Chapter Summaries

After Su Mohua won the competition, Qin Ming reflected on the threat posed by the White-clothed Youth’s suspected original, while Tang Yushang’s clash with him was postponed. The chapter ended with Mu Qinghe ordering the newly opened road to the Different World severed after her Bronze Lamp’s flame turned nearly black.

• Tang Yushang confronted Qin Ming at the Vermilion Bird Martial Arts Arena, but Jiang Ran and Li Qingyue offered to spar with her first, postponing her match with Qin Ming.
• Su Mohua took first place and drew praise at the banquet, while Lü Lin and two powerful prodigies from Above the Nine Heavens sought contact with Little Tathagata over Chaos Force.
• Qin Ming examined the White-clothed Youth’s belongings and suspected he was a mind ape cut from a more powerful original, then resolved to raise his cultivation to face the threat.
• The ancestors of Night Prefecture asked Mu Qinghe for help finding resources and opened a road to the Foreign Domain under her supervision.
• Mu Qinghe’s Bronze Lamp flame darkened almost to black, and she urgently ordered the road to the Different World severed.

Mu Qinghe warned the Ancestors of Night Prefecture that their first passage had opened onto a region with dangerous Dao resonance, while she revealed Jade Capital was lost in the void and might be under attack from a Colossal Being. Qin Ming received Feng Zhige and Yan Zhuohua to discuss Chaos Force, and the chapter ended with the Ancestors opening another passage beyond Jade Capital Radiation.

• Mu Qinghe detected alarming Dao resonance in the first passage, and He Lian Chengyun confirmed the Ancestors had already severed it.
• Mu Qinghe told the Ancestors that Jade Capital was lost, had suffered an attack, and might be facing a Colossal Being, but the truth remained unknown.
• Feng Zhige and Yan Zhuohua visited Qin Ming to learn about Chaos Force, and Yan Zhuohua declined to accept a planted chaos seed for the time being.
• Two days later, the Ancestors of Night Prefecture opened another passage, and Mu Qinghe realized its destination lay beyond Jade Capital Radiation.

Qin Ming cultivated the Nine Heavens Scripture by falling into Mind Hell and rising Above the Nine Heavens, but disturbing dreams left him fearing danger and eager to grow stronger. He joined his companions in entering the Otherworld, where they discovered that the stones in its forest were conscious and that one recognized Li Qingyue’s Six Ding Divine Fire.

• The Ancestors of Night Prefecture cautiously tested Bodhi Cave before entering the newly opened passage into the Otherworld.
• Qin Ming fell into Mind Hell while cultivating, inscribed its darkness with his insights, and rose Above the Nine Heavens with a deeper understanding of the scripture.
• While sleeping Above the Nine Heavens, Qin Ming dreamed of enemies and loved ones suffering, woke in alarm, and resolved to explore the Otherworld to strengthen himself.
• Qin Ming learned from Su Mohua that she had sealed the Gate of Hell while cultivating the Nine Heavens Scripture, and he obtained her Guiding Scripture Chapter.
• Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, Xiang Yiwu, Li Qingyue, and Jiang Ran entered Bodhi Cave and arrived in a dark forest beyond Jade Capital.
• The group discovered that stones beneath their feet could feel pain, and one stone recognized the Six Ding Divine Fire in Li Qingyue’s hand and mentioned Tushita Palace.

Qin Ming and his companions explored a forest containing ruins of Divine Capital, fought off two groups of powerful attackers, and encountered an enormous beast. Mysterious forces drew Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran away, then carried Qin Ming on the Torn Cloth through the fog toward a strange, moonlit place.

• Li Qingyue and the others learned that the scattered stones were remnants of Divine Capital, which had fallen from beyond the mortal world.
• Qin Ming's group traveled through the colossal forest and realized that a powerful pursuer was following them.
• Six attackers ambushed Qin Ming, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu, but they and the returning Jiang Ran and Li Qingyue defeated their enemies using their special abilities and weapons.
• A gigantic, thorn-backed beast awoke and fled into an abyss as the Eight Trigrams Furnace carried Li Qingyue away and the Nine-Colored Immortal Robe carried Jiang Ran toward mysterious calls.
• The Torn Cloth suddenly carried Qin Ming into the sky and through dense fog, where he emerged beneath a gentle light he recognized as moon essence.

