Chapter Summaries

Yao Xixue borrowed Qin Hao’s servants and Golden Horned Thunder Beast to confront Mei Ji at the Immortal Relic Land in Chu Kingdom. After Mei Ji apologized and pleaded for mercy, Yao Xixue spared her life but began whipping her as punishment.

• Qin Hao lent Yao Xixue Qin Da, Qin Er, and the Golden Horned Thunder Beast after Li Muwan asked her not to kill anyone.
• Yao Xixue rode the Golden Horned Thunder Beast to the Immortal Remnant Clan, with Qin Hao’s servants and a Blood Slave following her.
• Yao Xixue identified Mei Ji as the person she had come to confront, and Mei Ji apologized for their past exchange.
• The Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor tried to intervene, but Qin Da and Qin Er revealed their Yin Void cultivation and overwhelmed the clan with their presence.
• Mei Ji knelt and begged Yao Xixue to spare her life, and Yao Xixue declared she would punish her with a whip of Immortal Power.

Yao Xixue returned to the War God Temple and shared a secret embrace with Qin Hao while the Immortal Remnant Clan prepared to fight Vermilion Bird Country. As the clan’s armies conquered nations and war erupted, Qin Hao’s clone secretly collected fallen cultivators’ souls to strengthen the Hundred Billion Soul Banner.

• Mei Ji returned to the Immortal Remnant Clan’s ancestral spirit tree to heal, while Yun Quezi agreed to contact Corpse Yin Sect Grand Elder Sun Tai for corpses to cultivate more ancestral spirits.
• Yao Xixue returned to the War God Temple, where she and Qin Hao kissed and discussed whether they could someday be together openly.
• The Immortal Remnant Clan used the Demon Cultivation Sea as a base and conquered multiple Level 4 and Level 5 Cultivation Nations.
• The Immortal Remnant Clan and Vermilion Bird Country began a great war, and cultivators’ souls started disappearing after their bodies were destroyed.
• Qin Hao’s clone secretly used the Li Ming Straw Hat and Hundred Billion Soul Banner to collect the fallen cultivators’ souls, strengthening the banner.

Qin Hao exchanged an Ascension stage Nascent Soul with Dun Tian for the Soul Refining Sect’s vast collection of souls, while Dun Tian left Vermilion Bird Star to seek a breakthrough. Qin Hao then witnessed Zhu Quezi use the Vermilion Bird Profound Seal to devastate the Immortal Remnant Clan’s leaders, forcing their army to retreat.

• Qin Hao found that Nian Tian had died and met Dun Tian at the Soul Refining Sect.
• Qin Hao gave Dun Tian an Ascension stage Nascent Soul and received more than five hundred million souls from the Ten Billion Soul Banner.
• Dun Tian set out beyond Vermilion Bird Star to make his breakthrough while the war kept Zhu Quezi occupied.
• Qin Hao sensed the Immortal Remnant Clan’s ancestors and Ancestral Spirit battling Zhu Quezi and Vermilion Bird Country’s Asking Peak cultivators.
• Zhu Quezi unleashed the Vermilion Bird Profound Seal, burning the Ten-Leaf Ancestral Spirit’s body and heavily injuring Mei Ji.
• The Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor ordered a retreat as Zhu Quezi was left weakened by the seal’s lifespan cost.

Qin Hao arrived as Mei Ji and the Ancestral Spirit were cornered, then killed Li Yunlong and captured the Ancestral Spirit’s soul. He outmaneuvered Chu Yunfei’s betrayal with the Qiankun Cauldron, causing the Kunji Whip to strike Li Yunlong instead.

• Chu Yunfei and Li Yunlong pursued Mei Ji and the Ancestral Spirit, and Chu Yunfei used the Kunji Whip to torment the Ancestral Spirit’s Primordial Spirit.
• Li Yunlong attacked Mei Ji and demanded that she submit to his Slave Seal, but Qin Hao arrived before she could self-destruct.
• Qin Hao froze Li Yunlong’s Flame Divine Ability, killed him with Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense, and stored his Primordial Spirit in the Soul Banner.
• Qin Hao refined the Ancestral Spirit’s Primordial Spirit into a Soul Slave, then demanded that Chu Yunfei surrender his Soul Blood or die.
• Chu Yunfei pretended to submit before attacking with the Kunji Whip, but Qin Hao used Stars Shift to switch places with him, redirecting the whip toward Li Yunlong.

