Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao returned to the War God Temple and reunited with Li Muwan after more than two hundred years apart. Their reunion was interrupted when Yao Xixue arrived and confronted him as a shameless thief.

• Qin Hao brought Elder Hu and the others to the War God Temple, took control of its grand formation with the Mixed Forbidden Banner, and entered alone.
• Li Muwan sensed Qin Hao’s return through the Jade Slip and rushed out of the alchemy room, causing her unfinished Fifth-grade Spirit Pill to explode.
• Li Muwan teleported to Qin Hao and embraced him, and they exchanged affectionate remarks about their long separation.
• Li Muwan told Qin Hao that she had reached early Spirit Transformation with help from Yao Xixue and the Reincarnation Tree, while other members of the sect had also advanced.
• Yao Xixue appeared, accused Li Muwan of finding another man, and called Qin Hao a shameless Little Thief.

Qin Hao reunited with Li Muwan and confronted Yao Xixue, who tried to punish him for insulting her. He overpowered her and the Blood Slave, then spanked Yao Xixue while demanding she admit she was wrong.

• Yao Xixue found Li Muwan with Qin Hao and accused them of meeting secretly, but Li Muwan said Qin Hao was her husband.
• Yao Xixue sealed Qin Hao and Li Muwan with blood light and tried to kick Qin Hao, but he switched their positions and kicked her away.
• Yao Xixue returned and attacked Qin Hao with Blood Talismans, but his power dispelled them and he seized her, sealing her Immortal Power.
• Qin Hao activated the formation to suppress the Blood Slave as Yao Xixue kicked him without hurting him.
• Qin Hao demanded that Yao Xixue admit she was wrong, then spanked her when she refused to answer.

Qin Hao defeated Yao Xixue and her Blood Slave, then forced her to remain by his side as a female slave. At the War God Temple, its leaders witnessed his overwhelming strength, and he assigned them a servant to settle while the temple relied on its powerful defensive formation.

• Yao Xixue bit Qin Hao, but he slapped her until Li Muwan intervened and stopped him.
• Qin Hao released the Blood Slave, who pretended to greet him before attacking; Qin Hao trapped him inside the Mountain River Map Screen.
• Qin Hao sealed Yao Xixue's cultivation and declared that he would keep her as a female slave, refusing Li Muwan's attempt to negotiate.
• Qin Hao took Li Muwan and Yao Xixue to the War God Temple, where Lan Ruo, Song Ming, and the others were stunned by his power.
• Qin Hao told the War God Temple's leaders to settle his servant from the Inner Demon Cultivation Sea and noted that the temple's formation could repel powerful attackers at great cost.

Qin Hao forced Yao Xixue to serve tea, while she failed to break the seal on her Immortal Power. He then gave Li Muwan treasured pill recipes, herbs, and an Eighth-grade Sub-God Pill, warning her to keep it secret.

• Qin Hao made Yao Xixue prepare tea and ordered her to massage him, but Li Muwan sent her back to her room.
• Yao Xixue tried to break Qin Hao’s seal but could not move the Dao Ancient Power within her.
• Li Muwan defended Yao Xixue, and Qin Hao explained that she treated him as an enemy because he had seen her Revealing Photo.
• Qin Hao gave Li Muwan Jade Slips containing rare pill recipes and the Qihuang Sect’s alchemy inheritance.
• Qin Hao gave Li Muwan precious herbs and an Eighth-grade Sub-God Pill, then warned her not to reveal that she had it.

Qin Hao gave Li Muwan a Forbidden Banner and reunited with her intimately, while Yao Xixue overheard them and later emerged from seclusion. At Vermilion Bird Mountain, Gan Feng reached Mid Infant Transformation, and Zhu Quezi summoned him for an important task.

• Qin Hao gave Li Muwan a Forbidden Banner containing many kinds of Restrictions and explained how she could use and study it.
• Qin Hao and Li Muwan spent a day and night together, while Yao Xixue overheard them from the neighboring residence.
• Yao Xixue dreamed about Qin Hao, woke embarrassed, and came outside to find Li Muwan tending flowers.
• Li Muwan praised Yao Xixue, who noticed that Li Muwan looked more radiant than before.
• Gan Feng emerged from the Flame Pool at Vermilion Bird Mountain after reaching Mid Infant Transformation, and Zhu Quezi summoned him for an important task.

Zhu Quezi tasked Gan Feng with winning Yao Xixue’s favor and becoming her dao companion to gain influence with her father, Blood Ancestor Yao Xinghai. Gan Feng arrived at the War God Temple in Huofen Kingdom and requested an audience with the noble.

