Chapter Summaries

After Qin He removed Lu Hengsan’s Death Imprint, the ancient skeleton beneath Qingwu Mountain prepared to emerge and attack Taicang City. Qin He and the others readied themselves for battle as the skeleton raged underground, leaving the city facing an imminent hunt.

• Lu Hengsan prostrated himself in relief after regaining his freedom, and Qin He told Su Qinghan that the skeleton on Qingwu Mountain would likely emerge that night.
• Su Qinghan and Qin He returned to the restaurant and warned Zhao Yan and Li Lie that the skeleton might attack Taicang City.
• Zhao Yan vowed to confront the evil entity, while Li Lie proposed using the Spirit-Tracking Ring to request reinforcements if the group faced a stalemate.
• Qin He spread merit throughout Taicang City, and the Spirit Crossing Sutra entered the minds of cultivators who worshipped Immortal Green Ox.
• As the moon rose and the wind turned cold, the ancient skeleton gathered power beneath Qingwu Mountain and demanded to know who had erased its imprint.

A Saint-tier evil corpse emerged from beneath Qingwu Mountain and attacked Taicang City, forcing Qin He and three Realm Patrol Bureau cultivators into battle. As their defenses began to falter, Lu Hengsan led the city's believers in reciting the Spirit Crossing Sutra, summoning a hazy Dao figure that made the deathly clouds recoil.

• The evil corpse rose from Qingwu Mountain, spread its Law of Death, and surged toward Taicang City to devour its vitality.
• Zhao Yan, Li Lie, Su Qinghan, and Qin He flew out to confront the corpse, which attacked them with its death rule.
• The four linked their laws to withstand the attack, while Qin He used a precise flame to mend a breach in their defenses.
• As the battle wore down the four cultivators, Lu Hengsan rose above the city and called on its believers to recite the Spirit Crossing Sutra.
• The believers' chanting gathered merit, incense-born spiritual energy, and prayers into a radiant Dao figure that halted and repelled the deathly clouds.

Li Lie, Su Qinghan, Zhao Yan, and Qin He weakened the Myriad-Era Evil Corpse until it tried to escape, but Burning Heaven Lord arrived and destroyed it with the Burning Heaven Law. Burning Heaven Lord then fixed his attention on Qin He.

• Li Lie, Su Qinghan, and Zhao Yan combined their laws with Qin He's hidden Lotus Flame Origin to suppress the Evil Corpse and disrupt its Death Rule.
• The weakened Evil Corpse burned its remaining Origin Deathly Aura to tear open a spatial rift and flee.
• Zhao Yan invoked the Earth-Sealing Boundary, but the Evil Corpse forced its way through the barrier.
• Burning Heaven Lord appeared and struck the Evil Corpse with a crimson fireball, erasing its body and Death Origin.
• Burning Heaven Lord surveyed the ruined forest and Taicang City, then fixed his gaze on Qin He.

Burning Heaven Lord destroyed the Myriad-Era Evil Corpse, then summoned Qin He alone to accompany him, leaving the others behind in Taicang City. Qin He suspected the summons was part of a trap arranged by Li Wuming and Burning Heaven Lord, but accepted and vanished with them through a spatial rift.

• Burning Heaven Lord erased the Myriad-Era Evil Corpse, and Zhao Yan, Li Lie, Su Qinghan, and Lu Hengsan thanked him while Taicang City's cultivators knelt.
• Li Wuming emerged from the void and fixed his gaze on Qin He, who realized his arrival in Qingwu Mountain had likely been a deliberate investigation and trap.
• Burning Heaven Lord summoned Qin He, citing his pure fire root and an unexpected incident during his descent to the Lower Realm.
• Qin He accepted the summons despite suspecting Burning Heaven Lord meant to test or condemn him, while Su Qinghan warned him to be careful.
• Burning Heaven Lord ordered Zhao Yan, Li Lie, and Su Qinghan to remain in Taicang City, then took Qin He and Li Wuming away through a spatial rift.

Burning Heaven Lord used Ultimate Dao Resonance to expose Qin He’s hidden powers and link him to several major Divine Court cases. He identified Qin He as the Interworld Sky Demon, Green Ox Immortal, leaving Li Wuming stunned.

