Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming studied the shattered Jade Book in the Pure Land, comprehending its first two pages and connecting them to teachings from the Ancestor of the Silk Book Method. After enduring the scripture’s dangerous resonance and attempting to restore its damaged pages, he left the slope and spotted a familiar figure on a distant mountain, hoping to ask about his grandfather.

• Lu Zizai suggested that Cao Qianqiu might be a heart ape who would one day be subdued or refined by his true self, astonishing the Grandmasters and disciples.
• Qin Ming began studying the Four-Page Jade Book and quickly immersed himself in its Dao resonance, impressing the onlookers who had expected him to fail.
• Qin Ming interpreted the first page as teaching that the true scripture arose from the heart, then recognized that the second page corresponded to the Silk Book Method’s teachings on mental combat.
• Qin Ming entered resonance with the damaged pages, endured severe pain, and comprehended the second page while his Eye of New Life appeared to improve.
• Qin Ming studied the remaining pages and tried to restore their missing portions, rising late at night drained and pale.
• Helian Zhaoyu said he wanted to fight Qin Ming, while Helian Yaoqing warned that Zhaoyu was destined for terrible luck; Qin Ming then spotted a familiar figure on a distant mountain and wanted to ask where his grandfather had gone.

Qin Empire Ming learned that his grandfather had left to search for his biological parents and decided to visit the Cui Household with Lu Zizai’s help. After agreeing to spar with Helian Zhaoyu, he met his opponent in the Night Mist World, where their fight was about to begin.

• Qin Empire Ming restored the shattered Jade Book and impressed the elders by revealing that he had understood part of its scripture.
• Qin Empire Ming accepted Tang Xumi’s Upright Demon Ape Scripture and agreed to a wagered spar with Helian Zhaoyu.
• Qin Empire Ming visited Cui Hao and learned that his grandfather had left to seek Qin Empire Ming’s biological parents.
• Qin Empire Ming told Li Qingyue that he planned to visit the Cui Household with Lu Zizai, while Helian Mingxu summoned him to face Helian Zhaoyu.
• Qin Empire Ming and Helian Zhaoyu entered the Night Mist World, where Helian Zhaoyu taunted him before their fight.

Qin Empire Ming and Helian Zhaoyu fought in a blizzard after Helian tried to persuade him to give up Li Qingyue and join the Imperial Immortal Sect. Their battle escalated as Helian unleashed the Imperial Immortal Sword, while Qin Empire Ming answered with thunder, fire, and Yin Yang power; the fight remained unresolved.

• Spectators discussed Helian Zhaoyu’s challenge, linking it to his grudge against Qin Empire Ming and his ambition to claim Li Qingyue and the revived Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Helian Zhaoyu argued that Qin Empire Ming was too weak to protect Li Qingyue and offered to keep her safe in the Imperial Immortal Sect, while Qin mocked his cultivation and claims.
• Helian Zhaoyu revealed that he had broken through to the Fourth Realm before tempering himself back down to the Third Realm, pursuing a domain he claimed could rival Ancient Sages.
• Qin Empire Ming and Helian Zhaoyu drew their weapons and fought through the blizzard, exchanging nearly a hundred blows as snow mountains crumbled around them.
• Helian Zhaoyu unleashed the Imperial Immortal Sword, commanding the ice-and-snow world to strike Qin Empire Ming, who advanced with saber light, thunder, fire, and Yin Yang power.

Qin Ming fought Helian Zhaoyu on the Ice Wasteland, breaking through his layered God's Pure Lands and powerful Ancient Sage Domain. Helian Zhaoyu’s final attack failed, and he was sent flying as Qin Ming pierced his yin-yang domain.

• Helian Zhaoyu unleashed the Controlling Immortal Scripture and its avalanche-like torrent, but Qin Ming shattered it with his fists and broke the Seven-Colored Flying Sword.
• Helian Zhaoyu revealed his Inner Landscape and Mountain and River Seal, but Qin Ming’s Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture tore the seal apart.
• Helian Zhaoyu layered a lightning domain and a Blade Insect domain over his pure land, but Qin Ming destroyed the insects and punched through the landscape.
• Helian Zhaoyu revealed his principal Divine Land and froze Qin Ming with nether black water, but Qin Ming broke free from the ice.
• Helian Zhaoyu unleashed his Ancient Sage Domain, combining the Gonggong Dharma Image and Zhurong Golden Body in a yin-yang diagram, but Qin Ming pierced it with the Silk Book Method and sent him flying.

