Recaps

Qin Ming quickly comprehended and practiced the ancient scripture, discovering that it could nourish and transform the body by guiding Heavenly Light Force along a route shaped by his own instincts. Though Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyun could not reproduce his method, Qin Ming’s performance astonished them, and he remained determined to catch up with powerful cultivators on other paths as the major examination approached.

• Qin Ming combined Heavenly Light Force, consciousness spirit light, and divine wisdom to create a comfortable circulation route and grasped the scripture’s nourishing effects.
• Qin Ming offered to teach Li Qingyun and Meng Xinghai, but neither man could circulate his power along Qin Ming’s personal route.
• Qin Ming explained the scripture’s principles and demonstrated how to let Heavenly Light Force find a natural route, leaving Li Qingyun and Meng Xinghai doubtful that they could imitate him.
• Li Qingyun left astonished by Qin Ming’s talent, and Meng Xinghai explained that Li Qingyun had expected Qin Ming to become Qing Yue’s protector.
• Qin Ming compared his progress with gifted Beyond-Mundane Disciples and Cui Chonghe, and Meng Xinghai encouraged him to pursue his own Grandmaster Path.
• Qin Ming reflected that other paths possessed vast reserves and asked about the major examination, prompting Meng Xinghai to ask where he intended to go.

Qin Ming weighed joining a major sect or a special institution of higher learning as Meng Xinghai urged him to seek wider experience and stand out. After helping people in Red Haze City, Qin Ming learned that the Cui Household had come to see him, setting up a tense confrontation.

• Meng Xinghai advised Qin Ming to pursue a renowned sect or special institution, gain access to scriptures, and prove himself against other cities' top talents.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that Qi Daoming had arrived and might arrange a match because Qin Ming had defeated Li Qingxiao; Qin Ming saw Qi Daoming enter the residence.
• Qin Ming gave the Sun Family's grandmother a hammer-technique manual he had written, then went into the mountains to find spiritual matter for Talking Finch and Red Hawk.
• Talking Finch asked to accompany Qin Ming, but he declined because Talking Finch had a family to care for.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that visitors from the Cui Household had arrived, and Qin Ming agreed to meet them despite their history and his intention to retrieve the Silk Scripture.

Qin Ming’s relatives Cui He and Cui Shuning visited to probe whether he had mastered the Silk Scripture and pressure him to return to the Cui Household, but Meng Xinghai drove them out. Qin Ming decided to face the family’s tests openly and proposed using a duel to win Cui He’s Yi Wood Evergreen Skill.

• Cui He and Cui Shuning urged Qin Ming to return home, questioned him about the Silk Scripture, and offered to make him Cui Chonghe’s Jade Armor Guard, but he refused.
• Cui He warned Qin Ming that his public reputation was too conspicuous, and Qin Ming realized the pair were testing him because the Cui Household suspected he had mastered the Silk Scripture.
• Meng Xinghai defended Qin Ming as his future son-in-law and used the Land of the Gods to immobilize Cui He and Cui Shuning before throwing them out.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming not to hide his identity and encouraged him to seek a place as a Core Disciple of a top-tier power.
• Qin Ming said Cui He’s people might test him in the arena and proposed making Cui He stake the Yi Wood Evergreen Skill on a fight.

Qin Ming prepared for the contest between Red Haze City and Chase Light City while continuing to refine his body and following reports of rising talents elsewhere. He arrived in Chase Light City to face its number one, with the match set to begin the next day and Li Qingyue secretly present to watch.

• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that the scripture he sought was the Yi Wood Evergreen World-Dwelling Scripture and that obtaining its complete form would be difficult.
• Qin Ming practiced Jade Bloom Force, Tiger's Roar, and several other cultivation methods, strengthening his organs and body as he planned future cultivation.
• The Talking Finch joined Qin Ming at the City Lord's Manor and told him that Tang Jin had chosen another person as her teacher's final disciple, the youth praised as a Young Grandmaster in Flowing Light City.
• Meng Xinghai took Qin Ming to Chase Light City for the contest, where Li Qingyun assured him that no one would interfere and Meng Xinghai revealed that the prize was a fallen fruit from a precious tree.
• Qin Ming arrived for the match against Chase Light City's number one, and Meng Xinghai told him that Li Qingyue had secretly arrived in Candlelight City with the complete mysterious scripture.

