Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao’s Little Sword Martial Soul surged from Mystic Tier Ninth Rank to Earth Grade Seventh Rank, greatly strengthening his Divine Soul and comprehension. He used that newfound power to compress the pressure of his entire Sword Heaven and Earth into a sword and kill a wounded Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldier.

• Qin Hao’s Little Sword Martial Soul rose to Earth Grade Seventh Rank, strengthening his Divine Soul and allowing his thoughts to divide without limit.
• Qin Hao realized his stronger Divine Soul could draw on and compress the pressure across his entire Sword Heaven and Earth at once.
• Qin Hao compressed all the pressure into a fingernail-sized orb and transformed it into a half-meter-long pressure sword.
• Ancestor Yanshi and Elder Tianyi sensed the overwhelming pressure gathering around Qin Hao and stopped before striking.
• Qin Hao sent the invisible pressure sword into a wounded Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldier’s head, killing him.

Qin Hao used the Pressure Sword to kill the wounded Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldiers with soul-piercing strikes, revealing his mastery of the Might of the Two Realms. As the Human Race rejoiced at his power, Xuanmo Sovereign demanded a retreat within ten breaths, and Demon Ancestor Yin ordered Ancestor Yanshi and Elder Tianyi to kill Qin Hao at once.

• Qin Hao's Pressure Sword pierced the Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldier's Divine Soul and killed him instantly.
• Qin Hao killed dozens of wounded Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldiers, while nearby fighters watched in shock.
• Elder Tianyi recognized that Qin Hao's attack was an overpowering form of Soul Suppression, and King Zhenyan identified it as the Might of the Two Realms.
• Xuanmo Sovereign told Demon Ancestor Yin he would leave after ten breaths, and Demon Ancestor Yin ordered Ancestor Yanshi and Elder Tianyi to kill Qin Hao immediately.

Demon Ancestor Yin activated the Sunflame Nether Spring within Ancestor Yanshi, turning him into a Death Soldier and sending him with Elder Tianyi to kill Qin Hao. Qin Hao’s Soul Suppression injured Elder Tianyi but failed to slow Yanshi, leaving the two traitors closing in on him.

• The Xuanmo Sovereign gave Demon Ancestor Yin ten breaths to finish the battle before he fled to avoid Azure Flame Sect Sovereigns.
• Demon Ancestor Yin activated the Sunflame Nether Spring, stripping Ancestor Yanshi of his will and turning him into a Death Soldier with Creation-Level Combat Power.
• Ancestor Yanshi and Elder Tianyi charged toward Qin Hao as the Human warriors realized they could not reach them in time to intervene.
• Qin Hao struck both traitors with Soul Suppression; Ancestor Yanshi continued unhindered, while Elder Tianyi suffered soul pain and fell behind.
• Elder Tianyi recognized that the Sunflame Nether Spring had made Yanshi immune to Qin Hao’s attack and followed behind him toward Qin Hao.

Qin Hao failed to damage Ancestor Yanshi and tried to flee until Human Race experts arrived, but Elder Tianyi intercepted him and left him trapped. As Qin Hao faced danger, he revealed a purple High-Grade True Treasure, shocking the watching Creation Great Experts and enraging Demon Ancestor Yin.

• Qin Hao’s sword attacks and Soul Suppression barely affected Ancestor Yanshi, whose Sunflame Nether Spring-enhanced power gave him ordinary Creation-Level Combat Power.
• Qin Hao used Near at Hand, Far Away to flee, but Ancestor Yanshi pursued him while Elder Tianyi raced ahead to intercept him.
• Elder Tianyi blocked Qin Hao’s path as Ancestor Yanshi closed in behind him, trapping Qin Hao between the two enemies.
• Mu Ziqing rushed to help Qin Hao, while the Saint Martial Grandmasters condemned Ancestor Yanshi and the Five Elements Sect for their betrayal.
• Qin Hao replaced the Setting Sun Sword with a purple High-Grade True Treasure, prompting Demon Ancestor Yin to suspect King Zhenyan and King Yongtai had given it to him.