Qin Empire Ming defeated Helian Zhaoyu even after Helian fused his four God's Pure Lands, winning the Nine Tribulation Undying Tree weapon. After the battle shook the surrounding factions, Qin Empire Ming left to obtain the final fragmentary scripture and prepared to visit the Cui Household.

• Qin Empire Ming pierced Helian Zhaoyu's Yin-Yang Inner Landscape and battered him with Heavenly Light Force, but Helian survived by unleashing Divine Wisdom and shielding himself with the Measuring God Ruler.
• Helian Zhaoyu fused his four God's Pure Lands into one and wagered the Measuring God Ruler, which had been refined from the Nine Tribulation Undying Tree's heart.
• Qin Empire Ming tested the Measuring God Ruler with his saber, then used his Black Jade Warhammer and Primal Chaos Force to overwhelm Helian's weapons and shatter his God's Pure Land.
• Helian Zhaoyu fell with numerous broken bones and his confidence shaken, while Qin Empire Ming claimed the Measuring God Ruler.
• Lu Zizai warned Grandmaster Helian Yunji away from interfering, and news of Qin Empire Ming's victory spread throughout the region.
• Qin Empire Ming departed for Heavenly God Palace to obtain the final fragmentary scripture and prepared to travel with Lu Zizai to the Cui Household.

After Qin Ming shared new passages from the Four-Page Jade Book, Lu Zizai suspected that Cao Qianqiu was a severed heart ape and speculated about the identity of his true self. Qin Ming and Lu Zizai arrived at the Cui Household as its elders learned of Qin Ming’s approach and its young men tried to keep him there.

• Qin Ming showed Lu Zizai new passages from the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture and other incomplete scriptures, and Lu Zizai studied the Four-Page Jade Book’s restored pages.
• Helian Zhaoyu returned to the Ice Wasteland to review his defeat by Qin Ming, where he encountered Li Qingxu and dismissed his ability to study the battle.
• Wang Jingyan learned that Helian Zhaoyu had lost to Qin Ming and objected when reports described the defeated seed as belonging to the Esoteric Sect.
• Lu Zizai proposed that Cao Qianqiu might be a heart ape severed from an unknown expert, and he considered possible origins among the Silk Book Method Ancestors, the demon civilization, and the Immortal Path.
• News of Qin Ming’s victory spread as he and Lu Zizai reached the Cui Household, where young members of the family recognized him and tried to hold him until the elders arrived.

Qin Empire Ming returned to the Cui Household with Lu Zizai to seek news of his grandfather, and confronted relatives who had mistreated him. After Qin Empire Ming beat Cui He, Cui Shuning, and Fifth Master Cui, Lu Zizai helped him enter the main hall to meet the household’s elders and summon Cui Geng.

• Qin Empire Ming returned to the Cui Household and dismissed the false welcomes from his relatives.
• Cui He and Cui Shuning attacked Qin Empire Ming, but he overpowered them and beat them.
• Fifth Master Cui tried to make Qin Empire Ming study the Heart Cleansing Scripture, but Lu Zizai suppressed him and Qin Empire Ming kicked him.
• Father Cui and Mother Cui appeared as Qin Empire Ming continued beating Fifth Master Cui, then invited him and Lu Zizai into the main hall.
• Lu Zizai asked the Cui Household elders to bring Cui Geng to see him, while reports of Qin Empire Ming’s confrontation spread outside.

Lu Zizai confronted the Cui Household over Qin Ming’s treatment, confirmed his grandfather had not been harmed, and forced the family to hand over its secret Abiding World Scripture. After failing to find Cui Geng and recover the Silk Scripture, Qin Ming chose to leave settling his grievances with the Cui Household for himself.

• Lu Zizai pressured the Cui Household’s leaders and examined the memories of two elders, confirming that Qin Ming’s grandfather had left with traveling merchants and had not been silenced.
• Lu Zizai severed Qin Ming’s ties with Mother Cui and Father Cui, then killed a clan elder who refused to provide the secret chapter of the Abiding World Scripture.
• Qin Ming read the secret scripture and demanded the Silk Scripture his grandfather had left him, while Lu Zizai ordered Cui Geng to return it.
• Lu Zizai and Qin Ming went to the Cui Household’s Ancestral Land but failed to find Cui Geng, and Qin Ming said he would settle his grievances with the family himself.
• News of Lu Zizai forcing the Cui Household to bow spread among major organizations, and Cui Chonghe angrily sought out Sun Taichu.
• A group of humans traveled through the night mist toward Night Prefecture after the Mist Gate brought them far from their intended destination.

