Chapter Summaries

Qin Sheng discussed how to cultivate the Qilin Immortal Elixir Seed and learned that Wang Chengkun wanted to meet him. At a banquet, Qin Sheng refused to trade away the Weapon Deity, then accepted Wang Chengkun’s provocation by challenging Wang Teng to a duel with their prized inheritances at stake.

• Qin Sheng explained that the Qilin Immortal Elixir had undergone Nirvana and decided to nurture its seed rather than consume it.
• Yao Xi told Qin Sheng that Wang Chengkun had asked about him and repeatedly praised Wang Teng as having the bearing of a Great Emperor.
• Li Daoqing reassured Qin Sheng that Shaking Light Holy Land would cultivate the Qilin Seed for the Holy Land’s future.
• Wang Chengkun invited Qin Sheng to Drunken Immortal Tower and asked to redeem the Weapon Deity, but Qin Sheng refused to sell it.
• Wang Chengkun and the other guests provoked Qin Sheng by comparing him with Wang Teng, so Qin Sheng challenged Wang Teng and wagered his Great Emperor sacred artifacts against the Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture and Nine Secrets: Qian.

Qin Sheng’s challenge to Wang Teng became a public wager over Emperor Scriptures, Nine Secret Techniques, and Great Emperor sacred artifacts, drawing the Five Regions’ attention. Wang Teng accepted and arrived in Holy City seven days later, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Qin Sheng confirmed the proposed duel to Yao Xi and Ye Fan, while Shaking Light Holy Land shared information about Wang Teng’s legendary rise and treasures.
• Wang Chengkun and the Wang Family elders debated whether Wang Teng should fight Qin Sheng, and Wang Teng accepted the challenge for seven days later in Holy City.
• The Wang Family publicly announced Wang Teng’s response, prompting cultivators from across the Five Regions to gather and argue over who would win.
• Qin Sheng declared that he would wait for Wang Teng to challenge him.
• Seven days later, Wang Teng arrived in Holy City atop his golden Ancient War Chariot, surrounded by dragon and phoenix manifestations.

Qin Sheng faced Wang Teng in a battle watched by the Beidou Five Regions, declaring he would defeat him within ten moves. After surviving Wang Teng’s most powerful techniques without injury, Qin Sheng counterattacked and seemingly killed him with a Dragon-patterned Black Gold Cauldron.

• Wang Teng arrived at the prepared battlefield and challenged Qin Sheng for his Emperor Sacred Artifact, the Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture, and Nine Secrets: Qian.
• Qin Sheng promised to defeat Wang Teng within ten moves or kill himself, shocking the spectators.
• Wang Teng attacked with the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, Cross Star Domain Intersection, and Ten Thousand Spirits Transmute into Dao, but Qin Sheng’s defenses neutralized every strike.
• Wang Teng used the Desolate Ancient Saint Art and Eternal Exile to cast Qin Sheng into another dimension, but Qin Sheng returned unharmed and counted the attack as his fourth move.
• Wang Teng unleashed Nine Secrets: Qian against Qin Sheng’s Primordial Spirit, but the attack vanished without effect.
• Qin Sheng summoned a Dragon-patterned Black Gold Cauldron, struck Wang Teng at close range, and blasted his body into a mist of blood as the Kun Family Lord cried out for him.

Qin Sheng defeated Wang Teng in their duel, and Wang Teng used the Self-Slaying Enlightenment Art to recover before the Wang Family conceded. Wang Teng handed Qin Sheng the Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture and Nine Secrets: Qian, while Qin Sheng left with his standing as Beidou’s foremost young cultivator strengthened.

