Recaps

Qin Hao survived Jing Lie’s attack and killed Wei Suhe with a swift sword strike. Jing Lie recognized Qin Hao as the attacker, while Li Yunchan regained hope upon seeing him alive.

• The watching cultivators assumed Qin Hao would die and Li Yunchan would be left to Jing Lie.
• As Wei Suhe attacked Li Yunchan’s Heavenly Net Talisman, a streak of sword radiance rushed toward him.
• Wei Suhe tried to block the strike and called for Jing Lie’s help, but the sword radiance cut him in two and killed him.
• Wei Suhe died without discovering who had attacked him, while Jing Lie recognized Qin Hao within the fading sword light.
• Li Yunchan was overjoyed to see Qin Hao alive, and her hope returned.

Qin Hao survived Jing Lie’s attack and instantly killed Wei Suhe, shocking the cultivators who had expected him to die. Jing Lie paid and threatened Zang Dajiang to keep Li Yunchan from escaping while he fought Qin Hao, and Li Yunchan charged at Zang Dajiang.

• Qin Hao appeared in the starry sky after killing Wei Suhe with a sword strike and surviving Jing Lie’s attack.
• The nearby cultivators marveled at Qin Hao’s strength but feared Jing Lie, a powerful half-step Divine King.
• Jing Lie promised Zang Dajiang treasures and one million low-grade origin crystals to keep Li Yunchan from leaving while he dealt with Qin Hao.
• Zang Dajiang agreed to stop Li Yunchan, believing Jing Lie would defeat Qin Hao and reward him.
• Li Yunchan recovered from her surprise, glared at Zang Dajiang, and charged at him.

Qin Hao faced Jing Lie while Li Yunchan overwhelmed Zang Dajiang after her month of cultivation at the Dongyin Sword Monument. Jing Lie prepared a stronger attack, hoping to kill Qin Hao and capture Li Yunchan so he could advance toward becoming a Divine King.

• Li Yunchan charged Zang Dajiang and sent him flying with a powerful sword strike, forcing him to ask Jing Lie for help.
• Jing Lie confronted Qin Hao, who had survived his earlier saber strike without injury, and claimed he had used only thirty percent of his divine strength.
• Jing Lie noticed Zang Dajiang was losing badly to Li Yunchan and realized he needed to kill Qin Hao quickly to save his plan to capture her.
• Jing Lie offered to spare Qin Hao if he submitted, but Qin Hao told Jing Lie to kneel and accept a quick death.
• Jing Lie flew into a rage, gathered his divine strength into his blood-red warblade, and unleashed a pressure that drove the watching cultivators back.

Qin Hao effortlessly overpowered Jing Lie, a half-step Divine King, and left him badly wounded. As Li Yunchan pursued Zang Dajiang, Jing Lie fled and vowed revenge.

• Jing Lie unleashed his full strength in a blade strike against Qin Hao, but Qin Hao calmly appraised its power.
• Qin Hao countered with the Star Sea Sword and drove Jing Lie backward, wiping out more than half of his life divine power.
• The watching Dao-Origin Divine Lords were shocked by Qin Hao's strength and retreated.
• Jing Lie saw Li Yunchan chasing Zang Dajiang and realized his ally was in danger.
• Jing Lie fled from Qin Hao, vowing to repay the humiliation after reaching the Divine King Realm.

Jing Lie fled from Qin Hao, abandoning Zang Dajiang, but Qin Hao’s Water-Flowing Swords trapped and fatally wounded him. With Zang Dajiang dead and his own life divine power nearly exhausted, Jing Lie begged Qin Hao to let him surrender.

• Jing Lie chose to flee rather than help Zang Dajiang, who pleaded for rescue as Li Yunchan pursued him.
• Jing Lie told Zang Dajiang he would avenge him, and Zang Dajiang cursed him as Li Yunchan’s sword pierced his chest.
• Qin Hao’s Water-Flowing Swords surrounded Jing Lie and repeatedly wounded him as he tried to escape.
• Zang Dajiang laughed at Jing Lie’s impending death, then lost consciousness and was beheaded.
• Jing Lie, left with less than five percent of his life divine power, begged Qin Hao to spare him and offered to submit.

