Chapter Summaries

Qin Run and the Qin Family reinforcements turned the battle against the Lan Family and its allies, forcing Luo Tianyang to retreat and allowing the Qin forces to capture Third Hall Master. The chapter ended with the battered Lan, Jiang, and Taichu leaders mourning their losses and wondering how they could fight on.

• Third Hall Master betrayed the Qin Family and joined Lan Tianyu in attacking Ice One, while First Hall Master and the Earth Vein Patriarch condemned him.
• Qin Run arrived with Qin Lei, Qin Hai, and other Supremes, then joined Bing Ling to drive Luo Tianyang and the Lan forces into retreat.
• First Hall Master and the Earth Vein Patriarch captured Third Hall Master alive and denounced him for surrendering to the enemy.
• In Lan City, Lan Tianba, Jiang Chengyu, Luo Tianyang, and the surviving Supremes discussed their heavy losses and the need for reinforcements.

After the Qin Family’s surprise attack devastated the three great powers, their leaders pledged to gather reinforcements and continue the war. Back at the Qin Family, a judgment assembly debated the fate of the captured Third Hall Master, who had betrayed his clan.

• Lan Tianyu and Lan Tianba rallied the Jiang Family and Taichu Sacred Land by promising the Lan Family would commit major forces and its ancestor to the fight.
• Jiang Haoyu and Qingfeng Supreme left the Lan Family to seek reinforcements from their factions.
• Qin Jiuge escorted three wounded, captured traitors back to the Qin Family, where they were forced to kneel before Qin Wuchen, Bing Ling, and the assembled experts.
• Qin Wuchen and Qin Lei denounced the Third Hall Master for betraying the Qin Family, while the Law Enforcement Hall Master argued against publicly torturing him.
• The Qin Family debated how to punish the Third Hall Master, while Bing Ling and the Ice Frost Sacred Land Supremes stayed out of the internal matter.

Qin Jiuge persuaded the Qin Family and Ice Frost Sacred Land to publicly execute the treacherous Third Hall Master to inspire courage before the coming assault by three major powers. As the meeting ended, he rejected Jiang Xuehe’s plea for release and mocked the War God Jiang Family.

• The Ice Frost Sacred Land experts praised Qin Jiuge after their forces failed to eliminate Taichu Sacred Land’s survivors, while the attack on the Jiang Family had wiped out nearly all its forces.
• Qin Wuchen asked Qin Jiuge how to handle the Third Hall Master, and Qin Jiuge proposed killing him publicly and using his head to consecrate the Qin Family’s black banner.
• The Third Hall Master begged for a chance to atone, but the First Hall Master and the other Hall Masters condemned him for betraying the Qin Family.
• Qin Wuchen accepted Qin Jiuge’s proposal, and Qin Jiuge remained relaxed as the others reacted.
• Jiang Xuehe asked to be released so he could persuade the War God Jiang Family to stop its attack, but Qin Jiuge refused and mocked the family.

Qin Jiuge offered to make the captured Jiang Family elder Jiang Teng surrender by helping him break through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm in exchange for taking poison and serving him. Meanwhile, Qin Wuchen and Bing Ling discussed reinforcing their alliance ahead of the coming battle.

• Qin Jiuge slapped Jiang Xuehe and ordered him sacrificed to the banner alongside Third Hall Master.
• Jiang Teng refused to fear death or betray the Jiang Family, but Qin Jiuge claimed he could make him surrender and dragged him away.
• Qin Wuchen and Bing Ling agreed to seek additional reinforcements, including Life and Death Realm experts and possible Quasi-Emperors.
• Qin Jiuge told Jiang Teng that his long failure to break through showed his prospects were fading, then offered to help him reach the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Qin Jiuge demanded that Jiang Teng take poison so he could control his life, even after the breakthrough, and make him work for him.

Qin Jiuge persuaded Jiang Teng to accept poison and secretly serve the Qin Family in exchange for help breaking through to the Quasi-Emperor realm. After Qin Jiuge brought him to the Qin Family’s main hall and announced his surrender, the clan praised the recruitment while news of the battle among the five super forces spread.

