Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming witnessed the worsening night horrors, learned that cities were becoming isolated, and discovered that Fire Springs could repel the monsters. After helping reopen roads and reaching Bright City, he found Cui Ming’s group falsely claiming credit for saving it, and confronted them.

• Qin Ming saw a severed woman’s head and a battered vermilion coffin drifting across the sky, then learned from Meng Xinghai that bizarre phenomena were spreading and cities might become isolated.
• Qin Ming realized his Extraordinary Arts might require special environments to reveal their Secret Treasures, but his search for an Old Traveling Merchant in the wilderness failed.
• Qin Ming helped Talking Finch and Thunder King Bird transform with precious bamboo shoots, while Meng Xinghai reported that an ancient coffin had swallowed the leader of an Eastern Land group in the mountains.
• After learning that Fire Springs could drive back ghosts and monsters, Qin Ming opened the road to Double Tree Village and reunited with Palm-Sized Bright Pig in the desert.
• Qin Ming, Meng Xinghai, and Palm-Sized Bright Pig fought their way along the road to Bright City, where they discovered that Cui Ming’s group had arrived earlier and falsely claimed to have saved the city.
• Meng Xinghai accused Cui Ming of stealing their credit, and Qin Ming raised his Black Jade Warhammer against him.

Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai uncovered the Cui Household’s scheme to control Night Ruins creatures and lure them into a trap, then launched a counterattack that killed Cui Ming and Cui Chongyue and overwhelmed the household’s forces. Cui San escaped a terrifying Night Ruins monster but was surrounded by Qin Ming, Meng Xinghai, and Palm-Sized Bright Pig, while Cui Chonghe traveled toward Bright City unaware of the massacre.

• Cui Ming and the Cui Household claimed they had protected Bright City, but Meng Xinghai and Qin Ming withdrew after exposing their hypocrisy.
• Sun Hui explained that he could control creatures from the Night Ruins, and Qin Ming discovered that the Cui Household had sent those creatures after them.
• Qin Ming learned the Cui Household believed he possessed a special weapon and led the group into a counterattack, killing Sun Hui before he could summon more creatures.
• Cui San was badly wounded by an old man carrying a white paper lantern, while Meng Xinghai and Palm-Sized Bright Pig attacked the Cui Household’s forces.
• Qin Ming killed Cui Chongyue and Cui Ming with his Black Jade Warhammer, turning the battle against the Cui Household.
• Cui San reached the battlefield and found his household defeated, then Qin Ming, Meng Xinghai, and Palm-Sized Bright Pig closed in on him as Cui Chonghe traveled toward Bright City.

Qin Ming learned that Jade Capital was nearing its return and gathered news about the cultivation upheaval and the rankings that would determine entry. After traveling to a sacred highland, he obtained the Earth Virtue Scripture and set out for a rare-metal vein to pursue the next secret scripture.

• Yao Ruoxian told Qin Ming that Jade Capital might reward its first entrants with immense power, while older experts struggled to adapt to changes in heaven and earth.
• The Thunder King Bird tried to become aloof after romantic rejection, then injured Yao Ruoxian’s favorite Thunder Royal Bird and later fought several mounts from Sky City.
• At Yao Chengyu’s gathering, Qin Ming learned that chaos-force successors might challenge him, met Lu Chengyuan, and heard that Jade Capital would soon issue rankings and rewards for those who advanced new paths.
• Qin Ming traveled southeast with Yao Ruoxian and her group, reaching a highland rich in earthly essence after a difficult journey through dangerous regions.
• Qin Ming opened a Secret Treasure, entered an earthen-yellow palace through spirit travel, obtained the Earth Virtue Scripture, and left for the rare-metal vein to seek the metal-attribute scripture.

Qin Ming joined Yao Ruoxian’s patrol, discovered the Silkworm Emperor Golden Metal Scripture in a mine, and learned that the demon faction had seized Gengjin City and enslaved nearby villagers. After confirming the Jade Emperor was among the invaders, Qin Ming and the others prepared to attack them.

• Qin Ming’s companions suspected he had obtained the Earth Virtue Scripture, and Yao Ruoxian ordered them to keep the secret as they crossed a Night Ruins overlap.
• Qin Ming and Yao Ruoxian encountered Night Ruins-eroded settlements and a silver-ringed being that claimed the Night Ruins offered a path to salvation before a gigantic hand dragged it and a town away.
• Yao Ruoxian’s party found demons slaughtering villagers and learned that their forces had enslaved people across the region and seized Gengjin City for its rare metals.
• Qin Ming entered a mine, obtained the Silkworm Emperor Golden Metal Scripture, and judged that he still needed the Overturning Sea Scripture before attempting to enter the heart lamp realm.
• Yao Ruoxian’s party confirmed that the demons occupying Gengjin City were their old enemies from God's Fall Plain, including the Jade Emperor, and Qin Ming called for them to be killed.

