Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian paid his way through Star Pavilion’s teleportation network, making nearly seventy transfers before reaching Dragon Creek Continent. There, Elder Wei recognized him and warmly welcomed him.

• A Star Pavilion cultivator explained the high teleportation fees, and Qin Huaian paid ten million Immortal Crystals to use the array.
• After Qin Huaian left, the array guard ordered a report of his movements through the Sound Transmission Formation.
• Qin Huaian continued through Star Pavilion’s arrays, passing more than twenty hubs in half a day and nearly seventy over two days.
• At a later array, an Immortal Venerable Late Stage guard sensed something unusual about Qin Huaian but activated the array after he paid.
• Qin Huaian arrived on Dragon Creek Continent and observed its ancient forests and mortal towns.
• Elder Wei approached Qin Huaian, who removed his mask and greeted him, and Elder Wei welcomed him to Dragon Creek Continent.

Qin Huaian returned to Meteorfall City after reaching the Immortal Venerable Late Stage and agreed to meet Star Pavilion Master Su Yu. As Commander Wang escorted him through Meteorfall Tower, Qin Huaian asked how to find the Autumn Cicada organization that had once tried to assassinate him.

• Elder Wei praised Qin Huaian for spreading the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, and Qin Huaian wondered why Supreme Purity Master had not contacted him for centuries.
• Qin Huaian asked to use the Star Pavilion's Teleportation Array to travel toward the Void Passage, and Elder Wei invited him to Meteorfall City at Su Yu's request.
• Qin Huaian accepted the invitation and reached Meteorfall City after several teleportation transfers.
• Commander Wang greeted Qin Huaian, congratulated him on reaching the Immortal Venerable Late Stage, and led him out of the teleportation hall.
• Qin Huaian noticed that fewer Star Pavilion disciples remained on Meteorfall Tower's first level and asked Commander Wang about Autumn Cicada and how to find its members.

Qin Huaian learned how Autumn Cicada’s mission posts and hidden core members worked, then met Pavilion Master Su Yu at Meteorfall Tower. Su Yu praised Qin Huaian’s rapid rise and asked whether he had met Duan Linchuan.

• Commander Wang explained that Autumn Cicada used hidden mission posts to recruit outer-circle members and that its core members were difficult to identify.
• Qin Huaian learned that Autumn Cicada’s Parasol Tree Domain post was in Celestial Origin City, but said he would not go there to cause trouble.
• Commander Wang took Qin Huaian through a Teleportation Array to meet Su Yu at the top of Meteorfall Tower.
• Su Yu welcomed Qin Huaian and marveled at his rise from mid-stage Golden Immortal to Immortal Venerable Late Stage in just over two hundred years.
• Su Yu asked Qin Huaian whether he had met Duan Linchuan.

Su Yu discovered that Qin Huaian had injured Duan Linchuan and learned that Qin Huaian had revealed a body-refining technique within the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele. The chapter ended with Su Yu asking whether Qin Huaian had truly comprehended a technique that could lead body refiners to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• Qin Huaian admitted to Su Yu that he had encountered Duan Linchuan and escaped after using a forbidden move.
• Su Yu explained that he had found Duan Linchuan injured near the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and traced the attack to Qin Huaian.
• Qin Huaian said he had caught Duan Linchuan off guard, suffered a severe backlash, and fled before learning how badly Duan Linchuan was hurt.
• Su Yu concluded that Qin Huaian was exceptionally powerful but chose not to press him about his secrets or try to seize his Fire Origin.
• Su Yu told Qin Huaian that news of a Daluo Golden Immortal body-refining technique had drawn cultivators to Parasol Tree Domain and asked whether Qin Huaian had truly comprehended it from the stele.

Qin Huaian explained the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body to Su Yu and shared its first seven levels, warning that cultivation required a wisp of pseudo-mysterious yellow qi from the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele. Su Yu tried the method but could not retain the Earth Vein Power, leaving him unable to cultivate it.

• Qin Huaian told Su Yu that the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body could lead beyond the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Su Yu offered Qin Huaian three supreme-grade Dao Artifacts or anything from the Star Pavilion's treasury in exchange for the method.
• Qin Huaian explained that the method required a wisp of pseudo-mysterious yellow qi and that he had only comprehended its first seven levels.
• Qin Huaian recorded the first seven levels of the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body on a jade slip and gave it to Su Yu.
• Su Yu absorbed Earth Vein Power while attempting the first level, but the power flowed back out of his body, and he realized he could not cultivate the method.

