Chapter Summaries

Plot and events

Ice Extreme Pass’s core officers gather to meet Dongfang Mingyue, Qin Tian’s partner. Before she arrives, they discuss her reputation: she is an imperial princess, a gifted seventh-grade alchemist, and the supplier of most of the pass’s high-grade pills at unusually low prices. Though impressed, the officers worry about how her influence might affect the force’s rise.
Mingyue enters with Qin Tian and demonstrates that she has carefully learned about every officer, naming them and recognizing their achievements. She then gives each person a valuable gift tailored to their needs. Poison Widow receives a rare Youth-Preserving Pill; Li Qi gets a pill suited to his Night Demon King Bloodline; Bear receives a pill that can strengthen his body and advance his Half-Orc Bloodline. The other officers also receive personalized gifts, and Robert is given a famous gun from the Dongfang Family.

Character developments and interactions

• Dongfang Mingyue proves thoughtful and politically perceptive. Rather than relying only on her status, she wins the officers’ trust by acknowledging their contributions, showing warmth, and choosing gifts with care.
• Poison Widow initially feels inferior to Mingyue and assumes Qin Tian could never value someone like her. Mingyue reassures her that Qin Tian credits her with building Lingfeng Trading Company, then embraces her and asks for her help. The gift and recognition leave Poison Widow grateful and visibly encouraged.
• Qin Tian supports Mingyue’s efforts, encouraging Poison Widow to accept her gift and emphasizing that everyone has been remembered.
• The officers, initially wary of Mingyue’s possible effect on Ice Extreme Pass, relax as she treats them warmly and honors their individual strengths. Their anticipation turns to admiration and acceptance.
• Bear’s special bond with Qin Tian is highlighted: unlike many of the others, he is Qin Tian’s longtime friend, not merely a subordinate.

Significant themes

The chapter explores trust and leadership, showing how personal consideration can ease political anxiety and strengthen loyalty. It also emphasizes recognition and belonging: Mingyue’s gifts matter not only for their value but because they show that she understands each person. Finally, it contrasts the officers’ initial fear that romance might endanger Qin Tian’s ambitions with Mingyue’s actions, which instead appear likely to help Ice Extreme Pass thrive.

Key plot points and events

• Ice Extreme Pass announces that, for two months, warriors who did not join the Heaven Stele Secret Realm operation can buy any pills in the Exchange Treasury for half the usual Military Merit cost.
• The soldiers celebrate, seeing the offer as compensation for missing the Realm’s extraordinary gains. An officer explains that Dongfang Mingyue supplied a large stock of high-grade pills, alongside a contribution from the Pluto branch of the Alchemy Tower.
• Qin Tian and Mingyue watch the soldiers’ response. They joke about her brother’s talent for winning people over with generosity, then Mingyue worries about her brother, Dongfang Haoyue, who is meeting the Emperor.
• In the Imperial Palace, Ji Haoyue confronts his father, the Sage Martial Emperor Ji Haoxuan. He accuses him of allowing years of hardship and danger to befall him and his sister.
• The Emperor claims he secretly protected the siblings from assassination, while also arguing that their suffering pushed Ji Haoyue to become strong enough to claim his place as a prince. He promises to publicly recognize him.
• Ji Haoyue senses a faint, unstable energy in his father and realizes the rumors are true: the Emperor is dying. He bows and calls him “Father,” though his feelings remain conflicted.

Character developments

• Ji Haoyue moves from outright hostility toward uncertainty after learning that his father may have protected him in secret. He recognizes that hardship shaped him, but is troubled by the possibility that his life was manipulated. His final bow signals a first, cautious shift in their relationship, not a resolution.
• Ji Haoxuan reveals a more complicated side: beneath his reputation as a powerful ruler, he claims to have watched over his children and deliberately allowed—or accepted—their struggles as a means of shaping Ji Haoyue. His failing health adds urgency to their encounter.
• Dongfang Mingyue shows generosity toward Ice Extreme Pass’s soldiers and concern for her brother.
• Qin Tian supports and reassures Mingyue, while recognizing how her gift has helped her earn the soldiers’ trust.

