Chapter Summaries

The Purple-Clothed County Marquis threatened Heavenly Yao City while its defenders debated how to preserve their forces and claim the Yao Realm’s fortune. Li Changge secured Tian Yao Kui’s submission and summoned the overseas Merman Clan Patriarch, who confronted the marquis as Qin Jiuge arrived.

• The Purple-Clothed County Marquis demanded that the Heavenly Yao Palace surrender, threatening death for anyone who resisted.
• Tian Yao Kui asked Li Changge what to do, and Li Changge made her promise not to compete with her before agreeing to help.
• Li Changge sent Shang Ciqing to fetch the Patriarch of the overseas Merman Clan, who then arrived and took Qin Jiuge to confront the Purple-Clothed County Marquis.
• The Merman Patriarch ordered the Purple-Clothed County Marquis to leave before the Heavenly Yao Emperor returned, while the marquis recognized the Half-step Great Emperor Realm expert.

The Patriarch of the overseas Merman Clan defeated the Purple-Clothed County Marquis, ending the threat to Heavenly Yao City. Qin Jiuge then returned with his group to the King of Zhenbei's Residence, where the Heavenly Yao Emperor was still breaking its formations.

• The Patriarch of the Merman Clan refused the Purple-Clothed County Marquis's offer and fought him while Qin Jiuge and Li Changge watched from Heavenly Yao City.
• Li Changge asked about Sikong Changfeng's strength, and Qin Jiuge admitted that Sikong Changfeng had reached the advanced Half-step Great Emperor Realm.
• Li Changge revealed that she was also close to breaking through to the Half-step Great Emperor Realm, leaving Qin Jiuge stunned.
• The Purple-Clothed County Marquis fled after losing to the Patriarch of the Merman Clan, and his warships quickly disappeared.
• Qin Jiuge decided to return to the King of Zhenbei's Residence with his group and focus on dealing with its people.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor, still breaking the formations at the residence, was surprised to see Qin Jiuge return and heard that the Purple-Clothed County Marquis had left.

Qin Jiuge forced King of Zhenbei to submit and secured the Fortune crystal core of the Easternmost Land for the Heavenly Yao Emperor. With the Yao Realm's affairs settled, Qin Jiuge returned to Heavenly Prodigy City and prepared to notify the Human Realm's forces and pursue the Method to Become Emperor.

• Qin Jiuge explained that the Merman Clan had helped defeat the Purple-Clothed County Marquis, and King of Zhenbei accepted defeat and submitted to the Yao Realm.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor demanded the Fortune of the Easternmost Land, and King of Zhenbei handed over its Fortune crystal core.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor temporarily gave the Fortune crystal core to Qin Jiuge, while Qin Jiuge left the Yao Realm's army takeover to others.
• Qin Jiuge returned to Heavenly Prodigy City and saw Tian Yao Kui protecting Li Changge, who briefly explained what had happened.
• Qin Jiuge decided to notify the Human Realm's forces and seek the treasures needed to advance toward the Method to Become Emperor.
• News of the Qin Family's battle in the Yao Realm spread throughout the Human Realm.

After settling matters in the Yao Realm, Qin Jiuge visited Sound of Dharma Temple to share the news, where Abbot Miaokong accepted the outcome but warned against asking for more. Qin Jiuge then went to the Sky Phoenix Dynasty, where the Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor welcomed him with an elaborate ceremony and praised his conduct.

• Qin Jiuge visited Sound of Dharma Temple, and Abbot Miaokong told the novices that the matter had always been tied to the Qin Family rather than the temple.
• Abbot Miaokong probed whether Qin Jiuge would grant Sound of Dharma Temple anything more, and Qin Jiuge made clear that he would not.
• Qin Jiuge left with young monk Zhishan, who advised him not to return to Sound of Dharma Temple because the senior monks might retaliate.
• Qin Jiuge arrived at the Sky Phoenix Dynasty and found Quasi-Emperor experts gathered to welcome him.
• The Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor praised Qin Jiuge for acting righteously in the Yao Realm and celebrated their friendship.

