Chapter Summaries

Li Yuntong led the Li Family’s supply mission into the Chaotic Star Sea, where Devil Race Star Pirates intercepted them. With escape impossible and the Li Family’s Starship Cannons unlikely to stop the attackers, Li Yuntong refused to abandon her people as the cannons fired.

• Li Yuntong committed the Li Family’s resources to a shipment bound for East Sun Star and traveled with Marquis Vastsea to secure the trade.
• Devil Race Star Pirates appeared near the Chaotic Star Sea, and Marquis Vastsea said they needed five hundred thousand Mid-Grade Origin Crystal Stones to escape.
• Marquis Vastsea spotted the pirates leaving their Starry Sky Battleship and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• A steward warned Li Yuntong that the Starship Cannons could not stop the pirates and urged her to flee while Marquis Vastsea held them off.
• Li Yuntong refused to leave her people, and the Starry Sky Battleship fired its two Starship Cannons at the approaching pirates.

Qin Hao watched the Devil Race Star Pirates attack the Li Family Merchant Guild, then faced two Ordinary Creation experts sent to kill him. As Guan Chi and Li Hao realized his sword strike could kill them, they tried to retreat.

• Qin Hao judged that the Starship Cannons could only interfere with powerful enemies, and Marquis Bloodbane destroyed both cannon spheres with his Warblade.
• Marquis Nightveil revealed that the Li Family Merchant Guild carried nearly a hundred million Low-Grade Origin Crystals and ordered the Star Pirates to attack it.
• Marquis Nightveil sent Guan Chi and Li Hao to kill Qin Hao aboard the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat while he and Marquis Bloodbane led the assault on the merchant guild's battleship.
• Qin Hao left the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat and faced Guan Chi and Li Hao as they charged him with a Long Spear and Great Saber.
• Qin Hao unleashed Heaven-Sealing Sword Art—Heaven-Sealing Mountain-Cleaving, frightening Guan Chi and Li Hao into attempting to retreat.

Qin Hao used Heaven-Sealing Mountain-Cleaving to kill Guan Chi and gravely wound Li Hao, demonstrating power beyond an ordinary Marquis-Rank Creation expert. He overtook the fleeing Li Hao and killed him with a strike against his Divine Soul.

• Li Hao and Guan Chi tried to retreat from Qin Hao, but his sword strike shattered Li Hao's weapon and cut Guan Chi in two, killing him.
• The strike also split Li Hao's body and left him with less than twenty percent of his Divine Strength, so he fled toward the Li Family Merchant Guild's Starry Sky Battleship.
• Qin Hao assessed the power of Heaven-Sealing Mountain-Cleaving, took Guan Chi's Storage Star Ring, and found no Origin Demon Crystal.
• Qin Hao crossed more than a hundred thousand meters in one step and overtook Li Hao, who mistook his silence for a chance to escape.
• Qin Hao struck Li Hao's Divine Soul, killing him as darkness took his vision.

After killing Li Hao, Qin Hao collected the Devil Race Star Pirates’ valuables and approached the Li Family Merchant Guild’s besieged Starry Sky Battleship. As Marquis Vastsea and Li Yuntong prepared to self-detonate rather than surrender, an unseen attack struck a Devil Race expert aboard the ship.

• Qin Hao killed Li Hao, found a Low-Grade Origin Demon Crystal inside him, and took the star pirates’ Storage Star Rings.
• Qin Hao surveyed the shattered Starry Sky Battleship and saw that Marquis Nightveil and Marquis Bloodbane were leading the attack while trying to preserve its treasures.
• Marquis Vastsea realized the Li Family Merchant Guild was outnumbered and began preparing to self-detonate to give Li Yuntong a chance to escape.
• A Devil Race Ordinary Creation expert entered the ship to capture Li Yuntong, while she began preparing to self-detonate and destroy the pirates’ loot.
• The Devil Race expert suddenly clutched his head in pain and cried out that someone was attacking his Divine Soul.

Qin Hao’s Soul Attack crippled the Devil Race Ordinary Creations aboard the Starry Sky Battleship and killed one, allowing Li Yuntong and the Human forces to counterattack. As Qin Hao arrived, Marquis Nightveil realized he was the unseen attacker, and Qin Hao unleashed Heaven-Sealing Mountain-Cleaving on Marquis Bloodbane.

• Qin Hao’s Soul Attack left the Devil Race Ordinary Creations aboard the Starry Sky Battleship unable to fight and killed one of them outright.
• Li Yuntong and the middle-aged steward rallied the Li Family Merchant Guild’s forces to counterattack the Devil Race Star Pirates.
• Marquis Nightveil sensed the Divine Soul attack and learned that Qin Hao had killed Guan Chi and Li Hao, but initially suspected another King-Sealing Creation was nearby.
• Marquis Nightveil and Marquis Bloodbane realized Qin Hao was the only possible attacker, and Marquis Bloodbane charged him with his Great Saber.
• Qin Hao used Heaven-Sealing Mountain-Cleaving and drove the Lingxiao Divine Sword’s power to its limit against Marquis Bloodbane.

