Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming refused Sun Chengjun’s invitation to meet the Past Tathagata Lineage’s Sage, and the two fought over their rival claims to the Chaos Force. Their battle drew onlookers from Mountain River Academy and Kunlun City, and continued as they unleashed powerful Silk Book techniques against each other.

• Sun Chengjun ordered Qin Ming to visit the Past Tathagata Lineage, but Qin Ming refused and suspected the lineage wanted to study his self-taught Chaos Force.
• Sun Chengjun challenged Qin Ming, and the two exchanged attacks with the Mutton Fat Jade Iron Saber and their Chaos Force techniques.
• Yu Gensheng and other Mountain River Academy elders appeared, but Qin Ming insisted on fighting Sun Chengjun himself and demanded that the lineage leave him alone if Sun Chengjun lost.
• Sun Chengjun attacked with the Tathagata Finger while Qin Ming countered with the Golden Crow Illuminating Night Saber, and they traded a rapid succession of powerful blows.
• The battle intensified as Qin Ming used the Wither Bloom Scripture and Sun Chengjun answered with a devastating kick, while Crow Sis sold viewing spots and more spectators gathered.

Qin Ming battled Sun Chengjun at Mountain River Academy, and their clash drew crowds from across Kunlun City. Qin Ming gained the upper hand with his saber and hammer techniques, then discovered he might be able to devour and fuse with Sun Chengjun’s Primal Chaos Heavenly Light.

• Qin Ming and Sun Chengjun fought with saber techniques as spectators flocked to Mountain River Academy.
• Qin Ming broke through Sun Chengjun’s Divine Ring and wounded him with his saber, while Sun Chengjun’s weapon was cleaved apart by Qin Ming’s Severing Heaven Sword Intent.
• Sun Chengjun brought out his Demon Subduing Pestle, and Qin Ming answered with a Black Jade Warhammer.
• Qin Ming and Sun Chengjun traded heavy blows, and Qin Ming overwhelmed him with techniques including the Withered Glory Hammer and Golden Crow Illuminates Night Hammer.
• Qin Ming realized that he might be able to devour and fuse with Sun Chengjun’s Primal Chaos Heavenly Light.

Qin Ming overwhelmed Sun Chengjun in a brutal battle, breaking his weapons and defeating his strongest techniques. As Qin Ming held the kneeling Sun Chengjun at his mercy, elders of the Past Tathagata Lineage discussed Lu Zizai’s expected arrival and learned that he might have left Night Prefecture.

• Qin Ming intensified his assault on Sun Chengjun, who used Golden Body Eternity to withstand the relentless blows but refused to retreat.
• Qin Ming’s Immortal Lotus struck Sun Chengjun’s Heart Lamp, and their weapons collided until Sun Chengjun’s Precious Pestle broke and Qin Ming’s Black Jade Hammer cracked.
• Sun Chengjun continued fighting with Bodhi Palm and other techniques, but Qin Ming shattered his defenses and gravely wounded him with the Earth Magnetism Scripture.
• Qin Ming broke through Sun Chengjun’s Heaven-Burning Spiritual Field and tore apart his Past Tathagata Field, leaving him bloodied and unable to move.
• Qin Ming placed a hand on Sun Chengjun’s head as the defeated disciple knelt before him.
• An elder in the Past Tathagata Lineage’s hall asked when Qin Ming would arrive, while an attendant reported that Lu Zizai might have left Night Prefecture; the elder insisted Lu Zizai would come to the Past Tathagata Hall.

Qin Empire Ming defeated Sun Chengjun before a crowd in Kunlun City, drawing widespread attention, while Wu Mochen attempted to abduct him and was stopped by Yu Gensheng and Li Qingyue. The chapter ended as Lu Yu confronted Past Tathagata at Past Tathagata Hall.

• Qin Empire Ming crushed Sun Chengjun’s resistance, forced him to his knees, and warned him before letting him stand.
• Witnesses across Kunlun City celebrated Qin Empire Ming’s victory, while Su Moran and Gao Chan discussed the limits of his path.
• Wu Mochen tried to capture Qin Empire Ming with a strange cloth bag, but Yu Gensheng confronted him and Li Qingyue pierced his treasure and restrained him.
• A vast figure arrived at Past Tathagata Hall, where Past Tathagata recognized him as Lu Yu.

Six Sovereigns stormed Past Tathagata Hall to confront Past Tathagata over his interest in Lu Zizai, and the two ancestors fought with devastating force. As their duel escalated in the Mist Sea, Past Tathagata revealed a corpse-like figure as his true body and promised to unleash real Chaos Force.