Qin Hao defeated Chu Yunfei, refined his Primordial Spirit into a Soul Slave, and forced Mei Ji to submit to him. Meanwhile, Zhu Quezi faced the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor and empowered himself with the Vermilion Bird Profound Array as the battle grew more dangerous.

• Qin Hao destroyed Chu Yunfei's body, subdued his Primordial Spirit with the Kunji Whip, and refined him into a main soul.
• Qin Hao recognized the Kunji Whip as the sealed Myriad Realms Soul Sealing Whip and judged that it could let him fight a Second Step Peeking Nirvana expert.
• Qin Hao made Mei Ji surrender her Soul Blood and accept a Slave Seal, then sent her back to the Immortal Remnant Clan to recover.
• Zhu Quezi continued fighting the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor while their allies battled elsewhere, and he sensed that Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei had died.
• Zhu Quezi feared the Immortal Remnant Clan would send reinforcements and drew the Vermilion Bird Profound Array around himself for power.

Zhu Quezi fought the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor until Yun Quezi disabled the Vermilion Bird Profound Array and revealed himself as the clan’s Second Ancestor. After Yun Quezi proposed dividing Vermilion Bird Star, Zhu Quezi withdrew, and news of the betrayal and widespread infiltrators shook the star.

• Zhu Quezi used the Vermilion Bird Profound Array and the Vermilion Bird Sword to attack the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor, who briefly sealed the sword with an Ancestral Talisman and struck Zhu Quezi.
• Yun Quezi caused the Vermilion Bird Profound Array to disperse, allowing the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor to wound Zhu Quezi.
• Yun Quezi revealed that he was the Immortal Remnant Clan’s Second Ancestor, and Vermilion Bird Son attacked him in anger.
• Yun Quezi proposed that the Immortal Remnant Clan and Vermilion Bird Country divide Vermilion Bird Star, while Zhu Quezi retreated toward Vermilion Bird Mountain and suspected Yun Quezi feared the Cultivation Alliance and the Heart of Cultivation’s destruction.
• News spread that Yun Quezi had betrayed Zhu Quezi, and the Old Ancestors of Ink-Wash Nation, Peony Nation, and Qin Nation were also exposed as Immortal Remnant Clan members.

After Vermilion Bird Country’s allies abandoned it, Zhu Quezi began destroying the Star Cultivation Crystal to force Yun Quezi into a final battle. Qin Hao explained the crystal’s threat to his companions and set out for Vermilion Bird Mountain to recover their Life Souls.

• The Earth Soul Gate Old Ancestor abandoned Vermilion Bird Country, and Zhu Quezi went to the Soul Refining Sect seeking its Ten Billion Soul Banner, only to find it deserted.
• Zhu Quezi fractured the Star Cultivation Heart, causing living beings across Vermilion Bird Star and beyond to feel intense pain and dread.
• At the War God Temple, Li Muwan and Zhou Zihong suffered soul-deep pain, and Qin Hao identified Zhu Quezi’s attack on the Star Cultivation Crystal as its cause.
• Qin Hao explained how the Star Cultivation Crystal extracted cultivators’ Life Souls and said he would go to Vermilion Bird Mountain to find theirs.

Zhu Quezi opened the Vermilion Bird Tomb and began a contest to find the Star Cultivation Crystal before it collapsed, while Qin Hao rushed to the tomb to retrieve his life soul. Qin Hao killed five cultivators who tried to stop him and drew the attention of the gathered Infant Transformation experts.

• Zhu Quezi threatened to make the Star Cultivation Crystal collapse, split Vermilion Bird Mountain open, and allowed cultivators below the Ascending Immortal stage to enter the Vermilion Bird Tomb.
• Yun Quezi and the Immortal Remnant Clan ancestors regretted breaking the seal early, then sent Seven-Leaf and Eight-Leaf clan members toward the tomb.
• News of the Star Cultivation Crystal and life souls spread across Vermilion Bird Star, sending cultivators racing toward Vermilion Bird Country.
• Qin Hao used the Qiankun Cauldron to reach Vermilion Bird Country, absorbed his waiting avatar into the Chaos Bead Space, and approached the tomb entrance.
• Five late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators blocked Qin Hao, but he killed their bodies with Blood Lightning and took their Primordial Spirits.
• A Late Infant Transformation cultivator asked Qin Hao whether he had used the Death Curse Technique.

