Chapter Summaries

After suppressing the demons at the Nine Yang Immortal Sect, Qin Zheng erased Mo Feng’s memories and led the humans back to searching for opportunities. He entered the sect’s depths to face its final trial, where strange sounds from a sealed palace suggested that an ancient, powerful being remained inside.

• Qin Zheng used the Heart Seal to erase Mo Feng’s memories of their encounter and sent him back to explore the Immortal Ruins.
• Gu Xuanji urged Qin Zheng to eliminate the remaining demons, but Qin Zheng told the humans to prioritize finding opportunities and kill demons only if they encountered them.
• Zhao Qingqian explained that the Immortal Vanquishing Sword had given him his one-use sword, and Qin Zheng learned that he could now move freely through the Nine Yang Immortal Sect.
• Qin Zheng left Gu Xuanji and Zhao Qingqian behind and entered the sect’s forbidden depths to pursue its final trial.
• When Qin Zheng approached a small black tower, a sealed palace behind it shook and emitted mind-piercing cries before the tower transported him inside.
• Qin Zheng concluded that the palace held a being sealed for hundreds of thousands of years, possibly a Taiyi, as a brilliant radiance descended upon him within the tower.

Qin Zheng entered the Nine Yang Supreme Tower’s final stage, where his power was suppressed and he discovered a hall containing ancient immortal inheritances. He chose the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter and began receiving its transmission as a powerful man in the Lingxu Realm watched his actions and alarmed two demon gods.

• Qin Zheng explored a ruined world filled with Nine Heavens Immortal Qi and realized that the environment was suppressing his cultivation.
• Qin Zheng found an intact hall filled with stone statues, which shattered and released more than a hundred immortal inheritances capable of cultivation to Taiyi.
• Qin Zheng chose the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter, refined its immortal light, and witnessed a vision in which a voice announced an exposition of the chapter.
• The man in the green-mountain courtyard stopped whittling his wooden sword and watched Qin Zheng’s encounters inside the tower.
• The dark-faced burly man and the silver-robed young man saw the man stop whittling and prepared to fight if he made another move.

Human cultivators hunted the remaining demons in the Immortal Ruins as Gu Xuanji pursued and killed two demon elites. At the exit, the Ink Jade Kirin forced the waiting factions to clear a passage, but Gu Xuanji slew the two demons as they tried to escape and faced the Golden Crow Demon Lord’s fury.

• Six human cultivators surrounded and killed a demon cultivator, then divided his treasures and opportunities.
• The fourth- and fifth-ranked demons on the Demon Race's Heavenly Pride Ranking absorbed the dead demon’s remaining essence, but Gu Xuanji and the human cultivators trapped them.
• Gu Xuanji killed the two demons after rejecting their threats and offer to conceal what had happened at the Nine Yang Immortal Sect.
• The Ink Jade Kirin forced the dragon, phoenix, and Demon Race forces to clear the Immortal Ruins exit passage.
• As the two demons emerged from the mist, Gu Xuanji struck them down with sword light, and the Golden Crow Demon Lord roared in anger.

Gu Xuanji emerged from the Immortal Ruins after killing two Demon Race prodigies, and Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk prevented the demons from attacking him. He revealed that Qin Zheng had defeated the forces that ambushed him and ranked first on the Supreme Tower, leaving the human leaders stunned.

• Gu Xuanji emerged from the Immortal Ruins and killed two Demon Race prodigies, prompting a hundred Demon Race Celestial Immortals to attack him.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk stopped the demons, while the Ink Jade Kirin warned everyone not to obstruct the exit.
• More humans emerged from the Immortal Ruins, and Mo Feng appeared, but no other demons or members of the Dragon and Phoenix clans came out.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and Monk Fuyao questioned Gu Xuanji inside his Inner World about what had happened in the Immortal Ruins.
• Gu Xuanji revealed that Qin Zheng had drawn a joint attack from the Demon Race and the dragon and phoenix clans, then killed ninety percent of the demons and every member of those clans.
• Gu Xuanji said Qin Zheng ranked first on the Supreme Tower, and the two human Celestials unleashed overwhelming auras in shock.

The races learned that the Demon Race, dragon, and phoenix had suffered catastrophic losses in the Immortal Ruins, while Qin Zheng was missing as the ruins closed. As the races fought over the human survivors, Qin Zheng suddenly emerged and killed the Golden Crow Demon Lord with one blow.

