Recaps

Qin Ming refined the Immortal Seals with the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art, advancing to the Fourth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm and strengthening his path toward the Sixth Realm of the New Life Path. After reuniting with Zhou Tian in Image-Seizing City, he discovered that a familiar female Great Sage had entered his room.

• Qin Ming immersed his Light of the Mind in Image-Seizing City's mortal life, gaining insight into the Heart Seals within people's thoughts and improving his understanding of the Immortal Seals.
• Qin Ming attempted to nurture Immortal Seals in his apertures, but the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art attacked them, so he withdrew them and tested the method in his true body instead.
• Qin Ming's myriad apertures refined the Immortal Seals into Great Medicine, helping him break through from the Early Ancestor Realm to the Middle Ancestor Realm and reach the Fourth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm.
• Qin Ming endured the stronger Heavenly Tribulation, and Little Yellow explained that his flawless body and medicinal fragrance indicated potential to become a Sacred Embryo.
• Qin Ming found he could not refine the same Immortal Seals twice, then returned to Image-Seizing City and reunited with Zhou Tian after six years apart.
• Zhou Tian took Qin Ming to the Purple-Gold Palace to eat, drink, and discuss the invitation-only Great Sage Assembly; after Qin Ming returned to his room, a familiar female Great Sage began massaging him.

Si Yeli visited Qin Ming and discovered that he had reached the Fourth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm, while Zhou Tian learned that their invitations to the Great Sage Assembly were uncertain. As Qin Ming, Si Yeli, and Zhou Tian traveled toward Yuangevity City, they encountered spreading war, killed a Dao-Cutting Sect Saint Son and his companion, and fled from a Feathered Immortal whom Qin Ming prepared to face.

• Si Yeli secretly entered Qin Ming's room, used the Four Sacred Spirits Joint-Heaven Secret Art to massage his back, and learned he had reached the Fourth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm.
• Si Yeli explained that prominent Great Sages from a century ago were organizing the Great Sage Assembly, and Zhou Tian discovered that he had not yet received an invitation.
• Qin Ming secretly broke through with his External Demon, bringing both his true body and External Demon to the Middle Ancestor Realm.
• Qin Ming, Si Yeli, and Zhou Tian set out for Yuangevity City and encountered war spreading from the Land of Fate into neighboring territory.
• A Dao-Cutting Sect Saint Son and an Ancestor tried to mark Qin Ming, Si Yeli, and Zhou Tian as prey, so the three killed them and fled when a Feathered Immortal arrived.
• The Feathered Immortal pursued the three with Judgment Light, and Qin Ming wondered whether he could defeat it himself.

Qin Ming wore down the Feathered Immortal’s Wondrous Yellow Qi, then killed him with a combined strike from his true body and External Demon and harvested the monster’s rare golden blood. A Chongming Bird Great Sage and an Earth Immortal arrived to seize the corpse, while Zhou Tian prepared to summon an Earth Immortal avatar and Qin Ming eyed the newcomers as his next targets.

• Qin Ming used the Black White Scripture and the Primal Chaos Golden Bridge to evade the Feathered Immortal’s attacks while keeping Zhou Tian and Si Yeli with him.
• Qin Ming prolonged the fight until the Feathered Immortal’s Wondrous Yellow Qi ran out, then attacked with his Ten-Colored Sword Fiend and other techniques as the chaotic Dao resonance weakened his opponent.
• The Feathered Immortal unleashed forbidden Dao-Cutting Sect techniques, but Qin Ming countered them with the Dream Insect Clan’s secret art and the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art.
• Qin Ming’s true body and External Demon joined forces as Yin-Yang Sacred Shears, severed the Feathered Immortal’s body and soul, and collected his Remnant Soul and golden blood.
• The Chongming Bird Great Sage Yun Guanya arrived with an Earth Immortal and demanded the Feathered Immortal’s corpse, while Zhou Tian prepared to summon an Earth Immortal avatar and Qin Ming regarded the newcomers as valuable prey.

Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, Si Yeli, and Little Yellow fought the Eternal Mist Origin Cult after the Chongming Bird’s group tried to kill them for the Heavenly God blood. They defeated their opponents, and Qin Ming killed Yun Guanya, leaving the group to collect the Chongming Bird’s remains and treasures.

• Zhou Tian released an imprint of the Old Turtle from a nine-colored divine crystal, and the Old Turtle battled the black-robed Earth Immortal in the Azure Nether.
• Little Yellow battled the middle-aged Ancestor, while Zhou Tian and Si Yeli overwhelmed the Eternal Mist Origin Cult’s other fighters.
• Qin Ming fought Yun Guanya through the Chongming Bird’s mist arts and Eternal Night technique, trading wounds in a fierce battle.
• Qin Ming used six copies and two Diamond Rings to break Yun Guanya’s final assault and destroy his body and soul.
• Qin Ming gathered Yun Guanya’s blood essence and seized his Kunsteel Heavenly Saber while Little Yellow caught his fleeing soul.

After surviving a brutal battle, Qin Ming and his companions witnessed the destruction of the Floating Firefly Clan and traveled to Yuangevity City, where they weighed whether to attend the Great Sage Assembly. As the assembly drew near at Myriad Gods Mountain, Little Yellow began recovering memories that linked her old Dao Field to the Night Mist World’s depths.

• Qin Ming claimed Yun Guanya’s Kunsteel Saber, recovered from his wounds, and shared the Chongming Bird with Si Yeli and Zhou Tian while Old Turtle gave an Earth Immortal’s remains to Little Yellow.
• Qin Ming, Si Yeli, and Zhou Tian watched a top-tier Earth Immortal annihilate the Floating Firefly Clan, then learned that the supreme Dao field organizations had ordered the Land of Fate powers to withdraw.
• At Yuangevity City, the group discussed the Great Sage Assembly and Little Yellow’s fading memories; after organizers offered Qin Ming two Strange Medicines of the Ancestor Realm, he agreed to consider attending.
• Qin Ming cultivated with Immortal Seals and rare Blood Medicines before he and his companions traveled toward Myriad Gods Mountain, where they saw Zhou Dingdao and the mysterious Lineage arrive.
• Little Yellow remembered that her old Dao Field was connected to the depths of the Night Mist World.

Qin Ming arrived at the Great Sage Assembly on Myriad Gods Mountain, where he learned about the mountain’s mysterious destruction and a Void Crack said to lead toward a safer region. As he mingled with powerful guests, he confirmed that several Great Sages coveted his life essence and encountered a formidable newcomer carrying a special piece of cloth.

• Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, and Si Yeli learned from Little Yellow that a sealed Void Crack beneath Myriad Gods Mountain connected to a mysterious region, then discussed the dangers of investigating the Night Mist World’s depths.
• Qin Ming’s group reached the ruined Myriad Gods Mountain, heard conflicting accounts of its destruction, and learned that its Fire Springs had recently revived.
• Qin Ming recognized Kong Yuanxing and Ning Zhenxue, then arrived at the Great Sage Assembly with a special invitation and learned that veteran experts were meeting to discuss rules amid growing dangers from the Night Mist World.
• At an informal gathering, Qin Ming used resonance techniques to detect faint malice from Heng Ye and several other Great Sages, and recognized a white-haired woman as the rabbit from the Longevity Experiment Site Above the Moon.
• Exotic Gold Cloth warned Qin Ming that a young man arriving at the gathering was his formidable rival and carried an exceptionally special piece of cloth.

At the Great Sage Assembly, Qin Ming met the dangerous Fang Zhiwei of Inch-Void Mountain and learned more about Exotic Gold Cloth’s uncertain origins. As the gathering began, Qin Ming defeated several Great Sages in brief contests and prepared to spar with Jiang Xiyi, while divinations warned that Fang Zhiwei could be a grave threat.

