Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao fought his way through the Greenwood Vine forest, killing more than twenty Greenwood Man-Eating Vines and collecting their Greenwood Vine Essence before escaping the growing encirclement. Yun Chang and the others witnessed his strength, while Qiong Zhan and his companions were stunned by what Qin Hao had accomplished.

• Qin Hao unleashed the Chaos Sword Art against a Greenwood Man-Eating Vine, opened its root, collected its Greenwood Vine Essence, and killed it.
• Qin Hao evaded the vines closing in around him and attacked another Greenwood Man-Eating Vine to collect more essence.
• Yun Chang withdrew from the forest’s outskirts and watched Qin Hao fight deep inside, while Yun Le explained why he had once suppressed Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao sensed several thousand vines preparing to encircle the forest and flew low toward Yun Chang after killing more than twenty vines.
• Qiong Zhan and the young men and women at the forest’s northern end watched in disbelief as they realized Qin Hao had escaped and slain more than twenty Greenwood Man-Eating Vines.

Qiong Zhan and his companions crossed the Greenwood Man-Eating Vine forest unharmed and headed toward Qin Hao and Yun Chang. After Qin Hao emerged with Greenwood Vine essence, the group confronted him, and Qin Hao prepared for battle against the mysterious cultivators bearing Demon Spirit Demonic Qi.

• Qiong Zhan learned that Qin Hao had survived the Greenwood Man-Eating Vine forest and decided to meet him.
• Qiong Zhan and his companions entered the forest, and the vines moved aside for them.
• Qin Hao emerged with more than twenty portions of Greenwood Vine essence and gave one to Yun Chang.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang saw the vines part to reveal Qiong Zhan and his group, whose origins and intentions were unclear.
• Qin Hao recognized that the newcomers were cultivators rather than Outer Realm Demon Spirits and readied the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way for battle.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang faced Qiong Zhan and seven powerful companions in the Blood Spirit Land after learning they had captured the Desolate God Hall Master. Qin Hao wounded Qiong Zhan in their first clash, and Qiong Zhan vowed to torment him for it.

• Qin Hao and Yun Chang sized up Qiong Zhan and his seven companions, recognizing the white-clothed Qiong Zhan as the greatest threat.
• Qiong Zhan demanded the Greenwood Vine Essence and ordered Qin Hao and Yun Chang to bind their Great Dao and kneel, threatening to kill them otherwise.
• Qiong Zhan revealed that the group had captured the Desolate God Hall Master and dismissed Star Sea Nine-Tribulations Sovereigns as ants.
• Qiong Zhan attacked Qin Hao with a palm strike, and Qin Hao countered with the Heavenly Abyss Sword, wounding Qiong Zhan before being driven backward by the clash.
• Qiong Zhan admitted that Qin Hao was the first to wound him in more than thirty eras and vowed to extract Qin Hao's divine soul and make him suffer.

Qin Hao fought Qiong Zhan’s Ten Earth Dragons with the Chaos Sword Art, and his increasingly powerful sword forms broke through their defenses and wounded them. The dragons slowed before reaching him, while Qiong Zhan was shocked by Qin Hao’s strength.

• Qiong Zhan unleashed Tenfold Earth Veins, summoning ten earth dragons that charged at Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao countered with the Chaos Sword Art, but its first form could not penetrate the dragons’ scales.
• Qiong Zhan boasted that his Earth Vein Secret Art could crush Qin Hao, while Qin Hao continued through the sword art’s forms.
• Qin Hao’s fifth form shattered the dragons’ scales, and his eighth form pierced their bodies and slowed their attack.
• Qiong Zhan reacted with disbelief as Qin Hao recognized the strength of Qiong Zhan’s Earth Doppelganger Chaos Origin.

Qin Hao shattered Qiong Zhan’s Tenfold Earth Veins, then faced his Thousandfold Earth Veins with a powerful sword strike. Qiong Zhan realized Qin Hao’s attack rivaled an ordinary true god’s, and the clash remained unresolved.

