gather Dao rhythm and support their chosen experts.
• The Old Factions argued over how to distribute heavenly resources, whether to nurture new prodigies or their descendants, and how to recruit experts from the ground.
• Heaven-Sealing began as immense law chains spread across the night sky, and rumors of invitations for powerful cultivators to ascend stirred debate across the land.
• Meng Xinghai advised Qin Ming to avoid direct contact with the recruiters, but two young envoys found him in Black White Mountain and invited him Above the Nine Heavens.

Qin Ming, posing as Taiyi, defeated Jiang Yan and Shen Wei when they tried to take him to the heavens, then fled to Night Ruins to erase the tracking mark left on him. There, he confronted two groups from Jade Capital who discovered that he was both Taiyi and Realm Faction, and he began absorbing them into the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.

• Jiang Yan and Shen Wei identified Qin Ming as Taiyi and tried to persuade him to ascend, but attacked when he asked for time to say goodbye to his family.
• Qin Ming destroyed their redwood boat with his nine-colored Sword Fiend, blocked their Law Chains with the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, and trapped their spirit forms inside it.
• Qin Ming learned that a Dao Mark spread through his body and consciousness could let people in the heavens track him, so he rode the Thunder King Bird to Gengjin City and entered Night Ruins alone.
• Two groups from Jade Capital followed the tracking marks into Night Ruins and found Qin Ming, realizing that Taiyi and Realm Faction were the same person.
• After an old man invited Qin Ming to ascend and receive Jade Capital's blessing, Qin Ming killed seven people with his Sword Sha and drew their spirit bodies into the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.

Qin Ming fought two groups of heavenly beings who tried to bind and take him Above the Nine Heavens, killing many of them with his Sword Sha and spiritual field while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella absorbed their law and dao chains. The chapter ended with the battle still raging on the shore as elders Above the Nine Heavens calmly awaited the groups’ return.

• Qin Ming killed ten heavenly visitors before Yu Botao and Wen Yuning trapped him behind an Immortal Locking Array.
• Yu Botao and Wen Yuning accused Qin Ming of murdering their descendants, while Jiang Yan and Shen Wei joined them after learning he had killed their avatars.
• Qin Ming used the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to break through the arrays and block the groups’ law chains and dao chain as he killed more opponents.
• Qin Ming’s spiritual field destroyed Wen Yuning’s dragon-headed cane and tore her apart.
• Qin Ming shattered Jiang Yan’s heavenly saber and killed him with a single swing of the nine-colored sword fiend.
• The Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella absorbed the fallen fighters’ spirit bodies as Qin Ming continued attacking, while elders Above the Nine Heavens wondered whether their visitors had captured the ranking champion.

Qin Ming wiped out two teams from Above the Nine Heavens in the Night Ruins, revealing his overwhelming strength and the shared identity behind Taiyi, Realm Faction, and One Sword. As his Dao Mark faded, Qi Daozhen descended from heaven, while Qin Ming began cultivating in hopes of undergoing rebirth and advancing his realm.

• Qin Ming defeated Jiang Yan, Shen Wei, Yu Botao, and more than fifty others, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella collected their Spirit Bodies and took their Dao and Law Chains.
• Qin Ming advanced through the Night Ruins and destroyed a pursuing patrol team as the mark identifying him as a ranking champion neared disappearance.
• The Earth Immortals discussed their inability to bring the ground champions to heaven, and Qi Daozhen volunteered to descend and inspect the situation.
• Qi Daozhen left the Jade Palace aboard a golden wooden boat, believing the ground champions would eventually serve Scorching Suns like himself.
• Qin Ming felt new vitality growing within him, found a quiet beach in the Night Ruins, and began circulating the Silk Book Method to prepare for rebirth.

Qi Daozhen and Xie Jinglan tracked Taiyi into the Night Ruins, where Qin Ming was completing a breakthrough by absorbing the world's Dao resonance. They attacked him during his nirvana, but Qin Ming revealed his strength as the leader of all three rankings and repelled their opening blows.

