Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming strengthened his physical cultivation and shared the treasures taken from Helian Zhaoyu, Wei Cheng, and Luo Jingxiao with Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu. The Immortal Path ordered everyone to evacuate the Immortal Grave region after white immortal mist appeared and rumors emerged of Corpse Disintegration Immortals and Earth Immortals beneath the tombs.

• Li Qingyue warned Qin Ming that the wilderness expansion was dangerous, urged him to stay near the spacecraft, and agreed to seek refuge with him at Double Tree Village if danger came.
• Qin Ming advanced his Vajra Sutra and Flesh Body Chapter, then tested his physical strength against Wu Yaozu without using Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu opened the storage pendants taken from Helian Zhaoyu, Wei Cheng, and Luo Jingxiao and discovered valuable medicines and more than a hundred golden leaves from the Vajra Treasure Tree.
• Yu Gensheng appraised the recovered supplies and confirmed they were genuine and exceptionally valuable.
• An Ancestor of the Immortal Path ordered everyone to leave the Immortal Grave region as white immortal mist spread over the tombs and reports claimed that Corpse Disintegration Immortals and Earth Immortals lay beneath them.

The Ancestors prepared to fight the Corpse Disintegration Immortals, while Qin Empire Ming gathered the remaining sections of the Vajra Sutra and discovered how its original practitioners had corrupted it with Blood Medicine. After a month, the battle erupted at the Immortal Grave, where He Lian Chengyun aimed to destroy a fleeing city and race.

• He Lian Chengyun questioned the Sun Elf Race's Ancestors, then declared that the Ancestors would attack the ghostly beings in one month.
• The Ancestors opened tombs and distributed spiritual medicines, while Qin Empire Ming climbed two tombs to comprehend the remaining sections of the Vajra Sutra.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that the scripture's original practitioners had used Blood Medicine and that two had served as filters for the third.
• The older generation harvested the tombs' spiritual medicines and trees, and the other cultivators withdrew from the desert as the month passed.
• A coffin lid carrying a city flew from the Immortal Grave, and He Lian Chengyun raised his bow to shoot it down despite a Sun Elf Grandmaster's plea for mercy.

He Lian Chengyun attacked the Sun Elf Race with three arrows, then broke free after a gigantic black-furred hand seized him. Sky Mirrors revealed that the Immortal Grave contained a vast inner world filled with Immortal-like Beings, as the ancestors faced a growing assault.

• He Lian Chengyun pierced the Sun Elf Grand Elder's Great Sun with an arrow and wounded him, then fired a second arrow that shattered the Sun Elves' broken stele and shook their city.
• He Lian Chengyun's third arrow bypassed three Sun Elf elders, but a huge black-furred hand seized him; he escaped in Scarlet Gold Armor and wounded the creature with an arrow.
• Grandmasters used Sky Mirrors to reveal a boundless Blood Sea and a hidden world within the Immortal Grave, where the Present Tathagata blocked an Immortal-like Being from coming ashore.
• A woman emerging from a Netherworld damaged an Illuminating Heaven Mirror with her gaze and moved to attack the ancestors.
• An ancestor of the Esoteric Sect confronted a half-sacred, half-rotting Immortal-like Being amid lightning, while another mirror showed several more immortals advancing toward the ancestors.

The Ancestors and allied fighters battled more than a dozen immortals unleashed from the great tomb, suffering devastating losses before activating the thirty-six Dragon Tiger Heaven Stabilizing God Pillars to seal the survivors. The Ancestors perished in the weapon’s flames, leaving Qin Ming and the others grieving as Lu Zizai stood silent.

• The Ancestors attacked the five immortals, and the battle’s shock waves tore through the desert and destroyed the Illuminating Heaven Mirror.
• More immortals emerged from great tombs, and the Six-Tusked Dragon Elephant, Violet Lightning Beast, and giant turtle joined the fight against them.
• The battle left the Present Tathagata motionless, the gray-robed man badly wounded, He Lian Chengyun crushed by a giant hand, and the Esoteric Sect’s old Ancestor dead.
• Several surviving Ancestors slaughtered five immortals, but an Earth Immortal emerged from the main tomb and offered them the rank of Heavenly Immortal if they followed him.
• The surviving Ancestors activated the thirty-six Dragon Tiger Heaven Stabilizing God Pillars, sacrificing themselves to force the Earth Immortal and the other immortals back into the tomb.
• Cui Chonghe mourned Sun Taichu, Qin Ming struggled to accept the Ancestors’ deaths, and Lu Zizai watched the night sky in silence.

