Chapter Summaries

Qin Empire Ming returned to Red Haze City, where he learned that the Earthen City’s revival was drawing powerful visitors toward Night Prefecture and prepared to use the first spring thunder to advance his cultivation. As spring arrived, he headed to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall to seek thunderfire’s blessing and break through.

• Pugong travelers learned that Earth Immortals had been killed amid turmoil, while the revived Earthen City in Kunling drew Grandmasters and Ancestors to investigate.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to Red Haze City, and Meng Xinghai told him that Golden Light Cave led into the Immortal Grave.
• Qin Empire Ming studied scriptures and visited friends, who told him that Little Tathagata had defeated Fourth Realm challengers but fought an unknown opponent to a draw.
• Powerful beings from distant regions prepared to travel to Night Prefecture because of the Earthen City’s connection to Jade Capital.
• Li Qingyue ended her seclusion, and Cui Chonghe announced that he had succeeded in Sun Taichu’s medicine furnace.
• When spring thunder sounded, Qin Empire Ming went to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall to absorb thunderfire and seek a breakthrough.

Qin Empire Ming used Thunderfire to cultivate the Southern Blazing Fire Scripture and later underwent Divine Cicada Transformation, opening a Secret Treasure that revealed the Divine Cicada Scripture. The chapter left him entering a vision of Great Thunderclap Temple.

• Qin Empire Ming entered the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall and survived its deadly refinement while cultivating the Southern Blazing Fire Scripture with Heavenly Light.
• Qin Empire Ming stayed on Red Haze Mountain and waited for a powerful storm while Foreign Domain youths stirred Night Prefecture with their contests and challenges.
• Qin Empire Ming sat within the Thunderfire-filled hall and drew its power into his body as he cultivated the Golden Cicada.
• Meng Xinghai realized Qin Empire Ming was undergoing Divine Cicada Transformation and had opened a Secret Treasure containing the Divine Cicada Scripture.
• Qin Empire Ming saw a new world, approached Great Thunderclap Temple, and pushed open its courtyard gate.

Qin Ming entered the Great Thunderclap Temple while comprehending the Divine Cicada Scripture and encountered a White-clothed Youth who fought him over a Seven Treasures Pool. After defeating the youth, Qin Ming faced the Red-dressed Woman who had followed him into the temple, and the chapter left them battling after he knocked a golden cloth strip from her hair and seized it.

• Qin Ming entered the Great Thunderclap Temple in a state of enlightenment and absorbed passages of the Divine Cicada Scripture.
• Qin Ming met the White-clothed Youth, and they fought over the two Seven Treasures Pools.
• Qin Ming defeated the White-clothed Youth and pursued him, but the youth escaped the temple before returning to challenge Qin Ming again.
• The Red-dressed Woman emerged from the White-clothed Youth's shadow and attacked Qin Ming after he injured her companion.
• Qin Ming fought the Red-dressed Woman, gravely injured her, and seized the golden cloth strip from her hair.

Qin Ming defeated the Red-dressed Woman and the White-clothed Youth in the Great Thunderclap Temple, gained a new life and advanced to the spirit field realm fifth heaven. After returning to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, he shared treasure liquid with Meng Xinghai and the Thunder King Bird, while the Earthen City fully revived and opened its gate.

• Qin Ming mocked the Red-dressed Woman and defeated her again, kicking her out through the gate as she tried to leave.
• Qin Ming kicked the White-clothed Youth as the Great Thunderclap Temple summoned him away, then the Red-dressed Woman ordered an investigation into Qin Ming's origins.
• Qin Ming absorbed the Seven Treasures Pool's liquid, glimpsed the Great Thunderclap True Scripture, and returned to the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall.
• Qin Ming broke through to the spirit field realm fourth heaven and then the fifth heaven after undergoing a complete new life.
• Qin Ming gave Meng Xinghai and the Thunder King Bird some of the seven-colored treasure liquid, and they praised its taste.
• The Earthen City received a mysterious ripple, fully revived, connected with the territory in reality, and slowly opened its gate.

The Earthen City emerged in Kunling Territory, revealing twelve ancient Golden-Armored warriors who had become immortals and a community led by the composed youth Gao Chan. At a gathering outside the city, mysterious figures appeared, prompting Ancestors and even Past Tathagata to perform a grand ceremony before them.

