Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming underwent a dangerous breakthrough in Furnace Palace, fusing Sky Supporting Force into Chaos Force and strengthening his Sky Bearing True Form before emerging from seclusion. Zhen Gui brought his Great Sage uncle Zhou Tian to challenge him, and Zhou Tian arrived at Furnace Palace as Qin Ming came out.

• Zhen Gui welcomed Zhou Tian through the Ancient Mist Gate and brought him to Great Scarlet Sky City Above the Nine Heavens, hoping his uncle would help him deal with Zheng Guang.
• Qin Ming entered Old Furnace’s Secret Chamber, consumed Dragon Silkworm medicine, and began a breakthrough while Li Qingyue and the artifacts stood guard.
• Qin Ming repeatedly exploded during cultivation, then rebuilt his body and fused Sky Supporting Force into Chaos Force, leaving his Sky Bearing True Form with wrists and parts of its forearms.
• Zhou Tian agreed to help Zhen Gui challenge Qin Ming, but Qin Ming remained in seclusion, prompting rumors that he was avoiding the fight.
• Qin Ming awakened several days later and emerged from the Secret Chamber, while Old Furnace told Li Qingyue that Qin Ming had fought Zhou Tian before.
• Zhen Gui fetched Zhou Tian, who arrived at Furnace Palace and waited at the hall gates to face Qin Ming.

Qin Ming emerged from Furnace Palace to find Zhou Tian and discovered that the Great Sage was his sworn elder brother, turning Zhen Gui’s planned confrontation into a public family reunion. After Qin Ming proved stronger than Zhou Tian in a brief test of strength, the brothers shared a banquet, while a Hidden Disciple of Tushita Palace arrived to pay a visit.

• Zhen Gui brought Zhou Tian to Furnace Palace, expecting him to subdue Zheng Guang, while a crowd gathered to witness the battle.
• Qin Ming and Li Qingyue came out to meet Zhou Tian, who recognized Qin Ming as his sworn brother and ordered Zhen Gui to call him Fifth Uncle.
• Zhen Gui reluctantly bowed to Qin Ming as the crowd learned that Qin Ming was one of the Five Great Sages and had previously fought Zhou Tian to a draw.
• Qin Ming invited Zhou Tian to spar, but Zhou Tian could not move Qin Ming’s hand and realized that his younger brother had grown stronger.
• Qin Ming and Li Qingyue hosted Zhou Tian at a banquet, where Zhen Gui poured wine for the two Great Sages as the crowd watched.
• A young man riding an Azure Ox arrived at Furnace Palace, announcing that the Hidden Disciple Lineage under Tushita Palace had come to pay a visit.

Niu Wuwei and Li Youde arrived at Furnace Palace as Hidden Disciples, drawing attention for their apparent Great Sage and Dao Venerable potential. After Niu Wuwei became sworn brothers with Zhou Tian and Qin Ming, he challenged them to spar, and the chapter ended with Qin Ming mounted on the Azure Ox as their battle intensified.

• The crowd learned that Niu Wuwei and Li Youde were Hidden Disciples, and Zhou Tian sensed that Niu Wuwei was a Great Sage-level powerhouse.
• Niu Wuwei and Li Youde argued and fought inside Furnace Palace until Qin Ming and Zhou Tian stopped them.
• Niu Wuwei agreed to become sworn brothers with Zhou Tian and Qin Ming, then declared that he would use them to temper his Undying Hoof.
• Niu Wuwei challenged Zhou Tian, who was knocked through a mountain before Qin Ming stepped in to take his place.
• Li Youde challenged Zhou Tian as Qin Ming fought Niu Wuwei outside the city, and Qin Ming leaped onto the Azure Ox's back.

Qin Ming fought Niu Wuwei, the Hidden Disciple walking the path of a Dao Venerable, and repeatedly pressed him with fierce physical attacks and powerful techniques. The battle continued as Qin Ming tried to make his Fifth Brother carry him as a mount.

• Qin Ming leaped onto Niu Wuwei’s back, broke his dragon-shaped Seven-Star Sword, and tore off a clump of azure ox hair before Niu Wuwei shrank and escaped.
• Qin Ming saw through Niu Wuwei’s Mirage Realm and traded blows with him, matching the ox’s formidable strength and forcing him to use a Diamond Ring attack.
• Qin Ming countered the Diamond Ring with the Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe, wounded Niu Wuwei, and stored a chunk of the ox’s flesh after Niu Wuwei escaped.
• Niu Wuwei adopted an immortal, peach-blossom-bearing form and attacked with sword strikes, while Qin Ming answered with his Chaotic True Form and struck the ox’s head and backside.
• Qin Ming kicked Niu Wuwei and again asked his Fifth Brother to carry him for two laps.

Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei tested their strength, with Niu Wuwei using techniques that suppressed other arts and nearly sealed Qin Ming beneath an Immortal Golden Hoof. Qin Ming awakened the power of his linked five realms and shattered part of the hoof, leaving their contest unresolved.

• Qin Ming urged Niu Wuwei to let him ride on his back, so Niu Wuwei challenged him to escape its giant hand first.
• Qin Ming cut through Niu Wuwei's palm and injured its little finger before Niu Wuwei hid its wounded hand.
• Qin Ming attacked Niu Wuwei's Taiji Diagram, timing his strikes to disrupt its yin-yang transformations.
• Niu Wuwei transformed into an Azure Ox and summoned a golden hoof that extinguished other techniques and descended to crush Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming blocked the hoof with his fingers, then linked his five realms and shattered a piece of it with his awakened power.

Qin Ming defeated Niu Wuwei after enduring Tushita Palace’s forbidden art, while Zhou Tian and Li Youde also finished their battle. The group planned to reunite with the other brothers, and an old man revealed that Lord Xuandu had returned as Blood Xuandu.

• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei exchanged devastating attacks, and Qin Ming overcame Niu Wuwei’s Diamond Ring and Transforming the Hu into Buddha before winning their battle.
• Qin Ming helped the wounded Niu Wuwei up, and the two discussed his interest in Tushita Palace’s forbidden arts as spectators reacted to the defeat.
• Zhou Tian and Li Youde emerged from their own hard-fought battle, while Qin Ming, Niu Wuwei, and Zhou Tian each resolved to train harder.
• Zhen Gui delivered Taiyi’s letter asking Zhou Tian to join the brothers again, and Qin Ming agreed to visit Jiang Zai with Niu Wuwei and Zhou Tian.
• An old man told the ancient monsters that Lord Xuandu was still alive and was now called Blood Xuandu, prompting alarm over the possible existence of Blood Supreme.

Yiyin revealed that Blood Xuandu had survived for millennia and stood at the origin of two Longevity Abomination lineages, forcing Tushita Palace to prepare for a possible conflict. At an exchange gathering, Li Qingyue defeated a Blood Xuandu champion, and Qin Ming and the others crushed the opponents’ attempts to interfere.

• Yiyin told Tushita Palace’s elders that Blood Xuandu was alive, had maintained Eternal Presence for over two thousand years, and had left behind both the Clear Current and Blood-Colored lineages.
• Old Furnace warned Qin Ming and Li Qingyue that several Longevity Abomination organizations were negotiating against Tushita Palace, which strengthened its defenses and summoned disciples to meet a Blood Xuandu delegation.
• The Blood Xuandu representative proposed that losing disciples become Longevity Test Subjects, then sent a purple-robed woman to challenge Li Qingyue.
• Li Qingyue beheaded the purple-robed woman and badly wounded the white-robed man after he challenged her, while Qin Ming blasted apart the woman’s protector.
• Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, Niu Wuwei, and Li Youde killed an intervening Grandmaster, and Qin Ming demanded that the white-robed man and the Grandmaster kneel or die.

Qin Ming and Tushita Palace’s disciples dominated a hostile exchange gathering, exposing tensions with Blood Xuandu and its apparent allies. As Tushita Palace prepared for war, the ancient Blood Xuandu arrived and faced the palace’s Diamond Ring while Qin Ming struggled to keep Torn Cloth from rushing into the clash.

• Qin Ming crushed a Blood Xuandu Grandmaster and the white-clad man, then Niu Wuwei, Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, and Li Youde defeated two more Grandmasters.
• Qin Ming forced a hostile Saint Disciple from another Longevity Abomination Organization into the field, defeated him, and gave Niu Wuwei his consciousness to interrogate.
• The exchange gathering ended, and Tushita Palace ordered its forces to prepare for the Supreme Blood Battle as enemy forces approached five days later.
• Blood Xuandu appeared above Tushita Palace’s territory, and the palace’s Diamond Ring descended to attack him.
• Blood Xuandu raised Torn Cloth to meet the Diamond Ring, while Qin Ming desperately tried to stop the Torn Cloth in his arms from flying toward the battle.

