Chapter Summaries

While reconstructing the Time Doppelganger, Qin Hao realized that an unseen presence had targeted him and deliberately pretended to be more weakened than he was. He continued hiding his suspicions as the presence waited for him to rebuild his remaining doppelgangers.

• The elderly gray shadow admired Qin Hao’s character but stayed nearby, intending to wait until he reconstructed his other doppelgangers.
• Qin Hao sensed the familiar chill of an unseen presence after reconstructing the Time Doppelganger and pretended to lie exhausted on the ground.
• Qin Hao recalled earlier chills at the Youying Soulstone and Dongyin Sword Monument, concluding that the presence had likely hidden inside him for at least a year.
• Qin Hao realized the presence now hovered near the Light Doppelganger, which felt the chill most strongly, and wondered whether it had secretly harmed him.
• Blood Crow Captain warned Qin Hao not to overexert himself, and Qin Hao said he would recover before continuing to reconstruct the other doppelgangers.

Inside the Mirror Lake Profound Heaven Mirror, Qin Hao realized that an undetectable gray shadow might be a powerful Divine Soul entity connected to the Youying Soulstone. He conserved his strength and resumed cultivating while considering the Crossing Karma Sword Move as a way to fight it.

• The Blood Crow Captain stopped Eugene and the others from speaking, and Qin Hao understood that they needed to hide their awareness of the gray shadow and conserve strength.
• Qin Hao pretended to be exhausted, rested, and began cultivating to restore his Divine Soul and strengthen himself against the unknown threat.
• While seeking to master a third Dao Intent, Qin Hao recalled the powerful Divine Sense in the Youying Soulstone and suspected it was connected to the icy presence inside him.
• Qin Hao considered using the Crossing Karma Sword Move against the gray shadow if it was a Divine Soul entity.

Qin Hao cultivated the Crossing Karma Sword Move to prepare for the unknown entity lurking near him, while the elderly gray shadow watched and delayed acting. After six months, the shadow still kept its distance, leaving Qin Hao convinced that it had sinister intentions.

• Qin Hao decided to strengthen the Crossing Karma Sword Move, whose fusion of Divine Soul and True Self Sword Dao could threaten the unseen entity.
• Qin Hao cultivated for over half a month while restoring his Divine Soul, comprehending Dao-Origin, and practicing the sword move.
• The elderly gray shadow noticed Qin Hao had stopped cultivating the Thousand Shadows Spirit Transformation Art, approached and circled him, then withdrew without entering his body.
• Qin Hao sensed the shadow's chill as it approached and stayed alert while continuing to cultivate.
• After six months, Qin Hao's Divine Soul had recovered, and he realized the elderly gray shadow had kept its distance rather than leaving.
• Qin Hao concluded that the entity had hidden itself from him and harbored sinister intentions.

After mastering World Dao Intent, Qin Hao broke through to Middle Rank Dao-Origin Divine Lord, drawing the attention of the hidden Gray Shadow. Qin Hao began reconstructing his Life Force Doppelganger while Gray Shadow decided to wait until Qin Hao rebuilt three more doppelgangers before acting.

• Qin Hao mastered World Dao Intent and immediately broke through to Middle Rank Dao-Origin Divine Lord.
• An icy presence approached Qin Hao to investigate his breakthrough, then circled him and withdrew without attacking.
• Qin Hao began using the Thousand Shadows Spirit Transformation Art to reconstruct his Life Force Doppelganger.
• Gray Shadow watched Qin Hao and marveled at his talent, believing he might reach Divine King in fewer than a thousand epochs.
• Gray Shadow was pleased that Qin Hao had begun rebuilding his doppelgangers and planned to act after three more were reconstructed, though Qin Hao lacked a spatial doppelganger.

After losing the Heaven-Class Cave Abode to Qin Hao, Mo Hongxiao ordered an investigation and vowed to kill him and his kin. The investigation uncovered almost nothing about Qin Hao’s origins, leaving Mo Hongxiao to suspect he might have come from a cosmic plane.

• Mo Hongxiao raged over losing the Heaven-Class Cave Abode and demanded that Sun Zhiping investigate Qin Hao.
• Sun Zhiping reported that Qin Hao had arrived in Tianquan City more than ten years earlier, used the alias Eugene at the Myriad Origins Treasure Pavilion, and traveled to Eastern Yin City.
• Mo Hongxiao refused to question the Li Family and swore to kill Qin Hao and all his relatives and clansmen.
• Sun Zhiping said the Mo Family could find no information about Qin Hao from before his arrival in the nearby star region.
• Mo Hongxiao challenged Sun Zhiping’s suggestion that Qin Hao came from a cosmic plane, and Sun Zhiping tried to explain what he meant.