• Qi Daozhen enlisted Xie Jinglan's help to find Taiyi before he could ascend to the heavens, and they tracked his weakening Dao mark into the Night Ruins.
• Qin Ming cultivated in an underwater volcanic region, harmonized the Night Ruins' Dao resonance with the Black White Scripture, and began a major nirvana transformation.
• A shrimp dragon invited Qin Ming to explore a newly appearing underwater cave mansion, then left him to finish cultivating.
• Qi Daozhen and Xie Jinglan arrived at the volcanic region and attacked Qin Ming after realizing he was Taiyi.
• Qin Ming nearly broke Qi Daozhen's Golden Staff, severed one of his Golden Crow wings with a nine-colored sword, and knocked back Xie Jinglan's axe with his Inner Landscape.
• The heavenly group realized Qin Ming was also One Sword and the top-ranked Realm Faction, leaving Qi Daozhen shaken by Xie Jinglan's defeat.

Qin Ming defeated Xie Jinglan, Qi Daozhen, and their allies after they tried to kill him and enslave him with Immortal Pacts. He forced the two leaders to explore the deep sea for him, then comprehended the Open Heaven Axe and completed his rebirth.

• Qin Ming cut apart the golden boat and fought Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen, whose axe and transformations failed to overpower him.
• Xie Jinglan unleashed the Open Heaven Axe’s domain while Qi Daozhen used an Immortal Pact, but Qin Ming resisted both contracts and turned them back on their users.
• Qin Ming defeated Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen, killed the other attackers, and captured the surviving consciousness spirits with the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
• Qin Ming learned that restrictions prevented his captives from revealing their scriptures, then ordered Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen to explore the deep sea under the Immortal Pact’s control.
• Qin Ming discovered that the ashes of Xie Jinglan’s Inner Landscape contained the Open Heaven Axe’s conception, comprehended it, and completed his breakthrough into the Second Heaven of the Heart Lamp.

Qin Ming survived the Night Ruins’ deadly second level, discovered that Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen had been enslaved by an ancient Cave Mansion, and gave Yu Gensheng a life-extending Golden Pear. As four Earth Immortals descended to the lower realm to investigate the missing emissaries, Qin Ming hid in the mountains, ready to return to the Night Ruins.

• Qin Ming mastered the Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe, then narrowly escaped a blue-eyed monster after a hammer from the second level nearly shattered him.
• Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen were trapped by the Cave Mansion’s formation and bound by a second contract that forced them to serve its ancient master.
• Qin Ming found Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen, learned of their double enslavement, and told them to watch the Cave Mansion while keeping his identity secret.
• Qin Ming gave Yu Gensheng a Golden Pear that extended his life, and Yu Gensheng resolved to perfect a new Magnetic Canon.
• Four Earth Immortals descended to the lower realm after learning that emissaries had died and groups from the Realm Faction had disappeared.
• Qin Ming hid deep in the mountains, prepared to enter the Night Ruins as the Earth Immortals arrived.

The Four Great Earth Immortals descended into Night Prefecture, forced Great Rui and Great Gan into submission, and searched the major sects for powerful Ancestors and potential rivals. After discovering a formidable Esoteric Sect cultivator might be nearing the Seventh Realm in Kunling, they headed there to investigate.

• The Four Great Earth Immortals descended upon Rui City, where the Rui Emperor and Great Rui’s royal family submitted to them.
• The Earth Immortals’ disciples found the Beyond-Mundane Immortal Land’s Ancestors and promising immortal seeds absent, while the four immortals used the Sky-Patrolling Mirror to detect auras nearing the Seventh Realm at several Ancestral Courts.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals subdued Great Gan’s royal family and then visited the Beyond the Mundane Pure Land, the Six Royals Ancestral Court, the Tathagata Sect, the Sky Bearing Sect, and the Jade Clarity Sect, finding their targets absent.
• The Past Tathagata challenged the Earth Immortals’ dismissal of him, while the Sage heard that they had angered his disciple and asked the Great Red Dragon whether it had found Doggy.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals investigated the Esoteric Sect’s Ancestral Courts and learned that a powerful cultivator was refining deadly grounds in Kunling in pursuit of the Seventh Realm.
• The four Earth Immortals set out for Kunling to find the cultivator, as observers wondered whether the faint seven-colored mist there meant that the cultivator had already succeeded.

