Chapter Summaries

Qin He successfully forged the Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower by harmonizing ice and fire, then tested its power on ancient ruins. With the weapon absorbed into his body, he gained confidence that he could face a High God.

• Qin He confirmed that the Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower had stabilized after six days of harmonizing its fire and ice auras.
• Qin He fired a Five-Colored Flame Bolt at ancient ruins, and its cold shattered the materials before its heat dissolved them completely.
• Qin He realized the lotus flame could dismantle and dissolve substances from their roots, making it a supreme weapon against powerful enemies.
• Qin He drew the tower into his body and felt its gentle resonance ease his exhaustion.
• Qin He sensed the tower's power and gained confidence that he could face a High God.

After fusing the Strange Flames, Qin He examined the rewards from the eight ancient corpses and prepared for his trip to the Returning Ruins Interlayer. With ten days remaining, he disguised himself as an ordinary messenger and headed toward the Central Army Camp.

• Qin He fastened on the Still Ruins Jade Pendant, which suppressed the fluctuations around him.
• Qin He collected the Spirit-Nourishing Liquid, Dragon Scale Fragment, Ancient Map, Formation-Breaking Token, Shattered Mirror, and Soul-Cleansing Elixir, learning that the elixir could only be taken by a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.
• Qin He sealed away the treasures and judged that his fused Ice-and-Fire Double-Layered Fire Lotus Pagoda, ancient treasures, and the Burning Heaven Lord's promise gave him a chance to escape during his trip in ten days.
• Qin He concealed his growing strength, disguised himself as an ordinary messenger, and followed his planned route toward the Central Army Camp.

As the Tier-One Demon Tide devastated the Central Army's defenses, Qin He reunited his three bodies and tried to slip through the rift between realms. Five High Gods appeared and froze the battlefield, leaving him trapped with his plans exposed.

• The Tier-One Demon Tide battered the Central Army's defensive barrier as monsters broke through the outer lines.
• Qin He and two concealed figures met at a damaged blind spot, where the three bodies merged into one.
• Qin He combined the strength and resources of his three bodies, then took on a Demonic Body to move toward the rift between realms.
• An unseen force froze the Demon Tide, the monsters, and the battlefield just as Qin He prepared to escape.
• Qin He saw five High Gods standing by the rift and realized the Divine Court had sent reinforcements.

Qin He and the Burning Heaven Lord realized the Divine Court’s five High Gods had come for them and chose to break through the rift rather than wait to be killed. As the High Gods fixed their attention on the two men, Qin He prepared to face one while the Burning Heaven Lord held off another for ten breaths.

• Qin He assessed the six demon generals and five High Gods, recognizing that the Burning Heaven Lord could hold off only one High God for ten breaths.
• The Burning Heaven Lord told Qin He the Divine Court had come for them and warned that waiting until the Demonic Calamity ended would leave them trapped.
• Qin He chose to force his way through the rift, and the Burning Heaven Lord agreed to go with him because he had also been exposed.
• A High God spotted Qin He and the Burning Heaven Lord, while the six demon generals remained restrained by the laws governing heaven and earth.
• The Burning Heaven Lord prepared to hold off one High God as Qin He drew on the Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower and readied the Void-Splitting Divine Talisman and Formation-Breaking Token.

Qin He and the Burning Heaven Lord fought to break the High Gods’ imprisonment and withstand their suppression. Qin He held off the High God of the Divine War Department with his trump cards, but the Burning Heaven Lord was rapidly being worn down.

• The Burning Heaven Lord used his Dao Foundation fire to gnaw at the High Gods’ stillness, while Qin He spread the Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower’s flames to crack its restraints.
• The High God of the Divine War Department attacked Qin He with spatial suppression, and Qin He used the Void-Splitting Divine Talisman to weaken the force.
• Qin He charged the High God and used the Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower to freeze and melt the divine light.
• The High God collapsed the surrounding void, but Qin He used the Formation-Breaking Token to shatter the imprisoning formation.
• Qin He realized he could not sustain a prolonged fight as his soul strained, while the Burning Heaven Lord continued to hold off another High God despite his body vaporizing and blood mist pouring from him.

Qin He unleashed his True Demon Aspect against the High God of the Divine War Department after the High God trapped them inside his Divine Domain. Their attacks collided at the Returning Ruins rift, and the void froze around them.