Qin Hao entered the Vermilion Bird Tomb and searched its regions for Li Muwan’s and his companions’ Life Souls. He found and took Li Muwan’s Life Soul, then continued searching for his own rather than immediately sacrificing someone to exchange for it.

• Qin Hao used the Extreme Realm to kill a Mid Infant Transformation Cultivator who challenged his right to stand at the front, then entered the Vermilion Bird Tomb.
• A purple-robed old man emerged from Shattered Star Chaos with a blood-eyed little monkey, who said it sought a Star Cultivation Crystal to break its seal early.
• Qin Hao fought off Life Soul spirits in the tomb’s outer region, found none belonging to himself or his companions, and entered the inner region.
• Qin Hao scattered a woman formed from droplet Life Souls and sensed Li Muwan’s Life Soul among them.
• Qin Hao seized Li Muwan’s Life Soul and continued searching for his own, keeping sacrifice as a last resort.

After the Vermilion Bird Tomb began collapsing, Qin Hao searched its dangerous ruins and found a realm of metal Life Souls ruled by a curved saber. He recognized it as Curved Saber Xiao Hei, the artifact spirit from the original novel.

• Qin Hao stored Li Muwan's Life Soul, triggering violent tremors and Dimensional Rifts as the Star Cultivation Crystals collapsed.
• Qin Hao survived the rifts and continued searching, worried that his and his companions' Life Souls might be destroyed.
• Qin Hao entered a vast basin filled with metal Life Souls and used his Immortal Sword to make the swords retreat before him.
• Qin Hao reached the central basin, where a curved saber emerged from the blue mist and challenged his Immortal Sword.
• Qin Hao recognized the curved saber as Curved Saber Xiao Hei, who had once taught Xu Liguo secret artifact-spirit methods.

Qin Hao subdued Curved Saber Xiao Hei, a powerful metal-element soul with an Artifact Spirit, and left the basin. He encountered Hong Die near a seven-colored mountain peak and reassured her that Snow Domain Nation remained safe.

• Qin Hao defeated Curved Saber Xiao Hei's attacks and caught it between two fingers without using his Immortal Sword.
• Qin Hao recognized the curved saber as a rare three-metal soul and convinced Xiao Hei to submit as his Artifact Spirit.
• Qin Hao released the saber and headed through the basin toward a distant seven-colored peak.
• Qin Hao encountered Hong Die, who asked about Snow Domain Nation, and he told her it was peaceful and unaffected by the conflict.

Qin Hao and Hong Die traveled deeper into the Vermilion Bird Tomb, where Qin Hao encountered Yun Quezi, Zhou Wutai, and Tuo Sen’s envoy and divine sense. At Central Spirit Mountain, Qin Hao and Tuo Sen each recognized the other as a source of power to devour, while Liu Mei arrived and smiled at Qin Hao.

• Qin Hao and Hong Die met Yun Quezi and Zhou Wutai, and Yun Quezi explained that Qin Hao was likely connected to an envoy from the Cultivation Alliance beyond Vermilion Bird Star.
• Qin Hao and Hong Die reached Central Spirit Mountain, where Qin Hao recognized the strange Elder and the Little Monkey as Tuo Sen’s envoy and divine sense.
• Tuo Sen’s divine sense decided that devouring Qin Hao, whom he recognized as a young Ancient, could help him become a Nine Star Ancient God, while Qin Hao wanted to refine Tuo Sen’s Ancient God Qi.
• Qin Hao saw the enormous cracked gate leading to the tomb chamber of the First Generation Vermilion Bird, where the Star Cultivation Crystal was kept.
• Yun Quezi, Zhou Wutai, and a mysterious masked man arrived at the mountain, and Qin Hao suspected the masked man might be the Cultivation Alliance envoy Mo Zhi.
• Liu Mei arrived, saw Qin Hao, and smiled brightly, stunning the cultivators and Immortal Remnant Clan members around her.

Qin Hao killed Yun Quezi after Yun Quezi threatened Liu Mei, then claimed the Void Ancestor's skull and added Yun Quezi's soul to his banner. Liu Mei revealed that she and Qin Hao had known each other for centuries, leaving Hong Die unsettled by their relationship and her own feelings.

