Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming fought across the plateau to earn rare blood medicine and lifesaving substances, while the two New Life Path elders recognized his promise and offered to help him obtain scriptures. As the battle ended and the forces withdrew to tally merits, Jin Xiang returned with a cart piled high with demon heads, while the full extent of Qin Ming’s haul remained hidden.

• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan told Qin Ming that the New Life Path was fading, and Qin Ming promised to seek auspicious beast blood to extend their lives.
• Qin Ming revealed his starfire essence and rapid cultivation progress, then asked Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan for the Wither Bloom Scripture and their Earth Magnetism teachings.
• Qin Ming rejoined Jin Xiang and slaughtered demons across the plateau, killing a powerful demon who had narrowly missed becoming a Demon Seed.
• The Li Household learned that the Cui Household had suffered heavy losses after being misled, and clashes broke out between the rival lineages as rumors of Qin Ming spread.
• Qin Ming continued pursuing scattered demons until the battle ended, and an expert ordered the forces to withdraw and tally their merits outside the plateau.
• Jin Xiang returned with a cart piled with demon heads, astonishing the gathered cultivators, while he thought that the cart did not contain all their spoils.

After Qin Ming’s combat record as Shen Wubing earned him four portions of Auspicious Beast Blood, the crowd learned his true identity and the Cui and Li Households reacted with hostility. Pu Heng challenged the New Life Path elders, but a golden bird intervened before a mysterious figure seized and crushed Pu Heng’s head.

• Jin Xiang delivered wagonloads of demon heads, and the crowd learned that one team had collected them.
• The tally announced the leading rewards, including three portions of Auspicious Beast Blood for Li Qingyue and Cui Chonghe.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan vouched for Shen Wubing’s record, and Qin Ming stepped forward to claim his reward of four portions.
• Spectators and members of the Cui and Li Households recognized Qin Ming, while Li Qingxu was shaken to learn that Qin Ming was the person whose skull he had shattered.
• Pu Heng arrived, dismissed Qin Ming’s record as fraudulent, and threatened the New Life Path elders.
• A golden bird attacked Pu Heng, then a figure used Shrinking Space to an Inch to seize him and crush his head.

Lu Zizai arrived to defend Qin Ming and brutally defeated Pu Heng, permanently destroying much of his pure yang consciousness before battling four Immortal Path experts through the Four Royals. As Cao Qianqiu and other Ancestors gathered, Lu Yu and Sky-Pillar also appeared, leaving the plateau on the verge of a much larger confrontation.

• Lu Zizai crushed Pu Heng’s head, shattered his attacks with the Dragon Sword, and captured him with five golden dragons.
• Lu Zizai repeatedly beat Pu Heng, destroyed sixty percent of his pure yang consciousness, and rebuked the Immortal Path for attacking Qin Ming and belittling the New Life Path.
• Wei Yunqi and two of Pu Heng’s junior brothers intervened, but Lu Zizai manifested the Four Royals to fight them while Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan confronted the attackers.
• Onlookers learned that Qin Ming was the Cui Household’s Abandoned Son, and the Cui Household’s members were embarrassed as his combat record drew attention.
• The Four Royals drove Wei Yunqi, Pu Heng, and the other experts into retreat before Cao Qianqiu appeared and Lu Yu and Sky-Pillar arrived, escalating the confrontation among the Ancestors.

The New Life Path Ancestors confronted the Immortal Path over its attacks on their people, then launched a coordinated assault on Cao Qianqiu. As the Ancestors battled, Lu Zizai captured Pu Heng and others while Qin Ming challenged Li Qingxu and the Immortal Path’s younger fighters.

• Sky Bearing Ancestor, Lu Yu, and Present Tathagata faced Cao Qianqiu and the Immortal Path Ancestors, while Yu Shaohua and Jade Purity Ancestor arrived amid rising tensions.
• The New Life Path Ancestors accused Cao Qianqiu’s faction of targeting their juniors and demanded an end to the attacks, but Sky Bearing Ancestor challenged Cao Qianqiu to fight.
• The master of the Yin Yang Temple arrived, and Sky Bearing Ancestor, Present Tathagata, Lu Yu, and other New Life Path Ancestors attacked Cao Qianqiu together.
• Cao Qianqiu suffered severe injuries as Sun Taichu and Zhao Wenhan tried to aid him, and nine Ancestors fought above the plateau.
• Lu Zizai bound Pu Heng, his junior brothers, and Wei Yunqi, then sent Qin Ming to challenge the Immortal Path’s second-realm cultivators.
• Qin Ming challenged Li Qingxu while Lu Zizai called on the Immortal Path’s Personal Disciples to join the fight.

