Recaps

Qin Ming investigated the rumors about the forbidden zone, confirmed they were true, and entered through the Ancient Mist Gate to inspect its dangers and medicine fields. He found three fields containing Earth Immortal Medicines and spotted Qian Cheng circling them, leaving Qin Ming uncertain whether the man was one of the Taboos.

• Qin Ming quietly gathered information in Luofu City, recognized Tang Jin, Crow Master, and Qi Qianchen, and saw that Qian Cheng had changed dramatically since their days in Red Haze City.
• Qin Ming verified that the forbidden-zone rumors were genuine, learned that many powerful descendants and leading figures had entered safely, and obtained a Life Talisman.
• Qin Ming entered the Ancient Mist Gate alone and explored the desolate forbidden zone, passing immense ancient remains and deadly sites such as a Blood Lake.
• Qin Ming found sealed medicine fields filled with rare herbs and discovered three Main Medicine Fields containing medicines he judged to be at least Earth Immortal grade.
• Qin Ming saw Qian Cheng circling the three Main Medicine Fields and wondered whether he was one of the beings counted among the Taboos.

As the Ancient Medicine Field neared its opening, Qin Ming entered the forbidden zone by pure yang consciousness and followed Qian Cheng to ruins containing lightning-drawing towers. While Qian Cheng studied the towers, a hired killing group detected Qin Ming nearby, and the medicine fields began to bloom as the seal’s final moments approached.

• Qian Cheng tested the restrictions around the Main Medicine Fields, and Qin Ming explored the forbidden zone before withdrawing to prepare for its opening.
• As Luofu City learned that the Ancient Medicine Field would soon open, Qin Ming failed to buy teleportation and escape treasures and decided to travel concealed on the Exotic Gold Cloth.
• Three organizations accepted a commission to kill Qin Ming, while Lu Zheng sought him on the Heavenly Venerate’s orders and Lu Jingli discussed the possible marriage arrangement with her friend.
• Qin Ming entered the Otherworld as pure yang consciousness and followed Qian Cheng among the cultivators and spirit-traveling groups.
• Qian Cheng led people to investigate lightning-drawing runes on ruined Black Gold Towers, and Qin Ming approached to sense the emotional traces around him.
• The hired killers detected Qin Ming’s aura near the towers as thunder shook the forbidden zone and the Essence Qi Spirit Three Treasures Medicine Field began to bloom.

Qin Ming learned the first volume of the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal from Qian Cheng’s traces, then survived the changed Ancient Medicine Field as it became a slaughter ground. He escaped with help from powerful travelers and reached the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, where practicing the scripture amid a storm produced astonishing results.

• Qian Cheng reconstructed the first volume of the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal from the Black Gold Towers, and Qin Ming secretly gained the same scripture by sensing Qian Cheng’s emotions.
• Three Pure World Hall hunters pursued Qin Ming, but he destroyed their lightning-wood statue, defeated their superior’s pure yang consciousness, and burned all four attackers to ash.
• The Tribulation Crossing Grand Array collapsed, and the Ancient Medicine Field’s changed rules slowed outsiders as Otherworld creatures and sixth-realm experts turned the grounds into a battlefield.
• Qin Ming abandoned the medicines and escaped by attaching himself to Feng Zhige, Lu Zheng, Yan Zhuohua, and finally the Small Boat carrying Tang Jin, Crow Master, and Qi Qianchen.
• Qin Ming returned to his physical body, headed to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, and found that practicing the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal during a thunderstorm brought a powerful response.

Qin Empire Ming cultivated the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal through the rainy season, forming a flawless Purple Gold Core and advancing to the Fifth Heaven of Heart Lamp. After returning to Double Tree Village, he learned that Meng Xinghai had fallen unconscious and followed the trail of his missing soul into a strange place, where he discovered divine phantoms and suspected human interference.

