Chapter Summaries

After completing 577 arena duels, Qin Heng continued toward the Holy Land Core Region aboard the Black Gold. Rui Bo, a general of the Heaven Marquis Dynasty Expeditionary Force, intercepted him and demanded the ship, leaving Qin Heng to prepare for a fight.

• Qin Heng finished 577 duels with 532 wins and 45 losses, after being defeated by the powerful Chi Yang and Ji Kong Lie.
• On the ninth Void Ember Day, a Star Lord Sixth Order force stopped the Black Gold and damaged the ship.
• Qin Heng and Yu Ling left the ship and faced Rui Bo and six Star Lord subordinates.
• Rui Bo identified himself as a general under Black Scale Governor and demanded the Black Gold, threatening Qin Heng and Yu Ling.
• Yu Ling suggested they summon allies and attack, but Qin Heng worried about the Expeditionary Force's fleet and the pursuit that might follow.
• With Rui Bo's deadline nearly over, Qin Heng decided to kill him first and handle the consequences afterward.

Qin Heng and his companions killed Rui Bo and his junior commanders in a coordinated ambush, then used spatial translocations to reach the Heaven Marquis Army battleship before its crew knew their commander was dead. Qin Heng ordered an attack on the ship, blaming its crew’s impending deaths on Rui Bo’s greed.

• Qin Heng summoned Yan Feng and Xuan Nie from the Immortal Mansion and coordinated an attack with them and Yu Ling after Rui Bo threatened him over the Mechanical Race spaceship.
• Yan Feng’s Stasis Domain restrained Rui Bo, while Xuan Nie, Yu Ling, and Qin Heng struck him with their secret arts and weapons.
• Qin Heng used Myriad Mirrors to destroy Rui Bo’s fleeing blood droplets, and Xuan Nie swallowed the six junior commanders.
• Qin Heng and his companions decided to attack the battleship before its crew could charge its weapons, then translocated close to it.
• Qin Heng arrived atop the battleship and ordered his companions to kill the Heaven Marquis Army soldiers aboard.

Qin Heng, Xuan Nie, Yan Feng, and Yu Ling annihilated a Heaven Marquis Dynasty expeditionary force after killing its commander, Rui Bo. Worried their identities could bring trouble to Purple Snow Star, they decided to disguise themselves as they continued their journey.

• Qin Heng, Xuan Nie, Yan Feng, and Yu Ling destroyed the expeditionary warship and killed its hundred thousand soldiers, including dozens of Star Lord generals.
• Qin Heng worried that the survivors had sent word of their identities and that the Heaven Marquis Dynasty might retaliate against Purple Snow Star.
• Yu Ling argued that they had been right to strike first, and Qin Heng accepted that conflict with the Heaven Marquis Army could no longer be avoided.
• Yan Feng suggested changing their appearances and auras, so Xuan Nie transformed into a Black Python while Yan Feng and Yu Ling hid in Qin Heng's immortal residence.
• Qin Heng changed his body and aura to disguise himself, but said he would still fight if necessary.

Qin Heng continued toward the third Void Passage while the Expeditionary Force’s governors debated the destruction of Rui Bo’s fleet. Yu Nuo protected Qin Heng and announced her plans to support him, but Black Scale chose to seek revenge.

• Qin Heng disguised his spacecraft, gave himself the alias Fang Yi, and continued meditating as the ship traveled toward the third Void Passage.
• Yu Nuo questioned Black Scale about Rui Bo’s fleet being destroyed and learned that Qin Heng and three companions had attacked it.
• The governors demanded retaliation, but Yu Nuo argued Rui Bo had provoked Qin Heng and said she intended to become close to him and support him as a future ruler of Eastern Ancient.
• After Yu Nuo left the conference, the governors warned Black Scale that opposing her plans was dangerous.
• Black Scale remained furious over his fallen soldiers and chose to pursue revenge despite the warning.