Qin Empire Ming was swept into the sky by Old Cloth as Blood Xuandu battled the Diamond Ring and uncovered another piece of Exotic Gold Cloth. In a moonlit domain, Qin Empire Ming encountered the other cloth’s temporary possessor, Luo Shaohua, and their confrontation turned into a fight.

• Old Cloth lifted Qin Empire Ming into the night sky, where he disguised his ascent as a pledge to fight for Tushita Palace and gained the admiration of the crowd.
• Blood Xuandu clashed with the Diamond Ring using Exotic Gold Cloth, then sent the cloth to retrieve a second piece from beneath a ruined mountain range.
• The two pieces of Exotic Gold Cloth fused, and several figures took possession of the joined cloth as Qin Empire Ming slipped away amid the chaos.
• Qin Empire Ming found himself beneath a bright moon and met Luo Shaohua, another temporary possessor of Exotic Gold Cloth, who demanded that he hand it over and serve her.
• Luo Shaohua attacked Qin Empire Ming with mist that threatened to dissolve him, but he countered it with the black-hole vortices of his Chaos Force and struck back.

Qin Empire Ming fought Luo Shaohua through a series of increasingly dangerous arts, eventually overpowering her and discovering that she had no Exotic Gold Cloth. As she repeatedly healed and her aura changed, he tried to capture her in his Old Cloth.

• Luo Shaohua and Qin Empire Ming traded blows, each failing to overpower the other in their opening clash of giant hand and foot.
• Luo Shaohua unleashed a Dao Rhythm technique that injured them both, but Qin Empire Ming split the turbulent region with his Open Heaven Axe and forced her to retreat.
• Qin Empire Ming countered Luo Shaohua's Spirit Domain arts, drew out her Will Horse and Xin Yuan, and fought her while riding the horse until she recalled them with her Blood-Colored Diamond Ring.
• Luo Shaohua used Lunar Yin Force against Qin Empire Ming's sword attacks, but he pierced her with Pure Yang Flying Swords and repeatedly smashed her body as it healed.
• Qin Empire Ming pinned Luo Shaohua with golden threads and tried to put her into his Torn Cloth, then his Old Cloth, while her aura brightened and she continued to heal.

Qin Ming battled Luo Shaohua, whose strange revival and second personality made her far more dangerous than expected, while Old Cloth confronted a mysterious figure emerging from another piece of Exotic Gold Cloth. Qin Ming and his incarnations defeated Luo Shaohua and claimed her Blood-Colored Diamond Ring, but Old Cloth intervened to ensure she survived and sent them away separately.

• Qin Ming failed to obtain the Diamond Ring Technique from Luo Shaohua, who recovered from his attacks and revealed an unusual, increasingly powerful state.
• A blood-mist-covered hand emerged from a second piece of Exotic Gold Cloth, but Old Cloth fused with it and destroyed the hand and the figure behind it.
• Luo Shaohua broke free of her restraints and invoked her second personality, so Qin Ming summoned Little Worm and Two Figurines to fight alongside him.
• Luo Shaohua wielded a Blood-Colored Diamond Ring and an Eyebrow-Drawing Brush, but Qin Ming and his incarnations overwhelmed her, seized the ring, and severed her head.
• Old Cloth stopped Qin Ming from killing Luo Shaohua and declared the battle's curtain call; Qin Ming kept the ring as Old Cloth prepared to send them away separately.

Qin Ming fought Luo Shaohua, returned to Tushita Palace, and joined the defense against the Longevity Abomination Organization before the invading forces were driven away. After spending time with Li Qingyue and helping her advance, he departed with Zhou Tian and Niu Wuwei for a mysterious territory, promising to return in a year.

• Qin Ming defeated Luo Shaohua, gave the Blood-Colored Diamond Ring to Old Cloth to erase its remnant spirit, and returned to the battlefield.
• Qin Ming joined Tushita Palace's fight against the Longevity Abomination Organization, and Blood Xuandu withdrew with Luo Shaohua as the Inverted Tushita Palace and its treasures drove back the invaders.
• Qin Ming and Li Qingyue discussed the fallen acquaintances from their past campaigns, and Old Cloth returned to Furnace Palace with the Exotic Gold Cloth restored but the Blood-Colored Diamond Ring still unusable.
• Qin Ming and Li Qingyue spent a peaceful period together, cultivated scriptures, and learned that Li Qingyue would become a Top-Tier Saint Disciple ahead of the Supreme Daoist Temple's selection in a year.
• Qin Ming promised Li Qingyue that he would return to Tushita Palace in a year, then left with Zhou Tian and Niu Wuwei to join their group on a journey to a mysterious territory.

