Chapter Summaries

Qin He revealed his True Demon origin and used his Human Demon form to suppress the Sea Demon in Yellow Springs, tearing off its tail. The Sea Demon burned its cultivation and soul to break part of Qin He's restraints, and their Saint Tier powers collided as Yellow Springs' Nether Domain exploded.

• Qin He unleashed his True Demon origin and expanded into a thousand-zhang Human Demon, overwhelming the Sea Demon and locking down Yellow Springs.
• Qin He seized the Sea Demon and tore off its tail, gravely wounding it.
• The Sea Demon burned its cultivation and part of its soul to break free from some of Qin He's restraints and raise its power beyond its former limits.
• The Sea Demon turned Yellow Springs' Earth Veins against Qin He, and their opposing Saint Tier powers collided.
• Yellow Springs' Nether Domain exploded.

Qin He sealed the Yellow Springs Nether Domain fissure beneath the sea and cleansed the Corpse Qi from his avatar. He then destroyed the Sea Demon's corpse and eradicated its poison, leaving the nearby waters safe.

• Qin He froze the sea and sealed the Nether Domain fissure beneath the seabed.
• Qin He's avatar returned, and he absorbed the Corpse Qi that had infected it.
• The Sea Demon's corpse rose from the sea, threatening to poison life across the surrounding coastal waters.
• Qin He burned the corpse with Lotus Flame, severing its poison from the deep sea.

Qin He sensed that the Divine Court had sent a High God after him and fled across the Black Sea using Space Law. He inspected his Destiny Chart, found an inexplicable black line cutting through it, and continued toward his return and appointment with the Burning Heaven Lord.

• Qin He sensed an imminent danger and concluded that the Divine Court's High God had targeted him.
• Qin He used Space Law to cross the Black Sea and move toward distant islands.
• Qin He examined his Destiny Chart and found it crossed by a black line whose origin and meaning he could not identify.
• Qin He decided to keep moving, escape the High God, and return before his appointment with the Burning Heaven Lord.

The Divine Punishment Department arrived at the sea where Qin He had undergone Tribulation Transcendence and investigated his extraordinary Dao marks. After finding traces of True Demonic Qi at the Sea Demon’s remains, the silver-haired leader identified Qin He as the Sky Demon and summoned a High God.

• The silver-haired leader ordered ten Divine Punishment Department Saint Venerables to seal the region and search for the newly ascended Saint.
• The Saint Venerables examined the Tribulation Transcendence Dao marks and concluded that the cultivator’s foundation surpassed that of an ordinary newly ascended Saint.
• When the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm’s source-tracing Dao marks broke near the Nether Trench Abyss, the leader ordered the group to investigate.
• The Divine Punishment Department found the Sea Demon reduced to scorched remains and realized it had been killed with astonishing ease.
• The silver-haired leader detected True Demonic Qi among the remains, identified Qin He as the Sky Demon, and activated the High God Beacon.
• The leader ordered a region-wide lockdown and prepared to receive the High God for the Sky Demon’s extermination.

Qin He fled across the sea with Directed Shuttle Talismans, but a Divine Court High God continued to track him through the world's origin. He encountered a Winged Race trade caravan and learned that Glazed City had a Teleportation Array that might help him escape.

• Qin He used more than a dozen Directed Shuttle Talismans to flee over a hundred thousand miles from the Sea Demon Abyss, but the danger pursuing him remained.
• Qin He sensed a Winged Race caravan and changed direction to approach it.
• Qin He suppressed the caravan with his Saint Tier Dao resonance, then asked its elderly leader where it was headed.
• The elderly leader told Qin He they were traveling to Glazed City and that its ancient Teleportation Array connected to major cities across the sea region.
• Qin He heard the news and immediately vanished toward Glazed City.

Qin He arrived in Glazed City seeking its public Teleportation Array and learned outsiders needed special authorization and a costly fee. Unwilling to wait for a street demon’s dubious offer, he headed straight for the elders’ hall to ask for access, ready to force his way in if they refused.

