Recaps

Chen Changqing met up with Rujie and Si Youyou in the Secret Realm after they each obtained powerful opportunities. They learned that Immortal Palace Ruins containing Undying Medicine had appeared in the core region, and set their sights on the gathering of powerful cultivators there.

• Chen Changqing followed the Inheritance Token’s faint reaction toward the core region, then went to investigate Buddhist chanting and found Rujie breaking through to Mid Tribulation Transcendence at an ancient temple.
• Rujie explained that he had obtained the Great Sun Tathagata Seal and admitted that several cultivators had tried to take his opportunity.
• Si Youyou arrived with the Soul-Devouring Bell, an ancient demonic treasure she had recovered after fighting remnant souls.
• A passing cultivator told Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou that Immortal Palace Ruins containing Undying Medicine had appeared in the core region.
• The cultivator said Cold Moon Fairy, Blood Sea True Person, and Heavenly Monarchs Taiyin, Separation Fire, and Kunyuan were already heading there, prompting Rujie to show interest in the rumored medicine.

Chen Changqing rushed to Bai Wuya’s aid after learning that Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch were attacking him for the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus. Facing the two Heavenly Monarchs with Rujie and Si Youyou beside him, Chen Changqing asked them to hold Kunyuan off while he confronted the threat.

• A wounded cultivator told Chen Changqing that Bai Wuya was surrounded by Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch over the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus, so Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou hurried northeast.
• Bai Wuya fought the two veteran Heavenly Monarchs but was badly injured as they tried to force him to surrender the lotus.
• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch prepared to strike Bai Wuya, but Chen Changqing arrived and shattered the Cold Spear with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing asked Bai Wuya whether the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus would help him, and Bai Wuya confirmed that it would.
• Chen Changqing told Rujie and Si Youyou to hold Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch off, and Rujie summoned a Golden Buddha Wheel despite balking at the request.

Chen Changqing and his companions fought off Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch while Bai Wuya waited for the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus to mature. Bai Wuya seized the lotus and began refining it, leaving the two Heavenly Monarchs to reconsider their next move.

• Si Youyou and Rujie disrupted Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch with the Soul-Devouring Bell and the Great Sun Tathagata Seal.
• Chen Changqing summoned three clones and used a strange embryonic Law of Time and Space to wound Taiyin Heavenly Monarch.
• Chen Changqing’s clones, Rujie, and Si Youyou overwhelmed Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch with coordinated attacks and drove him back.
• The Nine-Turn Golden Lotus matured, and Chen Changqing’s group shifted their attacks to hold off the Heavenly Monarchs.
• Bai Wuya seized the lotus and began refining it, then stood beside Chen Changqing to face Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch.

After driving off Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch, Chen Changqing and his companions hurried toward the opened Immortal Palace. At Scattered Stone Slope, a band of robbers demanded a toll, and Chen Changqing ordered them to leave behind their storage devices and get lost.

• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch retreated after Bai Wuya stopped Taiyin from attacking again.
• Bai Wuya stabilized his injuries with the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus, and the group set off for the Immortal Palace after learning that Cold Moon Fairy and Blood Sea True Person had entered its Outer Hall.
• Chen Changqing and his companions crossed the Secret Realm, where cultivators fought and killed one another over treasure and the rumored Undying Medicine.
• At Scattered Stone Slope, a scar-faced Late Tribulation Transcendence cultivator demanded a toll from Bai Wuya and the others.
• After one of the robbers recognized Chen Changqing as the Mount Shu Holy Son, the scar-faced leader still insisted on his toll, so Chen Changqing ordered the robbers to leave their storage devices behind and get lost.

Chen Changqing forced a group of cultivators to surrender their valuables, then arrived with his companions at the Immortal Palace, where rival Heavenly Monarchs watched them with hostility. He held back from starting another fight, and Rujie defended Chen Changqing’s reputation before the gathered cultivators.

