Chapter Summaries

Qin Jiuge and Emperor Tian Xuan secretly agreed to cooperate while pretending the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty and Sky Phoenix Dynasty would not intervene. Once the Old Monsters lowered their guard, Qin Jiuge triggered the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty’s formation and revealed more Great Emperor Realm allies to trap them.

• The Old Monsters attacked Emperor Tian Xuan and taunted the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty as Qin Jiuge urged the Sky Phoenix Quasi-Emperor to wait.
• Qin Jiuge privately proposed that he and Emperor Tian Xuan cooperate and divide the Old Monsters’ resources among their forces, and Li Tianran agreed.
• Li Tianran pressured the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty and Sky Phoenix Dynasty to join the battle while the Old Monsters assumed they would stay out of it.
• Qin Jiuge ordered the concealed formation activated, and the Heavenly Mystery Old Man, the Heavenly Yao Emperor, the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor, and other Great Emperor Realm experts appeared.
• The newly revealed experts completed the formation and attacked, closing a tighter net around the Old Monsters.

The Heavenly Mystery Old Man trapped the Heavenly Heart Python and the other Old Monsters with his array, while the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor launched a poison attack. The Old Monsters threatened to retreat to their Small Worlds and sabotage the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty, so Qin Jiuge and the allied Great Emperors entered the fight as battle broke out.

• The Heavenly Heart Python tried to flee, but the Heavenly Mystery Old Man's array blocked his innate divine ability and revealed the Heavenly Mystery Old Man's Tianji Lineage.
• The Heavenly Poison Great Emperor attacked the Old Monsters with the Miasma Poison Bead, prompting them to consider retreating to their Small Worlds and destroying the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty later.
• Li Tianran shouted at the Old Monsters as he and nearby Great Emperor Realm figures entered the array, while the Heavenly Heart Python claimed they had fallen for a trick.
• Qin Jiuge joined the battle, and Feng Jiuqing and the others prepared to kill the Old Monsters if the formation could not defeat them.
• The Heavenly Yao Emperor attacked an Old Monster with the Eastern Emperor Bell as Feng Liuxing and Feng Jiuqing stood ready to support him.

Qin Jiuge used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to separate Three Lives Demon and Four-Faced Buddha, then fought the Yellow Robe Monster one-on-one and gained the upper hand. The Old Monsters’ allies remained pinned down in the wider melee, leaving the battle deadlocked.

• Feng Liuxing stayed close beside Qin Jiuge as Qin Jiuge unleashed two ancient treasure techniques and drew the Old Monsters’ attention.
• Three Lives Demon, Four-Faced Buddha, and the Yellow Robe Monster joined forces to target Qin Jiuge.
• Qin Jiuge used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to divide Three Lives Demon and Four-Faced Buddha into separate domains, then challenged the Yellow Robe Monster directly.
• Qin Jiuge pierced the Yellow Robe Monster’s shoulder with his Thunder Spear and continued to wound him as he retreated into defense.
• The Yellow Robe Monster called for help, but Hundred Flowers Fairy and the other Old Monsters’ allies could not break free from their opponents.
• The battle settled into a deadlock, and someone threatened the juniors to make them leave.

The disguised Old Monsters fled as the Three Great Dynasties gained the upper hand, leaving Hundred Flowers Fairy and Yellow Robe Monster trapped. Yellow Robe Monster burned his Essence Blood to break free of Qin Jiuge’s restraint and joined Hundred Flowers Fairy, but both remained sealed in place.

• Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor ordered Azure Dragon Quasi-Emperor, White Tiger Quasi-Emperor, and Black Tortoise Quasi-Emperor to attack Hundred Flowers Fairy as she taunted Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor for being jealous.
• Several disguised Old Monsters decided the battle was not worth risking their lives for and escaped through a crack in the formations while the Great Emperor Realm experts of the Three Great Dynasties let them go.
• Three Lives Demon and Four-Faced Buddha fled after Qin Jiuge had subdued them, and more Old Monsters began abandoning the fight.
• The Three Great Dynasties focused on keeping Hundred Flowers Fairy and Yellow Robe Monster from escaping, while Yellow Robe Monster mocked the departing Old Monsters.
• Yellow Robe Monster burned his Essence Blood to tear free of Qin Jiuge’s restraints and reached Hundred Flowers Fairy, telling her that she was sealed too and could not leave.

