Chapter Summaries

The Carefree Hall Master gained the support of wavering factions and attacked the defeated Hall Master of Crimson Blood. Just as the Four Great Higher Planes prepared to intervene, a mysterious black-robed man appeared and saved Hall Master of Crimson Blood.

• The Carefree Hall Master promised to share the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear, prompting several factions to abandon Hall Master of Crimson Blood and support him.
• The Carefree Hall Master attacked Hall Master of Crimson Blood, who gave up resisting and apologized to his Four Divine Envoys.
• The Azure Realm Venerate struggled over whether to aid Dugu Qiubai, while the Four Great Higher Planes prepared to act against the Carefree Hall Master.
• A black-robed man appeared after the thunder dispersed, and Hall Master of Crimson Blood was revealed to be unharmed.
• The assembled experts detected that the black-robed man was only a first-level Divine Monarch, and the Carefree Hall Master demanded to know who he was.

A Black Robed Man arrived at the confrontation and revealed himself as Qin Jishi, whom everyone had believed dead. After effortlessly evading the Prison Suppressing Realm Venerate’s attack, he reunited with the Hall Master of Crimson Blood and Dugu Qiubai, leaving the gathered experts stunned.

• The Black Robed Man helped the trembling Hall Master of Crimson Blood to his feet, and the Hall Master struggled to recognize him as Jishi.
• The Black Robed Man ignored the Carefree Hall Master and walked toward Dugu Qiubai with the Hall Master of Crimson Blood.
• The Prison Suppressing Realm Venerate attacked the Black Robed Man, but his claw passed through an afterimage as the man vanished without being sensed.
• The Black Robed Man reached Dugu Qiubai, who recognized him as Jishi.
• The Black Robed Man removed his hood, and the gathered experts froze at the sight of his face.

Qin Jishi reappeared alive after the destruction of the Heavenly Revelation Domain, but he had no knowledge of Su Qi’s whereabouts. Azure Realm Venerate urged him to break open the passage in hopes of finding her, while the Carefree Hall Master revealed his intent to seize the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear.

• Qin Jishi revealed his face, shocking everyone who had believed he died with the Heavenly Revelation Domain.
• Qin Jishi greeted Dugu Qiubai, who wept with relief, while Azure Realm Venerate and Ice Phoenix Realm Venerate welcomed him and asked about Su Qi.
• Qin Jishi explained that he had fallen unconscious during the battle with King Yama and awoke outside the Upper Realm, so he did not know what had happened to Su Qi.
• Qin Jishi promised Azure Realm Venerate that they would find Su Qi, and Azure Realm Venerate urged him to break open the passage.
• The Carefree Hall Master reacted with killing intent and declared that he was determined to obtain the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear.

Qin Jishi refused to let the Carefree Hall Master and the gathered forces open the passage, prompting them to suspect he was hiding the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear. The Carefree Hall Master threatened him with the combined power of the Primordial Heaven and Earth, while Qin Jishi remained defiant.

• Qin Jishi asked the Azure Realm Venerate to let him handle the matter, and Dugu Qiubai took the Azure Realm Venerate aside and persuaded him to wait.
• Qin Jishi told the Carefree Hall Master that no one could open the passage.
• The Carefree Hall Master accused Qin Jishi of knowing where the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear was, and the crowd turned hostile, believing Qin Jishi wanted it for himself.
• The Prison Suppressing Realm Venerate threatened Qin Jishi, while Pang Xie urged his father to attack and avenge his humiliation.
• The Carefree Hall Master ordered the Prison Suppressing Realm Venerate to step back and threatened Qin Jishi with the united forces of the Primordial Heaven and Earth; Qin Jishi remained contemptuous.

Qin Jishi stood against the major powers to protect the passage, then survived their joint attack without injury and seized Pang Xie by the throat. The Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable demanded that he release his son.

• Qin Jishi challenged the major powers to attack him and declared that no one could open the passage while he stood there.
• The Carefree Hall Master ordered the Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable and the five Great Elders to capture Qin Jishi.
• The six attackers struck Qin Jishi with their combined power as he stood still, and the crowd assumed he had been killed.
• Pang Xie rushed into the dust to attack Qin Jishi, but Qin Jishi emerged protected by a Golden Light Barrier and grabbed Pang Xie by the neck.
• The Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable demanded that Qin Jishi release Pang Xie or face his wrath.

