Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming attended a gathering where Meng Zhiyu studied the Heavenly Scripture, while he and Niu Wuwei learned that Wen Lingxi sought a Dao Companion to help her change fate. After tracing memories within the stone bricks, Qin Ming uncovered a connection between Meng Zhiyu and the Emperor Worm and a disturbing mystery about the Ancestor Worm becoming the Dao Worm.

• The Emperor Worm arrived at the gathering, and Meng Zhiyu eased the tension between him and the other guests.
• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei befriended Wen Chongguang and teased Wen Lingxi, then learned she was seeking a Dao Companion to bear a calamity as part of changing fate.
• Taiyi and Qian Cheng spoke with Wen Lingxi about her plan, while she named Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei as potential candidates.
• Meng Zhiyu studied the Heavenly Scripture in seclusion, then Niu Wuwei and Qin Ming each entered the quiet room to examine the stone bricks.
• Qin Ming traced memories in the stone bricks and learned they bore characters left by the Ancestor Worm, saw the Emperor Worm deliver them to Meng Zhiyu, and discovered Meng Zhiyu’s question about whether the Ancestor Worm had emerged as the Dao Worm.

Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu deciphered ancient notes about the Land of Fate Exchange, learning that it might hold the Changing Fate Scripture and could replace those who sought new lives. After several days of preparation, Qin Ming and the Six Great Sages set out for the revived land, where Qin Ming steeled himself for the dangerous gamble ahead.

• Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu resonated with the stone bricks and decoded notes about the Land of Fate Exchange, including its dangers and the rumored Changing Fate Scripture.
• Qin Ming concluded that the Six Great Sages had separate motives and worried he would be sacrificed if he joined the expedition, so he considered sending Little Worm in his place.
• Qian Cheng privately admitted to Qin Ming that he was the Dharma King, and the two discussed their identities and their suspicions about Meng Zhiyu and the Insect Emperor.
• Qian Cheng told the group that the Land of Fate Exchange had revived after Supreme Experts destroyed it eight thousand years earlier, and warned them not to learn the scripture's final volume.
• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei spent several days preparing with the Six Great Sages before Taiyi led the group toward the Land of Fate Exchange on the fifth day.
• After passing through several Ancient Mist Gates, Qin Ming reached the strange landscape surrounding the Land of Fate Exchange and calmed himself for the coming gamble.

Qin Ming and the Great Sages entered the Land of Fate Exchange, used talisman doubles to evade the monsters and groups ahead, and reached a village whose rules led them onto the Illusory Ancient Road. There, they encountered arrogant Night Ruins creatures across a ravine, including a group accompanied by what Qin Ming recognized as a possible Heavenly Immortal-level monster.

• Meng Zhiyu and the others crossed the silver-rain-covered Severed Mountain and entered the Land of Fate Exchange, where the Dao Rhythm battered them at the boundary.
• Taiyi and Meng Zhiyu used Earth Immortal-refined talismans as decoys while the group hid beneath banners, avoiding the monsters and the organizations following them.
• The group waited for rival troops to pass, then advanced through the wasteland, fighting a Black Mountain Goat and a silver giant ape before encountering the retreating Totem Faction.
• Qin Ming and the others reached Longevity Star Village, worried that its rules might ensnare them, and activated the boundary stele to enter the Illusory Ancient Road.
• The group found living Night Ruins creatures across a ravine, including ten young powerhouses and several strange vehicles; Qin Ming recognized a red sedan chair associated with a possible Heavenly Immortal-level monster.
• Taiyi tried to return to the Land of Reality, but the Night Ruins creatures taunted the group, and Zhou Tian asked Qin Ming whether he could endure their challenge.

Qin Ming and the others withdrew from the powerful Night Ruins delegation, then followed the Land of Fate Exchange’s trials in search of the Life Altering Scripture. They learned valuable life-prolonging methods and continued deeper into the Land of Reality, relying on Meng Zhiyu’s instincts and Zhou Tian’s divination while the Old Seniors fought to clear the way.

• Zhou Tian endured insults from the Night Ruins experts, and the group withdrew after the Old Seniors judged their opponents too powerful to confront.
• The group reached Longevity Star Village, where the Old Golden Crow and a Moon Insect dispelled its dangerous laws and revealed pages introducing methods from the Life Altering Scripture.
• Qin Ming and the others learned about the Earth Heart Aperture and the Longevity Body before the scripture pages vanished.
• Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi used their instincts and Zhou Tian’s turtle shell to choose a route, and a Seventh Realm Sword Immortal destroyed a sword-and-blade formation blocking their path.
• The group continued through successive trials, gathering more Life Altering Scripture methods as the Old Seniors spent their strength clearing Earth Immortal-level dangers.

