Chapter Summaries

Qin Sheng prepared to leave Sword-Washing Pavilion and roam the martial world to build his fame and grow Scarlet Edge Martial Academy. After opening his Eye Aperture, he set out with Jiang Zhiwei for Zhao City, where their first Human Ranking challenge turned out to be against Jiang Zhiwei herself.

• Qin Sheng told Su Wuming he wanted to make a name for himself and carry Scarlet Edge Martial Academy forward, and Su Wuming warned him that enemies might target him because of his Sun Physique.
• Su Wuming invited Jiang Zhiwei to accompany Qin Sheng, and she agreed; Qin Sheng also arranged for Improved Heavenly Intelligence Pills to be delivered to Zhang Yuanshan and the others.
• Qin Sheng opened his Eye Aperture, greatly increasing his perception and combat strength, then explained to Jiang Zhiwei that his Sun Physique accounted for his rapid progress.
• Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei left Sword-Washing Pavilion for Zhao City, and Qin Sheng said they would challenge a randomly chosen person on the Human Ranking.
• Jiang Zhiwei randomly picked a name from the Human Ranking slips and discovered that she had chosen herself, prompting her to ask whether Qin Sheng planned to beat her up.

Qin Sheng returned to Zhao City with Jiang Zhiwei and reassured his family that he had found a way to manage the Sun Physique. They decided to stay for the upcoming Martial Academy Tournament, where Zhang Wennan was expected to appear, and learned that he might be searching for an ancient estate near the city.

• Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei returned to Zhao City, where the Scarlet Edge Martial Academy students welcomed Qin Sheng as their Young Hall Master.
• Qin Sheng told Ruan Mei that his cultivation was controlling the Sun Physique and that he had become Su Wuming’s junior martial brother; Ruan Mei invited him to visit the Ruan Family.
• Ruan Mei explained that Zhang Wennan, a Human Ranking saber expert, would visit Zhao City for the Martial Academy Tournament, and Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei agreed to stay and meet him.
• Qin Sheng asked Jiang Zhiwei to guide the academy students while he planned to train them for the tournament.
• Father Qin reported that Zhang Wennan was following a clue to an ancient estate, prompting Qin Sheng to suspect the search concerned his own treasures.

Qin Sheng’s students distinguished themselves at the Zhao City Martial Academy Tournament, drawing the attention of Zhang Wennan, the twentieth-ranked Human Ranking expert. When Zhang Wennan sought to exchange techniques with the teacher behind their progress, he learned that it was Qin Sheng, a boy who had not even completed Foundation Establishment.

• Qin Sheng discussed the Martial Examination and the rivalry between Great Jin and Northern Zhou with Jiang Zhiwei as academies gathered for the tournament.
• Zhang Wennan arrived at Scarlet Edge Martial Academy, and Jiang Zhiwei challenged Qin Sheng to compare her strength with the Human Ranking expert’s.
• Zhou Caidie defeated Wang Tie by exploiting a flaw in her opponent’s saber momentum, and Zhang Wennan recognized the students’ superior martial arts training.
• Zhang Wennan noticed that all eight Scarlet Edge contestants were exceptional and praised Master Qin’s teaching ability before asking to exchange techniques with him.
• Qin Sheng’s father explained that Qin Sheng had taught the students, leaving Zhang Wennan stunned by the claim.

Qin Sheng revealed his Eye Aperture cultivation and defeated Human Ranking prodigy Zhang Wennan with a controlled strike of Sword Emerges Without Self, stunning the martial academy and Zhao City. After the Six Fan School rushed to report his talent, Qin Sheng was left poised to become famous when the next Human Ranking appeared.

• Zhang Wennan questioned Qin Sheng’s swordsmanship claims, then agreed to spar after Qin Sheng revealed he had opened his Eye Aperture.
• Qin Sheng stopped Zhang Wennan’s blade between two golden fingers and sent him staggering back with a flick.
• Qin Sheng defeated Zhang Wennan with Sword Emerges Without Self, stopping the strike just short of his throat and revealing his Firmament Sword Intent.
• Zhang Wennan acknowledged Qin Sheng’s superiority and left, while witnesses erupted over the two-aperture youth’s victory over an eight-aperture Human Ranking prodigy.
• Six Fan School observers hurried to report Qin Sheng to headquarters, and news of his victory spread throughout Zhao City.
• Qin Sheng explained his Sun Physique’s strength to his parents and Jiang Zhiwei, as Mother Qin anticipated his fame on the next Human Ranking.

