Chapter Summaries

Wu Qingping proved the Dao of Taiyi and battled a freed six-winged great demon, but Qin Zheng arrived and killed the demon to claim its merit. Qin Zheng and Wu Qingping captured Yun Qing and brought her to the Human King Palace, where Wu Qingping demanded to know where she came from.

• Wu Qingping manifested a Dao Palace and began advancing to Taiyi, while Qin Zheng sensed the breakthrough and hurried toward the Void Spirit Realm.
• Yun Qing released the six-winged great demon from its seal, and Wu Qingping fought the demon while completing his advancement.
• Qin Zheng restrained Yun Qing, then killed the wounded great demon with crimson Sword Qi and collected its demon core.
• Wu Qingping questioned Yun Qing, but Qin Zheng knocked her unconscious and took her with him.
• Qin Zheng and Wu Qingping arrived at the Human King Palace, where Wu Qingping again demanded to know Yun Qing's origins.

After forcing Yun Qing to reveal the crisis in the Yunlai Great Realm, Qin Zheng kept her alive for information and went into seclusion to advance his cultivation. He consumed thirty-three strands of Innate Merit to form his Dao Palace and attain Taiyi, whose emergence was announced across the fragmented worlds of the Qionglai Great Realm.

• Wu Qingping struck Yun Qing and forced her to surrender information about the Yunlai Great Realm and the Demon Ruins.
• Qin Zheng learned that a demon in the Yunlai Great Realm was nearing Great Luo and that Yun Qing’s sect planned to unseal a Demon Race Great Luo to oppose it.
• Qin Zheng chose to keep Yun Qing alive, sealed her with five strands of Sword Qi, and left to cultivate in seclusion.
• Qin Zheng spent thirty strands of Innate Merit growing the Great Dao Tree to thirty-six zhang, then used three more to reveal the Dao Palace within the Great Dao Fruit.
• Qin Zheng’s Dao Palace absorbed the Jade Ruyi, Immortal Slaying Sword Intent, and Severed Finger, then transformed his body and soul as its appearance announced that the human race of Spirit Ruins had gained another Taiyi.

After attaining Taiyi, Qin Zheng tested his new power and learned that Wu Qingping’s unstable realm required him to travel to the Yunlai Great Realm. Wu Qingping left Qin Zheng to protect humanity and gave him the Immortal Vanquishing Sword Scripture, which the Merit Scroll offered to refine.

• Qin Zheng used Words Manifest as Law to summon and dismiss wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, then examined his Dao palace and discovered he lacked one strand of Innate Merit to refine two demon cores.
• Qin Zheng visited Mo Xun, received the locations of eleven Void Spirit Realms, and warned him to move Immortal Mountain because conflict might soon engulf the Lingxu Realm.
• Wu Qingping told Qin Zheng that his Taiyi realm was flawed because his Inner World lacked laws, and said he would take Yun Qing to the Yunlai Great Realm to repair it and investigate a possible human migration.
• Wu Qingping asked Qin Zheng to look after humanity and gave him the Immortal Vanquishing Sword Scripture before departing with Yun Qing.
• Qin Zheng read Wu Qingping’s final words in the scripture, and the Merit Scroll offered to refine it for one strand of Innate Merit.

Qin Zheng killed the Four-winged Demon Horse, then returned to Zhenning City to refine the Stone Spirit Demon Core and nurture an External Incarnation. As the incarnation neared completion, Mo Xun lured him into a trap with five Taiyi demons, but Qin Zheng defeated them and demanded that the surviving silver fox take him to the Demon Ruins.

• Qin Zheng killed the Four-winged Demon Horse and took its demon core after discovering that the Void Spirit Realm seals were weakening.
• Qin Zheng refined the Stone Spirit Demon Core with ten strands of Innate Merit, beginning to nurture an External Incarnation that absorbed his flesh and blood, divine soul, vitality, and Dao Palace.
• After six days, Qin Zheng saw that his External Incarnation was nearly ready to emerge from the stone, but Mo Xun arrived and reported finding a vast Void Spirit Realm he suspected was the Demon Ruins.
• Mo Xun led Qin Zheng into a desert where he revealed himself as a silver fox alongside four other Taiyi great demons, and Qin Zheng swiftly killed or crippled them.
• Qin Zheng gathered three demon cores, caught the wounded silver fox as it transformed into a woman, and demanded that she take him to the Demon Ruins.

