Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming confronted and killed Jiu Jian Wang, a Peak King of the Machine Race, using Heavy Prison Peak, the Heavenly Dragon Breaking Star Halberd, and his soul attack. After Machine Alliance Kings arrived and hesitated to attack, Qin Ming collected the loot and escaped, taunting them as he went.

• Qin Ming located Jiu Jian Wang’s golden palace on Yan Ji Continent and sealed the surrounding space with Heavy Prison Peak.
• Jiu Jian Wang lost his ability to use instantaneous movement and charged Qin Ming, but Heavy Prison Peak shattered his Divine Body.
• Qin Ming used the Heavenly Dragon Breaking Star Halberd and its Kaso Metal to severely damage Jiu Jian Wang’s Divine Body.
• Jiu Jian Wang sent a warning to the Machine Race’s Yulan World and tried to self-destruct, but Qin Ming confused him with Illusory God Eye and killed him.
• Machine Alliance Kings arrived, saw Qin Ming had slain Jiu Jian Wang, and hesitated to attack as Qin Ming gathered the loot and fled.

Qin Ming fought off a Machine Race force after twenty-four Kings attacked him, killing eighteen and escaping unharmed. News of the battle reached the Hong Alliance, where its members disputed his strength and criticized the delay in inducting him.

• More than twenty Machine Race Kings charged Qin Ming, hoping to seize his heavy treasures, while the Kings who had witnessed his earlier fight stayed back.
• Qin Ming killed a High Level King with one halberd strike, then used the Heavy Prison Peak and his speed to slaughter the attackers.
• Eighteen of the twenty-four Kings fell, and the six survivors fled as more than a hundred onlooking Kings let Qin Ming leave.
• The Machine Race Kings discussed Qin Ming's strength and speculated that he might be an Unrivaled King, but none dared pursue him.
• A purple-armored Hong Alliance expert reported that Yuan Yue Hou had killed nineteen Machine Alliance Kings and criticized the Alliance for delaying his induction.

After defeating the alien experts, Qin Ming absorbed their Soul Origin, reviewed his combat weaknesses, and organized Netherworld’s growing population of the dead into the Soul Race. He finished issuing plans for Netherworld’s laws and military just as the Hong Alliance came looking for him.

• Qin Ming refined the captured King-level experts into Soul Origin, raising his Human Original Body’s Gene Multiple to twenty-one times.
• Qin Ming reviewed his battle and recognized that his Void Wandering Dragon Step and Instantaneous movement skills were still lacking.
• Qin Ming named the souls living in Netherworld the Soul Race and decided to let them remain there until he could find a way to send them into reincarnation.
• Qin Ming ordered Irina to establish Netherworld’s law bureaus and organize the Ten Underworld Marshals, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, and three thousand Soul Race soldiers.
• Qin Ming noticed that the Hong Alliance had finally come looking for him.

After Qin Ming’s victory over nineteen Machine Race Kings, he mingled with Human camp experts and accepted the Hong Alliance’s invitation to join. Primal Ancestor secretly watched the ceremony and recognized Qin Ming’s unusual strength, leaving his future growth to be seen.

• Qin Ming received praise from Human camp Kings for killing nineteen Machine Race Kings, including a Peak King, and discussed the Machine Race’s assassination lists.
• Desire Heart King led a Hong Alliance envoy team that invited Qin Ming to join, and Qin Ming accepted.
• A celestial emblem appeared on Qin Ming’s armor, and a powerful silhouette welcomed him as an official Hong Alliance member.
• Primal Ancestor secretly observed Qin Ming and noted that he had killed a Peak King through pure power despite his Human body’s limits.
• Primal Ancestor reflected on Qin Ming’s unusual abilities and vanished, deciding to see how far he would grow.

After joining the Hong Alliance, Qin Ming studied its structure and considered how to use Hongmeng City to build wealth and influence. Lord Ganwu revealed that consuming Qin Ming’s Soul Essence had awakened insights that might finally let him break through to become a Cosmic Lord, leaving Qin Ming eager to help.