• Qin Hao’s sword radiance broke through and destroyed Qiong Zhan’s ten earth dragons, while Yun Chang cheered for him.
• Qiong Zhan unleashed Thousandfold Earth Veins and formed more than a thousand earth dragons, stopping Qin Hao’s sword radiance.
• Qin Hao used Chaos Mystic Sword, creating an enormous blade of sword radiance that slashed toward the thousand earth dragons.
• Qiong Zhan sensed the strike’s power and realized Qin Hao had unleashed an attack comparable to an ordinary true god’s.

Jiang Yingying and her companions headed toward the greenwood vine forest to obtain life-bearing essence for her injured father. Meanwhile, Qin Hao's True God-level sword attack failed to overcome Qiong Zhan's earth dragons, and Qiong Zhan launched a counterattack.

• Jiang Yingying sensed Qiong Zhan's battle near the greenwood vine forest and decided to seize its essence to help heal her father.
• Qu Han, Wang Gong, Qiao Tao, and Azure Flame Profound Venerable agreed to accompany Jiang Yingying toward the fight.
• Qin Hao's Chaos Mystic Sword cleaved through more than thirty of Qiong Zhan's earth dragons before dissipating.
• Qiong Zhan sent hundreds of earth dragons surging toward Qin Hao, with the nearest one charging straight at him.

Qin Hao faced Qiong Zhan’s thousand earth dragons, relying on the Primordial Feathered Wings to evade their increasingly rapid attacks. As Yun Chang worried that Qin Hao could not hold out, Azure Flame Profound Venerable arrived with four unfamiliar cultivators, including a striking Blue-Robed Woman.

• Qin Hao realized Qiong Zhan’s strength exceeded that of a half-step True God and suspected he possessed more hidden power.
• Qin Hao used the Primordial Feathered Wings to dodge the earth dragons and struck at them with the Heavenly Abyss Sword, but could not kill them.
• Qiong Zhan strengthened the earth dragons with Earth Doppelganger Chaos Origin, forcing Qin Hao to focus entirely on evasion.
• Yun Chang feared for Qin Hao but held back because Qiong Zhan’s seven allies also threatened him.
• Yun Chang spotted Azure Flame Profound Venerable approaching with four unfamiliar cultivators and hoped they would help Qin Hao.

Qin Hao was nearly killed by Qiong Zhan’s earth dragons until Jiang Yingying arrived and used her Chaos Origin to hold them back. Qin Hao and Yun Chang reached her group, but Qiong Zhan and his allies pursued them as Jiang Yingying ordered a retreat.

• Qiong Zhan surrounded Qin Hao with earth dragons, and one claw grazed him, draining twenty percent of his life divine power.
• Qiong Zhan offered to spare Qin Hao if he bound his own Great Dao and knelt, while Qin Hao reflected that he had not yet mastered a Branch Vein of the Destruction Chaos Origin.
• Azure Flame Profound Venerable arrived with Jiang Yingying, Qu Han, Wang Gong, and Qi Tao, and Jiang Yingying’s Time Chaos Origin made the earth dragons retreat.
• Qin Hao grabbed Yun Chang and fled toward Azure Flame Profound Venerable’s group while Qiong Zhan recognized Jiang Yingying and the others.
• Jiang Yingying decided to retreat from the Greenwood Vine Forest, but Qiong Zhan sent earth dragons after them.
• Jiang Yingying used her Time Chaos Origin to make the earth dragons retreat again and forced Qiong Zhan to step back.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang joined Jiang Yingying and the others as they escaped Qiong Zhan’s pursuit, while Qin Hao learned that Jiang Yingying’s Time Reversal came from the Cause and Effect Chaos Origin. After Qiong Zhan vowed to learn more about Qin Hao and the Greenwood Vine Essence, Yun Chang introduced himself to Jiang Yingying.

• Jiang Yingying used the Cause and Effect Chaos Origin to block Qiong Zhan and his companions, allowing Qin Hao and Yun Chang to reach Azure Flame Profound Venerable and the others.
• Qin Hao explained that he had come because demon spirits in the Star Sea’s Abyssal Prison World had revolted, and Yun Chang said Qin Hao had suppressed the Black Demon General.
• Jiang Yingying used her chaos origin to carry the group away, while Qiong Zhan could only watch them escape and blamed Qin Hao for slipping from his grasp.
• Qiong Zhan ordered his companions to interrogate two Star Sea natives about Qin Hao, then left the Greenwood Vine Forest.
• Azure Flame Profound Venerable introduced Jiang Yingying, Qu Han, Wang Gong, and Qiao Tao to Qin Hao, and Yun Chang introduced himself to Jiang Yingying.

