Chapter Summaries

Qin Sheng reunited with Uncle Jiang and Little Tingting, then brought Jiang Taixu back to the Jiang Family and confronted its younger generation over their treatment of Tingting. He left the family warned to protect her and stop spreading rumors about her.

• Qin Sheng met Uncle Jiang in a tavern and learned that the Jiang Family had no cure for Little Tingting’s Taiyin Physique, whose only known remedy was the Earthlife Fruit.
• Little Tingting returned to the tavern, agreed to summon trustworthy elders from Jiang Taixu’s branch, and asked Qin Sheng whether Ye Fan was safe.
• An elder recognized Jiang Taixu as the missing God King, secretly brought him back to the Jiang Family, and heard him assure Qin Sheng that he need not fear acting there.
• Jiang Yifei asked Qin Sheng to forgive Jiang Yichen, but Qin Sheng said the grievance belonged to Jiang Yichen and Ye Fan, not him.
• Qin Sheng told Jiang Yifei to discipline the Jiang Family’s younger generation and warned them to stop mocking or gossiping about Little Tingting.

Qin Sheng defended Little Tingting in the Jiang Family, defeated Jiang Yunshen with one punch, and left with her after Jiang Yifei settled the dispute. After Jiang Taixu’s return became known across the Eastern Wilderness, Qin Sheng visited the recovering God King and studied the Hengyu Furnace.

• Qin Sheng rejected a Jiang Family disciple’s objection and challenged the family’s elders to confront him directly.
• Jiang Yunshen confronted Qin Sheng, but Qin Sheng’s Heart Divine Being defeated him with one punch while Qin Sheng drank tea.
• Jiang Yifei resolved the dispute over Little Tingting, and Qin Sheng toasted him as the future Jiang Family Holy Lord before leaving with Tingting.
• A member of Jiang Taixu’s branch gave Qin Sheng Dragon Marrow and told him the God King’s condition remained unclear.
• News spread that Jiang Taixu had returned alive after four thousand years in Purple Mountain, prompting the Jiang Family to investigate who had leaked the news.
• Jiang Taixu summoned Qin Sheng and Tingting; Qin Sheng visited him beside the Hengyu Furnace and sensed its profound meaning.

Jiang Taixu recovered enough to guide Qin Sheng and Little Tingting, then used a false report of his impending death to lure enemies into attacking him outside Myriad Beginnings Holy Land. As Qin Sheng and the Jiang Family prepared to transport the seemingly dying God King home, the bait was set and the attackers were poised to strike.

• Jiang Taixu told Qin Sheng he would help Ye Fan pass the Four Extremes trial and revealed that he planned to reorganize the Jiang Family while keeping his recovery secret.
• Jiang Taixu took Little Tingting under his guidance, and Qin Sheng cultivated for seven days in the Jiang Family’s True Phoenix Nest before receiving further teachings from the God King.
• Qin Sheng dismissed the Jiang Family members who resented his access to Jiang Taixu, while the God King’s faction spread news that his treatment had failed and he was near death.
• Jiang Taixu traveled with Qin Sheng and Jiang Yun to Myriad Beginnings Holy Land, where he visited Caiyun Fairy’s ancient cave and emerged pretending to be at death’s door.
• Qin Sheng loudly called for help as Jiang Taixu collapsed, prompting the Myriad Beginning Holy Lord to arrange emergency treatment and drawing the attention of hidden watchers.
• Jiang Yun ordered the group to return with the Hengyu Furnace, and Qin Sheng led them out of Myriad Beginnings Holy Land to open a Domain Gate as the attackers prepared to act.

Qin Sheng helped Jiang Taixu defeat the Dark Night King and the Netherworld Three Elders, then received the Dark Night King's weapon and continued advancing his cultivation. After reaching Holy City, Qin Sheng received an invitation from Nangong Wentian to compete in Source Technique.

• The Dark Night King and the Netherworld Three Elders challenged Jiang Taixu, but Jiang Taixu killed them all while Qin Sheng defied the attackers and took the Dark Night King's head.
• Jiang Taixu gave Qin Sheng the Dark Night Divine Tower, asked him to pass Ye Fan an offer of help, and urged Qin Sheng to stay true to himself.
• Qin Sheng merged the Stone Fairy with the Dark Night Divine Tower, then left the Jiang Family and survived his eighth Dragon Transformation Tribulation.
• Qin Sheng reached Holy City, where his arrival drew attention and invitations from prominent figures.
• Qin Sheng recognized an invitation from Nangong Wentian challenging him to compete in Source Technique, and he suspected the Nangong Family wanted to reclaim its lost honor.

