Chapter Summaries

After Liu Tiesheng returned to Wind-Sand City and settled into blacksmithing, Qin Hao continued trying to dispel the Great Dao Miasma. Years later, Liu Tiezhu died, and Qin Hao discovered that Liu Tiezhu’s grandson Liu Zhengfei had unusually strong Bloodline Power containing Great Dao Power, so he began teaching the boy alchemy and cultivation.

• Liu Tiesheng returned to Wind-Sand City, thanked Qin Hao for the armor that had saved his life, and began learning blacksmithing from Liu Tiezhu.
• Qin Hao found that the Great Dao Miasma was dissipating slowly and considered moving to Heavenly Wind City for denser Xuanhuang Qi, but decided to keep cultivating in Wind-Sand City for now.
• After hearing that Liu Tiezhu had died, Qin Hao visited the blacksmith’s shop and comforted Liu Zhengfei, who asked to learn alchemy from him.
• Qin Hao sensed that five-year-old Liu Zhengfei possessed strong Bloodline Power containing Great Dao Power and wondered whether Star Realm people could cultivate the Great Dao directly.
• At Liu Tiezhu’s funeral, Qin Hao sensed power leave his body and flow into Wind-Sand City’s unfinished Divine Temple.
• Qin Hao began teaching Liu Zhengfei alchemy and the Heavenly Gang Art, telling him that the technique could strengthen his Bloodline Power and might let him reach the Heavenly King Realm.

Qin Hao spent a century guiding Liu Zhengfei before faking his death and cultivating in seclusion beneath the pill shop. Ten thousand years later, he dispelled one wisp of Great Dao Miasma and considered creating more doppelgangers to accelerate his progress.

• Qin Hao trained Liu Zhengfei, who reached the peak of the Heavenly Spirit Realm by age twenty while cultivating the Origin Laws and Great Dao Power instead of relying on his bloodline.
• Qin Hao left the pill shop and some pills to the Liu Family, then used a Divine Sense doppelganger to fake his death and continued cultivating in a hidden chamber.
• Fifty years later, Qin Hao sensed Liu Zhengfei break through to the Heavenly King Realm with a solid foundation and strength approaching Limit Creation.
• Qin Hao focused on refining Xuanhuang Qi, and after ten thousand years in the Star Realm, he dispelled one faint wisp of Great Dao Miasma.
• Qin Hao considered creating additional doppelgangers so he could refine Xuanhuang Qi faster.

Qin Hao took ten strands of the Golden Radiance Lord’s Golden Soul to strengthen the foundations and talent of his planned Metal Doppelganger. After Qin Hao left the Supreme Sword Tower, the Golden Radiance Lord threatened that using his Golden Soul would draw others to him and claimed the tower would eventually be theirs.

• Qin Hao sorted the materials from the Time Sword Lord’s Three Great Halls and chose to refine Water, Wood, and Metal Doppelgangers.
• Qin Hao entered the Supreme Sword Tower to examine the Sword Soul and considered saving it for a Treasure Sword he would forge in the future.
• An unknown power slipped into the Supreme Sword Tower as Qin Hao entered, and the Golden Radiance Lord seemed to awaken to the truth of his identity.
• Qin Hao climbed to the Fifth Floor and took ten strands of the Golden Radiance Lord’s Golden Soul for his Metal Doppelganger.
• The Golden Radiance Lord watched Qin Hao leave and warned that using his Golden Soul would reveal his location to others.

Qin Hao created Water, Wood, and Metal Doppelgangers, then entered a long seclusion to refine Xuanhuang Qi and dispel Great Dao Miasma. Outside the Star Realm, Sovereigns attacked the True Martial Continent to force his Time Doppelganger to reveal how to enter the Land of Imprisonment, but a powerful voice answered their threat.