Qin Jishi tortured Pang Xie and demanded that Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable kneel in exchange for his son's life. The Carefree Hall Master intervened and launched an attack, and Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable realized too late that Pang Xie was in immediate danger.

• Qin Jishi crushed Pang Xie's left arm and demanded that Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable kneel.
• Qin Jishi ground Pang Xie's broken arm underfoot and threatened him by pressing a foot against his head.
• Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable agreed to kneel, but the Carefree Hall Master restrained him and urged him not to give in.
• The Carefree Hall Master threatened Qin Jishi and gathered black energy and lightning in his palm.
• Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable tried to stop the Carefree Hall Master, then saw Qin Jishi smile and cried out in alarm.

Qin Jishi redirected the Carefree Hall Master's attack toward Pang Xie, killing him and provoking the Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable to seek revenge. Qin Jishi then drained the Venerable's energy and blood until he turned to ashes, leaving the onlookers and the Carefree Hall Master stunned.

• Qin Jishi kicked Pang Xie into the Carefree Hall Master's black energy, reducing him to blood mist.
• Qin Jishi blamed the Carefree Hall Master for Pang Xie's death and urged the Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable to avenge his son.
• The Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable ignored Qin Jishi's warning, burned his blood essence, and attacked him.
• Qin Jishi pierced the Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable's brow with a golden needle, then drained his profound energy and blood until he turned to ashes.
• The onlookers recoiled in fear, and the Carefree Hall Master's face darkened.

Qin Jishi killed Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable and offered the other factions a chance to withdraw rather than fight over the passage and the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear. After Gray Silence Realm Venerate led his people away, more factions abandoned Carefree Hall Master, leaving him isolated and furious at Qin Jishi.

• Qin Jishi refined Prison Suppressing Realm Venerable alive, and the onlookers recoiled in fear of his power.
• Carefree Hall Master ordered the factions to attack Qin Jishi and resolved to fight on, knowing he could not retreat from Mr. Wonderful Brush's mission.
• Qin Jishi told the gathered factions that the passage must not be opened and promised to spare anyone who withdrew.
• Xie Huang prompted Gray Silence Realm Venerate to lead Gray Silence Realm away from the confrontation, and their reasoning about the dangers of claiming the Myriad Worlds World Ending Spear persuaded other factions to leave.
• Carefree Hall Master watched his supporters abandon him, and Qin Jishi asked whether he would leave voluntarily or be made to go.

Qin Jishi faced the Carefree Hall Master’s attack and was swallowed by spatial turbulence, leaving everyone stunned and the Carefree Hall Master convinced he had won. Then Qin Jishi appeared without warning in front of him.

• The Carefree Hall Master crushed a jade token, raised his cultivation to level eight of the Divine King Realm, and challenged Qin Jishi.
• The Carefree Hall Master unleashed a ten-mile lightning domain, but Qin Jishi walked into it behind a golden defensive barrier.
• The lightning domain expanded into a hundred-mile storm and formed a lightning dragon, which charged at Qin Jishi.
• The lightning dragon struck Qin Jishi and collapsed the void, swallowing him in spatial turbulence as Dugu Qiubai and the others cried out.
• The Carefree Hall Master celebrated Qin Jishi’s apparent death, then Qin Jishi appeared silently before him.

Qin Jishi brutally defeated the Carefree Hall Master and killed more than a thousand attackers, leaving the gathered factions terrified. From the distant void, the Black Robed Man and the Light Gauze Woman watched and revealed that the passage was a pretext to draw out old enemies.

• Qin Jishi tore off both of the Carefree Hall Master's arms and demanded to know who had sent him and what lay behind the passage.
• The Carefree Hall Master denied knowing anything, but Qin Jishi accused him of acting under Mr. Wonderful Brush's orders and broke his leg.
• The Carefree Hall Master ordered his loyalists to attack, while Dugu Qiubai and the Realm Venerates moved to help Qin Jishi.
• Qin Jishi stopped the allies and used golden needles to drain the profound energy and blood from more than a thousand attackers, reducing them to ashes.
• The Black Robed Man and the Light Gauze Woman watched from the distant void and discussed using the passage as a pretext to reveal which old figures were still alive.

