Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao told Yun Chang he would seek a way to transcend the True God Realm and escape the Heavenly Dao’s suppression, prompting Yun Chang to vow to cultivate toward becoming a Great Dao Dominator. After Mu Ziqing supported Qin Hao’s dangerous ambition, he entered the Supreme Sword Tower to explore its Sixth Layer.

• Mu Ziqing pointed out that Yun Chang had spent more than thirty Eras traveling instead of cultivating, and Qin Hao said he planned to seek the path to the True God Realm.
• Qin Hao explained that the Star Sea Heavenly Dao still suppressed him, then told Yun Chang he would explore alone; Yun Chang promised to cultivate until he became a Great Dao Dominator.
• Qin Hao urged Qin Ming and Qin Yue to strive for the chance to become True Gods, and they left to cultivate.
• Mu Ziqing affirmed that she supported Qin Hao’s pursuit of transcendence because the Heavenly Dao still threatened his survival.
• Three days later, Qin Hao considered the Treasure Sword Ancestor Xu was forging for him and entered the Supreme Sword Tower to explore its Sixth Layer.

Qin Hao entered the Supreme Sword Tower’s Sixth Floor and struggled against its overwhelming Strange Demonic Qi and pressure. After stopping three hundred steps in, he sensed a faint, familiar aura but could not identify it.

• The Golden Radiance Lord watched Qin Hao pass him and hoped that the Sixth Floor’s Demonic Beast would kill him and restore the Lord’s freedom.
• Qin Hao studied the Sixth Floor’s unusual Demonic Qi and reflected on the Supreme Sword Tower’s mysterious origins and sealed inhabitants.
• Qin Hao entered the Sixth Floor, where the Demonic Qi intensified and restricted his vision and Divine Sense.
• Qin Hao used his Great Dao Origin, World Power, and Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to resist the growing pressure as he slowly advanced.
• After three hundred steps, Qin Hao stopped with his skin split and bloodied, suspecting that the pressure came from a True God or a True God-level treasure.
• Qin Hao sensed a faint, elusive aura within the Demonic Qi that seemed familiar, but he could not identify it.

Qin Hao retreated from the Sixth Layer of the Supreme Sword Tower after the Demonic Qi’s pressure became too strong, though he remained intrigued by a familiar aura within it. He left to focus on growing stronger and began searching for an abandoned world to refine with the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art.

• Qin Hao ventured one step deeper into the Sixth Layer, felt the Demonic Qi’s pressure intensify a hundredfold, and retreated without discovering the source of the familiar aura.
• Qin Hao left the Sixth Layer, while the Golden Radiance Lord wondered how he had survived the powerful Demonic Beast he believed was inside.
• Qin Hao returned from the Supreme Sword Tower and decided to pursue becoming a Nine-Tribulation Great Dao Sovereign and comprehending the Sword Heart Realm.
• Qin Hao studied the World Chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art and reasoned that refining abandoned worlds could strengthen his Self-World and the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way.
• Qin Hao entered a deeper spatial layer within the True Martial Continent, sensed an abandoned Small World with no living beings, and flew toward it.

Qin Hao used the World Chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art to devour a Ruined Small World's World Origin, strengthening his Self-World and Heaven and Earth Ancient Way. As the world collapsed and sent treasures into Void Space, Sovereign Jing Yu and a Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign arrived and spotted Qin Hao.

• Qin Hao sensed a World Origin in a ruined world and began devouring it with the World Chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art.
• Qin Hao felt his Self-World's World Spirit and Heaven and Earth Ancient Way grow stronger as the Ruined Small World collapsed faster.
• Sovereign Jing Yu and a Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign discussed avoiding the Outer Lands because they feared Qin Hao.
• Sovereign Jing Yu and the Mechanical Race Sovereign flew to the collapsing Ruined Small World after noticing treasures rushing through Void Space.
• The Mechanical Race Sovereign spotted Qin Hao standing at the center of the Ruined Small World.

Sovereign Jing Yu and the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign found Qin Hao motionless in the Ruined World and concluded that he was trapped while cultivating the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way. Sovereign Jing Yu decided to attack him, while the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign weighed whether to join in.

• Sovereign Jing Yu and the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign approached a motionless figure and recognized him as Qin Hao.
• Sovereign Jing Yu reasoned that Qin Hao was cultivating the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way, and the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign mistakenly believed the Spatial Layers held the secret to mastering it.
• Sovereign Jing Yu concluded that Qin Hao could not move and urged the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign to kill him and seize his treasures.
• Sovereign Jing Yu advanced toward Qin Hao, while the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign debated whether to take the risk.

Sovereign Jing Yu and the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign attacked Qin Hao while he remained still, hoping to seize his treasures. Their assault triggered a spatial storm that killed them both, while Qin Hao continued refining the World Origin unharmed.

