Arc 27Ascension and Return

Qin Ming obtained the Changing Fate Scripture, survived pursuit in the Night Mist World, and avenged the villagers of Everbright Village by killing the White Qilin. After crossing a Divine Magnetic Storm, he searched for Jiang Zai and found her facing an awakened Old Blood Phoenix.

  • Qin Ming defeated the Night Ruins experts, passed the trials for the Changing Fate Scripture, and crossed paths with Hong Dao, whose ancestor sought the Secret Treasure within the Insect Emperor.
  • Qin Ming escaped a blockade with his companions, negotiated scripture exchanges in Jade Radiance City, and helped Meng Zhiyu after her dangerous cultivation of Longevity Force left her gravely injured.
  • A migration of creatures swept through Jade Radiance City, and Qin Ming learned that the Ancestor Worm relics were false before setting out into the Night Mist World.
  • Qin Ming reached Ascension Mountain, secretly advanced his cultivation through the Two Figurines, and returned to find the villagers of Everbright Village murdered.
  • Qin Ming killed the invaders and the White Qilin, preserved the villagers’ souls, and took the Immortal Field’s medicines before advancing to the Fifth Heaven of the Grandmaster Domain.
  • Hui Chang and the ancient beings entered the Cave of Life and Death, while Qin Ming crossed a Divine Magnetic Storm and began traveling through Great Qin.
  • Qin Ming defended the Mysterious Maiden Palace from hostile factions, then traveled to the Primordial Yellow Dao Field to find Jiang Zai.
  • Qin Ming learned that Jiang Zai was trying to subdue a young Pureblood Phoenix Bird at Blood Phoenix Ridge, where an Old Blood Phoenix awakened and Qin Ming struck it with a punch.
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Ch. 660The Righteous Sixth Brother Who Valued Loyalty Above All

Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi faced a growing Night Ruins force after Qin Ming’s earlier clash with its experts sparked a faction-wide confrontation. The misunderstanding was exposed, but the two sides remained tense as Qin Ming challenged the Night Ruins and Mu Shinian defeated an opponent in one move.

  • Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi waited for their brothers while Night Ruins experts debated whether to attack, and Mu Shinian, Niu Wuwei, and Wen Lingxi arrived.
  • Qin Ming told Taiyi that another Night Ruins team was heading toward them, while Zhou Tian reported that two Night Ruins experts had confronted him and then fled in fear.
  • The second Night Ruins team arrived, and Qin Ming threw the severed leg of a silver-robed woman to the ground as he warned the faction that it was surrounded.
  • Mu Shinian fought the Evergreen Undying Dao Body and defeated him with the Wheel of Time, aging him in a single move.
  • Qin Ming demanded medicinal tea in exchange for the woman’s leg, and the Night Ruins faction demanded the return of a golden-robed man’s arms, which Qin Ming said he had reduced to ashes.
  • The factions learned that Qin Ming had been attacked first after entering a cultivation room for medicinal tea, but he and the Night Ruins experts continued trading threats.

Ch. 661Born with a Rebellious Nature

Qin Ming traded medicinal tea for a severed leg, then defeated Ming Yi and a Void Roc woman in succession, alarming the Night Ruins Faction with his strength. He challenged Dao Mushroom next, while his companions began to suspect he was trying to take the lead among the Six Great Sages.

  • Zhou Tian, Niu Wuwei, Mu Shinian, and Wen Lingxi discussed Qin Ming’s demand for medicinal tea and concluded that he was making a transaction rather than acting out of lust.
  • Qin Ming exchanged the silver-robed woman’s severed leg for medicinal tea, while Mu Shinian used his power over time to keep the Evergreen Undying Dao Body alive in exchange for another bowl.
  • Qin Ming defeated Ming Yi with the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal, destroyed the rest of his body, and claimed the Exotic Metal fused within it.
  • Qin Ming severely wounded the golden-haired Void Roc woman, tearing away her divine wings and forcing a great figure to intervene and rescue her.
  • Qin Ming challenged Dao Mushroom and mocked him with the threat of chicken stewed with mushrooms, while Meng Zhiyu, Taiyi, and the others worried that Qin Ming was stealing the limelight and wanted to become their leader.

