Chapter Summaries

After killing the Tiger Roar Mountain demons, Qin Zheng spent his enormous stockpile of merit to perfect the True Dragon Undying Body, giving his physical body power on par with a Dharma Body. Five Demon Race Half-step Dharma Bodies mistook him for a failed Dao attainer and attacked, but he effortlessly killed them.

• Qin Zheng killed the last Tiger Roar Mountain demon, collected the corpses, and took stock of his gains in a cave on Taixu Mountain.
• Qin Zheng used his merit to open the remaining acupoints and perfect the True Dragon Undying Body, unleashing an aura that shook the mountain and drew attention from across the region.
• Several Demon Race Half-step Dharma Bodies arrived at the shattered mountain, assumed the Dao attainment had failed, and discussed competing with Myriad Manifestations Mountain for the reviving Spirit Vein.
• Qin Zheng emerged from a nearby mountain and realized his perfected body gave him the confidence to face Myriad Manifestations Mountain's three Demon Race Dharma Bodies.
• The Half-step Dharma Bodies ambushed Qin Zheng, but he killed all five with casual punches and collected their demon cores.

After learning that a Spirit Vein had revived in Taixu Mountain, Qin Zheng set out to investigate it and asked Innkeeper Xu to keep an eye out for the old man he hoped to rescue. Meanwhile, Qingxiao Faction cultivators confirmed that Senior Brother Hu had died and prepared to avenge him.

• Martial artists in Qingyang Inn discussed the massacre in the Dharma Body cave abode, where a golden body had killed Blood Spring True Person, and rumors of a revived Spirit Vein.
• Qin Zheng decided to seek the Spirit Vein to help prepare for proving the Dao with his own body.
• Qin Zheng asked Innkeeper Xu whether the old man had returned and learned that he had not appeared in Pingyang City.
• Innkeeper Xu gave Qin Zheng a location thirty thousand miles south of Pingyang City, and Qin Zheng asked him to care for the old man if he appeared.
• After Qin Zheng left, Innkeeper Xu told the stunned guests that he was a half-step Dharma Body cultivator.
• Senior Brother Li confirmed that Senior Brother Hu's soul lamp had gone out and vowed that whoever killed a member of the Qingxiao Faction would pay.

Senior Brother Li and the Qingxiao Faction’s True Man Liyang sought to seize Taixu Mountain’s revived Spirit Vein, destroying Pingyang City and attacking Zhang Wensheng when he challenged their claim. As Liyang moved to stop a black-robed figure approaching the Spirit Vein, Qin Zheng watched from the crowd.

• Senior Brother Li failed to find a corpse or soul in the spatial passage, then destroyed Pingyang City with black flames before heading toward the revived Spirit Vein.
• Qin Zheng arrived at the Spirit Vein and saw the three great immortal sects of Myriad Manifestations Mountain trapping it inside an array.
• Zhang Wensheng of Qianxu Cave, Yun Cang Mountain, demanded that the Three Mountains and Five Lands share the Spirit Vein, but True Man Liyang struck him down and burned him with black flames.
• The Spirit Vein erupted with spiritual energy and revealed several Spirit Veins trapped by the array.
• A figure in a gold-patterned black robe stepped out of the crowd toward the Spirit Vein, and True Man Liyang charged at him.

Qin Zheng killed True Man Liyang, crushed the surrounding half-step Dharma Bodies, and seized five Spirit Veins before a Dharma Body arrived. He met the ancestor of the Qingxiao Faction’s attack with a punch, proving he could contend with a Dharma Body as the ancestor confronted him.

• Qin Zheng subdued True Man Liyang, then killed him despite Zhang Qiudao’s demand that he release him.
• Qin Zheng killed the half-step Dharma Bodies surrounding him and struck Zhang Qiudao down when Zhang raised his iron sword.
• Qin Zheng broke the formation, collected five Spirit Veins, and let the scruffy old man take the sixth while promising him a quarter of an hour.
• A Dharma Body of Myriad Manifestations Mountain attacked Qin Zheng with a gigantic palm, but Qin Zheng met it with his strongest punch.
• The ancestor of the Qingxiao Faction appeared, recognized Qin Zheng’s physical body as having attained the Dao, and challenged him.