• Night Chen King explained the mystery of the human silhouette that appeared when Qin Ming joined the Hong Alliance.
• Qin Ming reviewed the Hong Alliance’s classifications and Hongmeng City, where the system rated him Three Star, and began planning ways to gain wealth and influence.
• Qin Ming met with Lord Ganwu, who praised his achievements but warned him about the dangers of the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Lord Ganwu told Qin Ming that the Soul Essence he had received had strengthened his soul and might help him break through after a period of seclusion.
• Qin Ming offered to provide more Soul Essence and decided he might need to hunt powerful foreign race Kings sooner than planned.

Qin Ming showed Lord Ganwu how souls of slain Kings could be refined into powerful Soul Crystals, prompting Lord Ganwu to plan hunts for alien Cosmic Venerables. Qin Ming then went to Hongmeng City to gather intelligence and enlist allies in his own hunt for Kings.

• Qin Ming gave Lord Ganwu Soul Crystals refined from the souls of a High Level King and an Elementary King, and Lord Ganwu found them far more potent than ordinary Soul Essence.
• Qin Ming explained that the crystals came from alien Kings he had killed and that his Soul River Avatar could refine their Soul Fragments.
• Lord Ganwu decided to hunt alien Cosmic Venerables, hoping their Soul Fragments would help him grow stronger, and Qin Ming agreed to collect them with a Soul River Avatar carrying the Myriad Souls Banner Branch.
• Qin Ming planned to use a Cosmic Venerable's Main Soul to advance the Myriad Souls Banner and considered how Lord Ganwu's hunts might also benefit other members of the Darkness Lineage.
• Qin Ming teleported to Hongmeng City to seek intelligence on alien Kings and met Night Chen King, Star Illusion King, Cha Wu King, and other experts from Yan Ji Continent.

Qin Ming toured Hongmeng City with Night Chen King and explored Cosmic Treasure Hall, where he found valuable Special Lifeform remains that could strengthen his body and help his Divine Power Path. He also discovered a Yan God Clan King Armor he could not use, and resolved to hunt Yan God Clan experts in the future.

• Qin Ming met King Quwu and other experts, then agreed to visit the Starry Sky Tower later and toured Hongmeng City with Night Chen King.
• Night Chen King showed Qin Ming Cosmic Treasure Hall, where Qin Ming saw the extravagant treasures and learned that the second floor required special qualifications.
• Qin Ming searched the first floor for Special Lifeform remains and found several promising specimens whose Blood Essence could raise his Human Original Body’s Gene Multiple.
• Qin Ming examined the Golden Armor once worn by a Yan God Clan King and learned that he could not refine or use it as a Human Race expert.
• Qin Ming decided to leave the Golden Armor for Luo Feng and hunt Yan God Clan experts to gain materials for the Divine Power Path.

Qin Ming bought rare Special Lifeform remains from Cosmic Treasure Hall and arranged to hunt foreign race Kings on Yan Ji Continent to replenish his wealth. After refining the remains in the Netherworld, he pushed his Human Original Body's gene level beyond one hundred times.

• Qin Ming reached the second floor of Cosmic Treasure Hall and asked the waiter to show him Special Lifeform remains with gene multiples above one hundred.
• Qin Ming bought the 200-times-gene Jade-Scaled Python remains and dozens of other remains for 4 Treasure Points, then asked Can Xin King to keep the purchase confidential and notify him of future flesh-and-blood Special Lifeforms.
• Qin Ming returned to Camp Base 026 and asked Night Chen King, Star Illusion King, and the other Kings to report foreign race Kings on Yan Ji Continent so he could hunt them for money.
• Three days later, Qin Ming received seventy-two types of Special Lifeform remains and refined most of them into Blood Essence in the Netherworld.
• Qin Ming consumed Special Lifeform Blood Essence and raised his Human Original Body's gene level past one hundred times, then prepared to test the limit of his Blood Luo Power.

Qin Ming strengthened his Human Original Body, hunted foreign Kings on Yan Ji Continent, and built up the Soul Race. He decided to establish the Soul Hall within the Human Race and planned to discuss the Soul Race and Divine Kingdom Humans with Darkness Teacher.

