Chapter Summaries

King Lian emerged from the Northern Vein Earth Fissure and threatened Qin Jun’s group, while Qin Jun easily defeated Dongfang Ji with Samadhi True Fire. As King Lian attacked, a powerful figure appeared before Qin Jun, leaving the identity and outcome of the encounter unresolved.

• King Lian rose from the fissure and warned everyone to leave or die.
• Qin Jun stayed and mocked Dongfang Ji, who attacked him in anger.
• Qin Jun engulfed Dongfang Ji in Samadhi True Fire and sent him crashing into a mountainside.
• King Lian, impressed by Qin Jun’s power, decided to seize and eat him.
• A powerful figure appeared in front of Qin Jun as King Lian’s attack closed in.

Yang Jian appeared to protect Qin Jun and effortlessly killed King Lian, shocking the Sky Gazing Divine Palace. Qin Jun led his companions into the Northern Vein Earth Fissure while the Star Officials debated how to deal with Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian appeared before Qin Jun and repelled King Lian, then introduced himself as Yang Jian and accepted Qin Jun's declaration that he was Erlang Shen.
• Yang Jian bound King Lian, crushed him into ash, and left Qin Jun, Dongfang Ji, and the watching Star Officials stunned by his power.
• Qin Jun laughed at having Erlang Shen as his subordinate and led his companions down into the Northern Vein Earth Fissure, while Dongfang Ji stayed behind.
• Seventh Star Official Yao Xu urged the Great Star Official to eliminate Yang Jian, but the Great Star Official chose to seek the palace master's instructions.
• After the Great Star Official vanished, Yao Xu cursed him for always asking the palace master what to do.

Qin Jun obtained a Life Wheel Fragment in the Northern Vein Earth Fissure and learned that the Wheel of Destiny inside him was the Golden Compass from the Southern Zhuo Imperial Dynasty. The Great Star Official forbade the Star Officials from intervening in the convention, while Ao Wujian went to meet an envoy from the Great Qin Heavenly Court.

• Fairy Hei Die urged the Star Officials to wait while they watched Yang Jian assist Qin Jun.
• The system explained that the Life Wheel Fragment could repair the dormant Wheel of Destiny, which was the Golden Compass Qin Jun had taken from the Southern Zhuo Imperial Dynasty.
• A golden shard cut Yang Jian’s palm, flew into Qin Jun, and completed the system’s forced mission, granting him a Skill Inheritance.
• Qin Jun and his companions left the Northern Vein Earth Fissure, while Qin Jun decided to let Dongfang Ji live until he had killed the other convention participants.
• The Great Star Official announced that the Star Officials must not interfere unless the Realm Spirit acted, then silenced the Sixth Star Official’s protest with his aura.
• Ao Wujian learned that a Great Qin Heavenly Court envoy had arrived after suppressing the Imperial Palace’s Eight Great Protectors, and went to meet him.

The Great Qin Heavenly Court began forcing Imperial Dynasties and demonic sects across the Southern Domain to submit, while Qin Jun learned that his conquest was complete and received rewards. He gained the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability and began to comprehend it as his companions watched.

• Ao Wujian met an armored messenger, who ordered the Southern Zhuo Imperial Dynasty to register with the Great Qin Heavenly Court and told its rulers to meet the Sacred Emperor in three months.
• Dragon Subduing Arhat ordered Nangong Lietian to incorporate the Abyss Gate into the Great Qin Heavenly Court and report to the Sacred Emperor in three months.
• Dragon Subduing Arhat set out to subdue the other eight Venerables of the Demonic Path, while the Great Qin Heavenly Court's campaign spread across the Southern Domain.
• Qin Jun noticed his Fame Value surging and received a God and Demon Summoning Opportunity and a Random Draw after completing the quest to conquer the Southern Domain Heavenly World.
• Qin Jun used his Skill Inheritance and obtained the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability, then rose into the sky and drew the Seven Star Sword as he began to comprehend it.

Qin Jun comprehended the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability and demonstrated its immense power, astonishing the Eighteen Star Officials. After drawing Jade Rabbit's fur, he began a god-and-demon summon and reacted in shock to the result.

• Qin Jun comprehended the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability, and the Eighteen Star Officials marveled at his talent.
• Qin Jun unleashed a sword strike that devastated a vast stretch of desert, then finished mastering the ability as Yang Jian praised him.
• Qin Jun asked the system about the divine ability's origins, then rejoined his companions and sat down to recover.
• Qin Jun used a Random Draw and received Jade Rabbit's fur, which left him baffled.
• Qin Jun began summoning a god or demon, then widened his eyes in shock at the identity the system revealed.