Significant themes

• Fairness and belonging: The pill discount helps soldiers left out of the Secret Realm feel valued and remembered.
• Sacrifice and manipulation: The Emperor’s claim that suffering made Ji Haoyue stronger raises the question of whether a greater purpose can justify cruelty.
• Family, resentment, and reconciliation: Father and son begin to confront years of pain, but trust remains uncertain.
• Legacy and mortality: The dying Emperor’s promise to restore Ji Haoyue’s public standing makes their meeting feel especially consequential.

Character interactions

• The soldiers respond with gratitude to Mingyue’s contribution, strengthening her bond with the community.
• Qin Tian and Mingyue share affectionate teasing, followed by a serious moment in which he tries to comfort her about her brother.
• Ji Haoyue challenges the Emperor’s past choices; the Emperor answers with his account of secret protection and his intentions for his son.
• The Emperor places a hand on Ji Haoyue’s shoulder and promises to acknowledge him publicly. Ji Haoyue responds with a solemn bow, marking a fragile opening between them.

Key plot points and events

• At Ice Extreme Pass, Qin Tian reunites with Yang Lingfeng, who has been absent for months. Yang explains that he and Catherine spent that time investigating ruins in the Mountain and Sea Star Sector.
• The ruins contained a Grotto-Heaven of the Five Elements Sect, one of Great Xia’s Ten Great Sects. Its surviving teachings and powerful energy source—a still-active Spirit Vein—helped Yang and Catherine make major breakthroughs.
• Yang describes Great Xia’s cultivation-based disciplines, including swordsmanship, elemental arts, beast taming, and artifact crafting. These traditions are advanced in technique compared with the modern system, though modern Bloodline powers are stronger.
• Yang reveals a disturbing historical pattern: the Five Elements Sect was nearly annihilated, the Beast-Taming Sect suffered similarly, and Great Xia appears to have fallen suddenly. The technologically advanced Oaks Civilization also vanished with few records remaining.
• Qin recalls that the Ice God Clan may have met the same fate, based on murals showing terrifying invaders. He thinks Lan, an ancient figure connected to the clan, may hold answers, though Lan has stopped responding to him.
• Qin and Yang agree to keep the issue quiet and raise it at the next Mythical Society gathering, asking its members to investigate the civilizations’ destruction and any possible threat to the present empire.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Lingfeng returns more powerful and composed, with his aura now so well concealed that even Qin struggles to assess him. His new inheritance has renewed his confidence despite Qin’s astonishing rise in strength.
• Catherine, though absent from the scene, is shown to have gained greatly from the Five Elements Sect’s elemental arts.
• Qin Tian welcomes Yang warmly, jokes with him about tea and Catherine, and is pleased by his friend’s progress. He shifts from curiosity about their absence to serious concern about the danger facing civilization.
• Their friendly teasing gives way to a sober exchange as they compare evidence and decide to cooperate. Qin also suspects the Mythical Society may have been founded specifically to investigate this larger historical threat.

Significant themes

• Civilizational fragility: Even powerful civilizations can be erased abruptly, leaving little evidence behind.
• Knowledge across eras: Ancient techniques can overcome limitations in the modern Bloodline-based system and reshape the balance of power.
• Unity and preparation: Qin and Yang choose collective investigation over dismissing uncertain evidence, recognizing the stakes for their families and civilization.
• Hidden history: The origins of the disasters—and possibly the Mythical Society itself—remain unanswered.

Key events and plot points

• After his Heaven Stele Baptism, Qin Tian uses his enhanced [Weapon Immortal] talent to strengthen his own equipment and the weapons and armor of his allies. Every item improves substantially, and their artifact souls become stronger.
• Robert, Qin Tian’s Quicksilver Guard and chief scientist, is upgraded alongside his equipment. Already a peak seventh-order combatant, he may now be capable of reaching the eighth order. Unlike cultivators, Robert grows by consuming equipment and does not face heavenly tribulations.
• Qin Tian asks Robert to continue investigating a missing factory of the Oaks Civilization. The site appears to have been emptied by someone before their agents arrived. The factory might contain advanced manufacturing technology, armor blueprints, and clues to the civilization’s destruction.
• Qin Tian assigns Robert a larger task: help locate discreet sites on important imperial planets where Qin Tian can place spatial divine stones. This is the foundation of the “Space Network”—a system of gateways connected through Subspace that could allow rapid travel between distant worlds.
• The plan is meant to address Subspace Navigation’s dangers and the empire’s resulting problems: risky trade, restricted movement of powerful personnel, and slow military reinforcements. It would also provide Qin Tian and his allies with a safe escape route amid an impending transfer of imperial power.
• Robert understands the plan’s significance and commits to helping. After he leaves, Qin Tian enters Subspace, where he intends to establish a central hub for the network. He has already placed coordinates on planets near the Imperial Star.