Qin Sheng faced Nangong Wentian’s challenge to a Source Technique duel and provoked him into moving the contest up to the Four Symbols Stone Workshop. The two entered its Heaven-Class Stone Garden to begin their high-stakes contest.

• Yao Xi warned Qin Sheng that Nangong Wentian was a leading Source Technique prodigy backed by factions hoping to undermine Qin Sheng, while Qin Sheng refused to join the expedition to the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• At a gathering of Eastern Wilderness prodigies, Qin Sheng dismissed Nangong Wentian, teased Ji Ziyue about the Ji Family’s attempt to hunt Ye Fan, and publicly declared that he regarded Nangong Wentian as nothing.
• Nangong Wentian challenged Qin Sheng to compete immediately, and Qin Sheng chose the Four Symbols Stone Workshop as their venue.
• Qin Sheng and the gathered prodigies reached the workshop, where Qin Sheng insisted they go straight to the costly Heaven-Class Stone Garden.
• Yao Xi explained that the garden’s unusual source stones mostly came from the Primordial Ancient Mine, while Qin Sheng joked with her as the crowd prepared to watch the contest.

Qin Sheng and Nangong Wentian began a high-stakes stone-gambling contest in the Four Symbols Stone Workshop, each choosing three costly Source Stones. After examining the stones with their respective techniques, they prepared to have them cut, with the wager including one million catties of Source and the items they uncovered.

• Qin Sheng and Nangong Wentian agreed to choose three Source Stones each, with treasures below peerless rare items excluded and the loser owing the winner the cut contents plus one million catties of Source.
• Nangong Wentian proposed Qin Sheng's Mother Qi of All Things Banner and coffin as stakes, but Qin Sheng countered by demanding a Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold weapon if Nangong Wentian lost.
• Qin Sheng examined the Divine Tree Stone and Azure Sky Lotus with his Heavenly Eye and a blood-marked vision technique, while Nangong Wentian used his family's palm-eye technique to inspect stones.
• Nangong Wentian chose the White Tiger Head, Heavenly Feather Stone, and Flying Phoenix, totaling 540,000 catties of Source.
• Qin Sheng chose the Azure Sky Lotus, Divine Tree Stone, and Heavenly Canon, totaling 470,000 catties of Source, and both sides prepared to begin cutting their stones.

Qin Sheng won the first stone-gambling round by uncovering Ancient Insect Divine Source, then stunned the crowd by finding Heavenly Marrow in the Azure Sky Lotus. He kept the Heavenly Marrow for himself and challenged Nangong Qi after the revelation shifted the duel’s momentum.

• Qin Sheng invited spectators to wager on his stones, and the Ji Family elder and others bet Source against him.
• Nangong Wentian’s White Tiger Head stone revealed Divine Source containing a young Primordial tiger’s head.
• Yao Xi cut Qin Sheng’s Divine Tree Stone, releasing deathly energy that Qin Sheng’s coffin absorbed and uncovering fifty-two Ancient Insect Kings in Divine Source.
• The Ji Family elder and representatives of other factions offered to buy the Ancient Insect Divine Source, and Qin Sheng agreed to sell part of it after the remaining stones were cut.
• Yao Xi first found the Azure Sky Lotus pod empty, then cut its stalk and revealed Nine-Colored Heavenly Marrow, which Qin Sheng identified and kept.
• Qin Sheng stored the Heavenly Marrow in his Sea of Bitterness and asked Nangong Qi why he was no longer smiling.

Qin Sheng defeated Nangong Qi in a stone-gambling contest, cutting Godscar Purple Gold from the Immortal Stone Heavenly Canon after Nangong Qi’s final stone proved empty. He collected the wagers and left with Yao Xi, while the Four Symbols Stone Workshop faced ruin and other workshops prepared to bar him.

• Nangong Qi cut a Primordial Origin Demon Fruit from the Heavenly Feather Stone, then found his Flying Phoenix stone empty except for a weapon imprint that Qin Sheng suspected was linked to a Forbidden Zone Supreme’s Phoenix-winged Gilt Gold Halberd.
• Yao Xi cut open the Immortal Stone Heavenly Canon where Qin Sheng directed her, and Qin Sheng extracted a page of Godscar Purple Gold, stunning the crowd and drawing an offer from Zixia that he refused.
• Qin Sheng declared victory over Nangong Qi in cultivation and Source Technique, and Nangong Wentian collapsed after spitting blood as the Nangong group departed.
• Qin Sheng reminded Nangong Qi to pay one million catties of Source, then had Yao Xi collect the winnings from the other stone gamblers.
• Qin Sheng left with Yao Xi, whose enthusiasm for cutting stones alarmed rival holy lands, while the Four Symbols Stone Workshop lamented that its Heaven-Class Stone Garden had been stripped of its treasures.