• Jiang Teng refused to become Qin Jiuge’s lackey, but Qin Jiuge argued that he could keep his reputation by serving secretly and disguising himself.
• Jiang Teng asked how Qin Jiuge would help him break through, then agreed to try on the condition that he would not serve openly.
• Qin Jiuge brought Jiang Teng to the Qin Family’s main hall and announced that he had joined their side.
• Qin Hai and the Qin Family’s experts praised Qin Jiuge for persuading Jiang Teng, an eighth-level Supreme.
• Cultivators in a great city began discussing the battle among the five super forces.

A cultivator in a teahouse recounted how Qin Jiuge led the Qin Family and Ice Frost Sacred Land in a surprise attack against the Sacred Alliance in Lan Province. The crowd doubted the incredible reports, but the cultivator left them stunned by listing Qin Jiuge’s powers and four Emperor Weapons.

• A cultivator from Lan Province told the teahouse that the Lan Family, the War God Jiang Family, and Taichu Sacred Land had formed the Sacred Alliance against Qin Jiuge.
• He explained that the Qin Family had joined with Ice Frost Sacred Land and launched a surprise attack on the alliance in Lan Province.
• The cultivator said Qin Jiuge and the Qin Family Patriarch killed dozens of Jiang Family Supremes before retreating unscathed.
• A Nirvana Realm cultivator and others challenged the story, saying the alliance should have been stronger and questioning Qin Jiuge’s reputation.
• The storyteller defended Qin Jiuge by citing his Chaos Body, Ancient Twin Pupils, Life and Death Realm cultivation, and possession of four Emperor Weapons.

Qin Jiuge’s victories spread across the Sky Profound Continent, earning him a reputation as the greatest prodigy of all ages and making the three allied powers widely despised. At a Jiang Family assembly, Jiang Haoyu recounted the disastrous defeat and urged Jiang Haohan to join the campaign against Qin Jiuge, but other leaders argued that the family should not risk its remaining Quasi-Emperors.

• A cultivator told a teahouse crowd that the Qin Family and Ice Frost Sacred Land had wiped out many Taichu Sacred Land Supremes, silencing doubts about Qin Jiuge’s strength.
• People across the continent came to regard Qin Jiuge as an unmatched prodigy, while members of the Jiang Family, Lan Family, and Taichu Sacred Land faced hostility.
• Jiang Haoyu returned to the Jiang Family and described how Qin Jiuge and the Qin Family Head had attacked the encampment, killed Supremes, and captured Teng Clan Elder and the East Vein Master in the Blood River Great Formation.
• Jiang Haoyu urged Jiang Haohan to personally lead the effort against Qin Jiuge, but a Supreme and the Middle and North Vein Masters objected that the Jiang Family should not send more Quasi-Emperors.
• Jiang Haoyu warned the assembly that Qin Jiuge was not as simple an opponent as the two Vein Lords believed.

The Jiang Family, Taichu Sacred Land, and Lan Family formed a force to attack the Qin Family after suffering heavy losses. As both sides prepared for war, the allies planned a coordinated frontal assault and surprise attack while Qin Jiuge organized the Qin Family’s defenses.

• Jiang Haohan decided to lead the Jiang Family, Lan Family, and Taichu Sacred Land against the Qin Family, leaving Jiang Haonan to guard the Jiang Family’s stronghold.
• Luo Changmen ordered Taichu Sacred Land’s Four Heavenly Kings to join the campaign, while he stayed behind to protect the Holy Land.
• Jiang Haohan and the Four Heavenly Kings clashed over Luo Changmen’s absence, but Lan Tianyu defused the tension and the allies met at the Lan Family.
• Lan Tianba’s alliance assigned Jiang Haohan, Jiang Chengyu, and Lan Tianba to lead the frontal assault, while Luo Xinghe led the surprise attack with the Four Heavenly Kings, Jiang Haoyu, and Tianlong Venerable.
• Qin Jiuge prepared the Qin Family for battle, requisitioning Assassination Hall and the Demon Vein Patriarch to target the enemy’s important figures.

Qin Jiuge learned that the Sacred Alliance planned a surprise attack on the Qin Family and devised a way to ambush the attackers. After assessing the enemy’s formidable lineup, he volunteered to lure them into a trap and help secure the Qin Family’s victory.

