Chapter Summaries

Dong Jianhong seized the Bronze Tiger Tally after more than ten epochs of effort, then tried to flee when the gravely wounded Ironbone Commander fell into the small world. The Ironbone Commander spotted him and angrily blamed him for refusing to help against Qin Hao.

• Dong Jianhong hurried to take the Bronze Tiger Tally, fearing the enemy pursuing the Ironbone Commander while remaining unable to sense that enemy.
• Dong Jianhong grabbed the Bronze Tiger Tally and discovered that it contained destructive power beyond his ability to control, along with markings that seemed like a map.
• The Ironbone Commander fell into the small world, gravely wounded after Qin Hao's relentless attacks.
• Dong Jianhong decided to escape without confronting the unseen enemy and shot up from underground.
• The Ironbone Commander saw Dong Jianhong and furiously accused him of staying hidden instead of helping fight Qin Hao.

Qin Hao used the Self Void World's rules to trap the wounded Ironbone Commander and prevent Dong Jianhong from escaping. Dong Jianhong tried to negotiate, but Qin Hao condemned him as a traitor and prepared to confront him, while wondering about the Bronze Tiger Tally.

• The Ironbone Commander watched Dong Jianhong head into the sky and hoped Qin Hao would attack him, allowing a chance to flee.
• Qin Hao solidified the space around Dong Jianhong with the Self Void World's Heaven and Earth Rule Power, slowing his escape.
• Dong Jianhong stopped and asked the unseen cultivator to let him leave, promising a generous repayment.
• The Ironbone Commander realized he was also unable to move and grew furious at Dong Jianhong for trying to negotiate with cultivators.
• Qin Hao answered that a traitor deserved no courtesy, and Dong Jianhong suspected his opponent was a familiar Heavenly Palace Daoist Seed.
• Qin Hao recalled seeing Dong Jianhong's Bronze Tiger Tally and concluded that Dong Jianhong's betrayal could not be forgiven.

Qin Hao confronted Dong Jianhong, revealing that he had created a Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art and had come to avenge Lan Zancheng. Dong Jianhong defended his betrayal and blamed Xuan Seventy-One as their battle began.

• Dong Jianhong unleashed his Heavenly Silver Needles to break through the frozen space and escape the small world.
• Qin Hao attacked with a flaming Giant Sword, forcing Dong Jianhong to dodge and scattering his needles.
• Qin Hao appeared before Dong Jianhong, who recognized his Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art and realized who he was.
• Qin Hao accused Dong Jianhong of betraying the Myriad Races and causing Lan Zancheng's death.
• Dong Jianhong claimed he had faced a perilous situation, said he had tried to persuade Seventy-One, and insisted that Seventy-One deserved to die.

Qin Hao rejected Dong Jianhong’s justification for his betrayal, and the two fought as Dong Jianhong tried to kill him with powerful secret arts. Qin Hao blocked Dong Jianhong’s attacks, but Dong Jianhong launched his hundred and eight Silver Needles in a final assault.

• Dong Jianhong argued that he had betrayed Qin Hao to preserve his strength and return to the Heavenly Palace, but Qin Hao told him he deserved to die.
• Dong Jianhong attacked Qin Hao with Origin Thunder Kill, sending two silent silver lightning dragons at him.
• Qin Hao used dozens of layered Heavensea diagrams to absorb the attack until its lightning dissipated before reaching him.
• Dong Jianhong resumed his assault with the hundred and eight Silver Needles and used Soul Theft and Annihilate to turn them into silver streaks that pierced toward Qin Hao.

Qin Hao recognized that Dong Jianhong’s Soul Theft attack was empowered by the destructive power of the Bronze Tiger Tally, which also injured Dong Jianhong. Dong Jianhong fled after unleashing the attack, but Qin Hao entered his Self-Void World to evade the needles, which followed him inside with their speed and power greatly reduced.

• Qin Hao sensed that Dong Jianhong’s hundred and eight Silver Needles carried an unfamiliar destructive force alongside Soul Theft.
• Dong Jianhong channeled the Bronze Tiger Tally’s destructive power into the needles, hurting himself as he used it.
• Dong Jianhong decided he could not defeat Qin Hao unaided and turned to flee after launching his attack.
• The needles broke through Qin Hao’s secret-art defenses and walls of space, losing some of their power along the way.
• Qin Hao entered his Self-Void World, but the hundred and eight Silver Needles followed him inside at reduced speed and strength.

Qin Hao destroyed Dong Jianhong’s Silver Needles with the Self-Void World and realized the destructive power behind them was harming Dong Jianhong as well. As Dong Jianhong fled, he sent the Demon God Hall a message claiming Mystic Thirty-Six was a Heavenly Palace Daoist Seed, hoping to bring powerful reinforcements before Qin Hao caught him.