After Qin Sheng crushed the Source Arts Family, he refused to surrender his treasures to Shaking Light’s elders and entered seclusion to refine Heavenly Marrow, leaving the Eastern Wilderness’s prodigies despairing of catching up. Meanwhile, Ye Fan learned of Qin Sheng’s exploits, and Black Emperor and Duan De both headed for Holy City to find him.

• The Yaochi Saintess invited Qin Sheng to Yaochi’s Stone-Appraisal Gathering, and he agreed to visit if he had the chance.
• Qin Sheng rejected Supreme Elder Li’s demand that he hand over the Ancient Insect Divine Source and Heavenly Marrow, insisting that his belongings were his to decide.
• After visitors from across the lands came seeking his treasures, Qin Sheng announced that he would enter seclusion in Holy City to refine Heavenly Marrow.
• In Pingyan City, Ye Fan used his Source Technique to win Variant Source and heard a Lihuo Sect disciple compare him unfavorably to Qin Sheng.
• Black Emperor set out to find Qin Sheng, briefly returned to bite Ye Fan, then left again; Ye Fan resolved to cultivate before destroying the Lihuo Sect.
• In He Prefecture, Duan De heard about Qin Sheng’s exploits and set off for Holy City, sharing Black Emperor’s goal of finding him.

Qin Sheng emerged from seclusion as a Nine-Star Dou Zong, strengthened the Firmament Alliance, and resurrected Venerable Skyfire as a Dou Zun. After boosting Medusa’s cultivation and ordering the alliance to expand, he returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Venerable Skyfire, determined to surpass its ancestors.

• Qin Sheng left the Magma World at Nine-Star Dou Zong and learned from Su Qian that the Firmament Alliance had established itself in the Black-Corner Region.
• Qin Sheng refined the Bone-Rebirth Blood-Melting Pill and several other pills, then used the pill to restore Venerable Skyfire to a living body and Dou Zun strength.
• Qin Sheng traveled to Sky City with Venerable Skyfire and Zi Yan, praised the alliance’s leaders, and gave Medusa a Thunder Bone Pill and a Dou Zong Pill that helped her advance.
• Medusa ordered Hai Bodong and the others to accelerate the Firmament Alliance’s expansion, insisting that they show no restraint in the Black-Corner Region.
• Qin Sheng returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Venerable Skyfire and resolved to surpass the sect’s ancestors.

Qin Sheng returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Venerable Skyfire and Zi Yan, then strengthened the Firmament Alliance and dispatched Venerable Skyfire to pursue the Netherworld Poison Flame. As three years passed since Qin Sheng and Nalan Yanran visited the Xiao Family, the three-year agreement arrived.

• Qin Sheng returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, explained that Venerable Skyfire and Zi Yan had joined them, and told Yun Yun he had reached Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Yun Yun reported that the Heavenly Snake Mansion wanted to take Qing Lin, the Firmament Alliance was expanding, and neighboring empires might unite against them; Qin Sheng dismissed the threats.
• Jia Xingtian broke through to Dou Zong, then met Qin Sheng and Venerable Skyfire and pledged to follow Qin Sheng's lead.
• Little Fairy Doctor reported finding a powerful butterfly that Qin Sheng suspected was the Netherworld Poison Flame, and he sent Venerable Skyfire to capture it and visit the Chu Yun Empire's powers.
• Three years after Qin Sheng and Nalan Yanran visited the Xiao Family, the three-year agreement arrived.

Xiao Yan visited the Misty Cloud Sect to publicly explain that his engagement to Nalan Yanran had ended peacefully, restoring her reputation and praising the sect’s kindness. After offering Yao Chen as a guest elder, Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Hall of Souls under the name Yan Xiao, with Qin Sheng giving him protection for his soul.

• Qin Sheng, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran discussed Xiao Yan’s return and the approaching Three-Year Agreement, and Nalan Yanran affirmed that she wished to devote herself to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan told the gathered guests that the engagement had been peacefully dissolved three years earlier and that he had come to restore Nalan Yanran’s reputation.
• Nalan Yanran confirmed that she and Xiao Yan had chosen different paths, and the two wished each other well.
• Xiao Yan offered Yao Chen as a permanent guest elder of the Misty Cloud Sect, strengthening the sect and pleasing Qin Sheng.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he would enter the Hall of Souls as Yan Xiao to uncover its secrets, and Qin Sheng protected his soul and asked about the Xiao Family’s concealment.