After Qin Sheng agreed to help Zhang Wennan hunt a wounded Longevity Sect fiend, he sent Jiang Zhiwei to assist while secretly protecting her. Meanwhile, the Six Fan School investigated Qin Sheng and ranked him tenth on the new Human Ranking, leaving Zhao City stunned.

• Zhang Wennan told Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei that he had tracked a Longevity Sect fiend to Zhao City and offered them an Exterior Scenery sword art for help killing him.
• Qin Sheng agreed to help during the Martial Academy Tournament and sent Jiang Zhiwei with Zhang Wennan, while secretly arranging to watch over her.
• At Six Fan School headquarters, Chief Constable Sima Shi ordered an investigation into Qin Sheng and chose his placement on the upcoming Human Ranking.
• Three days later, Zhao City's Six Fan School posted the new Human Ranking, listing Qin Sheng tenth despite his Two Apertures cultivation.
• The ranking described Qin Sheng's defeat of Zhang Wennan, his Sun Physique, and his rapid progress, astonishing the gathered crowd.

The Human Ranking named thirteen-year-old Qin Sheng tenth, making him famous across the martial world and astonishing Meng Qi, who learned that Qin Sheng’s strength surpassed his own Golden Bell Shield training. While guiding Jiang Zhiwei and Zhang Wennan to a Longevity Sect demon, Qin Sheng helped them defeat Ding Ren, whose belongings included a White Fish identical to one Qin Sheng had previously obtained.

• The Human Ranking ranked Qin Sheng tenth, and martial artists across the realm debated his Two Apertures, Sun Physique, and remarkable strength.
• Meng Qi trained in the Golden Bell Shield under Xuan Bei, then learned of Qin Sheng’s ranking and despaired that Qin Sheng’s body was stronger despite not practicing external martial arts.
• Zhang Yuanshan and the Qin family reacted to Qin Sheng’s new fame, while Qin Sheng accepted the titles Heavenly Sword and Sun Divine Sword.
• Qin Sheng used his Spirit Eye to direct Jiang Zhiwei and Zhang Wennan through a chase after the Longevity Sect disciple Ding Ren.
• Jiang Zhiwei and Zhang Wennan defeated Ding Ren, then found a White Fish among his possessions that Qin Sheng recognized as matching his earlier Black Fish.

Qin Sheng obtained the White Fish Jade Statue’s Yang Dao inheritance, promised Jiang Zhiwei a powerful sword art, and continued traveling with her toward the Ruan Family. Before they arrived, a message announced that Qin Sheng alone had been summoned for an emergency Temporary Reincarnation mission.

• Zhang Wennan addressed Qin Sheng as Martial Uncle, then gave him the White Fish Jade Statue after failing to produce the promised Exterior Scenery sword art.
• Qin Sheng broke the statue’s seal and learned the Great Sun Seal, discovering that its Yang Dao inheritance complemented the Yin Dao method in the Black Fish Statue.
• Qin Sheng told Jiang Zhiwei that the statue held a True-Intent Inheritance and promised to teach her a sword art in return for her help.
• The Zhao City Martial Academy Tournament ended with all eight Scarlet Edge Martial Academy participants attracting the attention of sects and noble families.
• Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei left for Langya, and the new Human Ranking kept Qin Sheng at tenth while raising Jiang Zhiwei’s position.
• Near the Ruan Family, Qin Sheng saw an emergency Temporary Reincarnation summons that Jiang Zhiwei could not see.

Qin Sheng and Gu Xiaosang were assigned a high-stakes faction mission to protect and repair the Human Ancestor Hall, with rival reincarnator teams and demon attacks awaiting them. After arriving in a desolate world, they investigated a mountain cave and discovered it was called Fire Cloud Cave.

• Gu Xiaosang appeared beside Qin Sheng, revealed that she knew he was unusual, and explained how her arrival in the Reincarnation Space had occurred.
• The Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation announced a temporary faction mission to protect and repair the Human Ancestor Hall, with one exclusive low-grade Treasure Weapon as the reward and certain death for failure.
• Qin Sheng asked Gu Xiaosang to lend him Virtue Points, but she said she was penniless too, and she refused to carry the mission on her own.
• Qin Sheng and Gu Xiaosang arrived in a desolate world and headed toward a mountain cave to search for the mission target.
• Bixia Yuanjun and her masked teammate appeared elsewhere in the world and began searching for a hall and an Aperture-Opening team to ally with.
• Qin Sheng spotted the words Fire Cloud Cave carved above the cave entrance and wondered whether a real Human Ancestor existed in the Reincarnation Realm.