• Six Sovereigns struck Past Tathagata Hall with a colossal finger, and Past Tathagata blocked the blow with his own finger.
• Six Sovereigns accused Past Tathagata of targeting Lu Zizai, then traded devastating attacks with him as both ancestors were wounded.
• Past Tathagata and Six Sovereigns entered the Mist Sea, where Six Sovereigns demanded to crush Past Tathagata’s biological grandson in exchange for ending the dispute.
• Six Sovereigns revealed that his power was Six Royal Force advancing toward Seven Control Force, while Past Tathagata’s force was a mutated form of Past Tathagata Force.
• The ancestors continued their battle with their respective inherited powers, and Past Tathagata recognized that Six Sovereigns had seen the Numinous Sky Palace.
• Past Tathagata revealed a corpse-like figure on a straw mat inside the manifested Past Hall, identified it as his true body, and prepared to show real Chaos Force.

Lu Yu defeated Past Tathagata in the Mist Sea after revealing the power of Mutated Six Royal Force, while Present Tathagata and other Night Prefecture Ancestors joined the confrontation. Past Tathagata fled badly wounded, only to discover that the gathered Ancestors were collecting his flesh and bones for study.

• Past Tathagata's true body emerged from the Past Hall and rebuilt itself from the bloody remains of his temporary vessel as Lu Yu confronted him.
• Lu Yu and Past Tathagata clashed in the Mist Sea, manifesting the Numinous Sky Palace and the Past Hall as their powers shook the surrounding world.
• Past Tathagata unleashed Primal Chaos Force, but Lu Yu endured his attacks and criticized him for failing to cultivate the force to its full potential.
• Past Tathagata used the Past Hall's power to attack Lu Yu's past, but Lu Yu's six forms recovered and struck back with Six Emperors Palm.
• Past Tathagata fled after seeing Lu Yu's seventh form and Present Tathagata arrive, but Lu Yu struck him again and left him severely wounded.
• Present Tathagata, Lu Yu, and other Night Prefecture Ancestors scavenged Past Tathagata's flesh and broken bones, leaving him horrified by the crowd watching in the darkness.

Lu Yu and Night Prefecture’s Ancestors crippled Past Tathagata after he attacked Lu Zizai, while Qin Ming’s victory over Past Tathagata’s successor helped prompt the Ancestors’ intervention. The aftermath alarmed Earthen City and the Outer Domain, and Mu Qinghe opened the way for Jade Capital to offer geniuses entry to the city in the sky as newcomers arrived in Night Prefecture.

• Lu Yu used Past Tathagata to grind away his death aura, then pursued him when he escaped into the Past Hall.
• Night Prefecture’s Ancestors closed in, dismantled the Past Hall, and stripped Past Tathagata of flesh and bones, leaving him crippled and forced into retirement.
• News of the attack spread through the Night Report and the World Report, shocking Night Prefecture, Earthen City, and the Outer Domain.
• Mu Qinghe learned that He Lian Chengyun, Lu Yu, and others wanted Earthen City’s support to open a path into the Night Mist World, then proposed allowing geniuses in Jade Capital’s sphere to enter the city in the sky.
• A White-clothed Youth warned a Red-dressed Woman who had arrived from the Holy Race that Night Prefecture was dangerous, after she asked about the person who had kicked her out of Great Thunderclap Temple.

After Qin Ming learned that Li Qingyue planned to journey to the distant Tushita Palace, he promised to break through to the fourth realm and accompany her, while they clarified their bond as Dao Companions. As Sky City prepared to open and draw prodigies to Night Prefecture, several powerful figures converged on Kunlun City.

• The Cui Household worried that it had backed the wrong side after Qin Ming defeated Sun Chengjun, while Cui Qi reassured the elders that the family had cultivated ties with several factions.
• In Earthen City, Gao Chan told Zhao Chengyu that Sky City would soon accept talents from many regions, and Zhao Chengyu hoped to restore the Past Tathagata Lineage's reputation there.
• Qin Ming learned that Li Qingyue's Eight Trigrams Furnace carried a karmic obligation drawing her to Tushita Palace, a distant and dangerous place beyond Jade Capital's reach.
• Qin Ming offered to reach the fourth realm and travel with Li Qingyue; she warned him against risking himself, and they spoke of being Dao Companions who might meet again at the summit.
• Jiang Ran and Luo Yao overheard Li Qingyue praise Jiang Ran and tease her about marriage, while Su Moran also approached Qin Ming and Li Qingyue.
• News that Sky City would open spread among the Earth Immortals, who sent their juniors toward Night Prefecture, as Gao Chan and other figures headed toward Kunlun City.