• Zhu Quezi told Gan Feng about Yao Xixue’s status as Blood Ancestor Yao Xinghai’s daughter and ordered him to approach her and seek a relationship.
• Zhu Quezi warned Gan Feng that offending Yao Xixue could bring ruin upon Vermilion Bird Country and Vermilion Bird Star.
• Gan Feng arrived at the War God Temple and found a powerful formation surrounding it.
• Gan Feng requested an audience with Yao Xixue and gave the gatekeeping disciple a storage bag containing over a hundred High Grade Spirit Stones.

Gan Feng, Zhu Quezi’s First Disciple, invited Yao Xixue to move to a newly built palace in Vermilion Bird Country. Yao Xixue refused, choosing to stay at Luohe Gate with Li Muwan.

• Lan Ruo learned that Gan Feng had come to meet Yao Xixue and brought the request to Li Muwan.
• Li Muwan consulted Yao Xixue, who agreed to receive Gan Feng.
• Gan Feng privately considered using his cultivation method to devour Lan Ruo’s Primal Yin, then entered the courtyard and greeted Yao Xixue and Li Muwan.
• Gan Feng explained that Zhu Quezi had built Yao Xixue a palace in a scenic, spiritually rich part of Vermilion Bird Country and invited her to reside there.
• Yao Xixue thanked Zhu Quezi but refused the invitation, saying she was content to stay where she was.

Gan Feng tried to recruit Li Muwan and Yao Xixue to Vermilion Bird Country, but Li Muwan refused, saying she wanted to live peacefully with Qin Hao. Qin Hao arrived, claimed Li Muwan as his wife, and slapped Gan Feng; Gan Feng left for Tianmao Kingdom vowing revenge, only to hear Qin Hao’s cold reply.

• Gan Feng offered Li Muwan and Yao Xixue citizenship in Vermilion Bird Country and promised to raise Huofen Kingdom to Level 5, but Li Muwan declined.
• Qin Hao entered the hall, sat beside Li Muwan, and declared that he was her husband.
• Gan Feng sensed that Yao Xixue was still a virgin and asked Qin Hao’s name, but Qin Hao dismissed him as an unworthy Mid Infant Transformation junior.
• Qin Hao slapped Gan Feng, bruising his face and knocking out several teeth, and Gan Feng left the War God Temple.
• Gan Feng traveled toward Tianmao Kingdom to use its Tongtian Tower and vowed to repay Qin Hao a hundredfold, but Qin Hao answered from behind him.

Qin Hao crushed Gan Feng despite his appeals to Zhu Quezi and the protection of the Vermilion Bird Great Array, then captured his Nascent Soul because he knew Gan Feng possessed a mysterious Iron Sword. The story left Gan Feng imprisoned in Qin Hao’s storage bag, with the sword’s hidden value still to be claimed.

• Gan Feng offered Qin Hao ten thousand and then twenty thousand Immortal Jades, but Qin Hao rejected the payment and dismissed Gan Feng’s threats about his ties to Zhu Quezi and Vermilion Bird Country.
• Qin Hao attacked Gan Feng, whose Vermilion Bird Cone failed to pierce Qin Hao’s palm.
• Gan Feng summoned the Vermilion Bird Great Array for protection, but Qin Hao broke through its barrier and crushed Gan Feng’s body.
• Qin Hao seized Gan Feng’s Nascent Soul and storage bag, ignoring Gan Feng’s pleas and threats.
• Qin Hao sealed Gan Feng’s Nascent Soul because he knew Gan Feng possessed an Iron Sword left by Gan Pinghai, which concealed a drop of Nine Star Ancient God blood.

Qin Hao tortured Gan Feng and used the Soul Searching Technique to learn that the Gan Family’s iron sword was hidden at its ancestral residence. After Zhu Quezi discovered Gan Feng’s death, Qin Hao checked the System Map, found that Wang Mazi had visited the Yuntian Sect, and set off to investigate.

• Qin Hao tore Gan Feng’s Nascent Soul and absorbed its Immortal Power while demanding to know where the Gan Family’s iron sword was hidden.
• Qin Hao used the Soul Searching Technique, causing Gan Feng’s Nascent Soul to collapse, but learned that the iron sword was kept at the Gan Family’s ancestral residence in the Vermilion Bird Country.
• Zhu Quezi discovered that Gan Feng’s soul Jade Slip had shattered and vowed to investigate his disciple’s killer, fearing that the loss had ruined his plans for a Body for Possession.
• Qin Hao used the System Map and saw that Wang Mazi had visited the Yuntian Sect in the Chu Kingdom and was heading toward the Kong Meng Continent.
• Qin Hao decided to visit the Yuntian Sect and vanished from the secluded chamber.

Qin Hao visited Yuntian Sect, where the system granted him an Eighth-grade Medicine Cauldron, then returned to the War God Temple and gave it to Li Muwan. Li Muwan accepted the cauldron and reassured Qin Hao that she would not object if he took Yao Xixue, as long as he kept her in his heart.