• Qin Empire Ming refined his heart and body in the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, then cultivated the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal by absorbing natural lightning.
• Over seventy-nine days, Qin Empire Ming formed and perfected a Purple Gold Core, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella recognized it as a Golden Core of extraordinary quality.
• Qin Empire Ming advanced to the Fifth Heaven of Heart Lamp, emerged from seclusion, and returned to his quiet life in Double Tree Village.
• A trusted subordinate told Qin Empire Ming that Meng Xinghai had lost consciousness and that his soul seemed to have vanished, so Qin Empire Ming hurried to Red Haze City.
• Qin Empire Ming resonated with Meng Xinghai's remaining Divine Wisdom and followed it into an unknown place, where he fought and destroyed two divine phantoms.
• Qin Empire Ming continued toward the strange place, protected by the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal, and vowed to make those responsible for Meng Xinghai's condition pay.

Qin Ming discovered that the Three-Eyed Sect’s decayed deity had invaded Meng Xinghai’s Purple Divine Land and was parasitizing him to revive. With the Masters’ help, Qin Ming attacked the deity and blasted apart his old root, but the battle around the Divine Land was still underway.

• Qin Ming found Meng Xinghai’s divine wisdom rooted through by the Three-Eyed Elder’s tendrils, then discovered the Three-Eyed Sect and other forces gathered outside the sealed Purple Divine Land.
• Qin Ming told Meng Zhiyan that Meng Xinghai was in danger, and Meng Zhiyan mobilized the Meng Family while Qin Ming summoned Yu Gensheng and Li Qingyun.
• Qin Ming led the Masters and elite fighters underground, entered the Purple Divine Land by Spirit Travel, and used talismans and the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to loosen and immobilize the old root.
• Qin Ming attacked the Three-Eyed Elder and his guardians; Meng Zhiyan and Yu Gensheng entered to support him as fighting erupted outside.
• The Three-Eyed Elder tried to parasitize Qin Ming, but Qin Ming’s primordial lightning resisted him and blasted the elder’s body apart.

Qin Empire Ming rescued Meng Xinghai, defeated the Three-Eyed Elder in the Purple Divine Land, and led the Masters to destroy the elder’s remaining power in his decayed Divine Kingdom. The Three-Eyed Sect’s deity was finally annihilated, while the group still suspected that someone had orchestrated the attack on Meng Xinghai.

• Qin Empire Ming used Thunder Seal Script to defeat the Three-Eyed Elder’s incarnations and reduced his surviving root to Divine Wisdom, which the group planned to use to help Meng Xinghai recover.
• Qin Empire Ming purified Meng Xinghai, and the group returned with him to the City Lord’s Manor, where his family rejoiced at his awakening.
• Qin Empire Ming repelled the Three-Eyed Elder’s attempt to trap his soul in a dream, then joined five others in setting out for the Three-Eyed Sect’s ruined sanctuary.
• The Three-Eyed Elder summoned a Divine Contract and attacked Qin Empire Ming, but Qin Empire Ming countered his techniques with lightning and repeatedly destroyed his manifestations.
• Qin Empire Ming tested several of his techniques against the Three-Eyed Elder until the elder’s body and soul were completely annihilated.

After discovering that hostile organizations had targeted Meng Xinghai through a rumor, Qin Ming launched a campaign against them and uncovered a valuable Blood Immortal Organization stronghold. The chapter ended as he broke into its formation and confronted a Master guarding a life-extending blood grape vine.

• Li Qingyun realized Qin Ming was the rumored One Sword, while Meng Zhiyan explained that the Three-Eyed Elder's divine realm was collapsing after his death.
• Meng Xinghai and the others investigated the rumor that had endangered him, and Qin Ming refined the Three-Eyed Elder's roots into restorative medicine before leaving to cultivate with thunderfire.
• Qin Ming learned that several organizations had sent people to Red Haze City and vowed to strike back, while grieving that he might never see his grandfather again.
• Qin Ming and the Masters attacked strongholds belonging to the Demon Organization and Longevity Abode, then Qin Ming killed a Longevity Abode expert after interrogating her.
• Qin Ming, Meng Xinghai, Yu Gensheng, and the others reached a Blood Immortal Organization stronghold in Giant City, where Qin Ming tore through its formation and charged at a Master guarding a blood grape vine.

