Chapter Summaries

Ba Yan killed Li Kaixiao and Ban Zhong while pursuing Lü Lian, who sacrificed herself rather than reveal Qin Hao’s whereabouts. Ba Yan set out to hunt Qin Hao, who sensed a sudden trace of killing intent while traveling with Yun Chang.

• Ba Yan killed Li Kaixiao with a slap, then chased Lü Lian and Ban Zhong as they fled.
• Ban Zhong charged Ba Yan to give Lü Lian a chance to escape, but Ba Yan killed him with a slap.
• Lü Lian confronted Ba Yan, invoked Qin Hao’s name, and detonated herself rather than reveal what she knew.
• Ba Yan ordered the outer realm demon spirits to search for Qin Hao, whom he wanted to kill for Cai Yun’s death.
• Far away, Qin Hao and Yun Chang traveled through the astral wind region, where Qin Hao suddenly sensed killing intent.

Qin Hao continued exploring the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm with Yun Chang, while many cultivators broke through to become half-step Ancestral Gods and risked being hunted by Outer Realm Demon Spirits. He climbed Heaven and Earth Mountain, reached the eternal True God Peak, and arrived at its summit, where he discovered an ancient palace.

• Qin Hao sensed possible killing intent from a powerful enemy but could not identify its source, then continued exploring with Yun Chang.
• Ba Yan searched frantically for Qin Hao but failed to find him as cultivators across the secret realm broke through or died.
• Qin Hao climbed Heaven and Earth Mountain and encountered many Spacetime Projections, including one left by Divine Lord Tian Yan.
• As Qin Hao climbed higher, the concentrated origin matter helped his cultivation reach the eternal True God Peak, and he sensed that the Spirit Venerable was near the summit.
• Several days later, Qin Hao reached the summit and found a small, ancient palace that had fallen into disrepair.

Qin Hao discovered that the strange crystal stone in Heaven and Earth Mountain was a Spacetime Projection from the Origin World Era, linked to the Destruction Crystal and Earth Crystal he had obtained. He met another strand of the Spirit Venerable’s divine sense, which revealed that it sustained Heaven and Earth Mountain and was close to vanishing, then prepared to pass on its inheritance.

• Qin Hao sensed the crystal stone’s energy sweep through Heaven and Earth Mountain and the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, and recognized the stone as a Spacetime Projection.
• Qin Hao connected the projected crystal stone to the Destruction Crystal and Earth Crystal held by his doppelgangers.
• The Spirit Venerable appeared and told Qin Hao that the crystal was a projection from the Origin World Era.
• The Spirit Venerable explained that his divine sense sustained Heaven and Earth Mountain and was about to dissipate, independently of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• The Spirit Venerable told Qin Hao he would entrust the inheritance to him.

Qin Hao received the Heavenly Derivation Book, a supreme secret art for cultivating the laws of heaven and earth that could help resist outer realm demon spirits. The Spirit Venerable explained that Spirit-Character Jade Plaque holders were chosen to receive it, but the earlier recipients had already been swallowed by the River of Time.

• The Spirit Venerable manifested the Heavenly Derivation Book and told Qin Hao to read it.
• Qin Hao discovered that the book taught a three-layer path for cultivating the laws of heaven and earth.
• The Spirit Venerable explained that mastering the book could let Qin Hao resist the invasion of outer realm demon spirits.
• The Spirit Venerable said everyone who left a Spacetime Projection had received the Heavenly Derivation Book after being chosen through a Spirit-Character Jade Plaque.
• The Spirit Venerable revealed that the earlier recipients of the Heavenly Derivation Book had been swallowed by the River of Time.

The Spirit Venerable gave Qin Hao the Heavenly Derivation Book and urged him to cultivate at Heaven and Earth Mountain, while refusing to explain the mysterious complete crystal stone. After learning Qin Hao possessed three Fragmentary Crystal Stones, the Spirit Venerable reacted with alarm and secretly wondered whether Qin Hao was the person Tian Xuan and Hun Yan had identified.

• The Spirit Venerable told Qin Hao that time flowed differently at Heaven and Earth Mountain and offered to help him advance toward the Ancestral God Realm.
• Qin Hao accepted the Heavenly Derivation Book and asked about the mysterious crystal stone, but the Spirit Venerable said Qin Hao was too weak to learn its secrets.
• Qin Hao mentioned that he had obtained three Fragmentary Crystal Stones, causing the Spirit Venerable to stare at him before sending him away to cultivate.
• Qin Hao refined the abundant origin matter with the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art while studying the Heavenly Derivation Book's first level, Primordial Beginning.
• The Spirit Venerable secretly watched Qin Hao and wondered whether he was the person Tian Xuan and Hun Yan had identified.