Qin Ming mocked and defeated a Night Ruins powerhouse on the Enlightenment Path, while Niu Wuwei also won his fight. Qin Ming approached the summit, then repeatedly retraced the paths after discovering changes in the scripture, leaving the Night Ruins challengers furious as he continued to taunt them.

• Qin Ming easily advanced through the scripture while the Nine-Yang Mystic Beast struggled, then defeated him in a fierce fight and forced him off the path.
• Niu Wuwei defeated his Night Ruins opponent, but stalled when he tried to comprehend the scripture and prepared to fight another challenger.
• Qin Ming outpaced the silver-haired woman, then noticed that the scripture changed and began retracing the Enlightenment Path to study it.
• The silver-haired woman danced to coax Qin Ming back, but he returned down the path, resisted her attack, and forced her to withdraw.
• Qin Ming climbed and descended the paths again, provoking the Night Ruins faction and taunting the silver-robed woman as he sought to uncover the scripture’s complete outline.

Qin Ming comprehended the complete outline of the Changing Fate True Scripture and drove Night Ruins challengers from the Enlightenment Paths while walking backward. At the mountain’s foot, he discovered a hidden road bearing the complete main text and wondered whether to continue.

• Qin Ming ignored the silver-robed woman while studying the scripture, then knocked her off the Enlightenment Path with the Sky Bearing Hand.
• Qin Ming advanced down the golden-robed man's path, taunted him, and forced him off the Enlightenment Path as well.
• Niu Wuwei defeated his opponent with the Eight Sceneries Palace Lamp and Heaven-Burning Purple Fire, then withdrew when Qin Ming approached along his path.
• Qin Ming traversed all four paths, comprehended the complete text, and took the three scripture pages from the Daoist temple.
• Qin Ming saw a hidden road and a stone stele bearing the complete main text of the Changing Fate True Scripture, then questioned whether to proceed.

Qin Ming avoided a dangerous path, shared the completed outline of the Changing Fate True Scripture, and joined the others in advancing through the Land of Fate Exchange. After the elders exhausted their strength and withdrew, Qin Ming defeated a Celestial Tower gatekeeper with Little Worm’s body and entered a treasure pool to attempt another breakthrough.

• Qin Ming retreated from the bluestone road after the boundary stele promised the opportunity would remain for next time.
• Qin Ming gave the others three pages of scripture whose meaning had been supplemented, and Meng Zhiyu revealed that he had cultivated Longevity Force.
• The group encountered nine ancient figures blocking the Illusory Ancient Road, then went to the Present World, where the elders used Celestial Immortal Remnant Armor to defeat monsters and help them obtain more scripture pages.
• After the Seventh Realm elders withdrew, the Great Sages and Wen Lingxi split up to challenge the next barriers on their own.
• Qin Ming possessed Little Worm’s body, defeated the Five-Colored armored gatekeeper outside the Celestial Tower, and entered a Five-Colored treasure pool to fuse with Tathagata Force.

Qin Ming exploited the Celestial Tower’s trial to collect medicinal tea, then fought off the armored opponents his repeated tricks summoned. After sharing the tea and hot springs with his companions, he broke through into the Mid-Master Realm, while the awakened Chairman approached his sleeping body.

• Qin Ming received medicinal tea whose vision revealed a fiery-red herb destroyed while crossing tribulation, then joined the Insect Emperor in defeating a blue-gold armored attacker.
• Qin Ming used Old Cloth to steal tea and evade successive trial opponents, but his repeated exploits triggered a battle against six armored experts, whom he and his companions defeated.
• Qin Ming shared the medicinal tea and Five-Colored Treasure Pools with the Chairman, the Two Figurines, and Little Worm, then began his breakthrough as his body disintegrated and reformed.
• Qin Ming reached the Mid-Master Realm and fell into a deep sleep, while the Chairman rose from her spring pool and approached him.

After breaking through to the Mid-Master Realm, Qin Ming defeated two Night Ruins prodigies, seized their treasures and tea, and ambushed the Nine-Yang Mystic Beast and its companion for more tea. Reports of the battles wildly exaggerated his group’s strength, leaving Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi surrounded by Night Ruins forces while both sides called for help.

