Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao and Yun Chang searched Guangyin City for treasures and gathered thirty-six Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones, while the city’s growing Demonic Qi nearly drew Yun Chang toward the dangerous City Lord’s Manor. They sensed more stones remained near the city center, leaving Qin Hao tempted to search there despite the danger.

• Yun Chang found a ninth Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone, and he and Qin Hao wondered whether more treasures were hidden in the City Lord’s Manor.
• Qin Hao noticed the Demonic Qi growing denser and used the Devouring Great Dao to clear its influence from Yun Chang before they continued searching.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang discovered a huge four-armed Stone Person statue and later found other damaged statues and a small crystal stone beneath one.
• Over several days, Qin Hao and Yun Chang searched most of Guangyin City’s outer districts and collected thirty-six Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones.
• Qin Hao sensed that more Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones remained near the City Lord’s Manor and turned his attention toward the city center.

Qin Hao sensed mortal danger from the humanoid Demonic Beast near Guangyin City’s City Lord’s Manor and decided to leave with Yun Chang. Before they could escape, the Demonic Qi surged and the beast began to move, leaving both trapped in the city.

• Qin Hao noticed the Demonic Qi growing thicker toward the City Lord’s Manor and realized the humanoid Demonic Beast was its source.
• Qin Hao refused to risk approaching the manor and told Yun Chang they were leaving, despite the possibility of finding more Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang set off for the edge of Guangyin City, but cracks sounded from the manor and a torrent of Demonic Qi engulfed the city.
• The sudden surge of Demonic Qi stopped Qin Hao and nearly overwhelmed Yun Chang, who took Qin Hao’s detoxification pills and regained some clarity.
• Qin Hao identified the humanoid Demonic Beast as the cause, and the beast began to move as chunks of its body fell away and released more Demonic Qi.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang faced a skeletal humanoid Demonic Beast whose power seemed to rival or surpass the Nine-Tribulations Sovereigns. Just as its roar threatened to kill them, the stone statue from East City came to life and gave them a chance to escape.

• The humanoid Demonic Beast shed its Flesh and Blood, and its enormous spear vanished as it revealed a terrifying pressure over Guangyin City.
• Qin Hao realized the creature might be a Transcendent Sovereign and focused on surviving rather than speculating about the Divine Temple's legacy.
• The skeletal humanoid Demonic Beast roared at Qin Hao and Yun Chang, leaving them unable to move or dodge the deadly Shockwaves.
• A four-armed Stone Person descended from Heaven over East City and attacked the skeletal humanoid Demonic Beast with four Paths of weapon light.
• The Stone Person's pressure weakened the Demonic Qi and slowed the Shockwaves, allowing Qin Hao to seize Yun Chang and retreat before the blast shattered the ground and buildings.

Qin Hao realized the Stone Person Statues and Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones formed a grand sealing Formation, and that taking the crystals had weakened it enough to awaken the skeletal humanoid Demonic Beast. As the last intact statue struggled to hold the beast back, Qin Hao decided he and Yun Chang had to enter the City Lord's Manor to find what the beast was trying to reach.

• Yun Chang spotted a huge Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone in the eastern Stone Person Statue's chest, and Qin Hao recognized its immense Xuanhuang Qi.
• Qin Hao deduced that the four Stone Person Statues and the Great Dao Origin Crystals formed a grand Formation, and that the crystals they had taken had damaged the seal.
• The eastern Stone Person Statue fought the skeletal humanoid Demonic Beast, but the beast held the upper hand while Qin Hao and Yun Chang endured the shockwaves.
• Qin Hao realized the chest crystal powered the statue and concluded that the statue was Guangyin City's Guardian while the beast was an invader.
• Qin Hao decided that he and Yun Chang had to enter the City Lord's Manor to search for whatever the beast was trying to reach.

Qin Hao risked crossing the battlefield to enter the City Lord's Manor, hoping to find a way to survive the Humanoid Demonic Beast. After barely escaping the shockwaves, he found a solitary golden Talisman Plaque and reached for it.

• Qin Hao asked Yun Chang to use his Spatial Divine Ability to send him into the City Lord's Manor, while Yun Chang warned him about the danger.
• Yun Chang strained to guide Qin Hao past the battling Stone Person Statue and Humanoid Demonic Beast, dodging a shockwave and bringing him to the manor entrance.
• Qin Hao left Second-Layer Deep Space and endured devastating pressure that reduced his Life Divine Power to five percent before he entered the manor.
• Qin Hao discovered that mysterious power shielded the immaculate manor from the battle's shockwaves.
• Qin Hao found a lone golden Talisman Plaque in the manor and reached out to take it.

Qin Hao discovered the Guangyin City Lord's Tiger Tally and used it to temporarily suppress the skeletal humanoid Demonic Beast, but the tally could not hold it for long. Yun Chang refused to abandon Qin Hao and considered attacking the immobilized beast despite its overwhelming strength.

