Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Two Years of Mending Heaven”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mu Ye, Yuan Kun, Fuyao, and other young geniuses are sent to the scorching desert of the Fate Medicine Fields for “Medicine Herding.” They perform humiliating labor—tending demonized plants, watering fields with Fire Spring water, and carrying dung as fertilizer—while guarding medicine fields that can migrate through the desert.
• The youths glimpse rare medicines in the high-grade fields, including the Scarlet Divine Flower, Time Linden, and Cloud-Ember Vine. However, powerful formations prevent them from accessing these treasures.
• Qin Ming uses his connections with the three Ming-Selected Sons to observe the medicine fields while cultivating independently. He studies true scriptures and masters Tushita Palace’s forbidden technique, the Diamond Ring, whose destructive power is enough to flatten mountains and obliterate an ancient city.
• Qin Ming gains renewed confidence in his self-created Longevity Force and Devouring Force, believing his techniques can withstand even powerful enemies from the mysterious lineage. He also studies sacred blood from extraordinary creatures, suspecting connections to longevity experiments.
• As Mu Ye, Fuyao, and Yuan Kun progress into better medicine fields, they learn of the terrifying Ghost Fields, apparently fragments of ancient experts’ shattered Inner Landscapes. These fields appear during deep night and contain ghosts, chains, and ominous spiritual energy.
• Qin Ming investigates the Fate Cave but refuses to approach after sensing both an irresistible summons and a dangerous warning. A Golden Palace and immortal-skin book call him a “wanderer” whose name should be added to a hidden lineage, but Qin Ming rejects this supposed identity and insists he is only a rogue cultivator.
• After roughly two years of waiting, powerful Great Sages and Earth Immortals arrive at the Fate Medicine Fields. They reveal that the fields are being used to gather spiritual light and rare medicines to refine the Butian Divine Medicine, which can permanently improve a prodigy’s potential and possibly help Great Sages advance beyond their current realm.
• Qin Ming realizes with horror that the operation may involve cultivating or sacrificing Human Medicine. He concludes that several supreme organizations are jointly protecting a cruel longevity and enhancement experiment.
• Young geniuses begin disappearing under the pretense of being selected for dangerous inner-sect missions. Fuyao, Mu Ye, and Yuan Kun grow increasingly suspicious and fearful.
• Just as Qin Ming prepares to intervene, a powerful faction attacks the Fate Medicine Fields using an Old Era-like silver-gray spacecraft, devastating beams, and the Heaven-Piercing Chain. Defensive formations begin collapsing, and the entire territory erupts into chaos.
• Qin Ming prepares to exploit the disorder, enter the medicine fields, seize the great medicines he needs, and attempt his breakthrough.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming: Becomes substantially stronger and more confident after mastering the Diamond Ring and refining his other techniques. Nevertheless, he remains cautious, resisting both overconfidence and the Fate Cave’s attempt to impose a mysterious lineage upon him. His patience finally gives way to decisive action when he discovers the true nature of the medicine operation.
• Mu Ye: Continues to struggle with the desert’s heat and humiliating labor. His proud, aggressive nature creates friction with Fuyao, though he steadily grows through training and gains access to better medicine fields.
• Yuan Kun: Remains combative and impulsive, repeatedly acting out of frustration. After being defeated by a much younger prodigy, his confidence is shaken. He later begins to recognize the moral corruption of the organizations around him.
• Fuyao: Shows keen perception and resentment toward his treatment as forced labor. His sensitivity allows him to notice the ominous disappearances and growing danger before many others do.
• Senior Brother Lu: Never appears directly, but Qin Ming continues relying on his reputation for careful planning and decisive action, choosing not to interfere prematurely with his suspected strategy.

Significant Themes

• Power versus manipulation: The supreme organizations promise young geniuses cultivation and entry into inner sects, but secretly use them as resources in a brutal experiment.
• Cultivation as exploitation: The Fate Medicine Fields reduce prodigies to something resembling medicinal plants, suggesting that the powerful view living beings as ingredients for advancement.
• Identity and autonomy: Qin Ming rejects the Golden Palace’s claim that he belongs to an ancient lineage, defending his self-made identity and independent Dao.
• Patience and timing: Qin Ming spends two years gathering information and understanding the formations before acting, emphasizing preparation over reckless strength.
• Hidden corruption beneath grandeur: Grand Sages, Earth Immortals, and supreme organizations present themselves as noble guardians of cultivation, while concealing bloody and morally horrifying practices.
• The dangers of the deeper Night Mist World: The Ghost Fields, Fate Cave, longevity experiments, and human medicine all reinforce the increasingly supernatural and cruel nature of the world.

Important Character Interactions

• Mu Ye and Fuyao constantly trade insults, with Fuyao mocking Mu Ye’s inability to endure the desert and provoking his temper.
• Yuan Kun repeatedly clashes with others and later challenges a far younger prodigy, only to be defeated in three moves.
• Veteran geniuses expose the false promises made by the older authorities, warning that very few recruits ever truly enter supreme organizations.
• Qin Ming observes events through Mu Ye, Fuyao, and Yuan Kun, using them as both informants and indirect links to the medicine fields.
• The Great Sages and Earth Immortals converse privately about refining the Butian Divine Medicine, revealing their true motives.
• The attacking faction confronts the organizations running the fields, but the situation immediately turns into a battle for the Immortal Medicine rather than a simple moral intervention.
• The chapter ends with Qin Ming poised to join the chaos and seize his chance to obtain the medicines necessary for his breakthrough.

• The Fate Medicine Fields descend into chaos: An obsolete but powerful warship attacks the fields’ defenses, prompting a Peak Earth Immortal sword cultivator to destroy it. More ships and raiding groups then assault the formations, using specialized treasures to break through. With multiple factions competing for the medicine, the guardians abandon negotiations and fight to protect the rarest herbs.
• Qin Ming exploits the disorder: Rather than risk the heavily guarded Earth Immortal Great Medicine, he sends three Ming-Selected Sons toward safer high-grade fields. As Yuan Kun, he is mistakenly recruited by a young Mind-Observing Cult prodigy and allowed into a field, where he gathers several Grandmaster-level medicines. When the prodigy tries to kill him to keep the loot, Qin Ming reveals his true self and kills him. He also hides Fuyao, a Blood Roc youth, in a fissure.
• He confronts dangerous guardians and rivals: In another field, Qin Ming kills an Ancestor guardian and takes rare Sixth Realm medicines, including an Illusory Glazed Flower. A white-robed Great Sage nearly traps him, but Qin Ming escapes using the Black White Scripture’s newly developed ability to vanish and reappear as black-and-white qi. He then raids another field, taking Star-evolving Grass and other top-grade medicines. A powerful woman in purple wounds him with an Order Spear, forcing him to flee.
• He knows when to leave: As the fighting spreads and the Pure Yang Medicine Fields open, Qin Ming gathers one more haul, then withdraws rather than risk being trapped by the Earth Immortals. He returns to the desert using Yuan Kun as an intermediary, conceals his traces, and departs with his gains.
• Qin Ming begins preparing for a breakthrough: Away from the battlefield, he consumes the Illusory Glazed Flower and Withering-Flourishing Lingzhi. Their effects harmonize with the Black White Scripture, strengthening his body and expanding his Spirit Domain. He aims not merely to advance, but to achieve a complete transformation of body and spirit through the New Life Path.
  Character developments and interactions: Qin Ming shows practical judgment, adaptability, and restraint: he uses his avatars to gather medicine, defeats threats when necessary, escapes stronger opponents, and stops before greed endangers him. His interactions with the Mind-Observing prodigy turn from apparent cooperation to betrayal and swift retaliation. He shows limited compassion by finding Fuyao a hiding place, while feeling no remorse for killing the medicine-field guardians, whom he believes are implicated in raising “human medicine.”
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes survival amid ruthless competition, the dangers of greed, and the contrast between powerful cultivation arts and mechanical warfare. Qin Ming’s harvest also advances the theme of renewal: rare medicines and the Black White Scripture offer a chance to remake himself through a deliberate, holistic breakthrough.

Key plot points and events

• Zhuo Kong, an envoy of a powerful, secretive Lineage, arrives in the Land of Fate with A-Nu, a Late Ancestor Realm protector. Their silver-haired elder has sent them to investigate the Butian Divine Medicine, which may strengthen Zhuo Kong’s damaged Life Spirit Light.
• Left to explore, Zhuo Kong privately vows to restore his lost essence by his own means. He and A-Nu also discuss their branch’s deceased Heavenly Immortal ancestor and a longevity scripture intended for the dead.
• Qin Ming undergoes a major cultivation breakthrough, using several rare medicines to complete a bodily and spiritual renewal. Despite the medicines’ weakening potency, he advances from the first to the third level of the Ancestor Realm.
• He continues adapting and combining multiple cultivation scriptures, recognizing that fully unifying them will be difficult and may require a flexible approach.
• Little Yellow recalls a method of drawing out tribulation-like Thunderfire after a breakthrough. Qin Ming attempts it, enduring nine destructive bolts before the brief “minor tribulation” ends.
• As Qin Ming prepares to leave for the Great Sage Assembly, Zhuo Kong, A-Nu, and a purple-robed female Great Sage—whom Qin Ming previously fought—arrive. Zhuo Kong recognizes Qin Ming’s use of Longevity Force and orders A-Nu to seize him, claiming he has no right to practice the Lineage’s methods. Qin Ming resists the accusation and is angered by Zhuo Kong’s arrogance.

Character developments

• Qin Ming grows substantially stronger, reaching Ancestor Realm level three, and shows persistence and adaptability in pursuing his difficult, scripture-merging cultivation path. He also gains a new understanding of how to use post-breakthrough Thunderfire to temper himself.
• Little Yellow has returned to the Sixth Realm after absorbing powerful nourishment, including an Earth Immortal’s Remnant Soul. She reveals an ancient cultivation method, though she continues to tease Qin Ming.
• Zhuo Kong appears outwardly respectful toward his Lineage but privately intends to recover his lost essence independently. He proves proud and domineering when he confronts Qin Ming.
• A-Nu remains loyal to Zhuo Kong’s branch and readily obeys his command to capture Qin Ming.
• The purple-robed Great Sage renews her conflict with Qin Ming, treating him as a suspected medicine-field looter.