Qin Ming left Tushita Palace with Niu Wuwei and Zhou Tian to join the other Great Sages on a dangerous expedition. After the three defeated a migrating Azure Midge Tide and saved a village, they reached Yaoguang, where they were to meet the rest of the group.

• Qin Ming said farewell to Li Qingyue, and the Saint Disciples and Hidden Disciples promised to look after her while he was away.
• Qin Ming, Niu Wuwei, and Zhou Tian traveled through the Night Mist World and learned that Taiyi had found a mysterious region that might hold a Great Opportunity.
• The three discovered an Azure Midge Tide that had burned a town to ruins and was migrating toward a village, so they pursued it to stop further slaughter.
• Qin Ming and his companions defeated the insect king and queen, exterminated the Azure Midge Tide, and protected the village.
• Five days later, Qin Ming, Niu Wuwei, and Zhou Tian arrived at Yaoguang, where the other Great Sages were expected to gather.

Qin Ming traveled with Zhou Tian and Niu Wuwei to Jade Radiance Immortal City, where Ji Xingran welcomed them as Great Sages and arranged an extravagant feast. Qin Ming learned that the master of the Godlike Society had revived by copying the path of its first chairman, and the chapter ended with Zhou Tian receiving word that Meng Zhiyu had arrived in the city and was handling business.

• Zhou Tian, Qin Ming, and Niu Wuwei arrived in Jade Radiance Immortal City, where Ji Xingran greeted them and brought them to a Grotto-Heaven-style building.
• Ji Xingran arranged a lavish welcome feast and told Zhou Tian that he had become the Ji Household's heir with Zhou Tian's help.
• Qin Ming asked about the Godlike Society's master and learned that the master had copied the revival path of the first chairman, whose grave he had opened to prolong his own life.
• A dragon girl from the Godlike Society visited the feast, recognized Zhou Tian as a Great Sage, and saluted Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei as his equals.
• Zhou Tian received a call and learned that Meng Zhiyu had arrived three days earlier and was dealing with matters in the city.

Qin Ming and his sworn brothers gathered in Yaoguang City, where he learned that Meng Zhiyu might recognize him through their past contact and discovered that the legendary Yi Ming scripture was connected to a text he had studied. The six Great Saints assembled, and Qin Ming confronted the purple-haired Meng Zhiyu by asking whether she was the former white tiger grandmaster.

• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei seized Zhou Tian when they suspected he had sold them out, then released him after hearing that Meng Zhiyu wanted to meet Qin Ming and might seek a fair spar.
• Qin Ming urged Zhou Tian and Niu Wuwei to help arrange a restricted contest with Meng Zhiyu, while Ji Xingran watched the brothers’ unruly negotiations.
• At the lodging, Niu Wuwei rejected the women Ji Xingran arranged, while Qin Ming sent away a woman and chose to cultivate.
• Zhou Tian told Qin Ming that Meng Zhiyu specialized in transformation and could recognize anyone whose soul aura she had touched; he also explained that she had defeated an imperial worm that was now stirring up trouble.
• At an underground auction, Qin Ming heard a bounty for the Yi Ming true scripture and realized it was the text he had called the Destiny Alteration Scripture, of which he had only three pages.
• Tai Yi and Mu Shinian joined the group, and when Meng Zhiyu arrived with purple hair, Qin Ming asked her, “Little Tiger, is it you?”

Qin Ming met Meng Zhiyu in Jade Radiance City and was drawn into a same-realm duel after their sworn brothers pushed for a fight. The battle ended with Qin Ming controlling Meng Zhiyu’s body and charging at her in an outrageous pose.

• Meng Zhiyu arrived to meet the Six Great Sages, and Qin Ming called her “Tiger Cub” before explaining he had mistaken her for a companion from his youth.
• Bai Zhilan arrived and angrily confronted Qin Ming over the insult, while Meng Zhiyu invited the group to a banquet at the Heavenly Immortal Tower.
• At the banquet, the brothers repeatedly urged Meng Zhiyu and Qin Ming to spar, and Qin Ming agreed to fight her with their cultivation restricted to the same realm.
• Meng Zhiyu attacked Qin Ming with blinding speed and dream-based techniques, while Qin Ming countered with the golden threads of his mysterious lineage.
• The two sent their spirits outside their bodies and fought for control; Qin Ming seized Meng Zhiyu’s body, stretched her limbs into a side split, and charged at her after pounding his chest.

Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu fought while occupying each other’s bodies, trading powerful techniques and increasingly outrageous taunts before Qin Ming used flirtatious displays to probe her emotions. He ended by asking whether the Tiger Slave Mark was still there and whether Meng Zhiyu was the person behind it, leaving the truth unresolved.

• Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu battled with lightning and other wondrous techniques while the watching Great Sages reacted to Qin Ming’s barbaric antics in Meng Zhiyu’s body.
• Qin Ming suspected Meng Zhiyu had entered his body to investigate his supreme arts, then used the Silk Book Method and Jade Suit Sewn with Gold Threads in their fight.
• Meng Zhiyu summoned energy wings and a starry assault, while Qin Ming pierced the descending stars with golden threads and forced her into close combat.
• Meng Zhiyu used Qin Ming’s body to shield herself and attacked his Consciousness Domain, so Qin Ming answered with increasingly provocative physical and mental distractions.
• Qin Ming used peach blossoms and flirtatious words to unsettle Meng Zhiyu, then asked whether the Tiger Slave Mark remained and whether she was the person he sought.

Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu fought in the Colosseum while each tried to steal the other's techniques through mental attacks and an exchange of bodies. They returned to their own bodies satisfied with their gains, while both suspected the other had hidden dangerous abilities.

• Qin Ming resisted Meng Zhiyu's Mind Sword and discovered that her mental defenses concealed a second layer of Dream Domain.
• Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu exchanged attacks while secretly investigating each other's techniques and bodily secrets.
• Meng Zhiyu used her Forbidden Technique to repeatedly reset the battle, and Qin Ming realized she was recording his cultivation routes as he tried to learn her technique.
• Meng Zhiyu emerged from a cocoon with a strengthened War Body and used Borrowing the Body to Comprehend the Dao, while Qin Ming resisted and studied her methods.
• Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu switched back into their own bodies, recognized that each had gained valuable techniques, and agreed that neither had lost.

After the spar, Meng Zhiyu reclaimed the Memory Crystals and revealed that she had gained strength, while Qin Ming hid his own recording and tested her perception. The Great Sages set out for a gathering in Jade Radiance City, where they planned to draw powerful figures toward a dangerous ancient land, and Qin Ming began trading knowledge of identities with Qian Cheng and Meng Zhiyu.

• Qin Ming returned to his true form, and Meng Zhiyu teased Niu Wuwei before demanding that everyone surrender their Memory Crystals.
• Zhou Tian and Taiyi handed over their crystals, Mu Shinian was exposed by Zhou Tian's amplified secret message, and Meng Zhiyu defeated Niu Wuwei when he challenged her.
• Bai Zhilan surrendered her recording, and Qin Ming handed over one of his own while concealing that he had kept another; Meng Zhiyu let him go after sensing it.
• Meng Zhiyu said she had gained something during seclusion and warned the others not to leak any recordings before leading the group to meet prominent guests, including the rumored Emperor Worm.
• Taiyi revealed that the gathering would draw powerful figures to help clear the way to a dangerous ancient land, and Qin Ming recognized the plan.
• Qian Cheng and Meng Zhiyu separately approached Qin Ming about discussing his identity, and Qin Ming hinted that he knew their secrets too.

Qin Ming and the Six Great Sages arrived at Jade Radiance Immortal City, where the Traveler Civilization presented a mysterious stone inscription for guests to decipher. As the Emperor Worm appeared, he challenged Meng Zhiyu to reveal whether she could understand it, leaving the gathering tense.

• Qin Ming deflected Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, Zhou Tian, and Niu Wuwei’s attempts to pry into his private conversations, then joined them at a gathering in a grand Cave Mansion.
• Ji Xingran told Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei that influential groups, including the Traveler Civilization and the Sky Race, had come to Jade Radiance Immortal City.
• A senior member of the Traveler Civilization displayed an incomplete stone inscription, and the guests who tried to decipher it, including the Godlike Society’s Dragon Girl, failed.
• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei approached the inscription while Zhou Tian prepared to study it, and Ji Xingran identified Wen Lingxi as a renowned local prodigy.
• Daoist Peng exchanged a brief lightning-like clash of gazes with Qian Cheng, while guests discussed the powerful figures gathered in the hall.
• The Emperor Worm arrived, claimed he had gained insight into the inscription, and challenged Meng Zhiyu to decipher more of it, suggesting she could use the Dream Insect Clan’s Borrowing the Body to Comprehend the Dao.