Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao’s cultivation of the Vermilion Bird Nine Profound Transformation made him the Four Sacred Sect’s new Holy Emperor, drawing attention from powers across the Alliance and Luotian. He took Lu Yun into the Chaos Bead Space, where he could freeze time to preserve his dying master until he found a way to save him.

• Yan Lei Zi sensed the Origin Power fluctuation and recognized it as Qin Hao’s ascension to the Vermilion Bird Lineage’s new Holy Emperor, then set out for the Four Sacred Sect.
• Lu Fuzi inferred that Qin Hao had reached the First Decline of Heavenly Human and hoped the crisis would force Wuji Zi out of hiding.
• The Corpse Yin Sect sent its Third Brother toward the Four Sacred Sect with a congratulatory visit in mind.
• Chuyun Nation decided to attach itself to the Four Sacred Sect and sent Mo Zhi with gifts, while other Alliance nations made similar plans.
• Lu Yun admitted that he had little time left, but Qin Hao brought him into the Chaos Bead Space and explained that he could freeze time there to preserve him.

Qin Hao placed Lu Yun in a time-altering spatial world and gave him hope of seeing the previous Vermilion Bird Holy Emperor again. Back at the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect, Qin Hao received visiting factions and asked the Third King of the Corpse Yin Sect about the greatest extraordinary corpse.

• Qin Hao told Lu Yun that he knew where the previous Vermilion Bird Holy Emperor was and promised to take him there in a couple of years.
• Qin Hao returned to the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect, where envoys from several factions were waiting to meet him.
• Qin Hao entered the Vermilion Bird Grand Hall with Wang Lin and received congratulatory gifts from Yan Lei Zi, the Third King, and the other envoys.
• Yan Lei Zi asked whether the Four Sacred Sect would remain neutral, and Qin Hao said the sect had not yet reached an agreement.
• Qin Hao asked the Third King about the finest extraordinary corpse, and the Third King identified the Reverse Five Elements Extraordinary Corpse as the highest-ranked one.

Qin Hao revealed footage of Ancient God Tu Si’s corpse to lure the major factions into the Land of the Ancient God, hoping they would weaken Tuo Sen or suffer heavy losses. The factions invaded Vermilion Bird Star, and Tuo Sen answered their arrival by summoning the Godslaying Spear and annihilating thousands of Cultivators.

• Qin Hao had Wang Lin distribute Jade Slips showing Ancient God Tu Si and his enormous corpse, shocking the assembled experts.
• Third King of the Corpse Yin Sect, Yan Lei Zi, and the Cultivation Alliance Immortal asked where the corpse was, and Qin Hao directed them to Vermilion Bird Star while warning them not to harm its people.
• Qin Hao admitted that he wanted the factions to kill the one guarding the corpse, and the factions stopped fighting each other to gather their strongest forces.
• The factions’ Cultivators descended on Vermilion Bird Star, destroyed the Shattered Star Chaos, and entered the Land of the Ancient God, where Fierce Beasts attacked them.
• Tuo Sen sensed the invading forces, summoned the Godslaying Spear, and killed several thousand Cultivators with a single throw.

Tuo Sen destroyed the Thunder Immortal Hall and lured cultivators into the Land of the Ancient God so he could turn them into Demon God Puppets. There, Lu Fuzi killed a powerful Ancient Qi Refiner and recognized Qin Hao as a Seven-Star Ancient God with Third Step battle prowess.

• Tuo Sen’s Godslaying Spear destroyed the Thunder Immortal Hall, killed a Shattering Nirvana expert, and drew forces from across the region into the Land of the Ancient God.
• Yan Lei Zi and the Corpse Yin Sect led their forces inside, followed by cultivators from the Cultivation Alliance and Ludi Nation.
• Qin Hao and Wang Lin entered Vermilion Bird Star through ten-day avatars and encountered cultivators fighting powerful Ancient Qi Refiners and Demon God Puppets.
• Qin Hao saw Yan Lei Zi battle a red-robed Elder, and Lu Fuzi killed the Elder with a single finger.
• Lu Fuzi suspected Wuji Zi wanted to refine an Ancient God’s power to break through Third Step Void Nirvana, then recognized Qin Hao’s Seven-Star Ancient God strength as Qin Hao greeted him as an equal.