Character development and interactions

• Qin Tian grows more confident in his enhanced abilities and shifts from improving his own forces to pursuing a project that could reshape imperial travel and security. He explains the plan to Robert, entrusts him with a key role, and reassures him with a gesture of trust.
• Robert emerges as a stronger potential combatant as well as an indispensable technical partner. His excitement at the Space Network reflects his understanding of its strategic reach.
• Qin Tian also reflects on the agents Yagyu Juzaburo and Yagami Kyo, whom he previously defeated and enslaved with soul seeds, and who now work under new identities to investigate the factory.

Significant themes

• Power used for large-scale change: Qin Tian’s enhanced talents enable ambitions that go beyond personal strength, potentially altering the empire’s infrastructure.
• The costs of technological limits: Dangerous Subspace travel hampers trade, migration, and military coordination, showing how transportation constraints can shape an entire civilization.
• Preparation and control: The Space Network is both a practical solution and a contingency plan that could give Qin Tian significant influence over movement across the empire.
• Danger as opportunity: While most powerful individuals fear Subspace, Qin Tian sees it as a place to hunt creatures for evolution points—and as the key to his network.

Key plot points and events

• After his Heaven Stele Baptism, Qin Tian’s Subspace-related talent evolves into the orange composite talent [Dimensional Demon King]. It greatly enhances his strength, perception, recovery, and movement in Subspace, lets him open dimensional passages, dominate dimensional creatures, enter a nearly invulnerable “Dimensional Descent” state, and read spatial echoes.
• Seeking to build a defensive force for a future dimensional transit station, Qin Tian tests his power on King Babar, an enormous eighth-order creature that considers itself a Subspace overlord. Babar attacks, but Qin Tian effortlessly overwhelms it with immense dimensional-energy fists.
• Qin Tian spares Babar and orders it to open its mind. He uses [Dimensional Demon King] to control its body and [God Sovereign] to place a powerful Soul Seal on its soul, gaining access to its memories and senses as well as ensuring its loyalty.
• Babar accepts Qin Tian as its master, calling him the Dimensional Demon God. Asked about other powerful creatures, it offers to lead Qin Tian to four rivals. Qin Tian chooses the strongest, and Babar opens a passage to that creature’s domain. Its followers are left behind, confused by their king’s sudden departure.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Tian moves from testing his newly heightened abilities to putting them to practical use. He is confident and controlled, but also enjoys the chance to test his strength against a formidable opponent. He combines physical dominance with magical and spiritual safeguards.
• Babar changes from proud, enraged ruler to frightened, obedient servant. Recognizing that Qin Tian could have killed it, Babar reframes its submission as an honor and eagerly volunteers to help capture its rivals—partly out of revenge and partly to please its new master.
• Their relationship is built on overwhelming power and enforced loyalty: Qin Tian commands, while Babar responds with deference and enthusiasm. Babar’s abandoned followers provide a brief contrast, unsure what has happened to their former king.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Qin Tian’s new talent makes him a natural force in Subspace, and strength quickly determines who commands whom.
• Control balanced with opportunity: Babar is enslaved, yet the narration hints that the encounter will eventually help him evolve and reshape his fate.
• Adaptability and survival: Babar’s quick submission shows its practical intelligence; in a dangerous dimension, survival matters more than pride.
• Power used strategically: Qin Tian does not merely defeat Babar—he secures a durable servant and uses its knowledge to pursue further allies or captives.

Plot points and events

• Deep in Subspace, the overlord Boha feeds on dimensional energy while nearby creatures consume the dark mist it expels. Its old rival, Babar, arrives.
• Instead of their usual exchange of insults, Babar greets Boha warmly. Alarmed by the unusual behavior, Boha prepares for a fight.
• Qin Tian reveals himself atop Babar and explains their relationship: Babar has become his subordinate. Qin Tian orders Babar to fight Boha first, and the two enormous overlords engage in a brutal battle of bodies and energy.
• After watching them clash for several minutes, Qin Tian ends the fight with the Black Frost Blade. He repeatedly slices Boha apart until it can no longer regenerate, forcing it to submit.
• With both overlords now serving Qin Tian, he asks who they can lead him to next. Boha offers to guide him to six more beings like itself.