Qin Hao used the Lingxiao Divine Sword’s concealed power to kill Elder Tianyi with one strike. As Ancestor Yanshi closed in, Qin Hao continued forward and prepared to face him next.

• Lingxiaozi told Qin Hao that his Third Layer of the Venerable Martial Realm cultivation let him unleash more of the Lingxiao Divine Sword’s power, while the God-Deriving Mind Method concealed its aura.
• Elder Tianyi saw the sword and retreated, but Qin Hao used Soul Suppression to stagger him and struck with Yellow Springs Road.
• Qin Hao’s Lingxiao Divine Sword split Elder Tianyi in two, killing him with one strike.
• Qin Hao continued fleeing as Ancestor Yanshi drew within a thousand zhang, and he turned his killing intent toward his pursuer.

Qin Hao fought Ancestor Yanshi with the Lingxiao Divine Sword and Sword Heaven and Earth, holding his own despite the strain on his Divine Soul. An overwhelming power suddenly descended, killing Ancestor Yanshi and the Blood Demon fighters, leaving Qin Hao stunned and uncertain what had happened.

• Qin Hao wounded Ancestor Yanshi's palm and realized his new strength let him contend with an Ordinary Creation expert.
• Qin Hao and Ancestor Yanshi exchanged hundreds of attacks as Qi Long, Ji Ziqi, Shi Tingyan, Dongfang Lin, and the onlookers marveled at Qin Hao's growth.
• Qin Hao's Divine Soul neared its limit from maintaining Sword Heaven and Earth, but he kept fighting because he needed its amplification to withstand Ancestor Yanshi.
• A terrifying power descended, causing Ancestor Yanshi and the Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldiers and Creation Great Experts to struggle and burst into ash.
• Ancestor Yanshi briefly regained reason before crumbling to ash, and Qin Hao wondered what power had killed them.

Illusion Master Lingyan arrived during the Blood Demon Race’s attack and swiftly killed Xuanmo Sovereign, then turned his power on Demon Ancestor Yin. Demon Ancestor Yin escaped at the last moment with a Heaven and Earth Traversal Talisman, leaving Lingyan’s arm to vanish after him.

• Illusion Master Lingyan’s arrival killed nearly two thousand Blood Demon Venerable Armored Soldiers and more than twenty Blood Demon Creation-stage fighters, while Demon Ancestor Yin lost three arms and Xuanmo Sovereign fled.
• Illusion Master Lingyan caught and killed Xuanmo Sovereign in an instant, returning with the Sovereign’s three heads.
• Qin Hao and the others witnessed Lingyan’s overwhelming strength as he turned his gaze toward Demon Ancestor Yin.
• Illusion Master Lingyan’s force caused Demon Ancestor Yin’s remaining arms to explode one by one.
• Demon Ancestor Yin activated a Heaven and Earth Traversal Talisman and vanished, and Illusion Master Lingyan’s outstretched arm disappeared after him.

Demon Ancestor Yin escaped through a Heaven and Earth Traversal Talisman, and Illusion Master Lingyan’s pursuit drew a powerful Blood Demon Sovereign’s intervention from the Blood Demon Great World. Lingyan destroyed the Black Hole Passage and restored his sacrificed arm, while Qin Hao and the others were left furious that Yin had survived.

• King Zhenyan and King Yongtai identified Demon Ancestor Yin’s escape talisman as a costly, single-use Heaven and Earth Traversal Talisman.
• A Black Hole Passage appeared where Demon Ancestor Yin had fled, and a terrifying pressure surged from within it.
• Illusion Master Lingyan withdrew his arm from the passage and detonated it, collapsing the passage as a Blood Demon Sovereign threatened him.
• King Zhenyan identified the voice as Netherflame King’s, while Illusion Master Lingyan restored his arm and dismissed the threat.
• Qin Hao regretted Demon Ancestor Yin’s escape as the Human Race survivors shared his anger, then everyone greeted Illusion Master Lingyan with respect.