• The High God of the Divine War Department sealed the space around Qin He and his companion, declaring that both would be executed.
• Qin He released the True Demon source within his soul and transformed into a towering Demonic Body, breaking free of his restraint.
• The other four High Gods halted their fights with the demon generals and recognized Qin He's rare True Demon source qi.
• Qin He forced his way through the Divine Domain and struck the High God of the Divine War Department with an all-out punch.
• The High God gathered his domain's power into a divine seal and met Qin He's punch head-on, freezing the void around the Returning Ruins rift.

Qin He fought the High God of the Divine War Department despite being crushed by divine law, learning to sense and adapt to its pressure as his body and soul neared destruction. The ten-breath limit had not passed, and he prepared to seize one chance to drive the High God back and reach the rift.

• The High God of the Divine War Department struck Qin He with divine law, crushing his right arm and badly damaging his Demonic Body.
• Qin He used his Outer Layer Lotus Flame to slow the surrounding laws and launched a second attack, but the High God’s power shattered his left arm and disrupted the balance of his ice and fire flames.
• As the High God’s domain began erasing his cultivation and dismantling his soul, Qin He recovered his resolve, regrew his arms, and studied the traces left by the divine rules.
• Qin He sent his remaining ice and fire power through the seams in the domain, adapting to its pressure and surprising the High God.
• The High God doubled the pressure and nearly crushed Qin He beyond recovery, but Qin endured and became more attuned to the divine law.
• With the ten breaths not yet passed and the rift nearby, Qin fixed his blood-red gaze on the High God and prepared to force him back once.

Qin He unleashed his True Demon and Slaughter Domains to resist the Divine War Department High God's Divine Domain, then struck back hard enough to crack the divine seal. He escaped into the Returning Ruins Interlayer with the collapsing Burning Heaven Lord, leaving the High Gods behind.

• Qin He released his True Demon Domain and Slaughter Domain, weakening the restraints of the Divine War Department High God's Divine Domain.
• Qin He combined the powers of demon, slaughter, ice, and fire in a punch that cracked the golden divine seal and drove the High God backward.
• Qin He activated the Void-Splitting Divine Talisman and Ancient Formation-Breaking Token to open a path through the spatial restrictions and formations.
• Qin He linked his aura with the nearly defeated Burning Heaven Lord and used spatial Runes to carry them both into the Returning Ruins Interlayer.

Qin He and Burning Heaven Lord escaped into the void between layers after Qin He forced back the High God of the Divine War Department, who then slew a demon general with one punch. Both survivors were left gravely wounded and drifting near death in the darkness.

• Qin He forced back the High God of the Divine War Department and vanished with Burning Heaven Lord into a rift between layers of space.
• The High God of the Divine War Department killed a demon general with a single punch as the remaining demon generals strained against their restraints.
• Qin He and Burning Heaven Lord were thrown into the void by spatial currents after their escape.
• Qin He’s demonic form collapsed, revealing a body drained of vitality and a cracked soul, while the Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower trembled beside him.
• Burning Heaven Lord drifted nearby with half his body missing and his Heaven-Burning Blaze extinguished.

While Qin He and the unconscious Burning Heaven Lord drifted deeper into the deadly Forbidden Interlayer, Qin He forced himself to recover using his pills and the Sky-Swallowing Demonic Art. He activated the Still Ruins Jade Pendant to conceal them as a strange, chilling danger approached through the void.

• Qin He sensed that a hidden current was carrying him and the Burning Heaven Lord away from the safer rift entrance and toward a deadly presence.
• Qin He swallowed his remaining pills despite the danger to his wounded body.
• Qin He unleashed the Sky-Swallowing Demonic Art, refining the pills’ violent medicinal power to repair his body, soul, and Two-Layer Fire Lotus Tower.
• Qin He recovered enough to activate the Still Ruins Jade Pendant, whose faint glow concealed him and the unconscious Burning Heaven Lord.

Qin He disguised himself as a Demon Corpse to survive a Demon Tide led by two powerful Demon Generals, then began recovering while treating the unconscious Burning Heaven Lord. With the Burning Heaven Lord barely stabilized, their passage into the Forbidden Interlayer’s dangers began.