• The Demon Race merchants fell silent after Qin He vanished, and the old black turtle warned them against speaking rashly about a Saint.
• Qin He reached Glazed City, a free-trade city where creatures of many races gathered beneath the Azure Sea.
• Qin He paid a black-finned fish demon for information about the public Teleportation Array.
• The fish demon explained that outsiders needed written authorization and three thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, then offered a suspicious deal to obtain them.
• Qin He saw through the fish demon’s scam and decided to go directly to the Ninefold Glazed Main Hall to request access, prepared to break in if refused.

Qin He asked to use Glazed City's Cross-Region Teleportation Array, but four veteran Saints tried to stall and exploit him. He suppressed them with an invisible domain and demanded one final answer about opening the array.

• Qin He released a restrained Saint aura across Glazed City and asked to borrow its Teleportation Array.
• Four veteran Saints emerged to surround Qin He and questioned his name, lineage, and destination.
• Qin He identified himself as a Rogue Cultivator and offered twice the required Spirit Stones, but the Saints falsely claimed the array was under maintenance.
• Qin He withdrew his aura and used an invisible Dao domain to bind the four Saints and suppress their power.
• Qin He stood before the trapped Saints and asked whether they would open the Teleportation Array.

Qin He forced the four Saints guarding Glazed City's Cross-Region Teleportation Array to let him pass, then hurriedly activated the array when he sensed someone had caught up. He vanished before the teleportation markings had fully stabilized, leaving the guards staring at the empty platform.

• Qin He rejected the four guards' attempts to delay him and insisted on using Glazed City's array.
• The white-robed elder backed down, and the four guards allowed Qin He to proceed without paying.
• Qin He used his grasp of the Space Origin to set a destination on an uninhabited barren island in the distant sea.
• Qin He sensed someone catching up and forcibly activated the array before it had fully stabilized.
• Qin He disappeared in a flash of white light, leaving the four guards bewildered.

Qin He escaped the High God's pursuit by teleporting across the sea and reached the Xuanwu Continent, where he reunited with Zhao Yan, Li Lie, and Su Qinghan. He concealed the dangers of his journey and claimed his cultivation had improved through the Burning Heaven Lord's Dao aura.

• Qin He arrived over the sea near the Xuanwu Continent and sensed that the High God's pursuit had ended.
• Qin He hurried away from the teleportation landing point and reached the southwestern frontier, where the land's terrain helped conceal his tracks.
• Five days later, Qin He returned to Taicang City, where Zhao Yan, Li Lie, and Su Qinghan greeted him after waiting more than twenty days.
• Zhao Yan asked Qin He about accompanying the Burning Heaven Lord, but Qin He said he had only served as a foil and done routine work.
• Qin He explained his improved cultivation by saying the Burning Heaven Lord's Dao aura had loosened his bottleneck, and his companions accepted the explanation.

Qin He traveled with the Realm Patrol Bureau teams to Nine Aperture Mountain, where he discovered that the celebrated immortal mountain was actually the decayed skull of an unknown supreme being. He connected the remains to Daoist Immortal Lingyun’s warning, “Whale Fall,” while keeping his discovery to himself.

• Realm Patrol Bureau cultivators mocked the Lower Realm inspection as a fruitless pretext, and Qin He realized their shared failure helped conceal his group’s irregularities.
• The teams reached Nine Aperture Mountain, and an old cultivator described how a powerful ancient sect had once ruled from the mountain before being destroyed.
• Qin He used his ocular and geomantic techniques to see through the mountain’s appearance and recognized its nine apertures as holes in an immense skull.
• Qin He noticed that three of the skull’s holes were especially deep and deathly, while the other cultivators remained unaware of the truth.
• Qin He recalled Daoist Immortal Lingyun’s words, “Whale Fall,” and inferred that the ancient sect had cultivated on the remains of a supreme being.

Qin He found that the cultivation realms beyond the Imperial Dao Realm had been concealed, then arrived at the Nine-Aperture Palace with the Realm Patrol Bureau. The Burning Heaven Lord noticed him before teleporting away, leaving Qin He to wait for their transaction in fifteen days.