Qin Ming led his companions in destroying major Dark Organization bases, then defeated and killed Zhou Zhengran in his first true battle against a Master. At dawn, Qin Ming headed to visit an old acquaintance, while Cui Chongxiao and Mu Zhuo agreed to ambush him outside Black White Mountain and cripple him.

• Qin Ming broke into a Blood Immortal Organization base, killed its members and Master Zhou Zhengran, and seized the life-extending blood grape vine.
• Qin Ming and his companions also destroyed a Pure World Studio base and gathered more spoils.
• Qin Ming left for a mysterious estate to visit an old acquaintance as news of the raids had yet to spread.
• Cui Chongxiao told Mu Zhuo he wanted to kill Qin Ming, and Mu Zhuo offered to help ambush him when he left Black White Mountain.
• Mu Zhuo said he would break Qin Ming's limbs and spine to delay his cultivation while avoiding a political crisis.

Qin Empire Ming struck back at the Cui Household and Qi Yunxiao’s sect, killing their fighters after uncovering their hostility and schemes against him. Back in Black White Mountain, he learned that another Grandmaster had entered the area to investigate him, and the chapter ended as Qin Empire Ming moved to slap the intruder.

• Cui Twelve and the elders discussed killing Qin Empire Ming, but he arrived alone and defeated them, calling them out by name as he killed them.
• Qin Empire Ming traveled to Rui City, where he attacked Qi Yunxiao’s residence and killed the cultivators there after learning that their dojo had hired assassins to murder him.
• A middle-aged man received news that the Dark Organizations had failed and chose to ascend to Above the Nine Heavens rather than join the conflict.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to Black White Mountain with Yu Gensheng, Li Qingyun, and Meng Zhiyan, while Cui Chongxiao and Mu Zhuo arrived in Red Haze City.
• Mu Zhuo entered Black White Mountain to observe Qin Empire Ming, but four Grandmasters in Dog Sword Immortal attire surrounded him, and Qin Empire Ming raised a hand to strike.

Qin Ming and Black White Mountain drove off Mu Zhuo and Cui Chongxiao after a fierce clash, prompting warnings and rising tensions across Night Prefecture. As Qin Ming prepared for a journey beyond the Ancient Mist Gate, an invitation from the heavens arrived for him to compete for Jade Capital’s supreme inheritance.

• Qin Ming, Yu Gensheng, Meng Zhiyan, and Li Qingyun attacked Mu Zhuo, who escaped badly injured with a Void Teleportation Talisman and warned Cui Chongxiao to flee.
• Cui Chongxiao followed Mu Zhuo out of Black White Mountain, while Yu Gensheng warned Qin Ming not to fight Mu Zhuo again until he grew stronger.
• Qin Ming returned to Double Tree Village, taught Wen Rui, and stored the spiritual essence from Zhou Zhengran's Six Phoenix Treasure Lamp in the Torn Cloth.
• Qin Ming questioned the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella about thunderfire, the limits of cultivation, and whether any beings lived forever; it said that even the greatest experts eventually died.
• Above the Nine Heavens, Yun Jianyue and several young men discussed a competition for Jade Capital's supreme inheritance, and Lu Jingli doubted Qin Ming could qualify.
• Meng Xinghai received an invitation from the heavens for Qin Ming as Qin Ming prepared to travel beyond the Ancient Mist Gate and break through using thunder medicine.

Qin Empire Ming traveled to a foreign domain, settled beside a Cat-person village, and used a lightning-drawing tower to cultivate with Thunder Medicine while waiting for the rainy season. When the children warned him that black wheat had appeared on a distant tract, he investigated and discovered tiny beings, including Grandmasters, performing rituals among the crop.

• Qin Empire Ming declined to ascend to the Nine Heavens and planned to fuse several true arts after reaching the Fifth Realm.
• Qin Empire Ming crossed an Ancient Mist Gate, disguised himself as an ape-man, and settled in an abandoned Mountain God Temple near a Cat-person village.
• Qin Empire Ming built a lightning-drawing tower and drank Thunder Medicine, strengthening his body and cultivation through repeated bouts of lightning.
• Sanhua, Tabby, and Black and White told Qin Empire Ming that black wheat had returned to a barren tract after decades, and he went to investigate.
• Qin Empire Ming found tiny beings dancing and performing rituals among the black wheat, including at least two Grandmasters.

