Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian traveled to Singing Sand City to learn about the city and find a safe place to cultivate. After renting a Heavenly Immortal-level cave abode for five years, he prepared to enter seclusion and digest his recent gains.

• Qin Huaian witnessed a cultivator unearth fifth-grade immortal Glazed Gold Sand but chose not to pursue him or the treasure.
• Qin Huaian flew south to a nearby city and used its teleportation array to reach Singing Sand City.
• Qin Huaian bought Guo Xiaowu's handbook and learned about Singing Sand City, its routes, and the power of Illusory Sound Pavilion.
• Qin Huaian rented a Heavenly Immortal-level cave abode near the City Lord's Manor for five years.
• Qin Huaian opened the cave abode with his token and prepared to cultivate while his Seed Space upgraded.

Qin Huaian refined the Golden Roc Wings in his cave abode while the leaders of the Chaotic Sea Region’s five strongest powers discussed how to counter outside forces plundering their territory. After years of secluded cultivation, Qin Huaian heard that the Seed Space upgrade was complete.

• Qin Huaian entered his cave abode and began refining the Golden Roc Wings to improve his speed.
• Star Pavilion Master Su Yu learned that outside forces were using Small Worlds to send bandit cultivators into the Chaotic Sea Region and ordered limited rescues.
• Su Yu summoned Lu Haiyue, Bai Wujing, Fan Changgeng, and Wei Bingyi to discuss the growing threat and the plundering of Golden Glow Island’s resources.
• Su Yu persuaded the leaders to scatter their forces, share information, and lure outside cultivators into traps rather than gather for a large-scale battle.
• Qin Huaian remained in his cave abode for years, refined the Golden Roc Wings to the eleventh layer, and heard that the Seed Space upgrade was complete.

Qin Huaian explored his newly upgraded Seed Space, assigned his Mirror Bodies to cultivation and array research, and consumed his first Dao Fruit. He remained at the Mid-stage Heavenly Immortal Realm as the Azurewood Dao Fruit’s vitality and wood-element Dao essence spread through his body.

• Qin Huaian learned that his Seed Space’s upgrade was complete after spending ten years refining the Golden Roc Wings.
• Qin Huaian entered the Seed Space and saw that it had expanded to a trillion li in diameter, though its central continent remained mostly lifeless.
• Qin Huaian assigned one Mirror Body to deduce Perfected Second-Order Immortal Arrays and had the other eleven cultivate with Seven-colored Mystic Heaven Jade Dew.
• Qin Huaian recalled obtaining the Azurewood Dao Fruit and escaping the two Golden Immortal cultivators who had pursued him for it.
• Qin Huaian placed the Azurewood Dao Fruit in his mouth, and its vitality and wood-element Dao essence spread through his body.

Qin Huaian advanced his wood laws, array mastery, and cultivation while chaos in the Chaotic Sea Region gradually subsided. Su Yu told the regional leaders that rival powers were seeking Spatial Stones in Void Hall to break a spatial array rumored to hold the secret to becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal, and revealed he had learned this after killing the Six Harmonies Immortal Sect's sect master.

• Qin Huaian comprehended the wood laws to the initial third realm and raised his mid-stage Heavenly Immortal cultivation to 70/100 by consuming an Azurewood Dao Fruit.
• Qin Huaian spent six years cultivating, becoming a perfected second-rank Immortal Array Master before advancing to the late Heavenly Immortal stage.
• Over eighteen years after leaving Golden Glow Island, Qin Huaian's group saw bandit cultivators reduced by more than half, and normal trade resumed in the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Su Yu, Lu Haiyue, Wei Bingyi, Bai Wujing, and Fan Changgeng discussed how rival powers were waiting for Void Hall to open and had withdrawn from the bandit conflicts.
• Su Yu said rival powers wanted Spatial Stones to break a spatial array in the Green Bamboo Domain that might conceal the secret to becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Su Yu revealed that he learned of the array from the Six Harmonies Immortal Sect's sect master after killing him two years earlier.

Su Yu discussed the Void Hall and the spatial formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain with the other leaders of the Chaotic Sea Region, proposing that they use spatial stones as bargaining chips. The gathering ended with Su Yu challenging Bai Wujing over his suggestion that the Star Pavilion’s Void Tokens should go to Golden Immortals.

