Chapter Summaries

Qin Sheng rescued Silvermoon's true body from Holy Ancestor Yuan Cha, suppressed Yuan Cha's divided soul, and removed the True Demonic Qi sealed in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. Ten years later, the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine revived, and Qin Sheng told Han Li he intended to bring him to the Spirit Realm.

• Longmeng demanded that Silvermoon merge with her, but Qin Sheng struck Longmeng back into wolf form and told Silvermoon to restore her strength before merging.
• Qin Sheng and Silvermoon found Silvermoon's true body sealed in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, where Holy Ancestor Yuan Cha's divided soul had possessed one of its heads.
• Qin Sheng broke the seals, subdued Yuan Cha with the Five-Colored Divine Light, expelled her from Silvermoon's body, and confined both Yuan Cha and Silvermoon's true body in the Xutian Cauldron.
• Qin Sheng removed the True Demonic Qi sealed on the pagoda's ninth floor and left Mount Kunwu with Silvermoon as the Great Love Alliance expanded across the Human Realm.
• Ten years later, Han Li told Qin Sheng that the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine had revived, and Qin Sheng said he planned to take Han Li to the Spirit Realm.

After ten years of consolidating the Human Realm under the Great Love Alliance, Qin Sheng prepared the alliance to endure without him, then led its Deity Transformation cultivators and his disciples through a passage into the Spirit Realm. The group arrived safely, but Silvermoon warned that they must reach Heavenly Abyss City and obtain Dust-Erasing Pills before facing the Spirit Realm’s deadly Heavenly Tribulations.

• Qin Sheng completed the Deity Transformation Stage Heavenly Demon Puppet with Old Demon Hu’s Nascent Soul and ordered Silvermoon to display it as a warning to the Great Love Alliance’s cultivators.
• Linghu broke through to the Deity Transformation Stage, and Qin Sheng entrusted him with governing the Human Realm while announcing that he and the other Deity Transformation cultivators would ascend together.
• At Great Love Mountain, Qin Sheng opened a silver passage with Five-Colored Divine Light and led the group into the Spirit Realm, leaving Linghu to rule the Human Realm.
• Qin Sheng and the others arrived safely in the Spirit Realm, where Silvermoon explained its celestial cycles and the Small and Great Heavenly Tribulations.
• Silvermoon warned that the newly arrived ascenders needed to reach Heavenly Abyss City and obtain Dust-Erasing Pills to remove their foreign aura before undergoing tribulation.

Qin Sheng and his companions traveled through the Spirit Realm toward Heavenly Abyss City, where ascenders had to serve for three hundred years. After entering the city, Qin Sheng called on its Elder Council, leaving Silvermoon and the others stunned.

• Silvermoon explained the Spirit Realm’s balance of power and Heavenly Abyss City’s rules, including the ascenders’ three-hundred-year service and annual Dust-Erasing Pills.
• Qin Sheng declared that he intended to take over Heavenly Abyss City, while Han Li and the others asked him to restrict their souls to prevent them from revealing his secrets.
• The Three Friends of Withered Spirit tried to rob the group, but Qin Sheng killed them and learned that they were in the Heavenly Yuan Realm near Falling Wind City.
• Qin Sheng’s group bypassed the Chen Family Dharma Assembly, traveled by teleportation arrays, and entered Heavenly Abyss City after half a month.
• Qin Sheng flew above the city and summoned the members of the Elder Council, silencing the city and shocking his companions.

Qin Sheng arrived at Heavenly Abyss City and demonstrated power that made its Ten Elders and cultivators believe he was a Grand Ascension cultivator, then took charge of guarding the city. After settling his companions and discussing the risks facing ascenders, he asked Silvermoon what she wanted when her grandfather Ao Xiao arrived.

