Chapter Summaries

Xuanye confronted Qin Wangchuan in the ruined arena and admitted he had planned Shatong’s death. Qin Wangchuan summoned the Undying Heaven-Slaying Lord, whose saber split the arena and sky, leaving Xuanye stunned to recognize the Law as his own.

• Xuanye learned that Qin Wangchuan had created the Supernatural Realm and went with Chili and Yankui to meet him.
• Qin Wangchuan accused Xuanye of orchestrating events and said his companions outside the Academy were facing trouble.
• Xuanye claimed Qin Wangchuan had exhausted his strongest attack and exposed his abilities, while Chili and Yankui encircled him.
• Qin Wangchuan sensed a strange connection to the white-haired Alien Race member and summoned the Undying Heaven-Slaying Lord.
• The Lord’s saber split the arena, its protective array, the surrounding plaza, and the sky with one stroke.
• Xuanye recognized the Undying Heaven-Slaying Lord as his own Heaven and Earth Law.

Qin Wangchuan revealed that he could wield Xuanye’s Five-Character Heaven and Earth Law and began overwhelming Xuanye, Chili, and Yankui in the arena. As Qin Wangchuan hung above them on Heavenly Suspended Silk, Xuanye countered with Law-Breaking Technique: Giant Gate.

• Chu Wujiu and the Alien Race members realized Qin Wangchuan’s Heaven and Earth Law had five words and resembled Lord Xuanye’s.
• Xuanye recognized the karma behind Qin Wangchuan’s supernatural technique and questioned why his fatal strike had missed.
• Chili launched a surprise attack, but Qin Wangchuan dodged and kicked her through the ruined arena’s edge.
• Qin Wangchuan evaded Xuanye’s palm and Yankui’s attack with Taixu Steps, then appeared as a dozen illusions and taunted the three opponents.
• Qin Wangchuan revealed himself hanging above Xuanye on Heavenly Suspended Silk, and Xuanye cast Law-Breaking Technique: Giant Gate.

Qin Wangchuan used his ability to borrow laws from other versions of himself, defeating Chili, Xuanye, and Yankui in the arena. His suppressed aura then surged toward a breakthrough, stopping just one step short of a higher realm.

• Xuanye, Chili, and Yankui coordinated an attack to trap Qin Wangchuan, but he broke through their defenses and revealed that he could borrow the Ten Directions Profound Sword again.
• Qin Wangchuan used the sword to pin Chili’s Karmic Fire Prison-Subduing Wisdom King to the arena, leaving her gravely wounded.
• Qin Wangchuan borrowed Xuanye’s Undying Heaven-Slaying Lord and used it to blast Xuanye’s manifestation out of the arena.
• Qin Wangchuan borrowed Heavenly Sword? Final Tribulation to pin Yankui’s Five Directions Mountain-Sealing Sea-Calming Aspect to the ground.
• As Qin Wangchuan’s aura erupted, it halted just before he could cross into a higher realm.

Qin Wangchuan received the accumulated guidance of his counterparts across countless spacetimes, rejected the Heaven and Earth Law "Ancient Sage of Sitting in Oblivion," and forged a path beyond their limits. He declared his law to be "Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages" and broke through from Half-Venerable directly into the Supernatural Realm.

• Qin Wangchuan encountered countless Heaven and Earth Laws and heard other versions of himself urge him to keep searching.
• Qin Wangchuan learned that the Wheel of Fate had united the guidance of countless versions of himself and that his Way of Ten Thousand Laws let him experience myriad Daos.
• Qin Wangchuan passed through the vision of "Ancient Sage of Sitting in Oblivion" without accepting it.
• Qin Wangchuan declared "Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages" as his Heaven and Earth Law.
• Qin Wangchuan broke through two realms at once, reaching the Supernatural Realm as spectators watched his Three-Character Law take shape.

Qin Wangchuan manifested his three-word Heaven and Earth Law and revealed that his Wheel of Fate let him borrow other people’s Heaven and Earth Laws at a personal cost. As he faced Xuanye with three Dharma Manifestations, the calamity of the age took shape in his hand as the Ten Directions Mystic Law Sword.