• Qin He failed to divine anything beyond the Imperial Dao Realm and concluded that the world's laws were suppressing knowledge of higher cultivation realms.
• Qin He and the Realm Patrol Bureau cultivators arrived at the Nine-Aperture Palace, where they prepared to use its Grand Teleportation Array.
• The Burning Heaven Lord and the Fire God Hall cultivators arrived, disrupting the palace's orderly atmosphere with their origin fire pressure.
• The Fire God Hall group ignored the queue and entered the teleportation array without opposition from the Realm Patrol Bureau cultivators.
• The Burning Heaven Lord briefly looked at Qin He, and Qin He sensed the surrounding laws of fire wind around him before receding.
• The Burning Heaven Lord and his followers teleported away, while Qin He waited for their transaction scheduled in fifteen days.

After the Lower Realm purge failed to find Liu Chengye and Li Wuming disappeared, Qin He returned to the Divine Court and sensed that Li Wuming had secretly visited his residence. He reinforced his courtyard’s formation and began stabilizing his Saint Dao foundation.

• The Fire God Hall’s purge squads failed to find Liu Chengye, while the casualty report listed three Fire God Hall dead, one Realm Patrol Bureau dead, and Li Wuming missing.
• Ling Tianfan smashed his jade cup and demanded to confront the Burning Heaven Lord over Li Wuming’s disappearance, but the bureau’s stewards persuaded him that they had no grounds to hold the Fire God Hall accountable.
• Qin He accepted his mission rewards and returned to his residence, where he detected a faint trace left on the courtyard formation by Li Wuming.
• Qin He concluded that the Burning Heaven Lord had honored their deal because no one had tried to encircle or kill him.
• Qin He reinforced the courtyard formation and quietly worked to stabilize his connection to the laws of heaven and earth.

After stabilizing his Saint Tier Dao Foundation, Qin He sensed a fleeting, mysterious aura but could not identify its source. He was then conscripted alongside other Directorate cultivators for a top-secret Fire God Hall assignment, which Qin He recognized as the start of his transaction with the Burning Heaven Lord.

• Qin He completed the stabilization of his Saint Tier Dao Foundation and sensed a mysterious pull from the void that vanished before he could trace it.
• A clerk summoned Qin He to the training grounds under a Directorate conscription order, interrupting the timing of his planned transaction with the Burning Heaven Lord.
• Qin He joined Zhao Yan, Li Lie, and other cultivators at the training grounds, where Su Qinghan was absent.
• Ling Tianfan and a Fire God Hall representative announced that the Directorate cultivators had been temporarily conscripted for a secret assignment and ordered them to prepare to depart within half an hour.
• Qin He realized that the Burning Heaven Lord had used the Fire God Hall's conscription order to begin their transaction discreetly.

Qin He and the Fire God Hall cultivators were transported to a guarded void station, where their leader revealed their mission was to the Demon-Repelling Battlefield at Returning Ruins. The Saint Tier expert ordered them into the next teleportation array, leaving them no choice but to face the deadly mission.

• Qin He followed the others as they gathered to depart, careful not to attract Ling Tianfan's attention.
• The Fire God Hall leader activated an ancient array and transported the group to a gray void transit station protected by layers of formations.
• The Fire God Hall leader announced that the mission was to the Demon-Repelling Battlefield at Returning Ruins and threatened severe punishment for anyone who retreated or fled.
• The cultivators reacted with fear as they realized their Other Shore Realm cultivation would make them little more than cannon fodder on the battlefield.
• The Fire God Hall leader ordered the group to enter the second Teleportation Array.

Qin He and the other cultivators arrived in the Returning Ruins, an ancient battlefield filled with the remnants of a shattered world. After a warning about the hidden dangers and Shattered Law Force, the group followed their guide into the ruins.

• Qin He arrived in the Returning Ruins and saw its floating fragments of mountains, cities, artifacts, and frozen river water.
• A Fire God Hall cultivator explained that the ruins were the remains of an ancient battlefield where heaven, earth, and their laws had been destroyed.
• The Fire God Hall cultivator warned the group to stay together because unseen remnants of Dao resonance could crush their soul foundations.
• Qin He saw the words Returning Ruins carved into a broken stele and felt an anomaly stir within his soul.
• The group followed their guide away from the teleportation array and into the darkness of the ruins.

