Chapter Summaries

Qin Jishi fought off Qin Tian’s ambush and claimed the Golden Box, while Qin Tian revealed Qin Jishi’s identity to Yun Qing. The chapter ended as Qin Jishi opened the box in front of the gathered martial cultivators.

• Qin Tian attacked Qin Jishi as he reached for the Golden Box, but Qin Jishi used the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal to break Qin Tian’s arm and severely wound him.
• Qin Jishi and Qin Tian both collapsed from their injuries, then Qin Tian recovered enough to demand the Golden Box and threaten Qin Jishi.
• Yun Qing arrived to defend Qin Jishi, and Qin Tian taunted him by revealing that Qin Jishi was his old brother from the past.
• Yun Qing realized Qin Jishi had concealed his identity to protect him, while Qin Jishi avoided acknowledging their connection.
• Qin Jishi opened the Golden Box as everyone gathered to see what it contained.

The Golden Box released Demonic Qi and revealed a mind-controlling demonic sword, which Qin Jishi identified as a likely top-tier divine-grade treasure. After using God-Slaying Golden Light to free the others from its influence, Qin Jishi and Qin Tian both reached for the sword.

• The Golden Box opened, releasing darkness and Demonic Qi that disturbed the cultivators’ emotions and suppressed their cultivation.
• Baihe identified the power as Demonic Qi, and Qin Jishi wondered whether the Dark Tomb Mound was a ruin from beyond the upper realm.
• The darkness faded to reveal an ink-black sword that drew the cultivators toward it, while Qin Jishi and Qin Tian remained unaffected.
• Baihe told Qin Jishi to use God-Slaying Golden Light, and he freed the others from the sword’s influence.
• Qin Jishi moved to seize the demonic sword, and Qin Tian moved to claim it as well.

Qin Jishi confronted Qin Tian over the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword, but Qin Tian unleashed a devastating power from a jade token. The blast flattened a mountain and left Qin Jishi’s fate uncertain.

• Qin Tian and Qin Jishi argued over the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword, and Qin Tian refused to regret betraying Qin Jishi in the past.
• Qin Jishi summoned the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin and used its suction force to drag Qin Tian toward it.
• Qin Tian crushed a jade token and unleashed a force powerful enough to collapse space, prompting Baihe to warn Qin Jishi to run.
• Suspended Prison retreated into Qin Jishi as the energy struck him and slammed him into a mountain.
• The blast flattened the mountain, wounded the survivors, and left Yun Qing, Feng Que'er, and Hong'er wondering whether Qin Jishi was alive.

Qin Tian used the power of his Willpower Jade Token to kill Qin Jishi and claimed the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword. After absorbing the sword’s black mist, Qin Tian showed signs of demonic transformation and began attacking the helpless survivors.

• Qin Tian’s attack left Yun Qing, Feng Que'er, Hong'er, Kong Xiuxing, and the others badly injured, while they believed Qin Jishi had died.
• Kong Xiuxing resolved that Gold Mixing Palace should remain loyal to the Qin Family, and Meng Zhen celebrated Qin Jishi’s apparent death.
• Qin Tian reached for the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword, whose blade cut his finger and absorbed his blood essence before acknowledging him as its master.
• Qin Tian absorbed the sword’s black mist, displayed black eyes and a vicious aura, and challenged the injured survivors to spar with him.
• Qin Tian appeared before Liu Fu of Wind Rain Sect and pierced his chest with the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword.

Qin Tian slaughtered Liu Fu, Yang Yao, and the gathered disciples, feeding their blood essence to the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword and growing stronger. He then turned on Yun Qing and Feng Que'er, who burned their blood essence and attacked him as the chapter ended.