Qin Jiuge returned from the Sky Phoenix Dynasty to an eager welcome from the Qin Family’s Quasi-Emperors, who secured his support for the Qin Family’s involvement in the Yao Realm. He reunited with Qin Ming and his fathers-in-law, learned that Lian Nishang and Bing Qingqing were traveling independently, and wondered where Xiao Yan had gone.

• The Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor hosted Qin Jiuge lavishly, gave Zhishan gifts, and promised to stop making trouble for the Sky Origin Imperial Family.
• After Qin Jiuge returned to Qin Province, the Qin Family’s Quasi-Emperor experts surrounded him and obtained his agreement to support their interests in the Yao Realm.
• Qin Jiuge noticed Xiao Yan was absent and wondered whether he and his master were pursuing something related to the Great Emperor Realm.
• Qin Ming embraced Qin Jiuge and explained that the Heavenly Yao Emperor had restored his strength with spiritual treasures.
• Qin Jiuge reassured Qin Ming that he would treat the Heavenly Yao Emperor well, then asked about Lian Nishang and Bing Qingqing.
• The Frost Sacred Master and the Four Symbols Quasi-Emperor explained that their daughters were traveling to pursue achievements of their own.

Qin Jiuge went to the Heavenly Mystery Building to learn where Xiao Yan and Emperor Qing had gone, and the Tower Master revealed they were in the Chaos Place. The Tower Master explained that the place was known only to Great Emperor Realm figures and disclosed his own Great Emperor ancestry, leaving Qin Jiuge to assess his claims.

• In the Chaos Place, Xiao Yan asked the Azure Emperor how long they had to search, and the Azure Emperor urged her to focus on herself while reassuring her that Qin Jiuge was unlikely to come to harm.
• After nearly half a month in Qin Province, Qin Jiuge decided to visit the Heavenly Mystery Building because his search had found no trace of Xiao Yan.
• The Heavenly Mystery Tower Master welcomed Qin Jiuge warmly, and Qin Jiuge asked him about Xiao Yan and Emperor Qing.
• The Tower Master said Xiao Yan and Emperor Qing had gone to the Chaos Place, an ancient realm whose secrets could bring great benefits to the Qin Family and the world.
• When Qin Jiuge questioned how he knew about the Chaos Place, the Tower Master claimed that he descended from a Great Emperor Realm figure and that his knowledge was genuine.

Qin Jiuge obtained incomplete information and a fragmented map related to the Chaos Place and set out to find the map’s next clue. After months of searching, he reached Tianfeng Mountain Villa, formerly Rehe Great Desert, and discovered it was a bustling mortal settlement.

• The Heavenly Mystery Tower Master gave Qin Jiuge information about the Chaos Place and Gate of Eternal Life, along with an incomplete map, and admitted he could not pinpoint the Chaos Place.
• Qin Jiuge promised to let the Heavenly Mystery Tower Master accompany him if he found the Chaos Place, while insisting he did not want to owe him a favor.
• Qin Jiuge left Heavenly Mystery City and searched for the Rehe Great Desert, traveling alone while others focused on opportunities in the Yao Realm.
• Qin Jiuge found that Rehe Great Desert had become Tianfeng Mountain Villa and blamed the Heavenly Mystery Tower Master for leaving him such an obscure clue.
• The locals at Tianfeng Mountain Villa invited Qin Jiuge to join the army or attend a marriage event, and he declined enlistment, preferring to live freely.

Qin Jiuge followed a strange map signal to a recruitment station for the Tannan Dynasty’s elite Heavenly Policy Guard and watched locals try to qualify. After a man mocked him and tried to start a fight, the recruiter intervened, leaving Qin Jiuge’s own attempt to join unresolved.

