Chapter Summaries

Qin Zheng agreed to help Su Yang destroy the Myriad Demon Den in exchange for information about the Heavenly Palace fragment and the Jade Pure Divine Statue. As Yao Xi and Ding Ning entered a newly revealed cave, demons and humans moved in to seize its treasures, and Qin Zheng arrived at the entrance with Su Yang.

• Su Yang explained that the Heavenly Palace fragment might contain immortal treasures and methods, and that a demon Great Luo sealed within it could soon break free.
• Su Yang identified the fragment as a likely cultivation ground of the Jade Void lineage, and Qin Zheng asked him to find the Jade Pure Divine Statue before they fought the Myriad Demon Den's remaining bosses.
• Su Yang used a Treasure Seeking Compass to locate a direction, gathered thirty-seven blood jades and the fallen heads, and set off with Qin Zheng.
• Yao Xi's hunch led her and Ding Ning to a cave revealed by a burst of treasure light, where they rushed inside ahead of arriving humans and demons.
• A tiger-headed demon and a gray-templed human leader arranged to split the cave's treasures, then entered with their followers while two demons guarded the entrance.
• Qin Zheng and Su Yang arrived, and Qin Zheng killed the rat-headed and fox-headed demon guards in an instant.

Yao Xi and Ding Ning found an Innate Divine Object in a cavern and fought a tiger-headed great demon and a gray-templed human for it. Qin Zheng reached the lotus unharmed and discovered a Jade Pure Divine Statue, which the Merit Scroll said could be refined into the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter.

• Yao Xi and Ding Ning entered the cavern and found a blue lotus above an icy pool, recognizing it as an Innate Divine Object.
• Ding Ning detonated her Palace-guarding Divine Object and battled the lotus’s roots while Yao Xi confronted the arriving tiger-headed great demon.
• The gray-templed middle-aged man blocked Yao Xi, while the tiger-headed great demon crossed the pool on a white-bone skiff and attacked the lotus.
• The pool froze, and Ding Ning was blasted unconscious after risking her life to reach the lotus; the tiger-headed great demon then overwhelmed Yao Xi.
• Qin Zheng arrived, walked across the frozen pool without harm, and reached into the lotus to take the Jade Pure Divine Statue.
• The Merit Scroll revealed that refining the statue required ten strands of Innate Merit and would grant the incomplete immortal art Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter.

Qin Zheng obtained the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter and was recognized by a Sixth-grade Innate Azure Lotus, then killed two Grand Unity Solid Realm cultivators who tried to seize it. He protected Ding Ning in exchange for Yao Xi’s promise to surrender her group’s opportunities, and left with Su Yang to find a safe place for a breakthrough.

• Qin Zheng comprehended the newly refined portion of the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter and discovered the azure lotus in the icy pool.
• The lotus repelled Liu Huaiyi and the tiger-headed great demon, then entered Qin Zheng’s body as he considered taking it away.
• Qin Zheng killed the tiger-headed great demon with one punch and crushed Liu Huaiyi, then destroyed his remains with Immortal Slaying Sword Qi.
• Yao Xi asked Qin Zheng for a lotus seed to save Ding Ning, and Qin Zheng refused an unbacked promise before agreeing to preserve Ding Ning with black flame in exchange for all their Heavenly Palace opportunities.
• Qin Zheng left the cave after capturing Yao Xi’s aura and found Su Yang guarding seventeen demon heads with the Crimson Longsword.
• Qin Zheng told Su Yang to find a safe place while he secluded himself to attempt a breakthrough to the Grand Unity Solid Realm.

Qin Zheng began refining the Jade Ruyi as his Palace-guarding Divine Object while Su Yang guarded his cave and received the approaching immortal sword. Surrounded by demons and human experts seeking the sword, Su Yang faced death until Qin Zheng emerged and told him to stand down.

• Qin Zheng used the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter to begin refining the Jade Ruyi within his Dao palace.
• Su Yang saw an immortal sword arrive at the cave and discovered that it shared an origin with the crimson longsword Qin Zheng had given him.
• The immortal sword entered Qin Zheng's cave, while a Grand Unity Spirit Realm old Daoist attacked Su Yang and lost his right arm to the crimson longsword.
• Experts gathered around Su Yang, including the Second Boss of the Myriad Demon Den, and demanded that he surrender the sword.
• A pig demon and the other experts attacked Su Yang together, but Qin Zheng appeared and told him to stand down.

