Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian arrived in Spirit Rhino City and visited the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce to sell Nirvana Spirit Liquid and learn about the city's upcoming auction. He left with 5,000 Immortal Crystals and an auction token, with the next auction scheduled for seven days later.

• Qin Huaian paid the teleportation fee and traveled from Red Cloud City to Spirit Rhino City.
• Qin Huaian surveyed the city, changed his appearance and aura, and disguised his cultivation as mid-stage True Immortal.
• Qin Huaian offered about twenty drops of Nirvana Spirit Liquid to the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce.
• The female cultivator offered 5,000 Immortal Crystals, and Qin Huaian accepted the payment and handed over the jade bottle.
• The female cultivator gave Qin Huaian an unregistered auction token and told him the next auction would be held in seven days.

Qin Huaian spread news of the Void Passage on Spirit Rock Island to prevent South Cloud Valley from controlling it and endangering Purple Sky Sacred Land disciples. The announcement stirred the island’s major forces, and Qin Huaian returned toward Spirit Rhino City after hiding for three days.

• Qin Huaian stored the jade token, left Spirit Rhino City, and flew into the surrounding mountains.
• Small formations exploded across Red Cloud City, revealing jade slips that announced the Void Passage and its location.
• Lou Zhenhai ordered an expanded investigation, sent Yutang to seek help from the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect, and went to secure the passage for South Cloud Valley.
• Leng Xingze mobilized Taihe City’s forces, while the Heavenly Fortune Sect also prepared to act.
• Qin Huaian waited three days in the mountains, changed his appearance, restored his late True Immortal cultivation, and flew back toward Spirit Rhino City.

Qin Huaian returned to Spirit Rhino City and learned that news of a Void Passage in South Cloud Valley had sparked conflict among the island’s three major powers. He realized his leaked information had worked and headed toward the city center as cultivators sought refuge in the neutral city.

• Qin Huaian approached Spirit Rhino City and noticed many more cultivators traveling there.
• Two Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators told Qin Huaian that Taihe City and the Heavenly Fortune Sect had begun fighting South Cloud Valley over a newly discovered Void Passage.
• Qin Huaian realized the news had likely spread because of the concealment array he had set up in Red Cloud City, as he had intended.
• The cultivators explained that Spirit Rhino City’s neutrality made it a refuge whenever the three major powers fought.
• Qin Huaian thanked the cultivators and hurried toward the city center.

Qin Huaian bought immortal materials and spent half a year refining dozens of first-tier immortal formation disks to earn cultivation resources. As he headed back to the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce, he heard that the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect had arrived on Spirit Rock Island and was targeting the void passage.

• Qin Huaian visited the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce and bought first-grade immortal materials from Miao Donger for 9,355 Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian rented a courtyard cave abode, set up protective formations, and began refining formation disks with his Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame.
• After half a year, Qin Huaian left the cultivation chamber with several dozen first-tier immortal formation disks in his Storage Ring.
• Qin Huaian overheard people say that the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect had wiped out the Heavenly Fortune Sect’s immortals and had come to Spirit Rock Island for the void passage.
• Qin Huaian headed toward the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce while wondering about the powerful sect.

Qin Huaian sold array disks to the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce, accumulated nearly 400,000 Immortal Crystals, and waited for the Seed Space upgrade to finish. He discovered that five elemental Origin Pearls could turn the Seed Space into a living world, regained ten Mirror Bodies, and heard a tremendous boom shake Spirit Rhino City.

• Qin Huaian sold ten first-tier immortal array disks to the Spirit Rhino Chamber of Commerce for 73,000 Immortal Crystals and declined Zhang Ling's offer to join the faction.
• Qin Huaian continued selling array disks and buying materials for over two years, accumulating nearly 400,000 Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian learned that gathering the five elemental Origin Pearls could transform the Seed Space into a world full of life.
• Qin Huaian found ten Mirror Bodies waiting in the Seed Space and prepared to use them for cultivation and skill advancement.
• A tremendous boom resounded throughout Spirit Rhino City as Qin Huaian considered his future cultivation.

Qin Huaian watched as Lou Zhenhai and the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect besieged Spirit Rhino City, while Elder Mingde refused to surrender. With the city’s formation holding against the attackers, Qin Huaian worried that the city’s fall would expose his disguise and leave him trapped.

