Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao and Yun Chang wiped out an Insect Race force, with Qin Hao killing two King-Sealing Creations instantly. Afterward, Qin Hao learned that Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang had fled the Northern Region after other races seized control of it, and that King Mingcang was missing.

• An Insect Race King-Sealing Creation shattered a jade message token and threatened Qin Hao with reinforcements, but Qin Hao killed him with one sword stroke.
• Yun Chang finished off the remaining Insect Race fighters while Qin Hao went to greet Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang.
• Kang Yihou and Marquis Fengyun expressed shock at Qin Hao's strength, and Qin Hao estimated that he barely ranked as a Limit Creation.
• Qin Hao asked why the three had been pursued by the Insect Race, and Kang Yihou explained that they had used Teleportation Talismans to flee the Northern Region after the Mechanical Race, Puppet Race, and Soul Race took control.
• Kang Yihou said King Mingcang had been surrounded and they did not know whether he was still alive.

Qin Hao learned that King Mingcang had stayed behind to protect Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang, then decided to escort them to the Human Race territory after visiting the Insect Race Stronghold to settle his grievance with Shang Cheng. Yun Chang reported their latest haul of eighty million Xuanhuang Stone and eight Heavenly Wonders, and eagerly looked forward to killing Shang Cheng.

• Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang told Qin Hao that King Mingcang had stayed behind to cover their escape from the Soul Race, Mechanical Race, and Puppet Race, and said they believed he was still alive.
• Kang Yihou proposed that the group travel to the Human Race Main Camp in the Western Region, but Qin Hao said he wanted to search nearby for Xuanhuang Stone first.
• Qin Hao told the three that he planned to visit the Insect Race Stronghold to settle his trouble with Shang Cheng before taking them west.
• Marquis Liulang recognized Shang Cheng as a powerful Insect Race genius who controlled most of the Insect Race army, and Kang Yihou and Marquis Fengyun reacted with shock at Qin Hao's plan to confront him.
• Yun Chang reported that they had collected eighty million Xuanhuang Stone and eight kinds of Heavenly Wonders, then excitedly said she wanted to kill Shang Cheng.

Qin Hao and Yun Chang considered hunting Shang Cheng for his Xuanhuang Stones, while Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang chose to accompany them. At Shang Cheng’s stronghold, Li Ming reported that the Insect Race had collected nine hundred and thirty million Xuanhuang Stones in one month and had begun suffering losses to invading Alien Races.

• Qin Hao offered Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang the choice of staying under his protection or joining him, and all three decided to go with him.
• Qin Hao gave the three men Blazing Fire Spirit Spring so they could recover their Divine Strength, Soul Power, and injuries before the journey.
• Li Ming entered Shang Cheng’s palace and presented the Xuanhuang Stones and Heavenly Wonders collected by the Insect Race.
• Shang Cheng learned that the Insect Race had gathered nine hundred and thirty million Xuanhuang Stones that month, fewer than the previous month.
• Li Ming explained that surface deposits were nearly exhausted, deeper searches were dangerous, and Alien Races had entered Shang Cheng’s territory and killed several Insect Race Creations.

Shang Cheng learned that Insect Race experts had been dying, then sent Li Ming to answer Liu Yi’s distress signal while he reflected on his growing power and his hatred of Qin Hao. Li Ming reached the ruined site after Qin Hao and his companions had already left.

• Shang Cheng questioned Li Ming about the deaths of hundreds of Insect Race Creation experts, including King-Sealing experts involved in the search for Xuanhuang Stone Veins.
• Shang Cheng sensed Liu Yi’s distress signal and ordered Li Ming to kill whoever had attacked the Insect Race team; Li Ming set out with ten King-Sealing Creation experts.
• Shang Cheng examined his more than five billion Xuanhuang Stone and revealed that he had mastered twenty strands of Myriad Laws Great Dao Resonance, allowing him to manifest powerful Myriad Laws Doppelgangers.
• Shang Cheng vowed to kill Qin Hao and planned to exchange his Xuanhuang Stone for a One-Star Heavy Treasure, while hoping to find a Chaos Crystal containing the Myriad Laws Great Dao.
• Shang Cheng briefly opened a Spatial Rift onto a mysterious realm filled with Chaos Currents, but the rift quickly closed.
• Li Ming and his squad reached Liu Yi’s team’s location and found Insect Race corpses scattered across the wreckage, while Qin Hao and the others were already gone.