Qin Ming helped Yao Ruoxian’s forces defeat the demons occupying Gengjin City, then followed their trail to a sea inside the Night Ruins. There, the River Luo Scripture stirred within him, and he realized the sea might help him break through to the fourth realm.

• Qin Ming and Yao Ruoxian’s reinforcements attacked the City Lord’s Manor, killing the demon lackeys who were bringing children to be used as blood food.
• Qin Ming killed four heavenly demon seeds and their followers while Zhuo Qing and Qilian City fought the two demon masters; the humans ultimately killed every demon in Gengjin City.
• Qin Ming questioned captured demons and learned that the Jade Emperor trained with the waves in a sea within the Night Ruins, then set out for the Earth Secret Aperture.
• Yao Ruoxian arrived at the Earth Secret Aperture and learned that Qin Ming had already entered the Night Ruins.
• Qin Ming reached the ocean, felt the River Luo Scripture circulate, and recognized the place as an opportunity to break through to the fourth realm.

Qin Empire Ming comprehended the River Luo Scripture in the Night Ruins, discovered the Sea Falls and the thirty-six layers of heaven, and claimed the Overturning Sea Scripture and precious sea essence. He returned to reality and broke through the Heavenly Gate, only to be surrounded by Jade Emperor and the Sea Clan, who decided to kill him.

• Qin Empire Ming used the River Luo Scripture to resist the Night Ruins’ erosion and witnessed sea creatures attempting to ascend through the Sea Falls toward the second layer of heaven.
• Qin Empire Ming learned from a conch demon that the local beings believed the Night Ruins were the first layer of heaven, with thirty-six layers in all.
• Qin Empire Ming found the Overturning Sea Scripture in a Coral Palace, gathered blue spiritual liquid, and sensed danger approaching in reality.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to his body and broke through the Heavenly Gate as his body and spirit began undergoing Nirvana.
• Qin Empire Ming was surrounded by Jade Emperor, the Sea Clan County Princess, the Beaver Cat, the Golden Scale Crab, and the Seven-Colored Fish youth, who sought to seize his Treasured Medicine and kill him.
• Qin Empire Ming drew the Measuring God Ruler and vowed to execute everyone blocking his path.

Qin Ming was trapped in Yun Shuyao’s Golden Shell Furnace, where he completed his Nirvana and broke into the Fourth Realm’s One Heart Lamp stage. He defeated the Sea Clan attackers and the Jade Emperor, then looked toward a spectacular new sight appearing across the Night Ruins World.

• Hai Chengyu and the Sea Clan sent waves of sea monsters against Qin Ming, but Qin Ming cut the attackers and the ocean apart with the Measuring God Ruler.
• The Jade Emperor attacked Qin Ming, while Yun Shuyao and the Sea Clan joined the battle and captured him in a Shell Coffin before sealing him inside the Golden Shell Furnace.
• Qin Ming absorbed the Southern Blazing Fire and the sea-borne medicine, completed his rebirth, and broke free from the furnace as a Fourth Realm cultivator.
• Qin Ming destroyed the Jade Emperor’s sword attacks and wounded Hai Chengyu, then slew Hai Chengyu, Yun Shuyao, the Golden Scale Crab, and many Sea Clan creatures.
• The Jade Emperor was gravely wounded as Qin Ming swept through his remaining enemies, and Qin Ming noticed a breathtaking change in the sea and sky of the Night Ruins World.

Qin Empire Ming survived the horrors of Night Ruins at midnight, defeated the Jade Emperor and the Sea Clan reinforcements, and returned to Night Prefecture with an array of extraordinary seafood. He left the Heavenly Maiden a message through the spared Cat-eared Girl and ended the chapter preparing a seafood hotpot with Yao Ruoxian and her companions.

• As midnight transformed Night Ruins into a sea of ghosts, coffins, corpses, and falling heads, Qin Empire Ming killed the Golden Scale Crab and questioned Yun Shuyao about the broken firmament.
• The Jade Emperor attacked Qin Empire Ming with his Demon Sword and Path of Entrusted Sword, but Qin Empire Ming broke the sword, studied the technique, and killed him.
• Qin Empire Ming killed Yun Shuyao when her cousin and Sixth Uncle emerged from the sea, then defeated and killed both Sea Clan experts using the Five-Elements Light Wheel.
• Qin Empire Ming spared the wounded Cat-eared Girl to carry a message to the Heavenly Maiden, collected Sea Clan bodies as provisions, and left Night Ruins for Night Prefecture.
• Yao Ruoxian met Qin Empire Ming at the Earth Secret Aperture, and he invited her and her companions to a seafood hotpot, identifying one unusual ingredient as the Jade Emperor's leg.