• Qin Huaian realized that Spirit Rhino City was under attack as its protective formation shook under repeated blows.
• Lou Zhenhai demanded that Elder Mingde submit to the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect, but Elder Mingde refused to let Spirit Rhino City serve any force.
• Lou Zhenhai ordered his hidden agents inside the city to attack from within, but Gu Hong revealed that the formation blocked their communications.
• Lou Zhenhai led thousands of cultivators in attacking the city’s formation, which withstood their strikes.
• Qin Huaian considered fleeing to avoid having Gu Hong see through his disguise, but realized he could not leave while the formation was active.
• An attacker called for everyone to retreat and begged Immortal King Gu to act.

Qin Huaian watched Spirit Rhino City's formation unleash powerful beams against the besieging cultivators, then trap hidden attackers inside the city in an illusion. As Gu Hong's strike weakened the formation, it revealed a far more dangerous defense, and someone realized its creator was not merely a Heavenly Immortal.

• Spirit Rhino City's formation fired beams from mirror-bright discs, killing dozens of attackers and forcing Lou Zhenhai's forces to retreat.
• Gu Hong protected himself, identified the discs as energy-intensive, and struck the formation with his curved blade, knocking away more than half of them.
• Lou Zhenhai urged the cultivators to resume their assault, while more than a hundred hidden attackers inside Spirit Rhino City rose and attacked the formation from within.
• The formation vanished around the hidden attackers, trapping them in a vast illusion as the City Lord's Manor's cultivators prepared to deal with them.
• Hundreds of discs appeared on the damaged barrier and fired at the advancing attackers, while Qin Huaian recognized the defense as a close-in weapon system.
• Someone screamed that the formation's creator was not at the Heavenly Immortal realm.

Elder Mingde drove the invading cultivators from Spirit Rhino City by defeating Gu Hong in a single strike. Afterward, Mingde warned that the city would be vulnerable if the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect sent more Golden Immortals, then decided to advance his plan.

• Mingde struck Gu Hong so hard that the Golden Immortal was injured and forced to retreat.
• Mingde warned the invaders to leave Spirit Rhino City's territory, and Lou Zhenhai and the other cultivators fled.
• Qin Huaian realized Mingde had concealed his true strength, while the city’s defenders saw the invasion end.
• Elder Mingde told his disciple that he needed time to recover and placed Spirit Rhino City in the young cultivator’s hands.
• Elder Mingde cautioned that more Golden Immortals could overwhelm him, then said he would move his plan forward.

After Elder Mingde repelled a Yellow Spring Sacred Sect cultivator, Qin Huaian decided to leave Spirit Rhino City for safer territory. He found the teleportation arrays and city gates closed, so he returned to his residence to wait while Elder Mingde sat in a secret chamber surrounded by formation patterns.

• Qin Huaian concluded that the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect might send stronger cultivators and decided to leave Spirit Rhino City.
• Qin Huaian followed other residents to the teleportation square, hoping to travel to Water Cloud City and then board a Flying Boat.
• A True Immortal announced that the City Lord's Manor had temporarily closed the teleportation arrays to capture spies.
• Qin Huaian learned that the city gates were also closed and returned to his residence to cultivate while he waited.
• Elder Mingde sat cross-legged in his secret chamber, his glowing body covered in intricate formation patterns.

Qin Huaian began deducing second-tier immortal formations while wondering about his former companions and the Violet Thorn Continent. There, Changfeng, Fairy Lingyue, and True Person Daoxuan discussed threats from other domains as the seals on the passages weakened, and worried about Qin Huaian’s disappearance.

• Qin Huaian spent 10,000 high-grade spirit stones to have ten Mirror Bodies simultaneously deduce ten second-tier immortal formations for two years.
• Qin Huaian wondered whether True Person Daoxuan and Changfeng had left the ancient immortal estate and whether the Violet Thorn Continent had been hidden by a grand formation.
• Changfeng whipped a captive cultivator from another domain, then left the cave where the man was chained and his immortal essence sealed.
• Fairy Lingyue urged Changfeng not to worry about powerful cultivators from other domains, while Changfeng said the seals on the transmission passages might last only another three hundred years.
• True Person Daoxuan told Changfeng and Fairy Lingyue that thirteen new Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had emerged on the Violet Thorn Continent after the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality mystic realm merged with it.
• Changfeng asked whether the secret realm had appeared again, and Fairy Lingyue said she trusted Qin Huaian to survive it and vowed to confront whoever had created it.

