Chapter Summaries

The Demonic Path and Sky Origin Dynasty forces broke into the Qin residence to hunt down the injured Qin Jiuge, but could not find him. Elder Sanshui used his Silver Compass to locate him, and the chapter ended with the leaders trying to force their followers to enter the cavern first.

• Liu Sanshui rallied the attackers as they battered down the Qin residence’s protective formation.
• White-faced Impermanence and the others searched the residence but found no trace of Qin Jiuge, prompting Elder Sanshui to use his Silver Compass.
• Elder Sanshui located Qin Jiuge, and White-faced Impermanence opened a cavern with gathered power of heaven and earth.
• Qin Run and Qin Shidi mocked the Sky Origin Dynasty forces outside while Feng Ming warned they would face consequences if Qin Jiuge survived.
• Elder Sanshui, White-faced Impermanence, and Li Mengsha backed away from the cavern and ordered their followers to enter first, but the followers refused.

The Demonic Path fiends sent their subordinates into the Stone Cave, where Qin Jiuge swiftly killed them, then the three Demonic Path Supremes entered as well. As more fiends followed, Qin Jiuge revealed that he had already digested the True Dragon heart and faced them with confidence.

• White-faced Impermanence, Li Mengsha, and Elder Sanshui forced Demonic Path subordinates into the Stone Cave to attack Qin Jiuge.
• Qin Jiuge killed the first group with Blood Qi swords, and their corpses were thrown back outside.
• Li Mengsha and Elder Sanshui argued over who would enter next, and Elder Sanshui went into the cave.
• White-faced Impermanence and the remaining Demonic Path fiends entered the Stone Cave, while those left outside steeled themselves and followed.
• Qin Jiuge confronted the approaching fiends and revealed that he had already digested the True Dragon heart.

Qin Jiuge pretended to be gravely injured to draw out the reactions of his enemies and hidden allies. Li Changge revealed herself, killed the three Demonic Path fiends, and left Feng Ming watching as Qin Jiuge’s companions complained that she had not told them Li Changge was there.

• White-faced Impermanence attacked Qin Jiuge, but Li Mengsha and Elder Sanshui abruptly retreated, prompting him to flee as well.
• Li Mengsha pointed out that Qin Jiuge had not attacked White-faced Impermanence, and the three concluded that Qin Jiuge was too injured to fight.
• Qin Jiuge let a spark of lightning vanish and acted weak, convincing the three fiends to attack him together.
• Li Changge emerged from hiding and burned White-faced Impermanence to ashes with her Fire Feather Fan.
• Li Changge struck down Li Mengsha and Elder Sanshui, killing both of them.
• Feng Ming heard the screams outside, while Qin Run, Qin Shidi, and Qin Wuchen reproached her for not revealing that Li Changge was present.

Li Changge rescued Qin Jiuge, who then told her he had found the hiding place of the Fated Person and went with her to investigate. Qin Jiuge confronted Li Xiangsheng before he could use a secret technique against Li Changge, and Li Xiangsheng defended his plan to seize the chance to change his fate.

• Feng Ming rebuked the Qin Family for failing to inform her about its Quasi-Emperor, then left after Qin Jiuge thanked her and joked about repaying her with marriage.
• Qin Jiuge revealed that the First Hall Master, the Quasi-Emperors, and the others had been hiding nearby and had watched the fight as a staged rescue.
• Qin Jiuge arranged for his allies to search the area and followed Li Changge to tell her what he had learned about the Fated Person.
• Li Changge approved Qin Jiuge's method of gathering information, and the two went to investigate the place he had identified.
• Li Xiangsheng planned to suppress Li Changge and steal her fortune, but Qin Jiuge arrived and confronted him.
• Li Xiangsheng argued that he had to seize his chance to change the fate of a Rogue Cultivator.

Li Changge killed Li Xiangsheng after he used a Jade Slip to escape, then ended her arrangement with Qin Jiuge and returned to Sky Phoenix City. Qin Jiuge rushed back to the Qin Family after learning its Fortune was failing, and vowed to bring down the Sky Origin Dynasty after discovering it had altered the family’s ancestral graves.