Qin Hao learned that Qiong Zhan’s Demon Spirit Race were Heavenly Spirit Race descendants allied with the outer realm demon spirits, and resolved to strengthen himself by cultivating the Life Chaos Origin. As the group headed for the Heavenly Spirit Race Territory, Jiang Yingying explained that the Spirit Venerable’s Thought had guarded the Blood Spirit Land’s passage for ages.

• Qin Hao learned from Jiang Yingying and Azure Flame Profound Venerable that Qiong Zhan led the Demon Spirit Race, Heavenly Spirit Race descendants who had allied with the outer realm demon spirits.
• After recognizing the gulf between his strength and Qiong Zhan’s, Qin Hao decided to focus on comprehending a Branch Vein of the Life Chaos Origin using his greenwood vine essence.
• Azure Flame Profound Venerable led Qin Hao and the others toward the Heavenly Spirit Race Territory, where Ancestor Yanyu and the other allies had gathered.
• Qin Hao asked about the force resisting the outer realm demon spirits, and Qu Han identified it as the Spirit Venerable’s Thought.
• Jiang Yingying explained that the Spirit Venerable had left a strand of divine sense to guard the Blood Spirit Land passage and that the Heavenly Spirit Race branch had defended it for ages.

Qin Hao and the Heavenly Spirit Race discussed how Qu Qi’s betrayal had weakened their people and left the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense struggling to suppress the Outer Realm Passage. When Qin Hao entered the gray Mist covering the Heavenly Spirit Race’s territory, he recognized it as the Sixth Layer of the Supreme Sword Tower and wondered why the two places were connected.

• Qu Han and the others blamed Qu Qi for defecting to the Outer Realm Demon Spirits and worsening the Heavenly Spirit Race’s plight.
• Qiao Tao explained that Commander Yun Kun was wearing down the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense, which might fail to suppress the Outer Realm Passage within a hundred eras.
• Qin Hao asked whether the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense could help seal the passage, but Jiang Yingying said the plan had never been attempted and might let the Outer Realm Demon Spirits enter if it failed.
• The group reached the Heavenly Spirit Race’s territory, where Jiang Yingying said Qu Qi’s traitors had covered the land in Demon Spirit Demonic Qi to block their comprehension of the Great Dao.
• Qin Hao entered the gray Mist and recognized its pressure and Demon Spirit Demonic Qi as matching the Sixth Layer of the Supreme Sword Tower.

Qin Hao learned that Blood Spirit Land’s Heavenly Spirit Race Territory was the sixth layer of the Supreme Sword Tower, and entered it with Jiang Yingying’s group. After discovering the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense might help seal away the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, Qin Hao arrived at the ruined heart of the territory, where a central mountain and pool stood.

• Qin Hao realized the sixth layer of the Supreme Sword Tower was the Heavenly Spirit Race Territory and learned Jiang Yingying’s life aura could shield him and Yun Chang from the Spirit Venerable’s pressure.
• Jiang Yingying told Qin Hao and Yun Chang that the Demon Spirit Race had recently attacked, and that her father had driven them back with the Spirit Venerable’s divine artifact but had suffered an unspecified consequence.
• Qin Hao asked Yun Le whether their power combined with the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense could seal the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, and Yun Le estimated their chance at no less than seventy percent.
• Jiang Yingying and Qu Han led the group through the gray mist into the territory, where Qin Hao and Yun Le discussed the formidable power of the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense.
• The group reached the ruined Heavenly Spirit Race Territory, where Yun Chang noticed a mountain at the center and a pool at its foot.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang visited the Heavenly Spirit Race and learned about the Spirit Pool, the ancestors buried on the mountain, and the clan’s dwindling numbers. Qin Hao sought Jiang Yuanhe’s help to seal the already-open Outer Realm Passage, and the chapter ended when he revealed several Heavenly Spirit Artifacts, including Spirit General Armor.