• Qin Ming introduced himself to Fang Zhiwei, sensed his formidable power, and exchanged courtesies with him before Fang Zhiwei departed.
• Exotic Gold Cloth told Qin Ming that it might be the remnant of something that had already died, leaving Qin Ming stunned.
• Niu Wuwei told Qin Ming that Li Qingyue had to cultivate in the heavens after arranging Guan Xu’s help, while Meng Zhiyu and Mu Shinian arrived at the assembly.
• Qin Ming tested Duan Yin, defeated Yun Nixue’s technique, and bested Yan Chuan in a contest of wine cups.
• Jiang Xiyi challenged Qin Ming to a technique spar, while Meng Zhiyu and Zhou Tian divined that a future blood battle between Qin Ming and Fang Zhiwei could leave both badly injured.
• Green Phoenix loudly backed Qin Ming and started a betting pool as Qin Ming and Jiang Xiyi prepared to spar.

Qin Ming faced Jiang Xiyi in a confined Dao-art contest at the Great Sage Assembly and defeated him with the Ten Sacred Fiends’ marvelous arts. As the gathering celebrated Qin Ming’s victory, a golden-robed man from a mysterious Lineage approached him.

• Green Phoenix opened a betting pool with other attendees, and Niu Wuwei gave her a bull-hoof-shaped mark on the forehead.
• Qin Ming and Jiang Xiyi began a Dao contest, reviving the damaged garden and creating competing small worlds of Dao charm.
• Jiang Xiyi attacked with manifested writings, seals, bells, and swords while Qin Ming answered with music from a ten-string zither and the Ten Sacred Fiends’ arts.
• Qin Ming’s zither strings pierced Jiang Xiyi’s small world and broke through his defenses, prompting Jiang Xiyi to admit defeat.
• News of Jiang Xiyi’s loss spread beyond the mountain, while Great Sages gathered around Qin Ming to congratulate him.
• Jiang Xiyi lamented his defeat, and Qin Ming noticed the golden-robed man from a mysterious Lineage walking toward him.

At the Great Sage Assembly, Qin Ming refused Qi Geng’s demand to return to the Longevity Lineage, and the confrontation nearly erupted into a battle before Fang Zhiwei called it off. As Qin Ming learned more about the lineage and mingled with other attendees, the mountain suddenly collapsed and endless Immortal Light surged from underground.

• Qi Geng asked Qin Ming to return to the Longevity Lineage, but Qin Ming refused and challenged him when he threatened to take him by force.
• Zhou Tian, Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, Si Yeli, and Niu Wuwei stood with Qin Ming, while Fang Zhiwei and several Great Sages backed Qi Geng; Shi Yuan joined Qin Ming’s side and challenged Qi Geng.
• Fang Zhiwei prevented a battle, and Qi Geng changed his attitude after learning that Qin Ming’s jade token had come from Qin Zhaogu.
• Shi Yuan told Qin Ming that Longevity Force cultivators belonged to either the Lineage faction or the Rogue Cultivator faction, and that the Qin, Qi, Zhuo, and Lei were the Lineage faction’s four main branches.
• Qin Ming questioned Great Sages about disasters in the Night Mist World, encountered the Five-Colored Beast, and reunited with Yun Jianyue and Fu Yi at the gathering.
• The remnant mountain collapsed as Immortal Light surged from underground, and Qin Ming realized the Great Sage Assembly was ending abruptly.

A catastrophe at Myriad Gods Mountain dragged Qin Ming and nearly every Great Sage at the gathering into a mysterious region of the Night Mist World. Stranded in a world that suppressed supernatural powers and weakened all spirituality, Qin Ming explored its wilderness and discovered signs of a real moon and powerful spirit creatures.

• Fang Zhiwei, Qi Geng, Shi Yuan, Su Lengshu, and other Great Sages resisted the collapsing mountains, but divine-pattern chains dragged them into the Abyss.
• Qin Ming failed to escape the collapse and was carried through a distorted passage into an unfamiliar world, where he was separated from the other Great Sages.
• Qin Ming found that the world's Dao charm suppressed his Heavenly Light, divine abilities, artifacts, and Exotic Gold Cloth, leaving him able to rely mainly on martial skills and weapons.
• Qin Ming fought off beasts in the mountains and realized that supernatural powers were difficult for all creatures to use there, though Little Yellow warned that the world remained dangerous.
• Qin Ming saw three spirit creatures cultivating beneath a full moon and wondered whether he had reached a region near the edge of the Eternal Night Realm.

