Chapter Summaries

Qin Zheng slaughtered demons in the northern demon lands, then used his gains and merit to open more Divine Treasuries while the Demon Race gathered around him. As Wang Chongshan and Fan Qingyun protected him, a young monk arrived and declared that Qin Zheng was not a disciple of the Jade Void Palace.

• In the Central Immortal Dynasty, the holy monk and a Heavenly Immortal and God clashed briefly before the holy monk sent a projection away and resumed the assembly.
• Qin Zheng drew the Demon Race’s Grand Luo experts toward him, then refined his Demon Cores and pills while opening the Heavenly Secrets Divine Treasury and upgrading his techniques.
• Shi Fanxin advanced through scripture and enlightenment while Wang Chongshan and Fan Qingyun worried that the Immortal Capital would not send help.
• Wang Chongshan and Fan Qingyun resolved to fight, then joined Shi Fanxin in forming a guard around Qin Zheng as the Demon Race encircled them.
• A white-furred Lion Demon confronted the group, and Fan Qingyun claimed Qin Zheng was a Jade Void Palace immortal in sudden enlightenment to deter the demons.
• A young monk in jade-white robes appeared and announced that Qin Zheng was not a disciple of the Jade Void Palace.

Qin Zheng endured the attack of the white-furred Lion Demon and revealed that he had advanced into the Grand Luo Gold Count by opening several Divine Treasuries to their third layer. He overwhelmed the surrounding demons, while Master Tongguang tried to flee and found himself trapped in Qin Zheng’s chaotic void.

• Master Tongguang declared that Qin Zheng was not a Jade Void disciple, and the white-furred Lion Demon confirmed the claim with the Demon Court before deciding to attack.
• Shi Fanxin, Wang Chongshan, and Fan Qingyun shielded Qin Zheng from the demons’ killing intent, but the Lion Demon shattered Shi Fanxin’s golden Buddha and struck at Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng killed the Lion Demon with a single blow and revealed his overwhelming Grand Luo Gold Count aura.
• Qin Zheng destroyed nearby Grand Luo demons and trapped the fleeing demons in a chaotic void beneath a vast palm strike.
• Master Tongguang tried to escape, but Qin Zheng’s chaotic void caught him as a beam of white light and a Buddhist chant appeared.

Qin Zheng fought Venerable Monk Kudou, who tried to stop him from slaughtering the Demon Race, and defeated him despite the Imperial Advisor’s powerful Buddhist techniques. As Kudou lay crushed in an abyss, he still threatened Qin Zheng and tried to persuade him to enter the Buddhist sect in his next life.

• Venerable Monk Kudou intervened as Qin Zheng killed the Demon Race’s Grand Luo cultivators, but Qin Zheng shattered Kudou’s Buddha palm and severed his arm with a punch.
• Qin Zheng mocked Kudou’s anger, unsettling Shi Fanxin’s faith, before Kudou regenerated his arm and attacked with Buddha Moves Mountains and Rivers.
• Qin Zheng countered Kudou’s attack with the Dao essences of Infinity and Creation and blasted him into an abyss.
• In the Immortal Capital, the Immortal Dynasty Emperor declined to intervene, while Kudou left to confront Qin Zheng; the Emperor remarked that a heart in turmoil could no longer see clearly.
• Qin Zheng approached the badly wounded Kudou, who pleaded for help and offered him reincarnation and a future in Buddhism, then crushed him beneath his foot.

Qin Zheng watched a Jade Void Palace youth intervene after he defeated Venerable Monk Kudou, then saw the youth defend him against the Demon Court’s demand for payment. The Demon Court’s threat escalated into a confrontation between ancient sacred grounds, while the Immortal Dynasty Emperor ordered his court to stay out of it.

• Qin Zheng refused to refine the Bodhisattva Sarira and emerged from the abyss after killing many Great Luo experts.
• Venerable Monk Kudou attacked Qin Zheng in his true form, but a Jade Void Palace youth restrained him and warned that he could not be killed.
• The youth struck Kudou for insulting Jade Void Palace, took two sariras from him, and summoned the Demon Court and Spirit Mountain experts to settle the dispute.
• When the Demon Court’s burly expert demanded compensation for its dead, the youth declared Qin Zheng his junior brother and beat the demon nearly to death.
• The Demon Court summoned its ancient palace, but Jade Void Palace and Biyu Palace appeared in response and challenged it.
• The Immortal Dynasty Emperor told his officials not to interfere as the three powers’ auras spread across the Vast Continent.