• Qin Sheng’s strike shattered Wang Teng, but Wang Teng used the Self-Slaying Enlightenment Art to manifest a new body.
• Qin Sheng identified Wang Teng’s secret technique and noted that it was incomplete, while Wang Teng’s new Divine Embryo cracked and weakened.
• Wang Chengkun conceded the duel, and Qin Sheng demanded the Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture and Nine Secrets: Qian.
• Wang Teng gave Qin Sheng an Ancient Jade containing the promised scriptures and techniques, then left in despair without his Heavenly Emperor Sacred Sword or Ancient War Chariot.
• The Saint Lords praised Qin Sheng and offered him eligible daughters from their clans, while Qin Sheng departed as others hailed him as unmatched beneath heaven.

After defeating Wang Teng, Qin Sheng studied Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture and Nine Secrets: Qian while news of his overwhelming strength spread across Beidou. Ye Fan and Pang Bo visited him in disguise, and the chapter ended with Ye Fan giving Qin Sheng three drops of Divine Medicine Liquid from the True Dragon Immortal Elixir.

• Qin Sheng examined the Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture and began comprehending Nine Secrets: Qian, strengthening his Primordial Spirit.
• Demon Emperor Hall elders discussed Qin Sheng’s victory over Wang Teng, while Southern Demon vowed to reach the Divine Taboo Domain himself.
• Qishi Mansion elders debated Wang Teng’s defeat, and Wang Teng stood alone on a barren mountain for seven days before an Immortal Crane took him away.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo visited Qin Sheng in disguise and explained that Ye Fan was being hunted after kidnapping a Holy Maiden.
• Qin Sheng offered Ye Fan one million jin of Source to help him reach the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Ye Fan gave Qin Sheng three drops of Divine Medicine Liquid obtained from the True Dragon Immortal Elixir, leaving Yao Xi determined to stay devoted to Qin Sheng.

Qin Sheng warned Ye Fan that breaking through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm as a Sacred Physique could trigger a deadly Heavenly Retribution, and offered him the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy for protection. After the group exchanged scriptures and secret arts, Ye Fan headed to the stone workshops to vent, while Qin Sheng sensed an abnormal movement in the Infinite Land three days later.

• Qin Sheng accepted the True Dragon Immortal Medicine liquid and told Ye Fan that his Sacred Physique breakthrough would likely face Heavenly Retribution, offering him the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy.
• Ye Fan said he would not retreat from the breakthrough, while Pang Bo lightened the mood with jokes and Ye Fan explained that he had the True Dragon Immortal Medicine's Dragon Pearl.
• Pang Bo shared the Demon Emperor Scripture with Qin Sheng and Ye Fan, and Qin Sheng exchanged the Desolate Ancient Emperor Scripture and Nine Secrets: Qian with them.
• Ye Fan realized that using the Chaotic Ancient Secret Art and Demon Emperor's Nine Slashes could bring trouble from the Wang Family and Demon Race, then left for the Holy Land stone workshops to vent.
• Three days later, Qin Sheng sensed an abnormal movement within the Infinite Land and wondered if he had died again.

In Infinite Land, Qin Sheng met two more versions of himself and agreed to fulfill their wishes, including inheriting the Five-Element Sacred Physique and seeking longevity. The chapter ended with Basketball Fire Qin Sheng reviving in a hospital and Mortal Qin Sheng’s failed Nascent Soul breakthrough suddenly stabilizing in Yellow Maple Valley.

• Qin Sheng learned that Basketball Fire Qin Sheng had died in a car accident and agreed to pursue his dream of becoming the world’s best basketball player.
• Mortal Qin Sheng revealed that he had died during Nascent Soul formation after failing to overcome a Heart Demon, despite having a Five-Element Sacred Physique.
• Qin Sheng agreed to kill Spirit Beast Mountain’s Nascent Soul ancestor and Spirit Flood Dragon Daoist, and to pursue Mortal Qin Sheng’s wish for longevity.
• Mortal Qin Sheng’s essence and memories became available for Qin Sheng to inherit, and the combat power boost from Infinite Land rose to nineteen.
• Basketball Fire Qin Sheng’s heart began beating again after doctors had declared him dead.
• Patriarch Linghu watched the Nascent Soul Formation Phenomenon collapse, then saw it stabilize and surge with spiritual energy.