• Qin Wangchuan’s three-word Dharma Manifestation stirred ancient wills, while Qin Wenhe celebrated it as an auspicious omen and Qin Taiyi granted his request to waive punishment.
• Qin Wangchuan manifested the Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages and summoned the Destiny Aspect of Killing and Judgment and the Beginningless and Endless Dao Lord from his Wheel of Fate.
• Chu Wujiu and Ji Clan Wuchen discovered that Qin Wangchuan’s borrowed Dharma Manifestations resembled their own Heaven and Earth Laws, but they could no longer contact them while he wielded them.
• Ye Lingchuan noticed wounds appearing on Qin Wangchuan and inferred that borrowing the laws carried a cost; Zhao Lingyun called Qin Wangchuan the calamity of the age.
• Ji Clan Wuchen vowed to keep advancing despite being no match for Qin Wangchuan, while Xuanye asked if begging for mercy could save him.
• Qin Wangchuan formed the Ten Directions Mystic Law Sword in the palm of his Calamity of Ten Thousand Ages Dharma Manifestation.

Qin Wangchuan defeated and killed Chili, Yankui, and Xuanye, then vowed to hunt down all of Xuanye’s immortal origin clones in the Foreign Lands. After closing Shatong’s eyes and entrusting his body to Ji Wuchen, Qin Wangchuan left to reach someone still in danger.

• Qin Wangchuan shattered Chili, Yankui, and Xuanye’s Dharma Manifestations and killed all three with his sword.
• Qin Wangchuan learned that Xuanye could survive through a thousand origin clones and vowed to kill every one of them in the Foreign Lands.
• Xuanye died after declaring that he would await Qin Wangchuan in the Foreign Lands, while the witnesses regarded Qin Wangchuan as a living calamity and walking disaster.
• Qin Wangchuan closed Shatong’s eyes and told Ji Wuchen to take his body and ideals with them.
• Qin Wangchuan vanished from the arena, leaving to reach someone who was still hanging by a thread.

Qin Wangchuan found the dying Tan Lingfei in the Back Mountain Forest, where Tan Lingfei gave him the Stone Chisel before dying. Meanwhile, Yun Zexuan and Gu Tianye raided the Cleaners’ secret chamber, where Xuanye died and Lv Yingxin declared that she was Qin Wangchuan’s concubine.

• Qin Wangchuan found Tan Lingfei gravely wounded and offered to save him so he could help his compatriots find a home in the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Tan Lingfei confessed his failures and despair, then gave Qin Wangchuan the Stone Chisel before dying.
• Xuanye discussed his hoped-for death at Qin Wangchuan’s hands with Lv Yingxin and began activating a Blood Seed.
• Yun Zexuan and Gu Tianye entered the secret chamber, where Yun Qingyang killed the Alien Race experts surrounding them.
• Xuanye spoke from his ruined remains, telling them that he would help Qin Wangchuan spread the Supernatural Law through the Foreign Lands before dying.
• Lv Yingxin told Yun Zexuan that she was Qin Wangchuan’s concubine.

Qin Wangchuan learned that Lv Yingxin claimed to be his concubine and could see the future, while preparing to address Fang Yun’s return and the conflict it might cause with Qin Hongchen. The chapter ended with Qin Wangchuan telling Lv Yingxin he would decide when to kill her after hearing her out.

• Yun Zexuan told Qin Wangchuan that Lv Yingxin had claimed to be his concubine, and Qin Wangchuan recognized her name from Spirit Law Dao’s warning.
• Yun Zexuan reported that the Alien Race had planted Blood Seeds across the Three Thousand Provinces and apologized for failing to protect Shatong.
• Qin Wangchuan reflected on Shatong and Tan Lingfei’s deaths and resolved to revisit places connected to old friends after handling urgent matters.
• Qin Wangchuan learned that Fang Yun had returned and recovered her memories of Qin Hongchen, making a confrontation with Sixth Brother likely.
• Lv Yingxin arrived bound in rune chains, told Qin Wangchuan she could see the future, and insisted she truly would become his concubine.