Qin Ming cultivated beneath the real moon in the New World, where abundant moonlight and starlight let him advance the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art and uncover its Forbidden Techniques despite the world suppressing visible arts. After killing a strange bird that seemed to be reporting him to three powerful spirits, he moved farther away, ate it, and waited to see whether the sun would appear at dawn.

• Qin Ming withdrew from the three spirits' territory and discovered that the New World's moonlight and starlight greatly enhanced his cultivation, though he still could not manifest visible arts.
• Qin Ming advanced the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art to the Glazed Illumination Body stage and learned about its Myriad Phenomena Force-Dispersal Technique and Extreme Dao Severance.
• Qin Ming suspected President Niu Ben had encountered the sun, moon, and stars beyond the world, and resolved to master the scripture's Forbidden Techniques.
• Qin Ming spotted a strange bird watching him and flying toward the three spirits, then shot it down with an arrow before it could report him.
• Qin Ming carried the bird far away, roasted and ate it by a river, then wondered whether the vanished red sun would appear at dawn.

Qin Ming explored the New World, learned of its vast and dangerous mortal realm, and cultivated while traveling toward the Tai Dynasty’s capital. When a wounded Three-Legged Golden Crow attacked him, he killed it and discovered that its blood contained Immortal Seals, but an old man and a girl appeared nearby afterward.

• Qin Ming discovered that the Lunar Star shone without a Solar Yang and found a Fire Spring beneath the forest as he explored beyond the Three Saints Mountain Range.
• Qin Ming learned from a hunter that the world contained several Imperial Dynasties, many cultivation sects, and Life-Slaying Mist that sealed the edges of the land.
• Qin Ming learned the local language, left the hunter a wounded Saberhorn Deer, and set out toward the capital of the Tai Dynasty while cultivating the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art.
• Qin Ming sensed danger at his forest campsite and recognized the attacking bird as a wounded Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Qin Ming clung to the Golden Crow with Adhesion Force and killed it by driving his Kunsteel Saber into its neck wound.
• Qin Ming examined the Golden Crow’s Immortal-Seal-bearing blood, then noticed an old man and a girl approaching through the trees.

Qin Ming refused to be drawn into the conflict over the Three-Legged Golden Crow, but the Sunset Glow Sect mistook him for a helpless youth and attacked. He slaughtered the sect’s forces, leaving Elder Lu and the Black-Clad Woman stunned by his strength.

• Qin Ming met a wounded azure-robed elder and the Black-Clad Woman, who asked him to protect them from the Sunset Glow Sect pursuing the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• The Sunset Glow Sect elders arrived, confirmed Qin Ming had killed the Golden Crow, and left after seeing him beside the other two.
• Qin Ming extracted the Golden Crow’s blood essence while Sunset Glow Sect elders decided to attack him and seize the corpse.
• The Sunset Glow Sect surrounded Qin Ming, and he refused their demand to surrender the Golden Crow before drawing his Kunsteel Saber.
• Qin Ming killed the sect’s six elders and more than forty followers, including five who tried to escape through the forest.
• Elder Lu and the Black-Clad Woman joined the fight and survived as Qin Ming’s overwhelming power left them astonished.

After Sunset Glow Sect hired assassins to kill him, Qin Ming fought his way into the sect and battled its guardian alien beast. He killed the beast and harvested its blood as the sect master and the Black Robed Figure approached.

• Qin Ming parted from Su Yunxi and Lu Chongyuan, then traveled alone through Sunset Glow Sect’s territory while gathering information about the world and its powerful outsiders.
• Sunset Glow Sect hired assassins from the Slaying Immortals Tower, but Qin Ming killed the assassins who attacked him and learned that the sect had ordered the hit.
• Qin Ming traveled to Sunset Glow Sect and attacked its mountain stronghold, targeting its guardian alien beast before the sect’s experts could surround him.
• Qin Ming fought the beast with his Kunsteel Saber and Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal, killing it after repeated strikes and cutting off its two heads.
• Qin Ming discovered Immortal Seals in the beast’s blood and moved to preserve it as Sunset Glow Sect’s sect master and the Black Robed Figure arrived.