Torn Cloth led Qin Ming to the Earth Moon, where he found a strange complex containing a Moon Palace, a Golden Palace, and an ancient Colosseum. After the Colosseum awakened and a girl was killed in its arena, beings began arriving through the Mist Gates, while the figure inside the Moon Palace turned around again.

• Torn Cloth guided Qin Ming through a moonlit forest to a moon resting on the ground, which concealed a complex of ancient buildings.
• Qin Ming approached the Golden Palace and Moon Palace, but Torn Cloth warned him away; he glimpsed a motionless woman in the Moon Palace turn her head and unleash blinding light.
• Qin Ming entered the Colosseum, where Southern Blazing Fire lanterns awakened its inscriptions and two figures in the arena.
• An Insect Monster killed the bewildered girl despite her surrender, and voices from eight Mist Gates announced that the Earth Moon and Colosseum had awakened.
• Several beings rushed through the Mist Gates into the Colosseum as the figure inside the Moon Palace slowly turned around.

Qin Ming entered Earth Moon’s Colosseum, learned that its combat trial would determine whether he could become its temporary owner, and defeated nine opponents. After Earth Moon collapsed and joined with the Torn Cloth, he left and spotted Jiang Ran in the distance.

• The creatures in the Colosseum recognized the Torn Cloth as a sacred object that could repair Earth Moon and invited Qin Ming to sit as the sole spectator.
• The giant rabbit explained that Qin Ming had to acknowledge a master or fight his way through nine opponents to leave, and warned him about the dangers of the trial.
• Qin Ming challenged nine creatures, including the Blood Gold Spirit and Nightmare Mother, and defeated them all to become an Earth Moon Temporary Owner.
• Earth Moon vanished after Qin Ming was teleported out, and a piece of exotic-metal cloth joined with the Torn Cloth he carried.
• Qin Ming left the darkening forest and hurried toward Jiang Ran, while the woman in the Moon Palace opened her eyes and looked into the distance.

Qin Ming helped Jiang Ran master the complete Law Manipulation for her Nine-Colored Armor, allowing her to refine a weapon fragment and share the Eight Sceneries Divine Illumination Scripture with him. After the weapon spirit disparaged Qin Ming, he impressed it with his rapid comprehension, and it offered a lingering trace of power from the Divine Capital as a prize for another test.

• A wisp of will above the collapsing Moon Palace reached for Qin Ming, but vanished with the palace before she could harm him.
• Jiang Ran revealed that her Nine-Colored Armor held two conflicting weapon spirits and that her Control All Things ability let her wield it despite incomplete Law Manipulation.
• Qin Ming resonated with the armor and discovered its complete Law Manipulation inscribed on the robe, enabling Jiang Ran to master it, restrain the hostile spirit, and merge another fragment.
• Jiang Ran rewarded Qin Ming with the Eight Sceneries Divine Illumination Scripture, which he studied before challenging the weapon spirit's claim that he could not measure up to its faction.
• Qin Ming instantly understood and demonstrated several techniques the weapon spirit recited, including constructing three patterned lotuses.
• The weapon spirit offered Qin Ming lingering strange power from the fallen corner of the Divine Capital as a prize for another comprehension test, and Qin Ming accepted.

Qin Ming faced the artifact spirit’s tests in the ruins of the Divine Capital and repeatedly surpassed its expectations, mastering the Life Altering Scripture and absorbing heavenly light. The chapter left the artifact spirit stunned as Qin Ming manifested eight sacred fiends at once.

• The artifact spirit taught Qin Ming an ancient body-tempering method, but Qin Ming improved it immediately and left the spirit frustrated.
• The artifact spirit presented the Life Altering Scripture’s diagrams and pages, and Qin Ming comprehended them despite pretending to struggle at first.
• The artifact spirit tested Qin Ming with nearly twenty types of heavenly light, which he absorbed as nourishment for his cultivation.
• The artifact spirit proposed testing Qin Ming with simulated sacred fiends, but Qin Ming manifested the earth, fire, wind, and water fiends himself.
• Qin Ming added metal and wood sacred fiends, then revealed the Yin-Yang Sacred Fiend and manifested Eight Saints Descend, leaving both artifact spirits astonished.

