Chapter Summaries

Cao Qianqiu tore across the Night Mist World toward Kunling after his defeat in the Secret Realm, while Qin Empire Ming returned to Kunlun City and concealed that he was Demon One. Cao Qianqiu attacked the plateau and demanded Demon One be handed over, bringing the region to the brink of war.

• Cao Qianqiu crossed the Night Mist World in a blazing red Great Sun, killing a Higher Aberrant and frightening demons and sects along his route to Kunling.
• Qin Empire Ming and Little Wu emerged from the Secret Realm, passed the Demon-Revealing Mirror, and returned to Kunlun City with the Mountain River Academy disciples.
• Qin Empire Ming told Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan that he had beaten Cao Qianqiu, and the elders warned the youths to stay in Kunlun City because Cao Qianqiu might come seeking revenge.
• Tang Jin and Crow Master discussed whether Qin Empire Ming was connected to Demon One, while news spread that Demon One had defeated Cao Qianqiu.
• Cao Qianqiu reached the plateau, attacked the Secret Realm, damaged the Cicada Shell, and demanded that the plateau's fiends hand over Demon One.
• Sun Taichu, an expert from the Esoteric Sect, and a powerful presence from the plateau confronted Cao Qianqiu, who insisted he had come to smash through the plateau.

Kunling Territory teetered on the brink of war after Cao Qianqiu clashed with the Auspicious Beast and exposed the Esoteric Sect’s ambitions. Cao then left the region for Black White Mountain, where he met Old Man Liu again at Double Tree Village.

• A sudden darkness swept across Kunlun City and the plateau, and Tang Jin recalled the ancient age when the sun stopped rising.
• Cao Qianqiu accused the Esoteric Sect of seeking to subdue the plateau and swallow Kunling Territory, then fought against a terrifying presence in the darkness.
• Cao Qianqiu destroyed the Cicada Shell and killed a giant beast, then clashed with the Auspicious Beast and its powerful allies before both sides withdrew.
• Powerful reinforcements arrived, the factions prepared for a decisive confrontation, and the academies decided to withdraw their disciples.
• Cao Qianqiu unexpectedly left Kunling Territory for Black White Mountain, prompting Qin Ming to worry about her acquaintances at Double Tree Village.
• Cao Qianqiu arrived at Double Tree Village and encountered Old Man Liu grinning at him.

Cao Qianqiu revisited Double Tree Village and escaped its night mist badly injured, then suffered a string of inexplicable disasters while traveling to Kunling Territory. Meanwhile, Qin Ming and Little Wu left Mountain River Academy for the Great Yu Dynasty, where they learned that the Ancestors had entered Kunling Territory and vanished.

• Cao Qianqiu questioned Old Man Liu about the Bloodstained Kite incident, entered the night mist near Double Tree Village, and crawled out wounded with a rusted spear and strands of black hair clinging to him.
• Qin Ming learned Heavenly Light Planting Immortal Lotus from Ling Yu and Tang Jin, then fused Consciousness Spirit Light and Divine Wisdom into the method to form a powerful Heart Lotus.
• Mountain River Academy evacuated its disciples by airship, and Qin Ming and Little Wu traveled to the Great Yu Dynasty after buying parachutes.
• Cao Qianqiu flew toward Kunlun City, repeatedly fell into dangerous places, and arrived injured; Sun Taichu warned him not to trust appearances in the Night Mist World.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu settled in Qionghua City, then heard that the Ancestors had entered the plateau in Kunling Territory and disappeared along with later investigators.

Kunling’s transformation drew explorers seeking its auspicious beast blood and hidden inheritances, while reports revealed that powerful ghosts and monsters haunted the territory. After waiting in Qionghua City, Qin Ming and Little Wu entered Kunling, defeated its strange guardians, and reached a ruined hall where Qin Ming sat to hear a vengeful ghost expound a true scripture.

• The Great Yu Dynasty, Great Gan Dynasty, Great Rui Dynasty, and major sects sent forces to investigate Kunling, but troops and powerful disciples disappeared or died there.
• Explorers found auspicious beast blood as Kunling’s landscape changed, and later reports described powerful ghosts that killed intruders and seemed to regain awareness.
• After hearing that teams of similar cultivation could survive and gain inheritances, Qin Ming and Little Wu entered Kunling together.
• Black ropes tried to hang Qin Ming and Little Wu, but they broke free, and Little Wu defeated an armored ghost who left behind a saber manual.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu reached the Withered Hall, where Qin Ming defeated an awakened tree and claimed its token.
• A voice said the token granted entry to hear the true scripture, so Qin Ming entered the hall and sat before a vengeful ghost while Little Wu kept watch outside.

