Chapter Summaries

Qin He took the Long Clan survivors toward Earth Pole Mountain to evade the Divine Court’s Sky-Seeking Mirror, following a route Long Qingyao knew. After Long Qingyun revealed that the mountain’s auroras could hide them from even a High God’s avatar, Qin He agreed to seek refuge there and raced toward Black Crow Mountain.

• Long Qingyun told Qin He that Earth Pole Mountain’s auroras could conceal them from spiritual probing and that they only needed to hide until the High God’s avatar collapsed.
• Qin He agreed to head for Earth Pole Mountain, suspecting Long Qingyun also wanted him to settle the Long Clan survivors there.
• Qin He revealed to Long Mingyuan that Long Qingyun was imprisoned in the Black Demon Banner and had asked him to save the Long Clan.
• Long Qingyao proposed a longer hidden route through Black Crow Mountain, Thousand Severed Valley, and Mistveil Village, then pointed out the turn on her map.
• Qin He accelerated toward Black Crow Mountain with the survivors, astonishing Long Mingyuan with his movement technique and mastery of space law.

Qin He led Long Qingyao, Long Mingyuan, and the surviving Dragon Clan members across Central Province while evading Divine Court patrols. They reached Earth Pole Mountain beneath its brilliant Aurora, where Long Qingyao believed they would finally be safe, and Qin He guided them toward the concealed refuge.

• Qin He swallowed Black Crow Mountain's law-bearing Gale Wind with his demonic shield and continued evading Divine Court patrols.
• Qin He slipped past the final patrol after crossing Black Crow Mountain and traveled southeast with the Dragon Clan.
• Long Mingyuan recognized Central Province after ten days of travel, and Long Qingyao pointed out the route toward Earth Pole Mountain.
• Qin He and the Dragon Clan reached Earth Pole Mountain after three more days and watched the Aurora spread across the sky.
• Long Mingyuan felt his wound ease beneath the Aurora, while Qin He sensed its pure laws resonating with the Sourceborn Fragment.
• Qin He guided everyone toward the concealed crack in the mountain wall that Long Qingyun had identified as a hiding place.

Qin He and the surviving Dragon Clan members reached the Dragon Clan Ancestral Land, a hidden village where cultivators lived peacefully amid farming and daily life. Long Qingyao reunited with her relatives, who welcomed the newcomers, while Long Qingyun's soul seemed moved by the warmth of his childhood home.

• Qin He led the Dragon Clan members through an underground passage into a village beneath the Aurora, where he sensed the unusual density of spiritual power.
• Long Mingyuan explained that the village was the Dragon Clan Ancestral Land and recalled how the clan had maintained ties with it after moving to Yunlai.
• Grandpa Long and Long Qingyao's uncle and aunt arrived, and Qingyao reunited with them.
• Long Qingyao told her relatives that her parents were gone and the Dragon Clan had suffered a calamity, then introduced Qin He as the person who saved them.
• Grandpa Long welcomed Qin He and the Dragon Clan members, offered them vacant houses, and invited them to settle in.
• Qin He sensed Long Qingyun's soul trembling with complicated warmth as the village's peaceful life unfolded around them.

Qin He woke after ten days of peaceful rest in the cave abode and saw how the Dragon Clan had settled into the village. At the Spirit Spring, he sensed a law fluctuation connected to the aurora and Earth Pole Mountain, while Long Qingyun's living soul stirred faintly within the Black Demon Banner.

• Qin He slept through the aurora’s night in a vine-hidden cave abode after laying down three formations.
• Long Qingyao brought Qin He star-wheat cakes and told him that ten days had passed while the Dragon Clan and villagers repaired the homes and prepared for village life.
• Qin He saw Long Mingyuan, the elder surnamed Long, and the villagers working together in the fields and around the village.
• Long Qingyao led Qin He to the Spirit Spring, where he sensed a faint law echo resonating with the sourceborn fragment in the Bronze Casket.
• Qin He traced the matching law fluctuations to a streak of light descending from Earth Pole Mountain and felt the Black Demon Banner tremble as Long Qingyun's living soul stirred.

Long Qingyao questioned Qin He about his demonic reputation and the Dragon Clan ancestor sealed in his banner, then faced the choice of staying in Aurora Village or following a dangerous path to power. She chose to become stronger and asked to see the world beyond for herself, while Qin He left her decision open.

• Long Qingyao brought Qin He star potato cakes and discussed Aurora Village’s Star-Absorbing Art and its limits.
• Long Qingyao asked whether Qin He was truly a demonic cultivator, and he said the Divine Court’s label did not define him.
• Long Qingyao confronted Qin He about her ancestor sacrificing members of the Dragon Clan, and Qin He said the ancestor had been reflecting while viewing the village’s wheat fields through his spiritual perception.
• Long Qingyao told Qin He that her grandfather had left her free to choose whether to become his disciple, despite the danger of becoming an enemy of the Divine Court.
• Qin He said she could live peacefully in the village, but Long Qingyao declared that she wanted to grow stronger, protect her clansmen, learn the truth, and see the world for herself.

