Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming battled the Godlike Society, defeated its Masters, and seized the “Reappearance in the Mortal World” from Lin Shuyue. He left the ruins with White Tiger Woman Grandmaster, while an unknown living being followed them.

• Qin Ming attacked Lin Shuyue and pursued the wounded Dream Insect, but it escaped through an underground fissure.
• The Godlike Society formed a Soul Refinement array, but Qin Ming abandoned his ruined body and resisted it with his Heavenly Light consciousness before briefly borrowing White Tiger Woman Master's body.
• Qin Ming severed Lin Shuyue's arm and took his storage bracelet, obtaining the “Reappearance in the Mortal World.”
• Qin Ming drained Old Treeman's Forest Sacred Domain to power his Longevity Sword Intent, then badly wounded the Masters and killed the Golden Ape Demon and Old Treeman's body.
• The Dream Insect appeared with a protective phantom, and Qin Ming chose to leave rather than risk a further fight.
• Qin Ming took the shrinking White Tiger Woman Grandmaster with him, then sensed a living being following them.

Qin Ming escaped Epoch Opening City but was drawn into the Dream Insect’s layered dream and fought off Old Bug’s attempts to capture him. He reached the Ancient Mist Gate, only to find the White Tiger Woman Master waiting there, leaving him unsure whether she would let him cross.

• Qin Ming met a dying deity who pleaded with him to take the deity’s daughter away, but Qin Ming refused and continued traveling.
• A Master challenged Qin Ming, who defeated him before two Grandmasters and a deity tried to lure him into a false scene.
• Qin Ming used his Heart Lamp to break through five layers of the Dream Insect’s dream and confronted Old Bug, driving him back with the Rotten Fan and the Six-Phoenix Divine Lamp’s sin karma.
• Qin Ming fled Old Bug and reached the Ancient Mist Gate, where Old Bug’s attempt to follow him through caused his phantom to burst apart.
• Qin Ming pursued and struck Old Bug’s weakened phantom, then returned to find the White Tiger Woman Master waiting by the gate after tracking him through the Slave Seal.
• Qin Ming promised to bring the White Tiger Woman Master to his world later and approached the Ancient Mist Gate, uncertain whether she would stop him.

Qin Ming returned safely to Night Prefecture, recovered from his Spirit Travel, and studied the valuable treasures he had brought back while enjoying a quiet stretch on Black White Mountain. As powerful talents arrived in Night Prefecture, reports that the Golden Ranking had fully awakened announced that war against outside forces was drawing near.

• Qin Ming left the White Tiger Woman Master at the Ancient Night Mist Gate and returned to Night Prefecture, still uneasy about her power and how she had tracked him.
• Qin Ming rejoined Wen Rui and the others at Black White Mountain, calmed the killing intent left by his battles, and examined his spoils, including the Reappearance in the Mortal World flower and Lin Shuyue’s Myriad Aperture Illumination Art.
• Qin Ming cultivated with Lin Shuyue’s medicinal paste and scripture, then spent late autumn practicing and visiting Meng Xinghai instead of returning to the dangerous Different World.
• Talents from the heavens arrived in Night Prefecture and discussed Qin Ming, local prodigies, and rumors about Qian Cheng’s attacks on gray organizations.
• Zhou Tiandao, Yan Zhuohua, Lu Jingli, Tang Yushang, Xiao Jinye, and other young powerhouses received news that the Golden Ranking had fully awakened and an external war was approaching.

Qin Ming cultivated in seclusion while his reputation spread among the prodigies gathering in Night Prefecture. After Bai Meng visited and Tang Yushang threatened him through a Dharma Conch, the Golden Ranking summoned Qin Ming and ordered him to report, forcing him to leave Black White Mountain.

• Qian Cheng continued searching for the complete Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal while worrying that shadowy organizations had discovered his origins.
• Qin Ming refined his Golden Core with calamity qi and cautiously practiced the Esoteric Sect method of merging his consciousness with the mountains, wary of losing himself.
• At the gathering in Night Prefecture, prodigies discussed Qin Ming's abilities, and Helian Zhaoyu's defeat—after Qin Ming had once beaten him—strengthened Qin Ming's reputation.
• Bai Meng visited Qin Ming at Black White Mountain, told him his fame had spread, and reminisced with him about their missing friends Little Wu and Xiang Yiwu.
• Qin Ming discovered Bai Meng's Dharma Conch was letting Tang Yushang listen, exchanged threats with her, and then received the Golden Ranking's order to report.

