Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway, whose pressure shook his Divine Soul and drew him toward a mysterious resonance. As the Supreme Sword Tower trembled and his Self-World began to solidify, Qin Hao sensed Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance taking shape within it.

• Qin Hao asked the steward about the East Sun Immortal Stairway and decided to climb it, while Barto eagerly joined him.
• Black-Clad Qin Hao declined to climb and began cultivating as the steward watched.
• Qin Hao stepped onto the stairway and discovered that its growing pressure struck directly at the soul, potentially endangering climbers below Creation.
• As Qin Hao climbed thousands of steps, the mysterious resonance grew stronger and caused the Supreme Sword Tower to tremble.
• Qin Hao found that the stairway's pressure compressed and solidified his Self-World, where he sensed Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance beginning to form.

Qin Hao discovered a wisp of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance in his Self-World as he climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway and continued upward. Outside, Liu Dong arrived with an Advanced Auction Invitation Letter and saw the stairway’s mist thinning around Qin Hao and Barto.

• Qin Hao sensed a fingernail-sized wisp of Dao Resonance in his Self-World and realized it strengthened his ability to withstand the stairway’s pressure.
• Qin Hao continued climbing past ten thousand steps, intrigued by the stairway and the Supreme Sword Tower’s reaction.
• Liu Dong arrived at the plaza with an Invitation Letter to the Advanced Auction and asked Cheng Feng where Qin Hao was.
• Cheng Feng told Liu Dong that Qin Hao was climbing the East Sun Immortal Stairway, and Liu Dong expected him to reach at least sixty thousand steps.
• Liu Dong and Cheng Feng noticed the immortal mist thinning over the stairway’s lower twenty thousand steps and recognized Qin Hao and Barto inside it.

Qin Hao climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway at remarkable speed while Barto and the stewards watched. He passed a Spirit Race Marquis-Rank Creation who had come to strengthen his Willpower and Divine Soul, leaving the Spirit Race young man stunned.

• Barto fell from the Stairway after reaching ten thousand steps and warned Liu Dong and Cheng Feng about the crushing pressure above them.
• Barto spotted Qin Hao beyond thirty thousand steps and watched him rapidly close in on a struggling climber.
• Liu Dong and Cheng Feng explained that the climber was likely a Marquis-Rank Creation training his Willpower and Divine Soul on the Stairway.
• The Spirit Race young man reflected on how climbing past thirty thousand steps had strengthened him and improved his chances of reaching King-Sealing Creation.
• Qin Hao swept past the Spirit Race young man at lightning speed, leaving him aghast.

Qin Hao climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway at remarkable speed, gaining a third trace of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance in his Self-World while sensing the Supreme Sword Tower react more strongly. After a Spirit Race cultivator fell from the stairway and blamed Qin Hao, Barto mocked him as Qin Hao pressed on toward the summit.

• A Spirit Race cultivator watched Qin Hao pass him, then lost his footing in the gust from Qin Hao’s speed and fell from the East Sun Immortal Stairway.
• Qin Hao discovered a third trace of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance in his Self-World and realized another trace appeared roughly every ten thousand steps.
• Qin Hao sensed the Supreme Sword Tower shaking more noticeably, suspected a Five-Star Treasure might be involved, and decided to charge for the summit.
• Qin Hao continued climbing, tempering his Willpower as he sped hundreds of steps higher at a time.
• The Spirit Race cultivator crashed onto the platform and blamed Qin Hao for his fall, while Liu Dong and Cheng Feng questioned his claim that he had nearly reached the top.
• Barto mocked the Spirit Race cultivator for blaming Qin Hao, and the young man flew into a rage.

A Spirit Race young man threatened Barto after Qin Hao’s rapid climb knocked him from the East Sun Immortal Stairway, but the Devouring Doppelganger frightened him into fleeing. Qin Hao continued past forty thousand stairs and approached a powerful Creation of the Mechanical Race, which struggled to understand his speed.

• The Spirit Race young man confronted Barto and threatened to kill him for insulting him.
• The Devouring Doppelganger glared at the young man and ordered him to leave, so he abandoned his rented Cultivation Chamber and fled.
• The Devouring Doppelganger told Barto to cultivate, and Barto obeyed while Liu Dong and Cheng Feng watched Qin Hao climb.
• Qin Hao passed the forty-thousandth stair and approached a Marquis-Rank Creation of the Mechanical Race near the forty-five-thousandth stair.
• The Mechanical Race Creation saw Qin Hao climbing rapidly and wondered how an Ordinary Creation could move so fast.

Qin Hao climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway at astonishing speed, prompting a jealous Mechanical Race Creation to attack him. Qin Hao crushed the attacker’s Divine Soul, causing him to fall from the stairway and die.