Qin Zheng arrived to protect Su Yang and effortlessly killed the powerful figures who coveted their immortal swords, leaving one demon alive long enough to question. After Su Yang guessed the sword could grant entry to a hidden place of opportunity, Qin Zheng set off to find the chief of the Myriad Demon Den.

• Qin Zheng appeared beside Su Yang with an immortal sword and killed the wolf demon and the other attackers who were not Grand Unity Spirit Realm cultivators.
• Qin Zheng used a Jade Ruyi to repel attacks from three Grand Unity Spirit Realm cultivators, then killed the deer demon, the middle-aged scholar, and the wolf demon.
• Su Yang trapped the demon Daoist with threadlike Sword Qi while Qin Zheng defeated the other Grand Unity Spirit Realm cultivators.
• Qin Zheng released the demon Daoist, demanded to know why the cultivators had fought over the sword, and killed him when he refused to answer without an oath.
• Su Yang guessed the sword qualified its bearer to enter a hidden place of opportunity within the Heavenly Palace fragment, but Qin Zheng chose to seek the chief of the Myriad Demon Den.

Lu Xun discovered that the Heavenly Palace fragment was a trap meant to weaken the seal on a Demon Race Grand Luo, but Hong Zeyuan stopped him from destroying its array eye. Qin Zheng and Su Yang learned of the scheme and rushed toward the battle, where Lu Xun was left impaled on the statue until a huge hand pierced Hong Zeyuan's chest.

• Lu Xun found an array eye beneath a stone statue and explained to Lu Youshan that the Heavenly Palace fragment was a trap designed to weaken the seal on a Demon Race Grand Luo.
• Lu Xun tried to destroy the statue, but Hong Zeyuan severed his hand and attacked him, so Lu Xun sent Lu Youshan to warn the human experts.
• Qin Zheng and Su Yang encountered Lu Youshan, who warned them that the Demon Race Grand Luo's scheme could release the prisoner if the fragment's opportunities were taken.
• Lu Xun battled Hong Zeyuan above the ruins, but Hong Zeyuan impaled him on the statue and pulled his Dao Palace from his Inner World.
• As Lu Xun's strength failed, a huge hand punched through Hong Zeyuan's chest and seized his heart.

Qin Zheng killed Hong Zeyuan, learned that destroying the bloodied statue could trigger a killing formation that would wipe out everyone in the Heavenly Palace fragment, and refused to trigger it or let anyone claim its greatest opportunity. After following the Grand Luo Blood’s karmic threads toward the sword pool, he left Su Yang and Lu Youshan to seek the other formation nodes, while Kong Yu killed two Grand Unity Spirit Realm cultivators with his Three-Colored Divine Light.

• Qin Zheng crushed Hong Zeyuan and his Grand Luo Blood, then used black flames to stabilize Lu Xun and learned that shattering the statue would trigger a formation that killed everyone in the fragment.
• Lu Xun died after entrusting his disciple, Lu Youshan, with the formation-node locations, and Qin Zheng bowed to him before refusing to trigger the killing formation or allow anyone to obtain the greatest opportunity.
• Su Yang chose to activate the killing formation, and Qin Zheng gave him a sword before departing to hunt demons; Lu Youshan agreed to guide Su Yang to the other formation nodes.
• Qin Zheng used the Karma Dao Seal and the captured Grand Luo Blood to follow their karmic threads toward the sword pool.
• At the sword pool, Kong Yu’s Three-Colored Divine Light turned two Grand Unity Spirit Realm cultivators into skeletons, and he recognized two nearby demons as members of the Heavenly Demon Pavilion.

Qin Zheng killed Fu Yusheng and Xu Mengsheng at the sword pool, then waited as the gathered experts watched the chained furnace. In his Inner World, he discovered that his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent was resonating with the treasure inside it.

• Fu Yusheng sent Xu Mengsheng to stop Qin Zheng, while warning him about Qin Zheng's space-freezing art.
• Qin Zheng arrived at the sword pool and attacked Fu Yusheng and Xu Mengsheng, drawing the attention of the gathered experts.
• Qin Zheng crushed Xu Mengsheng's wrist, smashed him into the ground, and destroyed him when his Void Mirror failed to activate.
• Qin Zheng killed Fu Yusheng and seized the spirituality within both drops of Grand Luo Blood, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Qin Zheng sat down to cultivate as the gathered experts waited for the furnace's chains to break.
• Qin Zheng found that his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent was drawing toward the treasure inside the furnace and forming a connection with it.