Qin Hao used the Lingxiao Divine Sword’s power to overwhelm the Bloodfiend Marquis, revealing strength far beyond his Ordinary Creation cultivation. He launched five more strikes at the wounded marquis, who faced imminent death.

• Qin Hao unleashed a full-power sword strike, drawing on ten percent of the Lingxiao Divine Sword’s might.
• The Nightwave Marquis tried to intervene, but the Vastsea Marquis forced him to defend against a spear thrust.
• Qin Hao and the Bloodfiend Marquis clashed; Qin Hao quickly restored his lost Divine Strength, while the Bloodfiend Marquis lost a third of his and was badly wounded.
• The Devil Race star pirates mistook Qin Hao for a King-Sealing Creation cultivator, while the Bloodfiend Marquis realized the sword was behind his strength.
• Qin Hao rushed the Bloodfiend Marquis and unleashed five consecutive sword strikes at him.

Qin Hao overwhelmed Marquis Bloodbane despite the devil marquis's attempts to defend himself and negotiate. Bloodbane's Divine Strength ran out, leaving the gathered fighters stunned by his death.

• Marquis Bloodbane used his blood fiend Demonic Qi to defend against Qin Hao's five sword strikes and tried to negotiate, while Marquis Nightveil threatened Qin Hao with Myriad Devil Palace.
• Marquis Nightveil's warning revealed that the devil Star Pirates belonged to Myriad Devil Palace, alarming the Human Race experts and the Li Family aboard the battleship.
• Qin Hao rejected Bloodbane's pleas and accelerated his sword strikes, shattering Bloodbane's defensive barrier.
• Marquis Bloodbane tried to flee toward Marquis Nightveil, but Qin Hao's sword lights severed his legs and struck him repeatedly.
• Marquis Bloodbane's Divine Strength and Life Aura faded until he died, leaving the gathered fighters in stunned silence.

Qin Hao killed Marquis Bloodbane with the Lingxiao Divine Sword and took his Storage Star Ring and Mid-Grade Origin Demon Crystal. As the Devil Race forces fled, Qin Hao pursued Marquis Nightveil while Marquis Vastsea led the Li Family Merchant Guild in hunting down the remaining Star Pirates.

• Qin Hao collected Marquis Bloodbane's Storage Star Ring and Mid-Grade Origin Demon Crystal after killing him.
• The Devil Race fighters panicked and fled, while Marquis Nightveil recognized that Qin Hao's strength came from the Lingxiao Divine Sword rather than King-Sealing cultivation.
• Qin Hao chased Marquis Nightveil, seeking to kill another Marquis-Rank Creation expert and advance his mission.
• Marquis Vastsea rallied the Li Family Merchant Guild to wipe out the fleeing Devil Race Star Pirates.
• Marquis Vastsea caught and killed an Ordinary Creation expert of the Devil Race as the pursuit continued.

Qin Hao used Divine Soul attacks to overcome Marquis Nightveil’s superior speed and catch up to him. When Qin Hao’s sword strikes threatened to kill him, Marquis Nightveil sent a black-light finger streaking away and charged Qin Hao in a desperate final attack.

• Qin Hao pursued Marquis Nightveil but fell behind because the Marquis was much faster.
• Qin Hao struck Marquis Nightveil with repeated Divine Soul attacks, weakening him and making him falter.
• Marquis Nightveil threatened Qin Hao with the backing of the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, but Qin Hao attacked with two sword strikes.
• Marquis Nightveil released one of his fingers as a streak of black light, then turned and charged Qin Hao while gathering his Divine Strength.

Marquis Nightveil used Self-Detonation to escape Qin Hao, sending a severed finger away before the blast. Qin Hao survived by entering the Supreme Sword Tower, then found an Origin Demon Crystal in the wreckage.

• Marquis Nightveil began gathering his Divine Strength and Origin Laws for Self-Detonation and sent one of his fingers beyond Qin Hao's Divine Sense.
• Marquis Nightveil charged at Qin Hao, but Qin Hao vanished before the explosion could reach him.
• Marquis Nightveil's gathered power exploded, and Marquis Vastsea and the others sensed the blast from afar.
• Qin Hao emerged from the Supreme Sword Tower and realized Marquis Nightveil had escaped in the severed finger, gravely wounded.
• Qin Hao reflected on his weaknesses in speed, defense, and cultivation, then spotted a damaged Origin Demon Crystal in the void.

