Chapter Summaries

The Overseas Region forces stopped the Sky Fox Woman and invited Qin Jiuge to Jianghua Island, while Li Changge and Zhu Chengan fought for victory over Great Snow Dragon Lake. Zhu Chengan won narrowly, and Qin Jiuge remained on the island with Han Qing and the Sky Covering Divine Child as his hosts.

• The Blood Kill Gate and Sky Covering Gate offered Qin Jiuge gifts and invited him to the Overseas Region, while the other prodigies stopped the Sky Fox Woman from attacking him.
• Li Changge challenged Zhu Chengan again and fought him with her phoenix-flame spear as he answered with the Sky Origin Secret Art and Law Manifestation.
• Zhu Chengan narrowly defeated Li Changge by a single move and returned to the Flying Divine Boat injured but proud of his victory.
• Sikong Changfeng realized Qin Jiuge had been invited overseas, while Xu Lang celebrated the gains from their victory.
• Qin Jiuge arrived at Jianghua Island, where Han Qing and the Sky Covering Divine Child offered to help him during his stay.

Qin Jiuge learned that the overseas forces wanted him to enter the Silent Realm, where a heaven and earth spirit might offer a path to the Great Emperor Realm. After the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor revealed the realm’s history and purpose, Qin Jiuge recognized the significance of the secret but had yet to decide whether to help.

• Qin Jiuge asked Han Qing when he could leave, then returned to the bamboo house to cultivate when Han Qing could not explain the plan.
• The overseas Quasi-Emperors discussed bringing Qin Jiuge to the Silent Realm, reasoning that he was less guarded than Zhu Chengan or Li Changge and that the Qin Family’s hidden experts were allowing him a trial.
• The Sky-Covering Quasi-Emperor persuaded the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor to approach Qin Jiuge by promising him first choice of the Silent Realm’s blessing.
• Half a month later, the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor visited Qin Jiuge and asked him to help with an important matter.
• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor revealed that the Silent Realm was the ruin of an overseas Great Emperor and concealed an opportunity to break through to the Great Emperor Realm.

Qin Jiuge learned that the Overseas Region wanted him to pass the Silent Realm’s trials and secure its governing authority, then negotiated for a share of the rewards with the Qin Family’s Quasi-Emperors. The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor left to discuss the Qin Family’s demand for twenty percent, while Qin Jiuge trapped the Quasi-Emperors who had been hiding nearby and made them compensate him before letting them go.

• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor explained that the Overseas Region needed Qin Jiuge to pass the Silent Realm’s trials and offered him a share of its rewards.
• Qin Jiuge called out the hidden First Hall Master and Feng Hu Supreme, and other Qin Family Quasi-Emperors emerged from the shadows.
• The First Hall Master demanded at least twenty percent of the spoils for the Qin Family, and the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor left to consult the other Quasi-Emperors.
• Qin Jiuge challenged the Qin Family Quasi-Emperors for hiding until he called them out, and the First Hall Master and Feng Hu Supreme fled.
• Qin Jiuge trapped the remaining Quasi-Emperors in his formation and made them promise resources or help with his troubles before releasing them.

Qin Jiuge searched overseas for the Azure Emperor and Xiao Yan while discovering a dangerous new Secret Realm within the Silent Realm. The Blood Kill Gate learned of the emergence, and its leaders arrived as Chang Tianluo recognized the threat.

• Qin Jiuge used his newfound freedom among the overseas factions to search for the Azure Emperor and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and the Azure Emperor heard that Qin Jiuge was in Blissful City and decided to visit him for help entering the Silent Realm.
• Qin Jiuge and Han Qing discovered a newly appeared mist-filled Secret Realm whose mist rapidly returned after their attacks.
• Qin Jiuge warned Han Qing not to enter the Secret Realm, and Han Qing reported its appearance to the Blood Kill Gate.
• Chang Tianluo and Deputy Gate Master Yan Budai arrived, and Chang Tianluo recognized the Silent Realm's return as a possible blessing or curse.