Lu Zizai’s show of force against the Cui Household drew attention across the major organizations, while Qin Empire Ming continued searching for his missing grandfather and returned to find Black White Mountain transformed. The chapter ended with two travelers entering Night Prefecture after years away.

• Lu Zizai traveled to the Cui Household’s ancestral land to confront Cui Geng, prompting Cui Chonghe to ask Sun Taichu for help.
• Cui Qi and the Cui Household’s Master discussed enduring the humiliation and placing their hopes in Cui Chonghe and Cui Chongxiao, their household’s two rising talents.
• Lu Zizai parted from Qin Empire Ming, promising to wait ahead while Qin Empire Ming continued searching for his grandfather and found that both an Old Traveling Merchant and the grandfather’s old residence had vanished.
• Talking Finch returned to Double Tree Village, fought the Red Squirrel, and learned that Old Man Liu feared he would not survive the winter.
• Qin Empire Ming returned and saw the Black White Twin Trees intertwined around living Yin-Yang Eyes, while a group of travelers entered Night Prefecture and spoke of returning home.

Qin Empire Ming returned to Black White Mountain, kept out of the public eye, and cultivated while Old Man Liu struggled with strange dreams and the approach of death. During spirit cultivation in the night sky, Qin Empire Ming encountered a terrifying black-robed creature, which a Blood Kite destroyed, before he broke through to the third layer of the Spiritual Field; the chapter ended with Kunling summoning the Ancestors of every path.

• Qin Empire Ming returned to Black White Mountain and assured Old Man Liu that he would help him live to ninety-five and begin anew.
• Qin Empire Ming secluded himself to study scriptures, strengthen his cultivation, and undertake daily spirit journeys into the night sky.
• Qin Empire Ming encountered a pale, black-robed creature in the firmament, but a Blood Kite destroyed it as it pursued him to the ground.
• Qin Empire Ming absorbed the remaining meteor shower and advanced from the second layer to the third layer of the Spiritual Field.
• Kunling rang its bells and summoned the Ancestors of the New Life Path, the Esoteric Sect, Beyond the Mundane, and other paths.

The Golden Bell warned Night Prefecture that Sixth Realm visitors from the Outer Domain had entered Kunling, but the apparent threat turned out to be Ancestors who had left Night Prefecture centuries earlier. Their return revealed a flourishing human civilization with Earth Immortals and Seventh Realm cultivators, while Qin Empire Ming continued cultivating at Black White Mountain.

• The Golden Bell rang, and Jade Bell messengers warned Night Prefecture that suspicious Outer Domain experts had appeared in Kunling.
• Night Prefecture's Ancestors confronted the visitors outside Kunlun City and discovered that Zhao Lin, Lu Yuzhang, and Slaying Dragon were long-lost seniors returning from the Night Mist World.
• He Lian Chengyun, Zhuo Qingya, and the Present Tathagata recognized former companions, turning the tense encounter into a reunion after more than five hundred years apart.
• News spread that more than eighty visitors had returned from a distant, prosperous human kingdom, and Sky-Pillar reunited with his missing second son.
• Reports described the distant kingdom's Earth Immortals, Seven-Day Accumulators, and shortcut through a mist region, prompting widespread discussion and interest in traveling there.
• Qin Empire Ming remained at Black White Mountain and continued cultivating beneath the Black White Tree as the news stirred Night Prefecture.

Qin Ming left Black White Mountain to seek resources and opportunities, but found that Night Prefecture’s best sites were already occupied and survived a haunting encounter in a mass grave. In the Great Yu Capital, Yao Ruoxian told him that powerful visitors had returned from a distant human civilization and invited him to meet a possibly living Ancestor of the Silk Book Method, but Qin Ming declined to make a pilgrimage for now.

• Qin Ming cultivated on Black White Mountain, strengthened his body and spiritual field, and decided that ordinary training was too slow to reach the Fourth Realm.
• Qin Ming left the mountain, said goodbye to Liu Mo, Talking Finch, and Red Squirrel, visited Meng Xinghai in Red Haze City, then searched Night Prefecture for unclaimed resources.
• Qin Ming and the Thunder King Bird disturbed a mass grave and suffered nightmares from an Old Woman Bleeding From Seven Orifices until they cleansed themselves in the Great Yu Capital.
• Yao Ruoxian told Qin Ming that returning travelers from a distant human civilization were investigating Night Prefecture’s ruins and that one young New Life Path cultivator wanted to exchange ideas with him.
• Yao Ruoxian revealed that a living Ancestor who mastered Chaos Force might reside in that civilization and suggested Qin Ming make a pilgrimage, but Qin Ming said the journey was too dangerous and distant.