• The other leaders were shocked that Su Yu had easily killed the master of the Six Harmonies Immortal Sect, and Lu Haiyue asked whether he had made a breakthrough.
• Su Yu said he remained at Primordial Unity Golden Immortal great completion and urged them to keep other-region cultivators from obtaining too many spatial stones before the Void Hall opened.
• Wei Bingyi suggested using the Chaotic Sea Region’s spatial stones to bargain for a role in deciphering the spatial formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain.
• Fan Changgeng noted that the Chaotic Sea Region held ten thousand of the thirty thousand Void Tokens, and Bai Wujing pointed out that two thousand belonged to Su Yu’s Star Pavilion.
• Su Yu said he could give his tokens to Heavenly Immortal cultivators and challenged Bai Wujing to seize them if he refused to hand them over.

After Su Yu revealed news about the Void Hall, the major powers began buying back Void Tokens and preparing for what lay ahead. Ten years later, Zhao Gang investigated the shrinking supply and the mysterious cultivator on Golden Glow Island, while Qin Huaian continued rapidly advancing his cultivation.

• Su Yu watched Bai Wujing, Wei Bingyi, Fan Changgeng, and Lu Haiyue leave after discussing the Void Hall and its limited supply of Void Tokens.
• Wei Bingyi ordered the Four Seas Merchant Association elders to stop selling Void Tokens, secretly recover them, and keep the matter confidential, then praised Yu Ruoxue for reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Over the following years, major factions across the Chaotic Sea Region secretly bought back Void Tokens, causing their price to soar and making them difficult to find.
• Songting told Zhao Gang that Void Tokens had become scarce, and Zhao Gang said the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had already gathered enough and could stop collecting them.
• Songting reported that Liu Chengzhi had seen an Earth Immortal undergo a Heavenly Immortal tribulation on Golden Glow Peak, and Zhao Gang considered whether this cultivator was the one who had comprehended the fourth level of the Origin Eye.
• Qin Huaian rapidly advanced his cultivation with the Seven-colored Mystic Heaven Jade Dew and the combined cultivation of eleven Mirror Bodies.

After thirty years of secluded cultivation, Qin Huaian neared Celestial Immortal Great Perfection and decided to leave Singing Sand Island early for Dragon Creek Continent and the upcoming Void Hall opening. He learned from Guo Xiaowu that the journey was costly and exposed to outland bandit attacks, then asked whether a teleportation array would be safer.

• Qin Huaian spent thirty years cultivating, advancing toward Celestial Immortal Great Perfection and raising his comprehension of the Yin-Yang Laws to the peak of the second realm.
• Qin Huaian left his cave abode early because he wanted to reach Dragon Creek Continent before the Void Hall opened in five years.
• Qin Huaian ran into Guo Xiaowu in Singing Sand City and asked how to travel to Dragon Creek Continent.
• Guo Xiaowu explained that flying vessels departed only every two years, cost at least one million Immortal Crystals, and faced threats from outland bandit cultivators.
• Qin Huaian asked Guo Xiaowu whether taking a teleportation array would be safer.

Qin Huaian traveled from Singing Sand Island to Dragon Creek Continent by teleportation, spending eleven million Immortal Crystals to arrive in White Cloud City after three months. As he left the teleportation plaza to rest before heading to Meteorfall City for Void Hall, he spotted someone unexpected.

• Guo Xiaowu explained the teleportation route to Dragon Creek Continent, and Qin Huaian paid him for the route map.
• Qin Huaian began the journey from Singing Sand City, paying two hundred thousand Immortal Crystals to teleport to Big Horn Island.
• Qin Huaian crossed eleven islands in less than ten days, then continued by flying vessel and further transfers without encountering bandit cultivators.
• After spending eleven million Immortal Crystals and traveling for three months, Qin Huaian arrived in White Cloud City on Dragon Creek Continent.
• Qin Huaian left the teleportation plaza intending to rest before going to Meteorfall City, but froze when he saw someone unexpected.

Qin Huaian encountered Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable in White Cloud City and confirmed that the legendary founder of his former sect had also ascended from the Cultivation World. Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited Qin Huaian to speak privately at a nearby teahouse.

• Qin Huaian recognized a cultivator who looked exactly like the portraits of Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and asked whether he knew Yellow Mountain Sword Sect.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable reacted excitedly when Qin Huaian mentioned the sect and asked whether he came from the Cultivation World.
• Qin Huaian introduced himself and confirmed that he had come from the Cultivation World.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable told his two companions that Qin Huaian likely came from the same Cultivation World and invited him to talk at a nearby teahouse.
• Qin Huaian accepted Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable's invitation and let him lead the way.