Significant themes

• Cultivation amid decline: Rare medicines are losing their potency, heralding a Spiritual Medicine Famine that threatens future advancement.
• Perseverance and adaptation: Qin Ming’s progress comes through long preparation, careful use of resources, and willingness to revise his cultivation methods.
• The costs and risks of power: Breakthroughs exhaust the body and spirit, while attempting to overcome realm barriers through Thunderfire is physically punishing.
• Lineage, legitimacy, and entitlement: Zhuo Kong claims exclusive authority over the Longevity Method, dismissing Qin Ming as an outsider and setting up a conflict over who has the right to wield inherited techniques.

Character interactions

• The silver-haired elder encourages Zhuo Kong and assigns A-Nu to protect him, establishing the Lineage’s influence and concern for its weakened branch.
• Qin Ming and Little Yellow trade jokes and sharp remarks, but he takes her advice seriously when she explains the tribulation method.
• Qin Ming’s earlier clash with the purple-robed Great Sage shapes their hostile reunion.
• Zhuo Kong and Qin Ming immediately clash over Qin Ming’s use of Longevity Force: Zhuo Kong demands his capture, while Qin Ming challenges the assumption that he is an enemy.

Chapter Summary: “Facing the Mysterious Lineage”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Ming’s attempt to avoid conflict with Zhuo Kong, a descendant of the mysterious Lineage, fails when Zhuo Kong insults him as a worthless “weed” and demands that he show submission to the Lineage.
• Zhuo Kong’s followers surround Qin Ming. A middle-aged Ancestor attacks first, hoping to gain favor with Zhuo Kong, but Qin Ming effortlessly dodges his hidden bone needles, catches and breaks his saber, then kills him by tearing apart his body and soul.
• Xie Mingliu, a Great Sage of the Mind-Observing Cult, recognizes Qin Ming as the “medicine thief” who escaped her attack in the Land of Fate. She joins Zhuo Kong against him.
• Qin Ming senses that Zhuo Kong covets his body because of his mastery of Longevity Force. Concluding that reconciliation would leave a future threat unresolved, Qin Ming decides to destroy Zhuo Kong and eliminate the danger permanently.
• Qin attacks Zhuo Kong’s communication treasure, the Snow-White Dharma Conch, using the Yin-Yang Soul-Calming Art. Despite interference from A-Nu and Xie Mingliu, he successfully destroys the conch before Zhuo Kong can summon reinforcements.
• The battle escalates. Qin Ming clashes with Zhuo Kong, A-Nu, Xie Mingliu, and five additional Ancestors. He uses the Ten Sacred Fiends to trigger the violent surrounding Dao resonance, severely injuring the five Ancestors.
• Qin Ming kills or disables the five Ancestors one after another, while the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella captures their surviving consciousnesses.
• Xie Mingliu attacks Qin Ming’s mind with the Heart Spear and Inner Demon Zen, but Qin’s Yin-Yang power protects and counters his consciousness. He also shatters her Dao-pattern War Spear.
• Qin Ming uses the Diamond Ring to suppress A-Nu’s sword techniques, break her immortal sword, and cripple her arm.
• By the end of the chapter, Qin Ming is fighting Zhuo Kong, A-Nu, and Xie Mingliu simultaneously, confidently declaring that he will defeat them all.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming: Abandons restraint after recognizing Zhuo Kong’s arrogance and hostility. He becomes more decisive and ruthless, choosing to eliminate potential threats rather than rely on temporary reconciliation. His recent breakthroughs have dramatically increased his strength, allowing him to fight opponents who previously would have overwhelmed him.
• Zhuo Kong: Reveals deep pride in his Lineage and an entitled belief that anyone practicing Longevity Force must submit to him. He also exposes his desire to seize Qin Ming’s body to replenish his own source. His confidence begins to crack as Qin destroys his communication treasure and withstands the combined assault.
• Xie Mingliu: Recognizes that Qin Ming has grown vastly stronger since their previous encounter. Though formidable in mental techniques and unconcerned with notions of honor, she becomes increasingly wary of his rapid advancement and unusual abilities.
• A-Nu: Demonstrates fierce loyalty to Zhuo Kong by repeatedly shielding him and attacking Qin Ming. Her strength is considerable, but Qin’s Diamond Ring ultimately breaks her sword and injures her.
• The middle-aged Ancestor and other Ancestors: Their attempts to flatter or support Zhuo Kong end in disaster. Their deaths demonstrate the danger of underestimating Qin Ming and blindly attaching themselves to the mysterious Lineage.

Significant Themes

• Arrogance versus true strength: Zhuo Kong’s inherited status and pride contrast with Qin Ming’s demonstrated power. The chapter repeatedly shows that lineage and reputation cannot replace combat ability.
• Independence and self-respect: Qin Ming refuses to bow merely because he practiced a technique associated with Zhuo Kong’s Lineage. He insists that his accomplishments belong to him and that he owes the Lineage no submission.
• Threat elimination versus compromise: Qin initially favors peaceful coexistence, but once he detects Zhuo Kong’s hostility and covetous intentions, he decides that eliminating the threat is safer than negotiating.
• Mysterious origins and contested inheritance: Qin questions whether the mysterious Lineage truly created Longevity Force or merely recovered it from the burial grounds associated with the Rebirth Figurine Organization, challenging the Lineage’s claim to authority.
• Moral hypocrisy: Qin condemns the Mind-Observing Cult for raising “human medicine” and destroying the futures of countless geniuses while presenting itself as superior to others.
• Rapid transformation: Qin’s sudden rise in power over only two days emphasizes the unpredictable effects of breakthroughs, spirit medicine, and exceptional cultivation methods.

Important Character Interactions

• Qin Ming and Zhuo Kong: Their exchange shifts from attempted diplomacy to open hostility. Zhuo Kong demands reverence, while Qin mocks the Lineage’s claims and rejects his authority.
• Qin Ming and Xie Mingliu: Their prior encounter in the Land of Fate fuels mutual hostility. Xie Mingliu tries to defeat him through mental attacks, but Qin counters by invading and damaging her consciousness.
• Qin Ming and A-Nu: A-Nu repeatedly protects Zhuo Kong and attacks Qin with her sword and golden threads. Qin overpowers her defenses and breaks her weapon and arm.
• Zhuo Kong and his followers: Zhuo Kong’s status encourages others to flatter him, but their loyalty is largely self-interested. He commands A-Nu to preserve Qin’s body so he can use it, revealing his exploitative intentions.
• Qin Ming and the surrounding Ancestors: Qin treats their joint attack with contempt, quickly overwhelming them through superior techniques, Dao resonance, and overwhelming physical force.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Qin Ming battles Zhuo Kong, A-Nu, and Xie Mingliu, using their attacks as a chance to study the mysterious lineage’s Longevity Force and the Mind-Observing Cult’s spiritual arts. He discovers that A-Nu can regenerate through unusual blood bearing Immortal Seals, while Zhuo Kong’s techniques are formidable but his body is unusually fragile.
• Qin Ming counters their major techniques. His Chaos Force and spiritual defenses resist Xie Mingliu’s Heart-Domain Myriad Phenomena Prison; he also breaks her Mind’s Other Shore art with the Inner Scenery Sky-Opening Axe and uses Adhesion Force to keep his consciousness anchored to his body. Meanwhile, he studies Zhuo Kong’s Longevity Ring Lock and A-Nu’s hidden seeds of decay.
• Once he stops holding back, Qin Ming overwhelms the three. Xie Mingliu loses an arm and suffers severe damage to her Spirit Domain; A-Nu is nearly destroyed; Zhuo Kong is cut in half after Qin Ming pins him with the Longevity Method. Qin Ming leaves their remains for Little Yellow to analyze and collects their blood and belongings.
• Qin Ming concludes that Xie Mingliu was only an incarnation and suspects Zhuo Kong and A-Nu were products of the Heaven’s Selection Organization’s Blood-Origin Longevity experiments. Clues suggest the organization obtained ancient Supreme Experts’ remains and developed a path based on Immortal-Seal-bearing blood.
• He experiments with this blood using his External Demon, combining blood from extraordinary creatures and two Earth Immortals. The resulting Immortal Seals grow more complex and transform the External Demon, advancing it to the Second Heaven of the Ancestor Realm. Qin Ming keeps the experiment separate from his true body, studying the seals through an illusory diagram.
• As Qin Ming heads back toward the Great Sage Assembly, he learns that the Land of Fate is in turmoil. Zhuo Kong’s death and Xie Mingliu’s defeat have caused repercussions, while outside factions compete for local resources and violence spreads—possibly to obtain life’s radiance for Butian Divine Medicine.

Character developments

• Qin Ming grows stronger and more informed by turning combat into research. His curiosity makes him accept real risks, but he eventually recognizes when further experimentation is too dangerous and finishes the fight decisively. He also begins to question whether the External Demon’s blood experiments amount to following a demonic cultivation path.
• Zhuo Kong is exposed as physically vulnerable despite his strong command of Longevity techniques. His wounded pride drives him to unleash increasingly dangerous arts, but his fragile constitution proves decisive.
• A-Nu demonstrates extraordinary regeneration, mastery of Longevity Force, and access to a dangerous decay technique. Her blood marks her as a likely experimental subject.
• Xie Mingliu proves highly skilled in mental combat, but her confidence in her domain leads her to misjudge Qin Ming. Her defeat reveals that she is an incarnation rather than the original Great Sage.
• Little Yellow takes on the task of examining the defeated enemies, extending Qin Ming’s investigation.

Significant themes

• Knowledge gained through danger: Qin Ming deliberately allows attacks to unfold so he can learn their principles, balancing curiosity against survival.
• Power, hierarchy, and pride: Zhuo Kong’s assumed superiority collapses when Qin Ming surpasses him, and wounded pride pushes him toward ruin.
• Experimentation and its costs: The chapter raises ethical and personal questions about using blood, bodies, and living beings as materials for cultivation.
• The blurred line between good and evil: Qin Ming jokes about becoming a demonic cultivator even as he sees himself fighting to protect people amid widespread chaos.
• Political exploitation: The disorder in the Land of Fate may be deliberately encouraged by powerful factions seeking resources for their own ends.

Character interactions

• Qin Ming provokes Zhuo Kong to reveal more of the Longevity lineage’s methods, exploiting their rivalry with Devouring Force.
• Against A-Nu, he alternates between defense and observation, studying her regeneration and decay technique while resisting her attacks.
• His contest with Xie Mingliu pits her mind-based arts against his spiritual defenses, soul techniques, and axe art; each briefly threatens the other before Qin Ming gains the upper hand.
• After the battle, Qin Ming entrusts the captives’ analysis to Little Yellow and uses the remains and blood as material for further research.