Qin Sheng and Gu Xiaosang explored Fire Cloud Cave, which contained murals depicting the Human Race’s origins and an unexplained arrangement of altars. They joined forces with Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat, but the group still had to work out how to repair the Human Ancestor Hall.

• Qin Sheng and Gu Xiaosang entered Fire Cloud Cave and found empty altars and murals depicting the creation and history of the Human Race.
• Qin Sheng identified three prominent altars as representing the Demon Emperor, Dao De Heavenly Venerable, and Human Emperor, while he and Gu Xiaosang questioned whether this was truly the Human Ancestor Hall.
• Qin Sheng searched the mountain as Gu Xiaosang considered how the altars might need to be repaired.
• Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat recovered the final piece of beast-hide paper, learned that the Aperture-Opening team had to survive, and went looking for their partners.
• Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat reached Qin Sheng, confirmed they were at the Human Ancestor Hall, and explained that only members of the Human Race could repair it.
• Gu Xiaosang joined the team, and Qin Sheng revealed her identity as the Daluo Demoness before the group began sharing mission information.

Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat explained that the teams had to restore the Three Halls to save a demon-ravaged world, and Qin Sheng and Gu Xiaosang learned how to repair the Human Ancestor Hall. Qin Sheng’s blood alone softened the Ancestral Soil, and as he began molding clay figures, demons and devils attacked while he remained immersed in the work.

• Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat described the dangers they had faced and explained that the Three Halls had once protected the world from demons and Nine Nethers incursions.
• Qin Sheng, Gu Xiaosang, Bixia Yuanjun, and White Cat examined the Primordial Fragment and learned that restoring the Human Ancestor Hall required clay figures, offerings, and a ritual.
• The group discovered that Gu Xiaosang and White Cat could not soften the Ancestral Soil, but Qin Sheng’s blood could, and he began shaping the figures.
• Qin Sheng’s first completed clay figure sent light into the sky and alerted the surrounding demons and devils.
• Bixia Yuanjun, White Cat, and Gu Xiaosang left to hold off the approaching attackers while Qin Sheng continued molding figures, absorbed in the process.

Qin Sheng completed the clay figures in Fire Cloud Cave while Bixia Yuanjun, White Cat, and Gu Xiaosang fought off the demons drawn to the Human Ancestor Hall. After Qin Sheng helped turn the battle with repeated uses of Sword Emerges Without Self, he placed the figures on the altar and wondered why the Demon Emperor had created them.

• Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat confronted four Demon Venerables while Gu Xiaosang fought the other demons outside the Human Ancestor Hall.
• Qin Sheng molded forty-nine clay figures and glimpsed mysteries of fortune, life, and Reincarnation as he worked.
• Gu Xiaosang used No-Life Finger to stop a concealed spider demon’s ambush, but three Nine Apertures eagle demons then descended toward Qin Sheng.
• Qin Sheng killed the three eagle demons with Sword Emerges Without Self, completed his mission, and then used the move three more times to aid the battle.
• Qin Sheng carried the clay figures into Fire Cloud Cave and placed them on the altar, where he wondered what the Demon Emperor had intended.

Qin Sheng entered the Dharma Domain and found the Demon Emperor Statue, then carried it back to Fire Cloud Cave to help repair the Human Ancestor Hall. After the hall was restored, it healed and rewarded him, Bixia Yuanjun, and White Cat, while Gu Xiaosang returned to the Dharma Domain for her own purpose.

• Bixia Yuanjun questioned how Qin Sheng had used Sword Emerges Without Self four times, and Qin Sheng claimed he had used a self-sacrificial technique.
• White Cat and Bixia Yuanjun led the sacrifice of demons and clay figures, awakening the Fire of Humanity and opening the Dharma Domain; Qin Sheng and Gu Xiaosang entered it.
• Qin Sheng followed the wishes flowing through the clay figures to a hidden space beneath a contaminated lake, where he found the Demon Emperor Statue and carried it back to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Qin Sheng returned to find Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat badly injured and the Human Emperor Statue and Statue of the Saint Master already on the altar; he placed the Demon Emperor Statue with them and repaired the Human Ancestor Hall.
• The restored Human Ancestor Hall cleansed the Dharma Domain, healed Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat, and tempered Qin Sheng's Innate Divine Sun, while Gu Xiaosang returned to the Dharma Domain.

Qin Sheng, Bixia Yuanjun, and White Cat completed their purification in the Fire of Humanity, then entered the Dharma Domain to claim the Heavenly Sage Relic. Qin Sheng’s strength drove off or defeated the rival faction, and he returned to Reincarnation Plaza with a thumb-sized figurine resembling the Demon Emperor Statue.