• Qin Hao took the Tiger Tally, endured its powerful Intent, and recognized it as the Guangyin City Lord's Tiger Tally.
• Qin Hao sensed the Stone Person Statue had fallen and rushed outside, where the humanoid Demonic Beast's Demonic Qi surged.
• Qin Hao raised the Tiger Tally and froze the beast, but realized the destroyed statues and removed Great Dao Origin Crystals had been part of the Formation that once suppressed it.
• Qin Hao warned Yun Chang to flee, but the strain of sending the message weakened the tally's Suppress and forced Qin Hao to focus entirely on holding the beast back.
• Yun Chang refused to leave Qin Hao behind and considered trying to kill the immobilized humanoid Demonic Beast.

Yun Chang attacked the humanoid Demonic Beast while Qin Hao restrained it with the Tiger Tally. Yun Chang discovered a black-and-white light inside its chest and weakened it with close-range Spatial Blades, but the light turned into a vortex and sucked him into the beast.

• Yun Chang ignored Qin Hao's warning to escape and bombarded the humanoid Demonic Beast with Spatial Blades.
• One of Yun Chang's blades slipped through the beast's ribs and struck a black-and-white light inside its chest, provoking the beast to thrash.
• Yun Chang realized the light was the beast's weak point and focused his Spatial Blades on it while Qin Hao maintained the Tiger Tally's restraint.
• Yun Chang moved between the beast's ribs to attack the light at close range, weakening and shrinking it with repeated strikes.
• The black-and-white light became a vortex, which seized Yun Chang and sucked him into the beast as Qin Hao watched in horror.

Qin Hao attacked the humanoid Demonic Beast’s Demon Core to help Yun Chang resist its consciousness, and Yun Chang ultimately devoured it. The beast’s body vanished, leaving Yun Chang with a new black Cloudwing Beast Doppelganger that controlled the Time Dao.

• Yun Chang was sucked into the humanoid Demonic Beast’s black-and-white vortex, where its remaining consciousness tried to devour him.
• Qin Hao struck the vortex with the Devouring Great Dao and the Gods and Devils Heaven-Suppressing Art, weakening the beast’s consciousness and helping Yun Chang suppress it.
• The vortex shattered, and Yun Chang emerged unharmed as the humanoid Demonic Beast began to tremble.
• Yun Chang made the humanoid Demonic Beast vanish, revealing his True Body and a black Cloudwing Beast Doppelganger with a faint Temporal Aura.
• Yun Chang told Qin Hao that he had devoured the Demonic Beast’s incomplete consciousness and seized its body.

Yun Chang explained how he formed a Time Doppelganger by devouring the Demon Spirit’s incomplete consciousness and refining its Time Bones. Qin Hao examined the remaining dangers and the Guangyin City relics, then took the dimmed Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone from the shattered East City Statue.

• Yun Chang told Qin Hao that the Demon Spirit’s fragmented consciousness let him control its Time Dao and form a Time Doppelganger with no Demonic Qi.
• Yun Chang said the fragments revealed only the Demon Spirit’s purpose of destroying Guangyin City, while Qin Hao suspected the creature was connected to the Origin World’s destruction.
• Yun Chang explained that he refined only the Demon Spirit’s demon core and central Time Bones, but admitted his temper had grown shorter; Qin Hao urged him to study the Time Dao himself.
• Qin Hao showed Yun Chang the Guangyin City Lord’s Tiger Tally and considered its possible connection to the Great Dao Miasma within him.
• Qin Hao found that the East City Statue’s Great Dao Origin Crystals had lost much of their Xuanhuang Qi and used his Devouring Great Dao to remove the remaining crystal.

Qin Hao used the tiger tally and a Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone to reactivate Guangyin City's damaged Stone Person Statue, then left the submerged city with Yun Chang. They emerged into the Two Realms Ocean, where countless Ancient Ferocious Beasts still surrounded them.

• Qin Hao and Yun Chang found the Ancient Ferocious Beasts still surrounding Guangyin City and realized they could not fight their way through alone.
• Qin Hao placed a Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone in the damaged Stone Person Statue and used the tiger tally to bring it back to life.
• Qin Hao judged that the weakened statue still had the strength of a Seven-Tribulation Sovereign and could help them escape.
• Qin Hao, Yun Chang, and the Stone Person Statue burst through the sea's surface while the beasts roared nearby.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang escaped the Two Realms Ocean by using the Stone Person Statue to draw away its swarms of Ancient Ferocious Beasts, but the statue eventually ran out of energy. They traveled through the Skywing Great World and returned to the True Martial Continent, where Yun Chang planned to leave his True Self and explore other Origin World Fragments alongside Qin Hao's group.