• Qin Hao created Water and Wood Doppelgangers, each with resonance in its respective Great Dao.
• Qin Hao used the Golden Radiance Lord's Golden Soul to create a Metal Doppelganger that grasped the complete Gold Great Dao from the start.
• Qin Hao and his Five Doppelgangers began cultivating together, aiming to refine Xuanhuang Qi faster, and Qin Hao planned to remain in seclusion for several Epochs.
• Sovereigns frustrated by their inability to enter the Star Realm decided to capture Qin Hao's Time Doppelganger on the True Martial Continent.
• The Sovereigns tore open space near the True Martial Continent and threatened Qin Hao and everyone there unless he revealed how to enter the Land of Imprisonment.
• Qin Hao's Time Doppelganger faced the Sovereigns as Mu Ziqing, Yun Chang, Qin Ming, Qin Yue, and the others arrived, and another powerful voice challenged the invaders.

Azure Flame Profound Venerable drove away the Sovereigns who had come to force Qin Hao's Time Doppelganger to reveal how to enter the Star Realm. He learned how Qin Hao found and entered it, then hoped Qin Hao's True Self would return and reach the Sovereign Realm.

• Azure Flame Profound Venerable struck an Eight-Tribulation Sovereign and made the invading Sovereigns retreat from the True Martial Continent.
• Qin Hao left the Sword Martial Palace and greeted Azure Flame Profound Venerable in the Starry Sky.
• Qin Hao told Azure Flame Profound Venerable that he had found clues about the Star Realm on Sixfold Void Island and entered it using the Guangyin Tiger Tally from the Two Realms Ocean.
• Qin Hao explained that his Time Doppelganger could not perceive the Star Realm through his True Self, only sense his general location.
• Azure Flame Profound Venerable wished for Qin Hao's True Self to return, draw down a Heavenly Tribulation, and reach the Sovereign Realm.

After thirty-six Eras of secluded cultivation in the Star Realm, Qin Hao advanced his Vitality Great Dao to the Great Dao Origin and strengthened his other Great Daos. He left Wind-Sand City intending to seek denser Xuanhuang Qi near a Divine Kingdom’s main temple, confident that his new strength could contend with powerful Sovereigns.

• Sovereigns gathered in the Outer Lands, but even Azure Flame Profound Venerable had failed to enter the Star Realm.
• Qin Hao and his Five Doppelgangers stopped cultivating when his Vitality Great Dao advanced to the Great Dao Origin, joining his Destruction Great Dao at that level.
• Qin Hao realized he had spent thirty-six Eras in secluded cultivation, cleared about a third of the Great Dao Miasma, and had fifty-nine Eras of life remaining.
• Qin Hao concluded that Wind-Sand City’s branch temple offered too little Xuanhuang Qi and decided to seek a more concentrated source near one of the Nine Divine Kingdoms’ main temples.
• Qin Hao assessed his increased combat strength and believed he could kill a Seven-Tribulation Sovereign and challenge even stronger foes.
• Qin Hao left his cultivation chamber and appeared above Wind-Sand City.

After sensing Qin Hao’s aura in Wind-Sand City, Liu Zhengfei realized his old mentor was still alive and had become a powerful Sovereign. Qin Hao reached Heavenly Wind City to seek denser Xuanhuang Qi, but a wave of divine power made him want to worship at the city’s Divine Temple.

• Liu Zhengfei sensed a powerful, familiar aura and traced it to an empty Cultivation Chamber beneath Grandpa Qin’s pill shop.
• Liu Zhengfei recognized Qin Hao’s aura, concluded that Grandpa Qin was alive and a Sovereign, and accepted that he had left without meeting him.
• Qin Hao determined that Liu Zhengfei had become an Ordinary Sovereign through the Bloodline Dao rather than the Great Dao, and dismissed the idea of relying on the deity’s power himself.
• Qin Hao concealed his aura, entered Heavenly Wind City, and headed toward its Divine Temple to find a place for secluded cultivation.
• Divine power spread through Heavenly Wind City, calming Qin Hao and stirring a desire in him to approach the Divine Temple and worship the deity.

Qin Hao discovered that the statue in Heavenly Wind City was channeling Xuanhuang Qi into his Divine Hall Inheritance Token, triggering the Divine Hall to open ahead of schedule. As the mountain began to shake, he prepared to find a safe place before entering.