Qin Ming fought Chen Yuan, a powerful examination-season contender, in Chase Light City's arena while concealing his full strength and won the match. After Li Qingyun protected him from the Cui Household's Fifth Master, Qin Ming met Li Qingyue and exchanged scriptures and rare materials with her.

• Qin Ming entered Chase Light City's arena with Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyun, where he spotted Li Qingyue in the guest seating.
• Chen Yuan, a contender who had undergone eight rebirths, entered the arena as Chase Light City's chosen fighter instead of Jiang Hong.
• Qin Ming traded blows with Chen Yuan while holding back, then noticed Chen Yuan was also cultivating consciousness spirit light and ended the fight with two punches.
• Meng Xinghai celebrated the wager, while Li Qingyun whisked the Cui Household's Fifth Master away before he could approach Qin Ming.
• Li Qingyue gave Qin Ming the complete scripture and rare metal pieces, and Qin Ming said he had gifts for her as well.

Qin Ming gave Li Qingyue two powerful scriptures that restored the foundation she needed to pursue the strongest path toward becoming a Near-Immortal. With her path cleared, Li Qingyue left to resume her advancement, while Qin Ming kept one piece of exotic metal to study.

• Qin Ming copied the Eight Trigrams Furnace scripture for Li Qingyue, who memorized it and burned the pages to erase any trace.
• Qin Ming quickly memorized Li Qingyue's Life Altering Scripture book, then copied the Metal Remnant Paper scripture for her.
• Li Qingyue recognized the Metal Remnant Paper scripture as the foundational method she had been seeking and told Qin Ming that political pressure and rival Near-Immortal Seeds had threatened her progress.
• Qin Ming warned Li Qingyue not to practice the foundational method before reaching the third realm, and she explained that she had refused factions demanding that she compromise herself.
• Li Qingyue gave Qin Ming two pieces of exotic metal that could pierce divine defenses; he kept one and asked her to take the other.
• Li Qingyue embraced Qin Ming and left with an elder, while he called after her to return for a drink if she grew weary.

After Qin Ming defeated Chen Yuan, he continued winning matches and gained a fifteen-match streak while learning more about the powerful factions and prodigies of Beyond the Mundane. Meng Xinghai anticipated that Cui He would try to stop Qin Ming from entering a great sect’s Ancestral Court and planned to provoke him into producing the Yi Wood Scripture.

• Qi Daoming tried to flee with the betting money, but Li Qingyun appeared carrying Fifth Master Cui and made him promise to pay the winnings.
• Qin Ming reflected on the Green-Clad Woman, the vast Beyond the Mundane, and the exceptional powers gathered there as Meng Xinghai showed him fingernail-sized fallen five-colored fruits.
• Qin Ming won five consecutive matches, then learned that a confirmed Otherworlder had appeared in Brocade Auspice City and attracted attention from major academies and factions.
• Qin Ming extended his record to eight wins, but visitors from three academies dismissed his local record as insufficient to make him a core disciple.
• Qin Ming reached fifteen consecutive victories, and Meng Xinghai predicted Cui He would challenge him to prevent his entry into a great sect’s Ancestral Court.
• Meng Xinghai planned to provoke Cui He by suggesting that Qin Ming sought a place at the Six Royals Branch’s Ancestral Court, hoping to make Cui He produce the Yi Wood Scripture.

Qin Ming advanced his winning streak to nineteen while studying the dangerous Life Altering Scripture, and Meng Xinghai took him to Brocade Auspice City to draw the Cui Household into arranging a challenge. At a gathering where sects sought the Otherworlder Cao Wuji, a famed young woman from the Jade Purity Lineage noticed Qin Ming and looked him over repeatedly.

• Meng Xinghai explained that the Cui Household had suppressed Night Report coverage of Qin Ming and planned to provoke them into arranging challengers who would wager rare scriptures.
• Qin Ming studied the Life Altering Scripture, grasped how its yin-yang principles fit his powers, and reflected that he had only three chances left to improve his body during the new life stage.
• Qin Ming won four more matches, bringing his streak to nineteen, and Meng Xinghai took him to Brocade Auspice City to push Cui He into action.
• Qin Ming attended a gathering in the Purple Bamboo Forest, where major traditions sought to recruit Cao Wuji and other young prodigies dismissed Qin Ming after learning he came from a remote Red Haze City.
• A renowned young woman from the Jade Purity Lineage arrived, approached Cao Wuji, and repeatedly glanced at Qin Ming with an unusual expression.