Ch. 662Clearing the Trial

Qin Empire Ming defeated the Dao Mushroom and advanced through the Land of Fate Exchange, gathering the middle section of the Changing Fate Scripture. After reaching the final trial and ignoring its warning, he entered the ultimate land, where a mysterious ritual began around the Insect Emperor.

  • Qin Empire Ming defeated the Dao Mushroom, forcing the Night Ruins elders to retreat, then shared a meal with his companions before they parted ways.
  • Qin Empire Ming passed the upper section’s final trial and sent Little Worm onward alone while his consciousness hid in Old Cloth.
  • Little Worm battled corpse hordes and an ancient powerhouse on the Illusory Ancient Road, and Qin Empire Ming obtained the middle section of the Changing Fate Scripture across nine trials.
  • Qin Empire Ming ignored a warning to stop, climbed the Heaven-Piercing Stairway, and found the lower section of the scripture in the ultimate land.
  • Mysterious patterns lit beneath the Insect Emperor as stone steles shifted around him, signaling the start of a dangerous ritual.

Ch. 663Mutual Convergence

Qin Ming reached the Ultimate Land, where he recovered the latter half of the Changing Fate Scripture and was forced through a series of tests that revealed his extraordinary qualities. The ritual advanced despite his resistance, and a voice beyond the vault declared that it would join him in Mutual Convergence.

  • Qin Ming reached the platform above the Heavenly Ladder, caught pages of the Changing Fate Scripture, and found warnings hinting at the Ancestor Worm and an unknown Little Ancestor.
  • Niu Wuwei arrived as a phantom using One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, then broke apart while fleeing a pursuer.
  • Qin Ming passed the stone steles' tests of comprehension, consciousness, soul, strength, and affinity, while an Immortal Force matched his Chaos Force.
  • The fourteenth stele forced Qin Ming to reveal the Secret Treasure and a door within Little Worm, then broke under the test.
  • The steles declared that Qin Ming had exceeded the limits, opened a path, and offered the complete Changing Fate Scripture, while the ritual pushed him onward.
  • Qin Ming heard voices beyond the vault arguing over his values and blessed fortune, before one voice declared it would join him in Mutual Convergence.

Ch. 664Unrequited Love

Qin Ming discovered that the starry sky beyond the dome was an illusion and questioned the people across the abyss about their realm and the Changing Fate ritual. When Hong Dao began the ritual, Qin Ming’s resonance left no soul for the other side to find, causing Hong Dao to burn himself to open a passage; Hong Dao finally reached the Land of Fate Exchange, nearly exhausted, as Qin Ming prepared to catch him.

  • Qin Ming approached the dome, saw that its stars were an illusion, and glimpsed a vast cliff across the abyss.
  • Qin Ming questioned the people on the cliff about their realm, the Ancestor Worm, and the ritual, while they insisted he would eventually come to their side.
  • The people chose Hong Dao to undergo Changing Fate and secretly began the ritual while Qin Ming watched.
  • A man cut through the black mist to reveal a real corner of the starry sky, and Hong Dao took control of the ritual to connect the two lands.
  • Qin Ming’s resonance left no soul for the ritual to detect, so Hong Dao was trapped burning his soul, body, and Secret Treasure to forge the passage.
  • Hong Dao crossed into the Land of Fate Exchange nearly spent, and Qin Ming waited to capture him and learn about the other shore.

Ch. 665A Body Full of Treasures

Qin Ming pursued the ruined Hong Dao across the Illusory Ancient Road and fought him as Hong Dao used forbidden techniques and a Return-to-Light Technique to survive. Qin Ming stole Hong Dao’s Xinghai Silver Lotus, then faced him with his true body as Hong Dao’s soul began recovering.