• Qin He, Li Wuming, and Burning Heaven Lord arrived at an active volcanic cliff, where Li Wuming confronted Qin He as Lin Yan.
• Qin He denied Li Wuming’s accusations that he concealed demonic nature, possessed Merit, and stole faith.
• Burning Heaven Lord described the opposing sacred and demonic powers within Qin He and revealed that he had sensed the anomalies before.
• Burning Heaven Lord accused Qin He of stealing the Starfall Flame, impersonating Liu Chengan, and establishing a Divine Shrine to steal faith.
• Burning Heaven Lord identified Qin He as the Interworld Sky Demon, Green Ox Immortal, shocking Li Wuming.

Burning Heaven Lord exposed Qin He's identity as the Interworld Sky Demon and Green Ox Immortal, but instead of immediately judging him, he offered to reveal the Divine War Department's coordinates. He concealed their conversation and began stating a condition.

• Burning Heaven Lord identified Qin He as the Interworld Sky Demon and Green Ox Immortal, startling both Qin He and Li Wuming.
• Li Wuming recognized Qin He as the Green Ox Pseudo-Immortal wanted by the Merit Department.
• Qin He stayed calm and declined to argue with Burning Heaven Lord about the accusation.
• Burning Heaven Lord asked whether Qin He wanted to know the Divine War Department's precise coordinates, and Qin He cautiously asked if he intended to tell him.
• Burning Heaven Lord concealed the conversation with Heavenly Secrets Concealment and said he had one condition.

Qin He and the Burning Heaven Lord agreed to exchange an unspecified favor for the Divine War Department's coordinates, with Qin He also demanding passage to the Return to Ruins Realm and secrecy. After Li Wuming witnessed their bargain and tried to flee, the Burning Heaven Lord knocked him unconscious and sealed him inside his sleeve, then prepared to begin the transaction.

• Qin He accepted the Burning Heaven Lord's condition to fulfill a future request if it did not violate his heart or Dao Path, and asked in return to be taken to the Return to Ruins Realm in secret.
• The Burning Heaven Lord agreed to Qin He's terms, and Li Wuming realized the deal amounted to betrayal of the Divine Court.
• Li Wuming activated his Metal Law and tried to escape, but the Burning Heaven Lord froze the space around him.
• The Burning Heaven Lord struck Li Wuming into unconsciousness and took him into a sealed dimensional barrier within his sleeve.
• The Burning Heaven Lord turned back to Qin He and said their transaction could begin.

Qin He entered the Cangming Nether Ruins to break through, but two veteran Saint Tier demons attacked him with space and earth laws. He erased their laws and began purifying the demonic sea with his lotus flame.

• Qin He reached the Cangming Nether Ruins, whose concealment and dense true demonic qi made it an ideal place for his breakthrough.
• Qin He released his true demon law, freezing the sea and forcing two hidden Saint Tier demons to emerge.
• The giant ao used earth laws to crush Qin He with gravity while the black flood dragon trapped him in a collapsing spatial prison.
• Qin He combined the source-birth law and true demon law to erase the demons' spatial and earth laws.
• Qin He spread red-blue lotus flame across the sea, burning away the demonic qi and evil-path foundations.

Qin He defeated the Demon Flood Dragon and the Giant Ao by using the Fire Dao Origin to destroy their Saint Dao foundations. He purified the Cangming Nether Ruins and chose it as a secluded place to strengthen his Dao Foundation.

• The Demon Flood Dragon detonated its spatial laws while the Giant Ao raised a massive prison of demonic rock, unleashing their final attacks on Qin He.
• Qin He’s lotus flame neutralized the spatial blades and crumbled the rock prison, then he formed two fire blades to strike the Saint Tier evils.
• The Demon Flood Dragon and the Giant Ao died as their Dao foundations and origins were severed.
• Qin He gathered the two demonic bodies and found the purified Cangming Nether Ruins suitable for cultivation.
• Qin He descended to the Black Sea, put away the demonic bodies, and withdrew his killing intent.

Qin He began the first of the six Saint Tribulations after reaching the peak of the Other Shore Realm. Stripped of his laws and other external powers, he endured three Dao-Locking Tribulation Lightning strikes while relying only on his body, cultivation foundation, and unwavering mind.

