Chapter Summaries

Qin Zheng rescued Liu Yi'an from Dragon Hall, killed its remaining demons, and forged thirty-six small Gengjin swords from the treasures he looted. He discovered that the Ancient Bronze Mirror could connect to another world and learned that someone on the other side had tried to contact him.

• Qin Zheng killed Dragon Hall's demons while Liu Yi'an removed the nails and chains from his body and restored himself with golden blood.
• Liu Yi'an told Qin Zheng that Dragon Hall had eight Dharma Bodies, including two powerful Hall Masters who were away, and warned that their deaths would draw attention.
• Qin Zheng sent Liu Yi'an to join the Human Dharma Bodies at Taixu Mountain, then returned to Dragon Hall and killed every demon there.
• Qin Zheng looted a large piece of Gengjin and forged thirty-six small Gengjin swords, strengthening his sword array.
• Qin Zheng examined the Ancient Bronze Mirror and saw messages from someone warning of a Demon Race attack and attempting to send an immortal-grade treasure across worlds.
• Qin Zheng discovered through the Merit Scroll that the damaged Immortal Spirit Mother-Child Mirror could transmit information across worlds, and chose to refine it.

Qin Zheng killed the Dragon Hall’s old hall master, then arrived at Taixu Mountain and used his Gengjin Sword Array to wipe out three Demon Dharma Bodies. The Human Dharma Bodies were left unharmed, while Qin Zheng held the old hall master’s headless corpse.

• Qin Zheng killed the silver-robed Demon Dharma Body at the Dragon Hall and learned that refining the True Dragon Demon Core could grant the incomplete Myriad Stars Grand Array.
• Qin Zheng saw three Demon Dharma Bodies hunting the Human Dharma Bodies on Taixu Mountain and flew there to intervene.
• Qin Zheng arrived as the three Demon Dharma Bodies cornered Lou Chengdao, Liu Yi'an, and the other Human Dharma Bodies.
• Qin Zheng struck the Dragon Hall’s old hall master and sent him crashing to the ground, then trapped the other two stewards in his Gengjin Sword Array.
• Qin Zheng’s Gengjin Sword Array killed all three Demon Dharma Bodies, and he emerged holding the old hall master’s headless corpse.

After Qin Zheng killed the Demon Race Dharma Bodies in East Sea Blessed Land, he recruited three Human Dharma Bodies and learned that the Crimson Fire Sect in Nanguang Blessed Land might hold Gengjin. Back in the Myriad Manifestations Mountain world, Xun Zhengxin met Nie Changtian, who urged him to join the Demon Race, and denounced him as a human traitor.

• Qin Zheng used the Merit Scroll to identify the demon cores' possible rewards, confirmed that the Golden Sun Saint Monarch had twelve stewards, and noted that four had been killed.
• Liu Yi'an, Lou Chengdao, and Qi Ruyi agreed to follow Qin Zheng, while the other Human Dharma Bodies chose to return to their own worlds.
• A goateed Human Dharma Body told Qin Zheng that the Crimson Fire Sect in Nanguang Blessed Land might have Gengjin, though its master served the Golden Sun Saint Monarch.
• Qin Zheng planned to gather the humans in East Sea Blessed Land and extract its Spirit Vein before bringing them to Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• A Human Dharma Body named Nie Changtian emerged from the passage in Taixu Mountain and urged Xun Zhengxin to join the Demon Race.
• Xun Zhengxin rejected Nie Changtian's offer and accused him of being a human traitor.

Qin Zheng arrived at Myriad Manifestations Mountain in time to kill Nie Changtian and rescue Xun Zhengxin, then investigated the Incense Godhood Method through the ancient mirror. After refining the True Dragon Demon Core and spending his accumulated merit on repeated contemplation, he reached a new level of cultivation, and the mirror began to display another message.

• Qin Zheng emerged from the Taixu Mountain passage with Liu Yi'an, Lou Chengdao, and Qi Ruyi, killed Nie Changtian, and checked that Xun Zhengxin was unharmed.
• Qin Zheng read the Incense Godhood Method in the ancient mirror and learned from the other side that the shattered Yuanyang Realm could not support cultivation to the Immortal realm.
• Qin Zheng inferred that Demon Race Immortals might dominate the upper realm as well, but received no answer when he asked whether the struggle between humans and demons was intense there.
• Qin Zheng used one million catties of merit to refine the True Dragon Demon Core and acquired the incomplete Myriad Stars Grand Array.
• Qin Zheng spent the rest of his merit on eleven contemplations, reached a new level, and picked up the ancient mirror as another character appeared on it.