  • Qin Ming tried to seize Hong Dao, but the fading ritual’s patterns protected him and Hong Dao’s shattered body followed his soul to the other shore.
  • Hong Dao used Substitute Death Techniques to escape Qin Ming’s attacks and fled down the Heavenly Ladder into the Grotto-Heaven Ruins.
  • Hong Dao revived himself with the Return-to-Light Technique and attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming matched his strength and resisted his Turbid World Azure Lotus soul technique.
  • Hong Dao abandoned his ruined body and discovered a surviving Xinghai Silver Lotus in his damaged treasure vase.
  • Qin Ming used Torn Cloth to steal the Xinghai Silver Lotus from Hong Dao and put it away.
  • Qin Ming’s true body arrived, and he prepared to attack the recovering Hong Dao.

Ch. 666The Ancestor Worm's Final Cry, the Insect Emperor Opens the Door

Qin Ming defeated the dying Hong Dao and secretly learned the Turbid World Azure Lotus scripture while trying to keep him alive. As Hong Dao died, his ancestor emerged from the Green Lotus and reached the Secret Treasure’s door, which began opening as though someone inside controlled it.

  • Qin Ming disrupted the world’s Dao rhythm, but Hong Dao answered with Ancestor Worm’s Cry and wounded Qin Ming through his defenses.
  • Qin Ming evaded the attack with Spirit Travel into Hell, then struck Hong Dao with the Insect Emperor’s golden threads as Hong Dao attempted to change fate and seize his body.
  • Qin Ming crushed Hong Dao’s Green Lotus, then urgently treated him and resonated with him to learn the Turbid World Azure Lotus scripture.
  • Hong Dao’s ancestor emerged from the Green Lotus, revealed he had been waiting to revive, and entered the Insect Emperor’s body to seek its Secret Treasure door.
  • The ancestor reached the door, but it began to open before he could unleash his full strength, making him suspect that someone inside was opening it.

Ch. 667Inside the Insect Emperor's Gate

Qin Ming survived Qi Ze’s attempt to seize the Insect Emperor’s secret treasure and discovered that the Insect Emperor had begun to revive. After returning from the Land of Fate Exchange with valuable gains, Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei found hostile forces waiting outside to ambush them.

  • Qi Ze entered the world behind the Insect Emperor’s gate, was overwhelmed by its strange power, and surrendered his lotus seed before fleeing into Qin Ming’s Torn Cloth.
  • Qin Ming searched Hong Dao’s soul, but Hong Dao’s consciousness shattered; inside the gate, the Insect Emperor revived as a little worm and ate Qi Ze’s lotus seed.
  • Qin Ming stored the Insect Emperor’s body in the Torn Cloth, kept the Xinghai Silver Lotus remnant, and considered what he had learned about Beyond Heaven.
  • Qin Ming met the badly injured Niu Wuwei, who reported that monsters had revived near the Heavenly Ladder and that someone else had reached the platform bordering Beyond Heaven.
  • As Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei neared the exit from the Land of Fate Exchange, they sensed hostile forces waiting outside, so they decided to wait for Meng and Second Brother.

Ch. 668Taking the Stage

Qin Ming and his companions returned from the Land of Fate Exchange, where several members revealed that they had used substitute bodies to survive deadly trials. Outside, the Dream Insect Clan, the Demon Court, and other powerful factions confronted the Longevity Abomination Organization over the Changing Fate Scripture, leaving Qin Ming caught in a gathering struggle.

  • Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei escaped a killing formation and found Wen Lingxi gravely damaged, only to learn she had been using a Divine Lotus Body rather than her true body.
  • Mu Shinian, Taiyi, Meng Zhiyu, and Zhou Tian returned, prompting Niu Wuwei to discover that most of the group had entered using substitute bodies.
  • Meng Zhiyu activated an immortal talisman, and the Old Dream Insect opened a purple Dao road to escort the group past the Longevity Abomination Organization's blockade.
  • The Longevity Abomination Organization and several other powerful factions demanded to exchange for the Changing Fate Scripture, while the Dream Insect Clan, the Demon Court's Time Beast, and Wen Lingxi's White Phoenix master arrived to protect the group.
  • The Old Dream Insect invited the group to name scriptures they wanted in exchange, then recognized Qin Ming's Longevity Force and proposed notifying his elders, leaving Qin Ming alarmed.