After surviving a vicious ghost’s attack, Qin Ming healed with the Golden Cicada Scripture and realized his ninth new life was approaching its final Relay Rebirth and the Outer Saint realm. Little Wu then explained that the so-called vicious ghosts were living Ghost Cultivators and that Kunling’s forbidden zones had been sealed after ancient beings encountered the Jade Capital, leaving Qin Ming alarmed that the Ancestors were repeating their mistake.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu were caught in a sandstorm and attacked by a gaunt Ghost Cultivator after an old man used their blood to distract it.
• The Withered Hall lecturer stopped the old man, consumed his essence, and let Qin Ming and Little Wu leave after recognizing Qin Ming’s grasp of the Wither Scripture.
• Qin Ming recovered from his severe injuries with the Golden Cicada Scripture, strengthened its force, and foresaw his final Relay Rebirth and approach to becoming an Outer Saint.
• Little Wu reported that the apparent vicious ghosts were living Ghost Cultivators whose sealed Ancestral Court lay in yin soil beneath Kunling.
• Qin Ming learned that ancient godlike beings and Near-Immortal creatures had opened sealed regions while seeking the Jade Capital, then fled and resealed Kunling after something happened there.
• Qin Ming realized the Ancestors’ actions might be repeating the ancient beings’ mistake as Kunling’s forbidden zones began to emerge.

Qin Ming joined Yao Ruoxian’s expedition into Kunling Territory, completed his final new life transformation, and reached the peak of the first realm. As the expedition prepared to enter the Central Grand Palace, his Torn Cloth reacted to its yin aura, while the vanished Ancestors discovered a scrap of cloth enshrined beside the coffins of Godlike beings.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu returned to Qionghua City, gathered information about Kunling Territory, and learned that major powers were recruiting expedition teams.
• Qin Ming joined Zhao Wencheng and Zhao Wenqian’s group as an archer, entered Kunling Territory, and survived their first dangerous expedition with four teammates dead and no treasures found.
• Qin Ming completed his final new life transformation and mastered his eighth extraordinary art, fusing them into a Heavenly Light Force that surpassed the Ancestors’ first-realm achievements.
• Little Wu entered the second realm, while Qin Ming continued exploring with the expedition and watched most of its original members die or leave.
• Yao Ruoxian arrived for the planned expedition into the Central Grand Palace, where Qin Ming’s Torn Cloth trembled and absorbed a trace of Lunar Yin Aura.
• The vanished Ancestors found several coffins of Godlike beings and a Nine-Colored Altar, where one Ancestor moved to take the scrap of cloth enshrined upon it.

Qin Ming explored the Great Yu Dynasty’s haunted Giant Palace, where he discovered a ghostly medicinal plant and a mysterious seal before the Torn Cloth began drawing in dangerous Lunar Yin Force. Meanwhile, Cao Qianqiu and the other Ancestors followed a rune tunnel to a corpse-strewn city, then retreated in fear.

• Cao Qianqiu attacked the scrap of cloth, and the fighting damaged the altar until it shattered beneath it.
• The first two teams sent into the Giant Palace suffered heavy losses, prompting the Fourth Princess to provide protective garments and Windstride Talismans for later explorers.
• Qin Ming joined the fourth team, chose the Nether Scripture, and obtained a protective garment and twelve special arrows.
• Inside the Giant Palace, Qin Ming spotted a nine-flowered ghostly plant and a black seal, then fought Ghost Cultivators while the Torn Cloth absorbed the pool’s Lunar Yin Force.
• Qin Ming threw the Torn Cloth into the pool, used his arrows against the Ghost Cultivators, and withdrew with his surviving teammates.
• The Ancestors followed the rune tunnel to a distant city covered in corpses, then retreated and wondered whether to destroy the passage.