• Qin Hao entered Yuntian Sect and received a Sixth-grade alchemist inheritance, a Pill Heaven Mending recipe, and an Eighth-grade Medicine Cauldron from the system.
• Qin Hao left the sect and sent his clone toward the Four Sect Alliance with the Tusi Great Cauldron and Chaos Bead.
• Qin Hao returned to the War God Temple, where Li Muwan asked whether he had dealt with the man who targeted her and Yao Xixue.
• Qin Hao explained that he had spared Yao Xixue partly because he did not want to provoke her powerful father.
• Li Muwan told Qin Hao she would accept him taking Yao Xixue as long as he kept Li Muwan in his heart.
• Qin Hao showed Li Muwan the Eighth-grade Medicine Cauldron and gave it to her, and she eagerly accepted it.

Qin Hao returned to Zhao Kingdom, gained two Immortal Treasures through his system, and visited the Hengyue Sect, where he recognized True Lord Huang Long’s hidden identity. Huang Long warned that Qin Hao’s dual Extreme Realm might obstruct his future cultivation and offered to dissolve it.

• Qin Hao returned to Zhao Kingdom with the Tusi Great Cauldron, renamed it the Qiankun Cauldron, and obtained the Illusion God Mirror and Heaven and Earth Beast Taming Bracelet from Wang Lin’s treasures.
• Qin Hao traveled to the Hengyue Sect and found that it had grown more prosperous, with three Nascent Soul cultivators and a higher cultivation threshold for its disciples.
• Qin Hao met True Lord Huang Long and identified him as a clone, then revealed that he knew Huang Long was the Old Holy Emperor of the Vermilion Bird Lineage.
• True Lord Huang Long asked whether Qin Hao sincerely considered himself a Hengyue Sect disciple and Huang Long his Sect Master; Qin Hao affirmed that he did.
• Huang Long praised Qin Hao’s dual Extreme Realm but warned it could limit his cultivation and offered to dissolve it.

Qin Hao received the Vermilion Bird Nine Profound Transformation from True Lord Huang Long and returned to the Hengyue Sect, where he rewarded Liu Wenju with a magic treasure before beginning to study the dangerous technique. He ended the chapter on a nearby barren mountain, struggling to understand its first transformation.

• Qin Hao refused True Lord Huang Long's offer to remove his Extreme Realm Power, so True Lord Huang Long passed him the Vermilion Bird Nine Profound Transformation and marked him with a Vermilion Bird Imprint.
• Qin Hao returned to the Hengyue Sect, where the disciples and elders recognized him as their Old Ancestor and bowed to him.
• Qin Hao gave Liu Wenju a Spirit Transformation stage Wooden Sword and promised to help him once if he reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection without comprehending his own Intent.
• Qin Hao vanished to a nearby barren mountain and began studying the Vermilion Bird Nine Profound Transformation, whose first transformation required compressing and releasing nine flame totems in a perilous cycle.

Wang Lin continued his revenge against the Teng Family and confronted them at Hengyue Sect, where he spared Teng Xiuxiu because she was Wang Zhuo’s pregnant wife. Wang Zhuo killed Teng Xiuxiu and himself to end the feud between their families, and Wang Lin collected their souls before discovering another pregnant woman nearby.

• Wang Lin arrived at Hengyue Sect with Teng Family corpses bound behind him and warned the sect not to obstruct his revenge.
• Liu Wenju ordered Hengyue Sect’s cultivators to stand aside, leaving the Teng Family members exposed to Wang Lin.
• Wang Lin killed the Teng Family members but spared Teng Xiuxiu, telling Wang Zhuo that he would leave her alive because she carried Wang Zhuo’s child.
• After Wang Lin departed, Wang Zhuo stabbed Teng Xiuxiu and himself, declaring that he would end the feud with their generation.
• Wang Lin collected Wang Zhuo’s souls and discovered another pregnant woman nearby.

Wang Lin destroyed the Teng Family and killed Teng Huayuan before confronting Lin Yi, the Tongtian Tower Envoy. Qin Hao left the Zhao Kingdom for the Four Sect Alliance, where he encountered Yun Quezi.

• Wang Lin used the soul banner to torment the Teng Family’s surviving members and crushed Teng Huayuan’s arm while reminding him of the Wang Family’s massacre.
• Lin Yi arrived and offered to spare Wang Lin if he handed over the Heavenly Reversal Bead, but Wang Lin summoned a Golden Light Giant to attack him.
• Qin Hao left the Zhao Kingdom and entered the Four Sect Alliance, where he saw a filthy Elder beaten and thrown out of a restaurant.
• The Elder approached Qin Hao and praised his appearance, and Qin Hao recognized him as Yun Quezi, Zhu Quezi’s Junior Brother and the Immortal Remnant Clan’s Second Ancestor.