The Blood Kill Gate learned that the reappeared Silent Realm held an ancient Great Emperor inheritance guarded by the powerful Merman Clan, and decided Qin Jiuge might be essential to surviving the coming conflict. Meanwhile, Qin Jiuge reached Wuyue City and hired the Treasure Pavilion to find Mountain Barbarians who could track people by their aura.

• The Deputy Gate Master told Han Qing that the Merman Clan guarded the Silent Realm and that its warriors could fight three opponents of the Quasi Emperor Realm, making the realm’s return a threat as well as an opportunity.
• The Blood Kill Gate ordered Han Qing to find Qin Jiuge, hoping to enlist his help against the Merman Clan, while considering a temporary retreat if he could not help.
• Qin Jiuge arrived in Wuyue City and learned that the Mountain Barbarians could track people by their aura, but that the Treasure Pavilion protected them.
• Qin Jiuge asked the Treasure Pavilion’s Yue Tianhong to arrange a search by the Mountain Barbarians and offered cultivation resources in exchange.
• Yue Tianhong accepted Qin Jiuge’s deal.

Yue Tianhong brought resources and a task from Qin Jiuge to the Mountain Barbarian Tribe, whose Patriarch agreed to help trace the people Qin Jiuge sought. When the Patriarch discovered that the search implicated the Great Emperor Realm and risked the tribe’s Fortune, Qin Jiuge persuaded him to continue, then caught him as the tracing art backfired.

• Yue Tianhong delivered half the agreed resources to the Mountain Barbarian Tribe and arranged for its Patriarch and Mobaha to help with Qin Jiuge’s task.
• Qin Jiuge gave the Patriarch items bearing the auras of the Azure Emperor and Xiao Yan, and the group set off to trace them.
• The Patriarch detected a link to the Great Emperor Realm and warned Qin Jiuge that his tribe’s tracing art could consume its Fortune.
• Qin Jiuge confirmed that one of the people they sought had the potential to reach the Great Emperor Realm, but withheld further details.
• Qin Jiuge promised to restore the tribe’s lost Fortune and suggested it could submit to the Qin Family, persuading the Patriarch to continue.
• The Patriarch suffered a backlash while using his divine ability, and Qin Jiuge rushed forward to catch him.

Qin Jiuge helped Mobaha withstand the backlash from tracking the Azure Emperor, then used his aura to let her know he was coming. He reached the Blood Kill Gate’s vicinity as the Azure Emperor waited with Xiao Yan, while Mobaha pledged the Mountain Tribe to the Qin Family.

• Qin Jiuge suppressed the backlash that nearly killed Mobaha as he searched for the Azure Emperor’s aura.
• Mobaha realized the Mountain Tribe had little choice but to join Qin Jiuge’s cause, and Qin Jiuge assured him that the Qin Family would not fall easily.
• Qin Jiuge added his aura to Mobaha’s secret art, and the Azure Emperor noticed it and released her own aura so they could find her.
• Qin Jiuge told Mobaha that the Mountain Tribe was now part of the Qin Family, then hurried toward the Blood Kill Gate without him.
• People near the Blood Kill Gate followed Qin Jiuge’s trail toward the disturbance as the Azure Emperor waited with Xiao Yan, who anticipated Qin Jiuge’s arrival.

Qin Jiuge reunited with Xiao Yan and agreed to help the Azure Emperor find the Heart of Depravity in the Silent Realm. He brought Han Qing into their plans, and the Azure Emperor revealed her identity as a Quasi Emperor.

• Qin Jiuge dismissed the Mountain Tribe Patriarch and advised him to travel to Qing Province while guarding against the Treasure Pavilion.
• Qin Jiuge met the Azure Emperor and Xiao Yan, then agreed to help the Azure Emperor find the Heart of Depravity in the Silent Realm.
• The Azure Emperor explained that the Heart of Depravity would let her return to the Sky Profound Continent without alerting two old foes.
• Han Qing arrived and discussed the Silent Realm with Qin Jiuge, explaining that the realm itself would enter the world and that ancient Magic Beasts posed a danger.
• Qin Jiuge introduced the Azure Emperor as a senior of the Qin Family, and she revealed her Quasi Emperor aura to Han Qing.

