Chapter Summaries

Qin Jishi used the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal to overwhelm Myriad Poisons King, shattering his Golden Skull Head and defensive barrier. Just as the seal was about to crush Myriad Poisons King, a figure appeared and struck it with a fist.

• Qin Jishi's Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal clashed with and destroyed Myriad Poisons King's Golden Skull Head, causing Myriad Poisons King to suffer a backlash.
• Cui Ran caught the injured Myriad Poisons King as the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal continued pressing down on them.
• Myriad Poisons King raised a defensive barrier and struggled to withstand the seal, while Cui Ran said she was willing to die with him.
• The Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal shattered Myriad Poisons King's barrier and drove him into the ground.
• A figure appeared and punched the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal just as it was about to crush Myriad Poisons King.

Qin Shutu arrived and stopped Qin Jishi from killing the Myriad Poisons King, revealing that he was a Heaven Opening Level Two expert. Qin Jishi calmly faced the threat and vowed to kill Qin Shutu, even if higher-realm forces intervened.

• Qin Shutu struck the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal, forcing it back into Qin Jishi and nearly causing Qin Jishi to cough up blood.
• Qin Tian arrived behind Qin Shutu and urged his grandfather to kill Qin Jishi, while the Myriad Poisons King confirmed that Qin Jishi was unmatched below Heaven Opening Level One.
• Qin Shutu resolved to kill Qin Jishi and considered joining forces with Liang Yanzhong to ensure his death.
• The enemy forces regained hope upon learning Qin Shutu was the Qin Family's Great Elder, while Qin Jishi's allies worried that he would face both Qin Shutu and Liang Yanzhong.
• Liu Wuxie warned Qin Jishi that Qin Shutu was stronger than the Myriad Poisons King, and Qin Jishi vowed to kill Qin Shutu and reclaim what he had lost.

Qin Jishi baited Qin Shutu into attacking, but Qin Shutu and Liang Yanzhong struck together before he could prove his identity. A mysterious swordsman intervened, blocking both attacks and leaving the crowd waiting to see who had arrived.

• Qin Shutu accused Qin Jishi of stalling to recover his mystical energy, and the crowd began to doubt him.
• Qin Jishi mocked Qin Shutu for being afraid, but Qin Shutu ordered Liang Yanzhong to attack alongside him.
• Qin Shutu and Liang Yanzhong charged Qin Jishi from opposite sides, intending to kill him with their combined strength.
• A strand of Sword Qi struck Qin Shutu's fist and forced him to retreat.
• A mysterious figure appeared before Qin Jishi and met Liang Yanzhong's punch with a raised hand, sending energy ripples and dust across the battlefield.

Xuanyuan Changkong and Xuanyuan Tianji arrived during the confrontation and Xuanyuan Changkong revealed that Qin Jishi had a connection to the Xuanyuan Family. He asked Qin Shutu and Liang Yulong to end the matter, but Qin Shutu refused to let Qin Jishi go.

• Xuanyuan Tianji appeared opposite Liang Yanzhong after forcing Qin Shutu back, and Xuanyuan Changkong soon arrived.
• Xuanyuan Changkong greeted Liang Yanzhong and Liu Wuxie before recognizing Qin Jishi and saying he had come for him.
• Xuanyuan Changkong asked Qin Shutu and Liang Yulong to let the dispute with Qin Jishi end there.
• Qin Shutu refused Xuanyuan Changkong's request, saying he could agree to anything except ending this matter.

Xuanyuan Changkong backed Qin Jishi against Qin Shutu, who refused to yield and planned to use a dangerous secret of the Qin Family. Before they could fight, a thousand regional leaders arrived and saluted Qin Jishi as the Young Pavilion Master of the World-Saving Pavilion.

• Xuanyuan Changkong declared that he would protect Qin Jishi and challenged Qin Shutu after Qin Shutu refused to back down.
• Qin Shutu rejected Qin Tian's suggestion to summon Lord Youming and revealed that he was willing to pay any price to secure the Black and White Domain for Qin Tian.
• Xuanyuan Changkong instructed Xuanyuan Tianji to handle Liang Yanzhong without killing him, then prepared to attack Qin Shutu.
• A large force of old patriarchs and former sect masters arrived, surprising their own followers.
• The newcomers gathered before Qin Jishi and respectfully called him the Young Pavilion Master, leaving Qin Tian and the opposing forces stunned.