Qin Hao met Yun Quezi, who tried to recruit him by offering Immortal Jade and a chance to become the Next Vermilion Bird Son. Yun Quezi explained how Cultivators reached the Ascendant realm and offered to find Qin Hao a Crystal of Ascending the Peak, leaving Qin Hao's response unknown.

• Yun Quezi warned Qin Hao that achieving Yin Transformation without guidance would be difficult, but Qin Hao played along and asked him how to advance.
• Yun Quezi took Qin Hao to Fushun Restaurant, where Qin Hao explained that Yin Transformation required Immortal Power to replace Origin Power throughout the body.
• Yun Quezi revealed that Immortal Realm Qi was available in major Level 5 Cultivation Nations and Vermilion Bird Country, then offered Qin Hao Immortal Jade and a chance to become the Next Vermilion Bird Son if he became his disciple.
• Qin Hao refused Yun Quezi's offer, said he had enough Immortal Jade, and asked how to reach the Ascendant realm.
• Yun Quezi explained that an Ascendant Cultivator needed to complete their Dao Heart and use Immortal Power to refine their artistic conception into a Crystal of Ascending the Peak, warning that failure meant death.
• Yun Quezi offered to find Qin Hao a Crystal of Ascending the Peak and help him advance to the Ascendant realm.

Qin Hao advanced his avatar to the Nascent Transformation stage, gained a domain of time, and traveled to Little Northern Flame Extreme to absorb its flames. He contacted Red Butterfly in the Snow Region Nation and asked her to find him a guide into the region’s depths.

• Qin Hao declined Yunquezi’s proposal to contend against Suzakuzi’s disciple and left the restaurant.
• The system raised Qin Hao’s cultivation to early Nascent Transformation and gave his avatar a domain of time and an enhanced Liminal Underworld Straw Hat.
• Qin Hao used his true body to guard his avatar as it completed Nascent Transformation, then reflected on the power of his new domain.
• Qin Hao traveled to the Snow Region Nation in Little Northern Flame Extreme to absorb its flames.
• Qin Hao contacted Red Butterfly, who replied and asked what he needed; he requested help finding a guide into Little Northern Flame Extreme’s depths.

Hong Die arranged for her Senior Sister Qing He to guide Qin Hao into the depths of the Lesser Northern Blazing Extreme Land while she prepared to enter seclusion. Qing He learned that Qin Hao claimed to come from a Third-rank Cultivation Nation, and doubted his origins because such a nation should not produce a Yin Transformation expert.

• Hong Die contacted Qin Hao and told him to meet her in the capital of Snow Domain Nation.
• Hong Die asked Qing He to guide Qin Hao because her cultivation had reached a critical point and she could not leave.
• Qin Hao arrived above the capital, where Hong Die and Qing He greeted him.
• Hong Die returned to her Ice Snow Tower to enter seclusion, and Qing He led Qin Hao toward the depths of the Lesser Northern Blazing Extreme Land.
• Qin Hao told Qing He that he came from the Hengyue Sect in a Third-rank Cultivation Nation, and Qing He questioned how such a place could produce a Yin Transformation expert.

Qin Hao and Qing He crossed the deadly interior of the Lesser Northern Blazing Extreme Land as he searched for Ice Fire. They reached a strange red ice field at the region’s core, where Qin Hao thanked Qing He and gave her Immortal Jade.

• Qing He warned Qin Hao about the Nine Li Mist, and he froze and shattered it with Blue Ice Flash.
• Qin Hao told Qing He he was searching for Ice Fire, and she explained the dangers of the inner region before choosing to accompany him.
• Qin Hao used Dao Ancient Power to withstand the Extreme Blazing Blood Light and carried Qing He safely through it.
• Qin Hao and Qing He reached the core region’s Red Ice Field, where he sensed that its apparent ice was actually extreme fire power.
• Qin Hao released Qing He and gave her a storage bag of Immortal Jade for guiding him.

Qin Hao cultivated on the Red Ice Field while Qing He used his Immortal Jade and guidance to begin her breakthrough to Yin Transformation. After the field vanished and Qin Hao emerged, Qing He offered herself to serve him, and he accepted.

• Qin Hao gave Qing He more than ten thousand Immortal Jade and a Jade Slip explaining how to break through to Yin Transformation, then began absorbing the Red Ice Field’s flames.
• Qing He studied Qin Hao’s method and used the Immortal Jade to compress and refine her spiritual power, but the supply ran out before she could complete even one-tenth of her transformation.
• Qing He stood guard near Qin Hao as he absorbed the Red Ice Field’s fire-attribute power, wondering how he could use both ice and fire.
• The Red Ice Field disappeared after Qin Hao absorbed its flames, but he had cultivated only one Flame Vermilion Bird totem and still needed more fire-attribute treasures.
• Qing He admitted she still needed Immortal Jade and offered to serve Qin Hao; he embraced her and accepted her offer.