• Chen Changqing disarmed the scar-faced cultivator and made his group hand over their storage rings and Storage Bags, while Rujie collected them and returned a keepsake pendant.
• Chen Changqing, Rujie, Si Youyou, and Bai Wuya reached the Immortal Palace, where tens of thousands of cultivators had gathered.
• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch showed killing intent toward the group, but neither side attacked as they weighed the risks of fighting before entering the palace.
• Chen Changqing chose not to draw his sword or challenge the two Heavenly Monarchs, saving his strength for the Immortal Palace’s opportunities.
• When cultivators doubted Chen Changqing had injured a Heavenly Monarch, Rujie claimed that Chen had also brought him into a battle against one.

Chen Changqing and the others waited as Cold Moon Fairy and Blood Sea True Person weakened the Immortal Palace’s restrictions, while the Inheritance Token’s reaction grew stronger. After three days, the stone gates opened and Immortal Qi poured out.

• Bai Wuya warned Chen Changqing about the powerful enemies inside the Immortal Palace and gave him a Shu Mountain Transmission Talisman to help them find each other.
• Cold Moon Fairy and Blood Sea True Person began breaking the final restriction as Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and others agreed to let them proceed.
• Over three days, cultivators died trying to cross the Jade Steps, while Chen Changqing suppressed the increasingly restless Inheritance Token inside the Heaven-Stepping Ring.
• Cold Moon Fairy announced that the array’s core was open, and Blood Sea True Person struck the stone gates with his blade.
• The restrictions shattered, the Immortal Palace gates opened, and Immortal Qi poured out as cultivators began absorbing it.

Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Palace’s Minor World and followed his Inheritance Token to a Medicine Garden, where he met Jian Chen, another inheritor of the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor. Jian Chen revealed that only one of the ten inheritors could enter the true Heaven-Stepping Relic Mansion, and that the others’ Tokens and lives could be sacrificed.

• Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Palace with Bai Wuya and others, but a spatial force scattered them across its Minor World.
• Chen Changqing followed his Inheritance Token southeast, ignoring spirit medicines along the way, until it led him to a Medicine Garden.
• Chen Changqing’s Token resonated with a more complete Token held by a young man in green, who introduced himself as Jian Chen.
• Jian Chen and Chen Changqing questioned each other as their Tokens revealed that both were inheritors of the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor.
• Jian Chen told Chen Changqing that ten Tokens had to become one and that only one inheritor could enter the true Relic Mansion, while the others’ Tokens and lives could be consumed.

Chen Changqing learned from Jian Chen about the other Heaven-Stepping inheritors and a Black Gate inside the Immortal Palace that required more tokens to enter. After Jian Chen left, Chen Changqing sent away two rogue cultivators and headed to the center of the Medicine Garden to prepare before going deeper.

• Chen Changqing and Jian Chen discussed the inheritors, and Jian Chen revealed that he had encountered two, killing one and failing to kill the other.
• Jian Chen told Chen Changqing about the Heaven-Stepping Relic Mansion and showed that he had fused four Inheritance Tokens.
• Jian Chen described the other inheritors and explained that a Black Gate marked Heaven-Stepping lay beyond three suspended mountains inside the Immortal Palace, but he lacked enough tokens to enter.
• Jian Chen took one stalk of azure grass and left the Medicine Garden, while Chen Changqing waited for the pressure and token's trembling to subside.
• Chen Changqing used the sheathed Heavenly Thunder Sword to drive off two rogue cultivators without killing them.
• Chen Changqing decided to head deeper into the Immortal Palace after restoring himself to peak condition and walked toward the center of the Medicine Garden.

Chen Changqing gathered a jade marrow golden ganoderma in the Immortal Palace and began using it to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and stabilize his embryonic Law of Time and Space. Meanwhile, the Nether Sect captured Rujie and demanded to know where Chen Changqing had gone, and Rujie claimed he had gone to their ancestral graves.

• Chen Changqing harvested spirit medicines, including a jade marrow golden ganoderma that could strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changqing hid in a stone chamber and consumed the ganoderma, stabilizing cracks in his Sea of Consciousness and improving his ability to shift space.
• Chen Changqing overheard Nether Sect cultivators searching for people connected to True Lord Long Ying's death, but stayed hidden to finish refining the medicine.
• Rujie took a golden finger bone from an abandoned Buddhist hall, then was confronted by a Nether Sect elder and four Devil Cultivators.
• The Nether Sect elder demanded the Buddha Bone and Chen Changqing's location, and Rujie said Chen Changqing had gone to their ancestral graves.