Qin Jishi killed Carefree Hall Master after searching his soul, learning only that Mr. Wonderful Brush had ordered him to open the passage. Just as the others prepared to leave, an unseen Black Robed Man ambushed Qin Jishi twice, and news of his survival led him to suspect someone was manipulating events.

• Qin Jishi frightened the gathered forces into retreating, then seized Carefree Hall Master and searched his soul.
• Qin Jishi learned Carefree Hall Master had acted under Mr. Wonderful Brush's orders, but gained no information about what lay beyond the passage.
• Qin Jishi let the others leave, but an unseen attacker struck him through a spatial fissure and knocked him into a crater.
• Dugu Qiubai and the others rushed to Qin Jishi's aid, and Qin Jishi identified the attacker as powerful and possibly skilled in spatial abilities.
• The Hall Master of Black Dragon and the Yin Yang Hall Master arrived and warned Qin Jishi as the Black Robed Man attacked him again, leaving deep claw wounds.
• The Hall Master of Black Dragon explained that they had received news Qin Jishi was alive, and Qin Jishi suspected someone was secretly manipulating events as everyone stared in horror at the sky above him.

Qin Jishi trapped a Black Robed Man in his Illusory Divine Thunder Domain, but an unknown attacker shattered it and revealed himself as King Yama. Azure Realm Venerate attacked King Yama in a rage over Su Qi’s disappearance, and Qin Jishi intervened before preparing to face him.

• Qin Jishi struck upward to repel an unseen attack, then trapped the Black Robed Man inside his Illusory Divine Thunder Domain.
• King Yama emerged from the shattered space after repeated attacks broke Qin Jishi’s domain.
• Dugu Qiubai identified King Yama, while Azure Realm Venerate erupted with killing intent and charged at him.
• King Yama shattered Azure Realm Venerate’s water dragon and sent a deadly circular blade toward him.
• Qin Jishi blocked King Yama’s attack, and Azure Realm Venerate urged him to kill King Yama over Su Qi’s disappearance.
• Dugu Qiubai led Azure Realm Venerate aside as Qin Jishi vowed not to let King Yama escape.

Qin Jishi confronted King Yama over the passageway, refusing to let him open it. Two allies arrived to challenge King Yama, and Qin Jishi was stunned to see Baihe again.

• Su Tianqing dismissed Qingfeng’s concern that Qin Jishi would be ambushed, choosing to keep their presence hidden while the true mastermind remained unseen.
• King Yama confronted Qin Jishi and acknowledged how powerful he had become, while Qin Jishi demanded that the person hiding in the dark reveal themselves.
• Qin Jishi stood over the passageway and warned King Yama that he would not allow him to open it.
• King Yama insisted Qin Jishi could not stop him, but a man and a woman arrived and offered to help face him.
• Qin Jishi recognized Baihe and was so overwhelmed that he could not speak.

Qin Jishi and Baihe reunited, and Baihe broke down as she scolded him for risking his life to enter the Upper Realm. Meanwhile, the Black Robed Man and Light Gauze Woman watched for other survivors to appear, and the chapter ended with God Burial Eleven and God Burial Ten approaching as Su Tianqing remained out of sight.

• Qin Jishi called Baihe's name, and she rushed into his arms, crying and accusing him of ignoring her warnings.
• Qin Jishi held Baihe as they savored their reunion, while King Yama watched with anger.
• The Black Robed Man and Light Gauze Woman discussed the Flying Bird Clan's arrival and waited for others who had survived the ancient war.
• Light Gauze Woman spotted God Burial Eleven and God Burial Ten, and the Black Robed Man said Qin Jishi was about to face trouble while wondering how much longer Su Tianqing would stay hidden.

King Yama trapped Caiyun and the Flying Bird Clan in a heaven-covering net, but Qin Jishi freed them with scarlet-white flames that astonished King Yama, the Black Robed Man, and the Light Gauze Woman. The chapter ended with the Black Robed Man revealing his own black-and-white flame as he questioned whether Qin Jishi’s fire was Chaos Fire.

• King Yama mocked Baihe and provoked the Flying Bird Clan, whose members summoned thousands of divine bird phantoms.
• Caiyun led the Flying Bird Clan in an attack, and King Yama trapped them beneath his Heavenly Net of a Thousand Nets.
• The clan’s flames failed to break the net as it contracted and suppressed their cultivation.
• Qin Jishi stopped Baihe from intervening and used his scarlet-white flame to burn King Yama’s net away.
• King Yama, the Black Robed Man, and the Light Gauze Woman reacted in shock, and the Black Robed Man summoned a black-and-white flame of his own.

