Chapter Summaries

Divine Lord Redcloud visited Qin Hao, explained why the Divine Lord Inheritance sought out geniuses, and revealed the dire state of the war against the outer realm demon spirits. He urged Qin Hao to stake his life on becoming a Divine Lord, then prepared to take him to the Kindling Realm, but Qin Hao asked him to wait as he looked toward Mu Ziqing.

• Divine Lord Redcloud appeared before Qin Hao and praised him for creating a second high-rank Peak secret art in a short time.
• Divine Lord Redcloud told Qin Hao that Lord Tu Ling, the World Spirit of the Kindling Realm, had noticed him and that the Heavenly Palace nurtured geniuses to oppose the outer realm demon spirits.
• Divine Lord Redcloud explained that Divine Lords could overwhelm armies of true gods and most Ancestral Gods, and that joining the inheritance gave Qin Hao a one-in-ten-thousand chance of becoming a Divine Lord.
• Divine Lord Redcloud revealed that outer realm demon spirits had occupied seventy-two of the one hundred and eight heavens and earths, and said a new Divine Lord could help change the situation.
• Divine Lord Redcloud told Qin Hao to prepare to depart, but Qin Hao asked him to wait and looked toward Mu Ziqing.

Qin Hao left Mu Ziqing and traveled with Divine Lord Redcloud to the Kindling Realm, where Tu Ling would oversee his cultivation. After learning he must reach seven-star Ancestral God to leave and keep his Daoist Seed identity secret, Qin Hao met Tu Ling, who praised his self-created secret art.

• Qin Hao told Mu Ziqing that Divine Lord Redcloud had arrived and that he was leaving for the Kindling Realm, and she urged him to take care of himself.
• Divine Lord Redcloud brought Qin Hao to the Kindling Realm and explained that he needed to become a seven-star Ancestral God to leave.
• Divine Lord Redcloud told Qin Hao that Tu Ling would oversee his cultivation and warned him to conceal his identity as a Daoist Seed.
• Qin Hao met Tu Ling, who recognized his creation of a high-rank peak secret art based on the Ancient Heavensea Ruins and called him intriguing.

Qin Hao entered the Kindling Realm and met Pang Qingyun, a Supreme-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure War Soldier who revealed that Qin Hao was one of the realm’s Daoist Seeds. Pang Qingyun gave Qin Hao his code-name token and explained the ranking system, while hinting that Qin Hao might be able to take him out of the Kindling Realm.

• The elderly Tu Ling summoned Pang Qingyun to escort Qin Hao into the Kindling Realm.
• Pang Qingyun recognized Qin Hao by name and explained that he was not a Daoist Seed or Qin Hao’s senior brother, but a Supreme-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure War Soldier.
• Pang Qingyun told Qin Hao that he could potentially take him out of the Kindling Realm and gave him a diamond-shaped Token marked Black Thirty-Six.
• Pang Qingyun explained that the Kindling Realm’s 225 Daoist Seeds were ranked in Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow tiers, and that Qin Hao ranked Black Thirty-Six.

Pang Qingyun showed Qin Hao the Kindling Realm’s treasures and explained how the Chaos Spirit Pool could rapidly increase ancestral god power. Qin Hao learned that he could enter it only once every hundred epochs to protect his foundations, and Pang Qingyun began introducing the Heavenly Law Tower as the second great treasure land.

• Pang Qingyun told Qin Hao that his talent ranked Mystic Thirty-Six, below higher-ranked cultivators and many other geniuses.
• Pang Qingyun showed Qin Hao the Chaos Spirit Pool and explained that it could raise an ancestral god’s cultivation to perfection by increasing their ancestral god power.
• Pang Qingyun warned Qin Hao that he could enter the Chaos Spirit Pool only once every hundred epochs, since cultivating too quickly could damage his foundations and hinder future breakthroughs.
• Qin Hao accepted Pang Qingyun’s advice and asked about the Kindling Realm’s three great treasure lands.
• Pang Qingyun pointed out the Heavenly Law Tower as the second great treasure land.

Pang Qingyun explained the Heavenly Law Tower’s combat trials and rewards, then showed Qin Hao the Kindling Realm’s cultivation resources and the Heavenly Palace’s demanding progress plan. Qin Hao was left weighing the tower’s challenges against the difficulty of mastering higher-level secret arts.