Su Yu learned that the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body relied on the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele’s special environment, but he still hoped to enter the stele and cultivate the powerful technique. Qin Huaian revealed that he had reached the peak of the second realm of Earth-Attribute Law comprehension while still in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, leaving Su Yu astonished and determined to pursue the stele.

• Su Yu failed to retain the Earth Vein Power he absorbed and asked Qin Huaian about the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.
• Qin Huaian explained that the stele contained an independent space where he had comprehended the Five Elements Laws and learned the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body from a mysterious figure.
• Su Yu asked whether cultivating the Earth-Attribute Laws or entering the stele was necessary to practice the technique.
• Qin Huaian said he had reached the peak of the second realm of Earth-Attribute Law comprehension inside the stele before learning the technique.
• Su Yu marveled at Qin Huaian’s talent and resolved to enter the stele rather than give up on the body-tempering technique.

Qin Huaian thanked Su Yu for the cultivation technique and asked him to conceal his journey to the Violet Thorn Domain from the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land. Su Yu also told him that Huang Yue had become an Immortal Venerable and was likely cultivating at the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss.

• Qin Huaian and Su Yu discussed the dangers of lightning tribulations and whether the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele's environment enabled the cultivation technique.
• Qin Huaian declined a reward for the technique and asked Su Yu to keep his whereabouts secret as he traveled toward the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Su Yu promised to conceal Qin Huaian's movements and offered to let Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples stay in Meteorfall City until Qin Huaian returned.
• Qin Huaian asked about Huang Yue, and Su Yu said Huang Yue had returned to Meteorfall City, advanced to the Immortal Venerable realm, and gone back to the Heaven Scar Sword Abyss.

Qin Huaian learned that the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable had entered Heaven Scar Sword Abyss and decided to return to the Violet Thorn Continent. Su Yu gave him three jade slips left by Daoist Cloudwatcher, and Qin Huaian found the recorded location of a sealed passage beyond the Violet Thorn Great World.

• Su Yu told Qin Huaian about the dangers of Heaven Scar Sword Abyss, where the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable had gone.
• Qin Huaian decided to return to the Violet Thorn Continent and asked Su Yu to pass a message to the Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable if he returned to Meteorfall City.
• Su Yu assured Qin Huaian that the Purple Sky Sacred Land was protected as part of the Violet Thorn Sacred Land and gave him three jade slips from Daoist Cloudwatcher.
• Su Yu explained that Daoist Cloudwatcher had sealed a spatial passage in the Parasol Tree Domain, though the Star Pavilion could not find or open it.
• Qin Huaian searched Daoist Cloudwatcher's jade slip with his Divine Sense and found the passage's recorded location.

Qin Huaian and Su Yu discussed the danger posed by powerful Devil Race cultivators beyond the sealed spatial passage and the Violet Thorn Great World's limited ability to resist them. Su Yu advised Qin Huaian to strengthen his Dao Fusion attainment before attempting the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation, and Qin Huaian left for the Violet Thorn Domain.

• Qin Huaian worried that the Devil Race cultivators might break through Daoist Cloudwatcher's seal and overwhelm the Violet Thorn Great World.
• Su Yu said they could only strengthen themselves and, if necessary, flee through the passage with some disciples in Small World-type treasures.
• Qin Huaian hoped the seal would hold long enough for their cultivators to grow strong enough to defeat the Devil Race.
• Su Yu advised Qin Huaian to raise his attainment in a law before attempting the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation.
• Qin Huaian stored Senior Cloudwatcher's three jade slips in the Seed Space and took the Star Pavilion's Teleportation Array toward the Void Passage leading to the Violet Thorn Domain.

Qin Huaian traveled through the void passage toward the Violet Thorn Domain while studying Daoist Cloudwatcher's inheritances and cultivating. Nearly three months later, he emerged from the passage and returned to the Violet Thorn Domain.

• Qin Huaian traveled through the void passage at a restrained speed to conceal his true flying speed and preserve his strength.
• Qin Huaian studied Daoist Cloudwatcher's jade slips, finding the array inheritance valuable and the Qi Refining methods of limited use to him.
• Qin Huaian considered the vanished passage to the Primordial Ancient Continent and the sealed spatial passage leading to the Devil Race.
• Qin Huaian cultivated fire-element laws while flying through the void passage.
• Nearly three months later, Qin Huaian emerged from the void passage into the Violet Thorn Domain.