Qin Empire Ming treated Yao Ruoxian to a feast made from Jade Emperor, then returned to Black White Mountain and revealed that he had reached the Heart Lamp Realm. As the Jade Capital Prototype and its promise of rewards reshaped Night Prefecture, Liu Mo’s golden spirit appeared before Qin Empire Ming and Meng Xinghai with a scripture.

• Qin Empire Ming served Jade Emperor as a meal to Yao Ruoxian and her companions, and Zhuo Qing learned that he had slain the Demon Race prodigy.
• Qin Empire Ming let Yao Ruoxian and Zhuo Qing believe he had reached the Eighth Heaven of the Spiritual Field while concealing his true cultivation.
• Cao Qianqiu warned Li Qingxu that the changed world offered a chance to rise, then sent him out with an unruly descendant who could defeat formidable enemies.
• Yao Ruoxian completed her inspection as Fire Springs reawakened, Night Ruins creatures retreated, and reports confirmed that the Jade Capital Prototype had appeared.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to Black White Mountain, where Meng Xinghai learned he had reached the Heart Lamp Realm and warned him that Cui Chongxiao had visited the area.
• Liu Mo sent his golden spirit to Qin Empire Ming and Meng Xinghai, manifested a black-and-white scripture, and said he had little time left.

Liu Mo imparted the complete Black White Scripture to Qin Ming, then revealed that he was leaving to attempt nirvana and entrusted his family to Qin Ming, Meng Xinghai, and the mutated birds. After Liu Mo departed, the changing world opened routes to empty Divine Cities and Immortal Towns above the Nine Heavens, and Qin Ming considered ascending to test himself.

• Liu Mo manifested the complete Black White Scripture, and Qin Ming comprehended its teachings deeply enough to form a Black-and-White Taiji Diagram while Meng Xinghai struggled to understand it.
• Liu Mo guided Meng Xinghai, Qin Ming, Red Squirrel, Talking Finch, and Thunder King Bird through the scripture, then asked them to protect his wife and young son while he pursued nirvana.
• Liu Mo warned Qin Ming about Jade Capital, hostile powers, and the danger of becoming entangled in Dao Chains before departing on his Black and White Diagram.
• Qin Ming and Meng Xinghai cleared Night Ruins creatures around Double Tree Village and traveled as far as Maple Leaf City while people across Night Prefecture purged the land.
• The new rankings revealed that empty Divine Cities and Immortal Towns above the Nine Heavens offered opportunities, and strange towns on the ground provided routes to reach them.
• Powerful figures began ascending to heaven, and Qin Ming grew eager to test himself against Little Tathagata, Cui Chongxiao, and the others.

Qin Empire Ming traveled by Spirit Travel from Red Town to an Immortal Town Above the Nine Heavens, where he discovered that powerful old cultivators were competing for First Realm rankings alongside newcomers. He considered testing his own standing as prodigies and Ancestors rushed back to defend their positions.

• Qin Empire Ming decided to ascend to the heavens after learning that ranked cultivators received powerful rewards, and Meng Xinghai explained that only the New Ranking had names on it so far.
• Qin Empire Ming entered Red Town, boarded an azure wooden boat in a Scarecrow body, and passed through a Li Fire vortex to reach the Nine Heavens.
• Qin Empire Ming entered the First Realm Immortal Town and saw the dangerous Night Mist Sea, including an ancient Old Woman and a Lush Green Leaf caught in the Astral Wind.
• Qin Empire Ming used the Eye of New Life to recognize that many apparent First Realm cultivators had concealed their true cultivation, including Grandmasters and other old monsters competing for ranking rewards.
• Qin Empire Ming saw Pei Shuyan, Helian Yaoqing, Cheng Sheng, Zhao Qingcheng, Little Tathagata, and Cui Chonghe among the competitors, while prodigies rushed back to protect their ranking positions.
• Qin Empire Ming became intrigued by the New Ranking and considered testing how high he could place.

Qin Ming entered the First Realm ranking and quickly rose from one hundredth to fiftieth place, drawing attention with a decisive victory. He then challenged the third-ranked expert, leaving his bold attempt unresolved.