Qin Hao led Yun Chang and the others to the Rubble Forest to kill Shang Cheng, rejecting a plan to trap him with a Spatial Prison. He confronted Shang Cheng and revealed that he had advanced to King-Sealing Creation with forty-one strands of Dao Resonance, leaving Shang Cheng shocked and wondering whether Qin Hao was Chi Zhong or Huo Zongxiao.

• Qin Hao, Yun Chang, Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang surveyed Shang Cheng’s heavily guarded Palace in the Rubble Forest.
• Marquis Liulang offered to use the Azure Flame Sect’s Spatial Prison Formation to prevent Shang Cheng from escaping through Soul-to-Insect Transformation, but Qin Hao refused because they lacked time.
• Qin Hao told Yun Chang to stay with the others and use his Spatial Divine Ability to evacuate them if necessary, then headed toward the Palace alone.
• Shang Cheng sensed Qin Hao and flew out of the Palace with three identical doppelgangers, intent on killing the man he had long hated.
• Qin Hao revealed his King-Sealing Creation rank and forty-one strands of Dao Resonance, overwhelming Shang Cheng’s aura.
• Shang Cheng recognized Qin Hao’s extraordinary growth and asked whether he was the Human Race genius Chi Zhong or Huo Zongxiao.

Qin Hao confronted Shang Cheng and revealed strength far beyond what Shang Cheng expected, even opening a Spatial Rift with his sword strike. Shang Cheng fled and sacrificed a Myriad Laws Doppelganger to block Qin Hao’s attack.

• Shang Cheng recognized Qin Hao as the Human Race genius who had survived the Ten-Thousand Poisons King’s hunts and was shocked by his rapid advancement to King-Sealing Creation.
• Qin Hao attacked the four Shang Chengs with the Heaven-Sealing Sword Art, and his strike opened a Spatial Rift several dozen yards long.
• Yun Chang and the others witnessed Qin Hao’s feat and hoped he could defeat Shang Cheng.
• Shang Cheng realized he could not match Qin Hao and ordered one Myriad Laws Doppelganger to hold him off while he fled.

Qin Hao killed one of Shang Cheng’s Myriad Laws Doppelgangers with a single sword strike, then pursued the others as they fled. One Shang Cheng doppelganger detonated himself, devastating the Insect Race forces outside the palace while Yun Chang escaped the blast with three companions.

• Qin Hao killed Shang Cheng’s first Myriad Laws Doppelganger before it could gather its defenses.
• The other three Shang Chengs sensed the loss and fled in different directions, while Qin Hao used Near at Hand, Far Away to catch up with one.
• The pursued Shang Cheng Doppelganger began a Self-Detonation, and Qin Hao abandoned him to chase the Shang Cheng carrying the Storage Star Ring.
• The Self-Detonation’s Shockwave killed nearly all the Insect Race Creations gathered outside the palace.
• Yun Chang used a Spatial Divine Ability to escape the Shockwave with three companions.

Qin Hao survived Shang Cheng’s Limit Creation Self-Detonation and killed all four of Shang Cheng’s Myriad Laws Doppelgangers, securing their Storage Star Rings. As Shang Cheng’s four strands of Myriad Laws Great Dao Resonance dissipated around him, Qin Hao wondered whether his Self-World could absorb them.

• Yun Chang used Spatial Shift to carry Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang away from Shang Cheng’s Self-Detonation, then spotted Qin Hao alive above the Mushroom Cloud.
• Li Ming and ten King-Sealing Creations of the Insect Race rushed toward the main camp after sensing Shang Cheng’s Self-Detonation.
• Qin Hao recalled surviving the blast by entering the Supreme Sword Tower and confirmed he had killed all four of Shang Cheng’s Myriad Laws Doppelgangers and taken their Storage Star Rings.
• Qin Hao judged that his strength now placed him near the highest level below a Sovereign, while cautioning himself that other prodigies might be just as powerful.
• Qin Hao sensed four strands of Shang Cheng’s shattered Myriad Laws Great Dao Resonance dissipating and considered whether his Self-World could absorb them.