Tuo Sen sent a blood dragon and hundreds of Ancient Qi Refiners through a rift to attack the outside world, where they clashed with the Corpse Yin Eight Kings and Yan Lei Zi. Qin Hao crushed the blood dragon and obtained crystals containing Tu Si's Heart's Blood, while Tuo Sen appeared and faced the survivors.

• Tuo Sen spotted Qin Hao and Lu Fuzi, opened a rift, and sent hundreds of Ancient Qi Refiners and a blood dragon to attack them.
• The Corpse Yin Eight Kings formed the Fourth Grand Formation to fight the blood dragon, but it shattered their Profound Ice Giant and unleashed time powers that drained life from nearby cultivators.
• Yan Lei Zi and the Corpse Yin Eight Kings attacked the blood dragon, which used spreading darkness to destroy Yan Lei Zi's summoned continents and collapse several of the Kings' bodies.
• Qin Hao shattered the darkness, seized the blood dragon, crushed it, and took blood-red crystals containing Tu Si's Heart's Blood.
• Tuo Sen opened a rift to the blood-red world, called Yan Lei Zi trash, and told the Corpse Yin Eight Kings they were not even worthy of being called trash.

Tuo Sen revealed himself as an eight-star Royal Ancient God and drew Qin Hao, Lu Fuzi, and the others into a mysterious space containing his immense body. Qin Hao fought Tuo Sen in his seven-star Ancient God form, while the survivors watched the battle and grasped the scale of his power.

• Tuo Sen overwhelmed the Corpse Yin Eight Kings and shattered Lu Fuzi's attacks before turning his attention to Qin Hao.
• Tuo Sen opened his eyes in the mysterious space, revealed himself as an Ancient God, and killed several Shattering Nirvana cultivators with his voice and palm.
• Qin Hao transformed into a towering Ancient God and blocked Tuo Sen's palm, though the clash forced him back more than a dozen steps.
• Tuo Sen blamed Wang Lin for stealing most of the memory inheritance that would have let him control the Ancient God body at full strength.
• Qin Hao continued fighting Tuo Sen as Lu Fuzi, Yan Lei Zi, and the Corpse Yin Eight Kings watched in alarm.

Qin Hao, Lu Fuzi, and Wuji Zi fought Tuo Sen as he grew stronger and tried to turn Lu Fuzi into his fifth star. Qin Hao escaped as his false avatar turned to stone, while his main body resolved to grow strong enough to face Tuo Sen.

• Tuo Sen attacked Qin Hao, and Lu Fuzi joined the fight, helping drive Tuo Sen back before his strength surged again.
• Lu Fuzi called for Wuji Zi, whose body was being drained into Tuo Sen’s fourth star, and tried to save him with a broken sword.
• Tuo Sen began devouring Lu Fuzi to form his fifth star, but Qin Hao’s Spirit Fixation Technique gave Lu Fuzi a moment to escape and open a rift for the others.
• Tuo Sen hurled the Godslaying Spear at the fleeing Cultivators, and Qin Hao caught it while Lu Fuzi and an unknown arm rescued the survivors from the aftershock.
• Qin Hao’s false avatar turned to stone and vanished as Tuo Sen vowed to kill him once free; Qin Hao’s main body judged that he needed Seven Star Dao Ancient cultivation or the Third Step to contend with Tuo Sen.

After the factions withdrew from Vermilion Bird Star, Qin Hao prepared the Four Sacred Sect to take control of the Alliance Star Domain and announced plans to travel to the Cloud Sea Star Domain. He then broke through the Cultivation Alliance headquarters’ gate and entered, where its defenders recognized him and recoiled in fear.