• Qin Jiuge gave Jiang Teng the Spirit Awakening Fruit, and Jiang Teng began breaking through from the eighth level of the Supreme realm toward the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Qin Wuchen told Qin Jiuge that the Sacred Alliance was approaching, and Qin Jiuge proposed using informants to guide assassinations against isolated enemies.
• Feng Hu Supreme informed Qin Jiuge that a Taichu Sacred Land Quasi-Emperor would lead a surprise attack on the Qin Family.
• Qin Jiuge revealed the attackers’ identities, prompting Qin Wuchen to assign Bing Ling, Ice One, Ice Two, Ice Three, and Qin Run to intercept them.
• Qin Jiuge urged the Qin Wuchen to add him to the ambush and planned to reveal a flaw to lure the attackers into a trap.

Qin Wuchen revealed that the War God Jiang Family, the Lan Family, and Taichu Sacred Land had allied to destroy the Qin Family, and Qin Jiuge rallied the clan by killing two betrayers. As the allied forces approached, Qin Wuchen warned that Luo Xinghe was missing and ordered Qin Jiuge back while he and the Old Ancestor prepared to face the three Quasi-Emperors.

• Qin Wuchen told the assembled Qin Family that three superpowers had entered their territory to wipe out the clan, but said the Qin Family and Ice Frost Sacred Land had already slain many enemy Supremes.
• Qin Jiuge announced the Third Hall Master's betrayal and killed him with the Demon God Spear before the gathered clansmen.
• Qin Jiuge then killed Jiang Xuehe, the Jiang Family's East Vein Master, and rallied the clan to fight the allied forces.
• A report arrived that the enemy was a thousand li away, so Qin Wuchen called the Qin Family's experts above the Life and Death Realm to battle and Qin Jiuge led them toward the gates.
• Qin Wuchen spotted that Luo Xinghe was absent from the enemy forces, suspected a surprise attack, and told Qin Jiuge to return while he and the Old Ancestor held off the three Quasi-Emperors.

The Jiang and Lan factions attacked the Qin Family’s protected array while Luo Xinghe led a covert force into Qin territory. The siege continued as Luo Xinghe searched for Qin Jiuge, hoping to kill him and throw the Qin Family into disarray.

• Qin Wuchen and Qin Shidi prepared to defend the Qin Family against Jiang Haohan, Jiang Chengyu, Lan Tianba, and their forces.
• Jiang Teng appeared as a Quasi-Emperor and claimed he had turned misfortune into a breakthrough, concealing his infiltration under Qin Jiuge’s arrangements.
• After learning that Jiang Xuehe had been sacrificed to consecrate the Qin Family’s banner, Jiang Haohan launched an attack on the Clan Protection Array.
• The four Quasi-Emperors and the Supremes bombarded the array while Qin Family cultivators sustained it from within.
• Luo Xinghe infiltrated Qin territory with the Four Heavenly Kings, Jiang Haoyu, and Tianlong Supreme, and directed them to target Qin Jiuge rather than weaker cultivators.

Qin Jiuge and his allies ambushed the Four Heavenly Kings after Luo Xinghe split his forces to search for them. They killed Lin King Supreme and captured Fire King Supreme, while Luo Xinghe rescued Ming King Supreme and True King Supreme as reinforcements arrived.

• Luo Xinghe divided his forces into three groups to search for Qin Jiuge, unaware that Qin Jiuge and his allies had already discovered them.
• Qin Jiuge, Qin Run, Bing Ling, and the Ice Frost Sacred Land Supremes ambushed the Four Heavenly Kings with Emperor Weapons and control techniques.
• Qin Jiuge fought Fire King Supreme, overcame his Fire Spirit Divine Body, and captured him alive.
• Qin Run and Bing Ling killed Lin King Supreme while Qin Jiuge dealt with Fire King Supreme.
• Luo Xinghe arrived and rescued Ming King Supreme and True King Supreme, then Jiang Haoyu and Tianlong Supreme joined them.
• Luo Xinghe, Jiang Haoyu, and Tianlong Supreme were stunned by the Qin side's two Quasi-Emperors wielding Emperor Weapons.

Qin Jiuge and the Qin Family fought off the surprise attack while the enemy's main force breached the family's outer defenses. After capturing Ming King Supreme and killing Tianlong Supreme, Qin Jiuge's success left the remaining defenders ready to confront the fleeing attackers inside the Blood River Great Formation.