• The Earthen City appeared through the fog, and its ominous corpses and deathly aura made the gathered factions hesitate to approach.
• A golden rooster's crow cleared the city's black mist, revealing the city and a Blessed Land where armored animal-like inhabitants began restoring and patrolling the streets.
• Ancestors identified the twelve Golden-Armored Warriors as ancient immortals, and the news of the Twelve Variant Immortals spread throughout the world.
• Gao Chan introduced himself, assured the factions that the Earthen City's people meant no harm, and invited the Ancestors to discuss matters and attend an Immortal Peach Gathering.
• Three days later, the Twelve Golden Immortals welcomed the factions as mysterious figures emerged along a Golden Light Path, and Ancestors including Past Tathagata performed a grand ceremony before them.

Night Prefecture's ancient Ancestors returned and warned that Jade Capital's eventual departure could bring calamity, while their call to unite the dynasties stirred debate. After months of secluded cultivation, Qin Ming was confronted by a dangerous Fourth Realm seed during a storm, as several other mysterious figures converged on him.

• The leaders and youths of Night Prefecture and the Outer Domain bowed to the returning Ancestors, who warned that Jade Capital's departure could expose Night Prefecture to disaster.
• Night Prefecture's leaders privately questioned the Ancestors' motives, while a First Ancestor urged the dynasties to unite and public debate over an Immortal Dynasty spread.
• Qin Ming spent more than three months studying scriptures and cultivating at the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall, where he worried that thunderfire supplies were becoming scarce.
• A Green-Clad Youth confronted Qin Ming in a storm and summoned a Nine-Colored Flying Sword, prompting Qin Ming to use the Heavenly Demon Force Field.
• A White-Clad Woman and two more figures approached Qin Ming as an almost charred human skin entered the Black White Mountain region and headed toward Double Tree Village.

Qi Yunxiao challenged Qin Ming to a wagered spar, but Qin Ming used the storm and his spiritual field to break Qi Yunxiao’s sword and turn the fight against him. As Qin Ming pursued the wounded Qi Yunxiao, a mysterious human skin appeared near Black White Mountain and Big Yellow Dog spoke to it.

• Qi Yunxiao told his elder that he hoped to obtain the Xin Yuan Medicinal Formula through Qin Ming, then joined his companions in betting that he could defeat Qin Ming with two sword strikes.
• At Red Haze Mountain, Qi Yunxiao attacked Qin Ming with his Nine-Colored Flying Sword, but Qin Ming drew on the storm and struck the sword with lightning.
• Qin Ming overheard Cen Jinghong’s secret message and realized the duel was part of a wager, then intensified his spiritual field with manifestations of extraordinary arts.
• Qi Yunxiao’s second sword strike failed when heavenly lightning shattered his Flying Sword, and Qin Ming pursued him as Cen Jinghong and Mu Xingyao watched in shock.
• Old Man Liu warned that intruders would die if they disturbed his final breakthrough, while Big Yellow Dog confronted a charred human skin and claimed to be its father.

Big Yellow Dog attacked Old Human Skin to protect Liu Mo and Black White Mountain. On Red Haze Mountain, Qin Ming overpowered Qi Yunxiao and turned on Cen Jinghong and Mu Xingyao, leaving Qi Yunxiao crushed by his spiritual field.

• Big Yellow Dog leaped into the night sky and struck Old Human Skin with an enormous paw as Talking Finch and Red Squirrel watched in shock.
• Qin Ming used the storm and his spiritual field to overwhelm Qi Yunxiao, who escalated from a third sword strike to a desperate barrage of attacks.
• Cen Jinghong and Mu Xingyao tried to intervene, but Qin Ming dragged their consciousness spirit light into his field and slapped them.
• Qi Yunxiao escaped above the clouds and launched an Immortal Dao Seal, while Qin Ming continued to draw on thunder and astral wind.
• Qin Ming manifested immense hands within his spiritual field and crushed Qi Yunxiao's Nirvana Black Lotus and consciousness spirit light; Mu Xingyao recognized the methods of the Mount Sumeru Field and the Heavenly Demon Force Field.

Qin Ming defeated Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao in his spiritual field, then crippled their cultivation rather than killing them outright. At Black White Mountain, the Big Yellow Dog tore apart the Old Human Skin and struck down other lurking demons before a Fallen Immortal Incident spread as a rumor.

