Chapter Summaries

Lin Canghai faced a growing alliance of sects and lineages demanding that the Primordial Dao Sect answer for Qin Luo’s alleged killings. As Lü Chengfeng and two powerful elders challenged Qin Luo from within, a mysterious man vowed revenge for his son’s death.

• Lin Canghai learned that numerous forces had formed an Anti-Qin Alliance and were demanding Qin Luo answer for their dead.
• Lü Chengfeng accused Qin Luo of directly causing Lü Chengtao’s death, and Lin Canghai rejected the accusation.
• The Third Elder and Seventh Elder arrived to support Lü Chengfeng and called for Qin Luo to be judged under the sect’s laws.
• Lin Canghai said he would report the matter to the Sect Master and suspected that someone was manipulating events behind the scenes.
• A middle-aged man read intelligence about Qin Luo and vowed to avenge his son’s death.

Qin Luo learned that the Upper Realm’s factions had formed an Anti-Qin Alliance and prepared his allies and realms for the coming conflict. Qin Zhantian refused to ascend, revealing his plan to roam beyond Heaven’s Will as a cultivator of the Destruction Dao.

• Yao Chenxi learned of Qin Luo’s conflict with a powerful figure and vowed to kill him herself when he returned.
• Tang Jin warned Qin Luo that the Anti-Qin Alliance might be preparing to attack the Primordial Dao Sect, and Qin Luo welcomed the prospect of facing his enemies.
• Qin Luo asked Tang Hao to ascend early, seize the Tang Lineage’s core resources, and locate the Five-Element Divine Treasures, while Tang Hao refused the Sunflower Divine Canon because it required castration.
• Qin Luo united the Three Realms under his control and merged them with his Grotto-Heaven Realm.
• Qin Zhantian rejected Qin Luo’s offer to go to the Upper Realm and chose to remain in the Lower Realm to guard Qin Luo’s retreat and continue the Great Qin Dynasty.
• Qin Zhantian revealed that he would roam beyond Heaven’s Will, declaring that Destruction Dao cultivators were rejected by Heaven’s Will.

Qin Luo arranged the futures of his companions while Qin Zhantian chose to cultivate in the deadly void between realms. After Li Xiao castrated himself to practice the Sunflower Divine Canon, Qin Luo learned that a powerful figure in the Upper Realm wanted him dead, and Lu Yunting vowed to protect him.

• Qin Zhantian decided to cultivate in the dangerous void between the Upper and Lower Realms, and Qin Luo accepted his choice.
• Xi Huang took Xiao Ya's body as a vessel and planned to use her bloodline to form a new body.
• Zhuang Shisan agreed to follow Zhao Xueji to the Upper Realm, while Qin Luo warned Zhao Xueji to claim she had killed Lü Chengtao.
• Lin Hao refused to practice the Sunflower Divine Canon because it required castration, but Li Xiao accepted it and severed himself.
• Lu Yunting told Qin Luo to return to the Upper Realm because a powerful figure wanted to kill him, and vowed to kill anyone who threatened his disciple.

Lin Ruoxuan defended Qin Luo from sect members criticizing him, while Ye Ling decided to contend for the Dao Son position and kill Qin Luo. In the Lower Realm, Qin Luo refined the Earth Vein Dragon Pearl, gained insight into the Earth Dao, and set out for the Upper Realm.

• Lu Yunting entered secluded cultivation, and Primordial Dao Sect members speculated that Qin Luo would face trouble for killing people in the Lower Realm.
• Lin Ruoxuan threatened to send sect members who criticized Qin Luo to the Enforcement Hall, while Ye Ling heard her defense and turned against her.
• Ye Ling resolved to vie for the Dao Son position, revealed that he had grasped a Rule Dao, and planned to kill Qin Luo when he returned.
• Qin Luo received 50,000 Villain Points from Lin Ruoxuan's completed Demon Seeding, and the system activated debt repayment.
• Qin Luo used Instant Refinement on the Earth Vein Dragon Pearl, gained Earth Dao insight, and chose to wait until he gathered all five elements before entering the Emperor Realm.
• Qin Luo dispelled the Heavenly Tribulation and set out for the Upper Realm.