Plot points and events

• Qin Ming witnesses the Starsea Behemoth’s failed attempt to escape the Night Mist World, then hears that the Snake God has emerged and is threatening nearby settlements.
• He kills a rampaging Thunder Elephant and pursues the Snake God. He discovers that Heaven-Bearing Dao Field agents deliberately lured it out to cause bloodshed and harvest resources.
• After Qin Ming exposes the scheme, the Snake God abandons him and submits to the Dao Field agents in hopes of survival. Qin Ming kills it, then slays the two agents as well, harvesting their souls and blood.
• Qin Ming learns that several Supreme Dao Fields are cooperating with the Hall of Past Lives to refine the Butian Divine Medicine. Their operations provoke controlled attacks and mass violence to obtain Life Spirit Light and nourish powerful aberrants.
• He retaliates across several territories, killing Higher Aberrants, Dao Field elites, and Saint Disciples. Their blood essence strengthens the mysterious Immortal Seals linked to his Blood-Origin Longevity Path.
• An Earth Immortal ambushes him and destroys the body he is using, but Qin Ming survives by abandoning it: the body was only a disposable relay vessel. The experience is nevertheless intensely painful.
• Qin Ming continues hunting, provoking several Dao Fields. Once Great Sages begin tracking him and his enemies recognize his pattern, he retreats and avoids guarded Mist Gates.
• He later captures several Great Sages in separate cages using the Exotic Gold Cloth, then escapes the Land of Fate with the help of relay vessels and powerful Teleportation Talismans.
• Back in safer territory, he taunts captive Xie Mingliu, a female Great Sage of the Mind-Observing Cult, about blushing before sealing her back inside her cage. He briefly checks another captive from Heaven-Earth Dao Field and considers using both prisoners as catalysts for further advancement.

Character development

• Qin Ming embraces his identity as a “demonic cultivator,” acting ruthlessly against those he deems deserving while maintaining a personal moral code. He becomes more confident in his methods but also learns to respect the danger posed by Earth Immortals and Great Sages.
• The Snake God shifts from a powerful, confused victim of manipulation to a desperate survivor who betrays Qin Ming for protection; its submission fails to save it.
• The Dao Field agents are exposed as hypocritical authorities who claim to uphold order while engineering bloodshed for their own ends.
• Xie Mingliu responds to capture with immediate anger and hatred, while Qin Ming treats her and the other captive as tools rather than opponents he needs to fight directly.

Significant themes

• Institutional corruption and manufactured violence: Powerful organizations exploit both monsters and ordinary communities to produce ingredients for their secret medicine.
• Moral boundaries amid brutality: Qin Ming’s violence is severe, but he distinguishes between those he considers culpable and innocent victims.
• Self-preservation and deception: Qin Ming survives through expendable bodies, misdirection, and escape tools, showing that caution is as important as strength.
• Power, betrayal, and survival: The Snake God’s submission illustrates how fear can drive the vulnerable to side with their oppressors—and how little that guarantees their safety.
• Power gained through sacrifice: Blood essence and captured enemies may help Qin Ming clarify his Immortal Seals and advance.

Character interactions

• Qin Ming first protects the threatened city by confronting the Snake God, then exposes the Dao Field agents’ scheme to both the serpent and the officials themselves.
• The Snake God rejects Qin Ming’s warning and seeks the officials’ protection, prompting Qin Ming to kill it and its handlers.
• Qin Ming repeatedly clashes with Supreme Dao Fields, provoking their leaders and drawing increasingly powerful pursuers.
• After escaping, he taunts Xie Mingliu, who tries to attack him, and shuts her back inside her cage; he keeps another Great Sage imprisoned as well.

Key plot points and events

• Crossing a lightless no-man’s-land, Qin Ming encounters a reality-bending darkness that nearly strips away his senses. His six realms and New Life Power restore his awareness, leading him to suspect the Night Mist World’s unlit regions may exist in an unstable, observer-dependent state.
• A creature reaches through a void crack from the darkness to attack him. Qin Ming cuts off its tongue and wonders whether the crack connects to the Night Ruins.
• He settles in Image-Seizing City, where he learns that the Great Sage Assembly has been delayed. Participants in the Yin-Yang Ruins all lost memories of part of their experience, and rumors point to a terrifying black handprint—and possibly the former leader of Heaven’s Selection Organization—as the cause.
• Qin Ming studies the Jade Void Light technique and checks on his captives, Xie Mingliu and Zhou Dingdao. Both had been using altered bodies rather than their true forms. Xie Mingliu’s Earth-Immortal-derived body is badly degraded; Zhou Dingdao’s body is a powerful demonic bird, and his remnant soul destroys itself before Qin Ming can learn more.
• Using the captives’ rare blood and flesh, Qin Ming strengthens his External Demon to the Third Heaven of the Ancestor Realm. A severe thunderfire tribulation nearly destroys it, but also helps refine the toxins left by the blood medicine.
• After spending time among the city’s crowds and food stalls, Qin Ming relaxes his tightly wound mind. Over the next several years, he cultivates, reconnects with old friends through letters, and learns that the Great Sage Assembly is finally approaching. He plans to reach the Fourth Heaven before attending.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Ming grows more cautious about the Night Mist World’s mysteries and the dangerous opponents around him, but also recognizes the need to balance relentless cultivation and violence with ordinary life. He remains ambitious, determined to face both contemporary rivals and ancient powers.
• Xie Mingliu is revealed to be operating through an Earth-Immortal-derived war body; her consciousness is nearly exhausted, and she vows that she and Qin Ming will meet again to settle their grievance.
• Zhou Dingdao proves far more dangerous than his captive appearance suggested: his body belonged to a Seventh-Heaven Ancestor-level demonic bird, and his soul self-destructs rather than be interrogated. Qin Ming resolves to treat him as a serious future threat.
• Little Yellow, the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, advises Qin Ming about the tribulation and urges him toward a more balanced life. It also recalls that the Exotic Gold Cloth may have betrayed it in a past life, prompting a tense exchange with the silent cloth.
• Qin Ming hears updates on old companions, including Si Yeli, Niu Wuwei, Mu Shinian, and Meng Zhiyu, and wonders when Jiang Ran and Li Qingyue will return.

Significant themes

• Uncertain reality: The Night Mist’s dark regions may be unstable, becoming tangible only when observed or touched by transcendent power.
• Survival and hidden danger: Even an Ancestor can be vulnerable in the no-man’s-land, while apparent captives may conceal formidable strength.
• Power and its costs: Qin Ming’s breakthrough relies on dangerous blood medicine and brings a punishing tribulation, suggesting advancement carries physical and moral consequences.
• Balance between cultivation and ordinary life: City life and worldly pleasures help restore Qin Ming’s clarity, rather than weakening his resolve.
• History, identity, and memory: Lost memories, revived ancient figures, and Little Yellow’s fragmentary past raise questions about whether awakened people are truly separate from their former selves.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Ming meditates on the Immortal Seals in his body while using his Light of the Mind to experience the emotions and private thoughts of Image-Seizing City’s residents. He realizes that years of secluded cultivation have distanced him from ordinary life, and that sharing in the mortal world’s joys and sorrows can temper his mind.
• His observations lead to a new insight: certain ideas preserved in people’s hearts and passed down through generations carry a faint, enduring “immortal” quality. This helps him understand the Longevity Immortal Seals left by the Blood Origin Experiment Site and decipher some damaged symbols.
• After half a month, Qin Ming tests the seals in his body. His Myriad Aperture Illumination Art violently rejects them, nearly tearing them apart. He withdraws the seals and changes his approach, manifesting them in his true body instead.
• The seals draw on the Dao rhythm and substances in the void, but Qin Ming’s apertures ultimately break them down and refine them into “Great Medicine.” The medicine nourishes him and triggers a breakthrough from the Early to the Middle Ancestor Realm, making him a Fourth-Heaven Ancestor. He then survives a much more powerful heavenly tribulation.
• Little Yellow explains that Qin Ming’s radiant, medicinal aura is a sign of extraordinary potential, possibly moving toward a Sacred Embryo, while clarifying that true Dao Venerable-level potential is only confirmed by surpassing one’s entire era.
• Qin Ming finds that the same Immortal Seals cannot be refined repeatedly; he will need to cultivate new ones through the External Demons. He returns to Image-Seizing City.
• Zhou Tian arrives after six years apart and is stunned by Qin Ming’s strength. The brothers dine together, discuss their lack of invitations to the Great Sage Assembly, and joke about the gathering’s hierarchy and its older attendees. At the chapter’s end, a familiar female Great Sage replaces the dragon attendants giving Qin Ming a massage.

Character developments

• Qin Ming grows not only in cultivation but in perspective. He recognizes that emotional distance from ordinary people has left gaps in his experience, and deliberately uses their lives to cultivate his mind. His technical understanding of the Immortal Seals also advances, culminating in a major realm breakthrough.
• Zhou Tian remains warm and humorous, openly impressed by Qin Ming’s rapid progress. Though he jokes about being left behind, he trusts his sworn brother’s rising influence and is eager to enjoy its benefits.
• Little Yellow acts as a knowledgeable guide, interpreting Qin Ming’s transformation and tempering his assumptions about what “Dao Venerable potential” means.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and human experience: Qin Ming discovers that spiritual progress requires more than seclusion and combat; engagement with ordinary emotions can deepen the mind.
• Integration and transformation: The foreign Immortal Seals are initially incompatible with Qin Ming’s cultivation art, but their destruction becomes fuel for his own path.
• Potential versus achievement: Exceptional promise is not the same as attaining the highest domain; true standing must be proven through accomplishment.
• Brotherhood and ambition: Qin Ming and Zhou Tian’s reunion mixes affection, rivalry, humor, and confidence in their shared future.