The Four Great Earth Immortals searched the forbidden grounds for the Esoteric Sect’s elusive expert while subduing factions and taking gifted youths into their service. Their pursuit brought them to Black White Mountain, where a Black White Bear severed Nian Songhe’s hand with the Azure Bamboo Sword.

• The Four Great Earth Immortals explored the Kunling Forbidden Grounds, found traces of the Esoteric Sect’s expert, and used the Sky-Patrolling Mirror to pursue him.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals subdued the Nine-Headed Birds and other forbidden-ground factions, then took Zhong Sheng away with a Divine Chain despite his master Jiang Hai’s pleas.
• Qin Ming learned of the Earth Immortals’ actions and entered the Night Ruins, while Ancestors above the Nine Heavens encountered the Old Barbarian God and a Sage from Pugong.
• The Cui Household submitted to the Four Great Earth Immortals and pointed them toward Qin Ming at Black White Mountain.
• At Black White Mountain, Nian Songhe tried to seize the Black White Bear, but the bear drew the Azure Bamboo Sword and cut off his hand.

The Black White Bear revealed its Dog Sword Immortal form and fought the Four Great Earth Immortals, protecting Black White Mountain with Liu Mo’s Black and White Diagram. As the battle paused near Double Tree Village, the Ancestors in the heavens learned of the fight and set out for the ground.

• The Four Great Earth Immortals tried to recruit the Black White Bear to Jade Capital, but it refused and challenged their authority.
• The Black White Bear changed into its Dog Sword Immortal form and unleashed five hundred years of pent-up fury, severely wounding Nian Songhe and Xiao Qingheng.
• Xiao Qingheng used a Dao Chain against the bear, but the Black and White Diagram swallowed it; both sides then retreated into the clouds.
• The Black White Bear decided not to flee because Double Tree Village and Liu Mo’s wife and Divine Son were nearby.
• An Ancestor reported the fight to the Night Prefecture Ancestors, who headed for the ground alongside the Present Sage and the Old Barbarian God.
• In the Night Ruins, Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen were alarmed when Young Taiyi asked them to help deceive his master and destroy his ancestor.

Qin Ming forced Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen to send a misleadingly useful report about the Night Ruins, while the conflict between the Black White Bear and the Four Great Earth Immortals escalated into a wider battle. Night Prefecture’s allies killed Qi Yunding and joined the fight, and the three surviving Earth Immortals fled toward the Night Ruins as outside Seventh Realm experts arrived.

• Qin Ming made Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen write a letter describing the Earth Immortal Tree and Cave Mansion while concealing his involvement, then killed the Shrimp Dragon that tried to lure him there.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals learned from the letter that the Night Ruins might contain Earth Immortal Fruit, but they delayed investigating while they considered the Black White Bear’s possible connection to a wanted criminal.
• The Black White Bear launched a third battle against the Four Great Earth Immortals, and Night Prefecture’s Ancestors, the Sage, and the Old Barbarian God joined the fighting.
• The Old Barbarian God shattered Qi Yunding’s body, the Sage destroyed his pure yang consciousness, and the Ancestors used the Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes to absorb his remains.
• Seventh Realm experts arrived to help Night Prefecture, and the three surviving Earth Immortals broke toward the Night Ruins after the Black White Bear blasted Nian Songhe aside.

Earth Immortals hunted down Nian Songhe, Xiao Qingheng, and Mu Cangwu, who fled into the Night Ruins and were destroyed. Their pursuers awakened an ancient cultivator, who revealed a map leading to Exotic Gold Cloth, while Qin Ming recognized a reaction from his Torn Cloth and an ancestor in a heavenly Divine Palace sensed an impending upheaval.

• Earth Immortals and masked hunters pursued Nian Songhe, Xiao Qingheng, and Mu Cangwu across the Great Rui Dynasty, while the Ancestor Council activated preparations for a coming crisis.
• The hunters killed the three Earth Immortals’ chief disciples, and the three immortals merged their pure yang consciousnesses before fleeing into the Night Ruins.
• Qin Ming watched the battle from the sea as Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen fled, and the three Earth Immortals entered the underwater palace, where enchanted Light Paper attacked them.
• The ancient mighty cultivator rose from his coffin and fled as the hunters attacked; the hunters then erased Nian Songhe, Xiao Qingheng, and Mu Cangwu.
• The ancient cultivator offered a map showing where Exotic Gold Cloth was buried, and Qin Ming realized his Torn Cloth had reacted to it.
• In a Divine Palace above the Nine Heavens, a skeletal old ancestor sensed that something momentous was happening and sent a cultivator to investigate.

