Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming defeated Xie Jinglan, Qi Daozhen, and their allies after they tried to kill him and enslave him with Immortal Pacts. He forced the two leaders to explore the deep sea for him, then comprehended the Open Heaven Axe and completed his rebirth.

• Qin Ming cut apart the golden boat and fought Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen, whose axe and transformations failed to overpower him.
• Xie Jinglan unleashed the Open Heaven Axe’s domain while Qi Daozhen used an Immortal Pact, but Qin Ming resisted both contracts and turned them back on their users.
• Qin Ming defeated Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen, killed the other attackers, and captured the surviving consciousness spirits with the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
• Qin Ming learned that restrictions prevented his captives from revealing their scriptures, then ordered Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen to explore the deep sea under the Immortal Pact’s control.
• Qin Ming discovered that the ashes of Xie Jinglan’s Inner Landscape contained the Open Heaven Axe’s conception, comprehended it, and completed his breakthrough into the Second Heaven of the Heart Lamp.

Qin Ming survived the Night Ruins’ deadly second level, discovered that Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen had been enslaved by an ancient Cave Mansion, and gave Yu Gensheng a life-extending Golden Pear. As four Earth Immortals descended to the lower realm to investigate the missing emissaries, Qin Ming hid in the mountains, ready to return to the Night Ruins.

• Qin Ming mastered the Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe, then narrowly escaped a blue-eyed monster after a hammer from the second level nearly shattered him.
• Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen were trapped by the Cave Mansion’s formation and bound by a second contract that forced them to serve its ancient master.
• Qin Ming found Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen, learned of their double enslavement, and told them to watch the Cave Mansion while keeping his identity secret.
• Qin Ming gave Yu Gensheng a Golden Pear that extended his life, and Yu Gensheng resolved to perfect a new Magnetic Canon.
• Four Earth Immortals descended to the lower realm after learning that emissaries had died and groups from the Realm Faction had disappeared.
• Qin Ming hid deep in the mountains, prepared to enter the Night Ruins as the Earth Immortals arrived.

The Four Great Earth Immortals descended into Night Prefecture, forced Great Rui and Great Gan into submission, and searched the major sects for powerful Ancestors and potential rivals. After discovering a formidable Esoteric Sect cultivator might be nearing the Seventh Realm in Kunling, they headed there to investigate.

• The Four Great Earth Immortals descended upon Rui City, where the Rui Emperor and Great Rui’s royal family submitted to them.
• The Earth Immortals’ disciples found the Beyond-Mundane Immortal Land’s Ancestors and promising immortal seeds absent, while the four immortals used the Sky-Patrolling Mirror to detect auras nearing the Seventh Realm at several Ancestral Courts.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals subdued Great Gan’s royal family and then visited the Beyond the Mundane Pure Land, the Six Royals Ancestral Court, the Tathagata Sect, the Sky Bearing Sect, and the Jade Clarity Sect, finding their targets absent.
• The Past Tathagata challenged the Earth Immortals’ dismissal of him, while the Sage heard that they had angered his disciple and asked the Great Red Dragon whether it had found Doggy.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals investigated the Esoteric Sect’s Ancestral Courts and learned that a powerful cultivator was refining deadly grounds in Kunling in pursuit of the Seventh Realm.
• The four Earth Immortals set out for Kunling to find the cultivator, as observers wondered whether the faint seven-colored mist there meant that the cultivator had already succeeded.

The Four Great Earth Immortals searched the forbidden grounds for the Esoteric Sect’s elusive expert while subduing factions and taking gifted youths into their service. Their pursuit brought them to Black White Mountain, where a Black White Bear severed Nian Songhe’s hand with the Azure Bamboo Sword.

• The Four Great Earth Immortals explored the Kunling Forbidden Grounds, found traces of the Esoteric Sect’s expert, and used the Sky-Patrolling Mirror to pursue him.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals subdued the Nine-Headed Birds and other forbidden-ground factions, then took Zhong Sheng away with a Divine Chain despite his master Jiang Hai’s pleas.
• Qin Ming learned of the Earth Immortals’ actions and entered the Night Ruins, while Ancestors above the Nine Heavens encountered the Old Barbarian God and a Sage from Pugong.
• The Cui Household submitted to the Four Great Earth Immortals and pointed them toward Qin Ming at Black White Mountain.
• At Black White Mountain, Nian Songhe tried to seize the Black White Bear, but the bear drew the Azure Bamboo Sword and cut off his hand.