Qin Empire Ming investigated the mysterious Black Land and learned that Duan Yun Village’s bandits planned to use children as sacrifices to improve its Divine Grain. After saving the abducted children, he broke through to the Sixth Heaven of the Heart Lamp and slaughtered the bandits and their sect allies; he then watched from the shadows as several Masters arrived near the ripening black wheat.

• Qin Empire Ming observed three-inch-tall Masters dancing on the black wheat and learned from Old Orange Cat that the Black Land had reappeared after a devastating battle decades earlier.
• Duan Yun Village’s bandits blocked villagers from fleeing and extorted their Silver Wheat, while Qin Empire Ming watched and learned they hoped to claim the Divine Grain.
• The bandits abducted Sanhua, Black and White, and other children for a blood sacrifice, but Qin Empire Ming secretly killed their captors and rescued groups of children from nearby villages.
• During a powerful thunderstorm, Qin Empire Ming consumed Thunder Medicine, broke through to the Sixth Heaven of the Heart Lamp, and decided to act against the bandits.
• Qin Empire Ming exterminated the men of Duan Yun Village and killed the sect experts who had ordered the sacrifices.
• Two days later, several Masters arrived near the ripening black wheat, and Qin Empire Ming watched them from the shadows with his White Bone Club.

Qin Ming entered the Mystic Wheat Field with several Masters, followed them across a mysterious underground sea in search of immortality, and killed Ao Sheng when the group had to sacrifice someone to continue. The Turtle-Shell Ship then carried them toward the vanished Solar Yang, which rose before them in a world of golden light.

• Qin Ming secretly listened as four Masters discussed the divine grain and the deaths at Duan Yun Village, then watched them join two Insectoid Masters and three rogue cultivators to harvest the black wheat.
• Qin Ming followed the Masters across a black-mist bridge to a fiery underground sea, where golden writing told them their quest for immortality could yield only half a lifetime and demanded a sacrifice to proceed.
• Ao Sheng singled out Qin Ming as the sacrifice, so Qin Ming attacked the four allied Masters, killed Ao Sheng, and took his storage bracelet before the Five-Colored Giant Shark swallowed Ao Sheng's remains and spirit.
• Qin Ming introduced himself as Great Sage Equal to Heaven as the Turtle-Shell Ship continued across the sea and the vanished Solar Yang appeared on the horizon, filling the sky with golden light.

Qin Ming and the Masters endured a series of deadly trials aboard the Turtle-Shell Ship, gathered the five elemental medicinal liquids, and uncovered Old Sheep as a dying, regressed True God. After making a temporary peace contract with him, Qin Ming obtained the longevity medicine and escaped as the strange sea and abyss vanished underground.

• A vast sun reached for the Masters with a boundless hand, tasted their consciousness, and sent golden medicinal liquid into their bodies before the ship left the sea.
• Qin Ming purified the sun’s karmic fire into a new world purifying fire, then joined Big Bug and the Rogue Cultivators in attacking Shi Shiyong as the ship plunged through an Abyss.
• The group reached an island where a bound creature tasted their vitality, then fought again; Old Sheep revealed his overwhelming power and killed Big Bug and Shi Shiyong.
• Qin Ming and Old Sheep formed a contract to coexist peacefully, while Fu Bao and a captured gnoll became sacrifices for the final trial.
• At the fifth stop, Qin Ming and Old Sheep combined the five elemental liquids into longevity medicine, swallowed it, and were sent away separately.
• Qin Ming emerged above an immense abyss and watched the red ocean, abyss, and black land disappear beneath the yellow soil.

Qin Ming escaped the Black Land and fought his way through Masters and strange insects laying traps across the Chaotic Territory. After Old Bug confronted him, Qin Ming deterred the Grandmaster with the Rotten Fan and returned safely to Night Prefecture, where he began assessing his gains and planning his next cultivation steps.