Yao Chen declined resurrection so he could remain with Xiao Yan, while Qin Sheng traded flames and gave Xiao Yan a pill. Qin Sheng then prepared Yun Yun to break through to Dou Zong and pressured the Heavenly Serpent Venerable into reconciling over Qing Lin and joining the Firmament Alliance.

• Yao Chen chose to stay beside Xiao Yan, exchanged Origin Child Flames with Qin Sheng, and promised him the Bone Chilling Flame if he found a suitable Heavenly Flame for Xiao Yan.
• Qin Sheng told Yun Yun to prepare a report about the Xiao Family, then used pills and the Fallen Heart Flame to advance her cultivation toward Dou Zong over three days and nights.
• Venerable Skyfire returned with the Netherworld Poison Flame and reported that the Chu Yun Empire had agreed to join the Firmament Alliance.
• The Heavenly Serpent Venerable came to claim Qing Lin, but reconsidered after learning that Qin Sheng had powerful Dou Zun allies and demonstrating his overwhelming strength.
• Qin Sheng accepted the Heavenly Serpent Venerable's medicinal ingredients, began refining a Heavenly Venerate Pill, and urged the Heavenly Snake Mansion to join the Firmament Alliance.
• Qin Sheng brought Qing Lin to the desert and agreed that the Heavenly Snake Mansion's inheritance suited her, while the Heavenly Serpent Venerable accepted the arrangement.

Qin Sheng helped the Misty Cloud Sect form an alliance with the Heavenly Snake Mansion and secure Hall of Souls support by offering to search for the Xiao Family. After emerging from seclusion in the Shrouding the Heavens World, he learned that a dog demon and Daoist Duan De had come looking for him.

• Qin Sheng told Yun Shan that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had joined the Firmament Alliance and urged him to report the Xiao Family to Guardian Wu.
• Yun Shan informed Guardian Wu that the Xiao Family was likely his target, but Guardian Wu found the family’s home deserted.
• Yun Shan persuaded Guardian Wu to enlist the Misty Cloud Sect in the search, and the Hall of Souls approved resources and support for the sect.
• Qin Sheng dealt with the tampered resources, while Yun Yun emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong and fulfilled his second wish in Battle Through the Heavens.
• Qin Sheng completed a month of seclusion in the Shrouding the Heavens World, transformed greatly while remaining at the Eighth Dragon Transformation, and came out to find Yao Xi.
• Yao Xi told Qin Sheng that a dog demon and Daoist Duan De had visited, claiming to be his good brothers.

Qin Sheng reunited with Duan De and Black Emperor in Holy City, where their antics drew attention and Duan De proposed exploring a ruined Holy Land’s ancestral tomb in He Prefecture. The chapter ended with Duan De and Black Emperor declaring themselves, Qin Sheng, and Ye Fan the Four Heroes of the Firmament, much to Qin Sheng’s dismay.

• Qin Sheng met up with Duan De and Black Emperor, and the three left Holy City’s streets to talk privately.
• Duan De and Black Emperor fought after Qin Sheng teased them, then Duan De returned and proposed investigating an ancient Holy Land’s ancestral tomb in He Prefecture.
• Black Emperor rejoined them, and Duan De told Qin Sheng that Black Emperor had been causing trouble in Holy City while claiming to be Qin Sheng’s friend.
• Duan De and Black Emperor argued over who had spread rumors about Qin Sheng, then fought again as Qin Sheng walked away.
• Black Emperor and Duan De named themselves, Qin Sheng, and Ye Fan the Four Heroes of the Firmament, while Qin Sheng regretted being grouped with them.

Qin Sheng agreed to accompany Duan De and the Black Emperor to investigate a destroyed Holy Land in He Prefecture after learning it was tied to Emperor Wushi. Before leaving, he heard how the pair had been using his name to provoke Holy Land heirs, then sensed that Infinite Land had reacted and wondered whether he had died again.

• Qin Sheng warned Duan De and the Black Emperor against calling themselves the Four Heroes of the Firmament, then jokingly proposed that they and Yezi be the Three Sons of the Firmament while he became its lord.
• Duan De invited Qin Sheng to explore the ruins of a destroyed Holy Land in He Prefecture, and the Black Emperor urged him to go after revealing that Emperor Wushi had secretly destroyed the site to contain a hidden danger.
• Qin Sheng agreed to the expedition and returned to the Shaking Light encampment, where Yao Xi told him that Duan De and the Black Emperor had provoked Ji Haoyue and the Purple Mansion Saint Son while claiming to act on his behalf.
• Qin Sheng decided not to correct the pair’s claims and planned to collect interest from them during the expedition, then sensed Infinite Land react and wondered if he had died again.