Character interactions

• Qin Ming inwardly observes city residents, using their varied emotions as material for reflection rather than dismissing them as distractions.
• Little Yellow advises Qin Ming on the meaning and limits of his emerging potential; he responds with characteristic confidence.
• Zhou Tian reunites with Qin Ming, marvels at his advancement, and draws him into the city’s social scene. Their conversation about the Great Sage Assembly is teasing and companionable.
• The chapter closes with Qin Ming recognizing the aura of the woman who has taken over his massage, suggesting a forthcoming encounter.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Great Sage Si Yeli visits Qin Ming in his room and uses the Four Sacred Spirits Joint-Heaven Secret Art to massage him. She is startled to learn he has reached the Fourth Heaven of the Ancestor Realm, having advanced from the early Ancestor Realm in just over six years.
• Zhou Tian briefly sees Si Yeli attending to Qin Ming and assumes she may be another sister-in-law. The group discusses invitations to the upcoming Great Sage Assembly, which is being shaped by influential Great Sages from a century earlier. Zhou Tian suspects he may have been overlooked, and the three consider going to Yuangevity City to investigate.
• Qin Ming secretly cultivates his External Demon, reproducing his successful medicinal breakthrough. It too reaches the Middle Ancestor Realm, giving him greater confidence.
• On the way to Yuangevity City, the group discovers that war from the Land of Fate has spread into the surrounding region. Qin Ming recognizes that powerful organizations are harvesting spiritual vitality and urges them to leave.
• They encounter a Dao-Cutting Sect party whose Saint Son identifies the trio as unusually rich in spiritual vitality and intends to summon powerful allies. Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, and Si Yeli strike first, kill the Saint Son and an Ancestor, and erase the evidence.
• A nearby Feathered Immortal pursues them, revealing that the Saint Son’s death has drawn dangerous attention. It attacks with hundreds of beams of Judgment Light. Qin Ming uses a teleportation talisman to evade, but the creature keeps closing in. The chapter ends with Qin Ming considering whether he can defeat a Feathered Immortal himself.

Character developments

• Qin Ming reveals the extraordinary pace of his progress and successfully brings his External Demon to the same realm as his true body. He remains calm under Si Yeli’s forceful treatment, but becomes increasingly alert and decisive as the group encounters danger.
• Si Yeli is shown as playful, bold, and openly interested in Qin Ming. Though her own cultivation has advanced greatly, she is surprised by his progress. She also fights without hesitation when the Dao-Cutting Sect threatens them.
• Zhou Tian is comically indignant about possibly being excluded from the Great Sage Assembly, while remaining loyal and ready to fight alongside Qin Ming and Si Yeli.

Significant themes

• Rapid advancement amid a changing age: Declining medicinal resources and surging Dao resonance are reshaping cultivation and power.
• Power, status, and danger: Invitations and sect rank matter, but neither status nor prestige protects people once powerful factions decide to exploit them.
• Trust and loyalty: The trio act quickly and in coordination, protecting one another from threats.
• Humor amid peril: Si Yeli’s teasing, Zhou Tian’s mistaken assumptions, and the Saint Son’s misdirected “admiration” lighten an increasingly dangerous journey.

Character interactions

• Si Yeli’s massage becomes a playful contest of strength, then turns into a candid conversation about Qin Ming’s cultivation and future.
• Si Yeli directly raises the possibility of choosing a Dao Companion, but stops Qin Ming from answering, revealing her interest and uncertainty.
• Zhou Tian teases Qin Ming about Si Yeli and later backs him up against the Dao-Cutting Sect.
• Si Yeli and Zhou Tian join Qin Ming in ambushing the sect party, then flee together from the pursuing Feathered Immortal.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, and Si Yeli confront a monstrous Feathered Immortal, who demands the blond Saint Son’s Blood Essence and soul. Qin Ming admits the soul is already gone and deliberately keeps the monster pursuing them to exhaust the Wondrous Yellow Qi protecting him.
• Qin Ming repeatedly escapes the Feathered Immortal’s attacks using the Black White Scripture, the Primal Chaos Golden Bridge, and the Exotic Gold Cloth. Once the protective Qi is spent and the immortal weakens under the era’s chaotic Dao resonance, Qin Ming turns to fight.
• Qin Ming uses his powerful weapons and techniques to withstand the Feathered Immortal’s forbidden arts, including Dao Origin—Severance and Prologue—of the Old Dao. The Dream Insect Clan technique All Is Illusory. Return to the beginning repeatedly neutralizes the opponent’s techniques.
• As the Feathered Immortal attempts a final, suicidal counterattack, Qin Ming’s true body and External Demon combine through Yin-Yang Force, severing the monster’s body and soul. He captures its remnant soul and discovers rare golden blood linked to Heavenly God Zhuo Gu.
• Before Qin Ming can enjoy the prize, Great Sage Yun Guanya—the Chongming Bird—and allies arrive, demanding the corpse and threatening the three companions. Zhou Tian summons an Earth Immortal avatar for protection. Qin Ming, instead of panicking, sees the newcomers as potential sources of more rare blood and cultivation resources.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Ming shows calculated boldness: he risks danger to exhaust the Feathered Immortal’s protection, then exploits the monster’s weakness. His excitement over the golden blood reveals how readily he views formidable enemies as valuable “medicine.”
• Zhou Tian repeatedly warns Qin Ming against recklessness and fears for the group, but also trades barbs with the Feathered Immortal. When a new threat appears, he reluctantly calls on an elder’s power.
• Si Yeli admires Qin Ming’s abilities and urges caution during the close-quarters fight. After his victory, she celebrates his achievement; she and Zhou Tian are both shaken by the battle.
• The Feathered Immortal is driven by fear of punishment from Heavenly God Zhuo Gu and rage at his failure. Though he recognizes Qin Ming’s plan, he feels forced to continue fighting, and ultimately dies after his forbidden techniques fail.
• Yun Guanya and his group treat Qin Ming’s hard-won victory as an opportunity to claim the golden blood. Their confidence in their numbers and Earth Immortal support creates a new confrontation at the chapter’s end.

Significant themes

• Survival through strategy: Qin Ming wins not by matching the Feathered Immortal’s full strength, but by managing distance, exploiting the era’s weakening conditions, and choosing when to attack.
• The costs of a declining age: Chaotic Dao resonance erodes even powerful cultivators, while rare substances and divine blood become essential resources.
• Ambition and opportunism: Qin Ming turns danger into opportunity, treating opponents’ rare blood and bodies as potential means of advancement.
• Power and vulnerability: Even a Seventh Realm immortal can be worn down, while Qin Ming’s strength is formidable but not without risk; the arrival of new enemies immediately shifts the balance.

Key plot points and events

• The Eternal Mist Origin Cult’s group decides to kill Qin Ming, Si Yeli, and Zhou Tian, believing them defenseless. Its black-robed Earth Immortal steps in to oversee the attack and urges them to seize the Heavenly God blood.
• Zhou Tian reveals a nine-colored divine crystal containing an imprint of an Old Senior of the End-of-Dharma Turtle clan. The Old Turtle emerges, refuses the enemy’s offer to call the conflict a “misunderstanding,” and engages the Earth Immortal, drawing their duel far into the heavens.
• With the Earth Immortal occupied, the remaining fighters clash. Little Yellow, acting through the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, overwhelms the cult’s middle-aged Ancestor. Zhou Tian swiftly defeats the White-Clad Woman and the man in gold, while Si Yeli dispatches several lesser opponents and reveals her own Great Sage-level power.
• Qin Ming faces Yun Guanya, a formidable Late Ancestor Realm Great Sage and sacred Chongming Bird. Yun Guanya’s Origin Mist techniques weaken or suppress supernatural arts, but Qin Ming counters with powerful attacks, skillful tracking, and close-quarters combat.
• After a long, bloody fight, Yun Guanya attempts to escape using two identical bodies. Qin Ming’s Six Royal Force and coordinated attacks force him to merge and flee; Qin Ming then strikes with two Diamond Rings, destroying Yun Guanya’s body and soul.
• The Old Turtle reports that the opposing Earth Immortal’s fight is also resolved. Qin Ming gathers Yun Guanya’s blood essence and claims his Kunsteel saber, while Little Yellow catches the fleeing soul.

Character developments

• Qin Ming proves he can stand against a veteran Great Sage despite being younger and lower in cultivation. He adapts when his techniques are suppressed, fights aggressively, and ultimately kills Yun Guanya. He also relishes the valuable spoils.
• Zhou Tian regains his confidence after previously doubting his strength. His effortless victories over the cult’s disciples remind him that he truly is a Great Sage—and leave him boasting.
• Si Yeli demonstrates that she, too, is a Great Sage, combining a striking dragon-and-tiger vision with the Four Spirits’ Joint Assault on Heaven.
• Little Yellow shows that she is a formidable combatant in her own right, not merely a treasure dependent on her master. Her power nearly overwhelms a Late Ancestor opponent.
• The Old Turtle acts decisively to protect the group, accepting the cost and limitations of fighting through an imprint.
• Yun Guanya is revealed as a dangerous, capable opponent, but his pride and confidence in his superior cultivation cannot overcome Qin Ming’s adaptability.

Significant themes

• Survival and preemptive violence: In the Night Mist World, hostile groups expect to eliminate witnesses and threats rather than risk future retaliation.
• Strength beyond rank or age: Qin Ming’s victory over a veteran Great Sage, and the surprising power of Zhou Tian, Si Yeli, and Little Yellow, challenge assumptions based on seniority and cultivation level.
• Adaptability under pressure: Qin Ming survives Yun Guanya’s suppression of supernatural arts by changing tactics, relying on physical strength, and attacking relentlessly.
• Confidence and self-perception: Zhou Tian’s victories restore his belief in himself, while Yun Guanya’s pride makes Qin Ming’s challenge especially humiliating.
• Loyalty and teamwork: The group protects one another, with the Old Turtle’s intervention buying time and the others preventing enemies from overwhelming Qin Ming.

Character interactions

• The cult’s leaders taunt the trio and urge them to flee, but their mockery turns to alarm as the group’s hidden strength is revealed.
• Zhou Tian trades barbs with his opponents even as he defeats them; his newfound confidence annoys Si Yeli, who sees him as getting carried away.
• Qin Ming jokingly praises Little Yellow for “hunting for herself,” and she retorts that he has overshadowed her. She later apologizes to Si Yeli for briefly losing focus while fighting.
• Si Yeli remains prepared to help Qin Ming, but his duel with Yun Guanya becomes a personal contest that he ultimately wins.
• After the battle, the group gathers the enemy’s valuable remains and equipment, turning a desperate ambush into a decisive victory.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points

• After defeating Yun Guanya, Qin Ming claims the finely crafted Kunsteel Saber and begins refining it for his own use. He leaves the incomplete technique runes engraved on it, suspecting other powerful factions may possess ways to steal techniques.
• Qin Ming and his companions recover from the battle. He jokingly disguises the secret art he used as a technique based on Yin-Yang Dao, while Zhou Tian and Si Yeli accept his explanation.
• Old Turtle returns with the remains of the Earth Immortal he defeated and gives them to the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella, hoping to build goodwill. Qin Ming plans to use the Earth Immortal’s Blood Essence for cultivation.
• The group witnesses a top-tier Earth Immortal destroy the Floating Firefly Clan. The massacre makes Qin Ming confront the Night Mist World’s brutality and the scale of the war being waged by powers from the Land of Fate. Major organizations soon issue a warning, and the invaders withdraw.
• The three reach Yuangevity City and discuss the upcoming Great Sage Assembly. Qin Ming and Zhou Tian were initially overlooked by the organizers; Qin refuses to attend at first, while Zhou Tian is offended at being excluded. After the organizers send Qin a prestigious invitation and two rare medicines, both men reconsider.
• Qin cultivates using the blood and Immortal Seals gathered from his enemies. The group then travels toward Myriad Gods Mountain, where Little Yellow begins recovering memories of her past.
• On the way, they encounter prominent figures arriving for the assembly, including Zhou Dingdao and a Great Sage from the mysterious Lineage Qin has crossed before. Qin anticipates that the gathering may become contentious.
• The chapter ends as Little Yellow recalls that her former Dao Field is connected to the depths of the Night Mist World.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Ming is pleased by his new weapon and gains further cultivation resources, but witnessing the clan’s destruction deepens his understanding of the world’s cruelty. He remains confident and irreverent, even turning the invitation snub into a joke.
• Zhou Tian is protective of Qin and resents being excluded from the assembly. He explains the organizers’ motives and later decides to support Qin’s choice about attending.
• Si Yeli checks on Qin after the battle, supports his standing in the assembly, and playfully teases him about proposing marriage.
• Old Turtle demonstrates both his strength and caution, defeating an Earth Immortal while carefully cultivating goodwill with Little Yellow.
• Little Yellow starts recovering memories as the group approaches her former home, potentially revealing important secrets about her past and the Night Mist World.