• Qin Sheng announced that he had come to defend Heavenly Abyss City, then overwhelmed the Ten Elders' combined attack with a palm of Five-Colored Divine Light and stopped before killing them.
• The Ten Elders and the city's cultivators bowed to Qin Sheng, whom they mistook for a Grand Ascension cultivator, and welcomed him as Heavenly Abyss City's new leader.
• Qin Sheng told the Ten Elders to inform Mo Jianli and Ao Xiao of his arrival, ordered a stronger investigation into the declining number of ascenders, and chose Heavenly Abyss Sacred Mountain as his residence.
• Qin Sheng offered Dust-Erasing Pills and freedom to his companions, warned them to keep their relationship with him discreet and explained the risks ascenders' bloodlines posed to their descendants.
• Xiang Zhili and the others chose to remain in Heavenly Abyss City, while Silvermoon said she wanted to see her grandfather Ao Xiao but would continue serving Qin Sheng.

Qin Sheng welcomed the Human and Demon Races’ leaders, revealed his overwhelming strength, and was recognized as their leader and protector. After Silvermoon’s history with Sky Kui Wolf King was exposed and Ao Xiao killed him, Qin Sheng settled the political upheaval and entered seclusion to cultivate toward the Void Refinement Stage.

• Qin Sheng warned Ice Phoenix and his disciples about the dangers of the Spirit Realm, urged them to build their strength, and assigned Han Li a medicinal garden.
• News of Qin Sheng’s appearance spread across the Three Realms and Seven Lands, prompting Emperor Tianmiao Ling, Sky Kui Wolf King, and other powers to send gifts or hurry to Heavenly Abyss City.
• Mo Jianli and Ao Xiao met Qin Sheng, where they discovered Silvermoon was his disciple and learned that Ao Xiao had known Sky Kui Wolf King harmed her and obstructed her return from the Lower Realm.
• Qin Sheng overwhelmed Mo Jianli and Ao Xiao in a brief clash, proving himself a peak Grand Ascension cultivator, and they accepted him as leader of the Human and Demon Races.
• Ao Xiao attacked Sky Kui Wolf King after Silvermoon rejected him, and Sky Kui Wolf King died; Qin Sheng then accepted the visitors’ gifts and dismissed them.
• Qin Sheng left Heavenly Abyss City to run as usual and entered seclusion, aiming to cultivate to the Void Refinement Stage.

The Divine Silkworm Princess attacked the Desolate Forbidden Land to reclaim the Nine Wonderful Immortal Medicine, prompting a battle that drew the Fighting Saint King and two Ancient Emperor Weapons into a confrontation with a mysterious figure. Emperor Wushi’s edict and the Fighting Saint Emperor’s edict stopped the figure from killing them, and it returned to the Ancient Abyss.

• Qin Sheng learned that the Divine Silkworm Princess planned to attack the Desolate Forbidden Land and reassured Yao Xi that the forbidden land would not cause a Dark Turmoil.
• Yao Xi told Qin Sheng that Ye Fan had traded a Dragon Loach corpse to Great Saint Hun Tuo at the Heavenly Marketplace.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess fought eight Desolate Slaves, was overwhelmed by the Power of Desolation, and awakened the Divine Silkworm Battle Robe after being knocked into the Ancient Abyss.
• A black-mist figure emerged from the Ancient Abyss and repelled the Divine Silkworm Princess and the Fighting Saint King, despite their Ancient Emperor Weapons.
• Black Emperor and Saint Prince presented the Wushi Edict and the Fighting Saint Emperor’s edict, and the black-mist figure returned to the Ancient Abyss, sparing the fighters.

The Desolate Lord ended her attack after the Wushi Edict and Fighting Saint Edict appeared, and Fighting Saint King left the Desolate Forbidden Land with Divine Silkworm Princess. He reunited with Saint Prince, recounted Shakyamuni’s conflict with Mount Sumeru, and departed after discussing the past and his support for peaceful coexistence.

• The Wushi Edict and Fighting Saint Edict made the Desolate Lord withdraw, and a damaged Five-Colored Altar appeared over the Ancient Abyss.
• Fighting Saint King left the Desolate Forbidden Land with Divine Silkworm Princess, greeted Saint Prince, and restored the fur on Black Emperor’s tail.
• Pang Bo asked whether Fighting Saint King had been Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Fighting Saint King explained that he had never visited Central Tang.
• Fighting Saint King recounted how Shakyamuni was expelled from Mount Sumeru after the Buddhist Sect rejected his teachings, despite his Quasi-Emperor strength.
• Fighting Saint King thanked Qin Sheng and Black Emperor, promised Saint Prince the Immortal Iron Staff after he attained Sainthood, and explained his old battle with Di Que.
• Fighting Saint King and Divine Silkworm Princess departed, while Ye Fan considered the Five-Colored Altar and Black Emperor urged him to enter the Desolate Forbidden Land.