Mo Hongxiao tried to determine Qin Hao’s origins and concluded that he had gained extraordinary treasures through a fortuitous encounter. After Divine King Xiangyang offered to capture Qin Hao, Mo Hongxiao insisted on killing him with his own hands.

• Sun Zhiping suggested Qin Hao might have come from the Turbid Universe, but Mo Hongxiao rejected the idea because he believed such a person could not enter the Divine Realm.
• Mo Hongxiao considered Qin Hao’s unexplained wealth and failed background investigation, then concluded that Qin Hao had encountered an extraordinary opportunity.
• Mo Hongxiao vowed to kill Qin Hao after he left Tianquan Cave Abode, blaming him for ruining his cultivation plans.
• Divine King Xiangyang contacted Mo Hongxiao and offered to capture Qin Hao himself once Qin Hao left the Heaven-Class Cave Abode.
• Mo Hongxiao refused Divine King Xiangyang’s offer and demanded the chance to kill Qin Hao with his own hands.

Divine King Xiangyang recognized that Mo Hongxiao had developed an inner demon over Qin Hao taking the Heaven-Class Cave Abode, but sent him to cultivate and wait for a chance to take revenge. Inside the abode, Qin Hao rebuilt his third doppelganger while remaining wary of a sinister presence that watched him.

• Divine King Xiangyang decided to let Mo Hongxiao handle Qin Hao himself and arranged for watchers to alert Mo Hongxiao when Qin Hao left the Heaven-Class Cave Abode.
• Mo Hongxiao thanked Divine King Xiangyang, then chose the Earth-Rank Cave Abode and vowed to kill Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao completed the reconstruction of his Life Force Doppelganger and, despite sensing a motionless sinister presence, resolved to focus on cultivating.
• After resting and recovering, Qin Hao reconstructed his Devouring Doppelganger and continued fusing his divine soul with the True Self Sword Dao and comprehending the Dao-Origin.
• The old man's gray shadow watched Qin Hao's progress and marveled that he had reconstructed three doppelgangers with cultivation close to his true self.

Qin Hao began reshaping his final darkness doppelganger despite sensing a sinister presence inside the Heaven-Class Cave Abode. The elderly Gray Shadow, who called himself Xiuwangzi, eagerly moved toward him, intending to use Qin Hao as his divine body vessel.

• Qin Hao’s life force and devouring doppelgangers advanced to Early-Stage Dao-Origin Divine Lord, while his other doppelgangers continued to grow stronger.
• Qin Hao worried that the darkness doppelganger’s impending breakthrough would make reshaping his divine soul more difficult, and he feared the mysterious presence lurking nearby.
• Qin Hao realized he could no longer suppress the darkness doppelganger’s cultivation and decided to reshape him with the Thousand Shadows Spirit Transformation Art.
• The elderly Gray Shadow noticed Qin Hao begin the process and rejoiced that the final doppelganger was being reshaped.
• Xiuwangzi declared that Qin Hao would become his divine body vessel and floated toward him.

Qin Hao completed the perilous reshaping of his darkness doppelganger while concealing his strength and keeping watch on the approaching chill. Xiuwangzi waited for him to finish, intending to seize Qin Hao and all six doppelgangers, as Qin Hao directed the newly separated divine soul toward its body.

• Qin Hao separated the darkness doppelganger's divine soul from its body and merged it into his true self's divine soul, pretending to struggle with the pain.
• A chill approached and circled Qin Hao, but he continued reshaping the darkness doppelganger while monitoring it.
• Qin Hao used the Worry-Free Divine Amber to replenish his divine soul as he painfully split the darkness doppelganger's divine soul from his own.
• Xiuwangzi watched without attacking, intending to claim Qin Hao and all six doppelgangers once the reshaping was complete.
• Qin Hao completed the separation and, exhausted, began directing the darkness doppelganger's divine soul toward its body.

Qin Hao completed the darkness doppelganger’s Divine Soul Return, but Xiuwangzi revealed that he intended to seize Qin Hao’s body. Xiuwangzi attacked Qin Hao’s Divine Soul and, despite failing to destroy it, charged in to take over his body.

• Qin Hao completed the Divine Soul Return for his darkness doppelganger while the mysterious chill circled him agitatedly.
• Xiuwangzi rushed toward Qin Hao’s brow and declared that he would use Qin Hao as his vessel.
• Xiuwangzi pierced Qin Hao’s Divine Soul with a spike of gray mist, but the Divine Soul did not collapse.
• Xiuwangzi lost a third of his remnant soul’s power in the attack and decided to seize Qin Hao’s body by force.
• Xiuwangzi transformed into a gray shadow and charged at Qin Hao’s Divine Soul in his sea of consciousness.

Xiuwangzi attacked Qin Hao’s Divine Soul and overcame his Sword Might, then began seizing his body. As Xiuwangzi’s power spread through Qin Hao’s Divine Soul, Qin Hao’s Sword Heart gave him a moment of clarity, but his soul continued to be devoured.