Significant themes

• The cost of power and war: The destruction of the Floating Firefly Clan shows how ordinary communities are crushed by conflicts among powerful factions.
• Cultivation through conflict: Qin turns victories into opportunities for growth, using weapons, blood essence, and Immortal Seals to strengthen himself.
• Loyalty and mutual support: The group shares resources, protects one another, and responds together to slights and dangers.
• Hidden histories and looming conflict: Little Yellow’s resurfacing memories and the arrival of Qin’s former enemies foreshadow revelations and trouble at the Great Sage Assembly.

Summary of “Myriad Gods Mountain”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Ming learns from the Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella that a Void Crack beneath Myriad Gods Mountain may connect to a mysterious region related to the depths of the Night Mist World.
• Because of his previous encounter with the terrifying palace-robed woman from the “moon” Experiment Site, Qin Ming is wary and no longer eager to investigate dangerous secrets.
• The group—Qin Ming, Zhou Tian, and Si Yeli—travels toward Myriad Gods Mountain, discussing Qin Ming’s dangerous reputation and his tendency to become involved in major conflicts. Both companions urge him not to kill any Great Sages at the upcoming gathering.
• Myriad Gods Mountain is revealed to be the ruined remains of an ancient Supreme Dao Field that once dominated the Cultivation Civilization. Its destruction has several competing explanations:
  • It was destroyed by a powerful enemy after the disappearance of its Lord.
  • Its Ten-Colored Fire Spring went out, causing the Dao Field to collapse.
  • A mysterious force erased the entire region.
  • Creatures from the deepest Night Mist World may have attacked it.
• The mountain has partially revived, with dense Spiritual Matter, several Fire Springs, sects, Rogue Cultivators, and many inhabitants occupying the ruins.
• Qin Ming recognizes Kong Yuanxing and Ning Zhenxue from the Traveler Civilization, both of whom are eager to avoid him because of his past actions toward them.
• At the gathering, a mysterious black-robed scorpion demon named Shi Yuan arrives, claiming to be a Rogue Cultivator from the deeper reaches of the Night Mist World.
• Qin Ming receives special treatment as Zheng Guang Great Sage, including a super VIP invitation and access to two Ancestor Realm Strange Medicines. The gathering has expanded beyond a normal Great Sage Assembly: veteran experts are also holding a secret high-level meeting to establish rules for cooperation as disasters from the Night Mist World spread outward.
• At an evening preliminary gathering, Qin Ming meets numerous Great Sages. He realizes that several may be interested in killing or refining him into Butian Divine Medicine.
• He identifies a white-haired female Great Sage as the rabbit-like demon from the Longevity Experiment Site Above the Moon, once held by the terrifying palace-robed woman.
• The chapter ends when Exotic Gold Cloth warns Qin Ming that a young man approaching him is a formidable rival carrying an extremely powerful and unusual piece of cloth.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming has become more cautious and politically aware. Though still confident and provocative, he now carefully evaluates threats instead of recklessly investigating them. He also realizes that his reputation as the youngest Ancestor makes him a target for both admiration and predation.
• Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella / Little Yellow reveals fragmented memories of Myriad Gods Mountain and its underground passage. She shows unusual sadness upon seeing the ruins, suggesting a deep personal connection to the ancient Dao Field.
• Zhou Tian remains blunt and humorous, openly accusing Qin Ming of causing trouble, but he is also increasingly concerned about the possible decline of the Demon Court.
• Si Yeli acts as Qin Ming’s diplomatic and protective companion, defending his intentions and repeatedly warning him to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
• Exotic Gold Cloth provides a crucial warning about the approaching rival, demonstrating that it recognizes the significance of the newcomer’s cloth.
• Heng Ye of the Black Vault Ancient Cult appears friendly and courteous but secretly harbors malice toward Qin Ming, likely viewing him as a source of life essence for Butian Divine Medicine.
• The white-haired female Great Sage is revealed to be a powerful demon from the Above-the-Moon Experiment Site, linking the current gathering to Qin Ming’s most traumatic past encounter.

Significant Themes

• The rise and fall of civilizations: Myriad Gods Mountain’s destruction illustrates the Night Mist World’s cycle of prosperity, decline, and replacement. Even the greatest Supreme Dao Fields cannot escape eventual ruin.
• Hidden dangers beneath civilization: The possible Void Crack and the influence of the Night Mist World suggest that deeper, more terrifying forces may be affecting the Cultivation Civilization.
• Political tension and preparation for disaster: The high-level meeting reflects the Dao Fields’ fear that calamity is spreading outward. Their attempts to establish rules coexist uneasily with preparations for conflict.
• Predation and exploitation: Qin Ming’s concern that Great Sages want to refine him into Butian Divine Medicine shows how power struggles reduce living beings to resources.
• Memory, loss, and historical ruin: Little Yellow’s fragmented memories and sorrow emphasize the irreversible loss of the ancient Myriad Gods Mountain.
• Reputation as both protection and danger: Qin Ming’s fame attracts respect, special privileges, and potential allies, but it also makes him a conspicuous target.

Character Interactions

• Qin Ming consults Little Yellow about the Void Crack and the history of Myriad Gods Mountain, while Si Yeli helps ask questions on her behalf.
• Zhou Tian and Si Yeli tease Qin Ming about his reputation for causing disasters, while also advising him to restrain himself.
• Qin Ming’s former dealings with Kong Yuanxing and Ning Zhenxue create awkwardness and fear when they recognize him.
• Heng Ye approaches Qin Ming with exaggerated friendliness and invites him to the Black Vault Ancient Cult, but Qin Ming detects his concealed hostility.
• Several Great Sages gather around Qin Ming to flatter or befriend him, increasing his suspicion that they are interested in his body and life essence.
• The appearance of the white-haired rabbit demon connects Qin Ming’s current social environment to the dangerous woman and Experiment Site from his past.
• The final arrival of the cloth-bearing young man creates immediate tension, as Exotic Gold Cloth identifies him as Qin Ming’s most serious rival yet.

Chapter Summary: “The Current and the Former Settle the Score”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Ming, still disguised as Zheng Guang, meets Fang Zhiwei of the mysterious Inch-Void Mountain at the Great Sage Assembly.
• Although the two converse amicably and exchange drinks, Qin Ming senses that Fang is extraordinarily dangerous. Fang’s seemingly gentle aura can destroy Pure Yang Consciousness, and even probing him mentally causes another Great Sage to stagger back.
• Qin learns that Inch-Void Mountain is an extremely elusive and powerful organization from the deepest regions of the Night Mist World. Fang Zhiwei has recently become famous for defeating numerous powerful Great Sages without suffering defeat.
• After Fang departs, Qin discusses Exotic Gold Cloth, learning that it may be only the remnant of a dead ancient existence. This revelation shakes Qin’s belief that the cloth transcends the Night Mist World’s law of limited lifespans.
• The Great Sage Assembly formally begins, bringing together figures from the Cultivation Civilization, Traveler Civilization, Tushita Palace, Primordial Yellow Dao Field, and other powerful factions.
• Qin reunites with old companions, including Green Phoenix, Niu Wuwei, Meng Zhiyu, and Mu Shinian, and exchanges playful insults with them.
• Qin’s old enemies also appear, including Duan Yin, Xu Yuan, Yun Nixue, Yan Chuan, and Jiang Xiyi.
• Qin defeats or overwhelms several rivals in brief contests:
  • He casually seals and humiliates Duan Yin.
  • He defeats Yun Nixue by plucking and sealing the flower formed from her ultimate technique.
  • He defeats Yan Chuan in a clash concealed within the act of clinking wine cups.
• Jiang Xiyi, the former “youngest Ancestor,” challenges Qin to a technique-based spar, seeking to settle the matter of who is truly stronger.
• Meanwhile, divination by Meng Zhiyu and Zhou Tian reveals that Fang Zhiwei represents a tremendous calamity. A future blood battle between him and Qin could leave both gravely wounded, with Qin possibly suffering especially severe injuries.
• The chapter ends with the crowd anticipating the Qin–Jiang Xiyi contest while Green Phoenix jokingly organizes a betting pool over whether the “current holder” or “former strongest Ancestor” will win.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming/Zheng Guang: Continues to project confidence and irreverence, but privately recognizes Fang Zhiwei as a rare and potentially overwhelming opponent. His strength is confirmed through successive victories over major Great Sages. He also begins revealing more about his stolen techniques and his complicated relationship with Exotic Gold Cloth.
• Fang Zhiwei: Establishes himself as Qin’s most dangerous prospective rival. His attractive, gentle demeanor conceals terrifying mental and physical power, and his connection to Inch-Void Mountain suggests an immense background.
• Exotic Gold Cloth: Reveals that it may be a revived fragment of an ancient being that has already died. Its incomplete memories and uncertain future deepen the mystery surrounding it and make Qin question whether he can ultimately trust it.
• Jiang Xiyi: Re-emerges as Qin’s direct counterpart and former rival for the title of youngest Ancestor. His desire to fight Qin stems from resentment over the earlier death of his avatar and a wish to prove that his defeat resulted from outside interference rather than inferior ability.
• Niu Wuwei, Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, and Zhou Tian: Reconnect with Qin through humorous sibling-like arguments. Their conversations show both their familiarity with him and their awareness that his power has grown far beyond what it once was.
• Si Yeli: Publicly supports Qin, even when the others prepare to gang up on him, suggesting increasing closeness and loyalty.
• Yun Nixue and Yan Chuan: Both confront Qin after previous defeats. They retain their pride and resentment but acknowledge his current superiority.
• Green Phoenix: Provides comic relief through exaggerated praise of Qin, though her comments also provoke awkwardness and hostility among the others.