Yu Deshui sold information about Qin Luo’s likely arrival point and set the Four Seas Merchant Association’s allies against him. Qin Luo appeared near Sunset City, where its mysterious ruler enforced a limit on outside Emperor Realm cultivators, and agreed that the newcomers should fight until five died.

• Yu Deshui dismissed his subordinate’s concerns and ordered the Four Seas Merchant Association to sell Qin Luo’s possible arrival locations and recruit subordinate factions to hunt him.
• The Four Seas Merchant Association learned that Qin Luo was likely to appear near Sunset City, and Yu Deshui urged others to draw out the monster known as Nine Lives.
• An Emperor Realm Third Heaven cultivator entered Sunset City’s territory and was killed by a Falling Sun, after which the city’s ruler limited the number of outside Emperor Realm cultivators allowed there to nine.
• Qin Luo arrived near Sunset City with Song Yu and three other Emperor Realm experts, where hostile cultivators confronted them.
• Qin Luo proposed a fight to decide who would die, and the voice from Sunset City agreed that five Emperor Realm cultivators had to die outside the city.

Qin Luo and his allies fought the Emperor Realm ambushers outside Sunset City while he discovered that Gu Changsheng possessed the Great Sun Divine Physique. As challengers gathered, Qin Luo accepted seven at once so he could defeat them before facing Gu Changsheng.

• Xi Huang emerged from the Human Emperor Banner and suppressed three Early Emperor Realm experts while Chen Yun and the others joined the battle.
• Xi Huang killed two more Emperors, and Song Yu’s group gained the advantage as the remaining ambushers hesitated.
• Gu Changsheng arrived on the city wall, declared Qin Luo his target, and drew Qin Luo’s attention to his Great Sun Divine Physique and 2.1 million Fortune Points.
• Lin Xiao of the Crimson Flame Saber Sect challenged Qin Luo, followed by several other geniuses seeking duels.
• Qin Luo accepted seven challengers to fight him together and dismissed five others as unqualified.

Qin Luo challenged seven geniuses in Sunset City and killed Lu Zhai with one sword strike. As the other six attacked together, Qin Luo advanced, determined to make his name resound throughout the Eastern Wasteland.

• Qin Luo sent He Yiming, Lin Hao, Li Xiao, Ye Lingxuan, Chen Duo, and Jiang Taixu to fight the other geniuses while he faced seven opponents himself.
• Gu Changsheng warned the seven to attack Qin Luo together, but Lu Zhai of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect stepped forward alone.
• Qin Luo used the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art and killed Lu Zhai with a strike that revealed his Sword Heart Illumination realm.
• The other six rushed to avenge Lu Zhai, while the master of Sunset City stopped an Azure Cloud Sword Sect Emperor Realm expert from intervening.
• Qin Luo advanced against the six and declared he would activate lawless mode and kill until his name resounded across the Eastern Wasteland.

Qin Luo slaughtered all seven Children of Destiny in Sunset City, amassing 1.4 million Villain Points, while Song Yu and others drove Sun Shouming to flee. After Gu Changsheng praised Qin Luo from the city wall, Qin Luo pointed his sword at him and demanded a fight.

• Qin Luo revealed his Late-Stage Quasi-Emperor cultivation and Sword Heart Illumination, then killed Lu Bing, Wu Yudie, and Li Jian as Song Yu stopped an Emperor Realm expert from intervening.
• Qin Luo defeated Lin Xiao and killed him, bringing his Villain Points to 1.05 million, then ignored the remaining opponents' surrender and killed Sun Zhan.
• Sun Shouming abandoned his position as an elder of the Wind-Thunder Sect and attacked Qin Luo, but Song Yu and three others defeated him, forcing him to flee after sacrificing an arm.
• Qin Luo killed Chen Hu, the last remaining Child of Destiny, and raised his total to 1.4 million Villain Points.
• Gu Changsheng clapped and praised Qin Luo from the city wall, and Qin Luo pointed his sword at him and demanded that he fight.

