Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming used his Sacred Fiends and extraordinary arts to break Guang Yu’s inner landscape and defeat him. The battle ended with Guang Yu kneeling before Qin Ming, who calmly looked down at him.

• Guang Yu attacked Qin Ming with lightning inside God's Pure Land, but the Vermilion Bird blocked the strikes while the Azure Dragon threatened his domain.
• Guang Yu drew on more inner landscape power, formed lightning armor and the Thunder God Hammer and Chisel, and launched another assault.
• Qin Ming revealed a completed vision combining yin-aspected imagery with the Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon, forming an incomplete yin yang diagram.
• Qin Ming sent the diagram into God's Pure Land, extinguishing Guang Yu’s lightning and shattering the domain.
• Guang Yu coughed up blood and fell to one knee, while Qin Ming approached and looked down at him.

Qin Ming defeated Guang Yu, foiled his surprise attack, and shaved his head before absorbing his sunfire and advancing the Li Fire Scripture to its legendary Li Fire Furnace. After the Sun Elf Race sent another fighter, Qin Ming focused on the golden-haired elven maiden as she entered the arena.

• Qin Ming crushed Guang Yu's weapons and armor with his incomplete Yin Yang Diagram and asked whether he yielded.
• Guang Yu launched a hidden Thunder God Cone at Qin Ming, who shattered it and pressed a hand onto Guang Yu's head.
• Qin Ming spared Guang Yu, shaved off his golden hair, and absorbed his sunfire to manifest the legendary Li Fire Furnace.
• The Sun Elf Race escorted Guang Yu away while Qin Ming returned to his companions, and the elders considered ending the second realm bouts.
• The Sun Elf Race sent a golden-haired maiden into the arena, and Qin Ming studied her hair as she worried he would shave it too.

Qin Ming fought the Sun Elf Li Guang at the South Heaven Gate, weathering her Immortal Willow Golden Body Skill before she drew the Sun Immortal Sword. As Li Guang gathered power for a devastating strike, Qin Ming charged with the Immortal Path’s Ascension by Soaring Haze Art, shocking the watching experts.

• Li Guang stepped into the arena to challenge Qin Ming while the outsiders urged her to punish him.
• Li Guang and Qin Ming exchanged hundreds of blows, but her Waist-Severing Technique could not break his body.
• Li Guang retreated on light wings after failing to gain an advantage in close combat.
• Li Guang summoned a golden sword and unleashed the Sun Immortal Sword Art, filling the arena with sword light and a fierce golden storm.
• Qin Ming charged through sacred radiance using the Ascension by Soaring Haze Art, startling the Immortal Path experts who recognized their supreme art.

Qin Ming defeated Li Guang’s Sun Immortal Sword Art and Sun-Moon Twin Wheels, but she answered with a forbidden Immortal Path technique. As Li Guang formed a talisman to use Lishi Controls Immortal, Ling Canghai blocked an elderly Sun Elf from interrupting the duel.

• Qin Ming fought Li Guang through her Sun Immortal Sword Art and seized a lock of her golden hair before forcing her to reveal the Sun-Moon Twin Wheels Scripture.
• Qin Ming’s Dragon-Bird Combined Strike shattered the twin wheels and wounded Li Guang, while Su Yuxiao ordered the Immortal Path elders to seek the other two Sacred Fiends and recruit Qin Ming.
• Li Guang rose on special wings of light, then summoned a Life Ancient Tree and a sinister great sun as she prepared her final technique.
• Qin Ming prepared to counter without revealing his full power, while Li Guang formed a glowing talisman and an elderly Sun Elf tried to stop her.
• Ling Canghai recognized the talisman as the secret script Lishi Controls Immortal and blocked the elderly Sun Elf from entering the arena.

Qin Ming and Li Guang’s spar escalated as she unleashed a forbidden technique that formed a dangerous immortal scene, while he evaded and attacked its foundations. Li Guang sealed an Immortal Pact linking them, leaving the ritual’s consequences unresolved.

• Ling Canghai held the Sun Elf Grandmaster back while an Immortal Path elder urged Qin Ming to question Li Guang about the Divine Tomb and Immortal Grave if he won.
• Li Guang unleashed her forbidden technique, creating a Life Ancient Tree and a blood-red sun, while Qin Ming dodged rather than meet her attack head-on.
• Qin Ming used the five elements and Heavenly Light Force to strike at the tree’s roots as Li Guang pursued him with the scene and its Immortal Pact.
• Li Guang’s scene followed Qin Ming into the air and dragged him back; he resisted its pressure while digging at the tree’s roots and narrowly avoided a drop of blood from the sun.
• Qin Ming prevented Li Guang from entering the immortal scene, but she activated the Light Paper, and Ling Canghai declared that the Immortal Pact had been sealed.

