Chapter Summaries

Qin Sheng cultivated in the Fire Domain, refined the Five-Elements True Fire and Rebirth Fluid, and advanced two realms in half a year before returning to Shaking Light Holy Land. There, Yao Xi told him that Ye Fan had emerged from the Desolate Forbidden Land but was supposedly dying, and Qin Sheng decided to visit him at the Wind Clan Saint Lord’s birthday celebration.

• Qin Sheng entered the seventh layer of the Fire Domain and devoured the Five-Elements True Fire, tempering his body, Primordial Spirit, and artifacts.
• Qin Sheng refined the River of Rebirth’s divine fluid, endured its corruption, and underwent a thorough rebirth that strengthened his Five Great Secret Realms.
• Qin Sheng’s counterparts advanced in their respective worlds, while half a year passed and Qin Sheng broke through two realms in the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.
• Qin Sheng returned to Shaking Light Holy Land, where Yao Xi told him that Ye Fan had survived the Desolate Forbidden Land but had supposedly only days left to live.
• Qin Sheng suspected Ye Fan was pretending to be gravely ill and said he would visit him at the Wind Clan Saint Lord’s birthday celebration.

Qin Sheng heard Yao Xi's account of the past half year and traveled with her to the Wind Clan for its Saint Lord's birthday. After meeting Feng Huang and learning Ye Fan had been targeted, Qin Sheng received Yao Xi's message that Ye Fan was in danger.

• Yao Xi told Qin Sheng about the holy lands' disastrous expedition into the Primordial Ancient Mine, the deaths of two elders in the Desolate Forbidden Land, Ye Fan's duel with Hua Yunfei, and other recent events.
• Yao Xi explained that Qishi Mansion had invited Qin Sheng as a representative of the Eastern Wilderness, and Qin Sheng told her to remain in Beidou and cultivate.
• Qin Sheng invited Yao Xi to travel with him to the Wind Clan for its Saint Lord's birthday, and they arrived at the clan's eight hundred divine islands.
• A Wind Clan major figure welcomed Qin Sheng and Yao Xi, and Qin Sheng learned that Ye Fan had arrived several days earlier.
• Qin Sheng met the Wind Clan Saint Lord and Feng Huang, then discussed Ye Fan's condition with the Saint Lord.
• Yao Xi messaged Qin Sheng that Ye Fan had been targeted.

Qin Sheng reunited with Ye Fan in Purple Heaven Capital and learned that Human World’s assassins might be tracking him, while Ye Fan revealed what he and his companions had found in the Desolate Forbidden Land and Immortal Mountain. At the Wind Clan Saint Lord’s birthday banquet, Qin Sheng sat among the faction leaders while Ye Fan remained with the younger generation.

• Qin Sheng met Ye Fan, Yao Xi, Xiao Nannan, and the Black Emperor outside a stone workshop, where Xiao Nannan reported recognizing a disguised person following them; Qin Sheng took Ye Fan back to the Wind Clan to invite the assassins to act.
• Ye Fan admitted he was not dying and planned to conceal his Minor Completion of Sacred Physique while cultivating, then explained that the Desolate Lord had erased a dangerous Dao Diagram and that he had seen Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin again.
• Ye Fan gave Qin Sheng fruits from the Nine Wonderful Immortal Medicine and described his encounter with Hua Yunfei, then explained that Black Emperor’s faulty teleportation had scattered Pang Bo and Tu Fei after they escaped Immortal Mountain.
• Ye Fan showed Qin Sheng the upper volume of the Assassin Heavenly Court’s inheritance, and Qin Sheng agreed to seek the lower volume, Nine Secrets: Xing, after the banquet.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor recounted finding an Immortal Tears Green Gold with sentience in Immortal Mountain and credited Xiao Nannan with helping them survive; Qin Sheng returned Ye Fan’s items.
• At the Wind Clan Saint Lord’s birthday banquet, Qin Sheng sat with the Saint Lords while Ye Fan and the other juniors were seated apart, and Yao Xi told Ye Fan that Qin Sheng was the sole younger-generation exception.

At the Wind Clan Saint Lord’s birthday banquet, Qin Sheng protected Ye Fan from trouble and discussed the River of Rebirth with the Yaochi Queen Mother. Afterward, Ye Fan admitted how much safer he felt with Qin Sheng nearby, and the group considered how to approach dangerous Saint Cliff.