Long Qingyao accepted Qin He's offer to become his disciple, and Qin He began investigating the origin-birth law fragment. When he infused it with demonic essence, the fragment merged with the Demonic Cloud Millstone and transformed his demonic essence.

• Qin He asked Long Qingyao to choose whether to become his disciple, and she agreed to prepare for a discipleship ceremony seven days later.
• Long Qingyun warned Qin He to keep Long Qingyao's discipleship secret from the Divine Court.
• Qin He questioned Long Qingyun about the origin-birth law fragment, and Long Qingyun explained that he had found it in an ice fissure on Earth Pole Mountain but could never refine it.
• Qin He infused the fragment with demonic essence, causing it to flare and send its power into his dantian.
• The Demonic Cloud Millstone churned the fragment's power with Qin He's demonic essence for days, leaving his essence pale gold and forming a gold-and-black pillar beneath the millstone.

Qin He transformed his demonic essence and broke through to the Other Shore Realm, triggering a vast celestial resonance across Earth Pole Mountain and Aurora Village. Far away, Li LInfeng sensed the phenomenon and wondered whether it came from the Central Province.

• Qin He's Demonic Cloud Millstone fused demonic essence with the Source-Birth Law, awakening patterns of lightning, wind, and space as he broke through.
• A gold-and-black pillar erupted from Qin He's cave, shaking Earth Pole Mountain and drawing the attention of Long Qingyao, Long Mingyuan, and Aurora Village's elders.
• The stars formed a dragon-shaped constellation and poured starforce over Aurora Village, where the Spirit Spring surged and the village children advanced to the Wheel Sea Realm's entry stage.
• The old man surnamed Long recognized the celestial display as an omen of the radiant flow era and marveled that Qin He's breakthrough could stir the stars.
• Thousands of miles away, Li LInfeng sensed the dimming stars and saw the distant pillar, then speculated that the phenomenon came from the Central Province.

After emerging from seclusion with his foundation in the Other Shore Realm established, Qin He accepted Long Qingyao as his disciple and gave her a supreme sword art suited to her path. The chapter ended as he sensed the Divine Punishment Department approaching from the south.

• Qin He emerged from the cave dwelling after cultivating amid the Aurora, showing signs that his laws and flesh had fused.
• Long Qingyao presented Qin He with a meal as her apprenticeship gift, and he accepted their master-disciple bond.
• Long Qingyao told Qin He she practiced the Water Cloud Art and showed him the Azure Marrow Sword her parents had left her.
• Qin He passed the Azure Cloud Sword Art to Long Qingyao, who was astonished by its depth and resolved to cultivate it.
• Qin He sensed a strong fluctuation of laws from the Divine Punishment Department in the south and recognized that they had tracked the breakthrough's phenomenon.

Li LInfeng searched the Earth Extremity Mountain Range under threat of expulsion from the Divine Court, while Zhao Kun and the other soldiers mocked his warnings. When Qin He approached after advancing to the Other Shore Realm, Zhao Kun ordered the Heavenly Net Formation set up, and Li LInfeng prepared to fight his way out and seek help.

• Li LInfeng continued searching for the Sky Demon after the High God stripped him of his post and threatened to cast him into the Demon Suppression Tower if he found no trace within ten days.
• Zhao Kun and the divine soldiers mocked Li LInfeng’s failure and dismissed his suspicion that the Sky Demon was nearby.
• A powerful pressure carrying demonic energy and golden laws shook the mountain range, and Li LInfeng recognized the approaching Sky Demon as an Other Shore Realm cultivator.
• Zhao Kun ordered the divine soldiers to deploy the Heavenly Net Formation, ignoring Li LInfeng’s warning that it could not contain the Sky Demon.
• Li LInfeng resolved to break through the formation and alert the High God as Qin He approached with laws and heavenly phenomena forming around him.

Qin He confronted the Divine Punishment Department on Earth Pole Mountain and overwhelmed its envoys with his fused laws and spatial domain. Li LInfeng escaped with three others, leaving Qin He to expect the Divine Court to learn where he had appeared.

• Qin He approached Li LInfeng and the Divine Punishment Department envoys, whose Heavenly Net Formation faltered under his law aura.
• Li LInfeng accused Qin He of slaughtering the Dragon Clan, but Qin He blamed the Divine Court and Long Qingyun for the clan’s suffering.
• Qin He pierced the Heavenly Net Formation with a single strike, then repelled Zhao Kun and two other envoys by combining lightning, wind, and spatial laws.
• Li LInfeng fled down the mountain path with two divine soldiers, while Qin He struck Zhao Kun’s dantian and trapped the remaining divine soldiers in a spatial domain.
• Qin He killed the trapped divine soldiers and criminal investigators, then let Li LInfeng’s escape serve as a way to spread news of his appearance.