The Golden Ranking summoned cultivators across Jade Capital Territory to prepare for a massive war, and Qin Ming left Black White Mountain to register in Chongxiao City. After standing firm against hostile demon cultivators, he was carried to a heavenly city, where powerful factions immediately tried to recruit him; he insisted he would follow the Golden Ranking.

• Tang Yushang contacted Qin Ming through Bai Meng's Dharma Conch, and Qin Ming teased her until she ended the conversation in irritation.
• The Golden Ranking conscripted old experts and young cultivators across heaven and earth, alarming many and stirring debate about the approaching war.
• Qin Ming left Black White Mountain with Bai Meng and traveled to Chongxiao City to register, treating the unavoidable war as a chance to gain resources and grow stronger.
• At the registration gathering, Qin Ming greeted cultivators from several paths, while Cui Chongxiao resented his popularity and the demon camp regarded him with hostility.
• When a Heavenly Demon Seed's saber sprang from its sheath, Qin Ming challenged him to fight, but a great demon called off the confrontation.
• The Golden Ranking continued recruiting and transported those on its roster to a heavenly city, where factions crowded Qin Ming with offers and he repeatedly said he would follow the summons.

Qin Ming and the other conscripts entered Sky City and began the Golden Ranking’s rigorous military training for an expedition to reclaim a lost territory tied to Jade Capital’s disappearance and a possible escape route. After accepting an invitation to visit the city’s bustling district, Qin Ming met a host who praised four renowned inheritors, while Bai Meng challenged their standing by invoking Yun Jianyue.

• The Golden Ranking ordered the crowd to enter Sky City, and Qin Ming escaped the people who had gathered around him and other prominent conscripts.
• Qin Ming learned that the expedition’s target was an important lost territory connected to Jade Capital’s disappearance and the possible migration of those living in their realm.
• The Golden Ranking issued standardized armor and began intensive training, while Qin Ming adapted to his Black Gold Armor and avoided Tang Yushang’s challenge in the consciousness space.
• After the Golden Ranking warned the Old Factions not to intimidate the conscripts, Qin Ming accepted an invitation and traveled with Pei Shuyan and Bai Meng to Sky City’s bustling district.
• Qin Ming met a host who praised Wu Qingyuan, Wen Dao, Xie Xiyan, and Wei Shouzheng as leading talents, but Bai Meng rejected the comparison and said Yun Jianyue would too.

Qin Empire Ming rejected recruitment contracts from Heavenly God Ridge and Star Mountain, refusing to bind himself despite their offers and pressure. As a war loomed and the Golden Ranking opened an Abyss of damaged weapons, he entered it and heard a mysterious voice say he had finally come.

• Zhou Xiuyuan offered Qin Empire Ming generous support if he joined Heavenly God Ridge and served it, but Qin Empire Ming declined while accepting a bottle of precious medicine.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that experts across Night Prefecture and the wider world were being summoned for an enormous coming war, while Wu Yaozu and Xiang Yiwu reflected on their deaths and transformations in the Outer Domain.
• Star Mountain's Xie Muze pressured Qin Empire Ming to sign a contract binding him to serve for five hundred years, but Qin Empire Ming refused and invoked the Sword Immortal as protection for his companions.
• The Golden Ranking opened an Abyss in the Night Mist Sea where people could try to awaken damaged weapons, and Qin Empire Ming joined the attempt despite Xie Muze predicting he would gain nothing.
• As Qin Empire Ming approached the Abyss, he resonated with it and heard a voice from its depths say, "You... have finally come..."

Qin Ming explored the abyss in search of a special weapon while hearing a mysterious voice that called only to him. After defeating Xie Jingxian and gaining the Five-Colored Treasure Fragment, he reached the abyss’s bottom, where the long-waiting caller awaited him.

• The Golden Ranking warned the entrants about deranged artifact spirits, prohibited lethal infighting, and limited each person to one weapon fragment.
• Qin Ming explored the abyss, ignored the mysterious voice, and passed over several damaged or dangerous weapon fragments while Star Mountain followers shadowed him.
• A five-colored engraved exotic-metal diagram awakened and chose Qin Ming, but Xie Jingxian tried to claim it with an offering of restorative liquid metal.
• Qin Ming’s detached pure yang consciousness fought Xie Jingxian, wounded her severely, and forced her to flee with a Teleportation Talisman.
• The Five-Colored Treasure Fragment chose Qin Ming, who kept the liquid metal and descended to the abyss’s bottom, where the mysterious caller had waited for years.