• Qin Hao felt the Divine Temple's pull draw him to the Divine Mountain, where the statue's unseen light enveloped him.
• Qin Hao chose to stay and absorb the statue's Xuanhuang Qi, rapidly dissolving his Great Dao Miasma and expanding his Self-World.
• Qin Hao's Divine Hall Inheritance Token began vibrating as it absorbed the Xuanhuang Qi, and a voice told him the Divine Hall was about to open.
• Qin Hao realized the statue had triggered the Divine Hall's early opening and decided to find a safe place to prepare for entry.
• The statue stirred again, shaking the earth and the mountain.

Qin Hao triggered a response from the deity statues across all Nine Divine Kingdoms, and their combined power struck and enveloped him. The Star Extreme Heavenly Venerable recognized that a True God had manifested and bestowed a Peerless Art, then realized Qin Hao was an outsider carrying Great Dao Miasma.

• The deity statue in Heavenly Wind City shook, and the disturbance spread across the city as Qin Hao realized it was focused on him.
• The deity statues of the other Divine Kingdoms shook and sent their divine power toward Heavenly Wind City, while Qin Hao chose to remain.
• The nine streams of divine power joined into a Light Pillar that struck Qin Hao and pinned him in place.
• More than a thousand Sovereigns gathered and wondered how Qin Hao, a peak Heavenly King Realm cultivator, had drawn power from all Nine Deities.
• The Star Extreme Heavenly Venerable arrived and identified the manifestation of a True God and a Peerless Art, then recognized that Qin Hao was not from the Star Realm and sensed his Great Dao Miasma.

Qin Hao received the first form of the incomplete Peerless Art God-Subduing from the Nine Deities and began mastering it with his sword. As he practiced Dragon-Subduing beneath the divine power’s protection, the Sovereigns watched and learned from his technique.

• The Nine Deities’ power showed Qin Hao visions of Dragon-Subduing and filled his mind with the incomplete Peerless Art God-Subduing.
• Qin Hao used the Lingxiao Divine Sword to practice Dragon-Subduing, gradually producing a powerful pale-gold sword dragon.
• The Nine Deities’ power spread around Qin Hao and formed a barrier that protected Heavenly Wind City from his sword strikes.
• The Sovereigns watched Qin Hao practice, while Celestial Venerable Star Extreme recognized his extraordinary comprehension and allowed him to continue.
• As Qin Hao’s sword dragons grew stronger, several Sovereigns gained insights into their own cultivation by observing him.

Qin Hao mastered Dragon-Subduing, the first move of God-Subduing, and met Celestial Venerable Star Extreme, the Star Realm’s High Priest. Inside the Divine Temple, Qin Hao sensed Divine Sense within the Deity Statue and learned it belonged to a True God.

• Qin Hao repeatedly practiced Dragon-Subduing until his sword strike manifested a golden dragon that tore through the Nine Deities’ Spatial Barrier and proved stronger than his World Sword.
• Celestial Venerable Star Extreme approached Qin Hao and congratulated him on mastering the first move of God-Subduing.
• The Star Realm Sovereigns reacted to Qin Hao’s arrival, and Qin Hao heard them say they had been cast aside by the Heavenly Dao.
• Celestial Venerable Star Extreme invited Qin Hao to the Divine Temple, and Qin Hao accepted and entered with him.
• Qin Hao sensed Divine Sense within the Deity Statue, and Celestial Venerable Star Extreme identified it as the Divine Sense of a True God before asking which world Qin Hao came from.

Qin Hao learned that the Star Realm had been created by the Nine True Gods and abandoned by the Heavenly Dao, leaving its people trapped and unable to reach the True God Realm. He suspected the True Gods had built it to hide from the Demon Spirits, then asked Celestial Venerable Star Extreme about the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way and its connection to his Great Dao Miasma.

• Qin Hao told Heavenly Venerable Star Extreme that the Origin World had shattered and its fragments were scattered across the Star Sea.
• Heavenly Venerable Star Extreme explained that the Nine True Gods had created the Star Realm before the Origin World shattered and left Divine Sense in its Deity Statues.
• Heavenly Venerable Star Extreme said the Heavenly Dao had forsaken the Star Realm, whose people relied on the Deity Bloodline Method and could not become True Gods.
• Qin Hao considered whether the Nine True Gods had created the Star Realm to hide from the Demon Spirits.
• Celestial Venerable Star Extreme said Great Dao Miasma showed that Qin Hao had been forsaken by heaven, and Qin Hao asked whether he knew about the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way.