Qin Heng approached the Jiaolong Seat Passage while concealing his identity and keeping Xuan Nie out of sight after spotting his Junior Brother’s attendant. A purple-scaled Star Lord Ninth Order woman stopped the Black Gold for an inspection, and the Void Passage suddenly burst with electric light.

• Qin Heng slowed the Black Gold near the Jiaolong Seat Passage, wary that the Heaven Marquis Army might seek revenge for its losses.
• Xuan Nie spotted his Junior Brother’s trusted subordinate De Kalan and asked Qin Heng to hide him in the Immortal Abode.
• Qin Heng paid the toll collector for both of them with physical Void Ash Coins and proceeded toward the passage.
• A purple-scaled Star Lord Ninth Order woman blocked the Black Gold and demanded that Qin Heng leave the spacecraft for inspection.
• Qin Heng prepared to Enter the Void as the passage erupted with brilliant electric light.

Thunderbolt challenged the Heaven Marquis Fourth Fleet’s account of Qin Heng’s attack and forced its deputy officer to leave and report back. He then called on Star Lords to resist the invasion, while Qin Heng suspected Thunderbolt’s motives and entered the Void Passage.

• Thunderbolt arrived at the Void Passage and questioned the Iguana Clan woman about the search for Qin Heng.
• After hearing that Qin Heng and three companions had defeated a legion and a Star Lord Sixth Order general, Thunderbolt accused the Heaven Marquis Dynasty of using a false pretext for invasion.
• Thunderbolt demanded that the Fourth Fleet withdraw, fight him, or risk an all-out war, so the Iguana Clan woman left to report to her superiors.
• Thunderbolt urged nearby Star Lords to join a coalition against foreign invaders, and Qin Heng doubted that his appeal was as straightforward as it seemed.
• Qin Heng passed Thunderbolt and De Kalan and entered the Void Passage.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie traveled through the dangerous Jiaolong Star System toward the Void Well, where Dong Huaiyue’s hidden inheritance was located. As they continued toward the black hole’s center, Xuan Nie revealed that the inheritance was hidden in a proton-sized Small World and warned that fewer than thirty percent of travelers below Star Lord Seventh Order survived the Void Well.

• The Black Gold entered the Jiaolong Star System, and its gravity turbulence device shielded Qin Heng from the system’s immense gravitational pull.
• Qin Heng told Xuan Nie that he had passed through the Void Passage without being noticed by Thunderbolt or De Kalan, then released him from the Immortal Abode.
• Xuan Nie explained that they should fly toward the black hole’s center and turn toward the Five-Colored Light to reach the Void Well.
• Xuan Nie revealed that Dong Huaiyue’s inheritance was hidden in a Small World no larger than a proton, floating somewhere within the Void Well.
• Xuan Nie told Qin Heng that travelers below Star Lord Seventh Order had a survival rate of less than thirty percent in the Void Well.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie reached the Void Well after guiding the Black Gold through the Jiaolong Star System’s black-hole chaos. They arrived on the Rootless Continent, where Xuan Nie devoured a Star Lord Level Dark Creature and encouraged Qin Heng to try one.

• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie watched for the Void Well entrance as the Black Gold plunged through the black hole’s matter streams.
• Qin Heng piloted the spacecraft toward a five-colored light, and it passed through a spatial gate into the Void Well.
• The Black Gold crashed deep into the ground, where Qin Heng sensed dense Law Energy, and Xuan Nie identified the land as the Rootless Continent.
• A Star Lord Level Dark Creature emerged from the soil, and Xuan Nie transformed into a giant python and swallowed it.
• Xuan Nie told Qin Heng that Dark Creatures could be refined for rapid cultivation, and Qin Heng asked him to save some for next time.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie explored the Void Well, where they found a treasure and learned they needed the Twelve Divine Pillars to navigate toward Xuan Nie's master's inheritance. They followed a pillar as a reference and stumbled upon a battle, where the lone survivor threatened them over the spoils.

