Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao fought the Black Demon Dragon across the Heavenly Dragon Star Region, while Venerable Ye Lan realized the battle was turning against the Dragon Race and began preparing to escape. As Pang Qingyun struck the enemy formation, Ye Lan used the shockwave to make his retreat look like the result of a grievous injury.

• Qin Hao and the Black Demon Dragon exchanged attacks that shattered planets across the Heavenly Dragon Star Region.
• Pang Qingyun marveled at Qin Hao’s strength, while Venerable Ye Lan realized the Black Demon Dragon was stalling for reinforcements and might soon lose the glazed dragon liquid’s boost.
• Venerable Ye Lan held back while fighting Pang Qingyun and decided to escape without drawing attention.
• Pang Qingyun struck at the two Dragon Race Five-Star Ancestral Gods, sending a shockwave through the fighters behind them.
• Venerable Ye Lan let the shockwave carry him away and spat blood to make it appear that Pang Qingyun’s punch had grievously injured him.

Venerable Ye Lan escaped the battlefield and headed away from the Heavenly Dragon Star Region, while Qin Hao continued weakening the Black Demon Dragon. With his power rapidly fading, the Black Demon Dragon tried to bargain and justify his betrayal as Qin Hao pressed the attack.

• Venerable Ye Lan hid behind a meteorite, saw that no one was watching him, and fled the battle.
• Venerable Ye Lan found that many nearby planets with teleportation arrays had been destroyed, so he flew toward a safer direction instead.
• Qin Hao used the Self-Void World and repeated Top-Tier Peak Secret Arts to keep attacking the Black Demon Dragon as the dragon's power declined.
• The Black Demon Dragon realized his strength would soon fall and decided to flee while offering treasures and glazed dragon liquid to persuade Qin Hao to stop pursuing him.
• The Black Demon Dragon dodged Qin Hao's Heavenly Abyss Sword and claimed that his betrayal followed the tide of the times, but Qin Hao rejected his justification and attacked again.

Qin Hao pursued the Black Demon Dragon, who tried to bargain with and distract him using his treasures. The Black Demon Dragon stopped to reclaim the last of them, giving Qin Hao a chance to close in, and found himself trapped by solidified space.

• The Black Demon Dragon offered Qin Hao his treasures in exchange for his life, but Qin Hao refused and attacked.
• The Black Demon Dragon scattered hundreds of treasures behind him to slow Qin Hao, but Qin Hao's sword strike destroyed most of them.
• The Black Demon Dragon turned back for the remaining treasures, unable to bear abandoning them, and Qin Hao seized the opening to rush closer.
• The Black Demon Dragon collected the remaining treasures and tried to flee, but discovered that space had solidified and was resisting his movement.

Qin Hao trapped the weakened Black Demon Dragon with frozen space and dozens of secret arts, then unleashed his strongest sword strike. As Black Demon Dragon faced death, he recalled his rise to power and the massacre through which he seized the Heavenly Dragon Star Region with Great Commander Hai Dong.

• Black Demon Dragon turned back to reclaim treasures, but Qin Hao froze space and surrounded him with layers of Peak Rank peak secret arts.
• Qin Hao gathered the power of Heaven-Burning Sword, his other secret arts, his six doppelgangers, and his Void World into a single strike.
• The diagram layers battered Black Demon Dragon, shattered his scales, and made his life divine power plummet.
• As he faced death, Black Demon Dragon remembered his humble youth and how an Outer Realm Demon Spirit Ancestor Ancestral God Commander had secretly nurtured him.
• Black Demon Dragon recalled joining Great Commander Hai Dong to seize the Heavenly Dragon Star Region, killing or scattering most of the Dragon Race.

Qin Hao killed the Black Demon Dragon, ending the Five-Star Peak Ancestral God's rule over the Heavenly Dragon Star Region. As the Dragon Race Ancestral Gods fled, Pang Qingyun killed one pursuer but discovered Venerable Ye Lan had escaped with the Time Crystal Qin Hao needed.

• Qin Hao's Heavenly Abyss Sword cleaved the already weakened Black Demon Dragon in two, and its lingering power drained his life until he died.
• Dragon Race cultivators across the Heavenly Dragon Star Region reacted to the Black Demon Dragon's death with fear, flight, and celebration.
• The Dragon Race Ancestral Gods fighting Pang Qingyun lost their will to fight and fled in different directions.
• Pang Qingyun pursued a fleeing Dragon Race Five-Star Ancestral God and killed him with a single punch.
• Pang Qingyun realized Venerable Ye Lan had escaped earlier with the Time Crystal Qin Hao needed.