The Black White Bear revealed its Dog Sword Immortal form and fought the Four Great Earth Immortals, protecting Black White Mountain with Liu Mo’s Black and White Diagram. As the battle paused near Double Tree Village, the Ancestors in the heavens learned of the fight and set out for the ground.

• The Four Great Earth Immortals tried to recruit the Black White Bear to Jade Capital, but it refused and challenged their authority.
• The Black White Bear changed into its Dog Sword Immortal form and unleashed five hundred years of pent-up fury, severely wounding Nian Songhe and Xiao Qingheng.
• Xiao Qingheng used a Dao Chain against the bear, but the Black and White Diagram swallowed it; both sides then retreated into the clouds.
• The Black White Bear decided not to flee because Double Tree Village and Liu Mo’s wife and Divine Son were nearby.
• An Ancestor reported the fight to the Night Prefecture Ancestors, who headed for the ground alongside the Present Sage and the Old Barbarian God.
• In the Night Ruins, Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen were alarmed when Young Taiyi asked them to help deceive his master and destroy his ancestor.

Qin Ming forced Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen to send a misleadingly useful report about the Night Ruins, while the conflict between the Black White Bear and the Four Great Earth Immortals escalated into a wider battle. Night Prefecture’s allies killed Qi Yunding and joined the fight, and the three surviving Earth Immortals fled toward the Night Ruins as outside Seventh Realm experts arrived.

• Qin Ming made Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen write a letter describing the Earth Immortal Tree and Cave Mansion while concealing his involvement, then killed the Shrimp Dragon that tried to lure him there.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals learned from the letter that the Night Ruins might contain Earth Immortal Fruit, but they delayed investigating while they considered the Black White Bear’s possible connection to a wanted criminal.
• The Black White Bear launched a third battle against the Four Great Earth Immortals, and Night Prefecture’s Ancestors, the Sage, and the Old Barbarian God joined the fighting.
• The Old Barbarian God shattered Qi Yunding’s body, the Sage destroyed his pure yang consciousness, and the Ancestors used the Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes to absorb his remains.
• Seventh Realm experts arrived to help Night Prefecture, and the three surviving Earth Immortals broke toward the Night Ruins after the Black White Bear blasted Nian Songhe aside.

Earth Immortals hunted down Nian Songhe, Xiao Qingheng, and Mu Cangwu, who fled into the Night Ruins and were destroyed. Their pursuers awakened an ancient cultivator, who revealed a map leading to Exotic Gold Cloth, while Qin Ming recognized a reaction from his Torn Cloth and an ancestor in a heavenly Divine Palace sensed an impending upheaval.

• Earth Immortals and masked hunters pursued Nian Songhe, Xiao Qingheng, and Mu Cangwu across the Great Rui Dynasty, while the Ancestor Council activated preparations for a coming crisis.
• The hunters killed the three Earth Immortals’ chief disciples, and the three immortals merged their pure yang consciousnesses before fleeing into the Night Ruins.
• Qin Ming watched the battle from the sea as Xie Jinglan and Qi Daozhen fled, and the three Earth Immortals entered the underwater palace, where enchanted Light Paper attacked them.
• The ancient mighty cultivator rose from his coffin and fled as the hunters attacked; the hunters then erased Nian Songhe, Xiao Qingheng, and Mu Cangwu.
• The ancient cultivator offered a map showing where Exotic Gold Cloth was buried, and Qin Ming realized his Torn Cloth had reacted to it.
• In a Divine Palace above the Nine Heavens, a skeletal old ancestor sensed that something momentous was happening and sent a cultivator to investigate.

In the Night Ruins, Qin Empire Ming and the Earth Immortals discovered a map depicting a fragment of the Exotic Metal Map, while the Earth Immortals hunted the Four Great Earth Immortals and began preparing to retaliate against the heavens. As celestial envoys were slaughtered and the Heaven-Sealing Formation neared completion, Night Prefecture’s ancestors and their allies ascended to strike its weak points.

• A map in the Night Ruins showed a radiant fragment resembling the Exotic Metal Map, and Qin Empire Ming memorized its terrain while Old Cloth reacted to the image.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals fled in their Longevity Coffin as Old Barbarian God and the other Earth Immortals gave chase, then abandoned the pursuit and discussed Night Prefecture’s hidden secrets and the coming crisis.
• Night Prefecture’s ancestors proposed using the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes to punch through the Heaven-Sealing Formation, while Pugong's Sage offered to help refine the weapons and the ancestors remained wary of him.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that Void Tunnels had opened beside the Super Fire Springs, then killed a group of celestial envoys who demanded his Thunder King Bird and tested his Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe.
• Night Prefecture’s ancestors and allied Earth Immortals slaughtered a descending envoy group, then ascended toward the Nine Heavens to attack the Heaven-Sealing Formation before it fully closed.

The thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes pierced the sealed heavens, devastating the Old Factions and forcing the attackers to retreat as a powerful seven-day stacker pursued them. Qin Ming was carried into the dangerous skies by the awakened Torn Cloth, which headed toward the Inverted Jade Capital.

• The Old Woman, Old Barbarian God, Pugong's Sage, and other Earth Immortals drove the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes into the heavens, breaking Dao Chains and damaging the Old Factions' pure land.
• The Old Factions activated their formations and weapons to contain the breach, then discovered heavy losses among their palaces, sacred sites, and sleeping elders.
• Pugong's Sage, Leng Mingkong, Chu Canglan, and the other attackers withdrew, but a powerful seven-day stacker from above pursued them with a Killing Array Diagram.
• He Lian Chengyun and the other Earth Immortals chose to lure their pursuer toward the Jade Capital Prototype, and their Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes blocked his sword array in their first clashes.
• Qin Ming's Torn Cloth awakened and dragged him into the high sky; he opened the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella against the astral wind as the cloth carried him toward the Inverted Jade Capital.

Qin Empire Ming followed Torn Cloth through the dangerous ruins Beyond Heaven toward the inverted, partly illusory Jade Capital, while Xiang Hong’s forces lost a devastating battle against the wielders of the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes. Torn Cloth then carried Qin Empire Ming directly to Jade Capital’s city wall, where even the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella warned him away.

• Qin Empire Ming endured the Astral Wind Above the Nine Heavens and Extramundane Firefall as Torn Cloth carried him through the Night Mist Sea toward Jade Capital.
• Qin Empire Ming observed overlapping Civilization Layers and ancient remains outside Jade Capital, then glimpsed its illusory towers, an iceberg, and an altar bearing a mysterious object.
• Xiang Hong and the Four Great Earth Immortals unleashed Star Mountain’s Killing Array Diagram against the thirty-six Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes, but their enemies overwhelmed them.
• The Four Great Earth Immortals were killed, and Xiang Hong’s body was destroyed before he escaped to the heavens with the Killing Array Diagram and a dim Pure Yang Consciousness.
• The Old Factions reacted to Xiang Hong’s defeat, while Zhuo Kun complained that they were urging him to fight despite his failing lifespan.
• Torn Cloth swept Qin Empire Ming to Jade Capital’s city wall, where the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella trembled in warning.

Qin Empire Ming entered Jade Capital with Old Cloth and discovered that the Exotic Gold Cloth’s passage had given rise to the city’s strange sights. Meanwhile, Zhuo Kun led eight Earth Immortals to punish the ground’s rebels, but Jade Capital’s sudden appearance left him terrified and kneeling.

• Old Cloth carried Qin Empire Ming into Jade Capital, where its dense Dao Chains filled him with dread.
• Star Mountain, Thunder Marsh Palace, and other factions armed Zhuo Kun with Dao Liquid and powerful treasures, persuading him to lead a campaign against the ground’s rebels.
• Zhuo Kun descended with eight Earth Immortals, overwhelmed the Great Rui Royal Family, and began pursuing the Ancestor group, Dog Sword Immortal, Sage, and their allies.
• Old Cloth brought Qin Empire Ming to an altar, where he saw that a passage behind an enshrined scrap of Exotic Gold Cloth had produced Jade Capital’s scenery.
• Old Cloth rushed toward the passage, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella urged Qin Empire Ming to explore it.
• Jade Capital appeared above Beyond Heaven, and Zhuo Kun tore off his crown, leaped down, and knelt in terror.

Zhuo Kun and the Old Factions mistook Qin Empire Ming’s appearance beneath the Emperor’s Umbrella for Jade Capital choosing a new master and feared its surviving inhabitants would punish them. Beyond Heaven, Qin Empire Ming defeated another temporary owner of Exotic Gold Cloth, gained the fragment, and returned to the ground as someone awakened within the Ten-Colored Iceberg and a message from Jade Capital reached the Old Factions.

• Zhuo Kun and the eight Earth Immortals knelt in terror after their treasured mirrors showed a figure beneath the Emperor’s Umbrella in Jade Capital, and the Old Factions feared their past offenses would bring retribution.
• Qin Empire Ming discovered a fourth Exotic Gold Cloth fragment and met a white-robed temporary owner who demanded that he relinquish Old Cloth.
• Qin Empire Ming fought the white-robed young man with the Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe and Nine-Colored Sword Fiend, forcing him to concede and yield the New Cloth.
• Old Cloth and New Cloth fused, then carried Qin Empire Ming safely back to the ground beneath the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella.
• Someone opened their eyes inside the Ten-Colored Iceberg, and a blood-written message from Jade Capital made the Old Factions prostrate themselves in fear.