After the Blood Demon Race’s invasion, Illusion Master Lingyan praised the survivors and urged them to grow strong enough to avenge their fallen comrades. As the survivors prepared to return to the Azure Flame Sect, they honored the dead by raising the Tomb of True Martial outside the Holy City.

• King Zhenyan reported Qin Hao’s contributions to Illusion Master Lingyan, who praised Qin Hao and noted that most of the Azure Flame Tournament Top 100 had survived.
• Illusion Master Lingyan told the survivors they could avenge themselves on Demon Ancestor Yin by cultivating until they reached greater strength.
• Illusion Master Lingyan promised to report Qin Hao’s deeds to the Azure Flame Sect and said the sect would reward those who killed members of the Alien Races.
• Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing mourned Han Yong, and Qin Hao vowed to kill Demon Ancestor Yin himself.
• Under King Yongtai’s direction, the survivors arranged the fallen warriors’ bodies and erected the Tomb of True Martial outside the Holy City to honor those who had defended the continent.

The Starry Sky Spirit Martial Ship carried Qin Hao and the other surviving tournament participants through the World-Guarding Formation and into the Star Sea. After entering a Spacetime Passage, they learned they would reach the Azure Flame Great World in seven days, while King Zhenyan watched them from the ship’s hall.

• The Starry Sky Spirit Martial Ship departed the Holy City with Illusion Master Lingyan escorting the seventy-three survivors, while King Yongtai and the other kings stayed behind to guard against the Blood Demon Race.
• The ship crossed the Thunder Punishment Land and passed through the True Martial Continent’s World-Guarding Formation.
• Qin Hao and the others mourned the twenty-seven tournament participants who had died and remembered Qin Hao’s role in saving them from further losses.
• The passengers saw the Star Sea for the first time and learned that travel to the Azure Flame Great World would take over a hundred years by ordinary flight.
• The ship entered a Spacetime Passage, and the passengers learned it would reach the Azure Flame Great World in seven days.
• King Zhenyan watched the passengers from the ship’s great hall and then walked out.

Qin Hao bound his Azure Flame Inner Disciple Token and entered the Mysterious Tower Space, where he learned that the Myriad Worlds Mysterious Tower tested disciples’ martial prowess and awarded Azure Flame Points. He discovered that the points could fund his cultivation and that the sect even offered Chaos Cultivation Techniques for exchange.

• King Zhenyan distributed official Azure Flame Sect disciple tokens and explained that they served as identification and access to sect resources.
• Qin Hao bound his gold Inner Disciple Token and entered the Mysterious Tower Space, where the Mysterious Tower Spirit welcomed him.
• The Mysterious Tower Spirit explained that the Myriad Worlds Mysterious Tower had nine floors that tested Martial Dao Realm, Divine Soul strength, and Martial Way technique while granting Azure Flame Points.
• Qin Hao learned that Azure Flame Points paid for sect resources, that his tournament victory earned him twenty thousand points, and that his first Azure Flame Spirit Pool session was free.
• Qin Hao discovered that Two Realms Peak’s Dao Foundation was the Two Realms Heavenly Dao Diagram and that he could exchange enough Azure Flame Points for a Chaos Cultivation Technique.

Qin Hao learned the Azure Flame Sect’s rules and the risk of losing his Inner Disciple status if he ranked too low in ten years. King Zhenyan asked Illusion Master Lingyan to secure Qin Hao and the other newcomers an extra cultivation reward, but Lingyan refused unless Qin Hao cleared the first three floors of the Myriad Worlds Mysterious Tower within thirty years.

• Qin Hao learned that Inner Disciples used Azure Flame Points for cultivation and could be demoted if they ranked in the bottom thousand in the ten-year Assessment.
• Mu Ziqing learned that Outer Disciples could qualify for promotion to the Inner Gate through an Assessment held every five years.
• King Zhenyan thanked Illusion Master Lingyan for intervening against the Xuanmo Sovereign and asked him to report the Blood Demon Race’s invasion.
• King Zhenyan described Qin Hao’s Power of the Two Realms and King-Sealing potential, then requested an extra cultivation reward for Qin Hao and the other talented newcomers.
• Illusion Master Lingyan said the sect would not grant an extra reward indiscriminately, but Qin Hao could earn one by clearing the first three floors of the Myriad Worlds Mysterious Tower within thirty years.