• Li Changge tracked Li Xiangsheng after he fled, then erased him with a single strike.
• Li Changge declared that she and Qin Jiuge were even and that the matter of the Great Emperor’s Fortune was over before returning to Sky Phoenix City.
• Azure Emperor warned Qin Jiuge that the Qin Family’s Fortune was in danger and urged him to find Ouye Zi.
• Qin Jiuge returned to the Qin Family and learned from the First Hall Master that the Sky Origin Dynasty had altered the family’s ancestral graves.
• Qin Jiuge vowed that the Qin Family would fight the Sky Origin Dynasty and take its place, as Azure Emperor approached.

Qin Jiuge chose to lead the Qin Family into war with the Sky Origin Dynasty despite the risks, and Xiao Yan pledged her support. As factions across the Sky Profound Continent weighed their options, Sikong Changfeng urged the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to bet on the Qin Family.

• The Azure Emperor warned Qin Jiuge that the Qin Family would have to face the Sky Origin Dynasty largely alone, but Qin Jiuge insisted they had no choice but to fight.
• Xiao Yan backed Qin Jiuge, while the Azure Emperor teased her disciple about her feelings and Qin Jiuge’s closeness with the Sky Phoenix Dynasty’s Eldest Princess.
• News of the Qin Family’s declaration of war spread across the Sky Profound Continent, alarming cultivators and prompting factions to consider which side to support.
• The Sky Profound Four Elders activated the city’s grand formation, and the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor warned Li Xuanmiao that Sky Profound City must remain neutral.
• Sikong Changfeng told the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to try supporting the Qin Family, saying he believed Qin Jiuge had a reason for choosing war.

As factions allied with the Qin Family sought reassurance about its ability to withstand the Sky Origin Dynasty’s Great Emperor Realm expert, Qin Jiuge revealed only that his family had means to resist one. Meanwhile, Feng Ming urged Li Changge to help the Qin Family, but Sima Lang and Wang Jian pulled her away, leaving the question of the Sky Phoenix Dynasty’s response unresolved.

• After Sikong Changfeng left the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s hall, Xu Lang asked what choice his family had and was advised to seek Qin Jiuge or flee to the Overseas Region if necessary.
• Xu Lang pressed Qin Jiuge to disclose the Qin Family’s trump card, but Qin Jiuge refused and called Qin Run to answer his questions instead.
• Shi Feiyu, Zhishan, faction heirs, Imperial Clans, Lian Nishang, and Bing Qingqing gathered at the Qin Family residence, and Qin Jiuge told them the family could resist a Great Emperor Realm expert.
• The Qin Family welcomed its allies as they moved into the residence to show they would live and die alongside it.
• At the Eldest Princess’s Residence, Feng Ming urged Li Changge to help the Qin Family, but Sima Lang and Wang Jian dragged her away as she questioned whether Qin Jiuge could withstand the Sky Origin Ancestor.

Great Emperor Realm experts from the Sky Phoenix Dynasty and the Sky Origin Dynasty began fighting above the Nine Heavens before the Qin Family and the Sky Origin Dynasty went to war. Azure Emperor arrived and confronted the Sky Origin Ancestor, declaring that the Nine Heavens would become her burial ground.

• Feng Ming realized the Great Emperor Realm experts battling above the Sky Profound Continent were likely the Sky Phoenix Dynasty's ancestor and the Sky Origin Dynasty's ancestor.
• Li Changge rushed toward the battle, and the Sky Phoenix Dynasty's Quasi-Emperor generals gathered to question her about what had happened.
• Li Changge denied knowing the cause and insisted the generals treat her as an equal because she had reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• The Sky Phoenix Ancestor accused the Sky Origin Ancestor of breaking their agreement, while the Sky Origin Ancestor blamed her for siding with Azure Emperor and rejecting their plan to capture her.
• The Sky Origin Ancestor called Azure Emperor out of hiding, and Azure Emperor appeared, warning that the Nine Heavens would be the Sky Origin Ancestor's burial ground.

After the Azure Emperor went to the Nine Heavens to fight the Sky Origin Ancestor, Qin Jiuge summoned the Merman Clan and rallied his allies for a decisive war against the Sky Origin Dynasty. The battle spread across the continent, and Qin Jiuge led the charge against the dynasty’s forces.