Qin Ming searched the Great Rui Dynasty’s black markets for rare resources, then agreed to attend a gathering of young talents from Pu Gong Country. As the exchange began, he spotted the Cui Household bringing out the Silk Scripture he had lost as a child.

• Qin Ming told Yao Ruoxian he was not rushing to seek the returned Chaos Force Ancestor, and she shared news about the Immortal Grave and the scarcity of recovery resources.
• Yao Ruoxian noticed Qin Ming’s hair turn from silver to black when she touched it, and he explained that he had been practicing the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture.
• Qin Ming searched seven black markets in Rui City, killed two groups who tried to attack him, and later met Wu Yaozu by the Spirit Lake.
• Wu Yaozu invited Qin Ming to a gathering with Pu Gong Country’s young talents, and Qin Ming agreed after hearing they would exchange scriptures rather than fight.
• Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu arrived at the gathering, where Qin Ming recognized the brocade box containing the Silk Scripture that the Cui Household had kept since his childhood.

Qin Ming attended the exchange meeting between Night Prefecture and Pu Gong Country and recovered his inherited Silk Scripture before the Cui Household could trade it away. The gathering turned to the Life Altering Scripture and a mysterious page of related true scripture, leaving Qin Ming poised to study their connection.

• Qin Ming learned that Cui Chonghe planned to use his Silk Scripture in a private exchange with Xie Lin, so he confronted them aboard the ship and demanded its return.
• Cui Chonghe handed Qin Ming the Silk Scripture, then continued toward a private discussion with Xie Lin despite briefly revealing his killing intent.
• Mu Yunzhou invited Qin Ming to spar and exchange scriptures, and Qin Ming agreed to trade if he could see an Ancestor's handwritten notes and original true scripture.
• Jian Huaidao and the visitors from Pu Gong Country requested the Life Altering Scripture, then presented a densely illustrated page they suspected was its original continuation.
• The gathered cultivators struggled to understand the Life Altering Scripture and the mysterious page, and Wu Yaozu asked Qin Ming to try studying them.

At a scripture exchange on Spirit Lake, Qin Ming impressed the gathered prodigies by comprehending passages that stumped them, winning a booklet from Cui Chonghe and drawing attention to his abilities. He then returned to seclusion, but after two months emerged to hear that a world-shaking event had transformed Night Prefecture.

• Qin Ming considered the fragile understanding between Night Prefecture and Pugong, then turned his attention back to the scripture exchange.
• Xie Lin, Jian Huaidao, Mu Yunzhou, and others used their bloodline gifts to study the Life Altering Scripture, but they were injured when they tried to cultivate its diagrams.
• Wu Yaozu wagered a booklet with Cui Chonghe that Qin Ming would understand more of the Life Altering Scripture, and Qin Ming won by demonstrating his insight.
• Qin Ming studied Pugong's Exotic Metal scripture page and explained that it was difficult to comprehend, while the other prodigies continued to struggle with it.
• Cui Chonghe left resentful after Wu Yaozu's nickname for him spread, and Qin Ming returned to seclusion to strengthen himself.
• More than sixty days later, Qin Ming emerged from the mountains and heard that a major event had shaken Night Prefecture and changed its course.

After returning from two months in seclusion, Qin Ming learned that Night Prefecture had opened the Golden Light Cave, a one-way route to a resource-rich mysterious world. He reunited with Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu and prepared to explore the new realm, whose treasures and distant dawn promised major opportunities.

• Qin Ming entered a city and learned that Night Prefecture had opened the Golden Light Cave to a mysterious world through research at the Immortal Grave.
• Qin Ming heard that the unstable route led to a world rich in spiritual matter, where early explorers had found rapid cultivation gains and valuable treasures.
• Qin Ming considered the possible return of powerful figures from Pugong and reflected on how his own Silk Book Method differed from theirs.
• Qin Ming sent the Thunder King Bird to summon Xiang Yiwu, then met Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu in Rui City two days later.
• Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu told Qin Ming about the realm’s lush greenery, distant dawn, exotic metal, and a turtle shell inscribed with valuable runes, prompting him to consider joining the exploration.

Qin Ming met the powerful Pugong figure Pei Qingwu, learned that she was testing his potential to reach the Jade Capital, and later gained access to the Golden Light Cave with Xiang Yiwu and Wu Yaozu. After crossing into the lush New World, their group fled when people ahead claimed the sun was rising, as Gu Xicheng recognized a terrifying danger.

