Recaps

Qin Ming, still known to the crowd as Zheng Guang, faced Yan Chuan at the Spirit Monkey Tavern as old grudges brought a crowd of great sages to witness a showdown. Just as Yan Chuan moved to suppress him, Meng Zhiyu arrived and blocked the attack, while Qin Ming insisted he could handle Yan Chuan himself.

• Si Yeli recognized Qin Ming as Zheng Guang and joined him at the Spirit Monkey Tavern, where word of his survival spread through the city.
• Yan Chuan, Duan Yin, and Xu Yuan entered the tavern, and Xu Yuan demanded that Qin Ming make amends for humiliating Duan Yin.
• Qin Ming refused to yield to Yan Chuan, told Xu Yuan to get lost, and prepared to fight as Mu Shinian intercepted Xu Yuan's pressure.
• Yan Chuan ordered Si Yeli to leave and threatened to cripple Qin Ming, who answered with defiance.
• Meng Zhiyu's White Tiger Body appeared and neutralized Yan Chuan's netherworld techniques, then warned Qin Ming not to overestimate himself.
• Qin Ming calmly told Meng Zhiyu that beating Yan Chuan would pose no problem.

Qin Empire Ming revealed that he had reached the Ancestor Realm and challenged Yan Chuan outside Maple Forest City. Their destructive battle escalated as Qin Empire Ming broke into Yan Chuan’s Netherworld domain and prepared to confront him directly.

• Qin Empire Ming dismissed Xu Yuan and called Yan Chuan outside the city to fight, while Meng Zhiyu confirmed that Qin Empire Ming had broken through.
• Qin Empire Ming explained that his External Demon body’s damaged origin would be shown openly to discourage powerful enemies from targeting him.
• Yan Chuan and Qin Empire Ming exchanged blows, and Qin Empire Ming’s Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe broke Yan Chuan’s Netherworld Heaven-Overturning Seal and wounded his hand.
• Yan Chuan summoned a vast Netherworld army, but Qin Empire Ming used the Ancestor Worm’s Cry to destroy it and split the altar with his axe.
• Yan Chuan invoked a black bridge over the Netherworld, but Qin Empire Ming combined several techniques, crossed into the Underworld, and vowed to behead him.

Qin Ming defeated Yan Chuan in a brutal battle that ranged from chaotic dao rhythms to Netherworld secret arts, then cut down Xu Yuan and Duan Yin when they charged in. The chapter ended with powerful figures from several factions gathering around Qin Ming while the three fallen opponents lay at his feet.

• Yan Chuan and Qin Ming clashed by manipulating the chaotic dao rhythms, and Qin Ming’s Primordial Yellow Fiend let him turn their force against Yan Chuan, shattering the Nether Bridge and destroying Yan Chuan’s three Netherworld Flowers.
• Yan Chuan attacked with the Nether Lord’s Seed and fate-rewriting slips, but Qin Ming destroyed the seed and repelled the secret art with his Primordial One Qi.
• Qin Ming broke Yan Chuan’s Netherworld City and defeated him in a close-quarters clash, severing his body and striking down his soul as Netherworld Dao Field elders moved to intervene.
• Xu Yuan and Duan Yin rushed onto the battlefield, and Qin Ming killed Duan Yin and split Xu Yuan in two.
• The spectators recognized Qin Ming’s overwhelming strength as figures from the Myriad Spirits Sect and Demon Court approached to praise and court him.

Qin Empire Ming, fighting as Zheng Guang, defeated Yan Chuan and suppressed Xu Yuan, making his rise to Ancestor status the talk of Maple Forest City and beyond. After receiving medicine and recognition from powerful allies, he returned to the city as news of his victory spread and Jiang Xiyi faced comparisons to the new youngest Ancestor.