• Sovereign Jing Yu and the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign saw Qin Hao motionless and decided to attack him for his treasures.
• Sovereign Jing Yu struck Qin Hao with an ink-black Warblade while the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign attacked his arms with two Warblades.
• The attacks failed to breach Qin Hao's defense, and the surrounding space collapsed into a spatial storm centered on him.
• Space Fragments struck and gravely wounded the Mechanical Race Heaven and Earth Sovereign and Sovereign Jing Yu, who were swept into the storm and killed.
• Qin Hao revealed that he had sensed the two attackers earlier but ignored them while refining the World Origin.

Qin Hao absorbed the Ruined Small World's World Origin, strengthening his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way, while practicing sword forms to comprehend the Sword Heart realm. After a long period of refinement, the World Origin was fully absorbed and his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way reached Major Mastery.

• Qin Hao examined the Ruined Small World's World Origin and brought the Inner Worlds of Sovereign Jing Yu and the other Sovereign into view.
• Qin Hao left the Ruined Small World, which then collapsed and vanished into the Void.
• Qin Hao returned to Sword Martial Palace and sensed his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way growing stronger as the World Spirit refined the World Origin.
• Qin Hao practiced basic Sword Moves and Sword Arts day after day while seeking to comprehend the Sword Heart realm.
• Qin Hao used the World Chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art to accelerate refinement of the World Origin.
• Qin Hao finished absorbing and refining the World Origin, raising his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to Major Mastery.

Qin Hao advanced his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way by absorbing World Origins and spent an Epoch cultivating, while his allies passed tribulations. After Ancestor Xu summoned him to the Dao Alliance, Qin Hao set out to infuse the Treasure Sword with his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way.

• Qin Hao advanced the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to Great Achievement and continued practicing Sword Art while absorbing World Origins.
• Qin Hao absorbed Sovereign Jing Yu's Inner World and discovered that its World Origin's Great Dao Power accelerated his comprehension.
• Qin Hao guarded True Lord Tianyan and the others as they underwent tribulations; True Lord Tianyan became a Nine-Tribulations Sovereign, the Flamefire Realm Master became a Seven-Tribulation Great Dao Dominator, and Lord Minhai and Illusion Master Lingyan became Six-Tribulation Sovereigns.
• Qin Hao refined three worlds, advancing his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to Minor Achievement in Great Dao Essence and transforming his Self-World, then sensed worlds more clearly in the Spatial Layers.
• Qin Hao refined five more Small Worlds over the next Half an Epoch and advanced his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to Perfection in Great Dao Essence.
• Ancestor Xu told Qin Hao that the Treasure Sword had reached a critical stage of forging, so Qin Hao headed to the Dao Alliance to infuse it with the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way.

Ancestor Xu completed a powerful Sword Embryo and summoned Qin Hao to fuse his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way into it. When Qin Hao entered the Palace, the sword flew to him and trembled as if welcoming him.

• Ancestor Xu examined the milky-white Sword Embryo and believed it could become a Divine Artifact because it released Sword Qi before gaining an Artifact Spirit.
• Ancestor Xu prepared to fuse Qin Hao’s Heaven and Earth Ancient Way into the Sword Embryo and inscribe Sword Patterns tailored to the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.
• Qin Hao arrived at the Dao Alliance, and Ancestor Xu hurriedly brought him into the Palace to continue refining the sword.
• The Sword Embryo flew toward Qin Hao and trembled before him, leaving Qin Hao and Ancestor Xu stunned.

Qin Hao used his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to activate the Sword Embryo’s Ten Thousand Artifact Dao Formations, beginning the process of engraving his power into a custom Treasure Sword. Ancestor Xu took the embryo to forge it, and Qin Hao returned to the True Martial Continent while the work continued.

• Ancestor Xu noticed the Sword Embryo had flown to Qin Hao and praised his Sword Dao, while Qin Hao suspected his Sword Heart had drawn it.
• Ancestor Xu told Qin Hao to release his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way so the Sword Embryo could engrave it and become a sword suited to him.
• Qin Hao released part of his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way, and the Sword Embryo absorbed it as luminous patterns appeared on its surface.
• Ancestor Xu took the Sword Embryo to the Palace Depths to forge it and left Qin Hao wondering whether it would become a Five-Star Treasure or a Half-Step Divine Artifact.
• Qin Hao decided not to wait at the Palace and returned from the Chaos Immortal Domain to the True Martial Continent.

Qin Hao entered the Sword Heart Realm and gained a clear perception of the Star Sea’s many webs of power, including Heavenly Dao Power. He could not sense the Chaos Origin and suspected it lay where the Heavenly Dao resided, so he decided to investigate the Star Sea’s deepest reaches.