Jade Void Palace and Biyu Palace forced the Demon Court to retreat after Qin Zheng’s conflict with the Demon Race, and the factions gathered at the battlefield settled their affairs. Xu Donglai then invited Qin Zheng to Jade Void Palace, confirming the sect would protect him and leaving with him through a portal.

• Jade Void Palace sent a compensation item to the Demon Court and threatened war, prompting the Demon Court to withdraw rather than fight.
• Xu Donglai confronted the Demon Race burly man, while a gloomy young man took the man’s head and fled after clashing with Xu Donglai.
• Duhai freed Venerable Monk Kudou, accepted responsibility for his conduct, gave Qin Zheng a Bodhisattva Sarira, and departed with Kudou and Shi Fanxin.
• Qin Zheng thanked Xu Donglai, who explained why Kudou and the demon could not be killed and promised that Jade Void Palace would defend Qin Zheng if his life was threatened.
• Qin Zheng gave Wang Chongshan and Fan Qingyun two Grand Luo Gold Count magic treasures as thanks for guiding him.
• Xu Donglai opened a void rift and left with Qin Zheng for Jade Void Palace.

Qin Zheng arrived at the Jade Void Palace and learned from its Eldest Senior Brother, Pei Qin Hu, about the nine divine treasuries and the sleeping Hunyuan powers on the Vast Continent. Pei Qin Hu warned that Spirit Mountain’s candidate had the best chance of becoming a new Hunyuan, leaving Qin Zheng alert to the coming shift in power.

• Qin Zheng arrived at the Jade Void Palace, where Xu Donglai introduced him to four disciples and Ling Jingwan accused him of stealing the palace’s seals.
• Pei Qin Hu welcomed Qin Zheng privately, and Qin Zheng recognized that Pei Qin Hu was an exceptionally powerful Grand Luo rather than a Hunyuan.
• Pei Qin Hu explained that Qin Zheng had opened seven divine treasuries and that opening the ninth, the Grand Luo Divine Treasury, could lead directly to Hunyuan.
• Pei Qin Hu identified himself as a disciple of Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate, and Qin Zheng said he had cultivated without a master.
• Pei Qin Hu revealed that the Hunyuan powers of the Demon Court, Spirit Mountain, and Immortal Gods were asleep, and said Spirit Mountain had the strongest candidate to achieve Hunyuan next.

Qin Zheng learned from Pei Qin Hu that the Vast Expanse lay beyond the Thirty-Six Heavens and that Pei Qin Hu’s teacher had murmured about the Heavenly Emperor. After Qin Zheng pressed him about why he had saved him, Pei Qin Hu revealed that he believed Qin Zheng possessed his Patriarch’s ritual implement and asked to borrow it.

• Qin Zheng told Pei Qin Hu that he came from the Yuantong Primordial Cave Heaven, and Pei Qin Hu explained that the Vast Expanse lay outside the Thirty-Six Heavens.
• Qin Zheng described the Yuantong Primordial Cave Heaven’s sealed state and asked Pei Qin Hu about the Nine Heavens battle, but Pei Qin Hu said his teacher had not shared its details.
• Pei Qin Hu told Qin Zheng that his teacher often murmured the words “Heavenly Emperor,” leading Qin Zheng to suspect the battle was connected to the ruler of the Heavenly Court.
• Qin Zheng asked Pei Qin Hu why he had risked fighting the Demon Court to save him, and Pei Qin Hu said he believed Qin Zheng possessed his Patriarch’s ritual implement and asked to borrow it.

Pei Qin Hu asked Qin Zheng to enter the Sea of Rules and retrieve wondrous objects that could heal Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s Dao Injuries. Qin Zheng agreed to go, then secluded himself in Jade Void Palace and began refining demon cores to advance his cultivation.

• Pei Qin Hu explained that Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate had been asleep for a million years and risked losing his consciousness by assimilating with the Great Dao.
• Pei Qin Hu described the Sea of Rules and a treasure ground found by his second junior brother, which only Hunyuan could enter through its violent surrounding rules.
• Qin Zheng refused to lend the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi but agreed to travel to the Sea of Rules himself, and Pei Qin Hu promised the twelve disciples of Jade Void Palace would owe him a favor.
• Pei Qin Zheng learned that Biyu Palace’s people had likely returned to the Sea of Rules and that there was no Eight Views Palace on the Vast Continent.
• Qin Zheng entered a meditation chamber, sealed off its surroundings, brought out the Pagoda Fragment, and began refining Grand Luo Demon Cores to complete his remaining Divine Treasuries and possibly open the Great Dao and Grand Luo Divine Treasuries.