Qin Hao killed Jing Lie despite his offer to surrender, shocking the witnesses with his victory over a half-step divine king. He left with Li Yunchan and collected the defeated cultivators’ possessions, discovering a substantial haul of origin crystals and treasures.

• Jing Lie pleaded to surrender after the Water-Flowing Swords stopped, while inwardly vowing to take revenge on Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao split Jing Lie’s body and divine soul with a Water-Flowing Sword, then finished him with his sword might.
• The watching cultivators and Li Yunchan were stunned that Qin Hao had defeated Jing Lie in two moves.
• Qin Hao collected Jing Lie’s, Wei Suhe’s, and Zang Dajiang’s Storage Spirit Rings, destroyed their corpses, and took Li Yunchan away on a Flying Boat.
• Qin Hao found over a million low-grade origin crystals and several valuable treasures, including two or three Half-Step Dao Divine Weapons, in Wei Suhe’s and Zang Dajiang’s rings.

Qin Hao counted the vast wealth he had taken from Jing Lie, Wei Suhe, and Zang Dajiang while Li Yunchan declined her share. After leaving Eastern Yin City, Qin Hao considered using his fortune to cultivate in the Tianquan Cave Abode, while Divine King Ziyang sent word about him to Qingwu.

• Qin Hao found nearly three million low-grade origin crystals and other treasures in Jing Lie's Storage Spirit Ring, bringing his total to twenty-seven million.
• People around Eastern Yin City spread tales of the Black-Clad Swordmaster, who had killed the half-step Divine King Jing Lie with one sword strike.
• Divine King Ziyang recognized that Qin Hao had not used his full strength and sent a message to Qingwu urging friendly relations with him.
• Qin Hao offered Li Yunchan a share of the spoils, but she refused because she had contributed nothing to killing Jing Lie.
• Qin Hao calculated that he could afford an earth-rank cave abode at the Tianquan Cave Abode, though its sole Heaven-Class abode belonged to Divine King Blazing Axe.

Qin Hao and Li Yunchan returned to Tianquan City after half a year of travel, and Qin Hao planned to buy Worry-Free Divine Amber before beginning secluded cultivation. He left Li Yunchan behind as they parted ways in the city.

• Qin Hao calculated that selling his treasures would leave him with over thirty million low-grade origin crystals even after buying the Worry-Free Divine Amber, and resolved to destroy Demon God Hall after his seclusion.
• Li Yunchan watched Qin Hao cultivate, resolved to prove herself to him, and began her own ascetic cultivation during their journey.
• Qin Hao struggled to fuse his divine soul with his true self sword dao, realizing that the starry sky's sparse spiritual energy and dao-origin made his progress far slower than at the Dongyin Sword Monument.
• Qin Hao and Li Yunchan reached Tianquan Star after an unobstructed journey through the Sun-Chasing Sundial Zone.
• Qin Hao bid farewell to Li Yunchan in Tianquan City, and they went their separate ways.

Qin Hao visited the Myriad Origins Treasure Pavilion to obtain the Worry-Free Divine Amber, where Qingwu offered the priceless treasure to him as a gift. The chapter ended with Qin Hao stunned by her offer.

• Eugene and Blood Crow explained that many Divine Lords had cultivated for far longer than Qin Hao, and Qin Hao set aside his thoughts about Li Yunchan to visit the pavilion.
• Liu Zhuang recognized Qin Hao and treated him with fear and deference after news spread that Qin Hao had killed Jing Lie.
• Qingwu welcomed Qin Hao and showed him the Worry-Free Divine Amber in a jade box.
• Qingwu said Divine King Ziyang had told her that Qin Hao killed a Half-Step Divine King with ease.
• Qingwu pushed the Worry-Free Divine Amber toward Qin Hao and offered it as a gift, leaving him stunned.

Qin Hao accepted Qingwu’s Worry-Free Divine Amber and a VIP card but refused to become an Attendant of the Myriad Origins Treasure Pavilion. He promised to help Qingwu when he could, then asked whether the pavilion would buy his treasures.