The human Dharma Bodies celebrated as Qin Zheng completed the Myriad Stars Grand Array, which could protect Myriad Manifestations Mountain from most Demon Race invaders. When a messenger invited them to Yun Cang Mountain under threat of a wider human purge, Qin Zheng accepted and activated the array against him.

• The Demon stewards gathered to discuss the Human Anomaly who had killed Dragon Hall, Rat, and Wei Yang, but the monkey left to confront him alone.
• Qin Zheng completed the Myriad Stars Grand Array, and he and the other human Dharma Bodies learned it could repel beings below the sixth level of the Dharma Body realm.
• Qin Zheng resolved to leave Myriad Manifestations Mountain and target Nanguang Blessed Land and Chiyan Sect to grow stronger by killing demons.
• A Demon Race messenger emerged from the passageway and invited Qin Zheng and the others to Yun Cang Mountain, threatening to bury humanity if they refused.
• Qin Zheng accepted the invitation, then asked the messenger what about him as he activated the Myriad Stars Grand Array.

Qin Zheng crushed the elk Dharma Body and the Monkey Steward’s powerful rod, then went alone to Yun Cang Mountain. The Monkey Steward saw the slain messenger’s corpse crash into the heavenly palace and watched Qin Zheng approach.

• The immortal-robed elk unleashed a rod carrying power above the sixth tier, but Qin Zheng caught and shattered it, killed the elk, and took its demon core.
• Qin Zheng gave Xun Zhengxin the jade talisman, told the others to remain behind, and entered the passage toward Yun Cang Mountain with the corpse.
• The Monkey Steward waited at Yun Cang Mountain with four Dharma Bodies, expecting to judge Qin Zheng’s strength before deciding what to do.
• The Monkey Steward sensed Qin Zheng’s arrival as the elk’s headless corpse smashed into and collapsed the heavenly palace.
• The Yun Cang Mountain Dharma Bodies emerged from the ruins and saw Qin Zheng walking toward them.

Qin Zheng attacked Yun Cang Mountain and overwhelmed its Demon Dharma Bodies with his fists and Gengjin Sword Array. After killing Shen Monkey and trapping Chou Ox, he ignored the demons’ threats and moved to strike the woman in white.

• The monkey demon attacked Qin Zheng with the Black Gold Iron Cudgel, but Qin Zheng punched him into the Cloud Top Heavenly Palace ruins.
• Four Demon Dharma Bodies charged Qin Zheng, and his Gengjin Sword Array wiped them out.
• The wounded monkey called for help, and seven powerful auras headed toward Yun Cang Mountain as Qin Zheng dragged him from the rubble.
• Chou Ox arrived and attacked Qin Zheng, but the Gengjin Sword Array trapped him while Qin Zheng killed Shen Monkey and took his demon core.
• The remaining Demon Dharma Bodies arrived, and the woman in white urged Qin Zheng to join the Demon Race; Qin Zheng interrupted her and struck at her with a palm seal.

Qin Zheng killed the Demon Race stewards at Yun Cang Mountain and destroyed the Ox Demon with the Gengjin Sword Array, then used merit to begin strengthening himself. The two surviving stewards, Wei Yang and You Ji, escaped through the passage and reached a distant palace, where one of four divine beast statues began to shine.

• Qin Zheng killed Mao Tu and a brawny Demon Race steward as the other stewards attacked him.
• The remaining stewards fled toward the Taixu Mountain passage, and Qin Zheng killed two of them before the other two escaped.
• Qin Zheng unleashed the full power of the Gengjin Sword Array and killed the Ox Demon, bringing his total to ten Demon Dharma Bodies slain.
• Qin Zheng checked his merit, went into seclusion, and began contemplating the Taixu Wuchen Meditation Method to strengthen himself.
• Wei Yang and You Ji escaped to another land and decided to report Qin Zheng to the four elders.
• Wei Yang and You Ji entered a palace and approached five statues, where one of the divine beast statues suddenly glowed.