The New Life Path Ancestors battered Cao Qianqiu while Sun Taichu, Zhao Wenhan, and Yu Shaohua tried to protect him. Outside the plateau, Qin Ming defeated Li Qingxu and Lu Zizai killed two of Cao Qianqiu’s disciples; the chapter ended with the Ancestors joining forces to blow Cao Qianqiu apart again.

• The Present Tathagata, Jade Purity Ancestor, Jiang Zhiyuan, Sky Bearing Ancestor, and Lu Yu attacked Cao Qianqiu, tearing him apart until Sun Taichu, Zhao Wenhan, and Yu Shaohua intervened.
• Cao Qianqiu ordered his allies to hold off the New Life Path Ancestors while he fought Sky Bearing Ancestor, and the battle resumed.
• Lu Junhao charged Lu Zizai as Li Qingxu challenged Qin Ming, but Qin Ming cleaved through Li Qingxu’s techniques and nearly killed him before Cao Qianqiu’s lifesaving runes teleported him away.
• Lu Zizai defeated Lu Junhao and killed two of Cao Qianqiu’s Personal Disciples, while Qin Ming stopped pursuing Li Qingxu after Lu Zizai warned him back.
• The Ancestors overwhelmed Cao Qianqiu with repeated attacks, and Sky Bearing Ancestor split him apart and slapped him before all five Ancestors struck together and made him explode.

The Ancestors of the New Life Path battered Cao Qianqiu until he lost more than half his pure yang cultivation, while the Immortal Path’s reinforcements turned the battle into a dangerous stalemate. The Grandmaster-level fighting ended in negotiations, with Sky-Pillar warning that the New Life Path would retaliate against the Immortal Path’s disciples if another Cao Qianqiu appeared.

• Cao Qianqiu was repeatedly shattered by the five New Life Path Ancestors, losing more and more of his pure yang consciousness as Sun Taichu, Zhao Wenhan, and Yu Shaohua tried to protect him.
• Qian Jingxing and Wu Zhaoye arrived to aid the Immortal Path, but a previously hidden sixth New Life Path Ancestor joined the battle, leaving both sides wary of continuing the fight.
• Lu Zizai defeated Pu Heng and refined away most of his pure yang consciousness, then released him; Li Qingxu urged Pu Heng to walk the Destruction-and-Rebirth Path with him.
• The Ancestors ended the battle and discussed the New Life Path’s possible breakthrough and the coming wilderness expansion, while Cao Qianqiu protested his losses.
• Sky-Pillar warned the Immortal Path that the New Life Path would target its immortal seeds and Personal Disciples if another figure like Cao Qianqiu emerged.

After the Ancestors negotiated a truce, Qin Ming returned to Kunlun City, received rare scriptures and auspicious beast blood, and became the focus of the gathered paths. As rivals predicted his progress would slow in the second realm, Qin Ming resolved to keep advancing quickly.

• The awakened rusty spear circled Cao Qianqiu before flying toward Black White Mountain, and the Ancestors negotiated an agreement above the clouds while excluding the battered Cao Qianqiu.
• Qin Ming received four portions of auspicious beast blood, then returned to Mountain River Academy with Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan as Kunlun City filled with Ancestors and cultivators from many paths.
• Qin Ming gave Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan auspicious beast blood, and they brought him the complete Wither Bloom Scripture alongside the Earth Magnetism Scripture.
• Cao Qianqiu brooded over his defeat while Pu Heng hoped for recovery and Li Qingxu embraced his repeated breakdowns as part of his Dao.
• Mu Qingfeng predicted Qin Ming would struggle to advance through the second realm, and Qin Ming resolved not to let his cultivation slow down.

Qin Ming studied the records of past New Life Path sages and refined his ideas for speeding up cultivation while managing the risks of foreign substances. After leaving the Library Tower, he reunited with Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyun and planned to enter secluded cultivation.