Significant Themes

• The current versus the former: The central rivalry between Qin Ming and Jiang Xiyi reflects the struggle between a rising successor and a former titleholder.
• Hidden danger beneath appearances: Fang Zhiwei’s warm, approachable appearance conceals lethal power, emphasizing that outward gentleness can mask immense threat.
• Reputation versus true strength: Qin’s repeated victories demonstrate that his reputation is not exaggerated; he is now capable of defeating renowned Great Sages with apparent ease.
• Mortality and incomplete resurrection: Exotic Gold Cloth’s possible death challenges Qin’s assumptions about transcendence and the limits imposed by the Night Mist World.
• Old grudges and unfinished conflicts: The gathering brings former enemies together, allowing past defeats and humiliations to resurface in new challenges.
• Comedic camaraderie amid danger: The banter among Qin and his sworn siblings contrasts with the deadly power struggles surrounding them, showing how personal relationships endure even among beings capable of destroying worlds.
• The risk of escalation: Though the gathering is meant to be orderly, one contest after another threatens to turn it into Qin’s personal arena and potentially destabilize the entire assembly.

Important Character Interactions

• Qin Ming and Fang Zhiwei: Courteous, seemingly friendly conversation conceals mutual caution and an expectation of inevitable battle.
• Qin Ming and Exotic Gold Cloth: Their exchanges mix complaints and sarcasm with genuine dependence. Qin accuses the cloth of bringing him trouble, while the cloth reminds him that it has repeatedly saved his life.
• Qin Ming and Niu Wuwei: Their reunion is marked by teasing over Li Qingyue and a proposed spar between Qin’s Yin-Yang Rings and Niu Wuwei’s Diamond Ring.
• Qin Ming and Meng Zhiyu/Mu Shinian: Their sibling-like banter centers on Qin’s arrogance, his growing strength, and his habit of treating powerful enemies as items on a “menu.”
• Qin Ming and Duan Yin: Qin effortlessly seals and dismisses his former enemy, deepening Duan Yin’s humiliation and resentment.
• Qin Ming and Yun Nixue: Their technique exchange is controlled but decisive, with Qin defeating her without causing destructive collateral damage.
• Qin Ming and Yan Chuan: Their wine-cup clash functions as a highly compressed battle of cultivation. Qin wins while deliberately showing restraint.
• Qin Ming and Jiang Xiyi: Their coming spar is framed as the decisive meeting between the present youngest Ancestor and the former one.
• Si Yeli and the group: Si Yeli chooses Qin’s side, provoking Niu Wuwei and teasing from Meng Zhiyu.
• Green Phoenix and the assembly: Her enthusiastic praise of Qin and betting scheme lighten the tense atmosphere but embarrass Qin and irritate several observers.

Chapter 782 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• At the Great Sage Assembly, Green Phoenix secretly bets on the outcome of the anticipated duel between Qin Ming, known publicly as Zheng Guang Great Sage, and Jiang Xiyi. Si Yeli teases her, while Niu Wuwei punishes her with a flick that leaves a bull-hoof mark on her forehead. Other Great Sages and even Qin Ming consider placing wagers.
• Jiang Xiyi and Qin Ming agree not to engage in a destructive physical battle. Instead, they compete through controlled Dao domains and manifested spell arts within a limited area.
• Their initial clash causes space to fracture and the surrounding flowers and grasses to wither. Both demonstrate exquisite control by reviving the vegetation through their respective powers:
  • Jiang Xiyi uses starlight and life-reviving Dao techniques.
  • Qin Ming employs the power of Withering and Flourishing, creating a spectacle of sun, moon, and stars.
• The duel intensifies when their domains temporarily plunge the battlefield into darkness, resembling an abyss. Their collision destroys the garden, though both preserve the plants’ roots and restore them afterward.
• Jiang Xiyi proposes a more refined contest: each will create a realistic miniature world and battle within those manifestations rather than destroy the actual environment.
• Jiang Xiyi constructs a Dao-created world containing bamboo, a grass hut, a stone table, writing materials, golden paper, seals, bells, swords, and other spell manifestations. His techniques blur the boundary between illusion and reality.
• Qin Ming counters by summoning a ten-stringed ancient zither, revealing the legendary Ten Sacred Fiends. He also manifests a Ten-Colored Fire Spring, Black White Twin Trees, stars, a moon, and other elements connected to the Dao of the New Life Path.
• The two miniature worlds clash repeatedly. Jiang Xiyi writes powerful “orders” and unleashes seals, bells, swords, and golden paper to suppress Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming responds through the ten zither strings, each producing a supreme technique. These include the Primordial Myriad Thunder Seal, Ancestor Worm’s Cry, yin-yang rings, and finally Longevity Force. His combined attack pierces and destroys Jiang Xiyi’s manifested world.
• Jiang Xiyi blocks the worst of the attack but ultimately admits defeat. The Great Sages contain the resulting destructive storm.
• News of Jiang Xiyi’s defeat spreads rapidly from the mountain, causing excitement among the gathered disciples and spectators. Qin Ming becomes the center of attention as numerous Great Sages approach to befriend him.
• The golden-robed man from the mysterious Lineage, previously observing with Fang Zhiwei, finally approaches Qin Ming, drawing Qin Ming’s wary attention.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming/Zheng Guang: Further establishes himself as the most formidable young Ancestor of the current age. His command of the Ten Sacred Fiends, zither-based techniques, Withering and Flourishing, and the New Life Path reveals both overwhelming power and exceptional precision. He remains outwardly calm and courteous despite decisively defeating Jiang Xiyi.
• Jiang Xiyi: His reputation as a peerless genius is confirmed, but he is forced to acknowledge that Qin Ming has surpassed him in the present contest. Although disappointed, he remains dignified and accepts the loss openly.
• Green Phoenix: Continues to act impulsively and playfully, secretly plotting bets and nearly blurting out Qin Ming’s hidden identity or title. Her behavior provides comic relief but also shows her close familiarity with Qin Ming.
• Si Yeli: Teases and dominates Green Phoenix playfully, treating her almost like a pet.
• Niu Wuwei: Maintains his stern, intimidating authority over Green Phoenix, punishing her instantly when she plots against him.
• Zhou Tian: Jokes that Qin Ming is “always like a villain,” reinforcing Qin Ming’s reputation for appearing wherever he goes and overturning expectations.
• The golden-robed mysterious figure: His interest in Qin Ming becomes more direct, suggesting that Qin Ming’s victory has attracted the attention of powerful figures beyond the established Dao fields.

Significant Themes

• The rise of a new generation: The battle symbolizes the shifting balance of power between outstanding young Ancestors. Qin Ming’s victory suggests that the current age is producing figures capable of surpassing established prodigies.
• Dao as creation and destruction: Both combatants use their domains not merely to attack but to create entire worlds, manipulate life, and restore what they destroy. Their battle presents Dao cultivation as artistic, creative, and philosophical as well as violent.
• Reality versus illusion: Jiang Xiyi’s ability to manifest objects and environments indistinguishable from reality raises the question of where genuine substance ends and Dao-created appearance begins.
• Controlled power and restraint: Though their techniques could devastate the surrounding area, both fighters deliberately limit the battle and preserve the environment’s roots. Their precision demonstrates the refinement expected of Great Sages.
• Reputation and public spectacle: The duel becomes a sensation beyond the assembly, with disciples and distant spectators spreading updates. Qin Ming’s fame and notoriety grow with every victory.
• The “True Demon” image: Qin Ming’s allies and rivals repeatedly frame him as a powerful, disruptive “True Demon,” someone whose rise inevitably overshadows others and unsettles the established order.

Character Interactions

• Si Yeli playfully pulls Green Phoenix’s ears and pets her hair, while Green Phoenix secretly begs her to stop.
• Niu Wuwei overhears Green Phoenix’s plotting and punishes her, reinforcing the comic hierarchy between them.
• Qin Ming and Jiang Xiyi maintain a respectful but intensely competitive exchange, repeatedly raising and drinking wine before escalating their Dao contest.
• Their battle is both confrontation and mutual recognition: Qin Ming praises Jiang Xiyi’s abilities, while Jiang Xiyi acknowledges Qin Ming’s superiority after losing.
• Zhou Tian mocks Qin Ming as a “villain,” and Jiang Xiyi privately relates to the remark because of his previous conflict with Qin Ming.
• The surrounding Great Sages shift from detached observers to impressed witnesses and potential allies, approaching Qin Ming after his victory.
• The chapter ends with the mysterious golden-robed man approaching Qin Ming, foreshadowing a new and potentially dangerous interaction.