Qin Hao slew the Black Demon Dragon and collected his remains and Storage Star Ring before preparing to leave the Heavenly Dragon Star Region. Pang Qingyun failed to find Venerable Ye Lan until Qin Hao brought him into the Void World, where they spotted Ye Lan fleeing with a wounded Eternal True God.

• Pang Qingyun ordered a search for Venerable Ye Lan after realizing he had escaped during the battle.
• Venerable Ye Lan hid behind a meteorite, then took a gravely wounded Eternal True God with him to conceal his aura as he fled.
• Qin Hao reflected on the Black Demon Dragon's strength, collected his Dragon Remains and Storage Star Ring, and entered the Void World to leave the region.
• Qin Hao pulled Pang Qingyun into the Void World and transported him to a place above Venerable Ye Lan.
• Pang Qingyun spotted Venerable Ye Lan carrying the wounded Eternal True God and flew into a rage.

Qin Hao killed Venerable Ye Lan and escaped the devastated Heavenly Dragon Star Region with Pang Qingyun. Great Commander Hai Dong arrived too late to save the Black Demon Dragon, and the surviving commanders and Qin Hao’s pursuers realized how dangerous Qin Hao had become.

• Qin Hao’s Heavenly Abyss Sword killed Venerable Ye Lan after he used the dying Eternal True God as a shield, and Qin Hao took Ye Lan’s Storage Star Ring and Time Crystals before fleeing with Pang Qingyun.
• Great Commander Hai Dong emerged from a secret Teleportation Array and found the Heavenly Dragon Star Region devastated and the Black Demon Dragon dead.
• Hai Dong concluded that Qin Hao had killed the Black Demon Dragon within an hour and chose not to pursue him, while the arriving Outer Realm Demon Spirit Ancestral God Commanders grew wary of Qin Hao.
• True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness arrived after Qin Hao had left and feared they could not defeat him.

True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness planned to wait near the Heavenly Dragon Star Region for Qin Hao, while Stone Venerable prepared to come after learning of the danger. Far away in the Self-Void World, Qin Hao examined Black Demon Dragon’s loot and discovered that a Time Crystal matched the power found in the Heavenly Luo Sacred Ground.

• True Person Wu Zhu contacted Stone Venerable, who agreed to come and said Qin Hao still had a Third Life-and-Death Mission to complete.
• True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness decided to wait near the Heavenly Dragon Star Region and alert Stone Venerable if they learned anything about Qin Hao.
• Great Commander Hai Dong warned others about Qin Hao and spread news that Qin Hao had killed Black Demon Dragon.
• Qin Hao put Black Demon Dragon’s remains away for Ancestor Xu and considered giving him the bones for artifact refining.
• Qin Hao examined the Time Crystal and realized its power matched that of the Heavenly Luo Sacred Ground, leading him to suspect the ground contained many such crystals.

After killing the Black Demon Dragon, Qin Hao sorted through its enormous hoard and found 192 jin of heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid. As he and Pang Qingyun traveled toward the Cloud Lake Star Region for Qin Hao’s third Life-and-Death Mission, Qin Hao decided to use the journey to attempt a breakthrough to Five-Star Ancestral God.

• Qin Hao sent the Time Crystal to his time doppelganger to help it comprehend the time Dao.
• Qin Hao sorted the Black Demon Dragon’s tens of thousands of treasures, including more than ten thousand divine artifacts and materials worth a fortune.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun discovered 192 jin of heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid and more than fifty jin of other spirit liquids.
• Pang Qingyun estimated that reaching the Cloud Lake Star Region would take about four hundred thousand years, after which they could use a teleportation array.
• Qin Hao decided to cultivate with the heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid during the journey and attempt to break through to Five-Star Ancestral God.

Qin Hao decided to use his treasures to strengthen himself before his mission to investigate the Yun Family, despite Pang Qingyun's concern that he was advancing too quickly. He began refining heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid aboard the flying boat while his six doppelgangers prepared to cultivate with the other spirit liquids.

• Pang Qingyun warned Qin Hao against attempting to reach Five-Star Ancestral God so soon after his last breakthrough, but Qin Hao argued that his life-and-death battles had stabilized his cultivation.
• Qin Hao said he needed to grow stronger because an all-out war with the outer realm demon spirits could erupt and his mission to investigate whether the Yun Family would rebel could put him in danger.
• Pang Qingyun agreed to steer the flying boat while Qin Hao cultivated with the heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid.
• Qin Hao decided to give the other spirit liquids to his six doppelgangers so they could attempt to advance their cultivation.
• Qin Hao drank roughly a tenth of the heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid, and a fierce heat flared in his chest.