• Qin He sensed a Demon Tide approaching and used the Demon Transformation Art to disguise himself as a lifeless Demon Corpse.
• Two Demon Generals swept past with the tide, and one glanced at Qin He but chose not to investigate.
• After the Demon Tide vanished into the darkness, Qin He absorbed its lingering demonic energy and consumed supreme-grade pills to heal.
• Qin He fed Soul-Condensing Pills and Qi-Blood Pills to the unconscious Burning Heaven Lord, stabilizing his failing vitality.
• Qin He recognized that the Burning Heaven Lord held answers about the Forbidden Interlayer, and their real passage through its trials began.

Qin He struggled to survive the Interlayer Void’s draining force and unpredictable spatial blades, then activated the Void-Splitting Boat to protect himself and the unconscious Burning Heaven Lord. They gained temporary shelter, but Qin He still needed to recover and escape before the boat’s protection failed.

• Qin He used the Sky-Swallowing Demonic Art and pills to recover some of his strength, but the void continued draining him.
• A sudden spatial blade cut Qin He’s shoulder, showing him that drifting helplessly could lead to death.
• Qin He summoned the Void-Splitting Boat from his inner treasury and awakened it with demonic essence.
• The Void-Splitting Boat formed a stable barrier that blocked the void’s attacks and stopped its plundering force.
• Qin He brought the unconscious Burning Heaven Lord aboard and prepared to recover and find a way out.

Qin He was ambushed in the Interlayer Void by a winged demon general and narrowly escaped its attacks aboard the Void-Splitting Boat. He left the pursuing demon general behind for a moment by detonating a crate of merit divine lightning talismans and speeding into the darkness.

• Qin He sensed a demon tide and saw a winged demon general emerge from the demonic mist and lock onto his boat.
• The winged demon general struck at the Void-Splitting Boat, but Qin He poured his demonic essence into the hull and charged past its claws.
• The demon general's spatial force cracked the boat's barrier, then it turned and pursued Qin He at matching speed.
• Qin He released more than a hundred merit divine lightning talismans from his Inner Treasury Space and detonated them behind the boat.
• The golden lightning briefly stiffened the winged demon general, allowing Qin He to race deeper into the void.

Qin He and the Burning Heaven Lord escaped the winged Demon General through the void, but the effort left the Lord nearly powerless and the Void-Splitting Boat close to breaking. When the Lord showed Qin He an old map, Qin He recognized it as a fragment matching one he had found, and the two pieces joined to reveal a complete map of the Returning Ruins Interlayer.

• The Burning Heaven Lord awakened and channeled his Origin Power into the Void-Splitting Boat as Qin He drove it through the void.
• Qin He and the Burning Heaven Lord exhausted their strength to propel the boat until the winged Demon General's demonic awareness disappeared.
• Qin He gave the weakened Burning Heaven Lord pills and asked him to show the way before the boat failed.
• The Burning Heaven Lord unfurled an old silk map of the Returning Ruins Interlayer, and Qin He recognized it as a fragment matching his own.
• Qin He brought out his map fragment, and the two pieces joined to form a complete map of the Returning Ruins Interlayer.

Qin He used the completed map to steer the failing Void-Splitting Boat toward a hidden bubble in the Returning Ruins Interlayer. With the Burning Heaven Lord unconscious and no way back, Qin He entered the bubble, leaving the dangers of the void behind.

• The Burning Heaven Lord completed the map and collapsed unconscious as Qin He studied its markings.
• Qin He realized the moving point of light was a living anchor and redirected the Void-Splitting Boat toward it.
• Qin He followed the light for an hour until it settled on the marked destination, where he found a translucent bubble untouched by the void currents.
• Qin He found that his divine sense could not penetrate the bubble and saw that the Void-Splitting Boat was close to breaking apart.
• Qin He poured his remaining demonic essence into the boat and guided it through the bubble's mist, entering a place of complete tranquility.

Qin He reached a desolate secret realm surrounding the ancient Lonely Temple and recovered aboard the Void-Splitting Boat. After two days, both he and the Burning Heaven Lord had regained their strength, and Qin He had sensed that he was nearing a breakthrough to the Saint Tier Mid Stage.

• Qin He emerged into a barren realm filled with ancient, still demonic energy, where the Lonely Temple stood on distant mountains.
• Qin He stayed aboard the Void-Splitting Boat and swallowed pills to heal while the boat repaired itself.
• After two days of recuperation, Qin He recovered from his injuries and sensed that he had reached the threshold of the Saint Tier Mid Stage.
• The Burning Heaven Lord recovered most of his strength and sat upright beside Qin He.
• Qin He looked toward the Lonely Temple across the silent, sand-shrouded realm.