Chapter Summaries

Qin Zheng slaughtered demons across Chuzhou and returned to meet Wei Yunfeng, who began revealing why Great Jin’s court planned to abandon the Twelve Prefectures. Their conversation was interrupted by news of major activity in Xuanzhou’s demon dens, and Qin Zheng rushed back there.

• Qin Zheng defeated the demons and collected twenty-six demon cores, then asked Wei Yunfeng for the locations of nine demon dens so he could clear them out.
• Miao Yunyan met an entity chained beneath an abyss and agreed to help it attack Great Jin in exchange for accompanying it for fifty years.
• Qin Zheng met Wei Yunfeng in Chuzhou, thanked him for his help, and said he would not abandon the people of the Twelve Prefectures.
• Wei Yunfeng began explaining that Great Jin’s Thirty-six Prefectures had once belonged to the Demon Race and that its Great Ancestor had seized them from thirty-six upper-realm Great Saints.
• A messenger reported major activity in the demon dens beyond Xuanzhou, and Qin Zheng immediately returned there.

Qin Zheng defeated and killed the Underworld Moon Great Saint and a Rabbit Demon envoy who came to enforce the White Bone Immortal Lord’s demand for one million human livestock. After discovering that the Green Lion Demon Core could grant him a low-grade Wood Spiritual Root, he began preparing to convert his accumulated gains into strength.

• Qin Zheng entered the council hall, threw the Underworld Moon Great Saint and the woman in palace attire outside, and identified himself as Xuanzhou’s Martial Saint.
• The woman said they had come under the White Bone Immortal Lord’s orders to collect one million people, while the Underworld Moon Great Saint attacked Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng subdued the Underworld Moon Great Saint with one punch, killed him, and hurled the fleeing woman into the air before striking her with flying knives.
• Qin Zheng examined the two demon cores and learned that the Charm Rabbit Demon Core could grant the Thousand Faces Shadow Art, while the Green Lion Demon Core could grant a low-grade Wood Spiritual Root.
• Qin Zheng learned from the Merit Scroll that the Jade Lion Demon had awakened wisdom and possessed a spiritual root, then set aside its core and turned to refining his gains.

The White Bone Immortal Lord learned that Qin Zheng had killed his demons and arranged for other Great Saints and the Immortal Seeking Sect to help him take revenge. After Qin Zheng flattened another demon den, Wei Yunfeng arrived and revealed that the Thirty-six Prefectures concealed Immortal Sect Ruins.

• The White Bone Immortal Lord raged over Qin Zheng's killing of Old Mingyue and suspected Qin Zheng used a treasure to increase his strength.
• The White Bone Immortal Lord ordered Black Peng to gather Great Saints at the Xuanzhou border and sent Bai Qing and Bai Yu to enlist the Immortal Seeking Sect by offering the White Bone World-Weariness Scripture's Dharma Body Volume.
• Qin Zheng flattened the Tian Zong Demon Den, collected its demon cores, and prepared to attack the Tian Lu Demon Den.
• Wei Yunfeng visited Qin Zheng because he feared the White Bone Immortal Lord would threaten him.
• Wei Yunfeng revealed that the Great Ancestor of Great Jin sought to occupy the Thirty-six Prefectures because Immortal Sect Ruins lay beneath them.

Wei Yunfeng explained that Great Jin sought Immortal Sect Ruins and that White Bone Immortal Lord had gained an Immortal Dao inheritance. Qin Zheng continued slaughtering demon dens beyond Xuanzhou, leaving the Merit Scroll to identify a Heavenly Roc Demon Core for refinement.

• Wei Yunfeng told Qin Zheng that White Bone Immortal Lord had obtained an Immortal Dao inheritance and that Great Jin considered abandoning the Twelve Prefectures partly because no Immortal Sect Ruins had been found there.
• Qin Zheng asked Wei Yunfeng to guard Xuanzhou, then flew off to continue clearing demon dens.
• The Black Feather Great Roc found Zi Yang Demon Den and several others wiped out, then hurried toward the fighting to confront Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng struck down the Black Feather Great Roc and other demons, while two streaks of light harvested their demon cores.
• The Merit Scroll identified a Heavenly Roc Demon Core and stated that refining it required five thousand jin of merit.

