Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng fought Yuan Lei and the Thunder Realm forces, unleashing the Death Realm Flag to devastate their ranks. As Yuan Lei prepared a realm-powered strike, Qin Heng answered with Pangu Lord's Stone Axe, and their attacks collided.

• Qin Heng used the Celestial Execution Grass and his True Self Universe to repel Yuan Lei and the Thunder Realm elders.
• Qin Heng summoned the Death Realm Flag and activated the Death Breath Grand Formation, whose death aura killed thousands of Thunder Realm beings.
• The Thunder Realm fighters recognized the Death Realm Flag as the Chaos Palace's strongest supreme treasure, while Yuan Lei fled its spreading death aura.
• Yuan Lei drew on the Thunder Pool's Source Power to prepare a strike with power approaching the Eternal level.
• Qin Heng sent his other treasures to hold off the elders, took out Pangu Lord's Stone Axe, and struck Yuan Lei's colossal sphere of lightning.

Qin Heng destroyed the Thunder Holy Hall and discovered a jade wall bearing a fragment of the Universe Origin Secret Canon. After taking the fragment and the Crystal Palace’s materials, he entered the damaged Thunder Pool and found its energy aided his recovery.

• Qin Heng’s Stone Axe strike killed Yuan Lei, devastated the Thunder Realm’s center, and left the surviving elders badly injured.
• Qin Heng used the Death Realm Flag and a golden sand secret art to kill the Thunder Holy Hall’s remaining elders and destroy the hall.
• Qin Heng discovered that the Crystal Palace was a lightning-drawing formation and found a jade wall inside it engraved with the seventh volume of the Universe Origin Secret Canon.
• Qin Heng took the jade wall and Crystal Palace materials into his Immortal Abode World, then examined the damaged Thunder Pool.
• Qin Heng entered the Thunder Pool, where its dense energy activated his refined True God Blood and accelerated his physical recovery.

Qin Heng recovered in the Thunder Pool, gained an early grasp of lightning techniques, and left for the Silent Extinction Zone to hunt those who had attacked him at the Void Well. As his enemies fled toward the Holy Land Core Region, he headed there to intercept them while Purple Snow Star helped track down the scattered remnants of the Burial God Realm.

• Qin Heng recovered in the Thunder Pool while Void Ember God's blood deepened his affinity for lightning, and he formed a fifth-order lightning secret art.
• After three Void Ember Days, Qin Heng left the Thunder Realm and set his sights on enemies in the Silent Extinction Zone who had attacked him at the Void Well.
• Qin Heng found that Hui Ren had already left Immortal Armor Star for the Holy Land Core Region, so he hurried there to intercept his fleeing enemies.
• Qin Heng learned that several factions had been destroyed and that the Burial God Realm had scattered; he asked his Purple Snow Star fellow disciples to hunt down its members.
• Qin Heng continued toward the Holy Land Core Region while Purple Snow Star's informants searched for the remaining Void Well enemies.

Qin Heng arrived in the Eastern Embrace Holy Land and began investigating recent departures through its Void Passages while learning about the disputes surrounding Dong Huaiyue’s return. He arranged for the passages leading out of the Holy Land to be sealed against departures and listened as Dong Huaiyi explained the political tensions.

• Qin Heng entered the Eastern Embrace Holy Land and heard that Dong Huaiyue and the Holy Land’s leaders had gathered amid rising conflicts.
• Qin Heng reached the passage to Saint Dragon Star and asked its guard about recent travelers leaving the Holy Land.
• Qin Heng persuaded the guard to allow entry but prevent anyone from exiting, with instructions to alert him if someone tried to force their way through.
• Qin Heng went to the Void Spirit Holy Land passage, where Dong Huaiyi agreed to support his plan to seal it.
• Dong Huaiyi told Qin Heng that some Eastern Embrace Clan members objected to Dong Huaiyue’s return and that other leaders were pushing for benefits from the coming territorial division.

Qin Heng traveled to the Eastern Embrace Clan to watch the Eight Clans debate how to divide their territories at the thousand-year boundary. When he arrived, the Eastern Calamity Sect Master asked him to help settle the dispute, leaving him caught in the excitement he had come to observe.