• Qin Ming's Human Original Body reached a 4,800-fold Gene Multiple, bringing his unassisted power close to that of an Unrivaled King, though his Law Comprehension remained a limit.
• Qin Ming hunted foreign Kings on Yan Ji Continent, killing fifty-three in less than a year, including five Peak Kings, and collecting their souls for the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Qin Ming continued searching for the Indigenous Race's Sacrificial Towers but found no clues, and considered heading to the Starry Sky Tower to hunt instead.
• Qin Ming completed nearly seventy-two Soul Race generals, who became known on Yan Ji Continent for hunting the Demon Race, Zerg, and Machine Race while avoiding humans.
• Qin Ming decided to establish the Soul Hall within the Human Race and planned to visit Darkness Teacher to discuss the Soul Race and the Divine Kingdom Humans.

Qin Ming told Lord of Darkness that Lord Ganwu might break through to become a Cosmic Lord after receiving Soul Essence, then revealed that his Soul River Avatar could refine souls and create an army of revived Soul Race subordinates. He proposed forming Soul Hall to harvest souls across battlefields, but Lord of Darkness warned that the plan might be too large for him to cover up.

• Qin Ming explained that his Soul Essence had helped Lord Ganwu reach a breakthrough opportunity and that Lord Ganwu planned to hunt a Cosmic Venerable.
• Lord of Darkness realized that Qin Ming's Soul Essence could potentially help many Human Race experts advance to Cosmic Lord, a major advantage for humanity.
• Qin Ming asked Lord of Darkness to cover for the fact that enemies he killed could not be revived because their souls were refined.
• Qin Ming revealed that he had three thousand Marquis-level and sixty-two King-level Soul Race subordinates and intended to establish Soul Hall.
• Qin Ming described plans to harvest souls from battlefields, refine them into Soul Essence, and use them to strengthen his avatar and other experts.
• Lord of Darkness said Qin Ming's plans were so substantial that he might not be able to cover for him.

Qin Ming told Lord of Darkness and Lord of Chaos City that his soul-refining ability could strengthen the Human Race, but its discovery risked provoking the other peak races. They ordered him to keep the ability secret and focus on cultivating while Lord Ganwu tested it on an alien Cosmic Venerable.

• Lord of Darkness warned that Qin Ming's ability could trigger a race war and asked Lord of Chaos City to discuss the matter.
• Qin Ming explained his ability to Lord of Chaos City, who recognized its potential to greatly increase the Human Race's strength and its danger if exposed.
• Lord of Chaos City told Qin Ming to disguise the ability as a Soul Race talent, keep the Soul Race at around three thousand, and let Lord Ganwu test it on an alien Cosmic Venerable.
• Lord of Chaos City and Lord of Darkness urged Qin Ming to avoid further involvement and prioritize breaking through to the Undying level and Cosmic Venerable level.
• After Qin Ming left, Lord of Chaos City and Lord of Darkness laughed and discussed Qin Ming's hidden opportunity, the possible results of Gan Wu's test, and consulting Giant Axe.

Qin Ming expanded his Soul Race operations while researching soul and bloodline potions with the Human Race’s newly opened archives and experimental resources. He developed finalized Essence Spirit and Bloodline Potions that could strengthen human souls and genes, leaving him ready to promote an improvement across the Human Race.

• Qin Ming ordered Irina to keep searching for King-level foreign races until they found seventy-two commanders, then to move toward the Starry Sky Tower region if the Sacrificial Tower remained undiscovered.
• Qin Ming’s World Tree avatar mastered the Space Law mystery of Space Strangulation while his Soul River grew and his avatars conducted experiments on captured foreign races and human volunteers.
• Qin Ming learned that the Human Race had detailed records for raising Gene Multiples and used them to advance his research into the Divine Power Path.
• Qin Ming finalized Essence Spirit Potions for humans from Apprentice to Realm Lord levels, with the optimized formulas designed to repair soul defects and strengthen souls.
• Qin Ming used the Myriad Souls Banner to refine Zerg Queen-bred warriors into Blood Essence and produced Domain Lord- and Realm Lord-level Bloodline Potions despite being unable to crack the Zerg Gene Lock.

Qin Ming hid his Bloodline Potions and waited to reveal the Essence Spirit Potion until he was stronger, then took a Sacrificial Tower from Yan Ji Continent and recovered the Yan Ji Indigenous People’s Secret Pattern inheritance. He left with a new time-stopping weapon and planned to have the Soul Race study the inheritance and improve its equipment.