• Qin Empire Ming defeated Yan Chuan, whose Netherworld Dao Field retrieved him while conceding the black Exotic Metal weapon as spoils.
• Old Dream Insect and other powerful figures examined Qin Empire Ming’s damaged life origin, discussed its risks and potential for Great Nirvana, and offered him precious medicines.
• Qin Empire Ming struck Xu Yuan down again when he tried to attack Mu Shinian, while Duan Yin and Xu Yuan endured further humiliation before their allies carried them away.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to Maple Forest City with his allies, received medicine and recognition from senior figures, and was teased by Zhou Tian and served tea by Si Yeli.
• Messages and newspapers spread news of Zheng Guang’s victory, prompting comparisons with Jiang Xiyi, who emerged from seclusion as people debated his prospects.
• People in Heaven City learned Zheng Guang’s background and recalled his connection to the Jade Capital Dao Field.

Qin Ming gathered allies and prepared to enter the Supreme Secret Realm, while the Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin recruited its own teams to resist his friends’ influence. At the Yin-Yang Ruins, outsiders from the deeper Night Mist World demanded places in the expedition, and Liu Mo agreed to bring one of their powerful, arrogant representatives along.

• The Ancestral Abyss, Totem Faction, Tushita Palace, and Primordial Yellow Dao Field arrived in Maple Forest City, joining Qin Ming’s growing circle of allies.
• Liu Mo explained that a Ninth Realm expert had once used the Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin as a key, while the coin later approved several of Qin Ming’s sworn brothers as hosts.
• Qin Ming’s brothers revealed that they had prepared a powerful Revival Wood incarnation for him, and they discussed the mysterious fall of the Yin-Yang Dao Field.
• The Yin-Yang Coin fled Qin Ming’s group, gathered fifteen teams, and announced that the Supreme Secret Realm was about to open.
• The chosen teams traveled through the Many-Treasure Mountains and Mist Gate to the Yin-Yang Ruins, where Qin Ming recognized some newcomers as beings from the deeper Night Mist World.
• After a Decayed Heavenly Immortal secured places for outsiders in another team, Liu Mo agreed to bring the brown-haired man and his companions into Qin Ming’s team.

Liu Mo, Qin Ming, and the other teams entered the Yin-Yang Ruins with members of five ancient organizations, then reached a crystal-studded realm beyond a runic gateway. Qin Ming saw immortal mist and blossoming petals inside the crystals and recognized the legendary Flower in the Mirror.

• Gu Rui, Mo Lin, and Yun Zhaoxia revealed their ancient organizations and arranged for their people to join outer-region teams, while Guan Xu agreed to take two members of the Black Vault Ancient Cult.
• Liu Mo and Guan Xu privately suspected the Yin-Yang Dao Field’s fall concealed a great secret that drew the ancient organizations to the ruins.
• The Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin guided fifteen teams through hundreds of dangerous void cracks and activated a runic gateway to the Supreme Secret Realm.
• Liu Mo led Qin Ming through the gateway, where countless crystals turned into mirrors reflecting the gathered teams.
• Qin Ming used the Eye of New Life to see immortal mist and layers of petals within the mirrors and identified them as the Flower in the Mirror.

Qin Ming and Liu Mo gathered life-extending Mirror Fruits in the Yin-Yang Dao Field, then fought off cultivators who tried to steal them. The mirrors created indistinguishable duplicates, and the teams emerged to find a bustling market and an apparently thriving Yin-Yang Dao Field.

• Qin Ming and Liu Mo picked Mirror Fruits from crystal mirrors while other cultivators struggled to master Illusion-Reality Transmutation and encountered monsters.
• An Earth Immortal and two younger cultivators tried to seize Qin Ming and Liu Mo’s fruits, so Liu Mo killed the two Earth Immortals while Qin Ming killed the Ancestor Realm expert and the young Master.
• Qin Ming collected fruits worth two hundred years of life before Liu Mo warned him that continued searching could cause mirror doubles to emerge, and the two stopped picking.
• Qin Ming rescued Si Yeli from a mirror, while the teams struggled to distinguish real people from identical doubles and discovered their numbers had grown by twenty percent.
• The teams left the crystal expanse and reached a crowded market, where a bell revealed an immense, bustling Yin-Yang Dao Field suspended upside down above it.

Qin Ming entered the hidden Yin-Yang Dao Field, earned the title of Dao Child, and investigated whether its promised freedom to leave was genuine. His true body saw no one leave the ruins, even as his second-stage demon experienced the outside world, leaving him unable to tell which reality was real.

