Recaps

Qin Siyang passed the Land-Carrying Mirage’s trial, claimed Fire Island, and broke through to domain sequence level four. After the First Domain attacked, he and his allies wiped out its expedition while Qin Siyang’s cultivation left him preparing to pursue level five.

• Qin Siyang broke through the Ice Crystal Maze by striking Fire Island’s fissure, whose crimson flames destroyed the trial’s monsters, and the Land-Carrying Mirage awarded him the island and its Island Mark.
• The Land-Carrying Mirage canceled the optional second phase, and Fire Island merged into Qin Siyang’s golden domain as he advanced to domain sequence level three.
• Qin Siyang summoned Fire Island for his companions, but Elbridge and Monroe’s forces approached and used [Shackles] to lock down skills across the island.
• Qin Siyang and his allies fought Elbridge’s expedition, with Qin Siyang killing Monroe and Elbridge and the others wiping out the remaining First Domain fighters.
• Qin Siyang taught his companions how to attempt the Large Gods’ trials, then used Fire Island’s fissure flame to cook God Remains and produce Divine Feast Fragrance.
• Qin Siyang reached domain sequence level four as the Mountain-River Cauldron Lord and gained upgraded God Eater skills and Domain Summoning.
• At the First Domain’s Round Table Meeting, the nobles learned that Elbridge, Monroe, and Baron Henry’s forces had been killed, while Zhong Dingming’s offer of cooperation was rejected.
• Hu Chan told Qin Siyang that he had passed all seven Large Gods’ trials and relayed the message, “Twelve first clears, level five,” so Qin Siyang continued cultivating toward level five.

Qin Siyang followed the Old Voyage into the Second Domain, where he defeated Alan and survived its sacrificial registry with help from a mysterious Woman. Inside the Sunken Star Manta Ray, he met Yao Kuoshen, who gave him a skill and began searching for a way to help him meet the requirement to kill a Large God.

• Qin Siyang explored the Sunken Star Currents and learned that the Old Voyage led to a ruined Second Domain where its people had killed a Large God.
• Qin Siyang entered the Star Stream, destroyed the slave brands on the risen corpses, and met Ada Moreau, who explained that the registry was marking him for sacrifice.
• Qin Siyang fought Alan for the Slave Registry Ledger and defeated him when his Foundation of Self-Enlightenment devoured Alan’s.
• Qin Siyang tried to claim the ledger, but Bedel revealed herself as the former Domain Master and attempted to sacrifice him, and Qin Siyang reversed the ritual, destroying her.
• An ancient figure began sacrificing Qin Siyang, but the Woman sensed it and met its gaze, causing it to abandon the sacrifice and erase his Registry Offering Mark.
• Qin Siyang found the Sunken Star Manta Ray’s corpse and was pulled inside, where he met the dying Yao Kuoshen.
• Yao Kuoshen gave Qin Siyang [Star Stream Decomposition] and offered his corpse in exchange for news of his death reaching his kind.
• Qin Siyang asked whether Yao Kuoshen’s death could unlock his skill, and Yao Kuoshen searched the [succession star competition] contract for a way to help.

Qin Siyang returned to the Safe Zone, mourned the people he had lost, and prepared a mass hunt for the Large God behind the disappearances. His search led him into Patterned Fox Village, where he uncovered the trial’s deception and brought more than a hundred thousand people to attack the Patterned Fox.

• Qin Siyang put Star Ray to sleep with [Dream Illusion], unlocked [World Devourer] by killing a Large God, and later packed away Star Ray’s corpse before Madison ambushed him.
• Qin Siyang escaped Madison’s Upside-Down Royal Court with [Feast Kingdom] and returned to the Eighth Domain, where he learned more about Gu Weilong’s sacrifice and grieved with Gu Weirong.
• Qin Siyang visited his friends and the families of the dead, reunited with Wen Shu, and learned that she was a God who could not promise they would have a future together.
• Qin Siyang concluded that a Large God was killing Domain Sequence Ability Users and proposed that tens of thousands of people attack one together.
• Qin Siyang gained the Safe Zone leaders’ approval for the expedition, while Chu Baxing, Zhao Sifang, Hu Chan, Old Johnny, Olof, and others volunteered to help.
• Qin Siyang entered Patterned Fox Village, met Zhou Maoyi and the trapped villagers, and realized the black markings and their dominant traits were part of the trial’s deception.
• Qin Siyang recognized the mountain ridge as the real Patterned Fox, brought more than a hundred thousand people out of his Spatial Artifact, and led the attack with Hu Chan, Olof, Zhao Sifang, and Yu Yongyou’s troops.

Qin Siyang led the Eighth Domain to kill the Patterned Fox and Adams, while he learned what he needed to become Star Lord and the First Domain’s rulers lost control of events. The arc left the Eighth Domain celebrating its victories, Zhang Kuang mourning Old Johnny, and Duke Henry warning the remaining nobles not to provoke Qin Siyang.

• Qin Siyang and Chu Baxing’s army defeated the Patterned Fox, and Qin Siyang displayed its remains across River Ridge before the Eighth Domain celebrated the start of the Genesis Era.
• Qin Siyang cleared First Domain operatives from the Eighth Domain’s borders as the United Government formed an Exploration Department and mapped several domains.
• Qin Siyang learned that he needed to reach the highest sequence level on Earth and become renowned as its strongest traceable living fighter to qualify for the Star Lord competition.
• Frost Tiger revealed that he was a Pathslayer assigned to kill Qin Siyang, but Hu Beiyin persuaded the Dawn Horses to become his Original Followers.
• Adams ambushed Qin Siyang when Qin summoned his island, but Qin’s forces stopped Adams’s escape and killed him after he used Zhang Kuang as a hostage.
• Old Johnny resurrected Zhang Kuang at the cost of his own life, and Zhang Kuang refused to let Li Tianming erase his memories of their brotherhood.
• Zhang Kuang buried Old Johnny, while news of Adams’s death destabilized the First Domain and Duke Henry warned its remaining nobles not to trouble Qin Siyang.