Qin Zheng perfected all seven Divine Treasuries, but a vision of a powerful Emperor nearly destroyed his consciousness and revealed an eighth Divine Treasury. After awakening, Qin Zheng sensed a scarlet karmic thread reaching for him and struck at it with the Jade Ruyi and Immortal Slaying Sword.

• Pei Qin Hu told the Jade Void disciples that Qin Zheng had opened seven Divine Treasuries, was from the Thirty-three Heavens, and should be treated as an ally.
• Pei Qin Hu warned the disciples not to ask Qin Zheng to take them to the Thirty-three Heavens and said they would wait for him to retrieve a treasure and awaken Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate.
• Qin Zheng refined demon cores and pills until his Heavenly Secrets Divine Treasury reached perfection, completing all seven he had opened.
• Qin Zheng saw a celestial court and an imperial-robed Emperor who nearly extinguished his consciousness, while an eighth, Great Dao Divine Treasury began to emerge.
• A ray of clear light restored Qin Zheng, and Pei Qin Hu told the Jade Void disciples that all seven of Qin Zheng’s Divine Treasuries had reached perfection.
• Qin Zheng suspected the Emperor was the Heavenly Emperor, then used the Dao One Seal, Jade Ruyi, and Immortal Slaying Sword to cut a scarlet karmic thread reaching toward him.

After surviving a deadly encounter with the Emperor’s figure, Qin Zheng resolved to collect the scattered Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda Fragments across the Vast Continent. He began in Anyang City, where he took a fragment from the Cui Clan, killed its Grand Luo with a single blow, and warned the clan to stop harming commoners.

• Qin Zheng sealed his memories of the Emperor’s figure, completed his seven Divine Treasuries further, and found nearly sixty million strands of Innate Merit on the Merit Scroll.
• Qin Zheng used Tortoise Shell Divination to locate 1,765 Pagoda Fragments and decided to collect those in the Human Immortal Dynasty before searching the Demon Court and Spirit Mountain territories.
• Qin Zheng told Pei Qin Hu and Xu Donglai he would travel alone, while Pei Qin Hu warned him about the Demon Court and Xu Donglai cautioned him against dealing with Spirit Mountain’s monks.
• Pei Qin Hu told Xu Donglai that Jade Void Palace’s plan to awaken their Master would proceed, and ordered him to strike down anyone who interfered.
• In Anyang City, a Cui Clan disciple destroyed a commoner’s home and killed its occupants while taking a glowing fragment, but Qin Zheng appeared and seized it, killing the disciple.
• Qin Zheng effortlessly shattered a Cui Clan Taiyi expert’s attack, struck down the clan’s Grand Luo, and warned him to restrain the clan’s descendants before departing.

Huang Shiwu persuaded Golden Light Arhat to join the Demon Court in targeting Qin Zheng, while Golden Light Arhat sent Master Yin Guang to Golden Light Temple as bait. After discovering a nine-level section of the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda at the temple, Qin Zheng headed there and faced Yin Guang as the Human Immortal Dynasty’s envoys tried to escort him to the capital.

• Huang Shiwu told Golden Light Arhat that the Demon Court planned to kill Qin Zheng and offered Lingshan half of his fortune; Golden Light Arhat agreed to use a Three Corpses body as bait and personally intervene.
• Master Yin Guang left Lingshan for Golden Light Temple, taking a young monk with him and replacing the fallen Master Tongguang as its Great Luo guardian.
• Qin Zheng found another Pagoda Fragment and used Tortoise Shell Divination to see that Golden Light Temple concealed nine levels of the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, with Yin Guang and the young monk bearing intense malice toward him.
• Qin Zheng identified Golden Light Temple and traveled there, while two Immortal Dynasty cultivators pursued him under orders to prevent a conflict within the dynasty.
• At Golden Light Temple, Yin Guang claimed Qin Zheng should visit the temple before the Immortal Capital, and Qin Zheng calmly told the gathered cultivators that the disturbance would not be too great.

Qin Zheng entered Golden Mountain Temple and claimed the nine-story pagoda, which fused with his original seven-story pagoda. Master Yin Guang and the young monk attacked him together, and Qin Zheng prepared to meet their strikes with the power of his seven divine treasuries.