Qin Zheng connected with the Immortal Slaying Sword inside the furnace and learned that he could communicate with it, but chose to leave it in place so it would continue suppressing the Demon Race Great Luo. When Kong Yu tried to force the furnace open, Qin Zheng stood in his way, defeated him, and faced the gathered powerhouses.

• Qin Zheng's Immortal Slaying Sword Intent calmed the furnace, and he entered it through their connection to see the Immortal Slaying Sword, which acknowledged him and wanted to leave.
• Qin Zheng decided to keep the sword in the furnace to maintain the seal on the Demon Race Great Luo, while his Immortal Slaying Sword Intent grew more solid.
• Kong Yu approached the sword pool intending to break the chains, but Qin Zheng stood in his path and declared that he would stop everyone present.
• Kong Yu attacked Qin Zheng with his Three-Colored Divine Light, but Qin Zheng emerged unharmed and struck him with a powerful fist.
• Qin Zheng battered Kong Yu and hurled Sword Qi after him as he fled, then returned to the sword pool and challenged the gathered powerhouses, who were too frightened to advance.

Qin Zheng killed the powerhouses gathered at the sword pool and prevented a Demon Race Great Luo from breaking free, then went to find Su Yang and Lu Youshan. But after they activated the final formation eye, the Heavenly Palace fragment fell strangely still as a Great Luo aura erupted from the Demon Ruins.

• Qin Zheng warned the sword-pool powerhouses that their prize could free a Demon Race Great Luo, but they joined forces against him.
• Qin Zheng used the Immortal Slaying Sword Intent to command the sword pool’s immortal swords, killing the gathered powerhouses and collecting their demon cores.
• Qin Zheng told the Immortal Slaying Sword to remain in the furnace and left to find Su Yang and Lu Youshan.
• Lu Youshan and Su Yang found the final formation eye, and Su Yang shattered the stone statue while Lu Youshan chose to stay beside his Master.
• The Heavenly Palace fragment shook and then went still, while a man in the Demon Ruins rose and unleashed a Great Luo-level aura across the Primordial Cave Heaven.

Tianwu broke free from his seal in the Heavenly Palace fragment and attacked Qin Zheng, who escaped with the Immortal Slaying Sword and Jade Ruyi at the cost of severe injuries. Tianwu confronted the assembled experts outside the Demon Ruins, while Qin Zheng consumed an Innate Azure Lotus seed to gain a chance to survive.

• Tianwu revealed himself to Qin Zheng in the Sword Pool and offered to make him a disciple, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• When Tianwu attacked, Qin Zheng summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword, then used black flames and the Jade Ruyi to escape his palm strike.
• Tianwu fought the Immortal Slaying Sword until he persuaded it to leave, then stepped out of the Heavenly Palace fragment.
• The experts wielding Grand Luo Artifacts attacked Tianwu outside the Demon Ruins, led by the woman with the Firefeather Fan.
• Badly wounded in empty space, Qin Zheng took a lotus seed from the Innate Azure Lotus and swallowed it.

Qin Zheng used the Innate Green Lotus to wield Grand Luo power, defeated Tianwu’s incarnation, and erased its fleeing blood droplets with the Immortal Slaying Sword. After meeting Xu Yang in the Demon Ruins, Qin Zheng’s borrowed power faded and left him gravely injured, so his avatar prepared to handle the powerful outsiders seeking him.

• Tianwu battled the Taiyi powerhouses with only eighty percent of his strength until Qin Zheng appeared and smashed his body with two attacks.
• Qin Zheng summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword and severed the karmic ties to Tianwu’s blood droplets, extinguishing the incarnation’s spirituality and keeping its Grand Luo Blood.
• Qin Zheng sent much of the Grand Luo Blood to his incarnation in Zhenning City, then entered the Demon Ruins and learned from the old man that the sealed Demon Race Grand Luo could not die.
• The old man restored a drop of Grand Luo Blood and identified himself as Xu Yang, whom Qin Zheng recognized as a figure from the Mind Demon’s Spiritual Secret Realm.
• Qin Zheng’s borrowed Grand Luo power faded and his body and Dao Palace cracked, so he returned to Zhenning City and entrusted his memories and the approaching outsiders to his avatar.