• The president and the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella examined Qin Ming’s breakthrough, and the president felt his bones before he awakened fully.
• Qin Ming fused the Tathagata Force, reached the Mid-Master Realm, and received the main text of the Life Altering Scripture.
• A golden-robed man and a silver-robed woman attacked Qin Ming, but he defeated them, took their stone tower and tea, and wounded them as they escaped.
• Qin Ming broke into the Nine-Yang Mystic Beast’s castle, drove it and a silver-haired woman to flee, and seized their tea before leaving.
• Night Ruins reports exaggerated Qin Ming’s strength, causing forces to surround Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi; both called Qin Ming and others for help.

Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi faced a growing Night Ruins force after Qin Ming’s earlier clash with its experts sparked a faction-wide confrontation. The misunderstanding was exposed, but the two sides remained tense as Qin Ming challenged the Night Ruins and Mu Shinian defeated an opponent in one move.

• Meng Zhiyu and Taiyi waited for their brothers while Night Ruins experts debated whether to attack, and Mu Shinian, Niu Wuwei, and Wen Lingxi arrived.
• Qin Ming told Taiyi that another Night Ruins team was heading toward them, while Zhou Tian reported that two Night Ruins experts had confronted him and then fled in fear.
• The second Night Ruins team arrived, and Qin Ming threw the severed leg of a silver-robed woman to the ground as he warned the faction that it was surrounded.
• Mu Shinian fought the Evergreen Undying Dao Body and defeated him with the Wheel of Time, aging him in a single move.
• Qin Ming demanded medicinal tea in exchange for the woman’s leg, and the Night Ruins faction demanded the return of a golden-robed man’s arms, which Qin Ming said he had reduced to ashes.
• The factions learned that Qin Ming had been attacked first after entering a cultivation room for medicinal tea, but he and the Night Ruins experts continued trading threats.

Qin Ming traded medicinal tea for a severed leg, then defeated Ming Yi and a Void Roc woman in succession, alarming the Night Ruins Faction with his strength. He challenged Dao Mushroom next, while his companions began to suspect he was trying to take the lead among the Six Great Sages.

• Zhou Tian, Niu Wuwei, Mu Shinian, and Wen Lingxi discussed Qin Ming’s demand for medicinal tea and concluded that he was making a transaction rather than acting out of lust.
• Qin Ming exchanged the silver-robed woman’s severed leg for medicinal tea, while Mu Shinian used his power over time to keep the Evergreen Undying Dao Body alive in exchange for another bowl.
• Qin Ming defeated Ming Yi with the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal, destroyed the rest of his body, and claimed the Exotic Metal fused within it.
• Qin Ming severely wounded the golden-haired Void Roc woman, tearing away her divine wings and forcing a great figure to intervene and rescue her.
• Qin Ming challenged Dao Mushroom and mocked him with the threat of chicken stewed with mushrooms, while Meng Zhiyu, Taiyi, and the others worried that Qin Ming was stealing the limelight and wanted to become their leader.

Qin Empire Ming defeated the Dao Mushroom and advanced through the Land of Fate Exchange, gathering the middle section of the Changing Fate Scripture. After reaching the final trial and ignoring its warning, he entered the ultimate land, where a mysterious ritual began around the Insect Emperor.

• Qin Empire Ming defeated the Dao Mushroom, forcing the Night Ruins elders to retreat, then shared a meal with his companions before they parted ways.
• Qin Empire Ming passed the upper section’s final trial and sent Little Worm onward alone while his consciousness hid in Old Cloth.
• Little Worm battled corpse hordes and an ancient powerhouse on the Illusory Ancient Road, and Qin Empire Ming obtained the middle section of the Changing Fate Scripture across nine trials.
• Qin Empire Ming ignored a warning to stop, climbed the Heaven-Piercing Stairway, and found the lower section of the scripture in the ultimate land.
• Mysterious patterns lit beneath the Insect Emperor as stone steles shifted around him, signaling the start of a dangerous ritual.

Qin Ming reached the Ultimate Land, where he recovered the latter half of the Changing Fate Scripture and was forced through a series of tests that revealed his extraordinary qualities. The ritual advanced despite his resistance, and a voice beyond the vault declared that it would join him in Mutual Convergence.