Qin Zheng entered White Bone City and promised its captive humans he would take them home, then attacked White Bone Immortal Lord. After a brutal fight in the sky, Qin Zheng sent the White Bone Immortal Lord crashing to the ground and descended before the people of the city.

• Qin Zheng killed the two black tiger guards and entered White Bone City, where he saw the humans being kept as food.
• A woman showed Qin Zheng her newborn child, and Qin Zheng promised to take everyone home.
• Qin Zheng punched down a spiked tentacle rising from beneath the city and realized the true culprit was in the White Bone Palace.
• Qin Zheng charged into the palace and attacked White Bone Immortal Lord, whose Chaos intent he easily erased.
• Qin Zheng repeatedly struck White Bone Immortal Lord until he crashed to the ground beside the city, then descended before the captive humans.

Qin Zheng searched the White Bone Hall and discovered a contaminated Dharma Body-level scripture, a strange book that filled him with hatred, and an imitation Human Seed Bag. He refined the bag and prepared to take its power for his own use.

• Qin Zheng used the Merit Scroll to identify the Heavenly Roc Demon Core and found a storage pouch beneath the cloud bed.
• Qin Zheng examined the pouch's jade slip and learned it contained the contaminated Dharma Body-level White Bone World-Weariness Scripture.
• Qin Zheng opened the ancient book, was overwhelmed by its boundless hatred, and discovered its cover named it Floating Grand Daoist's World-Weariness Book.
• Qin Zheng identified the beast-hide sack as an imitation Acquired Human Seed Bag and chose to refine it with the Merit Scroll.

Qin Zheng returned to the Nation-Suppressing Martial Saint Manor after destroying demon dens and White Bone City, only to find an Immortal Seeking Sect cultivator had attacked Wei Yunfeng and Mu Jinyan. He struck the white-robed man down and forced him to his knees, while the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Wei Yunfeng left the council hall to look beyond Great Jin Dynasty for Qin Zheng, while Mu Jinyan worried about Qin Zheng’s fate.
• A white-shoed intruder arrived at the manor, forced Mu Jinyan to his knees, and demanded to know where Qin Zheng was.
• Qin Zheng returned carrying the Acquired Human Seed Bag and rushed to the manor after sensing trouble.
• Qin Zheng freed Mu Jinyan from the intruder’s pressure and found Wei Yunfeng badly injured in the council hall.
• Qin Zheng interrupted the white-robed man’s questioning with a slap, then struck him down and forced him to his knees.

Qin Zheng killed the Immortal Seeking Sect assassin and his two disguised demon disciples after learning the White Bone Immortal Lord had hired them to murder him. Wei Yunfeng warned Qin Zheng that both the Immortal Seeking Sect and the White Bone Immortal Lord had powerful backing, while Qin Zheng revealed he had rescued 300,000 people from White Bone City and agreed to place them in Chuzhou.

• Qin Zheng defeated the two Great Saint demons disguised as Daoist boys, killed them with throwing knives, and forced the Immortal Seeking Sect man to kneel.
• Wei Yunfeng apologized for failing to defeat the mid-stage Martial Saint, and Mu Jinyan brought him a chair.
• The Immortal Seeking Sect man revealed that the White Bone Immortal Lord had hired the sect to kill Qin Zheng, and Qin Zheng beheaded him after he threatened retaliation.
• Qin Zheng told Wei Yunfeng that White Bone City was gone and that he had rescued 300,000 humans; Wei Yunfeng offered to settle and civilize them in Chuzhou.
• Wei Yunfeng warned Qin Zheng that the Immortal Seeking Sect had a high-stage Martial Saint and that the White Bone Immortal Lord had an even more terrifying background.

After defeating the Immortal Seeking Sect’s Martial Saint, Qin Zheng learned that the sect and the Heavenly Roc Clan posed major threats, then discovered a letter revealing the sect’s plan to sacrifice people across twelve prefectures for spiritual essence. As Qin Zheng prepared to study an ancient book, Mu Jinyan brought an urgent order from the capital for him to return at once.

