Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao reached the Destruction Gate hoping to learn more about the outer realm demon spirits and face its trial. Four powerful, nonliving Divine Lords questioned his eligibility, but a bronze-armored man recognized his Bronze Tiger Tally and confirmed he could challenge the gate.

• Qin Hao reflected on Eugene's hints about other cosmic planes and wondered whether Profound Cultivation Great Venerable knew how to resolve the outer realm demon spirit crisis.
• Qin Hao opened the Destruction Gate and entered a gray expanse supported by enormous bronze pillars.
• Four nonliving Divine Lords emerged and doubted that the Five-Star Ancestral God Qin Hao could survive their challenge.
• Qin Hao respectfully insisted on challenging the gate, and a bronze-armored Middle-aged Man declared that his Bronze Tiger Tally qualified him.
• Qin Hao met the bronze-armored man's gaze and realized he was at least as powerful as Eugene, the Ancient Demon.

Qin Hao accepted the Destruction Gate challenge despite the deadly trials and the four guardians’ doubts. The captain eased the first two requirements, and Qin Hao began the first trial by attacking Titan, but his Heaven-Burning Sword could not pierce Titan’s skin.

• The captain explained that Qin Hao would face a Half-Step Divine Lord and then a Divine Lord, with failure bringing death or imprisonment.
• Despite warnings from the guardians, Qin Hao insisted on attempting the challenge.
• The captain changed the first two trial requirements: Qin Hao had to injure his opponent in the first and force his opponent back in the second.
• Titan suppressed his cultivation to Half-Step Divine Lord and warned Qin Hao that his defenses were strong.
• Qin Hao struck Titan’s chest with Heaven-Burning Sword, but the attack did not break his skin or move him.

Qin Hao repeatedly attacked Giant Titan’s chest but struggled to pierce his defenses, while the Destruction Legion’s captain discussed changing the trial rules to give Qin Hao a chance. With time running short, Qin Hao used his self-void world and Primordial Feathered Wings to catch Giant Titan off guard, leaving him stunned by Qin Hao’s Dao Divine Weapon.

• Qin Hao unleashed hundreds of sword strikes on the same spot on Giant Titan’s chest, gradually reddening it and making his attacks sting.
• Black Wolf questioned the captain about changing the challenge rules, and the captain explained that Qin Hao’s Bronze Tiger Tally gave him privileges and that the third trial could be made harder instead.
• The captain recalled that only five members of the Destruction Legion remained and said they should let Qin Hao join if he proved capable.
• Giant Titan began running to stop Qin Hao from striking the same spot, but Qin Hao used his Primordial Feathered Wings and entered his self-void world to pursue him.
• Qin Hao appeared ahead of Giant Titan and sent sword radiance toward the red spot on his chest, prompting Giant Titan to recognize the wings as a Dao Divine Weapon.

Qin Hao passed the first trial by wounding Giant Titan, then prepared to face Black Wolf in a second trial requiring him to knock back an Eternal Divine Lord. The chapter left Qin Hao poised to attack, while Black Wolf remained confident that he could not be moved.

• Qin Hao used his Dao Divine Weapon and struck Giant Titan with a barrage of Sword Radiance, piercing a tiny wound through his defenses.
• Giant Titan ended the match, and Qin Hao thanked him for the trial while reflecting on how much his cultivation still lacked.
• Black Wolf, Demon Blade, and Succubus competed in rock-paper-scissors for the chance to administer Qin Hao’s second trial, and Black Wolf won.
• Black Wolf told Qin Hao that he would stand still at Eternal Divine Lord level and that Qin Hao would pass if he knocked him back even one millimeter within half an incense stick’s time.
• Qin Hao respectfully warned Black Wolf to be careful, but Black Wolf laughed and said Qin Hao’s Dao Divine Weapon would not be enough.

Qin Hao struggled to move Black Wolf, whose Ancestral God strength dwarfed the opponents he had faced before. With half the trial time gone, Qin Hao realized he needed to spread his attacks across Black Wolf’s entire body to drive him back.

• Succubus, Demon Blade, Titan, and Blood Crow watched Qin Hao’s trial and acknowledged that he could join the Destruction Legion if he met its requirements.
• Black Wolf urged Qin Hao to draw on his Golden Profound Tower inheritance and unleash his full potential, while Qin Hao’s attacks failed to disturb him.
• Qin Hao considered his Sword Dao inheritance, Heaven and Earth Mysteries, and Myriad Swords Body, but recognized that these gains alone might not be enough.
• Qin Hao noticed that more than half the incense had burned and realized his attacks were all concentrated on Black Wolf’s chest.
• Qin Hao concluded that he had to make his attacks bloom on all sides and strike Black Wolf’s entire body to drive him back.