Qin Zheng discovered that the Silver Wolf had sent him into the depths of the void, where he found what appeared to be the Demon Ruins. Meanwhile, Heavenly Demon Pavilion forces reached the Lingxu Realm and threatened the human race, while a trembling bluestone hinted at a new development in Zhenning City.

• Qin Zheng killed the fox demon, assessed the Demon Cores from the five slain demons, and realized the Silver Wolf had transported him far from the Lingxu Realm.
• Qin Zheng crossed a vast void storm, found drained demon corpses, and discovered enormous demon-filled Void Spirit Realms he suspected were the Demon Ruins.
• Elder Xing sent Qin Zheng into the depths of the void with a Void Mirror, then left three human Taiyi experts to search the ruins.
• Mo Xun sensed the human race's fortune collapsing, evacuated the qilin from Immortal Mountain, and fled as three Taiyi experts arrived in the Lingxu Realm.
• The Heavenly Demon Pavilion trio recruited the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors, then attacked the human gathering outside Zhenxiao City and ordered them to search for human treasures.
• A ten-foot-tall bluestone began trembling inside the City Lord's Manor in Zhenning City.

Immortal Lord Chonghe and the human cultivators were trapped by two Human Taiyi cultivators, but Qin Zheng returned in time to destroy their treasure and defeat them. He left both Demon Race slaves dead and the human forces safe.

• Immortal Lord Chonghe emerged from the abyss and attacked the dragon and phoenix, but a paper umbrella stopped his Sword Qi and trapped him.
• The Human Taiyi cultivators used the paper umbrella to threaten Chonghe and urged the human cultivators to kill one of their own, while a Treasure-Seeking Gourd led one man to a Primordial Spirit Stone Heart.
• Qin Zheng emerged from the stone, killed the man, subdued the Treasure-Seeking Gourd, and returned to Zhenxiao City.
• Fu Nian Layman tried to sacrifice himself for Chonghe, but Qin Zheng destroyed the paper umbrella and attacked the two Human Taiyi cultivators.
• Qin Zheng forced the burly man and woman to fight; the woman killed the burly man, but Qin Zheng killed her before she could claim victory.

Qin Zheng’s external incarnation was born in the Lingxu Realm, while his true body discovered the Demon Ruins and entered a sealed realm to hunt demons for merit and find an inheritance for the incarnation. The incarnation stayed behind to guard the Lingxu Realm as a Heavenly Demon Pavilion survivor considered fleeing the coming reinforcements.

• Qin Zheng killed two hidden dragon and phoenix demons, collected their cores, and left the human cultivators after they thanked him.
• Qin Zheng inspected the Demon Ruins and realized the sealed Void Spirit Realms held countless demons, including beings at the Great Luo level.
• The Merit Scroll revealed the newly born Qin Zheng · Incarnation, and Qin Zheng spent one strand of Innate Merit to establish a soul passage and speak with it.
• The incarnation explained that it had formidable potential but lacked cultivation methods; Qin Zheng instructed it to guard the Lingxu Realm while he searched the Demon Ruins for merit and an inheritance.
• Qin Zheng entered an outer Void Spirit Realm and encountered a host of roaring demons, while the incarnation began trying to open a bodily gate.
• The black-clad man from the Heavenly Demon Pavilion learned that three Grand Unity human slaves had died and considered using the Void Mirror to escape the coming reinforcements.

Qin Zheng rescued humans from demons in the Void Spirit Realm, killed General Mu, and razed Mu Manor, then set out to hunt the realm’s remaining Grand Unity demons. At the sealed central city, the lord of Pure Night Palace defied the demon king who held her captive, just as news arrived that Qin Zheng had destroyed General Mu’s territory.

• Qin Zheng killed the demon inside a pregnant Pure Night Palace disciple, then annihilated the demons in Myriad Wither City with one punch.
• General Mu killed the woman before Qin Zheng could save her, but Qin Zheng crushed General Mu’s hand and killed him beneath the city.
• Qin Zheng destroyed Mu Manor with a sword strike, found humans being raised underground, and collected them in the Human Seed Bag.
• Qin Zheng sensed more than twenty Grand Unity-level demons in the Void Spirit Realm and departed to hunt them.
• The Pure Night Palace lord challenged the demon king who kept her captive and forced her to bear his child.
• A demon soldier reported that a human from beyond the heavens had leveled Myriad Wither City and Myriad Skull Mountain and killed General Mu.