Character developments and interactions

• Babar has shifted from Qin Tian’s rival to a respectful, eager subordinate. He enjoys the chance to use Qin Tian’s strength to settle old scores with Boha, and later grows uneasy when Boha’s offer threatens to surpass his own usefulness.
• Boha begins as a wary, confident rival who suspects something is wrong with Babar. Qin Tian’s overwhelming power quickly turns its defiance into submission; it then resents Babar for not warning it.
• Qin Tian remains calm and amused, first treating the duel as entertainment, then demonstrating that neither overlord is a serious match for him. He sees both as useful guides to other powerful beings.
• The rivalry between Babar and Boha persists even after they become fellow subordinates: their old insults and competition continue beneath their outward obedience to Qin Tian.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Qin Tian’s effortless defeat of Boha establishes a vast gap between his power and that of the Subspace overlords.
• Rivalry and pride: Babar and Boha’s ritualized taunts matter almost as much to them as their battles, and their competition survives even after they are defeated.
• Brute force versus technique: The overlords fight instinctively, relying on size, energy, and endurance; Qin Tian’s precise swordsmanship ends the contest decisively.
• Turning enemies into assets: Qin Tian converts powerful adversaries into allies and potential guides, expanding his reach through their knowledge.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Tian spends half a month in Subspace subduing nine Eighth Order overlords. Their rivalries help him locate suitable targets, but he stops before drawing the attention of the four Evil Gods.
• Using hundreds of thousands of spatial divine stones and his mastery of spatial arrays, he builds a network of nine Subspace transit stations—one for each of the Empire’s Nine Star Domains. Babar powers and protects the first station, which Qin Tian completes successfully.
• Qin Tian returns to Ice Extreme Pass, discovering that more than eighty days have passed in the real world because Subspace time flowed much faster than he experienced.
• Ice Extreme Pass has remained stable during his absence. Qin Tian credits its commanders and his appointment of Robert as acting deputy Military Lord.
• He searches the Star Net for information about Ji Haoyue, whose identity as the Emperor’s Sixth Prince has now been publicly and institutionally accepted.
• Qin Tian reviews the imperial succession: Ji Taien and Ji Taiyan were the main contenders, but Ji Haoyue’s arrival unsettles the competition.

Character developments and interactions

• Qin Tian demonstrates growing command of spatial engineering and strategic caution. He is pleased that his organization can function without him, seeing independence as a sign of health rather than a threat to his authority.
• Babar and the other overlords submit to Qin Tian and assist his plans; Babar becomes the first station’s living power source and guardian.
• Robert proves a dependable acting leader, keeping Ice Extreme Pass orderly through Qin Tian’s long absence.
• Ji Haoyue has shifted from a disputed figure to an acknowledged prince, though his presence introduces new uncertainty into the succession.
• Ji Taien is described as a capable, widely supported political and military leader, while Ji Taiyan remains a strong rival whose martial talent is exceptional.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Qin Tian can subdue more overlords, but limits his activity to avoid attracting the Evil Gods.
• Self-sustaining leadership: A resilient organization should not depend entirely on one person.
• Time and risk: Subspace offers powerful routes and possibilities, but its unpredictable time flow makes navigation costly and dangerous.
• Succession and legitimacy: Ji Haoyue’s accepted identity challenges established expectations and reshapes the balance of imperial power.

Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue tested the new Spatial Base Station by traveling to White Bird Star and enjoying a disguised tour. At a local auction house, Qin Tian heard a dispute and recognized someone as a very important old friend, then went inside to find them.

• Qin Tian told Dongfang Mingyue about building nine Subspace base stations and explained that the Space Network still had limited planetary coverage.
• Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue chose White Bird Star for their first test, and she used the Spatial Divine Stone to select its coordinates.
• Babar prepared to operate the Subspace station but stopped when Qin Tian told him to stand aside, allowing the pair to teleport to White Bird Star.
• Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue disguised their appearances, visited Wudi City, sampled local food, and bought a moonstone necklace.
• Qin Tian heard an argument at the Starry Auction House, recognized a very important old friend, and entered the building while Dongfang Mingyue followed.