• Qin Ming crushed Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao within his spiritual field, repeatedly destroying their consciousness spirit lights.
• Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai agreed to leave the three alive but cripple their cultivation, and Meng Zhiyan framed the retaliation as restrained self-defense.
• The Big Yellow Dog fought the Old Human Skin at Black White Mountain, tore him apart, and burned him, though a mass of bloody light escaped.
• The Big Yellow Dog pursued and killed a dark figure with the Bamboo Sword, then destroyed a white skeleton with Heaven-Piercing Sword Qi.
• A rumor spread that a Fallen Immortal Incident had occurred at Black White Mountain.

Big Yellow Dog fought off a rotten Eye of the Candle Dragon and a monstrous creature before its revival began to fade. It returned to Double Tree Village, while news of its battle reached Cao Qianqiu and Qi Yunxiao grew anxious over his missing Consciousness Spirit Light.

• Big Yellow Dog destroyed the rotten Eye of the Candle Dragon with its Bamboo Sword, then slew a giant blood-soaked creature that attacked near Black White Mountain.
• As Big Yellow Dog's strength waned, Liu Mo called it back and warned that one of the two ancient beings had arrived; Big Yellow Dog entered Black White Pure Land and ordered its demons to prepare the Black White Mountain and River Diagram.
• A terrifying figure approached Black White Mountain but withdrew, and the Old Ancestor and Moon Insect carried Big Yellow Dog back to Double Tree Village, where Liu Mo was called to change the baby's diaper.
• Pu Heng rushed to Cao Qianqiu with news of the battle at Black White Mountain, while Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao worried that their distant Consciousness Spirit Lights had not returned.
• Someone reassured Qi Yunxiao that Qin might have kept his party to discuss the Dao after being impressed by Qi's Sword Dao Domain.

After Qi Yunxiao and the other Outer Domain prodigies were captured by Qin Ming, they negotiated their release in Red Haze City, where Qi Yunxiao learned he had been crippled. As summer passed, Earthen City expanded its influence, and Qin Ming became interested in the retired Ancestors’ plans to open another cave.

• The gray-clad Master returned from Spirit Travel and reported that an Earth Immortal had passed Black White Mountain, leaving Qi Yunxiao’s main consciousness missing and alarming everyone on Feather Transformation Mountain.
• The gray-clad Master later learned that Qi Yunxiao, Cen Jinghong, and Mu Xingyao were alive but had been defeated and captured by Qin Ming, so the three prodigies went to Red Haze City to negotiate their ransom.
• Meng Xinghai negotiated the prodigies’ release, and Qi Yunxiao discovered that Qin Ming had completely crippled him; the gray-clad Master backed down when Earthen City’s Ancestors intervened.
• Rumors about the captives spread, damaging Qi Yunxiao’s appraisal and Mu Xingyao’s reputation, while Qin Ming spent the summer in Double Tree Village with Old Man Liu and Big Yellow Dog.
• Earthen City announced an Immortal Peach Gathering, but Qin Ming received no invitation as the city worked to unify Night Prefecture’s forces.
• When the retired Ancestors planned to open another cave, the factions avoided involvement, but Qin Ming grew interested in joining them.

Qin Empire Ming traveled to Kunling to explore the newly opened Purple Haze Cave, hoping to find an opportunity to advance before turmoil spread. After the cave was confirmed safe, he prepared to cross into the unknown world alongside ordinary cultivators seeking a chance to change their fortunes.

• Qin Empire Ming left the Thunder King Bird and Talking Finch behind as he traveled toward Kunling, where he heard rumors about rising cultivators and gossip linking him to Mu Xingyao.
• Qin Empire Ming avoided visiting Elder Yu Gensheng and hurried to Purple Haze Cave, where early explorers were gathering.
• Qin Empire Ming observed prominent Immortal Path seeds, Pugong cultivators, Outer Domain blazing suns, and their elders arriving near Earthen City.
• Puppets repeatedly entered Purple Haze Cave and returned, confirming that it led to a new world without apparent danger.
• Qin Empire Ming prepared to cross through Purple Haze Cave on his first expedition into an unknown Different World.

Qin Ming explored the unknown Foreign Domain, found a vast forest of potent spirit mushrooms, and used them to break through to the sixth heaven of the spiritual field. He then discovered a strange enormous object hanging upside down in the sky, with a pale-gold grass rope dangling from it.

• Qin Ming entered the desolate volcanic region of the Foreign Domain and noticed its unusual Dao resonance and dark heavenly light.
• Qin Ming crossed a sharp cliff into a fertile woodland nourished by pale-gold fire springs and discovered a sea of enormous colorful mushrooms.
• Qin Ming identified five-colored spirit mushrooms as spirit medicine, tested a small piece, then ate several and broke through to the sixth heaven of the spiritual field.
• Qin Ming searched for higher-grade mushrooms and followed the increasingly dense Dao resonance to a majestic mountain.
• Qin Ming spotted an enormous jade-lit object hanging upside down among the clouds and saw a pale-gold grass rope dangling from it.