Qin He and the Fire God Hall group traveled through the Returning Ruins and encountered a colossal ancient ape corpse from an unknown bloodline. After warning them that the corpse and even tiny battlefield remains could kill or corrupt them, their guide led the group onward, leaving Qin He to wonder if the ruins came from the Mythological Era.

• A Fire God Hall cultivator told the group to stay together and explained that they would receive realm maps at the border garrison.
• The group stopped before a mountain-sized ape corpse, and Qin He studied its immense body and fatal wounds.
• The guide said the corpse had drifted there three thousand years earlier and might have been a Void Divine Ape or a Longyou Mountain Ape.
• The guide warned that approaching within three hundred zhang could disrupt the soul and suppress cultivation, and that all ancient remains in the Returning Ruins were dangerous.
• The guide ordered the group to keep formation and continue onward, while Qin He took one last look at the corpse and wondered if it belonged to the Mythological Era.

Qin He’s group encountered the fresh ruins of a Divine Court battlefield in Returning Ruins, where Fire God Hall cultivators explained that Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had fought the Divine Court there decades earlier. Qin He sensed a hidden resonance when he heard of the demons, while the group stopped before the dangerous battlefield and decided to pass through quickly.

• Qin He’s group traveled through Returning Ruins for two days without finding the temporary military camp, and Fire God Hall cultivators explained why unstable space prevented teleportation.
• The group discovered relatively fresh wreckage, including overturned Divine Court War Chariots, scattered weapons, and floating corpses.
• A Fire God Hall cultivator warned that lingering Baleful Intent made the battlefield core too dangerous to enter and said more than a dozen Divine Court corpses remained unrecovered there.
• Qin He asked who had fought the Divine Court, and the Fire God Hall cultivator identified the enemy as Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• The Fire God Hall cultivator explained that demons had poured through a rift fifty or sixty years earlier, turning a Divine Court suppression campaign into a brutal battle on the site.
• Qin He felt his hidden source power resonate at the mention of the demons, and the group halted before deciding to pass through the ruins quickly.

Qin He and the group reached Left Army City, one of the Divine Court’s four main frontline camps, after crossing the Spiritless Land. As they headed toward the main command tent, Qin He sensed the formation that gathered spiritual energy inside the camp and saw the many races and cultivators serving there.

• Qin He followed the group across the Spiritless Land for three days until they reached the vast encampment of Left Army City.
• A Fire God Hall member explained that Left Army City was a frontline camp and warned the newcomers to avoid quarrels with its powerful and diverse inhabitants.
• After entering the city, Qin He sensed the abundant spiritual energy gathered there by a grand formation.
• Qin He observed human and foreign cultivators moving through the camp as the Fire God Hall member led the group toward the main command tent.

Qin He and the other newcomers registered at the military camp and drew lots for their assignments. Their group was assigned to messenger duty, and they parted from their escort, Cao Taiqing, after he warned them to tread carefully.

• Qin He and the newcomers entered the central command area, where Divine War Department cultivators mocked their weak foundations.
• Camp officials registered the newcomers, gave them maps, and explained the military rules.
• Cao Taiqing requested permission for the newcomers to form their own teams, and the officials granted them ten breaths to do so.
• Qin He, Zhao Yan, and Li Lie formed a team, and Zhao Yan drew the messenger assignment for Squad Six-C.
• Cao Taiqing warned the group about surviving in camp, and Qin He thanked him and learned his name before they parted.

Qin He, Zhao Yan, and Li Lie reported to the Scout Camp and were immediately assigned to accompany Guan Qing on a routine military-intelligence delivery. As they headed through the void toward the other camps, Qin He sensed hidden fluctuations in space that the others could not detect.

• Qin He, Zhao Yan, and Li Lie arrived at the Scout Camp, where Captain Yun Ming assigned them to his messenger squad.
• Yun Ming introduced veteran Guan Qing, who told the newcomers they would leave at once on an urgent mission.
• Guan Qing led the three into the void and explained they would deliver the Left Army Camp's latest intelligence to the Right Army Camp and the Central Army Camp.
• Guan Qing explained that unstable void barriers made hand-delivered messages safer than ordinary communication, and warned the newcomers to prioritize survival and staying on course.
• Qin He sensed unusual, ordered fluctuations in the void while the others saw nothing, and chose to observe before deciding what to do.