Qin Ming gathered Thunder Fiends and other Calamity Qi in the Otherworld, using his nine Sacred Fiends to break through to the eighth level of the Spiritual Field. After reuniting with Jiang Ran, Li Qingyue, Wu Yaozu, and Xiang Yiwu, he cultivated Six Ding Divine Fire on his own, astonishing the artifact spirit.

• Qin Ming refused to bind himself to the unknown artifact spirit’s faction, then traveled with Jiang Ran to the region where ancient Calamity Qi remained.
• Qin Ming gathered Thunder Fiends underground and fused them with his eight existing Sacred Fiends, reaching the Nine Completions and advancing to the eighth level of the Spiritual Field.
• The artifact spirit warned Qin Ming that body cultivation without Soul Refinement could lead to decline and offered to teach him the Six Desires Sacred Fire Chapter, but Qin Ming chose to pursue Six Ding Divine Fire instead.
• Qin Ming and Jiang Ran found Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu unharmed, then met Li Qingyue, who revealed that the Eight Trigrams Furnace had merged with a wisp of an artifact spirit.
• Qin Ming cultivated Six Ding Divine Fire from the region’s fire calamity, and the unknown artifact spirit was astonished by his achievement.

Qin Empire Ming and his companions gained treasures and new knowledge from the ruins before escaping as Blood Sword Immortals and a decayed Heavenly God threatened them. They returned to Night Prefecture to find Jade Capital had issued a decree, leaving the group facing an unexplained crisis at home.

• The artifact spirits argued over Jiang Ran and Qin Empire Ming, while the Eight Trigrams Furnace revealed secret Six Ding Divine Fire annotations that let him cultivate without harming his Consciousness Spirit Light.
• Qin Empire Ming absorbed the essence of dangerous Fire Calamity flames as his companions gathered Thunder Fiend, Fire Calamity, and other treasures underground.
• After eight days, Jiang Ran, Li Qingyue, Qin Empire Ming, and the others decided to leave when violence increased around the sealed ruins.
• The group fought through several encounters and clashed with Blood Sword Immortals who appeared to be controlled, while Night Prefecture's Ancestors called for an immediate retreat.
• Night Prefecture's Ancestors fled pursuit from a terrifying giant hand and a possible decayed Heavenly God, then collapsed Bodhi Cave and escaped through a Void Tunnel.
• Back in Night Prefecture, the returning group learned that Jade Capital had issued a decree.

As rumors spread that the Jade Capital’s decree might come from its unknown adversary, Qin Ming was pulled into spirit travel and tested among weapon fragments in a Giant Palace. The next night, he was drawn toward a different destination and saw a majestic city submerged in black mist.

• Su Mohua told Qin Ming that black mist surrounded the Jade Capital and that some Earth Immortals feared its decree came from an unknown adversary.
• Qin Ming was forced into spirit travel, followed a misty road to a Giant Palace, and heard a voice declare that the Jade Capital favored those who forged new paths.
• Stars, moons, and suns descended into the palace as weapon fragments, and Qin Ming failed to gain any weapon’s recognition.
• Qin Ming fought monstrous beasts on his way back, while Little Wu and Xiang Yiwu described their own dangerous spirit-travel encounters.
• Qin Ming was pulled into spirit travel again the following night and saw a majestic city submerged in black mist.

Qin Ming entered the ruined Chosen Land, where lingering power from an ancient adversary transformed ordinary creatures and objects into deadly threats. After encountering what seemed to be evidence that the Jade Capital’s old methods had weakened, he was confronted by Cui Chongxiao, who recognized him and attacked.

• Qin Ming arrived at the Chosen Land, learned it had been destroyed by an adversary eight thousand years earlier, and was sent into its ruins as part of a trial.
• Qin Ming fought an Ink Spider empowered by its prayers, then killed it with the Measuring God Ruler and fire techniques.
• Qin Ming survived an attack by transformed wind chimes and childlike figures, using the Torn Cloth and a barrage of punches to destroy them.
• Qin Ming saw ancient scripture pages burn away and suspected the Jade Capital’s old arts had lost their power against its adversary.
• A tall stranger attacked Qin Ming and cut apart his Rune Golden Rope; Qin Ming recognized him as Cui Chongxiao, who claimed he would purify him before advancing to kill.