• The outsiders learned that the Yin-Yang Dao Field had withdrawn from the world to escape a future calamity, and its envoy promised they could leave after drinking Forget-Worry Soup.
• Liu Tianshen revealed his strength when Gu Rui tried to order Qin Ming around, and the Eternal Mist Origin Cult's members went to seek admission.
• Qin Ming was selected as a Dao Child after receiving supreme marks for comprehension and perfect compatibility with the Black White Scripture.
• Qin Ming secretly refined relay mediums from spirit pets to monitor whether a group leaving the Dao Field could safely return to the outside world.
• Qin Ming's second-stage demon saw the departing group travel toward Maple Forest City, while his hidden true body saw no one emerge from the Yin-Yang Ruins.
• Qin Ming later visited Maple Forest City and the Spirit Monkey Tavern through his second-stage demon, but his true body saw neither the travelers nor the demon.

Qin Ming discovered that he and his Twice-Demon could not perceive each other despite occupying the same place, and that the Yin-Yang Dao Field’s peaceful appearance concealed a terrifying mystery. After Liu Mo helped the group escape, they found they could not remain away from the Yin-Yang Ruins, and the Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin revealed that the Dao Venerable had regrets.

• Qin Ming’s true body and Twice-Demon sat in the Spirit Monkey Tavern but could not see each other, and the true body found no trace of the Twice-Demon or Bai Jin in other patrons’ memories.
• Qin Ming questioned whether his departure from the Yin-Yang Ruins was real, while both versions of Si Yeli confirmed they had experienced the outside world and shared his growing doubts.
• Qin Ming received the Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin, and Liu Mo took it into seclusion to investigate its rules.
• Liu Mo’s seclusion exploded, revealing four versions of him fighting; he ordered Qin Ming’s companions to flee, and the Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin led them out of the Yin-Yang Ruins.
• Guan Xu and the others became translucent the farther they traveled from the Yin-Yang Ruins, so they turned back and grew solid again as they approached it.
• Qin Ming demanded an explanation from the Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin, which admitted that the Dao Venerable had regrets.

Qin Ming realized the Yin-Yang Dao Field trapped people in a terrifying illusion-reality realm concealing a world of ruins, while Yin Jiuxu showed Liu Mo the truth of its destruction. The chapter ended with Liu Mo learning that the Yin-Yang Dao Venerable had opened a mysterious stone door slightly, restoring the illusion, and had frozen in regret before opening it further.

• The Yin-Yang Soul-Fixing Coin warned Qin Ming in fragments that people had died and returned, then fell into a dangerous, incoherent state.
• Guan Xu, Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, Qin Ming’s incarnation, and others were drawn back into the Yin-Yang Ruins as black-and-white patterns spread among messengers and their messages.
• Qin Ming concluded that the Yin-Yang Dao Field recreated a world matching reality and considered asking other powerful factions to attack it.
• Yin Jiuxu visited Liu Mo and led him to the Yin-Yang Pool, where its reflection revealed the Dao Field and nearby kingdoms as a lifeless wasteland.
• Yin Jiuxu explained that the Yin-Yang Dao Venerable had tried to avert the Dao Field’s foretold destruction, but his actions may have fulfilled the prophecy.
• Yin Jiuxu showed Liu Mo the ruined Dao Venerable beside a stone door; the Venerable had opened it slightly, causing the former splendor to reappear, and then stopped in regret.

Liu Mo and Yin Jiuxu gathered the groups trapped in the Yin-Yang Dao Field to awaken the Dao Venerable, who offered guidance and seemed to let go of his lingering obsession. The Dao Venerable then sealed a living Flesh Door at the cost of his final strength, but it began to shake again, and the Exotic Gold Cloth urged Qin Ming’s true body to fight its way in.

