Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian cultivated inside the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar while Star Pavilion investigated his astonishing rise and traced his origins to Kun Yuan World and the Violet Thorn Domain. By the end, Qin Huaian’s name had drawn the attention of major powers across the Chaotic Sea Region and beyond.

• Qin Huaian learned that the Celestial Balance Immortal Estate could eventually help him find the Primordial Ancient Continent, then focused on cultivating spatial laws inside the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar.
• After a month, Su Yu received a report identifying the mysterious cultivator as Qin Huaian, who had risen from late True Immortal to initial Golden Immortal in just over sixty years.
• Su Yu learned that Qin Huaian had emerged from Kun Yuan World, where he had become its strongest cultivator within decades and traveled with a Heaven-Swallowing Python.
• The man in black reported that Qin Huaian came from the Violet Thorn Domain and that the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture had spread through Kun Yuan World cultivators.
• Su Yu considered whether Qin Huaian’s comprehension could help him at a certain place, while other regional and outside-domain powers added Qin Huaian to their investigation lists.

Zhao Gang identified Qin Huaian as the leading suspect in his son’s murder and ordered him captured if he emerged from Void Hall. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian advanced his spatial-law cultivation inside the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar, while new spatial grand formations appeared across the world.

• Zhao Gang suspected that Qin Huaian had mastered the fourth level of the Origin Eye and ordered Songting to watch Void Hall and seize him when he emerged.
• Songting arranged for people to monitor Void Hall, hoping to capture Qin Huaian and uncover whether he had killed Zhao Pengcheng.
• Qin Huaian reached the third realm of spatial laws after six years in the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar, but his Golden Immortal cultivation stalled at a bottleneck.
• After another three years, Qin Huaian came close to advancing his spatial-law comprehension to the middle stage of the third realm.
• Lu Haiyue told Su Yu that spatial grand formations had appeared in two more great domains, adding to reports from over ten domains.

Su Yu concluded that the spatial grand formations held the secret to completing Law comprehension and advancing to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, then ordered the Chaotic Immortal Alliance to prepare to break the formation in the Chaotic Sea Region. Meanwhile, Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land rushed to gather Spatial Stones for the Emerald Bamboo Domain as rival powers pursued their own formations, and the one-year deadline at Void Hall drew near.

• Su Yu told Lu Haiyue that the spatial grand formation on Dragon Creek Continent had loosened the final gap in his Law comprehension, but said it could not be filled until the formation was broken.
• Su Yu warned that the major domains and factions would compete for Spatial Stones and refuse to help one another, then summoned the Chaotic Immortal Alliance to prepare to break the Chaotic Sea Region formation.
• A subordinate reported that Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had gathered about 2,300 Spatial Stones, and Zhao Gang ordered him and the Seventh Elder to deliver them to the Sacred Land for the Emerald Bamboo Domain formation.
• Zhao Gang sent a restricted jade slip to the Sacred Lord and considered how difficult it would be to transport enough Spatial Stones and secure those held in the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Superpowers across the outer domains bought or secretly seized Spatial Stones as formations appeared near their territories, while several cultivators inside Void Hall's Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillar eagerly awaited the one-year deadline.

Yu Ruoxue comprehended Spatial Law and advanced to the great perfection of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, while Qin Huaian reached the mid-stage Golden Immortal Realm after ten years of cultivation. As the artifact spirit prepared to send the cultivators out of the Celestial Balance Immortal Palace, nine pillars around the Void Hall blazed with golden light and drew the attention of the assembled experts.

• Yu Ruoxue entered the first realm of Spatial Law comprehension and advanced to the great perfection of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Blood Blade challenged Liu Chengzhi to fight again, claiming Liu had relied on Spatial Law to contend with him.
• Qin Huaian completed ten years of cultivation, reaching the mid-stage Golden Immortal Realm and the mid-stage of the third realm of Spatial Law.
• The artifact spirit told Qin Huaian it would soon send everyone out of the Celestial Balance Immortal Palace and explained that leaving the Luo River World required sufficient cultivation or a way to tear through the void.
• Qin Huaian asked why Luo River World cultivators could not reach the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, and the artifact spirit suggested someone might have tampered with the world.
• Nine pillars around the Void Hall began shining far more brightly than the others, drawing the attention of the cultivators and Immortal Venerable experts.