• Qin Ming learned that people in Immortal Town freely borrowed names and that the new ranking tested contenders through recorded combat images and Sword Fighting Platform battles.
• Qin Ming defeated the image of the hundredth-ranked fighter, who conceded, while the Bodhi Saint beat the ninth-ranked expert and took his place.
• Qin Ming challenged the fiftieth-ranked woman, shattered her avatars and attacks with one sword strike, and entered the top fifty after she declined to fight in person.
• The Bodhi Saint defeated the seventh-ranked expert and announced that he would next challenge the fifth-ranked fighter.
• Qin Ming bypassed the experts the Bodhi Saint was challenging and stepped onto the platform to challenge the third-ranked expert, wondering whether he had been overconfident.

Qin Ming defeated Heavenly Venerate and the first-ranked Giant Spirit God, rising from third place to claim the top of the new ranking. The Giant Spirit God conceded before Qin Ming could face his true body, leaving the ranking newly rewritten.

• Qin Ming blocked Heavenly Venerate's test punch and qualified to fight his true body, who arrived at the Sword Fighting Platform.
• Qin Ming and Heavenly Venerate fought with their body-cultivation techniques, and Qin Ming used Four Royals Force to breach Heavenly Venerate's Golden Body and defeat him.
• The new ranking promoted Qin Ming to third place, while Bodhi Saint won his match and moved to sixth.
• Qin Ming passed over Guanghan, who had returned to the second platform, and challenged the top-ranked Giant Spirit God.
• Qin Ming's heavenly-light saber cut through the Giant Spirit God's Flesh-and-Blood Divine Light, prompting the Giant Spirit God to concede and the new ranking to place Qin Ming first.

Qin Ming, disguised as Taiyi, claimed the top spot in the first realm and left behind a blade light that defeated several powerful challengers. He reached the second realm, where the rankings revealed formidable opponents ahead, including the Heavenly Immortal and the Lord of Jade Capital.

• Qin Ming chose to defer his first-realm reward, refused to leave behind a new technique, and departed while onlookers treated him as an ancient senior.
• Qin Ming reached the second-realm city, where former companions failed to recognize him as Taiyi and Little Tathagata suspected that Pugong's Old Ancestor had arrived.
• Qin Ming examined the second-realm rankings and saw the Heavenly Immortal in second place and the Lord of Jade Capital at the top.
• A Master told Qin Ming that his remaining blade light had defeated the Heavenly Venerate, and reports followed that Guanghan and the Bodhi Saint had also lost their challenges.
• Qin Ming considered whether he could defeat the Heavenly Immortal and the Lord of Jade Capital as he looked toward the road ahead.

Qin Empire Ming changed identities to Realm Faction and rapidly climbed the Second Realm rankings, defeating Helian Zhaoyu, Zhou Tiandao, and other powerful opponents. After Heavenly Immortal effortlessly injured the newly ranked third-place Heavenly Dipper, Realm Faction challenged her, and their clash began.

• Su Yuxiao advised Qin Empire Ming to change identities, and Qin Empire Ming left the First Realm ranking before returning to the City Lord's Manor.
• Qin Empire Ming borrowed a Wooden Man, adopted the name Realm Faction, and entered the Second Realm rankings by defeating the expert ranked ninety-fifth.
• Helian Zhaoyu challenged Realm Faction, but Qin Empire Ming broke his divine manifestations and defeated him, then advanced through several higher-ranked opponents.
• Realm Faction defeated Zhou Tiandao, known on the ranking as Pure Yang, and went on to defeat the expert ranked twentieth.
• Heavenly Dipper defeated Beast and challenged Heavenly Immortal, who wounded him with a single finger strike and forced him to concede.
• Realm Faction challenged Heavenly Immortal, and her jade-white finger descended as Qin Empire Ming's Black and White Diagram slashed upward to meet it.

Qin Empire Ming, fighting as Wooden Man for the Realm Faction, defeated Heavenly Immortal in a fierce battle by turning his Divine Spirit Pure Land into a tribulation that destroyed her. He challenged the Lord of Jade Capital next, but no opponent appeared, and the New Ranking placed Wooden Man first.

• Qin Empire Ming wounded Heavenly Immortal’s projected form, qualifying to duel her true body as nearby spectators gathered to watch.
• Heavenly Immortal confronted Qin Empire Ming and revealed her mastery of both the Immortal Path and the Body Cultivator path, while the two exchanged increasingly powerful attacks.
• Qin Empire Ming formed a Divine Spirit Pure Land and used Esoteric Sect methods alongside his Black-and-White Taiji Diagram to withstand Heavenly Immortal’s techniques.
• Heavenly Immortal unleashed Heavenly Immortal Descends and entered Qin Empire Ming’s Pure Land, where he summoned calamities that destroyed her immortal light and killed her.
• Qin Empire Ming challenged the Lord of Jade Capital, but no phantom appeared, and the New Ranking placed Wooden Man, Realm Faction, at the top.