After the Ancestors sealed the Earth Immortals with their lives, their descendants discovered that Earth Immortal Blood and other fiendish remnants were trying to take form outside the graves. The survivors returned to the battlefield to retrieve the Ancestors and destroy the remnants, but a new enemy approached as Lu Zizai watched the horizon.

• The Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes drove the Immortal Graves back down and destroyed the emerging figure formed from Earth Immortal Blood, though several drops escaped and raised small graves.
• The survivors rushed back to the Immortal Graves, fearing the escaped blood and the weakening of their forces, and vowed to destroy the Sun Elf Race.
• The descendants found the Ancestors’ shattered remains and began mourning and gathering them for their return home.
• Young fighters prepared to burn away Earth Immortal Blood and the other fiendish remnants, but the elders sensed a threat approaching across the desert.
• Lu Zizai watched the approaching disturbance and declared that the great enemy had arrived.

A Northern Region Nomadic Hunting Civilization army, joined by powerful northern races, arrived to attack the survivors at the Immortal Grave and called out their old enemies from past wars. As the invaders demanded to know whether the Ancestors were still alive, the crowd realized that figures resembling the supposedly dead Ancestors had appeared among them, and someone answered, “Still here!”

• An immense armored army on flying beasts approached the Immortal Grave, and Grandmaster Ling Canghai recognized Grandmaster Level figures among the invaders.
• Lin Yuchen and the elders concluded that the Sun Elf Race had been a vanguard in a planned trap, while others identified the attackers as the Northern Region Nomadic Hunting Civilization and its allies.
• The elders recounted the bloody wars fought against the invaders a thousand years and four hundred and fifty years earlier, including the westward war that devastated the Ancestors.
• Ancestors of the invading civilization called out He Lian Chengyun, Leng Mingkong, the Tathagatas, and other old adversaries, while Xiang Yiwu and the crowd mourned their own fallen Ancestors.
• Xiang Yiwu and others noticed figures resembling the dead Ancestors among them, and a voice answered the invaders, “Still here!”

The ancestors of the Three Paths used Mirage Incense to disguise their survival and the Immortal Grave, drawing the Nomadic Hunting Civilization into a trap. When the aliens discovered the truth and tried to retreat, the ancestors launched their counterattack, leaving the battle underway.

• Present Tathagata appeared alive, and Golden Lion recognized that he had advanced partway into the Seventh Realm.
• The ancestors’ phantoms warned the Grandmasters about the Nomadic Hunting Civilization and urged them to prepare for battle, while the aliens examined the Immortal Grave.
• The Grandmasters readied themselves to fight, but Present Tathagata stopped them and revealed that the figures in the white mist were the real ancestors.
• Yu Shaohua explained that Mirage Incense, made from a Mirage Immortal killed thirty-four years earlier, had concealed the ancestors and made the graveyard’s apparent remains seem real.
• He Lian Chengyun defeated a Two-Headed Werewolf expert in an exchange of three arrows as the aliens began retreating and the ancestors activated thirty-six Divine Stakes.
• Leng Mingkong confronted Golden Lion and sent him flying with a blow, while an ancestor warned the disciples to remain ready for further fighting.

Leng Mingkong, He Lian Chengyun, and Present Tathagata overwhelmed powerful foreign-race Ancestors in the opening clashes, revealing the strength of the Immortal Path and its allies. Their victories lifted morale across the Immortal Grave region, and the battle expanded into a full-scale clash as both sides’ Grandmasters charged.

• Leng Mingkong blocked the Golden Lion’s escape, shattered his Wolf Fang Club with the Immortal Slaying Finger, and sent morale soaring within the Immortal Grave region.
• He Lian Chengyun badly wounded a Sixth Realm expert of the Two-Headed Werewolf Race in an arrow duel.
• Present Tathagata defeated a Sixth Realm Giant Race Ancestor in a clash of fists, while foreign-race fighters began to doubt their decision to invade.
• An Ancestor urged the disciples to learn from their predecessors’ hardships, and the Immortal Path, Esoteric Sect, and New Life Path called for the enemy to be wiped out.
• The Bone Revealing Mirrors exposed hidden foreign-race Ancestors, and a full-scale Grandmaster Level battle erupted as both sides’ Ancestors and Grandmasters attacked.
• Qin Ming, Little Wu, Xiang Yiwu, and the others charged toward opponents, jokingly asking for Vajra Fruits and the sap of the Vajra Treasure Tree as rewards.

