Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng killed four Flying Snakes while rescuing Tong Chuan and Tong Shan, then entered the Dark Domain to temper himself. He found a Flying Snake Race Upper God there and threatened to kill him for snake meat.

• Qin Heng killed four Flying Snakes that had been pursuing Tong Chuan and Tong Shan, then refused the brothers’ offer to serve him.
• Qin Heng identified himself to the brothers as Qin Xuan of the Dragon Human Race and headed into the Dark Domain.
• Qin Heng descended into the Dark Domain, endured its immense gravity, and traveled toward a nearby Star Lord Eighth Order.
• A Flying Snake Race Upper God warned Qin Heng that his grandfather was the clan’s Third Elder, but Qin Heng said he loved eating snake meat and would not let him go.

Qin Heng pursued a Six-Winged Flying Serpent to lure out a stronger Flying Snake Race member, then killed the Star Lord Ninth Order enemy after concealing his physical strength. He collected the enemy’s Inner Core and resumed chasing the fleeing Star Lord Eighth Order serpent.

• Qin Heng chased the Six-Winged Flying Serpent through the Mist Realm, ignoring its threats and hoping to draw out reinforcements.
• Star Nine Flying Serpent arrived and attacked Qin Heng with Poison Law arrows, while Qin Heng countered with lightning, fire, and water techniques.
• Qin Heng used Dragon Suppressing Mountain to block an attack and pretended to struggle against Star Nine Flying Serpent’s poisonous assaults.
• Qin Heng pierced Star Nine Flying Serpent with a spear using his physical strength, then pursued and killed him despite his poison domain.
• Qin Heng collected the Inner Core and spoils, saw the injured Six-Winged Flying Serpent had fled, and resumed the chase.

Qin Heng deliberately lured the Six-Winged Flying Serpents into an ambush, then revealed the Azure Mist Sword and used its overwhelming power to defeat them. Two escaped, while Qin Heng collected three Inner Cores and continued deeper into the dark domain.

• Qin Heng followed a fleeing Star Lord Eighth Order Six-Winged Flying Serpent until five Flying Snake Race experts surrounded him.
• Qin Heng fought off the five attackers using his Water, Fire, and Lightning Laws, but their combined assault battered his Blood Avatar.
• Qin Heng revealed the Azure Mist Sword, and the Flying Serpents recognized its Main Divine Artifact resonance and grew greedy for it.
• Qin Heng killed two Star Lord Eighth Order Flying Serpents with the sword and collected their Inner Cores.
• The three surviving Flying Serpents fled in different directions, but Qin Heng caught and killed one Star Lord Ninth Order opponent before the other two escaped.

After completing his mission, Qin Heng discovered a deep spatial fluctuation underground in the Dark Domain and drilled down to investigate. Meanwhile, Hidden Sword Main God prepared to hunt him, but Nether Serpent Old Ancestor ordered him to resolve the clan’s crisis before she returned in ten years.

• Qin Heng decided to leave the Dark Domain after securing four high-level Star Lord Inner Cores, but detected a faint Space Law fluctuation underground.
• Qin Heng used his ninth-rank spear to drill through the hard ground and descended hundreds of kilometers toward the fluctuation’s source.
• Two Flying Snake Race Star Lords reported to Hidden Sword Main God that an Upper God dragonman had defeated them and killed three Upper Gods.
• Hidden Sword Main God planned to hunt Qin Heng and seize his low-grade Main God divine artifact, but Nether Serpent Old Ancestor arrived at the clan estate.
• Nether Serpent Old Ancestor demanded that Hidden Sword Main God settle the clan’s crisis before she returned in ten years, and he left to pursue Qin Heng.

Qin Heng followed powerful spatial fluctuations deep beneath the Dark Domain and found a spatial breach leading to an inverted realm. After testing it with objects and a drop of his blood, he realized it was not a world but a two-dimensional space, and his divine soul was destroyed there.

• Qin Heng drilled forty thousand kilometers underground and discovered a small spatial breach with powerful suction.
• Qin Heng sent a vine and Spirit Medicine Fruit through the breach and perceived an empty, inverted world that made him feel uneasy.
• Qin Heng threw a Crimson Gold Great Axe and a gauntlet into the realm and saw them settle on the ground without normal impacts.
• Qin Heng sent a drop of his origin blood with part of his divine soul into the breach and felt it descend through dimensions.
• Qin Heng lost contact with his divine soul and understood that the realm was a low-dimensional world resembling a sheet of blackened paper.

Qin Heng studied a void black hole and realized it contained a lower-dimensional world whose dimensional compression embodied an Eternal spatial Great Dao. After more than a hundred Void Ash Days of difficult meditation, he continued pursuing its principles while Mysterious Sparrow reported being hunted by an Eternal in the old universe.