• Qin Sheng, Bixia Yuanjun, and White Cat were cleansed and strengthened by seven days in the Fire of Humanity, while Gu Xiaosang remained missing.
• The Lord of Six Paths announced a faction mission to claim the Heavenly Sage Legacy, and Qin Sheng led Bixia Yuanjun and White Cat into the Dharma Domain.
• Bixia Yuanjun invited Qin Sheng to join Immortal Trail as they approached the nine-colored pillar, where rival Reincarnators had gathered.
• Fortune God abandoned the mission, while Xiao Rong and a Temple of Bliss cultivator challenged Qin Sheng’s group for the relic.
• Qin Sheng killed two Nine Apertures cultivators with one sword strike, causing Xiao Rong to flee; the Temple of Bliss cultivator was killed, and the group claimed the three Sage Treasures.
• Qin Sheng returned to Reincarnation Plaza with a thumb-sized clay figurine resembling the Demon Emperor Statue.

After returning from a reincarnation mission, Qin Sheng reunited with Jiang Zhiwei and visited the Langya Ruan Clan, where he met Ruan Yushu and helped his uncle Ruan Han improve his cultivation prospects. Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei then left to wander the martial world, while the Ruan Clan’s leaders reflected on the opportunity they had missed.

• Qin Sheng learned that the Human Ancestor Clay Statue could not be appraised without an expensive exclusive mission, so he kept it and saved his Treasure Weapon forging opportunity for later.
• Qin Sheng reunited with Jiang Zhiwei, told her about his mission with Gu Xiaosang, and traveled with her to the Langya Ruan Clan.
• Ruan Han welcomed Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei, and Ruan Yaoguang introduced them to Ruan Yushu, who befriended them after Jiang praised her zither playing.
• Qin Sheng secretly ate Ruan Yushu’s dragonfish jerky, prompting her to call him a bad guy and accuse him of stealing her snacks.
• Qin Sheng taught Ruan Han the Metamorphic Bone-Transforming Art and helped him adjust his Inner World, while Jiang Zhiwei sparred with Ruan Clan juniors.
• Qin Sheng and Jiang Zhiwei left the Ruan Clan after seven days, and the clan’s leaders discussed Qin Sheng’s potential and the consequences of having lost their Divine Weapon.

After completing eight months of cultivation in Qishi Mansion’s Law Immortal Pool, Qin Sheng planned to combine the Shrouding Method with useful parts of the One World Method and returned to his cave abode. There he reunited with Xiao Nannan, learned Silver Shanshan had become a popular cultivation teacher, and welcomed Qi Qi.

• Qin Sheng finished transforming his magic power, body, Primordial Spirit, and Origin in the Law Immortal Pool, and developed a plan to cultivate an Inner Landscape World alongside the Shrouding Method.
• Qin Sheng thanked the old Mansion Lord, said he would return to the Eastern Wilderness, and headed back to his cave abode as Qishi Mansion’s students discussed his reputation.
• Qin Sheng found Silver Shanshan teaching students and learned from Shi Zhongyu that Silver Shanshan had become Qishi Mansion’s foremost teacher while accompanying Xiao Nannan.
• Xiao Nannan returned with Jin Shanshan, hugged Qin Sheng, and told him she had made new friends, including Qi Qi.
• Qin Sheng invited the hesitant Qi Qi into his cave abode, and she entered in a crimson dress.

Qin Sheng learned about recent events in Beidou, then left Qishi Mansion for the Ten Thousand Wood Mountain Range and advanced to the Severing Dao Middle Tier. He found Demon Saint Xing Chi and tried to persuade her to emerge from seclusion by claiming to represent Emperor Qing.

• Qi Qi told Qin Sheng that Southern Demon had received precious resources, powerful figures wanted to buy his Immortal Divine Pill and Dreamlike Divine Marrow, and Ye Fan had enraged the Yin-Yang Sect by using his tribulation to destroy its mountain gate.
• Qi Qi explained that Ji Ziyue had revealed her Origin Spirit Body by empowering Ye Fan, drawing marriage proposals from powerful factions, and that the Ancient Clans were becoming more active in Eastern Wilderness.
• Qin Sheng took Xiao Nannan and his companions from Qishi Mansion toward the Ten Thousand Wood Mountain Range, while Ye Fan told Pang Bo he would protect Ji Ziyue from being coerced and contacted Duan De and Black Emperor for one last job.
• Qin Sheng triggered his Heavenly Tribulation in the Great Wilderness, passed it, and advanced to the Severing Dao Middle Tier.
• Qin Sheng met Demon Saint Xing Chi and invited her to emerge from seclusion, then claimed he was an agent appointed by Emperor Qing.

