Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang exposed Qin Jiuge’s whereabouts and spread word of the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill, stirring powerful cultivators across the Sky Profound Continent to hunt him. With a Quasi-Emperor tracking him in Tian Xuan Forest, Qin Jiuge fled with Zhao Huanhuan as the pursuer prepared to attack.

• Xu Lang helped spread news of Qin Jiuge’s opportunities and the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill, enticing Supreme Realm and Quasi-Emperor Realm experts to pursue him.
• Qin Jiuge learned that Xu Lang had exposed him and vowed to kill him, while Zhao Huanhuan urged him to leave Tian Xuan Forest.
• A veteran Quasi-Emperor discovered Qin Jiuge’s hiding place and called King Wei to join the hunt.
• Qin Jiuge ordered Zhao Huanhuan to flee with him as the Quasi-Emperor watched and prepared to seize the pill and capture him.

A veteran Quasi-Emperor pursued Qin Jiuge through Tian Xuan Forest, hoping to kill him and seize his opportunity. Qin Jiuge fled while keeping his aura at the peak of the Life and Death Realm, then vanished as the attacker briefly let down his guard.

• Xu Lang watched the chase through the Profound Light Treasure Mirror and insisted Qin Jiuge would not be killed.
• Sikong Changfeng sensed Qin Jiuge's situation and anticipated a dramatic breakthrough at the brink of Life and Death.
• The veteran Quasi-Emperor pressed Qin Jiuge to fight, then attacked him with heavenly flames when Qin kept fleeing.
• Qin Jiuge said the two would fight to the death, but continued to evade the veteran Quasi-Emperor's attacks.
• At the edge of Tian Xuan Forest, Qin Jiuge kept his aura at the peak of the Life and Death Realm and vanished while the veteran Quasi-Emperor was distracted.
• Qin Jiuge cursed Xu Lang in his heart for forcing him into this dangerous situation.

Xu Lang begged Sikong Changfeng to save him from Qin Jiuge’s wrath, but Sikong refused as Qin Jiuge remained hidden from a veteran Quasi-Emperor in Tian Xuan Forest. More demonic cultivators gathered to search for Qin Jiuge, and their growing numbers made the situation increasingly dangerous.

• Xu Lang realized his scheme had endangered Qin Jiuge and hurried to Sikong Changfeng, pleading for help.
• Sikong Changfeng mocked Xu Lang and warned that he could not protect him from Qin Jiuge or Qin Jiuge’s confidantes.
• Qin Jiuge used the Turtle Breath Technique to conceal himself from the veteran Quasi-Emperor searching Tian Xuan Forest.
• You Gui argued with arriving demonic cultivators over who had discovered Qin Jiuge and who had kept the news from others.
• The demonic cultivators debated how to find Qin Jiuge as more people arrived, while Qin Jiuge was relieved that Zhao Huanhuan had already left.

Qin Jiuge hid in Tian Xuan Forest for nearly half a year while righteous and demonic forces searched for him, then emerged and met Zhao Huanhuan and Zhao Tianming. He planned to head to the Overseas Region, while Xu Lang could no longer remain on Sikong Changfeng’s territory.

• Righteous and demonic cultivators called for Qin Jiuge to come out, but he ignored them and used the Turtle Breath Technique to hide.
• The cultivators’ numbers dwindled, but divine senses and formations continued monitoring Tian Xuan Forest as Qin Jiuge slept in hiding.
• After nearly half a year, Qin Jiuge slowly left the forest and reunited with Zhao Huanhuan and Zhao Tianming.
• Zhao Tianming told Qin Jiuge he would not pursue the opportunity connected to him because the Qin Family and its Great Emperor Realm experts would retaliate.
• Qin Jiuge said he would go to the Overseas Region because Xu Lang’s presence made it unsafe for him to stay inland.
• At the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, Xu Lang could no longer remain on Sikong Changfeng’s territory and disrupt his cultivation.