Qin Sheng overcame the heart demon tied to his murdered family and successfully formed a Nascent Soul, becoming Yellow Maple Valley’s newest patriarch. He planned to settle his blood feud with Spirit Beast Mountain and learned that Han Li had just joined the sect, so he ordered a meeting with him.

• Qin Sheng recognized the heart demon’s visions of his murdered family as an illusion and broke free by accepting that he could change the future.
• Qin Sheng formed his Nascent Soul amid extraordinary heavenly phenomena, while Han Li watched from Yellow Maple Valley after joining the sect.
• Qin Sheng thanked Patriarch Linghu for guarding his breakthrough and declared that he would become the true number one of Southern Heaven.
• Qin Sheng asked Yellow Maple Valley to hold a Nascent Soul Ceremony and invite Spirit Flood Dragon Daoist and another Spirit Beast Mountain cultivator so he could resolve his blood feud.
• Qin Sheng met the sect’s Core Formation cultivators and learned that Han Li had entered the sect with an Ascension Token and a Four-Element Spiritual Root.
• Qin Sheng ordered the sect to bring Han Li to his cave dwelling so he could meet him personally.

After forming his Nascent Soul, Qin Sheng decided to take Han Li as a disciple if he established his foundation, while exploring Yellow Maple Valley’s cultivation arts and arrays. A month later, cultivators gathered at the valley for Qin Sheng’s Nascent Soul Ceremony, inspired by his rise despite his Five-Element Spiritual Root.

• Qin Sheng chose to take Han Li as his disciple after Han Li successfully established his foundation, and Yellow Maple Valley spread the news.
• Han Li learned that Qin Sheng was a Nascent Soul cultivator and received back the Foundation Establishment Pill that Martial Uncle Ye had taken from him.
• Qin Sheng studied Yellow Maple Valley’s cultivation texts and practiced arrays while considering the resources needed to ascend to the Spirit Realm.
• Xin Ruyin returned and congratulated Qin Sheng on forming his Nascent Soul, and Qin Sheng encouraged her to form her core.
• A month later, cultivators arrived at Yellow Maple Valley for Qin Sheng’s Nascent Soul Ceremony and praised his achievement despite his Five-Element Spiritual Root.

At his Nascent Soul Ceremony, Qin Sheng confronted Spirit Flood Dragon Daoist and Patriarch Jiuming over the deaths of thirteen members of his family. He effortlessly captured them, declared Spirit Beast Mountain would be destroyed and absorbed by Yellow Maple Valley, and forced the other sects to approve before the ceremony continued.

• Patriarch Jiuming told Spirit Flood Dragon Daoist to apologize to Qin Sheng at the ceremony and warned him not to leave Spirit Beast Mountain if Qin refused to forgive him.
• Qin Sheng appeared at Yellow Maple Valley's Nascent Soul Ceremony, greeted the gathered cultivators, and demanded an explanation from Jiuming and Spirit Flood Dragon for the deaths of thirteen members of his Qin Family.
• Qin Sheng captured Jiuming, his bonded spirit beast, and Spirit Flood Dragon with overwhelming ease, extracting Jiuming's Nascent Soul and Spirit Flood Dragon's Golden Pill.
• Qin Sheng ordered Yellow Maple Valley to take Spirit Beast Mountain's inheritances and resources, and the sects present voiced no objections to its destruction.
• Qin Sheng resumed the ceremony, and the attending Nascent Soul cultivators praised him and laughed along.

Qin Sheng warned the neutral sects that the Righteous and Demonic Paths planned to invade, then founded the Great Love Alliance and persuaded the Nascent Soul cultivators to join. After displaying his spatial power and assigning Patriarch Linghu to take control of Spirit Beast Mountain, Qin Sheng drew the attention of the Hehuan Old Devil, who set out to test him.