Qin Hao used the Myriad Swords Body to strike Black Wolf across his entire body at once, managing to make him sway during the second trial. With time nearly gone, Qin Hao launched one final barrage combining multiple Heavensea secret arts and the Void World, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Qin Hao entered the Void World and unleashed thousands of powerful sword strikes that hit Black Wolf across his body simultaneously.
• Black Wolf hesitated over whether to let Qin Hao pass, but Qin Hao's attack made him sway and proved that he could be shaken.
• Black Wolf urged Qin Hao to attack again, while Qin Hao realized the incense was nearly burned away and he had time for only one final strike.
• Qin Hao left the Void World and combined the Myriad Swords Body with the Heavensea Ruins Diagram, other Heavensea secret arts, and the Void World in a rapid barrage against Black Wolf.

Qin Hao passed the Second Trial by using repeated Heavensea Ruins Diagrams to knock Black Wolf onto his back, though the Divine Lord had gone easy on him. Captain Blood Crow announced that Qin Hao’s altered Third Trial required him to master the embryonic form of one true meaning within three epochs.

• Qin Hao unleashed successive Heavensea Ruins Diagrams and sent Black Wolf tumbling onto his back, passing the Second Trial.
• Captain Blood Crow, Titan, Demon Blade, and Succubus recognized that Black Wolf had gone easy on Qin Hao and acknowledged that Qin Hao’s attack could have driven him back regardless.
• Black Wolf stood up, thanked Qin Hao for the fight, and explained that the Third Trial tested comprehension.
• Captain Blood Crow described the usual true-meaning requirements and said Qin Hao’s Third Trial would be altered because his first two trials had been easier.
• Captain Blood Crow set Qin Hao’s Third Trial: master the embryonic form of one true meaning within three epochs.

Captain Blood Crow set Qin Hao’s Third Trial as mastering a True Meaning Embryo within Three Epochs, leaving Qin Hao to cultivate in the Destruction Gate with destruction sword dao as his best prospect. Blood Crow Captain believed Qin Hao had a chance, though the others doubted him.

• Captain Blood Crow explained that the rules required Qin Hao to master a True Meaning Embryo within Three Epochs because his first two trials had been made easier.
• Qin Hao accepted that he had no way back and asked permission to cultivate nearby; Blood Crow Captain allowed him to move freely as long as he stayed within the Destruction Gate.
• Qin Hao went into the mist to cultivate, deciding to focus on destruction sword dao and use the dense destruction aura and his Destruction Crystals.
• Black Wolf, Titan, Demon Blade, and Succubus doubted Qin Hao could succeed, but Blood Crow Captain said he believed Qin Hao had a chance if he grasped the deeper insight.

Qin Hao found the graves of twenty-three Divine Lords who had died exploring Lakeheart Island, then continued deeper into the Destruction Gate to seek denser destructive qi. He entered a cloud image on a Bronze Stone Pillar with a strand of his divine soul and discovered that the cloud had transformed into a graceful young man.

• Qin Hao discovered Divine Lord Juechen's gravestone and realized the Divine Lord had died while seeking the Destruction Gate.
• Qin Hao found twenty-three gravestones for fallen Divine Lords, including Divine Lord Longqi, and bowed to pay his respects.
• Qin Hao continued deeper into the Destruction Gate, where the destructive qi grew denser.
• Qin Hao reached a Bronze Stone Pillar and noticed a vivid cloud picture among its images.
• Qin Hao sent a strand of his divine soul into the cloud picture and experienced a lifelike world from the cloud's perspective.
• Qin Hao watched the cloud transform into a graceful young man.

Qin Hao watched Evil Cloud Demon Master's life and studied his Cloud and Rain True Meaning to aid his attempt to form a Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning Embryo. After tens of thousands of years, he turned to the other Destruction Legion paintings on the Bronze Stone Pillar.

• Qin Hao witnessed Evil Cloud Demon Master rise from a cloud-born youth to a Law Divine Lord and Destruction Legion captain before his dao heart shattered and he died.
• Qin Hao drew inspiration from Evil Cloud Demon Master's Cloud and Rain True Meaning and began studying the cloud painting while comprehending destructive qi.
• Demon Blade, Black Wolf, Succubus, and Titan watched Qin Hao cultivate, then moved away to let more destructive qi reach him.
• After tens of thousands of years studying the painting, Qin Hao examined the other images on the pillar and found one depicting a desolate planet, left by someone named Seven Stars.

Qin Hao studied billions of Divine Lord pictures in the Destruction Gate but struggled to grasp a Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning Embryo before the Third Trial deadline. While sensing Bing Hua’s Icefall True Meaning, he realized the pictures felt real because they nearly replicated true worlds, and identified the sensation as World True Meaning.