Qin Ming impressed Lu Yuzhi with his comprehension of Heavenly Light Force, then left Brocade Auspice City before others learned he had produced eight colors. His nineteenth victory threatened the Cui Household’s plans, and a negotiated duel was arranged; Qin Ming faced a mysterious opponent in the fog outside Red Haze City.

• Lu Yuzhi recruited Cao Wuji for the Jade Clarity Sect and invited applicants to test their comprehension of Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming mastered the technique and produced eight colors, surpassing Cao Wuji’s seven, then left with Meng Xinghai before the others realized what he had done.
• Cui He and Cui Shuning learned Qin Ming was interested in joining the Six Sovereigns and sought to prevent his twentieth consecutive victory.
• Meng Xinghai negotiated a duel between Qin Ming and a powerful young fighter, with the Yi Wood Scripture and six pages of the Abiding World Scripture at stake.
• Cui He slapped Zheng Maoze and scolded the young visitors who came to watch the match, while Lu Yuzhi’s arrival prompted a protest.
• At night in the fog outside Red Haze City, Qin Ming stood facing the young man who emerged to fight him.

Qin Ming fought Yu Zhuohan, a powerful born ability user from the Esoteric Sect, and steadily overwhelmed his attacks with his strength and defensive techniques. As Qin Ming advanced with overwhelming force, the onlookers recognized his bearing as that of a Young Grandmaster.

• Yu Zhuohan arrived to fight Qin Ming, and Qin Ming disrupted the strange rhythm of his approach with a ring of his saber.
• Qin Ming and Yu Zhuohan exchanged powerful blows, with Qin Ming gaining the upper hand despite Yu Zhuohan's extraordinary physique and techniques.
• Meng Xinghai explained Qin Ming's rapid progress by claiming an ethereal bamboo shoot had freed him from the limit on undergoing new lives.
• Yu Zhuohan revealed silver flames and used Esoteric Sect abilities, but Qin Ming blocked his spirit blades and shattered his flaming spear.
• Qin Ming pressed forward with golden light blazing around his fists and palms as an onlooker called him the true Young Grandmaster.

Qin Ming overwhelmed Yu Zhuohan in a wilderness duel, defeating his combined new life and Esoteric Sect techniques. Yu Zhuohan fell unconscious after Qin Ming stopped his final punch just before it struck between his brows.

• Qin Ming defeated Yu Zhuohan in their initial head-on exchanges, forcing him to retreat with his flaming wings.
• Yu Zhuohan attacked with silver fire chains and spirit blades, but Qin Ming broke through them with his Golden Light Shield and Wu Ji Fist.
• Yu Zhuohan drew his Crimson Jade Iron Sword and unleashed flaming Fire Crows, but Qin Ming battered him with his jade iron saber and drove him back.
• Yu Zhuohan summoned a blazing silver moon and sent it after Qin Ming, who cleaved it apart with his saber.
• Yu Zhuohan launched two more silver moons, but Qin Ming smashed through them and rushed him with a punch.
• Qin Ming stopped his fist just before Yu Zhuohan's brow, and Yu Zhuohan screamed and toppled backward.

Qin Ming defeated Yu Zhuohan, impressing the gathered families and sect representatives. After Lu Yuzhi invited him to seek a Core Disciple trial with the Jade Clarity Sect, Meng Xinghai returned the scriptures he had won and urged him to consider his options carefully.

• Qin Ming defeated Yu Zhuohan, whose divine wisdom was injured by Qin Ming's Heavenly Light Force, and the Black Robed Figure and Meng Xinghai intervened as Yu Zhuohan recovered.
• The spectators reacted to Qin Ming's strength, while Cui He and Cui Shuning realized his potential could qualify him to enter the Six Sovereigns.
• Lu Yuzhi offered Qin Ming a Golden Book that let him take the Jade Clarity Sect's Core Disciple trial, and Qin Ming accepted it as another possible path.
• Meng Xinghai demanded the Yi Wood Scripture and fragments of the Abiding World Scripture from Cui He, then invited the gathered guests to a feast in Red Haze City.
• Meng Xinghai advised Qin Ming to seek a Golden Book from the Six Sovereigns as well and handed him the scriptures he had obtained.