Qin Ming fought in the desert battle against the Hunter-Gatherers, revealing the power of his Sacred Fiends and killing many enemies. After Yao Ruoxian gave him a Thunder King Bird, he dominated the aerial battlefield, and Li Qingyue arrived to help him face a fourth realm expert.

• The Immortal Path, Esoteric Sect, and New Life Path clashed with the Hunter-Gatherers, suffering heavy casualties as the fighting spread across the desert and sky.
• Luo Jingxiao, Qin Ming, and the other youths entered the battle, and Qin Ming killed multiple riders using his Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon Sacred Fiends.
• Hunter-Gatherers surrounded Qin Ming, but he evaded their attacks and killed more than a dozen riders; Yao Ruoxian then lent him a Thunder King Bird.
• Riding the Thunder King Bird, Qin Ming swept through the aerial battle and killed Tuoba Han after exchanging saber blows with him.
• A fourth realm expert rushed to attack Qin Ming, but Li Qingyue intercepted him with the fire of her damaged Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Li Qingyue and Qin Ming fought through the battlefield while Lu Zizai crushed a silver-haired Grandmaster who had been boasting that no one could rival him. Qin Ming then spotted a Golden Two-Headed Wolf that might contain strange blood and rushed to hunt it, leaving Li Qingxu to mistake his motives for magnanimity.

• Li Qingyue killed a Fourth Realm Hunter-Gatherer with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and Helian Zhaoyu bristled at her closeness to Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming and Li Qingyue joined forces to clear nearby enemies, while Jin Xiang fought through the Fourth Realm battlefield and promised to hold his section.
• A silver-haired Hunter-Gatherer used the Thousand-Hand Divine Ability to kill Grandmasters until Lu Zizai struck him down with three punches.
• Qin Ming watched Lu Zizai, Jin Xiang, and Li Qingyue fight, then resolved to work harder and searched for a suitable opponent.
• Qin Ming recognized a possible source of strange blood in the Golden Two-Headed Wolf fighting Li Qingxu and charged over to hunt it.
• Li Qingxu mistook Qin Ming's attack on the wolf for an attempt to help him, unaware that Qin Ming wanted the creature's strange blood.

Qin Ming fought through the night, killing Hunter-Gatherers and discovering valuable Strange-Blooded Creatures as the sixth realm battle neared its end. He found a blood-gold fire lizard just as the main battlefield erupted with signs that several Ancestors had fallen.

• Li Qingxu reflected on Qin Ming's boldness as Qin Ming fought and killed the Golden Two-Headed Wolf, then extracted its treasured blood medicine while Li Qingxu regretted yielding the fight.
• Qin Ming searched the battlefield from the Thunder King Bird, killed a Black Biao and its Hunter-Gatherer rider, and learned that the Black Biao was not a Strange-Blooded Creature.
• Qin Ming hunted Hunter-Gatherers across the sky, killed a third realm seed with the Dragon-Bird Combined Strike, and drew alarmed reactions from Sun Jingxiao, An Youxing, Helian Zhaoyu, Wei Cheng, Yao Ruoxian, and Cui Chonghe.
• Qin Ming sensed a creature beneath a heap of corpses, split the pile with his saber, and found a fire lizard wreathed in crimson light that he recognized as a Strange-Blooded Creature.
• Blood clouds rose over the main battlefield as sixth realm experts fell, and Qin Ming and the others realized the great battle was nearing its end.

The Immortal Path, New Life Path, and Esoteric Sect defeated the Nomadic Hunting Civilization in a bloody battle sealed by the Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes. The Hunter-Gatherers were wiped out, while the victors suffered heavy casualties and Qin Ming survived with serious injuries.

• The Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes destroyed an Old Woman who appeared atop a grave, revealing that the stakes also guarded against threats from the Immortal Grave.
• Leng Mingkong killed Golden Lion, He Lian Chengyun slew the Two-Headed Werewolf Ancestor, and other allied experts eliminated the Nomadic Hunting Civilization’s leaders.
• Lu Zizai seriously wounded a Sixth Realm Feathered Serpent despite still being a Grandmaster, and the allied forces began their final assault after the Ancestors secured victory.
• Qin Ming cut down the Fire Lizard and collected its strange blood, while Wu Yaozu reported that he and Da Xiang had captured a Little Flood Dragon.
• The final fighting killed experts from both sides and left Li Qingxu, Su Shiyun, Pei Shuyan, and Helian Zhaoyu badly injured; Qin Ming escaped a concentrated attack but was seriously hurt.
• The Immortal Path, Esoteric Sect, and New Life Path prevailed, and every expert from the Nomadic Hunting Civilization was wiped out.