• Qingwu offered Qin Hao the Worry-Free Divine Amber in hopes of securing his future support for the Myriad Origins Treasure Pavilion in Tianquan City.
• Qingwu offered Qin Hao an Attendant Token with a salary of one million low-grade origin crystals per epoch, then raised it to two million when he hesitated.
• Qin Hao refused the Attendant position because he planned to cultivate in seclusion and leave, but promised to help Qingwu if he could.
• Qingwu gave Qin Hao a VIP card that granted a twenty-percent discount at Myriad Origins Treasure Pavilion branches in the Eastern Pole Divine Domain, and Qin Hao accepted it along with the amber.
• Qin Hao took out a Storage Spirit Ring and asked Qingwu whether the pavilion bought treasures, and she began inspecting its contents.

After selling the treasures, Qin Hao learned that he had thirty-five million low-grade origin crystals and asked Qingwu about the Heaven-Class Cave Abode. Hearing that it would open within three days and that entry was based on who arrived first, he set off for the Tianquan Cave Abode.

• Qin Hao sold the treasures to the Myriad Origins Treasure Pavilion for nearly eight million low-grade origin crystals, bringing his total to thirty-five million.
• Qin Hao asked Qingwu about the Heaven-Class Cave Abode at the Tianquan Cave Abode, and she explained that Divine King Blazing Axe rarely cultivated there.
• Qingwu told Qin Hao that the Heaven-Class Cave Abode would open to the public within three days, cost three million low-grade origin crystals per epoch, and require payment for at least ten epochs upfront.
• Qingwu explained that entry would go to whoever arrived first, and Qin Hao immediately left for the Tianquan Cave Abode.

Qin Hao arrived at Tianquan Cave Abode hoping to find a secluded place to rebuild his doppelgangers, but found thousands of cultivators gathered before Tianquan Mountain. He learned that most had come to attempt the Tianquan Path, while the nine half-step Divine Kings were likely waiting for the Heaven-Class Cave Abode to open.

• Qin Hao headed to Tianquan Cave Abode, confident that the divine soul treasures he had collected could help him reconstruct his four remaining doppelgangers.
• Qin Hao arrived at Tianquan Mountain and found thousands of cultivators gathered three days before the Heaven-Class Cave Abode opened.
• Qin Hao hid in an inconspicuous corner, restored his true appearance, and listened to the cultivators discussing their plans.
• Qin Hao learned that the cultivators had gathered to attempt the Tianquan Path, whose pressure could temper early-stage and middle-stage Dao-Origin Divine Lords.
• Qin Hao inferred that the nine half-step Divine Kings were the ones mainly waiting to enter the Heaven-Class Cave Abode.

Qin Hao waited among the enormous crowd gathered for Tianquan Mountain’s Heaven-Class Cave Abodes as Mo Hongxiao arrived with his lackeys and cleared a place to rest. When Chen Gang attacked Qin Hao for refusing to move, Qin Hao made his move, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Hao secretly cultivated while hundreds of thousands of Dao-Origin Divine Lords and twenty-three half-step divine kings gathered at Tianquan Mountain.
• Mo Hongxiao, a powerful and arrogant direct descendant of the Mo Family, arrived with Chen Gang and Sun Zhiping clearing a path for him.
• Mo Hongxiao rejected a spot in the crowded plaza and ordered his lackeys to find him somewhere quieter.
• Chen Gang and Sun Zhiping drove cultivators away from a secluded corner, but Qin Hao remained beside a stone pillar.
• Chen Gang swung at Qin Hao, who stepped forward and channeled his divine strength; Chen Gang felt a blow strike his calf and stumbled.

Qin Hao swiftly tripped Chen Gang with concealed Sword Qi after Chen Gang tried to strike him, while Mo Hongxiao stopped Chen Gang from attacking again. Gao Hui announced that the Heaven-Class Cave Abode was open for rent, leaving the waiting Dao-Origin Divine Lords poised to race through the Tianquan Path.

• Chen Gang tried to slap Qin Hao, but Qin Hao moved aside and struck his calf with faint Sword Qi, making him fall face-first.
• Mo Hongxiao recognized Qin Hao's speed and concealed Sword Qi as the crowd reacted to Chen Gang's humiliation.
• Chen Gang sprang up to attack Qin Hao again, but Mo Hongxiao stopped his fist with divine strength.
• Gao Hui descended from Tianquan Mountain and greeted Mo Hongxiao before announcing the Heaven-Class Cave Abode's opening.
• Gao Hui set the rental price at three million low-grade origin crystals per epoch and declared that whoever reached the cave abode first would have priority.