• Luotian’s leaders abandoned their campaign against the Cultivation Alliance after the factions suffered heavy losses and the threat of Tuo Sen became clear.
• Qin Hao summoned the Four Sacred Sect’s experts and ordered them to reclaim the Alliance Star Domain and rename it the Four Sacred Star Domain.
• Qin Hao announced that a war across the Four Great Star Domains would begin in a thousand years, then gave twelve Jade Slips containing his Extreme Realm Power to twelve Shattering Nirvana Great Perfection cultivators.
• Qin Hao assigned the Azure Dragon Holy Emperor to visit the Corpse Yin Sect and said he would go to the Cultivation Alliance headquarters.
• Qin Hao froze the headquarters’ vortex gate with his laws, passed through it, and caused the Cultivation Alliance defenders to retreat in fear when they recognized him.

Qin Hao brought the Cultivation Alliance under the Four Sacred Sect, recovered part of the Primordial Four Sacred Artifacts, and ended the war with Luotian. He entered the Cloud Sea Star Domain through a formation and arrived at the Return Origin Sect, demanding to see its Old Ancestor.

• Qin Hao demanded that Chong Xuanzi join the Cultivation Alliance to the Four Sacred Star Domain, and Chong Xuanzi agreed.
• Chong Xuanzi led Qin Hao to the Black Tortoise Holy Emperor’s corpse, where Qin Hao recovered part of the Primordial Four Sacred Artifacts.
• The Four Sacred Sect subdued the remaining forces in the Alliance Star Domain, and Lu Fuzi ordered the Luotian cultivators to withdraw.
• Qin Hao found Heavenly Gate Sect cultivators building a formation to the Cloud Sea Star Domain, shattered its barrier, and refined the formation to travel through it.
• Qin Hao arrived at Moruo Continent and called for the Return Origin Sect Old Ancestor.

Qin Hao collected pills and recipes from the enslaved Return Origin Sect, then brought Cloud Sea pill treasures to Li Muwan and invited Wang Lin to cultivate with him there. Wang Lin accepted, and Qin Hao prepared to head to the Cloud Sea Star Domain with him.

• The Return Origin Sect Elder gave Qin Hao the sect’s pills and recipes and agreed to become a Soul Slave in exchange for preserving his consciousness.
• The Elder explained that the Heaven-Deceiving Pill helped Ascending Immortal Cultivators survive the death tribulation, while the Death-Entering Soul Departure Pill aided Yin Void Cultivators in advancing to Yang Solid.
• Qin Hao took the pills and recipes to Li Muwan, who became intrigued by the Cloud Sea Star Domain’s spirit-beast-based pills and their ability to aid enlightenment.
• Qin Hao visited Wang Lin at the Vermillion Bird Sacred Sect and invited him to cultivate in the Cloud Sea Star Domain.
• Wang Lin accepted Qin Hao’s invitation, hoping to advance his cultivation and avoid Tian Yunzi and Tuo Sen.

Qin Hao gave Wang Lin an Eight-tier Soul Departure Pill, then killed the Purple Dao Sect’s young master and Song Wude when they attacked the Return Origin Sect. The young master’s father learned of his son’s death and vowed revenge.

• The Return Origin Sect Elder presented Qin Hao with an Eight-tier Soul Departure Pill, which Qin Hao gave to Wang Lin.
• Song Wude and the Purple Dao Sect’s young master broke into the Moro Continent and demanded control of the Return Origin Sect and its women.
• Qin Hao appeared and warned the intruders to leave, but the young master challenged him.
• Qin Hao crushed the young master and Song Wude with a giant finger, sparing the tadpole spirit beast for alchemy.
• The young master’s father discovered that his son had died and vowed to kill whoever was responsible.

Qin Hao followed cultivators from the sixth-rank star domain to a barbaric wasteland continent, where he killed the Poison Crone and exposed a trapped elder as a traitor. He obtained a Jade Slip and the Nirvana Void Pill Recipe, whose effects could improve a cultivator’s chances of reaching the Third Step, surviving a Heavenly Human Decline, or entering the Beginning of Gods realm.

• Qin Hao followed dozens of cultivators from the sixth-rank star domain to a barbaric wasteland continent.
• The Poison Crone trapped Shi Luoxing and four of his disciples in a valley, demanding that they surrender an eighth-rank Heaven Breaking Sect Jade Slip containing the Nirvana Void Pill Recipe.
• Qin Hao killed the Poison Crone, destroyed her formation, and entered the valley to rescue Shi Luoxing.
• Qin Hao recognized that Shi Luoxing had killed his four disciples and was planning to ambush him, so he killed the elder.
• Qin Hao refined the disciples’ remains and claimed the Jade Slip and Nirvana Void Pill Recipe, which described three powerful effects of the pill.