• Qin Hao studied the pictures on the Bronze Stone Pillar for two and a half epochs, learning from the lives and true meanings of hundreds of Divine Lords.
• Qin Hao recognized that his Destructive Sword Intent had advanced greatly but remained far from a Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning Embryo, with only half an epoch left before the Third Trial deadline.
• Qin Hao entered Bing Hua’s picture to study Icefall True Meaning and felt its icy destruction aura.
• Qin Hao questioned why the picture felt so real, recalling that Evil Cloud Demon Master’s picture had produced the same sensation.
• Qin Hao realized the Divine Lords’ pictures were almost indistinguishable from true worlds and concluded that he had sensed World True Meaning.

Qin Hao realized that the Bronze Stone Pillar contained world true meaning and that his Self-Void World gave him a chance to develop a Void World True Meaning Embryo within the time he had left. As he contemplated the pillar, an illusory power erupted from him, startling Black Wolf, Demon Blade, Titan, and Succubus.

• Qin Hao overlapped his Self-Void World with Ice Flower’s world and sensed it changing under the influence of world true meaning.
• Qin Hao concluded that he had a better chance of developing a Void World True Meaning Embryo than mastering Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning.
• Qin Hao sensed dense world true meaning within the Bronze Stone Pillar and began contemplating it.
• As the Three Epochs deadline neared, Black Wolf, Demon Blade, Titan, and Succubus worried that Qin Hao had failed to make progress.
• An illusory power erupted from Qin Hao, and the four recognized it as Void World True Meaning.

Qin Hao realized that his self-Void World could lead him to a Void World True Meaning Embryo and focused on comprehending it before the Three Epochs deadline. He succeeded, while setting aside his effort to combine it with sword dao.

• Demon Blade, Black Wolf, Titan, and Succubus recognized the Void World True Meaning Embryo taking shape around Qin Hao and understood why Blood Crow believed he could grasp one within Three Epochs.
• The four worried that Qin Hao had only ten thousand years left, while Blood Crow watched him and believed that would be enough.
• Qin Hao considered merging sword dao with Void World True Meaning but decided to grasp the embryo first and pursue Void World Sword Dao True Meaning later.
• Qin Hao devoted himself to comprehension until the Void World True Meaning Embryo’s aura grew dense and an illusory realm formed around him.
• Qin Hao opened his eyes and announced that he had successfully grasped the Void World True Meaning Embryo.

Qin Hao mastered the Void World True Meaning Embryo, completed the trial, and joined the Destruction Legion as its weakest-ever member. Blood Crow Captain and the others revealed that another genius from Qin Hao’s Cosmic Plane had joined several hundred reincarnation epochs earlier, but had never returned to Lakeheart Island.

• Qin Hao used his Void World True Meaning Embryo to affect reality and realized its power could threaten even powerful Ancestral Gods.
• Titan, Succubus, Demon Blade, and Black Wolf congratulated Qin Hao for passing the trials and joining the Destruction Legion.
• Blood Crow Captain named Qin Hao the Destruction Legion’s 4,232nd member and its weakest recruit in history.
• Qin Hao asked whether the Profound Cultivation Venerable had left the Cosmic Plane several hundred reincarnation epochs earlier, and Blood Crow Captain said their master had left long ago.
• Blood Crow Captain and the others explained that another genius from Qin Hao’s Cosmic Plane had joined the Legion several hundred reincarnation epochs ago and had never returned, startling Qin Hao.

Qin Hao learned that Divine Lord Tian Yan had once joined the Destruction Legion as a Half-Step Divine Lord and later left their Cosmic Plane. Tian Yan had gone to seek a way to defeat the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, and Qin Hao learned that their three Great Demon Gods were Divine Kings.

• Blood Crow Captain revealed that the mysterious Divine Lord Tian Yan was named Tian Hao, and Qin Hao recognized him as the creator of the Heavenly Mist Sword Diagram.
• Blood Crow Captain said Tian Yan had joined the Destruction Legion as a Half-Step Divine Lord, passed its trials, become a Divine Lord on Lakeheart Island, and then left.
• Blood Crow Captain explained that Tian Yan had sent him a message about four hundred reincarnation epochs earlier and had left the Cosmic Plane to seek a way to stop the Outer Realm Demon Spirits.
• Blood Crow Captain said Tian Yan had fought one of the Great Demon Gods, suffered serious injuries, and left to search other Cosmic Planes for a way to break through to the Divine King Realm.
• Blood Crow Captain warned Qin Hao that the Cosmic Plane's cultivators could not withstand the three Great Demon Gods, who were all Divine Kings, and said Tian Yan hoped to defeat them and reclaim the Cosmic Plane.

Qin Hao learned that the Outer Realm Demon Spirits had three Divine King Great Demon Gods while his Cosmic Plane had none, and that a missing substance might prevent Divine King advancement. As Demon Blade mentioned the powerful Origin Master of the shattered Origin World, Qin Hao reacted with sudden intensity.