• Pang Qingyun told Qin Hao that the nine-floor Heavenly Law Tower offered combat experience and increasingly valuable treasures, with the ninth floor requiring true meaning or a Mid-Rank Perfect Secret Art within one reincarnation epoch.
• Pang Qingyun assessed that Qin Hao could likely clear the first floor but was unlikely to clear the second, prompting Qin Hao to eye the tower eagerly.
• Pang Qingyun explained that Daoist Seed and Divine Lord Cultivation Insights, texts, techniques, and cultivation grounds were the Kindling Realm’s most important resources, and said Qin Hao could study them for one hundred epochs.
• Pang Qingyun showed Qin Hao the Heavenly Palace’s Cultivation Progress Plan, which offered treasures for mastering increasingly difficult secret arts within thirty epochs.
• Qin Hao judged the later goals nearly impossible and found their rewards modest compared with the Heavenly Law Tower’s ninth-floor prize.

Qin Hao reviewed three increasingly demanding Cultivation Progress Plans and discussed their rewards with Pang Qingyun. Intrigued by the prospect of growing stronger, Qin Hao asked what Pang Qingyun meant by Life-and-Death Missions.

• Qin Hao was shocked that the first plan required him to create a new high-rank Peak secret art within thirty epochs.
• Qin Hao read plans that demanded progressively more secret arts in exchange for increasingly valuable Chaos treasures.
• Pang Qingyun encouraged Qin Hao to focus on mastering eighteen high-rank Peak secret arts within ninety epochs for a High-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure.
• Pang Qingyun suggested that mastering eighty-one high-rank Peak secret arts could earn a Supreme-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure and let him accompany Qin Hao on Life-and-Death Missions.
• Qin Hao noted how difficult it would be to create Peak Rank Peak or perfect secret arts, then asked Pang Qingyun what a Life-and-Death Mission was.

Pang Qingyun explained the Daoist Seeds’ Life-and-Death Mission requirements and warned Qin Hao to keep his identity secret, then urged him to test his strength at the Heavenly Law Tower. Qin Hao flew to the tower and entered, eager to see whether he could clear its second floor.

• Pang Qingyun told Qin Hao that Daoist Seeds had to complete three Life-and-Death Missions every hundred epochs and keep their identities concealed after a seven-star ancestral god was killed by a Six-Star perfection ancestral god.
• Pang Qingyun urged Qin Hao to visit the Heavenly Law Tower and study its cultivation insights, and asked him to take Pang Qingyun out of the Kindling Realm someday.
• Qin Hao promised to do his best, then watched Pang Qingyun vanish at astonishing speed and reflected on how much stronger he was.
• Qin Hao saw his Black Thirty-Six Manor and learned that the Kindling Realm had two hundred and twenty-five Daoist Seeds, its smallest group ever.
• Qin Hao flew to the Heavenly Law Tower, considered its rewards for clearing the first and second floors, and charged inside to test himself.

Qin Hao entered the Heavenly Law Tower and defeated the First Floor’s Black-Clothed Youth by trapping him with his Heavensea Ruins Diagram and Heavensea Void Realm Diagram. The tower declared him victorious, while the Black-Clothed Youth warned that the next floor would be harder.

• Qin Hao entered a pitch-black space and encountered the Black-Clothed Youth, the First Floor’s guardian.
• The Black-Clothed Youth recognized Qin Hao’s two high-rank Peak secret arts and launched a lightning-fast sword attack.
• Qin Hao’s Heavensea Void Realm Diagram stopped the attack, and he brought down his Heavensea Ruins Diagram over the area.
• The Black-Clothed Youth tried to flee but was caught in Qin Hao’s illusory realm and pinned beneath the Heavensea Ruins Diagram.
• The Heavenly Law Tower announced that Qin Hao had passed the First Floor, and the Black-Clothed Youth accused him of winning by luck before vanishing.

After defeating Black Mist, Qin Hao reflected on why the Second Floor would be much harder and began experimenting with new defensive uses for his Heavensea diagrams. Above the ninth floor, the other guardians mocked Black Mist for losing, but he admitted Qin Hao was extraordinarily strong.

• Qin Hao judged that his two high-rank peak secret arts were not enough to pass the Second Floor and recalled that Black Mist had lost before using his own secret art.
• Qin Hao considered entering the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram to defend himself and realized he could reshape the Heavensea Ruins Diagram into a shield.
• Qin Hao began testing his new defensive idea on the First Floor instead of immediately challenging the Second Floor.
• Black Mist arrived in the space above the ninth floor, where the other guardians laughed at him for losing to a newcomer.
• Black Mist admitted Qin Hao's two secret arts were so powerful that Black Mist had barely been able to react.

Black Mist defended Qin Hao’s strength to the other Chaos Spirit Treasure battle soldiers, who challenged him to bet on whether Qin Hao could pass the Second Floor. Although Golden Man warned that Xia Heng’s secret arts would counter Qin Hao, Black Mist let Ape-Man provoke him into wagering nearly half his fortune.