Qin Ming resisted Li Guang’s attempt to bind him with an Immortal Pact, turning the pact’s power back on her and severing her control of the Immortal Scene. After the Sun Elves fled, Meng Xinghai explained that Qin Ming had become the lishi who controlled the immortal, while Ling Canghai warned that far more dangerous frontier expeditions lay ahead.

• Li Guang used the Life Ancient Tree and a bleeding Great Sun to attack Qin Ming, but he endured her assaults and countered with his cultivated techniques.
• Qin Ming bloomed a Heavenly Light Planting Immortal Lotus that purified the Great Sun long enough for him to sever the Life Ancient Tree’s main root.
• Li Guang forced the Immortal Pact to bind Qin Ming, but he overturned its golden-word bridge and sent the Light Paper back into her forehead.
• The old elf took Li Guang and the Sun Elves away as Ling Canghai said they would soon need Qin Ming’s help.
• Ling Canghai ended the sparring session and warned that future expeditions into the Immortal Tomb and Divine Grave would bring real deaths and great danger.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that Li Guang had tried to subjugate him as a lishi and that the outcome had made Qin Ming the one who controlled the immortal.

After Qin Empire Ming and his companions won a sweeping victory over the Sun Elf Race, their growing reputation earned them invitations at the Moon Palace. They ended the evening there as the Sun Elf Race arrived to negotiate over the Immortal Pact.

• Meng Xinghai explained that the Immortal Pact had been lost for ages, and Qin Empire Ming realized that Immortal Path elders wanted to restore the age of immortals and gods.
• Spectators and Immortal Seeds reconsidered Qin Empire Ming’s strength, while news of the Sun Elf Race’s defeat spread across the lands.
• Meng Xinghai took Qin Empire Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu to the Celestial Tower, where they discovered that it was a cultivation facility and were painfully trained by its elderly attendants.
• The three left the Celestial Tower and received a warm welcome into the Moon Palace, where Pei Yan sent them fine wine and other guests sought their company.
• The Sun Elf Race learned that the three had entered the Moon Palace and decided to meet them to discuss resolving the Immortal Pact dispute.

As Beyond the Mundane prepared for a new Pioneering War, Qin Ming met with the Sun Elves to discuss dissolving Li Guang’s Immortal Pact. He demanded rare scriptures and Sacred Fiends as compensation, leaving the negotiations heated and unresolved.

• The Immortal Path’s Ancestors ordered preparations for a Great Wilderness Expansion, while Liu Qingwan urged Qin Ming and his companions to consider joining the expedition.
• The Sun Elves arrived at the Moon Palace, where Qiong Hui tried to suppress Li Guang’s Immortal Pact, but its influence still overwhelmed her when she saw Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming invited Meng Xinghai and the Immortal Path Grandmasters to witness the negotiations rather than meet the Sun Elves privately.
• Xu Lin asked Qin Ming to dissolve the Immortal Pact, and he agreed in principle while demanding secret scriptures to protect his foundation.
• When the Sun Elves could not provide the scriptures he wanted, Qin Ming demanded legendary Sacred Fiends, including White Tiger Sacred Fiend and Black Tortoise Sacred Fiend.
• Wu Yaozu and Meng Xinghai backed Qin Ming, reminding the Sun Elves that they had first tried to bind him as Li Guang’s Lishi.

Qin Ming negotiated a settlement with the Sun Elf Race while demonstrating how the Immortal Pact could compel Li Guang to obey him. After obtaining promised Sacred Fiends and the Sun Immortal Sword Art, he used Li Guang’s Sunfire and Grandmaster Qiong Hui’s flames to refine his Extraordinary Arts, causing strange writing to appear inside his furnace.