Qin Hao absorbed the four dissipating Myriad Laws Dao Resonances into his Self-World, where they formed a sun and moon that released powerful Sun Power and Lunar Power. When he tried to command those powers, they bound his consciousness and immobilized his body, leaving him fearing a backlash from the Great Dao.

• Qin Hao opened his Self-World and absorbed the four dispersing Myriad Laws Dao Resonances.
• As the first two Resonances entered his Self-World, a sun formed and grew bright, releasing a powerful force Qin Hao named Sun Power.
• The third and fourth Resonances formed a moon that released Lunar Power, and Qin Hao sensed the two powers could strengthen his attacks.
• Qin Hao touched Sun Power and Lunar Power with his consciousness, but they trapped it and left his body unable to move.
• Qin Hao realized he had intercepted Resonances meant to return to Heaven and Earth, provoking a backlash that could kill him.

Qin Hao was pinned down by a backlash from the Power of the Sun and the Power of the Moon and fought to prevent his Self-World and Divine Soul from collapsing. He began slowly refining the Sun Power, while Li Ming and ten Insect Race King-Sealing Creation experts reached the edge of a devastated basin.

• Qin Hao realized the Great Dao Power from the Sun and Moon was causing his Demonic Transformation and threatening to destroy his Self-World and Divine Soul.
• Qin Hao tried to regulate both powers with his Self-World’s Power of Heaven and Earth, but the Great Dao’s Repulsive Force forced him to withdraw.
• Qin Hao focused on the Sun Power alone and slowly broke down and refined about one percent of it.
• Qin Hao continued refining the Sun Power while leaving the Moon Power untouched for the time being.
• Li Ming and ten Insect Race King-Sealing Creation experts reached the outer edge of a vast, ruined basin and stared at its devastation.

Shang Cheng’s self-detonation devastated the region, but the Insect Race Creations learned that his other Myriad Laws Doppelgangers had survived. Another of Shang Cheng’s doppelgangers emerged in the southeast after sensing the deaths of four others and identified Qin Hao as the killer.

• Li Ming and the Insect Race Creations saw the destroyed landscape and feared Shang Cheng had died in his self-detonation.
• Li Ming reassured them that Shang Cheng had other Myriad Laws Doppelgangers, including one outside the Ancient Xuanhuang World.
• The Insect Race King-Sealing Creations urged Li Ming to avenge Shang Cheng, and he led them cautiously toward the figure in the basin.
• In the southeast, another of Shang Cheng’s thirteen surviving doppelgangers emerged from a cave after sensing that four of his doppelgangers had died.
• Shang Cheng’s doppelganger realized that Qin Hao of the Human Race had killed them.

After Qin Hao killed four of Shang Cheng’s Myriad Laws Doppelgangers and took his five billion Xuanhuang Stones, Shang Cheng decided to have others kill Qin Hao so he could still advance to Sovereign. As a vast cloud of Blood Demon Qi approached, Shang Cheng prepared to lure its powerful source into hunting Qin Hao.

• Shang Cheng grieved the loss of four strands of Myriad Laws Dao Resonance and five billion Xuanhuang Stones, then recognized Qin Hao as a Half-Step Sovereign.
• Shang Cheng feared he could not defeat Qin Hao himself, but concluded their deep Cause and Effect meant Qin Hao had to die for him to reach Sovereign.
• Shang Cheng decided to spread word that Qin Hao possessed five billion Xuanhuang Stones and use other powerful cultivators to carry out the Slaying of Qin Hao.
• A vast Blood Demon Qi cloud approached Shang Cheng, who mistook its source for a powerful Devil Race cultivator.
• Shang Cheng released his Limit Creation aura before the Blood Demon Qi, intending to tempt its source with Qin Hao’s five billion Xuanhuang Stones.