• The four Human Grand Luo Gold Counts held back from intervening as Qin Zheng entered Golden Mountain Temple, while Master Yin Guang assured them the conflict would not harm the Immortal Dynasty's people.
• Qin Zheng went straight to the nine-story pagoda as Master Yin Guang explained how he had found and restored it.
• Qin Zheng broke the monks' Sanskrit restraints, took the pagoda, and fused it with his original seven-story pagoda.
• The young monk transformed into a three-hundred-zhang weasel and attacked Qin Zheng, while Master Yin Guang also struck at him.
• Master Yin Guang's other form appeared at Spirit Mountain and attacked Qin Zheng as Golden Light Arhat, and Qin Zheng invoked the seven divine treasuries to face both strikes.

Qin Zheng killed Golden Light Arhat and Great Immortal Yellow Wind, then defeated the stronger reinforcements from Spirit Mountain and the Demon Court. He headed for the Immortal Capital to find the next Pagoda Fragment, while Pei Qin Hu warned that the factions’ Chaos Primordials were about to awaken.

• Qin Zheng used his perfected seven Divine Treasuries to overwhelm Golden Light Arhat and Great Immortal Yellow Wind, killing them inside Golden Light Temple.
• Spirit Mountain and the Demon Court sent reinforcements, but Qin Zheng killed the white python and Spirit Light Arhat after fighting them in the sky above the temple.
• The four human Grand Luos contained the battle’s shockwaves, while the Demon Court and Spirit Mountain withdrew after sensing Qin Zheng’s strength.
• Qin Zheng learned that the remaining Pagoda Fragments were in the Immortal Capital and agreed to go there with the four human Grand Luos.
• At Jade Void Daoist Ground, Pei Qin Hu told Xu Donglai that the Demon Court and Spirit Mountain had backed down because their Chaos Primordials were about to awaken.

Qin Zheng visited the Human Immortal Capital to collect its Pagoda Fragment and learned from Ye Tianxin that three Hunyuan figures would descend to compete for three blank Great Daos. Qin Zheng agreed to protect Ye Tianxin and the Immortal Dynasty if danger came, then saw pollution qi seeping from a strand of hair Ye Tianxin showed him.

• Qin Zheng entered the Heavenly Palace and met Ye Tianxin, who revealed that he and the Immortal Dynasty Emperor were both manifestations of himself.
• Ye Tianxin gave Qin Zheng the twelve-level pagoda fragment, which Qin Zheng took into his Inner World.
• Ye Tianxin asked whether Qin Zheng considered himself human or a god, then asked him to protect the Human Race if something happened to him.
• Ye Tianxin explained that three Hunyuan figures would awaken and compete for three blank Great Daos at the Water-Land Dharma Assembly three thousand years later, and that he intended to claim one.
• Qin Zheng agreed to guard the Human Immortal Dynasty if Ye Tianxin faced danger, and Ye Tianxin revealed a strand of hair emitting pollution qi.

Qin Zheng discovered that a polluted Daoist named Qi Liushan was being held beneath Ye Tianxin’s heavenly thunder and earthly fire formation, and used Immortal Slaying Sword Qi to suppress the Pollution Qi within him. Qi Liushan revealed that he was Master Sa’s disciple, but his pollution surged again before he could explain what had happened to Master Sa or the Heavenly Court.

• Ye Tianxin showed Qin Zheng the polluted Daoist whose Pollution Qi had been contained by a formation for 1.3 million years.
• Qin Zheng entered the sea of fire, restrained Qi Liushan, and learned from the Merit Scroll that purification would require ten Merit Treasure Crystals and yield ten strands of Great Dao Origin Qi.
• Qin Zheng used Immortal Slaying Sword Qi to weaken the Pollution Qi inside Qi Liushan, who then identified himself as Qi Liushan, a disciple under Master Sa.
• Qi Liushan said Master Sa had been struck down from the Heavenly Court and sent his disciples out, but he could not explain why or describe the Heavenly Court before the Pollution Qi surged again.
• Ye Tianxin knocked Qi Liushan back down when he tried to rise and attack.

Qin Zheng learned how to seek the Great Dao Divine Treasury and set out for the Demon Court to gather the remaining Pagoda Fragments. At Jade Void Palace, Xu Nianqing returned from the Sea of Rules, and Pei Qin Hu chose to watch Qin Zheng’s approach rather than send help.