• Qin Ming refused to travel to the Immortal Grave for negotiations and used the Immortal Pact to make Li Guang approach him and dance, alarming the Sun Elves.
• Qin Ming rejected the Sun Elf Race’s efforts to involve the Immortal Path, then resumed negotiations after displaying his Six Royals Ancestral Court jade token.
• Qin Ming and the Sun Elf Race agreed on a search for Sacred Fiends, a Sun Immortal Sword Art, and a future share of Life Immortal Tree sap, while Qin Ming warned them not to use or spread the Immortal Pact.
• Qin Ming questioned Li Guang about the Immortal Grave and Divine Tomb, then named the Cui household, the Li household, and hostile Immortal Path elders as people who might target him.
• Qin Ming asked Li Guang to release Sunfire and used it to refine his Li Fire Furnace and Golden Cicada Scripture; Grandmaster Qiong Hui added Sun True Fire, and Qin Ming saw writing appear inside the furnace.

Qin Empire Ming discovered a hidden scripture within his perfected Li Fire Scripture and later received its Secret Treasure, which strengthened his body and opened new possibilities for the New Life Path. After an unknown young cultivator arranged to have his lodging cleared, Qin Empire Ming received Li Qingyue’s protective token and ended the chapter drinking the furnace’s fragrant gift.

• Qin Empire Ming found profound hidden writing inside the Li Fire Furnace, while the Sun Elves misread his excitement as lust for Li Guang and left in anger.
• Qin Empire Ming, Xiang Yiwu, and Wu Yaozu left the moon after finding their lodgings taken, and Qin Empire Ming recognized the young cultivator who had ordered it from images sensed through the manager.
• At an inn, Qin Empire Ming and Xiang Yiwu discovered their physical strength was comparable and exchanged scriptures and cultivation notes with Wu Yaozu.
• Qin Empire Ming received Li Qingyue’s letter and bronze ring warning him to display the token if anyone pressured him.
• The Li Fire Furnace appeared above Qin Empire Ming and poured its fragrant Secret Treasure into his mouth, giving him a powerful bodily transformation.

After gaining a flesh-tempering gift from the secret treasure, Qin Ming learned that Li Qingyue faced pressure from the powerful Helian Family and Imperial Immortal Sect. He decided to attend a Great Yu Royal Family banquet to meet someone from the Helian Family, and arrived after learning its members would be there.

• Qin Ming drank the crimson secret treasure, practiced the Flesh Body Chapter, and strengthened his body enough to break through the chamber wall.
• Qin Ming learned that Li Qingyue was busy preparing for the wilderness expansion with the Immortal Path and planned to join her in the Night Mist World.
• Li Qingyue warned Qin Ming not to accompany her, then left after telling him they would always stand together in life and death.
• Qin Ming learned that the Helian Family and Imperial Immortal Sect might be behind Li Qingyue's troubles, and tested whether the Sun Elf Race would respond to a supposed killing intent.
• Qin Ming chose to attend a Great Yu Royal Family banquet with Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu, hoping to meet someone from the Helian Family.
• At the banquet, Qin Ming learned that Helian Family members were present, while a person in white noticed his keen spiritual perception.

At the Great Yu imperial banquet, Qin Ming met several acquaintances and learned more about the danger Li Qingyue faced from the Imperial Immortal Sect. Two members of the Helian Family approached him, and he discovered that the white-clad figure who ordered him to come along was a woman.

• Yao Ruoxian invited Qin Ming to explore the region around the Immortal Grave, and Qin Ming agreed to consider it.
• Tang Xumi recognized Qin Ming as Li Ye, while Zhao Qingcheng warned him that Li Qingyue would handle her own affairs.
• Wang Caiwei told Qin Ming that Li Qingyue faced the Imperial Immortal Sect's powerful Old Ancestor, and she revealed that she had sent him the Five Thunder Refinement Art.
• Pei Shuyan warned Qin Ming that people in the Imperial Immortal Sect had begun eyeing Luofu, and he suggested the Helian Old Monster might soon fully enter the seventh realm.
• Helian Mingxu and a white-clad member of the Helian Family approached Qin Ming, and the white-clad figure ordered him to come along to the Immortal Grave region.
• Qin Ming refused and used the Eye of New Life to realize that the white-clad figure was a woman.

Qin Ming learned that Helian Zhaoyu was the one pursuing Li Qingyue and the Eight Trigrams Furnace, while the Helian Family tried to persuade him to step aside in exchange for wealth and support. As the Immortal Path expedition prepared to depart, Grandmaster Qiong Hui told Qin Ming that the legendary Sacred Fiend he had requested had arrived.