Qin He questioned Long Qingyun about why cross-realm travelers were called Sky Demons and learned that a cataclysm had severed the ascension passages, leaving travelers vulnerable to soul-devouring fiends. Long Qingyun explained that the Divine Court hunted all such arrivals, while Qin He's own demonic nature appeared unusual and innate.

• Long Qingyun awakened in the Black Demon Banner and agreed to answer Qin He's questions after Qin He had protected the Dragon Clan's bloodline.
• Long Qingyun explained that a great war shattered the Heavenly Court and cut off the passages between planes, making immortality unattainable for cultivators in the lower realms.
• Long Qingyun said that Plane Fiends and uncanny entities preyed on realm smugglers, seized their bodies, and caused massacres, leading the Divine Court to brand all cross-realm arrivals as Sky Demons.
• Long Qingyun revealed that some powerful smugglers had reached higher planes, but most became fiend-controlled puppets or died in Space Rifts.
• Long Qingyun said the Divine Court could not easily repair the passages and that its rulers might prefer to retain their authority over the lower realms.
• Long Qingyun said Qin He's pure demonic aura did not seem to come from Body Seizing and suggested that he was born with a Demonic Body.

Qin He questioned Long Qingyun about the Divine Court and learned how it controlled order, Merit, and revival. He concluded that the Court branded anyone beyond its control a Sky Demon, leaving its power and rules as the threat he faced.

• Qin He asked Long Qingyun what the Divine Court was, and Long Qingyun explained that it had seized control of the realm’s order after the Ancient Heavenly Court shattered.
• Long Qingyun warned Qin He that the Divine Court concealed its secrets with Heavenly Secrets and erased those who tried to uncover them.
• Qin He asked whether the Divine Court’s members were immortal and could revive, and Long Qingyun said they could revive through Merit and rare materials, but at the cost of cultivation, memories, or their true selves.
• Long Qingyun revealed that he had fallen from the Half-Saint Realm, been revived by the Divine Court, and lost memories and his Saint Realm cultivation.
• Qin He concluded that the Divine Court treated anyone who tried to break its rules as an enemy, and Long Qingyun said it could define such beings as Sky Demons at will.

Qin He questioned Long Qingyun about his fall from the Divine Court and sought advice on safely bringing his one hundred thousand soldiers across realms. A Divine Court pursuit force discovered Qin He at Earth Pole Mountain, forcing him to flee as the Divine Envoy ordered the army to surround and kill him.

• Long Qingyun explained that the Divine Court had treated him as expendable after he lost his Saint Realm cultivation, and he had returned to the Lower Realm seeking opportunity.
• When Qin He asked where Long Qingyun had fallen, Long Qingyun fell silent and refused to reveal the secret.
• Long Qingyun warned that the Divine Court's Sky-Seeking Mirror threatened Qin He's one hundred thousand soldiers, but unstable time in the Cross-Realm Passage might mean little time had passed there.
• A Divine Court pursuit signal appeared over Earth Pole Mountain, and Qin He confronted its golden light with his own laws before fleeing.
• A Divine Envoy ordered the Divine Court cultivators to surround Qin He and kill him.

Qin He fought his way out of a Divine Court encirclement but was wounded by the Gilded Armored Warrior’s saintly spear. As the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm spread over the land, Qin He plunged into the mountains to evade his pursuers.

• Qin He dodged the Gilded Armored Warrior’s spear and broke through the Heavenly Punishment Formation by attacking the point where the Divine Punishment Envoys’ Laws connected.
• Qin He escaped a combined assault from stone beasts, a Holy Water dragon, and the Gilded Armored Warrior by using spatial movement and a lightning barrier.
• Qin He deflected the saintly spear with the Demonic Cloud Millstone, but the spear grazed his shoulder before he fled west.
• The Gilded Armored Warrior ordered the Divine Court’s forces to use the Sky-Seeking Mirror to track Qin He and close in on him.
• Qin He recognized the immense pressure of the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm and plunged into the mountains below.

Qin He used the Earth Vein’s power to disrupt the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm’s laws and evade the Gilded Armored Warrior. He escaped into the depths of the earth, seeking an Earth Vein route out as an even greater threat gathered above.