Qin Huaian returned to the Violet Thorn Domain and went to the Star Pavilion's outpost in North City, where experts recognized him. Wu Ming confirmed Qin Huaian’s return to Elder Qiu Yi, who ordered him to notify the Sacred Lord at once.

• Qin Huaian arrived in the Violet Thorn Domain and flew to the Star Pavilion's outpost in North City.
• Two cultivators recognized Qin Huaian and decided to report his return to their sect.
• Wu Ming spotted Qin Huaian and contacted Elder Qiu Yi through a Sound Transmission Formation.
• Wu Ming confirmed Qin Huaian's identity, and Elder Qiu ordered him to notify the Sacred Lord at once.

Qin Huaian met Elder Liu at Star Pavilion’s stronghold and asked about the balance of power on the Violet Thorn Continent. Elder Liu described the continent’s crowded cities and powerful outsider sects, then began explaining the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.

• Qiu Yi put away his communication array disk and ordered the elders to gather for a discussion.
• Qin Huaian entered Star Pavilion’s stronghold in Mystic Water City using a token issued by the sect master, and Elder Liu welcomed him.
• Qin Huaian asked Elder Liu about the Violet Thorn Continent and learned that teleportation arrays near the Violet Thorn Mountains remained usable despite growing spatial stability.
• Elder Liu explained that four cities had become hubs for Rogue Cultivators and trade, while more than ten thousand sects with Immortal Venerable cultivators occupied the continent’s best cultivation grounds.
• Qin Huaian recalled the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s attack on the Violet Thorn Sacred Land and resolved not to let it go unanswered.
• Elder Liu introduced the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower as a gathering place for the strongholds of great sects and major powers.

Qin Huaian learned that four major factions had occupied the Violet Thorn Mountains, the former home of the Purple Sky Sacred Land, and left the conversation considering a measured response. He asked Elder Liu who led the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land there and who its strongest expert was.

• Qin Huaian recalled comprehending the Yin-Yang Laws and Spatial Law and finding the Godslayer Spear during his earlier trials.
• Elder Liu explained that Qin Huaian alone had left his name atop the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, inspiring later geniuses to challenge it.
• Elder Liu told Qin Huaian that four major factions had occupied the Violet Thorn Mountains and moved many disciples into the region.
• Qin Huaian grew angry that the factions had confined the Violet Thorn Sacred Land to a small central area, but promised not to act rashly.
• Qin Huaian asked Elder Liu who led the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land in the Violet Thorn Mountains and who its strongest expert was.

Qin Huaian used Star Pavilion’s Teleportation Array to travel toward the Violet Thorn Mountains despite Elder Liu’s warning about Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s strength. As Qiu Yi organized defenses and prepared for Qin Huaian’s arrival, Qin Huaian appeared in Jade Sun City near the mountains.

• Elder Liu told Qin Huaian that Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had over a million cultivators and more than a thousand Immortal Venerables in the Violet Thorn Mountains.
• Qin Huaian decided to head there, and Elder Liu gave him a token for Star Pavilion’s Teleportation Arrays.
• Qiu Yi warned Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s elders that Qin Huaian could defeat ordinary Immortal Venerable Great Perfection cultivators and said Duan Linchuan would arrive within two months.
• Qiu Yi ordered disciples to conceal their affiliation, prepare their Defensive Arrays, protect talented disciples, and report any trace of Qin Huaian.
• Qin Huaian arrived by Teleportation Array in Jade Sun City, southeast of the Violet Thorn Mountains.

Qin Huaian traveled from Jade Sun City to the Violet Thorn Mountains and found the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land occupying most of the range. When its disciples tried to drive him away, he killed the leading cultivator with a single sword strike.

• Qin Huaian teleported out of Jade Sun City, then flew toward the southern Violet Thorn Mountains.
• Qin Huaian saw that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had taken over most of the mountains and reduced the Purple Sky Sacred Land to a small, sealed area.
• Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators intercepted Qin Huaian and ordered him to leave its territory.
• Qin Huaian said the mountains belonged to the Violet Thorn Sacred Land and killed the Immortal Venerable cultivator before he could send a message.