• Qin Heng tested the void black hole with a vine and saw its tip and fruit compressed into an untouchable, nearly invisible flat plane.
• Qin Heng recognized the black hole as a lower-dimensional remnant and realized its dimensional compression could lead him toward understanding an Eternal spatial Great Dao.
• Qin Heng replaced his avatar with his true body and spent over a hundred Void Ash Days meditating, studying the lower-dimensional world and sending pieces of himself into it.
• Mysterious Sparrow told the group that an old-universe Eternal had anticipated her arrival and hunted her, but she escaped without using her Void Ash Talisman.
• Jingyuan, Meng Xing, and the others speculated that Divine Emperor elders had ordered Eternals near the borders to watch for and hunt Divine Kingdom prodigies, and the group agreed to be cautious.

Qin Heng left his comprehension of Dimension Compression to help Feng Qianxue confront Hidden Sword Main God. He joined her in the Dark Domain just as the Flying Snake Eternal attacked, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Hidden Sword Main God learned Feng Qianxue had entered the Dark Domain and hurried to pursue her.
• Qin Heng continued comprehending Dimension Compression while Feng Qianxue asked the group for help against Hidden Sword Main God.
• Jing Yuan offered to return, but Qin Heng revealed he was already in the Dark Domain and agreed to meet Feng Qianxue.
• Qin Heng broke through the Dark Domain's rock layers, reached Feng Qianxue, and pulled her beside him with his Small Universe.
• Hidden Sword Main God recognized Qin Heng and attacked him with his Fourth Order Rare Treasure Divine Sword.

Qin Heng and Feng Qianxue joined forces against Hidden Sword Main God, with Qin Heng holding off the Eternal expert while Feng Qianxue prepared her life-draining killing move. After surviving Hidden Sword Main God's powerful attacks and fighting him to a standstill, Qin Heng heard Feng Qianxue announce that she was ready to strike.

• Qin Heng blocked Hidden Sword Main God's sword strike, and Feng Qianxue agreed to help him in exchange for forty percent of the treasure.
• Feng Qianxue moved beside Qin Heng's ear to prepare her Innate Skill while Qin Heng used his treasures to withstand Hidden Sword Main God's attacks.
• Hidden Sword Main God transformed into an Eight-Winged Giant Python and unleashed the eleventh-order secret art Heaven and Earth Wrath.
• Qin Heng used the Four Spirits Cauldron and Pangu Stone Axe to counter the attack, then rapidly healed after Hidden Sword Main God cleaved through his body.
• Qin Heng and Hidden Sword Main God continued fighting head-on until Feng Qianxue told Qin Heng that she was ready to strike.

Feng Qianxue used the Life Exchange Art to bind and drain Hidden Sword Main God while Qin Heng guarded her and absorbed the remaining life force. Hidden Sword Main God was left on the brink of death, and Qin Heng and Feng Qianxue grew stronger from his vitality.

• Feng Qianxue trapped Hidden Sword Main God with her Life Exchange Art, exchanging her life force for his and explaining that Qin Heng needed to finish him afterward.
• Feng Qianxue’s puppet body cracked under the immense life force, so Qin Heng protected it with his palms and used the Undying Runes to repair it.
• The Flying Snake Race Upper Gods rushed to aid their clan leader, but Qin Heng’s Death Breath Grand Formation drained and killed them.
• Qin Heng used the Death Realm Flag to strip life force from Hidden Sword Main God as Feng Qianxue stored the excess vitality in a Jade Bracelet.
• When Feng Qianxue could absorb no more, Qin Heng redirected the Undying Runes to draw in the remaining life force, healing and strengthening himself while Hidden Sword Main God withered toward death.

Qin Heng and Feng Qianxue completely destroyed Hidden Sword Main God and divided his treasures. Feng Qianxue departed to seek opportunities elsewhere, while Qin Heng stayed in the Chaotic Mist Star Realm to continue comprehending the Dimension Compression Dao.

• Qin Heng struck down the weakened Hidden Sword Main God, and he and Feng Qianxue destroyed every fragment to prevent his rebirth.
• Feng Qianxue and Qin Heng examined Hidden Sword Main God's Small World and agreed that she would take his treasured sword while Qin Heng kept the remaining loot.
• Feng Qianxue refined the sword into her body to strengthen her flesh puppet and warned Qin Heng about the Flying Snake Race's Nether Serpent Old Ancestor.
• Feng Qianxue left the Chaotic Mist Star Realm, and Qin Heng collected the Four Spirits Cauldron and finished off the surviving Flying Snake Race Star Lords.
• Qin Heng burrowed underground and resumed comprehending the Dimension Compression Dao.