Qin Ming slaughtered the Sunset Glow Sect’s leaders after confronting them over their attempts to seize his Golden Crow Blood Medicine and hire killers against him. He took control of the sect with Luo Chuan’s help, and the chapter ended with a rival power moving in to claim its spoils.

• Qin Ming killed the Sunset Glow Sect’s guardian beast and fought through its defenders while accusing the sect’s leaders of persecuting him.
• Qin Ming killed the Grand Elder, then defeated and killed Lin Heng and the Black Robed Figure from the Slaying Immortals Tower.
• Qin Ming spared the innocent and agreed to settle at the Sunset Glow Sect after Luo Chuan offered to help him take control.
• Luo Chuan opened the secret treasury, and Qin Ming gained piles of resources, including five Strange Medicines.
• An envoy from an outside major power arrived, and Luo Chuan warned Qin Ming that the rival power had noticed the sect’s turmoil.

After Azure Billows Sect and other powers moved to seize Sunset Glow Sect’s territory and medicines, Qin Ming gathered enough Strange Medicines to break through to the Fifth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm. He left the sect with Luo Chuan to collect debts, while Luo Chuan feared Qin Ming might abandon him and the embattled sect.

• Qin Ming ordered Luo Chuan to investigate Azure Billows Sect and secretly acquire Strange Medicines, suspecting its master’s injury and possible ties to Tai Dynasty.
• Qin Ming learned that rival powers were carving up Sunset Glow Sect’s cities and that promised medicines had been withheld or stolen, so he arranged a black-market purchase and used Su Yunxi’s jade pendant to secure two more medicines.
• After Luo Chuan’s second son delivered the two Strange Medicines, Qin Ming rewarded Luo Chuan and his son with the Sunset Glow Art.
• Qin Ming consumed more than a dozen top-grade Strange Medicines in the mountains, endured Heavenly Tribulation, and broke through to the Fifth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm.
• Qin Ming told Luo Chuan he was leaving to collect debts, then took him along as they quietly departed Sunset Glow Sect on Higher Aberrant mounts.

Qin Ming raided the Hundred Herbs Studio’s secret manor and killed its guardian beast before traveling six thousand li to attack the powers gathered at the Azure Billows Sect. He slaughtered two more guardian beasts, and the Black Flood Dragon fled into its pool as figures rushed out from the hall.

• Qin Ming and Luo Chuan learned that the Azure Billows Sect, the Slaying Immortals Tower, the Star-Pillow Sect, and the Hundred Herbs Studio were preparing to attack the Sunset Glow Sect.
• Qin Ming tracked the Hundred Herbs Studio’s deputy studio master to a manor four hundred li away and killed the studio’s silver guardian beast and dozens of the man’s followers and relatives.
• Qin Ming and Luo Chuan traveled north to the Azure Billows Sect, where their enemies had gathered to divide the Sunset Glow Sect’s territory.
• Qin Ming infiltrated the Azure Billows Sect’s headquarters and beheaded the Slaying Immortals Tower’s Golden Crane before killing the Star-Pillow Sect’s Nine-Radiance Ladybug.
• Qin Ming charged the Black Flood Dragon, which fled into the deep pool as several figures rushed out of the hall.

Qin Ming faced seven great masters sent by the four great sects and killed four of them while demonstrating the President’s Myriad Phenomena Force-Dissipating Art. Two Great Sages then appeared, but Qin Ming declared that he would defeat everyone unless a True Immortal came to stop him.