After waiting six months for Spirit Rhino City's teleportation array and gates to reopen, Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode and received an unexpected visit from two cultivators sent by a master who had taken an interest in him. The visitor confirmed Qin Huaian's alias, Chen Weidu, but had not yet explained why he had come.

• Qin Huaian heard Spirit Rhino City residents complain that the teleportation array and city gates had remained closed for half a year.
• A mid-stage Heavenly Immortal and a female Earth Immortal arrived at Qin Huaian's cave abode, and the woman questioned why their master wanted to meet a True Immortal.
• The young man warned his junior sister to speak respectfully because their master could hear what happened in Spirit Rhino City.
• The young man knocked and asked for Fellow Daoist Chen, and Qin Huaian opened the gate after inspecting the pair with his divine sense.
• The young man confirmed Qin Huaian was Chen Weidu, and Qin Huaian asked what business he had with him.

Qin Huaian was summoned to Spirit Rhino City’s City Lord’s Manor after Elder Mingde noticed his refined array discs. Elder Mingde saw through Qin Huaian’s disguise, and Qin Huaian removed his mask and began explaining himself.

• Liao Zhongyu and Tang Caiwen invited Qin Huaian to meet their master, Elder Mingde, at the City Lord’s Manor.
• Qin Huaian agreed to go with them, suspecting that Elder Mingde might have recognized his disguise.
• At the manor, Elder Mingde sent Liao Zhongyu and Tang Caiwen away so he could speak with Qin Huaian privately.
• Elder Mingde addressed Qin Huaian by his real name and praised the Thousand Illusions Mask for changing both appearance and aura.
• Qin Huaian removed the mask and told Elder Mingde that he had no choice but to disguise himself.

Elder Mingde questioned Qin Huaian about his Purple Sky Divine Lightning Tribulation and learned that Qin Huaian practiced the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. Qin Huaian learned that the Violet Thorn Domain was absent from Luo River World records, and Elder Mingde invited him to stay at Spirit Rhino City Lord's Manor.

• Elder Mingde identified Qin Huaian as the cultivator who had passed the Purple Sky Divine Lightning Tribulation and praised his exceptional advancement to the late-stage True Immortal realm.
• Qin Huaian credited his tribulation to the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, his comprehension, and his understanding of earth-element laws in Kun Yuan World.
• Elder Mingde said the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture was a peerless technique and that he had found no record of the Violet Thorn Domain in Luo River World.
• Qin Huaian said he planned to travel around the Chaotic Sea Region and seek a way back to the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Elder Mingde invited Qin Huaian to stay at Spirit Rhino City Lord's Manor, and Qin Huaian wondered whether Elder Mingde was trying to recruit him.

Qin Huaian refused Elder Mingde’s attempt to recruit him but accepted a jade plaque granting him a discount at the Spirit Void Chamber of Commerce. After Qin Huaian left the City Lord’s Manor, Elder Mingde revealed that he had also noticed Qin Huaian’s powerful body-refining cultivation.

• Qin Huaian declined Elder Mingde’s offer to join the City Lord’s Manor, saying he wanted to remain free and explore the world.
• Elder Mingde asked about Qin Huaian’s array skills and learned that his master was a fourth-rank immortal array master.
• Elder Mingde gave Qin Huaian a jade plaque that entitled him to a twenty percent discount on most goods at the Spirit Void Chamber of Commerce.
• Elder Mingde invited Qin Huaian to return to discuss arrays, and Qin Huaian left the reception hall.
• After Qin Huaian departed, Elder Mingde remarked that Qin Huaian’s body-refining cultivation was powerful and said this was even better.

Qin Huaian wondered why Elder Mingde had taken an interest in him and returned to cultivating while Spirit Rhino City remained sealed. Half a year later, forces led by South Cloud Valley attacked the city again, but the strengthened protective formation repelled them with a barrage of light.

• Liao Zhongyu told Qin Huaian that Spirit Rhino City would likely reopen once the spies had been caught, and offered to help him if needed.
• Qin Huaian returned to his cave dwelling, worried that Elder Mingde had investigated him, then focused on cultivation instead of making more first-grade immortal formation discs.
• After another half year, Qin Huaian sensed a brief tremor in the city-protecting formation, while Spirit Rhino City remained sealed for a full year.
• Gu Hong and Xu Ming assessed the city's strengthened formation as Lou Zhenhai's forces attacked it, but their strikes barely affected it.
• Bright discs appeared above the formation and sent a web of light at the attacking immortals; Xu Ming dismissed the attack as a petty trick.