Shang Cheng tried to lure a powerful Devil Race cultivator toward Qin Hao’s five billion Xuanhuang Stones, only to discover he had confronted Wu Ge, the Blood Demon Race’s Top Talent. Wu Ge trapped Shang Cheng and demanded Qin Hao’s location, revealing that he wanted to devour Qin Hao’s Life Divine Power and Essence Blood.

• Shang Cheng stopped the approaching Blood Demon Qi and offered information about Qin Hao and his five billion Xuanhuang Stones.
• Wu Ge emerged from the Blood Demon Qi, and Shang Cheng recognized him as the Blood Demon Race’s Top Talent.
• Wu Ge revealed his Blood Soul Great Dao and Blood Soul Divine Body, then trapped Shang Cheng when he tried to leave.
• Shang Cheng began gathering Divine Strength to self-detonate, but Wu Ge said killing him offered no benefit and asked where Qin Hao was.
• Shang Cheng realized Wu Ge wanted Qin Hao’s Life Divine Power and Essence Blood, not his Xuanhuang Stones.

Wu Ge forced Shang Cheng to lead him to Qin Hao, while Qin Hao remained trapped as Great Dao Power crushed him. Li Ming and ten Insect Race King-Sealing Creations tried to kill Qin Hao, but a young man wielding the Dark Nether Hammer arrived with three others and stopped Li Ming's first strike.

• Wu Ge revealed that he had been hunting Qin Hao and forced Shang Cheng to guide him in exchange for the Insect Race's submission.
• Li Ming and ten Insect Race King-Sealing Creations found Qin Hao trapped in Demonic Transformation and decided to kill him.
• Qin Hao sensed their approach but remained unable to move while he refined the Sun Power and Lunar Power within his Self-World.
• Li Ming attacked Qin Hao, but a handsome young man wielding the Dark Nether Hammer appeared with three others and knocked Li Ming back.
• The Insect Race Creations recognized the Marquis's Dark Nether Hammer, and the young man anxiously asked Qin Hao if he was all right.

Qin Hao suffered Qi Deviation after absorbing Dao Resonance, leaving him helpless as Great Dao Power pressed down on him. Marquis Liulang protected him with the Azure Wolf Formation, but Li Ming and the Insect Race experts still threatened to break through.

• The marquises recognized that Qin Hao had suffered Qi Deviation and realized Li Ming's group could kill him while he was unable to move.
• Marquis Liulang deployed the Azure Wolf Formation around Qin Hao and called Yun Chang, Kang Yihou, and Marquis Fengyun inside.
• Li Ming attacked the formation with all Six Earth Dao Resonances, but the barrier held; the backlash left Marquis Liulang badly injured and depleted.
• Marquis Liulang restored the barrier and refused to let Yun Chang control it, explaining that only someone familiar with its complex structure could operate it.
• Marquis Fengyun recognized the formation as the Azure Flame Sect's powerful defensive Azure Wolf Formation, giving the group hope that it could hold off Li Ming and the Insect Race experts.

Marquis Liulang organized Yun Chang, Kang Yihou, and Marquis Fengyun to power the Azure Wolf Array Formation and hold off Li Ming and ten Insect Race King-Sealing Creations while Qin Hao remained trapped in Demonic Transformation. After the formation endured their attacks, Li Ming struck it himself, and Yun Chang rose to meet him.

• Marquis Liulang assigned Yun Chang to serve as the Azure Wolf Array Formation's core and Kang Yihou and Marquis Fengyun to support it.
• Yun Chang, Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang strengthened the formation as Marquis Liulang feared Qin Hao would not wake in time.
• Li Ming and the ten Insect Race King-Sealing Creations launched a series of attacks that the formation held off, though it drained Marquis Liulang's Divine Strength.
• Kang Yihou and Marquis Fengyun supplied their Divine Strength to stabilize the formation as the attacks continued.
• Li Ming unleashed his six Earth Dao Resonance-bearing arms against the barrier, and Yun Chang used his Space Dao Resonance to confront him.