Mo Hongxiao plotted to secure the Heaven-Class Cave Abode, believing it could strengthen his foundation and help him reach the divine king realm before the approaching God War. When Gao Hui announced the Tianquan Path had opened, the cultivators rushed toward the canyon.

• Chen Gang urged Mo Hongxiao to retaliate against Qin Hao, but Mo Hongxiao held back because Gao Hui was present.
• Sun Zhiping suggested that Chen Gang could target Qin Hao during the dangerous Tianquan Path or after he left Tianquan City.
• Chen Gang agreed to make sure Qin Hao did not leave Tianquan Mountain alive, while Mo Hongxiao focused on claiming the Heaven-Class Cave Abode.
• Mo Hongxiao reflected that entering the Heaven-Class Cave Abode could help him strengthen his foundation and pursue the divine king realm before news of the God War arrived.
• Gao Hui announced that the Tianquan Path had opened, and the cultivators surged toward the canyon on Tianquan Mountain.

Hundreds of thousands of Dao-Origin Divine Lords charged up the Tianquan Path, whose mounting pressure tempered their dao intent. Qin Hao turned his embryonic void sword dao intent into true void sword dao intent and continued climbing as weaker cultivators began to fall.

• Gao Hui urged the Dao-Origin Divine Lords to charge onto the Tianquan Path, and Qin Hao joined the leading group.
• Qin Hao recognized that the path’s pressure was refining the cultivators’ dao intent, and he saw thousands break through.
• Qin Hao suppressed his divine soul power and released his sword dao intent and embryonic void sword dao intent to refine them under the pressure.
• Qin Hao’s embryonic void sword dao intent became true void sword dao intent before he had traveled a hundred zhang, and he continued climbing to strengthen both forms of dao intent.
• Weaker Early-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lords behind Qin Hao could no longer withstand the pressure and fell, some injured and bleeding.

Qin Hao strengthened his Sword Dao Intent and Void Sword Dao Intent while climbing the Tianquan Path, then decided to study the other cultivators’ Dao Intent before making a final push to the Heaven-Class Cave Abode. Chen Gang, with Mo Hongxiao’s approval, fell behind to confront Qin Hao.

• Many cultivators fell from the Tianquan Path as its pressure intensified, and some Early-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lords died when they tried to press onward.
• Qin Hao’s embryonic Void Sword Dao Intent became true Dao Intent, and he condensed it alongside his Sword Dao Intent as he climbed.
• Chen Gang told Mo Hongxiao he would deal with Qin Hao, and Mo Hongxiao gave him permission to go ahead.
• The pressure grew strong enough to bring down Middle Rank Dao-Origin Divine Lords, while Qin Hao’s two Dao Intents reached their current limits.
• With six thousand zhang left to the summit, Qin Hao decided to wait until the final thousand zhang before charging and began studying a nearby Peak-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lord’s Dao Intent.

Qin Hao used his divine sense to study a Peak-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lord’s ten sword-related Dao Intents, causing the Tianquan Path’s formation pressure to fluctuate and intensify. While Qin Hao gained insight into Swift Wind Dao Intent, Chen Gang mistook his stillness for weakness and moved in to kill him.

• Qin Hao extended his divine sense toward a Peak-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lord to comprehend his Dao Intents, but the Tianquan Path’s formation pressure resisted him.
• Qin Hao’s divine sense caused the formation pressure to surge, making some Dao-Origin Divine Lords fall while others welcomed the stronger tempering.
• Qin Hao focused on the man’s ten Dao Intents and realized Swift Wind Dao Intent could connect with Sword Dao Intent to form sword-wind Dao Intent.
• Chen Gang saw that Qin Hao was not tempering his own Dao Intents and assumed he had mastered only two forms, which he believed were already at their limits.
• Chen Gang approached Qin Hao under cover of the increased pressure and planned to strike him with his palm so the formation would finish him off.