• Qin Tian killed Liu Fu and let the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword absorb his blood essence.
• Qin Tian slaughtered Yang Yao and the Pear Blossom Palace disciples after killing the Wind Rain Sect disciples.
• Qin Tian tricked the kneeling families into pledging loyalty, then killed them to feed the demonic sword.
• Qin Tian sensed his power surging and identified Yun Qing and Feng Que'er as his next targets.
• Feng Que'er burned her blood essence and unleashed Prairie Fire, while Yun Qing burned his blood essence and used Myriad Swords Paying Homage.
• Qin Tian dismissed their attacks and raised the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword to strike them.

Qin Tian overwhelmed Yun Qing and Feng Que'er and prepared to kill them and the other martial artists, but Hong'er awakened the Phoenix Will to avenge Brother Qin. As Qin Tian attacked her, the Phoenix Will unleashed a devastating force, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Tian's sword strike defeated Yun Qing and Feng Que'er despite their combined attack, leaving both gravely wounded.
• Qin Tian moved to kill Yun Qing and Feng Que'er, while the other martial artists realized he intended to use them to nourish the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword.
• Hong'er recovered, confronted Qin Tian for killing Brother Qin, and drew the Dark Shadow Demonic Sword's interest.
• Hong'er summoned the Phoenix Will, revealing a fiery Divine Beast Phoenix as the power strained her body and caused blood to flow from her seven apertures.
• Qin Tian rushed to strike Hong'er, but the phoenix spread its wings and a near-destructive force erupted from her.

Hong'er unleashed the phoenix's will against Qin Tian, overpowering him at the cost of her own life as the Dark Tomb Mound collapsed. The secret realm expelled the survivors, while Hong'er and Qin Tian were left unconscious and gravely wounded.

• Hong'er’s phoenix will clashed with Qin Tian’s Dark Shadow Demonic Sword as she fought on despite her injuries and remembered Qin Jishi.
• Hong'er spat blood and intensified her attack, forcing Qin Tian to burn his blood essence to resist the ripples of will.
• Hong'er’s blood mist spread the will across Qin Tian, sending him crashing to the ground as the secret realm began to collapse.
• Hong'er saw Qin Jishi, smiled, and fell unconscious; the ripples of will dispersed, and Feng Que'er called out to her.
• A black vortex appeared and expelled everyone from the secret realm.

The secret realm ended, and the returning disciples emerged battered and near death, leaving the assembled powers confused about what had happened inside. Qin Zhan expected Qin Tian to be the sole survivor, but Qin Tian and the others appeared at the end, and the story left their leaders confronting them with grave concern.

• Qin Zhan warned Feng Xueyi and Yun Jian about the Qin Family’s power and the Luo Family’s destruction, and both acknowledged they lacked the strength to oppose him.
• Kong Xiuxing and Meng Zhen emerged gravely injured, followed by around a thousand disciples who collapsed from their injuries and wept with relief at seeing their elders.
• Qin Zhan grew suspicious when so many people survived, while Feng Xueyi and Yun Jian worried that Yun Qing, Feng Que'er, and Hong'er had not yet appeared.
• The vortex released around a dozen more people before vanishing, and the great hall, Endless Black Abyss, and altar settled back into place.
• Qin Tian and the others appeared, and Qin Zhan, Feng Xueyi, and Yun Jian hurried to their disciples with grim expressions.

Qin Zhan and Feng Xueyi stabilized the critically injured Qin Tian and Hong'er as the survivors returned from Dark Tomb Mound. Yun Qing and Feng Que'er accused the Qin Family of sacrificing the sects to awaken a demonic sword, leaving Qin Tian facing furious demands for an explanation.

• Qin Zhan treated Qin Tian, while Feng Xueyi used her flame profound energy to stabilize Hong'er after she had apparently used Phoenix Will.
• After the survivors recovered enough to speak, Yun Qing recognized Qin Tian and accused him of killing Qin Jishi and trying to slaughter them all.
• Feng Xueyi calmed Yun Qing, who then told the gathered forces that the Qin Family had used the secret-realm quotas to gather blood essence and awaken a demonic sword.
• Feng Que'er confirmed Yun Qing's account and said Qin Tian had killed Liu Fu and Yang Yao, while Hong'er had fought desperately to help them escape.
• The survivors stayed silent under pressure from the Qin Family, but the Wind Rain Sect Master and Pear Blossom Palace Master demanded that Qin Tian explain the deaths of their disciples.

