Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming saw a White Curtain replay his life and learned from Torn Cloth that he was destined to die alone. As he traveled through No-Man’s Land and helped fight demons, a golden stranger trapped and fatally wounded him, leaving Qin Ming aware that the vision of his death had become reality.

• Qin Ming’s Spirit Travel was blocked by a White Curtain that showed his life and displayed the words “A Funeral for One.”
• Torn Cloth told Qin Ming that he had died and described the curtain as either a final review before death or a ripple in time that could not change his fate.
• Qin Ming’s Divine Lotus Root Body and a Peak Earth Immortal traveled through No-Man’s Land, where they found villages and settlements devastated by demons and blood sacrifices.
• The Peak Earth Immortal killed two Demon Gods, while Qin Ming and his companions continued fighting demons and helping survivors along the route.
• A golden stranger froze Qin Ming’s true body, bound him with Golden Haze, and admitted that he had unleashed the demons to lure Qin Ming out.
• As Qin Ming’s body and Mental Field broke apart, he remembered the White Curtain and mourned that he would die far from home before fulfilling his promise to reach Tushita Palace.

An Eighth Realm Golden Figure trapped Qin Ming and overcame his defenses, while a Peak Earth Immortal and the Heavenly Dagger-Axe failed to stop him. The Golden Figure destroyed the Earth Immortal’s incarnation, sealed the weapon, and declared that no one could save Qin Ming.

• The Golden Figure invaded Qin Ming’s Pure Yang Consciousness and searched the Dream Domain for his memories.
• Qin Ming’s Mystic Blue Lotus unleashed its stored arts and Seventh Realm talismans, but the Golden Figure evaded or shattered every attack, including the Great Void Movement Talisman.
• A Peak Earth Immortal from the Primordial Yellow Dao Field arrived to rescue Qin Ming, but the Golden Figure trapped him beneath a great bell and bound the Heavenly Dagger-Axe.
• The Golden Figure destroyed the Earth Immortal’s incarnation and sealed Six Desires and Xuantiān inside his Grotto-Heaven.
• The Golden Figure destroyed Qin Ming’s Divine Lotus Root Body and told him that no one under heaven could save him.

The Golden Figure overwhelmed Qin Ming and searched his mind and body, only to discover that Qin Ming had no gate for him to exploit. When the Golden Figure destroyed Qin Ming’s mental defenses, Qin Ming’s core essence fell into the Abyss, leaving his fate uncertain as Old Cloth appeared to escape with his possessions.

• The Golden Figure traced Qin Ming’s Dream Insect Clan forbidden art and a lingering ripple in time, then continued probing his mind and body.
• The Golden Figure broke through Qin Ming’s outer mental defenses but stopped at the Restrictions protecting the center of his consciousness.
• The Golden Figure searched Qin Ming’s body for a gate, found none, and decided to take his vitality-rich body as Blood Medicine instead.
• The Golden Figure forced the Restrictions to explode, and Qin Ming’s Turbid World Azure Lotus dropped its seed into the Abyss as the lotus and the Nine Heavens Scripture’s Abyss gate vanished.
• The Golden Figure extinguished Qin Ming’s talisman, recovered fragments of the Outer Demon Domain containing the Silk Book Method, and carried Qin Ming’s body into the night.
• As Qin Ming’s lotus seed fell into the Abyss, he saw Old Cloth pulling free and feared it would take his treasures and Blood Essence with it.

The Primordial Yellow Dao Field and Tushita Palace failed to uncover what happened after Qin Ming was attacked on the road to Tushita Palace. At Heaven’s Selection, Li Qingyue realized Qin Ming was missing and asked the arriving envoy to find him.

• Yin Tai sensed that his avatar had been destroyed, and Earth Immortals from the Twelve Primordial Yellow Sects found the attack site reduced to a desert with no trace of the culprit.
• The Primordial Yellow Dao Field and Tushita Palace searched for clues but found none, while Jiang Zai and Niu Wuwei learned that Qin Ming was missing and possibly dead.
• Tushita Palace withheld the news from Li Qingyue because Heaven’s Selection was near, and Niu Wuwei tried to comfort her with gifts from Qin Ming.
• At Heaven’s Selection, Li Qingyue inferred that Qin Ming had been attacked and tried to leave, but Old Furnace told her that his fate was unknown.
• After the Supreme Daoist sanctuary’s envoy agreed to accept Li Qingyue, she asked him to find Qin Ming.

After Li Qingyue was selected by Tushita Palace, Guan Xu failed to trace Qin Ming and suspected his killer came from Night Prefecture. Li Qingyue returned home hoping to draw out the killer while Qin Ming remained trapped in Abyss Hell, unable to find his way back.