• The Mechanical Race Creation saw Qin Hao climbing much faster than he could and suspected Qin Hao was a top Human Race prodigy.
• The Mechanical Race Creation attacked Qin Hao with his twelve arms, hoping the stairway’s pressure would make Qin Hao fall to his death.
• Qin Hao countered with his Divine Soul and used Spirit-Shaking Soul Annihilation against the Mechanical Race Creation.
• The attack disrupted the Mechanical Race Creation’s Consciousness Sea, allowing the stairway’s pressure to overwhelm him.
• The Mechanical Race Creation fell from the East Sun Immortal Stairway and died when he struck the ground.

Qin Hao continued climbing the East Sun Immortal Stairway, killed a Mechanical Race Marquis-Rank Creation with a burst of Divine Soul power, and gained more Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance. Beyond eighty-six thousand steps, he encountered another powerful climber whose Divine Soul strength matched his own.

• A Mechanical Race Creation attacked Qin Hao and died after Qin Hao struck him with Divine Soul power, while Liu Dong, Cheng Feng, and Barto watched in shock.
• The Spirit Race young man who had been hiding nearby feared Qin Hao and fled into the distance.
• Qin Hao reached the sixty-thousandth step and gained a sixth strand of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance, then continued climbing rapidly.
• Qin Hao reached the eighty-thousandth step and gained an eighth strand of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance, though the growing pressure began to slow him.
• After climbing beyond eighty-six thousand steps, Qin Hao saw a stern young man in a dark-ink robe practicing Cultivation; the young man opened his eyes as Qin Hao arrived.

Qin Hao and the Soul Race genius Xing Luo sensed danger in each other as they climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway. Xing Luo suspected Qin Hao ranked among the Human Race’s top prodigies, while his own ambition to become a Nirvana Sovereign remained firm.

• Qin Hao recognized the stern young man as a powerful Soul Race expert and sensed danger despite the man’s Marquis-Rank Creation cultivation.
• Qin Hao continued climbing steadily, while Xing Luo sensed an overwhelming threat from him and watched him draw closer.
• Xing Luo recalled that he had stopped to temper his Willpower and Divine Soul under the stairway’s pressure.
• Xing Luo, ranked nine hundred and thirty-seventh on the Soul Race Prodigy Rankings, suspected Qin Hao was among the top five hundred Human Race prodigies.
• Xing Luo’s pride stirred as he resolved that a higher rank would not necessarily make Qin Hao stronger, and he considered his own potential to become a Nirvana Sovereign.

Qin Hao and Xing Luo climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway together as Xing Luo tried to compare himself with the Human Race prodigy. Near the ninety-thousandth stair, Qin Hao sped ahead, leaving Xing Luo stunned by how much he had held back.

• Xing Luo pursued Qin Hao up the stairs, determined to prove he was no weaker than him.
• Liu Dong and Cheng Feng watched the two prodigies climb together and speculated about Xing Luo’s strength.
• After ascending another thousand stairs, Xing Luo boasted that Qin Hao was far behind him and asked which Human Race faction he belonged to.
• Qin Hao wondered whether his Dao Alliance Token connected him to the mysterious Dao Alliance as he and Xing Luo neared the ninety-thousandth stair.
• Qin Hao declared that he would reach the top, surged forward, and quickly opened a twelve-stair gap between himself and Xing Luo.

Qin Hao climbed the East Sun Immortal Stairway while Xing Luo gave up and left, intent on killing him in a future encounter. Qin Hao surpassed the Lord of East Sun’s record and reached the ninety-nine-thousand nine-hundred and ninety-ninth step, where the stairway’s crushing pressure vanished and a gentle Dao Resonance appeared.

• Xing Luo pushed himself up the stairway to compete with Qin Hao, but the pressure overwhelmed him before he reached the ninety-thousandth step.
• Xing Luo left the stairway and East Sun Peak, deciding to withdraw rather than risk fighting Qin Hao alone.
• Qin Hao reached ninety thousand steps and formed a ninth trace of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance within his Self-World.
• Qin Hao passed the Lord of East Sun’s record and continued climbing, enduring the increasing pressure as it tempered his Willpower Swordlet.
• Qin Hao reached the ninety-nine-thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth step, where the stairway’s pressure disappeared and Dao Resonance surrounded him.

At the summit of the East Sun Immortal Stairway, Qin Hao gained thirty-two new strands of Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance, bringing his total to forty-one. He then found and removed a strange ink-jade skeleton that had been drawing him and the Supreme Sword Tower toward it.