Si Youyou rescued Rujie from the black-robed Nether Sect elder, but the two were nearly overwhelmed until Chen Changqing arrived with the Heavenly Thunder Sword. After the elder alerted the Nether Sect to Chen Changqing’s presence, Chen summoned three clones as the enemy attacked.

• Si Youyou entered the Buddha hall and helped Rujie break free, then the two smashed through a wall to escape the black-robed elder and his Devil Cultivators.
• Si Youyou and Rujie held off the elder on the mountain path until he suppressed the Soul-Devouring Bell and strangled Rujie, exposing the Ancient Buddha Relic.
• Chen Changqing arrived, severed the threads binding Rujie, and returned the Buddha Bone and Broken Bowl to him.
• The black-robed elder sent a talisman message identifying Chen Changqing and warning that the Nether Sect disciples would converge on the mountain path.
• Chen Changqing cut the elder’s talisman in two, then summoned three clones wielding the Immortal-Burying Zither, Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, and Haotian hammer as five Devil Cultivators attacked.

Chen Changqing and his companions defeated a group of Nether Sect cultivators and learned that Ming Jiuyou and Blood Sea True Person were targeting him. Bai Wuya arrived after recovering his strength and said he had come to find Chen Changqing about the Creation Heavenly Palace.

• Chen Changqing and his companions killed the Nether Sect’s middle-aged leader and several disciples, then learned that Ming Jiuyou had ordered the deaths of people connected to True Lord Long Ying and that Blood Sea True Person wanted Chen Changqing’s Immortal Artifacts.
• Chen Changqing killed a surviving disciple who offered to guide them, then took a Silver-Patterned Ghost Mask Talisman that could bypass some wandering-spirit restrictions.
• Bai Wuya contacted Chen Changqing and arrived in the Stone Forest with his Heavenly Monarch presence restored and his divine skill at Great Accomplishment.
• Bai Wuya confirmed that Ming Jiuyou was in the Immortal Palace, examined the Ghost Mask Talisman, and told Chen Changqing he had come to find him about the Creation Heavenly Palace.

Bai Wuya led Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou to the Creation Heavenly Palace, where powerful factions gathered to wait for its weakening restrictions to open. Chen Changqing faced the Nether Sect’s Ming Jiuyou, who challenged him with a throat-slitting gesture.

• Bai Wuya explained that the Creation Heavenly Palace held the Immortal Pattern Pill Furnace and a tree bearing golden fruit, but its three restrictions had stopped even Heavenly Monarchs from entering.
• Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token stirred as he learned the palace doors were slowly opening, and he chose to follow Bai Wuya toward the core area despite the danger from the Nether Sect.
• Bai Wuya’s group crossed a suspended bridge and drove off cultivators who tried to follow them.
• The group reached the palace, where Cold Moon Fairy, Blood Sea True Person, and the Taiyin, Kunyuan, and Separation Fire Heavenly Monarchs had gathered.
• Chen Changqing met Ming Jiuyou’s gaze across the crowd, and Ming Jiuyou gestured that he would kill him; Chen Changqing said he would kill Ming Jiuyou if he attacked.

Chen Changqing and Rujie entered the Creation Heavenly Palace, where they were separated from Bai Wuya and Si Youyou. Following Bai Wuya’s Jade Talisman, they took a stone path and found evidence that Nether Sect cultivators had passed through.

• Chen Changqing searched for Jian Chen as the palace doors opened and concluded that Jian Chen was already inside when his Inheritance Token grew hot.
• Cold Moon Fairy, Blood Sea True Person, the Heavenly Monarchs, Ming Jiuyou, and Chen Changqing’s group entered the palace as its restrictions receded.
• Chen Changqing and Rujie arrived together on a Bronze Platform, while Bai Wuya and Si Youyou were nowhere nearby.
• Chen Changqing chose the right-hand path after Bai Wuya’s Jade Talisman pointed that way, despite the Inheritance Token indicating the gate ahead.
• Chen Changqing and Rujie found looted bronze rooms and corpses, and Chen Changqing spotted half a Nether Mark inside one corpse’s cuff.

