Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian visited South Kun Peak to have the damaged Flowing Cloud Sword repaired and paid for the materials and fee with fragments from the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality Secret Realm. After Qu Xiangwen learned Qin Huaian’s identity, he recognized him as his Martial Uncle and arranged the repair, leaving Qin Huaian to return for the sword in half a year.

• Qin Huaian arrived at South Kun Peak and asked an attendant to assess whether the Flowing Cloud Sword could be repaired.
• Qu Xiangwen examined the sword and said it could be repaired with rare materials, potentially restoring it to Dao Artifact level.
• Qin Huaian exchanged piles of weathered magical treasure fragments for the repair materials and artifact-refining fee.
• Qin Huaian gave the attendant his identity jade token, and Qu Xiangwen recognized him as the Qin Huaian whose name topped the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• Qu Xiangwen bowed to Qin Huaian as Martial Uncle, and Haochuan registered the repair and gave Qin Huaian half of the contract jade slip for collecting the sword in six months.

Qin Huaian planned his cultivation and spent half a year improving his Sword Dao Law and cultivation. He then went to Artifact Refining Peak to retrieve his repaired Flowing Cloud Sword, where disciples recognized his status and Haochuan led him to a private room.

• Qin Huaian returned to Purple Sky Peak and decided to focus on comprehending the earth-element, Sword Dao, yin-yang, and Spatial Laws while leaving further Laws to fate.
• Qin Huaian assigned seven Mirror Bodies to cultivate the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture and another to continue deducing formations, while his true body comprehended the Laws of heaven and earth.
• Qin Huaian spent half a year comprehending the Sword Dao Law, advanced his cultivation to Great Ascension (Late Stage 57/100), and used up his remaining five Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian went to Artifact Refining Peak to collect his Flowing Cloud Sword, and Haochuan welcomed him as Martial Granduncle.
• The cultivators in the hall recognized Qin Huaian and greeted him as Martial Granduncle or Patriarch, and Haochuan led him to a private room.

Qin Huaian retrieved his repaired Flowing Cloud Sword, which Artifact Refining Peak had restored as a Dao artifact, while cultivators discussed his reputation and the widespread use of the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. Back at Purple Sky Peak, he learned that True Person Daoxuan and Changfeng were still exploring an ancient immortal residence and returned to his cave abode with the sword.

• Haochuan reunited Qin Huaian with his repaired Flowing Cloud Sword, now a Dao artifact, and Qin Huaian thanked Artifact Refining Peak’s artifact refiners.
• Cultivators at Artifact Refining Peak speculated about Qin Huaian’s fortune and compared his talent with Patriarch Changfeng.
• Cultivators discussed how the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture was spreading across the Violet Thorn Domain and accelerating cultivation.
• Qin Huaian returned to Purple Sky Peak and learned from Mingze that True Person Daoxuan and Changfeng had not returned from the ancient immortal residence.
• Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode and took out the repaired Flowing Cloud Sword.

Qin Huaian broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm after several years of cultivation at Purple Sky Peak. Meanwhile, with True Person Daoxuan and the others still missing inside an ancient ruin, the Purple Sky Sacred Land prepared for growing pressure from the Demon Race as several disciples set out to seek their master.

• Qin Huaian reflected on the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and the many cultivators transported to the Violet Thorn Continent before returning to cultivation.
• Three years later, Qin Huaian broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, and Mingze resolved to cultivate harder after sensing his progress.
• Qin Huaian found that True Person Daoxuan and the others had still sent no news, then returned to seclusion.
• Mu Zilin urged Zhao Zhicai to send more Golden Immortals to the ancient ruin, but Zhao Zhicai refused because the Demon Race had intensified its incursions and the sacred land needed to preserve its strength.
• Xiang Cheng left to rescue his trapped master, while Mu Zilin and Mingze followed; Zhao Zhicai then ordered the sect to prepare to defend its assigned Southern Region border zone in one month.

Mingze divided the Purple Sky Peak disciples’ responsibilities while their Master and Changfeng remained inside the Ancient Ruins Immortal Mansion. Xiang Cheng and Ji Bokang prepared to lead a force to the Southern Region border, while Mu Zilin stayed behind to protect their lineage’s interests.

• Xiang Cheng and Mu Zilin urged Mingze to investigate the Ancient Ruins Immortal Mansion, but Mingze said only some of them could go because Purple Sky Peak needed to retain its strength.
• Mingze assigned Mu Zilin to remain at the sect and safeguard the lineage while he went to support their Master.
• Mingze told Xiang Cheng that he would command Purple Sky Peak’s force on the Southern Region border, where Han Shang was also seeking command, and warned him to be wary.
• Mingze sent Ji Bokang with Xiang Cheng to help lead the roughly eight hundred cultivators from Purple Sky Peak.
• Mingze asked Xiang Cheng and Ji Bokang to meet Qin Huaian, the junior uncle-master whom most of them had never seen, before departing.