Summary: “The Grand Gathering Ends”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Ming attends the Grand Gathering at Myriad Gods Mountain, where powerful Great Sages from the Supreme Dao Fields and the deeper Night Mist World gather to exchange knowledge and discuss the growing disasters emerging from the world’s depths.
• He deliberately displays his Longevity Force while fighting Jiang Xiyi, using the revelation to test the mysterious Longevity Lineage’s attitude toward him.
• Qi Geng, a powerful figure from the Longevity Lineage, approaches Qin Ming and demands that he return with him to the lineage’s Dao Field. Qin Ming refuses, arguing that his Longevity Force is only one aspect of the many techniques he has mastered and that he has no obligation to submit.
• The disagreement escalates when Qi Geng attempts to suppress Qin Ming with golden threads. Qin Ming responds with the Silk Book Method, dozens of Divine Rings, and the combined power of his various inheritances.
• Qin Ming’s allies—Zhou Tian, Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, Si Yeli, and Niu Wuwei—immediately stand beside him. The confrontation grows when Fang Zhiwei, successor of Inch-Void Mountain and Qi Geng’s close friend, intervenes with a vast sword aura and brings several powerful Great Sages to Qi Geng’s side.
• Qin Ming boldly challenges both Qi Geng and Fang Zhiwei. The situation nearly erupts into a major battle, but Fang Zhiwei ultimately restrains Qi Geng, arguing that a bloody fight would be inappropriate during the gathering.
• Shi Yuan, a mysterious powerhouse from the Night Mist World, unexpectedly sides with Qin Ming and challenges Qi Geng. His intervention further complicates the confrontation, though he withdraws once the two sides agree not to fight.
• After the conflict, Shi Yuan explains that the Longevity tradition is divided into Lineage and Rogue Cultivator factions. The Qin, Qi, Zhuo, and Lei families form the four major branches of the Lineage faction, while Qin Zhaogu belonged to the Qin branch but behaved more like a rogue cultivator.
• The gathering resumes its official purpose: exchanging cultivation knowledge, trading techniques, and discussing the disasters overflowing from the Night Mist World.
• Qin Ming learns that the mysterious Kirin Hoof, a giant glowing footprint, may be linked to the vanished Ancestor Kirin and a bone-built Kirin Temple that appears whenever disasters emerge.
• Qin Ming encounters the cowardly Five-Colored Beast from the Totem Faction, who is terrified of him and quickly retreats.
• He reunites with Yun Jianyue and meets his martial nephew, Fu Yi, the Jade Capital successor. Qin Ming recognizes Fu Yi’s progress but jokingly encourages Yun Jianyue to surpass and replace him.
• Qin Ming continues consulting prominent Great Sages and attracts widespread attention as an unprecedented young Ancestor.
• Without warning, the remnant mountain collapses amid a surge of Immortal Light, abruptly ending the gathering and leaving Qin Ming on high alert.

2. Character Developments

• Qin Ming becomes even more assertive and politically aware. He carefully tests Qi Geng’s intentions, refuses to be intimidated by the Longevity Lineage, and demonstrates confidence in confronting multiple top-tier opponents alone. He also shows loyalty and appreciation toward those who defend him.
• Qi Geng is revealed as powerful, proud, and deeply connected to the Longevity Lineage. Although initially domineering, he ultimately backs down after learning that Qin Zhaogu gave Qin Ming the jade token, suggesting that Qin Zhaogu’s status is extremely significant.
• Fang Zhiwei emerges as both a formidable warrior and a stabilizing influence. Despite being destined to clash with Qin Ming over the Exotic Gold Cloth, he prevents the gathering from descending into bloodshed and restrains Qi Geng.
• Shi Yuan is shown to be mysterious and independent-minded. He opposes Qi Geng openly, possibly because of ties to the rival Devouring Force lineage, but his true identity and motives remain unclear.
• Qin Ming’s allies display strong loyalty. Zhou Tian, Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, Si Yeli, and Niu Wuwei immediately prepare to fight beside him, while Green Phoenix offers to summon older experts.
• Fu Yi has advanced significantly, developing multiple Virtue Bodies, but remains emotionally stiff and uncomfortable around Qin Ming. His arrival also makes him a target for other Great Sages seeking to test themselves.
• Yun Jianyue remains respectful toward Qin Ming but is encouraged to pursue greater ambition and potentially surpass Fu Yi.
• The Five-Colored Beast is characterized as cowardly and opportunistic, now utterly intimidated by Qin Ming’s reputation.

3. Significant Themes

• Independence versus institutional control: Qin Ming refuses to submit to the Longevity Lineage simply because he has cultivated one of its associated powers.
• Power and reputation: Qin Ming’s victories and bold conduct have made him a central figure whom even ancient and mysterious factions must take seriously.
• Hidden origins and factional conflict: The Longevity Force has a complicated history involving the Lineage and Rogue Cultivator factions, while Qin Ming’s ties to Qin Zhaogu may draw him deeper into their secrets.
• Loyalty and mutual protection: Qin Ming’s companions immediately defend him, reinforcing the importance of alliances in a dangerous cultivation world.
• Restraint amid overwhelming power: Though several factions are prepared for war, Fang Zhiwei’s intervention prevents a disastrous battle, showing that political judgment can be as important as strength.
• Disasters from the Night Mist World: The gathering’s deeper purpose is to understand and contain increasingly frequent supernatural catastrophes, including the Kirin Hoof and the mysterious Immortal Light.
• Growth and succession: Qin Ming evaluates the younger generation, especially Fu Yi and Yun Jianyue, while encouraging them to compete and improve.

4. Character Interactions

• Qin Ming and Qi Geng engage in a tense negotiation that turns into a near-duel over Qin Ming’s Longevity Force.
• Qin Ming’s allies form a united front against Qi Geng and Fang Zhiwei’s camp.
• Fang Zhiwei acts as Qi Geng’s friend and protector, but also prevents him from escalating the confrontation.
• Shi Yuan openly challenges Qi Geng and sides with Qin Ming, revealing the existence of deeper rivalries between ancient Dao lineages.
• Qin Ming questions Shi Yuan about the Longevity Lineage and gains important information about its four major branches.
• Qin Ming reunites warmly with Yun Jianyue, questions her about Jade Capital, and encourages her to surpass Fu Yi.
• Qin Ming and Fu Yi meet as martial uncle and nephew, but Fu Yi remains awkward and distant because he suspects Qin Ming was responsible for defeating him in the past.
• Qin Ming’s encounter with the Five-Colored Beast highlights the fear his former reputation—and his current identity as Zheng Guang Great Sage—now inspires.
• The chapter ends with every character caught off guard as the mountain collapses and Immortal Light erupts, signaling that a new crisis may be beginning.

Chapter Summary: “Heaven-Collapsing Ending”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The gathering at Myriad Gods Mountain turns into a catastrophic trap. The mountains collapse, divine patterns surge from underground, and an immense force drags nearly every attending Great Sage into a subterranean Abyss.
• Numerous powerful figures—including Fang Zhiwei, Qi Geng, Shi Yuan, Su Lengshu, Chu Shuheng, Zhou Dingdao, Niu Wuwei, Meng Zhiyu, Mu Shinian, and others—attempt to escape using supreme techniques and treasures such as immortal bridges, chains, tribulation light, time wheels, and the Immortal-Subduing Qin. None succeed.
• Qin Ming, who had secretly entered the earth to investigate the sealed Void Crack, is caught at the very center of the disaster. His prearranged teleportation method fails because the underground divine patterns are too powerful. He narrowly preserves his true body by exchanging an External Demon with a hastily prepared transfer medium.
• Several latecomers and rescuers are also affected. Wen Lingxi arrives just as the collapse begins, while Green Phoenix survives only because she left earlier to summon help. Old monsters arrive too late to prevent the disaster.
• The entire group is transported through a distorted passage into an unfamiliar region of the Night Mist World. The Great Sages are scattered across the new world, unable to sense or reunite with one another.
• Qin Ming discovers that this world suppresses spiritual power. His Heavenly Light, Ten Sacred Fiends, consciousness, magical treasures, flying sword, External Demons, and other abilities become severely weakened or unusable outside his body.
• The Yellow Gauze Canopy Umbrella reveals that this is not the peaceful waystation Little Yellow remembers. The Void Crack has been altered, possibly sending them near the deepest core of the Night Mist World.
• Qin Ming adapts by relying on physical strength, internal cultivation, the Kunsteel Saber, and martial skills. He kills numerous beastlike monsters and realizes that while divine abilities are suppressed for everyone, he remains a powerful martial artist by comparison.
• The chapter ends with Qin Ming discovering three genuine spirit creatures cultivating under a visible moon. He begins to suspect that this region may be connected to the edge of the Eternal Night Realm or an entirely different world.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming: Moves from confident investigator to desperate survivor. His vast supernatural abilities are stripped away, forcing him to reassess his strength and depend on martial combat, caution, and adaptability. He remains resourceful, quickly protecting his true body, securing weapons, and analyzing the new environment.
• Little Yellow: Her memories of the region are incomplete, but she recognizes similarities to a terrifying legendary world where even Buddhas and Heavenly Immortals cannot fly or use external techniques. Her artifact-spirit form becomes faint and unstable, emphasizing the danger of the environment.
• Great Sages: Their repeated failures to escape demonstrate that the disaster is beyond ordinary cultivation levels. Some fight desperately, some remain calm, and others accept their fate, revealing different personalities under extreme pressure.
• Green Phoenix: Her earlier decision to seek help accidentally saves her from the catastrophe. She briefly imagines benefiting from the disappearance of so many geniuses, but quickly returns to pretending concern for the fallen Supreme Sovereign.
• Wen Lingxi: Her late arrival becomes tragically ironic: despite being an important native Great Sage, she enters the ruined mountains just as the calamity begins.
• Si Yeli: After failing to escape, she deliberately follows Qin Ming’s last known location, suggesting continued concern for or interest in him.
• Fu Yi: His frustration grows because he was dragged into the calamity after already being targeted due to his association with Qin Ming. He bitterly calls on Qin Ming to protect him, highlighting their strained but connected relationship.

Significant Themes

• Powerlessness before greater forces: Even the strongest Great Sages and ancient treasures are helpless against the underground divine patterns, suggesting the disaster was planned by a force far beyond them.
• The collapse of established order: The event removes or scatters nearly all of the Night Mist World’s leading figures, potentially creating a major shift in political and cultivation power.
• Adaptation and survival: Qin Ming must abandon reliance on supernatural abilities and return to basic martial skill, weapons, caution, and physical endurance.
• Uncertainty and hidden manipulation: The identity of the “Black Hand” behind the disaster remains unknown. The calamity may be an arranged trial, a deliberate crime, or the work of someone Qin Ming already knows.
• Transformation through limitation: Qin Ming’s loss of cultivation becomes a test of his underlying abilities. Although reduced to something resembling an ordinary martial wanderer, he discovers he is still exceptionally strong in the new world.
• Dangerous unfamiliarity: The new region appears stable but ominous. Its moon, stars, spirit creatures, and altered laws hint that Qin Ming has entered a deeper and more mysterious part of the Night Mist World.