• Liu Mo and Yin Jiuxu decided to awaken the Dao Venerable’s broken Mental Field by having the gathered groups circulate the Black White Scripture and send successors to seek his guidance.
• The Dao Venerable merged Si Yeli’s two selves, advised Zhou Tian, Mu Shinian, Meng Zhiyu, and Niu Wuwei, and gave Liu Mo further passages of the Black White Scripture.
• The Dao Venerable recognized Qin Ming as remarkable, told everyone they could leave, and then opened the stone door enough to restore the ruined Yin-Yang Dao Field.
• The Dao Venerable revealed that he had been holding the door shut, transformed it into a Flesh Door, and sealed it away inside his body before passing into eternal silence.
• Blood and a scorched piece of Exotic Gold Cloth emerged from the trembling Flesh Door as it began to open, and the Exotic Gold Cloth told Qin Ming’s true body to prepare to fight its way in.

A gray-haired man emerged through the Dao Venerable’s Flesh Door and used the invisible Exotic Gold Cloth to repel the gathered experts. Yin Jiuxu identified him as a member of the Heaven’s Selection Organization and explained that the organization had likely targeted the Dao Venerable after his death, leaving contingencies inside the door.

• The Flesh Door opened, and a gray-haired man emerged carrying the tattered Exotic Gold Cloth.
• The gray-haired man judged the gathered cultivators as potential Heaven’s Chosen and attacked Guan Xu, prompting Liu Mo and the others to fight back.
• The gray-haired man used the Exotic Gold Cloth to block the cultivators’ attacks, then retreated through a branch path connected to the Flesh Door.
• Heavenly Immortal Gu Rui recognized the man’s ties to the Heaven’s Selection Organization, and Yin Jiuxu explained that it had likely targeted the Dao Venerable after his death.

Heaven's Selection Organization emerged from the Flesh Door and used Torn Cloth to suppress the fighters, leaving Qin Ming and the others near defeat. Old Cloth then rose to battle Torn Cloth, reversing the suppression and allowing Qin Ming to slaughter the organization's powerful fighters.

• The gray-haired elder ordered the Blood Origin Experiment Site's creations to attack Meng Zhiyu, Niu Wuwei, Qin Ming, and the others.
• The organization's Torn Cloth suppressed the battlefield, and strange creatures badly wounded Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, Yan Chuan, Jiang Xiyi, Zhou Tian, and many others.
• Qin Ming urged Old Cloth to act, and Old Cloth exchanged places with the twice-demon before rising to fight Torn Cloth.
• Old Cloth's intervention lifted the fighters' suppression and instead restricted Heaven's Selection Organization, allowing Qin Ming to blind the Thousand-Eyed Sacred Tortoise and cut down an Earth Immortal.
• Qin Ming advanced through the enemy ranks as the gray-haired elder realized that Exotic Gold Cloth had turned against them.

Qin Ming and the Yin-Yang Dao Field’s fighters turned the battle against Heaven’s Selection Organization, but the Dao Field collapsed and left Qin Ming unsure which events were real. He fled the ruins and later found that his incarnation remained trapped in a strange loop, while Yin Jiuxu left him a copy of the Black White Scripture.

• Qin Ming and the other fighters overwhelmed Heaven’s Selection Organization, and the gray-haired elder summoned the Blood Origin Experiment Site’s Perfect Creators for a balanced battle.
• Qin Ming slew the Twelve-Winged Angels and several other Perfect Creators, harvesting their unusual blood as the battle raged.
• The Dao Venerable’s corpse disintegrated, the Flesh Door and Blood Origin Experiment Site collapsed, and Exotic Gold Cloth carried Qin Ming out of the Yin-Yang Dao Field.
• Qin Ming discovered that his incarnation’s memories and farewells did not match what his true body experienced, and he fled while the incarnation remained trapped in the apparent loop.
• Yin Jiuxu appeared at the Spirit Monkey Tavern and left Qin Ming a book marked Black White Scripture.

Qin Ming discovered that his true body had been trapped in the Void World while his friends escaped, then learned the Dao Venerable had reversed reality and illusion to pass on the Black White Scripture. After escaping and using Demon Monkey Wine to recover memories of his parents, Qin Ming set out for the Fate Cave and witnessed a glowing city carried across the sky on a colossal creature.

