Chapter Summaries

A distant Dao lineage arrived to seize the Jade Capital Prototype, and the new ranking conscripted the experts of Jade Capital Territory for a deadly confrontation in the Night Mist Sea. As the boats carried them toward the enemy, the outsiders called for Jade Capital’s top fighters, leaving Qin Ming bracing for a bloody battle.

• Names vanished from the new ranking as visitors from the Outer Domain were purged or guided away, and the ranking warned the seven cities to prepare for an enemy.
• A mysterious tower emerged from the Night Mist Sea, and after clashing with the new ranking, it secured permission for its people to fight Jade Capital’s experts.
• Qin Ming’s interrupted duel with Withered Wood Meets Spring Again was recognized, placing One Sword Cleaves Through Thirty-Six Heavens tied for first in the third realm.
• The new ranking promised double rewards and rare treasures, then summoned everyone onto wooden boats and declared that no one could withdraw from the fight.
• The new ranking warned Qin Ming and other young fighters that old monsters might regain their full power and gave them maps to the Grotto-Heaven Ruins as a possible refuge.
• The tower’s people asked for the top experts, including One Sword Cleaves Through Thirty-Six Heavens and Withered Wood Meets Spring Again, as the Jade Capital force entered the Night Mist Sea.

Qin Ming fought the black pagoda’s challengers as One Sword, avenging Jade Capital’s fallen fighters and discovering that the outsiders carried precious Longevity Leaves. After defeating several opponents and revealing his Longevity Sword Intent, he faced a Black Dragon while the outsiders prepared to send out even stronger fighters.

• An outsider killed two Jade Capital fighters, and the New Ranking revealed that the black pagoda’s domain let the visitors align with local Dao resonance.
• Qin Ming took the field as One Sword and killed the gray-robed challenger with a single strike, then found a Longevity Leaf among the man’s belongings.
• Qin Ming defeated the red-haired woman who had killed a Jade Capital fighter and also took the Longevity Leaf from her corpse.
• Qin Ming killed Black Wizard after striking him repeatedly, but found no Longevity Leaf on him; the outsiders accused Jade Capital of taking the leaves they had struggled to obtain.
• Qin Ming used Longevity Sword Intent to wound the Black Dragon and sever one of its wings, while the Great Red Dragon first pleaded for mercy and then urged Qin Ming to kill it after learning the opponent was male.
• The Black Dragon refused to yield, and several Outer Domain fighters began gathering power as Qin Ming welcomed the prospect of gaining Longevity Leaves and Sacred Fiends.

Qin Empire Ming defeated the Black Dragon Molgaron and received three Longevity Leaves as ransom before joining a large battle in the Grotto-Heaven ruins. The chapter ends with several legendary opponents surrounding him in an organized hunt, and Qin Empire Ming preparing to fight back.

• Qin Empire Ming used seven kinds of Sword Fiends to defeat Molgaron, then pinned the wounded Black Dragon until he offered three Longevity Leaves to ransom his life.
• Heavenly Venerate, Giant Spirit God, Bodhi Saint, Heavenly Immortal, Chang Xi, and other fighters joined the duels, which grew into bloody battles between the two sides.
• The Black Pagoda and the New Ranking agreed to send thirty experts from each side into the ruins for an unrestricted group battle.
• A black-robed attacker crippled Heavenly Dipper, and Heavenly Immortal arrived after the assault had ended.
• Lai Laya nearly struck Qin Empire Ming with an Invisible Arrow, while Great Shaman Kalon and other powerful figures closed in on him.
• Qin Empire Ming realized the Longevity Leaves had likely marked him for a coordinated hunt and prepared to meet his attackers with his sword.

Qin Ming fought four legendary experts who joined forces to kill him, then killed the hidden fifth assailant, the Scythe of Death. Wounded but still facing the remaining attackers, he prepared to continue the battle after declaring that his sword could cleave through them all.

• Cole, the Spirit Channeler, attacked Qin Ming with an army of summoned bones, but Qin Ming countered with eight kinds of sword fiend.
• Marcus, the Sword Sect, exchanged a powerful sword strike with Qin Ming, and spectators on both sides recognized their strength.
• Qin Ming intercepted the hunters’ plan to kill him and charged Kalon, fighting him alongside Cole, Marcus, and Lai Laya.
• Qin Ming wounded Kalon and destroyed one of his kidneys, then used his Sword Domain to mislead and kill the hidden fifth assailant, the Scythe of Death.
• Qin Ming escaped the encirclement as Kalon warned the others about his Sword Domain, and the remaining four attacked him with their full strength.
• Qin Ming declared that his full name was “One Sword Cleaves Through Thirty-Six Heavens” and vowed to cleave through his attackers.