Qin Ming encountered the imprisoned former owner of Exotic Gold Cloth in the Abyss, survived a vision of Li Qingyue and his grandfather dying, and emerged with the Five-Colored Treasure Fragment. As rival factions courted him and he began creating a gentler life-nourishing method for the New Life Path, Tang Yushang arrived to demand their promised spar.

• Qin Ming met a ruined figure bound in Nine-Colored Exotic Metal Armor, learned that Exotic Gold Cloth had once belonged to him, and refused his offer of a contract.
• The former owner showed Qin Ming a vision of Li Qingyue being killed and his grandfather being shot, then vanished after warning Qin Ming to take him as a cautionary example.
• Xie Jingxian returned badly injured after losing the awakened Treasure Fragment to Qin Ming, who emerged from the Abyss wearing the Five-Colored Battle Garment as onlookers and rival factions took notice.
• Qin Ming accepted invitations from major factions and traded access to the Five-Colored Treasure Fragment for active material and rare medicines.
• Qin Ming combined several scriptures into a Nourishing Life Initial Chapter and gave it to the Otherworlders and young sect leaders of the New Life Path to test and develop.
• Tang Yushang arrived at the New Life Path camp, reminded Qin Ming that their five days were up, and challenged him to spar.

Qin Empire Ming and Tang Yushang fought a private, increasingly destructive spar in the Wild Forest, where Tang Yushang’s revived bloodline unleashed formidable powers. Qin Empire Ming ultimately stunned her and asked her to admit defeat, but she recovered and prepared to counterattack as he readied a kick.

• Qin Empire Ming and Tang Yushang entered the Golden Ranking’s isolated arena while Bai Meng and the others waited outside, hoping to watch.
• Tang Yushang’s mysterious bloodline revived, and she attacked Qin Empire Ming with Pure Yang Sword Light and the Immortal Willow Golden Body Skill.
• Qin Empire Ming caught Tang Yushang’s ankle, then struck her leg with his shoulder, injuring her and sending her flying.
• Tang Yushang and Qin Empire Ming exchanged powerful seals and unleashed their Inner Landscapes, devastating the Wild Forest as Bai Meng was repeatedly knocked outside.
• Qin Empire Ming overwhelmed Tang Yushang’s fused deity with Chaos Force and a sound attack, then pinched her cheeks and asked whether she admitted defeat.
• Tang Yushang regained her awareness and began preparing to counterattack as Qin Empire Ming readied a kick.

Qin Ming defeated Tang Yushang in a fierce spar, then secretly gave her an extra kick while she was dazed and helped conceal the true outcome. As the Golden Ranking prepared everyone for the coming great war, Qin Ming strengthened his allies and prepared to leave for battle.

• Qin Ming overcame Tang Yushang's Jade Capital techniques with his strongest War Body, captured her, and forced her to concede.
• Tang Yushang kicked Qin Ming while pretending to reconcile, but he shook her consciousness from her body and kicked her before returning her spirit to her body; they agreed to present the fight as a close spar.
• Qin Ming and Tang Yushang left the Wild Forest, and Qin Ming praised her publicly while she hid her pain and warned him not to reveal what happened.
• Qin Ming met Meng Xinghai in the city and told him how to use a special weapon in the Abyss, while the Golden Ranking distributed rare treasures ahead of the coming war.
• Qin Ming met members of the Huang Family and noticed Wei Shouzheng, then advised Pei Shuyan and Bai Meng to consolidate their cultivation and prepare for battle.
• Yu Gensheng retrieved a broken black spear, and the Golden Ranking sounded the War Horn and ordered those summoned to prepare to set out.

As the Golden Ranking prepared for war against another Supreme Dao Field, Qin Empire Ming trained, met chosen bearers of revived supreme weapons, and learned more about the powerful factions around him. The Golden Ranking returned from a raid on enemy territory, then gathered the army and prepared to carry it to the battlefield.

• The War Horn sounded, and the Old Factions realized that a supreme war was imminent as their members trained for battle.
• Revived supreme weapon fragments chose bearers ranging from powerful experts to the old and weak, with some selecting people who reminded them of their former owners.
• Qin Empire Ming trained and reunited with acquaintances, attended gatherings hosted by Su Mohua's clan and the Lu Family, and heard about the Huang Family and its Ten-Colored Iceberg.
• The Golden Ranking returned after raiding the enemy's medicinal fields and gathering resources for the coming war.
• The Golden Ranking urged the departing soldiers to write wills, and Qin Empire Ming abandoned his attempt to write a letter before joining the army.
• The Golden Ranking revealed its true body, and the army boarded it to depart for the battlefield.