• Qin Ming disguised himself as a one-horned sheep-race saber wielder, escaped the underground region, and killed a Master who had possessed a tavern waiter to ambush him.
• Qin Ming cut through a Spirit-Catching Net trap and killed the Master-level Black Raptor that had laid the nets in the clouds.
• The Man in Green and a Golden Horned Knife Insect Master attacked Qin Ming with swarms of Flowing Fire Insects and Golden Horned Knife Insects, but Qin Ming killed the insect Master and drove off the Man in Green.
• Old Bug confronted Qin Ming and tried to subdue him, but Qin Ming revealed the Rotten Fan and convinced Old Bug to withdraw after a Golden Conch report confirmed an old sheep had appeared elsewhere.
• Qin Ming left the Chaotic Territory through the Ancient Mist Gate, returned to Night Prefecture, and reviewed his spoils and plans to refine medicine and advance his cultivation.

Qin Ming returned to Double Tree Village with divine grain and treasures, then learned that the Golden Ranking was stirring and making the old powers in the heavens anxious. As autumn arrived, he entered the Different World again to pursue his own cultivation.

• Qin Ming inspected his spoils, sealed away the life-extending divine medicine, and found that the divine grain had little effect on his already exceptional aptitude.
• Qin Ming returned to the Different World, learned that Old Sheep's apparent rejuvenation had drawn seventh-realm creatures seeking to capture or consume him, and withdrew before they could find him.
• Qin Ming searched near Black Dragon Pool for the Ancestor of the Silk Book Method but found no trace of him, then returned to Double Tree Village and shared divine grain with Wen Rui, Liu Bai, and the others.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming about Wei Shouzheng, Wen Dao, and other rising figures, as well as the heavens' growing interest in ground inheritances and the possibility of visitors arriving soon.
• Qin Ming declined invitations and recruitment offers, while news that the Golden Ranking was stirring prompted old powers in the heavens to make increasingly urgent arrangements.
• A month later, Qin Ming entered the Different World again as autumn began, intent on improving himself.

Qin Ming refined divine substances with thunderfire, underwent nirvana, and advanced to the Seventh Heaven of the Heart Lamp, reaching the late stage. After forging Cui Chonghe’s Five-Tribulation Thunderstrike Swords with thunderfire, he ended his seclusion stronger and ready to face his old opponents.

• Qin Ming avoided the Cat-person Tribe village and built a tower far away to cultivate during thunderstorms.
• Qin Ming refined world purifying fire and divine substances with thunderfire, cleansing their impurities and strengthening his Heart Lamp and Longevity Sword Intent.
• Qin Ming swallowed the refined substances and underwent nirvana, breaking through from the Sixth Heaven to the Seventh Heaven of the Heart Lamp.
• Qin Ming tested his new strength in the storm, using the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal to command lightning and unleash powerful attacks.
• Qin Ming used thunderfire and rare materials to reforge Cui Chonghe’s hundred and eight Five-Tribulation Thunderstrike Swords.
• Qin Ming concluded his seclusion, satisfied with his gains and confident that his former opponents would now have to avoid him.

Qin Ming traveled through the Night Mist World, entered Epoch Opening City under the assumed identity Hu Dingming, and attended the Epoch Opening Grand Gathering. There he saw the injured Dream Insect displayed and recognized that the technique used against it resembled the Golden Needle Stitching from his family’s inherited Silk Scripture.

• Qin Ming crossed the Night Mist Sea, reflected on his cultivation and the world around him, and decided to explore rather than hurry onward.
• Qin Ming heard that the Epoch Opening Grand Gathering would auction rare treasures, including qilin blood and a Dream Insect, and resolved to attend.
• Qin Ming entered Night Prefecture through the Ancient Mist Gate, returned to the Different World in Spirit Travel, and took over the body of a dead Tiger Clan member.
• Qin Ming remodeled his appearance as Hu Dingming, entered Epoch Opening City, and learned about the gathering’s anticipated lots and prominent attendees.
• Qin Ming attended the auction, where a Master used a Memory Crystal to show the injured Dream Insect, and Qin Ming recognized the wound’s technique as resembling Golden Needle Stitching.