• Qin Hao sensed Xiuwangzi rushing toward his Divine Soul and unleashed Sword Might to stop him.
• Xiuwangzi passed through Qin Hao’s Divine Soul attack and reached his Divine Soul.
• Xiuwangzi entered Qin Hao’s Divine Soul, causing Qin Hao and all Six Doppelgangers to writhe in pain as the Body Seizure began.
• Qin Hao’s Treasure Sword trembled and his Sword Heart briefly restored his clarity, revealing gray spreading across his Divine Soul as Xiuwangzi devoured it.

As Xiuwangzi devoured Qin Hao’s divine soul, he learned about Qin Hao’s origins and became eager to claim Profound Cultivation Venerable’s legacy. Fearing for Mu Ziqing and refusing to let Xiuwangzi take his body, Qin Hao unleashed his Crossing Karma Threads against his own divine soul, choosing to risk dying with Xiuwangzi.

• Qin Hao’s desperate resolve strengthened his willpower sword heart, slowing Xiuwangzi’s body seizure for a moment.
• Xiuwangzi broke through the resistance and resumed devouring Qin Hao’s divine soul, learning that Qin Hao came from the Desolate Dust Turbid Domain and had cultivated for only a few hundred epochs.
• Xiuwangzi discovered from Qin Hao’s fragmented memories that Lakeheart Island held Profound Cultivation Venerable’s Destruction Legion and decided to seek the legacy after taking Qin Hao’s body.
• Xiuwangzi mocked Qin Hao about Mu Ziqing, and Qin Hao’s fear for her drove him to abandon reason.
• Qin Hao summoned twenty Crossing Karma Threads and sent them toward his own divine soul, intending for himself and Xiuwangzi to die together.

Qin Hao attacked his own divine soul with his Crossing Karma Threads to stop Xiuwangzi from taking his body, hurting them both. He realized the threads could harm Xiuwangzi now that the remnant soul had entered him, giving him hope of fighting back.

• Qin Hao decided he would rather die than let Xiuwangzi take his body and use it to kill Mu Ziqing and the others.
• Qin Hao turned his twenty Crossing Karma Threads into golden needles and stabbed his own chest, where Xiuwangzi's Gray Mist was lodged.
• Xiuwangzi scattered his Gray Mist through Qin Hao's divine soul and threatened Mu Ziqing, but Qin Hao kept attacking himself.
• Qin Hao realized that his Crossing Karma Threads could strike Xiuwangzi after the remnant soul entered his divine soul, and he saw a chance to fight back.

Qin Hao discovered that the Crossing Karma Threads could harm Xiuwangzi because his remnant soul was inside Qin Hao’s divine soul, and he began attacking his own soul to destroy him. Xiuwangzi considered abandoning the body seizure but refused, choosing to fight Qin Hao’s madness with his own.

• Qin Hao realized that attacking his own divine soul with the Crossing Karma Threads could also damage Xiuwangzi’s remnant soul, though the attacks threatened to kill Qin Hao too.
• Qin Hao plunged into his Consciousness Sea and drove twenty golden needles into his own chest, where Xiuwangzi’s Gray Mist was concentrated.
• The relentless attacks carved a large hole in Qin Hao’s divine soul and destroyed a third of Xiuwangzi’s remnant soul.
• Xiuwangzi weighed abandoning the body seizure but feared losing his only chance to obtain a suitable body.
• Xiuwangzi refused to retreat and vowed to show Qin Hao which of them was crazier.

Xiuwangzi tried to devour Qin Hao’s Divine Soul before Qin Hao could destroy the Gray Mist attached to it. Qin Hao kept attacking despite the damage to his own soul, leaving both Divine Souls badly weakened as their struggle continued.

• Xiuwangzi spread his Gray Mist throughout Qin Hao’s body and began devouring Qin Hao’s Divine Soul.
• Qin Hao used the Crossing Karma Threads to attack every part of his Divine Soul covered by Gray Mist, destroying his left arm and shoulder along with Xiuwangzi’s mist there.
• Xiuwangzi continued devouring Qin Hao and spread the remaining Gray Mist to other parts of his Divine Soul.
• Qin Hao kept attacking until his Divine Soul was reduced to a fragment of its former strength and less than a third of Xiuwangzi’s Gray Mist remained.

Qin Hao destroyed nearly all of his divine soul while attacking the Gray Mist, forcing Xiuwangzi to retreat when the remaining threads of Crossing Karma threatened them both. Qin Hao stopped the threads at the last moment, and Xiuwangzi realized he could no longer seize Qin Hao’s body.