• Qin Ming visited Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan, whose use of auspicious beast blood had restored some of their hair and extended their lives slightly.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan gave Qin Ming and Little Wu access to the ninth floor of the Library Tower to study past sages’ insights.
• Qin Ming studied cultivation methods and concluded that he could use baleful intent and foreign substances to temper heavenly light without fully absorbing them, while keeping self-cultivation as his foundation.
• Lu Zizai encouraged Qin Ming to test his own ideas, gave him tokens from the great Ancestral Courts, and discussed the uncertain future of the Ancestors.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu left the Library Tower with a clearer view of their paths, and Qin Ming reunited with Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyun.
• Qin Ming said he would enter secluded cultivation to strengthen himself, while Li Qingyun invited him to the Hidden Family and Meng Xinghai joked that he wanted Qin Ming as a grandson-in-law.

Qin Empire Ming discussed Li Qingyue’s rapid cultivation and the family’s concern that she might drift too far from the mortal world, then kept out of sight amid the crowds gathering in Kunling. At a young disciples’ exchange, he reunited with the ancient cultivator Chu Pianran, whose advice clarified an important part of his cultivation path.

• Qin Empire Ming reassured Li Qingyun and Meng Xinghai that Li Qingyue did not intend to sever her ties to the road she had come from, and they set aside the idea of taking in a son-in-law.
• Qin Empire Ming studied extraordinary arts at Mountain River Academy and brought the Wither Bloom Scripture to the introductory stage while the Founding Ancestor Assembly drew crowds to Kunling.
• Qin Empire Ming and Wu Yaozu attended a gathering at Ascension Academy, where cultivators from several paths and eras arrived and guests focused on Qin Empire Ming’s haul of Auspicious Beast Blood.
• Chu Pianran approached Qin Empire Ming, and the two discussed their respective cultivation paths and ancient methods.
• Chu Pianran’s remarks prompted Qin Empire Ming to recognize a missing link in his cultivation and clarify the road ahead.

Qin Ming learned from Chu Pianran that worldly heavenly light had many branches and developed a plan to fuse unusual substances into himself and refine them. After Xiang Yiwu told him about Kunlun’s dangerous Evil Land, Qin Ming was eager to explore it, while the Violet Lightning Beast learned that he had once ridden her at Black White Mountain.

• Chu Pianran explained ancient methods for forging special warriors and told Qin Ming that starfire essence and outer-sky purple radiance were branches of worldly heavenly light.
• Qin Ming worked out how to fuse heavenly-light substances and Extraordinary Arts into himself, refine them internally, and strengthen his cultivation.
• Zhao Shuyu questioned whether warriors could overpower immortal seeds, and Xiang Yiwu warned him against disrespecting Qin Ming’s era.
• Qin Ming and Xiang Yiwu agreed to trade scriptures, and Xiang Yiwu told him Kunlun’s Evil Land contained earthly fiends, yin fiends, and star fiend.
• Luo Yao confronted Tang Jin after seeing her, while the Violet Lightning Beast heard Talking Finch reveal that Qin Ming had ridden her at Black White Mountain and realized he was the culprit.

At an exchange gathering in the Giant Palace, Qin Ming reunited with familiar disciples and faced the attention of young prodigies from many paths. Chu Pianran presented an ancient scripture written on immortal skin for the gathering to interpret, while the purple-haired girl recognized Qin Ming and plotted to confront him.

• The purple-haired girl learned that Qin Ming was the man who had ridden her twice, but Talking Finch stopped her from confronting him at the gathering.
• Qin Ming exchanged greetings with Ling Yu, Xin Youdao, Zhao Yaoting, and Cai Jingcheng, who praised his recent achievements and discussed his difficult path ahead.
• Zheng Maoze, Cui Chonghe, and Li Qingxu watched Qin Ming from elsewhere in the hall, while Sun Jingxiao reassured Li Qingxu that the New Life Path would eventually fall behind.
• The gathering began discussing cultivation questions and scriptures, and Chu Pianran presented an ancient book made from immortal skin.
• Zhao Shuyu and a Ghost Path prodigy realized that Chu Pianran's scripture was notoriously difficult and suspected she meant to challenge the gathered prodigies.

Qin Ming studied the Immortal Path scripture on immortal skin, cautiously tracing its black-and-white circulation routes while Li Qingyue and others sought their own insights. After more than four hours, Qin Ming remained the only one still examining the text, and black-and-white light suddenly burst from him.