Lv Yingxin told Qin Wangchuan of a possible future in which he entered the Foreign Lands, became a King Sovereign, and waged war against its rulers before capturing her. She began recounting how she came to be moved by him during their escape through Thousand Skull Mountain, where the group faced a skull-filled chamber and Qin Wangchuan ordered them to turn back.

• Lv Yingxin described Qin Wangchuan’s rise as a human King Sovereign and his campaign to kill the Foreign Lands’ King Sovereigns.
• Lv Yingxin recounted how Qin Wangchuan defeated her after a ten-day battle, captured her, and later became her lover.
• Lv Yingxin explained that the Banquet Royal Court pursued them after her capture, forcing the wounded Qin Wangchuan and his group to flee with her to Thousand Skull Mountain.
• The group reached a chamber filled with skulls, where a companion found that they could break through the far Rock Wall to reach reinforcements.
• Qin Wangchuan ordered the group to turn back and take a detour, provoking an uproar.

Qin Wangchuan refused to destroy a wall of ancestral bones and led the group back toward their pursuers, earning Lv Yingxin’s attention. Later, she offered to help him overthrow the Banquet Royal Court, but revealed that its founder would eventually move against her.

• Qin Wangchuan rejected the group’s plan to blast through the Rock Wall, placed a flower-shaped Magic Tool before a skull, and led everyone back toward the pursuers.
• The group followed Qin Wangchuan, while Lv Yingxin watched him and began to feel drawn to his upright resolve.
• Qin Wangchuan questioned Lv Yingxin about her knowledge of possible futures and tested whether she intended to become his enemy.
• Lv Yingxin offered to help Qin Wangchuan overthrow the Banquet Royal Court and take the throne of the Foreign Lands, but he demanded a convincing reason to trust her.
• Lv Yingxin claimed she had fallen in love with Qin Wangchuan and betrayed her kin for him, then dismissed the claim as a joke and revealed that the Banquet Royal Court’s founder would eventually move against her.

Lv Yingxin explained that the Banquet Royal Court planned to use her as a sacrifice and offered to help Qin Wangchuan destroy it. Qin Wangchuan agreed to cooperate after she surrendered two Divine Souls to him, leaving her bound to his control.

• Lv Yingxin told Qin Wangchuan that the Banquet Royal Court was her true enemy and offered her full assistance in destroying it.
• Qin Wangchuan agreed to cooperate but demanded a safeguard against her turning on him.
• Lv Yingxin surrendered two Divine Souls, making herself a Soul Slave under Qin Wangchuan's control.
• Qin Wangchuan branded the Divine Souls with his mark, and Lv Yingxin staggered from the sudden restraint.
• Lv Yingxin said the feeling of having her Divine Soul controlled was terrible, but she could adapt to it.

Lv Yingxin confronted Li Clan Qingluan and revealed that Qin Wangchuan's changed future could leave Li Clan Qingluan unable to keep up with him. She offered to help in exchange for Li Clan Qingluan persuading Qin Wangchuan to take her as a concubine, then left Li Clan Qingluan questioning her Future Self about the revelations.

• After securing permission to remain at the Academy and return to the Foreign Lands through it, Lv Yingxin deliberately encountered Li Clan Qingluan on a secluded path.
• Lv Yingxin warned Li Clan Qingluan that she was too weak to follow Qin Wangchuan into the Foreign Lands, and two versions of Li Clan Qingluan drew swords against her.
• Lv Yingxin evaded their blades and revealed that she had become the youngest King Sovereign in history after defeating the younger generation of the Foreign Lands.
• Lv Yingxin offered Li Clan Qingluan a clear path in exchange for persuading Qin Wangchuan to take her as his concubine, but Li Clan Qingluan refused.
• Lv Yingxin claimed Qin Wangchuan had obtained a three-character Heaven and Earth Law instead of the four characters seen in the original future, and suggested the Future Self's Unorthodox Dao Path could help Li Clan Qingluan keep up.
• After Lv Yingxin left, Li Clan Qingluan asked her Future Self whether the revelations were true.