The Immortal Path, Esoteric Sect, New Life Path, and Nomadic Hunting Civilization concluded their final battle, and Qin Ming gained fame for his extraordinary kill count. As the victors prepared to destroy the Hunter-Gatherers’ stronghold and return to God's Fall Plain, the Ancestors warned that a greater and unpredictable conflict might still lie ahead.

• The allied paths won the fate battle, and the aged Esoteric Sect Ancestor died peacefully after witnessing the Nomadic Hunting Civilization’s last Sixth Realm expert fall.
• The survivors mourned their dead, handled the bodies, and tallied battle merits while the Ancestors discussed the dangers surrounding the Immortal Grave and its sealed Earth Immortal.
• Qin Ming recovered from his injuries, and the tally revealed that he had killed 158 enemies, including numerous Third Realm Hunter-Gatherers and several seeds.
• Cui Chonghe dismissed concerns about Qin Ming’s future strength, while Qin Ming exchanged battle merits for an unripe vajra fruit and asked about obtaining a secret scripture.
• Yu Gensheng joined Qin Ming and his companions for a meal and announced that the Ancestors would join the Sun Elf Race in destroying the Hunter-Gatherers’ stronghold.
• Yu Gensheng warned that the threat at God's Fall Plain remained mysterious and dangerous, and that the next conflict might lead someone to the Seventh Realm.

After the desert battle, Qin Ming stayed behind to recover and study the five elements with Jin Yuan before joining him on the journey back. Their discussion was interrupted when a dazzling rift and vast passage appeared in the night sky, which Jin Yuan suspected was an uncertainty beyond the five elements.

• Qin Ming and Li Qingyue sparred and exchanged insights, and she revealed that the Eight Trigrams Furnace sensed something familiar beneath the Immortal Grave and urged her to reach the fourth realm.
• Yu Gensheng departed for God's Fall Plain, while Qin Ming stayed behind to recover and later travel with the injured Jin Yuan.
• Helian Yaoqing invited Qin Ming aboard her airship, and several young cultivators approached him after his victory over a third-realm seed; the Fourth Princess of the Great Yu Dynasty sent medicine for his Thunder King Bird.
• The Ancestors excavated a small ancient tomb and discovered a stone immortal platform covered in spatial runes, which they believed could help them study the stone altar found in Kunling Territory.
• Five days later, Qin Ming set out with Jin Yuan, who began teaching him about the five elements during their journey through the dark Night Mist World.
• A dazzling light split the sky and formed an enormous passage, prompting Jin Yuan to wonder whether an uncertainty beyond the five elements had descended.

Qin Empire Ming and Jin Yuan’s ships survived a deadly, mysterious passageway in the Night Mist World, then watched from afar as explorers vanished in its multicolored mist. Jin Yuan explained theories about the phenomenon and described the dangers and regions beyond the East Corner before Qin Empire Ming asked about the south.

• A strange Dragon Sucking Water passageway appeared, and experts who entered were consumed by its red substance.
• The expanding passageway destroyed one flying ship and killed or stranded many aboard, while Qin Empire Ming’s ship and another vessel escaped.
• Qin Empire Ming asked Jin Yuan about the phenomenon, and Jin Yuan outlined theories involving a ruined Grotto-Heaven, a Divine Magnetic Storm, or a wounded Earth Immortal creature.
• The ships rose toward the passageway’s distant multicolored mist, but people who entered it disappeared, and Jin Yuan said they had died.
• Jin Yuan told Qin Empire Ming that the explored region was called the East Corner and described a deadly eastern Black Flame plain beyond which lay a dangerous world ruled by powerful nonhuman races.
• Qin Empire Ming asked Jin Yuan what lay to the south.

Jin Yuan and Qian Yuan explained why the Ancestors had kept their original paths and how powerful they might become, while warning that Earth Immortal-level beings remained dangerous. Their discussion was interrupted when a blood-soaked human skin emerged from the Grotto-Heaven’s colorful mist, forcing the airships to retreat.