The White Tiger Elder learned that Qin Zheng had killed most of the Demon Race stewards and suspected he carried the treasure cast down from the Upper Realm. Meanwhile, Qin Zheng advanced to the ninth-tier Dharma Body realm, learned that the Golden Sun Saint Monarch could not act, and set out for Nanguang Blessed Land to hunt more demons.

• The White Tiger Elder transformed into a bald man, punished the surviving Demon Race stewards, and revealed that he had returned to find a treasure sent down by humans from the Upper Realm.
• The White Tiger Elder suspected that the treasure was on Qin Zheng and reaffirmed his belief that no human from the Three Mountains and Five Lands could exceed the third-tier Dharma Body realm.
• Qin Zheng used nine opportunities for insight to advance from the seventh tier to the ninth tier of the Dharma Body realm.
• Qin Zheng received a warning through the Mother-Child Mirror to discard it and pass down the Incense Godhood Method, but he refused and asked about the Golden Sun Saint Monarch.
• The Upper Realm contact told Qin Zheng that the Golden Sun Saint Monarch was an eleventh-tier Dharma Body who could not move, and warned him about the Four Great Elders and Twelve Stewards.
• Qin Zheng concluded that no Demon Dharma Body in the Three Mountains and Five Lands could threaten him and headed for Nanguang Blessed Land to hunt.

Qin Zheng entered the Chiyan Sect to find the Gengjin beneath its artifact-refining furnace and confronted the Chiyan Sect Master, who was forging a weapon for Dragon Hall. Qin Zheng killed the Sect Master and his two attendants, then exposed the Gengjin buried beneath the furnace.

• The Chiyan Sect Master prepared to unveil the Dragon Tooth Purgatory Halberd as cultivators gathered to watch.
• Qin Zheng arrived at the Chiyan Sect and followed his perception of Gengjin to the furnace.
• The dark-faced man and the brocade-robed man attacked Qin Zheng, but his Gengjin Sword Array shattered their weapons and surrounded them.
• The Chiyan Sect Master recognized Qin Zheng and urged him to wait for the halberd to finish forging, but Qin Zheng killed him with the sword array.
• Qin Zheng struck the furnace aside and split the ground, revealing the Gengjin hidden beneath it.

Qin Zheng slaughtered the Demon Dharma Bodies at the Chiyan Sect and refined more Gengjin swords, drawing the attention of the White Tiger Elder and other Demon Race forces. When the White Tiger Elder demanded the treasure Qin Zheng had obtained, Qin Zheng attacked, and the battle against the surrounding Demon Dharma Bodies began.

• Qin Zheng retrieved Gengjin and refined the Dragon Tooth Purgatory Halberd, then killed the Demon Dharma Body who ambushed him.
• Qin Zheng used his Gengjin Sword Array and Purgatory Halberd to kill the remaining Demon Dharma Bodies at the artifact-refining grounds and began making more swords.
• The White Tiger Elder arrived with two Demon Race stewards after learning that a human had slaughtered the Chiyan Sect’s Dharma Bodies.
• Qin Zheng refined twelve additional Gengjin swords, then faced the White Tiger Elder and six other Demon Dharma Bodies as they surrounded him.
• Qin Zheng killed a Demon Dharma Body who demanded that he answer the White Tiger Elder, then attacked the White Tiger Elder and activated the Gengjin Sword Array against the others.

Qin Zheng defeated the White Tiger Elder and killed the Demon Dharma Bodies trapped in the Gengjin Sword Array. The Golden Sun Saint Monarch intervened and demanded Qin Zheng submit or die, but Qin Zheng killed the White Tiger Elder anyway and faced the Saint Monarch.

• Qin Zheng overpowered the White Tiger Elder, who transformed into a white tiger and unleashed his full strength.
• Qin Zheng used his seals to batter the White Tiger Elder, pin him down, and rip off his wings.
• The White Tiger Elder called for the Saint Monarch as Qin Zheng prepared to kill him, and the Golden Sun Saint Monarch appeared to threaten Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng deflected the Saint Monarch's Sword Qi, then killed the White Tiger Elder and the Demon Dharma Bodies within the Gengjin Sword Array.
• Qin Zheng looked toward the Golden Sun Saint Monarch and called him a nuisance.

Qin Zheng defeated the Golden Sun Saint Monarch’s External Incarnation, but the true monarch threatened the Three Mountains and Five Lands with his sword strikes. As the threat reached Taiwu Academy, a streak of light from Taixu Mountain destroyed the descending Sword Qi.