Qin Jiuge confronted Xu Lang over the danger his actions had caused, beat him, and demanded compensation and transport to the Overseas Region. He arrived safely on Cloud Sea Island with Zhao Huanhuan, where Zhao Tianming and the Zhao Family welcomed him.

• Qin Jiuge appeared before Xu Lang and attacked him after pretending to forgive him.
• Qin Jiuge beat Xu Lang until he apologized repeatedly, then demanded that Xu Lang send him to the Overseas Region and compensate him.
• Xu Lang agreed, and Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan traveled through the Xu Family's teleportation formation.
• Qin Jiuge arrived on Cloud Sea Island, where Zhao Tianming and the Zhao Family's disciples welcomed him.
• Qin Jiuge reflected that he had arranged protection in advance and would not repeat the same mistake.

Qin Jiuge left Cloud Sea Island with Zhao Huanhuan and traveled to Blissful City after enduring repeated assassination attempts. They entered the city disguised among refugees and paid its Blood Qi gate fee.

• Qin Jiuge told Zhao Tianming he would not stay on Cloud Sea Island, and Zhao Tianming promised the Qin Family would help him in the Overseas Region.
• Qin Jiuge departed Cloud Sea Island after Zhao Tianming apologized for his siblings’ attempts to entice him, while Zhao Huanhuan secretly followed him.
• Aboard the Flying Divine Boat, Qin Jiuge reassured Zhao Huanhuan that becoming part of the Qin Family would protect her from her older brother and father.
• Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan reached Blissful City after facing repeated assassination attempts, and Zhao Huanhuan’s cultivation rose to the sixth level of the Supreme Realm.
• Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan blended in with the crowd, paid Blood Qi to enter Blissful City, and found the city filled with villains.

Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan explored Blissful City, where Blood Qi served as currency and strange dangers emerged at night. After spotting a Glamorous Woman, Qin Jiuge sent Zhao Huanhuan to follow her while he waited near the City Lord's Mansion, suspecting the Blissful Blood Pool could aid his path to becoming Emperor.

• Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan entered Blissful City, paid Blood Qi for a superior room, and learned that its cold nighttime air helped maintain the Blissful Blood Pool.
• Qin Jiuge told Zhao Huanhuan to wait with him for their pursuers, whom he expected within two or three days.
• The next morning, Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan explored the city, and Zhao Huanhuan killed a man who tried to flirt with her before pretending to be frightened beside Qin Jiuge.
• Qin Jiuge spotted a Glamorous Woman leaving the city gates and clarified that he wanted the Blissful Blood Pool, not her.
• Qin Jiuge told Zhao Huanhuan to follow the Glamorous Woman and waited near the City Lord's Mansion, where a sanctimonious monk set his sights on the woman.

Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan confronted the Glamorous Woman to obtain the Blissful Blood Pool, but Qin Jiuge was outmatched and had to rely on Zhao Huanhuan. Meanwhile, King of Zhenbei and the Purple-Clothed County Marquis arranged to help the imprisoned Sky Origin Imperial Family, hoping to use them against Qin Jiuge.

• Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan tracked the Glamorous Woman to her residence and later sneaked there to demand the Blissful Blood Pool.
• The Glamorous Woman evaded Qin Jiuge's attack, and he acknowledged that his Life and Death Realm strength was insufficient to defeat her alone.
• In the Yao Realm, the Purple-Clothed County Marquis told King of Zhenbei that Qin Jiuge was being hunted in the Human Realm.
• King of Zhenbei and the Purple-Clothed County Marquis decided to unseal the Sky Origin Imperial Family and use the resulting opportunity against Qin Jiuge.
• King of Zhenbei and the Purple-Clothed County Marquis arrived at Sky Origin City and began negotiating an alliance with the trapped Sky Origin Imperial Family.

Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor and his allies escaped their imprisonment and fled, while Qin Jiuge uncovered the secret of Blissful City’s blood pool and claimed it for Zhao Huanhuan. The chapter ended with Qin Jiuge confronting Blissful Quasi-Emperor as Feng Hu Supreme and Luo Xinghe arrived to support him.

• Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor and the others left after finding their captors defeated, while First Hall Master of the Qin Family and Feng Ming arrived too late to stop them.
• First Hall Master told Feng Ming to warn the Qin Family and Sky Phoenix Dynasty, and the two hurried away in opposite directions.
• Qin Jiuge threatened the Glamorous Woman until she revealed that Blissful City’s blood pool refined accumulated blood qi into a powerful treasure.
• Qin Jiuge offered the blood pool to Zhao Huanhuan, then killed the Glamorous Woman and headed for the pool with her.
• Blissful Quasi-Emperor refused to let Qin Jiuge and Zhao Huanhuan take the blood pool, so Qin Jiuge summoned Feng Hu Supreme and Luo Xinghe.

Qin Jiuge killed Blissful Quasi-Emperor and used the Blissful Blood Pool to help Zhao Huanhuan advance, then deliberately publicized his whereabouts to lure enemies into a trap. As the Sky Origin Imperial Family and Demon Race Quasi-Emperors joined the hunt, Shang Ciqing traveled with Qin Jiuge and teased him about his other beauties.

• Qin Jiuge explained that he had brought Luo Xinghe and Feng Hu Supreme to create a smokescreen for Sky Origin, then ordered them to kill Blissful Quasi-Emperor.
• Zhao Huanhuan cultivated in the Blissful Blood Pool and broke through to the eighth layer of the Supreme Realm three days later.
• Qin Jiuge arranged for news of his location to spread throughout the Overseas Region and informed the Merman Clan in advance.
• The Sky Origin Imperial Family arrived overseas and joined Demon Race Quasi-Emperors in plotting to capture Qin Jiuge and take revenge.
• Shang Ciqing joined Qin Jiuge's traveling party and teased him about remembering her after thinking of other beauties.

Qin Jiuge spoke with Shang Ciqing before the Merman Clan Patriarch warned him that the Yao Realm was the enemy’s true stronghold. Months later, weakened and surrounded in the Ten Heavens Death Ground by Sky Origin Imperial Family Quasi-Emperors, Qin Jiuge faced an imminent attack.

• Shang Ciqing sought Qin Jiuge’s affection, but the Merman Clan Patriarch interrupted them and warned Qin Jiuge that the Yao Realm was the enemy’s true source of power.
• Months later, the Merman Clan and its Patriarch concealed the Ten Heavens Death Ground with a formation.
• Sky Origin Imperial Family Quasi-Emperors cornered Qin Jiuge, saying he had recovered from the Life and Death Realm to the Supreme Realm after taking the Yin Yang Dragon Profound Pill.
• Qin Jiuge warned the attackers that they would suffer if he escaped, but they dismissed his threat and resolved to kill him.
• Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor urged the others to end the fight quickly, and they sealed the space and prepared their divine abilities and weapons against Qin Jiuge.

Qin Jiuge unleashed his Quasi-Emperor Realm strength and fought the Sky Origin Imperial Family experts over the Yin Yang Dragon Profound Pill. The other Quasi-Emperors avoided a direct fight, but Qin Jiuge isolated one of them, who turned his anger on his own allies when they refused to help.

• Qin Jiuge unleashed the Earth Leaving and Kunpeng Treasure Techniques, declared that he no longer wanted the Yin Yang Dragon Profound Pill, and challenged the Sky Origin Imperial Family experts.
• Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor agreed with the others to join forces and seal Qin Jiuge rather than risk fighting him head-on.
• Qin Jiuge summoned the Thunder Dragon as a divine weapon and attacked the Sky Origin Quasi-Emperors, who retreated and tried to wear down his strength.
• Qin Jiuge targeted one Quasi-Emperor and forced him into close combat while the others stood by instead of rescuing him.
• The trapped Quasi-Emperor realized his allies had abandoned him and vowed that there was even less reason for him to hold back against them.