• Xuan Nie uncovered a Golden Sky Seal in the Rootless Soil, and Qin Heng refined it as a replacement for one of Qin Heng's treasures.
• Xuan Nie explained that the Twelve Divine Pillars had been erected by Eternal Experts, including Dong Huaiyue, Pangu, and the Myriad Things Lord.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie spotted a distant blue Sky Pillar left by Chihai Marquis and used it to orient their route through the Rootless Soil.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie emerged into an underground cavern where seven Star Lords were fighting, and Xuan Nie chose to approach rather than avoid the battle.
• Torrent defeated the other six Star Lords, gathered their belongings, and threatened Qin Heng and Xuan Nie for coming near the spoils.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie killed Torrent and divided his treasures with Xie Feng, a powerful Shadow Clan member who had watched the fight. Xie Feng proposed traveling with them to the Twelve Divine Pillars, but Qin Heng and Xuan Nie declined.

• Xuan Nie fought Torrent while Qin Heng held back to conceal his strength, then Qin Heng joined the battle with his Golden Sky Seal and spear.
• Qin Heng used Heaven and Earth Coexistence to distract Torrent, allowing Xuan Nie to reveal his strength and severely wound him.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie attacked Torrent together until he died, then took his Storage Spaces and discovered his hoard of valuables.
• Qin Heng sensed Xie Feng approaching; the Star Lord Fifth Order fighter demanded Torrent's belongings in exchange for letting them leave.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie gave Xie Feng half of Torrent's Storage Spaces and introduced themselves as Fang Yi and Black Snake.
• After Xie Feng suggested they travel together to the Twelve Divine Pillars, Qin Heng and Xuan Nie declined.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie traveled toward the Pangu Sky Pillar, which Qin Heng hoped might hold secrets tied to Pangu Lord and the Stone Axe. Xie Feng revealed that he had stalked them since they entered the Void Well and moved to attack them.

• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie left the battlefield, agreed to avoid fighting Xie Feng unless he threatened their other resources, and continued through the stellar matter.
• After traveling for a Void Ember Day, Qin Heng and Xuan Nie reached a golden-red sky pillar that Xuan Nie identified as one left by Pangu Lord.
• Qin Heng hurried toward the pillar, reflecting on the long journey ahead and his time away from his family.
• Qin Heng paused along the route to gather Dark Energy, which helped his immortal residence become a Blessed Land.
• Xie Feng appeared behind them and admitted he had followed them since they entered the Void Well, intending to make them his prey because he had seen their valuable spaceship.

Qin Heng used the Stone Axe to annihilate Xie Feng after Xuan Nie and Yan Feng held back his Corrosion Law attack. The axe’s shockwaves stirred hidden experts across the Void Well, who recognized the returning power.

• Xie Feng attacked Qin Heng and Xuan Nie with Corrosion Law, and Qin Heng’s Golden Sky Seal failed to stop the black sludge.
• Qin Heng unleashed Dark Energy to dissolve the sludge, but Xie Feng overwhelmed him with a vast cloud of corrosive black mist.
• Qin Heng asked Xuan Nie to hold off the mist while he connected with the Stone Axe, and Yan Feng joined Xuan Nie in resisting it.
• Qin Heng poured his Blood Avatar’s remaining origin power into the Stone Axe, then struck Xie Feng down with a blow that erased him.
• Qin Heng gathered Xuan Nie, Yan Feng, and Xie Feng’s dropped items before teleporting away and concealing himself.
• The axe’s spreading aura awakened nearby Star Lords and hidden experts, including figures who recognized Pangu’s power and welcomed his return.

After Qin Heng’s Stone Axe killed Xie Feng, a Void Whirlpool carried him far from the Pangu Sky Pillar, where he and his companions set out to search a stream of stellar matter. At the Pangu Sky Pillar, Star Devouring Marquis waited for Pangu to return and duel him, while Dong Huai Lie wondered whether the Eastern Embrace Lord might also come back.

