Chapter Summaries

Qin Jiuge and Zhishan advanced through the Demon Suppressing Pagoda as the Heavenly Yao Emperor learned of their arrival and ordered Quasi-Emperor demons to attack them. On the seventh floor, Qin Jiuge faced three Quasi-Emperors while Zhishan took shelter behind him.

• Qin Jiuge and Zhishan cleared the fifth floor, where the ghosts had all reached the Supreme Realm.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor learned that Qin Jiuge and Zhishan were advancing and ordered the demons to bring him their flesh and blood.
• Zhishan warned Qin Jiuge that the seventh floor could contain Quasi-Emperor opponents and prepared his Vajra Glazed Body Refining Method.
• Heavenly Ghost and two other Quasi-Emperors appeared on the seventh floor, claiming they had been ordered to seize the intruders.
• Zhishan hid behind Qin Jiuge and activated his Buddha Treasures for protection.
• Qin Jiuge dismissed the three demons as opponents he could handle and challenged them to fight.

Qin Jiuge used the three Demon Race Quasi-Emperors on the seventh floor to advance his body-refining cultivation, then killed them when they tried to flee. He wondered what awaited him on the upper floors while the Heavenly Yao Emperor reacted coldly to the deaths.

• Qin Jiuge fought the Heavenly Ghost, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face Quasi-Emperors with the Vajra Glazed Body Refining Method, absorbing ghostly qi as he clashed with them.
• The three Quasi-Emperors realized Qin Jiuge was wearing them down and tried to retreat, but Qin Jiuge used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to block their escape at the seventh-floor exit.
• Qin Jiuge stripped the three Quasi-Emperors of their essence power, killing them and advancing his body-refining method toward perfection.
• Qin Jiuge asked young monk Zhishan about the Heavenly Yao Emperor, and Zhishan explained that Sound of Dharma Temple's records about the ancient demon were incomplete.
• Qin Jiuge kept the Bronze Token ready in case they needed to retreat, while the Heavenly Yao Emperor learned of the three Quasi-Emperors' deaths and showed no sorrow.

Qin Jiuge and young monk Zhishan reached the eighth floor of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, where the guardians Golden Face and Silver Face attacked them. Qin Jiuge overwhelmed the pair, who then revealed their greed for his Fortune, and he declared they were doomed to die.

• The Heavenly Yao Emperor ordered the Left and Right Protectors to investigate the intruders, and the two peak Quasi Emperor Realm experts set out.
• Qin Jiuge reassured Zhishan that the eighth floor's guardians were within his ability to handle, while Zhishan prepared for battle.
• Golden Face and Silver Face confronted Qin Jiuge and Zhishan, and Zhishan recognized them from the records of Sound of Dharma Temple.
• Golden Face and Silver Face attacked Qin Jiuge together with lightning techniques, but Qin Jiuge used Kunpeng Art and One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to repel them.
• Golden Face and Silver Face resolved to devour Qin Jiuge and use his flesh and blood to reach the Half-step Great Emperor Realm, while Qin Jiuge warned that they were doomed to die.

Qin Jiuge defeated Golden Face and Silver Face, then shattered the Heavenly Yao Emperor’s shield and drove the brothers away. After Zhishan was weakened by the Emperor’s demonic aura, Qin Jiuge prepared to challenge the Heavenly Yao Emperor, who recognized him as the Qin Family Divine Son and noted his resemblance to a future Great Emperor.

• Qin Jiuge and his two clones attacked Golden Face and Silver Face, overwhelming the brothers.
• Golden Face and Silver Face called for the Heavenly Yao Emperor, whose phantom formed a black-gold shield to block Qin Jiuge.
• Qin Jiuge shattered the shield, but Golden Face and Silver Face escaped before he could catch them.
• Zhishan explained that the Heavenly Yao Emperor’s demonic aura had weakened him, and Qin Jiuge said he would guard him while considering how to fight the Emperor.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor recognized Qin Jiuge as the Qin Family Divine Son, and Golden Face and Silver Face compared him to a future Great Emperor from ten thousand years earlier.