The Golden Ranking led Jade Capital’s expedition through a distant Mist Gate into territory occupied by the Totem God Faction, where negotiations over the land quickly turned into preparations for battle. The two sides agreed to test their strength in a small-scale exchange, and Taiyi was called forward as mutated behemoths appeared among the opposing ranks.

• The Golden Ranking revived its Mountain-Sea Map, organized the expedition into a coordinated battle formation, and explained that wars between Supreme Civilizations could end in victory or total annihilation.
• The Golden Ranking crossed the Heavenly Chasm with the expedition and revealed a Foreign Domain scarred by mining, Barbarian God worship, and the invasion of Totem Gods.
• Jade Capital’s leaders demanded that the Totem God Faction leave their territory and return its resources, but Totem Sacred Mountain appeared and proposed a preliminary contest instead of an immediate supreme showdown.
• The Golden Ranking accepted the contest and selected Seventh Realm fighters, including the Sage and the Dog Sword Immortal, while the Totem Faction brought forward mutated behemoths.
• The Golden Ranking called Taiyi to step forward, drawing attention from both sides as the contest was about to begin.

Qin Ming, revealed as Taiyi, entered the under-eighteen Future Battlefield and overwhelmed the Totem Faction’s young fighters. As the Totem Faction grew furious at his challenge, the contest over the younger generation’s future intensified.

• The Dog Sword Immortal transformed into a panda and killed the giant rat totem, beginning the older generation’s battle for dominance over the present age.
• The Golden Ranking arranged an under-eighteen Future Battlefield, and Qin Ming learned that his repeated rebirths had made him eligible.
• Zuo Hang fought the Totem Faction’s lion-faced youth to a draw, while the faction’s hairy boy killed two Demon Race youths in quick succession.
• Qin Ming entered the battlefield, killed the hairy boy with one slash, and destroyed a lunar yin mist monster with a lightning-and-fire punch.
• Qin Ming identified himself as Taiyi, defeated a mutated Golden Behemoth, and took its blood essence as a prize.
• The Totem Faction raged as Qin Ming challenged its remaining youths, while the Golden Ranking suggested some of its fighters might also exceed the age limit.

Qin Empire Ming, fighting as Taiyi, dominated the Totem Faction’s challengers, defeating their Stone-Metal youth, subduing Inner Demon, and killing Bird God. After the Golden Ranking limited repeat appearances and sent Taiyi back to the Mountain-Sea Map, it selected him and other Jade Capital prodigies to return to the arena.

• Qin Empire Ming killed the Stone-Metal youth with a saber strike and collected his rare blue-black blood essence.
• Qin Empire Ming used the Subduing Heart Scripture to overcome Inner Demon, who knelt and worshipped him before a Totem elder removed him from the arena.
• The Totem Faction ended the younger-generation contest after no one else dared challenge Taiyi, but a bird-faced young expert entered the next round and insulted him.
• The Golden Ranking ordered Taiyi to fight again, and Qin Empire Ming killed Bird God after cutting apart his Golden-Winged Roc phantom.
• The Totem Faction demanded limits on repeat contestants, and the Golden Ranking agreed, teleporting Taiyi and other fighters away before selecting more challengers.
• The Golden Ranking later summoned Qin Empire Ming, Zhou Tiandao, Feng Zhige, Yan Zhuohua, Little Tathagata, and others to the arena, and Taiyi returned in silver armor.

Qin Ming drew attention as observers suspected he might be Taiyi, then entered the arena and overwhelmed three Totem Faction opponents with his New Life Path techniques. After the official limit ended his streak, he challenged the Totem Faction’s Early Fourth Realm fighters to face him together.

• Observers renewed their suspicions that Qin Ming was Taiyi, while members of the Lu and Huang Families considered whether to approach him.
• Little Tathagata was mocked for looking too old to compete, and Qin Ming openly stated that he was twenty-one and at the ninth heaven of the Third Realm.
• Qin Ming negotiated with the Golden Ranking for rewards, then defeated a fiery-red bull with his Black Jade Hammer and sealed its strange blood.
• Qin Ming killed a Totem woman with a Chaos Force sheet of paper and destroyed another young Totem fighter with a zither, bringing his total to three opponents.
• Though the rules required him to stop, Qin Ming challenged the Totem Faction’s Early Fourth Realm fighters below the Fourth Heaven to attack him together.

Qin Empire Ming challenged the Totem Faction to send all its opponents at once and defeated five Totem Seeds with his qin, drawing attention from Jade Capital’s powerful figures. After he finally left the arena, Totem Sacred Mountain ended the exchange and called for several ultimate battles as hostile eyes opened in the depths of the Night Mist World.