Qin Ming fought four legendary Outer Domain experts in the Grotto-Heaven Ruins, developed four Sword Domains under pressure, and killed the God Hunter, Spirit Channeler, and Marcus. He faced the Great Shaman next and caught Marcus's Sword Seed after their first exchange.

• Qin Ming escaped Cole's Spirit Channeling Domain and gravely wounded Lai Laya, but the other experts trapped him inside again.
• Qin Ming fused his spiritual fields into four Sword Domains, broke free, and killed Lai Laya with her own transparent bow's power.
• Qin Ming used an arrow of Eight-Colored Sword Fiend to kill Cole and seized the Myriad God Banner.
• Marcus challenged Qin Ming to a sword contest, and Qin Ming defeated him with their first exchange.
• Qin Ming caught Marcus's Sword Seed and sensed its life force and sword fiend aura.

Qin Empire Ming defeated Great Shaman Kalon after capturing the Sword Seed and surviving Kalon’s forbidden power, then emerged to discover the Outer Domain forces in disarray. As the Black Pagoda conceded, a blond Saint Disciple challenged him, and their confrontation began just as the contest was declared over.

• Qin Empire Ming captured and studied the Sword Seed, recognized similarities between its sword-path physique and his own, then put it away for later study.
• Qin Empire Ming fought Great Shaman Kalon, who unleashed power beyond the Third Realm, but the New Ranking and a Golden Ranking prevented interference and let Qin Empire Ming kill Kalon repeatedly until his battlefield essence was destroyed.
• Qin Empire Ming emerged from the ruins, and the Outer Domain survivors learned that he had slain five legendary experts, leaving their forces demoralized and the battle effectively lost.
• The blond Saint Disciple insisted on fighting Qin Empire Ming despite the Black Pagoda’s warning that the tide had turned and its decision to concede.
• Qin Empire Ming met the blond youth at the battlefield’s edge and struck with his Sword Fiend as the Black Pagoda announced that the contest was over.

Qin Ming fought under several identities in the Grotto-Heaven Ruins, defeating powerful opponents and earning Longevity Leaves before the Black Pagoda withdrew. The New Ranking brought the factions to the Jade Towers to celebrate and promised doubled rewards, which Qin Ming eagerly anticipated.

• The Black Pagoda and New Ranking halted Qin Ming and Oleg's battle, after which Qin Ming examined the Myriad God Banner, subdued its hostile spirits, and refined it after Old Cloth's torn space frightened it into changing into a Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
• The Great Red Dragon fought the Dragon Mother, and the Chaos Force sealed inside it wounded her badly enough to make both dragons flee the arena.
• Under Taiyi's identity, Qin Ming swept through the first-realm contests with overwhelming Primal Chaos Force, causing everyone to stop entering.
• Under Wooden Man's identity, Qin Ming defeated Ilena in the second realm and received ten Longevity Leaves after she agreed to ransom her life.
• The Black Pagoda withdrew after the contests, and the New Ranking led the factions into the Jade Towers and promised to double all rewards.

At the Jade Capital Estate, Qin Ming impressed the gathering by revealing a tenth layer of body-cultivation radiance and explaining his path of breaking and rebuilding, while the New Ranking warned that the changing world would force cultivators to adapt. After Qin Ming collected generous rewards and everyone returned to the Divine City, reports arrived that their homes had been raided.

• Qin Ming, disguised as Taiyi and Wooden Man, exchanged greetings with powerful cultivators while the Heavenly Venerate tested his body-cultivation radiance; Qin Ming produced a tenth halo beyond the known limit.
• Qin Ming described his method as breaking and rebuilding, and his account of surviving a thunder-and-fire tribulation stunned the gathering and drew interest from Li Qingxu and Cao Tian.
• The New Ranking told the gathered cultivators that changing world order was making them ill and that they would have to adapt their Dao or be eliminated.
• Qin Ming claimed his rewards, including complete versions of the Extreme Golden Body and Jade Book scriptures, and joked with the New Ranking about the Wishing Pool.
• The New Ranking sent everyone back to the Divine City, where messengers reported that their homes had been raided; the Great Red Dragon lamented missing the opportunities, drawing hostile looks from nearby cultivators.