Qin Sheng persuaded Demon Saint Xing Chi to leave her secluded home and travel with him to the Eastern Wilderness, where Yan Ruyu and the Emperor Qing Weapon were under threat. He captured Blood Moon Clan members spying on Yan Ruyu’s refuge and discovered that they were plotting to seize the weapon.

• Qin Sheng recognized the Nine Dragons Sinking Abyss Formation and explained how the stars had given Demon Saint Xing Chi’s place of transformation a trace of vitality.
• After learning that Demon Saint Xing Chi had only about ten years left to live, Qin Sheng and Xiao Nannan persuaded her to accompany them to the Eastern Wilderness and meet Yan Ruyu.
• Demon Saint Xing Chi used a Domain Gate to bring Qin Sheng and the others to Yunze Prefecture, near the Minor World where Yan Ruyu was cultivating.
• Qin Sheng found Blood Moon Clan Great Abilities observing Yan Ruyu’s refuge and captured them despite their resistance.
• Qin Sheng searched the captives’ Seas of Consciousness and learned that the Blood Moon Clan intended to take the Emperor Qing Weapon.

Qin Sheng destroyed the Blood Moon Clan attackers, checked on Yan Ruyu, and visited the Jiang Family to give Jiang Tingting the Lunar Ancient Scripture and Taiyin Saint Flag. After Qin Sheng left, Jiang Yifei wondered how anyone could possess such inhuman talent.

• Qin Sheng refined the Blood Moon Clan’s Great Abilities into bloody light and destroyed their souls, then said he only needed to know where their clan territory was.
• Qin Sheng brought Demon Saint Xing Chi to the Azure Flood Dragon King’s small world, where he learned Yan Ruyu was improving in seclusion and arranged for Xing Chi to stay under watch.
• Qin Sheng visited Yan Ruyu’s cave and encouraged Qin Yao, telling her that Ye Fan would return to the Eastern Wilderness and see her.
• Qin Sheng went to the Jiang Family, gave Jiang Tingting the Lunar Ancient Scripture and Taiyin Saint Flag, and told her to keep the flag’s existence secret.
• After Qin Sheng departed, Jiang Yifei reflected on the immense gap between them and concluded that Qin Sheng’s extraordinary cultivation came from talent.

Qin Sheng returned to Shaking Light Holy Land to a rapturous welcome and showered its disciples with resources taken from Ziwei. After revealing that he had destroyed the Taiyin God Sect, he accepted the elders’ repeated pleas to become Saint Lord, while insisting he would serve only as the Holy Land’s custodian.

• Shaking Light Holy Land celebrated Qin Sheng’s return from Ziwei, and he arrived in the Sun God Chariot to a welcome from the Holy Lord and the assembled disciples.
• Qin Sheng distributed Source, treasure jade, spiritual medicine, and other resources to the Holy Land’s members, earning their fervent gratitude.
• Qin Sheng told the elders that he had taken the resources from defeated forces on Ziwei and revealed that he had destroyed the Taiyin God Sect.
• The Shaking Light Holy Lord and the elders urged Qin Sheng to take the Saint Lord position, and Qin Sheng refused three times before agreeing.
• Qin Sheng accepted the position while declaring that he would act as custodian of the Holy Land’s authority and could be held accountable by its members.

Ye Fan reunited with Duan De and the Black Emperor in West Dam City and joined their preparations for a scheme before heading back to the Eastern Wilderness. At Shaking Light, Qin Sheng set out his plans before succeeding Li Daoqing as Holy Lord, leaving the holy land poised for a major change.

• Ye Fan found Duan De and the Black Emperor in West Dam City and agreed to join their scheme, while declaring his intent to end the Ruthless Legacy.
• Ye Fan warned Duan De and the Black Emperor that the Ancient Clans might target Purple Mountain when they returned to the Eastern Wilderness.
• Li Daoqing scheduled Qin Sheng's succession ceremony, and Qin Sheng proposed selecting a new Saint Son and Saintess.
• Qin Sheng warned that a Golden Age and greater upheavals were coming, promised resources for Shaking Light's disciples, and ordered the holy land to curb misconduct.
• Qin Sheng invited the Phoenix Dragon King and Silver Moon King to guide disciples, approved inviting other traditions to the ceremony, and gave scriptures to Shaking Light's elders.
• Li Daoqing supported Qin Sheng's plans and left the Divine Hall, relieved that his time as Holy Lord had ended.