• Qin Jiuge called the Qin Family to war, summoned the Merman Clan’s Half-step Great Emperor Realm Patriarch, and contacted his vassal forces.
• The Ice Frost Sacred Land, the Flame Sacred Land, and other allies gathered, and Qin Jiuge ordered them to march against the Sky Origin Dynasty.
• At Sky Profound City, Sikong Changfeng learned that the city would remain neutral while the Rogue Cultivator Alliance chose to support the Qin Family.
• Liu Sanshui ordered the Sky Origin Dynasty’s troops to advance and hold back the invading forces before their reinforcements arrived.
• Qin Jiuge led the allied forces into battle and used his divine abilities to slaughter the Sky Origin Dynasty’s soldiers and generals.

Qin Jiuge rejected the Sky Origin Dynasty’s offer of a marriage alliance and ordered the assault to continue, even after learning the city barrier would take half a day to break. Once the formation fell and his forces entered the capital, the Sky Origin Imperial Family began sacrificing its own bloodline to unlock an Ancient Exotic Beast as its last defense.

• Liu Sanshui watched the fighting and urged his forces to retreat, convinced they could not match their opponents.
• The Sky Origin Dynasty offered negotiations and a marriage alliance between Qin Jiuge and an imperial princess, but Qin Jiuge ordered his forces to kill everyone instead.
• The Merman Clan Patriarch estimated that the Sky Origin Formation would take half a day to break, and Qin Jiuge accepted the delay despite the risk of hidden surprises.
• After half a day of attacks, the Sky Origin Formation shattered, and Qin Jiuge led the charge toward the Sky Origin Imperial Family.
• In the imperial family’s forbidden grounds, Quasi-Emperor experts rushed to release an Ancient Exotic Beast by using their clansmen’s blood to open the Heavenly Demon Lock.

The Sky Origin Imperial Family released Moro, an Ancient Great Yao in the Great Emperor Realm, from its forbidden ground and sent him toward the Nine Heavens. Qin Jiuge sensed the awakening trump card, and the Merman Clan Patriarch fled with him as Moro’s power emerged.

• The Sky Origin Quasi-Emperors sacrificed more than a thousand members of their Imperial Family to break the forbidden ground’s restrictions, then stopped before killing the survivors.
• Moro emerged from the prison, revealed that the confinement power extended to the Sky Origin bloodline, and agreed to head to the Nine Heavens.
• The Sky Origin Quasi-Emperors decided to rely on the forbidden ground’s confinement formation for protection while they awaited the battle’s outcome.
• Qin Jiuge sensed a change in the forbidden ground and recognized that the Sky Origin Dynasty had another trump card.
• The Merman Clan Patriarch sensed a Great Emperor Realm expert and grabbed Qin Jiuge as they fled.

Qin Jiuge ordered everyone to flee as an Evil God's aura surged toward the Nine Heavens, then led the Merman Clan Patriarch and their allies back to the Sky Origin Imperial Capital. After discovering the Sky Origin Imperial Family had disappeared, Qin Jiuge and the Merman Clan Patriarch headed for its forbidden ground to eliminate any remaining threats.

• Qin Jiuge told the Merman Clan Patriarch he had no solution and ordered everyone in the Sky Origin Capital to run.
• The Evil God's aura rushed toward the Nine Heavens, so Qin Jiuge and the Merman Clan Patriarch led their forces back to the imperial capital.
• The returning forces found the capital largely undefended and learned that the Sky Origin Imperial Family's core figures had vanished.
• Qin Jiuge persuaded the Merman Clan Patriarch to attack the Sky Origin Dynasty's forbidden ground before the battle above the Nine Heavens ended.
• The Divine Sword Quasi-Emperor, the Four Symbols Quasi-Emperor, and nearly all the Qin Family's Quasi-Emperors joined Qin Jiuge and the Merman Clan Patriarch at the forbidden ground.