Qin Huaian raided Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s outposts, killing some disciples and capturing hundreds before its elders gathered their forces near the Central Hall. He found that some peaks on the outskirts still held cultivators and activated their Defensive Arrays only when he approached.

• Qin Huaian killed a patrol leader and his companions, then broke into a nearby peak, killed its defenders, and captured more than two hundred disciples.
• Qiu Yi and the other elders suspected Qin Huaian was behind the raid and ordered most cultivators to gather near the Central Hall, while leaving guards near the usable Teleportation Arrays.
• After attacking three locations and capturing several hundred disciples, Qin Huaian decided he had taken enough captives and planned to continue harassing Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
• Qin Huaian found outer peaks deserted as Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land gathered its cultivators, so he changed course toward the mountains’ outskirts.
• Qin Huaian detected several occupied peaks near the edge of the Violet Thorn Mountains, whose cultivators activated their Defensive Arrays only as he drew near.

Qin Huaian avoided the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s trap in the Violet Thorn Mountains and went to the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower to draw its forces away from their base. As he flew toward the tower’s summit, the name Qin Huaian engraved there began to glow.

• Qin Huaian suspected the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had prepared an ambush, left the Violet Thorn Mountains, and traveled to the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• Qiu Yi ordered teleportation arrays built and sent ten powerful squads to patrol the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s territory after relaying Duan Linchuan’s assessment that Qin Huaian might be the Violet Thorn Great World’s strongest Immortal Venerable.
• Qin Huaian disguised himself among the crowds at the tower, planning to draw the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s forces away from their lair.
• A young cultivator bumped into Qin Huaian, and the young man and his old attendant apologized after realizing they could not sense his aura.
• Qin Huaian rose toward the tower’s summit, where the engraved name Qin Huaian began to glow and drew the crowd’s attention.

Qin Huaian arrived at the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, where the golden glow of his name drew crowds of cultivators eager to see the renowned Immortal Venerable. The cultivators recognized him as he flew toward the tower, but he departed soon after passing by two who had bowed to him.

• Qin Huaian's name atop the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower began glowing faintly gold, startling cultivators gathered around it.
• Cultivators traded stories about Qin Huaian's past achievements and praised his rapid cultivation and the widely shared Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture.
• News spread that Qin Huaian had arrived at the Immortal Inquiry Stele, and crowds rushed to see him.
• Qin Huaian flew toward the tower and revealed his recognizable face to the cultivators nearby.
• Two cultivators remained bent in a bow after Qin Huaian had already left, until someone pointed out his departure.

Qin Huaian felt a mysterious pull toward the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower and slowly flew toward its summit as his name began glowing gold. His appearance drew cultivators and major powers to the tower, where a Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elder was thrown back by an invisible barrier.

• A cultivator realized he had bumped into Qin Huaian and treasured the ordinary Daoist robe he had worn, attracting offers from female cultivators who wanted to buy it.
• Qin Huaian sensed a faint connection to the Ninth-Tier Immortality Inquiry Tower, but his divine sense could not penetrate it as he flew higher.
• News of Qin Huaian's appearance spread across the Violet Thorn Continent and beyond, prompting powerful cultivators and major sects to head for the tower.
• Immortal Venerable Great Perfection experts gathered beneath the tower, while a Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elder prepared for reinforcements to arrive and voiced confidence that Qin Huaian could not escape.
• The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elder flew upward but struck an invisible barrier and was hurled back down.

Qin Huaian reached the summit of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower and spoke with its remnant artifact spirit, which sought a new master and explained the power of Saints and the main world. The chapter ended with the spirit mocking Qin Huaian for believing the Violet Thorn Great World was vast and boundless.

• Qin Huaian reached the tower's summit as a barrier appeared below, preventing other cultivators from following him.
• The tower's remnant artifact spirit asked Qin Huaian whether he wanted to surpass Saints and rule the world, then said it was seeking a true master for the tower.
• Qin Huaian asked about Saints and learned that Saints could destroy continents, while the Violet Thorn Great World had lost contact with the main world.
• The artifact spirit sensed that the Violet Thorn Great World could now exceed the Daluo Golden Immortal limit but insisted that no one outside the main world could become a Saint.
• Qin Huaian asked whether worlds greater than the Violet Thorn Great World existed, and the artifact spirit called its inhabitants frogs at the bottom of a well.