• Qin Sheng attended the Wind Clan Saint Lord’s banquet with Xiao Nannan, where the Yaochi Queen Mother invited him to visit Yaochi and offered Xiao Nannan a chance to cultivate there.
• Qin Sheng told the Yaochi Queen Mother and other Saint Lords that he had encountered the vanished River of Rebirth, and she offered to let him consult Yaochi’s records about it.
• Ye Fan cut open a Source Stone and revealed Divine Source after Violet Firmament Sect disciples mocked him, while Qin Sheng silenced one of the disciples and accepted the Golden-Winged Little Peng King’s future challenge.
• Ye Fan coughed blood and pretended to be near death, prompting Qin Sheng to declare that he could not be saved and Ye Fan to joke about leaving him his possessions.
• After leaving the banquet, Ye Fan said that Qin Sheng’s presence had kept Human World from attempting an assassination, and Qin Sheng and Black Emperor proposed faking Ye Fan’s death to collect funeral gifts.
• The group discussed going to Saint Cliff for the Nine Secrets: Xing, but Qin Sheng warned that they would need help because the place was too dangerous.

The group reached the Tianxuan Ruins, met Old Lunatic, and recruited him to join their search for the Nine Secrets: Xing. They then arrived at Saint Cliff, where Qin Sheng reassured Xiao Nannan that she was the most powerful of all.

• Qin Sheng explained that Tianxuan had been destroyed after attacking the Desolate Forbidden Land, while an Ancient Sage still guarded its abandoned grounds.
• The group witnessed Old Lunatic appear at the Tianxuan Ruins, and Xiao Nannan spotted him in a coffin within a hidden world.
• Old Lunatic refined Xiao Nannan’s Rainbow Stone into her body, restoring her memories and ending her recurring memory loss.
• Ye Fan invited Old Lunatic to join their search for the Nine Secrets: Xing, and Old Lunatic followed the group.
• The group reached Saint Cliff, where the Black Emperor described the power of a Completed Sacred Physique and Qin Sheng called Xiao Nannan The First in the World.

Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and their companions crossed Saint Cliff, where Black Emperor’s knowledge of Emperor Wushi’s formations repeatedly failed to protect him from lightning. At the summit, Ye Fan obtained the Sacred Physique’s cultivation method from its corpse, which then awakened enough to call him its descendant.

• Qin Sheng explained that the Completed Sacred Physique had likely been ambushed in his declining years, and the group entered Saint Cliff with Black Emperor leading them through Emperor Wushi’s formations.
• Black Emperor was repeatedly struck by lightning until Old Lunatic studied the formation patterns and found a safer route; the group also gathered medicinal herbs and Divine Source.
• The group encountered Sun True Fire, a million Fire God Crows, and a Saint-level Golden Crow, which Old Lunatic drove away, then cautiously passed Reincarnation Lake.
• At Saint Cliff’s summit, the group found Emperor Wushi’s Conferred God List suppressing the mountain and opened the stone coffin, revealing Nine Secrets: Xing and the corpse of the Lord of the Assassin Heavenly Court.
• The green-haired Corpse of the Completed Sacred Physique emerged and stared at Ye Fan; Ye Fan’s connection to it granted him a more complete Sacred Physique cultivation method and the Heavenly Court Scepter.
• The Corpse of the Completed Sacred Physique gained a spark of awareness, addressed Ye Fan as its descendant, and declared, “My descendant, I am your ancestor.”

Ye Fan and Qin Sheng descended Saint Cliff with the Nine Secrets: Xing, but Immortal Taoist tried to bargain for freedom with the Nine Secret Techniques. When Qin Sheng exposed and provoked him, the Conferred God List suppressed him, and Immortal Taoist fled back to his sealed true body.

• The Conferred God List slammed the Corpse of the Completed Sacred Physique back into its coffin when it reached for Ye Fan.
• Qin Sheng examined Assassin Heavenly Court’s scepter, and the group continued down Saint Cliff with the Nine Secrets: Xing.
• Immortal Taoist appeared and offered two of the Nine Secret Techniques if the group would take his Primordial Spirit away.
• Qin Sheng demanded one secret technique in advance, then offered the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy as a place for Immortal Taoist to attach himself.
• Immortal Taoist grew furious at Qin Sheng’s taunts and attacked, but the Conferred God List struck him down.
• Immortal Taoist used the Nine Secrets: Xing to escape into the mountain and return to his sealed true body.

After leaving Saint Cliff, Qin Sheng parted from Ye Fan and returned to Shaking Light to enter its perilous Heavenly Road. He persuaded Yao Xi to accompany him, and the Eastern Wilderness watched as they set out for the trial.