Qin Jishi gave the allied sects and lineages one chance to prove their loyalty by turning against those who had opposed him. After they reduced the enemy forces and gathered at the mountaintop, Qin Jishi confronted Xuanyuan Changkong and claimed Qin Shutu for himself.

• Qin Jishi warned the assembled leaders that their ties to his enemies would not protect them, then offered them one chance to satisfy him.
• A thousand leaders turned against their own factions; the Sun Family Old Patriarch killed Sun Mo to protect the Lineage.
• Leaders ordered their disciples to the mountaintop, reducing the enemy force from a million to fewer than two hundred thousand.
• Liu Wuxie, Xue Jingang, and Nangong Wendao signaled the Black and White Academy, Hundred Beasts Sect, and Myriad Treasures Tower disciples to stand down as the others gathered.
• Qin Jishi told the submitted leaders to wait until the battle ended, then asked Xuanyuan Changkong to leave Qin Shutu to him and summoned the Black Suspended Coffin.

Qin Jishi rejected Xuanyuan Changkong’s offer to fight Qin Shutu and chose to settle his grievances with the Qin Family’s Great Elder himself. As they faced off in the air, Qin Jishi accused Qin Shutu of sacrificing innocents and framing him, provoking Qin Shutu’s fury.

• Qin Tian and the remaining factions grew wary as Qin Jishi’s actions shifted the battle’s balance in his favor.
• Qin Shutu welcomed Qin Jishi’s challenge, believing he could kill him before his strength grew further.
• Xuanyuan Changkong stepped in to protect Qin Jishi, but Qin Jishi insisted on confronting Qin Shutu himself.
• Qin Jishi and Qin Shutu rose into the air and faced each other as the surrounding fighters watched in tense silence.
• Qin Jishi condemned Qin Shutu for sacrificing innocent lives and framing him, and Qin Shutu flew into a rage.

Qin Jishi used his overwhelming speed to draw Qin Shutu away from the crowd, then survived the elder’s powerful flame attack with the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin. Qin Shutu recognized Qin Jishi’s strength and renewed his determination to kill him.

• Qin Shutu attacked Qin Jishi with a flaming halberd, but Qin Jishi evaded the strike and taunted him.
• Qin Jishi outran Qin Shutu across the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, keeping his distance to lead the battle away from the crowd.
• Qin Shutu caught up when Qin Jishi stopped and blasted him with a pillar of fire.
• Qin Jishi opened the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, which swallowed the flames and left him unharmed.
• Qin Shutu acknowledged Qin Jishi’s strength and declared that he could not allow him to live.

Qin Jishi fought Qin Shutu, who used a concealed burst of black flame to damage the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin. Qin Jishi then drew on his fire power to match Qin Shutu, and their expanding flames engulfed the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range.

• Qin Shutu fired a powerful black-flame arrow at Qin Jishi, who absorbed it with the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin.
• Qin Shutu’s hidden energy burst inside the coffin, damaging it and injuring Qin Jishi.
• Qin Shutu launched another black-flame arrow, but Qin Jishi’s aura surged and he tore the arrow apart with his bare hand.
• Qin Jishi unleashed his fire power and clashed with Qin Shutu’s Prairie Fire Covering the Sky technique.
• The black and scarlet flames expanded across the area, setting vegetation ablaze and melting rocks.

Qin Shutu escalated his fight with Qin Jishi after his strongest attack failed to seriously injure him. Qin Shutu summoned and fused more than a hundred Golden Skull Heads into a towering golden skeleton, preparing to kill Qin Jishi.

• Qin Shutu unleashed the Bury Heaven and Earth technique, but Qin Jishi survived the Golden Skull Head's attack without substantial injury.
• Qin Shutu realized how dangerous Qin Jishi could become and resolved to kill him before he grew stronger.
• Qin Shutu asked about Qin Jishi's past and the slovenly old man behind him, but Qin Jishi refused to answer.
• Qin Shutu used Bury Reincarnation to create a vast black vortex filled with Golden Skull Heads.
• Qin Shutu fused more than a hundred Golden Skull Heads into a hundred-zhang golden skeleton wielding a longsword.