• Yun Quezi demanded that Liu Mei hand over Zhu Quezi's contingency, and Liu Mei gave him a bronze puppet while insisting it was all she had.
• Qin Hao appeared, and Yun Quezi tried to excuse his killing intent as a misunderstanding before threatening to use the Void Ancestor's skull against him.
• Qin Hao killed Yun Quezi with Blood Lightning, refined his Primordial Spirit into a main soul for the Hundred Billion Soul Banner, and took the Void Ancestor's skull.
• The gathered cultivators were shocked by Qin Hao's Extreme Realm power, while the Little Monkey and Masked Man recognized what he had displayed.
• Liu Mei called Qin Hao her husband and said they had known each other for four hundred years, leaving Hong Die flushed and inwardly irritated as she thought of Senior Sister Qing He.

As the Vermilion Bird Tomb collapsed, Qin Hao and the others fought their way into the undersea palace, where the Elder sought the Star Cultivation Crystal. Qin Hao’s ambush destroyed the Elder, and Little Monkey absorbed the crimson light from his body, rising to the peak of the Ascension stage.

• The Vermilion Bird Tomb collapsed, causing deaths across Vermilion Bird Star, and Qin Hao led the Cultivators in breaking through the giant gate.
• Qin Hao, Liu Mei, and Hong Die passed the Golden Armored Man’s sword test, while Little Monkey and the Elder entered the sea with help from a Crimson Illusory Figure.
• The Elder reached the undersea palace and found a purple Star Cultivation Crystal before Qin Hao attacked him with Blood Lightning.
• Qin Hao froze the Elder with deep-blue spiritual power, and a Thunder Beast destroyed him with golden immortal lightning.
• Little Monkey absorbed the crimson light from the Elder’s shattered body and reached the peak of the Ascension stage.

Qin Hao fought and sealed Tuo Sen’s Divine Sense Clone with the aid of his Thunder Beast, soul army, and Soul Sealing Whip. After the Vermilion Bird Tomb collapsed and Ye Wuyou’s corpse vanished, a Star Cultivation Crystal flew toward Zhu Quezi, leaving Qin Hao to suspect how Zhu Quezi had entered.

• Qin Hao ambushed Tuo Sen’s clone, and Tuo Sen revealed his identity and tried to devour Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao’s Slaying Luo Art and the Thunder Beast’s lightning weakened Tuo Sen, though Tuo Sen shattered the sword strike and Qin Hao’s Extreme Realm attack.
• Qin Hao summoned the Hundred Billion Soul Banner’s forty-three main souls and used the Myriad Realms Soul Sealing Whip to help them trap and seal Tuo Sen.
• The Vermilion Bird Tomb began collapsing, and Ye Wuyou’s corpse, the pagoda, and the throne turned to ash, revealing a Star Cultivation Crystal.
• The Star Cultivation Crystal flew toward Zhu Quezi as he emerged looking younger, and Qin Hao wondered if Zhu Quezi had borrowed an Eight-Leaf clan member’s life to enter the tomb.

Qin Hao rejected Zhu Quezi’s offer to help rule Vermilion Bird Star and easily resisted his attacks. Zhu Quezi unleashed the Cultivation Alliance’s Stopping Intent, but Qin Hao’s Sword Light tore through it and left Zhu Quezi with only his weakened Primordial Spirit.

• Zhu Quezi asked Qin Hao to help suppress the Immortal Remnant Clan and offered him a share of Vermilion Bird Star, but Qin Hao refused.
• Zhu Quezi attacked Qin Hao with the Vermilion Bird Sacred Fire and the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sword, but Qin Hao absorbed the flames and caught the sword with two fingers.
• Zhu Quezi mistook Qin Hao for the Cultivation Alliance’s envoy, then attacked again after Qin Hao denied it.
• Zhu Quezi sacrificed most of his lifespan to activate the Star Cultivation Heart and unleash the Cultivation Alliance’s Stopping Intent.
• Qin Hao’s Sword Light split the Stopping Intent, destroyed the Vermilion Bird Profound Seal, and tore apart Zhu Quezi’s body, leaving only his weakened Primordial Spirit.