Qin Hao defeated the Huaqing Sect cultivators who sought the treasures and returned to the Return Origin Sect, where he obtained a clue about the rare ingredients needed for the Nirvana Void Pill. After the system granted him a Super Nirvana Void Pill and its recipe, he swallowed the pill and began breaking through in the Chaos Bead Space as two stars of the Five Declines of Heavenly Human vanished from the sky.

• Qin Hao killed the Huaqing Sect cultivators who attacked him, then fought through a formation set by several sixth-rank sects on his way to Moruo Continent.
• Qin Hao returned to the Return Origin Sect and refined its dying Elder into a Soul Slave.
• Qin Hao gave the Elder the Jade Slip and Beast Bone Pill Recipe, and the Elder reported that many ingredients were extinct and the recipe required nine peak thirteenth-rank Fierce Beast souls.
• Qin Hao gave the recipe to Wang Lin, prompting the system to grant Qin Hao the Super Nirvana Void Pill Recipe and one Super Nirvana Void Pill.
• Qin Hao swallowed the pill and began his breakthrough inside the Chaos Bead Space, while two of the Five Declines of Heavenly Human stars disappeared from the sky.

Qin Hao refined his cultivation while powerful sects searched the star domains for Sima Mo’s Jade Slip and Pill Recipe. Li Qianmei was sent from the Heaven Breaking Sect to retrieve the Jade Slip’s owner, and Lu Yuncong’s Purple Dao Sect approached Moruo Continent.

• Qin Hao gave Wang Lin Tu Si’s heart’s blood, then refined the heart’s blood of a Nine-Star Royal Ancient God to strengthen his true body.
• News of the Jade Slip and Pill Recipe spread across the star domains, drawing searches by seventh- and eighth-tier powers.
• Li Qianmei received orders from the Heaven Breaking Sect’s Ancestor to find the Jade Slip’s owner and bring them back.
• Three Experts and their disciples entered Moruo Continent to search the Return Origin Sect, but Qin Hao’s clone killed them.
• Lu Yuncong led the Purple Dao Sect toward Moruo Continent, expecting to arrive within a day.

Li Qianmei asked Lu Yuncong three questions about Heaven, and he answered that Heaven was both a cage and a road before she joined his journey to Moruo Continent. At Return Origin Sect, Qin Hao revealed the Power of the Grand Beginning when Lu Yuncong's approach provoked its force, leaving Li Qianmei struck by its familiarity.

• Li Qianmei stopped Lu Yuncong's group and asked what Heaven was; Lu Yuncong called it a cage that people must break beyond.
• Li Qianmei asked what Heaven was again, and Lu Yuncong answered that it was a road pointing toward the Dao and escape from the cage.
• Li Qianmei agreed to travel with Lu Yuncong to Moruo Continent, while an elder hoped they might become Dao Companions.
• Lu Yuncong reached Return Origin Sect and entered Qin Hao's courtyard, where Qin Hao's golden light nearly tore Lu Yuncong apart.
• Qin Hao explained that the force was the Rule of the Beginning, or Power of the Grand Beginning, and Li Qianmei felt it was familiar.

Qin Hao answered Li Qianmei’s three questions about Heaven and the Dao, leaving her impressed and Lu Yuncong wounded in his Dao conviction. He revealed his Primeval Origin, causing heaven and earth to churn and the rules of the Dao to collapse.

• Li Qianmei offered Qin Hao three treasures in exchange for answers to her questions about Heaven and the Dao.
• Qin Hao challenged the idea that Heaven was a fixed cage, and Lu Yuncong suffered a wound to his Dao conviction.
• Qin Hao identified himself as Qin Hao and explained that changing destiny made someone the Will of Heaven.
• Qin Hao asked Li Qianmei for a Soul-Severing Pill for a Shattering Nirvana Cultivator and pills to help a Heavenly Being Cultivator break through; she could not provide either immediately.
• Qin Hao declared, "I am Heaven," and released his Primeval Origin, making heaven and earth churn as the rules of the Dao collapsed.