Li Ming attacked the Azure Wolf Array Formation with four simultaneous strikes infused with Earth Dao Resonance, pushing Yun Chang and the others to the brink of collapse. The barrier still held, but Marquis Liulang’s Divine Strength was nearly exhausted, leaving the defenders struggling to sustain it.

• Li Ming’s first two Earth Dao Resonance attacks cracked the dark-gold Defensive Barrier, but Yun Chang used Space Dao Resonance to repair it.
• Li Ming sent four claws crashing into the barrier at once, overwhelming Yun Chang and making the formation begin to shatter.
• Kang Yihou and Marquis Fengyun spat blood as their Divine Strength fell below ten percent, then swallowed Heavenly Wonders to restore it.
• Marquis Liulang’s Divine Strength nearly ran out, destabilizing the Azure Wolf Array Formation, so Kang Yihou fed him a Heavenly Wonder.
• Marquis Liulang’s Life Divine Power stopped falling but did not recover, while Yun Chang continued holding back Li Ming’s attack.

As Yun Chang struggled to keep the Azure Wolf Array Formation from breaking, Qin Hao refined the Sun Power in his Self-World and formed an incomplete Yang Dao. With part of his consciousness freed, Qin Hao contacted Yun Chang and urged him to master a second strand of Space Dao Resonance.

• Yun Chang watched cracks spread across the Defensive Barrier as he resisted Li Ming's Four Paths of Earth Dao Resonance, while Kang Yihou and the others faced death if the formation failed.
• Qin Hao completely refined the remaining Sun Power, which formed an incomplete Yang Dao and released part of his consciousness from its hold.
• Qin Hao discovered that the transformed Power of Heaven and Earth could refine the Lunar Power faster, though he remained unable to move.
• Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang worked together to sustain the cracking Azure Wolf Array Formation as Yun Chang resisted Li Ming.
• Qin Hao sent Yun Chang a Divine Sense message, pointed out that the Space Great Dao had manifested around him, and urged him to master a second strand of Space Dao Resonance.

Yun Chang studied Li Ming's Earth Dao Resonance during the battle and broke through to a second strand of Space Dao Resonance. He repaired the Azure Wolf Array Formation, trapped three attacking Ancient Zheng Bugs, and began crushing them with Spatial Power.

• Qin Hao told Yun Chang to observe his opponents' fighting and use battle to improve, and Yun Chang focused on understanding Dao Resonance.
• As Kang Yihou, Marquis Fengyun, and Marquis Liulang ran out of strength, cracks spread across the Azure Wolf Array Formation's Defensive Barrier.
• Three Insect Race King-Sealing Creations rushed through openings in the barrier, but space solidified and trapped them as the cracks healed.
• Li Ming recognized that Yun Chang had formed a second strand of Space Dao Resonance, while Kang Yihou and the others realized the formation had been restored.
• Yun Chang combined his two strands of Space Dao Resonance with the Azure Wolf Array Formation and crushed the three trapped Ancient Zheng Bugs.

Yun Chang used the Azure Wolf Array Formation and two strains of Space Dao Resonance to kill three Ancient Zheng Bugs and hold off the Insect Race attackers. As Li Ming and the remaining King-Sealing Creations concentrated their assault on the barrier, Qin Hao worked to convert the Lunar Power in his Self-World into Yin Dao.

• Yun Chang compressed three trapped Ancient Zheng Bugs inside the Azure Wolf Array Formation until their Divine Bodies and Spirit Bodies were destroyed.
• The seven remaining Insect Race King-Sealing Creations reacted with shock and fury, and Li Ming urged them to break the array so he could kill Yun Chang.
• Yun Chang realized the array had enabled him to kill the three bugs, while Qin Hao judged that it could hold the attackers off long enough for him to finish countering the Great Dao.
• Qin Hao told Yun Chang and the others to hold the attackers off, and Yun Chang reinforced the barrier with both strains of Space Dao Resonance.
• Kang Yihou and the others drew on their recovering life force to sustain the array as Li Ming led the Insect Race attackers in a concentrated assault on one spot.