In the Night Ruins, Qin Empire Ming and the Earth Immortals discovered a map depicting a fragment of the Exotic Metal Map, while the Earth Immortals hunted the Four Great Earth Immortals and began preparing to retaliate against the heavens. As celestial envoys were slaughtered and the Heaven-Sealing Formation neared completion, Night Prefecture’s ancestors and their allies ascended to strike its weak points.

• A map in the Night Ruins showed a radiant fragment resembling the Exotic Metal Map, and Qin Empire Ming memorized its terrain while Old Cloth reacted to the image.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals fled in their Longevity Coffin as Old Barbarian God and the other Earth Immortals gave chase, then abandoned the pursuit and discussed Night Prefecture’s hidden secrets and the coming crisis.
• Night Prefecture’s ancestors proposed using the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes to punch through the Heaven-Sealing Formation, while Pugong's Sage offered to help refine the weapons and the ancestors remained wary of him.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that Void Tunnels had opened beside the Super Fire Springs, then killed a group of celestial envoys who demanded his Thunder King Bird and tested his Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe.
• Night Prefecture’s ancestors and allied Earth Immortals slaughtered a descending envoy group, then ascended toward the Nine Heavens to attack the Heaven-Sealing Formation before it fully closed.

The thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes pierced the sealed heavens, devastating the Old Factions and forcing the attackers to retreat as a powerful seven-day stacker pursued them. Qin Ming was carried into the dangerous skies by the awakened Torn Cloth, which headed toward the Inverted Jade Capital.

• The Old Woman, Old Barbarian God, Pugong's Sage, and other Earth Immortals drove the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes into the heavens, breaking Dao Chains and damaging the Old Factions' pure land.
• The Old Factions activated their formations and weapons to contain the breach, then discovered heavy losses among their palaces, sacred sites, and sleeping elders.
• Pugong's Sage, Leng Mingkong, Chu Canglan, and the other attackers withdrew, but a powerful seven-day stacker from above pursued them with a Killing Array Diagram.
• He Lian Chengyun and the other Earth Immortals chose to lure their pursuer toward the Jade Capital Prototype, and their Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes blocked his sword array in their first clashes.
• Qin Ming's Torn Cloth awakened and dragged him into the high sky; he opened the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella against the astral wind as the cloth carried him toward the Inverted Jade Capital.

Qin Empire Ming followed Torn Cloth through the dangerous ruins Beyond Heaven toward the inverted, partly illusory Jade Capital, while Xiang Hong’s forces lost a devastating battle against the wielders of the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes. Torn Cloth then carried Qin Empire Ming directly to Jade Capital’s city wall, where even the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella warned him away.

• Qin Empire Ming endured the Astral Wind Above the Nine Heavens and Extramundane Firefall as Torn Cloth carried him through the Night Mist Sea toward Jade Capital.
• Qin Empire Ming observed overlapping Civilization Layers and ancient remains outside Jade Capital, then glimpsed its illusory towers, an iceberg, and an altar bearing a mysterious object.
• Xiang Hong and the Four Great Earth Immortals unleashed Star Mountain’s Killing Array Diagram against the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes, but their enemies overwhelmed them.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals were killed, and Xiang Hong’s body was destroyed before he escaped to the heavens with the Killing Array Diagram and a dim Pure Yang Consciousness.
• The Old Factions reacted to Xiang Hong’s defeat, while Zhuo Kun complained that they were urging him to fight despite his failing lifespan.
• Torn Cloth swept Qin Empire Ming to Jade Capital’s city wall, where the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella trembled in warning.

Qin Empire Ming entered Jade Capital with Old Cloth and discovered that the Exotic Gold Cloth’s passage had given rise to the city’s strange sights. Meanwhile, Zhuo Kun led eight Earth Immortals to punish the ground’s rebels, but Jade Capital’s sudden appearance left him terrified and kneeling.

