Recaps

Qin Hao accepted a secret Dao Alliance assessment and chose the Chaotic Star Sea mission while strengthening his ties and resources at the Azure Flame Sect. After forging a Fire Doppelganger, he confronted the Supreme Sword Tower’s Fifth Floor prisoners and began extracting Golden Soul for the Ancient God.

• True Lord Tianyan and the Flamefire Realm Master concealed Qin Hao’s success on the Mysterious Tower’s Third Floor and arranged three Dao Alliance assessment missions for him.
• Qin Hao chose the Chaotic Star Sea mission, left his Time Doppelganger at the Azure Flame Sect, and received the Purple Sun Shield and advice from the Flamefire Realm Master.
• Qin Hao encountered Barto in the Calamity Demon Land, learned that its restrictions were fading, and returned to the sect as a Creation Realm cultivator.
• Qu Yang and Lu Zehan apologized for the Azure Dragon Society, and Azure Li Lord visited Qin Hao, gave him the Heaven-Sealing Sword Art, and offered Mu Ziqing a wedding gift.
• Qin Hao spent 3.4 million Azure Flame Points on fire materials and endured the painful process of forming his Fire Doppelganger.
• The Fire Doppelganger rapidly advanced to the Venerable Martial Realm and shook the Supreme Sword Tower, loosening the Fifth Floor Seal and drawing the attention of its prisoners.
• The Ancient God offered Qin Hao a Chaos Cultivation Technique and a favor in exchange for a Metal Doppelganger, while Qin Hao refused the Golden Radiance Lord’s competing offer.
• Qin Hao entered the Fifth Floor, seized a strand of Golden Soul from the chained Golden Radiance Lord, and reached for more.

Qin Hao forged a Metal Doppelganger for the Baldhead Ancient God, then traveled toward the Chaotic Star Sea and honed his sword arts. He rescued the Li Family Merchant Guild from Devil Race Star Pirates, killed Marquis Bloodbane, and drove Marquis Nightveil to escape in a severed finger.

• Qin Hao created a Metal Doppelganger, but the Supreme Sword Tower stopped the Golden Radiance Lord from seizing it, allowing the Baldhead Ancient God to merge with it and refine the Golden Soul.
• Qin Hao helped the Baldhead Ancient God leave the Supreme Sword Tower through the Fourth Floor and learned that reaching One-Tribulation Sovereign would be necessary to break the Eighth Floor’s Seal.
• Qin Hao exchanged Azure Flame Points for treasures, celebrated Mu Ziqing’s admission to Three Origins Peak, and met True Lord Tianyan before leaving for the Chaotic Star Sea with a Dao Alliance Token.
• Qin Hao trained Heaven-Sealing Mountain-Cleaving and Heaven-Sealing Cloud-Flow aboard the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat, improving his sword arts as he traveled.
• When Devil Race Star Pirates attacked the Li Family Merchant Guild, Qin Hao killed Guan Chi and Li Hao, then joined the battle against Marquis Bloodbane.
• Qin Hao used the Lingxiao Divine Sword to overcome Marquis Bloodbane’s defenses and kill him, prompting the Devil Race fighters to flee while Marquis Vastsea rallied the guild to pursue them.
• Qin Hao weakened Marquis Nightveil with Divine Soul attacks, but Nightveil escaped the blast of his own self-detonation in a severed finger, leaving Qin Hao to spot a damaged Origin Demon Crystal in the void.

Qin Hao escaped the Ten-Thousand Poisons King with help from Baldhead Ancient God, then hurried to East Sun Star to cultivate and grow stronger. The arc ended with Liu Yu confronting Qin Hao after Li Yuntong invited him to dinner.

• Qin Hao survived Marquis Nightveil’s self-detonation, collected Origin Demon Crystals, and accepted Li Yuntong’s High-Grade Origin Demon Crystal in exchange for traveling with the Li Family Merchant Guild.
• Marquis Nightveil reported Qin Hao to the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, who identified him as a possessor of powerful treasures and pursued him with Poison Demon experts.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King repeatedly attacked Qin Hao, but Qin Hao used his shield, sword, and Self-World to survive and counterattack.
• Baldhead Ancient God arrived, drove off the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, and gave Qin Hao two Great Dao Patterns while revealing a dangerous opportunity awaited in the Calamity Demon Land.
• Qin Hao returned to the Li Family Merchant Guild’s battleship, used the Yin-Yang Cosmic Disk to bring his Devouring Doppelganger and Barto to his room, and cultivated with the Great Dao Patterns.
• Barto explained East Sun City’s cultivation chambers as the Li Family Merchant Guild arrived, and Qin Hao learned that a Dao-Grade chamber cost one hundred thousand Low-Grade Origin Crystal Stones per day.
• Liu Yu invited Li Yuntong to a banquet, but she refused and happily greeted Qin Hao when he emerged from the battleship.
• Qin Hao agreed to dine with Li Yuntong at the East Sun Inn, and Liu Yu angrily objected after seeing her invite him.

Qin Hao survived the Ten-Thousand Poisons King’s ambush, then forced the Shadow Race to punish Liu Yu and the commanders who had failed to protect him. With access to East Sun Peak secured, Qin Hao discovered the East Sun Immortal Stairway and the mysterious call drawing him toward it.

• Liu Yu tried to force Qin Hao to kneel, but Qin Hao’s Black-Robed guard overwhelmed Liu Yu and his Creation Realm Guards.
• After Liu Yu blocked Qin Hao from renting a cultivation chamber, Qin Hao settled at the Youjian Inn, where Barto broke through to the Creation Realm and offered Qin Hao his heart soul.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King and his allies attacked Qin Hao at the inn, but Qin Hao and his Devouring Doppelganger killed several Creation experts and drove the attackers into retreat.
• The Lord of East Sun ordered Radiance King, Thunderclap King, and Heavenly Wolf King to intervene, and Qin Hao directed Thunderclap King to deal with Liu Yu and the commanders who had failed to protect him.
• Qin Hao spared the four commanders but declared that Liu Yu’s life would end there, so Thunderclap King killed Liu Yu and demoted the commanders.
• Qin Hao returned to East Sun Peak, accepted free access to its cultivation chambers, and arranged an Earth-Grade chamber for Barto.
• Qin Hao heard a mysterious call from the East Sun Immortal Stairway and learned that its 99,999 steps tested the soul, Comprehension, and Willpower.