• Blood Crow Captain and Black Wolf told Qin Hao that the Demon God Hall had three Divine King Great Demon Gods, while the Heavenly Palace had no Divine Kings.
• Blood Crow Captain said the Outer Realm Demon Spirits may have invaded because their own Cosmic Plane had collapsed or been shattered, and suggested Qin Hao's Cosmic Plane lacked a substance needed to produce Divine Kings.
• Blood Crow Captain explained that the Heavenly Palace had resisted through a formation powered by its Dao-Origin Divine Lords, and that Divine Lord Tian Yan had left to seek advancement in another Cosmic Plane.
• Qin Hao asked whether the Outer Realm Demon Spirits could be defeated, but Succubus said the Myriad Races were too weak.
• Demon Blade said the Origin World's Origin Master had been powerful enough to match a Divine King, and Qin Hao reacted sharply when asked whether he knew of the Origin Master.

Qin Hao learned that the Origin Master might have turned the Origin World into a Sacred Land to resist the Outer Realm Demon Spirits, but it was unclear whether he had the means or time to do so. Qin Hao considered reconstructing the shattered Origin World himself and wondered why Divine Lord Tian Yan had never attempted it.

• Demon Blade told Qin Hao that the Origin World had been the Outer Realm Demon Spirits’ first target because it held the greatest threat and the most powerhouses.
• Blood Crow Captain explained that transforming the Origin World into a Sacred Land could have protected it and allowed cultivators to keep producing powerhouses, though the Origin Master might not have had the ability or time.
• Qin Hao connected the idea to Origin World Reconstruction and recalled that the Spirit Venerable, the Heavenly Martial Ancestor, and the Origin World’s Four Divine Envoys had all supported that goal.
• Qin Hao considered using the Heavenly Derivation Book and the crystals to reconstruct the Origin World and turn it into a Sacred Land.
• Qin Hao remembered that Divine Lord Tian Yan had obtained the Heavenly Derivation Book and wondered why he had left the Cosmic Plane instead of attempting Origin World Reconstruction.

Qin Hao joined the Destruction Legion and chose to receive its Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning inheritance. Blood Crow Captain hinted that Qin Hao would also receive a rare additional benefit, which Eugene would explain after the inheritance.

• Blood Crow Captain advised Qin Hao to focus on strengthening himself, and Qin Hao asked what had happened to Pang Qingyun.
• Black Wolf said Ancient Demon Eugene had probably taken control of Pang Qingyun, a Chaos Spirit Treasure War Soldier.
• Blood Crow Captain gave Qin Hao the Destruction Legion Order, making him a member of the Destruction Legion and allowing him to enter and leave Lakeheart Island freely.
• Blood Crow Captain told Qin Hao he could study the Bronze Stone Pillars and receive an inheritance because he was still an Ancestral God.
• Blood Crow Captain and the others urged Qin Hao to choose the Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning inheritance, and Qin Hao accepted.
• Blood Crow Captain revealed that Qin Hao would receive another rare benefit and said Eugene would explain it after the inheritance.

Blood Crow Captain took Qin Hao to a Bronze Stone Pillar containing the Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning inheritance and explained how rare it was to enter one. Qin Hao entered the pillar, summoned his Destructive Sword Intent, and began comprehending the inheritance, quickly realizing that his earlier approach had been somewhat mistaken.

• Blood Crow Captain led Qin Hao and the others toward the Bronze Stone Pillars, where they explained that entry required substantial merits and each visit lasted half an epoch.
• Blood Crow Captain brought Qin Hao to a Bronze Stone Pillar containing the Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning inheritance and instructed him to release his Destructive Sword Intent inside.
• Qin Hao entered the pillar and released his Destructive Sword Intent, causing the other true meanings to retreat and leaving the Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning around him.
• Qin Hao sat down to comprehend the inheritance and quickly gained new understanding from it and his previous cultivation.

Qin Hao completed half an epoch of cultivation in the Bronze Stone Pillar and formed a Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning Embryo. After deciding to remain with the Destruction Legion to grow stronger, he met Pang Qingyun as Ancient Demon Eugene arrived to explain his special benefit.

• Qin Hao cultivated the Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning in the Bronze Stone Pillar for half an epoch, rapidly deepening his comprehension.
• The Bronze Stone Pillar expelled Qin Hao, who discovered he had advanced his Destructive Sword Intent into a Destruction Sword Dao True Meaning Embryo.
• Blood Crow Captain, Demon Blade, and the others welcomed Qin Hao and praised his breakthrough.
• Qin Hao chose to stay with the Destruction Legion and cultivate longer before returning to the outside world.
• Blood Crow Captain said Eugene would explain Qin Hao's special benefit, and Ancient Demon Eugene arrived as Pang Qingyun greeted Qin Hao.