• Qin Hao sent the Stone Person Statue to attack the flying Ancient Ferocious Beasts while he and Yun Chang escaped toward the Starry Sky.
• After the statue distracted the beasts, Qin Hao and Yun Chang flew beyond its control range, and Qin Hao sensed that it had run out of energy.
• Yun Chang decided to leave his True Self on the True Martial Continent and explore other Origin World Fragments with Qin Hao using his Time Doppelganger.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang traveled through the Skywing Great World, visited the Darkworld Roc Lord, and entered the Demon Race's Secret Art formation to return to the True Martial Continent.
• A Burly Man questioned whether Qin Hao had found something in the Two Realms Ocean, but the Darkworld Roc Lord challenged him to investigate or capture Qin Hao himself, and the man backed down.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang returned to the True Martial Continent, where Yun Chang revealed he had become a Sovereign and Qin Hao planned how to refine Xuanhuang Qi more efficiently. At the Sword Martial Palace, Qin Hao reunited with Mu Ziqing and told Qin Ming and Qin Yue that Uncle Yun had returned.

• Liu Tao greeted Qin Hao and Yun Chang, then congratulated Yun Chang on becoming a Sovereign and acknowledged his own breakthrough to the Creation Realm.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang recalled the dangers of their journey through the Two Realms Ocean and returned to the Absolute Immortal Mountain Range.
• Qin Hao considered whether his Devouring Doppelganger could refine Xuanhuang Qi to dispel the Great Dao Miasma in his True Self, saving time on future journeys.
• Qin Ming and Qin Yue sparred in the Sword Martial Palace courtyard, where Qin Yue punched Qin Ming in the eye and he complained that she had gone too far.
• Qin Hao arrived at the courtyard, greeted Mu Ziqing, and told Qin Ming and Qin Yue that Uncle Yun had returned.

Qin Hao welcomed Yun Chang back as a Three-Tribulation Sovereign, then returned to cultivation, hoping to use Xuanhuang Qi to weaken the Great Dao Miasma holding him back. The chapter ended with Qin Hao opening his Self-World and beginning to refine a Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone.

• Qin Ming and Qin Yue bickered over their strength and asked whether Qin Hao or Yun Chang was stronger.
• Yun Chang and the Devouring Doppelganger appeared in the Courtyard, and Yun Chang revealed that he had become a Three-Tribulation Sovereign.
• Yun Chang took Qin Ming and Qin Yue away to train them while Qin Hao reassured Mu Ziqing and returned to the Sword Martial Palace.
• Qin Hao summoned his thirty-six Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones and sensed their Xuanhuang Qi stirring the Great Dao Miasma within him.
• Qin Hao opened the Self-World in his Dantian and began refining a Great Dao Origin Crystal Stone.

Qin Hao and his Three Doppelgangers refined Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones into Xuanhuang Qi, expanding his Self-World and dissolving some of the Great Dao Miasma in his body. With his Great Dao perception greatly improved, Qin Hao began considering how to find more Xuanhuang Qi.

• Qin Hao refined seven Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones and sensed Xuanhuang Qi expanding his Self-World while gradually dissolving the Great Dao Miasma in his Five Viscera and Six Bowels.
• Qin Hao summoned the Devouring Doppelganger, Time Doppelganger, and Fire Doppelganger, then had them refine more Great Dao Origin Crystal Stones alongside him.
• Qin Hao sent the Three Doppelgangers to distant parts of the True Martial Continent and confirmed that their Xuanhuang Qi refinement also nourished his True Self.
• Qin Hao found that his Self-World and World Spirit had grown, about one-third of the Great Dao Miasma in his Five Viscera and Six Bowels remained, and his perception of the Great Dao had become much clearer.
• Qin Hao dismissed the Three Doppelgangers and began planning how to search for more Xuanhuang Qi.

Qin Hao reviewed 493 known Origin World Fragments and selected 89 dangerous but manageable ones to explore in search of Xuanhuang Qi. Because Sovereigns threatened him beyond Human Territory, he decided to send his three Doppelgangers, led by the Devouring Doppelganger.

• Qin Hao recognized that luck and his keen senses had led him to Guangyin City and the Great Dao Origin Crystal in the Two Realms Ocean.
• Qin Hao reviewed information on 493 Origin World Fragments and ruled out places that were either already explored or too dangerous.
• Qin Hao selected 89 partially explored fragments whose risks he considered manageable, including sites in several races' territories.
• Qin Hao decided not to rely on the Inheritance Shrine, which had yet to open, because his lifespan was limited.
• Qin Hao summoned the Devouring Doppelganger, Time Doppelganger, and Fire Doppelganger and planned to send all three exploring, with the Devouring Doppelganger appearing to lead.