After the Supreme Land condemned the factions above, Qin Ming returned to Red Haze City and spent a year cultivating beyond Night Prefecture while the region’s political order shifted. When the Eight Trigrams Furnace’s guardian prepared to leave, Qin Ming learned Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran were still nearby and set off to find them.

• A voice from Jade Capital rebuked the factions above, prompting some Masters and Earth Immortals to flee toward the earth as news of their humiliation spread through Night Prefecture and beyond.
• Qin Ming realized that rumors of a mysterious figure beneath the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella referred to him, then returned to Red Haze City and read letters from Little Wu, Jiang Ran, and Li Qingyue.
• The artifact spirits of the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella and the Eight Trigrams Furnace argued, while the furnace’s guardian agreed to protect Qin Ming for a year before returning to Li Qingyue.
• The factions above resumed their efforts to unify the lands below, and Qin Ming avoided the Night Ruins before secluding himself near fire springs to cultivate for a year.
• After Qin Ming emerged with only modest progress, the Eight Trigrams Furnace’s guardian told him Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran were still nearby, and he asked it to take him to them.

Qin Ming traveled across the Night Mist World with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, learning that the Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain had drawn explorers from many regions and civilizations. He reached the mountain range and began investigating before entering, while Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran were already exploring inside.

• Qin Ming flew in the Eight Trigrams Divine Garment, questioned Old Furnace about the ancient world, and heard its offer to make him a guardian of Eight Sceneries Palace.
• Qin Ming crossed twelve Mist Gates and learned that the destination lay in the Unclaimed Land, where the exposed Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain had attracted explorers from the Outer Domain.
• Qin Ming and Old Furnace encountered a decaying former deity suffering from the clash of Dao rhythms, and Old Furnace explained that changing world conditions were testing cultivators across the realms.
• Qin Ming reached the Remnant Vein and learned that Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran had been exploring there for months among teams of many races.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Black Tower Civilization and Demonic Cultivators were also involved, then joined a local team to investigate the mountains.

Qin Ming joined Cautious Action and entered the Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain, where his first expedition revealed deadly ruins and a treacherous leader. As the team’s blood sacrifice unleashed danger, Qin Ming sensed Qing Yue and Jiang Ran nearby and discovered that the astral winds came from the ruined fan of the Eight Sceneries Palace.

• Qin Ming learned about Sunken Abyss and chose the low-risk Cautious Action team after the Godlike Organization rejected him as a third-realm adventurer.
• Qin Ming registered as Number Fourteen and noticed two familiar figures with another expedition team, while Bai Meng argued with Tang Yushang about Qin Ming.
• Number Four led the team past a blood swamp and warned them away from immortal palaces, where crimson god insects devoured a powerful Flood Dragon.
• Number Four sacrificed several team members to draw out a safe route, and Qin Ming charged toward the spreading danger.
• Qin Ming’s artifact spirit recognized the ruined fan of the Eight Sceneries Palace as the source of the astral wind and sensed Qing Yue and Jiang Ran beyond the mountains.
• Qin Ming activated the Wind Riding Scripture and focused on capturing a mysterious fluctuation.

Qin Ming comprehended the Astral Wind Scripture through the dying Rotten Fan, then used its power to kill Number Four and destroy the demonic beast in the fissure. He left to find Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran, discovered powerful expedition teams gathering nearby, and advanced toward a region where he sensed sun true fire.

• Qin Ming resonated with the black astral wind and gathered the scripture teachings released by the dying Treasure Fan, eventually mastering the Astral Wind Scripture and gaining the fan's recognition.
• Qin Ming discovered that the abyss behind the mountain had been created by a Calamity Heaven Finger strike that pierced the Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain.
• Qin Ming defeated and killed Number Four with the Astral Wind Scripture and Primal Chaos Force, then used the Rotten Fan to destroy the demonic beast in the fissure.
• Qin Ming recovered his Day Gold and left to find Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran, then encountered expedition teams that included the Godlike Organization and Ilena.
• Qin Ming sensed sun true fire in the scorched mountains and entered the region hoping to obtain it for his Heart Lamp.