• Jiang Yingying explained that the Spirit Pool held chaos origin and that the nearby mountain contained the Heavenly Spirit Race’s many tombs and cenotaphs.
• Jiang Yingying greeted her father, Jiang Yuanhe, the injured clan chief and the Heavenly Spirit Race’s only heaven and earth true god.
• The Azure Flame Profound Venerable told Qin Hao that Jiang Yuanhe alone knew the location of the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense, which might help seal the Outer Realm Passage.
• Jiang Yuanhe welcomed Qin Hao and Yun Chang and praised Qin Hao for cultivating the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way.
• Qin Hao revealed his Heavenly Spirit Artifacts, and Jiang Yuanhe recognized the Spirit General Armor.

Qin Hao’s Spirit General Armor revealed his connection to the Heavenly Spirit Race and changed how its leaders treated him, though the incomplete artifact could not wield its full power. At the Spirit Altar, Qin Hao discussed the threat of Outer Realm Demon Spirits with Jiang Yuanhe and learned how Abyssal Prison Worlds had been created to contain them.

• The Heavenly Spirit Race recognized Qin Hao’s armor as Spirit General Armor, a High-Grade Divine Artifact when complete, and Jiang Yuanhe said it bore the Spirit Venerable’s imprint.
• Nether-Shadow Soul Venerable and Blood Demon Emperor considered the artifact’s value, but learned that Qin Hao’s incomplete armor could not unleash its full power.
• Jiang Yuanhe’s attitude toward Qin Hao and Yun Chang warmed, and he invited them to the Spirit Altar.
• Qin Hao told Jiang Yuanhe that weakness in the Star Sea’s Heavenly Dao had caused upheaval in the Abyssal Prison World.
• Jiang Yuanhe explained that Abyssal Prison Worlds had been built to imprison Outer Realm Demon Spirits, which could only be permanently killed by destroying their demon cores.

Qin Hao revealed that he had brought the Star Sea Heavenly Dao and demonstrated his world power as potential means of sealing the Outer Realm Passage. Jiang Yuanhe judged that the added power might make sealing possible, and Qin Hao urged them to act quickly.

• Qin Hao told Jiang Yuanhe and the others that he had brought the Star Sea Heavenly Dao to help seal the Outer Realm Passage.
• Jiang Yuanhe explained that the weakening Spirit Venerable’s Thought and the Star Sea Heavenly Dao’s lack of a Chaos Origin made sealing the passage unlikely on their own.
• Qin Hao revealed his world power, and Jiang Yuanhe realized it could reinforce Heavenly Dao power and might make sealing the passage possible.
• Jiang Yingying told Shui Yizhuo and Yin Huachen that she had met Qin Hao while he was fighting Qiong Zhan, and she cited his Spirit General Armor as proof of his standing.
• Qin Hao urged Jiang Yuanhe to begin sealing the Outer Realm Passage without delay.

Qin Hao learned that the Spirit Venerable's Divine Sense, hidden in the Spirit Realm, was essential to containing the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, but opening that realm could let the traitorous Demon Spirit Race reach it. As the group weighed their options and Qin Hao considered strengthening himself in the Spirit Pool, the Outer Realm Demon Spirits attacked the Divine Sense.

• Jiang Yuanhe explained that the Spirit Venerable's Divine Sense resided in the Spirit Realm and was what kept the Outer Realm Demon Spirits from entering the Blood Spirit Land.
• Jiang Yuanhe warned that opening the Spirit Realm could let the Demon Spirit Race enter and possibly seize or destroy the Divine Sense, so he hesitated to proceed.
• Yun Chang urged the group to act rather than wait for the weakened Divine Sense to fail, and suggested Qin Hao cultivate in the Spirit Pool to grow stronger.
• Qin Hao considered using the Spirit Pool and his greenwood vine essence to improve his strength and perhaps comprehend a Chaos Origin.
• The Outer Realm Demon Spirits attacked the Spirit Venerable's Divine Sense in the Outer Realm Passage, and Jiang Yuanhe spat blood as his aura weakened.

A True God-level Outer Realm Demon Spirit attacked the passage, injuring Jiang Yuanhe through his connection to the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense, but could not break into the Blood Spirit Land. Qin Hao and Yun Chang gave Jiang Yuanhe Greenwood Vine Essence to treat his existing wounds, and Jiang Yuanhe urged everyone to strengthen themselves for a possible invasion.