Qin Ming fought Cui Chongxiao in the Night Mist World until Li Qingyue rescued him with the Eight Trigrams Furnace. After a cricket warned that the Colossal Being was using Pathfinders, Cao Qianqiu attacked the ruins and forced everyone out of Spirit Travel, whereupon the Inverted Jade Capital appeared above Earthen City.

• Qin Ming fought Cui Chongxiao with his strongest arts, but Cui Chongxiao's deeper cultivation and Inner Landscape kept him on the defensive.
• Li Qingyue arrived and trapped Cui Chongxiao in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, allowing Qin Ming and Li Qingyue to destroy him.
• Qin Ming encountered creatures that called him an Abyssal Demon, then suspected his enemies were illusions shaped by his own thoughts.
• A cricket warned Qin Ming that the Colossal Being sought to devour all arts and needed Pathfinders, and the apparent master behind Xin Yuan vanished.
• Cao Qianqiu attacked Qin Ming as the creature that had brought them to the ruins ordered an immediate retreat, ending everyone's Spirit Travel.
• The Inverted Jade Capital appeared outside Earthen City, and Qin Ming awoke to the alarming disturbance.

As Jade Capital’s strange manifestations spread panic through Night Prefecture, Li Qingyue fought Cui Chongxiao and intercepted travelers she suspected might threaten Qin Ming. Qin Ming set out for home, but the chapter ended as Jade Capital exploded beyond the heavens.

• The Ancestors and many other residents fled Earthen City as reflections of Jade Capital appeared amid the blizzard and scarlet lightning.
• Li Qingyue fought Cui Chongxiao with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, drove him back, and warned him against targeting her.
• Li Qingyue intercepted Yuan and Tang Yushang; Bai Meng realized Qin Ming had deceived him, but Tang Yushang stopped him from going after Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming left Kunling for home and planned to visit Black White Mountain before entering secluded cultivation.
• A hole opened in the sky as red snow and lightning spread across Night Prefecture, and observers saw Jade Capital explode.

Jade Capital and the Colossal Being both fell, bringing catastrophic destruction and strange changes to Night Prefecture. As Qin Empire Ming traveled toward Red Haze City and Black White Mountain, he encountered new supernatural threats and was confronted by a red sedan chair claiming to carry a Heavenly Immortal.

• Jade Capital shattered and the Colossal Being disintegrated, sending fragments crashing down and destroying cities across Night Prefecture.
• After two days of unnatural darkness and violent winds, Qin Empire Ming heard reports of bizarre phenomena and lost cities, while the Great Crow returned to warn him of thirteen Human-Skin Kites.
• Qin Empire Ming and the Great Crow set out toward Red Haze City and Black White Mountain, then encountered an old man in white who vanished into ash and a Gui that Qin Empire Ming struck with his Exotic Metal Small Sword.
• Qin Empire Ming descended to travel through the snow after spotting strange creatures in the clouds, while a red sedan chair followed them through the sky.
• Qin Empire Ming met six ancient traveling merchants and tried to speak with them, but a voice from the red sedan chair demanded that he kneel before a Heavenly Immortal.

Qin Ming survived a dangerous journey through Night Prefecture as the fall of Jade Capital brought the Night Ruins and other strange phenomena into reality. He returned to Red Haze City, where factions raced to claim newly emerged treasures and a flower of earth immortal drew powerful experts toward a forbidden land.

• A headless Red-dressed Woman questioned Qin Ming about his replica of the Torn Cloth, recognized his Six Ding Divine Fire, and withdrew after mistaking him for a true disciple of Tushita Palace.
• Qin Ming learned that the Night Ruins lay behind the Night Mist World in multiple layers, and that the thinning mist was allowing strange beings and scenes to enter reality.
• The Great Crow stopped carrying Qin Ming at Luofu City, so Qin Ming traveled alone through dangerous roads and reached Red Haze City after several close encounters.
• News of the Pure Yang Flower spread after the Old Palace Master of Pure Yang Palace used it to break through to the Sixth Realm, spurring factions and outsiders to search Night Prefecture for treasures.
• Qin Ming returned safely to Red Haze City, learned that unusual glowing areas had appeared near Black White Mountain, and asked Meng Xinghai to help scout the mountains.
• The discovery of a flower of earth immortal in a forbidden land drew Earth Immortals and other powerful figures, despite warnings that the land's core connected to the Night Ruins.

Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai followed several visiting factions into Black White Mountain to investigate its newly appeared treasures. After the Northern Barrens saber wielders triggered a deadly bamboo grove, Qin Ming ambushed the survivors and killed two young saber wielders and Cui He.

• Meng Xinghai received saber wielders from the Northern Barrens and visitors from the Eastern Land, while Qin Ming concealed his identity and learned that Qi Yunzheng wanted to find him.
• Qin Ming returned to Double Tree Village, recruited the Thunder King Bird, the Talking Finch, and the Red Squirrel, and brought them back to help monitor the mountain expeditions.
• The groups entered Black White Mountain, where the Talking Finch gathered intelligence from local birds and Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai followed the Northern Barrens saber wielders to a glowing red-and-gold bamboo grove.
• The saber wielders triggered the grove's spiritual field while trying to harvest its shoots, suffering deaths and injuries before the survivors fled.
• Qin Ming pursued the two young saber wielders and killed them with his Mutton Fat Jade Iron Saber, then intercepted Cui He and split him apart with one strike.

Qin Ming comprehended the red and gold bamboo grove’s natural spiritual field and used its Dao resonance to approach a breakthrough while others mistook him for a growing treasure bamboo shoot. The Cui Household and the old saber wielder joined forces to claim the supposed treasure, just as Qin Ming prepared to emerge.

• Qin Ming killed Cui He and several other pursuers, then arranged the scene to disguise what had happened.
• The Cui Household and the old saber wielder clashed over the deaths, but both denied killing the other’s people and withdrew without resolving the conflict.
• Qin Ming studied the bamboo grove’s natural spiritual field, mastered its principles, and used Dao resonance to cultivate toward the final heaven of the spiritual field realm.
• The old saber wielder returned to the mountains, while his followers mistook Qin Ming beneath the earth for a humanoid treasure bamboo shoot.
• The old saber wielder seized six Blood Ginseng plants from the Cui Household, then agreed to cooperate with Cui Wu after both groups discovered the supposed treasure.
• Qin Ming withstood their attack, contracted the spiritual field around himself, and neared a breakthrough as the two groups followed the receding field toward him.

Qin Ming used the contracted spiritual field to ambush the Cui Household and Foreign Domain saber wielders, then killed the survivors who remained in the bamboo forest. After Meng Xinghai helped stop their escape, Qin Ming killed the old saber wielder and Cui Wu, leaving the rest of the group dead.

• Qin Ming unleashed the spiritual field on Cui Wu, the old saber wielder, and their followers, killing or gravely injuring most of them.
• Cui Shuning recognized Qin Ming, but he controlled her with heavenly light and forced her to bludgeon surviving Cui Household members and Foreign Domain saber wielders before beheading her.
• Meng Xinghai blocked the escape routes, and the Thunder King Bird and Qin Ming's other companions killed the fleeing survivors.
• Qin Ming beheaded the old saber wielder after exchanging blows with him.
• Qin Ming battered Cui Wu with a great hammer until he smashed his head apart.

Qin Ming cultivated in a red-and-gold bamboo grove, killed Qi Yunzheng and Jiang Tingxue after they attacked, and returned to Red Haze City to prepare for the Heart Lamp realm. Meanwhile, Cui Chonghe grew stronger and challenged his father’s warning not to confront Qin Ming.

• Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai harvested red-and-gold shoots, and Red Squirrel ate them and transformed into a three-headed, six-armed creature.
• Qin Ming and his companions cultivated in the grove’s natural spiritual field, where he discovered an unusual stone was nearing the end of its power and advanced to the peak of the Spiritual Field realm.
• Qi Yunzheng threw a boulder at the grove, so Qin Ming pursued him and Jiang Tingxue and fought them with his saber and spiritual field.
• Qin Ming killed Qi Yunzheng and Jiang Tingxue, then returned to Red Haze City with Meng Xinghai and the others.
• Cui Chonghe told Father Cui that his teacher’s medicines had strengthened him and that he had broken through again, while Qin Ming declared that the Heart Lamp realm was within reach.