Li Qingluan accepted the Future Self’s offer to teach her the Unorthodox Dao Path in exchange for finding the Chaos Origin Spirit and helping restore her body. After arranging to leave the Academy with Qin Wangchuan, she watched Lv Yingxin return to a kneeling crowd of Foreign Lands dignitaries and warriors.

• The Future Self admitted that the Unorthodox Dao Path had been prepared for herself and offered to teach it if Li Qingluan helped her find the Chaos Origin Spirit and rebuild her body.
• Li Qingluan realized the Future Self had used Lv Yingxin to provoke her, then decided to accept the arrangement and use Lv Yingxin as a servant if she became Qin Wangchuan’s concubine.
• Li Qingluan asked how far the Unorthodox Dao Path could take her, and the Future Self said it could let her stand shoulder to shoulder with Qin Wangchuan if she survived its dangers.
• Li Qingluan took the Stone Chisel from Qin Wangchuan, and he arranged for her to leave the Academy the next day.
• Lv Yingxin arrived at the Outer Academy, where powerful figures from across the Foreign Lands knelt to await the princess prophesied to bring change.

Lv Yingxin returned to the Foreign Lands after secretly becoming Qin Wangchuan's Soul Slave, while Qin Wangchuan and Li Qingluan left the Academy. Jiang Xuanli delivered Qin Wangchuan's letter to Feng Jian, drawing Xie Qingshang's attention.

• Lv Yingxin accepted Divine Soul tonics and departed for the Foreign Lands as its people celebrated her supposed success infiltrating the Human Race.
• Lv Yingxin reflected on her difficult love for Qin Wangchuan and accepted that becoming his Soul Slave was worth the price.
• Qin Wangchuan and Li Qingluan left the Academy, and Qin Wangchuan wrote a letter to Feng Jian before departing.
• Jiang Xuanli delivered Qin Wangchuan's letter to Feng Jian at the Martial Arts Arena and ordered him to open it.
• Xie Qingshang paused her fight after hearing Qin Wangchuan's name, hurried to Feng Jian, and watched as he opened the letter.

Feng Jian learned that Qin Wangchuan’s warning letter had reached him under his former name, while Chu Wujiu unveiled a new Heaven and Earth Law and Zhou Yunyi was mistaken for a prodigy. Qin Wangchuan and Li Qingluan returned to Qin Clan territory, where Li Qingluan confronted him about their agreement as Ye Jianwei approached.

• Feng Jian recognized Lin Yan as his former name and realized Qin Wangchuan knew his hidden past.
• Chu Wujiu summoned the phantom of the Chu Clan’s Heaven-Opening War Halberd with his Heaven and Earth Law and celebrated his breakthrough.
• Yan Wujin showed Li Xuan his Nine-Flame True Fire, while Li Xuan discussed his experimental Supernatural Power Sword and noticed Ye Lingchuan with a young woman.
• Ji Wuchen considered storing ten thousand laws within his body, and Zhou Yunyi emerged from seclusion as a Supernatural Realm expert while others mistook his nameless Heaven and Earth Law for a powerful one.
• Qin Wangchuan and Li Qingluan returned to Qin Clan territory, where Li Qingluan questioned him about their agreement as Ye Jianwei approached with a zither.

Qin Wangchuan brought Li Qingluan to Cloudrest City, where he planned for an unavoidable confrontation with Sixth Brother, and then took her to explore the bustling streets. Their playful outing ended with Qin Wangchuan calling Ye Jianwei over.

• At the Star-Embracing Pavilion, Qin Wangchuan confirmed Ye Jianwei had delivered a message and said Sixth Brother would visit in a few days.
• Qin Wangchuan led Li Qingluan through Cloudrest City, explaining that it connected directly to the Lower Realm.
• Li Qingluan sampled cloud-shaped pastries with Qin Wangchuan, then bought hairpins after asking which one suited her.
• Li Qingluan had Qin Wangchuan feed her spiritual fruit and teased him about having the Li Clan's divine maiden feed him every day.
• Qin Wangchuan beckoned Ye Jianwei over as Li Qingluan continued looking at the stalls.