Qin Zheng battled the Qingxiao Faction patriarch while Xun Zhengxin began attaining the Dao of the Dharma Body. When the three demon patriarchs tried to stop him, Xun Zhengxin revealed his strength and fought all three, leaving the world’s balance on the verge of changing.

• As the Heaven and Earth Symphony and Sun and Moon Shine Together marked Xun Zhengxin’s attainment, the Qingxiao Faction patriarch tried to descend and stop him, but Qin Zheng forced him back with a powerful attack.
• Qin Zheng battered the patriarch into a crater, then faced the patriarch’s black panther true form and the arriving patriarchs of Tongtian Pavilion and Ziyun Sect.
• Xun Zhengxin appeared behind Qin Zheng and said he still lacked the final step, but declared that he would attain the Dao and challenged the three demons.
• Xun Zhengxin struck the Qingxiao Faction patriarch into the earth and sent the other two demon Dharma Bodies flying with his palms.
• Xun Zhengxin seized the Qingxiao Faction patriarch and hurled him at the others, beating all three while the watching beings fell silent.

Xun Zhengxin and Qin Zheng fought the three Demon Dharma Bodies at Taixu Mountain, but Xun Zhengxin’s incomplete Dharma Body began to fracture under the strain. As the demons prepared to overwhelm him, Xun Zhengxin sent Qin Zheng away and unleashed a final attack, declaring that heaven and earth would remember his name.

• Xun Zhengxin broke the Tongtian Pavilion patriarch’s sword array and continued battering the Demon Dharma Bodies despite his body developing cracks.
• The Qingxiao Faction patriarch spotted Xun Zhengxin’s weakening condition and prepared a sneak attack, but Qin Zheng struck him and took over the fight.
• Qin Zheng used accumulated merit to strengthen his Primordial Limitless Seal and battled the Qingxiao Faction patriarch while Xun Zhengxin fought the other two.
• When Xun Zhengxin’s body cracked again, the three Demon Dharma Bodies gathered to surround him, and Qin Zheng stopped fighting at Xun Zhengxin’s request.
• Xun Zhengxin introduced himself, unleashed his full aura, and attacked the three Demon Dharma Bodies as blinding light engulfed heaven and earth.

Qin Zheng killed the Ziyun Sect ancestor Ao Xu while the other two Demon Dharma Bodies fled, and the old man explained the limits of his interrupted Dao attainment. As Qin Zheng considered refining Ao Xu’s demon core into a life-extending treasure, a sword-bearing man arrived and demanded the remaining three Spirit Veins so he could attain the Dao as a Dharma Body.

• The old man threatened the three Demon Dharma Bodies with one final battle, and Qin Zheng caught and killed the fleeing Ziyun Sect ancestor Ao Xu.
• Qin Zheng stored Ao Xu’s corpse, while the Qingxiao Sect ancestor and Tongtian Pavilion ancestor escaped to Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Heaven and earth mourned a Dharma Body’s fall, and Myriad Manifestations Mountain sealed itself, prompting people to suspect a Demon Dharma Body had died.
• On Taixu Mountain, the old man told Qin Zheng that burning his source had let him temporarily wield Dharma Body power, but he had only about ten years left.
• Qin Zheng discovered that Ao Xu’s demon core could be refined into a Life-Creating Fruit that healed Dao Injuries and extended life by five thousand years.
• A man with a reddened iron sword appeared and demanded the remaining three Spirit Veins so he could attain the Dao as a Dharma Body.

Qin Zheng killed Zhang Qiudao for demanding the remaining Spirit Veins, then asked the old man to accompany him through Taixu Mountain to accumulate merit before pursuing the Dao. In the Great Jin capital, Emperor Hongyuan and Wang Daoyi worried over the incomplete Dharma Body attainment, until a half-step Dharma Body from the Gao Clan arrived seeking the killer and Qin Zheng answered from behind him.

• Qin Zheng seized Zhang Qiudao and killed him after the Merit Scroll revealed his monstrous sins and the merit his death would yield.
• The old man said he planned to visit Wang Daoyi in the Ruins, and Qin Zheng asked him to travel through Taixu Mountain first so Qin Zheng could accumulate merit.
• Emperor Hongyuan discussed the incomplete Dharma Body attainment with Wang Daoyi, who warned that the Human Race would likely struggle against the three Demon Dharma Bodies.
• A half-step Dharma Body from the Gao Clan of Myriad Manifestations Mountain burst into the hall and demanded to know who had killed his clan's people.
• Qin Zheng calmly spoke from behind the Gao Clan man and asked whether he was looking for him.