• Mo Feng told the Ink Jade Kirin that nearly all the Demon Race and the dragon and phoenix races had died in the Nine Yang Immortal Sect, and the Ink Jade Kirin inferred that someone had inscribed a name on the Supreme Tower.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and Monk Fuyao prepared to protect Qin Zheng, but the Immortal Ruins closed before he appeared, leaving Gu Xuanji and Zhao Qingqian fearing he had died.
• The dragon and phoenix attacked Mo Xiaoyao and Qin Wuyi after they claimed the three races had perished fighting over a treasure, while the Golden Crow Demon Lord and the Demon Race attacked the human treasure ship.
• Immortal Lord Qinyang and the other human Celestial Immortals tried to help the ship escape, while Mo Feng urged the Ink Jade Kirin to aid the humans.
• Qin Zheng stepped through a ripple in the void, seized the Golden Crow Demon Lord, and exploded his head with one blow.

Qin Zheng returned from the Immortal Ruins and revealed power on the level of a top-tier Celestial Immortal, killing Demon Race Celestial Immortals and wounding the dragon and phoenix with his saber. As he pursued the two demons, a powerful hostile presence appeared in the heavens.

• Qin Zheng crushed Golden Crow Demon Lord’s head, then killed nearly ten Demon Race Celestial Immortals with one saber strike.
• Qin Zheng hunted the fleeing demons while the dragon and phoenix broke away from their battle with the humans and charged at him.
• Qin Zheng unleashed a powerful saber strike that wounded both the dragon and phoenix, revealing strength comparable to a top-tier Celestial Immortal.
• Qin Zheng pursued the dragon and phoenix and continued striking, severing a dragon horn and a phoenix claw as the ocean turned red with blood.
• The dragon and phoenix warned Mo Xiaoyao and Qin Wuyi of the consequences, then a powerful aura swept across the heavens and a sinister voice declared that humans deserved to die.

Qin Zheng killed a top Heavenly Immortal of the Demon Race with his own sword and used the Heart Seal to convince the Dragon Palace and Phoenix Nest that their losses in the Immortal Ruins were not the human race’s doing. As Demon Race reinforcements gathered and the Demon God began to descend, Qin Zheng raised the wooden sword and struck.

• A Demon Race top Heavenly Immortal, an azure dragon, and a fire phoenix arrived as Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk prepared to intervene.
• Qin Zheng unleashed his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent and killed the Demon Race Heavenly Immortal who had attacked him with a giant hand.
• Qin Zheng sent the human Heavenly Immortals and the Void-Crossing Treasure Ship away, then used the Heart Seal and Mo Feng’s account to persuade the dragons and phoenixes that the human race was not responsible for their losses.
• The dragons and phoenixes departed despite the goateed Demon Race elder’s attempt to sway them, while the Ink Jade Kirin and Mo Feng also left.
• Nine top-tier Heavenly Immortals emerged with the Demon Race forces as a vortex formed in the distant sky and the Demon God began to descend.
• Qin Zheng grasped the wooden sword and swung it toward the approaching Demon God.

Zhang Yu recounted how Qin Zheng defeated the Demon Race and ended its invasion, bringing the human race a rare period of peace. As Qin Zheng celebrated with the human race’s top Celestial Immortals, he reflected on the battle and examined the Merit Scroll, which had changed after his journey to the Immortal Ruins.

• Zhang Yu told the border guards that Qin Zheng had killed a top Demon Race Celestial Immortal and defeated the forces that attacked the human race after the Immortal Ruins closed.
• Zhang Yu said the Demon Race later sent dozens of Celestial Immortals, nearly ten top Celestial Immortals, and possibly a Demon God, but Qin Zheng’s strike swept them away and ended their advance.
• Immortal Lord Dongyang hosted Qin Zheng and the human race’s top Celestial Immortals in Zhen'an City, where they ate mutton from a Celestial Immortal-level ram.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the other six top Celestial Immortals thanked Qin Zheng for securing the human race at least a hundred years of peace.
• Daoist Qingwei asked Qin Zheng about his plans, and Qin Zheng examined the Merit Scroll, noticing that it had changed after his journey to the Immortal Ruins.

Qin Zheng chose to settle at Zhenning City, where he found his old acquaintance Lou Chengdao gravely injured by a local Earth Immortal. He saved Lou Chengdao and killed the attacker, leaving the city’s leaders and guests stunned.