• Qin Jiuge captured Fire King Supreme, then the defenders began battles across the Qin Family as the main force shattered the first layer of the Clan Protection Array.
• Qin Wuchen ordered the Qin Family forces to retreat deeper inside, while the enemy pursued them toward the Blood River Great Formation.
• Qin Jiuge used Great Emperor Blue Mountain's Speed Art to capture Ming King Supreme, and Qin Run killed Tianlong Supreme with the Longevity Spear.
• Jiang Haoyu and Luo Xinghe fled toward the main force as Qin Jiuge and Bing Ling pursued them.
• The enemy entered the Blood River Great Formation and attacked it, while Qin Wuchen and Qin Shidi met the fleeing Jiang Haoyu and Luo Xinghe.

Luo Xinghe and Jiang Haoyu helped the trapped Sacred Alliance break the Blood River Great Formation, bringing both sides face to face. Qin Jiuge tried to use three captured Taichu Heavenly Kings to split the enemy, but Luo Xinghe chose to attack anyway, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Luo Xinghe and Jiang Haoyu attacked the Blood River Great Formation from outside while Jiang Haohan, Lan Tianba, and their allies struck it from within, breaking it at the cost of Sacred Alliance casualties.
• Qin Jiuge and the others confronted the freed Sacred Alliance forces, whose five Quasi-Emperors faced the Qin Family and Ice Frost Sacred Land.
• Jiang Haohan urged Bing Ling to abandon the Qin Family, but Bing Ling refused and declared Ice Frost Sacred Land would stand with them.
• Qin Jiuge threatened to kill one of three captured Taichu Heavenly Kings unless Taichu Sacred Land switched sides, while Luo Xinghe and Lan Tianba argued over whether to trust him.
• Luo Xinghe refused to betray the Sacred Alliance and charged Qin Jiuge with the Ten Directions Sword, disregarding the captives' lives.

Qin Jiuge secured the surrender of Ming King Supreme and Fire King Supreme, killed True King Supreme, and directed the Qin Family and its allies to divide the enemy Quasi-Emperors into separate battles. With the remaining forces facing off, Qin Jiuge led the charge and focused on Jiang Haoyu.

• Qin Jiuge persuaded Ming King Supreme and Fire King Supreme to surrender, then killed True King Supreme when he refused.
• Bing Ling fought Luo Xinghe, and Jiang Haoyu and Jiang Haohan intervened to save Luo Xinghe from Bing Ling’s ice arrow.
• Qin Jiuge summoned four Imperial weapons and ordered his allies to lure the enemy outside and choose their opponents.
• Qin Wuchen fought Jiang Haohan, Qin Shidi fought Lan Tianba, and Bing Ling, Qin Run, Lan Xinghe, and Jiang Chengyu also left to battle their assigned opponents.
• Qin Jiuge instructed First Hall Master and Jiang Teng to pretend to fight while preserving their strength, then led his forces toward the enemy and targeted Jiang Haoyu.

Qin Jiuge fought Jiang Haoyu above Qin Family Plaza and decisively defeated her after overcoming her Quasi-Emperor-level secret technique. He captured the weakened Jiang Haoyu and told her that Jiang Teng would not return, while the battle between their forces continued.

• Qin Jiuge and Jiang Haoyu exchanged blows as the Qin Family and Ice Frost Sacred Land fought the Middle Vein Master and the Sacred Alliance across Qin Family Plaza.
• Qin Jiuge trapped Jiang Haoyu in black mist, seized her with the Great Black Demon Hand, and forced her to use a secret technique that briefly gave her Quasi-Emperor power.
• Jiang Haoyu charged Qin Jiuge, but the God Slaying Pearl controlled her and destroyed her Quasi-Emperor Weapon before Qin Jiuge struck her with lightning, divine light, and the Six Paths Samsara Fist.
• Jiang Haoyu used her Heavenly Feather phenomenon in her final breath of Quasi-Emperor power, but Qin Jiuge's Chaos Green Lotuses and sword-wielding Sacred Body giant defeated it.
• After Jiang Haoyu's power fell to the Nirvana Realm, Qin Jiuge caught and restrained her, then severely injured her as she threatened the Qin Family and called for Jiang Teng's return.