Qin Tian defended the Qin Family’s actions in the Dark Tomb Mound Secret Realm and threatened the factions that challenged him. After most forces submitted, Yun Jian asked whether Qin Tian had harmed his son Yun Qing, leaving the Cloud Sword Gate’s response unresolved.

• The Wind Rain Sect Master and Pear Blossom Palace Master demanded an explanation for their disciples’ deaths, and Qin Tian blamed a mind-affecting demonic sword in the secret realm.
• Qin Tian challenged the two leaders to attack him and warned that the Qin Family would destroy their sects if they did.
• Qin Zhan affirmed that the Qin Family would support Qin Tian, while Feng Xueyi questioned him about Hong’er’s injuries.
• Qin Tian dared the gathered factions to oppose the Qin Family, and Meng Jiujie pledged the Sky Fire Sect’s loyalty while Kong Zhiyong offered cautious assurances.
• Qin Tian asked Yun Jian for his position, and Yun Jian asked whether Qin Tian had harmed Yun Qing.

Qin Tian and Yun Jian clashed over Yun Qing’s injuries, while Qin Zhan tried to calm the Cloud Sword Gate and Phoenix Cry Tower with an apology and compensation. When Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi remained silent, Qin Zhan threatened them with lethal force, and they turned to face him as Meng Jiujie stepped forward.

• Qin Tian accused Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi of testing the Qin Family, while Yun Jian demanded an explanation for Yun Qing’s injuries.
• Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi maintained their resentment but avoided openly declaring war against the Qin Family.
• Qin Zhan argued that the demonic sword had caused the secret-realm disaster and offered to cover healing resources for the injured disciples.
• When Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi did not respond, Qin Zhan released his Peak Level Nine pressure and gave them three breaths to choose.
• After Qin Zhan threatened to kill those who provoked the Qin Family, Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi exchanged a glance and faced him as Meng Jiujie stepped forward.

Meng Jiujie provoked Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi while defending the Qin Family, and Feng Xueyi unleashed Phoenix Cry Tower’s Forbidden Technique against him. As Meng Jiujie begged Qin Zhan for help, Qin Zhan began using the Myriad Ghosts Moving Heaven Scripture to intervene.

• Meng Jiujie accused Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi of resenting the Qin Family and declared that Sky Fire Sect would defend it.
• Feng Xueyi rebuked Meng Jiujie and invoked the Phoenix Divine Eye, reaching the strength of the Half-step Heaven Splitting Realm.
• Feng Xueyi trapped Meng Jiujie in a ring of phoenix flames, overwhelming his resistance and leaving him terrified.
• Meng Jiujie begged Qin Zhan to save him, warning that Feng Xueyi was targeting the Qin Family.
• Qin Zhan spread black mist and began casting Bury Heaven and Earth from the Myriad Ghosts Moving Heaven Scripture.

Feng Xueyi and Qin Zhan fought to a standstill, revealing her formidable strength, while Yun Jian badly wounded Meng Jiujie with a sudden sword strike. Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi then denied any intent to oppose the Qin Family and blamed Meng Jiujie for provoking the conflict.

• Feng Xueyi's Phoenix Divine Eye and Qin Zhan's Golden Skull Head collided, creating a massive explosion that left both techniques dissipated and Meng Jiujie collapsing in relief.
• The crowd realized Feng Xueyi had reached Peak Level Nine and was evenly matched with Qin Zhan.
• Yun Jian attacked Meng Jiujie with Heaven Slaying Style, breaking his defensive barrier and leaving him severely wounded.
• Qin Zhan suspected Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi planned to challenge the Qin Family, while Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi claimed they had no intention of offending it.
• Meng Jiujie protested that Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi were trying to drive a wedge between the Sky Fire Sect and the Qin Family.