Qin Zheng revealed how Incense and Fire Prayer Power could lead to the Dharma Body and helped Wang Daoyi complete the final step of attaining the Dao. As Wang Daoyi’s breakthrough shook the world, Qin Zheng began using the Great Jin Dynasty’s incense and fire to complete his own golden body.

• Qin Zheng’s nine-zhang golden body crushed the Gao family’s half-step Dharma Body expert before he could finish invoking his family’s backing.
• Qin Zheng explained to Wang Daoyi that attaining the Incense and Fire Dharma Body required a golden body, a divine title, and a name inscribed in the Earthly Title Book.
• Qin Zheng threw Wang Daoyi a remnant page of the Earthly Title Book, and Wang Daoyi’s name appeared on it as earth-vein energy recognized his golden body.
• Wang Daoyi emerged above the capital and attained the Dharma Body as golden light and Heaven and Earth Symphony spread across the world; a ragged old man then suppressed the disturbance at Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Qin Zheng asked Emperor Hongyuan for the Great Jin Dynasty’s incense and fire, received the Emperor’s Sword, and used its power to grow his golden body toward nine zhang as the Starlight Embrace phenomenon appeared.

Wang Daoyi attained a Dharma Body, and Qin Zheng prepared to perfect his martial arts and prove the Dao as well. Meanwhile, the Demon Race planned to crush the growing human resistance, with the Holy Sovereign set to send help in three days.

• A human voice proclaimed freedom from Demon Race oppression as Wang Daoyi appeared as a Dharma Body, stirring hope across Great Jin.
• Xun Zhengxin revealed that he and Qin Zheng had fought the three Demon Race Dharma Bodies at Myriad Manifestations Mountain, and he told Qin Zheng it was his turn to prove the Dao.
• Wang Daoyi, Xun Zhengxin, and Qin Zheng discussed cultivation for seven days before Qin Zheng entered seclusion with his Golden Body.
• Qin Zheng used the Merit Scroll to prepare to upgrade the Primordial Limitless Seal, intending for his Golden Body and true body to prove the Dao together.
• The Qingxiao Faction ancestor terrorized human captives at Myriad Manifestations Mountain, while the Tongtian Pavilion ancestor announced that the Holy Sovereign would send someone in three days to suppress the human uprising.

Qin Zheng used his merit and spiritual energy to attain the Dharma Body through the Primordial Limitless Seal. On Myriad Manifestations Mountain, Steward Hu devoured human families before setting out, angered by another human attaining the Dao before him.

• Qin Zheng used merit to open apertures for the Primordial Limitless Seal and prepared the Spirit Veins and demon cores to support his breakthrough.
• Qin Zheng announced that he would attain the Dao, and the Primordial Spirit and golden body merged as he reached the Dharma Body realm.
• Gao Jianzong arrived at the Qingxiao Faction's hall and found human aristocratic families gathered before Steward Hu and the two patriarchs.
• The Qingxiao Faction patriarch seized Gao Jianzong and offered him to Steward Hu, who devoured him and the other humans.
• Steward Hu sensed a new Dharma Body phenomenon and sneered that he would deal with whoever had attained the Dao before him.

Qin Zheng began proving the Dao through Incense and Fire Prayer Power, but Demon Race experts attacked to stop his ascension. Though they knocked him and his defenders from the sky, Qin Zheng continued the process, and a giant hand rose from the ground to seize the demons.

• Qin Zheng's ninety-foot golden body appeared above the capital as he began attaining the Dharma Body, and Xun Zhengxin and Wang Daoyi recognized his ascension.
• Steward Hu, the Qingxiao Sect Patriarch, and the Tongtian Pavilion Patriarch attacked Qin Zheng, but Xun Zhengxin shattered their first assault and confronted them.
• Steward Hu overpowered Xun Zhengxin, and Wang Daoyi stepped in to shield Qin Zheng as the second ascension phenomenon appeared.
• Steward Hu's giant hand knocked Wang Daoyi and Qin Zheng from the sky, seemingly dispersing the ascension currents.
• Qin Zheng's third ascension phenomenon appeared despite the attack, and a giant hand rose from the ground, seized the two Myriad Manifestations Mountain Dharma Bodies, and declared that no one would leave.