• Luo Yao recognized Qin Ming as the former hunter from Black White Mountain, and they argued before agreeing to exchange the Eight Sceneries Scripture for teachings Qin Ming could decipher.
• Qin Ming noticed the Violet Lightning Beast approaching with a hidden hammer, then met Li Qingyue and went with her to study the scripture.
• Chu Pianran allowed Qin Ming and Li Qingyue to read the original immortal skin, which revealed only twelve pages of the scripture.
• Qin Ming cautiously followed the scripture’s black-and-white diagrams with his heavenly light and repeatedly checked his understanding against the original.
• Cui Chonghe, Su Shiyun, Zhao Yaoting, Li Qingyue, and others gained insights, while Qin Ming continued studying after everyone else stopped.
• After people questioned what Qin Ming had learned, black-and-white light suddenly erupted from his body, silencing the Giant Palace.

Qin Ming astonished the gathering by comprehending the Black White Scripture, then arranged to pursue an exchange for the Eight Sceneries Scripture. The next day, he entered a Heaven Reaching Tower to test whether he could withstand heavenly light, despite Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan’s concerns.

• Qin Ming’s black and white luminous mist drew attention, and Chu Pianran revealed that the immortal skin’s method was called the Black White Scripture.
• Chu Pianran asked Qin Ming how he had comprehended the scripture, and he claimed that it was a Heavenly Light Force method practiced in the wrong direction by the others.
• Qin Ming offered to teach Li Qingyue and tried to trade the Black White Scripture with Luo Yao for the Eight Sceneries Scripture, but Luo Yao lacked authority to make the exchange.
• Li Qingyue promised to arrange the exchange through Luo Yao’s sister, while the gathering wound down without another scripture attracting comparable attention.
• Qin Ming asked Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan to let him enter the Heaven Reaching Tower, persuaded them that heavenly light would not corrode him, and entered the tower that day.

Qin Ming endured summer thunder’s heavenly light to temper his body and advance his cultivation, while the news of a Founding Ancestor’s decline heightened his concern about the dangers ahead. After thirty-six waves of heavenly light, he mastered the Wither Bloom Scripture and Black White Scripture and formed a flawless Golden Core, leaving Li Qingyue to compare the ordeal to an ancient heavenly tribulation.

• Qin Ming endured summer thunder’s heavenly light in Mountain River Academy’s tower, and Little Wu tried it too before Qin Ming rushed him out when he nearly collapsed.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan told Qin Ming that a Founding Ancestor had coughed up blood during the ongoing Founding Ancestor Assembly and predicted that half the Ancestors might perish attempting nirvana.
• Li Qingyue visited Qin Ming, and he taught her and Wu Yaozu about the demanding requirements for cultivating the Black White Scripture.
• When a waterfall of lightning arrived, Qin Ming used the heavenly light to advance his extraordinary arts and cultivate the Wither Bloom Scripture and Black White Scripture.
• Qin Ming used the Dragon Tiger Pill Combination to refine his methods into a Golden Core, and Yu Gensheng counted thirty-six waves of heavenly light as Li Qingyue likened them to an ancient heavenly tribulation.

Qin Ming realized that his breakthrough required a coordinated accumulation of unusual substances and set out for the Evil Land to find them. There, he and Little Wu discovered a lifelike Human-Shaped Lantern resembling someone Qin Ming had known in Double Tree Village.

• Qin Ming completed the internal refinement of his Ten Great Miraculous Skills into a Golden Core, but realized his transformation was still incomplete.
• Li Qingyue suggested that Qin Ming could accumulate the substances he needed by repeatedly enduring thunderfire and worldly heavenly light, and she offered to provide information about them.
• After attending Yu Shaohua's scripture lecture, Qin Ming heard that Li Qingxu had broken through to the late-second realm and then left for the Evil Land.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu searched the fog-shrouded Evil Land for rare baleful substances, but several promising ones escaped them.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu found a paper Human-Shaped Lantern that closely resembled someone Qin Ming had known in Double Tree Village.

Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu discovered an ancient hut whose writings described a powerful being’s struggle to recover his original human body and warned against abandoning the human path. The notes pointed to something dangerous behind the hut, leaving Qin Ming to investigate the mysterious Human-Shaped Lantern and the ground beyond.

• Qin Ming found that the foggy hut and lantern appeared only when he approached, while Wu Yaozu had to follow him to keep them visible.
• Qin Ming read ancient notes describing perfected Seven-Day Stacking, powerful gods and immortals, and a distant outsider stranded in the Night Mist World.
• Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu learned that the writer had suffered greatly while trying to regain his original body, and Wu Yaozu wondered whether the Human-Shaped Lantern was the writer’s skin.
• Qin Ming considered whether the lantern could be connected to Old Man Liu, but noted that their ages and histories did not match.
• Qin Ming read the writer’s warning that only those bound by benevolent affinity could enter, along with instructions to approach the abnormal ground behind the hut cautiously and not rush to become a deity.