• Qin Ming reached the platform above the Heavenly Ladder, caught pages of the Changing Fate Scripture, and found warnings hinting at the Ancestor Worm and an unknown Little Ancestor.
• Niu Wuwei arrived as a phantom using One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, then broke apart while fleeing a pursuer.
• Qin Ming passed the stone steles' tests of comprehension, consciousness, soul, strength, and affinity, while an Immortal Force matched his Chaos Force.
• The fourteenth stele forced Qin Ming to reveal the Secret Treasure and a door within Little Worm, then broke under the test.
• The steles declared that Qin Ming had exceeded the limits, opened a path, and offered the complete Changing Fate Scripture, while the ritual pushed him onward.
• Qin Ming heard voices beyond the vault arguing over his values and blessed fortune, before one voice declared it would join him in Mutual Convergence.

Qin Ming discovered that the starry sky beyond the dome was an illusion and questioned the people across the abyss about their realm and the Changing Fate ritual. When Hong Dao began the ritual, Qin Ming’s resonance left no soul for the other side to find, causing Hong Dao to burn himself to open a passage; Hong Dao finally reached the Land of Fate Exchange, nearly exhausted, as Qin Ming prepared to catch him.

• Qin Ming approached the dome, saw that its stars were an illusion, and glimpsed a vast cliff across the abyss.
• Qin Ming questioned the people on the cliff about their realm, the Ancestor Worm, and the ritual, while they insisted he would eventually come to their side.
• The people chose Hong Dao to undergo Changing Fate and secretly began the ritual while Qin Ming watched.
• A man cut through the black mist to reveal a real corner of the starry sky, and Hong Dao took control of the ritual to connect the two lands.
• Qin Ming’s resonance left no soul for the ritual to detect, so Hong Dao was trapped burning his soul, body, and Secret Treasure to forge the passage.
• Hong Dao crossed into the Land of Fate Exchange nearly spent, and Qin Ming waited to capture him and learn about the other shore.

Qin Ming pursued the ruined Hong Dao across the Illusory Ancient Road and fought him as Hong Dao used forbidden techniques and a Return-to-Light Technique to survive. Qin Ming stole Hong Dao’s Xinghai Silver Lotus, then faced him with his true body as Hong Dao’s soul began recovering.

• Qin Ming tried to seize Hong Dao, but the fading ritual’s patterns protected him and Hong Dao’s shattered body followed his soul to the other shore.
• Hong Dao used Substitute Death Techniques to escape Qin Ming’s attacks and fled down the Heavenly Ladder into the Grotto-Heaven Ruins.
• Hong Dao revived himself with the Return-to-Light Technique and attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming matched his strength and resisted his Turbid World Azure Lotus soul technique.
• Hong Dao abandoned his ruined body and discovered a surviving Xinghai Silver Lotus in his damaged treasure vase.
• Qin Ming used Torn Cloth to steal the Xinghai Silver Lotus from Hong Dao and put it away.
• Qin Ming’s true body arrived, and he prepared to attack the recovering Hong Dao.

Qin Ming defeated the dying Hong Dao and secretly learned the Turbid World Azure Lotus scripture while trying to keep him alive. As Hong Dao died, his ancestor emerged from the Green Lotus and reached the Secret Treasure’s door, which began opening as though someone inside controlled it.

• Qin Ming disrupted the world’s Dao rhythm, but Hong Dao answered with Ancestor Worm’s Cry and wounded Qin Ming through his defenses.
• Qin Ming evaded the attack with Spirit Travel into Hell, then struck Hong Dao with the Insect Emperor’s golden threads as Hong Dao attempted to change fate and seize his body.
• Qin Ming crushed Hong Dao’s Green Lotus, then urgently treated him and resonated with him to learn the Turbid World Azure Lotus scripture.
• Hong Dao’s ancestor emerged from the Green Lotus, revealed he had been waiting to revive, and entered the Insect Emperor’s body to seek its Secret Treasure door.
• The ancestor reached the door, but it began to open before he could unleash his full strength, making him suspect that someone inside was opening it.

Qin Ming survived Qi Ze’s attempt to seize the Insect Emperor’s secret treasure and discovered that the Insect Emperor had begun to revive. After returning from the Land of Fate Exchange with valuable gains, Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei found hostile forces waiting outside to ambush them.