Qin Shutu unleashed a golden skeleton’s devastating sword attack, while Qin Jishi revealed his resistance to its Death Qi and prepared his Illusory Thunder Domain. As the strike descended, Qin Jishi activated the domain, leaving the clash unresolved.

• The golden skeleton’s aura suppressed the cultivation of those nearby, and Xuanyuan Changkong warned Qin Jishi to retreat.
• Qin Jishi remained unaffected by the Death Qi and let his aura rise as he faced Qin Shutu.
• Qin Jishi condensed a black sphere from Dark Element and transformed, alarming Qin Shutu with the threat he sensed.
• Qin Shutu sent the golden skeleton’s greatsword crashing toward Qin Jishi, tearing through space with its force.
• Qin Jishi activated Illusory Thunder Domain as the golden greatsword descended.

Qin Jishi used the Illusory Thunder Domain to suppress Qin Shutu and his golden skeleton, then struck Qin Shutu with the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal. Qin Shutu was badly injured and sent flying, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Qin Jishi unleashed the Illusory Thunder Domain, nullifying Qin Shutu's death energy and suppressing his cultivation to Heaven Opening Level One Peak.
• Qin Jishi summoned a thundercloud and struck Qin Shutu's golden skeleton with heavenly lightning, which the skeleton managed to block.
• Qin Jishi cast the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal as Qin Shutu prepared to counter with his flaming halberd.
• Qin Jishi's seal overwhelmed Qin Shutu's flaming python, broke his breastbone, and sent him flying after he spat out blood.

Qin Jishi overwhelmed Qin Shutu with the Illusory Thunder Domain, leaving the Qin Family elder badly injured and unable to turn the fight around. Qin Shutu called on Lord Youming for help, and a powerful aura pierced the domain and struck Qin Jishi.

• Qin Jishi shattered Qin Shutu's strongest attack and continued attacking him with heavenly lightning, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Qin Shutu tried to counter with black flames, but Qin Jishi's lightning intercepted the attack and kept him on the defensive.
• Qin Tian realized Qin Shutu had used Burial Samsara, while the Myriad Poisons King grew worried that Qin Jishi might survive.
• Qin Jishi's Illusory Thunder Domain relentlessly drove Qin Shutu back as his injuries worsened and his strength failed to exhaust Qin Jishi.
• Qin Shutu called out to Lord Youming for help, and a powerful oppressive aura pierced the Illusory Thunder Domain and struck Qin Jishi.

Youming's pressure pinned Qin Jishi down and let Qin Shutu badly injure him, but Qingfeng and Mingyue intervened before Qin Shutu could finish him. Qin Jishi used the opening to force Qin Shutu to choose between killing him and facing deadly heavenly lightning, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Youming's pressure crushed the surrounding space and forced Qin Jishi to kneel, while Qin Tian and the Myriad Poisons King celebrated his apparent defeat.
• Qin Shutu struck Qin Jishi in the chest and broke his ribs, then raised his flaming halberd to kill him.
• Qin Jishi summoned the Pagoda Heaven Flipping Seal to block the halberd, but the backlash severely injured him.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue sent their pressure against Youming's, weakening its hold on Qin Jishi as Qin Shutu prepared another attack.
• Qin Jishi summoned heavenly lightning against Qin Shutu, who abandoned his attack and turned to meet the lightning head-on.

Qin Jishi recovered enough to unleash his Karma Fire Domain and trap Qin Shutu, who had tried to flee. Qin Shutu threatened that Qin Xiao would die if Qin Jishi killed him, and Qin Jishi hesitated.

• Qin Shutu struck Qin Jishi with his flaming halberd, leaving Qin Jishi barely conscious as Qingfeng warned that Netherworld had attacked.
• Qin Shutu prepared to kill Qin Jishi, believing his opponent could no longer fight.
• Qin Jishi suddenly erupted with powerful energy and summoned a scarlet flame, frightening Qin Shutu into fleeing.
• Qin Jishi activated the Karma Fire Domain, setting Qin Shutu ablaze and stopping his escape.
• Qin Jishi confronted Qin Shutu over framing him, but Qin Shutu threatened Qin Xiao, making Qin Jishi hesitate.

Qin Jishi learned that Qin Shutu had harmed Qin Xiao, confirming that his godfather had never abandoned him. Enraged, he beat Qin Shutu nearly to death, then struggled to remain standing despite his own severe injuries and exhaustion.