• Qin Ming realized his true body, External Demon, and incarnation were caught in a mysterious scene where objects and surroundings shifted between reality and illusion.
• The old monkey told Qin Ming that his friends had left safely, explained that he was a shadow of Yin Jiuxu, and revealed that the Dao Venerable had reversed yin and yang to trap Qin Ming while letting the others escape.
• The old monkey restored Qin Ming and his incarnation to the real world, gave him several jars of wine, and assured him that the letters and replies exchanged with his friends were real.
• After fleeing far from Maple Forest City, Qin Ming drank the Fine Demon Monkey Wine and recovered lost childhood memories, including fragments of a conversation between his parents.
• Qin Ming asked Old Cloth about the Fate Cave and traveled toward it, then saw a colossal winged creature carrying a glowing city across the night sky.

Qin Empire Ming learned about the Land of Fate, the mysterious Fate Cave, and the Hall of Past Lives, which could awaken Past Life Wisdom and restore memories. Since Fate Cave was sealed off, he headed to Past-Life City to try the Hall’s test and uncover his own past.

• Qin Empire Ming learned from locals that a Starsea Behemoth carried Hermit City and that the Land of Fate drew people seeking to change their destinies.
• He gathered information about Fate Cave, including reports that it could awaken Past Life Wisdom and restore a person’s memories, while attempts to enter it often ended in death.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that top-tier powers had sealed Fate Cave and recognized a wanted notice for the Unfettered Demon, wondering whether it involved Senior Brother Lu.
• He decided to seek an alternative at the Hall of Past Lives, whose treasure could reproduce part of Fate Cave’s domain and whose tests could awaken Past Life Wisdom.
• Qin Empire Ming arrived in Past-Life City and prepared to take the Hall’s test, hoping to learn about his identity and missing past.

Qin Ming infiltrated the Hall of Past Lives’ Wisdom Awakening ceremony and discovered that it secretly extracted children’s innate spirituality to make treasured medicine for powerful organizations. He stole a discarded Destiny Ruler and tested it inside the Exotic Gold Cloth, where it awakened a strange landscape in his Mental Field and an unseen voice greeted him.

• Qin Ming chose Mu Ye, Yuan Kun, and Fuyao as temporary relay vessels and observed the Wisdom Awakening ceremony through them.
• The Hall of Past Lives used the Destiny Ruler to screen children, then drained their innate spirituality during Spirit Induction while secretly reserving the stolen essence for powerful organizations.
• Qin Ming learned that the Hall and its partners refined the stolen spirituality into medicine that strengthened favored descendants, and he watched them distribute a batch.
• Qin Ming took the nearly exhausted Destiny Ruler from the Hall’s neglected storeroom and traveled into the wilderness to test it.
• The Destiny Ruler made Qin Ming’s spiritual radiance blaze and stirred his subconscious, revealing a new landscape in his Mental Field as a voice said, “You’ve come.”

Qin Empire Ming discovered a sealed Golden Palace in his subconscious, where an unseen voice linked his dormant childhood memories to the Fate River and Fate Cave, then turned his attention to the Fate Medicine Fields. After reaching the fields and seeing intruders probe their hidden Yin and Ghost Fields, he suspected Senior Brother Lu was among them and decided to coordinate with the attackers.

• Qin Empire Ming found an empty Golden Palace in his subconscious, but Restrictions flung him back when he tried to enter; a voice said his childhood memories could not awaken until he entered the Fate River.
• Qin Empire Ming considered whether his origins and dormant memories involved a scheme or a rare opportunity, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella suggested that someone might have reserved him for powerful Past Life Wisdom.
• Qin Empire Ming returned the Destiny Ruler to the Hall of Past Lives, then learned that Mu Ye, Yuan Kun, and Fuyao were assigned to the Fate Medicine Fields as medicine herders.
• Qin Empire Ming secretly approached the Fate Medicine Fields and used the three youths’ visions to observe moving Pure Yang Medicine Fields, nighttime Yin Fields, and the promise of hidden Ghost Fields.
• After a beam of Higher Heavenly Light struck a Yin Field and stirred the Ghost Fields, Qin Empire Ming recognized attack methods resembling the New Life Path and suspected Senior Brother Lu and powerful companions were probing the area.
• Qin Empire Ming decided to coordinate with the intruders because he wanted to meet Lu Zizai.