Reports of raids on Earth Immortal dojos spread through Divine City, and the returning experts found that multiple groups of thieves had struck, leaving them unsure whom to blame. Qin Empire Ming entered a ruined Jade Capital annex courtyard to use the Wishing Pool, but the supposedly easiest Saint Disciple trial already pressured him as he began the route.

• The Great Red Dragon defended Pugong as Earth Immortals and others accused Night Prefecture’s Ancestors and speculated that Pugong and the Old Barbarian God were behind the raids.
• The Old Barbarian God revealed himself at the gathering, and investigations showed that several different groups had raided Earth Immortal dojos, prompting powerful figures to rush home.
• The Old Barbarian God learned that three groups of masked thieves had visited his medicinal garden, while a mysterious Virtual Spirit had gathered herbs and left after refining medicine.
• The Earth Immortals discovered that their stolen medicines appeared among rewards from the New Ranking, while Qin Empire Ming waited for his Wishing Pool and lifespan-extending medicine.
• The New Ranking sent Qin Empire Ming to a preserved Jade Capital annex courtyard and advised him to take the route marked Easy, where an old man mistakenly identified his choice as an extremely difficult path.
• Qin Empire Ming began the trial and felt immense pressure on the supposedly easiest route, realizing that Jade Capital’s genuine Saint Disciples must have been formidable.

Qin Ming endured the Jade Capital’s escalating trials, earned a law-chain baptism, studied rare scriptures, and shattered a series of Law Mirrors while Li Heng misread his success as proof of powerful connections. At the Wishing Pool, Qin Ming and Li Heng both claimed it, and Qin Ming prepared to fight for it.

• Li Heng took the pitch-black path after Li Cang warned him to behave respectfully toward Her Highness, while Qin Ming endured three unexpected trials on his own route.
• Qin Ming summoned the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to resist the law-chain baptism, then studied the Extreme Golden Body and Heavenly Transmission Jade Book at the Scripture Repository.
• Qin Ming advanced through twelve Law Mirrors, receiving useful warnings from the final three, while Li Heng assumed he had cheated with prior knowledge and connections.
• Qin Ming summoned the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella again to absorb another law-chain baptism, and Li Heng hurried ahead after breaking three mirrors of his own.
• Qin Ming and Li Heng reached the Wishing Pool at the same time, each believing it was rightfully his, and Qin Ming gathered his power for a fight.

Qin Ming defeated Li Heng, refined the Wishing Pool to diagnose flaws in his cultivation, and endured the trials on the wrong road before becoming a Saint Disciple. At the end, he challenged the woman in the Divine Flower to a duel on the Fighting God Platform.

• Qin Ming crippled Li Heng with one strike, learned that Li Heng had come to claim the Wishing Pool, and forced him to withdraw.
• Qin Ming examined the Wishing Pool and chose to improve the Silk Book Method rather than replace it, then refined the pool for use with his true body.
• The New Ranking and the Magic Array Spirit discussed Qin Ming's trials, and Qin Ming endured extra battles and received a baptism of Dao Chains.
• Qin Ming cleared the trials and became a Saint Disciple, while Li Heng failed his own road and Li Cang celebrated his descendant's success.
• Qin Ming argued with the Butterfly Woman after admiring the Divine Flower, then accepted the woman's challenge to a Fighting God Platform duel.

Qin Ming fought the White-Clad Woman, Heavenly God, in a duel and broke through her formidable Jade Capital techniques to enter her Pure Land. As their Inner Landscapes merged, Qin Ming called on her to undergo a tribulation and unleashed calamity qi.

• Qin Ming and Heavenly God began their duel, and she cast his consciousness into a terrifying abyss that he escaped with the Nine Heavens Scripture.
• Qin Ming cut through Heavenly God's sacred attack and tore her sleeve, then she summoned the Big Dipper Seven Arrows, which he eventually bound and severed with his Primal Chaos Sword Fiend.
• Heavenly God attacked Qin Ming with her zither, manifesting landscapes, Southern Blazing Fire, and legendary beasts, but he advanced toward her Pure Land.
• Heavenly God detonated her manifested zither and wielded a Nine-Colored Branch, but Qin Ming opened his Inner Landscape, stepped into her Pure Land, and merged their domains.
• The New Ranking learned that its Saint Disciple was fighting Taiyi, while Li Cang saw the bloodied Li Heng return and wondered who had reached the courtyard's deepest part.
• Heavenly God swept the Nine-Colored Branch at Qin Ming, who began evolving calamity qi and told her to undergo a tribulation.