• Zhao Jianghe, Fu Qing, Shi Shangfei, Qi Lie, and the other masters arrived and confronted Qin Ming over his attack on their forces.
• Qin Ming exposed the heads of Shi Shangfei’s descendants and accused Hundred Herbs Studio and the Li Fire Sect of stealing from him, then attacked Qi Lie.
• Qin Ming used the Myriad Phenomena Force-Dissipating Art to withstand the masters’ attacks and killed Qi Lie and Shi Shangfei.
• Qin Ming killed the Black Flood Dragon and the Slaying Immortals Tower master, leaving Zhao Jianghe, Fu Qing, and Hundred Herbs Studio’s chief Attendant alive.
• Two Great Sages emerged from a palace hall and told Qin Ming to put down his weapon, but he refused and challenged them to stop him.

Qin Ming, known as Zheng Guang and Dayi, confronted the Land of Fate Great Sages An Luo and Yun Bochuan after killing their allies. Yun Bochuan and An Luo joined forces against him, but Qin Ming escaped their lightning trap as the battle continued.

• Qin Ming recognized An Luo of the Dao-Cutting Sect and Yun Bochuan of the Heaven-Bearing Dao Field, then challenged them to fight.
• Yun Bochuan unleashed his Ninth Heaven Ancestor Realm pressure and attacked Qin Ming, who matched his blows with the Kunsteel Saber.
• An Luo mocked Qin Ming for fighting with torn clothes, then joined the battle after he put on fresh clothes.
• Yun Bochuan and An Luo coordinated their attacks and struck Qin Ming with lightning created by combining their yin and yang powers.
• Qin Ming used the Primal Chaos Golden Bridge to break free of their pincer attack and avoid the lightning as the fight continued.

Qin Ming fought Yun Bochuan and An Luo while their allies joined the battle, but he turned the siege around and severely defeated both Great Sages. He ended the chapter standing over the battlefield and dismissing the strength of Near-Immortal Great Sages.

• Qin Ming used the Diamond Ring Technique to wound Yun Bochuan and An Luo as Zhao Jianghe, Fu Qing, and Azure Billows Sect elders joined the fight.
• An Luo revealed her six pairs of golden wings and used Prologue of the Old Dao while Yun Bochuan unleashed Heaven-Bearing Descent and attacked with nine fox tails.
• Qin Ming feigned injury to draw An Luo closer, then attacked the encircling experts and killed the chief Attendant of Hundred Herbs Studio.
• Qin Ming used Adhesion Force to bind An Luo and tore off the wings on one side of her body, leaving her unable to escape.
• Qin Ming battered Yun Bochuan, breaking his fingers and three fox tails before knocking him to the ground with the Primal Chaos Golden Bridge.
• Qin Ming stood in the center of the field and declared that Near-Immortal Great Sages were nothing special.

Qin Ming defeated the four allied sects, killed the Near-Immortal Beings Yun Bochuan and An Luo, and forced the survivors to submit while Luo Chuan secured the spoils. After raiding the sect vaults, Qin Ming prepared to break through as Su Yunxi and Lu Chongyuan discussed his fate.

• Qin Ming killed the fleeing elders, pursued Yun Bochuan and An Luo, and defeated both Near-Immortal Beings.
• Qin Ming shot down Zhao Jianghe and Fu Qing's flying mounts, while Luo Chuan captured the wounded sect masters and helped hold the surviving experts in place.
• Qin Ming killed An Luo and Yun Bochuan, then ordered Luo Chuan to manage the survivors and placed blood curses on a group of elders.
• Qin Ming and Luo Chuan raided the secret vaults of the Azure Billows Sect, the Slaying Immortals Tower, the Star-Pillow Sect, and the Hundred Herbs Studio before Qin Ming prepared to break through.
• Su Yunxi asked Lu Chongyuan how Dayi was faring, and Lu Chongyuan predicted that the four major sects would force him into a war.

Qin Ming used Blood Medicines and Immortal Seals to advance both his External Demon and true body, reaching the Sixth Heaven of the Ancestor Domain. After helping Luo Chuan stabilize the Sunset Glow Sect, he decided to travel across the New World in search of Great Opportunities.