• Wei Yunfeng warned Qin Zheng that White Bone Immortal Lord belonged to the powerful Heavenly Roc Clan, while the Immortal Seeking Sect also had high-level Martial Saints.
• Qin Zheng chose to remain in Xuanzhou for the moment so he could settle the fate of the three hundred thousand people rescued from White Bone City.
• Three days later, Qin Zheng read a letter describing Myriad Manifestations Mountain’s interest in Great Jin Dynasty and the Immortal Seeking Sect’s plan to refine spiritual essence from people in twelve prefectures.
• Qin Zheng realized that Gao Qiuxian was still alive and that the Gao Clan’s influence stemmed from its ancestor’s pursuit of the Dharma Body realm.
• Qin Zheng put away the demon cores and Acquired Human Seed Bag, then prepared to open Floating Grand Daoist’s World-Weariness Book.
• Mu Jinyan arrived outside Qin Zheng’s cultivation chamber with a letter ordering him to return to the capital immediately.

Qin Zheng returned to the capital after Wang Qingfeng summoned him to Taiwu Academy, where the Nation-Suppressing Martial Saints debated what to do about the Twelve Prefectures. When the Immortal Seeking Sect offered to take over their defense, Qin Zheng attacked its representatives and killed the woman, revealing he had already slain one of their people.

• Wang Qingfeng summoned Qin Zheng back to the capital, warning him that the Great Jin Dynasty's safety was at stake.
• Wang Qingfeng brought Qin Zheng to a gathering of the Nation-Suppressing Martial Saints at Taiwu Academy, where Gao Chengyin argued that the Twelve Prefectures should be abandoned.
• A Daoist-robed man announced that the Immortal Seeking Sect would defend the Twelve Prefectures in the Great Jin Dynasty's place.
• Qin Zheng seized the Immortal Seeking Sect woman and demanded to know whether her sect intended to defend the prefectures, then struck the Daoist-robed man aside when he intervened.
• Qin Zheng said he had killed one of the woman's people and beheaded her with his Ghost-Head Saber.

Qin Zheng learned that Gao Yuanyi and the Immortal Seeking Sect had planned to refine commoners from the Twelve Prefectures, then beat Gao Yuanyi and Gao Chengyin into submission. He killed Gao Yuanyi and declared that he would confront the Immortal Seeking Sect and the demon dens, even if an upper-realm Great Saint appeared.

• Qin Zheng killed an Immortal Seeking Sect Martial Saint and took her storage pouch as the Nation-Suppressing Martial Saints argued over the sect’s plan to refine commoners.
• Qin Zheng attacked Gao Yuanyi, pursued him through Taiwu Academy, and battered him until his aura collapsed.
• Gao Chengyin attacked Qin Zheng with a scythe, but Qin Zheng disarmed him and beat him into submission as well.
• Wei Yunfeng offered to kill the two Gao Clan Martial Saints himself, but Qin Zheng pushed him back and drew his Ghost-Head Saber.
• Qin Zheng said he would visit the Immortal Seeking Sect and the demon dens beyond the Twelve Prefectures, then beheaded Gao Yuanyi despite warnings about an upper-realm Great Saint.

Qin Zheng killed Gao Chengyin in Taiwu Academy, then learned from Gao Wuxing that Qingzhou might be threatened by the Blackwater Demon Den and rushed to defend it. In Xuan'en Prefecture, Wei Wuji confronted a dark-faced man from the demon den, who said he planned to kill Wei Wuji because Qin Zheng had slain two of their Great Saints.

• Qin Zheng saw that the Merit Scroll credited him with killing Gao Yuanyi, then moved to finish off the wounded Gao Chengyin.
• Gao Wuxing appeared and clashed with Qin Zheng, who revealed himself to be a high-stage Martial Saint and killed Gao Chengyin during the fight.
• The Merit Scroll identified Gao Wuxing as “Adhered by Incense, Neither Human nor God” and warned that killing him would deduct thirty thousand jin of merit.
• Gao Wuxing told Qin Zheng that the Dragon King of the Blackwater Demon Den might attack Qingzhou while its Martial Saints were away, so Qin Zheng hurried there.
• Wei Wuji found a dark-faced burly man at a tea stall in Xuan'en Prefecture, and the man said he wanted to kill Qin Zheng’s master because Qin Zheng had killed two Great Saints of the Blackwater Demon Den.