Qin Zheng rescued a Pure Night Palace disciple and began hunting the demons sealed in the fragment of the Qionglai Great Realm. After killing twenty-four Grand Unity Void Realm demons, he appeared near Five Altar Mountain, where Qi Chengkong had obtained a talisman from the Divine Envoy to face him.

• Qi Chengkong ordered thirty-one demon generals to encircle and kill Qin Zheng after the Empress warned that the Five Altar Seal could leave him badly wounded.
• Qin Zheng killed the tiger demon and its forces, rescued a half-eaten Pure Night Palace disciple, and learned that thirty-two Grand Unity Void Realm demons and one sealed Grand Unity Solid Realm demon were in the world.
• Qin Zheng left the disciple with a vermilion sword for protection and set out to kill the remaining Grand Unity Void Realm demons to gather merit and strengthen himself.
• Demon soldiers reported that Qin Zheng had killed twenty-four generals, prompting Qi Chengkong to fear that he might be a Grand Unity Solid Realm expert.
• Qi Chengkong sacrificed one of his arms in a blood pool, received a talisman from the Divine Envoy, and then sensed Qin Zheng appear a hundred li from Five Altar Mountain.

Qin Zheng entered Five Altar Mountain to confront the Grand Unity Solid Realm demon sealed within, and unleashed his full strength after opening the Divine Treasury of Strength. He emerged from the destroyed city holding a demon core, while a silver-patterned black-robed figure in Zhenning City announced that he had found something.

• Qin Zheng saw the sealed demon invite him into the city for a feast, but challenged him to come out after revealing he had slain thirty-two Grand Unity demons.
• Qin Zheng refined the Giant Ape and Horned Ant Demon Cores, partially opened the Divine Treasury of Strength, and strengthened his body despite it repeatedly bursting apart.
• Qin Zheng refined the Sky Ox Demon Core and a Spirit Deer Demon Core, then accepted the demon's invitation and entered the city.
• The Emperor attacked Qin Zheng, who countered with a punch, a palm strike, and a sword attack that destroyed the city and left him holding a demon core.
• In Zhenning City, a silver-patterned black-robed figure opened his eyes, said he had found something, and saw an enormous gateway appear in his mind.

After defeating the Kui Ox Great Demon, Qin Zheng saved the human survivors and discovered that a temple in the imperial palace concealed a drop of Grand Luo Blood. The Merit Scroll revealed that the blood could provide Divine Treasury Power, so Qin Zheng left to clear more Void Spirit Realms.

• Qi Qingyu crushed the demon fetus in her womb, and Qin Zheng refined the Kui Ox Demon Core to obtain the Thunder Source Scripture for his incarnation.
• Qin Zheng killed the demons remaining in the ruined city, healed Qi Qingyu, and gave her the Human Seed Bag to restore the humans held by the demons.
• Qi Qingyu told Qin Zheng about a guarded temple, where he found a blood pool and a divine statue that attacked him.
• Qin Zheng battered the statue until its drop of blood emerged, then used Immortal Slaying Sword Qi to destroy its spirituality.
• The Merit Scroll identified the drop as incomplete Grand Luo Blood that could yield Divine Treasury Power, and Qin Zheng left to clear more Void Spirit Realms.

Qin Zheng anchored the Divine Treasury of Strength and received an inheritance from a thunderous divine beast. When demons from the Heavenly Demon Pavilion sent three Grand Unity Void Realm demons into the Lingxu Realm, Qin Zheng killed them with ease and faced the remaining Grand Unity Solid Realm expert.

• Qin Zheng anchored the Divine Treasury of Strength, greatly increasing his physical power, then received an immortal arts inheritance featuring an azure, one-legged divine beast that commanded lightning.
• A black Bear Demon escaped its seal, but demons of the Heavenly Demon Pavilion forced him into the Lingxu Realm to investigate the deaths of their human slaves.
• The Bear Demon reached Zhenning City and threatened its inhabitants, but Qin Zheng killed him with one punch and took his demon core.
• Qin Zheng detected Golden Cicada and Hidden Dragon, who had entered the Lingxu Realm in secret, and killed them before they could flee.
• The remaining demons saw the headless bodies of Golden Cicada and Hidden Dragon return to the void, and their Grand Unity Solid Realm leader asked Qin Zheng his name.
• Qin Zheng told the leader to get lost.