After Qin Jiuge defeated Jiang Haoyu, the Sacred Alliance lost more ground as the Lan Family Wind Vein defected and the Qin Family launched a coordinated attack. The alliance began surrendering, though a Taichu Sacred Land trump card tried to stop them and was quickly overwhelmed.

• Qin Jiuge escaped the battlefield on a flying horse with the injured, bound Jiang Haoyu as Feng Hu Supreme turned on the alliance and killed Nuhuo Supreme.
• Qin Jiuge told Jiang Haoyu that members of the Jiang Family had also defected, while the remaining Sacred Alliance Supremes debated retreating.
• The Qin Family's Law Enforcement Hall and Assassination Hall attacked from behind as Qin Jiuge ordered the alliance to surrender or die.
• A disguised seventh-layer Supreme from Taichu Sacred Land killed a Supreme who tried to surrender and threatened the others.
• The Lan Family Fire Vein Master led the alliance members in surrendering, and Ice One briefly froze the Taichu swordswoman before the Supremes battered her into submission.

Qin Jiuge imprisoned new captives alongside prisoners from the Lan Family, Jiang Family, and Taichu Sacred Land, then revealed the losses inflicted by his surprise attacks. Cangyang Supreme began explaining the Sacred Alliance’s powerful assault on the Qin Family, but had not yet described its outcome.

• Qin Jiuge ordered the captured intruders taken to the dungeon and placed them with the faction members he had already imprisoned.
• Qin Jiuge brought newly captured Supremes into the crowded cells, shocking Lan Ling and the other prisoners.
• Qin Jiuge told the prisoners that many of their allies had been killed, while the two Heavenly Kings of Taichu Sacred Land had become his subordinates.
• Cangyang Supreme explained that Qin Jiuge and the Qin Family Head had destroyed a Jiang Family stronghold while Bing Ling attacked a Taichu Sacred Land stronghold.
• Cangyang Supreme said the Sacred Alliance had marched on the Qin Family with two Jiang Family Quasi-Emperors and forces from all eight Lan Family veins, after three Jiang Family Vein Lords had been killed.

Cangyang Supreme recounted how the Sacred Alliance’s stronger forces were defeated and captured during their assault on the Qin Family. Qin Jiuge revealed that he had provoked arguments among the captives to divide them, and the prisoners began fighting as he listened.

• Cangyang Supreme told Lan Ling that the Sacred Alliance’s surprise team was ambushed inside the Qin Family, where one Heavenly King and the Lan Family’s Supreme Elder died and three Heavenly Kings were captured.
• Cangyang Supreme explained that the alliance broke through the Qin Family’s defenses but was captured after the Jiang Family’s newly advanced Quasi-Emperor disappeared while pursuing the First Hall Master.
• Moon God Supreme blamed the Jiang Family elder for the defeat, prompting the Jiang Family and Taichu Sacred Land captives to accuse the Lan Family and one another.
• Qin Jiuge told Ice One Venerable that he had stirred up conflict to divide the captives and make them easier to manage.
• The captives began threatening and attacking one another while Qin Jiuge listened outside the prison.

Lan Ling failed to stop the wounded forces of the Lan Family, Taichu Sacred Land, and Jiang Family from turning on one another inside the prison. Outside, newly advanced Quasi-Emperor Jiang Teng betrayed Luo Xinghe during battle and struck him down for Qin Jiuge’s side.

• Lan Ling warned the three powers that they had been manipulated and pleaded with his grandfather to make them unite, but Cangyang Supreme accused the Jiang Family of conspiring with the Qin Family.
• The Lan Family and Taichu Sacred Land turned against the Jiang Family, while Qin Jiuge’s followers praised his scheme and he left to rest.
• First Hall Master sent Jiang Teng to fight, and Jiang Teng chose Luo Xinghe as his target because he seemed the weakest opponent.
• Jiang Teng arrived at Luo Xinghe and Bing Ling’s battlefield, pretended to attack Bing Ling, then redirected his punch at Luo Xinghe.
• Jiang Teng’s punch sent Luo Xinghe hurtling downward, and Bing Ling hurried to follow up.