Qin Tian intervened when Xiao Yunlong and Qin Dadi accused the Starry Auction House of switching their gemstone, exposing the appraiser's theft. He then revealed himself to his old teammates, reuniting with the Earth Dragon Squad.

• Xiao Yunlong and Qin Dadi confronted the Starry Auction House, insisting its staff had swapped their gemstone and demanding answers.
• Qin Tian arrived with a woman, examined the bloodstone, and called for the person responsible to come forward.
• Master Xue was dragged downstairs by the stolen dragon blood stone, exposing that he had used his ability to replace it with a lesser stone.
• Captain Wang arrested Master Xue and apologized to Xiao Yunlong and Qin Dadi, while Qin Tian declined thanks and invited them to share a meal.
• Qin Tian revealed his familiar voice and made a gesture unique to the Earth Dragon Squad, and Xiao Yunlong and Qin Dadi recognized their old teammate.

Qin Tian reunited with his former Earth Dragon Squad comrades Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong, introducing them to his fiancée, Dongfang Mingyue. He revealed his immense current status and explained that he had kept his distance to protect them, reaffirming their bond before the reunion ended.

• Qin Tian dropped his disguise and warmly reunited with Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong, while Dongfang Mingyue saw his playful side with old friends.
• Qin Tian introduced Dongfang Mingyue as his fiancée, and Xiao Yunlong gave her a Dragon Blood Stone as a welcome gift.
• Xiao Yunlong described how he, Qin Dadi, and Liu Zhaozhao built an armed escort company serving the Lingfeng Trading Company and shared their abilities and current ranks.
• Qin Tian revealed that he controlled the Lingfeng Trading Company and was an imperial Major General, an eighth-order sixth-star Psionic User, and a figure regarded as a demigod.
• Qin Tian explained that he had secretly supported his friends and stayed distant to protect them from the Jinguji Family and Rahu Family.
• Xiao Yunlong promised that the Earth Dragon Squad would always support Qin Tian, and Qin Tian reaffirmed his gratitude for his comrades.

Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue gave Qin Dadi, Xiao Yunlong, and Zhaozhao an array of powerful pills, armor, and equipment. Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong accepted the gifts and realized how far Ice Extreme Pass and Qin Tian had advanced.

• Qin Tian identified Xiao Yunlong's gemstone as a valuable Dragon Blood Stone, and Dongfang Mingyue accepted it before giving Qin Dadi, Xiao Yunlong, and Zhaozhao specialized pills.
• Qin Tian introduced Dongfang Mingyue as a seventh-grade Alchemist and the Alchemy Tower master's final disciple, astonishing Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong.
• Dongfang Mingyue gave Qin Dadi Breath of the Earth pills to strengthen his earth ability, Xiao Yunlong Wind Serpent and Heavenly Essence Pills, and Zhaozhao Fire Phoenix Pills.
• Qin Tian gave Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong attribute-matched Armed Armor belts, and they tested the suits' movement, combat, perception, repair, and flight functions.
• Qin Tian presented the two men with an assortment of powerful weapons, artifacts, protective gear, and space equipment, explaining that Ice Extreme Pass made them itself.

After Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue parted from Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong, Yang Lingfeng urgently reported that something had happened to Giant Spirit God. The Mythical Society learned that Giant Spirit God was unreachable, and Pluto revealed he had a way to help if the members would meet in person.

• Qin Dadi and Xiao Yunlong bid farewell to Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue, and Qin Dadi urged Qin Tian to take care of himself.
• Qin Tian and Dongfang Mingyue thanked each other for their support and prepared to return to their own affairs.
• Yang Lingfeng called Qin Tian and told him that something had happened to Giant Spirit God.
• Li An'an brought food to the injured Tang Nian, who promised to find a way to keep her alive as they hid from the Zerg that had devastated their planet.
• Poseidon told the Mythical Society that the Porros had fallen asleep and Giant Spirit God had not responded to his attempts to contact him.
• Pluto offered a way to help Giant Spirit God and asked which members were willing to meet in person.