Golden Face and Silver Face persuaded Heavenly Yao Emperor to let them approach Qin Jiuge with an offer of cooperation, hoping to lure him with the Great Emperor Realm. On the eighth floor, they sent Zhishan away and began negotiating with Qin Jiuge.

• Golden Face and Silver Face warned Heavenly Yao Emperor that Qin Jiuge could become a threat, and Heavenly Yao Emperor ordered them to try cooperating with him.
• Golden Face and Silver Face promised to secure Qin Jiuge’s cooperation, knowing Heavenly Yao Emperor would punish them if they failed again.
• Zhishan suggested waiting on a lower floor while Qin Jiuge entered the ninth floor, but a surge of demon aura brought the black-gold shield back into the fight.
• Golden Face and Silver Face declined to fight Qin Jiuge and asked whether he belonged to Sound of Dharma Temple.
• Qin Jiuge confirmed he was not from Sound of Dharma Temple, and Silver Face sent Zhishan to another floor before the demons began their negotiations.

Qin Jiuge agreed to help Golden Face and Silver Face free the demons from the Demon Subduing Great Array after they promised a method that could help him attain the Great Emperor Realm. On the Demon Suppressing Pagoda’s ninth floor, he met the Heavenly Yao Emperor and learned the array had been imposed by an ancient Earth God at the Sound of Dharma Temple’s request, then asked whether the demons would retaliate against the temple.

• Golden Face and Silver Face offered Qin Jiuge a path toward the Great Emperor Realm in exchange for helping the demons escape the Demon Subduing Great Array and return to the Yao Realm.
• Qin Jiuge swore a Heavenly Dao Oath with Golden Face and Silver Face, who then took him to the ninth floor of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Qin Jiuge’s aura drove back the demons watching him, and he greeted the Heavenly Yao Emperor without showing deference.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor confirmed that the method for reaching the Great Emperor Realm originated in the Human Realm and required strict conditions.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor explained that an ancient Earth God sealed the demons at the Sound of Dharma Temple’s invitation.
• Qin Jiuge asked the Heavenly Yao Emperor whether the demons would take revenge on the Sound of Dharma Temple after escaping.

The Heavenly Yao Emperor explained that he could escape the Demon Suppressing Pagoda but had stayed because its Immortal Power protected him from greater dangers. He offered Qin Jiuge a path to refine that power and reach the Great Emperor Realm, while Sound of Dharma Temple revealed it had chosen to negotiate with him because its array was failing.

• The Heavenly Yao Emperor swore he held no grudge against Sound of Dharma Temple and explained that the Demon Suppressing Pagoda could not truly contain him.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor demonstrated that Immortal Power alone kept the pagoda from collapsing and offered Qin Jiuge a chance to refine it and gain the Yao Realm's fortune.
• Zhishan Young Monk arrived outside the pagoda and asked Abbot Miaokong and Mad Monk why the trials and the Heavenly Yao Emperor's power had changed.
• Abbot Miaokong and Mad Monk explained that the temple had decided to dismantle the failing Demon Subduing Great Array and make peace with the Heavenly Yao Emperor.
• Mad Monk revealed that Qin Jiuge and Zhishan Young Monk had been chosen as negotiators, and Zhishan continued waiting outside the pagoda.

Qin Jiuge agreed to cooperate with the Heavenly Yao Emperor in exchange for a fallback path into the Great Emperor Realm and the ninth-level Vajra Glazed Body Refining Method, then received Immortal Power from Sound of Dharma Temple. The demons escaped the Demon Suppressing Pagoda with the Heavenly Yao Emperor, and Qin Jiuge left to collect his reward from Mad Monk and Abbot Miaokong.

• Qin Jiuge agreed to treat the Heavenly Yao Emperor's route into the Great Emperor Realm as a last resort and swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor ordered Sound of Dharma Temple to extract the Immortal Power from the Demon Suppressing Pagoda's array.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor handed the Immortal Power to Qin Jiuge, who absorbed it into his body.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor led the demons out of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda and into another realm.
• Qin Jiuge watched the demons depart, then appeared before Mad Monk and Abbot Miaokong and demanded his reward.