• Black Mist insisted Qin Hao was far stronger than the others believed, saying he had been unable to touch him in their fight.
• Ape-Man proposed a bet on whether Qin Hao would pass the Second Floor and set odds that heavily favored Qin Hao losing.
• Golden Man warned Black Mist that Xia Heng’s three powerful secret arts would prevent Qin Hao from passing.
• After Ape-Man taunted him, Black Mist declared that Qin Hao would win and placed five hundred divine crystals on the bet.

Qin Hao strengthened his defenses by combining the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram with the Heavensea Ruins Diagram as he prepared to challenge the Heavenly Law Tower’s Second Floor. Outside the tower, Pang Qingyun bet on Qin Hao winning for the excitement, despite believing his chances were slim.

• Monkey organized bets on whether Qin Hao would pass the Second Floor, and nearly everyone wagered against him.
• Pang Qingyun arrived, heard how Qin Hao had easily defeated Black Mist, and joined the betting.
• Pang Qingyun placed a thousand divine crystals on Qin Hao winning, explaining that the long odds made the bet entertaining.
• Qin Hao entered the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram and found that it greatly strengthened his defenses.
• Qin Hao compressed the Heavensea Ruins Diagram into a defensive barrier and combined it with the Void Realm Diagram as two layers of protection.
• Qin Hao stood and climbed toward the Heavenly Law Tower’s Second Floor.

A scar-faced Daoist Seed and Cool and Aloof Woman noticed that the new Daoist Seed, Mystic Thirty-Six, was challenging the Heavenly Law Tower’s Second Floor. They watched the tower light up and debated how long Qin Hao could last, unaware of his true abilities.

• The scar-faced man noticed that someone was challenging the Heavenly Law Tower and persuaded Cool and Aloof Woman to go look.
• The two discussed how Mystic Thirty-Six had entered the Kindling Realm ranked Mystic Thirty-Six, while Cool and Aloof Woman’s ranking had not fallen.
• They saw the Second Floor glowing and the entrance display identify the challenger as Mystic Thirty-Six.
• The scar-faced man predicted that Qin Hao would fail quickly, while Cool and Aloof Woman allowed that he might last longer.

Qin Hao entered the Heavenly Law Tower’s Second Floor and faced its Sword Dao Guardian, Xia Heng, who challenged him with the powerful Phantom Twelve Swords. Qin Hao used a new application of his Heavensea Void Realm Diagram to block the attack, leaving the observers stunned as the confrontation continued.

• Qin Hao entered the Second Floor and met Xia Heng, a High-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure combat soldier who told him to leave.
• Qin Hao refused, so Xia Heng launched his Phantom Twelve Swords and claimed Qin Hao could not break the technique.
• Qin Hao used a new way of wielding the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram and vanished within it.
• Xia Heng's twelve swords struck the diagram’s defenses but could not reach Qin Hao.
• Pang Qingyun and the other observers were stunned that Qin Hao had blocked Phantom Twelve Swords.

Qin Hao used the Heavensea Ruins Diagram and Heavensea Void Realm Diagram to block Xia Heng’s Phantom Twelve Swords, but Xia Heng attacked again with Treading Through the Void and broke through the outer defense. Xia Heng then launched his second move, Sky-Breaking Sword, toward Qin Hao.

• Monkey insisted that Xia Heng’s first attack had only been a probing move, while Black Mist teased him about panicking over the bets.
• Qin Hao realized that the Heavensea Ruins Diagram and Heavensea Void Realm Diagram had stopped Xia Heng’s Phantom Twelve Swords without letting them reach him.
• Xia Heng acknowledged Qin Hao’s defensive strength but declared that he would defeat him within three moves.
• Xia Heng used Treading Through the Void to stomp through the Heavensea Ruins Diagram, though the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram stopped him.
• Xia Heng summoned an ink-black longsword and launched Sky-Breaking Sword at Qin Hao.

Qin Hao faced Xia Heng’s Sky-Breaking Sword and Phantom Twelve Swords, using the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram and Heavensea Ruins Diagram to survive Xia Heng’s consecutive attacks. Xia Heng was left surprised that Qin Hao had successfully evaded and blocked him, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Qin Hao vanished from the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram as Xia Heng’s Sky-Breaking Sword shattered it, then compressed the sword with the diagram.
• Xia Heng immediately followed with the Phantom Twelve Swords, catching Qin Hao just after he emerged from the diagram.
• Qin Hao summoned the Heavensea Ruins Diagram to block the attack, then stepped into a newly summoned Heavensea Void Realm Diagram as five swords pierced through.
• Qin Hao’s defenses and evasions prevented Xia Heng from defeating him, leaving the battle back at its starting position.
• Xia Heng acknowledged Qin Hao had exceeded his expectations, while the observers fell silent.