Qin Jishi effortlessly dissolved King Yama’s attack and earned the Flying Bird Clan’s respect. First Kirin offered to fight King Yama, but Qin Jishi insisted that he had to face him himself, leaving King Yama feeling humiliated.

• Qin Jishi dissolved King Yama’s enormous binding net with a ball of crimson-white flames, freeing Caiyun and the others.
• The Flying Bird Clan thanked Qin Jishi and recognized his strength as worthy of Baihe.
• Baihe and First Kirin both offered to take on King Yama, and Qin Jishi learned that First Kirin was the Beast Clan’s king and a true Progenitor Realm expert.
• First Kirin praised Qin Jishi’s temperament and said he wanted to make up for the Beast Clan’s absence from the ancient battle by fighting King Yama.
• Qin Jishi insisted that King Yama was his to fight because he had a personal reason to act, while King Yama felt they were treating him as less than human.

King Yama faced Qin Jishi and First Kirin, then realized their apparent plan to attack together had frightened him. Qin Jishi revealed he could handle King Yama alone and declared that he would kill him, leaving the confrontation on the verge of battle.

• King Yama challenged Qin Jishi and First Kirin to attack him together, then grew anxious when they agreed to join forces.
• Qin Jishi and First Kirin continued playing along, while King Yama tried to dissuade First Kirin by appealing to his dignity and threatening to expose him.
• Azure Realm Venerate urged Qin Jishi to kill King Yama, and the gathered forces laughed when Qin Jishi revealed they had only been frightening him.
• King Yama accused Qin Jishi of toying with him, but Qin Jishi said he could defeat King Yama alone and declared that he would kill him.

Qin Jishi attacked King Yama with the Star-Plucking Hand, but King Yama used a Willpower Jade Token left by Yuan Zangshen to strike at him. Su Tianqing hoped the Chaos Bead would protect Young Qin as the attack unfolded.

• First Kirin urged Qin Jishi to leave King Yama to him, but Qin Jishi insisted on fighting alone.
• Qin Jishi unleashed the Star-Plucking Hand, while King Yama stood still and dismissed the attack.
• King Yama crushed a jade token just as Qin Jishi's attack came down, and Baihe's warning came too late.
• First Kirin realized King Yama had feigned fear to keep him from interfering and target Qin Jishi.
• Su Tianqing recognized the token as Yuan Zangshen's Willpower Jade Token and worried over whether the Chaos Bead would protect Young Qin.

King Yama unleashed a devastating Willpower Jade Token against Qin Jishi, but the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin endured the destruction. As everyone feared Qin Jishi had died, he emerged from the coffin alive.

• King Yama crushed his Willpower Jade Token, unleashing a ripple that collapsed space and forced the factions to retreat.
• Qin Jishi entered the Suspended Prison Heaven-Suppressing Coffin as the ripple swept over it and destroyed everything within a thousand-mile radius.
• The Black Robed Man and the Light Gauze Woman doubted that the weakened Willpower Jade Token could kill Qin Jishi, and the Black Robed Man asked whether Su Tianqing would reveal herself.
• The shattered, cracked coffin remained in the air with blue light glowing through its surface, while King Yama and Baihe wondered whether Qin Jishi had survived.
• The coffin opened, and Qin Jishi slowly rose from within.

Qin Jishi survived King Yama’s Willpower Jade Token attack, but Riftspace emerged from a tear in the void and struck him down. Riftspace’s arrival revealed Mr. Wonderful Brush, whom First Kirin recognized and confronted.

• Qin Jishi survived King Yama’s attack because the Chaos Bead protected him, though the force left him gravely injured.
• Baihe warned Qin Jishi as the void rippled, but Riftspace tore through it and slashed his back, sending him crashing to the ground.
• King Yama celebrated Riftspace’s attack while the others struggled to sense any life in Qin Jishi.
• Riftspace and three others stepped through a crack in the void, and Hall Master of Crimson Blood recognized Mr. Wonderful Brush and feared his identity had been exposed.
• First Kirin confronted Mr. Wonderful Brush, who teased that he could never forget him.