Illusion Master Lingyan explained to King Zhenyan why Qin Hao and Qi Long would not receive special cultivation rewards without first proving themselves through the Azure Flame Sect’s system. As Qin Hao and the others studied the sect’s rules aboard their ship, they arrived at an enormous world in a prosperous Star Region.

• Illusion Master Lingyan told King Zhenyan that talent alone did not guarantee success and that disciples earned rewards by meeting the sect’s goals and completing its tasks.
• King Zhenyan accepted Illusion Master Lingyan’s explanation, and Lingyan urged him to pursue becoming a Sovereign.
• Qin Hao and the others compared their Mysterious Tower Space information and learned about disciple promotions, assessments, and the thirty-year training limit.
• Qin Hao studied the Azure Flame Sect’s prices for treasures and wondered how many points the sect would award him for killing members of the Blood Demon Race.
• The Starry Sky Spirit Martial Ship emerged from a Spacetime Passage and approached a world more than ten thousand times larger than the True Martial Continent.

Qin Hao and the other tournament geniuses arrived at the Azure Flame Great World and were stunned by its immense spiritual energy and abundance of powerful experts. They disembarked at the Azure Flame Sect, where hundreds of thousands of young geniuses from other worlds had gathered.

• Qin Hao, Mu Ziqing, and the others saw the Azure Flame Great World and learned that geniuses from other Small Worlds had arrived through spacetime passages.
• The Starry Sky Spirit Martial Ship entered the Great World, where the group sensed its rich Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and saw numerous Venerables, Half-Step Creation experts, and Creation Great Experts.
• King Zhenyan announced their arrival at the Azure Flame Sect, and Qin Hao and the others flew down to a vast plaza among the mountains.
• Qi Long told Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing that 6,783 tournaments had selected a hundred top finishers each, bringing 678,300 young geniuses together.

Qin Hao and the other competitors arrived at the Azure Flame Sect’s Plaza and discovered how many powerful geniuses had gathered from other worlds. Qin Hao sensed a mysterious power in the Azure Flame Sect’s stele before the Storm Sovereign appeared to address the crowd.

• Qin Hao, Qi Long, and their companions sensed thousands of geniuses with high-order Origin Laws among the crowd, leaving the competitors from their worlds feeling pressured.
• The participants from Qin Hao’s group landed in the Plaza, where rival geniuses argued and fought while more Starry Sky Spirit Martial Ships arrived.
• Qin Hao noticed that the Azure Flame Sect characters carved on a towering stele stirred his Little Sword Martial Soul and Self-World, though those around him showed no sign of noticing.
• The Storm Sovereign appeared above the Plaza, pinning the crowd beneath his overwhelming aura, and everyone respectfully greeted him.

The Storm Sovereign rebuked the Azure Flame Sect’s new disciples for failing to comprehend the Great Dao within the Azure Flame Stele, though Qin Hao had sensed its power. He warned that the sect would shelter them for only thirty years and that most would die in the dangers beyond it, then sent them to the Azure Flame Spirit Pool.

• The Storm Sovereign announced that none of the more than 670,000 newcomers had comprehended the Azure Flame Stele’s wisp of the Great Dao, while Qin Hao realized he alone had sensed it.
• The Storm Sovereign rejected a young man’s request for time to study the stele and declared that the Azure Flame Sect would shelter its disciples for only thirty years.
• The Storm Sovereign warned that the Human Race faced hostile alien races and predicted that few disciples would attain King-Sealing Creation or survive a century.
• Qin Hao and his companions remained composed because they had experienced the Blood Demon Race’s invasion.
• The Storm Sovereign urged the disciples to work hard and respect Heaven and Earth, then sent them toward the Azure Flame Spirit Pool.