• Qin Jiuge mingled with locals at a tea stall and heard that Lin Zhennan’s daughter was holding a martial contest to choose a husband.
• When Qin Jiuge’s map pointed toward a recruitment station, he changed into coarse clothes and joined the line to enlist in the Heavenly Policy Guard.
• The recruiter announced that candidates had to lift a three-hundred-jin stone lock, and Xu Li succeeded and qualified.
• Several youths tried the test, but only a few managed to qualify for the elite force.
• A man mocked Qin Jiuge’s appearance and moved to attack him, but the recruiter drove the troublemakers away with a display of Blood Qi.

Qin Jiuge passed the Heavenly Policy Guard’s strength test and entered the border military camp while concealing his identity and cultivation. There, he met Xu Li and Chu Wentian, and the newcomers faced a hostile welcome from veteran soldiers.

• Qin Jiuge lifted the three-hundred-jin stone lock under control, impressing the recruitment officer and the other recruits.
• Xu Li praised Qin Jiuge and offered to help him, while Qin Jiuge privately expected to leave once he found the Fragmented Map.
• Qin Jiuge decided to keep his identity hidden and use his time in the camp to temper himself and search for the map.
• Qin Jiuge arrived at his tent with Xu Li and Chu Wentian, where veteran soldiers threatened the newcomers and demanded their submission.
• Qin Jiuge asked Xu Li and Chu Wentian to handle the veterans, and both agreed despite Chu Wentian’s irritation at being ordered around.

Qin Jiuge, Xu Li, and Chu Wentian entered the Thirty-Sixth Group’s tent, where Xu Li and Chu Wentian swiftly defeated the veteran soldiers who mocked them. After the camp sounded the assembly drums, Qin Jiuge learned that a major battle might be imminent and offered the veterans a chance to secure their survival in exchange for finding something for him.

• The veterans of the Thirty-Sixth Group taunted Qin Jiuge’s party, then attacked; Xu Li and Chu Wentian defeated them while Qin Jiuge watched.
• Urgent drums called the camp to assemble, and the veterans warned Qin Jiuge’s group that mistakes could send them to the Dare-to-Die Camp.
• Qin Jiuge and his companions put on armor and went to the training ground, where the soldiers feared that the general’s female slaves signaled an impending war.
• Xu Li told the veterans that Qin Jiuge had reached the Bone Strengthening Realm, giving them hope that he could help protect them.
• Qin Jiuge told the veterans to find something for him, promising that it could keep them safe and might help them begin the path of cultivation.

Qin Jiuge revealed that he was the Qin Family Divine Son and asked the soldiers to find a map sewn into a Snow Yao woman’s ancestral animal hide. After Big Baldy brought him a lead, Qin Jiuge took him to the detention tent where Xue Mei was being held.

• Qin Jiuge demonstrated his power and revealed his identity, leaving Big Baldy, Chu Wentian, and the others in awe.
• Qin Jiuge told the soldiers to search for a map and asked them not to publicize his identity.
• Qin Jiuge used an avatar to handle military camp training while his true body rested.
• Big Baldy reported that a Snow Woman of the Snow Yao Clan had been seen wearing an ancestral hide with a map sewn into it.
• Qin Jiuge made Big Baldy invisible and took him to the detention tent where Xue Mei was being held.

Qin Jiuge and Big Baldy infiltrated the Heavenly Policy Guard camp to seize the Fragmented Map hidden in Xue Mei’s beast-hide garment. After Qin Jiuge subdued the guards and threatened Xue Mei with soul searching, she asked him to have her released, and he agreed.

• Qin Jiuge and Big Baldy entered the camp, and Big Baldy produced a key for Xue Mei’s cage.
• Qin Jiuge reached for Xue Mei’s beast-hide garment as the guards outside began to challenge them.
• Qin Jiuge took the Fragmented Map from the garment, and Xue Mei realized he wanted the Snow Yao Clan’s secret.
• Qin Jiuge knocked out the guards rushing into the tent and used the Soul-Seizing Technique to pull Xue Mei from her shattered cage.
• Gao Han and Liu Tianxiang ordered the soldiers to keep away from Qin Jiuge, while Qin Jiuge threatened Xue Mei with the Soul Searching Technique.
• Xue Mei asked Qin Jiuge to have the guards let her out, and he agreed.