The Great Emperor Realm battle resumed as the Heavenly Mystery Old Man confined the remaining Old Monsters and the dynasties prepared to suppress them for their cultivation resources. The Great Qin Imperial Dynasty’s leaders watched while the Sky Profound and Sky Phoenix dynasties faced the Yellow Robe Monster and Hundred Flowers Fairy.

• The Yellow Robe Monster and Hundred Flowers Fairy embraced and charged into battle, with Hundred Flowers Fairy sacrificing her arm to unleash deadly petals.
• The Heavenly Mystery Old Man restored and compressed the Heavenly Mystery Array around the couple and the other remaining Old Monsters.
• Qin Jiuge, the Heavenly Yao Emperor, and the Heavenly Mystery Old Man stayed back while the Sky Profound and Sky Phoenix dynasties divided their opponents.
• Li Tianran led the Sky Profound forces against Hundred Flowers Fairy as Feng Liuxing faced the Yellow Robe Monster, with Feng Jiuqing supporting him using the Separating Fire Wheel.

The Yellow Robe Monster and Hundred Flowers Fairy fought against the Sky Phoenix and Sky Profound forces, but Qin Jiuge exposed the Monster’s plan to devour her and escape. The Monster killed the Fairy to absorb her power and broke through to the middle stage of the Great Emperor Realm.

• Feng Liuxing and Feng Jiuqing fought the Yellow Robe Monster while the Sky Profound Four Elders, Sky Profound Guards, and Li Tianran overwhelmed the Hundred Flowers Fairy.
• The Yellow Robe Monster was distracted by the Fairy’s worsening condition, and Feng Liuxing and Feng Jiuqing severed both his arms.
• The Yellow Robe Monster escaped the siblings’ encirclement and reached the gravely injured Hundred Flowers Fairy, entering the Sky Profound forces’ encirclement.
• The Yellow Robe Monster declared his love for the Fairy, but Qin Jiuge accused him of planning to devour her to escape.
• The Yellow Robe Monster admitted that he wanted to live, killed the Hundred Flowers Fairy, and absorbed her power to break through to the middle stage of the Great Emperor Realm.

The Yellow Robe Monster broke through to the middle stage of the Great Emperor Realm and threatened to devour the gathered experts as cultivation food. Qin Jiuge summoned the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor, whose Miasma Poison Bead made him a formidable match for the monster, and the two prepared to fight.

• Feng Jiuqing recalled Qin Jiuge's earlier plan to seize her Great Emperor Realm fortune, leaving him embarrassed as the Yellow Robe Monster broke through.
• The Yellow Robe Monster declared that he would consume the gathered Great Emperor Realm experts, prompting the Three Great Dynasties to unite against him.
• Qin Jiuge called on the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor, who appeared with the Miasma Poison Bead and revealed his middle-stage strength.
• The Yellow Robe Monster was shocked to find another middle-stage Great Emperor, while the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor claimed the monster as his own cultivation resource.
• The Yellow Robe Monster prepared to attack the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor, and their battle was about to begin.

The Heavenly Poison Great Emperor killed the Yellow Robe Monster and divided his spoils in a way that won praise from the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty. With the invaders defeated, Li Tianran resumed the founding ceremony, and the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty’s Fortune rose as its people pledged their allegiance.

• The Heavenly Poison Great Emperor purged the Yellow Robe Monster with poisonous fog, then claimed the monster’s corpse and cultivation resources.
• The Heavenly Poison Great Emperor gave part of the spoils to Feng Liuxing and part to Li Tianran, earning Li Tianran’s gratitude and praise from the other experts.
• Qin Jiuge recognized the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor’s political maneuvering, but Feng Liuxing stopped him from exposing it.
• Li Tianran resumed the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty’s founding ceremony, and the guards and commoners cheered and knelt before him.
• The people’s renewed allegiance increased the dynasty’s Fortune, which Li Tianran refined while the Sky Profound Four Elders and Li Xuanmiao gained strength from it.

The Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty celebrated its survival and rising strength after the crisis, while Qin Jiuge learned that Sikong Changfeng was secretly preparing to break through to the Great Emperor Realm. The banquet continued as Xu Lang speculated that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance was building its own foundation for a similar breakthrough.

• Li Xuanmiao and the Sky Profound Four Elders sensed their strength rising close to the Great Emperor Realm after refining the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood.
• Li Tianran declared that the Sky Profound Imperial Dynasty would rise, and the Great Emperor Realm experts and representatives of other factions joined the palace banquet.
• Li Tianran thanked Qin Jiuge for the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor's intervention, and Qin Jiuge said the three families should work together.
• Xu Lang told Qin Jiuge that Sikong Changfeng had disappeared into secret seclusion and was nearing a breakthrough to the Great Emperor Realm.
• Xu Lang suggested that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance's elders were following Li Tianran's example by seeking a Great Emperor Realm breakthrough.

Xiao Yan began an explosive breakthrough in the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty’s forbidden land, drawing on immense accumulated strength, Qin Jiuge’s Fortune, and her Heaven-Defying Secret Technique. As the breakthrough shook the continent and drew attention to her, her master and the Great Qin’s allies gathered to guard her.

• Xiao Yan told the Azure Emperor she was ready, and the Azure Emperor prepared to guard her attempt to reach the mid-stage Great Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Yan’s Fortunes converged, and purple radiance entered her body as her Heaven-Defying Secret Technique took effect.
• Thunder and strange disturbances swept across the continent, prompting cultivators to identify Xiao Yan as the one breaking through in the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty.
• The Vermilion Bird Quasi-Emperor became fascinated by Qin Jiuge, while Li Xuanmiao worried that she might become his martial mother.
• Qin Jiuge watched with curiosity as the First Hall Master, Taichu Holy Lord, Flame Sacred Master, Frost Sacred Master, and others returned to guard Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan’s breakthrough released an overwhelming aura that drove the guardians from the forbidden ground, while Azure Emperor revealed that her disciple was attempting to reach the middle Great Emperor Realm in one go. The gathered experts watched with concern and curiosity as Xiao Yan’s breakthrough continued.

• Taichu Holy Lord, Wind Fire Supreme, and the other guardians were nearly crushed by Xiao Yan’s aura until Azure Emperor ordered them to leave.
• The guardians fled outside the forbidden ground and wondered why Xiao Yan’s breakthrough carried such terrifying pressure.
• Heavenly Yao Emperor teased Qin Jiuge for favoring Xiao Yan and Feng Jiuqing, prompting him to promise a gesture for Tian Yao Kui.
• Great Emperor experts from the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty and the Sky Phoenix Dynasty gathered to guard Xiao Yan, and Heavenly Poison Great Emperor arrived with the Miasma Poison Bead.
• Azure Emperor said Xiao Yan was aiming to break through to the middle Great Emperor Realm, leaving Heavenly Poison Great Emperor and the other experts astonished and questioning whether she could succeed.

Xiao Yan endured a perilous breakthrough toward the middle stage of the Great Emperor Realm, while the Azure Emperor used a Heaven-Defying Secret Technique to keep her alive. Xiao Yan’s aura reached the Great Emperor Realm, but her breakthrough continued.

• Xiao Yan guided the descending clear spring energy through her body as pain and damage threatened to overwhelm her.
• Qin Jiuge and the others watched anxiously while the Azure Emperor prepared to intervene if Xiao Yan’s life was in danger.
• Xiao Yan’s body began to fail, but the Heaven-Defying Secret Technique repaired its cracks and restored her Merit Golden Wheel.
• The Azure Emperor admitted she had used the secret technique and said Qin Jiuge would help bear its consequences.
• A dragon and phoenix appeared behind Xiao Yan, merged into her body, and helped raise her aura to the Great Emperor Realm while the breakthrough continued.