Ch. 669Trading Scripture

Qin Ming and his companions negotiated a trade of scriptures with powerful factions, then took part in fierce guidance battles before heading to Jade Radiance City. There, Meng Zhiyu suffered a dangerous backlash while practicing Longevity Force, and Old Dream Insect warned her to stop.

  • Qin Ming and the others chose scriptures to request, including the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal and Ancestor Worm's Cry, and negotiated a trade for several techniques in exchange for the incomplete Changing Fate Scripture.
  • The factions agreed to exchange scriptures in Jade Radiance City and arranged guidance battles with stakes such as rare materials.
  • Luo Shaohua challenged Niu Wuwei, Si Yeli challenged Qin Ming, and an Ancestor challenged Meng Zhiyu; Qin Ming guided Si Yeli with his zither, while Meng Zhiyu overwhelmed her opponent.
  • Si Yeli gave Qin Ming Heavenly Light Liquid, and the group later arrived in Jade Radiance City ahead of the planned scripture trade.
  • Meng Zhiyu coughed up blood while practicing Longevity Force, and Old Dream Insect warned that the technique could bring hidden dangers and urged her to stop.
  • Meng Zhiyu refused to give up and decided to try practicing Longevity Force again while her Dao-comprehension pill was still active.

Ch. 670A Joy So Great He Forgot Night Prefecture

Qin Ming enjoyed Jade Radiance City’s banquets and cultivation luxuries while Meng Zhiyu dangerously forced herself to practice the crude Silk Book Method. The chapter ended with Old Dream Insect summoning Qin Ming after Meng Zhiyu’s condition worsened.

  • Meng Zhiyu continued her risky cultivation despite Old Dream Insect’s warnings, suffering bleeding and damage to her Mental Field and Pure Yang Consciousness.
  • Qin Ming guided Si Yeli’s cultivation, tended the Xinghai Silver Lotus, and accepted an invitation to meet Jade Radiance City’s Grandmasters alongside Niu Wuwei.
  • Ji Yunzhou, Bai Shanhai, and Wen Chongguang welcomed Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei, gave them Exotic Metal, and discussed danger in the Night Mist World, including roars from a possible Heavenly Immortal.
  • The Grandmasters took Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei to the Imperial City’s Supreme Grotto-Heaven for costly medicinal treatment and Five-Colored Flood Dragon massages; Wen Lingxi, Bai Zhilan, and Ji Xingran followed and found them there.
  • Old Dream Insect urgently contacted Qin Ming after Meng Zhiyu’s condition deteriorated, and Qin Ming left Si Yeli to go to her.

Ch. 671Bearing the Taboos

Qin Ming negotiated an exchange with Old Dream Insect, healed Meng Zhiyu after her dangerous attempt to cultivate the Silk Book Method, and considered granting her a Primordial Seed. As powerful factions gathered in Jade Radiance City to trade scriptures, a colossal Kirin Hoof appeared in the night sky, apparently fleeing from an unknown threat.

  • Qin Ming brought Niu Wuwei and Zhou Tian to visit Meng Zhiyu, and Old Dream Insect revealed that she had cultivated Qin Ming's secret art and fallen seriously ill.
  • Qin Ming used the negotiation to obtain forbidden Dream Insect techniques in exchange for the crude Silk Book Method, while Old Dream Insect refused to teach him Borrowing the Body to Comprehend the Dao.
  • Qin Ming removed the harmful forces from Meng Zhiyu, then watched her explode while attempting to cultivate the art again and helped reassemble her body.
  • Qin Ming explained that his improved cultivation method required a Primordial Seed and Dao oaths, leaving Meng Zhiyu to consider whether to accept his offer.
  • Powerful groups arrived in Jade Radiance City to exchange true scriptures, and Qin Ming obtained the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal and speed-technique fragments while awaiting the Ancestor Worm Relic.
  • A vast flock of Thunder Sparrows and a Crimson God Insect swarm fled across the sky, followed by a gigantic Kirin Hoof that appeared to be running from something.