Qin Jiuge discovered that Xue Mei’s Fragmented Map was only half of the Snow Yao Clan’s map and ordered her to retrieve the rest from the Tianshan Mountains. He gave her Life Origin Energy to raise her strength to the Grandmaster Realm, then offered Big Baldy the chance to begin cultivating.

• Xue Mei revealed the final Fragmented Map, and Qin Jiuge noticed it had been torn in half and demanded the Snow Yao Clan’s other half.
• Qin Jiuge gave Xue Mei Life Origin Energy, which raised her strength to the Grandmaster Realm.
• Xue Mei promised to bring Qin Jiuge the remaining Fragmented Maps and left for the Tianshan Mountains.
• Liu Tianxiang dismissed the soldiers as Xue Mei departed, while he and Gao Han watched her new power with envy.
• Qin Jiuge promised Big Baldy the chance to cultivate, and Big Baldy knelt and accepted whatever method Qin Jiuge granted him.

Qin Jiuge bestowed the Thick Earth Art on Ma Chunliang and instructed him to share it with Xu Li and Chu Wentian while keeping others from disturbing him. Meanwhile, Xue Mei returned to the beleaguered Snow Yao Clan, where her calm confidence stunned her clanswomen.

• Qin Jiuge taught Ma Chunliang the Thick Earth Art and told him to pass it to Xu Li and Chu Wentian while bearing the Karmic Entanglement himself.
• Ma Chunliang told the gathered officers that Qin Jiuge would not see anyone and promised to teach Xu Li and Chu Wentian the technique.
• Gao Han and Liu Tianxiang hoped they could still obtain the cultivation method and escape their stagnant lives at Tianfeng Villa.
• Qin Jiuge awoke and wondered how Snow Yao was faring after he left Qin Province to seek a map to the Chaos Place.
• Xue Mei returned to the Snow Yao Clan as its members lamented the Tannan Dynasty’s capture of their people, then assured them that everything would be fine.

Xue Mei returned to the Snow Yao Clan and revealed her Grandmaster strength, then secured the clan’s Fragmented Map for Qin Jiuge. After helping the clan discuss its future arrangements, she left the Snow Yao Clan’s affairs behind as seven days passed and Ma Chunliang stayed beside Qin Jiuge in the military camp.

• Xue Mei’s sisters and guards confronted her, but Xue Mei used her Grandmaster aura to push them aside without killing them.
• The Snow Yao Clan’s Patriarch and Elders learned that Xue Mei was a Grandmaster and hurried to meet her.
• Xue Mei told the clan leaders about Qin Jiuge and demanded the Fragmented Map, explaining that she needed to deliver it to him to stay safe.
• The Third Elder retrieved the Fragmented Map, and Xue Mei confirmed that its pieces fit with the map from her own branch.
• Xue Mei asked whether the Snow Yao Clan had any other Fragmented Maps, then discussed the clan’s future arrangements with its leaders.
• Seven days later, Ma Chunliang followed closely beside Qin Jiuge in the military camp.

Qin Jiuge received the final information about the Fragmented Map, gave Xue Mei a cultivation technique, and left the military camp. At Tianfeng Mountain Villa, where a martial contest for marriage was underway, someone attacked him with a dagger and a figure charged at him.

• Ma Chunliang pledged to grow strong and free the camp from the Snow Yao Clan's control, while Xue Mei handed Qin Jiuge the remaining Fragmented Map and an animal-hide booklet.
• Qin Jiuge gave Xue Mei an entry-level cultivation technique, declared his dealings with her finished, and left the military camp for Tianfeng Mountain Villa.
• Ma Chunliang and Xue Mei agreed to build ties, as Ma became the camp's ruler and Xue was designated Patriarch of the Tianshan Mountains Snow Yao Clan.
• Qin Jiuge walked through Tianfeng Mountain Villa during Gongsun Yanran's martial contest for marriage, intent on seeking the last Fragmented Map piece.
• An attacker threw a dagger at Qin Jiuge, who dodged and hurled it back before another figure lunged at him.