After Han Ren died and the Evergreen Saint Emperor revealed that the Endless Alliance was hunting geniuses from the new era, Qin Heng realized that staying in the Dark Domain could put him at risk. He left to gather news and learned that the Flying Snake Race had declined after the battle in the Dark Domain.

• Han Ren's divine soul imprint dispersed, leaving Qin Heng and the other geniuses shaken by his death.
• Mysterious Sparrow reported that he had been hunted for a second time, while Dong Huaiyue and Thunderclap found great opportunities.
• The Evergreen Saint Emperor told Qin Heng and the others that the Endless Alliance had wiped out the Underworld God Kingdom's entire genius squad and warned them to avoid staying in one place.
• Qin Heng worried that the Endless Alliance might be searching for him in the Dark Domain and decided to check news from the Chaotic Mist Star Realm.
• Qin Heng disguised his virtual appearance, visited Chaos Mist City, and learned that the Flying Snake Race had declined after the Dark Domain battle.

Qin Heng left the Dark Domain before the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor returned, still unable to master dimensional compression. After the Flying Snake Race ambushed him, he crushed their attackers with a new technique, though he could only flatten space rather than extract a dimension.

• Qin Heng continued studying the void black hole for 4,000 Void Ember Days but could not master dimensional compression.
• After learning the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor might return soon, Qin Heng reshaped himself as Qin Xuan and left the Dark Domain.
• Qin Heng emerged from a snowy mountain exit and flew away in the Black Gold spacecraft while nearby Star Lords watched.
• The Flying Snake Race's Seventh Elder and more than ten clansmen intercepted Qin Heng, hoping to kill him and earn a chance at becoming Clan Leader.
• Qin Heng tested his new method and flattened the attackers, killing them instantly, but concluded that he could not yet extract dimensions.

Qin Heng named his new spatial secret art the Fleeting Life Scroll and traveled toward the Evergreen Realm to cultivate. After he left the Chaotic Mist Star Realm, the Feng Xi Clan learned that he carried a Main God artifact and sent peak Upper Gods after him.

• Qin Heng named his newly developed tenth-order secret art the Fleeting Life Scroll and envisioned advancing it into a Dimension Reduction Strike.
• Qin Heng left for the Void Passage, intending to reach the Evergreen Realm and raise his realm to Star Lord Peak.
• At the passage, a Feng Xi Clan Upper God told Qin Heng that the Flying Snake Race might relocate after the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor returned.
• After Qin Heng entered the passage toward the Ruins Star System, the Feng Xi Clan Upper God reported his route to the clan.
• Several Feng Xi Clan peak Upper Gods set out for the Ruins Star System to pursue Qin Heng and seize his low-grade Main God artifact.

While traveling through the Ruins Star System, Qin Heng discovered that Feng Xi Clan members were tracking him for the Azure Mist Sword. He killed the three attackers and continued toward the Evergreen Realm, planning to reach it quickly and cultivate in seclusion.

• Qin Heng sensed pursuers following the Black Gold and recognized their teleportations as a direct pursuit.
• A Feng Xi Clan elder and two Star Lord Ninth Order companions stopped the Black Gold and demanded to see Qin Heng's Azure Mist Sword.
• Qin Heng tossed out the sword, then ambushed the three Feng Xi Clan members and killed them with his Boundary Ripple Fist.
• Qin Heng collected the three Inner Cores and the attackers' belongings, then vanished along the Ruins Star System route.
• Qin Heng abandoned his leisurely pace and resolved to reach the Evergreen Realm quickly, where he expected his abundant supplies to support rapid cultivation.

Qin Heng explored the Evergreen Realm for a secluded cultivation site and settled on Warm Moon Lake, where he created a mountain home. He named himself Qin Xuan, declared Warm Moon Mountain off-limits, and began cultivating there.

• Qin Heng arrived in the Evergreen Realm and received the Evergreen Saint Emperor's permission to choose a place to live and cultivate.
• Qin Heng searched the realm and found Warm Moon Lake, where energy from a weak point in the Dark Dimension barrier flowed into the area.
• Fu Shan, the Hidden Turtle Race lake chief, told Qin Heng that he now led the lake after the Dragon Spirit Race had been driven away.
• Qin Heng asked Fu Shan to evacuate the lake's center, then uprooted a mountain and placed it there to create his home.
• Qin Heng named the site Warm Moon Mountain, called himself Qin Xuan and its lord, forbade others from approaching, and began cultivating.

Qin Heng cultivated in seclusion, refining Inner Cores and advancing his understanding of Dimension Compression. In the God Tear Secret Realm, Dong Huaiyue discovered a Divine Tear that showed her an apparent vision of her past life, then chose to leave that past unexplored.