Qin Ming attended the Epoch Opening Grand Gathering, where he learned more about the dangerous Dream Insect and watched priceless items sell beyond his means. As he left empty-handed, members of the Godlike Society, including the Divine Son, approached him for a conversation.

• Qin Ming entered a VIP box and resonated with the auction crowd while the Epoch Opening Grand Gathering began.
• The auction sold Reappearance in the Mortal World for over six million Day Gold, and Qin Ming considered exploring ancient tombs to find similar treasures.
• Qin Ming joined the bidding for a White Tiger Clan Master but failed to win her or any other auction item.
• Qin Ming learned from a decayed deity's disciples that Dream Insects could secretly control their owners and bring calamity upon those who kept them.
• Qin Ming left the auction empty-handed, but the chief auctioneer introduced him to the Godlike Society members waiting in a Heaven-tier box, including the Divine Son.

Qin Ming was courted by the Godlike Society, which discovered that his hidden talent made him a prized target for the Dream Insect. When the society tried to detain him, Qin Ming fought back, freed the White Tiger Woman Master, and faced a growing force of enemies as his tiger body began to crack under his power.

• Lin Shuyue and Qian Ye invited Qin Ming to join the Godlike Society and gave him the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art, while Qin Ming hid his suspicion and studied their emotions.
• The Dream Insect identified Qin Ming as the fourth thread of hope and urged the society to keep him there, so Lin Shuyue and the others offered him the White Tiger Woman Master’s freedom in exchange for joining.
• When Qin Ming tried to leave, Lin Shuyue and the others moved to stop him, and Qin Ming struck the chief auctioneer down with the Heavenly Light Great Hammer.
• The Dream Insect revealed that Qin Ming’s soul was only a little over twenty years old, and Qin Ming fought off the society’s attackers while taking Qian Ye’s storage bracelet and breaking the White Tiger Woman Master’s Slave Seal.
• The Dream Insect tried to enter Qin Ming’s Mental Field but failed, then urged the society to capture him; Lin Shuyue, Wang Pan, Xu Jingyue, Qian Ye, and other reinforcements surrounded Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming threatened the Masters for their storage bracelets and unleashed more Primal Chaos Force, but his tiger body began to crack as his power grew.

Qin Ming fought the Godlike Society’s Masters while using Hu Dingming’s body, killing two Masters and crippling several opponents. After discovering Lin Shuyue carried the Reappearance in the Mortal World, Qin Ming crushed the Slave Seal Restriction and moved to force Lin Shuyue toward Dream Insect as reinforcements threatened to return.

• Qin Ming’s Heavenly Light shattered the chief auctioneer’s divine sword, tore apart Lin Shuyue’s Seven-Colored Divine Light, and repelled attacks from the Upright Demon Ape, Old Treeman, and Red Bird Master.
• Qin Ming provoked the Godlike Society into attacking, then slaughtered many of its lower-realm members with Silkworm Emperor Force and lightning while his Tiger Clan body continued to break down.
• Qin Ming used a Thunder Whale Leap Sea to severely wound Lin Shuyue and crushed the chief auctioneer’s Pure Yang Consciousness, allowing the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to consume a fallen Master.
• Qin Ming countered Wang Pan and Xu Jingyue’s ambush with the Black White Scripture, killed Qian Ye when he intervened, and tore Wang Pan and Xu Jingyue apart before taking their possessions and the Exotic Metal resembling an Abyss.
• Qin Ming learned that Lin Shuyue held the Reappearance in the Mortal World, crushed the Slave Seal Restriction, and attacked Lin Shuyue while driving him toward Dream Insect as the Godlike Society warned that its Old God and Grandmaster might return.

Qin Ming battled the Godlike Society, defeated its Masters, and seized the “Reappearance in the Mortal World” from Lin Shuyue. He left the ruins with White Tiger Woman Grandmaster, while an unknown living being followed them.