Qin Ming spent two years observing the Fate Medicine Fields and cultivating while his three insiders gathered information. After learning that powerful organizations planned to refine Butian Divine Medicine using human victims, he prepared to intervene, and an attack on the fields triggered chaos just as he was ready to seize the medicines.

• Qin Ming mastered Tushita Palace’s Diamond Ring secret technique and tested its power, then continued studying the Fate Medicine Fields through Mu Ye, Fuyao, and Yuan Kun.
• Qin Ming approached the Fate Cave but withdrew when the Golden Palace’s voice called him back to the lineage, refusing to trust its claim about his identity.
• Qin Ming learned that the Ghost Fields were fragments of shattered Inner Landscape Domains and watched Great Sages gather to prepare Butian Divine Medicine.
• Qin Ming discovered that the powerful organizations’ plan involved human medicine, while ominous disappearances and Ghost Fields unsettled the youths in the Fate Medicine Fields.
• Qin Ming prepared to enter the fray, but the Unfettered Demon’s allies attacked the Fate Medicine Fields, broke through its defenses, and sent the Heaven-Piercing Chain into the medicine fields.

Qin Ming raided the Fate Medicine Fields amid a chaotic invasion, gathering several rare medicines before escaping the battlefield. Once safely away, he began consuming his spoils to prepare for a breakthrough and a complete transformation of body and spirit.

• A Peak Earth Immortal destroyed an attacking warship, but other raiders breached the Fate Medicine Fields and fighting erupted across them.
• Qin Ming used his Ming-Selected Sons to enter several medicine fields, gathered rare medicines, killed guardians who raised human medicine, and rescued Fuyao by sending him to hide.
• A white-robed Great Sage and a purple-clad Sixth Realm woman wounded or threatened Qin Ming, forcing him to flee and abandon further attempts to gather medicine.
• As the Pure Yang Medicine Fields appeared, Qin Ming gathered one more haul, withdrew from the desert, and returned to his true body.
• Qin Ming consumed half the Illusory Glazed Flower and then the Withering-Flourishing Lingzhi, using their power to begin preparing for a major breakthrough.

Qin Ming broke through to the second and third levels of the Ancestor Realm by consuming several Strange Medicines, then endured a brief Thunderfire tribulation to temper himself. As he prepared to return from the Land of Fate, Zhuo Kong accused him of practicing the Lineage’s Longevity Method and ordered A-Nu to seize him.

• Zhuo Kong and A-Nu entered the Land of Fate with a silver-haired elder, who tasked Zhuo Kong with seeking Butian Divine Medicine and assigned A-Nu to protect him.
• Qin Ming consumed several Strange Medicines and merged scriptures, advancing twice to the third level of the Ancestor Realm despite the medicines’ waning potency.
• Little Yellow taught Qin Ming how to draw down Thunderfire after a breakthrough, and he endured a minor tribulation that left him bloodied but healing.
• Qin Ming encountered Zhuo Kong, A-Nu, and the female Great Sage of the Mind-Observing Cult as they arrived through the rain.
• Zhuo Kong recognized signs of Longevity Force in Qin Ming, declared that he had practiced the Lineage’s techniques, and ordered A-Nu to seize him or cripple his cultivation.

Qin Ming rejected Zhuo Kong’s demand that he submit to the mysterious Lineage and fought Zhuo Kong, Xie Mingliu, A-Nu, and their allies. He destroyed Zhuo Kong’s communication conch and killed several Ancestors, while the battle continued with A-Nu injured and Qin Ming confronting his remaining opponents.