• Qin He withdrew his remaining demonic aura and Merit, then declared his intention to challenge the Saint Dao and awaited the Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Saint Tribulation sealed Qin He's Source-Birth Law, Dao of the True Demon, Lotus Flame, and other external powers.
• The first Dao-Locking Tribulation Lightning formed an Ancient Peng that shattered Qin He's spiritual barrier and battered his body.
• The second bolt took the form of an Ancient Era Spirit Dragon and further injured Qin He, but he remained seated and endured it.
• The third bolt became a crimson Fire Phoenix whose thunderfire scorched Qin He's flesh and soul as he guarded his mind and continued to withstand the tribulation.

After surviving the first Locking-Dao trial, Qin He faced the Shattering-Dao Tribulation, which dismantled his cultivation habits and severed his ties to the world's laws. The final bolt began purging flaws in his Dao path, leaving his test of sainthood unresolved.

• Qin He endured the Locking-Dao Tribulation's third wave, then used his bodily vitality and pills to heal and steady himself.
• Qin He sat upright and faced the Shattering-Dao Tribulation as three bolts of glazed violet thunder formed in the clouds.
• The first bolt dismantled Qin He's ingrained cultivation methods and combat habits, and he let it scour his convictions.
• The second bolt severed Qin He's connections to the world's rules, leaving his cultivation wholly his own.
• The final bolt began combing through Qin He's Dao path to purge deviations, hidden dangers, and reliance on luck.

Qin He survived the final Glazed Violet Thunder and endured the Saint Realm’s third tribulation, Myriad Dao Reversal Lightning. He resisted the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to make him submit to its laws and emerged with the resolve to set his own Dao, having passed the third Saint Dao tribulation.

• Qin He braced for the final Glazed Violet Thunder, but it proved gentle because his life-and-death trials had made his cultivation gains part of a solid foundation.
• Qin He safely passed the Dao-Shattering Lightning, and the Tribulation Cloud gathered the five-colored Myriad Dao Reversal Lightning.
• Myriad Dao Reversal Lightning battered Qin He’s body and soul with the laws of heaven and earth while the Heavenly Dao’s will urged him to follow its order.
• Qin He declared that he would not follow the Heavenly Dao’s laws and used the lightning’s assault to understand the Dao and strengthen his own path.
• Qin He endured the lightning until it withdrew, standing above the bloodied sea after overcoming the third Saint Dao tribulation.

Qin He endured the Chaos Daoheart Tribulation by rejecting its illusions and forging a Dao of his own in the ruleless void. His Supreme Freedom Dao began to take shape, and the gate to the Saint Realm opened slightly.

• Qin He faced illusions of his fallen companions and former soldiers as the Chaos Daoheart Tribulation magnified his deepest attachments.
• Qin He recognized the scenes as fake and shattered the illusions without hesitation.
• Qin He entered the void’s absolute vacuum and began reconstructing a Dao rooted in his own heart rather than borrowed laws.
• Qin He’s insights converged into a gold-and-black embryonic Dao law as the surrounding chaos stirred in response.
• The Supreme Freedom Dao emerged, drawing the Cangming Nether Ruins’ spiritual energy and rules toward Qin He as the gate to the Saint Realm cracked open.

Qin He created his own Dao during the fifth Saint Tribulation and earned the Heavenly Dao’s acknowledgment. He completed the Saintly Dao-Foundation Metamorphosis and became a Saint, wielding the laws of his Unfettered Saint Dao.

• After three days of silence, Qin He formed a new Dao from his true heart and unleashed his own white Dao Lightning.
• Qin He’s golden-black Dao patterns restored order to the Cangming Nether Ruins, and the Heavenly Dao acknowledged his success in the fifth tribulation.
• Golden Dao grace healed Qin He’s body as he gained the power to rewrite the laws of the world.
• Qin He completed the final tribulation, manifested a Dao Core, and became a Saint.
• Qin He took one step across ten miles of void as his Saint Dao was born.

Two Divine Punishment Department clerks detected a Saint Tier tribulation in Cangming Sea and watched its grade climb to an unprecedented nine rays. They realized the unknown cultivator was a supreme prodigy who had to be reported to the Divine Court.

• Two clerks observed a rare, fist-sized Saint Tier tribulation appear on the Tribulation Heaven Mirror.
• The mirror revealed four graded star runes, but the clerks found no Divine Court filing for the unknown cultivator.
• The clerks located the tribulation in Cangming Sea, where obscured Heavenly Secrets prevented them from seeing the cultivator.
• The tribulation's grade rose to five rays, holding there until the Divine Court's one-day observation limit nearly expired.
• The halo surged to nine rays, overwhelming the hall with the aura of heavenly laws.
• The clerks recognized the nine-ray tribulation as an unprecedented supreme phenomenon and resolved to report it immediately.