Qin Huaian met Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable in a teahouse, where they exchanged stories about their lives in the Cultivation World and the Luo River World. They parted as sworn brothers, with Qin Huaian deciding he would handle any future meeting with his old master according to their respective generations.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable asked Qin Huaian not to use his old title and revealed that he now went by Huang Yue, the vice sect master of Star Rainbow Sword Sect.
• Qin Huaian introduced himself as a rogue cultivator who had ascended roughly seven thousand years earlier, concealing his unusual age and cultivation.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable asked about Lu Heng, and Qin Huaian said Lu Heng had not yet reached Tribulation Transcendence Great Perfection when he ascended.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited Qin Huaian to call him Big Brother Huang, and Qin Huaian accepted.

Qin Huaian learned about the Void Hall opening from Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, who invited him to travel together to Meteorfall City. Before they set off, Qin Huaian agreed to accompany Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to retrieve Seven-Colored Cloud Iron from a nearby mine.

• Qin Huaian told Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect had remained one of the seven great sects, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited him to cultivate on Star Rainbow Island.
• Qin Huaian said he planned to visit Meteorfall City with a Void Token, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable warned that powerful factions were unusually eager to obtain Void Tokens for this opening.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited Qin Huaian to travel with him to Meteorfall City, and Qin Huaian accepted.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable explained that he needed to transport Seven-Colored Cloud Iron ore from a nearby mine to White Cloud City, and Qin Huaian agreed to accompany him.

Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, Qin Huaian, Yu Su, and Kong Zhang traveled toward Meteorfall City, but a group of cultivators pursued them to seize Star Rainbow Sword Sect’s Void Tokens. The pursuers caught up, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable challenged them to explain their intentions.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable introduced Qin Huaian to Yu Su and Kong Zhang, then led them out of the city aboard a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel.
• A Perfect-stage Golden Immortal learned from an informant that Huang Yue carried Star Rainbow Sword Sect’s three Void Tokens and promised the informant a place in Wind Mystery Sect for helping seize them.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable pointed out the vast Human Race lands below as the group traveled toward Meteorfall City.
• When a flying vessel pursued them, Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable ordered Kong Zhang to change course and activate their vessel’s defensive formation.
• The pursuers caught up, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable called out to the four cultivators aboard, including a Perfect-stage Golden Immortal and two Late Golden Immortals.

Qin Huaian and the Star Rainbow Sword Sect were pursued by Wind Mystery Sect cultivators seeking their three Void Tokens. Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable killed two late-stage Golden Immortals instantly, then fought the pursuing perfect-stage Golden Immortal, who tried to recruit him while Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable demanded to know how they had found him.

• A pursuer demanded that Huang Yue hand over the Star Rainbow Sword Sect's three Void Tokens, and Kong Zhang recognized Du Wang aboard the pursuing boat.
• As two late-stage Golden Immortals attacked, Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable charged out and killed the first with one strike.
• The second late-stage Golden Immortal fled, but Qin Huaian killed him before he could escape, enraging the perfect-stage Golden Immortal.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and the perfect-stage Golden Immortal clashed evenly, and the opponent recognized that Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable's Sword Dao Law had reached the threshold of the fourth realm.
• The perfect-stage Golden Immortal offered to bring Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to the Wind Mystery Sect, but Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable asked how they had learned about the Void Tokens and located him.

The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable defeated and killed the Wind Mystery Sect’s Perfect-stage Golden Immortal after refusing to submit. Du Wang fled, and Qin Huaian pursued him as the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable rushed to help.

• The Perfect-stage Golden Immortal urged the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to join the Wind Mystery Sect, but the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable refused and was trapped in an azure sword storm.
• Qin Huaian left the flying boat to intervene, but the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable split the storm with a powerful Sword Dao attack and killed the Perfect-stage Golden Immortal.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable destroyed the opponent’s fleeing Primordial Spirit, though the attack left him badly depleted.
• Terrified by the defeat, Du Wang fled from the flying boat, and Qin Huaian chased after him.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable took a pill and pursued them, worried that Du Wang might kill Qin Huaian.

Du Wang attacked Qin Huaian while fleeing, but Qin Huaian held him off until Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable struck him down and captured his Primordial Spirit. Du Wang blamed the Mystic Wind Sect and claimed he had been coerced, while Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable demanded to know how he had learned about the Star Rainbow Sword Sect’s Void Tokens and tracked him.