Qin Ming corrected and practiced the Yi Wood Scripture, prepared for his seventh new life, and weighed recruitment offers from major traditions. He arrived at the Six Royals Mountain Gate for its disciple assessment, where Cui Changqing appeared after learning he had entered the ancestral court.

• Qin Ming identified flaws in the Yi Wood Scripture and Abiding World Scripture, corrected them, and gained an additional page of the Abiding World Scripture through Cui He's resentful thoughts.
• Qin Ming practiced the Yi Wood Scripture, assessed how his extraordinary arts strengthened his Heavenly Light Force, and prepared to undergo his seventh new life.
• Meng Xinghai advised Qin Ming to investigate the major traditions' recruitment assessments, gave him six bags of Fallen Fruit, and shared news of their benefits.
• Qin Ming prepared weapons from black jade iron and exotic metal, including arrowheads and a white pendant, as he recovered and awaited the Six Sovereigns' assessment.
• Li Qingyun escorted Qin Ming to the Six Royals Mountain Gate, where many exceptional young talents had gathered for the assessment.
• After learning that Qin Ming had entered the ancestral court, Cui Changqing arrived at the mountain gate; he was Fifth Master Cui's elder brother and practiced the Abiding World Scripture.

Cui Changqing asked Zhou Shize to protect Cui Chongxuan from Qin Ming while offering him a sword and insights into the Abiding World Scripture. Qin Ming gathered with the other Core Disciple candidates, met Cui Chongxuan, Cao Wuji, and Zhuo Ya, then departed with them for the edge of the world to begin the examination.

• Cui Changqing told Zhou Shize that Cui Chongxuan was an Otherworlder and asked him to watch over the youth, then offered him a rare sword and the Cui Family Old Ancestor's scripture insights.
• Qin Ming waited in the Golden Forest among the Core Disciple candidates and observed Cao Wuji and Zhuo Ya, two powerful Otherworlders, attract followers seeking teams.
• Cui Chongxuan arrived and called Qin Ming "Brother," while Cao Wuji recognized Qin Ming and Zhuo Ya revealed that Yu Zhuohan was her cousin and wanted her to beat him.
• A Six Royals Ancestral Court elder led more than sixty candidates away on a black crane and a white peacock, explaining that their examination would take place at the edge of the world.
• The group crossed the dark landscape and reached a destination forty thousand li from the Six Royals Ancestral Court.

Qin Ming arrived at World's Edge for the Six Royals Ancestral Court's assessment and set out alone to deal with monsters harassing the border villages. After rescuing a family from an azure wolf, he killed the wolf's companions at Wolf Ridge and encountered a lightning-wreathed weasel.

• Zhou Tao explained the dangers at World's Edge, assigned the youngsters areas to investigate, and gave them the Bright Light Force secret art.
• Qin Ming traveled alone to Luo Family Village, where he found an azure wolf threatening to eat two children after devouring their brother the previous day.
• Qin Ming killed the sixth-mutation azure wolf and learned from the village chief that more wolves lived at Wolf Ridge.
• Qin Ming went to Wolf Ridge, killed the Silver Wolf King's followers, and headed back carrying their fangs.
• A weasel with purple-lit eyes and lightning around its body blocked Qin Ming in the forest.

Qin Ming fought Huang Yuan, a weasel who had killed many human geniuses, and defeated him despite his Wind Thunder Saber and powerful Spirit Domain. After killing Huang Yuan, Qin Ming gained a secret inheritance and refined the strange blood in the weasel’s heart, then decided to remain in God’s Fall Land to seek more opportunities.

• Huang Yuan confronted Qin Ming over the slaughter of the wolves and revealed that he had collected the finger bones of human geniuses he had killed.
• Qin Ming detected Huang Yuan’s two human accomplices and killed the male Outer Saint before turning to fight Huang Yuan.
• Qin Ming defeated Huang Yuan in a saber fight, killed the female Outer Saint, and overcame Huang Yuan’s Spirit Domain with his Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming shot Huang Yuan from the sky, forced him to recite the Wind Thunder Saber inheritance, and killed him.
• Qin Ming discovered strange blood in Huang Yuan’s heart, refined its medicine to strengthen his body, and began practicing the Wind Thunder Saber.

Qin Ming investigated the demons terrorizing villages on God's Fall Plain and decided to strike the Silver Wolf King, hoping to gain precious silver blood. His ambush turned into a trap when the other three old demons arrived and surrounded him at Wolf Hall.