Qin Hao prepared the Three Doppelgangers to explore eighty-nine Origin World Fragments in search of Xuanhuang Qi, then continued cultivating and saw the Devouring Doppelganger’s Great Dao advance. He met with Sikong Xuan and a dejected Jing Hong, who planned to leave and clear his head.

• Qin Hao equipped the Three Doppelgangers with treasures from the Supreme Sword Tower and gave the Lingxiao Divine Sword to the Time Doppelganger.
• Qin Hao decided the Three Doppelgangers would explore the Origin World Fragments without returning, though he worried that travel across the Star Sea would take too long.
• Qin Hao resumed studying the Great Daos in the Cultivation Chamber and found them clearer than before.
• The Devouring Doppelganger’s Devouring Great Dao essence advanced to Minor Mastery after some of his Great Dao Miasma was dispelled.
• Sikong Xuan told Qin Hao he planned to leave to gain experience, while Jing Hong said he wanted to get away and clear his head.

Qin Hao gave Jing Hong and Sikong Xuan treasures before they left to gain experience, then departed with Yun Chang for Dreamveil Valley. Seven years later, Qin Ming and Qin Yue entered the Azure Flame Sect after taking first and second place in the Azure Flame Grand Tournament, while Venerable Hun Yan remained an unexplained presence in the Starry Sky.

• Qin Hao gave Jing Hong and Sikong Xuan Chaos Crystals and Half-Step Supreme Treasures as they set out separately to gain experience.
• Qin Hao told Mu Ziqing that his three Doppelgangers would soon head out again.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang traveled through Endless Space toward Dreamveil Valley, with Yun Chang's Time Doppelganger staying on the True Martial Continent.
• Venerable Hun Yan appeared in the Starry Sky, watched the space above him, and vanished without Qin Hao sensing him.
• Seven years later, Qin Ming and Qin Yue placed first and second in the Azure Flame Grand Tournament and entered the Azure Flame Sect at age sixteen.

After Mu Ziqing became a One-Tribulation Sovereign, Qin Hao spent five Epochs cultivating in seclusion. Lord Zhiyuan emerged from his own long seclusion and, learning that Qin Hao had killed Lord Zhuyou, sought revenge in the Devil Territory.

• Mu Ziqing survived her tribulation and advanced to One-Tribulation Sovereign as Qin Hao and allied Sovereigns protected her.
• The True Martial Continent prospered while Qin Hao remained in seclusion for five Epochs, contemplating the Great Dao.
• Lord Zhiyuan arrived at the Void Overlord's Palace and learned that Lord Zhuyou had been killed by Qin Hao.
• Lord Zhiyuan demanded to know where Qin Hao was so he could kill him, but the Void Overlord explained that Qin Hao was protected within Human Territory.
• The Void Overlord told Lord Zhiyuan that Qin Hao's Devouring Doppelganger and his Demon Race brother Yun Chang were in Devil Territory, where Lord Zhiyuan could attack them.

The Void Overlord ordered Lord Zhiyuan to stop Mu Ziqing from advancing to Four-Tribulation Sovereign, hoping to protect his chance of obtaining Qin Hao’s Primordial Feathered Wings. In seclusion, Qin Hao sensed Mu Ziqing’s Four-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation beginning and left to see her.

• The Void Overlord told Lord Zhiyuan that Qin Hao was exploring Origin World Fragments while seeking a way to dispel the Great Dao Miasma suppressing him.
• The Void Overlord instructed Lord Zhiyuan to go to the True Martial Continent and stop Mu Ziqing from advancing to Four-Tribulation Sovereign.
• Lord Zhiyuan vowed to deal with Mu Ziqing, Qin Hao’s Doppelganger, and Yun Chang before leaving the Palace.
• Qin Hao sensed numerous Great Daos around himself and realized Mu Ziqing’s Four-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation was approaching.
• Qin Hao left his Cultivation Chamber to go outside as Mu Ziqing’s tribulation began.

Mu Ziqing prepared to undergo her Four-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation, while alien Sovereigns gathered in the Starry Sky, fearing she might inherit Qin Hao’s Primordial Feathered Wings. As the tribulation lightning formed, Qin Hao emerged before his family and allies.

• Mu Ziqing sensed Devil Race and Soul Race Sovereigns watching from beyond the True Martial Continent and realized they feared her becoming strong enough to inherit Qin Hao’s Primordial Feathered Wings.
• Mu Ziqing resolved to survive the Four-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation so she could help Qin Hao dispel the Great Dao Miasma.
• Tribulation clouds covered the True Martial Continent as lightning gathered above Mu Ziqing.
• Qin Ming, Qin Yue, Storm Sovereign, Illusion Master Lingyan, and their families watched anxiously from outside the formation.
• Qin Hao appeared before the gathered group, startling the watching Sovereigns in the Starry Sky.