• The Sky-Seeking Divine Realm suppressed the laws around Qin He as the Gilded Armored Warrior pursued him into a canyon.
• Qin He fused his laws with the Earth Vein’s power, causing lava, lightning, wind, and spatial rifts to create law turbulence that disrupted the Divine Realm’s tracking net.
• The Gilded Armored Warrior charged through the turbulence, but Qin He struck a key point in his Saint power and briefly halted him.
• Qin He passed into the Earth Vein’s depths, where the Divine Realm’s pressure weakened, and vanished into the darkness.
• Qin He concealed his aura while searching for an Earth Vein route out as a stronger Saint Tier presence gathered on the horizon.

Qin He escaped the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm’s pursuit by entering a Lava Earth Vein and fleeing through its molten flow under a barrier formed from the Sourcebirth Law and Demonic Essence. The Gilded Armored Warrior lost track of him, then pursued him underground while the Divine Court sealed the canyon’s exits.

• Qin He discovered a Lava Earth Vein and learned from Long Qingyun that its chaotic laws could block the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm’s golden light.
• Qin He used the Sourcebirth Law and Demonic Essence to form a protective barrier and plunged into the lava.
• Qin He fled deeper along the lava flow as the heat consumed his Demonic Essence.
• The Gilded Armored Warrior discovered that the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm had lost Qin He’s aura and ordered the canyon sealed.
• The Gilded Armored Warrior pursued Qin He underground while Qin He continued through the lava, unaware that the warrior was close behind.

The Gilded Armored Warrior pursued Qin He into the Lava Earth Vein but lost his trail among its many branches and ordered the Divine Court to seal the exits. A month later, Qin He remained hidden underground and planned to infiltrate the Divine Court to learn about the Cross-Realm Passage and spatial node.

• The Gilded Armored Warrior entered the lava but failed to find Qin He, whose aura had vanished among the Earth Vein’s branching passages.
• The Gilded Armored Warrior ordered Divine Court forces to seal the region’s Earth Vein exits and monitor it with the Sky-Seeking Mirror.
• Several Divine Punishment Envoys tried entering the lava but retreated after its heat burned through their protective barriers.
• A month later, Qin He hid in an unknown Earth Vein passage, recovering from his long flight while the danger pursuing him had faded.
• Qin He told Long Qingyun that he intended to disappear and then infiltrate the Divine Court to locate information about the Cross-Realm Passage and spatial node.

After hiding for six months, Qin He absorbed the miasma of Soul-Eroding Abyss and killed the ancient demon that dwelled there. He had stabilized his cultivation and comprehended Sourcebirth Law, and he set out to gain living beings’ Thought Power to begin cultivating the Merit Saint Soul.

• Qin He emerged from hiding at Soul-Eroding Abyss and drew its demonic miasma into his Demonic Cloud Millstone.
• The evil demon of Soul-Eroding Abyss attacked Qin He with a bone blade, but Qin He shattered it with a blade formed from laws.
• Qin He killed the evil demon and absorbed the remaining miasma, clearing the sky above Azure Wind City as its civilians knelt in awe.
• Qin He reflected that he had stabilized his Early Other Shore Realm cultivation, touched the middle-stage threshold, and comprehended Sourcebirth Law.
• Qin He decided to pursue Demon-Saint Unity by cultivating the Merit Saint Soul, beginning with gathering Merit from the Thought Power of all living beings.

Qin He visited Azure Wind City’s Divine Court Shrine and decided to gather Merit by secretly placing his own statue inside it. Long Qingyun proposed the scheme, and Qin He agreed to carry it out.

• Qin He heard the people of Azure Wind City credit the Divine Court for purifying the Soul-Eroding Abyss and slaying its evil demons.
• Qin He examined the Divine Court Shrine and saw how it gathered Merit from the people’s Thought Power.
• Long Qingyun warned Qin He that secretly gathering Merit was a capital crime and that the Divine Court closely monitored its shrines.
• Long Qingyun suggested placing Qin He’s statue inside the Divine Shrine so he could draw Merit under the Divine Court’s cover.
• Qin He accepted Long Qingyun’s plan to secretly gather Merit.

Qin He learned that Purple Sun High Person abused his position as an Earth God of the Lower Realm to plunder Everbright Commandery, then entered Ziyang City disguised as an ordinary cultivator. He lured the greedy Purple Sun High Person into taking him into the City Lord's Mansion by presenting southern ming li fire, leaving Qin He alone with his target inside.

• Qin He questioned Long Qingyun about Everbright Commandery and learned that Purple Sun High Person oppressed the region while hiding his Divine Court status.
• Qin He traveled to Ziyang City and disguised himself as an ordinary cultivator to observe the tribute collection.
• Purple Sun High Person angrily rejected the offerings brought by cultivators and clans for his birthday.
• Qin He presented southern ming li fire as tribute and claimed he wanted to serve Purple Sun High Person.
• Purple Sun High Person, eager to obtain the strange flame, dismissed the crowd and escorted Qin He into the City Lord's Mansion.