• Dong Huaiyi explained the territorial division and showed Qin Heng where the clans were meeting.
• Qin Heng sent a Blood Avatar to the Eastern Embrace Clan, where Dong Huai Ningjun greeted him and described the heated negotiations.
• Qin Heng surveyed the Eastern Embrace Clan’s vast Living Zone as he and Dong Huai Ningjun headed toward the meeting hall.
• The clan elders argued over territory, and Qin Heng entered the hall, prompting them to stop and greet him.
• The Eastern Calamity Sect Master asked Qin Heng to decide the disputed boundaries, leaving Qin Heng awkwardly involved in the meeting.

Dong Huaiyue proposed a rule-of-law system to settle the Eight Clans’ territorial disputes, then left with Qin Heng to explore the Eastern Embrace Clan’s lands. She asked him to spare some people involved in the past attack on him, and their conversation was interrupted by Thunderbolt’s arrival.

• Qin Heng refused to mediate the Eight Clans’ dispute and left the elders to hear Dong Huaiyue’s proposal.
• Dong Huaiyue suggested shared governance, competitive resource rights, a revised constitution, and a Ten Clans Tribunal, but the elders questioned whether the system could work.
• The Goddess of War ended the discussion and told the clans to decide whether to follow her proposal before she left in less than a hundred days.
• Dong Huaiyue told Qin Heng that the Eastern Embrace Clan felt familiar, though she believed her true origin lay somewhere farther away.
• Dong Huaiyue asked Qin Heng to spare members of the Eastern Calamity Sect and Eastern Embrace Clan, and Qin Heng said he had no deep grudge against them.
• Thunderbolt flew toward Qin Heng and Dong Huaiyue as she began to name another person she wished to protect.

Qin Heng spared Thunderbolt at the Goddess of War’s request, then asked Dong Huai Lie about the Pangu Clan branch that had left Eastern Ancient. Dong Huai Lie showed them wilderness communities descended from Pangu Remnants and returned the final fragment of the Universe Origin Secret Canon to the Goddess of War, who gave it to Qin Heng.

• The Goddess of War asked Qin Heng to spare Thunderbolt, and Qin Heng agreed; Thunderbolt then left for the Thunder Realm to seek opportunities.
• Qin Heng asked Dong Huai Lie where the Pangu Clan branch that had left Eastern Ancient had gone, but Dong Huai Lie did not know.
• Dong Huai Lie led Qin Heng and the Goddess of War to wilderness lands where they found humans descended from Pangu Remnants living among other races.
• Dong Huai Lie returned the final fragment of the Universe Origin Secret Canon to the Goddess of War, who passed it to Qin Heng and asked him to share the complete text with her.

Qin Heng sought Idle Cloud Immortal Lord’s help locating the remaining fragments of the Universe Origin Secret Canon, while continuing to hunt his enemies near the Void Passages. Idle Cloud Immortal Lord agreed to mobilize the Scattered Stars Alliance to search for the fragments in exchange for an item Qin Heng would name.

• Qin Heng learned that finding the scattered scripture fragments would likely require help from the Scattered Stars Alliance and its elusive leader, Idle Cloud Immortal Lord.
• Qin Heng continued killing enemies who approached the Void Passages, and the Gratitude and Enmity Tablet’s list of names dwindled as word of his actions spread.
• Qin Heng asked Vast Nothing Mountain Master to contact Idle Cloud Immortal Lord, and she agreed to meet him.
• Vast Nothing Mountain Master brought Qin Heng to Idle Cloud Immortal Lord’s residence, where Qin Heng explained his search for the scripture fragments.
• Idle Cloud Immortal Lord said she knew nothing of the fragments but offered to order the Scattered Stars Alliance to search if Qin Heng named an item to exchange for anything they found.

Qin Heng arranged a bounty for a first-order Law Treasure in exchange for an incomplete scroll, then heard Idle Cloud Immortal Lord’s requests for Old Universe treasures and creatures. He agreed to seek Six-Winged Flying Serpent Inner Cores and received a portal beacon to her Dao Field in the Void Ash God Kingdom.