• Qin Ming decided to keep the Bloodline Potions secret because exposing them and the Queen’s production method would put him at risk, and he planned to reveal the Essence Spirit Potion only after his strength increased.
• The Mountain Range Giant discovered a buried Sacrificial Tower on Yan Ji Continent, where Qin Ming found and collected six King-level corpses and the tokens they carried.
• Qin Ming moved the Sacrificial Tower into the Netherworld and sent six Soul Race King Level Experts inside to secure its rooms and treasures.
• The Mountain Range Giant devoured the Sacrificial Tower, increasing its Gene Multiple, while Qin Ming claimed its treasures and discovered the Stasis Chain, a Secret Pattern Weapon that stopped time.
• Qin Ming obtained the Yan Ji Continent Indigenous People’s solid and Void Secret Pattern inheritance and decided to have the Soul Race study it and train Artifact Forging Masters.

Qin Ming studied the Sacrificial Secret Patterns and began inscribing them while Lord Ganwu prepared to hunt Demon Race Venerables with three high-grade treasures lent by Lord of Chaos City. As Lord Ganwu set out to kill Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable, Qin Ming offered to send him a treasure to help collect their Soul Fragments.

• Qin Ming found that the Sacrificial Secret Patterns could help him study Space and Time Law mysteries and began practicing their inscriptions with Soul River avatars.
• Lord of Chaos City lent Lord Ganwu Jun Tian Spear, Profound Ice Sea, and Floating Cloud Boat to support his hunt and potential breakthrough.
• Lord Ganwu mastered the three treasures over a hundred years and resolved to hunt at least two Venerables.
• Venerable Beiming informed Lord Ganwu that Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable had entered Eroding Bone Secret Realm, and Lord Ganwu agreed to attack them.
• Lord Ganwu told Qin Ming he was preparing to make his move, and Qin Ming offered to send a treasure to improve Soul Fragment collection.

Lord Ganwu and Beizunzhe hunted Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable in the Sky Star River, where Gan Wu used the Profound Ice Sea and Jun Tian Spear to overwhelm them. After Golden Snake Venerable self-destructed, Qin Ming’s Summoning Banner captured both Venerables’ soul fragments, and Gan Wu escaped with Beizunzhe aboard the Floating Cloud Boat.

• Lord Ganwu told Beizunzhe he could kill Golden Snake Venerable alone and asked him to guard against interference.
• After a year of searching, Lord Ganwu and Beizunzhe found Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable in the Sky Star River.
• Lord Ganwu trapped both enemies in the Profound Ice Sea and attacked them with the Jun Tian Spear, severely damaging Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable.
• Golden Snake Venerable self-destructed, annihilating Xiahguang Venerable, while Lord Ganwu survived inside the Floating Cloud Boat.
• Qin Ming gave Lord Ganwu the Summoning Banner, which collected the soul fragments of Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable and sent them into the Netherworld.
• Lord Ganwu withdrew the Profound Ice Sea and fled the Sky Star River aboard the Floating Cloud Boat with Beizunzhe.

Qin Ming refined the souls of Xiahguang Venerable and Golden Snake Venerable, giving Lord Ganwu a Soul Crystal to aid his breakthrough. In Demon Race territory, the Lord of Extinction failed to revive Golden Snake Venerable and set out to investigate his death.

• Lord Ganwu told Beizunzhe that the human higher-ups had lent him the Treasures, then escaped the Secret Realm aboard the Floating Cloud Boat.
• Qin Ming finished refining Xiahguang Venerable and Golden Snake Venerable, gaining a middle Venerable servant and a Soul Crystal.
• Qin Ming gave Lord Ganwu the Soul Crystal, and Lord Ganwu resolved to enter seclusion and break through to Cosmic Lord.
• The Lord of Extinction used Reverse Time and Space to revive Golden Snake Venerable, but a terrifying force obstructed the revival and the Venerable vanished.
• The Lord of Extinction decided to visit the place where Golden Snake Venerable had fallen to investigate.