• Pei Qingwu used zither music and Mind Monkey Tea to meet Qin Ming in a secluded spiritual space, test his potential, and invite him to consider entering the Jade Capital with her group.
• Mu Yunzhou identified Pei Qingwu as an exceptional Pugong figure and sparred with Qin Ming by testing his control of Chaos Force.
• Xiang Yiwu reported that Gu Xicheng had approved Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu's entry into the Golden Light Cave after the Past Tathagata returned to Pugong.
• Gu Xicheng led the group through the Golden Light Cave into the verdant New World, where they explored and sensed the Dao's rhythms.
• When people ahead cried that the sun was rising, Gu Xicheng immediately fled with Qin Ming, Xiang Yiwu, and the others, saying he needed to report the place's terrifying truth to the Present Tathagata.

After Night Prefecture’s explorers discovered a powerful relic site in the New World, its Ancestors began preparing to reinforce the Golden Light Cave so they could enter themselves. At the manor where explorers were confined, Qin Ming confronted Little Tathagata’s disciples over their claims to the orthodox Chaos Force lineage and forced them to bow under the pressure of his Heavenly Light.

• Gu Xicheng led the fleeing Masters out of the New World after sensing a terrifying field, and an Immortal Path Master later reported that a Purple Sword had pinned a creature beneath a golden mountain beside an Earth Immortal Relic and a book.
• Night Prefecture’s Ancestors arrived, studied the Golden Light Cave, and later left to gather treasures needed to reinforce it, while three Ancestors and numerous Grandmasters remained to guard the entrance.
• Qin Ming and the other explorers were confined to a manor, where they exchanged news with familiar faces as word spread that the Ancestors planned to use the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes on the cave.
• Little Tathagata arrived with his elders and disciples, invited Qin Ming to visit the Sage, and his disciples demanded that Qin Ming honor their master as his senior.
• Qin Ming asserted his connection to Lu Zizai and rejected the disciples’ claim of authority over his Chaos Force, then overwhelmed them with his Heavenly Light until they bowed.

Qin Ming suppressed the Pugong disciples who challenged him and joined Xiang Yiwu and Little Wu in gathering heavenly light above the storm clouds. Half a month later, an Earth Immortal passed through Niu Ben City, and a mysterious presence reinforced the Golden Light Cave as the Earth Immortal’s light surged from within.

• Xie Zhaoheng and a female disciple attacked Qin Ming, but his Golden Crow Illuminating Night Heavenly Light overwhelmed them, while Little Tathagata’s lotus briefly clashed with Gu Xicheng’s Great Thunderclap Heavenly Light.
• Qin Ming caught and shattered Little Tathagata’s regenerating lotus, then walked past the fallen disciples as a master from the Past Tathagata Lineage withdrew after facing the Present Tathagata’s foremost disciple.
• The three ancestors guarding the Golden Light Cave confined the newly arrived explorers to the manor and barred them from entering the New World.
• During a winter thunderstorm, Gu Xicheng led Qin Ming, Xiang Yiwu, and Little Wu above the clouds, where Qin Ming devoured varied heavenly light and returned with his spiritual field strengthened.
• Half a month later, an Earth Immortal’s passage plunged Niu Ben City into darkness, while an unknown presence reinforced the Golden Light Cave and a surge of Earth Immortal light rose from it.

Two Earth Immortals entered Golden Light Cave, where one died and the other escaped grievously wounded, leaving Night Prefecture’s Ancestors to investigate the New World and seal the cave. News of the disaster spread to Pugong, while a buried Earthen City in Kunling began to revive.

• Golden Light Cave’s hidden guardians tried to overcome Five Finger Mountain, but one Earth Immortal emerged severely wounded and flew southwest as the other apparently died inside.
• The three Ancestors of Night Prefecture sealed Golden Light Cave, and the Minotaur chieftain urged them to close the gateway to the Different World.
• Night Prefecture’s Ancestors discovered that mysterious intruders had stolen their components and found the Earth Immortals’ remains near Five Finger Mountain.
• Past Tathagata and more than a dozen Ancestors entered the New World, examined the remains, and then sealed Golden Light Cave against further exploration.
• A secret letter reported an Earth Immortal’s death and chaos in Pugong, while the Immortal Grave revealed that the humanoid ashes had become an Earth Immortal.
• A ripple from Jade Capital reached Kunling, awakening its buried Earthen City and rousing a Peerless Expert.