Qin Zheng absorbed power from the defeated Demon Race Grand Luo incarnation and began breaking through to the Grand Unity Dao, while the other experts plotted to kill the victor and seize the Grand Luo Dao Fruits. When they reached the Void Spirit Realm, they found the Demon Race Grand Luo quietly recovering and guessed that the vanished human Grand Luo had only wielded Grand Luo power temporarily through an Innate Divine Object.

• Qin Zheng used the transformed Grand Luo power to open the Divine Treasury of Strength more than halfway and began condensing a Lightning Dao Palace.
• A streak of lightning carrying the Severed Finger entered Qin Zheng’s Dao palace, and he began refining it as his Palace-guarding Divine Object.
• The Demon Race experts persuaded Su Qingyuan and Mu Liushan to join them in ambushing whichever Grand Luo survived, promising them the two Grand Luo Dao Fruits.
• Su Qingyuan and Mu Liushan agreed to fight alongside the Demon Race experts and led them into the depths of the Demon Ruins.
• The experts found the Demon Race Grand Luo seated in the Void Spirit Realm, apparently recovering, and the gloomy young man concluded that the human had temporarily gained Grand Luo power through an Innate Divine Object.

Qin Zheng saw through the Demon Race's plot to use Su Qingyuan and Mu Yuanshan to take his Innate Divine Object, then attacked the two human experts when they arrived in Lingxu Realm. He left the realm with their Grand Luo Artifacts, while eight demons still waited outside.

• Dragon Matriarch traced the Innate Divine Object to Lingxu Realm, and the demons sent Su Qingyuan and Mu Yuanshan ahead to approach its wielder.
• Qin Zheng sensed the ten concealed presences outside Lingxu Realm and prepared to face the two humans who entered.
• Su Qingyuan and Mu Yuanshan found Qin Zheng in Zhenning City and pretended to thank him for stopping the demon Grand Luo.
• Qin Zheng exposed the eight demons accompanying them and struck Su Qingyuan and Mu Yuanshan with lightning attacks.
• Qin Zheng crushed both men's heads, took their Azure Dragon Great Spear and White Tiger Broadsword, and burst through the sky.

Qin Zheng ambushed the Demon Race experts and killed several before battling the old woman’s Grand Luo Remnant with the awakened Severed Finger. After devouring the Remnant, the finger grew stronger, and Qin Zheng returned to Zhenning City with demon cores and an Ink Jade Kirin Egg while his true body continued recovering.

• Su Qingyuan and another attacker struck the bald demon with the Azure Dragon Great Spear and White Tiger great saber, killing him before he could activate his Grand Luo Remnant.
• Qin Zheng appeared and killed the old woman, then fought the sinister young man as the other demons joined their attacks; his spear swept through their assault and blasted their bodies apart.
• The old woman survived within a Grand Luo Remnant, which attacked Qin Zheng with a thousand-zhang dragon whip, but he struck it away and drove the awakened Severed Finger into its brow.
• Qin Zheng released the Severed Finger to devour the Grand Luo Remnant, and its lightning consumed the Remnant and left two demon cores behind as the other demons fled.
• Qin Zheng collected the demon cores, the dragon transformed into a staff, the fallen demons’ artifacts, and an Ink Jade Kirin Egg, then returned to Zhenning City and warned the clear radiance Sword Qi about the Grand Luo Remnants.
• The Severed Finger returned to Qin Zheng’s Dao Palace stronger than before, while his true body held a demon core and rejoiced.

Qin Zheng refined the Kong Bird Demon Core into a Peacock Feather of Life and Death and a Grand Luo Divine Treasury Pill, using them to heal his injuries and fully open the Divine Treasury of Strength. After the resulting phenomenon in the starry sky alarmed the great demons, Qin Zheng discussed his newfound power with his avatar, who revealed that the Severed Finger came from an immortal god.

• Qin Zheng used the Peacock Feather of Life and Death to restore his body, Dao Palace, and Inner World after wielding Grand Luo power.
• Qin Zheng consumed the Grand Luo Divine Treasury Pill and used the remaining Grand Luo power to fully open the Divine Treasury of Strength.
• A strange phenomenon spread through the starry sky, leading the great demons to suspect Qin Zheng had attained the Grand Luo Dao and plan to attack him with six Grand Luo Remnants and six Grand Luo Artifacts.
• Qin Zheng's avatar returned, and Qin Zheng explained that opening the Divine Treasury of Strength let him grasp vitality as well as light and aura.
• Qin Zheng examined his avatar's memories but could not see the Severed Finger's origins, and the avatar said it came from an immortal god.