• Qin Ming attacked Lin Shuyue and pursued the wounded Dream Insect, but it escaped through an underground fissure.
• The Godlike Society formed a Soul Refinement array, but Qin Ming abandoned his ruined body and resisted it with his Heavenly Light consciousness before briefly borrowing White Tiger Woman Master's body.
• Qin Ming severed Lin Shuyue's arm and took his storage bracelet, obtaining the “Reappearance in the Mortal World.”
• Qin Ming drained Old Treeman's Forest Sacred Domain to power his Longevity Sword Intent, then badly wounded the Masters and killed the Golden Ape Demon and Old Treeman's body.
• The Dream Insect appeared with a protective phantom, and Qin Ming chose to leave rather than risk a further fight.
• Qin Ming took the shrinking White Tiger Woman Grandmaster with him, then sensed a living being following them.

Qin Ming escaped Epoch Opening City but was drawn into the Dream Insect’s layered dream and fought off Old Bug’s attempts to capture him. He reached the Ancient Mist Gate, only to find the White Tiger Woman Master waiting there, leaving him unsure whether she would let him cross.

• Qin Ming met a dying deity who pleaded with him to take the deity’s daughter away, but Qin Ming refused and continued traveling.
• A Master challenged Qin Ming, who defeated him before two Grandmasters and a deity tried to lure him into a false scene.
• Qin Ming used his Heart Lamp to break through five layers of the Dream Insect’s dream and confronted Old Bug, driving him back with the Rotten Fan and the Six-Phoenix Divine Lamp’s sin karma.
• Qin Ming fled Old Bug and reached the Ancient Mist Gate, where Old Bug’s attempt to follow him through caused his phantom to burst apart.
• Qin Ming pursued and struck Old Bug’s weakened phantom, then returned to find the White Tiger Woman Master waiting by the gate after tracking him through the Slave Seal.
• Qin Ming promised to bring the White Tiger Woman Master to his world later and approached the Ancient Mist Gate, uncertain whether she would stop him.

Qin Ming returned safely to Night Prefecture, recovered from his Spirit Travel, and studied the valuable treasures he had brought back while enjoying a quiet stretch on Black White Mountain. As powerful talents arrived in Night Prefecture, reports that the Golden Ranking had fully awakened announced that war against outside forces was drawing near.

• Qin Ming left the White Tiger Woman Master at the Ancient Night Mist Gate and returned to Night Prefecture, still uneasy about her power and how she had tracked him.
• Qin Ming rejoined Wen Rui and the others at Black White Mountain, calmed the killing intent left by his battles, and examined his spoils, including the Reappearance in the Mortal World flower and Lin Shuyue’s Myriad Aperture Illumination Art.
• Qin Ming cultivated with Lin Shuyue’s medicinal paste and scripture, then spent late autumn practicing and visiting Meng Xinghai instead of returning to the dangerous Different World.
• Talents from the heavens arrived in Night Prefecture and discussed Qin Ming, local prodigies, and rumors about Qian Cheng’s attacks on gray organizations.
• Zhou Tiandao, Yan Zhuohua, Lu Jingli, Tang Yushang, Xiao Jinye, and other young powerhouses received news that the Golden Ranking had fully awakened and an external war was approaching.

Qin Ming cultivated in seclusion while his reputation spread among the prodigies gathering in Night Prefecture. After Bai Meng visited and Tang Yushang threatened him through a Dharma Conch, the Golden Ranking summoned Qin Ming and ordered him to report, forcing him to leave Black White Mountain.

• Qian Cheng continued searching for the complete Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal while worrying that shadowy organizations had discovered his origins.
• Qin Ming refined his Golden Core with calamity qi and cautiously practiced the Esoteric Sect method of merging his consciousness with the mountains, wary of losing himself.
• At the gathering in Night Prefecture, prodigies discussed Qin Ming's abilities, and Helian Zhaoyu's defeat—after Qin Ming had once beaten him—strengthened Qin Ming's reputation.
• Bai Meng visited Qin Ming at Black White Mountain, told him his fame had spread, and reminisced with him about their missing friends Little Wu and Xiang Yiwu.
• Qin Ming discovered Bai Meng's Dharma Conch was letting Tang Yushang listen, exchanged threats with her, and then received the Golden Ranking's order to report.