• Qin Zheng left the polluted Daoist trapped in Ye Tianxin’s formation and received the sealing ground’s location and its controls.
• Ye Tianxin revealed that Qin Zheng could perceive the Great Dao Divine Treasury by drawing near to the Dao, and promised to help deter Lingshan and the Demon Court.
• Qin Zheng reasoned that a powerful Hunyuan from the Three Pure Ones lineage had saved him, then set out for the Demon Court to find the remaining Pagoda Fragments.
• Xu Donglai prepared to retrieve Qin Zheng, but Pei Qin Hu stopped him and said Qin Zheng could withstand the Demon Court’s threats.
• Xu Nianqing returned to Jade Void Palace and reported that the Sea of Rules was growing more violent and that more powerful Lingshan experts had entered it.
• Pei Qin Hu told Xu Nianqing to watch Qin Zheng attempt to enter the Demon Court’s treasured land.

Qin Zheng collected another Pagoda Fragment while the Demon Court debated whether to confront him, and he completed the pagoda’s forty levels in the demon lands. As he prepared to head to Spirit Mountain for the remaining fragments, a mysterious figure asked what divine artifact he was collecting.

• Qin Zheng killed a deer demon and collected its demon core after storing a Pagoda Fragment.
• Qin Zheng considered why the Demon Court had not reacted to his actions, then continued searching for fragments as the pagoda reached thirty-three levels.
• The Demon Court’s leaders debated confronting Qin Zheng, but the Demon Lord dismissed the object he sought as mundane and chose not to act.
• The Demon Lord secretly left the hall in a crimson-gold robe carrying a glowing mirror fragment.
• Qin Zheng uprooted a mountain, collected the last Pagoda Fragment in the demon lands, and brought the pagoda to forty levels.
• Qin Zheng turned toward Spirit Mountain before an unfamiliar voice asked what divine artifact he was collecting.

Qin Zheng fought the Lord of the Demon Court over a divine artifact fragment and revealed the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, Immortal Slaying Sword, and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi. After defeating the Demon Lord’s avatar and erasing its memories from the true body, Qin Zheng claimed the Haotian Realm fragment and learned the Merit Scroll could guide him to its other fragments.

• Qin Zheng met the Lord of the Demon Court in an isolated world, and they fought to a standstill as the world began to destabilize.
• The Demon Lord used the Haotian Realm fragment to attack Qin Zheng, but the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda shielded him from its spatial power.
• Qin Zheng summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, killed the Demon Lord’s avatar, and severed the avatar’s memories from the true body through Dao One Seal.
• Qin Zheng suppressed the Haotian Realm fragment with his three divine artifacts until it submitted and flew into his palm.
• The Merit Scroll revealed that Qin Zheng could expend merit to travel to the locations of the Haotian Realm’s other fragments.

Qin Zheng entered Spirit Mountain to retrieve Pagoda Fragments and discovered that its Buddhist cities concealed a disturbing secret. After taking two fragments, he left the second city wondering how the Buddhist sect had found and enshrined them.

• Yin Rukong suffered a sudden severe injury and discovered that his Haotian Realm fragment and one incarnation had vanished, but he concealed the truth from the other great demons.
• Qin Zheng used the Haotian Realm's power to enter Spirit Mountain undetected and found a Buddhist city where humans and demons lived by chanting and worshipping Buddha.
• Qin Zheng removed a Pagoda Fragment from the city's twelve-story temple pagoda, then struck down the Abbot when the monk attacked him.
• The Abbot recovered, swallowed the worshippers as golden light, and ordered the monks to keep the temple operating before leaving to report the intruder.
• Qin Zheng reached another city and found its Pagoda Fragment enshrined in a similar twelve-story pagoda, leaving him suspicious of how Spirit Mountain's Buddhist sect had found the fragments.

Qin Zheng fought his way through Spirit Mountain to seize the final Pagoda Fragment and completed the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, gaining the Grand Clarity Sage’s Dao charm. Surrounded by Spirit Mountain’s assembled forces, he remained confident he could escape.

• Qin Zheng took the eighth Pagoda Fragment from a temple and then reached the final city, where Arhats had prepared to defend its pagoda.
• Qin Zheng defeated the defending Arhats with the Sky-Opening Seal, but three elderly monks with seven perfected Divine Treasuries arrived as reinforcements.
• The three monks revealed that Spirit Mountain had divided an ancient broken pagoda into nine layers and demanded Qin Zheng return their divine object.
• Qin Zheng repelled the three monks with the Limitless Seal, Sky-Opening Seal, and Dao One Seal, then took the final Pagoda Fragment and completed the forty-nine-story Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Qin Zheng sensed the pagoda’s Dao charm could help him open the Great Dao Divine Treasury, while the three monks recognized it as a Dao Realm Divine Object.
• Spirit Mountain’s numerous experts surrounded Qin Zheng, who noted his eighth Divine Treasury was complete and challenged them to act.