After Qin He’s tribulation ended, the Nine-Rayed Star Tribulation Seal turned black, prompting the Divine Punishment Department to mobilize toward the Cangming Sea. Qin He explored his unusual Saint Realm powers, sensed a growing crisis rooted in the world’s rules, and fled inland at extraordinary speed.

• The Nine-Rayed Star Tribulation Seal turned black, and two Divine Punishment Department cultivators recognized it as a sign that an emperor might descend.
• The Divine Punishment Department activated Cross-Region Teleportation Arrays and sent a large force toward the Cangming Sea.
• Qin He tested his Saint Realm abilities, manipulating the sea, space, and surrounding rules with a thought.
• Qin He sensed a deep, heaven-and-earth-level crisis spreading across the Cangming Sea and decided to leave.
• Qin He shifted rapidly inland, realizing that his Saint Realm movement surpassed the techniques described in ancient records.

Qin He witnessed a Ghosthead Shark devour the Sea Race in a small city and suspected it was feeding a hidden Source of Supernatural Phenomenon. He killed the beast with a single strike, freeing the survivors and the Sea Race it had swallowed.

• Qin He entered the Endless Sea Region and saw signs that its Sea Race settlements had fallen into decay.
• A black ghostly aura descended on a Sea Race city, freezing the sea and driving its inhabitants to flee.
• A Ghosthead Shark appeared, shattered the city's defensive barrier, and swallowed many Sea Race members along with the city’s ruins.
• Qin He recognized the Ghosthead Shark as a vanguard feeding a more powerful presence and froze the area with Saint Realm rule suppression.
• Qin He pierced the Ghosthead Shark with a single strike, dispelled its Deathly Aura, and released the Sea Race it had swallowed.

Qin He traced the Ghosthead Shark’s Remnant Soul aura to a Sea Abyss three thousand li away, where a late Saint Tier Sea Demon controlled the surrounding laws. The Sea Demon emerged and locked down the deep sea, confronting Qin He beneath crushing pressure.

• Qin He sensed the Ghosthead Shark’s connection to an ancient abyssal presence and burned its corpse with Lotus Flame.
• Qin He crossed three thousand li of increasingly hostile deep sea by manipulating the distance before him.
• Qin He reached the Sea Abyss, where scarlet eyes watched him from the mist and a savage Baleful Intent surged upward.
• A colossal late Saint Tier Sea Demon rose from the abyss and halted the currents across a thousand li.
• The Sea Demon fixed its scarlet pupils on Qin He and multiplied the water pressure around him a hundredfold.

Qin He sent an incarnation into the Sea Abyss after the wounded Sea Demon and discovered that its depths connected to a ruined, hidden Netherworld. He crossed into the Yellow Springs in pursuit of the creature.

• The Sea Demon broke off one of its tail spikes to escape Qin He's palm strike, then fled into the Sea Abyss and challenged him to follow.
• Qin He suspected the Sea Demon might be luring him into a trap, so he created an incarnation and sent it into the depths while his original body remained above the sea.
• Qin He's incarnation descended through crushing darkness, protected by the power of the Saint Realm.
• The incarnation found a boundary separating the deep seawater from the Yellow Springs and saw the ruins of an ancient Netherworld below.
• After the Sea Demon's aura vanished into the Yellow Springs, Qin He's incarnation stepped into the Yellow Broth to pursue it.

Qin He pursued the Sea Demon into Yellow Springs, where the demon recovered and used the river’s power to suppress and erode him. After they argued over longevity, the Divine Court, and the demon’s slaughter of the Sea Race, the Sea Demon prepared to kill Qin He and devour his saintly blood.

• Qin He plunged into Yellow Springs, where the Sea Demon regenerated its wounds and gained control of the surrounding currents.
• The Sea Demon sealed Qin He inside the river’s currents, while Yellow Springs suppressed his strength and drained his life force.
• The Sea Demon revealed its true form as an Old Manta Demon, a Late Saint Tier supernatural entity rooted in Yellow Springs.
• Qin He condemned the Sea Demon for devouring Sea Race souls, while the demon accused the Divine Court of monopolizing the path to longevity.
• The Sea Demon unleashed its full cultivation and declared that devouring Qin He would let it sleep for five hundred years.