Xiao Yan endured heaven and earth’s wrath and broke through to the mid Great Emperor Realm. After the other Great Emperors departed, Qin Jiuge scolded her for risking the breakthrough, and Azure Emperor sent her to stabilize her realm.

• Xiao Yan’s attempt to reach the mid Great Emperor Realm triggered a lightning tribulation, and Azure Emperor and Qin Jiuge kept everyone else from interfering.
• Xiao Yan endured nearly forty days of heaven and earth’s fury and successfully became a mid Great Emperor.
• The Great Emperors left for their respective factions, while the Heavenly Poison Great Emperor reminded Azure Emperor that a future threat still needed to be handled.
• Xiao Yan appeared before Qin Jiuge, who sternly warned her against attempting such a risky breakthrough without telling him.
• Azure Emperor cautioned Xiao Yan about the Heaven-Defying Secret Technique’s backlash and sent her to stabilize her realm.

Qin Jiuge sought a way to perform deeds that could lessen the backlash from Xiao Yan’s Heaven-Defying Secret Technique. Xu Lang proposed several strategies, but Qin Jiuge and Li Xuanmiao rejected his first idea as too risky.

• The Azure Emperor told Qin Jiuge that the Heaven-Defying Secret Technique needed more Merit Golden Wheels and that good deeds could reduce, but not eliminate, its backlash.
• Qin Jiuge decided to consult Xu Lang, whom Li Xuanmiao praised as the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s First Prodigy at devising schemes.
• Xu Lang became convinced by Li Xuanmiao’s flattery and agreed to offer Qin Jiuge three strategies for doing good deeds.
• Xu Lang proposed stirring up trouble and resolving it afterward, but Li Xuanmiao and Qin Jiuge rejected the plan because it could bring further backlash.

Xu Lang proposed that Qin Jiuge, Li Xuanmiao, and he enter the Demon Realm to clear away its demonic qi, and they agreed to go after Qin Jiuge distributed the Great Emperor Realm resources. Back in the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty, Qin Jiuge brought out the corpses of Three Lives Demon and Four-Faced Buddha so the Great Emperor Realm experts could divide their possessions.

• Xu Lang proposed that they gather their strength and enter the Demon Realm to clear away its demonic qi, and Li Xuanmiao praised the plan.
• Qin Jiuge, Xu Lang, and Li Xuanmiao agreed to travel to the Demon Realm after Qin Jiuge distributed the remaining Great Emperor Realm resources.
• Qin Jiuge returned to the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty as the division of resources was reserved for Great Emperor Realm experts.
• Qin Jiuge summoned the corpses of Three Lives Demon and Four-Faced Buddha before the assembled experts.
• Heavenly Mystery Old Man searched the two corpses and revealed their accumulated possessions to everyone.

Qin Jiuge claimed Four-Faced Buddha’s inheritance and learned a secret art to protect his divine soul, while Heavenly Mystery Old Man took the sealed Vengeful Spirits. After Heavenly Yao Emperor and Heavenly Poison Great Emperor concluded their cooperation, Heavenly Poison warned Qin Jiuge to choose whether to address the backlash from his Heaven-Defying Secret Technique or pursue the final portion of his Child of Destiny Fortune before entering the Demon Realm.

• Heavenly Yao Emperor assigned Three Lives Demon to his side and sent Qin Jiuge and Heavenly Mystery Old Man to claim Four-Faced Buddha.
• Heavenly Mystery Old Man broke Four-Faced Buddha’s formation, sealed the freed Vengeful Spirits, and claimed them while giving the Buddhist inheritance and treasures to Qin Jiuge.
• Qin Jiuge smashed Four-Faced Buddha’s recorded image and stone statue, took the monk’s staff, learned a divine-soul protection secret art, and returned the other inheritances to the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty.
• Heavenly Yao Emperor and Heavenly Poison Great Emperor parted on good terms, with Heavenly Poison returning to the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty.
• As Qin Jiuge prepared to enter the Demon Realm, Heavenly Poison Great Emperor urged him to decide whether to resolve his secret technique’s backlash or seek the last portion of his Child of Destiny Fortune first.