Xu Ming blocked Spirit Rhino City's formation attack and prepared to deduce a way to break the city-protecting formation, while Elder Mingde worried about the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect's ambitions. Two days later, Qin Huaian heard Liao Zhongyu call to him outside his cave abode.

• Xu Ming used nine formation flags to shield the fleeing South Cloud Valley cultivators from Spirit Rhino City's attack, then said he could break the formation within three days using two Dao artifacts.
• Xu Ming ordered Gu Hong to protect him while he deduced the formation and told Lou Zhenhai to lead the cultivators back and await his command.
• Elder Mingde considered why the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect had sent Xu Ming and feared Spirit Rock Island had attracted the sect's interest.
• Qin Huaian felt the city-protecting formation tremble but returned to cultivating while keeping some attention on the outside.
• Two days later, Liao Zhongyu knocked at Qin Huaian's cave abode and called for Fellow Daoist Chen.

Qin Huaian was summoned to the City Lord's Manor after South Cloud Valley attacked Spirit Rhino City again, and he worried about the city's siege and his chances of survival. Tian Mu announced that South Cloud Valley had joined forces with the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect and called on the city's residents to help defend it.

• Liao Zhongyu summoned Qin Huaian to the City Lord's Manor on Elder Mingde's orders.
• Liao Zhongyu told Qin Huaian that South Cloud Valley had attacked Spirit Rhino City again but had not broken its protective formation.
• Qin Huaian arrived at the reception hall and waited with three unfamiliar cultivators while considering his treasures and his poor chances against a Golden Immortal.
• Tian Mu announced across Spirit Rhino City that South Cloud Valley had brought in the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect and urged the city's residents to help defend it.

Spirit Rhino City mobilized its cultivators to reinforce its defenses as Lou Zhenhai’s forces attacked, but Xu Ming used the Space-Rending Shuttle to sever the Immortal Spirit Vein’s connection to the city-protecting grand formation. Elder Mingde decided to abandon the repair and take an uncertain step, leaving Tian Mu to bring the cultivators to him.

• Tian Mu urged Spirit Rhino City’s cultivators to channel spiritual power into formations that strengthened the city’s defenses.
• Lou Zhenhai led nearly ten thousand immortals in an organized assault while Xu Ming searched for the formation’s link to the Immortal Spirit Vein.
• Xu Ming used the Space-Rending Shuttle to sever that link, causing the city-protecting grand formation to dim.
• Tian Mu warned Elder Mingde that the formation might fail before the connection could be repaired because too few cultivators were helping.
• Elder Mingde ordered Tian Mu to bring the cultivators to him and vanished from the secret chamber.

Xu Ming directed the assault on Spirit Rhino City’s formation while the city’s defenders struggled to hold it. In the City Lord’s Manor, Tian Mu restrained Qin Huaian and three other cultivators and forced them to follow him, leaving Qin Huaian waiting for a chance to escape.

• Xu Ming pointed out the formation’s key nodes, and nearly ten thousand cultivators concentrated their attacks on them.
• As Spirit Rhino City’s protective formation began to shake, Qin Huaian and three other cultivators tried to leave the City Lord’s Manor.
• Tian Mu arrived and said Elder Mingde had summoned them, but Duan Zhengfeng demanded an explanation and refused to comply.
• Tian Mu used an invisible formation to restrain Qin Huaian and the others, then forced them toward the rear of the reception hall.

Tian Mu led Qin Huaian, Duan Zhengfeng, and the others into a secret chamber as the City Lord's Manor prepared its defenses. Spirit Rhino City's formation activated, draining cultivators' power and stirring chaos, while its strength surged and a powerful aura rose from the city.

• Tian Mu ordered Liao Zhongyu to organize the City Lord's Manor's defenses, then escorted Qin Huaian and the others through a hidden passage to a secret chamber.
• Tian Mu and Qin Huaian examined a formation diagram of Spirit Rhino City as its nodes suddenly flared to life.
• The citywide formation drained spiritual power and Immortal Essence Power from cultivators, causing some to lose cultivation realms.
• Angry cultivators attacked buildings and formation patterns and began marching toward the City Lord's Manor, demanding answers.
• Xu Ming sensed the city-protecting formation become stronger than a fourth-grade immortal formation as an overwhelming aura rose from Spirit Rhino City and stopped the advancing crowd.