Qin Zheng’s incarnation killed a Heavenly Demon Pavilion Grand Unity Solid Realm demon and reported the invasion, while Qin Zheng realized the incarnation might open the Divine Treasury of Strength. In the Void Spirit Realm, Qin Zheng killed a three-headed black dog and attacked the sealed Grand Luo demon after rejecting its offer to submit.

• The silver-patterned black-robed incarnation killed a Heavenly Demon Pavilion Grand Unity Solid Realm demon with one punch, and four fleeing Grand Unity Void Realm demons escaped.
• The incarnation told Qin Zheng that it had killed three Grand Unity Void Realm demons and one Grand Unity Solid Realm demon, then returned to Zhenning City to cultivate the Thunder Source Scripture.
• Qin Zheng realized the incarnation might open the Divine Treasury of Strength more easily than his main body and become a powerful trump card.
• Qin Zheng killed a dying three-headed black dog, collected its demon core, and went to a temple in the Void Spirit Realm.
• The sealed Grand Luo demon urged Qin Zheng to submit, but Qin Zheng launched an attack on the divine statue.

Fu Yusheng and Hong Zeyuan postponed confronting the human who had killed Elder Qiu and used the Void Mirror to travel to the Demon Ruins. After studying the Thunder Source Scripture, Qin Zheng rejected changing cultivation methods and turned his attention to opening a divine treasury.

• Four Grand Unity Void Realm cultivators fled to Fu Yusheng and told him that Elder Qiu had been killed by a human in the Lingxu Realm.
• Fu Yusheng viewed their memories, decided not to pursue the human yet, and led the four to search the depths of the void for the Demon Ruins.
• Hong Zeyuan returned with Xu Mengsheng and the Void Mirror, learned of Elder Qiu's death, and agreed with Fu Yusheng to visit the Demon Ruins before killing the human.
• Xu Mengsheng activated the Void Mirror and transported the group to the Demon Ruins.
• Qin Zheng studied the Thunder Source Scripture and learned that Taiyi cultivation required refining a palace-guarding divine object.
• Qin Zheng rejected replacing the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter with the Thunder Source Scripture and looked to the Merit Scroll for a way to open a divine treasury.

Qin Zheng spent one thousand strands of Innate Merit refining Grand Luo Blood and forced open the Divine Treasury of Strength, causing his body and power to grow stronger through repeated destruction and recovery. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Demon Pavilion’s group entered the Demon Ruins and became trapped inside separate Void Spirit Realms, where a demon resembling the statue Qin Zheng had seen noticed their arrival.

• Qin Zheng used one thousand strands of Innate Merit to refine Grand Luo Blood and gained Divine Treasury Power.
• Qin Zheng’s consciousness reached the Divine Treasury of Strength, and his power pushed its gate open by a sliver.
• Qin Zheng’s body repeatedly exploded and reassembled in black flames as his aura grew stronger.
• Xu Mengsheng brought Fu Yusheng, Hong Zeyuan, and four Grand Unity Void Realm experts into the Demon Ruins with the Void Mirror.
• The Void Spirit Realms sensed the group’s Demon Race aura and pulled them inside, trapping Fu Yusheng and Hong Zeyuan with Xu Mengsheng in one realm.
• A handsome demon with the same appearance as the statue Qin Zheng had seen noticed the newcomers’ arrival.

Fu Yusheng and Hong Zeyuan planned to use the Void Mirror to capture Qin Zheng, but Qin Zheng seized the mirror and confronted them. Elsewhere, a battered human revived under black flames after killing four Heavenly Demon Pavilion demons, while thunder and lightning filled the sky.

• Fu Yusheng suspected Qin Zheng had gained the Taiyi Realm through a treasure in the land of ruins, and he and Hong Zeyuan discussed capturing him with the Void Mirror.
• Fu Yusheng and Hong Zeyuan asked Xu Mengsheng to guide them into the Demon Ruins, but a jade-white hand seized the Void Mirror and transported the three demons to a guarded building.
• A blood-red-robed man revealed himself as the person Fu Yusheng and Hong Zeyuan had been seeking, then challenged them to explain their intentions.
• Four Heavenly Demon Pavilion demons found a battered human in a ruined Void Spirit Realm and tried to flee when he awoke.
• The human killed all four demons with black flames, then used the flames to heal and restore his body as his aura surged.
• The revived figure opened his eyes, and lightning and thunder erupted across the sky.