Qin Jun summoned Golden Cicada, whose strength was formidable but whose lazy demeanor surprised him, then continued fighting through the Sky Gazing Convention. The Southern Domain ranked thirty-seventh, and Qin Jun remained its strongest contender as he killed a powerful participant.

• Qin Jun checked Golden Cicada’s attributes and learned that Buddha’s second disciple had Ninth Layer Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation and ninety loyalty.
• Qin Jun and his companions continued searching for participants and Treasures of National Destiny, while Qin Jun defeated and killed dozens of opponents over three days.
• The Sky Gazing Platform displayed the domain rankings, placing the Eastern Flame Domain first, the Black Demon Domain second, and the Southern Domain thirty-seventh.
• Qin Jun killed a bloodied blue-robed man with the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability and earned 180,000 Experience Points.
• Qin Jun’s companions watched as Golden Cicada yawned and praised Qin Jun for having a Bodhisattva’s heart, and Qin Jun asked what Golden Cicada would do if he met Buddha.

Qin Jun’s group entered a forest where several people had been drained dry, then scattered a spreading black mist with Yang Jian’s power. As they prepared to confront what lay ahead, Golden Cicada sensed an ominous presence and clashed with Yang Jian over whether to proceed.

• Qin Jun warned Yang Jian to flee if he encountered Buddha, while Golden Cicada confirmed that his master was the strongest person he had ever seen.
• Qin Jun’s group entered a scorched-looking forest and found a young monk hanging from a tree, whom An Lang identified as a powerful Western Territory participant.
• The group found two more drained corpses, then watched black mist close in around them.
• Yang Jian overturned the earth and scattered the black mist, while the Star Officials discussed the danger his strength posed to the Sky Gazing Realm’s balance.
• Golden Cicada warned that an ominous presence lay ahead, and he and Yang Jian faced off after Yang Jian accused him of being afraid.

Qin Jun’s group encountered a growing mass of resentment in the Black Scorched Mountain Range, where Yang Jian plunged underground to confront its source. The others remained surrounded by dangerous black shadows as Golden Cicada explained that they came from the resentment of powerful dead beings.

• Golden Cicada and Yang Jian argued over strength and fear until Qin Jun ordered them to stop and continue onward.
• The group found more drained corpses, while the Star Officials discussed the resentment beneath the mountain range and the Palace Master’s order not to interfere.
• Faceless shadows surrounded the group as the mountain range trembled and split, releasing more ghostly figures.
• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye to identify the threat as resentment, struck the ground, and vanished underground.
• Golden Cicada scattered a shadow attacking Qin Jun and explained that the dead had likely been powerful, leaving the group surrounded by countless shadows.

Qin Jun and his companions faced the resentment haunting the Black Scorched Mountain Range, but Yang Jian captured its puppet Scorched Ghost and Golden Cicada destroyed the resentment. The Star Officials were astonished by Golden Cicada’s strength, and the Great Star Official reconsidered taking Qin Jun as a disciple.

• Yang Jian dragged Scorched Ghost out from underground and cut a deep canyon into the landscape, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Yang Jian forced Scorched Ghost to release the mysterious resentment, which took humanoid form and revealed Golden Immortal Realm strength.
• Golden Cicada chanted scriptures, then stopped the resentment’s attack and blasted it apart with a palm strike.
• The Star Officials marveled at Golden Cicada’s power and wondered how he and Yang Jian had entered unnoticed.
• The Great Star Official reconsidered taking Qin Jun as a disciple after seeing the strength and background of his companions.

After escaping the Black Scorched Mountain Range, Qin Jun learned that the Sky Gazing Realm might be a prison and received a quest to destroy its Realm Spirit, which would make him an enemy of the Divine Palace. Meanwhile, the Bull Demon King returned to the Southern Region stronger than before.

• Golden Cicada warned Qin Jun and the others that the resentment in the Black Scorched Mountain Range would return even stronger, so they left the area.
• Qin Jun wondered about the Sky Gazing Realm's history as an ancient voice called for the Star Prison to be freed and welcomed the Souls of the Holy Court Generals.
• The system gave Qin Jun a side quest to destroy the Sky Gazing Realm Spirit, promising rewards but warning that he would become enemies with the Divine Palace.
• Qin Jun set aside the quest for the moment and led the group onward to seek treasures of fortune.
• The Bull Demon King returned to the Southern Region and unleashed an aura that flattened the surrounding mountains and rivers.

Jin Wuhui overwhelmed nine convention participants while the Great Qin Heavenly Court’s rise boosted Qin Jun’s fame and the Southern Region’s standing. When five enormous flood dragons appeared in the Sky Gazing Realm as a manifestation of fortune, Qin Jun’s Wheel of Destiny reacted, and he rushed toward them.