Qin Zhan ended the confrontation by accepting Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi’s submission, while they concealed their plans and left after securing healing resources. The other sects capitulated to the Qin Family, but the gathered powers departed wary of its strength.

• Meng Jiujie begged Qin Zhan to believe the Sky Fire Sect remained loyal to the Qin Family, but Qin Zhan silenced him.
• Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi accepted Qin Zhan’s decision to end the dispute and led their people away, with Feng Xueyi securing healing resources for Phoenix Cry Tower.
• As they departed, Yun Jian and Feng Xueyi looked toward Dark Tomb Mound and thought of Qin Shutu, vowing that his era would end and a new age would begin.
• Qin Zhan challenged the masters of Wind Rain Sect and Pear Blossom Palace, who withdrew their objections and praised Young Master Qin.
• Qin Tian pleaded for the matter to end, and Qin Zhan dismissed the two sect masters before taking Qin Tian away.
• The remaining powers watched Qin Zhan depart and grew wary of the Qin Family.

After the Dark Tomb Mound incident stirred rumors across the Sacred Ancestor Continent, Yun Jian gathered his brothers and Yun Qing to reveal that a mysterious elder had saved the Yun Family years ago. Yun Jian said the family now had to fulfill its promise to protect Qin Jishi.

• Rumors about the Dark Tomb Mound Secret Realm spread across the Sacred Ancestor Continent, and vendors sold competing records of what had happened.
• Yun He told Yun Jian that Qing'er and the others were out of danger, and Yun Jian summoned Yun Xing, Yun He, and Yun Qing to Cloud Sword Peak.
• Yun Jian recalled how a divine lightning bolt had once saved the Yun Family from its enemies and revealed that Elder Su had arranged their escape and helped him reach the Peak Attainment Realm.
• Yun Jian recounted promising the ragged elder that the Yun Family would protect someone in the future, and receiving a sword art manual from him.
• Yun Jian told his family that it was time to fulfill the promise and identified the person they had to protect as Qin Jishi.

Yun Jian revealed that Qin Ji was Qin Jishi and that the World-Saving Pavilion had rescued him, then urged the Cloud Sword Gate to honor its promise to protect him. He left Yun Xing and Yun He confronting the Qin Family’s growing threat and the World-Saving Pavilion’s immense backing.

• Yun Jian told Yun Qing, Yun Xing, and Yun He that Qin Jishi had survived, founded the World-Saving Pavilion, and appeared to them as Qin Ji, who had repaired Yun Qing’s meridians.
• Yun Qing struggled to accept the revelation, and Yun Jian said Qin Jishi might still be alive because the World-Saving Pavilion had sent no one to report his death.
• Yun Xing and Yun He warned that helping Qin Jishi could draw the weaker Cloud Sword Gate into a dangerous conflict with the Qin Family, while Yun Qing insisted they honor their promise.
• Yun Jian claimed Qin Jishi had backing at least as formidable as the Qin Family’s and privately explained the World-Saving Pavilion’s terrifying strength to Yun Xing and Yun He.
• Yun Jian argued that the Qin Family’s use of young people from major forces as nourishment for a demonic sword revealed ambitions beyond the Sacred Ancestor Continent.

Yun Jian persuaded Yun Xing and Yun He that the Qin Family’s ambitions would bring a calamity across the Black and White Domain, and the Cloud Sword Gate chose to trust Qin Jishi. At the Kuixing Chamber of Commerce, Feng Jiuchang and Feng Xueyi likewise prepared to stand with Qin Jishi as the Qin Family’s plans came to light.