Lord of Extinction discovered that Lord Ganwu’s black bone banner had collected Golden Snake Venerable’s soul fragments and ordered the Demon Race to hunt him. After a hundred years of preparation, Qin Ming left Yan Ji Continent for the Starry Sky Tower, where he planned to test his newly created Secret Art.

• Lord of Extinction watched the battlefield’s past unfold, saw Lord Ganwu collect Golden Snake Venerable’s soul fragments, and ordered the Demon Race to gather intelligence and hunt him.
• Lord Ganwu received Golden Snake Venerable and Xiahguang Venerable’s treasures from Qin Ming, entered seclusion, and began absorbing Golden Snake Venerable’s Soul Origin.
• Qin Ming left Yan Ji Continent after building up his Soul Hall forces and organizing the Heavenly Craftsmanship Hall and Wan Wu Hall.
• Qin Ming reached the Starry Sky Tower and met Jiu Jian Wang, who offered to send him the latest intelligence.
• Qin Ming told Jiu Jian Wang that he would test the Secret Art he had created and later discuss the Essence Spirit Potion with Darkness Teacher.

Qin Ming entered the Starry Sky Tower to demonstrate his strength and hunt powerful experts, hoping to earn greater support from the human higher-ups for raising his Gene Multiple toward 10,081. He began slaughtering enemy Kings and set his sights on upgrading the Soul Race forces under his command.

• Qin Ming considered how resources and his own feats could persuade the human higher-ups to invest in his cultivation before he reached the 10,081 Gene Multiple limit.
• Qin Ming entered the Starry Sky Tower, using intelligence from Jiu Jian Wang and Soul Race soldiers to locate targets across its shifting forbidden spaces.
• Qin Ming killed Cang Qiong Wang with a soul attack and absorbed the body and soul into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Qin Ming destroyed two Machine Race Kings with the Heavy Prison Seal and Heavenly Dragon Breaking Star Halberd, then collected their Machine Puppets.
• Qin Ming hunted Kings across the Starry Sky Tower and vowed to replace the seventy-two Soul Race generals with King-limit experts and raise his three thousand soldiers to at least High Level Kings.

Qin Ming hunted foreign-race experts in the Starry Sky Tower and killed Zerg Queen Nan Cheng with his overwhelming Soul Attacks. After surviving the mass self-destruction of her forces, he left as news of the battle began to shake the Outer Domain Battlefield.

• Qin Ming wiped out more than twenty Demon and Zerg experts with the Myriad Souls Banner and used their remains to feed the Netherworld and World Tree.
• A dying Soul Race King revealed that Skull Needle King, Nan Cheng’s powerful soul slave, was nearby, so Qin Ming entered the Swamp Space to hunt him.
• Qin Ming killed Skull Needle King with a Soul Attack, prompting Nan Cheng to appear with her Mother Nest, soul slaves, and Zerg Warriors.
• Qin Ming defeated Nan Cheng in a clash of Soul Attacks and overwhelmed her with a Soul Tsunami from the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Nan Cheng and her forces self-destructed, but Qin Ming survived inside Liekong Hall, recovered soul fragments and a soul supreme treasure, and escaped.
• News of Qin Ming’s killing of Nan Cheng spread through the Zerg camp and set the Outer Domain Battlefield ablaze.

After Qin Ming killed Nan Cheng, the Zerg, Demon, and Machine races reacted to his growing reputation, while Qin Ming remained confident in his protections and watched Irina break through to Unrivaled King strength. With Soul Hall’s forces growing, he prepared to introduce the Essence Spirit Potion and make the Outer Domain Battlefield more chaotic.

• The Zerg Queens learned that King Yuan Yue had killed Nan Cheng, raised his assassination rating, and arranged Nan Cheng’s revival.
• The Demon Race warned its experts to flee from King Yuan Yue, while Fatefall King ordered the Machine Race to hunt him for his soul treasure and other treasures.
• Qin Ming returned to Netherworld, where Nan Cheng and other fallen experts were being refined into Soul Hall forces as Netherworld expanded.
• Irina told Qin Ming she was about to break through, opened the Netherworld Gate, and became an Unrivaled King after completing her Divine Body Transformation.
• Qin Ming decided to test the first batch of Essence Spirit Potions and declared that the Outer Domain Battlefield needed to become more lively.