Qin Hao cultivated with Heavenly Treasure Glazed Dragon Liquid for two hundred thousand years while Great Commander Hai Dong waited for him in the damaged Heavenly Dragon Star Region. Stone Venerable arrived nearby with three of Void Emperor’s doppelgangers, and they prepared to wait for Qin Hao and seize his treasures.

• Qin Hao refined a sip of Heavenly Treasure Glazed Dragon Liquid with the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art and advanced his Four-Star cultivation slightly.
• Qin Hao and his six doppelgangers continued cultivating with the spirit liquid for two hundred thousand years.
• Great Commander Hai Dong remained in the Heavenly Dragon Star Region, where reconstruction continued despite the destruction of many spirit-liquid-producing planets.
• Stone Venerable appeared in a nearby desolate star region and asked True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness whether Qin Hao had appeared.
• Stone Venerable decided to wait for Qin Hao, intending to kill him and obtain the Primordial Feathered Wings and Supreme Sword Tower.

Qin Hao refined nearly all of his heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid while pushing from the four-star peak toward the Five-Star Ancestral God realm. When repeated attempts failed, he swallowed the final seven jin at once, leaving his body caught between freezing cold and scorching heat.

• After nearly four hundred thousand years of cultivation, Qin Hao reached the four-star peak, and Pang Qingyun sensed that he could now unleash Five-Star Peak Ancestral God strength.
• Qin Hao refined 185 jin of the 192 jin of heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid but remained just short of becoming a Five-Star Ancestral God.
• Qin Hao wondered whether his foundation needed more consolidation, then decided he had not refined enough liquid.
• Qin Hao opened the seven remaining Jade Stone bottles and swallowed all seven jin at once.
• The liquid made Qin Hao feel as if he had been plunged into ice and fire, with frost on his head and neck and his chest and abdomen burning red.

Qin Hao refined seven jin of heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid and broke through to the Five-Star Early Stage Ancestral God realm. His Self-Void World grew larger and stronger, while Pang Qingyun’s seal broke and restored his middle-stage Six-Star combat strength.

• Qin Hao endured the clash of ice and fire as he refined the heavenly treasure glazed dragon liquid with the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art.
• Qin Hao’s ancestral god power reached its peak, then compressed and transformed as he broke through to the Five-Star Ancestral God realm.
• Qin Hao’s breakthrough caused the Self-Void World to expand and stabilize, while Pang Qingyun’s seal broke and let him wield middle-stage Six-Star Ancestral God combat strength.
• Qin Hao refined the remaining liquid and consolidated his cultivation at the Five-Star Early Stage.
• Qin Hao realized that only a Six-Star Late Stage Ancestral God could now sense his precise location within the Self-Void World.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun headed toward the Cloud Lake Star Region for Qin Hao’s third Life-and-Death Mission after escaping the Demon God Hall Territory. Pang Qingyun believed the Yun Family would not rebel because the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit protected the region, but Qin Hao questioned whether that spirit’s warning might be what prompted the mission.

• Qin Hao checked his six doppelgangers and found that five had reached Two-Star Perfection while his Destruction Doppelganger had reached the peak of the Two-Star realm.
• Pang Qingyun piloted the Flying Boat toward a Teleportation Array, and after several years Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun used it to travel toward the Cloud Lake Star Region.
• Pang Qingyun explained that a former Daoist Seed from the Yun Family had died on a mission after mastering a Top-Tier Peak Secret Art.
• Pang Qingyun revealed that the Heavenly Cloud World was formed from an Origin World Fragment, had developed a World Spirit, and that the spirit was loyal to the Heavenly Palace and hostile to the Outer Realm Demon Spirits.
• Qin Hao asked whether the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit itself might have reported the Yun Family as a possible threat, leaving Pang Qingyun speechless.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun considered why the Yun Family might defy the Heavenly Palace and weighed the danger of investigating them. They reached the outskirts of the Cloud Lake Star Region in secret, where Qin Hao began looking for signs of Outer Realm Demon Spirits.

• Qin Hao outlined three possibilities for the Yun Family's disobedience: a faction was plotting rebellion, the whole family was rebelling, or the family was waiting to side with whichever power prevailed.
• Pang Qingyun warned that the Yun Family's Ancestor, the Heavenly Cloud True Lord, was a veteran seven-star Ancestral God who might have reached the Seven-Star Peak.
• Qin Hao decided he would investigate covertly while openly warning the Yun Family on behalf of the Heavenly Palace, since he could not defeat them by force.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun traveled by Teleportation Arrays to a planet outside the Cloud Lake Star Region, and Qin Hao brought Pang Qingyun into his Void World to approach unseen.
• After traveling for less than half a day, Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun reached the prosperous Cloud Lake Star Region and discussed the danger its inhabitants would face if the Yun Family joined the Outer Realm Demon Spirits.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun investigated the Cloud Lake Star Region for signs that Outer Realm Demon Spirits were hiding there, while Qin Hao felt an unexplained familiarity with Cloud Lake. At the Yun Family mansion, Yun Muzhou learned Qin Hao might come and vowed that he would not leave alive.