• Qin Hao practiced the basic Sword Moves until a simple thrust brought him into the Sword Heart Realm.
• Qin Hao sensed the webs formed by Origin Laws, Great Dao Power, and other forces throughout the Star Sea.
• Qin Hao perceived Heavenly Dao Power running through every web and traced it toward the Star Sea’s core.
• Qin Hao failed to sense the Chaos Origin and wondered whether the Star Sea lacked it.
• Qin Hao concluded that the Chaos Origin might lie at the source of Heavenly Dao Power and decided to investigate the Heavenly Dao’s domain.

Qin Hao followed the Heavenly Dao’s power to its Chaos Region and discovered that it held no Chaos Origin. As the Star Sea Heavenly Dao’s pressure intensified, it accelerated his Self-World’s refinement of World Origin, strengthening his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way before the Heavenly Dao ordered him to leave.

• Qin Hao used his Sword Heart Realm perception to follow the Heavenly Dao’s power through the Star Sea to its vast Chaos Region.
• Qin Hao found no Chaos Origin there and worried that he would need to search the Ancient Era’s Savage Lands to reach the True God Realm.
• The Star Sea Heavenly Dao stimulated Qin Hao’s Self-World, rapidly refining one world’s World Origin and advancing his Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to the Great Dao Origin realm.
• Qin Hao resisted the Heavenly Dao’s crushing pressure and continued toward the Chaos Region as his Self-World refined the Origin he had gathered from more than a dozen worlds.
• The Heavenly Dao ordered Qin Hao to leave and increased its pressure a thousandfold, then ten thousandfold, shaking his mind.

Qin Hao confirmed that the Heavenly Dao Chaos Region contained no Chaos Origin, while the World Origin in his Self-World finished refining and brought the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to Great Dao Origin Perfection. He returned to the Sword Martial Palace as Yun Chang’s Seven Tribulations Cloud gathered, signaling that Yun Chang was about to advance to Great Dao Dominator.

• Qin Hao approached the Heavenly Dao Chaos Region, found no Chaos Origin within it, and withdrew before the Heavenly Dao’s pressure crushed him.
• Qin Hao’s Self-World refined all remaining World Origin, advancing the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way to Great Dao Origin Perfection and greatly increasing his strength.
• Qin Hao returned to the Sword Martial Palace, where thunder and a Seven Tribulations Cloud gathered over the True Martial Continent.
• Yun Chang arrived and told Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing that his tribulation had begun, while Sovereigns from across the continent gathered to watch.
• Jing Yun, revealed as Jing Hong, reflected that although he had become a Four-Tribulation Sovereign, Yun Chang was already preparing to become a Great Dao Dominator.

Yun Chang prepared to undergo the Seven-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation, while Qin Hao revealed that he was nearing the ninth tribulation. Qin Hao encouraged Yun Chang to find his own purpose in cultivation, then protected the True Martial Continent as the tribulation began.

• Yun Chang celebrated his coming Seven-Tribulation Sovereign breakthrough, and Qin Hao revealed an aura showing that he was nearing the Nine-Tribulation Sovereign realm.
• Qin Hao urged Yun Chang to understand what cultivation meant to him, and Yun Chang decided to make surpassing Qin Hao his goal.
• Qin Hao led Yun Chang outside the Sword Martial Palace and promised to guard him as he faced the Seven-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yun Chang hovered beneath the gathering Tribulation Clouds as warriors across the True Martial Continent watched.
• Qin Hao isolated the tribulation from the True Martial Continent with power from the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way as heavenly lightning began to descend.

Yun Chang easily passed his Seven-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation and became a Seven-Tribulation Sovereign. Qin Hao then entered his Self-World to begin his own tribulation, which he said would follow his world’s rules.

• Yun Chang shattered the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation bolts with his staff and quickly overcame the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Yun Chang charged into the Tribulation Cloud and completed the Five-Element Tribulation in roughly Half a Quarter Hour.
• Xuanhuang Qi strengthened Yun Chang’s Divine Body, and he celebrated his new power with Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing.
• Qin Hao explained that his tribulation would take place in his Self-World, where he could form the Tribulation Cloud himself.
• Qin Hao vanished into his vast Self-World above the True Martial Continent, while Yun Chang alone could see where he had gone.

Qin Hao controlled the formation of a Nine-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation within his Self-World and passed its stages at astonishing speed, sending shockwaves across the Star Sea. As he completed the final tribulation, the Star Sea Heavenly Dao failed to enter his Self-World, while sovereigns from many races converged on the True Martial Continent to discover who was ascending.