Character Interactions

• Qin Ming and Little Yellow work together to understand the collapse and the unfamiliar world, with Qin Ming repeatedly relying on her memories and observations.
• Fu Yi angrily calls Qin Ming a useless junior master-uncle, blaming him for failing to protect him, while Qin Ming is too occupied with survival to respond meaningfully.
• Qin Ming and the Exotic Gold Cloth have a tense, almost comedic exchange: Qin Ming repeatedly demands that it act, but the cloth remains silent and largely unusable.
• Niu Wuwei and Li Youde fuse together in an attempt to escape, while the Hidden Disciple of Tushita Palace supports the effort with the Diamond Ring; despite their cooperation, Niu Wuwei is still dragged down.
• Si Yeli chooses to pursue Qin Ming after the collapse, implying a significant personal connection.
• Green Phoenix interacts with the arriving Old Senior and uses exaggerated grief for the fallen Qin Ming, contrasting her relief at surviving with her opportunistic thoughts.
• Qin Ming observes the reactions and techniques of many Great Sages, using their failures to conclude that escape is impossible and that the entire gathering has been deliberately swept away.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Ming sees the real moon for the first time in the New World and finds its Lunar Yin Force unusually pure and abundant. He wonders why such a moon was hidden from ordinary sight, but decides not to jump to conclusions about the dangers beyond the night fog.
• He travels far from the territory of three powerful spirits, then tests his cultivation on a mountain. Although this world prevents divine abilities from manifesting, its thin fog lets in plentiful moonlight and starlight, making it exceptionally favorable for cultivation.
• Drawing in Moon Essence and Star Fiend activates the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art. Qin Ming rapidly advances through stages that once required great effort, reaching the Glazed Illumination Body. His bones, organs, meridians, and flesh are strengthened and infused with a Dao-like resonance.
• Qin Ming studies the art’s Forbidden Techniques, including Myriad Phenomena Force-Dispersal, which spreads and softens a fatal blow, and Extreme Dao Severance, which concentrates the body’s power into a devastating attack capable of overcoming stronger opponents.
• A strange bird spies on him and flies toward the three spirits’ territory, apparently to alert them. Qin Ming shoots it down with his bow, retrieves it, and later roasts it. He then wonders whether the coming dawn will reveal the long-hidden sun.

Character developments

• Qin Ming moves from wonder and suspicion about the New World to focused experimentation. He recognizes that the world’s restrictions conceal his outward strength rather than erase the benefits of cultivation.
• His breakthrough renews his confidence in the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art, which had long frustrated him. He is excited by its potential but deliberately resists making it his sole scripture, believing that studying many paths will help him develop his own.
• His admiration for President Niu Ben deepens as Qin Ming realizes the scripture’s advanced techniques likely arose from hard-won experience and perilous battles.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Qin Ming seems powerless because his arts cannot manifest, yet his cultivation is progressing exceptionally well.
• Hidden opportunity and danger: The New World’s moon and stars provide ideal cultivation conditions, but its powerful inhabitants and mysterious laws demand caution.
• Learning and self-determination: Qin Ming values the president’s supreme scripture while insisting on learning from multiple traditions rather than relying on one path.
• Adaptation: Unable to use supernatural techniques, Qin Ming returns to practical skills—especially archery—to survive.

Character interactions

• Qin Ming avoids provoking the three spirits, choosing distance and caution despite sensing their formidable potential.
• He confronts the spying bird with a bow and kills it before it can report his presence.
• Through studying President Niu Ben’s scripture, Qin Ming engages indirectly with the president’s legacy, gaining both new techniques and a deeper appreciation of his hardships.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Ming explores the New World after leaving the Three Saints Mountain Range. He discovers that the Lunar Star shines even though no sun rises, and finds Fire Springs beneath the forest.
• He cultivates the Myriad Aperture Illumination Art as he travels, making steady gains in strength and cultivation. It takes him over twenty days to cross the vast mountain range, in part because he can no longer fly or burrow underground.
• By questioning a hunter, Qin Ming learns that this is a huge mortal world of Imperial Dynasties and cultivation sects. Its dangerous Life-Slaying Mist blocks escape, and even the world’s greatest experts reportedly perish if they venture into it. The short local lifespan makes him fear that stranded outsiders may age and die before finding a way out.
• He heads toward the Tai Dynasty’s capital to learn more, while adjusting uneasily to mortal needs such as sleep and daily food.
• After about a month in the world, Qin Ming is attacked by a wounded Three-Legged Golden Crow. It mistakes his spiritually charged cultivation for valuable food, but Qin Ming recognizes its rare bloodline and Immortal-Seal-filled blood as potent medicine.
• Qin Ming kills the bird in a brief, dangerous fight. The chapter ends as an old man and a young girl appear nearby.

Character developments

• Qin Ming grows more capable through patient, incremental cultivation and becomes more knowledgeable about the world by learning its language and questioning a local.
• He remains curious and hopeful about exploration, but the news about the Life-Slaying Mist and limited lifespans deepens his concern for himself and the other outsiders.
• His fight with the Golden Crow shows his tactical decisiveness: he exploits its near-fatal neck wound, uses Adhesion Force to stay attached in flight, and strikes at the injury before it can escape.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and vulnerability: Qin Ming must cope with a world that limits his abilities and imposes ordinary physical needs.
• Hope amid confinement: The world invites exploration, yet the lethal mist and enormous distances threaten to make it a prison.
• Survival and opportunity: A chance encounter turns a dangerous attack into a valuable resource, though Qin Ming’s victory depends heavily on the bird’s prior injuries.
• Gradual growth: His steady cultivation contrasts with the sudden, high-stakes violence of the encounter.

Character interactions

• Qin Ming quietly studies a hunter, learns the local language through resonance, and leaves him a wounded deer in return.
• The Golden Crow and Qin Ming initially view each other as valuable nourishment. Their mutual misjudgment escalates into a rapid fight, which ends with Qin Ming killing the already gravely wounded bird.
• The newly arrived old man and girl have not yet interacted with Qin Ming by the chapter’s end.

Chapter Summary: Peerless Beauty

Key Plot Points and Events

• Under the moonlit mountains, Qin Ming encounters a bloodied azure-robed elder and an unharmed, exceptionally beautiful woman in black. They politely acknowledge him after noticing the corpse of a Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Qin Ming confirms that he killed the Golden Crow, astonishing the woman because of his extremely youthful appearance.
• The elder asks Qin Ming to protect them from the Sunset Glow Sect, which has been pursuing the wounded Golden Crow. Qin Ming initially refuses, unwilling to become involved in their conflict or inherit unknown karma.
• The pair explain that the Golden Crow had fought a powerful Dragon Lion over a mature Great Medicine. The Dragon Lion severely injured the Golden Crow before consuming the medicine and retreating into magma to transform. The Sunset Glow Sect intended to capture the weakened Golden Crow and use its flesh and blood to refine Soul Refinement Pills.
• The Sunset Glow Sect’s elders arrive, inspect Qin Ming and the corpse, but temporarily withdraw. The elder and woman subtly use Qin Ming’s presence as protection, prompting Qin Ming to accuse them of exploiting him.
• To compensate him, the woman offers an eight-hundred-year-old herb. Qin Ming accepts it briefly but returns it after discovering that it is useless to an Ancestor. His indifference reveals that his cultivation and status are far beyond what his appearance suggests.
• Qin Ming extracts the Golden Crow’s blood essence, recognizing it as an exceptionally pure resource containing powerful Immortal Seals. He plans to refine it and use it to strengthen his true body.
• The Sunset Glow Sect elders mistakenly conclude that Qin Ming is merely a young disciple pretending to be powerful, perhaps relying on a hidden protector. They decide to attack him, believing the Golden Crow’s remains are too valuable to abandon.
• The azure-robed elder and the woman again try to persuade Qin Ming to summon his supposed protector. The woman offers him a strand of Divine Substance refined from Day Gold and promises even more if he helps them escape.
• Qin Ming offers the Sunset Glow Sect the Golden Crow’s remains in exchange for safe passage, but they refuse and insult him. He draws his Kunsteel Saber and attacks.
• Qin Ming kills the first elder in only four strikes, revealing that he himself—not a hidden protector—is an overwhelming top-tier powerhouse.
• The Sunset Glow Sect’s forces panic but decide they must fight rather than retreat. Qin Ming slaughteres all six elders and more than forty accompanying fighters. Several fleeing youths are killed by Qin Ming’s arrows.
• The battle ends with the Sunset Glow Sect completely annihilated. The azure-robed elder and Black-Clad Woman are left stunned by Qin Ming’s impossible strength and youthful appearance.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming: Initially cautious and detached, Qin Ming refuses to accept responsibility for strangers’ troubles. However, once attacked, he responds decisively and ruthlessly, eliminating every enemy to prevent future retaliation. His mastery of the saber, bow, and physical cultivation demonstrates that he is vastly stronger than the people of this world expect. His ability to ignore valuable medicines and Divine Substance further establishes his extraordinary background.
• Azure-Robed Elder: Though powerful and badly wounded, he becomes dependent on Qin Ming’s protection. He carefully flatters Qin Ming as a “Young Master” and repeatedly invokes the possibility of a hidden protector. After witnessing Qin Ming’s strength, his respect and fear deepen, and he immediately joins Qin Ming’s side in battle.
• Black-Clad Woman: She is revealed to be beautiful, bold, intelligent, and somewhat rebellious. She openly admits that she used Qin Ming’s presence to create a defensive advantage, then offers increasingly valuable compensation. Her admiration grows dramatically after seeing him fight, and she views him as superior to every celebrated beauty or “banished immortal” in the world.
• Sunset Glow Sect: The sect’s elders are overconfident and misjudge Qin Ming because of his youth. Their greed for the Golden Crow and medicinal resources leads them to abandon caution, resulting in their total destruction.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus reality: Qin Ming’s youthful face causes everyone to underestimate him, while his actual power is comparable to or greater than legendary experts.
• Greed and misjudgment: The Sunset Glow Sect’s desire for the Golden Crow’s blood and the promise of Soul Refinement Pills blinds them to danger.
• Power and deterrence: Qin Ming’s calm manner initially prevents conflict, but once his strength is revealed, his enemies realize too late that they have provoked someone beyond their understanding.
• Caution, karma, and self-interest: Qin Ming avoids becoming entangled in unknown conflicts, but he also recognizes the need to eliminate threats completely once they attack him.
• Beauty and admiration: The Black-Clad Woman’s physical beauty contrasts with Qin Ming’s overwhelming martial presence; by the end, she considers him the true embodiment of a peerless, almost immortal beauty in spirit and bearing.

Important Character Interactions

• Qin Ming politely but firmly rejects the elder’s request for protection, questioning whether the pair deliberately brought danger to him.
• The Black-Clad Woman apologizes for using him and offers an aged herb, later escalating her offer to Divine Substance.
• The Sunset Glow Sect initially speaks to Qin Ming as though he is an inexperienced youth, then mocks him when he proposes a peaceful solution.
• Qin Ming gives them one final chance to withdraw before attacking, emphasizing that his violence is retaliatory rather than impulsive.
• During the battle, the elder and woman attempt to support Qin Ming, but his speed and strength are so great that they can barely participate.
• After witnessing the massacre, both companions recognize that Qin Ming is not protected by a hidden expert—he is himself the terrifying expert they feared.