Qin Ming retrieved his Torn Cloth from the Giant Palace and found a second piece that merged with it, then escaped as Yao Ruoxian’s theft of the Black Seal unleashed the ghosts. After a Great Yu Dynasty elder tried to rob and kill him, Qin Ming revealed his full Heavenly Light Force and cut the elder down.

• The Ancestors severed the six divine coffins from the Torn Cloth, and Cao Qianqiu briefly caught it before it escaped into the earth veins.
• Qin Ming volunteered to reenter the Giant Palace for payment, retrieved his Torn Cloth, and watched a second piece leap from the pool and merge with it.
• Yao Ruoxian took the Black Seal and ghost herb, awakening the old ghosts and forcing everyone to flee the region.
• Qin Ming escaped by letting small ghosts cling to him, while a wounded Great Yu Dynasty elder tried to redirect pursuing ghosts toward him.
• The elder later demanded Qin Ming’s money and Extraordinary Arts, then attacked him, but Qin Ming’s full Heavenly Light Force overwhelmed him and split him in two.

Qin Ming left the Yin Soil, reunited with Little Wu, and naturally broke through into the Outer Saint Domain while resting on a pleasure boat in Qionghua City. After celebrating, he and Little Wu set out for the Great Rui–Great Gan border, where Qin Ming hoped to find his old friend Ning Siqi.

• Qin Ming defeated the old man from the Great Yu Dynasty in the Yin Soil and escaped with several thousand pieces of Day Gold.
• Little Wu went out to temper himself with large organizations, earning Day Gold while surviving dangerous encounters with treacherous people.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu toured Qionghua City, shared their painful pasts, and Qin Ming worried about his missing grandfather.
• Qin Ming naturally advanced to the Outer Saint Domain aboard a pleasure boat, where he comprehended his transformed strength and the Silk Scripture's manifestations.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu decided to leave the Great Yu Dynasty for the Great Rui–Great Gan border, hoping to find Ning Siqi among the trapped Esoteric Sect disciples.

Qin Ming and Little Wu reached the Kunling ruins, where New Life Evolvers could enter an ancient sect through focused consciousness. Qin Ming seized the chance to rise above the role of a strongman, but his clash with a powerful woman coincided with someone awakening inside a crystal coffin.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu arrived in Yellow Sand City, learned about the Kunling ruins from the Red Beauty Tavern, and met New Life Path seniors and familiar faces there.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Torn Cloth could store objects, then traveled with Little Wu to the mist-shrouded ruins and learned how New Life Evolvers could enter them.
• Qin Ming entered a vast ancient sect, rejected the role of a strongman, and became an inner disciple by defeating an Immortal Path Disciple who tried to inscribe runes into him.
• Qin Ming sent Zheng Maoze and Zeng Yuan out of the sect with powerful attacks, then obtained access to secret manuals and medicinal formulas as an inner disciple.
• Qin Ming challenged a woman in purple whose consciousness spirit light resisted his Five Colors Saber, while a woman inside a crystal coffin opened her eyes.

Qin Ming fought Chu Pianran in the Maple Tree Forest and proved strong enough to injure her spirit-light manifestation, earning praise as the Strongest Young Laborer. After Chu Pianran awakened in a crystal coffin, she told her master that changes in Kunling made it time to break out, while Qin Ming considered using the Immortal Dojo’s resources to test his path.

• Qin Ming battled Chu Pianran in the forbidden Maple Tree Forest as ancient disciples and Present World visitors gathered to watch.
• Qin Ming realized that ancient people in the drama saw him as an inner disciple, while people from the Present World recognized him as a laborer.
• Qin Ming combined his extraordinary arts and combat techniques against Chu Pianran’s Pure Yang Sword Array, eventually injuring her and severing her sleeve.
• Chu Pianran praised Qin Ming as an unprecedented laborer who could contend with a religious order’s strongest disciple, then departed as a shower of light.
• Chen Bingyan wondered whether Qin Ming was their old friend, but Lu Zhenyi doubted it.
• Chu Pianran awakened in a crystal coffin, told her master that changes in Kunling made it time to break out, and Qin Ming considered using the dojo’s resources to test his methods.

After surviving Zhao Shuyu’s attack in the Immortal Dojo, Qin Ming returned to test arts and refine his heavenly light. His experiments exposed how difficult advancement was and left him seeking rare, dangerous substances his rank could not normally access.