• Qin Hao’s Self-Void World overwhelmed and shattered Dong Jianhong’s one hundred and eight Silver Needles, while their destructive power remained inside it.
• Qin Hao realized Dong Jianhong had not mastered the destructive power and was suffering its backlash, then pursued him.
• Dong Jianhong fled through the starry sky and grew anxious when he could no longer sense Qin Hao.
• Dong Jianhong concluded that rivalries within the Demon God Hall had delayed its Ancestral God Commanders and decided to lure them with news of a Heavenly Palace Daoist Seed.
• Dong Jianhong sent the Demon God Hall a message identifying Mystic Thirty-Six as a Heavenly Palace Daoist Seed, then felt the destructive power and Soul Theft power lash back at him as his Silver Needles shattered.

Qin Hao crippled Dong Jianhong with the backlash from his shattered Heavenly Silver Needles and pursued him through the starry sky. After Dong Jianhong reported Qin Hao’s talent, hundreds of Ancestral God Commanders rushed from the Demon God Hall to hunt him.

• Dong Jianhong sent the Demon God Hall a message that Mystic Thirty-Six had mastered a Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art after ninety epochs in the Kindling Realm, then fled toward the Infinite Sea’s entrance.
• Qin Hao kept the Ironbone Commander restrained in his Void World and struck Dong Jianhong with the Heavensea Ruins Diagram and Heavenly Abyss Sword.
• Dong Jianhong’s artifacts and defensive secret art shattered, and the shock wave wounded him and sent him crashing through a meteorite, but he survived and continued fleeing.
• Qin Hao pursued Dong Jianhong, determined to kill him.
• Hundreds of Ancestral God Commanders, including powerful six-star and seven-star commanders, rushed out from the outer realm demon spirits’ headquarters to hunt Qin Hao.

Great Commander Hai Dong learned that Mystic Thirty-Six was Qin Hao and rushed toward the Infinite Sea to kill him before he escaped. In a hidden small world in the Jadeite Star Region, True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness also received news about Qin Hao.

• Great Commander Hai Dong concluded that Mystic Thirty-Six was Qin Hao because both had cultivated for ninety epochs and Qin Hao was the Heavenly Palace's latest Daoist Seed.
• Hai Dong recalled his past attempts to have Qin Hao killed, his fear of Qin Hao's talent, and his anger over Lord Qingming's fate.
• Hai Dong learned that Qin Hao had created a Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art and feared that Dong Jianhong and the Ironbone Commander could not defeat him.
• Hai Dong set off at once for the Infinite Sea, intent on intercepting Qin Hao before he could escape.
• In a concealed small world in the Jadeite Star Region, True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness received a message about Qin Hao.

The Void Emperor’s allies learned that Mystic Thirty-Six was Qin Hao and mobilized to kill him in the Infinite Sea. The Heavenly Palace knew of the danger, but Divine Lord Redcloud chose not to intervene, trusting Qin Hao to escape and saying he needed the trial.

• True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness identified Mystic Thirty-Six as Qin Hao and set out for the Infinite Sea to kill him.
• Phantom Baleful Poisoness recalled how Qin Hao’s past actions had left her trapped in Blood God Valley until the Void Emperor rescued her.
• Dong Jianhong’s news prompted hundreds of Outer Realm Demon Spirit Ancestral God Commanders and other powers to mobilize against Qin Hao.
• The Heavenly Martial Ancestor recognized Mystic Thirty-Six as Qin Hao and contacted Divine Lord Redcloud to ask for help.
• Divine Lord Redcloud confirmed the Heavenly Palace knew of Qin Hao’s danger but refused to intervene, saying Qin Hao could escape and needed to face life-or-death trials.

Qin Hao overwhelmed Dong Jianhong in his Void World, refusing to trust his offer to become a Sleeper Agent. Desperate to survive, Dong Jianhong revealed the Bronze Tiger Tally, and Qin Hao took it for himself.

• Qin Hao repeatedly battered the wounded Dong Jianhong in his Void World until Dong Jianhong begged him to stop and offered to surrender.
• Dong Jianhong offered to become Qin Hao's Sleeper Agent among the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, but Qin Hao refused to trust a traitor.
• Dong Jianhong revealed that the Bronze Tiger Tally was the treasure he had obtained behind the Bronze Gate in the Infinite Sea.
• Qin Hao sensed the tally's immense destructive power and decided it could help his Destruction Doppelganger study destruction-aspected secret arts.
• Qin Hao used the power of his Void World to envelop the Bronze Tiger Tally and take it from Dong Jianhong.