Qin Luo faced Gu Changsheng in a head-on clash as Sunset City’s forces prepared to enter the wider world and the Primordial Dao Sect debated Qin Luo’s fate. The two geniuses brought their physiques to full power, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Gu Changsheng accepted Qin Luo’s challenge and leaped down from the Sunset City wall as the city’s leaders declared their intention to enter the world.
• The Third Elder decided Qin Luo would face judgment if he returned alive to the Primordial Dao Sect, while Ye Ling was offered another inheritance.
• Li Xiao and Qin Luo’s other allies fought their opponents, and Qin Luo treated the battle as a test that would determine their future access to sect resources.
• Qin Luo asked the System about spending his Villain Points, and it recommended buying a Divine Move that could tear open an opponent’s chest and belly or strip away the source of the Great Sun Divine Physique.
• Gu Changsheng unleashed his Great Sun Divine Physique, and Qin Luo activated the Nine-Turn Golden Body Scripture as they prepared to clash head-on.

Qin Luo defeated Gu Changsheng in a fierce clash of physical strength and Dao laws, then stopped an unseen force from preventing him from killing his opponent. Sunset City’s experts threatened Qin Luo’s companions and proposed a deal, but Qin Luo reached into Gu Changsheng to take what he wanted.

• Qin Luo shattered Gu Changsheng’s Great Sun Divine Fist with his Diamond Sun-Breaking Fist, then mocked Gu Changsheng’s claim that they were evenly matched.
• Gu Changsheng summoned nine suns with Nine Suns Converge, but Qin Luo ground them away with the Life-and-Death Samsara Millstone and slammed Gu Changsheng into the ground.
• Qin Luo charged to kill Gu Changsheng, broke through an invisible restraint with his sword, and held his blade at Gu Changsheng’s neck.
• Sunset City’s experts threatened Qin Luo and surrounded Xi Huang and the others, while Gu Changsheng’s invincible mentality collapsed and cost him 300,000 Fortune Points.
• A Middle Emperor Realm cultivator proposed a deal, but Qin Luo used Divine Move to plunge his hand into Gu Changsheng’s body.

Qin Luo extracted Gu Changsheng’s Great Sun Divine Physique Origin Essence and forced Sunset City to let him and his companions leave. After Lin Canghai escorted him back to the Primordial Dao Sect, Qin Luo was immediately confronted with an accusation.

• Qin Luo extracted Gu Changsheng’s Origin Essence and threatened to kill him if Sunset City attacked.
• Sunset City’s hidden elder ordered its experts to let Qin Luo and his companions leave.
• Qin Luo taunted Gu Changsheng, then departed with the others as Lin Canghai arrived to escort him to the Primordial Dao Sect.
• People in the shadows discussed a plot against Qin Luo and the possibility of destroying the Primordial Dao Sect.
• Lin Canghai warned Qin Luo to be careful as they approached the sect, where internal tensions had grown.
• Qin Luo entered the Primordial Dao Sect and heard someone demand, “Do you know your crime?!”

Qin Luo faced a public judgment by Primordial Dao Sect elders who sought to blame him for Ye Ling’s attempted murder and protect the sect from outside threats. As the elders pressed him to answer, the system urged him to admit everything and spend all his Villain Points.

• The elders gathered at the mountain gate and resolved to punish Qin Luo to shield the Primordial Dao Sect from powerful forces.
• Qin Luo challenged Fang Jiancheng’s authority to remove him as Dao Child, forcing the Seventh Elder to drop the threat.
• Lin Ruoxuan defended Qin Luo, while Lin Canghai warned her that the elders might be trying to restore the Elder Council System and reclaim control from Lu Yunting.
• Fang Jiancheng accused Qin Luo of arranging Ye Ling’s ambush and ordering an Emperor Realm expert to kill him.
• He Yiming secretly panicked as Song Yu suspected he had been involved, and the system advised Qin Luo to admit everything and spend all his Villain Points.

Qin Luo sarcastically admitted to a series of accusations during the Primordial Dao Sect’s interrogation, including plotting against Ye Ling, concealing his Qin Clan identity, and killing elders for an inheritance. Despite Lin Canghai’s attempt to stop him, Qin Luo claimed responsibility for other unsolved cases, leaving the elders poised to judge him.