After news of the Silent Realm spread, the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor explained its Great Emperor-level dangers to his descendants and considered the upheaval an opportunity. He chose to send willing children toward the Silent Realm, while Zhao Tianming and Zhao Huanhuan readily volunteered.

• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor emerged from seclusion after advancing to the peak of the Quasi Emperor Realm, but the Silent Realm's emergence drove banquet guests away.
• Zhao Tianming rebuked his younger brothers for complaining about the departing guests, while the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor recalled the Silent Realm's history.
• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor told his descendants that the Silent Realm might contain a Great Emperor Realm expert and had once released a Half-step Great Emperor Realm being.
• Zhao Tianming and Zhao Huanhuan volunteered to go to the Silent Realm after the Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor suggested it could be an opportunity.
• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor said those who went would keep their status on Cloud Sea Island, while those who refused would lose their privileges, prompting more descendants to volunteer.

Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor discarded nearly a third of his offspring, prompting Zhao Huanhuan to confront the cruelty of the Overseas Region. As Zhu Chengan joined Qin Jiuge and Xiao Yan near the Blood Kill Gate, the Silent Realm began to stir, and its eruption seemed imminent.

• Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor ordered the Elders to decide which of his offspring to eliminate, and Zhao Huanhuan watched in fear.
• Zhao Tianming told Zhao Huanhuan that she could escape the Overseas Region only by marrying Qin, then left her behind.
• Zhu Chengan arrived near the Blood Kill Gate with the Golden Silver Elders and greeted Qin Jiuge, exchanging polite words about his departure from the Sky Origin Dynasty.
• Zhu Chengan examined the Silent Realm and spoke with Xiao Yan, while Qin Jiuge recognized that the realm was about to erupt.
• The Silent Realm's mist bubbled and roared, so the Golden Silver Elders and the dynasty's Guardians shielded Zhu Chengan and invited Qin Jiuge forward.

Qin Jiuge and Zhu Chengan led the major factions into the erupting Silent Realm, cutting through its monster tide as they advanced toward its depths. At the Merman Clan’s pearl palace, the clan’s leader realized the humans had arrived again.

• The Azure Emperor shielded Qin Jiuge and the others from the sonic assault while weaker cultivators were left dead or mindless.
• Qin Jiuge charged into the erupting tide, and Zhu Chengan and the other factions followed to fight the monsters.
• At the Azure Emperor’s advice, Qin Jiuge searched for the tide’s weak point, and Zhu Chengan joined him as they led the advancing force.
• The group cut through the beast tides, but the beasts changed direction and attacked them from both front and rear.
• At the Merman Clan’s pearl palace, its leader announced that the Human Race had come again, unsettling the clansmen.

The Merman Clan debated whether to honor its ancestral precepts and help the Great Emperor’s old friend, while Qin Jiuge led the Human Race forces through the savage beast tide into the Silent Realm. After the clan detected their arrival, its Patriarch emerged and urged the Great Elder to decide whether to resist or yield.

• Shang Ciqing reminded the Merman Clan’s elders that its ancestral precepts required them to escort the Great Emperor’s old friend to the Heart-to-Heart Pavilion, while the Great Elder insisted they first confirm the Jade Slip’s response.
• The Great Elder ordered the Merman Clan’s savage beasts to intensify their assault as Qin Jiuge and Zhu Chengan pushed through increasingly powerful waves of beasts.
• Qin Jiuge continued forward under Azure Emperor’s guidance, and the leaders of the Human Race factions followed him through the beast tide.
• Azure Emperor entered the Silent Realm first, followed by Qin Jiuge, Zhu Chengan, and the others, as the realm’s gates opened.
• Jiao Jie'er announced that the Great Emperor’s friend had arrived, and the Merman Clan’s Patriarch appeared and told the Great Elder to make his decision.

The Azure Emperor forced the Merman Clan to submit and revealed that the Azure Yuan Great Emperor might still be alive. After taking the Heart of Depravity, she left the shaken clan under her command.