Qin Zheng stopped a Demon Race Great Saint from destroying Xuan'en City, then returned to Linyuan City and opened Floating Grand Daoist's World-Weariness Book. The book revealed that the decline of spiritual energy had accompanied the destruction of Immortal Dao Civilization, and Qin Zheng began reading the next page.

• A mid-stage Great Saint threatened to retrieve the Azure Dragon Remains beneath Xuan'en City, but Qin Zheng arrived and suppressed him before taking him away.
• Over the next three days, Qin Zheng cleared nearly ten demon dens around Qing Prefecture, including the Blackwater Demon Den, and prepared to enter Demon Race lands.
• Qin Zheng considered the remaining Gao Clan Martial Saints and resolved to become strong enough to confront them before opening Floating Grand Daoist's World-Weariness Book.
• The book's pages flooded Qin Zheng with hatred and despair, but the Jade Ruyi in his Primordial Spirit cleared the emotions and restored his awareness.
• Qin Zheng read entries describing dwindling spiritual energy, declining spiritual roots among human disciples, and the Demon Race's growing power, then turned to a page titled "Heaven and Earth Have No Spiritual Energy, Humanity Has No Spiritual Essence!"

Qin Zheng learned from Daoist Fu Hua’s writings that prayer power could replace spiritual qi to form a Dharma Body, but the path to ascension had been severed. As Qin Zheng upgraded his martial art, Kongming of Dharma Aspect Temple entered the Commander's Compound and delivered an invitation from six great factions challenging Qin Zheng to accept his death.

• Qin Zheng read that Daoist Fu Hua had sought to use prayer power to attain a Dharma Body and had left a final message inviting someone to Taixu Mountain.
• Qin Zheng realized Gao Wuxing was following the same path of replacing spiritual qi with prayer power to attain a Dharma Body.
• Qin Zheng used ten thousand jin of merit to upgrade the Primordial Limitless Seal, opening its one hundred and ninth aperture.
• Kongming arrived in Linyuan City, learned that Qin Zheng was at the Commander's Compound, and slipped inside unnoticed.
• Qin Zheng confronted Kongming, who introduced himself and presented an invitation from the six great factions calling on Qin Zheng to accept his death.

Qin Zheng killed a monk from Dharma Aspect Temple, then discovered that the Immortal Seeking Sect kept humans as food for demons. He attacked the gathered six great factions, killing several Martial Saints as the battle continued.

• Qin Zheng killed Venerable Kongming at the Commander's Compound and flew away with his corpse.
• Qin Zheng killed two Spirit Crane demons at Qingxiao Mountain and learned that the Immortal Seeking Sect fed humans to its demon disciples.
• Qin Zheng confronted representatives of all six great factions and struck the Immortal Seeking Sect's high-ranking Martial Saint into a mountain.
• Qin Zheng killed the Soaring Cloud Sword Sect swordsman and a Bodhi Courtyard monk, while the Kunpeng Villa man fled.
• Qin Zheng broke the Dharma Aspect Temple monk's vajra pestle and smashed him with it.

Qin Zheng killed the Immortal Seeking Sect’s Martial Saints at Qingxiao Mountain and discovered that the sect was tied to the Qingxiao Faction of Myriad Manifestations Mountain. His enemies beyond Great Jin began fleeing to Qing Province, while he gathered Demonic Cores and considered the sect’s origins.

• Qin Zheng killed two Immortal Seeking Sect Martial Saints and defeated the woman from the Qingxiao Faction of Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Qin Zheng tossed the woman’s corpse among the buildings at Qingxiao Mountain, where the watching sect members revealed their demonic forms.
• Hu Kunpeng ordered Kunpeng Villa to join Great Jin and told everyone to go to Qing Province instead of the capital.
• Zixu rushed to a schoolhouse and urged the white-robed man to flee to Qing Province, warning him about the Qingxiao Faction.
• Qin Zheng walked among the demonic corpses, concluded that the Immortal Seeking Sect guarded Great Jin for Myriad Manifestations Mountain, and collected Demonic Cores for his Merit Scroll.