• Du Wang suddenly attacked Qin Huaian, but Qin Huaian blocked the strike with his yin-yang laws and fought him evenly by relying on his speed.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable arrived and pierced Du Wang’s body with a streak of sword radiance as Du Wang tried to flee.
• Qin Huaian nearly struck Du Wang’s fleeing Primordial Spirit, but spared him after Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable ordered him to stop.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable restrained Du Wang’s Primordial Spirit while the other Star Rainbow Sword Sect cultivators arrived.
• Du Wang claimed the Mystic Wind Sect of the Kiteflight Domain had coerced him, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable questioned how he had learned about the three Void Tokens and tracked him.

Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable killed Du Wang after he accused Ouyang Xu of leaking the Star Rainbow Sword Sect’s Void Token plans, then divided the spoils with Qin Huaian and the others. He invited Qin Huaian into the cabin, while the other cultivators recognized Qin Huaian’s talent in the Yin-Yang Laws.

• Du Wang claimed Ouyang Xu had revealed the Star Rainbow Sword Sect’s Void Tokens and Huang Yue’s plans for Meteorfall City, but Kong Zhang and Yu Su rejected the accusation.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable dismissed Du Wang’s claims as an attempt to frame Ouyang Xu and sow discord, then killed him and collected the fallen cultivators’ belongings.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable distributed the spoils, giving Qin Huaian a Storage Ring containing more than two hundred million Immortal Crystals, pills, and talismans.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited Qin Huaian to speak with him in the cabin, while Kong Zhang and Ding Su realized Qin Huaian had comprehended the Yin-Yang Laws.

Qin Huaian warned Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that Ouyang Xu may have deliberately exposed his whereabouts, and Yellow Mountain explained the jealousy and history behind their strained relationship. The two remained wary of Ouyang Xu’s future schemes as they traveled onward.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable praised Qin Huaian’s mastery of the Yin-Yang and Wind Laws and advised him to conceal his abilities until he could protect himself.
• Qin Huaian cautioned Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that Ouyang Xu had likely revealed his whereabouts on purpose.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable recounted how Sect Master Shen Li and Ouyang Xu had rescued him after he ascended and how he later rose to become the Star Rainbow Sword Sect’s Vice Sect Master.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable explained that Ouyang Xu’s attitude changed after others proposed that he and Shen Li become Dao companions, despite Yellow Mountain refusing.
• Qin Huaian urged Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to prepare for more trouble from Ouyang Xu, who remained a mid-stage Golden Immortal.

After Ouyang Xu’s betrayal, the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable decided to leave Star Rainbow Island with Qin Huaian and seek greater opportunities in the Chaotic Sea Region. They traveled to Meteorfall City, where they planned to enter the Void Hall.

• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable explained that he had stayed on Star Rainbow Island to protect the sect after helping it unify the island, but decided his life debt to Shen Li and Ouyang Xu was repaid.
• Qin Huaian cautioned that they were still too weak to pursue grand ambitions, and the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable agreed they should lie low and cultivate after leaving the Void Hall.
• Qin Huaian kept his plan to seek the Fire Origin secret and told the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that he had no specific plans beyond entering the Void Hall.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable sent a ring containing Immortal Crystals, mineral materials, and his deputy sect master identity plaque to Shen Li; she tearfully accepted his departure.
• Qin Huaian, the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, and the others spent nearly half a year traveling by teleportation arrays and arrived at Meteorfall City.

Qin Huaian arrived in Meteorfall City with Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and settled into a Golden Immortal cave residence while preparing for the Void Hall to open. He cultivated for two years, and the chapter ended when someone knocked on the array guarding his side hall.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable showed Qin Huaian Meteorfall City and explained that nearly half its cultivators were Immortals.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable rented a Golden Immortal cave residence for four years, and Qin Huaian chose a side hall.
• Qin Huaian refined and activated a third-order defensive array, impressing Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable with his array skills.
• Qin Huaian focused on cultivation to approach Heavenly Immortal Great Perfection before the dangerous Void Hall opened, while his main body continued comprehending the Yin-Yang Laws.
• Two years passed, and someone knocked on the array around Qin Huaian's side hall.

Qin Huaian left his secluded cultivation after Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable invited him to visit the Heavenly Palace Market and attend its anniversary auction. They headed for the market, where a Dao Fruit was among the treasures scheduled to be auctioned.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable praised Qin Huaian's cultivation and array mastery, then invited him to broaden his horizons.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable explained that the Heavenly Palace Market had drawn cultivators from across the regions and would hold an auction the next day.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable told Qin Huaian that a Dao Fruit would be auctioned, along with many other rare resources.
• Qin Huaian accepted the invitation, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable led him and the other cultivators toward the market beyond the southern city gate.