• Helian Yaoqing introduced herself to Qin Ming and offered to let him join her in the Immortal Grave, but Pei Shuyan explained that Helian Zhaoyu—not Yaoqing—wanted Li Qingyue and the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Pei Shuyan told Qin Ming that Helian Zhaoyu had a fearsome reputation and was refining a treasure in the Great Yu Imperial Palace for the Great Wilderness Expansion.
• Helian Mingxu apologized to Qin Ming, then praised Li Qingyue and argued that the Helian Family could provide her with resources Qin Ming could not.
• Helian Yunji met with Qiong Hui and urged Qin Ming to accept the Helian Family’s support, but Qin Ming rejected his offer of a blank scripture.
• More than half a month after the Imperial Garden Banquet, the Immortal Path army prepared to depart, and Qiong Hui informed Qin Ming that the legendary Sacred Fiend had arrived.

Qin Ming failed to completely sever Li Guang’s Immortal Pact but used its lingering effects to warn the departing Sun Elves. After refining all five saintly evils with auspicious beast blood in the wilderness, he broke through the Heavenly Gate.

• Qin Ming repeatedly tried to sever Li Guang’s Immortal Pact, but its roots remained despite the Light Paper fading.
• Lin Yuchen and Meng Xinghai advised stopping, and Qiong Hui left without revealing the failure to the Sun Elves.
• Qin Ming saw off the Sun Elf Race and tested the surviving pact, causing Li Guang to look back at him as a warning to her people.
• With thunder cultivation opportunities scarce, Qin Ming decided to use auspicious beast blood and refined the Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and final Sacred Fiend.
• The five saintly evils reappeared within Qin Ming’s heavenly light, and he broke through the Heavenly Gate.

Qin Ming fused the Five Elements Saintly Evil, mastered three Extraordinary Arts, and broke through to the late Second Realm before watching the Immortal Path expedition depart without him. After returning to Black White Mountain to steady his resolve, he was summoned to join the New Life Path expedition, which set out from Kunling.

• Qin Ming refined the Five Elements Saintly Evil, practiced the Wind Riding Scripture, Nether Scripture, and Dragon Tiger Dao Scripture, and formed a patterned Golden Core that strengthened his Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming displayed his Yin Yang Diagram and other manifested powers to Meng Xinghai, then watched Li Qingyue depart with Helian Zhaoyu as Li Qingyun warned that Beyond the Mundane knew she possessed the Luofu Sect's Fundamental Scripture and Six Ding Divine Fire art.
• Qin Ming heard that the Immortal Path forces had launched a great wilderness expansion, left the Great Yu Capital, and returned to Red Haze City with Meng Xinghai.
• Qin Ming visited Double Tree Village and meditated beneath the Black White Twin Trees, solidifying his chosen path before Red Squirrel recognized him.
• Meng Xinghai summoned Qin Ming to join the New Life Path expedition, and Qin Ming traveled to Mountain River Academy before setting out with its people from Kunling.

Qin Ming traveled with Mountain River Academy’s expedition deep into the Night Mist World, where the group encountered dangerous phenomena, migrating races, and a Sun Elf settlement in a vast desert oasis. At Mountain City, Qin Ming learned that it stood on a gigantic coffin lid and was invited to explore an Immortal Grave, where a mysterious scripture awaited discovery.

• Yu Gensheng led Qin Ming, Xin Youdao, Jin Xiang, and other Mountain River Academy members west, warning them that the lands beyond the edge of the world held unknown dangers and civilizations.
• The airship passed Soul-Guiding Flowers, a gigantic mouth containing a Fire Spring, bull-headed people, and a migrating Winged Race before reaching the desert oasis where the Sun Elves lived.
• Qin Ming reunited with Guang Yu in Mountain City and sent Qiong Hui and Li Guang a letter asking for a safe, reliable guide.
• Tang Jin, Ling Yu, and the Purple-Eyed Crow met Qin Ming, and two Sun Elf experts agreed to guide him and his companions to the Immortal Grave.
• The Crow Master revealed that Mountain City had been built on a gigantic coffin lid, and Qin Ming saw mountain-sized graves covered in spirit medicines and a mysterious scripture that the Immortal Path cultivators had not fully comprehended.

Qin Ming explored the Immortal Grave while learning that the Helian Family’s pressure over the Luofu Sect’s scripture and Eight Trigrams Furnace had made his visit dangerous. When Helian Zhaoyu confronted him and tried to force him to submit, Yu Gensheng intervened, leaving Qin Ming free to strike back.