• Qin Sheng revealed that Spirit Beast Mountain had colluded with the Spirit Beast Sect, then used Patriarch Jiuming's memories to show that the Demonic Path invasion was real and warned that the Righteous Path might join it.
• Qin Sheng proposed the Great Love Alliance, promising protection and access to resources through a route to the Chaotic Star Sea, and the gathered sects agreed to join.
• Qin Sheng gave the Nascent Soul cultivators Divine Sense jade talismans and sent them instantly back to their sects through a spatial rift.
• Qin Sheng ordered Patriarch Linghu to seize control of Spirit Beast Mountain and serve as the alliance's deputy leader while its resources helped raise Qin Sheng's cultivation.
• The Demonic Path learned of Qin Sheng's feats, and the Hehuan Old Devil set out to visit him.

Qin Sheng subdued Hehuan Old Devil and brought him into the Great Love Alliance, then traveled to the Chaotic Star Sea and secured Star Palace’s allegiance by freeing its Twin Saints from their cultivation troubles. With Southern Heaven and the Chaotic Star Sea under his influence, Qin Sheng prepared to expand the alliance further.

• Qin Sheng captured Hehuan Old Devil near Yellow Maple Valley, imposed restrictions on his Nascent Soul, and explained his plan to unite Southern Heaven and lead its sects toward the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Sheng reassured Yellow Maple Valley’s disciples, then urged Han Li to rely on strength and face enemies without fear.
• Hehuan Old Devil joined the Great Love Alliance and accepted Qin Sheng’s mission to invite Demonic Path Nascent Soul cultivators to join.
• Qin Sheng repaired the Ancient Teleportation Array at a Yue Kingdom spirit stone mine and traveled to the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Qin Sheng subdued Star Palace’s elders and offered to resolve the Twin Saints’ problems with the Magnetic Origin Divine Radiance in exchange for ascending to the Spirit Realm together.
• Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing accepted Qin Sheng’s offer and made Star Palace join the Great Love Alliance, leaving the Chaotic Star Sea under Qin Sheng’s influence.

After absorbing the Five-Element Sacred Physique, Qin Sheng went to meet Ye Fan but was drawn into the Holy City’s crisis when Primordial Creatures attacked after the holy lands invaded Purple Mountain. The group later reached a barren wasteland by mistake, where Qin Sheng completed a tribulation and uncovered a mysterious river resembling Yellow Springs.

• Qin Sheng absorbed the Five-Element Sacred Physique’s origin, then learned Ye Fan had reached Dao Palace Perfection and agreed to accompany him to the Jiang Family.
• The Wushi Bell rang as Primordial Creatures emerged from Purple Mountain and threatened the Holy City, but Qin Sheng blocked them until Great Abilities arrived with three Emperor Weapons.
• The Dragon-Pattern Peak Master said the holy lands had encountered sealed Primordial experts in Purple Mountain and failed to reach the Beginningless Inheritance, which remained protected by the Wushi Bell.
• The Black Emperor’s Dao Patterns sent Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and the Black Emperor to a barren wasteland instead of the Jiang Family, and Qin Sheng used the quiet place to undergo a Heavenly Tribulation.
• During Qin Sheng’s tribulation, the ground opened into a vast abyss that swallowed lightning; afterward, a stagnant yellow river rose from it, which the Black Emperor thought resembled Yellow Springs.

After Qin Sheng’s tribulation brought him and Ye Fan into the Great Wilderness, they discovered the mysterious River of Rebirth and learned of its strange history. They extracted Rebirth Fluid from the river with the Corpse Shroud, gathered several weapons, and left with new questions about the river’s connection to Ancient Yaochi and Duan De.