• Qin Heng and Idle Cloud Immortal Lord settled on a first-order Law Treasure as the bounty for the incomplete scroll, and she submitted it to the Scattered Stars Alliance.
• Idle Cloud Immortal Lord asked Qin Heng to collect a Primordial Dao Pattern Stone and a tender leaf from a Star Realm Ancient Tree, while stressing that neither was mandatory.
• Idle Cloud Immortal Lord asked Qin Heng to hunt two Star Lord Ninth Order Six-Winged Flying Serpents and bring back their Inner Cores, which could be valuable enough to sell for a fortune.
• Qin Heng agreed to seek the Inner Cores and said he would give Idle Cloud Immortal Lord two extra if he found them.
• Idle Cloud Immortal Lord gave Qin Heng a portal beacon and told him she was one of the Immortal Race’s Seventy-Two True Immortals; Qin Heng said he would visit her Dao Field when he had time.

Qin Heng learned that a fragment he sought had been bought by an elder of the Burial God Realm and prepared to pursue it before the Ten Emperors Hall Special Envoy arrived. After he left, Idle Cloud Immortal Lord predicted that Qin Heng could rival or surpass Ancient Emperor, prompting Vast Nothing Mountain Master to plan to give him a fragment he possessed.

• Qin Heng told Idle Cloud Immortal Lord that he had destroyed the Force Race, Thunder Holy Hall, and part of Myriad Things Holy Hall, and explained why he intended to kill Golden Mosquito.
• Idle Cloud Immortal Lord shared two credible reports about a suspected silk fragment in the Mo Hui River, including one that said a Burial God Realm elder had bought it at auction.
• Qin Heng connected the fragment’s reported appearance to the time Yu Ling’s hometown was massacred and decided he might pursue the scattered Burial God Realm before the Ten Emperors Hall Special Envoy arrived.
• Idle Cloud Immortal Lord urged Qin Heng not to care about others’ opinions and encouraged him to become powerful enough to command the Eastern Ancient Holy Land.
• After Qin Heng left, Idle Cloud Immortal Lord said he might surpass Ancient Emperor, and Vast Nothing Mountain Master resolved to give him a fragment and forge a friendship.

Qin Heng searched for his enemies before tracking the Burial God Realm to Corpse Star and confronting the Demon Luan Hall. He spared the hall in exchange for its Burial God Realm refugees, 10 billion Void Ash Coins, and an oath of loyalty to the Purple Snow Star faction.

• Qin Heng searched across the Eastern Ancient Holy Land for people listed on the Gratitude and Enmity Tablet, reducing the names he could not find to fourteen.
• Qin Heng traveled to Corpse Star to track down members of the Burial God Realm.
• Jun Tianpeng, the Demon Luan Hall's master, confronted Qin Heng and explained that his hall had sided with the Myriad Things Holy Hall and placed a bounty on the Demoness.
• Qin Heng demanded that Jun Tianpeng surrender every member of the Burial God Realm on Corpse Star and pay 10 billion Void Ash Coins in reparations.
• Jun Tianpeng agreed to the demands and swore the Demon Luan Hall would support only the Purple Snow Star faction.

Qin Heng confronted Jun Tianpeng on Corpse Star, took the Demon Luan Hall’s former enforcer into custody, and searched for hidden Burial God Realm experts. Jun Tianpeng paid Qin Heng 10 billion Void Ash Coins, leaving the Demon Luan Hall weakened while Qin Heng gained funds for Earth’s development.

• Jun Tianpeng handed the Flying Bird Star Lord who had ordered Dong Huaiyue’s capture over to Qin Heng, who sealed him and stored him away for Dong Huaiyue to judge.
• Qin Heng questioned Jun Tianpeng about a supposed Star Lord Ninth Order administrator from the Burial God Realm, then searched Corpse Star and found no high-ranking members.
• Qin Heng offered the Burial God Realm stewards their freedom in exchange for information, but killed them when they refused to betray their faction.
• Qin Heng warned Jun Tianpeng to report members of the Burial God Realm, Force Race, Myriad Things Holy Hall, and Thunder Holy Hall, then demanded compensation from the Demon Luan Hall.
• Jun Tianpeng transferred 10 billion Void Ash Coins to Qin Heng, raising Qin Heng’s Yanwu Bank balance and VIP rank while severely reducing the Demon Luan Hall’s liquid funds.