Chen Changqing and Rujie encountered Ming Jiuyou, five Nether Sect disciples, and True Lord Li, who had been promised help advancing to Heavenly Monarch in exchange for killing Chen Changqing. As True Lord Li brought down his Cyan Iron Ring, Chen Changqing prepared to resist while Rujie vowed to hold out for four breaths.

• Ming Jiuyou confronted Chen Changqing over the death of True Lord Long Ying, while True Lord Li joined the Nether Sect's pursuit.
• Ming Jiuyou offered True Lord Li resources and help advancing to Heavenly Monarch if he killed Chen Changqing.
• Ming Jiuyou's disciples formed the Nether Soul-Locking Array, and Rujie began holding it off as Chen Changqing's clone struck it with the Immortal-Burying Zither.
• True Lord Li's Cyan Iron Ring targeted Chen Changqing's clone, but Chen Changqing shifted space to evade it and struck Ming Jiuyou's Gray-White Jade Seal.
• True Lord Li unleashed his full strength as Chen Changqing braced with the Heavenly Thunder Sword and told Rujie to hold out for three breaths; Rujie promised to last four.

Chen Changqing revealed three Avatars wielding Immortal Artifacts and used them alongside his swords to force True Lord Li back. Rujie disrupted the Nether Soul-Locking Array, but Ming Jiuyou and the Nether Sect disciples remained in the fight.

• True Lord Li pressed Chen Changqing with the Cyan Iron Ring while Ming Jiuyou and five Nether Sect disciples used the Nether Soul-Locking Array against Rujie.
• Rujie fought off the array’s black chains with his Broken Bowl and Buddha Shadow, but the array’s pressure drove him back.
• Chen Changqing summoned three Avatars bearing the Immortal-Burying Zither, Haotian Hammer, and Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, then confronted True Lord Li with his two Thunder Swords.
• Chen Changqing’s Avatars and original body worked together to smash down True Lord Li’s Cyan-Splitting Ring and force him back three steps against a broken pillar.
• Rujie trapped a Nether Sect disciple’s Formation Flag beneath his Broken Bowl as Ming Jiuyou’s assault briefly slowed.

Chen Changqing and Rujie fought True Lord Li and Ming Jiuyou inside the Creation Heavenly Palace until Rujie broke the Nether Soul-Locking Array and a bell weakened True Lord Li. Bai Wuya and Si Youyou arrived, and True Lord Li fled when he recognized Bai Wuya as a Heavenly Monarch.

• Ming Jiuyou used the Nether Ghost Seal to suppress Rujie, while True Lord Li summoned the power of heaven and earth and pressed Chen Changqing's three Avatars.
• Rujie endured Ming Jiuyou's attacks as Chen Changqing's short sword protected him, then used the Buddha Shadow to seize two Formation Flags and break a corner of the Nether Soul-Locking Array.
• Chen Changqing attacked True Lord Li with his swords and three Avatars, but the two sides remained locked in combat until a bell from deep within the Creation Heavenly Palace stripped away some of True Lord Li's borrowed power.
• Bai Wuya and Si Youyou arrived in the stone passage, and Chen Changqing greeted Bai Wuya as his Martial Uncle.
• True Lord Li recognized Bai Wuya's Heavenly Monarch presence, recalled the Cyan-Splitting Ring, and fled.

Chen Changqing and his companions confronted True Lord Li and the Nether Sect in the Creation Heavenly Palace. After Bai Wuya subdued True Lord Li, Chen Changqing killed him and claimed the reward, while Ming Jiuyou and the Nether Sect disciples remained nearby.