Qin Jiuge collected compensation from Sound of Dharma Temple, then reached Sky Profound City and was pressed by the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor to help her obtain Vermilion Bird Essence Blood. He drew the other Sky Profound elders into the bargain by offering to seek their desired Essence Bloods as well.

• Qin Jiuge negotiated compensation from Abbot Miaokong, who agreed to his terms, while Mad Monk complained that he would never risk a trip to the Tianshan Mountains.
• Qin Jiuge arrived at Sky Profound City intending to meet Sikong Changfeng, but the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor asked him to help obtain Vermilion Bird Essence Blood in the Yao Realm.
• Qin Jiuge offered to help the other Sky Profound elders obtain White Tiger, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise Essence Blood in exchange for getting the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor off his back.
• The White Tiger Quasi-Emperor moved to deal with the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor, while the Black Tortoise Quasi-Emperor stayed near Qin Jiuge and the Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor oversaw matters.

After arranging for the Sky Profound Four Elders to help retrieve her Vermilion Bird Essence Blood, Qin Jiuge rested in Sky Profound City and met Xu Lang and Li Xuanmiao. He explained that only people with exceptional fortune could use the route to the Yao Realm, then faced the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor’s wistful gaze.

• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor agreed to the plan on the condition that the Sky Profound Four Elders also bring back her Vermilion Bird Essence Blood.
• Qin Jiuge went to a pleasure house in Sky Profound City to recover from his recent exertions.
• Xu Lang asked Qin Jiuge how he had made contact with the Yao Realm, and Qin Jiuge briefly recounted what happened in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Xu Lang asked to use Qin Jiuge’s escape route, but Qin Jiuge said his cultivation and fortune did not meet its requirements.
• Li Xuanmiao asked whether he qualified, but Qin Jiuge said the opportunity was reserved for himself, Sikong Changfeng, or Li Changge; Li Xuanmiao then fled when he sensed his master's arrival.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor arrived and looked at Qin Jiuge with a self-pitying, reproachful gaze.

Qin Jiuge tried to avoid the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor, who said she wanted to go to the Yao Realm and then declared she would pursue him after he rejected her. As Qin Jiuge fled, the other Quasi-Emperors discussed whether she was serious or merely teasing him.

• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor told Qin Jiuge she wanted to go to the Yao Realm, while Li Xuanmiao and Xu Lang watched from hiding and speculated about the two of them.
• Qin Jiuge told the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor he was married and that there could be nothing between them.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor took offense at Qin Jiuge's relieved reaction and declared that she was going to pursue him.
• Qin Jiuge used the Kunpeng Movement Technique to flee, while the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor let his aura disappear from her senses.
• The White Tiger Quasi-Emperor, Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor, and Black Tortoise Quasi-Emperor discussed whether the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor was serious or simply teasing Qin Jiuge.

Qin Jiuge gave the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s Second Prodigy, Jian Wubai, a sword-path insight, then confronted the Heavenly Mystery Building for publicizing his secret deal with the Heavenly Yao Emperor. The Building Master welcomed him with unexpected warmth, leaving Qin Jiuge curious about his intentions.

• The Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor said the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor might accept Qin Jiuge despite his many confidantes, given her views on marriage.
• Qin Jiuge visited the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and met its Second Prodigy, Jian Wubai, who asked him for guidance.
• Qin Jiuge demonstrated a strand of Sword Qi, giving Jian Wubai an insight that could help him break through to the late stage.
• Qin Jiuge saw the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion selling news of his discussion with the Heavenly Yao Emperor about a Great Emperor opportunity, and went to confront its leaders.
• The Heavenly Mystery Building’s steward said the Building Master had expected Qin Jiuge, then led him upstairs to meet the warmly welcoming young man.