Qin Ming and Little Wu explored the desolate land beyond the hut and found a mountain where the hut's owner had left a trial against a Crystal Person modeled on a prodigy from the Night Mist World. Qin Ming defeated the formidable opponent, and the trial began revealing the reward while warning him not to grow complacent.

• Qin Ming and Little Wu searched the barren land beyond the hut, endured the black-haired winds, and reached a mountain stockade where the storm fell silent.
• The Crystal Person revealed that successors had to defeat it to claim the hut owner's legacy, and that four peaks held trials modeled on the disciples of a Seven Days Superimposed Perfection Expert.
• Qin Ming chose to challenge the Crystal Person, which attacked with a barrage of Sword Radiance and fought using powerful Night Mist World techniques.
• Qin Ming countered with his Five Colors Saber and multiple Extraordinary Arts, then broke the Crystal Person's arm and battered half its body apart.
• The Crystal Person mistakenly delivered a speech about Qin Ming's defeat, corrected itself, praised his victory, and warned him that even gods could fall.
• The ground opened beneath the Crystal Person as it offered to give Qin Ming what he needed most.

Qin Ming and Little Wu followed the Crystal Person’s fishing line to the Fish Pit, where Qin Ming caught the legendary Yin and Yang fish. Their union formed the Yin Yang Great Medicine, a treasure ideally suited to Qin Ming’s cultivation.

• The Crystal Person explained that the fish from the Evil Land formed a Yin Yang Great Medicine that could temper consciousness, then sent Qin Ming and Little Wu toward the Fish Pit.
• Qin Ming and Little Wu reached the Fish Pit and read accounts of powerful cultivators, including Cui Chonghe and Jiang Ran, failing to catch the black fish.
• Qin Ming used his Legendary Domain Heavenly Light Force to restore the fading fishing line, and the Crystal Person revealed that Qin Ming had extended its life.
• Qin Ming used the line to catch the Yin Fish and stored it in the Torn Cloth Space, breaking the balance in the Fish Pit.
• Qin Ming caught the Yang Fish as it emerged, then stored it beside the Yin Fish, and the two joined into a Yin-Yang Black-White Diagram.

Qin Ming and Little Wu were ambushed by people seeking the Yin Yang Fish, but Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan intervened and killed the attackers to keep the discovery secret. Back in Kunlun City, Qin Ming obtained the Eight Sceneries Scripture and prepared to refine the Yin Yang Great Medicine during a thunderstorm.

• A crowd of spies and desperadoes surrounded Qin Ming and Little Wu at the Fish Pit, and several attackers tried to seize the Yin Yang Fish.
• Qin Ming used the Black and White Diagram to repel the attackers, but the Yin Yang Fish became too powerful for him to control and he returned it to the Torn Cloth Space.
• Yu Gensheng and Zhao Ziyuan arrived, defeated the attackers, and killed the survivors to conceal the Yin Yang Fish's existence.
• Qin Ming offered Little Wu starfire essence, but Little Wu declined and told him to keep it for his own cultivation.
• Li Qingyue told Qin Ming that the Great Wilderness Expansion would begin within months or, at the latest, two years, and that she had traded for the Eight Sceneries Scripture with Jiang Ran.
• Qin Ming studied the scripture and the Yin Yang Fish, brought himself into peak condition, and waited for a thunderstorm to begin his breakthrough.

Qin Ming joined the Immortal Path’s intensive training as a sparring partner, where he defeated Sun Jingxiao and revealed the danger of his Heavenly Light Force. He then used a violent thunderstorm to refine the Black-and-White Twin Fish, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Qin Ming agreed to train with the immortal seeds in exchange for auspicious beast blood and negotiated for either the Eight Sceneries Divine Illumination Scripture or the location of an evil land.
• Qin Ming and the other sparring partners arrived at Ascension Academy, where six second-realm Near-Immortal Seeds prepared for intensive training prompted by a message from deep within the Night Mist World.
• Li Qingxu, disguised as Armor Six, was beaten in turn by Xiang Yiwu, Wu Yaozu, and Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming used his Golden Cicada Scripture to defeat Sun Jingxiao, then fought Armor Three to a draw and tempered Armor One and Armor Two with his Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming left the arena when thunder approached and used the storm to master the Eight Sceneries Scripture, fuse its forces, and begin refining the Black-and-White Twin Fish into Yin Yang Great Medicine.