• Zhuo Kong insulted Qin Ming and demanded that he bow to the mysterious Lineage, while a middle-aged Ancestor attacked Qin Ming and was killed.
• Xie Mingliu recognized Qin Ming from their encounter in the Land of Fate, and Qin Ming decided to reject reconciliation after sensing Zhuo Kong’s hostility and interest in his body.
• Qin Ming struck Zhuo Kong with the Yin-Yang Soul-Calming Art and shattered his Snow-White Conch amid attacks from A-Nu, Xie Mingliu, and the surrounding Ancestors.
• Qin Ming used the Ten Sacred Fiends and the Dao resonance to kill three Ancestors and drive the remaining two into the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
• Qin Ming suppressed A-Nu’s sword with the Diamond Ring, broke her sword and right arm, and countered Zhuo Kong and Xie Mingliu as the fight continued.

Qin Ming defeated Zhuo Kong, Xie Mingliu, and A-Nu while studying their Longevity Force techniques, then experimented with Strange Blood on his External Demon and advanced it to the Second Heaven of the Ancestor Realm. He set out for the Great Sage Assembly as turmoil spread across the Land of Fate.

• Qin Ming fought Zhuo Kong, Xie Mingliu, and A-Nu, learning their Longevity Force techniques and defeating all three.
• Qin Ming discovered that Zhuo Kong and A-Nu carried Strange Blood linked to the Heaven's Selection Organization's Blood-Origin Longevity Path, while Xie Mingliu had fought through an incarnation.
• Qin Ming used Strange Blood from extraordinary creatures and Earth Immortals to transform his External Demon, which broke through to the Second Heaven of the Ancestor Realm.
• Qin Ming began traveling back to attend the Great Sage Assembly and learned that Zhuo Kong's death, Xie Mingliu's incarnation's destruction, and outside factions' incursions had plunged the Land of Fate into turmoil.
• Qin Ming continued across the Land of Fate, suspecting that powerful factions were fomenting bloodshed to obtain life's radiance for Butian Divine Medicine.

Qin Ming rampaged through the Land of Fate, hunting aberrants and Supreme Dao Field experts involved in bloodshed for the Butian Divine Medicine. After escaping a trap and leaving the region, he revealed that he had captured Xie Mingliu and a Heaven-Earth Cult Great Sage, whom he planned to use as catalysts.

• Qin Ming killed the Snake God after it chose to submit to two Heaven-Bearing Dao Field experts, then killed the pair and refined their blood essence.
• Qin Ming discovered that several Supreme Dao Fields were provoking chaos to gather Life Spirit Light for the Hall of Past Lives' Butian Divine Medicine, and he hunted their experts and Saint Disciples across multiple territories.
• An Earth Immortal of the Heaven-Earth Dao Field pulverized Qin Ming's relay vessel, but Qin Ming escaped by abandoning the temporary body he had been using as a transfer medium.
• Qin Ming continued hunting, then used cages and teleportation talismans to capture Great Sages from the Heaven-Earth Dao Field, Dao-Cutting Sect, and Mind-Observing Cult before escaping the Land of Fate.
• Qin Ming opened a cage in safety and taunted the captured Xie Mingliu about blushing before sealing her inside again; he also briefly revealed and resealed the Heaven-Earth Cult captive.

Qin Ming settled in Image-Seizing City, cultivated, and learned that the Great Sage Assembly was finally being planned after the strange events in the Yin-Yang Ruins. After advancing his External Demons and reconnecting with old friends, he received word that the assembly was near and resolved to break through before attending.

• Qin Ming crossed a disorienting no-man's-land, reached Image-Seizing City, and learned that the Great Sage Assembly had been delayed over the Yin-Yang Ruins’ missing memories and lingering black handprint.
• Qin Ming discovered that Xie Mingliu and Zhou Dingdao had used powerful substitute bodies, then learned Zhou Dingdao had killed a Seventh Heaven Great Sage before his remnant soul destroyed itself.
• Qin Ming used the captives’ blood and flesh to raise his External Demons to the Third Heaven of the Ancestor Realm, then endured a fierce thunderfire tribulation to refine away blood poison.
• Qin Ming relaxed by exploring Image-Seizing City, while Little Yellow recalled that the Exotic Gold Cloth had once tricked it to death and declared the cloth its mortal enemy.
• Qin Ming spent four years cultivating and corresponding with Zhou Tian, then learned the Great Sage Assembly would soon convene and decided to pursue the Fourth Heaven before reuniting with his old friends.