Qin Jiuge learned that the Qin Family had already allied with the Heavenly Mystery Building and the Yao Realm, then went with Shang Ciqing to the Overseas Region to help the Merman Clan as a Great Emperor Realm expert began awakening. The Merman Clan faced disasters and feared the ancient expert’s return, while Qin Jiuge questioned why they had not sought his help sooner.

• A young man revealed that the Heavenly Mystery Building had pledged itself to the Qin Family and explained that the Qin Family had agreed to cooperate with the Yao Realm.
• Qin Jiuge abandoned his plan to confront the Heavenly Mystery Building and encountered Shang Ciqing, who asked for his help with the Merman Clan’s crisis.
• Shang Ciqing told Qin Jiuge that a Great Emperor Realm expert in the Silent Realm seemed close to awakening, and Qin Jiuge agreed to go there with her.
• Qin Jiuge and Shang Ciqing arrived in the Overseas Region, where disasters struck the Merman Clan and its members feared the awakening expert.
• Qin Jiuge asked the Merman Clan’s Patriarch why he had not informed the Qin Family earlier, while the Patriarch said the clan sought only the ancient Great Emperor’s return.

Wen Tiansheng emerged from the Silent Realm as a Great Emperor and confronted Qin Jiuge and the Merfolk Clan. He spared the clan for guarding the Silent Realm, then warned Jiao Qingming that other Half-step Great Emperor experts could exist in the new era.

• The natural disasters around the Silent Realm dissipated, and Wen Tiansheng appeared before the gathered Merfolk Clan and Qin Jiuge.
• Wen Tiansheng recognized Qin Jiuge as someone the Azure Emperor had mentioned and teased him for acting cautiously.
• Qin Jiuge respectfully explained that he had come to help the Merfolk Clan and had no intention of offending Wen Tiansheng.
• Jiao Qingming and the Merfolk Clan bowed to Wen Tiansheng, who questioned their loyalty and reminded them that they had been tasked with guarding the Silent Realm.
• Wen Tiansheng said he would not punish the clan for its past arrogance, praised its service, and told Jiao Qingming that Half-step Great Emperor experts were not rare in the new era.

Wen Tiansheng explained the limits of the Half-step Great Emperor Realm and the restrictions on Great Emperor bloodlines, then sent Qin Jiuge away. Back at the Qin Family, Qin Jiuge relaxed by Taihu Lake as the Sky Profound Four Elders arrived, and Vermilion Bird joined him in fishing.

• Wen Tiansheng explained how Half-step Great Emperor experts refined primordial energy and why the Merman Clan’s ambitions could put it in danger.
• Wen Tiansheng told Qin Jiuge that a Great Emperor’s bloodline could have only one Great Emperor while that ancestor remained in the world.
• Qin Jiuge left the Overseas Region, leaving Shang Ciqing with the Merman Clan, and returned to the Qin Family.
• After Qin Jiuge failed to find Azure Emperor, the Sky Profound Four Elders appeared before him at Clearwind Courtyard.
• Qin Jiuge invited the Sky Profound Four Elders to stop rushing and enjoy themselves, and Vermilion Bird sat beside him to fish.

The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor persuaded the Sky Profound Four Elders to relax while they waited for Qin Jiuge to help them enter the Yao Realm. There, the Heavenly Yao Emperor explained that he planned to use the Qin Family’s support to rebuild the Yao Realm and revealed that heaven and earth were about to ascend in rank.

• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor convinced the Sky Profound Four Elders that Qin Jiuge’s help gave them a better chance of obtaining the Four Divine Beasts’ Essence Blood, so they relaxed in the Qin Family’s Clearwind Courtyard.
• Qin Run, Bing Qingqing, Lian Nishang, and other Qin Family members joined the leisurely gathering.
• Golden Face and Silver Face praised the Heavenly Yao Emperor for gaining the Qin Family’s help in rebuilding the Yao Realm.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor said the Qin Family would provide three additional shares of provisions and described the devastation and weakness of the Yao Realm.
• Golden Face and Silver Face asked whether the Heavenly Yao Emperor truly meant to give the Qin Family the Method to Become Emperor, and he said he might reward them with it too if they made great contributions.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor revealed that heaven and earth were about to ascend in rank, making the Method to Become Emperor less paramount, and urged his subordinates to prepare for the changes ahead.