• Qin Hao continued attacking the Gray Mist by cutting away his own divine soul until only a dim, fist-sized cluster remained.
• Xiuwangzi grew afraid that Qin Hao would destroy them both and withdrew from the cluster as the three remaining threads of Crossing Karma closed in.
• Qin Hao stopped the threads just before they struck his remaining divine soul, revealing that he had retained a shred of reason.
• Xiuwangzi admitted that Qin Hao’s perseverance had thwarted his attempt to seize Qin Hao’s body.

Qin Hao survived Xiuwangzi’s attempt to seize his body, but his divine soul was badly damaged and Xiuwangzi remained an untouchable threat. As Qin Hao began recovering, Xiuwangzi revealed he had recognized the Thousand Shadows Spirit Transformation Art and explained that he no longer planned to seize Qin Hao’s body.

• Xiuwangzi reflected on his failed attempt to seize Qin Hao’s body and regarded Qin Hao with renewed hostility.
• Qin Hao realized he had won the body-seizure battle, then activated the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art and the Thousand Shadows Spirit Transformation Art to recover his divine body and soul.
• Xiuwangzi told Qin Hao he had recognized the Thousand Shadows Spirit Transformation Art and had waited for Qin Hao to reconstruct his doppelgangers before acting.
• Qin Hao inferred that Xiuwangzi had intended to control all six doppelgangers after taking his body and remained determined to prevent the seizure at any cost.
• Qin Hao attacked Xiuwangzi with three threads of Crossing Karma, but they passed through him without harm.
• Xiuwangzi said he no longer intended to seize Qin Hao’s body because Qin Hao would destroy his own divine soul rather than let him succeed.

Qin Hao learned why Xiuwangzi had targeted him and rejected the demand to provide a Divine King Rank divine body. Xiuwangzi threatened to remain in Qin Hao’s sea of consciousness and ordered him to find a Luo Sheng Delusion Core in the Nine Netherworld.

• Qin Hao asked Xiuwangzi to leave his sea of consciousness, but Xiuwangzi explained that his remnant soul would dissolve without a vessel.
• Xiuwangzi demanded that Qin Hao compensate him for the failed body seizure by providing a divine body.
• Xiuwangzi revealed that he had hidden inside the Youying Soulstone and chose Qin Hao because his divine soul approached the strength of a Middle Divine King.
• Qin Hao pieced together that Xiuwangzi had targeted him after sensing his power when he sealed the Youying Soulstone in the Soul-Sealing Casket.
• Qin Hao refused to refine a Divine King Rank divine body, and Xiuwangzi ordered him to go to the Nine Netherworld and obtain a Luo Sheng Delusion Core.

Qin Hao refused Xiuwangzi’s demand that he seek the Luo Sheng Delusion Core in the Nine Netherworld, but Xiuwangzi revealed he had secretly poisoned him with Cause-and-Effect Dao Poison. The Blood Crow Captain explained the poison’s devastating effects, leaving Qin Hao facing a grave threat to his cultivation, fortune, and life.

• The Blood Crow Captain warned Qin Hao that the Luo Sheng Delusion Core could devour anyone below Venerable and described the dangers of the Nine Netherworld.
• Qin Hao refused Xiuwangzi’s demand to find the Luo Sheng Delusion Core, while secretly restoring his Divine Soul.
• Xiuwangzi revealed that he had made other preparations, and five-colored light spread through Qin Hao’s body as his Life Divine Power and Life Aura drained away.
• Qin Hao recognized the light as poison and tried to locate and expel it with his Divine Strength, but could not sense it within his meridians.
• Xiuwangzi identified the poison as Cause-and-Effect Dao Poison and told Qin Hao that he could not disperse it.
• The Blood Crow Captain explained that the poison would seal Qin Hao’s Divine Body, threaten his chance of reaching Divine King, erode his Divine Soul, and ultimately kill him.

Qin Hao learned that the cause-and-effect Dao poison Xiuwangzi planted was a potentially fatal curse with no known cure, and that killing Xiuwangzi would not remove it. Xiuwangzi offered to cure him if he obeyed, but Qin Hao rejected his demand to go to the Nine Netherworld for the Luo Sheng Delusion Core.

• Qin Hao realized that the cause-and-effect Dao poison reactivated past connections and would steadily erode his divine soul, divine body, and life divine power.
• Blood Crow Captain told Qin Hao that only a Venerable might cure the poison and that killing Xiuwangzi would not make it disappear.
• Blood Crow Captain explained that Xiuwangzi could speed up or slow down the poison, potentially causing Qin Hao's death within a few epochs.
• Xiuwangzi admitted that he planted the poison before trying to seize Qin Hao's body and promised to remove it if Qin Hao obeyed him.
• Qin Hao dismissed Xiuwangzi's promise and refused to go to the Nine Netherworld to search for the Luo Sheng Delusion Core.