Ch. 672Chaos Erupts

After alien creatures fled a disturbance in the depths of the Night Mist World, Qin Ming learned that a Heavenly Immortal had gone mad and escaped into the outer regions. He left Jade Radiance City with his companions, then sensed an unseen, icy presence following him as he traveled alone.

  • A gigantic Kirin Hoof swept past Jade Radiance City, devastating Crimson God Insects and Thunder Sparrows as countless creatures fled the Night Mist World.
  • After the migration ended, the Seventh Realm experts left to investigate the deeper regions, while Qin Ming discovered that a Night Silver page contained part of the forbidden art "Ancestor Worm's Cry" and learned that the supposed Ancestor Worm relics were counterfeits.
  • Qin Ming entrusted Niu Wuwei with medicinal tea for Qing Yue, discussed the Mysterious Maiden Palace and Primordial Yellow Dao Field with Zhou Tian, and later learned from Meng Zhiyu that a Heavenly Immortal had gone mad and fled outward.
  • Si Yeli told Qin Ming that Old Dream Insect and the Time Beast had obtained a Heavenly Immortal's remains, then Meng Zhiyu chose to begin cultivating the Longevity Force with Qin Ming's Primordial Seed.
  • The Six Great Sages departed Jade Radiance City together, and Qin Ming soon sensed he was being followed, hid with Old Cloth, and waited as distant roars and an icy aura passed through the Night Mist World.

Ch. 673Opening the Gate

Qin Ming tried to escape a charred pursuer while witnessing the Night Mist World’s brutal wilderness and a decaying god massacre a town. As the pursuer and a mysterious golden-sun figure battled, Qin Ming was swept into a Divine Magnetic Storm, leaving his destination uncertain.

  • Qin Ming drifted to a remote plateau, where he secretly helped a boy survive a Scarlet Bear and reflected on the hardships of ordinary people and his own reliance on false status.
  • Qin Ming saw the plateau’s old god destroy a town and devour its people, then watched an unseen charred monster kill the god and hunt for him using a lightning spear.
  • A golden-sun figure confronted the charred monster and urged Qin Ming to flee, so Qin Ming crossed numerous Ancient Mist Gates and wandered with Astral Wind to evade them.
  • Qin Ming consulted the President, learned that his pursuers could trace his aura, and suspected the charred monster had crossed from the far shore by following Hong Dao’s path.
  • Qin Ming witnessed the charred monster and golden-sun figure clash again, then was drawn into a Divine Magnetic Storm while trying to escape them.

Ch. 674Beyond the Divine Magnetic Storm

Qin Ming emerged from the Divine Magnetic Storm near Ascension Mountain, settled in Chang Geng village, and spent more than a month severing his Fate-Aligned Contract while learning about the mountain’s dangers and treasures. When a mysterious road and a huge Azure Ox appeared above Ascension Mountain, the Two Figurines and Little Worm showed signs of moving on their own as the chairwoman investigated a mystery from her past.

  • Qin Ming passed through the Divine Magnetic Storm and discovered that it had carried him to the border of Ascension Mountain in the Night Mist World.
  • Qin Ming met the old yellow ox, learned about the dangers and wonders of Ascension Mountain, and rented a house in Chang Geng village.
  • Qin Ming secluded himself for more than thirty days to practice Severing All Causes and break the Heavenly Immortal creature’s Fate-Aligned Contract.
  • Village Head Jia Heng told Qin Ming about rare treasures and deadly dangers in Ascension Mountain, while Qin Ming continued cultivating and practicing Ancestor Worm's Cry.
  • The chairwoman borrowed the Two Figurines and Little Worm as possible incarnations to investigate clues about her past in Ascension Mountain.
  • A mysterious road and a huge Azure Ox appeared above Ascension Mountain, and Qin Ming saw Little Worm blink and the Two Figurines raise a hand.