Qin Ming escaped a deadly hallucination in the mushroom sea, discovered that the five-colored spirit mushrooms could cause mass casualties, and brought survivors back through the Purple Haze Cave. As experts and Ancestors poured into the newly discovered realm, a sentient Ten-Colored Divine Mushroom unleashed a vast tide of spores that engulfed the area, leaving Qin Ming unsure whether he was still dreaming.

• Qin Ming entered the black Heavenly Light Pool in a convincing hallucination of the Jade Capital and Peach Orchard, where he fought Little Tathagata and was killed by Past Tathagata.
• Qin Ming awakened in the mushroom sea, realized the five-colored spirit mushroom had caused his hallucination, and escaped the pool as other explorers died or went mad.
• Qin Ming rescued and subdued the remaining explorers, warned others about the mushroom sea, and carried the survivors back through the Purple Haze Cave to Night Prefecture.
• A Grandmaster examined the mushrooms and helped wake the survivors, while the survivors revealed that they had all broken through; an Ancestor then reinforced the cave and led an expedition into the Different World.
• Experts, promising talents, and outsiders entered the Purple Haze Cave, but a survivor suddenly burst apart and released glowing motes, prompting an Ancestor to suspect spores from a degenerated Great Dream Divine Mushroom.
• A sentient Ten-Colored Divine Mushroom was announced from within the cave, and a flood of spores spread through the night sky and over the Earthen City as Qin Ming questioned whether the scene was real.

Qin Empire Ming endured the Great Dream Divine Mushroom’s layered Void Realms as its spores ravaged Kunling, and he witnessed Tang Xumi die before reaching a brief return to clarity. The mushroom’s offspring then began attacking Earthen City, while news spread that Qin Empire Ming was likely dead and the disaster might involve a sealed Heavenly Immortal.

• The Ten-Colored Divine Mushroom’s spores overwhelmed Kunling, killing the people Qin Empire Ming had rescued and forcing him through repeated death trials in the Void Realm.
• The Thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes sealed off the infested region, while Qin Empire Ming fled Purple Haze Cave and learned he had to survive at least five illusion layers.
• Qin Empire Ming encountered Tang Xumi, who had missed the chance to enter Earthen City and died when the spores consumed him.
• After enduring five layers, Qin Empire Ming briefly returned to clarity, buried Tang Xumi, and saw giant mushrooms gather their power around Earthen City.
• The Great Dream Divine Mushroom’s spirit mushrooms transformed into Mushroom Men and charged Earthen City as the calamity continued.
• Experts reported that Earthen City remained under siege, and two months later people believed Qin Empire Ming had died outside its walls.

As the Great Dream Divine Mushroom besieged Earthen City, Qin Ming survived alone for months by eating spiritual mushrooms and purifying the spores with divine flames. Li Qingyue searched for him without success, while an Earth Immortal prepared to summon the Jade Capital’s power to destroy the mushroom, leaving Qin Ming on the verge of escaping the forbidden land.

• The Ancestors protected challengers who tested the divine spores, but every young prodigy failed to withstand the Void Realm on their own.
• The Great Dream Divine Mushroom launched its sixth siege on Earthen City, using Mushroom Men, fire springs, and falling peaks to batter its defenses.
• Qin Ming concealed himself among the Mushroom Men, endured the spores, and eventually restored his strength by eating spiritual mushrooms and burning the spores away with controlled divine flames.
• Li Qingyue revealed her Eight Trigrams Furnace armor, searched the forbidden land with He Lian Chengyun and the Present Tathagata, and found no trace of Qin Ming.
• An Earth Immortal emerged from the Blessed Land behind Earthen City and prepared to use the Jade Capital’s power against the Great Dream Divine Mushroom.
• The attack sent ripples through the forbidden land and destroyed countless mushrooms, while Qin Ming rejoiced that he might finally escape and Meng Xinghai mourned him as presumed dead.

Mu Qinghe used Jade Capital Light to defeat the Great Dream Divine Mushroom and save Earthen City while Qin Ming refined Divinity Spores, perfected the Silk Book Method, and broke through to the seventh heaven of the Spiritual Field. Though people believed Qin Ming had died, the Heavenly Inspection Divine Mirror revealed him alive in the wilderness, and an Ancestor brought out his gaunt figure.