• Qin Ming fled Zhao Shuyu, a living third-realm Core Disciple who attacked him for offending Chu Pianran, and was injured by the blast of Zhao Shuyu’s saber.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan confirmed that Zhao Shuyu was a living ancient survivor, protected Qin Ming, and told him to return to the dojo while they stood guard.
• Qin Ming reentered the Immortal Dojo, became a Quasi-Core Disciple, and used its accelerated experience to test cultivation and advance his arts.
• Qin Ming spent one or two simulated years fusing earth mother qi, nether fire fiend, and heavenly pure spiritual qi, but found his progress too slow and the change to his heavenly light disappointing.
• Qin Ming learned that his rank barred him from the dojo’s priceless divine substances, including undying resin, and asked to study dangerous Extraterrestrial Abandoned Objects instead.

Qin Ming tested Immortal and God Path dojos, refined his cultivation plans, and discovered that living people remained within some ancient traditions. After Kunling was sealed again and the Ancestors defeated the Auspicious Beast, the factions launched a hunt across the plateau, with the Demon Seed “Demon One” singled out for capture.

• Qin Ming tested dangerous abandoned objects in the first Immortal Dojo, shared the scriptures and pill formulas he found, then died within the role and moved to another dojo.
• Qin Ming defeated a formidable white-haired disciple in the second Immortal Dojo, forced Zheng Maoze and Zeng Yuan to serve as laborers, and tested ways to transform his Heavenly Light.
• Qin Ming explored several dojos across the Immortal and God Paths, discovered living people among the ancient disciples, and left Kunling with Little Wu as others prepared to withdraw.
• Blood-colored lightning swept across Kunling as the Ghost Path reappeared, the Immortal Dojo survivors departed, and the territory began to vanish under a renewed seal.
• The returning Ancestors fought and killed the Auspicious Beast and his allies, then ordered the younger generation to hunt the plateau demons for rewards.
• The factions advanced on the sealed plateau and announced a double share of auspicious beast blood for whoever captured the Demon Seed, “Demon One,” while discussing Qin Ming's disappearance and possible mastery of the Silk Book Method.

Qin Ming fought through the battlefield at the Third Forbidden Land, claimed credit for killing a weakened Third Realm demon, and discovered a precious cache of starfire essence. He left after defeating Li Qingxu, while the Cui Household considered using his growing reputation to draw powerful enemies toward him.

• The Cui Household debated Qin Ming's strength and decided he should be killed if he proved extraordinary, despite someone protecting him.
• An Ancestor's Diamond Parrot stopped older experts from stealing kills, allowing Qin Ming and Little Wu to gain battle merits as Jin Xiang hauled their trophies.
• Qin Ming joined youths attacking a dying Third Realm demon, killed it, and drove off Li Household members who tried to take the credit.
• Qin Ming found starfire essence hidden in a charred stone in the demon nest's treasury and concealed it in his Torn Cloth Space.
• Li Qingxu blocked Qin Ming's escape from the underground palace, but Qin Ming defeated him and left the battlefield.
• The Cui Household gathered reports of unusually strong New Life Evolvers and considered publicizing Qin Ming's feats to attract Cao Qianqiu's attention.

Qin Ming tested the power of starfire essence and continued battling across the Blood-Red Plateau to earn auspicious beast blood. Meanwhile, the Cui and Li Households maneuvered to provoke one another over rumors about Qin Ming’s Silk Book Method, and the Cui Household learned that its own people had already gone to kill him.

• Cui Cheng persuaded his fellow Cui Household members to spread rumors about Qin Ming’s Silk Book Method and draw the Li Household and others into the conflict.
• Qin Ming briefly fused his heavenly light with starfire essence through the Torn Cloth and witnessed a destructive burst of power before storing the stone and continuing his hunt for demons and fiends.
• Masked Li Qingxu swept through the plateau while the Li Household received intelligence claiming Qin Ming had mastered the Silk Book Method and investigated his past survival after his skull was shattered.
• The Cui Household used the rumor to tempt the Li Household into acting, while the Li Household planned to let the Cui Household test the situation first.
• Cui Cheng and the other Cui Household members were dumbfounded when they heard that their household had intercepted information and sent people to kill Qin Ming.

Qin Ming was ambushed by four Cui Household members who suspected his identity, but he overwhelmed them with his saber and Starfire Essence. He killed the group, leaving the Cui Household’s attack in ruins.