Ch. 675Seeing God

Qin Ming investigated the strange history of Ascension Mountain, then used the body of one of the Two Figurines to cultivate the Secret Sect Path there. When the Figurine attempted Seeing God, the mountain’s ancient External God imprints recognized him as their sovereign and bowed.

  • The president left Qin Ming uncertain whether the Two Figurines and Insect Emperor had revived, then warned him to be careful on Ascension Mountain as a vision showed the Azure Ox bleeding in the sky.
  • The president explained that she had found a strange stone she buried in an earlier era and had cast it to test a hidden road within Ascension Mountain.
  • Qin Ming learned that Ancestor Wu Town held only four dormant Ancestors, then joined Jia Heng and the villagers on their trip to Ascension Mountain.
  • Qin Ming stayed near the mountain’s foot, summoned one of the Two Figurines and the Insect Emperor, and began cultivating the Secret Sect Path in the Figurine’s body.
  • As the Figurine advanced toward Seeing God, Qin Ming sensed countless ancient imprints throughout the mountain and saw a powerful External God kneel before the Figurine, followed by the others.

Ch. 676Tearing Apart the Calm

Qin Ming tested breakthroughs on Ascension Mountain, then advanced his own cultivation to Seeing God. When he returned to Everbright Village, he found its people slaughtered by intruders, who had captured their souls; he drew his blade to face them.

  • Qin Ming witnessed countless External Gods bowing before the Two Figurines and left Ascension Mountain with the Insect Emperor.
  • Qin Ming taught Huang Youwei a cultivation method and learned from Jia Heng that his junior brother Gu Dongbo had likely died on Ascension Mountain.
  • Qin Ming used the Two Figurines and the Insect Emperor to test breakthroughs on several mountains, then prepared to advance in his own body.
  • Jiang Chunli asked Qin Ming whether he would stay, while Jia Heng set off alone to investigate what had happened to Gu Dongbo.
  • Qin Ming reached Seeing God on Ascension Mountain and returned to find Old Huang, Huang Youwei, Jiang Chunli, the little fox girl, and other villagers dead.
  • Jia Heng accused the intruders of breaking their promise to Azure Nether Dojo, while an old man used a banner to reveal the villagers' captured spirits; Qin Ming drew his Exotic Metal Blade.

Ch. 677Fury That Reached the Stars

Qin Ming avenged Everbright Village by defeating the invading fighters and three Grandmasters, then recovered the villagers’ souls from the Soul Banner. After entrusting their souls to the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, he learned that a powerful White Qilin remained on Ascension Mountain and set out to confront it.

  • Qin Ming drew his Exotic Metal Blade and killed the black-clad young man who had murdered villagers, then drove back the crimson-robed Grandmaster.
  • Qin Ming subdued the invaders, captured their souls in the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, and killed their younger fighters despite attacks from three Grandmasters.
  • Qin Ming used Ancestor Worm's Cry to resist the Kirin Grandmaster’s power and continued fighting while the three elders watched their followers die.
  • Qin Ming seized the Soul Banner, heard the villagers’ trapped souls, and killed all three Grandmasters before capturing their soul light.
  • Qin Ming asked the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to nurture the villagers’ souls, and Jia Heng revealed that a Fifth Realm White Qilin remained on Ascension Mountain.
  • Qin Ming announced that he would climb Ascension Mountain and kill the White Qilin.

Ch. 678Night Raid on Ascension Mountain

Qin Ming entered Ascension Mountain with Hui Chang to confront White Qilin and avenge the slaughter of Everbright Village. After sneaking into the medicine garden, he launched a surprise attack on White Qilin, leaving the fight underway.