• Qin Ming refined rare Blood Medicines while his External Demon underwent Nirvana, then both Qin Mings endured Heavenly Tribulation and the External Demon reached the Fifth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm.
• Qin Ming returned to the Sunset Glow Sect, gave Luo Chuan the sect-suppressing scriptures of three conquered sects, and ordered the elders to quell unrest among the city lords.
• Qin Ming returned to the forest and refined longevity-linked Immortal Seals with the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art, creating Great Medicine that advanced his true body to the Sixth Heaven of the Ancestor Domain.
• Qin Ming passed his Heavenly Tribulation and concluded that he could continue breaking through in the New World if he found enough resources.
• Qin Ming had his External Demon refine Immortal Seals and undergo tribulation, bringing it to the Sixth Heaven of the Ancestor Domain as well.
• Qin Ming decided to leave the Sunset Glow Sect and travel through the New World to seek Great Opportunities.

After discovering that someone had engineered a colossal beast’s transformation and stolen its auspicious blood, Qin Ming investigated the New World while building up the Sunset Glow Sect and seeking scarce strange medicine. He learned that a True Immortal had visited his sect, and the chapter ended with another True Immortal attacking him in a remote town.

• Qin Ming killed a mad beast and found evidence that someone had used a Jade Iron chain to cultivate Immortal Seals within it before stealing its auspicious blood.
• Qin Ming returned to the Sunset Glow Sect, promised to help Luo Chuan improve, and learned that a Dark Holy Land had once conducted similar longevity experiments.
• Qin Ming mastered techniques from the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art, empowered Luo Chuan with his understanding of the sects’ scriptures, and discovered that strange medicine had become scarce and costly.
• Qin Ming traveled to the Tai Dynasty to seek medicine and heard that Zhou Tian had become a state preceptor while Fu Yi had been captured in the Heng Dynasty.
• Qin Ming asked Wu Chan to spare Fu Yi, and Fu Yi was released and sent to the Sunset Glow Sect with six specimens of strange medicine.
• Qin Ming sensed a powerful presence in a remote town, saw his Flying Mount killed by a knife, and recognized the approaching attacker as a True Immortal.

Qin Ming was ambushed by Jing Qian and a Divine Archer, both True Immortals intent on capturing him, and fled through the mountains before escaping into a river. Two days later, he rested aboard a pleasure boat and resolved to investigate his pursuers and kill them in return.

• Jing Qian killed Qin Ming's mount, while a Divine Archer in the clouds threatened him with a bow, forcing Qin Ming to flee town.
• The Divine Archer fired two arrows at Qin Ming, but Qin Ming deflected them with his saber as Jing Qian caught up and said he intended to abduct him.
• Qin Ming fought Jing Qian while evading the Divine Archer's attacks, picked up two Exotic Metal Arrows, and escaped deeper into the forest.
• Qin Ming crossed the mountains and dived into a river, eluding his pursuers as he traveled downstream for two days.
• Qin Ming boarded a pleasure boat near a Giant City, disguised himself as a refined young gentleman, and planned to learn about the two True Immortals and kill them in return.

Qin Ming learned that Jing Qian, a True Immortal of the Great Tai Dynasty, was among his pursuers and suspected an Extraterrestrial Demon had persuaded the dynasty to attack him. He entered the imperial capital intending to kill the hidden enemy, after misleading his foes by making them think he would target Jing Qian’s disciples.

• Qin Ming questioned Ruyan, the Great Tai Dynasty’s intelligence chief in Yungao City, and learned that Jing Qian was one of its two publicly known True Immortals.
• Qin Ming sensed that Ruyan concealed the old emperor’s efforts to gather apothecaries, then altered her memories to make it appear that he planned to kill Jing Qian’s disciples.
• Qin Ming subdued Ruyan’s superior, gathered more intelligence, and traveled secretly toward the Great Tai Imperial Capital while Fu Yi and Luo Chuan warned the Sunset Glow Sect to keep a low profile.
• Qin Ming killed Jing Qian’s fifth disciple, who was also Jing Qian’s illegitimate son, prompting Jing Qian to reel from the news.
• Qin Ming entered Auspicious City and located a mansion where medicine experts had been gathering, then slipped inside after sensing a near-immortal presence but no True Immortals.