Qin Hao spent years studying the Heavenly Derivation Book before entering the empty Heavenly Evolution World and contemplating its First Layer, Primordial Beginning. As he longed for light, he began to glimpse a way to understand how something might emerge from nothing, while the Spirit Venerable watched and awaited his progress.

• Qin Hao repeatedly read the Heavenly Derivation Book and struggled to understand how to cultivate its First Layer, Primordial Beginning.
• After less than ten years, Qin Hao connected with the book and entered the Heavenly Evolution World, a realm of absolute nothingness.
• The Spirit Venerable observed Qin Hao and decided to test whether he could comprehend even a sliver of Primordial Beginning within one epoch.
• Qin Hao contemplated the three levels of the Heavenly Derivation Book and grew weary of the world's darkness.
• Qin Hao wished for light, and the Heavenly Evolution World trembled as his mind jolted with a new insight.

Qin Hao discovered that the Heavenly Derivation Book’s Primordial Beginning involved creating something from nothing, and realized that Heart Power both enabled this creation and recovered as he observed it. As the Spirit Venerable gave Qin Hao his remaining power and vanished, Heaven and Earth Mountain collapsed, unleashing spatial upheaval across the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm while Qin Hao continued cultivating unaware.

• Qin Hao created a tiny sliver of light in the Heavenly Derivation World and felt profoundly exhausted, suspecting that its creation had consumed his Heart Power.
• Qin Hao observed the light, recovered his mental strength, and recognized Heart Power as the core of the Heavenly Derivation Book and the Heaven and Earth Rules.
• The Spirit Venerable saw that Qin Hao had met his requirements and poured energy into him, hoping he would help restore the shattered world for the Origin World.
• The Spirit Venerable’s body broke apart and disappeared after empowering Qin Hao.
• Heaven and Earth Mountain collapsed, sending spatial fluctuations and enormous fissures across the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• Qin Hao continued cultivating without knowing that the secret realm had been thrown into turmoil.

The Heaven and Earth Secret Realm began collapsing after the Spirit Venerable's divine sense vanished, prompting cultivators to rush for treasures before the realm fell. Qin Hao remained absorbed in studying the Heavenly Derivation Book as his cultivation neared a breakthrough, while Commander Luo Wei suspected Qin Hao's sword had caused the disaster and feared he might escape.

• Nine spatial rifts appeared across the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, and its exit opened as the realm began to collapse.
• Cultivators throughout the realm scrambled to collect newly revealed treasures before the collapse.
• Qin Hao studied the Heavenly Derivation Book, discovered that visualizing its point of light tempered his mind and helped him recover, and unknowingly neared the half-step ancestral god realm.
• Commander Luo Wei, the Green Demon Commander, and the Lotus Commander discussed the mysterious force that had damaged the realm and surmised its source was at least a Three-Star Ancestral God.
• Commander Luo Wei suspected Qin Hao's damaged Treasure Sword had caused the collapse and worried that Qin Hao would escape through the exit before he could seize Qin Hao's treasures.

Commander Luo Wei proposed sealing the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm’s only exit to trap the cultivators inside and fulfill Great Commander Hai Dong’s orders. The Green Demon Commander and the Lotus Commander agreed after Luo Wei argued they could sense and interrupt anyone attempting to break through to ancestral god, leaving the three ready to blockade the Black Vortex passage.

• The Green Demon Commander and the Lotus Commander questioned Commander Luo Wei about whether he knew how the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm had collapsed.
• Commander Luo Wei reminded them of Great Commander Hai Dong’s orders and proposed sealing the Black Vortex passage to trap the cultivators inside.
• The Green Demon Commander warned that cultivators might enter the Divine Gang Zone and break through to ancestral god while the exit was sealed.
• Commander Luo Wei said the three commanders could sense and interrupt any breakthrough attempt, preventing cultivators from escaping.
• The Green Demon Commander and the Lotus Commander warmed to the plan after Commander Luo Wei promised the Great Commander would reward them for completing the task.

Commander Luo Wei, the Green Demon Commander, and the Lotus Commander sealed the Black Vortex, the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm’s only exit, trapping the cultivators inside as the realm neared collapse. The cultivators decided their best hope was to find half-step ancestral gods such as Xie Haiqing and help them advance to Ancestral God.

• Commander Luo Wei, the Green Demon Commander, and the Lotus Commander ordered nearby Outer Realm Demon Spirits to gather at the Black Vortex.
• The three commanders flew to the exit, where eternal true god-level Outer Realm Demon Spirits joined them and formed a blockade.
• Cultivators across the realm realized the Outer Realm Demon Spirits had sealed their only way out and feared they would die when the realm collapsed.
• The cultivators concluded they needed an Ancestral God to challenge the commanders and break through the blockade.
• The cultivators identified Xie Haiqing, Ke Yin, Ouyang Jin, Chai Jinzhu, and Ding Qing as likely candidates for advancement, and resolved to find and protect them during their breakthroughs.