After killing Lu Yuncong and the Purple Dao Sect cultivators, Qin Hao left Moruo Continent with Li Qianmei to attend Penglai’s once-every-thirty-years auction. They arrived at the Marketplace, where Qin Hao considered exchanging for Origin Crystals for Wan'er's Wife and the others.

• Li Qianmei recognized that Qin Hao had comprehended the Power of Origin and could advance to the Third Step.
• Qin Hao crushed and refined Lu Yuncong and the Purple Dao Sect cultivators, then accepted Li Qianmei’s invitation to the Penglai auction.
• Qin Hao gave Lü Yanfei a Jade Slip to protect the Return Origin Sect and told her to have Wang Lin find him on Penglai Continent after awakening.
• Li Qianmei and Qin Hao rode her blue spirit dragon from Moruo Continent to Penglai, a half Cultivation Star controlled by the Treasure Jade Sect.
• Qin Hao and Li Qianmei entered Penglai and headed to its eastern Marketplace, where Qin Hao planned to exchange for Origin Crystals.

Qin Hao and Li Qianmei visited the Treasure Jade Sect’s Marketplace, where Qin Hao sought Origin Crystals and confronted Yang Yu and members of Demon Follows Dao. After Qin Hao slaughtered the sect’s strongest cultivators with Extreme Realm Power, Li Qianmei recognized the terrifying ability, and the old stallholder promised to return in three days with more Origin Crystals.

• Qin Hao noticed an Elder selling an Origin Crystal and decided that obtaining more would help cultivate Wan'er's Wife and the others and could be profitable.
• Yang Yu approached Li Qianmei, ignored her rejection, and challenged Qin Hao, so Qin Hao killed Yang Yu and his two companions with Blood Lightning and collected their Primordial Spirits.
• Qin Hao asked the stallholder about Origin Crystals and arranged to buy a large supply of them with Immortal Jade; the Elder warned him that the three men he killed were disciples of Demon Follows Dao's Sect Master.
• Two early-stage Shattering Nirvana Elders from Demon Follows Dao attacked Qin Hao, and he killed them along with a hidden middle-stage Shattering Nirvana Elder.
• Li Qianmei praised Qin Hao's Extreme Realm Power after he explained that it was the ability he had used.

Qin Hao attended Ouyang Long and Cangsongzi’s private auction, bought a suspected Vermilion Bird feather, and exchanged 350,000 Immortal Jade for five thousand Origin Crystals. After Qin Hao left with the crystals, Cangsongzi ominously remarked that his items were not so easily taken.

• Ouyang Long invited Qin Hao to a private gathering and transaction at the beast-fighting arena.
• Cangsongzi hosted a private auction, where Qin Hao placed a wager and watched several treasures sell.
• Qin Hao bid thirty thousand Immortal Jade for a suspected Vermilion Bird feather, outbidding the other Cultivators.
• Qin Hao paid Cangsongzi 350,000 Immortal Jade for five thousand Origin Crystals and departed.
• Cangsongzi watched Qin Hao leave and said that his things were not so easily taken.

Qin Hao absorbed the Vermilion Bird Feather, agreed to help Cangsongzi reach a hidden source of Origin Crystals, and attended the Penglai auction with Li Qianmei. He put two suits of God-Devil Armor up for sale in exchange for Origin Crystals as Li Qianmei prepared to leave for the Demon Sect.

• Qin Hao absorbed the Vermilion Bird Feather and controlled the flames that surged through his body.
• Cangsongzi offered Qin Hao Origin Crystals to help him enter a hidden place, and Qin Hao demanded 10,000 up front and another 10,000 upon arrival.
• At the Penglai auction, Qin Hao gave two suits of Scattered Devil Armor to the Treasure Jade Sect to sell.
• Li Qianmei told Qin Hao she had been ordered to join the Demon Sect's fight against a growing number of Fierce Beasts, and Qin Hao promised to find her there later.
• The auction revealed the two armors as God-Devil Armor, and Qin Hao said he wanted only Origin Crystals for them.