Illusion Master Lingyan and the Storm Sovereign watched Qin Hao resonate with the Great Dao inside the Azure Flame Stele, though the Storm Sovereign doubted the significance because Qin Hao had learned what the stele contained first. As Qin Hao left for the Back Mountain, Illusion Master Lingyan began to suspect he was unusually talented.

• Illusion Master Lingyan questioned the Storm Sovereign's harsh reprimand of the Saint Martial Realm geniuses, and the Storm Sovereign defended it as preparation for the Coming Future.
• The Storm Sovereign noticed Qin Hao resonating with the Great Dao in the Azure Flame Stele, and Illusion Master Lingyan was surprised that someone at Qin Hao's cultivation level had managed it.
• Illusion Master Lingyan identified Qin Hao as the Venerable Martial Realm Third Layer cultivator recommended by King Zhenyan, and the Storm Sovereign decided to watch him before considering extra rewards.
• Qin Hao recognized the Storm Sovereign's speech as an unspoken initiation and warning, then regretted not arriving earlier to study the Great Dao in the stele.
• Qin Hao left with his group for the Back Mountain, while Illusion Master Lingyan continued watching him with growing interest.

The new Azure Flame Sect disciples entered the Azure Flame Spirit Pool for seven days of cultivation and raced toward its energy-rich core. Qin Hao brought Mu Ziqing deep into the pool, where they arrived just behind the fast-moving Xu Xiao as others began settling in to cultivate.

• Illusion Master Lingyan left after speaking with the Storm Sovereign, who continued his duties as host of the initiation ceremony.
• More than six hundred thousand new disciples reached the Azure Flame Spirit Pool and learned they could cultivate one meter above its surface for seven days.
• Qin Hao decided to make use of his free access to the pool, and he took Mu Ziqing with him toward its deeper, more energy-dense regions.
• Qi Long used his Space Laws and Ji Ziqi used her Time Laws to race toward the pool's depths as the crowd surged forward.
• Xu Xiao used his Spatial Shift Divine Ability to reach the core region, where Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing appeared shortly after him.
• Xu Xiao sat down to cultivate as other disciples began arriving and settling in around the core.

Qin Hao used the Azure Flame Spirit Pool to consolidate his cultivation, refining its dense spiritual energy into purer, more abundant True Essence within his Self-World. After filling it, he broke through from the Venerable Martial Realm Third Layer to the Fourth-Level Venerable Martial Realm.

• Xu Xiao resented Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing cultivating nearby, but trusted that his Flowing Cloud Immortal Canon would absorb spiritual energy faster than theirs.
• Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing reached the core area ahead of most cultivators and began cultivating, while Qi Long and Ji Ziqi failed to secure places there.
• Qin Hao circulated the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art and drew in spiritual energy hundreds of times denser than outside the pool.
• Qin Hao suppressed an imminent breakthrough and used the incoming energy to make the True Essence in his Self-World more abundant and purer.
• After his Self-World could hold no more True Essence, Qin Hao broke through to the Fourth-Level Venerable Martial Realm.

Qin Hao rapidly advanced to the Fifth Layer of Venerable Martial Realm in the Azure Flame Spirit Pool, but could not break through further without improving his Destruction Laws. With six days remaining, he decided to use the pool to raise the cultivation of his Time Doppelganger and Devouring Doppelganger.

• Qin Hao reached the Fourth-Level Venerable Martial Realm as his Self-World expanded, while Mu Ziqing and the other cultivators also made breakthroughs.
• Qin Hao absorbed the pool’s spiritual energy for two hours and advanced to the Fifth Layer of Venerable Martial Realm.
• Qin Hao failed to reach the Sixth Layer because his Destruction Laws had not advanced enough, though his True Essence surpassed that of many higher-layer Venerables.
• Qin Hao saw that Mu Ziqing had reached the Second Layer and that several other cultivators had advanced to the second or third layer.
• Qin Hao decided to spend the remaining six days raising the cultivation of his Time Doppelganger and Devouring Doppelganger.