Qin Empire Ming won the Second Realm ranking as Wooden Man, learned why the Lord of Jade Capital had vanished, and saved his rewards for later. He entered the Third Realm, where he spotted familiar rivals and began challenging the rankings, starting with Cui Qi.

• The New Ranking announced that the Lord of Jade Capital's phantom could not appear because he had vanished, possibly because he came from beyond Jade Capital's reach or was rejected by the Jade Capital Prototype.
• Heavenly Immortal gave Wooden Man Conch Jade and invited him to communicate and discuss the Dao, while Qin Empire Ming inspected his rewards and chose to keep accumulating them.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to Red Haze City, celebrated his Second Realm victory with Meng Xinghai, then traveled to the Third Realm the next day.
• Qin Empire Ming surveyed the Third Realm's top-ranked fighters, heard that Wooden Man had defeated other challengers in God's Pure Land, and began challenging from the bottom of the ranking.
• Qin Empire Ming recognized his first opponent, Cui Qi, and wondered whether Cui Chonghe and Cui Chongxiao would fight him if he defeated their father.

Qin Empire Ming defeated Cui Qi on the Sword Fighting Platform and took the mysterious Yellow Soil from him, then adopted the name One Sword Cleaves Through Thirty-Six Heavens and won a series of challenges. Cui Chonghe finally stepped onto the platform, setting the stage for a direct confrontation with Qin Empire Ming.

• Qin Empire Ming defeated Cui Qi after breaking his God's Pure Land and Longevity Spirit Field, then seized Cui Qi's mysterious Yellow Soil and knocked him off the platform.
• Qin Empire Ming appeared on the New Ranking as One Sword Cleaves Through Thirty-Six Heavens and defeated the expert ranked eightieth, Gu Yanci, with Sacred Fiend and the Five Elements Secret Canon.
• Gu Yanci returned with three experts, and Qin Empire Ming fought them in turn and killed them on the platform.
• Cui Chonghe, alerted by Cui Qi that he had lost a treasure related to his Dao Path, stepped onto the platform in a changed form and challenged Qin Empire Ming.

Qin Ming fought Cui Chonghe on the Sword Fighting Platform, revealing that his sword techniques far surpassed what his ranking suggested. The chapter ended as Qin Ming unleashed the Six Paths Samsara Sword and Cui Chonghe faced its unseen sword intent.

• Cui Chonghe opened the duel with the Primordial Dao Lamp, but Qin Ming’s sword fiend tides overwhelmed it.
• Cui Chonghe attacked with Pure Yang Divine Nails, a blue lotus, and a treasure body with eight arms, while Qin Ming countered with fire, wind, lightning, and metal sword fiend.
• Cui Chonghe used the Undying Immortal Scripture and Ascension by Soaring Haze Art, but Qin Ming’s sword-light threads shattered his clones and wounded his true body.
• Cui Chonghe invoked several true scriptures and challenged Qin Ming to break techniques with one sword, so Qin Ming withdrew his layered sword fiend and struck with the Longevity Sword Intent.
• Qin Ming formed a Sword Domain by unifying his Five Elements Sword Qi, completed the Six Paths Samsara Sword, and cried out for the finishing slash.

Qin Ming defeated Cui Chonghe with seven-colored Sword Fiend and climbed into the top ten of the New Ranking. He reached the highest Sword Fighting Platform to challenge the first-ranked expert as Great Red Dragon arrived and the ranking began to shine with new words.

• Qin Ming wounded Cui Chonghe, who integrated his three scriptures and counterattacked with the Primordial Dao Lamp, a Dragon Chariot, and his Dao Body.
• Qin Ming combined seven kinds of Sword Fiend, shattered Cui Chonghe’s defenses, and defeated him despite his repeated attempts to reassemble his body.
• Cui Chonghe accepted his defeat, while Cui Chongxiao chose not to challenge Qin Ming; Qin Ming continued climbing and learned that Tang Jin and Feng Zhige had reached the fifties.
• Qin Ming entered the top ten, watched Chang Xi fight, and suspected she was the White-Clad Woman he had met in the Divine Temple.
• Qin Ming challenged Withered Tree Meets Spring Again on the highest Sword Fighting Platform as Great Red Dragon arrived, and the New Ranking suddenly lit up with new words.