• Bai Wuya stopped True Lord Li from fleeing and pinned him to the bronze floor with Spear Intent.
• Chen Changqing learned that True Lord Li had attacked him for the Nether Sect’s promised resources and rejected his offers of treasure and a Dao Oath.
• Chen Changqing killed True Lord Li while Bai Wuya suppressed him, and the Cyan-Splitting Ring rolled to Chen Changqing’s feet.
• Chen Changqing received 300,000 AFK Points, while Ming Jiuyou and the Nether Sect disciples watched without moving.
• Rujie recited a prayer over True Lord Li and reached for his storage ring, claiming he was checking for hidden weapons.

After killing True Lord Li, Chen Changqing refused Ming Jiuyou’s threats and fought the Nether Sect forces in the stone passage. He killed Ming Jiuyou and all five Nether Sect disciples, then collected the Nether Ghost Seal.

• Chen Changqing took True Lord Li’s storage ring and gave Rujie a bottle of healing pills.
• Ming Jiuyou threatened Chen Changqing with war between the Nether Sect and Mount Shu, but Chen Changqing chose to kill him anyway.
• The five Nether Sect disciples attacked Chen Changqing, while Rujie and Si Youyou helped him and Bai Wuya blocked Ming Jiuyou’s escape.
• Chen Changqing and his avatars destroyed the Formation Flags and killed the five disciples as Ming Jiuyou summoned a ghostly figure with the Nether Ghost Seal.
• Bai Wuya’s Spear Intent and Chen Changqing’s attacks left Ming Jiuyou pinned against the wall, and Chen Changqing killed him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing collected the Nether Ghost Seal after Ming Jiuyou’s Yin Qi dispersed.

Chen Changqing and his companions reached the heart of the Creation Heavenly Palace, where the Undying Medicine hung above a Pill Furnace as Blood Sea True Person and Cold Moon Fairy fought over it. While the group stayed clear of the battle, Chen Changqing sensed something behind the furnace and wondered whether Jian Chen was hiding there.

• Chen Changqing collected the AFK Points from the Nether Sect disciples and followed the glowing Inheritance Token deeper into the stone passage with his companions.
• The group emerged into a sundered void and found the Undying Medicine suspended above a Pill Furnace.
• Blood Sea True Person and Cold Moon Fairy clashed over the Undying Medicine, while injured Heavenly Monarchs kept to the battlefield's outskirts.
• Bai Wuya warned Chen Changqing and the others to stay away from the fighting, and they watched from a safe distance.
• Chen Changqing noticed that Jian Chen was absent and sensed something behind the Pill Furnace, prompting Si Youyou to ask whom he was looking for.

Chen Changqing persuaded Bai Wuya to suppress the injured Heavenly Monarchs so he could kill them for AFK Points. As the battle over the Undying Medicine continued, Chen Changqing killed the black-robed woman, and Bai Wuya kept the other Heavenly Monarchs pinned down.

• Chen Changqing decided the injured Heavenly Monarchs were easier targets than the Undying Medicine and asked Bai Wuya to suppress them.
• Bai Wuya agreed to act once, then struck the Broken Blade Middle-aged Man and pinned down three other Heavenly Monarchs with his Spear Intent.
• Chen Changqing attacked the black-robed woman while Bai Wuya held her in place.
• Chen Changqing smashed the woman’s Fragmented Bronze Mirror, broke her defenses, and stabbed her between the brows.
• Chen Changqing received 500,000 AFK Points for killing the black-robed Heavenly Monarch.

Chen Changqing killed three more Heavenly Monarchs with Bai Wuya’s support, earning a total of two million and fifty thousand AFK Points. As Blood Sea True Person defeated Cold Moon Fairy, he turned his attention to the Undying Medicine.

• Chen Changqing and Bai Wuya killed the wounded Broken Blade Middle-aged Man after Rujie rebuked him for claiming Mount Shu had broken their agreement.
• Chen Changqing refused the old man’s offer and killed him after he summoned nine White Bone Puppets.
• Chen Changqing and Bai Wuya killed the Grey-robed Heavenly Monarch, bringing Chen Changqing’s new AFK Points to two million and fifty thousand.
• Blood Sea True Person overwhelmed Cold Moon Fairy, bound her with blood chains, and left her alive as he focused on the Undying Medicine.
• Blood Sea True Person approached the Undying Medicine and declared that it was finally his.