• Qin Sheng identified the river as the River of Rebirth and told Ye Fan and Black Emperor about its mysterious appearances and a Living Fossil who had returned young after disappearing for ten thousand years.
• Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Black Emperor found two Great Ability weapons drifting down the river, and Qin Sheng collected them while Black Emperor complained.
• Ye Fan kicked Black Emperor into the river to test its safety, and Black Emperor discovered that its water tasted like the pool water and Immortal Elixir from Ancient Yaochi’s ninth level.
• Qin Sheng used the Corpse Shroud to draw impurities from the river and condense thirty-six drops of Rebirth Fluid, which Black Emperor explained could either corrode a cultivator or lead to rebirth.
• As the purified tributary vanished, Qin Sheng collected four more Great Ability weapons and led the others out of the abyss, concluding that Duan De was somehow responsible.
• Qin Sheng and Ye Fan denied that the river or its treasures had existed and suppressed Black Emperor when he demanded his share.

Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and the Black Emperor visited the Jiang Family, where Jiang Taixu agreed to provide the Source Ye Fan needed to attempt his Four Extremes breakthrough. Qin Sheng urged Ye Fan to break through in the Desolate Forbidden Land, and Ye Fan chose to go there, while Jiang Taixu offered to settle Ye Fan’s old grudges with the Eastern Wilderness holy lands.

• Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and the Black Emperor met Jiang Yun and then visited Jiang Taixu and Caiyun Fairy at their mountain retreat.
• Jiang Taixu promised to provide the remaining Source Ye Fan needed and recommended the Dragon Transformation Pool for his breakthrough.
• Qin Sheng proposed that Ye Fan attempt his breakthrough in the Desolate Forbidden Land, arguing that its power might help him overcome the Heaven and Earth Shackles.
• After the Black Emperor warned him about the Forbidden Zone, Ye Fan chose the Desolate Forbidden Land, where his cultivation path had first begun.
• Jiang Taixu supported Ye Fan’s choice and offered to resolve his conflicts with the Eastern Wilderness holy lands, leaving Qin Sheng worried that this could disrupt Ruthless’s task.

Jiang Taixu explained his dangerous attempt to transform himself and told Ye Fan that the Jiang Family could reach its ancestral star, Ziwei, though the route had long been unusable. The Jiang Family then announced it would help Ye Fan enter the Four Extremes realm and that Jiang Taixu would appear in Holy City in three days, stunning the Eastern Wilderness.

• Jiang Taixu told Qin Sheng that he had hidden himself to pursue a dangerous transformation and said Qishi Mansion was the route to the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Qin Sheng explained to Ye Fan and Black Emperor that Earth was an ordinary, spiritually depleted world, while Jiang Taixu revealed that the Jiang Family had a ritual altar leading to Ziwei.
• Jiang Taixu spoke privately with Qin Sheng about his cultivation of the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art and arranged to go with him to Holy City in three days.
• Little Tingting joyfully welcomed Qin Sheng and Ye Fan, while Black Emperor tried to persuade her to follow him.
• The Jiang Family announced that it and Qin Sheng would provide ten million jin of Source to help Ye Fan enter the Four Extremes realm, prompting uproar across the Eastern Wilderness.
• The Jiang Family announced that Jiang Taixu would arrive in Holy City in three days and summon the Saint Lords of the holy lands, leaving cultivators stunned.

Qin Sheng helped Jiang Taixu reconcile the holy lands and protect Ye Fan’s planned breakthrough at the Desolate Forbidden Land. In Yan Capital, he rescued Xiao Nannan from the Yin-Yang Saintess, recognized her as the Ruthless Emperor’s Dao Fruit, and decided to take her with him.

• Jiang Taixu told Qin Sheng that Caiyun Fairy had at most twenty years left, and the two discussed the coming changes in heaven and earth.
• Jiang Taixu persuaded the Saint Lords to settle old grudges with Ye Fan, called for younger-generation competition, and condemned covert cooperation with the Assassin Divine Dynasty.
• Ye Fan announced that he would attempt his Four Extremes breakthrough at the Desolate Forbidden Land in seven days, while Qin Sheng assured Li Daoqing that Ye Fan would succeed.
• In Yan Capital, Qin Sheng stopped the Yin-Yang Saintess from abducting a little girl named Nannan and sealed the Saintess in his coffin.
• Qin Sheng fed and cared for Xiao Nannan, recognized her as the Ruthless Emperor’s Dao Fruit, and invited her to leave Yan Capital with him.