Void Hall vanished, revealing the cultivation realms of the 101 cultivators who had emerged from it, including Yu Ruoxue among the nine golden pillars. Zhao Gang attacked Qin Huaian over the suspected death of his son, but Su Yu intervened, and the chapter ended as Zhao Gang charged at him.

• Void Hall disappeared, and the 101 cultivators were revealed; Yu Donghai and Wei Bingyi flew to greet Yu Ruoxue, who had reached great completion of the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• A streak of golden light attacked Qin Huaian, and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable teleported in to block it.
• Zhao Gang launched a stronger attack, but Su Yu intercepted it and challenged him for targeting a cultivator of Dragon Creek Continent.
• Zhao Gang accused Qin Huaian of killing Zhao Pengcheng, while Qin Huaian denied knowing either Zhao Gang or his son.
• Su Yu refused to let Zhao Gang seize Qin Huaian without evidence, and Zhao Gang drew his broad sword and charged at Su Yu.

Su Yu effortlessly defeated Zhao Gang in a clash over Qin Huaian, while representatives of Zhao Gang’s allies intervened to prevent the conflict from escalating. Qin Huaian admitted he had ascended from a lower realm, but Zhao Gang claimed he came from Kun Yuan World and the Violet Thorn Domain, then called for Miao Shanshan.

• Zhao Gang attacked Su Yu with Golden Gate Suppressor, but Su Yu blocked the strike with the Purple Lightning Green Ruler and sent Zhao Gang flying.
• Su Yu used a spatial divine ability to close in on Zhao Gang and struck him with purple lightning, leaving Zhao Gang horrified by Su Yu’s strength.
• Xiao Xuance and Sikong Lie arrived beside Zhao Gang and urged Su Yu to focus on breaking the spatial grand formation.
• Su Yu defended Qin Huaian, saying Zhao Gang had used a pretext to seize his Spatial Stones, while Zhao Gang insisted Qin Huaian was not from Dragon Creek Continent.
• Qin Huaian said he had ascended from a lower realm and had cultivated on islands affiliated with Dragon Creek Continent since becoming immortal.
• Zhao Gang claimed Qin Huaian had come from Kun Yuan World and the Violet Thorn Domain, then ordered his men to bring Miao Shanshan.

Miao Shanshan recounted how she had met Qin Huaian in the Kun Yuan World, revealing that he rose from the Tribulation Transcendence Realm to the middle Golden Immortal Realm in about a century. Su Yu challenged Zhao Gang to explain why Qin Huaian's past concerned him.

• Zhao Gang introduced Miao Shanshan as a disciple of the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and asked her to explain how she knew Qin Huaian.
• Miao Shanshan explained that she had been trapped in the Kun Yuan World for seventeen hundred years before Qin Huaian arrived with cultivators from the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Miao Shanshan described Qin Huaian's extraordinary talent and how he revealed that the Kun Yuan World's seal had broken, allowing its trapped cultivators to leave.
• An Immortal Venerable asked whether Qin Huaian had still been in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm about a hundred years earlier, and Miao Shanshan confirmed it.
• Su Yu praised Qin Huaian's talent and asked Zhao Gang mockingly what Qin's history had to do with him.

Zhao Gang accused Qin Huaian of killing his son, Zhao Pengcheng, based on circumstantial evidence and Qin Huaian’s presumed mastery of the Origin Eye’s fourth level. Su Yu defended Qin Huaian, and the chapter ended with Zhao Gang challenging Su Yu over his interference.

• Zhao Gang argued that the tracking mark on his dead son’s killer and the report of someone reaching the fourth level of the Origin Eye pointed to Qin Huaian.
• Many cultivators suspected Qin Huaian and coveted the rewards he might have gained, while Qin Huaian refused to explain himself.
• Su Yu questioned Zhao Gang’s evidence and suggested he was using the accusation as a pretext to take Qin Huaian to the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
• Qin Huaian replied that someone determined to condemn him would find an excuse, and Su Yu denounced Zhao Gang for slandering him without proof.
• Zhao Gang asked whether Su Yu intended to oppose the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, and Su Yu challenged him to continue their fight.