• The Taiji Diagram revealed Li Qingyue’s extraordinary gate, and Guan Xu selected her for Tushita Palace.
• Guan Xu failed to trace Qin Ming or identify the Golden Figure’s lingering presence, while Li Qingyue shared her suspicions about Night Prefecture.
• Li Qingyue persuaded Guan Xu to let her return home, and he agreed to keep her safe as she used herself as bait for the killer.
• Li Qingyue reunited with her family and visited places tied to Qin Ming before heading toward Double Tree Village.
• Qin Ming continued cultivating in Abyss Hell, perfected the Hell Chapter, and worried that he might never return to his body or see Li Qingyue again.

Trapped in Hell as a lotus-seed spirit, Qin Ming abandoned his cautious approach and began cultivating the Secret Sect Path, eventually reaching a state where he sensed a presence in the Abyss. Meanwhile, Li Qingyue searched Night Prefecture for a way to find him, while the Golden Figure and his younger self continued exploiting Qin Ming’s body and considered confronting her.

• Qin Ming realized that the sparse energy in Hell could sustain him in a Green Lotus form, but he needed a more forceful method to escape the Abyss.
• Li Qingyue returned to Double Tree Village seeking Liu Tianshen, learned that Liu Bai and the Dog Sword Immortal were away, and went to visit the Divine Woman.
• The Golden Figure and the young man harvested Blood Essence from Qin Ming’s imprisoned body and studied its unusual vitality and potential for extending life.
• After learning Li Qingyue had arrived in Night Prefecture, the Golden Figure and the young man decided to go there and take advantage of the opportunity.
• Qin Ming switched to the Secret Sect Path, reached the Fifth Realm called Seeing God, and heard a voice ask why he did not bow now that he had seen a god.

Qin Ming fought and refined a god born from his own consciousness, then strengthened his mind and began reaching toward the Present World from Abyss Hell. Outside, Li Qingyue survived an ambush by a Quasi-Heavenly God, while her pursuers learned that the master of the Silver Eyeball was still alive; Qin Ming remained bound to a copper pillar as the Golden Figure prepared to fish for a great fortune.

• Qin Ming realized the god in Abyss Hell had been born from his own subconscious, defeated and refined him, and strengthened his Pure Yang Consciousness.
• Qin Ming tried to project his Light of the Mind into the Present World while Li Qingyue left Double Tree Village after meeting the Divine Woman and receiving a wooden protective charm.
• Guan Xu and experts from the Primordial Yellow Dao Field followed Li Qingyue, but the Elder God Mirror exposed them and the Heaven Stabilizing Divine Stakes forced them to withdraw.
• A Quasi-Heavenly God ambushed Li Qingyue near Tushita Palace, but a Diamond Ring from her talisman captured him and he destroyed himself before Guan Xu could question him.
• Guan Xu saw a Silver Eyeball watching from afar, and the Golden Figure and the young man learned that its master remained alive and abandoned their attempt to target Li Qingyue.
• The Golden Figure prepared to fish for a great fortune while Qin Ming remained chained to a copper pillar, sensing that he was nearing escape from Abyss Hell.

Qin Ming spent four years trapped beyond the Present World, studying the scriptures until he could sense his body and move between Hell and the Nine Heavens. As the Golden Figure prepared to use Qin Ming’s ruined body to lure an Eighth-Realm Great Medicine, Qin Ming waited in Hell for a chance to escape the trap.

• Qin Ming theorized that Hell and the Nine Heavens were inner realms of his body, then used the Black White Scripture to govern them and sense his body in the Present World.
• The Golden Figure and the young man monitored Qin Ming’s body, harvested its Blood Essence, and prepared to use it as bait for a maturing Divine Cocoon.
• Li Qingyue, Jiang Zai, the Six Great Sages, Little Wu, and Xiang Yiwu returned to Night Prefecture over the following years to mourn Qin Ming and search for his killer, but their visits eventually stopped.
• Qin Ming glimpsed the Golden Figure’s lair and saw the young man controlling his body, so he withdrew into Hell rather than charge into danger.
• After four years had passed, the Golden Figure rose and announced that it was almost time to fish for the Eighth-Realm Great Medicine.

Qin Ming’s ruined body was used as bait in the Golden Figure and the young man’s hunt for an Eighth Realm Divine Cocoon, while Qin Ming’s Pure Yang Consciousness watched and waited for a chance to return. After the bait failed at several fishing grounds, Qin Ming secretly resonated with the Azure Soul Light inhabiting him and drew close to the Present World, where he spotted the Black White Twin Trees.