After deciding to leave the sacred land to seek opportunities and deepen his understanding of laws, Qin Huaian received a visit from True Person Daoxuan’s five disciples, who came to meet their new junior grand-uncle. He gave them bottles of spirit liquid as a meeting gift, and Mingze recognized it as Nirvana Spirit Liquid.

• Qin Huaian’s Seed Space began a year-long upgrade, and he decided to travel beyond the sacred land because his law comprehension had slowed.
• Mingze brought Mu Zilin, Lü Sheng, Xiang Cheng, and Ji Bokang to Qin Huaian’s cave abode to pay their respects.
• Qin Huaian modestly greeted the powerful disciples and learned their names and cultivation levels.
• Concerned that he had no suitable gifts for his martial nephews, Qin Huaian gave each of them a bottle containing about a hundred drops of spirit liquid.
• Mingze inspected his bottle and exclaimed that the liquid was Nirvana Spirit Liquid.

Qin Huaian gave Mingze and the others bottles of Nirvana Spirit Liquid, and Mingze revealed that True Person Daoxuan had preserved Fairy Lingyue’s true spirit after she died in an ancient ruin. Mingze explained that reviving her required Nirvana Spirit Liquid, then described the rare conditions needed to produce it.

• Qin Huaian gave each person a bottle of Nirvana Spirit Liquid, and Mingze identified it as a precious healing sacred medicine capable of enabling rebirth.
• Mingze accepted his bottle after Qin Huaian insisted he keep it, and the others also thanked Qin Huaian and put theirs away.
• Mingze told Qin Huaian that Fairy Lingyue, a junior martial sister of True Person Daoxuan and Changfeng, had died in an ancient ruin about three thousand years earlier.
• Mingze explained that True Person Daoxuan had preserved Fairy Lingyue’s true spirit, meaning Nirvana Spirit Liquid could allow her to be reborn.
• Qin Huaian asked why True Person Daoxuan had not obtained the liquid, and Mingze explained that it required deathly aura and a cultivator who had comprehended the Laws of Life and Death to refine it.

Qin Huaian learned that reviving Fairy Lingyue required Nirvana Spirit Liquid and agreed to provide it. As Mingze prepared to search for the missing Daoxuan and Changfeng, Qin Huaian sent him with 300 drops, leaving the search and the fate of the absent seniors unresolved.

• Mingze explained that Changfeng had preserved Fairy Lingyue’s true spirit and that reviving a Heavenly Immortal could require about a hundred drops of Nirvana Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Huaian agreed to give Nirvana Spirit Liquid to Changfeng and Daoxuan to help revive Fairy Lingyue.
• Mingze revealed that Daoxuan and Changfeng had been missing for more than three years after entering an ancient immortal estate ruin, and said he planned to investigate alone.
• Xiang Cheng criticized those in the Purple Sky Sacred Land who would not risk resources to search for their Master, while Mingze insisted on going despite the danger.
• Qin Huaian gave Mingze 300 drops of Nirvana Spirit Liquid to deliver to Daoxuan and Changfeng for Fairy Lingyue’s revival and any injuries.

Mingze explained that the Demon Race had begun probing the Southern Region border because human cultivators were growing stronger through the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. Qin Huaian joined Xiang Cheng’s expedition, which would depart in one month, and accepted a disguise artifact from Mu Zilin.

• Mingze explained that the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture had strengthened human cultivators and prompted the Demon Race to harass the border regions.
• Xiang Cheng said he would lead the Purple Sky Sacred Land’s forces to the Southern Region border, and Qin Huaian asked to travel with them.
• Mingze warned that Qin Huaian had not yet ascended and urged Xiang Cheng to protect him, while Qin Huaian said he could look after himself.
• Mu Zilin warned Xiang Cheng not to underestimate the Demon Race and gave Qin Huaian a disguise artifact that concealed his appearance and aura from cultivators below the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Xiang Cheng set the departure for one month later, and Qin Huaian accepted Mu Zilin’s artifact.

Qin Huaian tested the aura-changing immortal artifact Thousand Illusions before joining Purple Sky Sacred Land’s campaign against the Demon Race. After traveling by teleportation array and flying vessel, he met Xiang Cheng’s disciple Miao Yongzhen and was asked whether he preferred to patrol the long defensive line or stay with the main force.