Zhao Gang withdrew after Su Yu stopped him from taking Qin Huaian, while news of the Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillars and Huang Yue’s spatial-law abilities drew the major sects’ attention to the cultivators from the Void Hall. Su Yu protected Qin Huaian and Huang Yue, asked about their backgrounds, and ended by asking Qin Huaian about the Violet Thorn Domain.

• Zhao Gang left after failing to take Qin Huaian from Su Yu, and the crowd refrained from challenging Su Yu over Qin Huaian.
• News spread that cultivators from nine gold-lit Cosmos-Stabilizing Pillars had comprehended spatial law, and major sects invited the cultivators who had emerged from the Void Hall.
• Su Yu shielded Qin Huaian and Huang Yue with a soundproof barrier, and the two thanked him for protecting them.
• Su Yu praised Huang Yue’s rapid progress and spatial-law comprehension, then asked Qin Huaian about his origins and opportunities.
• Qin Huaian explained that opportunities on Golden Glow Island had helped him reach the Golden Immortal Realm, and Su Yu asked him about the Violet Thorn Domain.

Qin Huaian told Su Yu how the Violet Thorn Domain changed after the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Road merged with it, restoring its rules and allowing breakthroughs into the Immortal Venerable realm. Su Yu suspected the domain might let him overcome his bottleneck and reach Daluo Golden Immortal, so he pressed Qin Huaian for more information about its ruins and secret realms.

• Qin Huaian explained that the Violet Thorn Domain had once lacked lightning tribulations for most breakthroughs and had no Immortal Venerables, while cultivators who left it never returned.
• Qin Huaian said that about 160 or 170 years earlier, the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Road merged with the domain, expanding it and restoring lightning tribulations and access to the Immortal Venerable realm.
• Qin Huaian described the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, where cultivators below the Tribulation Transcendence Realm could comprehend up to nine laws, and said the tower remained after the secret realm merged with the continent.
• Su Yu connected the domain's restored rules to his own inability to fully comprehend a law and considered whether he could reach Daluo Golden Immortal there.
• Su Yu asked Qin Huaian to tell him about all the ancient ruins and secret realms he had encountered in the Violet Thorn Domain.

Qin Huaian told Su Yu about the Violet Thorn Domain and its rare body-refinement inheritance, revealing that the domain had far more body-refinement traditions than the Luo River World. He also explained that he had been transported there from a cultivation world without transcending tribulation, leaving Su Yu astonished by his journey and rapid cultivation.

• Qin Huaian described the Violet Thorn Continent, the endless sea beyond it, and an inheritance space for body refinement left by War God Xing of the ancient human race.
• Su Yu said body refinement was a minor path in the Luo River World because it was difficult to cultivate and lacked techniques for advancement after immortality.
• Qin Huaian told Su Yu that body-refinement sects and cultivators who had surpassed True Immortals existed in the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Su Yu asked how long Qin Huaian had cultivated, and Qin Huaian said he was nearly three hundred years old and had originally cultivated in another world before being transported to the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Qin Huaian privately told the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that they came from the same cultivation world and explained why he had concealed the truth.
• Su Yu was astonished that Qin Huaian had crossed into the Violet Thorn Domain without transcending tribulation.

Qin Huaian told Su Yu how the Supreme Purity Domain and Boundary Stele transported cultivators from 108 Cultivation Worlds into the Luo River World, and confirmed that the inheritance was the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. The scripture had already spread across more than half the Luo River World when tribulation clouds began gathering overhead.

• Su Yu questioned Qin Huaian about being transported directly from the Cultivation World, and Qin Huaian explained that a Boundary Stele had drawn in every cultivator above the Golden Core Realm.
• Qin Huaian described the Lesser Spirit Realm, its Supreme Purity Sect inheritance, and how cultivators from 108 Cultivation Worlds had contested it before being transported.
• Su Yu realized that the inherited technique was the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture and said it had spread through more than half the Luo River World.
• Qin Huaian privately felt pleased that he had fulfilled the Supreme Purity Master's task of spreading the scripture.
• Everyone looked up as tribulation clouds began gathering overhead.