• The Golden Figure severed Qin Ming’s karmic ties and sent his body, inhabited by Azure Soul Light, to a barren wasteland as bait for the Divine Cocoon.
• Qin Ming watched his tortured body from Hell, restrained his urge to return and kill the young man, and waited to learn more about the plot.
• Daoist Guan Xu recovered from a crushing defeat by the Silver Eyeball, which planned to search once more before leaving Night Prefecture.
• Azure Soul Light searched several fishing grounds without drawing a response from the Divine Cocoon, until the Golden Figure sent it toward one final location.
• Qin Ming sensed Azure Soul Light’s thoughts, drew nearer to the Present World, and saw the Black White Twin Trees near his body.

Qin Ming learned that the Golden Figure and a young man planned to use him as bait to hunt Liu Mo, while an Azure Soul Light impersonated him in Double Tree Village. As powerful hunters converged and the Silver Eyeball joined the scheme, Qin Ming began finding a way back to his body and sensed that the Torn Cloth was nearby.

• Qin Ming realized that the Golden Figure and the young man wanted to use him to lure Liu Mo, and he resolved to stop them from harming Old Man Liu.
• The Azure Soul Light arrived in Double Tree Village, where Wen Rui, Wen Hui, Talking Finch, Red Squirrel, and the villagers were shocked by Qin Ming's aged and wounded appearance.
• Qin Ming learned that Liu Bai had disappeared years earlier and suspected he was Liu Mo's Divine Embryo, while a messenger sent to Uncle Meng was killed before reaching him.
• The Silver Eyeball appeared in Double Tree Village, controlled the Azure Soul Light with Restrictions, learned about the hunt for the Divine Cocoon, and searched Qin Ming's body before leaving.
• As Qin Ming's physical body walked toward Black White Mountain, Yuheng and Mo Yuan discussed harvesting Liu Mo during his vulnerable Nirvana, while Qin Ming sensed that Torn Cloth had left his body but remained nearby.

Qin Ming returned to his body at Black White Mountain, where the Silk Book Method began restoring his ruined flesh and he reclaimed control of Torn Cloth. As the Golden Figure and the young man continued plotting to capture Liu Mo, Qin Ming prepared to protect himself and ended by demanding that Old Cloth choose a name.

• The Azure Soul Light noticed Qin Ming's body reviving under the lightning and secretly hoped to use its flesh to prolong his life.
• Qin Ming's Silk Book Method absorbed energy from heaven and earth, while his Pure Yang Consciousness returned to his body and found that the method had changed.
• The Golden Figure and the young man discussed Liu Mo's unusual path to the Eighth Realm and planned to harvest his Divine Embryo.
• Qin Ming contacted Torn Cloth, drew the Azure Soul Light into it, sealed him, and stored the Bronze Gate and Divine Talisman in its prison cells.
• Qin Ming decided to make an avatar and asked Old Cloth to choose between the names Lü Bu and Bu Ruyan.

After four years trapped in the Fleshly Abyss, Qin Empire Ming used a stormy night, powerful medicines, and transformation scriptures to restore his ruined body and advance to the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm. Still short of his former strength, he stored his true body in Prison Cloth and prepared to find Old Liu and join forces with experts outside to hunt his enemies.

• Qin Empire Ming learned that Prison Cloth had once been called Night, then renamed it Prison Cloth.
• He realized that his body carried death qi but that he was not dead, and he resumed cultivation as the Silk Book Method stabilized.
• Qin Empire Ming consumed Treasured Medicines and half a Divine Medicine, then used thunderfire to cleanse his body of accumulated medicinal toxins.
• He practiced the Dragon Snake Scripture, Divine Cicada Scripture, and Undying Butterfly Scripture, shedding damaged skin and expelling broken bones and wasted blood.
• Qin Empire Ming cultivated additional true scriptures through the night, recovered his youth, and advanced to the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Still feeling that his origin was deficient, Qin Empire Ming placed his true body inside Prison Cloth and set out to find Old Liu and contact outside experts for a counterhunt.

Qin Empire Ming reunited with Liu Mo beneath the Black White Twin Trees and learned that Liu Mo was preparing to face his Eighth-Realm tribulation in Black White Mountain. As the Golden Figure and Liu Mo’s other enemies closed in, Liu Mo joined Qin Empire Ming in a plan to raid the Golden Figure’s lair while the battle began.