Qin Wangchuan told Li Qingluan that Sixth Brother’s reincarnated lover was fake and that he intended to kill her, hoping to bring Sixth Brother back to the Lineage. The three continued through the city, where Li Qingluan bought silk stockings from a stall and teased Qin Wangchuan about wearing them for him that night.

• Qin Wangchuan fed Ye Jianwei a Spirit Fruit while Li Qingluan admired the city he had built to connect with the Lower Realm.
• Qin Wangchuan said he would kill Sixth Brother’s returned lover because he believed she was fake, though he had no proof.
• Li Qingluan offered to help Qin Wangchuan confront Qin Hongchen, but Qin Wangchuan explained that he wanted Sixth Brother to come home and that involving the elders would turn the dispute into a Lineage scandal.
• Li Qingluan raised the possibility of Qin Wangchuan taking concubines, and he did not object when she suggested Ye Jianwei might become one.
• Li Qingluan bought all the silk stockings at a marketplace stall and whispered that she would wear them for Qin Wangchuan that night.

The Qin siblings agreed to help Qin Wangchuan bring Qin Sixth Brother home by stopping Eldest Brother, despite having no proof that the woman with Sixth Brother was dangerous. Meanwhile, Wen Dao Palace expanded into selling revealing garments and blamed Xuantian Pavilion for making them.

• Qin Xuanji and the other siblings debated whether to support Qin Wangchuan, while Qin Kuangge worried that acting without evidence could hurt Sixth Brother.
• Qin Xuanji reminded Qin Kuangge that standing aside before had led to tragedy, and Qin Kuangge agreed to help Qin Wangchuan.
• Qin Xuanji formed the Eldest Brother Suppression Squad and assigned the group to stop Eldest Brother while Qin Wangchuan handled Sixth Brother.
• At Wen Dao Palace, Jiang Yan found a warehouse full of stockings and revealing garments and questioned whether the sect was still righteous.
• Xiao Yun told Jiang Yan that Xuantian Pavilion had made the improper goods and that Wen Dao Palace had nothing to do with them.

Wen Dao Palace prospered from a wildly successful clothing business, while Yin Qiyue, Feng Qingjue, and Luo Lingxi awaited Qin Wangchuan’s return. After Li Qingluan led Qin Wangchuan back to Star-Embracing Pavilion, they spent the night together, while Ye Jianwei waited outside their room.

• Luo Lingxi told Yin Qiyue and Feng Qingjue that Qin Wangchuan had emerged from seclusion and caused a stir in Heaven Above Heaven.
• Feng Qingjue recalled how the Returnees’ provocative clothing designs became a popular business that brought Wen Dao Palace a fortune.
• Li Qingluan took Qin Wangchuan back to Star-Embracing Pavilion before he could use the Mystic Light Mirror to contact the Lower Realm.
• Li Qingluan told Qin Wangchuan she had waited a long time for the moment and put on the Heaven Cicada Ice-Soul Silk for him.
• Qin Wangchuan and Li Qingluan became intimate while Ye Jianwei waited outside their door, blushing at the sounds from within.

Qin Wangchuan and Li Qingluan spent several days together, and Li Qingluan later invited Ye Jianwei to join them while Dragon Scale was turned away. On the morning of the seventh day, Qin Wangchuan broke through from the Supernatural Realm to the Heavenly Venerable Realm.

• Li Qingluan asked Qin Wangchuan to pin up her hair with the Jade Hairpin he had given her, then drew him back into their intimacy.
• Over the following days, Li Qingluan struggled to keep up with Qin Wangchuan and used her [Moonlight Goddess] secret art, but was eventually exhausted.
• Li Qingluan called Ye Jianwei into the room, and Qin Wangchuan moved Ye Jianwei's Silver Bell to her ankle at her request.
• Dragon Scale appeared, but Li Qingluan sent her outside, leaving her to wait beyond the door.
• On the morning of the seventh day, Qin Wangchuan broke through into the Heavenly Venerable Realm and sensed his Spiritual Platform and Dharma Manifestation had grown stronger.