Yu Ruoxue drew down a Golden Immortal lightning tribulation after comprehending the Spatial Law, while Su Yu discussed the dangers facing Qin Huaian and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable. Su Yu revealed that identical spatial grand formations had appeared across many regions and suspected the Violet Thorn Domain could allow someone to advance to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• Yu Ruoxue accidentally triggered her Golden Immortal lightning tribulation, and Yu Donghai, Wei Bingyi, and other cultivators escorted her to a deserted mountain range to undergo it.
• Su Yu advised Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to stay in Meteorfall City because the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land might retaliate against him.
• Su Yu warned Qin Huaian that other sects and rogue cultivators might target him because of his rapid cultivation after entering Golden Glow Island.
• Su Yu explained that identical spatial grand formations had appeared in more than a dozen great regions and that breaking them required vast numbers of Spatial Stones.
• Su Yu said he suspected the Violet Thorn Domain's laws of heaven and earth were complete and that cultivators might be able to advance to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm there.

Qin Huaian revealed to Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable that he was a disciple of the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect, and the two became fellow senior and junior brothers. As Immortal Venerables discussed where to spend their limited Spatial Stones, Zhao Gang gained unexpected support from Wu Binglan.

• Su Yu sent Qin Huaian and Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable to rest in Star Pavilion's artifact palace while the cultivators from beyond the domain departed.
• Qin Huaian showed Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable his Yellow Mountain Sword Sect items and explained how he had entered the Violet Thorn Domain; Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable accepted him as a junior brother.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable warned Qin Huaian that his remarkable cultivation could attract people seeking his fortuitous opportunities, and Qin Huaian said he would defend himself.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable cautioned Qin Huaian not to trust Su Yu completely, though Qin Huaian still intended to repay Su Yu for saving them.
• Zhao Gang urged the Immortal Venerables to pool their Spatial Stones to break the spatial grand formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain, and Wu Binglan supported his proposal.

Wu Binglan persuaded the cultivators to pool their Spatial Stones and attack the Emerald Bamboo Domain formation, and Su Yu agreed to contribute Star Pavilion's share. The group planned to gather in two years, while Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and Qin prepared to stay and cultivate in Meteorfall City.

• Wu Binglan and Zhao Gang gained support for concentrating the Spatial Stones on breaking the Emerald Bamboo Domain's spatial grand formation.
• Xiao Xuance and other cultivators urged Su Yu to contribute the Spatial Stones from Star Pavilion and the Chaotic Sea Region.
• Su Yu agreed to contribute Star Pavilion's Spatial Stones but left other Chaotic Sea Region sects and Rogue Cultivators free to decide for themselves.
• Wu Binglan set a gathering in the Emerald Bamboo Domain for two years later, and many sects began leaving Dragon Creek Continent.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable told Su Yu that he and Qin planned to cultivate in a rented cave residence, and Su Yu offered them the residence and invited them to join Star Pavilion.

Qin Huaian spent five years cultivating in Meteorfall City, advancing his Yin-Yang Law comprehension and refining the Golden Roc Wings while waiting for the Seed Space to finish upgrading. Meanwhile, Zhao Gang’s forces continued trying to break the spatial grand formation, and Changfeng and True Person Daoxuan learned that one passage was weakening unusually quickly.

• Qin Huaian refined the Golden Roc Wings to their eighteenth restriction layer, bound the Cangwu Sword, and continued cultivating the Yin-Yang Law.
• Qin Huaian planned to seek the Fire Origin after the Seed Space finished upgrading, while Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable left Meteorfall City to pursue sword cultivation elsewhere.
• Zhao Gang learned that two thousand Spatial Stones had been consumed over two years and ordered his followers to gather more by any means necessary.
• Changfeng told True Person Daoxuan that one passage’s formation strength was weakening twice as fast and that it could open within a hundred years.

Changfeng returned to Purple Sky Sacred Land and discussed preparing for other domains to enter Violet Thorn Domain, while urging the three divided Sacred Lands to unite. He planned to visit Purple Cloud Sacred Land and Purple Light Sacred Land, and the chapter ended as a woman entered to greet him.