• Jin Wuhui defeated the nine convention participants who had turned to attack him.
• The Great Qin Heavenly Court’s control of the Southern Region raised its ranking, while Qin Jun’s Fame Value passed ten million.
• Qin Jun asked Golden Cicada whether he could sense the Sky Gazing Realm’s Realm Spirit, but Golden Cicada could not.
• Qin Jun’s group spotted five immense flood dragons churning in the fog, and the Little Demon Lord charged toward them.
• Golden Cicada identified the flood dragons as a manifestation of fortune, and Qin Jun’s Wheel of Destiny heated up.
• Qin Jun rushed toward the five flood dragons to seize them.

Qin Jun and Little Demon Lord fought the five-headed flood dragon for the Treasure of National Destiny, but Qin Jun’s Heaven Slaying Divine Ability proved overwhelmingly powerful. The Star Officials watched in stunned silence as Qin Jun destroyed three of the beast’s heads.

• Qin Jun entered the fog and joined Little Demon Lord, who had been attacking the five-headed flood dragon without harming it.
• Qin Jun used his Emperor Dragon Qi, strengthened by Samadhi True Fire and a mysterious force from his chest, to scorch the flood dragon.
• Little Demon Lord charged into close combat, but the flood dragon attacked him with fire and Qin Jun with an icy wave.
• Little Demon Lord struck the flood dragon’s horn with his saber, while Qin Jun drew the Seven Star Sword and unleashed the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability, destroying one head.
• Qin Jun used the Heaven Slaying Divine Ability twice more and destroyed two additional heads as Little Demon Lord struggled to steady himself.

Qin Jun used the Wheel of Destiny to overwhelm the five-headed flood dragon, but the Eighth Star Official secretly empowered and controlled it with the Divine Descent Technique. Yang Jian intervened, destroyed the dragon, and the Golden Compass flew into its remains.

• Qin Jun battered the five-headed flood dragon with his Heaven Slaying Divine Ability and Death Annihilation Blades, while the Little Demon Lord watched in fear.
• Yang Jian sensed killing intent aimed at Qin Jun from the Eighteen Star Officials, and Golden Cicada discussed the dangerous treasure within Qin Jun.
• The Eighth Star Official sent his will into the five-headed flood dragon, restoring its heads and greatly increasing its strength, but Yang Jian recognized the Divine Descent Technique.
• Yang Jian shielded Qin Jun from the dragon's attacks and destroyed the five-headed flood dragon with his War God's Three-Pointed Halberd.
• The Golden Compass burst from Qin Jun's chest and plunged into the smoke and dust left by the dragon.

The Sky Gazing Divine Palace’s Star Officials recognized the Golden Compass as the Wheel of Destiny and concealed their interest in it, while Qin Jun absorbed its power and received National Destiny Body Tempering. His rise boosted the Southern Region’s standing at the convention, but a heavenly voice then sounded above him.

• Yao Xu and the Star Officials recognized the Wheel of Destiny, and Yao Xu persuaded them to investigate it before informing the Palace Lord.
• Fairy Hei Die connected the Wheel of Destiny to a towering figure from her past, while the Great Star Official revealed his own ambition for it.
• Yang Jian explained that Qin Jun’s Treasure of National Destiny was absorbing a flood dragon’s true body, and the Little Demon Lord fled when Qin Jun approached.
• The Wheel of Destiny returned to Qin Jun and absorbed the dragon bones, causing his national destiny pillar to surge and the Southern Region to climb to twenty-first place.
• Yang Jian identified Qin Jun’s transformation as National Destiny Body Tempering, which strengthened his body and magical power without raising his cultivation.
• A cold heavenly voice rang out, and Qin Jun and Yang Jian looked up.

Yang Jian fought the fully restored Eighth Star Official and overwhelmed him despite their equal cultivation, while the Star Officials watched and considered who might intervene. The Eighth Star Official crushed his jade fan as Yang Jian brought down his halberd, and a burst of cyan light engulfed them.

• The Eighth Star Official regained his full strength, and Yang Jian waited for him to recover before attacking.
• Golden Cicada urged Qin Jun and the others to retreat as Yang Jian and the Eighth Star Official collided.
• Yang Jian overpowered the Eighth Star Official, disarmed him, and pinned him beneath his foot.
• The Great Star Official recognized Yang Jian's cultivation as Grand Unity Loose Immortal Realm Perfection, and the Star Officials discussed whether higher-ranked members would have to act.
• The Eighth Star Official crushed his jade fan as Yang Jian struck, releasing a burst of cyan light that engulfed them.

Yang Jian killed the Eighth Star Official, prompting the Great Star Official to send five lower-ranked Star Officials after him. As Qin Jun continued onward, he examined the Wheel of Destiny inside himself and suffered a powerful blow to his soul.