Qin Zheng revealed his newly attained Dharma Body power, killed the three Demon Dharma Bodies threatening the Great Jin Dynasty, and helped Wang Daoyi and Xun Zhengxin recover. As Xun Zhengxin began a second chance to attain the Dao and Qin Zheng examined the Demon Pills’ treasures, another human cultivator appeared to be attaining the Dao at Taixu Mountain.

• Qin Zheng revealed that his golden body had been a decoy, crushed the Qingxiao Faction Patriarch and another Demon Dharma Body, and then confronted Steward Hu.
• Qin Zheng overpowered Steward Hu and killed him with a seventy-percent-strength punch, storing the tiger demon’s corpse in the Human Seed Bag.
• Qin Zheng recalled his shattered golden body, used the Earthly Title Book to repair Wang Daoyi, and gave Xun Zhengxin the Life-Creating Fruit.
• Xun Zhengxin regained his vitality and began to fuse his Primordial Spirit with his Dharma Body, gaining another chance to attain the Dao.
• Qin Zheng examined the three Demon Pills and their potential treasures before a commotion at Taixu Mountain interrupted him.
• Qin Zheng saw a bloodied human half-step Dharma Body flee from three trident-wielding demons as sword qi rose from Taixu Mountain, signaling another human’s attainment of the Dao.

Qin Zheng killed the Dragon Hall demons pursuing Gu Qiyu and helped a human prove the Dao to the Dharma Body realm. Gu Qiyu revealed that Dragon Hall was slaughtering humans and capturing human Dharma Bodies for its old hall master's birthday feast, leaving Qin Zheng asked to intervene.

• Qin Zheng shattered a sword attack from Taixu Mountain and killed three Fish Demons threatening Gu Qiyu.
• A Dragon Hall Dharma Body emerged from the passage, but Qin Zheng killed him with a palm strike and collected his demon core and corpse.
• The Sun and Moon Shine Together phenomenon appeared as the old man advanced toward the Dharma Body realm.
• Gu Qiyu thanked Qin Zheng and said he had come from the East Sea Blessed Land to seek his help.
• Gu Qiyu reported that Dragon Hall was slaughtering humans across the Three Mountains and Five Lands and had captured the East Sea Blessed Land's only Dharma Body.

Qin Zheng learned that Dragon Hall of the East Sea Blessed Land planned to hunt Human Dharma Bodies, then cleansed Myriad Manifestations Mountain and helped Xun Zhengxin fully attain the Dao. Back at Taiwu Academy, he refined and upgraded the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal, discovering that he could still strengthen it after attaining the Dharma Body.

• Qin Zheng learned from Gu Qiyu that Dragon Hall intended to exterminate Human Dharma Bodies across the Three Mountains and Five Lands.
• Xun Zhengxin fully attained the Dharma Body and thanked Qin Zheng for helping him twice.
• Qin Zheng told Xun Zhengxin about Dragon Hall's threat and said he would strike first after dealing with the remaining demons on Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Qin Zheng cleansed Myriad Manifestations Mountain, where several Demon Dharma Bodies fell, and Xun Zhengxin took Gu Qiyu to recover.
• At Taiwu Academy, Qin Zheng used the Merit Scroll to refine the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal and began upgrading it.

Qin Zheng refined demon pills to gain the Gengjin Sword Array and the Taixu Wuchen Meditation Method, then used merit to advance his Innate Spiritual Light. Meanwhile, Qin Zheng, Xun Zhengxin, and Wang Daoyi moved the Spirit Vein beneath the Great Jin Dynasty to establish it as humanity’s new holy land, and Qin Zheng prepared to return to East Sea Blessed Land with Gu Qiyu.

• Qin Zheng forged nine small swords from gengjin and formed a rudimentary Gengjin Sword Array.
• Qin Zheng refined the Black Tiger Demon Pill, gained the Taixu Wuchen Meditation Method, and spent a million jin of merit to advance his Innate Spiritual Light.
• Qin Zheng, Xun Zhengxin, and Wang Daoyi placed the Spirit Vein beneath the Great Jin Dynasty and planned to gather humanity there.
• Gu Qiyu reflected on Qin Zheng’s role in freeing humanity from the Demon Race’s rule.
• Qin Zheng told Gu Qiyu they were going to East Sea Blessed Land.