Qin Hao and Celestial Venerable Star Extreme discussed the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way, the Star Realm, and the other heavens and earths once said to surround the Origin World. After promising to remember Star Extreme if he ever found a way to free the Star Realm’s inhabitants, Qin Hao borrowed the Cultivation Chamber to enter seclusion.

• Qin Hao questioned why the Heavenly Dao suppressed practitioners of the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way, and Star Extreme admitted he did not know the reason.
• Qin Hao and Star Extreme exchanged what they knew about the Origin World, the Star Realm, and the Star Sea, including the Primordial Sea and Heavensea.
• Star Extreme explained that Void Space and Spatial Barriers separated heavens and earths, and that a True God might be able to cross them.
• Star Extreme asked Qin Hao to lead the Star Realm’s inhabitants out someday, and Qin Hao promised to help if he could.
• Star Extreme lamented that the incomplete Divine Sense of the Nine True Gods had kept Qin Hao from obtaining all four forms of the Peerless Art God-Subduing.
• Qin Hao asked to use the Cultivation Chamber, and Star Extreme agreed.

Qin Hao chose to enter the Divine Temple from within the Star Realm to claim the Inheritance Shrine’s possible True God inheritance while avoiding Sovereigns waiting outside. His entry triggered a violent disturbance at the Star Sea’s edge, sending treasures into the Outer Lands and plunging explorers into battle as the Void Overlord examined a mysterious hammer.

• Qin Hao judged that the Sovereigns gathered in the Outer Lands made leaving the Star Realm dangerous, and decided to enter the Divine Temple from within instead.
• Qin Hao used the Divine Hall Inheritance Token and vanished into the Divine Temple along with the Inheritance Shrine.
• At the Star Sea’s edge, a towering hand struck the Spatial Barrier repeatedly, roaring in frustration that the Divine Hall Inheritance Token had been lost in such a place.
• The strikes sent shock waves through the Outer Lands, stirring Void Space and driving treasures toward its edge.
• Sovereigns fought and killed one another over the treasures that appeared in the Outer Lands.
• The Void Overlord examined the Half-Missing Steel-Like Giant Hammer and realized it was more powerful than a Supreme Treasure.

The Void Overlord discovered that the half-broken Warhammer could kill a Six-Tribulation Sovereign without Great Dao Origin and believed it was a Divine Artifact. Meanwhile, Qin Hao entered the Divine Temple, where the dense Xuanhuang Qi began rapidly dissolving his Great Dao Miasma.

• The Void Overlord killed a Six-Tribulation Sovereign with the Warhammer and concluded that its power surpassed Five-Star Treasures.
• The Void Overlord decided to search the Outer Lands for more treasures and planned to obtain Qin Hao's Primordial Feathered Wings.
• Qin Hao found that the Divine Hall Gate had opened and that immense quantities of Xuanhuang Qi were flowing from the Divine Temple.
• Qin Hao used his Primordial Feathered Wings to cross the Plaza before the Ancient Ferocious Beasts could attack.
• Qin Hao entered the Divine Temple and felt its Xuanhuang Qi rapidly dissolve his Great Dao Miasma.

Qin Hao entered the Divine Temple and cultivated on an Inheritance Platform, using its dense Xuanhuang Qi to dispel the Great Dao Miasma throughout his body. With the miasma gone, his Self-World expanded dramatically and his Sword Great Dao advanced to Great Dao Origin; then someone flew into the temple.

• Qin Hao entered the Divine Temple and heard its Guardian, the Divine Hall Gate, direct him to an Inheritance Platform.
• Qin Hao crossed the platform’s golden barrier and began cultivating with its dense Xuanhuang Qi to dispel the Great Dao Miasma.
• As Qin Hao cleared the miasma from his organs and Dantian, his Self-World expanded into a vast realm, possibly larger than the Star Realm.
• Qin Hao continued cultivating until the miasma in his Mindscape disappeared, and his Sword Great Dao advanced to Great Dao Origin, giving him three Great Dao Origins.
• A figure suddenly flew through the Divine Hall Gate toward Qin Hao.