• Fang Jiancheng accused Qin Luo of trying to kill Ye Ling out of jealousy, and Qin Luo sarcastically agreed before urging him to continue the interrogation.
• Fang Jiancheng accused Qin Luo of concealing his identity as a member of the Qin Clan, and Qin Luo admitted to joining the sect to seize control of it.
• Fang Jiancheng accused Qin Luo of plotting in the Lower Realm to kill Lü Chengtao and Liu Changhai, and Qin Luo admitted it, provoking Lü Chengfeng to attack.
• Lin Canghai stopped Lü Chengfeng and urged Qin Luo to take back his reckless confession, but Qin Luo refused and claimed responsibility for other unsolved cases in the sect.

Qin Luo admitted the accusations against him and received rewards including a key to the Ancient Desolate Ruins, the Qin Clan inheritance location, and a core that could help him survive Demonic Flame Purgatory. After Qin Luo asked to be sent there, Lu Yunting overruled the proposed punishment and ordered his imprisonment, declaring that any Primordial Dao Sect disciple who escaped alive would have all crimes absolved.

• People at the gathering piled accusations against Qin Luo, and Fang Jiancheng prepared to use them to condemn him.
• Qin Luo received several rewards from the System, including the Demonic Flame Purgatory Core and the Water-Repelling Dragon Pearl.
• The Tang Lineage discovered its Water-Repelling Dragon Pearl was missing, leaving Tang Hao distressed because he had come seeking it.
• Qin Luo told Lu Yunting that he wanted to go to Demonic Flame Purgatory, and Lu Yunting warned that no one had ever escaped alive.
• Fang Jiancheng proposed stripping Qin Luo of his Dao Son position and expelling him, but Lu Yunting ordered him imprisoned in Demonic Flame Purgatory and declared that anyone who escaped would have all crimes absolved.

Lu Yunting sent Qin Luo to Demonic Flame Purgatory for one year, a sentence everyone expected to kill him. Qin Luo entered with a black crystal that drove back the flames and offered the Demonic Flame to Xi Huang.

• Lu Yunting ordered that Qin Luo be sent to Demonic Flame Purgatory, and Fang Jiancheng declared that Qin Luo could be forgiven if he survived for a year.
• Qin Luo told Song Yu to watch Lin Hao and the others and instructed He Yiming to investigate Ye Ling’s Azure Dragon Bloodline.
• Lin Ruoxuan denounced Ye Ling and promised Qin Luo would return to settle accounts, causing Ye Ling to lose 200,000 Fortune Points.
• Two elders opened the gate and pushed Qin Luo into Demonic Flame Purgatory, where the black flames immediately engulfed him.
• Qin Luo produced a black crystal that scattered the Demonic Flame and asked Xi Huang if he wanted it.

Qin Luo entered Demonic Flame Purgatory with Xi Huang, while the Primordial Dao Sect’s hidden elders and the Lin Family weighed their next moves. The chapter left Ye Ling suspecting that the object he was searching for might be inside the purgatory.

• Xi Huang warned Qin Luo that the Demonic Flames could injure even her soul, then eagerly accepted his promise to let her refine them after he took control of the purgatory’s core.
• The Primordial Dao Sect’s hidden elders discussed Qin Luo’s likely death and prepared to emerge from seclusion once his life ended.
• Lu Yunting offered to rescue Qin Luo if he crushed his Jade Talisman, while privately recognizing that the Myriad Spirits Azurewood was the purgatory’s source of life.
• Lin Canghai and Lin Mo considered staying neutral, but Lin Ruoxuan urged them to side with Lu Yunting and Qin Luo, convinced Qin Luo would survive.
• Ye Ling searched for a missing object, sneezed with a bad feeling, and suspected it was hidden in Demonic Flame Purgatory.

Qin Luo merged the cores of Demonic Flame Purgatory, found and refined the Myriad Spirits Azurewood, and continued pursuing his transformation. Meanwhile, He Yiming uncovered evidence of Ye Ling’s Azure Dragon Bloodline, prompting Lin Mo to order Ye Ling’s arrest and declare that he would judge him personally.