• Qi Ze entered the world behind the Insect Emperor’s gate, was overwhelmed by its strange power, and surrendered his lotus seed before fleeing into Qin Ming’s Torn Cloth.
• Qin Ming searched Hong Dao’s soul, but Hong Dao’s consciousness shattered; inside the gate, the Insect Emperor revived as a little worm and ate Qi Ze’s lotus seed.
• Qin Ming stored the Insect Emperor’s body in the Torn Cloth, kept the Xinghai Silver Lotus remnant, and considered what he had learned about Beyond Heaven.
• Qin Ming met the badly injured Niu Wuwei, who reported that monsters had revived near the Heavenly Ladder and that someone else had reached the platform bordering Beyond Heaven.
• As Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei neared the exit from the Land of Fate Exchange, they sensed hostile forces waiting outside, so they decided to wait for Meng and Second Brother.

Qin Ming and his companions returned from the Land of Fate Exchange, where several members revealed that they had used substitute bodies to survive deadly trials. Outside, the Dream Insect Clan, the Demon Court, and other powerful factions confronted the Longevity Abomination Organization over the Changing Fate Scripture, leaving Qin Ming caught in a gathering struggle.

• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei escaped a killing formation and found Wen Lingxi gravely damaged, only to learn she had been using a Divine Lotus Body rather than her true body.
• Mu Shinian, Taiyi, Meng Zhiyu, and Zhou Tian returned, prompting Niu Wuwei to discover that most of the group had entered using substitute bodies.
• Meng Zhiyu activated an immortal talisman, and the Old Dream Insect opened a purple Dao road to escort the group past the Longevity Abomination Organization's blockade.
• The Longevity Abomination Organization and several other powerful factions demanded to exchange for the Changing Fate Scripture, while the Dream Insect Clan, the Demon Court's Time Beast, and Wen Lingxi's White Phoenix master arrived to protect the group.
• The Old Dream Insect invited the group to name scriptures they wanted in exchange, then recognized Qin Ming's Longevity Force and proposed notifying his elders, leaving Qin Ming alarmed.

Qin Ming and his companions negotiated a trade of scriptures with powerful factions, then took part in fierce guidance battles before heading to Jade Radiance City. There, Meng Zhiyu suffered a dangerous backlash while practicing Longevity Force, and Old Dream Insect warned her to stop.

• Qin Ming and the others chose scriptures to request, including the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal and Ancestor Worm's Cry, and negotiated a trade for several techniques in exchange for the incomplete Changing Fate Scripture.
• The factions agreed to exchange scriptures in Jade Radiance City and arranged guidance battles with stakes such as rare materials.
• Luo Shaohua challenged Niu Wuwei, Si Yeli challenged Qin Ming, and an Ancestor challenged Meng Zhiyu; Qin Ming guided Si Yeli with his zither, while Meng Zhiyu overwhelmed her opponent.
• Si Yeli gave Qin Ming Heavenly Light Liquid, and the group later arrived in Jade Radiance City ahead of the planned scripture trade.
• Meng Zhiyu coughed up blood while practicing Longevity Force, and Old Dream Insect warned that the technique could bring hidden dangers and urged her to stop.
• Meng Zhiyu refused to give up and decided to try practicing Longevity Force again while her Dao-comprehension pill was still active.

Qin Ming enjoyed Jade Radiance City’s banquets and cultivation luxuries while Meng Zhiyu dangerously forced herself to practice the crude Silk Book Method. The chapter ended with Old Dream Insect summoning Qin Ming after Meng Zhiyu’s condition worsened.

• Meng Zhiyu continued her risky cultivation despite Old Dream Insect’s warnings, suffering bleeding and damage to her Mental Field and Pure Yang Consciousness.
• Qin Ming guided Si Yeli’s cultivation, tended the Xinghai Silver Lotus, and accepted an invitation to meet Jade Radiance City’s Grandmasters alongside Niu Wuwei.
• Ji Yunzhou, Bai Shanhai, and Wen Chongguang welcomed Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei, gave them Exotic Metal, and discussed danger in the Night Mist World, including roars from a possible Heavenly Immortal.
• The Grandmasters took Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei to the Imperial City’s Supreme Grotto-Heaven for costly medicinal treatment and Five-Colored Flood Dragon massages; Wen Lingxi, Bai Zhilan, and Ji Xingran followed and found them there.
• Old Dream Insect urgently contacted Qin Ming after Meng Zhiyu’s condition deteriorated, and Qin Ming left Si Yeli to go to her.