• Qin Empire Ming created an External Demon incarnation and searched Black White Mountain for Liu Mo, but found no sign of him until he resonated with the Black White Twin Trees.
• Liu Mo revealed that he had sensed Qin Empire Ming’s apparent death and explained that he could not leave Black White Mountain before facing his calamity; he told Qin Empire Ming to activate the Bronze Gate and divine talisman in two days.
• Yuheng and Mo Yuan learned that Liu Mo’s Nirvana had reached a critical stage and prepared to seize his Divine Embryo.
• Black-and-white mist rose two days later, the Golden Figure’s seal on Black White Mountain broke, and news spread that Qin Empire Ming had returned.
• The Golden Figure, Yuheng, and Mo Yuan moved toward Black White Mountain as Qin Empire Ming’s imprints activated the Bronze Gate and Silver Eyeball’s divine talisman.
• Liu Mo told Qin Empire Ming that a bloody battle was about to begin and offered to accompany him on a raid against the Golden Figure’s lair.

Wu Yao, Liu Mo, an ancient fiend, Yuheng, and Mo Yuan clashed over Liu Mo’s Divine Embryo, while Liu Mo secretly replaced Wu Yao’s Bronze Gate and prepared to move. Qin Ming used the gate to reach Wu Yao’s lair, where he attacked the young man meant to become Wu Yao’s future body.

• Wu Yao confronted Liu Mo and demanded the Divine Embryo, but an ancient fiend arrived and attacked him; Yuheng and Mo Yuan soon joined the battle.
• Wu Yao, Liu Mo, Yuheng, and Mo Yuan formed a fragile alliance against the ancient fiend, then pressed deeper into the Mist Sea toward Liu Mo’s Divine Embryo.
• At Double Tree Village, Liu Mo revealed that he had used the Black White Scripture to swap Wu Yao’s Bronze Gate for a counterfeit and prepared to travel to Wu Yao’s lair with Qin Ming.
• After Liu Mo’s Heavenly God’s Body was wounded in the battle, Liu Mo and Qin Ming activated the genuine Bronze Gate and entered Wu Yao’s Divine Temple.
• Qin Ming disguised his powers and struck Wu Yao’s young future vessel, hitting him across the face and drawing blood.

Qin Ming and Liu Mo raided Wu Yao’s Divine Temple, where Liu Mo destroyed Wu Yao’s avatar and carried away the entire domain to replenish his Creation Substance. Qin Ming fought Wu Yao’s future self, revealed that he was Li Wanfa, and left the battle ongoing.

• Qin Ming confronted Wu Yao in the Divine Temple, and Liu Mo revealed himself and destroyed Wu Yao’s Pure Yang avatar.
• Liu Mo uprooted Wu Yao’s entire domain and absorbed its stores of Divine Substance and Dao resonance.
• Qin Ming fought Wu Yao’s future self, countering his Time Saber with Ancestor Worm’s Cry and overpowering him with Chaos Force and the Ten Sacred Fiends.
• Wu Yao tried to devour Qin Ming’s power, but Qin Ming used Devouring Force to drain him and recognized him as Li Wanfa.
• Liu Mo urged Qin Ming to kill Wu Yao so they could raid Yuheng’s and Mo Yuan’s training grounds next.

Qin Ming fought and defeated Wu Yao, then reclaimed the life essence Wu Yao had taken from him and imprisoned Wu Yao’s future body. Qin Ming and Liu Mo also seized Yuheng and Mo Yuan’s training grounds before hurrying back, where Liu Mo expected the real show to begin.

• Qin Ming battled Wu Yao with an array of forbidden arts, eventually tearing his body and spirit apart and repeatedly overpowering his attempts to recover.
• Qin Ming pinned Wu Yao, drew back his stolen life essence, and subdued him; the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella argued with Qin Ming before calming down and preparing to take Wu Yao’s soul.
• Liu Mo told Qin Ming that Wu Yao’s past body would not sense the defeat because Liu Mo had severed their causal ties and veiled heaven’s workings.
• Liu Mo advised Qin Ming to imprison Wu Yao’s future body and absorb the Divine Substances and Dao resonance in his training ground.
• Liu Mo and Qin Ming uprooted the training grounds of Yuheng and Mo Yuan, then set off for the next location before returning in time for the real show.

Liu Mo endured the final stages of his Eighth Realm tribulation while Qin Ming watched from Black White Mountain, and he survived all eighty-one trials by sacrificing Wu Yao’s future body. After completing his Tribulation Crossing, Liu Mo revealed that he had joined forces with Jade Capital and offered to turn in the fugitives, leaving Silver Eyeball, Wu Yao, Number Five, Yuheng, and Mo Yuan stunned.