Qin Zheng refined the incomplete Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal, breaking the limit on his Primordial Spirit’s acupoints and expanding his potential. Meanwhile, Hu Kunpeng, Liu Zixu, and Fu Mingsheng arrived in Linyuan City to ask Great Jin Dynasty for protection before Qin Zheng could reach them.

• Qin Zheng used the Merit Scroll to refine the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal and opened 108 additional star points in his Primordial Spirit.
• Qin Zheng spent merit to improve the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal, lighting another acupoint.
• Wei Yunfeng and Wang Qingfeng worried that Qin Zheng would face Daoist Qingning and attract the attention of an Upper Realm Great Saint.
• Hu Kunpeng arrived in Linyuan City and asked to join Great Jin Dynasty as a Nation-Suppressing Martial Saint.
• Liu Zixu and Fu Mingsheng arrived and made the same request, seeking shelter from Qin Zheng after witnessing his power at Qingxiao Mountain.

Qin Zheng destroyed demon-tainted factions, killed two Martial Saints who had aided demons, and prepared to sweep the demon dens beyond Great Jin to gain merit. As he pursued greater strength, the White Feather Great Roc’s parents arrived and vowed to avenge their son by attacking Great Jin.

• Qin Zheng read Daoist Qingning’s letter about Taixu Mountain, the last human Dharma Body, and half-step Dharma Body demons, then decided to accelerate his cultivation by accumulating merit.
• Qin Zheng attacked demon-tainted sites, including the Soaring Cloud Sword Sect, Dharma Aspect Temple, Bodhi Courtyard, and Vast Righteous Academy, uncovering human bones and killing demons.
• At the Commander's Compound, Qin Zheng killed two Vast Righteous Academy Martial Saints who had enabled demons to prey on humans, while ordering a Kunpeng Villa Martial Saint to serve Great Jin.
• Qin Zheng left to sweep the demon dens beyond Great Jin, judging that Taixu Mountain and Myriad Manifestations Mountain were currently beyond his strength.
• The White Feather Great Roc’s parents found its corpse and vowed to kill ten of Great Jin’s Nation-Suppressing Martial Saints and devastate ten provinces in revenge.

Li Qinglang’s attempt to break through to Martial Saint was interrupted when two upper-realm demon Great Saints attacked Xuanzhou, leaving him fatally wounded as he fled. Meanwhile, Qin Zheng killed a demon and used the Merit Scroll to bring the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal to great mastery.

• Li Qinglang returned from clearing Xuanzhou’s demons and told Su Zhenguo he wanted to seek advancement by slaying demons in the demon caves.
• A demon woman attacked the Su Family manor with a male companion, severely injuring Su Zhenguo and forcing Li Qinglang to flee toward Qingzhou for help.
• A sword fragment pierced Li Qinglang as he ran, and he collapsed after hearing the demon woman mock his ambition.
• Qin Zheng killed a huge demon, collected its demon core, and spent merit to upgrade the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal.
• The Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal reached great mastery as all one hundred and eight acupoints lit up.

After reaching great mastery in both seals, Qin Zheng returned to Great Jin to confront the Heavenly Roc Clan Great Saints who had demanded his surrender. He killed the two demons and Gao Fusheng, then asked the imperial elder where the Heavenly Roc Clan's nest was.

• Qin Zheng learned from Wang Qingfeng that two Heavenly Roc Great Saints had attacked Great Jin and demanded his life, and he chose to return.
• The Heavenly Roc pair held injured Martial Saints hostage at the ruined Nation-Suppressing Martial Saint Manor while Gao Fusheng agreed to hand Qin Zheng over.
• Qin Zheng arrived and killed Gao Fusheng with one punch before he could finish speaking.
• The Heavenly Roc Great Saints tried to flee, but Qin Zheng caught and killed both of them.
• Qin Zheng took the demon cores and Gao Fusheng's storage pouch, then asked the imperial elder where the Heavenly Roc Clan's nest was.