Qin Sheng learned that Qiluo’s infiltrator had found the Highest Halls and hidden strongholds of Human World and Hell, and he organized Shaking Light Holy Land and the Emperor Qing Lineage to destroy the Assassin Divine Dynasty. The coordinated night assault began with Shaking Light and its allies storming multiple assassin worlds, while the campaign’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Ye Fan told Qin Sheng that he had found no Starry Sky Ancient Road to Earth, and Qin Sheng suggested asking the Ji Family; Ye Fan also shared Nine-Aperture Spirit-Communing Divine Liquid with him.
• Qiluo reported that his youngest child had infiltrated the Assassin Divine Dynasty and sent the coordinates of its Highest Halls and other strongholds.
• Qin Sheng ordered an all-out assault on Human World and Hell, mobilized Shaking Light Holy Land and Village of Heaven, and invited the Emperor Qing Lineage to join.
• Qin Sheng divided the forces to strike the Eighteenfold Hells, Nine-Thousand-Zhang Red Dust, and Highest Halls at once, and the assembled army departed after Little Yinyin bade them farewell.
• Lin Youtian led Shaking Light cultivators in breaking into a Hell stronghold and killing its stationed King, while Red Dragon Taoist and Peacock King led attacks on Human World sites.

Qin Sheng led Shaking Light and its allies into the hidden Divine Spirit Minor Worlds of Hell and Human World, destroying both Assassin Divine Dynasties’ forces. He sealed Hell’s world inside the Purple Gourd and left the forces attacking Human World to finish the slaughter, whereupon the Shaking Light disciples declared Human World fallen.

• Qin Sheng broke through Hell’s defenses and captured its Saint-level puppet as Shaking Light’s army advanced toward the Highest Hall.
• Hell’s Slaughter Saint activated Great Saint Formation Patterns and sacrificed Hell’s assassins to destroy their Divine Spirit Minor World, but Qin Sheng swallowed the entire world with his Purple Gourd.
• Qin Sheng revealed that both Slaughter Ancestors had already died in a Heavenly Domain, leaving Hell’s Slaughter Saint powerless inside the gourd.
• At Human World’s Divine Spirit Minor World, the Xuanhuang figure killed its Slaughter Saint and pacified its Saint-level bone puppet while Demon Saint Xing Chi watched.
• Shaking Light’s forces defeated Human World’s remaining assassins, and its disciples cheered that Human World had fallen.

Qin Sheng and his allies destroyed Human World and Hell, including their hidden Heavenly Domain, and recovered the remains of murdered ancestors. After the victory, Shaking Light Holy Land faced accusations of violating the Yaochi Treaty, but Divine Silkworm Princess said the Assassin Divine Dynasties had broken the ban on Saints and Qin Sheng had acted as the appointed enforcer.

• Qin Sheng and his allies entered Heavenly Domain, where Human Demon had killed its remaining defenders and the two Slaughter Ancestors of Human World and Hell.
• Qiluo reunited with his surviving son, and Qin Sheng distributed the spoils among Shaking Light Holy Land, Village of Heaven, and the Emperor Qing Lineage while arranging for the holy lands to reclaim their ancestors' bones.
• Qin Sheng returned to Shaking Light Holy Land and declined to take Little Que'er as his disciple, leaving her with Qiluo as she played with Yinyin.
• Li Daoqing announced the Assassin Divine Dynasties' destruction, prompting shock and anger across the holy lands and races over the apparent breach of the Yaochi Treaty.
• Divine Silkworm Princess declared that the Assassin Divine Dynasties had violated the rule of 'No Saints Under Heaven' and that Qin Sheng had acted with Divine Silkworm Ridge's advance notice, quieting the public outrage.