• Yun Jian told Yun Xing and Yun He that the Qin Family’s conflict could engulf the Black and White Domain, and urged the Cloud Sword Gate to trust Qin Jishi.
• Yun Xing and Yun He agreed to follow Yun Jian’s judgment, while Yun Qing resolved to enter seclusion and grow stronger for Qin Jishi’s sake.
• Feng Xueyi told Feng Jiuchang that Hong’er had absorbed the Phoenix essence blood and was expected to undergo Nirvana Rebirth.
• Feng Xueyi and Feng Jiuchang concluded that Qin Jishi was likely safe in the Dark Tomb Mound and had obtained a fortuitous opportunity.
• Feng Xueyi and Feng Jiuchang acknowledged the Qin Family’s exposed ambitions and resolved to share honor and disgrace with Qin Jishi.

Youming dismissed Qin Shutu and Qin Tian’s failure to protect Qin Jishi, then planned to exploit Liang Yanzhong and prepare the Qin Family for a future war. As Qingfeng and Mingyue warned that Youming might soon move against the Black and White Domain, Liu Wuxie passed their call to prepare on to Xue Jingang and Nangong Wendao.

• Youming accepted Qin Tian’s explanation for Qin Jishi’s death and concluded that the mysterious figure behind Qin Jishi had likely left the domain.
• Youming told Qin Shutu to help Liang Yulong escape his predicament and bring Liang Yanzhong to him, while delaying an attack on the Azure Wave Continent until the Myriad Poisons King awakened.
• At the World-Saving Pavilion, Qingfeng and Mingyue predicted that Youming might support the Qin Family in a war within a year and told Liu Wuxie to notify Palace Master Liu.
• Liu Wuxie met Xue Jingang and Nangong Wendao at Black and White Academy and relayed Qingfeng’s message that they should prepare.
• Xue Jingang vowed that the Hundred Beasts Sect would lead the charge if the Qin Family attacked, and the three men faced the coming turmoil across the Black and White Domain.

After surviving Netherworld Will’s attack in the Dark Tomb Mound Secret Realm, Qin Jishi learned from Baihe that the force behind the Qin Family was an injured True God named Netherworld. Baihe outlined the upper realm’s cultivation stages but ended their exchange before answering Qin Jishi’s question about the Primordial Dao Ancestor, while the Chaos Bead stirred within him.

• Qin Jishi regained consciousness in darkness, and Baihe told him that the Chaos Bead had helped him survive Netherworld Will’s attack.
• Qin Jishi asked whether Netherworld Will came from the person behind the Qin Family, and Baihe confirmed that it did.
• Baihe identified Netherworld as a subordinate of King Yama of the Valley of Buried Gods and said he had once reached the Divine Origin Realm but could now only unleash Reincarnation Realm strength.
• Baihe explained that the upper realm’s cultivation stages included the Reincarnation, Immortal, and True God Realms, with the True God Realm divided into three stages.
• Qin Jishi asked whether the Primordial Dao Ancestor had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, but Baihe ended their conversation when her hundred breaths were up.
• The Chaos Bead stirred between Qin Jishi’s brows as he stared into the depths ahead.

Qin Jishi followed the Chaos Bead through a dark, oppressive region while recovering from his injuries and resisting the negative emotions stirred by the darkness. He discovered more than a hundred stalks of rare Dark Spirit Grass, but a mysterious breathing presence remained ahead.

• Qin Jishi told Baihe that the Chaos Bead was guiding him toward something, and Baihe warned him that he might soon need her help.
• Qin Jishi recovered for an hour using the Primordial Nine Dragon Art while Baihe sensed a Peak Attainment Realm mystical beast nearby.
• Qin Jishi resumed his advance, enduring the region's oppressive aura and calming his growing negative emotions with the God-Slaying Golden Light.
• Qin Jishi heard breathing in the darkness, then spotted a gray glow and found more than a hundred stalks of Dark Spirit Grass.
• Qin Jishi recognized the grass's rarity and value and smiled at the thought of selling it.