Qin Jiuge was drawn into Gongsun Yanran’s marriage tournament and defeated her, but rejected her offer to marry him. Gongsun Tianfeng then offered Qin Jiuge the villa and his daughter, and Qin Jiuge revealed that he knew the master had recognized him.

• Gongsun Yanran mocked the challengers and used a red silk ribbon to pull Qin Jiuge onto the platform.
• Qin Jiuge swiftly defeated Gongsun Yanran by holding a dart to her neck.
• Gongsun Yanran accepted her defeat and said she would marry Qin Jiuge, but he rejected her and revealed he already had six wives.
• Gongsun Tianfeng declared that Gongsun Yanran would become Qin Jiuge’s seventh wife and offered him Tianfeng Mountain Villa.
• Qin Jiuge told Gongsun Tianfeng that he had recognized who Qin Jiuge was, ending the master’s carefully laid scheme.

After leaving Tianfeng Mountain Villa, Qin Jiuge searched Bright Moon Black Water City for clues but found none. Hearing that Treasure Scatterer would attend the Hero Convention, he went to the gathering in Attached County City, where his strength and presence drew widespread attention.

• Gongsun Tianfeng identified Qin Jiuge as the Qin Family Divine Son, and Gongsun Yanran regretted letting him leave.
• Qin Jiuge reached Bright Moon Black Water City but found no clues or response from the Fragmented Map.
• Qin Jiuge heard that Treasure Scatterer would attend the Hero Convention and decided to seek him out.
• Qin Jiuge entered the convention after demonstrating his strength by shattering a block of blue steel granite.
• Attendees approached Qin Jiuge enthusiastically, while Zhao Quanyou and Madam Zhang watched him.

At the Hero Convention, Qin Jiuge showed the Fragmented Map to Old Beggar, who recognized him as a young Grandmaster with an Immaculate Body and warned Zhao Quanyou and Madam Zhang not to provoke him. When an arrogant young master disrupted the gathering, Qin Jiuge lost interest in the commotion and returned to searching for Treasure Scatterer.

• Qin Jiuge asked an old beggar about Treasure Scatterer and showed him the Fragmented Map, promising a reward if the beggar found another like it.
• Old Beggar left Qin Jiuge and told Zhao Quanyou and Madam Zhang that the young man was at least a Grandmaster with an Immaculate Body.
• Madam Zhang joked that Qin Jiuge might be Old Beggar's illegitimate son, and Old Beggar warned her that Qin Jiuge was too dangerous to provoke.
• A wealthy young man in brocade and sable fur disrupted the Hero Convention and drew angry rebukes from the crowd.
• Zhao Quanyou and Madam Zhang stepped forward to deal with the intruder while Qin Jiuge turned back to searching for Treasure Scatterer.

Qin Jiuge recruited Treasure Scatterer to search for Fragmented Maps in exchange for a cultivation method, while events at the Hero Convention increased Zhao Quanyou’s interest in him. Ten days later, Treasure Scatterer brought Qin Jiuge a collection of strange objects, and Qin Jiuge began inspecting them.

• Qin Jiuge offered Treasure Scatterer the Thick Earth Art if he found a Fragmented Map and gave him ten days to search.
• Treasure Scatterer left the Hero Convention to gather clues, struck down Mi Xiuzi, and persuaded the Old Beggar to help search.
• Treasure Scatterer rallied disciples to beat the Secret Cult Disciple, while Madam Zhang told Zhao Quanyou that the events involved Qin Jiuge.
• Treasure Scatterer arrived at the Octagonal Ancient Tower on the tenth day and presented the strange objects he had collected.
• Qin Jiuge examined the objects one by one as Treasure Scatterer anxiously watched.