• The Azure Emperor confronted Patriarch Jiao Wubai and the Merman Clan over their resentment and warned them not to challenge her.
• The Azure Emperor inflicted unbearable pain on the clan members, then stopped when they admitted their mistake and begged for forgiveness.
• The Azure Emperor revealed that the Azure Yuan Great Emperor might still be alive, and the Merman Clan abandoned its plans to covet the Silent Realm.
• Jiao Wubai produced the Heart of Depravity, whose aura drove the Merman Clan into a violent frenzy.
• The Azure Emperor isolated the Heart of Depravity's power, saved the clan, and took the heart into her small world as Jiao Wubai pledged the Merman Clan's obedience.

Jiao Wubai led the Merman Clan out of the Silent Realm after Azure Emperor permitted them to enter the wider world. Qin Jiuge and several forces withdrew before the Mermen’s Quasi Emperor experts turned the battle against those who stayed.

• Azure Emperor allowed Jiao Wubai to lead the Merman Clan out of the Silent Realm, but warned him to avoid the Sky Profound Continent’s core region.
• Jiao Wubai ordered the Merman Clan to charge out, and Saintess Shang Ciqing joined the fighting outside the Silent Realm.
• After Azure Emperor warned him that a Half-step Great Emperor was about to act, Qin Jiuge withdrew with Zhu Chengan and the Sky Origin Dynasty forces.
• Zhao Tianming trusted Zhao Huanhuan’s judgment and withdrew Cloud Sea Island’s forces, while the fox maiden, Blood Kill Gate, and Sky Covering Gate stayed behind.
• More than a dozen Merman Quasi Emperor experts appeared and used the Sea Wave Divine Ability to devastate the Overseas Region forces that remained.

Jiao Wubai revealed the Merman Clan’s Half-step Great Emperor strength and declared control over the Overseas Region, forcing the other factions to withdraw. Qin Jiuge later met the Azure Emperor, who offered to help the Qin Family as she prepared to contend with the Sky Phoenix Dynasty and the Sky Origin Dynasty.

• Jiao Wubai used the Silent Realm’s inherited power to unleash her Half-step Great Emperor pressure and threaten anyone who invaded the Overseas Region.
• Zhu Chengan thanked Qin Jiuge, then returned to the Sky Origin Dynasty to report Jiao Wubai’s emergence and the inheritance in the region.
• Xiao Yan told Qin Jiuge that her master had obtained the Heart of Depravity and could return to the Sky Profound Continent to contend with the two dynasties.
• Qin Jiuge led part of the Qin Family’s forces away as the Silent Realm’s expanding ripples signaled the Merman Clan’s growing control over the Overseas Region.
• At the Drunken Immortal Tower in Blissful City, the Azure Emperor credited the Qin Family’s fortune for helping her succeed and offered to aid the family if she regained the Great Emperor Realm.
• The Azure Emperor teased Xiao Yan about Qin Jiuge, while Xiao Yan admitted that she had been matched with him by her family and thought he was not bad.

Qin Jiuge returned to the Qin Family from the Overseas Region, where the Azure Emperor began recovering her strength and urged him to cultivate further. Meanwhile, news of the Merman Clan’s Half-step Great Emperor stirred the continent, and the Sky Origin Ancestor warned the Sky Phoenix Ancestor that their ancient enemies might return.

• The Azure Emperor told Qin Jiuge to spar with Li Changge, Sikong Changfeng, and Zhu Chengan, then cultivate toward the ninth level of the Supreme Realm after returning to the Qin Family.
• Qin Jiuge and the others returned to the Sky Profound Continent, and the Azure Emperor settled into the Qin Family while Qin Jiuge concealed her identity.
• Qin Jiuge gathered the final ingredients for a Sky Mending Pill and arranged for the Qin Family to seek an alchemy grandmaster’s help with refining it.
• News of the Merman Clan’s Half-step Great Emperor spread across the continent and stirred widespread alarm.
• The Sky Origin Ancestor visited the Sky Phoenix Ancestor and warned her that their old companions might return and punish them for what they had done in Ancient Times.
• The Sky Phoenix Ancestor reassured her Quasi Emperor descendants that she would keep matters under control.