The clans accepted Qin Sheng’s role in destroying Human World and Hell, and the Holy Lands came to recover their ancestors’ remains. Ji Ziyue revealed a clue to the Five-Colored Altar through Ruthless Emperor’s Bronze Ring, then recounted the tragic childhood that connected the ring to the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy.

• The Divine Silkworm Princess and the various clans backed Qin Sheng, and the Holy Lands accepted the Shaking Light Holy Land’s explanation for his secret attack on Human World and Hell.
• Saint Lords arrived at Shaking Light to retrieve their ancestors’ remains and thank Qin Sheng, while the Ji Family Ancient Saint went with Yao Xi to recover his elder brother’s skull.
• Ji Ziyue offered Ye Fan Emperor Flesh in exchange for Nine-Aperture Spirit-Communing Divine Liquid, and Qin Sheng identified it as a fragment of Ruthless Emperor’s corpse.
• Ji Ziyue produced the Bronze Ring, which resonated with the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy, and Qin Sheng explained that it had belonged to Ruthless Emperor since childhood.
• Ji Ziyue described her dreams of Ruthless Emperor’s brother being taken away by the Feathered Desert Divine Dynasty and later returning as a corpse; Ye Fan and the others comforted Xiao Nannan as she cried over the siblings’ fate.

Ye Fan and Qin Sheng learned that the Feathered Divine Dynasty sacrificed the Ruthless Emperor’s brother, while the Bronze Ring acknowledged Ji Ziyue and revealed the Ruthless Emperor’s promise to await her brother’s return. News then spread that the Four Great Dynasties had found the Evolving Ancestral Temple, where Ye Fan hoped to find a way back to Earth, but the dynasties insisted the site belonged to them.

• Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, Ji Ziyue, and Black Emperor discussed the Evolving Ancestral Temple and learned that the Feathered Divine Dynasty had used the Ruthless Emperor’s brother as a sacrifice.
• The Bronze Ring and the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy revealed an image of the Ruthless Emperor as a child mourning her brother and vowing to await his return.
• Duan De arrived, and Ye Fan told Qin Sheng that Pang Bo’s Demon God Bloodline had awakened, leaving Pang Bo in seclusion to resist his ancestor’s memories.
• Yao Xi reported that the Four Great Dynasties had located the ancestral temple, and Qin Sheng planned to follow their excavation route while keeping watch for the Five-Colored Altar.
• Qin Sheng urged Ye Fan to say farewell before they left Beidou, and Ji Ziyue sadly accepted that Ye Fan had to return to Earth while she had to remain.
• The Four Great Dynasties claimed the ancestral temple as their inheritance, while forces across Beidou sought a share of its treasures.

Qin Sheng prepared to leave Beidou through the Evolving Ancestral Temple as the Five Regions pressured the Four Great Dynasties to open it for exploration. After the factions agreed on rules that allowed Qin Sheng to enter as a supervisor, he traveled to the temple with Ye Fan and their companions, where the assembled powers eagerly awaited his arrival.

• The Five Regions uncovered reports that the Evolving Ancestral Temple held ancient Saint insights, rare immortal metals, and possible traces of the legendary Green Cauldron, intensifying pressure on the Four Great Dynasties to open it.
• Qin Sheng discussed the Green Cauldron with Ye Fan, the Golden Heavenly Maiden, and Qin Sheng, while Ye Fan prepared to seek a route back to Earth through the temple's Five-Colored Altar.
• The Four Great Dynasties agreed to a joint exploration, and the factions accepted Qin Sheng's presence as a supervisor after learning he intended to leave Beidou.
• Qin Sheng reassured Yao Xi, arranged protections and provisions for the Shaking Light Holy Land, and instructed the Black Emperor to use Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns to conceal Emperor Weapons.
• Qin Sheng and his companions traveled to the Feathered Immortal Ruins and reached the Evolving Ancestral Temple, where the gathered factions welcomed his arrival.

Qin Sheng and his companions entered the Evolving Ancestral Temple after bidding farewell to their allies, while the first explorers were killed by its deadly mysteries. Qin Sheng’s group advanced through the temple’s small worlds, discovering signs of the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s sinister sacrifices as they headed toward its depths.