• Mu Zilin gave Qin Huaian the Thousand Illusions mask, and he tested how it changed his appearance and aura.
• A month later, Qin Huaian joined Purple Sky Sacred Land’s army as it prepared to depart for the Southern Region under Xiang Cheng’s command.
• Zhao Zhicai introduced Han Shang as Xiang Cheng’s deputy before the army began its journey through long-distance teleportation arrays.
• After three days, Xiang Cheng brought the cultivators aboard a huge flying-saucer-shaped magic treasure bound for the border garrison.
• Xiang Cheng introduced Qin Huaian to his second disciple, Miao Yongzhen, then asked whether Qin Huaian wanted to join a patrol squad or remain with the main force.

Qin Huaian chose to join a patrol squad to gain experience along the border, while Xiang Cheng and Ji Bokang explained the continent’s vastness and rare spatial artifacts. As Qin Huaian prepared to venture out, Ji Bokang warned him that newly emerged secret realms and ancient ruins could trap even powerful immortals.

• Qin Huaian decided to join a patrol squad despite Ji Bokang’s warning that patrols could encounter the Demon Race far from reinforcements.
• Xiang Cheng agreed to arrange Qin Huaian’s identity and explained that patrol members would report threats using communication artifacts.
• Qin Huaian learned that the Violet Thorn Continent had expanded greatly and that the Sacred Land’s flying artifact used a spatial formation to enlarge its interior.
• Xiang Cheng explained that the Sacred Lord held one of fewer than five ancient small-world artifacts, which could carry cultivators but might attract covetous attention.
• Ji Bokang warned Qin Huaian that newly appeared secret realms and ancient ruins could be deadly and might trap even experts above the Golden Immortal realm.

Qin Huaian arrived at the Southern Region border in disguise as Fang Zifei and was assigned to a patrol squad at Base 17. After receiving their orders, the squad set out to patrol the mountain forest south of the base.

• Qin Huaian arrived at the Purple Sky Sacred Land’s mountain base and used Xiang Cheng’s disguise and false identity as Fang Zifei.
• Qin Huaian joined Wu Yanhao’s squad and traveled through several teleportation formations to Base 17.
• Qiao Zhengkun told the base’s cultivators to patrol nearby and report large Demon Race incursions rather than fight them.
• Qin Huaian introduced himself to his squad as Fang Zifei and settled into his assigned room.
• Wu Yanhao led the squad out of the base to begin its patrol south of the plaza.

Qin Huaian and the patrol squad discovered human bones and a captive population near an Ironback Ape mountain, then slaughtered the tribe. The chapter ended with tens of thousands of freed mortals kneeling before the cultivators as Shao Zhixuan asked Wu Yanhao what to do with them.

• Wu Yanhao led the squad into the forest after noticing something unusual near the Ironback Apes’ caves.
• Qin Huaian and the others found a pit filled with human bones, including the remains of children, and Duan Yingying charged toward the apes in fury.
• Duan Yingying, Qin Huaian, and the other cultivators attacked the caves and slaughtered the Ironback Apes across the mountain.
• Qin Huaian discovered a sinkhole where the Ironback Apes had kept tens of thousands of humans captive and killed apes trying to escape.
• The squad gathered above the sinkhole, where the freed mortals knelt before them, and Shao Zhixuan asked Wu Yanhao what they should do.

Qin Huaian and Duan Yingying searched for a city-state whose people had been abducted, hoping to rescue its nearly million residents. They found the city deserted and without signs of violence, leaving the fate of its inhabitants unknown.

• Duan Yingying reported that people rescued from a sinkhole had been abducted from a city-state, and Qin Huaian set out with her and an elderly survivor to find it.
• Wu Yanhao tested the child accompanying the old man, discovered his supreme-grade earth spiritual root, and arranged for him to remain with the group.
• Qin Huaian, Duan Yingying, and the old man traveled west and found the old man's city-state silent and apparently empty.
• The group searched the city and royal palace but found no people, livestock, or signs of fighting, and Qin Huaian asked Duan Yingying what she thought.

The Black Tiger King learned that the Ironback Ape clan had been slaughtered by human cultivators and agreed to wait for the Thousand-Eyed King before pursuing revenge, hoping to gain access to a hidden ancient ruin. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian and Duan Yingying searched for the missing residents of a city-state and spotted two powerful demons.

• An Ironback Ape told the Black Tiger King that human cultivators had nearly wiped out its clan and offered the location of a hidden ancient ruin in exchange for the Thousand-Eyed King's help.
• The Black Tiger King agreed to wait for the Thousand-Eyed King and promised to accompany the Ironback Ape to seek revenge.
• Qin Huaian concluded that a powerful demon had abducted the city-state's residents, and he and Duan Yingying began searching the surrounding area with the elderly man surnamed Zhao.
• After a day of finding no sign of the missing people, Duan Yingying exterminated the minor demons they encountered, and Qin Huaian prepared to return.
• Qin Huaian spotted an eighth-order tiger demon and an eighth-order leopard demon a hundred li away, and he invited Duan Yingying to investigate.