Tang Yushang challenged Gao Chan while searching for the people who had defeated her in the Great Thunderclap Temple, then learned that the Sky City would soon open. Qin Ming and his companions headed for the Earthen City as news spread that the event could shape who attained Heavenly Immortal Fruition.

• Tang Yushang mistook Gao Chan for someone she sought and defeated him after he agreed to spar, then asked him about possible matches and learned the Sky City would soon open.
• Gao Chan reached Mountain River Academy and found his fiancée, Su Moran, walking with Qin Ming and offering to lend him scriptures on the Mount Sumeru Field and Heavenly Demon Force Field.
• News of the Sky City’s imminent emergence stirred Night Prefecture and the surrounding territories, while reports said the Ancestors of the various paths were exploring routes to the Otherworld and the Creation Grounds.
• Qin Ming, Li Qingyue, Jiang Ran, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu set out for the Earthen City to register for the Sky City and consider whether they could also pursue the Otherworld expedition.
• Travelers said the contest involved future Heavenly Immortal Fruition and those chosen by the Jade Capital.

At Earthen City, Qin Ming and his companions faced hostility from Outer Domain geniuses competing for places in Sky City. After Qin Ming’s past victory over Qi Yunxiao was exposed, he defeated Liu Zhenghong with his spiritual field, and the Eastern Land group gathered to confront him.

• Qin Ming and his companions arrived near the Otherworld tunnel as Ancestors overseeing its construction were invited into Earthen City.
• Outer Domain youths disparaged Night Prefecture’s young talents, and provocateurs drew Cui Chonghe and Qin Ming into the argument.
• Li Qingyue identified Qi Yunxiao and his companions as the ones secretly smearing Qin Ming, and Wu Yaozu publicly revealed Qin Ming’s past victory over Qi Yunxiao.
• Liu Zhenghong attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming trapped him in the Great Dream Divine Mushroom’s spiritual field and approached to touch his head.
• Geniuses from Eastern Land Earth Immortal Dojos gathered to pressure Qin Ming, while Wu Yaozu, Xiang Yiwu, Jiang Ran, and Li Qingyue took his side.

At the Fire Spring, Qin Ming and his companions faced off against young powerhouses from the Eastern Land’s Earth Immortal Palaces after Qin Ming subdued Liu Zhenghong. The Night Prefecture group swept through the ensuing battles, with Qin Ming defeating the Green-Clad Youth and his allies displaying formidable abilities, while Wu Yaozu’s fight remained unresolved.

• The Green-Clad Youth demanded that Qin Ming release Liu Zhenghong, but Qin Ming cracked Liu Zhenghong’s skull before letting him go.
• Qin Ming, Jiang Ran, Li Qingyue, Xiang Yiwu, and Wu Yaozu each chose opponents from the Eastern Land’s ranks, and the two sides began fighting.
• Qin Ming used the Golden Crow Carrying Saber Style and the Four Saintly Evils to overwhelm the Green-Clad Youth, breaking his weapons and armor and sending him flying.
• Li Qingyue burned her opponent with Six Ding Divine Fire, while Jiang Ran battered the golden-robed youth with Pure Yang Light and the Eight Sceneries Divine Illumination Scripture.
• Xiang Yiwu invoked Several Years, One Reincarnation, revealed a powerful figure behind him, and sent his Fourth Realm opponent flying.
• Wu Yaozu defeated his Third Realm opponent, then waited expectantly for the crowd to give him a flattering nickname, but they called him Yellow Hair.

Wu Yaozu revealed his true strength and helped Night Prefecture defeat every Eastern Land challenger, while Qin Ming and his companions entered Earthen City to learn about the coming Sky City and its rising powers. Qin Ming befriended Bai Meng under a disguise, and the chapter ended as Su Moran arrived to invite Qin Ming while Gao Chan followed behind her.

• Wu Yaozu unsealed his strength, defeated a Fourth Realm heir of Earth Immortal Palace, and helped complete Night Prefecture's sweep of the duels.
• An Ancestor of Night Prefecture announced that a dangerous tunnel would soon open, prompting Outer Domain youths to hurry toward Earthen City.
• Qin Ming recognized Bai Meng and feared that Bai Meng's formidable red-dressed elder sister might recognize him, so he used Thousand Transformations to disguise how he appeared to Bai Meng.
• Qin Ming learned from Bai Meng that his elder sister was highly regarded and that Tang Yushang had been received by Earth Immortal Mu Qinghe, while Jiang Ran and Li Qingyue were invited to Earth Immortal Manor.
• Su Moran arrived to invite Qin Ming, with Gao Chan following behind her.