Qin Hao survived Marquis Nightveil’s Self-Detonation and returned to the Li Family Merchant Guild’s Void Warship, where the others welcomed him as a powerful senior. He collected the surviving Origin Demon Crystal and searched the Devil Race corpses for more, finding only one Low-Grade crystal among four Ordinary Creation cultivators.

• Qin Hao collected Marquis Nightveil’s damaged Origin Demon Crystal, then discovered that the marquis’s Storage Star Ring had been destroyed.
• Li Yuntong and the others feared Qin Hao had died in Marquis Nightveil’s Self-Detonation while they waited for Marquis Vastsea to return.
• Qin Hao arrived unharmed, and the guild members bowed to him and thanked him for saving them.
• Qin Hao used his Divine Sense to find four Devil Race Ordinary Creation corpses inside the guild’s Starry Sky Battleship and moved them outside.
• Qin Hao found one Low-Grade Origin Demon Crystal among the four corpses and was disappointed by the small haul.

Qin Hao collected Origin Demon Crystals from the defeated Devil Race cultivators, hoping to advance his Devouring Doppelganger. After Marquis Vastsea returned with the Li Family survivors, Li Yuntong offered Qin Hao a High-Grade Origin Demon Crystal, making him stop to ask how she had obtained it.

• Qin Hao considered using the Origin Demon Crystals he had gathered to raise his Devouring Doppelganger to Marquis-Rank Creation.
• Li Yuntong thanked Qin Hao for saving the Li Family Merchant Guild, and Qin Hao introduced himself and revealed that he was only at Ordinary Creation cultivation.
• Marquis Vastsea returned with five injured Li Family cultivators and seven Devil Race corpses, from which Qin Hao extracted two Low-Grade Origin Demon Crystals.
• Qin Hao prepared to leave, but Li Yuntong offered him a High-Grade Origin Demon Crystal as thanks.
• Qin Hao recognized the crystal's immense power and asked Li Yuntong how she had obtained it.

Qin Hao accepted Li Yuntong's High-Grade Origin Demon Crystal and agreed to travel with the Li Family Merchant Guild to East Sun Star in the Chaotic Star Sea. As the voyage continued, Li Yuntong repeatedly sought his company, and Qin Hao told her he was already married.

• Li Yuntong explained that the Li Family planned to sell its goods at East Sun Star and offered Qin Hao the High-Grade Origin Demon Crystal as thanks for saving them.
• Qin Hao accepted the crystal and agreed to travel with Li Yuntong and the Li Family Merchant Guild toward the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Li Yuntong gave Qin Hao a room beside her chambers, and the guild held a banquet to welcome him aboard the Starry Sky Battleship.
• During the journey, Li Yuntong repeatedly visited Qin Hao, prompting him to tell her he was already married.
• Li Yuntong insisted her visits were only to thank Qin Hao on behalf of the Li Family, though he sensed her disappointment.

Li Yuntong struggled with her feelings for Qin Hao as he prepared to leave the Li Family Merchant Guild and continue into the Chaotic Star Sea. Meanwhile, the badly wounded Marquis Nightveil escaped to a Myriad Devil Palace outpost and teleported away to seek help against Qin Hao.

• Li Yuntong accepted Qin Hao's Message Jade Slip after learning he was married, and Qin Hao told her he would leave the Li Family Merchant Guild at East Sun Star.
• Qin Hao resumed comprehending Origin Laws while his Devouring Doppelganger prepared to use its Origin Demon Crystals to advance its physical body.
• Marquis Nightveil reached a Myriad Devil Palace outpost with less than one percent of his Divine Strength remaining after the battle that killed Marquis Bloodbane and the other attackers.
• Marquis Nightveil decided to report Qin Hao to his lord, then used the outpost's teleportation array to return to the Myriad Devil Palace.

Marquis Nightveil returned to East Sun City gravely wounded and told the Ten-Thousand Poisons King that Marquis Bloodbane and the other Poison Demon experts had died. The Ten-Thousand Poisons King spared Nightveil, but remained furious over his losses and his failure to find the killer of the Three-Eyed Marquis.

• Marquis Nightveil appeared in Western Guard City and asked to see his lord at once.
• A Middle-aged Man escorted Nightveil to the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, who demanded to know who had wounded him.
• Nightveil reported the deaths of Marquis Bloodbane and the other Poison Demon experts, then asked to be punished for failing the mission.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King erupted in anger, but withdrew his pressure and gave Nightveil a healing Pill.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King reflected that he had failed both the Heartless Demon Master's task and Myriad Devil Palace's mission, while the Poison Demon Race had suffered heavy losses.