With the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm collapsing and its exit sealed by the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, Qin Hao and Yun Chang sought Xie Haiqing and the other half-step Ancestral Gods, hoping to protect them as they advanced. The falling sky scattered the astral winds, potentially allowing cultivators to contact one another as the realm neared destruction.

• Cultivators abandoned their search for treasures and began looking for Xie Haiqing and the other half-step Ancestral Gods, though the dense killing intent and astral wind limited Communication Tokens.
• Qin Hao told Yun Chang that someone needed to reach the Ancestral God realm to break the demons' blockade and led him to search for Xie Haiqing, Ke Yin, Ouyang Jin, and the others.
• Xie Haiqing and the other half-step Ancestral Gods gathered in the Divine Gang Zone and sought more cultivators to guard them during a breakthrough against Commander Luo Wei, the Green Demon Commander, and the Lotus Commander.
• As the sky descended and the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm neared collapse, its force scattered the astral winds, and cultivators realized their Communication Tokens might reach farther.

As the killing intent and astral wind weakened, cultivators in the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm began contacting one another, and a Southern Frontier Military Order summons gathered more than a thousand Eternal True Gods. Qin Hao and Yun Chang reached the gathering and met Ouyang Jin, who said they had reached a dangerous moment and needed more people to break through to the Ancestral God Realm.

• As the killing intent and astral wind thinned, cultivators used Communication Tokens and Southern Frontier Military Orders to contact nearby allies and gather in the Divine Gang Zone.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang received a military summons and flew toward its source, where Qin Hao recognized Ouyang Jin's aura.
• Qin Hao arrived to find more than a thousand Eternal True Gods gathered, including Ouyang Feng, Zhang Jiuming, and other familiar cultivators who welcomed him and praised his past victories.
• Ouyang Jin heard that Qin Hao had killed Yan Linhan after Yan Linhan became a Half-Step Ancestral God and was surprised by Qin Hao's rapid rise to the Eternal True God Pinnacle.
• Ouyang Jin told Qin Hao that the group had reached a dangerous moment and that Xie Haiqing, Ke Yin, and others were also attempting to reach the Ancestral God Realm elsewhere.

Qin Hao and the others prepared to defend Ouyang Jin as he attempted to break through to the Ancestral God Realm, their survival depending on someone succeeding. After three days, powerful aura fluctuations from afar revealed that Xing Long had begun his own breakthrough attempt.

• Ouyang Jin thanked Qin Hao for agreeing to help protect the cultivators and returned to the center of the formation to prepare his breakthrough.
• Ouyang Feng explained that the formation relied on about a thousand cultivators, and Qin Hao and Yun Chang took positions at one of its focal points.
• The gathered cultivators waited as Ouyang Jin's aura strengthened, knowing his breakthrough could fail even without interference from the Outer Realm Demon Spirits.
• Three days and nights passed, and powerful aura fluctuations erupted from a distant location, startling Qin Hao and the others.
• The cultivators recognized the aura as Xing Long's and learned that the Nine Heavens Tower genius had begun attempting to reach the Ancestral God Realm.

Xing Long’s attempt to break through to the Ancestral God realm was interrupted by the Green Demon Commander, and his aura vanished after the attack. Qin Hao and the others renewed their resolve to protect Ouyang Jin’s future breakthrough and prepared for battle.

• Xing Long began attempting his Ancestral God breakthrough, creating fluctuations that let the Three Ancestral God Commanders locate him.
• The Green Demon Commander attacked Xing Long from the exit of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• The attack weakened Xing Long’s breakthrough aura until it disappeared, leaving everyone unsure whether he had survived.
• Ouyang Feng urged the group not to lose hope and to work together to help Ouyang Jin break through.
• Qin Hao and the others resolved to defend Ouyang Jin at any cost, then settled down to rest before the coming battle.

Commander Luo Wei, the Green Demon Commander, and the Lotus Commander sealed the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm Exit and crushed cultivators’ attempts to break through to Ancestral God. The chapter ends as Ouyang Jin attempts his breakthrough inside a formation merged with an astral-wind tornado, while the Green Demon Commander attacks it.