Qin Jiuge and the gathered forces tried to break the Sky Origin imperial family's treasury formation, but it absorbed their attacks and remained intact. Above the Nine Heavens, Sky Origin Ancestor joined forces with Moro against the Azure Emperor and the Sky Phoenix Ancestor, while those trapped inside the formation grew confident that it would hold.

• The Merman Clan Patriarch attacked the formation with the Six Paths Samsara Fist, but it absorbed his blow and resisted his attempts to break it.
• Qin Jiuge told the others to gather their strength and attack the formation together, and the assembled forces began pounding it until it showed slight signs of shaking.
• Moro demanded his freedom in exchange for helping Sky Origin Ancestor defeat the Azure Emperor and the Sky Phoenix Ancestor, and Sky Origin Ancestor agreed.
• The Azure Emperor and the Sky Phoenix Ancestor resumed their battle against Sky Origin Ancestor and Moro, leaving the two sides evenly matched above the Nine Heavens.
• Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor's generals watched the formation absorb the attacks and mocked the people outside, while the attackers worried they could never break through.

Qin Jiuge and the allied factions abandoned their failed attempt to break the formation around Sky Origin Imperial Capital and left the ruined city behind. When the Great Emperor battle ended, Moro escaped after Sky Phoenix Ancestor and Azure Emperor sealed Sky Origin Ancestor beneath the Vajra Lockdown Formation.

• Qin Jiuge learned that a decisive Great Emperor battle could last nearly thirty years and ordered the factions to make one final attempt before leaving in three months.
• The factions failed to break the immortal formation, stripped Sky Origin Imperial Capital of its resources, and trapped the remaining Sky Origin Dynasty forces behind layers of formations.
• Nearly half a year later, a farmer's child noticed that the battle in the heavens had stopped, prompting panic among the people below.
• Qin Jiuge and the Quasi-Emperor experts prepared for the outcome as Moro mocked Sky Origin Ancestor and fled.
• Sky Phoenix Ancestor and Azure Emperor remained behind after sealing Sky Origin Ancestor beneath the Vajra Lockdown Formation, and Azure Emperor said they could rest for tens of thousands of years.

After Azure Emperor reported that Sky Origin Ancestor had been sealed, Qin Jiuge urged the Qin Family to celebrate but warned its leaders not to overestimate their strength or assume the Sky Phoenix Dynasty would always support them. The family agreed to wait on founding a dynasty until Qin Jiuge reached the Great Emperor Realm, while Qin Ming affirmed his support for his son and Azure Emperor.

• Azure Emperor returned to the Qin Family, told Qin Jiuge that Sky Origin Ancestor had been sealed with Evil God Moro’s help, and warned him to avoid Evil Gods.
• Qin Jiuge proposed a celebration, and Qin Family members praised his leadership and speculated that the family could become the continent’s supreme power.
• The Qin Family’s higher-ups questioned whether the Sky Phoenix Dynasty would remain their ally and asked Qin Jiuge about establishing a dynasty.
• Qin Jiuge reminded the leaders that the family had no Great Emperor and depended on Azure Emperor, so it was not yet strong enough to found a dynasty.
• The Qin Family leaders agreed to wait until Qin Jiuge reached the Great Emperor Realm, and Qin Ming declared his support for his son and Azure Emperor.

After the Sky Origin Dynasty fell, Qin Jiuge dismissed the Qin Family elders’ talk of establishing a dynasty and celebrated with his allies. The victors’ standings rose across the continent, while the Sky Profound Four Elders reconsidered their neutrality and Xu Lang claimed the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s top-prodigy title.

• Qin Jiuge told the Divine Sword Quasi-Emperor that the Qin Family would not establish a dynasty without Senior Azure Emperor’s approval, then joined the victory banquet with his confidantes.
• The Sky Phoenix Dynasty’s Quasi-Emperor experts debated how to respond to the Qin Family’s growing power, but Li Changge suppressed their dispute with his Quasi-Emperor strength.
• The Rogue Cultivator Alliance rose above Sky Profound City in the rankings, and the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor wondered whether the Sky Profound Four Elders had chosen wrongly by staying neutral.
• Xu Lang’s father praised the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s decision to support the Qin Family, and Xu Lang boasted to Sikong Changfeng that he was now the alliance’s First Prodigy.
• Xu Lang suggested visiting the Qin Family as partners, but Sikong Changfeng vanished without showing interest.