• Mu Qinghe emerged as an Earth Immortal and fought the Great Dream Divine Mushroom as his mushroom army attacked Earthen City.
• Qin Ming refined lethal Divinity Spores into medicine, repeatedly tested and adjusted the Silk Book Method, and advanced to the seventh heaven of the Spiritual Field.
• Mu Qinghe used Jade Capital Light to destroy the Great Dream Divine Mushroom and his offspring, ending the siege of Earthen City.
• After Qin Ming was presumed dead, his friends and rivals reacted to the news, and the Cui Household and others welcomed his apparent demise.
• The Heavenly Inspection Divine Mirror detected a living human in the wilderness, and an Ancestor brought out Qin Ming, astonishing everyone.

Qin Empire Ming returned alive from the forbidden region, stunning the people of Night Prefecture and drawing suspicions from Wei Cheng and Helian Zhaoyu. After suppressing them with his Spiritual Field and facing down Little Tathagata, he reunited with friends in Kunlun City, while the Earth Immortal of Earthen City emerged and raised the prospect of Night Prefecture’s unification.

• Qin Empire Ming appeared after Earthen City was unsealed, and Li Qingyue and his acquaintances celebrated his survival as news spread across Night Prefecture.
• The patriarchs confirmed Qin Empire Ming had passed the Heavenly Inspection Divine Mirror, while Cui Chonghe and other young talents regarded him as a formidable rival.
• Wei Cheng and Helian Zhaoyu questioned Qin Empire Ming’s survival, so he challenged them and overwhelmed them with his Spiritual Field; Little Tathagata intervened but retreated after encountering its mushroom-filled visions.
• Yu Gensheng, Li Qingyue, and others stopped Little Tathagata from escalating the confrontation, and Qin Empire Ming left with friends for Kunlun City.
• Qin Empire Ming shared a meal with familiar faces in Kunlun City as the Night Report corrected its claim that he had died.
• The Earth Immortal of Earthen City emerged and inquired into Night Prefecture’s unification, stirring the world.

Qin Ming reunited with friends and met distinguished figures from Earthen City while Night Prefecture learned that Earth Immortal Mu Qinghe was pushing to unify the world. The chapter ended with news that a living Sage connected to the Silk Book Method might return, and Qin Ming was told to prepare to pay his respects.

• Qin Ming celebrated his return with friends and thanked Yu Gensheng and the others for their concern, while Yu Gensheng urged him to keep advancing the New Life Path.
• Gao Chan and Su Moran met Qin Ming at the Imperial View Tower and discussed the mysteries of the world beyond the night fog.
• The Night Report praised Qin Ming's survival, embarrassing him and prompting Xiang Yiwu to complain about the paper's nickname for him.
• Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran briefly fought, revealing that Li Qingyue had mastered Law Manipulation of the Eight Trigrams Furnace and Jiang Ran also wielded a mysterious artifact.
• Mu Qinghe began pressuring major organizations to unify under Jade Capital's will, as rumors spread of other Earth Immortals and a possible Heavenly Immortal entering the Mortal World.
• Qin Ming received a letter from the Past Tathagata Lineage warning that a living Sage connected to the Silk Book Method might return and telling him to prepare to pay his respects.

Qin Ming ignored the growing movement to unify Night Prefecture and focused on studying ancient texts, while the Past Tathagata Lineage grew impatient for him to pay respects. A powerful young man who had mastered Primal Chaos Force arrived and ordered Qin Ming to meet his master.

• Qin Ming dismissed the Past Tathagata Lineage’s demanding letter and chose to remain at Mountain River Academy, where Xin Youdao, Cheng Rui, Wu Yaozu, Xiang Yiwu, and Li Qingyue later gathered with him.
• Mu Qinghe pressed ahead with unifying Night Prefecture as dynasties and major factions declared support, while the living Sage in Pugong reached the Seventh Realm and backed the campaign.
• The Cui Household approached the Past Tathagata Lineage for guidance in Primal Chaos Force, and members of the lineage criticized Qin Ming for failing to pay respects.
• Qin Ming studied rare ancient texts and concluded that perfecting the River Luo Scripture could reveal the Overturning Sea Scripture.
• A strong young man who shared the Silk Book Method’s source entered Qin Ming’s courtyard, claimed his master would grant Qin Ming a heaven-sent opportunity, and told him to come along.