Qin Ming entered the Remnant Vein of Ascension Mountain, uncovered a scheme involving a fake Master, and killed Blade Demon with one strike. After using a Centipede Bead to intimidate the gathered experts, he approached the Sun Secret Aperture and prepared to enter its depths while Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran gathered Sun True Fire.

• Qin Ming learned that the Sun Secret Aperture moved underground and that Blade Demon and his Brown Great Dog were extorting spiritual objects from rogue cultivators.
• Qin Ming killed the Brown Great Dog after it tried to seize his spiritual objects, then discovered a depleted Centipede Bead in a ruined temple and refined it to imitate divine might.
• Qin Ming exchanged information with Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran and observed powerful factions gathering as the Sun Secret Aperture repeatedly emerged.
• Qin Ming ambushed Blade Demon near the Sun Secret Aperture and killed him with one strike, realizing that Blade Demon had been a fake Master allied with Old Monster Yellow Hair.
• Qin Ming activated the Centipede Bead to deter Old Monster Yellow Hair and made Oleg and others believe he was a formidable Saint Disciple.
• Qin Ming approached the Sun Secret Aperture and said he would enter its depths while Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran gathered Sun True Fire.

Qin Ming led the factions into the Sun Secret Aperture, maintaining his disguise as Jade Capital’s formidable One Sword while gathering treasures and avoiding conflict. After surviving an assassination by Grandmaster Flying Elephant, he and the others discovered the Land of Sleeping Gods and began clearing the decayed divine chains blocking the path ahead.

• Qin Ming invited the factions to enter the Sun Secret Aperture together, and the crowd followed him inside to search its chambers for sun true fire.
• The explorers found traces of extreme yin beneath the aperture’s extreme yang, broke through decayed divine chains, and discovered a wooden tree heart that resonated with Qin Ming’s Longevity Sword Intent.
• Grandmaster Flying Elephant ambushed Qin Ming for the tree heart, but Qin Ming’s awakened battle robe and Centipede Bead helped him evade the attack, pierce Flying Elephant’s eye, and force him to flee.
• Qin Ming kept the factions from fighting over the charred fire lotus seeds while Li Qingyue, Jiang Ran, Ilena, and others collected them.
• The group discovered halls filled with the remains of gods and identified the place as the Land of Sleeping Gods, then began breaking the divine chains sealing a dark tunnel toward the Ultimate Land.

Qin Ming and his allies survived a coordinated ambush by seven organizations and fled toward the source of a powerful fragrance in the Ultimate Land. There, Qin Ming's drool fell into a crystal coffin beside a Divine Flower, and the woman inside began to stir as the night shattered.

• Qin Ming secretly allied with several factions, but they all joined forces to ambush him; Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran helped him break free.
• Qin Ming, Li Qingyue, and Jiang Ran fled deeper into the frozen sea while Qin Ming absorbed Li Qingyue's sun true fire and cultivated the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture.
• The trio reached the Frozen Sea Cliff, where a Divine Flower grew beside an open crystal coffin containing a sleeping woman at the boundary between extreme yin and extreme yang.
• Qin Ming's drool fell into the coffin, the woman's face twitched and her eyelashes trembled, and lightning and thunder shattered the night.

Qin Ming escaped the Abyss with Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran, then cultivated in the Eight Trigrams Furnace and advanced to the Fourth Heaven of the Heart Lamp Realm. As the woman in the crystal coffin awakened and sent fiery phantoms after the pursuers, the trio fought through the fleeing crowd to escape and settle scores with their enemies.

• Qin Ming led Li Qingyue and Jiang Ran away from the lightning-wreathed Abyss, while pursuers arrived and argued over whether to harvest the extreme yang medicine beneath it.
• Qin Ming discovered that organizations were guarding the Frozen Sea tunnel, so he and the two women hid in the ice and prepared for a counterattack.
• Qin Ming cultivated in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, mastered the Golden Crow Illuminates Night Scripture, refined his Samadhi True Fire, and advanced from the Second Heaven to the Fourth Heaven of the Heart Lamp Realm.
• The woman in the crystal coffin partially awakened after intruders disturbed her, sent sun-true-fire phantoms after the crowd, and manifested a hazy figure above the Abyss.
• Qin Ming, Li Qingyue, and Jiang Ran attacked their enemies in the tunnel; Qin Ming maimed the Blood God, helped kill the Moon Goddess's body, and shattered the Silver Spotted Ladybug.
• As spectral creatures pursued the crowd and the organizations fled, Qin Ming confronted the Black Tower Civilization and vowed to settle scores with Ilena and Oleg.