• Jin Yuan told Qin Ming that the southern lands were unknown because everyone who ventured into their thick mist disappeared.
• Jin Yuan and Qian Yuan explained that the Ancestors had deep foundations, rejected becoming gods or immortals, and might eventually reach Earth Immortal strength if they changed paths.
• Jin Yuan and Qian Yuan warned that immortals and gods could not live forever and that even some powerful beings regretted changing their nature and wanted to return to their old paths.
• A thunderous boom shook the sky as blood-colored energy poured from the Grotto-Heaven’s mist, and Jin Yuan and Qian Yuan ordered both airships to retreat.
• A blood-soaked human skin drifted into the passage and looked toward the airships, and Qin Ming recognized it from the notes he had seen in Kunling’s Evil Land.

Qin Ming and the wounded survivors fled a blood-red sheet of Immortal Skin, only to be ambushed by Hunter-Gatherers seeking revenge. Jin Yuan sacrificed himself to save Qin Ming, survived in pieces, and escaped with him as their pursuers and the skin closed in.

• The blood-red Immortal Skin pursued the ships, haunting the survivors and appearing again after they tried to change course.
• The skin followed the ships for days, tormenting the passengers in nightmares before Hunter-Gatherers attacked and destroyed both vessels.
• Qin Ming learned the Hunter-Gatherers were heading to God's Fall Plain after their strongholds were destroyed by the Sun Elf Race.
• Jin Yuan stayed behind to fight a Master-level Hunter-Gatherer, killed his mount, and was torn apart before striking the enemy with Five Elements Mountain.
• Qin Ming gathered Jin Yuan's scattered body parts, found his missing leg, and fled while Hunter-Gatherers and the Immortal Skin pursued them.

Qin Empire Ming and Jin Yuan escaped the Hunter-Gatherers by luring them into a deadly fire phenomenon, then returned to Night Prefecture as a vast demonic coalition threatened the frontier. Qin Empire Ming headed to Green Maple Town to defend the border and consumed the last of his Vajra Treasure Tree and its fruit as war loomed.

• Qin Empire Ming and Jin Yuan drew the Hunter-Gatherers into a giant tongue of fire, which destroyed their pursuers and weakened the pursuing Immortal Skin.
• Qin Empire Ming killed eighteen Third Realm Hunter-Gatherers, and Jin Yuan taught him the Five Elements Divine Skill during their journey to Night Prefecture.
• Qin Empire Ming and Jin Yuan reached Cangwu City and learned that a powerful Demon Coalition was gathering at God's Fall Plain, while Night Prefecture's forces prepared to defend the frontier.
• Qin Empire Ming volunteered for the frontline and was assigned to guard Green Maple Town, where he ate the remaining Vajra Treasure Tree leaves and fruit.

Qin Empire Ming absorbed the Vajra Fruit and used it to cultivate the Flesh Body Chapter, awakening a Human Body Immortal Lake that greatly strengthened his physique. He remained at Second Realm Perfection and planned to attempt his Third Realm breakthrough, but an Iron Winged Parrot arrived with news that demons had invaded and a great battle had begun.

• Qin Empire Ming absorbed the Vajra Fruit while practicing the Vajra Sutra and Flesh Body Chapter, transforming his tendons into dragon-like sinews and awakening glowing acupoints he identified as the Human Body Immortal Lake.
• Qin Empire Ming used the Vajra Sutra and Strange Blood to nourish the Flesh Body Chapter, then tested his new strength by easily scattering the Third Realm Thunder King Bird's lightning and smashing a cliff.
• Qin Empire Ming concluded that the Flesh Body Chapter's power rivaled his Heavenly Light Force, though he remained at Second Realm Perfection and had not broken through to the Third Realm.
• Qin Empire Ming decided to attempt the breakthrough on his own while keeping the Dragon Tiger Pill ready in case events at the Ancestor Battlefield worsened.
• On the fifth day, an Iron Winged Parrot flew to Qin Empire Ming and called for help, announcing that demons were invading and the great battle had erupted.

Qin Ming rescued Zhao Lei from demons at Boulder Town, then defended his territory as border tensions escalated and hunted the demons who came after him. After killing a Black White Sparrow Heavenly Demon Seed and absorbing its strange blood, he faced a third-realm Heavenly Demon Seed who regarded him as Great Medicine.

• Qin Ming reached Boulder Town and killed the bird demon and Mantis Beast that were about to defeat Zhao Lei.
• Qin Ming and Zhao Lei discussed the approaching war, and Qin Ming reassured children in Green Maple Town while treating them to food.
• Qin Ming cultivated and patrolled his territory as demons repeatedly provoked him, then killed a Black White Sparrow Heavenly Demon Seed after staging a prolonged fight.
• Qin Ming refined the Black White Sparrow's strange blood, and a third-realm White-clothed Youth arrived, eager to consume him as Great Medicine.