• True Person Daoxuan warned Changfeng that cultivators from other major domains were deciphering the passage formation and that Purple Sky Sacred Land might be targeted.
• Changfeng and True Person Daoxuan discussed retreat routes, the possible restoration of Violet Thorn Sacred Land, and the difficulty of uniting Purple Cloud Sacred Land and Purple Light Sacred Land.
• Changfeng and True Person Daoxuan praised Qin Huaian for drawing talented disciples to Purple Sky Sacred Land and speculated that he might be in a secret realm.
• True Person Daoxuan told Changfeng that Qin Huaian's old acquaintances had joined Purple Sky Sacred Land, including the sect master of the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect.
• Changfeng said he would visit Purple Cloud Sacred Land and Purple Light Sacred Land to learn their positions and discuss preparations for the passage formation's disappearance.
• A pretty woman rushed into the main hall and reproached Changfeng for not telling them he was back.

After twenty years cultivating in Meteorfall City, Qin Huaian was trapped by a powerful formation and attacked by an infiltrator while the city guards tried to break in. The chapter left him facing a hidden enemy whose strike shattered his Taiji Yin-Yang Fish.

• Qin Huaian remained in seclusion as he advanced his Yin-Yang Laws and Golden Roc Wings while waiting for the Seed Space to upgrade.
• Qin Huaian sensed danger as a Trap-Killing Formation appeared over his cave abode and its attacks cracked his defensive formation.
• Meteorfall City's guard captain ordered the city sealed and led more than a dozen Immortal Venerables in attacking the formation.
• Qin Huaian dodged the formation's attacks with his Golden Roc Wings and Free and Easy Wanderer as an infiltrator mocked Su Yu's absence.
• Qin Huaian blocked the infiltrator's silent strike with a Taiji Yin-Yang Fish, but the attack shattered it.

Qin Huaian fought a disguised great-perfection Primordial Unity Golden Immortal who ambushed him in his cave abode, and wounded the old man with Grand Void Birth and Extinction. The Meteorfall City guard squad broke through the formation and drove the attacker away, then identified his flying daggers as Autumn Cicada and ordered a citywide search.

• A plain-faced old man shattered Qin Huaian’s Taiji Yin-Yang Fish and attacked him with invisible energy, forcing him to evade with the Golden Roc Wings and Cangwu Sword.
• The old man launched an ink-black flying dagger, but Qin Huaian used Near Yet Far to escape its strike and teleport behind his attacker.
• Qin Huaian hit the old man with Grand Void Birth and Extinction, breaking his armor and inflicting a grave wound that resisted healing.
• The old man fired three more flying daggers at Qin Huaian as the formation over the cave abode began to fail.
• Meteorfall City's guard squad broke through the formation, knocked down the daggers, and forced the old man to flee as green smoke.
• The black-clad commander recognized the daggers as Autumn Cicada and ordered cultivators to search Meteorfall City for him.

Qin Huaian survived an assassination attempt after Commander Wang and the city guards broke the killing formation, but the attacker escaped using Autumn Cicada’s Ashen Shadow Escape. Commander Wang explained Autumn Cicada and its Golden Autumn List, leaving Qin Huaian warned that he may become a target for further assassins.

• Qin Huaian thanked Commander Wang for rescuing him, and Commander Wang marveled that he had survived the attack with only depleted Immortal Essence Power.
• Commander Wang confirmed that the attacker escaped and identified him as a member of Autumn Cicada, an ancient assassin organization known for killing even peak Immortal Venerables.
• Commander Wang explained that the attacker used Ashen Shadow Escape and that his strike had injured the assassin’s origin, while Meteorfall City’s sealed formation gave the guards three days to find him.
• Commander Wang warned Qin Huaian that Autumn Cicada would not let the matter rest and that he might be placed on its Golden Autumn List, which ranks the strongest Golden Immortals and Immortal Venerables.
• Commander Wang said Lingxiao Ke, sect master of the Heavenly Dao Sect, had held first place on the Golden Autumn List for millions of years.