• Qin Zheng chose Zhenning City as his post at the human frontier and prepared to take control of it.
• At Wanghai Tower, Sect Leader Zhu attacked Lou Chengdao after Lou Chengdao failed to provide the drink he demanded.
• Lou Chengdao, badly injured and near death, mistook Qin Zheng for a ghost before Qin Zheng caught him and gave him an immortal pill.
• Qin Zheng asked who had harmed Lou Chengdao, and the city’s leaders identified Sect Leader Zhu as the attacker.
• Sect Leader Zhu refused to apologize, so Qin Zheng crushed his head and killed him.

Qin Zheng confronted Zhenning City’s rulers after learning they had taken Dharma Bodies from the Yuanyang Realm and enslaved them. He killed Wu Cunsheng and the Grand Elder of the Haoyue Immortal Sect, while the fate of the surviving captives remained unclear.

• Qin Zheng asked Wu Cunsheng, Xiao Changyue, and Xu Qingyan how Lou Chengdao and the other people from the Yuanyang Realm had reached the Lingxu Realm, and the three dismissed them as lowly beings fit to serve as slaves.
• Wu Cunsheng attacked Qin Zheng, but Qin Zheng crushed his arm and hurled him into a crater before subduing Xiao Changyue and Xu Qingyan as they tried to flee.
• Qin Zheng demanded to know what the rulers had done in the Yuanyang Realm, and the Wanghai Tower steward explained that their people had entered through a spatial passage and brought back the realm’s Dharma Bodies.
• When Qin Zheng asked how many captives were still alive, the steward turned pale, and Wu Cunsheng tried to kill him while pretending to offer the Yuanyang Realm’s geniuses an explanation.
• Qin Zheng killed Wu Cunsheng and struck down the Grand Elder of the Haoyue Immortal Sect as he attempted to escape with a spatial treasure.

Qin Zheng exposed Zhenning City’s factions for trafficking humans and betraying the human race to a dragon demon, then killed nearly all the powerhouses in the City Lord’s Manor. After learning the extent of their collaboration, he sent Immortal Lord Xiaoyao to help investigate the other border cities and questioned the steward about the demon’s whereabouts.

• Qin Zheng forced the Wanghai Tower steward to reveal that Zhenning City’s three major factions had offered humans from lower worlds, including the Yuanyang Realm’s Dharma Bodies, as tribute to the Eighth Prince of the Dragon Palace.
• Qin Zheng rejected the factions’ claim that they had acted out of necessity, pointed out that they had enabled Golden Crow demons to enter the Xuanyuan Domain, and killed a Human Immortal who tried to flee.
• Qin Zheng killed the assembled human powerhouses with a single blade strike, leaving the steward alive to confess that the factions had also shared information with the Demon Race and allowed demons into the Xuanyuan Domain.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao learned of the betrayal and prepared to wipe out the traitors, but Qin Zheng stopped him and asked him to bring two more experts to investigate the other border cities before evidence could be destroyed.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao went ahead, and Qin Zheng asked the steward where the dragon demon was hiding.

A sinister Roc Demon traded with the Eighth Prince for information about the human race and revealed that the Demon Race, Dragon Palace, and Phoenix Nest had lost all their prodigies in the Immortal Ruins. After Qin Zheng appeared at the Dragon Palace and killed the Eighth Prince, he looked down at the sea and silently bid farewell to everyone in the Yuanyang Realm.

• The Roc Demon met the Eighth Prince beneath the sea and asked for recent information about the human race and a survivor of the Immortal Ruins.
• The Roc Demon told the Eighth Prince that the Demon Race, Dragon Palace, and Phoenix Nest had lost all their Immortal Ruins prodigies, and the Eighth Prince traded the information for news about what had happened there.
• The Eighth Prince and the Roc Demon sensed powerful auras from Zhenning City, and the Roc Demon left to report that the human race might have a new top Celestial Immortal.
• Qin Zheng entered the Dragon Palace and threw down the Roc Demon's headless corpse, then pinned the Eighth Prince to the hall floor.
• Qin Zheng questioned the Eighth Prince about his dealings with the Roc Demon and his consumption of humans, then killed him with a blazing saber strike.
• Qin Zheng emerged from the sea and silently said farewell to everyone in the Yuanyang Realm.

Qin Zheng learned that the Demon Race might be preparing another offensive, but refused to leave the borderlands and later visited the Haoyue Immortal Sect to confront its sect master. After learning that the sect master had refined the Yuanyang Realm, Qin Zheng killed him, while the sect’s disciples stood by in shock.