• Qin Jun suspected the Divine Palace's higher ranks were beyond the Sky Gazing Realm and accepted that he would inevitably become its enemy.
• Yang Jian caught the fleeing Eighth Star Official and destroyed both his body and primordial spirit.
• The Great Star Official urged the Star Officials to kill Yang Jian before reporting the Eighth Star Official's death, then ordered the Eighteenth through Fourteenth Star Officials to attack together.
• Yang Jian returned to Qin Jun's group, and Qin Jun praised him as the Great Qin Heavenly Court's War God before leading the group onward.
• Qin Jun sensed the Wheel of Destiny above his Golden Core and sent his Spiritual Sense into it, but a terrifying impact scattered his Spiritual Sense and left him dazed.

Little Demon Lord lashed out at other geniuses after his defeat, while Qin Jun’s growing fame made the Southern Domain impossible to overlook. Back in the Southern Domain, Sky-Pondering Demon Venerable invaded again; in the Sky Gazing Realm, Yang Jian confronted five Star Officials who had been sent to face him.

• Little Demon Lord ignored fellow Black Demon Domain geniuses and began challenging opponents across the Sky Gazing Realm, spreading word of his humiliation and drawing attention to Qin Jun and the Southern Domain.
• Liu Bowen learned that Sky-Pondering Demon Venerable had invaded the demonic path again and decided to seek help from Nine Spirit Yuan Sage rather than send Yellow Wind Great King.
• After five days in the Sky Gazing Realm, Qin Jun had defeated 130 participants and killed 57, while his National Destiny Pillar grew to 290 meters.
• Yang Jian spotted five Grand Unity Loose Immortal Realm experts ahead and went to confront them, telling Golden Cicada to protect Qin Jun.
• The five Star Officials faced Yang Jian, who demanded to know their identities and status in the Divine Palace, while the Star Officials watching from the Sky Gazing Divine Palace grew grim.

Yang Jian fought the Star Officials while Qin Jun studied the Wheel of Destiny and learned that seventeen Star Officials coveted it and wanted him dead. After Yang Jian killed Fourteen Star Official, Qin Jun ordered him to eliminate the rest, and Yang Jian agreed.

• Qin Jun dismissed Qi Xie's worries as Yang Jian fought five Star Officials, confident in Yang Jian's strength.
• Yang Jian overwhelmed the Star Officials, mocked the Great Star Official, and revealed his Heavenly Eye, which the Star Officials recognized as an innate divine ability.
• Yang Jian broke Fourteen Star Official's leg and pierced his chest with the War God's Three-Pointed Halberd.
• The system triggered a quest to destroy the seventeen Star Officials who coveted Qin Jun's Wheel of Destiny and revealed that Eighth Star Official had already died.
• Qin Jun ordered Yang Jian to kill the remaining hostile Star Officials, and Yang Jian gladly accepted.

Yang Jian slaughtered the Star Officials sent against him while Qin Jun and the others watched. In the Sky Gazing Divine Palace, Great Star Official failed to persuade the others to attack and ordered three more Star Officials into battle, prompting Fairy Hei Die to leave.

• Yang Jian killed Eighteen Star Officials and burned away his body and soul with his heavenly eye.
• Yang Jian killed Sixteen Star Official, while Fourteen Star Official realized Great Star Official had sent them to die to protect the secret of the Wheel of Destiny.
• Yang Jian struck down Seventeen Star Officials, Fifteen Star Official, and Fourteen Star Official with a devastating blow that shook the earth.
• Fairy Hei Die warned the Star Officials that Yang Jian had likely reached the Early Grand Unity Profound Immortal Realm, but Great Star Official demanded another attacker.
• Yao Xu and Sixth Star Official challenged Great Star Official's order, and Fairy Hei Die left the Sky Gazing Divine Palace.

Qin Jun continued his rise at the Sky Gazing Convention as the Great Qin Heavenly Court began preparing to conquer the Southern Domain’s demon territory. When Xuan Qing confronted him, Qin Jun stopped Yang Jian and prepared to fight the Buddhist genius himself.

• Qin Jun told Yang Jian that eleven Star Officials remained, then vowed to oppose anyone who tried to obstruct or kill him.
• The Sky Gazing Divine Palace’s Star Officials argued over whether to confront Yang Jian, while the Great Star Official hesitated to report the matter because it involved the Wheel of Destiny.
• The Great Qin Heavenly Court began planning a campaign against the demon race after Nine Spirit Yuan Sage repeatedly defeated the Sky-Pondering Demon Venerable, increasing Qin Jun’s fame.
• Three days later, Qin Jun’s fortune pillar had passed four hundred meters, and Daji worried about his safety as he continued the convention.
• Xuan Qing led a group of monks toward Qin Jun’s resting group, and Qin Jun stopped Yang Jian from intervening so he could face Xuan Qing himself.