Qin Ming overwhelmed the Heavenly God on the Fighting God Platform, surviving her many Jade Capital techniques and turning her mind-chain attack against her. The Heavenly God conceded and offered to consider becoming his Dao companion, though Qin Ming remained suspicious and struck her once more.

• Qin Ming’s calamity qi withered the Nine-Colored Branch and drove the Heavenly God to tear apart part of her Inner Landscape, but he anchored his own Pure Land and escaped the collapse.
• Qin Ming broke through the Heavenly God’s lunar palace and red-dust domains, then wounded her with his Chaos Sword Fiend and great hammer.
• When the Heavenly God sent a mind chain to seize his consciousness, Qin Ming used Heart Ape Severing to create Xin Yuan and a Will Horse, which attacked her alongside him.
• The Heavenly God fell badly wounded and conceded after the Butterfly Woman urged her to stop fighting.
• The Butterfly Woman said the Heavenly God would consider becoming Qin Ming’s Dao companion, and Qin Ming struck the Heavenly God once more before questioning the offer.

Qin Ming cleared Jade Capital's trials, captured Heavenly God, and tried to claim the Divine Flower, only to learn that neither she nor the flower was his reward. After the New Ranking showed him the Great Dao Tree and invited him to join Jade Capital, eight jade bells rang across the Night Mist Sea, and it sent him back to the Mortal World as the heavens prepared to seal.

• Qin Ming had the Myriad God Banner bind Heavenly God and carried her off the Fighting God Platform, intending to harvest the Divine Flower.
• Qin Ming tried to pick the flower, but Heavenly God explained it could not be harvested yet; Li Cang and Li Heng arrived and found her bound beside it.
• The Magic Array Spirit confirmed Qin Ming had cleared the trials, while the New Ranking clarified that Jade Capital did not award Dao companions or the Divine Flower.
• The New Ranking showed Qin Ming the Great Dao Tree, invited him to become a Core Saint Disciple, and explained the Golden Ranking and Dao Ranking.
• The New Ranking sensed that another faction had claimed the third Divine Flower, then eight jade bells rang across the Night Mist Sea.
• The New Ranking sent Qin Ming back to the Mortal World, warning him that the heavens would probably be sealed and that upheavals might follow.

After returning from Above the Nine Heavens, Qin Ming reunited with Meng Xinghai and his friends, then entered seclusion to repair hidden flaws in the Silk Book Method. As Qin Ming continued his dangerous cultivation, Earth Immortals announced that Heaven-Sealing was imminent and would affect the mortal world.

• Qin Ming returned to Red Haze City, recounted his journey to Meng Xinghai, and gave him two Longevity Leaves.
• Qin Ming met Xu Sheng, Zhou Lin, and Wu Zheng, who discussed rumors about his ranking, Taiyi, and a proposed fight with Cui Chonghe.
• Qin Ming learned that Masters were developing bodily problems, then entered Meng Xinghai's underground chamber to cultivate with the Wishing Pool.
• Qin Ming repeatedly damaged his body while using the Silk Book Method and other scriptures to uncover and remove hidden dangers.
• Strange lightning and Divine Chains appeared across Night Prefecture, and Earth Immortals announced that Heaven-Sealing was imminent and would affect those on the ground.

Qin Ming perfected the Silk Book Method by pushing his body to the point of repeated disintegration, then learned that revived Old Factions Above the Nine Heavens were sealing the heavens to concentrate Dao rhythm and resources. As invitations went out to powerful figures on the ground, Qin Ming hid from the recruiters, but two envoys found him in Black White Mountain and urged him to ascend.

• Qin Ming used the Fundamental Scripture Diagram and the Wishing Pool to repair the hidden flaws in his cultivation, then emerged from seclusion with a stronger body and spirit.
• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that Old Factions in the Jade Capital had revived and were sealing parts of the heavens to gather Dao rhythm and support their chosen experts.
• The Old Factions argued over how to distribute heavenly resources, whether to nurture new prodigies or their descendants, and how to recruit experts from the ground.
• Heaven-Sealing began as immense law chains spread across the night sky, and rumors of invitations for powerful cultivators to ascend stirred debate across the land.
• Meng Xinghai advised Qin Ming to avoid direct contact with the recruiters, but two young envoys found him in Black White Mountain and invited him Above the Nine Heavens.