Su Moran invited Qin Ming, Xiang Yiwu, Wu Yaozu, and Bai Meng to meet Immortal Palace, where they learned about the powers recruiting talented figures and the limits imposed on the New Life Path. In the Five-Colored Immortal Realm, Qin Ming touched the Five-Colored Stele and triggered a bell that awakened beings above the Nine Heavens.

• Su Moran invited Qin Ming and his companions on behalf of Immortal Palace, while Gao Chan left to attend to Cicada Court's selection.
• Su Moran explained that the New Life Path might break limits imposed by Jade Capital and gave Qin Ming a book about several cultivation fields.
• Qin Ming and his companions entered Immortal Palace's White Jade Palace, where Mu Xingyao explained recruitment contracts and the tests for attracting the orthodoxy's attention.
• Mu Xingyao told them that the New Life Path was locked by Jade Capital, and the group entered the Five-Colored Immortal Realm to test their potential.
• Qin Ming crossed five layers of Immortal Mist and touched the Five-Colored Stele, causing the Five-Colored Jade Bell to ring eight times and awaken beings above the Nine Heavens.

Qin Empire Ming’s contact with the Five-Colored Stone Stele helped trigger eight bell chimes and a heavenly search for a ground-born Scorching Sun, though the Torn Cloth obscured the source. As Earthen City’s envoys investigated, Liu Mo sent Big Yellow Dog to offer the Ancestors coordinates to two dying Higher Gods, and a dying Heavenly Immortal began to awaken outside the city.

• Qin Empire Ming absorbed the stele’s Dao resonance until the Torn Cloth severed his connection and drained the stele, while the bell continued ringing to eight chimes through another person.
• Zhou Yan investigated the faded steles and concluded that a youth comparable to heaven’s Scorching Suns had triggered the first four chimes, but outside interference had concealed their identity.
• Mu Qinghe examined the gathered prodigies, found some protected by powerful guardians, and saw three blurry figures leave Earthen City on the Sky-Patrolling Mirror.
• Qin Empire Ming discussed possible candidates with Bai Meng, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu as more Earth Immortals arrived to recruit the youthful prodigies.
• Liu Mo sent Big Yellow Dog to deliver coordinates to the Ancestors, who were digging near Earthen City, and He Lian Chengyun agreed to consider the dangerous site.
• An ominous light spread toward Earthen City, and observers realized that a dying Heavenly Immortal was awakening.

The Night Prefecture ancestors opened a portal to two decayed Heavenly Gods, whom Earthen City identified as fugitives Number Seven and Number Eight, and the city’s forces attacked them. As reinforcements pursued the fugitives through a second portal, Dog Sword Immortal assessed Jade Capital’s response, while Liu Mo suddenly awakened and flew toward the Nine Heavens.

• Dog Sword Immortal watched the Night Prefecture ancestors quickly dig open a broad portal, revealing a hidden lake and two decayed former Heavenly Gods, Patriarch Yuheng and Patriarch Moyuan.
• The Night Prefecture ancestors took Immortal Lotuses and Dragon Blood from the lake, then told Mu Qinghe and Sky City's envoy that the two deities were fugitives Number Seven and Number Eight.
• The envoy and Mu Qinghe rallied visiting Earth Immortals to attack after one fugitive struck at Earthen City and destroyed the first portal; the Night Prefecture ancestors then opened a second portal for the pursuit.
• Sky City reinforcements entered the second portal, while the Night Prefecture ancestors slipped through another opening and Dog Sword Immortal concluded that Jade Capital had not truly revived.
• Liu Mo awakened at Black White Mountain, tore open the night sky with his gaze, and shot toward the Nine Heavens.

Liu Mo entered the ruined Sky City to investigate Jade Capital’s influence and the damaged Golden Palace, while Yuheng and Mo Yuan were hunted over treasures they had unknowingly taken. After the Earth Immortals destroyed the two fugitives with uncontrolled tribulation light, youths from the heavens descended to train on the ground, where Qin Ming and Wu Yaozu confronted their arrogance.

• Liu Mo reached the ruined Golden Palace Above the Nine Heavens, discovered that the Dao Chains had already been severed, and spotted a powerful Gui approaching.
• Yuheng and Mo Yuan learned that Jade Capital was searching for a stone and a scrap of cloth they had taken during their escape, but they could not recover either treasure.
• Night Prefecture’s Ancestors raided the Heavenly God Daoist Grounds while Earth Immortals fought Yuheng and Mo Yuan, then Jade Capital’s instruments unleashed tribulation light that burned the two former Heavenly Gods apart.
• Two days later, youths from the heavens descended to train on the ground, and Su Moran asked Qin Ming, Xiang Yiwu, and Wu Yaozu to guide them.
• Wu Yaozu challenged the youths’ disrespect, and Qin Ming used his Spiritual Field to force them to bow before withdrawing it.
• One girl sincerely asked to become Qin Ming’s disciple, surprising Wu Yaozu and upsetting Su Moran.