• A Void Whirlpool swept Qin Heng to the far side of the Void Well, hundreds of billions of kilometers from the Pangu Sky Pillar.
• Inside the Immortal Abode, Qin Heng told Xuan Nie, Yu Ling, and Yan Feng that he could only barely activate his precious Stone Axe.
• Qin Heng sent out an avatar as Fang Yi, then joined Yu Ling, Yan Feng, and Xuan Nie in disguises to explore the nearby stellar matter.
• At the Pangu Sky Pillar, Star Devouring Marquis asked Dong Huai Lie about Pangu’s descendant, but Dong Huai Lie said the Pangu Giant Axe’s aura had vanished.
• Shadow Lord arrived and urged Star Devouring Marquis to pursue the King rank, but Star Devouring Marquis refused to leave before Pangu returned for their duel.
• Dong Huai Lie asked whether the Eastern Embrace Lord might return, and Star Devouring Marquis said she might be reborn somewhere.

Qin Heng and his companions found a powerful Law Treasure forming in the center of the stellar matter and joined the battle to seize it. A sixth-order Star Lord grabbed the Blue Flame Long Staff, drawing attacks from dozens of nearby Star Lords.

• Yu Ling discovered and refined a Stellar Origin True Flame, strengthening herself and moving closer to Star Lord Fourth Order.
• Qin Heng told his companions that Black Scale had ordered his death, and they joked about Yu Nuo's interest in him as they continued exploring.
• The group reached the stellar matter's center and sensed a powerful Law Treasure forming, then waited nearly three Void Ember Days for it to take shape.
• After no Star Lords above seventh order appeared nearby, Qin Heng's group and other nearby Star Lords moved to seize the Blue Flame Long Staff.
• A sixth-order Star Lord seized the staff, and dozens of Star Lords launched fatal attacks at him.

Qin Heng and his companions abandoned their attempt to seize the Fire Pillar when a Star Lord Ninth Order expert arrived and claimed it. After learning that the expert, Jin Feng, was wanted by Mo Gu Tian Chen, Qin Heng offered his location in exchange for the treasure if Jin Feng was killed.

• Dozens of Star Lords fought over the sentient Fire Pillar, and Qin Heng’s group considered a plan to seize it amid the chaos.
• A Star Lord Ninth Order expert arrived, forcing the combatants, including Qin Heng and his companions, to flee.
• Qin Heng identified the expert as the golden bird Jin Feng and learned from Cloud Between Snow that Jin Feng was a powerful figure from Demon Luan Hall.
• Cloud Between Snow told Qin Heng that Jin Feng had killed Mo Gu Tian Chen’s favored disciple and that Mo Gu Tian Chen would reward whoever revealed his location.
• Qin Heng reported Jin Feng’s location to Cloud Between Snow and asked to receive the Fire Pillar if Mo Gu Tian Chen killed him.

Qin Heng learned that Dong Huai Lie would capture Jin Feng and received warnings from Cloud Between Snow about the dangers of the Void Well. He returned to his companions, told them reinforcements were coming, and led them farther from the battle.

• Cloud Between Snow told Qin Heng that Mo Gu Tian Chen had asked Dong Huai Lie to capture Jin Feng.
• Qin Heng discussed his plans to keep training in the Void Well, and Cloud Between Snow warned him to avoid the Sky Pillars and prioritize survival.
• After Qin Heng left, Yu Jian Chun and Cloud Between Snow discussed the Heaven Marquis Expeditionary Force hunting him, while Lan Xuan Ke argued that Qin Heng should face his own trials.
• Qin Heng returned to Yan Feng and Xuan Nie and said he had called reinforcements to deal with the Star Lord Ninth Order.
• Qin Heng told Xuan Nie that the universe involved more than fighting and killing, then led his companions farther away to avoid the aftermath.