• Immortal Lord Chonghe, Immortal Lord Xiaoyao, and Demon Subduing Holy Monk warned Qin Zheng that the Demon Race might target him and urged him to return to the Human King Palace, but he refused.
• Immortal Lord Chonghe promised to investigate the Haoyue Immortal Sect’s role in Zhenning City before the three Heavenly Immortals departed.
• Qin Zheng examined the transforming Merit Scroll and his ancient bronze mirror, then learned that Lou Chengdao had awakened.
• Lou Chengdao told Qin Zheng that the Haoyue Immortal Sect’s sect master had ravaged the Yuanyang Realm and killed Qiu Huayuan, and Qin Zheng promised to confront him.
• The Haoyue Immortal Sect’s sect master claimed he had not been involved in Zhenning City’s affairs, but Qin Zheng asked whether he had refined the Yuanyang Realm and attacked him when he admitted refining lower worlds.
• Qin Zheng killed the sect master’s companion and then beheaded the sect master with the Nine Heavens Sun-Burning Saber as the Haoyue Immortal Sect’s disciples watched.

The Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom’s ruler ordered Qin Zheng captured after identifying him as the likely cause of the Demon Race’s losses in the Immortal Ruins. As Qin Zheng cultivated in Zhenning City, his Merit Scroll revealed Innate Merit, and upgrading the Great Dao Tree triggered a powerful transformation in his Inner World and body.

• The Wan Cheng Demon Kingdom’s ruler learned that the Dragon and Phoenix Clans planned a marriage alliance, executed a minister who failed to gather intelligence, and ordered two ministers to capture Qin Zheng with a large force and a Demon God treasure.
• Qin Zheng and Lou Chengdao paid tribute to the Yuanyang Realm’s dead, then Qin Zheng sent Lou Chengdao to the Human King Palace for safety and cultivation.
• Qin Zheng remained in Zhenning City after no top-tier Human Immortals came to challenge him, and he cultivated the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter.
• After a month, Qin Zheng found that his Merit Scroll now listed Innate Merit and allowed him to upgrade the Great Dao Tree or repair his treasures.
• Qin Zheng spent one strand of Innate Merit to upgrade the Great Dao Tree, whose leaves transformed into stars and greatly increased the power of his Inner World.
• Qin Zheng’s aura erupted from the City Lord’s Manor and shot into the sky.

Qin Zheng used five wisps of Innate Merit to raise his cultivation to the peak of the Earth Immortal realm, while the Demon Race planned a war aimed at capturing him. Immortal Lord Dongyang proposed sending Qin Zheng to the Ten Thousand Li Green Mountains for protection, and the chapter ended as Qin Zheng sensed distant demonic activity.

• Qin Zheng spent Innate Merit growing the Great Dao Tree and reached the peak of the Earth Immortal realm, with combat strength approaching the peak Heavenly Immortal level.
• The Demon Kingdom ministers ordered ten peak experts and other forces to attack the human race, capture Qin Zheng, and target Xiaoyao's border city.
• Immortal Lord Dongyang and Immortal Lord Chonghe discussed the balance between the races and agreed to consider sending Qin Zheng to the Ten Thousand Li Green Mountains, where the Immortal Vanquishing Sword could protect him.
• Qin Zheng steadied his mind after falling short of the Heavenly Immortal realm and resolved to gain more merit by killing demons.
• Qin Zheng sensed a distant spatial fluctuation and recognized a trace of demon aura.

Demon forces invaded Zhenxiao City and Zhenning City, while Qin Zheng stopped Zhenning City’s residents from fleeing and confronted the demons sent to capture him. He killed the two peak Heaven Immortals at Zhenning, but the battle at Zhenxiao City was still underway.

• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao activated Zhenxiao City’s formation and went out to face the Demon Race’s army as it attacked.
• Qin Zheng sensed the invasions at both cities and killed people fleeing Zhenning City, forcing the remaining residents to stand and fight.
• Two peak Heaven Immortals led a large demon force to Zhenning City to capture Qin Zheng, while its defenders held the walls.
• Qin Zheng arrived and burned away the demon cloud with a blazing saber strike as human fighters rushed to join the battle.
• Qin Zheng overwhelmed the woman in the crimson gown, cut down the wolf-fur-cloaked man, and seized the woman before striking again.