Qin Heng tracked Chao Mu, the Burial God Realm's Second Elder, to the Eerie Land and discovered that the Myriad Things Lord had used surviving Pangu Clan members as bait to draw out their inheritance. After Qin Heng found the tattered original of the Universe Origin Secret Canon among Chao Mu's possessions, Chao Mu called for the Devouring Sky Marquis, and a pair of eyes opened in the Dark Dimension rift.

• Qin Heng reached the Eerie Land's Dimension Gap and called for Chao Mu, who had hidden beneath the wasteland as an ancient tree.
• Qin Heng split the wasteland and wounded Chao Mu, who revealed that the Myriad Things Lord had deliberately let Pangu Clan remnants escape.
• Qin Heng captured Chao Mu, searched his Void Crystal Storage Spaces, and found the tattered original of the Universe Origin Secret Canon.
• Chao Mu broke free and attacked Qin Heng, but Qin Heng dispelled his strike and shattered most of his body with Boundary Ripple Fist.
• Chao Mu called for the Devouring Sky Marquis as Qin Heng struck him with Void Annihilation, and brilliantly multicolored eyes opened in the Dark Dimension rift.

Qin Heng killed Chao Mu despite Devouring Sky Marquis’s intervention, then survived the dark lord’s attacks in the Dimension Gap. Devouring Sky Marquis left after three moves, and a gigantic Black Tower arrived behind Qin Heng.

• Devouring Sky Marquis revealed that Chao Mu was his apostle and demanded that Qin Heng spare him, but Qin Heng refused because Chao Mu had wronged the Pangu Clan.
• Devouring Sky Marquis attacked as a giant dark python, and Qin Heng killed Chao Mu before enduring a blast that tore through his body but did not destroy him.
• Qin Heng confronted Devouring Sky Marquis with the Pangu Stone Axe and Death Realm Flag, and the Marquis challenged him to survive three moves.
• Qin Heng blocked the Marquis’s next two attacks with the Stone Axe, and Devouring Sky Marquis departed after declaring the three moves complete.
• Qin Heng withdrew his battle form and stored his treasures, then a gigantic Black Tower arrived behind him.

After the Black Tower Master warned Qin Heng about the Dark Dimension and explained the universe’s vast imbalance between matter and darkness, Qin Heng left the breach. He considered the remaining portions of the Universe Origin Secret Canon and planned to hunt its holders once he grew stronger.

• The Black Tower Master arrived, checked that Qin Heng was unharmed, and warned him that Dark Dimension forces might see him as a future threat.
• The Black Tower Master explained that the Material World made up only five percent of the universe, that all nine True Gods belonged to the God Kingdoms, and that the Chaos Sea lay beyond their control.
• The Black Tower Master returned to the clan grounds, and Qin Heng departed from the Dark Dimension breach.
• Qin Heng reviewed the six portions of the Universe Origin Secret Canon available to him and considered how much stronger he needed to become to kill Myriad Things Lord.
• Qin Heng anticipated receiving the Void Ember God Talisman in a few dozen days and planned to search for the remaining lords and the Broken Iron after reaching the Eternal Realm.

After spending more than two years hunting the Burial God Realm remnants, Qin Heng returned to Earth and admired the nearly renovated Myriad Things Holy Hall. Learning that an envoy from the Ten Emperors Hall was on the way and that he would soon travel to the dangerous Old Universe, he began preparing for his departure and the possibility that he might not return.

• Qin Heng and Pan Hong hunted down remnants of the Burial God Realm and Force Race across River Source Floating Earth, earning the Pangu Remnants a fearsome reputation.
• Qin Heng returned to Earth on the seventieth day after the Genius Competition and reunited with Lan Xuan Ke, Vast Nothing Mountain Master, Flame Scale Lord, and the others.
• Qin Heng offered Flame Scale Lord materials he had collected, and Flame Scale Lord used some of them to finish renovating the Myriad Things Holy Hall to Earthling designs.
• Flame Scale Lord told Qin Heng that the Ten Emperors Hall envoy was on the way and warned him to settle his people before leaving for the dangerous Old Universe.
• Qin Heng considered which rare treasures to take or leave behind and decided to arrange his finances and protect the Earth Lineage before departing.
• Qin Heng hurried away to prepare, worrying especially about how long his parents might live if his journey kept him from returning for thousands of years.