• Qin Zheng fought the Golden Sun Saint Monarch’s External Incarnation, using the Gengjin Sword Array and his fists to kill him.
• Qin Zheng realized the dead opponent was only an External Incarnation when no demon core or Merit Scroll information appeared.
• The true Golden Sun Saint Monarch threatened to kill Qiu Huyuan and warned that his Sword Qi could strike anywhere across the Three Mountains and Five Lands.
• Qin Zheng rushed to Taixu Mountain and rendered the gathered cultivators unconscious.
• At Taiwu Academy, Xun Zhengxin and the Dharma Bodies chose to wait for Qin Zheng, but a towering Sword Qi descended from the sky.
• A streak of light shot from Taixu Mountain and annihilated the Sword Qi before it could hit the Dharma Bodies.

Qin Zheng confirmed that Golden Sun Saint Monarch was watching the Three Mountains and Five Lands, then strengthened his Gengjin Sword Array and learned that Qiu Huayuan was a powerful figure from another realm. The chapter ended with True Void Daoist offering to rescue Qin Zheng after verifying his claims.

• Qin Zheng sent four Human Dharma Bodies to check the other regions, and they reported that conditions there were normal.
• Qin Zheng told the Dharma Bodies that he had killed White Tiger and blocked a Sword Qi attack from Golden Sun Saint Monarch.
• At Taiwu Academy, Qin Zheng refined thirty-three more Gengjin small swords, bringing his total to eighty-one, and refined a Gengjin Sword Array Diagram from the White Tiger Demon Core.
• Qin Zheng contacted the being behind the ancient mirror and asked about Qiu Huayuan.
• The other side identified itself as True Void Daoist and explained that Qiu Huayuan was a Dharma Body eleventh-level disciple of the Tiangang Sword Sect in Lingxu Realm.
• True Void Daoist said he would verify Qin Zheng's claims and, if they were true, exhaust his strength to save him from Yuanyang.

Qin Zheng spent his merit to reach the tenth level of the Dharma Body, then went to Taixu Mountain after the Myriad Stars Grand Array activated. There, he faced Xing, while the contemplation revealed Golden Sun Saint Monarch preparing to send three Demon Race elders to kill Qin Zheng and Qiu Huayuan still bound atop the mountain.

• Qin Zheng used thirteen million jin of merit to contemplate the Taixu Wuchen Meditation Method and broke through to the tenth level of the Dharma Body.
• During Qin Zheng’s contemplation, Golden Sun Saint Monarch gave his Human Immortal Grade Magic Treasure to three Demon Race elders and ordered them to kill the Human Anomaly.
• Golden Sun Saint Monarch attacked the chained Qiu Huayuan with his Human Immortal Grade Magic Treasure, while Qiu Huayuan countered with his sword.
• Qin Zheng left his quiet chamber as the Myriad Stars Grand Array activated and the stars sent down their power of slaughter.
• Qin Zheng arrived at Taixu Mountain, saw Xing shatter the array’s starlight, and called out the two concealed Demon Race members.
• Xing grinned and said that he did not need the other two to kill Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng defeated the three Demon Race elders at Taixu Mountain and learned that the Golden Sun Saint Monarch was beyond a hidden passage leading to the summit. After the Vermillion Bird Elder tried to betray him, Qin Zheng killed him and took his demon core, token, and treasured sword.

• Qin Zheng shattered the three elders’ attacks and blocked the Vermillion Bird Elder’s Saint Monarch sword strike with the Dragon Tooth Purgatory Halberd.
• Qin Zheng used the Gengjin Sword Array to slay the Black Tortoise Elder and Azure Dragon, while the Vermillion Bird Elder survived behind the treasured sword.
• The Vermillion Bird Elder concluded Qin Zheng was the reincarnation of a great human power and gave him a token that revealed a hidden passage to the summit of Taixu Mountain.
• The Vermillion Bird Elder attacked Qin Zheng after handing over the token, but Qin Zheng killed him with a palm strike and collected his demon core, token, and treasured sword.

Qin Zheng killed the Golden Sun Saint Monarch’s four great elders, while Qiu Huayuan kept the monarch occupied on Taixu Mountain. The monarch then revealed his plan to make the sun scorch the Three Mountains and Five Lands, and Qin Zheng’s group noticed the heat rising.