Qin Hao took the Bronze Tiger Tally from Dong Jianhong, then killed him despite his surrender. Afterward, Qin Hao examined the mysterious tally and sensed it held immense destructive power and an unknown secret.

• Dong Jianhong surrendered the Bronze Tiger Tally to Qin Hao and turned to leave, hoping to survive and reclaim it someday.
• Qin Hao appeared in Dong Jianhong’s path and declared that he had never promised to spare him.
• As Qin Hao attacked, Dong Jianhong regretted betraying Lan Zancheng and succumbing to greed.
• Qin Hao killed Dong Jianhong with the Heavenly Abyss Sword, ending the life of the Heavenly Palace Daoist Seed.
• Qin Hao retrieved the Bronze Tiger Tally and examined its map-like runes and terrifying destructive power.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun cleared the Infinite Sea of its Outer Realm Demon Spirit commanders, but they could not reclaim the realm because the surrounding star regions remained under enemy control. As they prepared to leave, Great Commander Hai Dong arrived, recognized Qin Hao, and rushed toward him.

• Qin Hao entered the small world and killed the Ironbone Commander after the wounded commander broke free of the Heaven and Earth Rules.
• Pang Qingyun arrived and told Qin Hao he had killed the other Ancestral God Commanders and all the Outer Realm Demon Spirits in the Infinite Sea.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun lamented that they could not reclaim the Infinite Sea while the surrounding star regions remained controlled by the Outer Realm Demon Spirits.
• A powerful demon spirit pressure approached, and Pang Qingyun sensed a Six-Star Ancestral God nearing the Seven-Star level.
• Qin Hao recognized Great Commander Hai Dong, who spotted him and raced toward him.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun fled from Great Commander Hai Dong, a Peak Six-Star Ancestral God, by using the Self-Void World to cross the spatial barrier into murky space. Great Commander Hai Dong struck the barrier too late and was left stunned that Qin Hao had escaped without a pause.

• Great Commander Hai Dong arrived at the Infinite Sea and found Qin Hao still there, while Pang Qingyun recognized that their enemy was far beyond their current strength.
• Qin Hao seized Pang Qingyun and entered the Self-Void World, choosing to flee upward through the spatial barrier rather than risk passing Great Commander Hai Dong near the entrance.
• Qin Hao used the Self-Void World's ability to filter out the spatial barrier and moved through it into murky space without stopping.
• Great Commander Hai Dong sensed their escape route and launched a palm strike to catch them before they could cross.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun passed through the barrier, while Great Commander Hai Dong's palm shattered part of it and missed them, leaving him in disbelief.

Qin Hao used his Void World to flee through murky space and successive worlds while Great Commander Hai Dong pursued him. He escaped Hai Dong for the moment, but feared that more Outer Realm Demon Spirit Ancestral God Commanders would arrive.

• Great Commander Hai Dong pursued Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun through a shattered spatial barrier, but Qin Hao’s Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art helped them get away.
• Qin Hao carried Pang Qingyun through the Void World, where they could travel faster and avoid the spatial barriers that slowed Hai Dong.
• Qin Hao decided to escape rather than fight, knowing that Hai Dong might be joined by more commanders if the chase continued.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun crossed into a small world occupied by an Outer Realm Demon Spirit, then quickly left through another spatial barrier.
• Great Commander Hai Dong reached the world after Qin Hao had already departed, and the gap between them continued to grow.

Great Commander Hai Dong pursued Qin Hao into murky space but lost track of him after Qin Hao escaped using his Self-Void World. With Qin Hao gone from the Infinite Sea, the Outer Realm Demon Spirit commanders and his pursuers waited for him to appear again so they could kill him.

• Great Commander Hai Dong knocked aside a world’s Ancestral God Commander and entered murky space in pursuit of Qin Hao.
• After breaking through spatial barriers and being delayed by other Ancestral God Commanders, Great Commander Hai Dong lost Qin Hao’s trail and reported his suspicions to the Demon God Hall.
• At least a hundred Ancestral God Commanders arrived at the Infinite Sea, learned Qin Hao had escaped, and either departed or searched for traces of him.
• Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, True Person Wu Zhu, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness arrived too late and agreed to wait for Qin Hao to show himself again.

After escaping Great Commander Hai Dong, Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun headed toward Heavensea, where Qin Hao planned to continue his life-and-death missions and grow stronger. As they teleported toward the Qiankun Continent, Qin Hao wondered whether Origin World Reconstruction could turn the tide against the outer realm demon spirits.

• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun escaped Great Commander Hai Dong in the Wuguang Star Region using Qin Hao’s Self-Void World and spatial barriers.
• Qin Hao resolved to take Lan Yun and the others to Heavensea before beginning his second life-and-death mission and later returning to the Kindling Realm to cultivate.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun reached a planet with a teleportation array and learned it could take them to Crownpeak Star near the Qiankun Continent.
• Pang Qingyun recalled the powerful heroes and Divine Lords of the Origin World before it shattered.
• Qin Hao considered whether the Spirit Venerable’s plan for Origin World Reconstruction could help defeat the outer realm demon spirits, but questioned why the Origin World had fallen in the first place.

Commander Luo Wei monitored Crownpeak Star while resenting his assignment and plotting to grow strong enough to kill Qin Hao. When Qin Hao arrived at the planet with another powerful figure, Luo Wei sensed their overwhelming strength and felt an unexpected familiarity.

• Commander Luo Wei watched Crownpeak Star from a meteorite hidden in spatial turbulence, where he had been stationed to monitor its teleportation array.
• He recalled how Qin Hao had grown far stronger, acquired powerful treasures, and escaped every opportunity Luo Wei and the other commanders had to target him.
• Luo Wei complained that his assignment offered little chance to improve his cultivation and carried the risk of exposure to powerful Ancestral Gods.
• He brooded over Qin Hao's treasures and wished to become stronger so he could kill Qin Hao and seize them.
• Two figures appeared in Crownpeak Star's teleportation array, and Luo Wei sensed their immense power and an inexplicable familiarity.

Commander Luo Wei recognized Qin Hao among two powerful Ancestral Gods who arrived on Crown Peak Star and alerted Great Commander Hai Dong, hoping to seize Qin Hao’s Chaos Peerless Treasure. Qin Hao and his silver-armored companion appeared behind him, and Qin Hao revealed his identity and struck with Heaven and Earth Rule Power.

• Commander Luo Wei sensed two formidable Ancestral Gods arrive on Crown Peak Star and suspected the familiar middle-aged man was Qin Hao.
• Commander Luo Wei realized Qin Hao had advanced to a four-star Ancestral God and sent Great Commander Hai Dong a message that Qin Hao might have returned.
• Commander Luo Wei lost sight of Qin Hao and the silver-armored man, who had disappeared from Crown Peak Star.
• Qin Hao and the silver-armored man appeared behind Commander Luo Wei on his meteorite.
• Qin Hao revealed his true face and brought Heaven and Earth Rule Power crashing down on Commander Luo Wei.

Qin Hao killed Commander Luo Wei on Crownpeak Star before he could reveal Qin Hao’s treasures, then traveled with Pang Qingyun to the Qiankun Continent while considering the threat posed by the Void Emperor. They arrived in Dragon Marquis City, where Pang Qingyun noticed how much Heavensea’s energy had dwindled.

• Qin Hao located Commander Luo Wei on Crownpeak Star and crushed him with Heaven and Earth Rule Power.
• Qin Hao told Pang Qingyun that Commander Luo Wei had remained intent on killing him and recalled that the Green Demon Commander and the Lotus Commander had also survived the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• Qin Hao considered how Commander Luo Wei might have exposed his Primordial Feathered Wings and Supreme Sword Tower, and identified the Void Emperor and his powerful doppelgangers as continuing threats.
• Qin Hao took Pang Qingyun through his Void World and reached the Qiankun Continent almost instantly.
• Pang Qingyun looked around Dragon Marquis City and remarked that Heavensea’s energies had grown thin after the battle that shattered it.

Qin Hao returned to Dragon Marquis City with Pang Qingyun and reunited with Mu Ziqing and Yun Chang, who had become an Ancestral God. As Yun Chang sparred with Pang Qingyun, the Heavenly Martial Ancestor sensed Qin Hao’s return and worried that the final battle against the outer realm demon spirits was approaching.

• Pang Qingyun and Qin Hao arrived in Dragon Marquis City and remarked on how much the Heavensea had declined since the Origin World Era.
• Mu Ziqing and Yun Chang came to greet Qin Hao, and Mu Ziqing embraced him after their long separation.
• Pang Qingyun recognized Yun Chang’s talent and explained that the Heavenly Palace could no longer afford to train more Daoist Seeds; Yun Chang declared that he would become a Divine Lord without its help.
• Yun Chang learned that Pang Qingyun was Qin Hao’s supreme-grade chaos spirit treasure war soldier and challenged him to spar inside a barrier.
• The Heavenly Martial Ancestor sensed Qin Hao’s return and reflected that the outer realm demon spirits’ new attacks made the final battle seem near.