• Qin Ming reassured Luo Family Village that the wolf menace was gone, then learned about the Silver Wolf King and traveled to Liu Family Village.
• Qin Ming tracked two human-faced bird demons to their nest, killed them, and destroyed their eggs before investigating Stone Fort Village's case.
• The villagers told Qin Ming that Old Donkey had ties to Stone Fort Village and three sworn brothers: the Silver Wolf King, a giant beast, and Black Peng.
• Qin Ming spent two days scouting the demons' territories and waited until Black Peng left before attacking the Silver Wolf King at Wolf Hall.
• Qin Ming wounded the Silver Wolf King in a fierce fight, but Black Peng, the giant beast, and Old Donkey arrived and trapped him.

Qin Ming was trapped by the four old demons and badly battered in their fight. He used a hidden sword to grievously wound the Black Peng and Fire Kirin Lion, killed the Silver Wolf King, and fled across the Godfall Great Plain with the Silver Heart as his enemies pursued.

• The Silver Wolf King, Fire Kirin Lion, Old Donkey, and Black Peng surrounded Qin Ming and attacked him together.
• The demons overwhelmed Qin Ming, breaking bones and leaving him gravely wounded despite his strongest techniques.
• Qin Ming’s strange light drove a small white sword through the Black Peng and pierced the Fire Kirin Lion’s forehead, forcing both to retreat in pain.
• Qin Ming killed the Silver Wolf King, took his Silver Heart, and escaped the Wolf monsters.
• The wounded Black Peng and Fire Kirin Lion ordered Old Donkey to pursue Qin Ming across the Godfall Great Plain.

Qin Ming fought off Old Donkey and waves of monsters while refining Silver Wolf King's heart to gain strength. He had begun absorbing its essence, but Old Donkey's call for help drew powerful enemies and human hunters into the region, leaving Qin Ming surrounded by danger.

• Qin Ming tricked Old Donkey with the little sword, then wounded him badly enough to drive him off.
• Qin Ming killed a fire bat and a giant bear, swallowed silver blood, and endured its painful effects as his vitality recovered.
• Qin Ming refined the silver heart while fighting off attacking monsters, and Old Donkey summoned powerful demons from neighboring territories.
• A black elephant pursued Qin Ming, who shot out one of its eyes and escaped.
• Human adventurers tried to ambush Qin Ming for the silver heart, but he killed several attackers and continued refining it.
• Qin Ming discarded the exhausted heart and began absorbing its purified essence as his body started preparing for a new life.

Qin Empire Ming completed his Seventh New Life after fleeing the demons hunting him across God's Fall Plain, and he used the plain's vitality and Fallen Fruit to strengthen and combine his force techniques. With his injuries healed and his power greatly increased, he set out across the plain, ready to face the demons again.

• The Black Peng ordered Old Donkey to issue a kill order and recruit demons to keep Qin Empire Ming from leaving God's Fall Plain.
• Qin Empire Ming began his Seventh New Life, fled Goat Overlord and a Mountain Ape, and hid inside a crocodile while his injuries healed.
• Qin Empire Ming completed his Seventh New Life, sensed that his foundation had slightly exceeded its limit, and resolved to seek more Strange Blood.
• Qin Empire Ming cultivated the Yi Wood Scripture with Fallen Fruit and raised his Yi Wood Force to the limit of his current body.
• Qin Empire Ming developed Wind Thunder Force and fused nine force techniques into a total of twenty-seven kinds of Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Empire Ming took up the Mutton Fat Jade Iron Saber and set off alone across God's Fall Plain.

Qin Ming swept across God's Fall Plain, killing the demons that had hunted him and reclaiming his Jade-Iron Arrow. He reached the Black Peng’s cultivation grounds and began battling the Fire Kirin Lion, while the Black Peng and Old Donkey watched.

• Qin Ming ambushed five humans who had joined the demons in hunting him, killed them, and shot down an Azure Finch that tried to report on him.
• Qin Ming confronted the one-eyed Black Elephant; its Pig Demon companion fled, and Qin Ming killed the Black Elephant after recovering his Jade-Iron Arrow.
• Qin Ming fought and killed the Mountain Ape with his saber, then continued across God's Fall Plain, killing demons along the way.
• Qin Ming arrived at the Black Peng’s cultivation grounds, cut down the Blood Lions and the Black Peng’s attacking birds, and faced the Fire Kirin Lion.
• The Fire Kirin Lion struck at Qin Ming, who summoned the mountain’s vegetation essence into a giant green palm and counterattacked.