Qin Ming, posing as Taiyi, defeated Jiang Yan and Shen Wei when they tried to take him to the heavens, then fled to Night Ruins to erase the tracking mark left on him. There, he confronted two groups from Jade Capital who discovered that he was both Taiyi and Realm Faction, and he began absorbing them into the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.

• Jiang Yan and Shen Wei identified Qin Ming as Taiyi and tried to persuade him to ascend, but attacked when he asked for time to say goodbye to his family.
• Qin Ming destroyed their redwood boat with his nine-colored Sword Fiend, blocked their Law Chains with the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, and trapped their spirit forms inside it.
• Qin Ming learned that a Dao Mark spread through his body and consciousness could let people in the heavens track him, so he rode the Thunder King Bird to Gengjin City and entered Night Ruins alone.
• Two groups from Jade Capital followed the tracking marks into Night Ruins and found Qin Ming, realizing that Taiyi and Realm Faction were the same person.
• After an old man invited Qin Ming to ascend and receive Jade Capital's blessing, Qin Ming killed seven people with his Sword Fiend and drew their spirit bodies into the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.

Qin Ming fought two groups of heavenly beings who tried to bind and take him Above the Nine Heavens, killing many of them with his sword fiend and spiritual field while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella absorbed their law and dao chains. The chapter ended with the battle still raging on the shore as elders Above the Nine Heavens calmly awaited the groups’ return.

• Qin Ming killed ten heavenly visitors before Yu Botao and Wen Yuning trapped him behind an Immortal Locking Array.
• Yu Botao and Wen Yuning accused Qin Ming of murdering their descendants, while Jiang Yan and Shen Wei joined them after learning he had killed their avatars.
• Qin Ming used the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to break through the arrays and block the groups’ law chains and dao chain as he killed more opponents.
• Qin Ming’s spiritual field destroyed Wen Yuning’s dragon-headed cane and tore her apart.
• Qin Ming shattered Jiang Yan’s heavenly saber and killed him with a single swing of the nine-colored sword fiend.
• The Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella absorbed the fallen fighters’ spirit bodies as Qin Ming continued attacking, while elders Above the Nine Heavens wondered whether their visitors had captured the ranking champion.

Qin Ming wiped out two teams from Above the Nine Heavens in the Night Ruins, revealing his overwhelming strength and the shared identity behind Taiyi, Realm Faction, and One Sword. As his Dao Mark faded, Qi Daozhen descended from heaven, while Qin Ming began cultivating in hopes of undergoing rebirth and advancing his realm.

• Qin Ming defeated Jiang Yan, Shen Wei, Yu Botao, and more than fifty others, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella collected their Spirit Bodies and took their Dao and Law Chains.
• Qin Ming advanced through the Night Ruins and destroyed a pursuing patrol team as the mark identifying him as a ranking champion neared disappearance.
• The Earth Immortals discussed their inability to bring the ground champions to heaven, and Qi Daozhen volunteered to descend and inspect the situation.
• Qi Daozhen left the Jade Palace aboard a golden wooden boat, believing the ground champions would eventually serve Scorching Suns like himself.
• Qin Ming felt new vitality growing within him, found a quiet beach in the Night Ruins, and began circulating the Silk Book Method to prepare for rebirth.

Qi Daozhen and Xie Jinglan tracked Taiyi into the Night Ruins, where Qin Ming was completing a breakthrough by absorbing the world's Dao resonance. They attacked him during his nirvana, but Qin Ming revealed his strength as the leader of all three rankings and repelled their opening blows.

• Qi Daozhen enlisted Xie Jinglan's help to find Taiyi before he could ascend to the heavens, and they tracked his weakening Dao mark into the Night Ruins.
• Qin Ming cultivated in an underwater volcanic region, harmonized the Night Ruins' Dao resonance with the Black White Scripture, and began a major nirvana transformation.
• A shrimp dragon invited Qin Ming to explore a newly appearing underwater cave mansion, then left him to finish cultivating.
• Qi Daozhen and Xie Jinglan arrived at the volcanic region and attacked Qin Ming after realizing he was Taiyi.
• Qin Ming nearly broke Qi Daozhen's Golden Staff, severed one of his Golden Crow wings with a nine-colored sword, and knocked back Xie Jinglan's axe with his Inner Landscape.
• The heavenly group realized Qin Ming was also One Sword and the top-ranked Realm Faction, leaving Qi Daozhen shaken by Xie Jinglan's defeat.