Qin Jiuge faced pressure to choose between the Sky Phoenix Dynasty and Sky Origin Dynasty as the Silent Realm’s Half-step Great Emperor threatened the continent. The Azure Emperor urged him to delay committing and use disobedient vassals to buy time, while Qin Jiuge gathered the Qin Family’s leaders to discuss their response.

• The Sky Origin Ancestor criticized the Sky Phoenix Ancestor’s proposed course and worried that it would ruin their chances against returning Great Emperor Realm experts.
• Qin Jiuge ordered that no one violate the Merman Clan, while the Qin Family’s allies and vassals grew anxious about the Silent Realm’s Half-step Great Emperor.
• Qin Jiuge asked the Azure Emperor when she would act, and she advised him to stall for time and rely on the Silent Realm’s sleeping Great Emperor and the Merman Clan’s instructions.
• The Azure Emperor warned that acting alone could provoke the Sky Phoenix Dynasty and Sky Origin Dynasty to unite against her and the Qin Family.
• Qin Jiuge met Feng Hu Supreme, the First Hall Master, and other Qin Family leaders, who pledged to follow his decision as the dynasties prepared to send envoys.

Qin Jiuge and the Qin Family agreed to wait for the Heavenly Phoenix and Sky Origin dynasties to make their moves. Wang Jian returned to Li Changge’s service but hinted that he might pledge allegiance to Qin Jiuge, while both dynasties dispatched envoys to approach the Qin Family.

• Qin Jiuge declared that the Qin Family would not provoke Zhu Changxun and Li Changge first, and would wait to see how they acted.
• Wang Jian returned to Wutong Pavilion, where Sima Lang urged him to flee before the Heavenly Phoenix Dynasty discovered him.
• Li Changge allowed Wang Jian to remain and heard his proposal to summon the Qin Family to submit on demanding terms.
• Wang Jian left Sima Lang wondering whether he planned to pledge allegiance to Qin Jiuge, after saying Li Changge was not an enlightened ruler.
• Zhu Chengan approved Liu Sanshui’s plan to seek cooperation with the Qin Family, and the Heavenly Phoenix and Sky Origin dynasties sent envoys toward the Qin Family.

The Qin Family joined the Sky Phoenix Dynasty after Qin Jiuge accepted its envoy’s offer, leaving the Sky Origin Dynasty’s envoy to arrive too late. Zhu Chengan raged at the news, then went to report the matter to the Sky Origin Dynasty’s forbidden lands.

• Qin Jiuge declared that the Qin Family would submit to the Sky Phoenix Dynasty, and its envoy accepted the decision.
• The Sky Origin Dynasty’s envoy arrived after the Qin Family had chosen sides and left without securing its allegiance.
• Sima Lang questioned Wang Jian about the Qin Family’s surrender, but Wang Jian denied having predicted it.
• News of the Qin Family joining the Sky Phoenix Dynasty spread widely within half a month.
• Zhu Chengan smashed valuables in the Eastern Palace and demanded an explanation from Liu Sanshui, who urged him to report the matter and respond forcefully.
• Zhu Chengan left the Eastern Palace and went to the Sky Origin Dynasty’s forbidden lands to report the Qin Family’s decision.

After Great Emperors emerged, the Sky Origin Dynasty held back from attacking the Qin Family, and Qin Jiuge learned that raising a Great Emperor of his own would be a formidable challenge. As Qin Jiuge cultivated in seclusion, allied forces gathered near the Qin Family estate to deter both dynasties from acting against it.

• Zhu Chengan accepted the Sky Origin Ancestor's order to avoid rash action against the Qin Family and use the Sky Phoenix Dynasty to track down the Great Emperors.
• When neither dynasty moved against the Qin Family, Xiao Yan and Qin Jiuge asked the Azure Emperor for an explanation, and she revealed that she had planned ahead.
• Qin Jiuge swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to put Xiao Yan above all else, satisfying the Azure Emperor's challenge.
• Qin Jiuge asked the Qin Family's Quasi-Emperors about reaching the Great Emperor Realm, and they explained how few cultivators could hope to attain it.
• Qin Jiuge cultivated in seclusion while forces allied with the Qin Family settled near its estate to warn both dynasties not to trifle with it.