Qin Sheng stayed with Xiao Nannan while Ye Fan prepared to break through into the Four Extremes Secret Realm. When Heaven and Earth rejected Ye Fan’s Sacred Physique with the Innate Dao Diagram, he entered the Desolate Forbidden Land and survived after a hidden power erased the Diagram, leaving him on the path to Minor Completion.

• Qin Sheng introduced Xiao Nannan to Ye Fan, who recognized her as a child he had seen years earlier, and the two discussed her lost memories.
• Ye Fan entrusted Qin Sheng with his treasures and asked him to care for his parents if he failed to return; Xiao Nannan’s blood touched the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy, which showed no visible reaction.
• After two days with Qin Sheng and Xiao Nannan, Ye Fan broke through into the Four Extremes Secret Realm before the gathered Saint Lords and heavenly geniuses.
• The Innate Dao Diagram descended upon Ye Fan, who entered the Desolate Forbidden Land and endured its attacks as he pressed toward the nine Sacred Mountains.
• The Desolate Slaves retreated when the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy manifested a red mark, and a great hand from the Ancient Abyss erased the Innate Dao Diagram.
• Ye Fan survived and celebrated his breakthrough, while Qin Sheng and Xiao Nannan rejoiced that he had taken the first step toward Minor Completion of the Sacred Physique.

After Ye Fan achieved minor completion of his Sacred Physique, he ventured deeper into the Desolate Forbidden Land and disappeared, leaving his life uncertain to everyone outside. Qin Sheng defended Ye Fan from suspicion, exposed the Yin-Yang Sect’s abduction of children, and later reassured Ye Fan’s friends that he would return.

• Ye Fan completed his breakthrough, then entered the deeper reaches of the Desolate Forbidden Land, and the onlookers assumed he had died.
• Qin Sheng rejected the Yin-Yang Saint Lord’s suspicions about Ye Fan and warned the Saint Lords against spreading baseless rumors.
• Qin Sheng exposed the Yin-Yang Sect’s abduction of children, prompting the other Sacred Lands to demand an explanation from the Yin-Yang Saint Lord.
• Qin Sheng left with Xiao Nannan and later told the Black Emperor, Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui that Ye Fan would be fine.
• The Black Emperor approached Xiao Nannan and offered to take her as his disciple, while Qin Sheng warned him not to harm her.

Qin Sheng left Xiao Nannan in Jiang Taixu’s care and returned to Shaking Light, where he learned about a plan to lure special-physique cultivators into a deadly trap. He stopped the plan and left the Dragon-Pattern Peak Master questioning whether the Progenitor’s will truly existed.

• The Black Emperor tried to persuade Qin Sheng to let him raise Xiao Nannan, but she chose to stay with Qin Sheng.
• Qin Sheng arranged for Jiang Taixu and Caiyun Fairy to look after Xiao Nannan, and told Pang Bo to collect her when Ye Fan emerged.
• Qin Sheng told the Dragon-Pattern Peak Master that Jiang Taixu had become comparable to an Ancient Saint and claimed the Progenitor’s guidance favored him.
• The Dragon-Pattern Peak Master reported that Zhan Taishang planned to use rumors of an Emperor Weapon to lure special-physique cultivators into a killing formation.
• Qin Sheng rejected the plan, ordered Zhan Taishang to mine Source Stones for five hundred years, and told the Dragon-Pattern Peak Master to wait for him to grow stronger.
• After Qin Sheng left, the Dragon-Pattern Peak Master wondered whether the Progenitor’s will truly existed.