• Qin Hao watched strands of different Dao Resonances merge into Heaven and Earth Great Dao Resonance and enter his Self-World.
• Thirty-two new strands formed, raising Qin Hao’s total to forty-one before the remaining strands returned to their original forms.
• Qin Hao noticed strange flowers and plants growing around the platform and spotted a five-foot-long black skeleton among them.
• Qin Hao approached the skeleton as the Supreme Sword Tower trembled more strongly, then easily pulled it free from the Void.
• An ink-jade glint rose from the skeleton, and the Supreme Sword Tower stopped shaking.

Qin Hao discovered that the mysterious Skeleton could absorb Divine Strength, withstand his attack, and make the Supreme Sword Tower tremble. Lingxiaozi suspected it was an incomplete piece of a Five-Star Treasure but could not identify the complete weapon from this fragment.

• Qin Hao poured Divine Strength into the Skeleton and concluded that it was extraordinary and incomplete.
• Qin Hao called Lingxiaozi to examine the Skeleton, and Lingxiaozi found no Artifact Spirit.
• Qin Hao told Lingxiaozi that the Skeleton had made the Supreme Sword Tower tremble, then explained how he had found it on the East Sun Immortal Stairway.
• At Lingxiaozi's urging, Qin Hao struck the Skeleton with a Treasure Sword, but the blow left it completely unmarked.
• Lingxiaozi guessed the Skeleton was one part of a Five-Star Treasure whose Artifact Spirit was elsewhere, and said he could not identify the weapon from one fragment.

Qin Hao examined the mysterious Skeleton at the summit of the East Sun Immortal Stairway, then descended and accepted an invitation to East Sun City's Advanced Auction. Liu Dong speculated that Qin Hao’s talent and the Lord of East Sun’s favor might signal an alliance with the Human Race.

• Lingxiaozi suggested the Skeleton might be part of a spear, a Flying Boat or Warship, or another special Supreme Treasure, and Qin Hao resolved to seek its other pieces if he found the chance.
• Qin Hao found that the summit’s flowers and plants dissolved into Dao Resonance and immortal mist, then jumped from the platform and fell without pressure.
• Liu Dong and Cheng Feng marveled that Qin Hao had reached the top, surpassing the Lord of East Sun’s climb, and greeted him with respect when he descended.
• Liu Dong presented Qin Hao with an Invitation Letter to East Sun City's Advanced Auction, and Qin Hao accepted it.
• Qin Hao asked Cheng Feng to prepare an Earth-Grade Cultivation Chamber for Barto, then left with Cheng Feng, his Devouring Doppelganger, and Barto.
• Liu Dong wondered whether the Lord of East Sun favored Qin Hao because he represented a powerful Human Race faction, and questioned how Qin Hao had known he was there.

Qin Hao cultivated with his three Doppelgangers in East Sun Peak’s Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber, aiming to refine two sets of Great Dao Patterns before the Advanced Auction. Meanwhile, the White-Robed Woman revealed that a space within the Calamity Demon Land was emerging, but she suspected only the Lord of East Sun could enter it.

• Cheng Feng escorted Qin Hao and the burly man in black to a Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber, where Qin Hao learned he could cultivate without a time limit and chose to stay until the Advanced Auction.
• Qin Hao transformed the burly man into Black-Clad Qin Hao and summoned the Time Doppelganger and Fire Doppelganger to join him in the chamber.
• Qin Hao and his three Doppelgangers began cultivating the Great Dao Patterns, while Qin Hao sought to reach Marquis-Rank Creation.
• The White-Robed Woman told the Lord of East Sun that a space within the Calamity Demon Land was emerging now that its Restriction had vanished.
• The Blue-Robed Woman called Qin Hao her little brother, and the White-Robed Woman said she suspected the Lord of East Sun was the only one who could enter the space.

The White-Robed Woman urged the Blue-Robed Woman to visit an unusual place connected to the Calamity Demon Land, then told the Lord of East Sun to prepare the Shadow Race’s Creation experts for an opportunity. In East Sun Peak’s Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber, Qin Hao’s Fire Doppelganger began breaking through to the Creation Realm.

• The Blue-Robed Woman reluctantly agreed to make the journey if Qin Hao went too, then flew away from East Sun Hall.
• The White-Robed Woman told the Lord of East Sun that an unusual place held great benefits for Creation Realm cultivators and instructed him to gather the Shadow Race’s Marquis-Rank and King-Sealing Creation experts.
• The Lord of East Sun withdrew, while the White-Robed Woman watched the Blue-Robed Woman walking through East Sun City.
• After two months of cultivation, Qin Hao’s Fire Doppelganger decided he had mastered enough Ninth-Order Origin Laws to attempt a breakthrough.
• The Fire Doppelganger cultivated the Profound Flame Art and transformed his True Essence into Divine Strength as Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy surged into the Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber.