Qin Jiuge offered the Body Quasi-Emperor a place in the Qin Family in exchange for his help, prompting him to turn against the Sky Origin Imperial Family’s Quasi-Emperors. Qin Jiuge then began recruiting the others on Ten Absolute Island, and Divine Wood faced a furious challenge over whether he would submit.

• The Body Quasi-Emperor and Qin Jiuge attacked the Sky Origin Imperial Family’s Quasi-Emperors while the Body Quasi-Emperor threatened to make them all perish together.
• Qin Jiuge promised the Body Quasi-Emperor a place among the Qin Family’s vassals if he helped him escape.
• The Body Quasi-Emperor accepted and unleashed his full strength against his former allies, who accused him of betraying the Sky Origin Imperial Family.
• The Body Quasi-Emperor urged Qin Jiuge to attack, but Qin Jiuge instead asked the remaining Quasi-Emperors whether they wished to join his family.
• Qin Jiuge gave the Quasi-Emperors three breaths to decide, and someone challenged Divine Wood for considering submission to the Qin Family.

Qin Jiuge revealed that the Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor’s forces had not accounted for every contingency, as the Divine Family Five Elements began to waver and Yao Realm Quasi-Emperors arrived on Ten Absolute Island. Qin Jiuge summoned his hidden reinforcements and clashed with Wu Jianzhang as the battle erupted.

• Qin Jiuge told the assembled Quasi-Emperors that he knew they still had a trump card, while the Divine Family Five Elements showed signs of wavering.
• The Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor summoned Wu Jianzhang, Shangguan Qingming, and other Yao Realm Quasi-Emperors to Ten Absolute Island.
• Shangguan Qingming attacked Qin Jiuge and proposed using him as a hostage to bring down the Qin Family of Qin Province.
• Qin Jiuge called forth his hidden reinforcements and summoned the Lightning Treasure Tree as battle began.
• Wu Jianzhang attacked Qin Jiuge with his spear, and Qin Jiuge met the strike with a Lightning Spear, sending shockwaves through the island.

Qin Jiuge overwhelmed Wu Jianzhang and revealed that he had brought the Merman Clan and allied overseas Quasi-Emperors to surround the Yao Realm forces. The Yao Realm contingent tried to retreat through the passage, but Qin Jiuge’s forces blocked it, leaving Wu Jianzhang and Shangguan Qingming trapped.

• Qin Jiuge’s Lightning Spear broke Wu Jianzhang’s attacks and drove him to call for help from the Sky Origin Quasi-Emperor and the Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor.
• The Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor joined Wu Jianzhang, and Qin Jiuge revealed that he had made other arrangements.
• Xuan Jie’s signal brought the Merman Clan and allied overseas Quasi-Emperors into the field.
• Wu Jianzhang, Shangguan Qingming, and the other Yao Realm creatures decided to withdraw through the passage.
• Qin Jiuge’s forces surrounded the Yao Realm passage, while the Merman Clan Chief mocked the trapped invaders.

Qin Jiuge’s allies defeated the Yao Realm forces and destroyed the Sky Phoenix Royal Family, while Shang Ciqing began advancing her cultivation with his help. He arrived at Sky Origin Imperial City to claim the imperial family’s remaining resources and reflected on its fall.

• The Merfolk Clan Patriarch froze the Yao Realm attackers, and Shangguan Qingming and Wu Jianzhang lost any hope of escape.
• Qin Jiuge ordered his allies to attack the Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor, who was overwhelmed and perished as his body and Dao vanished.
• Qin Jiuge promised to help Shang Ciqing advance, and she reached the late stage of the Supreme Realm with the Merfolk Clan Elders’ support.
• Qin Jiuge set out for Sky Origin Imperial City, where the Qin Family and its allies had taken control of the remaining imperial bloodline.
• Qin Jiuge explored the imperial palace library, found that its treasures had already been taken, and later looked out over the city at night.

Qin Jiuge confronted Mingzhu, a surviving princess of the fallen Sky Origin Imperial Family, after she pleaded for her family’s survival. He listened to her appeal but ignored an elder’s offer of allegiance, leaving the family’s fate unresolved.