Qin Ming accepted Su Mohua as a registered disciple and began teaching her the Nine Heavens Scripture, while learning from her notes and deciding to cultivate the dangerous art himself. As Su Mohua prepared for her first matches against her rivals, Qin Ming sensed that the person refining the heart ape was coming to ambush him in Earthen City.

• Dog Sword Immortal returned to Double Tree Village, where Liu Mo explained that he had guided events in the heavens and was now waiting to see whether a buried seed would revive.
• Su Mohua stubbornly asked Qin Ming to become her master, and after sensing her rare moments of mind clarity, he accepted her as a registered disciple.
• Qin Ming severely wounded a heavenly youth who challenged him, then learned that the ancestors had moved into Earthen City to study the lingering traces of the dispersed True Tribulation Light.
• Su Mohua shared her notes on the Nine Heavens Scripture, and Qin Ming recognized its potential, chose to practice it, and impressed her by answering her difficult questions.
• After half a month of studying the scripture and venturing into the Mind Abyss's hell, Qin Ming sensed the heart ape's refiner approaching to attack him on the eve of Su Mohua's matches.

Qin Ming fought Ape, a white-clothed prodigy who had come to ambush him before Su Mohua’s contest, and the two unleashed powerful scriptures and techniques outside the Earthen City. The chapter ended with Qin Ming’s Heaven-Severing Saber striking Ape and drawing blood.

• Qin Ming sensed Ape’s concealed Five Colors Saber attacks and dodged them before the assassin could land a fatal blow.
• Ape appeared and invited Qin Ming to spar, but Qin Ming recognized his murderous intent and agreed to fight him outside the Earthen City.
• Qin Ming told Su Mohua to watch as he faced Ape, while Wu Yaozu, Xiang Yiwu, and the gathered prodigies followed the fighters.
• Qin Ming and Ape clashed with their Five Colors Saber and Vajra Pestle, then traded attacks using pure yang power, extreme cold, and yin-yang techniques.
• Ape used the Calamity Avoidance Immortal Scripture to evade Qin Ming’s Earth Magnetism Fist, while Qin Ming concentrated his heavenly light into a Heaven-Severing Saber.
• Qin Ming swung his saber through Ape’s defenses, and blood splashed across the battlefield.

Qin Ming defeated and killed the White-clothed Youth, Ape, by combining his Primal Chaos Force with the Esoteric Sect’s Body Refining and Dao Integration Scripture. Afterward, he refined Su Mohua’s consciousness spirit light to strengthen her cultivation, and she emerged ready to follow his example.

• Qin Ming and the White-clothed Youth fought across the snowfield, exchanging attacks with their spiritual fields, scriptures, and pure yang powers.
• The White-clothed Youth used his treasure furnace, Five Blazing Suns, and metal scepter to gain strength, but Qin Ming unleashed his Fundamental Scripture and pierced through his defenses.
• As Qin Ming pursued the White-clothed Youth’s escaping consciousness, the youth launched a surprise attack; Qin Ming broke his arm and destroyed his consciousness and body with his bare hands.
• The Esoteric Sect recognized Qin Ming’s Body Refining and Dao Integration Scripture, and Qin Ming returned to the city after killing the White-clothed Youth.
• Qin Ming led Su Mohua to a secret chamber, where he refined part of her consciousness spirit light into a Golden Core to advance her cultivation.
• After recovering, Su Mohua told Qin Ming she would follow his example.

At the Vermilion Bird Martial Arts Arena, Su Mohua silenced the heavenly youths who had mocked her choice of master by defeating every opponent and taking first place. After she also beat Lü Lin in a friendly duel, Tang Yushang signaled that she wanted Bai Meng to bring Qin Ming to meet her.

• Visitors from Above the Nine Heavens arrived in Earthen City, and Su Mohua's acquaintances mocked her for taking Qin Ming as her master.
• Qin Ming and Bai Meng sat together at the arena, where Tang Yushang recognized Qin Ming as the man she had fought and grew furious at Bai Meng's friendship with him.
• Su Mohua defeated the purple-haired youth with her Pure Yang Flying Sword in her first match.
• Su Mohua won her next matches using a Golden Crow and the Nine Heavens Scripture, then defeated Lü Lin and reached the top.
• Su Mohua comforted Lü Lin after their duel, while Bai Meng told Qin Ming that Tang Yushang wanted him to come meet her.