• Qin Heng cultivated with the Four Spirits Cauldron, using Inner Cores to fuel his growth and deductions about Dimension Compression.
• Dong Huaiyue fought her way through the God Tear Secret Realm and entered a cave containing a Divine Tear.
• Dong Huaiyue touched the tear and saw a woman in black, who looked like her, shed tears before disintegrating beyond the universe.
• Dong Huaiyue concluded that the woman might have been her in a previous life and that the Divine Tear was left behind by that life.
• Dong Huaiyue decided not to pursue her past and resolved to use the Divine Tears as treasures in her new life.

After nearly two Void Ember Years on Warm Moon Mountain, Qin Heng finally grasped the principle behind Dimension Reduction Strike and devised the Dimension Dismantling Art. His first attempts to apply the insight destroyed his Small Universe, leaving him to keep experimenting.

• Qin Heng let the White Egret leave Warm Moon Mountain to explore the outside world after it showed it could catch a powerful fish.
• Qin Heng relaxed by fishing, grilling fish, and drinking wine beside Warm Moon Lake.
• Qin Heng realized that Dimension Compression required dismantling the substrate of space, which revealed the solution to Dimension Reduction Strike.
• Qin Heng formed a Small Universe and tried to tear away one spatial dimension, but the universe collapsed in an explosion.
• Qin Heng judged his technique too crude, formed another Small Universe, and caused it to explode as well.

After more than a thousand Void Ember Days of experimentation, Qin Heng mastered the Eternal Great Dao and prepared to challenge the Eternal Gate. Meanwhile, Dong Huaiyue promised to protect the remaining Heavenly Chosen from the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor and revealed that Force Race remnants and members of the Myriad Things Holy Hall had entered the Old Universe.

• Qin Heng repeatedly experimented with the Space Law, eventually discovering a technique that could isolate part of a dimension without destroying it.
• Qin Heng learned that White Egret had transformed into human form after growing stronger from fish, water, and Jade Nectar Sweet Dew, then sent his cultivation insights into White Egret's Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Heng returned to his stone hut to prepare for seclusion, expecting to challenge the Eternal Gate in about a hundred days.
• Feng Qianxue and the other Heavenly Chosen discussed Jing Yuan's death and worried that the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor would target them next.
• Dong Huaiyue offered to come to the Evergreen Realm in a hundred days and said her method could guard against ambushes when used with a God Talisman.
• Dong Huaiyue revealed that a Heavenly Chosen from the Light God Nation had told her that God Nation Lords and members of the Force Race and Myriad Things Holy Hall had crossed the Darkness River into the Old Universe.

Qin Heng ended his seclusion in the Evergreen Realm and welcomed Dong Huaiyue and Feng Qianxue at Warm Moon Lake. Feng Qianxue revealed that the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor had returned, killed Jing Yuan, and now threatened them.

• Qin Heng received Dong Huaiyue’s message and invited her to meet him at Warm Moon Lake, where Feng Qianxue was waiting.
• Qin Heng left his stone hut and asked White Egret to catch and cook a fish for his guests.
• White Egret told Qin Heng that Fu Shan had taught him to cook and praised the strength-enhancing water from the Four Spirits Cauldron.
• Qin Heng told White Egret he expected to leave soon, then sensed Dong Huaiyue and Feng Qianxue arriving through gates of the void.
• Dong Huaiyue joked that White Egret looked like Qin Heng’s illegitimate son, and Qin Heng explained that he was his neighbor.
• Feng Qianxue told Qin Heng that the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor had returned, killed Jing Yuan, and was coming for them next.

Feng Qianxue told Qin Heng that the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor had killed Jing Yuan, and she and Dong Huaiyue proposed joining forces to defeat her. As they planned their next move, Dong Huaiyue revealed she had stopped being ruled by memories of her past life, then warned Qin Heng that five Eternals allied with Myriad Things Lord had come to the Old Universe.

• Feng Qianxue explained that the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor had hunted down and killed Jing Yuan, prompting Qin Heng to judge that she was far stronger than the Hidden Sword Main God.
• Dong Huaiyue said her treasure could counterattack an assailant with a Void Ember God Talisman, and the three planned to lure out and kill the Nether Serpent Old Ancestor after Qin Heng's breakthrough.
• Qin Heng, Feng Qianxue, and Dong Huaiyue shared a meal while discussing their plan.
• Dong Huaiyue revealed that she had once been a True God but no longer sought her past life, choosing instead to live as a new person.
• Dong Huaiyue warned Qin Heng that five Eternals allied with Myriad Things Lord would be the next enemies, and Qin Heng asked whether they had come to the Old Universe.