• Qin Hao noticed that ships and powerful cultivators avoided Cloud Lake, and its mist-shrouded interior stirred a sense of familiarity in him.
• Pang Qingyun explained that explorers who ventured deep into Cloud Lake never returned, including Divine Lord Longqi, who had been missing for over three hundred Reincarnation Epochs.
• Qin Hao suspected Outer Realm Demon Spirits might be hiding near Cloud Lake, and Pang Qingyun agreed they should investigate.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun searched the Cloud Lake Star Region from the Self-Void World, sweeping its outskirts before examining planets farther in.
• Yun Muzhou learned Qin Hao had slain the Ironbone Commander and the Black Demon Dragon, then said the Yun Family would make sure Qin Hao never returned if he came.

Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao plotted to use Great Commander Hai Dong against Qin Hao while keeping the Yun Family's rebellion hidden. As Qin Hao continued searching the Cloud Lake Star Region, a mysterious red-robed man watched from a planet below.

• Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao discussed the Heavenly Palace's suspicions and the risk of confronting Qin Hao before the Heavenly Cloud True Lord controlled their world.
• Yun Xiao proposed secretly informing Great Commander Hai Dong of Qin Hao's location so Hai Dong would attack him instead of the Yun Family.
• Yun Muzhou ordered the Yun Family to covertly monitor the Cloud Lake Star Region for Qin Hao and report any sightings.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun continued searching the Cloud Lake Star Region from within the Self-Void World, unaware of the Yun Family's scheme.
• Red Robe stood atop a mountain on a thriving planet as Qin Hao flew overhead inside the Self-Void World.

Divine Lord Redcloud secretly watched over Qin Hao as he investigated the Cloud Lake Star Region, finding no signs of rebellion. When Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun approached Cloud Lake, its destructive power shook the Self-Void World and reminded Qin Hao of the Bronze Tiger Tally.

• Divine Lord Redcloud observed Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun, praising Qin Hao’s abilities and resolving to protect him while he investigated the Yun Family.
• Qin Hao searched the Cloud Lake Star Region for nearly half a month but found no trace of Outer Realm Demon Spirits or suspicious Yun Family activity.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun approached Cloud Lake through the Self-Void World and saw its mist reflected there.
• Qin Hao stepped into Cloud Lake’s mist, where overwhelming destructive power made the Self-Void World tremble.
• Qin Hao recognized that Cloud Lake’s destructive power resembled the power of the Bronze Tiger Tally.

Qin Hao investigated Cloud Lake, suspected it was connected to the Bronze Tiger Tally, and then headed to the Heavenly Cloud World to investigate the Yun Family. He arrived openly with Pang Qingyun and was met by a hundred-thousand-strong True God Legion that did not move in response to his Heavenly Palace authority.

• Qin Hao noticed that Cloud Lake's hazy corridors and islands resembled the divine patterns on the Bronze Tiger Tally, but decided the destructive power made exploring too dangerous.
• Qin Hao found no traces of outer realm demon spirits around Cloud Lake and chose to investigate the Yun Family inside the Heavenly Cloud World with Pang Qingyun.
• Pang Qingyun urged Qin Hao to send a doppelganger, but Qin Hao insisted on bringing his true self and prepared to leave immediately if anything went wrong.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun entered the starry sky and headed for the Heavenly Cloud World's sole entrance, a spatial vortex guarded by Yun Family members and a hundred thousand True Gods.
• Qin Hao arrived openly, presented his Heavenly Palace Token, and announced that he was inspecting the realms, but the True God Legion remained in place.

Qin Hao entered the Heavenly Cloud World under the guise of a routine inspection, while the Yun Family secretly prepared to deal with his arrival. Yun Muzhou learned that the Heavenly Cloud True Lord was close to refining the world but could not yet meet Qin Hao.

• Qin Hao noticed Yun Feng's concealed agitation but entered the Heavenly Cloud World with Yun Feng and Pang Qingyun.
• Yun Family Ancestral Gods sent word that Qin Hao had arrived and reported that he had advanced to Five-Star cultivation.
• Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao discussed their plan for Qin Hao, while Yun Lie urged them to kill him.
• Yun Muzhou visited the Heavenly Cloud True Lord, who ordered him to keep Qin Hao occupied and said he needed between one month and ten years to finish refining the Heavenly Cloud World.