• The Li Household learned that Li Qingxu had encountered a formidable masked opponent, while Qin Ming sensed the Cui Household approaching as he hunted demons.
• Cui Xueying, Cui Chongsheng, Cui Changkong, and Cui Chongyun confronted Qin Ming and tried to take him in, but he refused to acknowledge them.
• Cui Chongsheng attacked Qin Ming and lost his right arm in their first exchange.
• Cui Changkong charged Qin Ming, who pierced his chest with Heavenly Light fused with Starfire Essence.
• Qin Ming beheaded Cui Chongsheng, while hidden arrows killed Cui Chongyun and the spirit birds watching overhead.
• Qin Ming killed Cui Xueying as she tried to retreat.

Qin Ming realized the Cui Household had identified him and killed Cui Changkong and Cui Chongsheng before defeating another group of Cuis. The chapter left him trying to extract the Abiding World Scripture from the wounded Cui Qing as news of another clash reached the Cui elders.

• Qin Ming recognized that the Cui Household had used eyewitnesses and Memory Crystals to identify him and suspect he had mastered the Silk Book Method.
• Qin Ming killed Cui Changkong in rhinoceros form and Cui Chongsheng, then destroyed nearby spirit birds and left the battlefield.
• Cui Changming and Cui Cheng learned that Cui Changkong and Cui Chongsheng had died and feared that Qin Ming had powerful protection.
• Qin Ming defeated Cui Qing and four young Cui men, then tried to obtain the Abiding World Scripture from Cui Qing.
• A thunder falcon reported that a second group had encountered Qin Ming, leaving the Cui elders fearing another massacre.

Qin Ming killed several Cui Household teams and obtained the first two volumes of the Abiding World Scripture, while the Cui Household’s leaders rushed to retaliate. Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan learned how dangerous the situation had become and hurried toward the approaching confrontation.

• Qin Ming killed Cui Qing, took a fragment of the Abiding World Scripture, and left after concluding that his identity as Shen Wubing had been exposed.
• Li Qingxu lost another battle to Little Wu, then renamed his masked identity Li Bai and recalled Cao Qianqiu’s advice to break first and rise anew.
• Cui Changming and Cui Cheng learned that Cui Qing had died and set out to retaliate, but then received news that Cui Chongkong’s seed team had encountered Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming attacked Cui Chongkong’s group, killed the green-haired elder and Cui Chongkong, and obtained the first two volumes of the Abiding World Scripture.
• A Higher Aberrant Bird told Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan that Qin Ming had killed third-realm experts, prompting them to race toward him as the Cui Household’s pursuers closed in.

The Cui Household surrounded Qin Ming and tried to force him to return so he could help them master the Silk Book Method. As Cui Sixteen attacked, an unknown protector killed him and another Cui Household assailant, leaving Qin Ming stunned by the unexpected help.

• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan decided to record the Cui Household's attack before striking back.
• Cui Sixteen and the Cui Household confronted Qin Ming, who rejected their claim that he owed them and refused to return with Cui Changming.
• Cui Changming revealed that the Cui Household wanted Qin Ming because he had mastered the Silk Book Method, but Qin Ming refused.
• Cui Sixteen lunged at Qin Ming and was killed instantly by a dark iron pellet fired by an unseen protector.
• A hidden Cui Household attacker tried to abduct Qin Ming, but a gaunt gray figure swept past and fatally tore away half his body.

Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan rescued Qin Ming from the Cui Household and killed the clan members who had threatened him. They left the Cui Household’s remaining forces as a possible threat, while Qin Ming resolved to grow strong enough to control his own fate.

• Yu Gensheng arrived as the Cui Household attacked Qin Ming and killed an elder who had been hiding nearby.
• Yu Gensheng drove back Cui Cheng, rescued Qin Ming, and confronted the Cui Household over its actions.
• Yu Gensheng revealed that the Memory Crystal had recorded the Cui Household’s conduct and warned the clan not to target New Life Path talents.
• Zhao Ziyuan joined Yu Gensheng, and the two elders killed the remaining Cui Household members present despite Cui Changming’s attempt to negotiate.
• Qin Ming worried that the elders had endangered themselves, but they said they would protect him from suffering the Overlord’s fate.