• Qin Jiuge failed to recognize the Sky Origin commandery princess when she reminded him that they had nearly become involved in the past.
• Mingzhu lamented the destruction of her imperial family, and Qin Jiuge warned her to leave before pushing her away with an invisible force.
• Mingzhu publicly begged Qin Jiuge to spare the remaining Sky Origin Imperial Family, drawing the attention of the imperial city’s residents and her fellow survivors.
• Qin Jiuge descended into the family’s residence district and asked Mingzhu why she had called out to him.
• An elder offered the Sky Origin Imperial Family’s allegiance, but Qin Jiuge coldly asked whether he had addressed the elder.

Mingzhu surrendered the Sky Origin Imperial Family’s remaining treasures and agreed to serve Li Changge as a maid in exchange for protection. After returning to the Sky Phoenix Dynasty, Qin Jiuge and Li Changge discussed the worsening situation in the Yao Realm and then returned there, where Tian Yao Kui greeted them with visible dissatisfaction.

• Mingzhu gave Qin Jiuge the Sky Origin Imperial Family’s remaining treasures and agreed to become one of Li Changge’s maidservants.
• Qin Jiuge left before Mingzhu could thank him, and Mingzhu defended her choice to accept his offer against the imperial family members who objected.
• Half a month later, Qin Jiuge returned to Wutong Pavilion and found Mingzhu serving beside Li Changge, who accepted her as a maid.
• Li Changge told Qin Jiuge that King of Zhenbei and the Purple-Clothed County Marquis’s Residence were losing ground in the Yao Realm, and Qin Jiuge agreed they needed to act quickly.
• Qin Jiuge and Li Changge returned to the Yao Realm, where Tian Yao Kui received them with obvious dissatisfaction.

Qin Jiuge joined the Heavenly Yao Emperor’s campaign against King of Zhenbei despite lacking the strength to face Half-step Great Emperors. As their fleet reached King of Zhenbei’s territory, the Heavenly Yao Emperor questioned Qin Jiuge about his closeness with the Eldest Princess of the Sky Phoenix Dynasty.

• After Qin Jiuge left, Li Changge dismissed Tian Yao Kui’s claim that he was her man, while Tian Yao Kui vowed to surpass her.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor praised Qin Jiuge for weakening the Purple-Clothed County Marquis and King of Zhenbei, then prepared to attack them.
• Qin Jiuge explained that his strength was insufficient to fight the two Half-step Great Emperors, but the Heavenly Yao Emperor insisted on taking him along.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor and Qin Jiuge boarded the Hundred Yao Ship fleet and headed for the Easternmost Land to confront King of Zhenbei.
• As they arrived in King of Zhenbei’s territory, the Heavenly Yao Emperor asked Qin Jiuge how he had grown close to the Eldest Princess of the Sky Phoenix Dynasty, and Qin Jiuge called her his confidante.

Qin Jiuge and the Heavenly Yao Emperor confronted the King of Zhenbei, whose residence used a powerful formation to resist them. The Heavenly Yao Emperor stayed to handle the battle while Qin Jiuge rushed back to Heavenly Yao City, where the Purple-Clothed County Marquis's forces threatened the palace.

• The Heavenly Yao Emperor urged Qin Jiuge to grow closer to his daughter, but Qin Jiuge relayed the Azure Emperor's words and rejected the suggestion.
• The King of Zhenbei arrived with his forces and revealed that the Purple-Clothed County Marquis had gone to attack Heavenly Yao Palace.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor ordered an assault, and Qin Jiuge and the Heavenly Yao Palace experts attacked the King of Zhenbei's forces.
• The King of Zhenbei empowered his residence's formation, which could let him contend with a Great Emperor despite his Half-step Great Emperor Realm.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor stayed to deal with the formation and sent Qin Jiuge back to Heavenly Yao City to stop the Purple-Clothed County Marquis's plans.
• Qin Jiuge reached Heavenly Yao City, where the palace's defenses seemed unlikely to withstand the Purple-Clothed County Marquis and his forces.