• Qin Zheng collected the demon cores, treasured swords, and a token bearing the Golden Crow after killing the four great elders.
• Qiu Huayuan continued fighting the Golden Sun Saint Monarch, whose sword could not overcome him despite their prolonged clash.
• The Golden Sun Saint Monarch learned that three more subordinates had fallen to Qin Zheng and decided to use the sun to turn humans against the anomaly.
• Qiu Huayuan realized the monarch’s plan would attack Qin Zheng’s Dao Heart by making humans blame him for the suffering.
• Qin Zheng sent Xun Zhengxin and the other Dharma Bodies to check on the humans, and they returned without finding any changes.
• The sun grew brighter and hotter, prompting Liu Yi'an and Lou Chengdao to notice the change.

Qin Zheng left the Three Mountains and Five Lands to confront the Golden Sun Saint Monarch, first slaughtering the Demon Dharma Bodies and then discovering the Three Pure Ones Divine Statues in an isolated ruin. He entered the passage to the Golden Sun Saint Monarch’s true location as Qiu Huayuan faced execution at Taixu Mountain, where an unseen sword formation suddenly began to strike.

• Qin Zheng told Xun Zhengxin he would kill the Golden Sun Saint Monarch and instructed him to activate the Myriad Stars Grand Array against the rising heat.
• Qin Zheng entered the passage at Taixu Mountain, slaughtered the Demon Dharma Bodies across the Three Mountains and Five Lands, and used his accumulated merit to enhance himself.
• Qin Zheng found the Three Pure Ones Divine Statues in an isolated ruin and learned they could grant the Nine Primordial Seals, Immortal Slaying True Intent, and Daoist Scripture Purity Chapter, but he lacked the merit to refine them.
• The Jade Ruyi drew the Three Pure Ones Divine Statues into Qin Zheng’s storage bag, and Qin Zheng shattered the Golden Sun Saint Monarch’s awakening statue before entering the passage to his true body.
• At Taixu Mountain, the Golden Sun Saint Monarch tightened Qiu Huayuan’s chains and demanded that he become his slave, but Qiu Huayuan refused and spoke of the sword within his heart.
• As the Golden Sun Saint Monarch prepared to strike Qiu Huayuan, a sword cry rang out and an icy voice announced the power of its sword formation.

Qin Zheng reached the summit of Taixu Mountain, where he defeated the Golden Sun Saint Monarch and freed Qiu Huayuan. After learning that killing the Golden Crow should restore the great sun, Qin Zheng destroyed it, leaving its flaming remains to fall toward the eight realms.

• Qin Zheng arrived at the summit of Taixu Mountain and saw the Golden Sun Saint Monarch holding Qiu Huayuan in chains.
• The Golden Sun Saint Monarch attacked Qin Zheng, but Qin Zheng shattered his Sword Qi with a punch and sent him flying.
• Qin Zheng used the Gengjin swords to sever Qiu Huayuan's chains, and the two introduced themselves.
• The Golden Sun Saint Monarch returned in his Golden Crow form and attacked with flames, while Qin Zheng trapped him in the Gengjin Sword Array.
• Qiu Huayuan told Qin Zheng that killing the Golden Crow should return the great sun to normal.
• Qin Zheng struck the Golden Crow with Limitless True Intent and destroyed its body, sending flaming fragments toward the eight realms.

Qin Zheng killed Golden Crow Xunyi and learned that an immortal-realm demon might retaliate against the Yuanyang Realm. He refused to leave, while Qiu Huayuan contacted the Lingxu Realm for help and chose to stay to protect the realm.

• Qin Zheng collected Xunyi’s demon core and storage pouch, and the Merit Scroll revealed his massive merit reward and the Great Sun Body Tempering Technique available through refining the core.
• Qiu Huayuan recognized Qin Zheng’s overwhelming power and suspected he was a reincarnated human mighty one.
• Qiu Huayuan explained that Xunyi was the offspring of a Human Immortal demon and that its death could bring danger to the Yuanyang Realm.
• Qin Zheng refused Qiu Huayuan’s offer to travel to the Lingxu Realm and returned through the passage to the Three Mountains and Five Lands.
• Qiu Huayuan sent word that Xunyi was dead and a reincarnated human mighty one might be in the Yuanyang Realm, then decided to remain and seek protection for its people.