• A Demon Spirit General struck the sealed Outer Realm Passage twice, and the attacks severely worsened Jiang Yuanhe’s injuries.
• Jiang Yuanhe revealed that Qu Qi and other Demon Spirit Race members had ambushed him earlier, while the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense still kept the passage sealed.
• Yun Chang offered Greenwood Vine Essence, and Qin Hao added five more stalks he had obtained in the Greenwood Vine Forest.
• Jiang Yuanhe accepted the six stalks and thanked Qin Hao and Yun Chang, while Jiang Yingying expressed her gratitude and laughed at Yun Chang’s awkwardness.
• Jiang Yuanhe told everyone to remain with the Heavenly Spirit Race and improve their strength, then went to a palace to heal.

Qin Hao learned that the Spirit Realm would not open for roughly ten thousand epochs and that finding the Spirit Venerable's Divine Sense there would remain uncertain, so he decided to focus on strengthening himself. He and the others began cultivating in the Heavenly Spirit Race's Spirit Pool, preparing for a possible invasion by the Outer Realm Demon Spirits.

• Jiang Yingying told Qin Hao that the Spirit Realm opened only once per reincarnation epoch and was still roughly ten thousand epochs from opening.
• Qu Han and Jiang Yingying explained that opening the Spirit Realm early would be costly and still might not lead them to the Spirit Venerable's Divine Sense.
• Qin Hao decided to improve his strength to resist the Outer Realm Demon Spirits and asked how to cultivate using the Spirit Pool.
• Jiang Yingying explained that cultivators could sense and cultivate different chaos origins in the pool, while Shui Yizhuo and Yin Huachen offered help with Darkness and Light Chaos Origin.
• Qin Hao prioritized Life Chaos Origin with the Greenwood Vine Essence and planned to continue cultivating Destruction Chaos Origin later, while Yun Chang said he sensed Rule Chaos Origin.
• Jiang Yingying welcomed everyone to cultivate, and the group flew into the Spirit Pool.

Qin Hao cultivated Life and Destruction Chaos Origins simultaneously in the Heavenly Spirit Race’s Spirit Pool, using greenwood vine essence to deepen his insights. The chapter left Qu Qi kneeling before General Luo Ming in a shadowy palace beneath the Outer Realm Passage.

• Qin Hao sensed that the Spirit Pool held abundant Destruction Chaos Origin and began cultivating beside Yun Chang and the others.
• Qin Hao used greenwood vine essence to manifest Life Chaos Origin in the Spirit Pool while its Destruction Chaos Origin remained, allowing him to comprehend both at once.
• Qin Hao focused on the Life Chaos Origin’s three Branch Veins and the Heaven-Splitting and Sword-Splitting Branch Veins of Destruction Chaos Origin.
• Qin Hao swallowed a stalk of greenwood vine essence to accelerate his comprehension, stirring Nether-Shadow Soul Venerable’s envy as he sensed Qin Hao’s Life Chaos Origin.
• Nether-Shadow Soul Venerable suppressed his resentment and began cultivating in Darkness Chaos Origin.
• Qu Qi knelt before General Luo Ming in a shadowy palace beneath the Outer Realm Passage.

General Luo Ming delivered Commander Kun Yun’s ultimatum to Qu Qi: obtain and remove the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense within one era or die. Qu Qi agreed, but after Luo Ming left, he wondered why the Demon Spirits had suddenly become so urgent.

• General Luo Ming told Qu Qi that Commander Kun Yun was displeased and could take back the power he had granted him.
• Luo Ming demanded to know why the Spirit Venerable’s Divine Sense still existed, and Qu Qi explained that they needed to open the Spirit Realm to find it.
• Qu Qi revealed that the Spirit Realm could be opened with the Heavenly Spirit Race Token and essence blood from a direct descendant, but said Jiang Yuanhe was difficult to overcome.
• Luo Ming ordered Qu Qi to obtain the Divine Sense within one era and suggested using Blood Spirit Fusion to suppress Jiang Yuanhe.
• Qu Qi pledged to obey, then questioned why Commander Kun Yun had abruptly begun pressing him to find the Divine Sense.