• Qin Shutu pleaded for his life and offered to reunite Qin Jishi with Qin Xiao.
• Qin Jishi realized Qin Shutu had harmed Qin Xiao and became furious at the betrayal.
• Qin Jishi charged Qin Shutu and struck him repeatedly, breaking his bones and rupturing his organs.
• People outside the Illusory Thunder Domain and Karma Fire Domain heard the screams and assumed Qin Jishi was being slaughtered.
• Qin Jishi stopped, bloodied and nearly spent, but forced himself to stay upright because Qin Shutu was still alive.

Qin Shutu threatened Qin Jishi and then unleashed a devastating self-destruction, forcing Qin Jishi into the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin. As the explosion left everyone fearing Qin Jishi had died, Qin Tian sensed Qin Shutu's death and said that his grandfather was gone.

• Qin Shutu regretted not killing Qin Jishi sooner and threatened to have Qin Xiao buried with him unless Qin Jishi stopped.
• Qin Jishi rejected the threat, confident that Qingfeng and Mingyue would protect Qin Xiao.
• Qin Shutu's aura surged, and Qin Jishi summoned the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin to shield himself.
• Qin Shutu's self-destruction unleashed a huge explosion, dissipated the Illusory Thunder Domain and Karma Fire Domain, and sent the coffin crashing into a distant mountain.
• Xuanyuan Changkong, Liu Wuxie, Xue Jingang, and others rushed toward the mountain, while Qin Tian staggered and told the Myriad Poisons King and Cui Ran that his grandfather was dead.

After Qin Shutu blew himself up, Qin Jishi survived with grave injuries and confirmed his enemy’s death. His victory shattered the hostile forces’ morale, and they fled as Cui Ran tried to stop them.

• Xuanyuan Changkong found Qin Jishi alive and treated him with Spring Return Pills.
• Qin Jishi regained consciousness, said Qin Shutu had self-destructed, and mourned the loss of innocent lives.
• Xue Jingang and the allied forces celebrated Qin Jishi’s survival, while his enemies struggled to believe Qin Shutu was dead.
• The hostile forces fled, and Cui Ran killed dozens with a palm strike before threatening the rest.

Qin Jishi’s forces turned the battle around, and Liu Wuxie and Xue Jingang ordered the fleeing enemies slaughtered. The Myriad Poisons King tried to escape with Qin Tian, but after sacrificing Cui Ran to block Xuanyuan Changkong’s Sword Qi, they were rescued by Lord Youming as three terrifying auras arrived.

• Qin Jishi signaled Liu Wuxie and Xue Jingang to show no mercy, and their forces hunted down the fleeing enemy disciples.
• The Myriad Poisons King urged Qin Tian to retreat, but Xuanyuan Changkong blocked their way and demanded they wait for Qin Jishi.
• The Myriad Poisons King attacked Xuanyuan Changkong and used Cui Ran as a shield against the returning Sword Qi, fatally wounding her.
• Xuanyuan Changkong sent another Sword Qi after the fleeing Myriad Poisons King and Qin Tian, and Qin Tian cried out to Lord Youming for help.
• A figure swept up the Myriad Poisons King and Qin Tian and vanished into a spatial rift as three immense pressures caused the surrounding space to collapse.

Qin Jishi’s allies finished defeating the enemy forces after he killed a third-level Heaven-Opening expert, while the Liang Family regretted having rejected him. After recovering enough to stand, Qin Jishi went to face Liang Yanzhong, with Liang Yulong and Liang Simeng protecting him.

• Xuanyuan Changkong narrowly escaped the spatial storm caused by Qin Jishi’s battle, while Liang Yulong and Liang Simeng watched in shock and regretted their past choices.
• Xue Jingang asked Liu Wuxie about the powerful figure behind the Qin Family, and Liu Wuxie reflected on how little they knew of the Upper Realm.
• The slaughter continued until the enemy disciples were routed, and Qin Jishi secretly absorbed the blood mist as his injuries began to heal.
• The fighting ended, and the elders and academy masters organized treatment for the wounded disciples.
• Qin Jishi rose despite his pain, reassured his companions, and asked Xuanyuan Changkong to take him to Liang Yanzhong.
• Liang Yulong and Liang Simeng moved in front of Liang Yanzhong as Qin Jishi approached.