Blood Sea True Person nearly took the Undying Medicine, but the Medicine Guardian emerged and killed him instantly. The Guardian then drew Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token into the open, prompting Jian Chen to appear with a second Token and reveal that outsiders could never claim the medicine.

• Blood Sea True Person reached for the Undying Medicine, but a withered hand emerged from the chaos, killed him, shattered his Primordial Spirit, and destroyed his Blood River.
• The Medicine Guardian stepped out from behind the Pill Furnace, declared that anyone who took the medicine without permission would die, and returned the Undying Medicine to its place.
• The Medicine Guardian fixed his gaze on Chen Changqing, whose Inheritance Token flew out of the Heaven-Stepping Ring.
• Jian Chen emerged from the chaos with another Inheritance Token, and both Tokens lit up as the Medicine Guardian stopped moving.
• Chen Changqing asked whether Jian Chen had known outsiders could not take the Undying Medicine, and Jian Chen confirmed that he had.

Chen Changqing and Jian Chen were drawn into a sealed world and forced to fight for the Undying Medicine, while their companions watched from outside. Chen Changqing attacked with his avatars and Heavenly Thunder Sword, but Jian Chen’s Sword Dao Body and seven swords kept him under pressure as the duel continued.

• The Medicine Guardian summoned Chen Changqing and Jian Chen, declared that only one could live, and named the Undying Medicine as the victor’s prize.
• Chen Changqing and Jian Chen fought on a bronze platform, with Chen Changqing using his Heavenly Thunder Sword and three avatars against Jian Chen’s swords.
• Outside the sealed world, Cold Moon Fairy revealed that Jian Chen had a Sword Dao Body and warned that Chen Changqing needed to wait for an opening to survive.
• Jian Chen pierced the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear Avatar and drove away the Immortal-Burying Zither Avatar’s soul attack with a sword’s cry.
• Chen Changqing coordinated his three avatars against Jian Chen’s seven swords, then struck Jian Chen with the Heavenly Thunder Sword; Jian Chen’s hand remained intact despite the thunderous impact.

Chen Changqing used his AFK Points to break through to Late Tribulation Transcendence during his fight with Jian Chen. The chapter ended as he began splitting his Spiritual Power into four streams, preparing to condense another avatar.

• Jian Chen activated his Sword Dao Body and shattered Chen Changqing's three avatars, leaving Chen Changqing wounded and cornered.
• Chen Changqing spent more than two million AFK Points to raise his cultivation, recovering from his wounds as he broke through twice to Late Tribulation Transcendence.
• Bai Wuya, Si Youyou, Rujie, and Cold Moon Fairy watched the sudden breakthrough from outside the sealed world, while Rujie predicted Chen Changqing had another move planned.
• Chen Changqing split his Spiritual Power into four streams, and Jian Chen realized he might be preparing to condense another avatar.

Chen Changqing used his four Avatars to gain the upper hand against Jian Chen, who then unleashed the True Immortal Sword Technique Sword Immortal Descends to Earth. The two sides remained locked in a costly clash as Chen Changqing's Avatars began to crack and Bai Wuya threatened to destroy the Pill Furnace if he died.

• Chen Changqing revealed his Mountain-River Heaven-Suppressing Seal Avatar, bringing his total to four, and Jian Chen realized he had just broken through to Late Tribulation Transcendence.
• Chen Changqing and his Avatars countered Jian Chen's Seven Swords, forcing Jian Chen back and drawing blood from his palm.
• Jian Chen shattered the Seven Swords into his body and invoked the True Immortal Sword Technique Sword Immortal Descends to Earth.
• Chen Changqing rallied his four Avatars and the Heavenly Thunder Sword to meet the sword shadow, and the two forces clashed without either side giving way.
• The clash damaged all four Avatars and reopened Chen Changqing's chest wound, while Bai Wuya threatened to tear apart the Pill Furnace if Chen Changqing died.