Qin Jiuge learned that the last Child of Destiny was in the Cloud Sea Secret Realm and traveled to Cloud Sea Island with Zhao Huanhuan and Feng Ming. The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor and Zhao Tianming welcomed him as the group arrived.

• Qin Jiuge asked the System where the last Child of Destiny was, and it identified the Cloud Sea Secret Realm.
• Qin Jiuge found Zhao Huanhuan and Feng Ming arguing, then asked them to lead him to Cloud Sea Island.
• Zhao Huanhuan agreed to guide Qin Jiuge, while Feng Ming glared at the pair.
• Qin Jiuge scolded Zhao Huanhuan after they reached Cloud Sea Island, and she lowered her head in feigned grievance.
• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor and Zhao Tianming led Cloud Sea Island's people to welcome Qin Jiuge.

Qin Jiuge entered the Cloud Sea Secret Realm with Zhao Tianming to find the final Fortune Shard, while Zhao Tianming explained the realm’s Cloud Sea Kingdom. He ordered the kingdom’s rulers to search for the person favored by Fortune, offering a Life and Death Realm breakthrough quota as a reward.

• The Cloud Sea Quasi-Emperor gave Qin Jiuge the Bronze Token to open the secret realm, and Qin Jiuge invited Zhao Tianming to accompany him.
• Qin Jiuge shattered the token and entered the Cloud Sea Secret Realm with Zhao Tianming, Zhao Huanhuan, and the others.
• Zhao Tianming explained that the secret realm contained a small world called the Cloud Sea Kingdom, where Qin Jiuge’s final Destiny Shard might be found.
• The Emperor and Imperial Clan of Cloud Sea Kingdom knelt to greet the newcomers as Divine Envoys.
• Zhao Tianming ordered the kingdom to search for people favored by Fortune and promised a Life and Death Realm breakthrough quota to whoever found the right person.

Qin Jiuge let the Cloud Sea Imperial Clan search the kingdom for a person of Fortune while Gu Xiaoxiao grew closer to him. Zhao Tianming urged his clan to seize candidates by force, turning the search into a kingdom-wide effort to gain his favor and power.

• Zhao Tianming arranged for Gu Xiaoxiao to attend Qin Jiuge, and persuaded Zhao Huanhuan to accept her presence.
• Qin Jiuge accepted Gu Xiaoxiao's service and relied on the Cloud Sea Imperial Clan to search for the person of Fortune and the Destiny Shard.
• Zhao Tianming ordered his followers to gather anyone with genius-level Fortune, even by force, promising them opportunities if he gained power.
• The Cloud Sea Imperial Clan and its subordinate clans and sects launched a kingdom-wide search, and countless geniuses volunteered for the promised Immortal Destiny.
• As Gu Xiaoxiao spent more time by Qin Jiuge's side, Zhao Tianming confronted her with impatience instead of his former friendliness.

Zhao Tianming replaced Gu Xiaoxiao with a woman who possessed an Azure Wood Spirit Body, hoping to strengthen his ties with Qin Jiuge. When rumors disrupted the gathering of prodigies in Cloud Sea Kingdom, Qin Jiuge and the imperial family began investigating who was behind them.

• Zhao Tianming told Gu Xiaoxiao she could no longer appear before Qin Jiuge, then arranged for another woman with an Azure Wood Spirit Body to serve him.
• Zhao Huanhuan questioned Zhao Tianming’s willingness to sacrifice the rare spirit body, and he explained that securing the Great Qin Imperial Dynasty’s support was worth the cost.
• Rumors spread that the Imperial Clan had gathered prodigies to imprison them and refine them into Blood Stones, provoking arguments in the Heavenly Family Courtyard.
• The princes swore heavenly dao oaths to reassure the prodigies, then vowed to find and punish whoever had spread the rumors.
• Qin Jiuge stopped Zhao Tianming from attacking the princes and suggested the culprit might be an Imperial Clan member who could not compete for power.
• The Country Lord of Cloud Sea Kingdom gathered the Imperial Clan for Qin Jiuge and the others to review, demanding an explanation for the rumors.