  • Jia Heng gave Qin Ming an incomplete copy of the Azure Nether Scripture before his soul faded, and Qin Ming learned from his captives that the Kirin Cult controlled the medicine garden.
  • Qin Ming gathered the dead villagers and departed Everbright Village with Hui Chang, using Severing All Causes and the Silent Stillness Scroll to conceal their traces.
  • Qin Ming and Hui Chang reached Ascension Mountain, where Qin Ming used three captured Grandmaster bodies to scout and enter the Immortal Field through its land deed.
  • Qin Ming and Hui Chang hid inside the garden as White Qilin prepared to pick a Soul-Returning Pill, then revealed themselves and attacked alongside the three possessed Grandmasters.
  • Qin Ming killed the middle-aged Grandmaster with Ancestor Worm's Cry and split his body with the Exotic Metal Blade, while a severed hand struck White Qilin across the face.

Ch. 679Slaying a Great Sage with a Saber

Qin Ming and the president fought White Qilin and his Grandmaster servants in the sealed Immortal Field, then killed White Qilin and claimed the battlefield. The chapter ended with the Supreme Ancestor confidently discussing the gift he had arranged for White Qilin, unaware that the Immortal Field had been devastated.

  • Qin Ming killed a Grandmaster with a saber strike while White Qilin and Qin Ming’s three borrowed bodies exchanged attacks, and the president wounded the old servant with the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art.
  • Qin Ming fought White Qilin with Ancestor Worm’s Cry, the Exotic Metal Blade, and the Primordial Unity Lamp, breaking White Qilin’s space-and-time Forbidden Technique and badly wounding him.
  • White Qilin attacked the president, but she held him off while Qin Ming killed the old servant and imprisoned his soul beneath the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
  • Qin Ming and the president joined forces against White Qilin and killed him, after which Qin Ming surveyed the Immortal Field’s Treasured Medicines.
  • At the Ancient Medicine Field, the Supreme Ancestor told an old man that White Qilin would take no more than one or two Treasured Medicines from the Immortal Field.

Ch. 680Harvest and Breaking Through

Qin Ming killed the White Qilin, emptied the Immortal Field, and hid beneath Ascension Mountain while the Kirin Cult searched for answers. After breaking through to the Fifth Heaven of the Grandmaster Realm, he prepared to leave by Divine Magnetic Storm as Hui Chang set out on her own.

  • Qin Ming and Hui Chang killed the White Qilin after exposing his feigned death, and Qin Ming sent the Qilin Spear into the Torn Cloth.
  • Qin Ming used the two figurines and the Insect Emperor to cut off the Five-Colored Fire Spring, then took the Immortal Field's medicines, soil, and spring water into Old Cloth.
  • Qin Ming and Hui Chang severed their karmic traces, disguised the trail with the White Qilin's hoof and Dragon Qi, and hid beneath Ascension Mountain while Qi Wang discovered the ruined garden and the Qilin's death.
  • Qin Ming cultivated beneath the mountain, advanced all three paths to the Fourth Heaven of the Grandmaster Domain, and then broke through to the Fifth Heaven after consuming several Strange Medicines.
  • Hui Chang told Qin Ming that a Divine Magnetic Storm would form soon, and Qin Ming said he was ready to head home as Hui Chang prepared to travel on.

Ch. 681Night Mist World's Greatest Problem

Hui Chang, the Two Figurines, and the Insect Emperor prepared to leave Ascension Mountain to revive fully and face their death calamities, while Qin Ming learned the complete Myriad Aperture Illumination Art and shared his Silk Scripture teachings with Hui Chang. As the three entered the Cave of Life and Death, Qin Ming set out into a forming Divine Magnetic Storm, leaving the chapter with the group embarking on separate but connected journeys.

  • Hui Chang told Qin Ming she was leaving to revive fully and confront the death calamity awaiting her, and she imparted the complete Myriad Aperture Illumination Art to him.
  • Qin Ming offered Hui Chang rare herbs and his complete Silk Scripture teachings, and Hui Chang accepted the teachings.
  • The Two Figurines and the Insect Emperor revealed signs of revival, gave Qin Ming a piece of jade armor and an insect scale, and said they might meet him again someday.
  • Hui Chang and the others explained that they were leaving to overcome their death calamities and discussed the dangers and mysterious Fire Springs throughout Night Mist World.
  • A secret route opened in Ascension Mountain as life and death energies churned, and the three ancient beings entered the Cave of Life and Death amid Immortal-Flying Light Rain and blood rain.
  • Qin Ming plunged into the forming Divine Magnetic Storm and began his own distant journey.