• Old Lunatic departed after helping Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, Little Nannan, and Black Emperor escape Saint Cliff, and Qin Sheng warned Ye Fan and Black Emperor that its aura would intensify their future Heavenly Tribulations.
• Ye Fan and his companions went to a remote Primordial Mountain Range to cultivate, while Qin Sheng returned to Shaking Light and asked Li Daoqing to let him enter the Heavenly Road.
• Qin Sheng announced that he would bring Yao Xi into the Heavenly Road, and Shaking Light’s disciples celebrated his decision while worrying that Yao Xi might hinder him.
• Yao Xi returned to Eastern Immortal Palace, learned that Qin Sheng intended to take her into the dangerous trial, and agreed after he explained that he could protect her.
• Qin Sheng and Yao Xi headed toward the deepest part of Shaking Light as news of their attempt spread through the Eastern Wilderness.

In the Shaking Light Holy Land, Qin Sheng and Yao Xi entered the Heavenly Road’s Initial Region to study the insights left by past generations. In the Mortal World, Qin Sheng expanded the Great Love Alliance and discovered Han Li’s Little Green Bottle, leaving Han safe under his protection and giving Qin Sheng the final piece of his ascension plan.

• Qin Sheng and Yao Xi entered the Shaking Light Divine City and reached the Heavenly Road’s Initial Region, where Qin Sheng told Yao Xi to study its inherited insights.
• Qin Sheng ordered the Great Love Alliance to prioritize his cultivation and planned to build more teleportation arrays connecting Southern Heaven with the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Qin Sheng proposed changing the Blood Forbidden Trial, while Han Li prepared to enter it by trading two thousand-year spirit herbs for powerful magical artifacts.
• Qin Sheng summoned Han Li after the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion reported his sale, then offered to protect Han and keep his secret in exchange for spirit herbs to aid Qin Sheng’s cultivation.
• Han Li agreed to assist Qin Sheng, who accepted him as a future disciple and realized the Little Green Bottle completed his ascension plan.

Han Li accepted that Qin Sheng’s influence could help him advance, while Qin Sheng pursued a powerful body-tempering art and presented his vision for uniting Southern Heaven to two visiting Grand Cultivators. The chapter ended with Wei Wuya and Supreme Yang Daoist contemplating whether to join the Great Love Alliance.

• Han Li adjusted to the attention he received because of Qin Sheng and resolved to use his position to obtain spirit herb seeds and advance his cultivation.
• Qin Sheng watched the Blood Forbidden Trial disciples depart and identified the disguised Xiang Zhili among them.
• Qin Sheng planned to collect the three parts of the Brahma Saint True Demon Art and decided to send Hehuan Old Devil to retrieve the Ming King Art.
• Qin Sheng sensed Wei Wuya and Supreme Yang Daoist outside Yellow Maple Valley and transported them to his cave abode.
• Qin Sheng described his plan to unite Southern Heaven, develop its resources, and help cultivators pursue ascension, then invited the two Grand Cultivators to join his vision.

Qin Sheng recruited Xiang Zhili into the Great Love Alliance by demonstrating his overwhelming power and promising a path to the Spirit Realm. Han Li returned from the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land, became Qin Sheng’s disciple, and successfully established his foundation, leaving him ready to begin cultivating under his master’s protection.

• Qin Sheng sent Wei Wuya to search for the Ming King Art and asked Supreme Yang Daoist to persuade the righteous sects to join the Great Love Alliance.
• Qin Sheng summoned Han Li and Xiang Zhili, revealed that he had known Xiang Zhili was a Deity Transformation cultivator, and learned that Xiang Zhili had been searching for a route to the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Sheng overwhelmed Xiang Zhili with the Five-Colored Divine Light and persuaded him that joining the Great Love Alliance offered his best chance of ascending.
• Qin Sheng announced Xiang Zhili’s arrival as a new member of the Great Love Alliance, shocking its members.
• Han Li gave Qin Sheng spirit herbs, received Foundation Establishment Pills, and achieved foundation establishment under Qin Sheng’s protection.
• Qin Sheng promised to formally accept Han Li as his disciple and told him to invoke his name boldly when facing trouble.

Qin Sheng formally accepted Han Li as his second disciple, equipped him with cultivation resources, and urged the Great Love Alliance to develop its cultivation arts. After gathering powerful techniques and welcoming the Twin Saints’ newborn daughter as his future third disciple, Qin Sheng turned his attention to preparing for his eventual ascent.