Qin Sheng met two versions of himself in Infinite Land, learned their final wishes, and entered their worlds to fulfill them. After discovering that one world was the Armor Hero universe and gaining a powerful Five Elements bloodline, he left to travel to He Prefecture.

• Qin Sheng spoke with the First in the World Qin Sheng and Modern Qin Sheng, who asked him to avenge their deaths and fulfill their other wishes.
• Qin Sheng revived in The First in the World and killed his enemy, then revived in Modern Qin Sheng’s world and destroyed the Mutant Beast that had killed him.
• Flame Dragon Armor witnessed Qin Sheng’s strength and contacted Mei Zhen, while Qin Sheng recognized the world as the first Armor Hero series, Light and Shadow Legend.
• The essences of the two Qin Shengs merged with Qin Sheng, revealing that Armored Qin Sheng had a powerful Five Elements bloodline and the potential to summon the Emperor Armor.
• Qin Sheng summoned the Emperor Armor, rode the Emperor Steed into space, drew power from the sun, and decided to become an Armor Hero.
• Qin Sheng left his meditation chamber and set out for He Prefecture, eager to visit the Holy Land Ancestral Tomb and meet Duan De.

Qin Sheng left Holy City with Duan De and the Black Emperor, but Human World assassins ambushed him on the way to He Prefecture. He triggered his Ninth Dragon Transformation Heavenly Tribulation, trapping two Great Abilities in its range, and began to overcome the tribulation as Shaking Light experts arrived and the onlookers wondered who had commissioned the attack.

• Qin Sheng caught Duan De and the Black Emperor trying to infiltrate Shaking Light’s medicinal garden, warned them, and set off with them for He Prefecture.
• Yaoyue Kong met Qin Sheng in Holy City, where the Black Emperor tried and failed to recruit him with the Black Emperor Scripture.
• The Human Emperor Banner warned Qin Sheng of danger, and two Human World Great Abilities attacked him as the group prepared to cross the Void.
• Qin Sheng blocked the assassins’ strikes with his Primordial Holy Light Technique and Dao Form, then triggered his Ninth Dragon Transformation Heavenly Tribulation.
• Qin Sheng attacked the trapped assassins and focused on surviving the tribulation, while experts from Holy City identified the attackers as Human World assassins and Shaking Light vowed to pursue whoever commissioned them.

Qin Sheng completed the Ninth Dragon Transformation and challenged two Human World Great Abilities after surviving his tribulation. He defeated them barehanded and with his divine arts, revealing that he could remain in the Divine Taboo Domain and shaking the Beidou with the display of his power.

• Qin Sheng absorbed the final thunder of his Dragon Transformation Tribulation and perfected his Great Dragon after refining the Heavenly Marrow.
• After the tribulation ended, Qin Sheng challenged the two injured Human World Great Abilities to fight him alone, and the Shaking Light experts sealed off the battlefield.
• Qin Sheng fought the two assassins without a weapon, realized he had reached the ultimate Eight Forbidden Domain, and combined it with Infinite Land's seventeenfold combat increase to enter the Divine Taboo Domain.
• Qin Sheng used the Battle Saint Art to manifest the Dragon-patterned Black Gold Cauldron and crushed half of each Great Ability's body, stunning the watching experts.
• Qin Sheng unleashed his Primordial Spirit attack and killed both Human World Great Abilities, then challenged anyone else who wanted to kill him.

Qin Sheng challenged the gathered experts to attack openly, then underwent successive tribulations to enter Immortal Platform First Heaven. After surviving an Immortal Platform Tribulation featuring lightning manifestations of Hengyu the Great, Western Emperor, and Void Emperor, he advanced to its second minor stage and declared that he alone commanded the rise and fall.

• Qin Sheng killed the two Human World Great Abilities, recovered, and confirmed that his combat power could remain beyond the Eight Forbidden Domain.
• Qin Sheng triggered the Immortal Platform Tribulation, and an apparition of the Ancient Heavenly Court appeared within the Thunder Sea.
• Qin Sheng fought Human-Shaped Lightning manifestations of Hengyu the Great, Western Emperor, and Void Emperor for three days and nights before the tribulation ended.
• Qin Sheng triggered another tribulation immediately and advanced to the second minor stage of Immortal Platform First Heaven.
• Qin Sheng recited that the Heavenly Sovereigns and Ancient Emperors had become dust, then declared that he alone commanded the rise and fall.