Qin Hao waited in the Divine Temple’s Inheritance Shrine, where he learned that only Half-Step Sovereigns could enter and realized Heavenly Dao Suppression might return before he could reach the Sovereign Realm. As more Half-Step Sovereigns arrived, Jiang Cheng of Heavensea introduced himself to Qin Hao.

• A young man with two Great Dao Origins entered the Divine Temple and took an Inheritance Platform beside Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao reflected on the worlds beyond the Origin World and concluded that the inheritance was limited to Half-Step Sovereigns.
• Qin Hao examined how refining Xuanhuang Qi had dispelled the Great Dao Miasma and transformed his Self-World into a small world.
• Qin Hao sensed the Heavenly Dao threatening to suppress him again and resolved to advance to the Sovereign Realm before its suppression fell.
• Seven or eight more Half-Step Sovereigns entered the hall and occupied the remaining Inheritance Platforms.
• Jiang Cheng revealed four Great Dao Origins, praised Qin Hao’s talent, and introduced himself as a disciple of the Jiang Family of Dragonwind Valley in Heavensea.

At the Inheritance Shrine, Qin Hao learned from Jiang Cheng and the other arrivals that crossing between realms required becoming a True God, and that his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way was rare and promising. More figures arrived at the Divine Hall Gate as Jiang Cheng invited Qin Hao to visit Dragonwind Valley and said the inheritance would begin once everyone gathered.

• Jiang Cheng introduced himself as a disciple of the Jiang Family of Dragonwind Valley, and Qin Hao revealed that he came from another realm without naming it.
• Jiang Cheng recognized Qin Hao’s talent and learned that he had cultivated for around forty Eras, prompting the others to study Qin Hao.
• Three young men challenged Jiang Cheng’s modest expectations and claimed that obtaining the inheritance could let them become True Gods or Great Dao Dominators.
• Qin Hao realized that traveling between realms required becoming a True God and crossing a realm’s Spatial Barrier.
• Jiang Cheng sensed Qin Hao’s Heaven and Earth Ancient Way, praised its potential, and invited him to Dragonwind Valley if he ever reached Heavensea.
• New figures approached the Divine Hall Gate, and Jiang Cheng said the Divine Temple’s inheritance would begin once everyone arrived.

Qin Hao learned more about Heavensea and the requirements for traveling between worlds, then discovered that his Divine Hall Inheritance Token had taken another candidate’s place. As the inheritance began, the platforms revealed a star-filled vision containing powerful True God inheritances.

• Qin Hao reflected on Jiang Cheng’s information about Heavensea, other worlds, and the need to become a True God to travel between them.
• Young Half-Step Sovereigns arrived and occupied all Thirty-Six Inheritance Platforms.
• A man who had been denied entry protested that someone with a Divine Hall Inheritance Token had taken his place, but the Divine Hall Gate drove him away.
• Jiang Cheng explained that all Thirty-Six tokens had been lost when the Origin World shattered, and Qin Hao concealed that he had used one to enter.
• Qin Hao realized he had taken the place of a candidate backed by a True God, but dismissed the prospect of retaliation reaching him in the Star Sea.
• The Inheritance Platforms lit up, transforming the temple’s dark sky into a starry expanse whose stars represented powerful True God inheritances.

Qin Hao explored the Inheritance Shrine’s many paths and chose the Sword Dao Inheritance, which revealed stages leading from True Godhood to Eternal True Godhood. He left with the inheritance’s knowledge of the Sword Dao and its creed of pressing forward and breaking through all obstacles.

• Qin Hao entered the Beast God inheritance and learned that following its path would exact a tremendous price, so he left without choosing it.
• Qin Hao examined the Demon Dao, Formation Dao, Pill Dao, Death, and other inheritances, then rejected them because they did not suit his cultivation.
• Qin Hao found the Sword Dao inheritance, demonstrated that he was a Sword Cultivator, and received the Iron Sword’s recognition.
• Qin Hao received the Sword Dao Inheritance and learned that its realms of Sword Heart, No-Sword, and Ten Thousand Swords could lead to becoming a True God, Heaven and Earth True God, and Eternal True God.