Qin Hao defeated Next Vermilion Bird Son, learned the nature of the Slaying Luo Art, and helped Mo Zhi restore the Vermilion Bird Tomb. Liu Mei received the Star Cultivation Heart and agreed to cultivate as a candidate for the next Vermilion Bird, while Qin Hao left the tomb and encountered the Immortal Remnant Clan's First Ancestor.

• Qin Hao explained that his Slaying Luo Art could sever rules, then refined Next Vermilion Bird Son's Primordial Spirit into a Soul Slave.
• Mo Zhi restored the Star Cultivation Crystal, stabilized the Vermilion Bird Tomb, and asked Qin Hao to become the next Vermilion Bird Son, but Qin Hao declined.
• Qin Hao summoned Liu Mei, and Mo Zhi gave her the Star Cultivation Heart and told her to cultivate in seclusion for a year to comprehend the Vermilion Bird Seal.
• Qin Hao told Liu Mei that Zhu Quezi had tried to harm her through the Bronze Man, then left her to cultivate and departed the tomb.
• Qin Hao emerged from the Vermilion Bird Tomb and saw Wang Lin, Mei Ji, and the Immortal Remnant Clan's First Ancestor, who regarded him with killing intent.

Qin Hao gained Yin Void cultivation, eighth-grade Alchemy Skill, and six million Immortal Jade before confronting the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor. He killed five clan experts with Extreme Realm lightning and refined their Primordial Spirits into Soul Slaves.

• The system raised Qin Hao's cultivation to Yin Void, his Alchemy Skill to eighth grade, and granted him 6.05 million Immortal Jade.
• Qin Hao sensed the Immortal Remnant Clan First Ancestor's killing intent and advanced toward him as his cultivation and other powers rose to Peak Profound Ascension.
• Qin Hao unleashed Extreme Realm lightning at the First Ancestor, while Third Ancestor Mei Ji attacked the Fourth Ancestor and revealed that she had become Qin Hao's servant.
• The First Ancestor and four ancestral spirits attacked Qin Hao, but his Blood Lightning destroyed their bodies and left their Primordial Spirits behind.
• Qin Hao used the Myriad Realms Soul Sealing Whip to draw in the five Primordial Spirits and refine them into Soul Slaves.

Qin Hao killed five Immortal Remnant Clan experts and broke through to the Yin Void Realm, shocking the cultivators gathered at the Vermilion Bird Tomb. He tested his newfound power and recognized that he still had far to go before reaching Peeking Nirvana.

• Qin Hao slew the Immortal Remnant Clan's five Asking Peak cultivators with a single strike, leaving the onlookers awed by his Extreme Realm power.
• Qin Hao's Primordial Spirit absorbed Heaven and Earth Origin Qi and transformed, carrying his cultivation into the Yin Void Realm.
• Qin Hao's breakthrough sent a terrifying aura across Vermilion Bird Country and forced its living beings to bow.
• Situ Nan explained the cultivation realms to Wang Lin and said that he had completed his Yin Intention after tens of thousands of years.
• Qin Hao sensed his Dao, discovered that his Primordial Spirit could absorb Origin Power, and reflected that he remained weak compared with the wider Alliance Star Domain.

Qin Hao accepted the Immortal Remnant Clan’s submission and granted it a continent under strict conditions, while claiming the deepest layers of the Immortal Relic Land for himself. As news spread that he had killed the Vermilion Bird Son and seized control of Vermilion Bird Star, Qin Hao prepared to return to Huofen Kingdom.

• Qin Hao accepted the Immortal Remnant Clan’s Fourth Ancestor as a servant and granted the clan one continent in exchange for a skull every thousand years, its dying cultivators, and the space below the thirteenth underground level.
• Mei Ji and the Fourth Ancestor led the Immortal Remnant Clan’s cultivators away to prepare for their relocation.
• Qin Hao ordered two Tian Xuan Continent cultivators to move their sects to new residences, including the Gan Family’s Fief.
• Qin Hao considered the Immortal Corpses, Origin power, and Li Guang’s Arrow hidden in the deeper layers of the Immortal Relic Land, then decided to return to Huofen Kingdom.
• News spread across Vermilion Bird Star that the Vermilion Bird Son had died and Qin Hao had killed the Immortal Remnant Clan’s First Ancestor and four ancestral spirits, leaving Mei Ji and the Fourth Ancestor as his servants.