Qin Zheng annihilated the demons outside Zhenning City, then left to seek more merit while the battle at Zhenxiao City grew desperate. Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk fought eight top-tier demons, and the chapter ended with Xiaoyao crashing into the battlefield seemingly lifeless.

• Qin Zheng killed the demons outside Zhenning City and told its defenders to hold the city while he went elsewhere.
• At Zhenxiao City, humanity fought the invading demons after the city's protective formation collapsed, while Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk faced eight top-tier demons.
• Two Demon Race ministers revealed that Qin Zheng had been identified as humanity's variable and ordered the demons to finish the fight quickly.
• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk renewed their attack, with Xiaoyao saying that Chonghe would come to help if he could no longer hold on.
• Gu Xuanji fought to defend Zhenxiao City as a figure crashed into the battlefield and obliterated much of the beast tide.
• Gu Xuanji recognized the fallen figure as Immortal Lord Xiaoyao, whose blood-soaked body appeared lifeless.

After Zhenxiao City fell and Demon Subduing Holy Monk and Immortal Lord Xiaoyao were surrounded by the Demon Race, Qin Zheng arrived and slaughtered the eight peak Demon Race experts. He left to pursue the remaining enemy, while Gu Xuanji stayed behind to care for the wounded and grieve over Immortal Lord Xiaoyao.

• Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and Demon Subduing Holy Monk were defeated, and Gu Xuanji tried to rescue them as Human Celestial Immortals held off the Demon Race.
• Two Demon Race ministers used a demon god's treasure to cripple the human peak experts, then Zhenxiao City collapsed under the Demon Race's assault.
• Qin Zheng emerged from Zhenxiao City, killed a spear-wielding Demon Race minister with the bronze spear, and struck down the eight peak Demon Race experts.
• Qin Zheng collected the demon cores, told Gu Xuanji to care for the two seniors, and flew off with the bronze spear to deal with the remaining enemy.
• Gu Xuanji felt hope for the human race's survival, then turned toward Immortal Lord Xiaoyao and grieved.

Qin Zheng defeated the Azure Steel Moon Shadow Spear’s artifact spirit, then destroyed the spear despite a Demon God’s threat. The Immortal Vanquishing Sword, Wu Qingping, intervened to repel the Demon God, and the Demon God’s companion declared she would kill Qin Zheng.

• Qin Zheng killed the fleeing Demon Race minister and took the bronze spear, which awakened its artifact spirit and revealed itself as the Azure Steel Moon Shadow Spear.
• Qin Zheng fought the spear’s artifact spirit, broke the spear’s defenses with the Nine Heavens Sun-Burning Saber and Immortal Slaying sword light, and overwhelmed it with his fists.
• A Demon God threatened Qin Zheng through a mirror-like image, but Qin Zheng destroyed the spear, prompting the Demon God to reach for him across the void.
• Wu Qingping used a wooden sword to repel the Demon God’s attack and protected Qin Zheng, who recognized and paid respects to the Immortal Vanquishing Sword.
• The Demon God asked the girl beside him whether she could kill Qin Zheng, and she said she would kill him.

After the battle for Zhenxiao City, Qin Zheng learned that a Demon God-level threat was looming and received a personal invitation to the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race marriage banquet. He returned with Immortal Lord Chonghe, Immortal Lord Dongyang, and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk, intending to use his accumulated merit to advance to the Celestial Immortal realm.

• Immortal Lord Chonghe and Immortal Lord Dongyang arrived at ruined Zhenxiao City and learned that Qin Zheng had killed eight peak Demon Race fighters and one minister, while Immortal Lord Xiaoyao had lost his life.
• The Demon Subduing Holy Monk explained that Qin Zheng had not used the Immortal Vanquishing Wood Sword, prompting the human experts to decide he should be sent to the Myriad-Mile Green Mountains for safety.
• A Demon God’s aura spread across the battlefield, and Qin Zheng realized that the Demon Race girl he had faced was nearing a breakthrough beyond Celestial Immortal.
• Two peak experts from the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race demanded that Qin Zheng kneel to receive their decree, but he defeated them, cut off the man’s horn and the woman’s wing, and forced them to present their wedding invitation respectfully.
• The two messengers invited Qin Zheng and the human race to the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race marriage banquet, and Qin Zheng allowed them to leave with their injuries.
• Immortal Lord Chonghe, Immortal Lord Dongyang, and the Demon Subduing Holy Monk reached Qin Zheng and learned that Senior Wu had dealt with the Demon God; Qin Zheng then set off to return and advance to Celestial Immortal.