Qin Hao and his doppelgangers cultivated the Origin Laws contained in two Great Dao Patterns, while the Fire Doppelganger broke through to the Creation Realm. After refining both patterns, Qin Hao and his Time and Devouring Doppelgangers met the conditions for advancing to Marquis-Rank Creation, and Qin Hao prepared to break through.

• The Fire Doppelganger broke through to the Creation Realm and demonstrated the overwhelming heat of his Flame-infused Divine Strength.
• Qin Hao and his doppelgangers continued cultivating, and after five months Qin Hao finished refining the first Great Dao Pattern and had integrated over eight hundred Ninth-Order Origin Laws.
• Qin Hao kept studying the second Great Dao Pattern, passing one thousand mastered laws and then meeting the conditions for a breakthrough without stopping his cultivation.
• By the ninth month, Qin Hao had mastered fifteen hundred Ninth-Order Origin Laws, while the Time Doppelganger and Devouring Doppelganger also met the conditions for Marquis-Rank Creation.
• The second Great Dao Pattern shattered, and Qin Hao confirmed that his Divine Soul and Origin Law mastery qualified him to break through to Marquis-Rank Creation.

Qin Hao began breaking through to Marquis-Rank Creation in the Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber on East Sun Peak, while his three Doppelgangers guarded him. He completed the first stage of remaking his Divine Body, transforming the skin on his right palm.

• Qin Hao determined that his True Self was ready for Marquis-Rank Creation, though his Devouring Doppelganger and Time Doppelganger still needed stronger Divine Souls.
• Qin Hao chose to begin his breakthrough in the Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber despite the risk of missing East Sun City's high-level auction.
• Qin Hao's Devouring Doppelganger, Time Doppelganger, and Fire Doppelganger took positions around him and left the chamber's resources for his True Self.
• Qin Hao used the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art to draw in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and Origin Laws, beginning to remake his Divine Body.
• Qin Hao completed the first stage by remaking the skin on his right palm, which now contained far greater Divine Strength than the rest of his body.

Qin Hao transformed his body as he broke through toward the Marquis-Rank Creation Realm, enduring increasingly severe pain and drawing on the Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber’s Spiritual Energy. As he began transforming his internal organs, Cheng Feng prepared to wake him for the Advanced Auction.

• Qin Hao transformed the skin, Flesh and Blood, sinews, and bones of his right hand, greatly increasing its Divine Strength.
• Qin Hao completed the transformation of both arms in three days and both legs in less than two more days.
• Qin Hao carefully transformed his abdomen, then began the dangerous transformation of his chest and internal organs.
• The Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber’s Spiritual Energy and Origin Laws surged as Qin Hao reached the breakthrough’s most critical stage.
• Cheng Feng realized the Advanced Auction would begin in three days and prepared to wake Qin Hao as instructed.

Cheng Feng discovered that Qin Hao was absorbing vast amounts of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy inside his Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber and concluded that he was attempting to break through to Marquis-Rank Creation. He chose not to disturb Qin Hao and waited outside, expecting the breakthrough to take at least six months.

• Cheng Feng approached Qin Hao's Cultivation Chamber and sensed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy surging toward it.
• Cheng Feng realized Qin Hao was absorbing the energy through the Stone Gate and wondered whether he was breaking through to Marquis-Rank Creation.
• Cheng Feng approached to remind Qin Hao about the Advanced Auction, but powerful pressure from the chamber stopped him.
• Cheng Feng recognized the pressure as protection for Qin Hao and accepted that Qin Hao was likely attempting the breakthrough.
• Cheng Feng stepped back, decided not to disturb Qin Hao, and sat down to wait.

Qin Hao’s breakthrough to Marquis-Rank Creation rapidly transformed his body, but completing the transformation of his head proved dangerous. As Cheng Feng waited outside, Qin Hao suffered a severe backlash and lost much of his Divine Strength.

• Cheng Feng guarded Qin Hao’s Dao-Grade Cultivation Chamber as Qin Hao drew Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy through the Stone Gate.
• The next day, Cheng Feng sensed the energy gathering around the chamber and felt pressure that seemed beyond a Marquis-Rank Creation cultivator’s strength.
• Cheng Feng anticipated Qin Hao’s breakthrough and wondered whether he might one day defeat the Ten-Thousand Poisons King, then dismissed the possibility.
• Inside the chamber, Qin Hao finished transforming his Five Viscera and Six Bowels in one day and began transforming his head.
• As Qin Hao channeled Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and Origin Laws into his skull, his head nearly exploded, he spat blood, and more than half of his Divine Strength dissipated.