• Ye Ling realized the Wood Divine Treasure might be inside Demonic Flame Purgatory and anxiously waited for Qin Luo to die.
• He Yiming investigated Ye Ling and traced his Azure Dragon Bloodline to the family Lin Mo had destroyed.
• Qin Luo reached Demonic Flame Purgatory’s core, began merging its cores, and rode the Azure Dragon with Xi Huang to search for the Wood Divine Treasure.
• Qin Luo found the Myriad Spirits Azurewood, took it from a hidden Azure Dragon phantom, and began refining it alongside the Water Divine Treasure.
• Several months passed while Qin Luo remained alive and refined the treasure, and He Yiming returned with evidence against Ye Ling.
• Lin Mo learned that Ye Ling had survived the massacre of his family, flew into a rage, and ordered his arrest so he could judge him personally.

Ye Ling admitted that he had entered the Primordial Dao Sect to avenge his parents, but Lin Mo tried to kill him before the sect could judge him. Fang Jiancheng and the Supreme Elders stopped Lin Mo, and the Lin Family chose to side with the Sect Master as attention returned to the still-active token in Demonic Flame Purgatory.

• Lin Ruoxuan recognized Ye Ling's scheme and declared that she would kill him herself.
• Ye Ling admitted that he had come to avenge his parents, naming Lin Mo as his sole target.
• Lin Mo moved to kill Ye Ling, but Fang Jiancheng intervened and argued that private grudges had to be settled outside the Primordial Dao Sect.
• Lin Canghai and Lin Mo confronted Fang Jiancheng, while the Supreme Elders arrived to oppose the Lin Family and prevent the sect from descending into civil war.
• Lu Yunting agreed that private grudges had to be settled outside the sect, and Lin Ruoxuan told Lin Mo that Qin Luo would kill Ye Ling if he survived Demonic Flame Purgatory.
• The Lin Family decided to side with the Sect Master, and the disciples watched the purgatory token because someone remained alive inside.

Qin Luo refined the Demonic Flame Purgatory’s core and discovered that it was the Blazing Heaven Demon God's Godhead, while Ye Ling fled the Primordial Dao Sect and narrowly escaped Lin Mo. After Qin Luo emerged, he urged Lu Yunting to issue a warrant for Ye Ling and execute his accomplices.

• Qin Luo refined the Myriad Spirits Azurewood as Ye Ling sensed the opportunity was gone and decided to leave the Primordial Dao Sect.
• Ye Ling departed with Fang Jiancheng's help, then trapped Lin Mo during the pursuit and left him grievously injured.
• Qin Luo refined the Azure Dragon Bloodline, advanced the Nine-Turn Golden Body Scripture, and completed his refinement of the Demonic Flame Purgatory's core.
• Qin Luo discovered a skeleton and a pitch-black gate, learned the crystal was the Blazing Heaven Demon God's Godhead, and left it inside the Demonic Flame Purgatory.
• Lu Yunting met Qin Luo after his emergence and told him about recent events in the sect.
• Qin Luo urged Lu Yunting to declare Ye Ling a traitor, issue a warrant for him dead or alive, and execute those who conspired with him.

Qin Luo convinced Lu Yunting to use Demonic Flame Purgatory to consolidate his authority over Primordial Dao Sect. Lu Yunting led Qin Luo and seven Supreme Elders toward the forbidden grounds, while Lin Canghai prepared to seal the sect and gather the Nine Elders.

• Qin Luo urged Lu Yunting to force the sect’s elders to obey and revealed that he could communicate with Demonic Flame Purgatory after refining the Myriad Spirits Azurewood.
• Lu Yunting summoned Lin Canghai and Lin Mo, ordered them to proclaim Ye Ling a traitor, and said the proclamation should wait until he entered Demonic Flame Purgatory.
• Seven Supreme Elders awakened and gathered, suspecting that Demonic Flame Purgatory held a secret of godhood.
• Lu Yunting told the seven elders that the demonic flames had nearly dried up and invited them to inspect the purgatory with him and Qin Luo.
• Lin Canghai used Lu Yunting’s token to prepare to seal Primordial Dao Sect and ordered the Nine Elders to assemble at the discussion hall.