• The Green Demon Commander mocked Xing Long after interrupting his breakthrough, then lost track of him when his aura vanished.
• Commander Luo Wei searched for Qin Hao and suspected he was hiding while waiting for a chance to escape with his mysterious treasure sword.
• Commander Luo Wei, the Green Demon Commander, and the Lotus Commander repeatedly suppressed half-step Ancestral Gods attempting breakthroughs, killing more than a dozen in several days.
• The Green Demon Commander sensed a powerful breakthrough at the center of an astral-wind tornado and sent a palm of demonic qi to suppress it.
• Ouyang Jin and more than a thousand Eternal True Gods poured their strength into a formation as Ouyang Jin reached a critical point in his breakthrough.

The Green Demon Commander’s palm battered the formation protecting Ouyang Jin’s breakthrough, leaving many cultivators injured and the barrier close to collapse. Qin Hao prepared to save Yun Chang and others in his self-world, then sent his five doppelgangers to reinforce the formation’s weakest point.

• The Green Demon Commander struck the spherical Defensive Barrier with a palm, and the impact injured many cultivators, including Yun Chang.
• As the formation weakened and the barrier creaked under the attack, Qin Hao warned Yun Chang to enter his self-world if it failed.
• Qin Hao deployed his five doppelgangers to reinforce the formation’s central region.
• Qin Hao’s five doppelgangers spread their respective eternal dao domains at the formation’s forefront.

Qin Hao and his five doppelgangers, supported by the formation and the eternal true gods, withstood the Green Demon Commander’s strike. But Ouyang Jin’s breakthrough to the ancestral god realm failed, leaving everyone’s hopes of survival in doubt.

• The Life Force and Light Doppelgangers had their domains shattered by the Green Demon Commander’s attack, and the Darkness and Time Doppelgangers also took severe damage.
• The Devouring Doppelganger absorbed the weakened strike until it collapsed, and Qin Hao’s group celebrated their success.
• Qin Hao noticed Ouyang Jin’s aura faltering, and Ouyang Jin admitted that his breakthrough had failed.
• The formation dispersed, and the group fell into silence and despair over their uncertain chances of survival.

Green Demon Commander failed to stop another attempted breakthrough in his assigned area after his strike was swallowed by folded space. As the new breakthrough’s fate remained uncertain, Commander Luo Wei worried that Qin Hao had disappeared or died, making the Primordial Feathered Wings and Supreme Sword Tower difficult to find.

• Green Demon Commander realized Ouyang Jin’s breakthrough had failed and lost track of Ouyang Jin, Qin Hao, and the others after the aura fluctuations faded.
• Green Demon Commander spotted a new breakthrough forming in a mirrorlike fold of space in the Divine Gang Zone and attacked it with his full power.
• The fold of space enveloped Green Demon Commander’s palm strike and eroded it, provoking his fury after his second attack was blocked.
• Commander Luo Wei and the Lotus Commander declined to help Green Demon Commander, who insisted on dealing with the breakthrough himself.
• Commander Luo Wei worried that Qin Hao had left the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm or died, which would make the Primordial Feathered Wings and Supreme Sword Tower hard to find.

After Ouyang Jin failed to become an Ancestral God, Qin Hao urged him to try again, but Ouyang Jin knew he could not make another attempt soon. When Xie Haiqing began his own breakthrough and blocked an attack from the Green Demon Commander, Ouyang Jin rallied everyone to protect him.

• Ouyang Jin apologized to the gathered cultivators for failing his breakthrough, and Qin Hao encouraged him to try again.
• Ouyang Jin hesitated to tell everyone that his failed attempt left him unable to try again in the short term.
• The Green Demon Commander attacked a fold in space, but the strike dissipated as Xie Haiqing's powerful breakthrough aura emerged.
• Ouyang Jin identified Xie Haiqing and warned that the Green Demon Commander would attack again.
• Ouyang Jin led the Eternal True Gods toward Xie Haiqing's location to help protect his breakthrough.

Qin Hao and the others raced toward Xie Haiqing’s breakthrough as the Green Demon Commander’s second attack nearly disrupted it, but the spatial mirror endured. The chapter ended with the commander launching two palm strikes at once and revealed that thousands of cultivators, including half-step ancestral god protectors, guarded multiple breakthroughs beneath the mirror.

• Qin Hao, Yun Chang, Ouyang Jin, and the others hurried toward the spatial fold while sensing Xie Haiqing’s increasingly powerful breakthrough aura.
• The Green Demon Commander struck the spatial fold again, causing Xie Haiqing’s aura to plunge before it stabilized.
• The spatial fold eroded the commander’s second palm attack, and Qin Hao and Yun Chang sped ahead toward Xie Haiqing as the others burned their divine strength.
• The Green Demon Commander launched two palm strikes at once while Commander Luo Wei and the Lotus Commander prepared to intervene.
• The chapter revealed thousands of eternal true gods and numerous half-step ancestral god protectors beneath the spatial mirror, guarding several people who were breaking through.