Qin Zheng traveled with Gu Qiyu to the East Sea Blessed Land to confront Dragon Hall, leaving Xun Zhengxin and Wang Daoyi to guard Great Jin Dynasty. There, he found Gu Qiyu's sect master dead and killed a Dragon Hall Mountain Ape who had boasted about eating him.

• Qin Zheng refused Xun Zhengxin's offer to accompany him, choosing to leave him and Wang Daoyi to defend Great Jin Dynasty.
• Qin Zheng and Gu Qiyu traveled through Taixu Mountain's passage to the East Sea Blessed Land.
• Gu Qiyu found his sect master's skeleton and explained that he had died resisting Dragon Hall's demons.
• A Mountain Ape Dharma Body arrived, mocked the dead sect master, and declared that Qin Zheng would be served at Dragon Hall's banquet.
• Qin Zheng revealed that he had slaughtered Fu Xiao, then used the Gengjin Sword Array to kill the Mountain Ape.

Qin Zheng refined the Mountain Ape demon core into Moon-Chasing Flowing Cloud and followed Gu Qiyu to the human settlements, where they found Dragon Hall’s massacre still underway. Qin Zheng rescued Madam Qin and the Young Sect Master from three demons, and Gu Qiyu introduced him as the Dharma Body expert from Myriad Manifestations Mountain.

• Qin Zheng killed Mountain Ape Kui Mu, refined its demon core, and gained Moon-Chasing Flowing Cloud.
• Gu Qiyu warned Qin Zheng that Dragon Hall’s slaughter had begun, and they rode the cloud out of Taixu Mountain.
• Qin Zheng and Gu Qiyu reached the human settlements and found the land devastated by Dragon Hall’s ongoing massacre.
• Three immortal-robed demons surrounded Madam Qin and her son, threatened them, and demanded that she submit.
• Qin Zheng killed the three demons with three streaks of silver light, and Gu Qiyu reunited with Madam Qin and the Young Sect Master.
• Gu Qiyu told Madam Qin that Qin Zheng had come from Myriad Manifestations Mountain to aid the human race.

Qin Zheng rescued humans on Taixu Mountain by slaughtering the demons and cultivators tormenting them, then killed a powerful Dragon Hall demon who confronted him. He left Lou Chengdao and Qi Ruyi to protect the survivors and set out for the East Sea to kill demons.

• Lou Chengdao and Qi Ruyi met among the ruins of a slaughtered city and discussed the Human Dharma Bodies' plan to resist Dragon Hall.
• Qin Zheng used nine Geng Metal swords to kill the demons and cultivators across Taixu Mountain and save the surviving humans.
• Qin Zheng told Lou Chengdao and Qi Ruyi to protect the survivors after revealing he had killed the forces slaughtering humans on the mountain.
• A black dragon transformed into a Dharma Body powerhouse and confronted the three, but Qin Zheng destroyed him with one palm strike.
• Qin Zheng ordered Lou Chengdao and Qi Ruyi to remain on Taixu Mountain and protect the humans, then announced he would go to the East Sea to kill demons.

Qin Zheng arrived at Dragon Hall and freed the imprisoned Human Dharma Body, Liu Yi'an. He then fought Dragon Hall's three Demon Dharma Bodies and killed them all, while Liu Yi'an headed for Taixu Mountain.

• Dragon Hall imprisoned Liu Yi'an and drained his pale golden blood ahead of its old hall master's birthday banquet.
• Liu Yi'an learned that two Dharma Bodies had fallen, and Dragon Hall's cultivators assumed Human Dharma Bodies were being killed.
• Qin Zheng appeared at Liu Yi'an's cage, killed the guards, and freed him, explaining that the fallen Dharma Bodies were demons.
• Qin Zheng sent Liu Yi'an to Taixu Mountain and confronted Dragon Hall's three Demon Dharma Bodies.
• Qin Zheng used the Gengjin Sword Array and his powerful fist seals to kill all three Demon Dharma Bodies.