Qin Zheng advanced to a new level of power, then continued clearing demons from the Demon Ruins and refined a demon core into the immortal art Words Manifest as Law. Meanwhile, Tianwu’s blood avatar agreed to help the Heavenly Demon Pavilion against Kong Yu and ordered its demons to kill Qin Zheng, who began testing his new ability.

• Qin Zheng completed his perilous advancement with help from the life force of four Grand Unity Void Realm demons, then destroyed the lifeless Void Spirit Realm with a single stomp.
• Qin Zheng left the collapsing realm and headed toward another fragment world to continue hunting demons and gathering merit.
• Tianwu’s blood avatar told Fu Yusheng, Hong Zeyuan, and their companion that he would protect them from Kong Yu if they killed a human who was clearing demons in the Demon Ruins.
• Qin Zheng killed a qilin-like great demon and refined its demon core to obtain the immortal art Words Manifest as Law.
• Qin Zheng tested his new art by making demon remains vanish and commanding mountains to rise into the sky.

Qin Zheng entered a vast Void Spirit Realm, defeated its linked group of twenty-three Grand Unity Solid Realm demons, and slaughtered the remaining demons before confronting the sealed man with the Grand Luo Blood. The man claimed he had found a way to break free, but Qin Zheng stopped his attempt to escape through the void and struck at him again.

• Qin Zheng used a Mountain Ghost Demon Core to recover his exhausted soul, then entered a larger Void Spirit Realm.
• Twenty-three Grand Unity Solid Realm demons attacked Qin Zheng, but he destroyed them all with one punch after learning their lives were linked.
• Qin Zheng tried to kill Fu Yusheng and Hong Zeyuan, but Xu Mengsheng used the Void Mirror to teleport them away.
• Qin Zheng hunted down the realm's remaining demons, then went to the temple to confront the blood-robed man.
• The man told Qin Zheng he had found a way to escape his seal, but Qin Zheng blocked his attempt to vanish through the void and attacked him.

Qin Zheng killed the wounded man formed from Grand Luo Blood, but the blood transported him to a cultivation cave filled with Nine Heavens Immortal Qi, pills, and immortal arts. As a Heavenly Palace Phantom appeared across the Great Realms and drew powerful figures toward it, Qin Zheng explored the cave until a demonic burly man broke in and attacked him.

• Qin Zheng bombarded the wounded man in the abyss with Immortal Slaying Sword Qi and killed him with a punch, leaving behind a drop of Grand Luo Blood.
• A voice from the Demon Ruins sent ripples across the starry sky, causing a Heavenly Palace Phantom to appear across countless Great Realms and drawing powerful factions toward it.
• The Heavenly Demon Pavilion's green-robed master sent its cultivators into the phantom, while Qin Zheng's avatar sealed the Immortal Ruins with a lightning barrier.
• The Grand Luo Blood engulfed Qin Zheng and transported him to a cave dwelling, where he found a Spirit Calming Divine Bead, an alchemy chamber, and a room full of immortal arts.
• A burly man radiating demonic qi burst through the cave's stone door, claimed the belongings as his own, and attacked Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng rescued Su Yang and his fellow Dao Seeking Sect members from a group of demons, then learned that they were inside a Heavenly Palace fragment reached through a Heavenly Palace Phantom. After Su Yang offered him the Treasure Seeking Compass and prepared to die, Qin Zheng asked whether he still wanted to continue his revenge.

• A horned demon and his companions killed Jing Yan and the Dao Seeking Sect disciples, then demanded that Su Yang reveal his Treasure Seeking Compass.
• Qin Zheng emerged from the cave abode, killed several demons, crippled the horned demon, and let Su Yang take revenge on him.
• Su Yang thanked Qin Zheng for avenging Jing Yan and the disciples, offered him the sect's inheritance and Treasure Seeking Compass, and explained how they had entered the Heavenly Palace fragment.
• Qin Zheng noticed that Su Yang wanted to die and asked whether he still wanted to continue his revenge.