• Qin Sheng accepted Han Li as his second disciple, while Han Li and Xin Ruyin greeted each other and Yellow Maple Valley’s cultivators took inspiration from Han Li’s Foundation Establishment.
• Qin Sheng gave Han Li cultivation supplies, spiritual herb seeds, and pill formulas, and promised him resources for future breakthroughs.
• Qin Sheng instructed the Great Love Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators to select talented practitioners and improve the Hundred Arts of Cultivation.
• Xiang Zhili and the Twin Saints brought Qin Sheng the three techniques that completed the Brahma Saint True Demon Art, and Qin Sheng agreed to accept their daughter Ling Yuling as his third disciple when she was older.
• Xiang Zhili left to expand the Great Love Alliance in Great Jin, while Qin Sheng concluded he had laid the groundwork for ascending to the Spirit Realm.
• At the Yan Family’s treasure-seizing convention, Han Li calmly faced Wang Chan, who recognized him as Senior Brother Han and showed him respect.

Qin Sheng and Yao Xi explored the Shaking Light Heavenly Road’s ancient traces, then entered its first trial, Holy Light Body Tempering. Qin Sheng endured the tempering with his enhanced constitution while Yao Xi struggled onward beneath the scorching light.

• Qin Sheng studied the ancient techniques and Dao traces, strengthening his foundation and raising his Wushang Secret Patterns’ damage reduction to twenty-five percent.
• Qin Sheng met Yao Xi, praised her progress, and led her onto the Heavenly Road after they agreed to challenge its trial.
• Qin Sheng and Yao Xi entered the Holy Light Road, where the Immeasurable Holy Light began tempering their bodies with alternating destruction and vitality.
• Qin Sheng temporarily canceled his nineteenfold combat-strength enhancement so he could gradually raise his limit and gain more from the trial.
• Qin Sheng noticed that Yao Xi was struggling under the dense Holy Light and teased her about feeling hot as they continued forward.

Yao Xi revealed the Moon Palace in her Sea of Consciousness, and Qin Sheng inspected the treasure before teaching her the Nine Secrets: Qian. The two advanced through the Heavenly Road’s increasingly dangerous trials, with Qin Sheng guiding Yao Xi as she struggled to keep pace; after half a year, they were still pressing onward.

• Yao Xi told Qin Sheng that the Moon Palace had nourished her Origin and Divine Sense for years and could preserve a strand of her Divine Sense if the rest was destroyed.
• Qin Sheng entered Yao Xi’s Sea of Consciousness, examined the Moon Palace, and found that he could not identify its origins or understand its Dao Patterns.
• Qin Sheng taught Yao Xi the Nine Secrets: Qian, and Yao Xi pledged to obey his commands.
• Qin Sheng and Yao Xi crossed the voidfire trial and entered the Stone Statue Zone, where Yao Xi fought a Golden Lion statue and Qin Sheng chose a Phoenix.
• Qin Sheng guided Yao Xi through the later trials as she endured repeated defeats without withdrawing.
• Half a year passed as Qin Sheng and Yao Xi continued along the Heavenly Road.

While Ye Fan, Black Emperor, and Duan De became notorious as the Eastern Wilderness Three Menaces, they plotted to escape the Holy Lands’ pursuit. A suspected Saint’s tomb drew attention away from them as Qin Sheng and Yao Xi emerged from the Shaking Light Heavenly Road after passing its trial, and Qin Sheng wondered how Ye Fan was faring.

• News spread that Qishi Mansion would open, intensifying conflicts among young cultivators competing for invitations.
• Ye Fan survived an assassination attempt and joined Duan De and Black Emperor in a spree of schemes that made them infamous across the Eastern Wilderness.
• Ye Fan and Black Emperor argued with Duan De while fleeing the Purple Mansion and Grand Evolution Holy Lands after Ye Fan killed their Saint Sons.
• Duan De proposed a plan that led, half a month later, to news of a suspected Ancient Sage’s tomb and the Nine Secret Technique Xing drawing experts away.
• Divine phenomena appeared over Shaking Light’s Divine City, signaling that Qin Sheng and Yao Xi had passed the Heavenly Road trial.
• Qin Sheng and Yao Xi emerged from the Divine City, and Qin Sheng asked himself how Ye Fan was doing.

After emerging from the Heavenly Road, Qin Sheng learned that a Saint's Tomb containing the Xing Secret Technique had appeared and heard that Ye Fan and his companions were digging up ancestral graves. Qin Sheng crossed two successive tribulations to reach the eighth small step of Immortal Platform First Heaven, then set out to investigate the tomb.