Qin Hao survived Xia Heng’s attacks on the Heavenly Law Tower’s Second Floor, but realized that his own attacks could not catch the faster opponent. Xia Heng gave Qin Hao half an incense stick to touch him once, and Qin Hao began studying his movement as their test continued.

• The Golden Man, Black Mist, and others marveled that Qin Hao had withstood Xia Heng’s attacks, while Pang Qingyun hoped to build a closer relationship with him.
• Qin Hao reflected that his improved use of the Heavensea Ruins Diagram and Heavensea Void Realm Diagram had helped him defend against Xia Heng.
• Qin Hao counterattacked with Endlessness Style, but Xia Heng evaded it and appeared on a distant mountain peak.
• Xia Heng praised Qin Hao’s defensive skill, then offered to count the fight as his loss if Qin Hao touched him within half an incense stick.
• Qin Hao attacked again, but Xia Heng easily dodged, so Qin Hao resolved to keep trying while studying his movement.

Qin Hao fought Xia Heng on the Second Floor, using a hidden trap to land an attack and win their agreed-upon contest. After the Second Floor was declared passed, Qin Hao headed to the Third Floor, where Iron Man was the guardian.

• Qin Hao repeatedly attacked Xia Heng with Endlessness Style, but Xia Heng used Treading Through the Void to evade every strike.
• Qin Hao observed Xia Heng's movements and realized he anticipated the attacks, while his Vortex Sword Radiance gradually filled the surrounding area.
• Qin Hao merged the scattered Vortex Sword Radiance into the Heavensea Ruins Diagram, surrounding Xia Heng so he could not escape being touched.
• Xia Heng praised Qin Hao's strategy and accepted defeat under their agreement, then warned him that Iron Man guarded the Third Floor.
• The Second Floor was declared passed, and Qin Hao reflected on his weakness before climbing to the Third Floor.

Qin Hao defeated Xia Heng in the Heavenly Law Tower, winning a bet that left the monkey owing Black Mist and Pang Qingyun fifteen thousand Divine Crystals. As Iron Man headed to challenge Qin Hao, Pang Qingyun watched him with growing interest.

• Black Mist celebrated winning five thousand Divine Crystals after Qin Hao defeated Xia Heng, while the monkey realized he owed Black Mist and Pang Qingyun fifteen thousand in total.
• Xia Heng arrived and explained that Qin Hao had won because his defenses were too strong for Xia Heng to land a hit, and a successful attack could have trapped Xia Heng in the Heavensea Void Realm Diagram.
• The monkey protested that the challenge required a head-on victory, but Xia Heng said Qin Hao could have defeated him through repeated attacks and the Heavenly Law Tower would not accept a mere agreement as proof.
• Black Mist made the monkey call him big brother and offered to let him repay the debt later, while Iron Man promised to challenge Qin Hao.
• Iron Man flew toward the Third Floor as Pang Qingyun watched Qin Hao and admired his combat talent.

Qin Hao passed the Heavenly Law Tower’s Second Floor but was instantly defeated on the Third Floor by its powerful guardian. After leaving the tower, he received a thousand divine crystals from Pang Qingyun, while two onlookers reacted with surprise.

• Pang Qingyun decided to cultivate a good relationship with Qin Hao because he believed Qin Hao might someday choose him to receive a Supreme-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure.
• Qin Hao challenged the Third Floor, but its Iron Man guardian shattered his diagrams and defeated him instantly.
• The scar-faced man and the Cool and Aloof Woman saw the Third Floor light go out and watched Qin Hao emerge from the tower.
• Qin Hao reflected on the guardian’s strength and planned to return to the Manor to study his weaknesses.
• Pang Qingyun appeared, praised Qin Hao, and gave him a thousand divine crystals before leaving.
• The scar-faced man and the Cool and Aloof Woman reacted with astonishment and contemplation at Pang Qingyun’s gift.

Qin Hao met Xuan Seventy-One and Xuan Sixteen after earning a thousand divine crystals from Pang Qingyun, and they discussed his unusual talent and prospects in the Heavenly Law Tower. Interested in Kindling Flame Cliff’s accumulated cultivation insights, Qin Hao agreed to visit it with them.

• Xuan Seventy-One and Xuan Sixteen recognized Qin Hao as the new Daoist Seed and introduced themselves by their rankings.
• Qin Hao explained how an unexpected turn led him to create two high-rank Peak secret arts and enter the Kindling Realm.
• Xuan Seventy-One and Xuan Sixteen praised Qin Hao’s talent and said he might have a chance to clear the Heavenly Law Tower’s Fifth Floor within one reincarnation epoch.
• Xuan Seventy-One described Kindling Flame Cliff as the place where many Divine Lords and Daoist Seeds had left cultivation insights.
• Qin Hao accepted Xuan Seventy-One’s invitation to visit Kindling Flame Cliff with him and Xuan Sixteen.