• Qin Ming learned about the Immortal Grave’s dangerous scripture and treasures as visitors from the Five Elements Palace tried and failed to comprehend the inscription or reach the vajra tree.
• Tang Xumi warned Qin Ming that Helian Zhaoyu’s friends were spreading threats, and Helian Yaoqing later offered Qin Ming protection in exchange for working with her.
• Qin Ming rejected Helian Yaoqing’s offer, dismissed a letter from Helian Zhaoyu, and ordered Jing Jing One and Ling Ling Two to drive off Cui He and Cui Shuning.
• Helian Zhaoyu confronted Qin Ming at a teahouse, where he and his companions provoked Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu into a fight.
• Yu Gensheng entered the teahouse and forced Helian Zhaoyu’s two elders to their knees, allowing Qin Ming to knock down the two youths and slap Helian Zhaoyu.

Qin Ming’s beating of Helian Zhaoyu and his companions sparked a public uproar, but Lu Zizai assured him that the New Life Path would protect him as a larger crisis loomed. When Grandmaster Helian Yunji tried to force Qin Ming to bow at the Immortal Grave, Lu Zizai arrived and made Yunji bow instead.

• Qin Ming and his companions left the teahouse after Helian Zhaoyu, Wei Cheng, and Luo Jingxiao emerged battered, and Little Wu revealed that they had lost their teeth.
• Yu Gensheng encouraged Qin Ming for standing up to the Helian Family, while Qin Ming and his companions returned to the Mountain River rather than flee.
• Yu Gensheng revealed that Lu Zizai was investigating the Immortal Pact in the Sun Elf Race’s Ancestral Land, and Lu Zizai later reassured Qin Ming that the Helian Family would not retaliate freely amid the coming crisis.
• Qin Ming entered the Immortal Grave despite warnings and received support from elders of several New Life Path sects, while Helian Zhaoyu and his allies sought Grandmaster Helian Yunji’s intervention.
• Helian Yunji tried to force Qin Ming to bow, but Lu Zizai appeared and used his power to make Yunji’s head bend downward.

Lu Zizai forced Helian Yunji and Su Yuxiao to yield before leaving the Immortal Grave, while Yu Gensheng calmed Helian Yunji and settled the dispute. At the grave, Qin Ming pieced together the Vajra Treasure Tree’s scattered scripture and began comprehending it beneath the tree as Luo Jingxiao was struck down by its lingering Dao resonance.

• Lu Zizai overwhelmed Helian Yunji and Su Yuxiao with his presence, then departed after telling Helian Yunji to speak with Yu Gensheng.
• Yu Gensheng took Helian Yunji aside, warned him against escalating the conflict, and showed him a Memory Crystal recording Helian Zhaoyu’s conduct.
• Qin Ming studied the grave’s stone-wall scripture and discovered that its golden haze had formed the Vajra Treasure Tree and preserved the deceased expert’s teachings.
• Luo Jingxiao arrived at the summit with a five-aperture Bodhi Seed, while Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu guarded Qin Ming as he reconstructed the scripture.
• When Luo Jingxiao tried to draw on Qin Ming’s insights, Qin Ming used ancient Dao-resonance fragments to shatter his Bodhi Seed and make him kneel.
• Qin Ming completed the authentic scripture and absorbed it into his Mental Field; the Vajra Treasure Tree showered him, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu with golden light as Luo Jingxiao watched helplessly.

Qin Ming comprehended the Vajra Sutra in the main tomb and stripped the Vajra Treasure Tree of its leaves and branches before sharing his insights with allied sects. As two more tombs opened, he warned Li Qingyue that the expedition might conceal a serious crisis and told her to stay close to him.

• Qin Ming comprehended the Vajra Sutra beneath the Vajra Treasure Tree, while Luo Jingxiao suffered a Dao Injury and was left kneeling before him.
• Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu harvested the tree's golden leaves and branches after finding the Vajra Fruits protected by runes.
• An elder carried Luo Jingxiao down the tomb, and Luo Jingxiao learned that Helian Zhaoyu and Wei Cheng had abandoned him.
• Qin Ming shared his Vajra Sutra insights with elders from several sects, who explained that it was one part of a scripture divided among three tombs.
• Qin Ming practiced the Vajra Sutra for five days, and the other two great tombs then opened.
• Qin Ming warned Li Qingyue that a major crisis might erupt during the expedition and urged her to stay close to him.