Qin Huaian and Duan Yingying confronted two eighth-rank demons linked to the slaughter of nearly a million people from Li Kingdom. Duan Yingying fought the tiger demon while Qin Huaian pursued the fleeing leopard demon, leaving both battles unresolved.

• The tiger and leopard demons admitted that the Thousand-Eyed King had eaten the people of Li Kingdom and fled when Qin Huaian and Duan Yingying confronted them.
• Qin Huaian placed the grieving old man in a seventh-rank defensive formation, then flew to support Duan Yingying as she attacked both demons with rain threads.
• Qin Huaian gave Duan Yingying Golden-Winged Sky Bee Royal Jelly, restoring her spiritual power as she kept the demons under pressure.
• The leopard demon fled as a gust of wind to seek help, while the tiger demon transformed and hurled an axe at Duan Yingying, who stopped it with layers of rain-thread nets.
• Qin Huaian used Free and Easy Wanderer to chase the leopard demon while Duan Yingying continued fighting the exhausted tiger demon.

Qin Huaian survived a leopard demon’s self-destruction, while Duan Yingying killed the wounded tiger demon. A larger Demon Race force arrived seeking revenge, and Qin Huaian stayed behind to fight as Duan Yingying flew off to bring reinforcements.

• The leopard demon self-destructed when Qin Huaian blocked its escape, but he avoided the blast with a teleportation divine ability and armor.
• Duan Yingying killed the bloodied tiger demon with countless threads of rain.
• Azure Wing arrived with a group of Demon Race members, including three ninth-rank demons, and the iron-backed ape identified Qin Huaian and Duan Yingying as targets.
• Qin Huaian urged Duan Yingying to return to the mountain peak and summon the captain, and she agreed to leave him behind.
• Azure Wing sent a wind blade after Duan Yingying as she departed, but Qin Huaian shattered it with Sword Qi.

Qin Huaian fought the Demon Race at their border, killing the spider demon and pursuing Azure Wing after the eagle demon fled. After slaying Azure Wing and driving off the other demons, he returned to their mountain base and began breaking its protective formation.

• Qin Huaian used his Exotic Flame to burn through the spider demon’s threads, then killed her with three sword strikes.
• Azure Wing transformed into a giant golden eagle, but Qin Huaian overpowered him and chased him toward Thousand-Eye Peak.
• Qin Huaian caught Azure Wing, killed him with repeated sword strikes, and stored his corpse in his Storage Ring.
• The remaining Demon Race cultivators fled, and Qin Huaian killed several before returning to the mountain formation.
• Qin Huaian identified weak points in the formation and began attacking them with his sword after enhancing his formation flags.

Qin Huaian destroyed the Demon Race’s mountain stronghold but found no missing humans, then headed toward the Ironback Ape’s mountain as the Thousand-Eye King learned of the attack and vowed to hunt human cultivators. At the sinkhole, Duan Yingying and Wu Yanhao prepared to evacuate the mortals, while a boy learned his family was likely dead and was urged to seek revenge; Senior Brother Liu warned that leaving might not be easy.

• Qin Huaian shattered the mountain’s grand formation, found no trace of the missing humans, and sheared off the summit before flying toward the Ironback Ape’s mountain.
• The Thousand-Eye King learned that a human cultivator had destroyed Thousand-Eye Peak and killed the Grand Protector, then decided to prey on high-level human cultivators instead of returning.
• Duan Yingying returned with the old man surnamed Zhao and told Wu Yanhao that nearly a million people from Li Kingdom might have been killed.
• A little boy learned that his family had probably been killed, and the burly Senior Brother Liu encouraged him to cultivate at Purple Sky Sacred Land and take revenge.
• Wu Yanhao prepared to continue the patrol after the mortals boarded the Flying Boat, but Senior Brother Liu warned that leaving might not be easy.

Wu Yanhao and the Purple Sky Sacred Land cultivators faced five powerful Demon Cultivators, including a youth with Devouring Laws. After swallowing two of Senior Brother Liu’s attacks, the youth transformed into a huge, eyecovered beast as Liu launched another Supreme White Mystic Light.

• Senior Brother Liu led the cultivators out of the sinkhole and sealed it after sensing five Demon Cultivators approaching.
• The Demon Cultivators arrived, and Liu ordered the disciples below the Mahayana Realm into the defensive array.
• Liu attacked the leading youth with a golden halberd strike, but the youth swallowed it, prompting Wu Yanhao to identify his Devouring Laws.
• Liu unleashed his Supreme White Mystic Light, and the youth absorbed it through the black vertical eye between his brows, though the attack strained him.
• As Liu prepared another Supreme White Mystic Light, the youth revealed his true form: a huge, eyecovered creature with a dark opening at its head.