• Qin Sheng discussed traveling to Earth with the Golden Heavenly Maiden and said the Desolate Forbidden Land’s power made it too dangerous for his weaker classmates to join them.
• Yi Qingwu and other Beidou acquaintances visited the valley to say farewell to Qin Sheng and wish him a safe journey.
• The Evolving Ancestral Temple opened, and the first experts to enter were drained of their flesh and organs, leaving only their skins.
• Qin Sheng, the Divine Silkworm Princess, and their companions entered the temple and found that its courtyards were separate small worlds connected by gates.
• The Sun God Chariot purified winged monsters descended from Yin Gods, and the group found stone statues absorbing the life and Divine Sense of corpses.
• Qin Li led the group through the temple’s successive dangerous worlds toward its deepest levels.

Qin Sheng and the others fought through the Evolving Ancestral Temple, where the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s dangerous experiments and treasures came to light. On the thirty-third level, Duan De claimed the Immortal Tears Green Gold and offered it to Qin Sheng, who held him to his word.

• Black Emperor opened the Five-Colored Iron Essence chest, releasing God-Slaying Insects, and Qin Sheng trapped them with Saint’s Laws before Duan De took their eggs and gave Qin Sheng an Insect-Rearing Scripture.
• Qin Sheng and the others reached the thirty-first level, where Huo Qizi and the other cultivators fought the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals; Divine Silkworm Princess found that the soldiers had no memories and rapidly decayed when killed.
• The cultivators reached the thirty-third level and discovered Immortal Tears Green Gold and four sealed God-Slaying Insects; the insects broke free and attacked as the factions fought over the treasure.
• Duan De used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to take the Immortal Tears Green Gold, then claimed he was offering it to Qin Sheng to avoid the other factions’ objections.
• Qin Sheng reminded Duan De that he had offered him the Immortal Tears Green Gold, leaving Duan De regretting his words.

After Qin Sheng exposed the supposed Yuhua Emperor as an empty Stone Embryo, the cultivators fought over the treasures and Sage insights in the Evolving Ancestral Temple’s highest level. Qin Sheng sent Ye Fan to search the ancient temples for Earth’s coordinates, and the struggle erupted into chaos.

• Ye Fan seized two dead Saint-level God-Slaying Insects and a Divine Spirit Ancient Coffin from the altar, and the group opened the coffin through its fifth layer before stopping.
• Qin Sheng identified the Daoist youths as Yuhua Emperor’s former attendants, and they led the cultivators into the thirty-sixth level to pay respects to their supposed living emperor.
• Qin Sheng struck the Stone Embryo and revealed that it was empty, while the Daoist youths insisted that an emperor had awakened them six thousand years earlier.
• Qin Sheng and the Divine Silkworm Princess warned the cultivators not to damage the Sage insights as they fought over the eighty-one ancient temples.
• Qin Sheng told Ye Fan to find Earth’s Starry Sky coordinates among the temples, and the cultivators began slaughtering one another in the ensuing chaos.

Qin Sheng and Ye Fan discovered that the Five-Colored Altar led to the Desolate Forbidden Land, then found Earth’s coordinates and prepared to return home with Xiao Nannan. After farewells with their friends, the three entered the Spatial Gate, leaving Beidou behind.

• Qin Sheng and the Divine Silkworm Princess found the incomplete Five-Colored Altar and watched Yuhua Emperor’s Daoist boys enter a teleportation array that sent them to their deaths in the Desolate Forbidden Land.
• Qin Sheng sealed the altar and array, then joined the search for the starry sky coordinates and helped secure the Sage insights for distribution.
• Ye Fan and Qin Sheng found Earth’s coordinates and learned they had to cross the Desolate Forbidden Land; Qin Sheng agreed to bring Xiao Nannan, whose ageless nature could resist the Power of Desolation.
• Qin Sheng entrusted Shaking Light Holy Land to Shaking Light and said farewell to Doudou, Yan Ruyu, and the Golden Heavenly Maiden, while Ye Fan parted from Ji Ziyue, Li Xiaoman, and his other friends.
• After several people who rushed into the Desolate Forbidden Land died, Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Xiao Nannan stepped through the Spatial Gate toward the Five-Colored Altar.

Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Xiao Nannan repaired the Five-Colored Altar and opened the Starry Sky Ancient Road to Earth, but a black-mist figure intervened as they departed. Beidou believed Qin Sheng and Ye Fan had died, while Qin Sheng’s letter left Doudou to safeguard the Shaking Light Holy Land and his plans.

• Qin Sheng used the Purple Gourd and Divine Spring Water to protect himself, Ye Fan, and Xiao Nannan from the Power of Desolation while they repaired the Five-Colored Altar.
• Greedy cultivators and winged Ancient Clan members entered the Desolate Forbidden Land seeking the Nine Wonderful Immortal Medicine, but many died; Ye Fan collected Divine Spring Liquid and medicine, then defeated a Primordial Creature who tried to rob him.
• Huo Qizi and Divine Silkworm Taoist reached the Sacred Mountain, killed Primordial Creatures who sought the Immortal Elixir, and fled when the Desolate Slaves appeared.
• Qin Sheng activated the repaired altar and opened the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and he and Ye Fan began their journey with the sleeping Xiao Nannan.
• A black-mist figure halted the Taiji Gate, sent golden beams into the Starry Sky Ancient Road, then destroyed the teleportation array in the Evolving Ancestral Temple after Qin Sheng and the others vanished.
• Beidou factions celebrated or mourned Qin Sheng’s apparent death, while Wang Teng and Immortal Emperor’s Son anticipated rising to prominence; Doudou found Qin Sheng’s letter and vowed to protect what he had left behind.

Qin Sheng and Ye Fan received the Sacred Physique inheritance while traveling from Beidou toward Earth, but a disrupted Starry Sky Ancient Road brought them to Mars. There they explored the Great Leiyin Temple’s Eighteen Levels of Hell and found that its imprisoned divine crocodile and Ghost King were gone, raising fears that they had reached Earth.

• A golden light caught up with Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Xiao Nannan, and delivered the complete Sacred Physique cultivation inheritance to Ye Fan.
• Qin Sheng explained that he had deliberately mentioned the inheritance in the Desolate Forbidden Land to draw out the Desolate Lord, and Ye Fan agreed to preserve the method by passing it on.
• The Starry Sky Ancient Road destabilized, and the three arrived on Mars amid a vision of an ancient battle before Qin Sheng dispelled the scene.
• Qin Sheng and Ye Fan explored the Great Leiyin Temple, learned that its Eighteen Levels of Hell were spread across several ancient stars, and entered the two levels beneath the temple.
• Xiao Nannan awoke as they entered Hell, and Qin Sheng recognized that the Divine Incarnation Thought of the Completed Sacred Physique had escaped.
• Ye Fan found the second level’s stone coffin empty and feared that the missing divine crocodile and Ghost King had gone to Earth.

Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Xiao Nannan crossed Mars’s newly emerged Demon Sea and captured the Crocodile Ancestor as the Demon Sea Eye began to close. After learning the danger had been sealed and the Divine Incarnation Thought had been suppressed, Qin Sheng and Ye Fan left for Earth.

• Ye Fan kept the ancient Coffin-Suppressing Lamp, and Qin Sheng led him and Xiao Nannan toward Mars’s newly opened Demon Sea Eye.
• The trio crossed the black sea and survived a ghost-corpse tide before finding the Demon Sea Eye in Mars’s Far North.
• The Crocodile Ancestor emerged, blamed them for the Sea Eye closing, and attacked, but Qin Sheng trapped him in the Purple Gourd with a Quasi-Emperor artifact.
• An old monk from the golden Buddhist ship explained that the Demon Sea Eye sealed the remains of an ancient catastrophe, gave Ye Fan Buddhist scriptures, and returned to seal the Sea Eye.
• Qin Sheng searched the Crocodile Ancestor’s memories and learned that he had suppressed the Divine Incarnation Thought of a Completed Sacred Physique.
• After finding no ancient treasures on Mars, Qin Sheng and Ye Fan departed for Earth with Little Yinyin.