• Qin Empire Ming refused to leave the battlefield and invited all his opponents to face him together, prompting five Totem Seeds to enter the arena.
• Qin Empire Ming fought the five attackers with his seven-stringed qin, using Chaos Force and legendary beast manifestations to wound and suppress them.
• Qin Empire Ming pierced the five Totem Seeds’ hearts with qin strings, then destroyed their bodies and spirits with a sea of sword energy, while collecting the silver giant bear’s Super Strange Blood.
• Qin Empire Ming asked for a chess opponent and offered a literary duel, but no Totem Seed accepted; the Five-Colored Beast ordered him off the field and threatened him.
• Qin Empire Ming left the arena as Jade Capital’s powerful figures took notice of him, and Totem Sacred Mountain declared the exchange over and called for ultimate battles.

Qin Ming returned from his victory over the Totem Faction and entered the arena as the Realm Faction, while Jade Capital’s fighters defeated several opponents and won the battles among the Seventh Realm elders. The Totem Sacred Mountain then launched an all-out assault on the Golden Ranking, drawing Qin Ming into a struggle among Supreme Civilizations and revealing Jade Capital’s ancient defenders.

• Qin Ming left the arena after defeating the Totem Faction’s challengers, and Xie Xiyan, Wen Dao, and Wei Shouzheng confronted the remaining fighters.
• The Golden Ranking summoned Qin Ming as the Realm Faction, and Qian Cheng, Xie Xiyan, and Wen Dao each fought Totem opponents, killing one and wounding others before Wen Dao’s battle ended in a draw.
• Wu Qingyuan lost to a mutated roc who transformed into a young Daoist, while Yun Jianyue, Tang Yushang, and Yin Tian defeated their opponents and Qin Ming found no one willing to fight him.
• Zhuo Kun killed a Totem Seventh Realm fighter, and the Sage from Pugong defeated another Totem elder, prompting the Totem Sacred Mountain to summon its forces and attack the Golden Ranking.
• The Five-Colored Treasure Fragment detached from Qin Ming and urged him to observe as other Supreme Civilizations entered the conflict and a Nine-Colored Iceberg revealed ancient chained defenders.

The Golden Ranking and Totem Sacred Mountain fought a bloody battle as the Silver Sea and Abyss Civilization joined the conflict. The Golden Ranking’s empowered fighters shattered the Totem faction’s defenses, and the chapter ended with the remaining supreme civilizations preparing to continue the bloodshed.

• The Golden Ranking and Totem Sacred Mountain collided, and both sides survived the first exchange as the Golden Ranking watched the Silver Sea and Abyss Civilization.
• The Totem Faction claimed victory to rally its forces, while the Golden Ranking prepared for another assault and guarded against its two other opponents.
• The Golden Ranking repelled attacks from the Silver Sea and unleashed a stronger strike against Totem Sacred Mountain, killing six great totems and damaging its formations.
• The Silver Sea and Abyss Civilization agreed to fight alongside the Totem Faction, prompting the Golden Ranking to order everyone to give their all.
• The Golden Ranking empowered Qian Cheng, Yun Jian Yue, Tang Yushang, Dog Sword Immortal, Zhuo Kun, Sage, and Qin Empire Ming as they attacked Totem Sacred Mountain, whose formations broke and whose mountain split apart.
• The Silver Sea and Abyss Civilization challenged the Golden Ranking to continue fighting, and the Golden Ranking accepted the supreme bloodshed to the end.

The Golden Ranking and the Mountains and Seas Territory fought the Sky Race and the Abyss Civilization after rejecting their invasion disguised as mediation. Qin Ming’s empowered sword strikes wounded both enemies and damaged the Totem Sacred Mountain, but the battle escalated as powerful forces emerged from the Silver Sea and the Abyss.

• The Golden Ranking exposed the Sky Race’s and Abyss Civilization’s origins and refused their claims that they had come to restore stability.
• The Sky Race and Abyss Civilization attacked the Golden Ranking, while All Immortals and the younger fighters fought under its amplification.
• The Seven-Headed Dragon attacked the Sage after overhearing the Great Red Dragon ask about its female kin.
• The Golden Ranking empowered Qin Ming with the Five-Colored Treasure Fragment, and his Nine-Colored Sword Fiend cleaved the Silver-Blooded Winged Man and cut down an Abyssal monster.
• Qin Ming’s next sword strike damaged the Totem Sacred Mountain and destroyed the two totems at its summit.
• A vast flower rose from the Abyss, and a giant statue awakened on a platform rising from the Silver Sea as the battle intensified.