• Liu Tianshen returned to Night Prefecture with Qin Ming after taking the treasures and training ground from Yuheng and Mo Yuan, while Qin Ming cultivated within it.
• Liu Mo explained that he was still undergoing tribulation as the Eighth Realm battle raged inside Black White Mountain, and the Dog Sword Immortal turned away travelers before allowing Guan Xu and Guan Chen through.
• Liu Mo endured the seventy-eighth through eightieth tribulations, then fused a Black White Tree root with the mysterious door inside Wu Yao’s future body to create a substitute Divine Embryo.
• Qin Ming discovered Wu Yao’s Remnant Soul, and Liu Mo pulled it from Wu Yao’s body before Qin Ming ordered the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella to refine it.
• During the eighty-first tribulation, the fugitives tore apart Liu Bai, releasing the mysterious substance and allowing Liu Mo to complete his Tribulation Crossing at age eighty-four.
• Liu Mo summoned Jade Capital’s forces and demanded a reward for turning in the fugitives, shocking Silver Eyeball, Wu Yao, Number Five, Yuheng, and Mo Yuan.

During Liu Mo’s tribulation crossing, Jade Capital’s forces surrounded Black White Mountain and trapped the Eighth Realm fugitives in the Mist Sea. Yuheng and Mo Yuan were killed, Wu Yao escaped through a burning gate only to detonate himself, and Liu Mo completed his tribulation while Qin Ming reunited with the freed Heavenly Dagger-Axe.

• Liu Mo revealed that he had planted the secret messages that misled Yuheng and Mo Yuan, while Jade Capital granted him the status of answering calls to action but not court summons.
• Jade Capital’s forces sealed Black White Mountain, and Liu Mo used the Bronze Gate to expose Wu Yao’s hiding place and free the Heavenly Dagger-Axe and its spirits, Xuantiān and Six Desires.
• Yuheng and Mo Yuan detonated themselves to break through the blockade, but an Eighth Realm expert from Jade Capital captured their Pure Yang Immortal Seeds and declared them dead.
• Wu Yao burned the gate within his body to escape, but Jade Capital struck him down; he detonated himself, though Liu Mo said he would leave Wu Yao’s lingering life for someone destined to end it.
• Liu Mo completed his tribulation crossing, refused the Jade Capital elder’s offer to take his place, and Qin Ming welcomed him beneath the Black White Tree.

Jade Capital and the major factions hunted the remaining fiends in the Mist Sea, killing Number Five and defeating the Silver Eyeball’s Azure Demon Body. The Silver Eyeball’s hidden origin led the Dao Ranking into the Night Ruins, where a mysterious eyeless figure stared at Jade Capital before disappearing, leaving Qin Empire Ming seeking answers from Prison Cloth.

• Jade Capital and the Old Factions encircled the Mist Sea, where Number Five revealed his true body, fought the attackers, and was ultimately destroyed after failing to escape beyond Heaven.
• The Dao Ranking and the two old Daoists of Tushita Palace defeated the Silver Eyeball’s Azure Demon Body, but the Silver Eyeball summoned a small courtyard with a decaying house and a presence that nearly overwhelmed the gathered Earth Immortals.
• The Dao Ranking traced the Silver Eyeball into the Night Ruins, where an eyeless, bleeding figure emerged from the house and stared toward Jade Capital before withdrawing to higher layers.
• Jade Capital ended the battle, and the factions withdrew as Qin Empire Ming wondered about the figure’s connection to Jade Capital.
• Qin Empire Ming noticed Prison Cloth had revived and asked it to explain the small courtyard and the figure’s origins.

After Wu Yao’s defeat, Qin Ming learned more about the horrors behind the Longevity Abominations and weighed how to deal with Jade Capital. Though his friends feared his weakened condition, Qin Ming began reclaiming his stolen vital essence, preparing to recover and settle old grudges.

• Prison Cloth told Qin Ming that the old man in the ruined courtyard had once been kind and that someone had replaced his body’s contents, as with Blood Xuandu.
• Jade Capital investigated the Primordial Seeds, while Night Prefecture Ancestors surrounded the Sage’s training ground and detained his followers; the Great Red Dragon was found innocent, but Past Tathagata was executed for his crimes.
• Guan Xu and Guan Chen met Qin Ming, diagnosed his depleted vitality, and heard Liu Mo assure them that Qin Ming could recover.
• Yu Gensheng, Meng Xinghai, Li Qingyun, Pei Shuyan, Cheng Sheng, and Yao Ruoxian visited Qin Ming and offered help, while Qin Ming insisted he would be fine.
• Liu Mo advised Qin Ming to answer Jade Capital’s calls without living there and proposed making him a Jade Capital Hidden Disciple; Qin Ming agreed.
• Qin Ming began cultivating with Devouring Force to reclaim his stolen life essence and prepare to settle his grudges.