• The Shaking Light Holy Lord and other senior figures welcomed Qin Sheng and Yao Xi back, and Qin Sheng said he had gained enough to undergo tribulation.
• Li Daoqing told Qin Sheng that a Saint's Tomb had appeared and that it supposedly contained the Xing Secret Technique.
• Qin Sheng summoned Weiwei, praised her cultivation, and learned that Ye Fan, Daoist Duan De, and Big Black Dog had dug up several ancestral graves.
• Qin Sheng survived two successive Heavenly Tribulations and advanced to the eighth small step of Immortal Platform First Heaven.
• Qin Sheng made the Human Emperor Banner undergo two more tribulations, then set out to investigate the Saint's Great Tomb.

At Saint's Great Tomb, the gathered experts failed to open the bronze gate while Ye Fan, Black Emperor, and Duan De discussed the tomb and Duan De's motives. Qin Sheng arrived, reunited with Ye Fan, and threatened to expose Duan De to the holy lands as the mastermind behind their schemes.

• Saint Lords and other experts tried and failed to open the tomb, and the Ji Family Holy Lord refused to use the Void Mirror because it could trigger a destructive backlash.
• Ye Fan left the crowd and questioned Duan De about the tomb, while Black Emperor doubted Duan De's claim that he was sacrificing its treasures for Ye Fan's sake.
• Duan De boasted that he would make the holy lands pay, but Qin Sheng appeared behind him and heard him slandering Qin.
• Black Emperor tattled on Duan De, and Xiao Nannan ran to Qin Sheng, who picked her up and demanded that Duan De explain himself.
• Ye Fan told Qin Sheng that Duan De had revealed the tomb to divert attention after the Assassin Divine Dynasty found them and powerful young cultivators kept pursuing him.
• Qin Sheng proposed tying Duan De up and presenting him to the Saint Lords as the mastermind, threatening to tell the Ji Family and Jiang Family about his interest in Imperial Tombs.

Qin Sheng and Ye Fan confronted Duan De over his empty tomb scheme and discovered he had kept nearly all of Ye Fan’s fifty thousand jin of source. After helping Ye Fan assess a damaged Emperor Weapon, Qin Sheng left for the tomb and planned to have Xiao Nannan secretly watch Duan De.

• Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and the Black Emperor forced Duan De to explain that the Saint’s tomb was empty and that he had lured the sacred lands there to vent his anger for Ye Fan.
• Duan De admitted that he spent only fifty jin of Ye Fan’s fifty thousand jin of source and pocketed the rest, prompting Ye Fan and the Black Emperor to attack him.
• Qin Sheng praised Ye Fan’s progress to the Third Heaven of Four Extremes and identified his black gourd as a possibly ruined Ancient Emperor Weapon.
• Qin Sheng told Ye Fan that the gourd might unleash a flying blade with the spell “Turn Around, Treasure,” then warned him not to rely on it.
• Qin Sheng left to visit the Saint’s tomb and asked Xiao Nannan to follow Duan De and watch for him changing identities or hiding his whereabouts.

After passing the Shaking Light Heavenly Road, Qin Sheng warned the assembled experts that the Saint’s Great Tomb was a decoy, and they later discovered he was right. He followed Duan De to the hidden true tomb and began helping Ye Fan and Black Emperor prepare to rob the tomb robber in return.

• Qin Sheng announced that he had passed the Shaking Light Heavenly Road, then warned the experts that the Saint’s Great Tomb was inauspicious and likely a decoy.
• Cheng Tianfeng followed Qin Sheng away, but the other experts broke into the tomb seven days later, found it empty, and regretted ignoring his warning.
• Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Black Emperor followed Duan De to Chiyuan, where Xiao Nannan recognized him disguised as a handsome young man.
• Duan De found an entrance to the true Saint’s Tomb beneath a pool and disappeared inside, while Black Emperor failed to locate the entrance.
• Qin Sheng ordered Black Emperor to set up a Wushi Killing Formation around the area so they could seize a share of Duan De’s treasures.
• Black Emperor carved the formation for three days and nights before collapsing from exhaustion.

Duan De explored Emperor Qing's Yin Tomb and found a legendary Yin-Yang Fish that could become the foundation of a Saint Weapon. When he emerged, Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Black Emperor were waiting to demand half his gains.

• Duan De braved the tomb's traps and Yin corpses, collecting treasures as he made his way deeper.
• Duan De discovered a ruined King Pill Furnace that had refined a Yin-Yang Fish, then stored the living treasure in a piece of natural wood.
• Duan De lamented missing the Saint Corpse Battle Puppet and Saint Weapon before leaving the tomb with his new treasure.
• Duan De emerged from the pool and found Qin Sheng, Ye Fan, and Black Emperor waiting for him.
• Qin Sheng and Ye Fan pulled Duan De from the water and demanded half of his tomb spoils, leaving him cursing his decision to enter Emperor Qing's Tomb.