Qin Jiuge finally led the Sky Profound Four Elders and the Qin Family’s younger generation through a spatial passage into the Yao Realm, where they were shocked by its weak spiritual energy. He brought them to Myriad Monster City and frightened its inhabitants into fainting while asking where they were.

• The Heavenly Yao Emperor wondered why Qin Jiuge had not yet arrived and worried that he might not come.
• Qin Jiuge announced that the group would set off, crushed a Jade Slip, and opened a spatial passage to the Yao Realm.
• The Sky Profound Four Elders and Qin Run, Qin Shidi, and Qin Wuchen followed Qin Jiuge through the passage and found the Yao Realm far weaker than they expected.
• Qin Jiuge led the group toward the strongest aura he could sense, while the Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor urged the others to take things one step at a time.
• Qin Jiuge arrived at Myriad Monster City and asked where they were, causing the person he addressed and many others to faint in terror.

Qin Jiuge tried to make sense of Myriad Monster City’s residents mistaking him for a monstrous predator, then turned the same accusations against the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor. The crowd feared her just as fiercely, and she ended the chapter threatening to slaughter them without managing to silence them.

• A frightened girl accused Qin Jiuge of being the Peerless Great Yao and fled after declaring she could not avenge her father.
• The Sky Profound Four Elders and Qin Family's Three Sons arrived and mistook the chaos in Myriad Monster City for Qin Jiuge’s handiwork.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor tried to persuade Qin Jiuge to abandon his supposed wicked ways, but he accused her before the crowd of being another Peerless Great Yao.
• The residents panicked and accused the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor of planning to devour them.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor threatened to kill the residents, but they kept venting their fear because they believed they were already doomed.

Qin Jiuge revealed the Heavenly Yao Emperor Token to stop the people of Myriad Monster City from attacking, and they welcomed him as a human guest rather than a yao. The City Lord explained that the Yao Realm’s rulers had been exploiting their people and that disguised great yaos had abused the promise of human aid to lure residents out and collect taxes.

• The Sky Profound Three Elders and Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor tried to soothe Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor after she became furious at their earlier doubts.
• Qin Jiuge displayed the Heavenly Yao Emperor Token, and the people of Myriad Monster City calmed down.
• The City Lord welcomed Qin Jiuge and his companions as guests from the Human Realm, prompting the city's residents to emerge from hiding.
• The people celebrated the arrival of Heavenly Yao Emperor's invited helpers, leaving Qin Jiuge and his group confused by their desperate welcome.
• At the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord explained that the Yao Kings had been exploiting their territories and that great yaos had impersonated humans to lure residents out and collect taxes.

Qin Jiuge and his companions learned how badly the demons of Myriad Monster City were being treated and promised to help the Yao Realm after meeting the Heavenly Yao Emperor. As they traveled toward the Heavenly Yao Palace, regional Yao Kings plotted to attack them and seize Qin Jiuge’s opportunity connected to the Method to Become Emperor.

• The City Lord of Myriad Monster City apologized to Qin Jiuge and his companions, while a young tea server explained that demons often bullied their own kind even more harshly than humans did.
• Qin Jiuge promised that his group would help with the Yao Realm’s troubles after they met the Heavenly Yao Emperor and fulfilled their agreement.
• The group left Myriad Monster City aboard the Nine Phoenix Spirit Boat, and the Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor and Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor reflected on the demons’ plight and the need to protect the Human Realm.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor learned that Qin Jiuge and the others had arrived, while the Yao Kings gathered in Dark Shadow Valley and plotted to stop them from disrupting their plans.
• The Three-eyed Man of the Golden Winged Great Peng Clan told the gathered Yao Kings that Qin Jiuge had brought an opportunity related to the Method to Become Emperor.