Qin Heng and his companions watched Dong Huai Lie kill Jin Feng and received Jin Feng’s Law Treasure Fire Pillar from him. Afterward, Xuan Nie explained why he could not reveal his past-life identity to Dong Huai Lie, who might be a threat to the eternal inheritance.

• Jin Feng seized the Law Treasure Fire Pillar and flew toward another patch of Rootless Soil while Qin Heng’s group waited for Dong Huai Lie.
• Dong Huai Lie killed Jin Feng with a single strike from a distant giant palm, and Qin Heng’s group went to the battlefield after the fight ended.
• Dong Huai Lie gave Qin Heng the blue Fire Pillar, concealed the group’s auras, and let them depart without learning Qin Heng’s name.
• Qin Heng proposed that Yan Feng keep the Fire Pillar, and Yu Ling agreed that Yan Feng was the best choice to use it.
• Xuan Nie revealed that Dong Huai Lie had treated him well in the past but said he could not identify himself because Dong Huai Lie might seek the eternal inheritance.

Qin Heng and his companions traveled through the Void Well toward the Eastern Huaiyue Sky Pillar, growing stronger through cultivation and battles. Three years later, they had all advanced in rank, though Xuan Nie had contributed little in combat.

• Xuan Nie explained that Dong Huai Lie was watching the Pangu Sky Pillar for clues to Dong Huaiyue's path to Eternity, and Qin Heng chose to travel slowly toward the Eastern Huaiyue Sky Pillar.
• Qin Heng accidentally emerged from a spatial torrent only twelve light-years from the Eastern Huaiyue Sky Pillar, shortening their journey.
• Yan Feng refined the True Flame Staff, boosting his Flame Law attacks to near the Black Tower's ninth-floor level.
• Over three years, Qin Heng reached Star Lord Third Order, Yan Feng and Xuan Nie reached Star Lord Second Order, and Yu Ling reached Star Lord Fourth Order.
• Qin Heng and his companions survived numerous dangerous battles in the Void Well, while Xuan Nie mainly served as their guide.

Qin Heng and his companions rested in a quiet patch of Rootless Soil after their battle, while Qin Heng tested how close he could get to the Death Realm Flag. His third-order strength let him advance farther than before, but the treasure's aura still kept him from touching it.

• Qin Heng brought his wounded companions to rest in the Rootless Soil and concealed their auras with his Blood Avatar and the Goddess of War's cloak.
• Inside the Immortal Abode, Qin Heng visited Yan Feng and Xing Er, then left them, Yu Ling, and Xuan Nie to play games while he handled his serious business.
• Qin Heng followed the route he had deciphered through the Death Realm Flag's maze formation and approached the flag at the plaza's center.
• Qin Heng advanced six steps toward the Death Realm Flag before its deathly aura forced him to retreat, leaving him convinced he needed greater strength to touch and subdue it.

During their journey through the Void Well, Qin Heng and his companions witnessed the escalating conflicts across the Eastern Ancient Holy Land while Yan Feng became famous for his strength. Their travels ended with Fire Wolf Chang Tian confronting Yan Feng and questioning the source of his secret art.

• Qin Heng and his companions resumed their journey, and Qin Heng reflected on how long he would be away from his family.
• Five years later, resistance against the Heaven Marquis Expeditionary Force intensified, and the Eastern Calamity Sect and Eastern Embrace Clan began fighting in the Holy Land Treasure Realm.
• Over eight years of battle, Xuan Nie continued hunting Dark Creatures, Yu Ling matured through combat, and Yan Feng gained fame in Eastern Ancient for his power.
• Qin Heng and his companions encountered a powerful wolf beast that swallowed a Dark Creature and introduced himself as Chang Tian, Third Elder of the Flame God Hall.
• Chang Tian told Yan Feng he had sought him out and asked whether a master had taught him his secret art or whether he was a reincarnated powerhouse.