Qin Ming fought the Fire Kirin Lion and Black Peng on the mountain, using his transformed Heavenly Light Force and newly tested Wind Thunder techniques to grievously wound both demons. As Black Peng called for reinforcements, Qin Ming rose to face three hidden attackers who had gathered to ambush him.

• Qin Ming used Yi wood essence and the Yi Wood Sword to overwhelm the Fire Kirin Lion, leaving it badly wounded despite its helmet.
• Qin Ming tested his Wind Thunder Force against the storm, drew lightning down, and pierced Black Peng's wing.
• Qin Ming fought Black Peng on the ground, controlling his saber with Wind Thunder Force and striking him with another lightning bolt.
• Black Peng called for help, and a silver hedgehog, a phoenix-like bird, and a human man emerged from the darkness.
• Qin Ming stood to confront the three reinforcements, hoping to claim their strange blood.

Qin Ming faced Black Peng and its reinforcements, including a masked human, Brocade Finch, and a great hedgehog, after they sought to seize the strange blood in his body. He overwhelmed them all and stood ready to claim their strange blood as the chapter ended.

• The Fire Kirin Lion urged the masked man, Brocade Finch, and the great hedgehog to attack Qin Ming, while Black Peng had Old Donkey bring out a portion of strange blood.
• The masked man attacked Qin Ming with his heavy sword as Brocade Finch struck from the sky and the great hedgehog fired silver spines as arrows.
• Qin Ming lured Brocade Finch close, tore off four of its tail feathers, then caught its beak barehanded and broke its beak, wings, and legs.
• Qin Ming used his strongest Heavenly Light Force to snap the masked man's sword and defeat him, then blocked the great hedgehog's barrage of silver spines with twenty-seven layers of divine rings.
• Black Peng, the Fire Kirin Lion, Brocade Finch, the masked man, and the great hedgehog fought Qin Ming together, but he defeated them and left them unable to rise.
• Qin Ming faced the trembling Old Donkey and prepared to claim the strange blood from his fallen enemies.

Qin Ming defeated Black Peng and the other elder demons, then harvested their strange blood and scriptures to strengthen his foundation and skills. After killing the prisoners and refining Fire Kirin Lion’s heart, he left the White Peacock stunned by how thoroughly he had taken the Ancestral Court elders’ strange medicine.

• Qin Ming seized Black Peng’s crystal of strange medicine, killed his loyal bird demons, and ordered Old Donkey to move the other prisoners into the Giant Palace.
• Qin Ming questioned the masked man from the Godlike Society, learned the organization had sold Black Peng information about him, and extracted the Fiery Sun Sword Scripture despite its deliberate errors.
• Qin Ming tested Black Peng’s strange blood on a bird, refined it, obtained Black Peng’s incomplete scripture, and killed Black Peng after absorbing the medicine.
• Qin Ming refined Brocade Finch’s strange blood and raised his original foundation to more than sixteen hundred, then extracted the enormous silver hedgehog’s Arrow Scripture and killed him.
• Qin Ming took Fire Kirin Lion’s heart and began refining its strange blood, while a White Peacock learned that Qin Ming had harvested all the elders’ strange medicine and even pulled up its roots.

After refining strange medicine and killing the Godlike Society's leader, Qin Ming learned that a fellow cultivator had betrayed him and decided to leave the matter behind. White Peacock then told Zhou Tao that Qin Ming had harvested strange medicine belonging to several elders, prompting Zhou Tao to protest that the rules had been broken.

• Qin Ming absorbed the strange medicine's essence, practiced the Arrow Scripture and other arts, and decided to target the Godlike Society's leader.
• Qin Ming attacked the Godlike Society stronghold and killed Sun Teng after a difficult battle, but failed to obtain the Wither Bloom Scripture.
• Qin Ming discovered that a fellow cultivator had exposed him to the demons and found the traitor among the dead.
• Qin Ming changed clothes, left the stronghold, and decided not to investigate the betrayal further.
• Zhou Tao questioned White Peacock about the assessment, and White Peacock revealed that Qin Ming had harvested the elders' strange medicine while acting within the rules.