Qin Zheng learned from the Thunder Department avatar that the Severed Finger belonged to the Nine Heavens Responding Origin Thunderclap Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerate, then questioned a surviving Jade Void Grand Luo about the ancient wars. The old man revealed that the Primordial Cave Heaven had become a cage and warned that killing the sealed Demon Race Grand Luo incarnation would let an unknown existence outside descend.

• The avatar identified the Severed Finger as belonging to the Nine Heavens Responding Origin Thunderclap Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerate and said its will had dissipated, though he hoped to uncover its memories.
• Qin Zheng collected the battle spoils, kept the White Tiger Saber and elephant demon corpse, and told the avatar to stabilize his newly broken-through realm.
• Qin Zheng met the old Jade Void Grand Luo in the Demon Ruins and demonstrated his Divine Treasury of Strength and Sky-Opening Seal when the old man approached too abruptly.
• The old man explained that the Demon Race Grand Luo incarnation could not be killed because its death would bring calamity upon the world.
• The old man recounted that the Primordial Cave Heaven began declining before the Human and Demon Races went to war, followed by a devastating battle in the Nine Heavens that made the immortal gods vanish.
• The old man said those who left the Primordial Cave Heaven died and returned as corpses after three breaths, and warned that killing the sealed incarnation would let an unknown existence outside descend and sweep the cave heaven clean.

Qin Zheng learned that an unknown Hunyuan existence had trapped the Primordial Cave Heaven, then rejected an invitation to enter the Inner Heaven and Earth and chose to pursue strength in the Outer Heaven and Earth. After he slaughtered the demons there, Grand Luo experts learned of his emergence and considered whether he could help break their deadlock.

• The old man told Qin Zheng that an unknown force killed Grand Luo experts who left the Primordial Cave Heaven and that even a Grand Luo Gold Count could not survive beyond it.
• The old man invited Qin Zheng into the Inner Heaven and Earth, but Qin Zheng refused and was warned that Grand Luo experts might covet the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The old man asked where Qin Zheng had obtained the Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter, then departed after Qin Zheng said he found it in ruins.
• Qin Zheng resolved to focus on raising his realm, went to where demonic qi was strongest, and killed countless Grand Unity demons with a single clench of his hand.
• In the Inner Heaven and Earth, the old man told the Grand Luo experts that Qin Zheng had killed the great demon incarnation without drawing down killing intent.
• The Grand Luo experts discussed Qin Zheng as a possible key to their predicament, and the old man left without answering whether the Immortal Slaying Sword had moved.

Qin Zheng cleared the final Demon Ruins realm, restored the Immortal Slaying Sword, and killed Kong Yu to refine his demon core and gain Four-Colored Divine Light. As he continued harvesting merit, he could not find Wu Qingping’s karmic trace, while enemies in the Myriad Demons Great Realm prepared to use Grand Luo Remnants to kill him.

• Qin Zheng collected the Demon Ruins’ demon cores, reviewed his merit and treasures, and chose to save his Innate Merit for a future breakthrough.
• Kong Yu advanced his Three-Colored Divine Light and vowed revenge, but Qin Zheng appeared, killed him, and refined his demon core to obtain Four-Colored Divine Light.
• Qin Zheng searched for Wu Qingping’s karmic trace in Yunlai Great Realm but found no sign of him, then continued his campaign to harvest merit.
• At the Heart Devouring Sect, the silver-robed youth and the gloomy young man confirmed their injuries had healed and discussed activating their Grand Luo Remnants despite the severe cost.
• The gloomy young man and the silver-robed youth agreed that their coming battle would claim Qin Zheng’s life.

Qin Zheng was ambushed by six demons wielding Grand Luo Remnants, but he killed them with the Immortal Slaying Sword and his overwhelming physical strength. As he gathered their remnants to claim the six Grand Luo Demon Cores, a giant hand suddenly descended and seized them.

• Qin Zheng reflected on his vast merit and searched for a third Palace-guarding Divine Object while traveling through the starry sky.
• Six demons confronted Qin Zheng, demanded his Innate Divine Object, and threatened the humans of Primordial Cave Heaven.
• Qin Zheng killed the palace-robed demon with punches, then used the Immortal Slaying Sword to kill three more demons and heavily injure the remaining two.
• The last two demons tried to bargain and flee, but Qin Zheng slew them and gathered all six Grand Luo Remnants to take their demon cores.
• A giant hand descended and landed directly on the Grand Luo Remnants as Qin Zheng was about to claim the cores.