Qin Heng prepared the Earth Lineage for his possible long absence, then lent Yu Ling powerful rare treasures so she could avenge the Worship Fire Race Planet by killing Blood Venerable. Yu Ling traveled alone to Purple Nether Star, while Qin Heng and his companions waited for her return.

• Qin Heng instructed Pan Hong to help oversee the Earth Lineage and arrange a new leader if Qin Heng failed to return after a hundred years.
• Qin Heng told his family he was going to the Old Universe for tempering and might be gone for an uncertain length of time.
• Yan Feng vowed to avenge Xing Er, while Yu Ling lamented that she was not strong enough to defeat Blood Venerable on her own.
• Qin Heng gave Yu Ling three rare treasures to add to her existing weapons, and she set out to kill Blood Venerable on Purple Nether Star.
• Xuan Nie worried that Yu Ling would face danger alone, but Qin Heng trusted that the Returning Heaven Alliance would not dare interfere with her revenge.

Yu Ling avenged her people and decided to return home to rebuild the Worship Fire Race, while Qin Heng planned to explore the Void Well and search for Pangu Lord’s reincarnated body. After parting from Yu Ling, Qin Heng headed into the starry skies alone.

• Qin Heng hosted Yu Ling after she returned from killing Blood Venerable and the Star Lords responsible for her people’s deaths.
• Yan Feng suggested that Yu Ling search for surviving members of the Worship Fire Race, and she resolved to return home and rebuild it.
• Yan Feng spoke of his many remaining grudges and the little hope of avenging his father, while Qin Heng encouraged him not to give up.
• Qin Heng shared his plans to seek treasures, find Pangu Lord’s reincarnated body, explore the Void Ash God Kingdom, and visit the Void Well; Yan Feng and Yu Ling declined to join him.
• Qin Heng escorted Yu Ling to the passage leading to River Source Floating Earth, where they thanked each other and said farewell.
• Yu Ling watched Qin Heng disappear into the starry skies of the Mo Hui River.

Qin Heng traveled to the Pangu Sky Pillar and comprehended the Chaos Law, forming a Law Rune while deciding to keep focusing on Space Law. Star Devouring Marquis appeared and asked whether Qin Heng had the Stone Axe.

• Qin Heng reached the Void Well and passed a dim Sky Pillar left behind by the fallen Prosperous Brilliance Lord.
• Qin Heng traveled to the Pangu Sky Pillar and sensed the Chaos Law resonating within it.
• Qin Heng studied the Chaos Law, formed a Law Rune, and resolved to pursue it only as a supplementary path while continuing to focus on Space Law.
• Star Devouring Marquis appeared behind Qin Heng and asked whether he had the Stone Axe.

Qin Heng met Star Devouring Marquis, who explained his history with Pangu Lord and Demon Chief Lord and why he had waited seven epochs for Pangu. Qin Heng left for the Old Universe with a Chaos Compass gifted by Star Devouring Marquis, who remained at the Sky Pillar awaiting Pangu’s return.

• Qin Heng showed Star Devouring Marquis the Stone Axe, and Star Devouring Marquis admitted he could no longer suppress his cultivation while waiting for Pangu.
• Star Devouring Marquis recounted how he met Pangu and Demon Chief Lord, journeyed with them through the Chaos Sea, and waited seven epochs after hearing that Pangu had perished.
• Qin Heng and Star Devouring Marquis wondered whether Pangu’s second journey to the Chaos Sea and his contact with Myriad Things Lord were connected to his fate.
• Star Devouring Marquis said he would keep waiting for Pangu to return and fulfill their agreement, and Qin Heng encouraged him.
• Star Devouring Marquis gave Qin Heng a Chaos Compass, and Qin Heng departed for the Old Universe.