The Ten-Thousand Poisons King learned that a young Human Race Creation expert had defeated Marquis Nightveil and killed Marquis Bloodbane, and concluded that the man possessed two Half-Step Supreme Treasures. He ordered Marquis Nightveil to investigate the man’s background for three Heaven before they set out to seize the treasures.

• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King rebuked Marquis Nightveil for failing to complete the Myriad Devil Palace’s supply-gathering task and demanded a full account of the battle.
• Marquis Nightveil reported that the young Human Race expert had Ordinary Creation cultivation, overwhelming combat power, and a Purple Treasure Sword.
• Marquis Nightveil said the young man vanished as Nightveil detonated his true body, leading the Ten-Thousand Poisons King to suspect he had a spatial treasure as well.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King concluded the young man might possess two Half-Step Supreme Treasures and grew excited about using them to increase his strength.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King ordered Marquis Nightveil to investigate the man’s identity for three Heaven, then set out after him regardless of what they learned.

Qin Hao trained against the masked man in the Mysterious Tower Space until his Devouring Doppelganger broke through to a Physical Body comparable to Marquis-Rank Creation. As the Li Family Merchant Guild's Starry Sky Battleship neared East Sun Star, Qin Hao sensed Devil Race Creation Realm experts approaching, including Marquis Nightveil.

• Qin Hao fought the masked man with the Heaven-Sealing Sword Art and improved several sword techniques, movement skills, and abilities.
• Qin Hao's Divine Soul reached its limit, and he sensed that his Devouring Doppelganger's Physical Body had broken through to Marquis-Rank Creation.
• Qin Hao realized that the Devouring Doppelganger's Fourth Layer of the Gods and Devils Heaven-Suppressing Art gave it four currents of Hidden Force and a 1,440-fold combat-power multiplier.
• Qin Hao estimated that the Li Family Merchant Guild's Starry Sky Battleship would reach East Sun Star within seven days.
• Qin Hao detected approaching Starry Sky Battleships carrying Devil Race Creation Realm experts, including Marquis Nightveil, and realized they had come with ill intent.

Qin Hao faced a Divine Sense attack from the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, a Devil Race King-Sealing Creation who recognized Three-Eyed Marquis’s lingering aura on him and realized he had killed the Marquis. Qin Hao fled into the Starry Sky, and the Ten-Thousand Poisons King pursued him.

• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King’s Divine Sense clashed with Qin Hao’s, alarming experts aboard nearby ships and drawing them to the confrontation.
• Qin Hao left the Li Family Merchant Guild’s Starry Sky Battleship and saw Marquis Nightveil among the Devil Race forces gathered nearby.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King sensed Three-Eyed Marquis’s aura on Qin Hao and felt his Karmic Stone grow hot, identifying Qin Hao as the Marquis’s killer.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King claimed Qin Hao had killed one of his followers to conceal his real motive and the Half-Step Supreme Treasures he sought.
• Qin Hao turned into a Blue Rainbow Streak and fled, and the Ten-Thousand Poisons King transformed into demonic light and chased him.

Qin Hao mastered the second level of Near at Hand, Far Away, and believed his Devouring Doppelganger could help him challenge a King-Sealing Creation cultivator. As he fled the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, the King unleashed his deadly Five Poisons Entangling Silk Hand, leaving Qin Hao in grave danger.

• Qin Hao used his improved speed and Devouring Doppelganger's strength to consider testing himself against a King-Sealing Creation cultivator, but decided to flee somewhere secluded first.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King chased Qin Hao and quickly closed the distance, while Marquis Nightveil was stunned by Qin Hao's sudden increase in speed and resolved to kill him.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King attacked from about five hundred thousand meters away with his Five Poisons Entangling Silk Hand.
• Starry Sky onlookers and Marquis Vastsea believed Qin Hao was doomed, while Li Yuntong watched anxiously as the poisoned hand rushed toward him.

Qin Hao survived the Ten-Thousand Poisons King's attack with the Purple Sun Shield and replenished his Divine Strength from his Self-World. The Ten-Thousand Poisons King recognized Qin Hao's treasures and vowed to kill him.

• Li Yuntong and the others asked Marquis Vastsea to help Qin Hao, but he said only the distant Divine Mechanism Tower might intervene.
• The Ten-Thousand Poisons King struck Qin Hao with the Five Poisons Entangling Silk Hand as the onlookers feared he would be killed.
• Qin Hao blocked the blow with the Purple Sun Shield, but the poisonous Demonic Qi rapidly drained his Divine Strength.
• Qin Hao used the attack's force to accelerate away and replenished his Divine Strength from his Self-World.
• The watching experts and Li Yuntong's group were astonished that Qin Hao survived and recovered, while the Ten-Thousand Poisons King recognized his High-Grade Spirit Treasure and suspected he had a High-Grade Spirit-Divine Pill.