• Qin Hao willed a Heavenly Tribulation to form inside his Self-World and controlled its thunder as it fell.
• The tribulation’s pressure and thunder reached the True Martial Continent, where Yun Chang, the Chiling Lord, the Rock Mountain Sovereign, and Jing Hong sensed its power.
• Qin Hao instantly passed the Inner Demon Tribulation and endured the Five-Element and Time-Space Tribulations, each with nine bolts of thunder.
• Venerable Luoji sensed a Nine-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation near the Azure Flame Sect and headed toward the True Martial Continent with other Dao Alliance guardians.
• Devil Race sovereigns and experts from other peoples also sensed the disturbance and set out toward the True Martial Continent.
• Qin Hao completed the final Time-Space Tribulation, and the Star Sea Heavenly Dao failed to break into his Self-World to interfere.

Nine-Tribulations Sovereigns from many factions gathered outside the True Martial Continent, unable to see who was completing a tribulation inside Qin Hao’s protective space. When Qin Hao emerged, he had become a Nine-Tribulations Sovereign, leaving the hidden Nether Demon Venerable terrified.

• Nine-Tribulations Sovereigns from the Devil Race, Soul Race, Demon Race, Mechanical Race, and Insect Race arrived outside the True Martial Continent as two tribulation auras faded.
• Venerable Luoji and the other Sovereigns found that Qin Hao had concealed the continent and its surroundings, preventing them from seeing who had undergone the tribulations.
• The Nether Demon Venerable considered attacking the person Qin Hao was protecting, hoping to weaken Qin Hao, but remained hidden in a Spatial Layer.
• A young man in an azure robe stepped out of the space around the continent, radiating overwhelming power.
• The Nether Demon Venerable recognized Qin Hao as a Nine-Tribulations Sovereign and was overcome with fear.

Qin Hao revealed himself as a newly ascended Nine-Tribulations Sovereign and struck the hidden Nether Demon Venerable, overwhelming the Heavenly Demon Palace Master when he intervened. The Nether Demon Venerable tried to flee through the Spatial Layers and begged for mercy as Qin Hao’s sword closed in.

• The Starry Sky’s powerful figures recognized Qin Hao as the one who had survived the Nine-Tribulation Heavenly Tribulation and marveled at his rapid cultivation.
• Qin Hao wielded the Lingxiao Divine Sword and sent a strike through the Starry Sky toward the hidden Nether Demon Venerable.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Master tried to stop Qin Hao’s strike, but its force wounded him and sent him flying.
• The Nether Demon Venerable fled deeper into the Spatial Layers as Qin Hao’s sword shattered layer after layer in pursuit.
• The Nether Demon Venerable begged Qin Hao to spare him and promised to submit as the sword light reached him.

After advancing to Nine-Tribulations Sovereign, Qin Hao killed Nether Demon Venerable with a single sword strike, avenging the Spacetime Sword Master. The other Sovereigns fled, and Qin Hao invited the Dao Alliance to a banquet as the Insect Race Matriarch asked why she had not been invited.

• Qin Hao's sword pierced Nether Demon Venerable and destroyed his Divine Body and Divine Soul, killing him.
• Lingxiaozi celebrated that Qin Hao had avenged the Spacetime Sword Master by killing Spirit Venerable Xiu Ling and Nether Demon Venerable.
• Qin Hao collected Nether Demon Venerable's Storage Star Rings as the watching Sovereigns realized how powerful he had become.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Master threatened Qin Hao in the Blood Demon Emperor's name, then fled when Qin Hao turned a cold gaze on him; Golden Wu Immortal Venerable and the other Sovereigns also departed.
• Venerable Luoji and the Dao Alliance's Nine-Tribulation Dao Guardians congratulated Qin Hao, who invited them to a banquet on the True Martial Continent.
• The Insect Race Matriarch smiled at Qin Hao and asked why he had invited the Dao Alliance but not her.

Qin Hao hosted a banquet after becoming a Nine-Tribulations Sovereign and learned that powerful experts were exploring the dangerous Blood Spirit Land in search of Chaos Origin. He wanted to explore an Ancient Era Savage Land to pursue the True God Realm, but decided to wait until Ancestor Xu finished forging his Treasure Sword.

• The Insect Race Matriarch declined Qin Hao's invitation to the banquet, congratulated him, and left after clarifying that she and the Ancestor were not Dao companions.
• Qin Hao welcomed Venerable Luoji, Venerable Qi Yan, and the other guests to the True Martial Continent, where he answered their cultivation questions and explained the Three Tiers of Sword Dao Cultivation.
• Venerable Luoji told Qin Hao that the Azure Flame Profound Venerable, the Desolate God Hall Master, and the Spirit Domain Blade Venerable had gone to explore the Blood Spirit Land with three other powerful experts.
• Qin Hao concluded that he needed to explore an Ancient Era Savage Land to find Chaos Origin and advance toward the True God Realm.
• Venerable Qi Yan invited Qin Hao to explore an Ancient Era Savage Land with them, but Qin Hao declined until Ancestor Xu finished forging his Treasure Sword.