• Old Cloth carried Qin Empire Ming into Jade Capital, where its dense Dao Chains filled him with dread.
• Star Mountain, Thunder Marsh Palace, and other factions armed Zhuo Kun with Dao Liquid and powerful treasures, persuading him to lead a campaign against the ground’s rebels.
• Zhuo Kun descended with eight Earth Immortals, overwhelmed the Great Rui Royal Family, and began pursuing the Ancestor group, Dog Sword Immortal, Sage, and their allies.
• Old Cloth brought Qin Empire Ming to an altar, where he saw that a passage behind an enshrined scrap of Exotic Gold Cloth had produced Jade Capital’s scenery.
• Old Cloth rushed toward the passage, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella urged Qin Empire Ming to explore it.
• Jade Capital appeared above Beyond Heaven, and Zhuo Kun tore off his crown, leaped down, and knelt in terror.

Zhuo Kun and the Old Factions mistook Qin Empire Ming’s appearance beneath the Emperor’s Umbrella for Jade Capital choosing a new master and feared its surviving inhabitants would punish them. Beyond Heaven, Qin Empire Ming defeated another temporary owner of Exotic Gold Cloth, gained the fragment, and returned to the ground as someone awakened within the Ten-Colored Iceberg and a message from Jade Capital reached the Old Factions.

• Zhuo Kun and the eight Earth Immortals knelt in terror after their treasured mirrors showed a figure beneath the Emperor’s Umbrella in Jade Capital, and the Old Factions feared their past offenses would bring retribution.
• Qin Empire Ming discovered a fourth Exotic Gold Cloth fragment and met a white-robed temporary owner who demanded that he relinquish Old Cloth.
• Qin Empire Ming fought the white-robed young man with the Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe and Nine-Colored Sword Fiend, forcing him to concede and yield the New Cloth.
• Old Cloth and New Cloth fused, then carried Qin Empire Ming safely back to the ground beneath the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
• Someone opened their eyes inside the Ten-Colored Iceberg, and a blood-written message from Jade Capital made the Old Factions prostrate themselves in fear.

After the Supreme Land condemned the factions above, Qin Ming returned to Red Haze City and spent a year cultivating beyond Night Prefecture while the region’s political order shifted. When the Eight Trigrams Furnace’s guardian prepared to leave, Qin Ming learned Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran were still nearby and set off to find them.

• A voice from Jade Capital rebuked the factions above, prompting some Masters and Earth Immortals to flee toward the earth as news of their humiliation spread through Night Prefecture and beyond.
• Qin Ming realized that rumors of a mysterious figure beneath the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella referred to him, then returned to Red Haze City and read letters from Little Wu, Jiang Ran, and Li Qingyue.
• The artifact spirits of the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella and the Eight Trigrams Furnace argued, while the furnace’s guardian agreed to protect Qin Ming for a year before returning to Li Qingyue.
• The factions above resumed their efforts to unify the lands below, and Qin Ming avoided the Night Ruins before secluding himself near fire springs to cultivate for a year.
• After Qin Ming emerged with only modest progress, the Eight Trigrams Furnace’s guardian told him Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran were still nearby, and he asked it to take him to them.

Qin Ming traveled across the Night Mist World with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, learning that the Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain had drawn explorers from many regions and civilizations. He reached the mountain range and began investigating before entering, while Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran were already exploring inside.

• Qin Ming flew in the Eight Trigrams Divine Garment, questioned Old Furnace about the ancient world, and heard its offer to make him a guardian of Eight Sceneries Palace.
• Qin Ming crossed twelve Mist Gates and learned that the destination lay in the Unclaimed Land, where the exposed Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain had attracted explorers from the Outer Domain.
• Qin Ming and Old Furnace encountered a decaying former deity suffering from the clash of Dao rhythms, and Old Furnace explained that changing world conditions were testing cultivators across the realms.
• Qin Ming reached the Remnant Vein and learned that Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran had been exploring there for months among teams of many races.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Black Tower Civilization and Demonic Cultivators were also involved, then joined a local team to investigate the mountains.