Ch. 682Fulfilling a Boyhood Dream

Qin Ming crossed the Divine Magnetic Storm into the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty, where he pursued his childhood dream of roaming the world as a wandering swordsman. After discovering corruption behind the bandits and demons he fought, he continued traveling and cultivating, eventually reaching the territory of the Mysterious Maiden Palace to seek Jiang Ran.

  • Qin Ming entered the Divine Magnetic Storm with Old Cloth and watched a cloaked woman, a little old man, and Qi Wang escape their pursuers through the storm into unfamiliar lands.
  • Qin Ming arrived in Great Qin, explored Jade City, heard rumors about the Six Great Sages, and recognized a statue whose jade armor reminded him of a mysterious Lineage, so he left the region.
  • Qin Ming roamed from place to place as a wandering swordsman, killed bandits and demons, and improved his Primal Chaos Golden Bridge and Myriad Aperture Illumination Art while traveling.
  • Qin Ming traced a network of criminals to an orthodox sect that supported bandits and demons, killed its Grandmaster and many members, and reaffirmed his resolve to fight injustice.
  • Qin Ming passed through many Mist Gates, avoided lingering at a Joyous Union Sect stronghold, and entered the territory of the Mysterious Maiden Palace, intending to visit Jiang Ran.

Ch. 683Mysterious Maiden Palace

Qin Ming investigated the Mysterious Maiden Palace’s decline, learned Jiang Zai had likely gone to the Primordial Yellow Dao Field, and defeated the challengers threatening the Palace’s remnants. He then traveled to the prosperous Primordial Yellow Dao Field, where he found Jiang Zai had become a rising prodigy and suspected the region was a stronghold of demonic cultivators.

  • Qin Ming cultivated the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal, killed a Thunderfire Rhinoceros, and continued toward the Mysterious Maiden Palace.
  • Qin Ming investigated the vanished Nine-Colored Fire Spring and learned the Mysterious Maiden Palace’s core and direct line had disappeared eight hundred years earlier.
  • Qin Ming met Xu Nuo, who told him Jiang Zai had entered Mysterious City and then vanished, likely leaving with the hidden direct line or going to the Primordial Yellow Dao Field.
  • Qin Ming intervened when the God-Controlling Sect, Bone Mausoleum Sect, and Blood Dragon Tribe pressured the Mysterious Maiden Palace, defeating a Saint Disciple, a Scarlet Flood Dragon, and the God-Controlling Sect’s Grandmaster.
  • Qin Ming traveled to the Primordial Yellow Dao Field and learned Jiang Zai was a rising prodigy there, while suspecting the region was an Ancestral Court of demonic cultivators.

Ch. 684Witch Jiang Ran

Qin Ming traveled through the Twelve Primordial Yellow Sects and learned that Jiang Zai had become a Saint Disciple by borrowing heavily against her future. When he joined her retainers at Blood Phoenix Ridge, a scheme awakened an Old Blood Phoenix, and Qin Ming left it flying with a single punch.

  • Qin Ming visited Yingxu Sect and Tribulation Crossing Sect, where he learned about the Twelve Primordial Yellow Sects and their fierce competition.
  • At Myriad Laws Sect, Qin Ming heard that Jiang Zai had mastered the founder's art, become a Saint Disciple, and taken on enormous debts to secure resources and support.
  • Qin Ming went to Jiang Zai's residence and learned that she was attempting the Great Sage Path by trying to subdue a young Pureblood Phoenix Bird at Blood Phoenix Ridge.
  • Jiang Zai's retainers entered Blood Phoenix Ridge, where hidden restrictions trapped them as beasts' blood awakened an Old Blood Phoenix from Nirvana.
  • Qin Ming confronted the awakened Blood Phoenix despite the retainers' fear, challenged it to submit or return to its egg, and knocked it backward with one punch.
Arc 27 of 35
Arc 27 of 35