Qin Jiuge went to the Qin Family Ancestral Tomb and learned its damaged feng shui formation could no longer protect the family’s Fortune for more than ten years. Unable to identify the missing materials, he set off for the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion to seek help.

• Xu Lang resolved to keep cultivating so he could claim a future share of Fortune.
• Qin Jiuge met with Ouye Zi in the Overseas Region, where Ouye Zi said he could not assist with Qin Jiuge’s next breakthrough and did not know what materials the ancestral tomb’s formation needed.
• Qin Jiuge arrived at the Qin Family Ancestral Tomb and saw how severely the Sky Origin Dynasty had damaged its Fortune and feng shui ground.
• The old Spirit Guardian warned Qin Jiuge that the Qin Family had less than ten years before its Fortune failed, and said the formation could not be restored without help.
• Qin Jiuge decided to seek assistance from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and departed for it.

Bai Qiuxue of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion helped Qin Jiuge investigate what was needed to stabilize the Qin Family ancestral graveyard’s feng shui. After learning the required materials and the available grandmaster-level feng shui masters, Qin Jiuge left for Sky Profound City to seek help there.

• The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion decided to involve itself in the Qin Family’s ancestral graveyard matter and sent Bai Qiuxue to meet Qin Jiuge.
• Bai Qiuxue told Qin Jiuge that the required materials included a Sky Star Stone, superior-quality Mithril, and a Buddha’s Heart.
• Bai Qiuxue named the Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor, the former Sky Origin Dynasty’s Imperial Clan, and Sky Profound City’s Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor as possible feng shui masters.
• Qin Jiuge thanked Bai Qiuxue for her help and left for Sky Profound City to seek assistance and address its predicament.

Qin Jiuge visited Sky Profound City to ask the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor to help resolve the matter of the Qin Family's ancestral graves. She agreed to set up the formation but required rare treasures, including a Heart of the Buddha or a Heart of the Great Dao, leaving Qin Jiuge with difficult requests to pursue.

• Qin Jiuge reassured Li Xuanmiao that he had not come to demand an explanation and explained the unresolved ancestral-grave matter.
• Li Xuanmiao led Qin Jiuge to the battle Secret Realm, where the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor was fighting the White Tiger Quasi-Emperor and Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor.
• The Black Tortoise Quasi-Emperor called the others over, and the Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor agreed that Sky Profound City would help Qin Jiuge.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor agreed to set up the formation but said the Qin Family had to provide all its materials.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor named ordinary treasures and required Qin Jiuge to seek a Heart of the Buddha or Heart of the Great Dao from Myriad Buddha Province and the Great Dao Sect.
• Qin Jiuge left the Secret Realm realizing that he would still have to ask others for help.

Qin Jiuge went to Sound of Dharma Temple with Li Xuanmiao to obtain the Heart of the Buddha for the Qin Family’s ancestral feng shui array, but the temple’s monks refused to surrender their treasured relic. Zhishan Young Monk proposed taking Cihang Jingzhai’s Heart of the Great Dao instead, prompting Qin Jiuge to reject his suggestion to secure it through his personal charms.

• Qin Jiuge forced Li Xuanmiao to accompany him to Myriad Buddha Province, invoking Li’s ties to the Sky Profound Four Elders as a possible fallback.
• Qin Jiuge asked Sound of Dharma Temple for its Heart of the Buddha, but Abbot Miaokong, Mad Monk, and the other eminent monks avoided answering him.
• Qin Jiuge grabbed Zhishan Young Monk and argued that the temple owed him help because he had previously assisted Sound of Dharma Temple.
• Zhishan Young Monk explained that the Heart of the Buddha safeguarded the temple and had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, then pleaded for Qin Jiuge to show mercy.
• Zhishan Young Monk suggested that Qin Jiuge obtain Cihang Jingzhai’s Heart of the Great Dao by offering himself and the Qin Family’s protection.
• Qin Jiuge condemned Zhishan Young Monk’s proposal as immoral, and Zhishan Young Monk replied that Qin Jiuge was not his believer.