Recaps

Qin Hao overcame his defeat by Pan King, grew into a formidable cultivator, and broke free of his identity as the Heavenly Emperor’s son. Meanwhile, Qin Tian established the five-secret-realm principles of the Yang Spirit System and began developing a Fourth Secret Realm rooted in the mind.

• Black Emperor took Qin Hao to Big Dipper, where Qin Hao rose from Mine Slave to founder of the Northern Region’s largest mining conglomerate.
• Pan King defeated Qin Hao decisively, prompting Qin Hao to abandon reliance on his Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and temper himself with Mortal Body aptitude in the Void God Realm.
• Qin Hao and Yu Feng challenged Pan King repeatedly, eventually wounding him and pushing all three to cultivate harder.
• Qin Hao advanced along the Starry Sky Ancient Road, defeated challengers, and reached Quasi-Emperor within two hundred years while forging his own path.
• Qin Tian fixed the Yang Spirit System at five secret realms and, after recognizing that the physical body’s potential was nearly exhausted, began opening the Fourth Secret Realm through the mind.

Qin Tian opened the fourth secret realm, Heavenly Court, and then established the fifth, Bloodline, completing the Yang Spirit System’s five secret realms. The new method could let cultivators trace their ancestry and inherit the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s bloodline, giving Qin Tian a way to build strength against the Weird Clan.

• Qin Tian forged the Heavenly Court secret realm from his Dao heart, awakening mental power that could reshape rules through will.
• Qin Tian opened 365 bodily apertures and countless inner worlds, where deities gathered under the Heavenly Emperor’s rule.
• Great Emperor Wushi sensed Qin Tian’s breakthrough and reflected on how lofty cultivation realms could obscure the flaws in a new system.
• Qin Tian opened the Bloodline secret realm, using spirit to trace ancestral memories and physiques through time.
• Qin Tian proposed that cultivators could seek the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s bloodline and become his descendants, creating an army to oppose the Weird Clan.
• Qin Tian’s five secret realms manifested as vast Divine Wheels that illuminated the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

Qin Tian faced the Law-Creation Tribulation after opening the Yang Spirit System's Five Great Secret Realms and used the battle to unite them into a new Divine Forbidden Domain. After nine years of tribulation and two years of recovery, he returned to the Heavenly Court alive, where the Jade Lake Saintess welcomed him.

• Qin Tian told the Jade Lake Saintess he would go to Heaven Beyond Heaven to face the Law-Creation Tribulation, and she agreed to wait for him.
• The Law-Creation Tribulation descended with blood-red lightning drawn from the greater Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and Qin Tian fought it in chaos.
• Qin Tian united the Five Great Secret Realms, forming a Yang Spirit System Divine Forbidden Domain and five immense Divine Wheels that helped him withstand the tribulation.
• Yu Feng and Qin Hao witnessed the devastation and wondered how Qin Tian could endure such a terrifying tribulation.
• Qin Tian fought for nine years until the tribulation ended, then spent two years recovering as the Myriad Heavens Divine Wheel restored his body.
• Qin Tian returned to the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Lake Saintess welcomed him.

Qin Tian cultivated his bloodline secret realm to major completion and sought to build an innate mortal body from the strengths of countless ancestors, while Shi Hao resisted his attempt to inherit an Immortal Emperor bloodline. After a thousand years, Qin Tian completed his eighth life and attained immortality in the mortal world, leaving the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands transformed by his ascension.

• Qin Tian traced the bloodline chart through history and tried to absorb Shi Hao's Immortal Emperor bloodline, but Shi Hao rejected him and warned that it would constrain his Great Dao.
• Qin Tian considered inheriting Shi Zhongtian's bloodline instead, but Shi Hao threatened him with a sword, so Qin Tian withdrew and continued toward the Immortal Ancient Era.
• Shi Hao eventually allowed future generations across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds to inherit his bloodline radiance, giving them a trace of Immortal Emperor power and creating anchors that could help him return after death.
• Qin Tian spent a thousand years absorbing ancient bloodlines and rules as his divine wheel grew to span the universe.
• Qin Tian completed his eighth life and became a Red Dust Immortal in the mortal world, while Qin Hao resisted the bloodline power urging him to become a Great Emperor.
• Qin Tian's ascension spread immortal light, immortal qi, and heavenly manifestations throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Qin Tian completed the Yang Spirit System as a path that traced human life back to the Human Ancestor’s creation of humanity, then proclaimed its five secret realms to all living beings. After enduring a century-long tribulation, he survived as a Red Dust Immortal and glimpsed the path toward his ninth lifetime.

• Emperor Venerable sensed Qin Tian’s ascension and, as his primordial spirit began to awaken, marveled that a third Red Dust Immortal had appeared.
• Qin Tian unified the five secret realms and resolved to spread the Yang Spirit System throughout the myriad heavens.
• Qin Tian proclaimed the inner scenery, Dao palace, Haotian, Heavenly Court, and bloodline secret realms, giving living beings insights and bloodline Dao seeds to cultivate the method.
• The creation and spread of Qin Tian’s new path drew down a calamity more terrible than his ascension tribulation.
• Qin Tian endured a century of lightning and fire, using the Glazed Lamp to draw fortune from the tribulation and temper his immortal body.
• Qin Tian passed the tribulation, strengthened his Red Dust Immortal foundation, and glimpsed the doorway to his ninth lifetime.

Qin Tian prepared to explore the Foreign Realm, leaving Ye Fan in charge of the Heavenly Court as he crossed the rift between worlds. He emerged in the Foreign Realm covered in blood, and his exploration began.

• Ye Fan survived his Dao-forming tribulation and attained the Dao as a Great Emperor, while Su Yunxian was revealed to have attained the Dao already.
• Over a thousand prodigies attempted Dao-forming tribulations, but the laws left by Qin Tian and Ye Fan suppressed their chances of attaining the Dao for ten thousand years.
• Qin Tian told the Jade Lake Saintess he would investigate the Foreign Realm and handed the Heavenly Court's authority to Ye Fan before departing.
• Qin Tian met Heavenly Venerable Lingbao at the Primordial Ancient Star and said they needed to learn the Foreign Realm's situation.
• Qin Tian activated the immortal formation, crossed the spacetime rift, and emerged in the Foreign Realm covered in blood.

Qin Tian traced the Foreign Realm’s past and discovered that the Weird Clan’s gray substance had turned an Immortal Domain victory into defeat, establishing the world as a bridgehead. He found An Lan and Yu Tuo awakening on a vast altar and began testing the gray substance while searching for a way to stop them.

• Qin Tian used his double pupils to witness the Immortal Domain’s forces fighting the Foreign Realm’s beings in the past.
• A Supreme-level being raised a Yin Crow statue, whose gray substance infected the battlefield and let the Weird Clan seize control of the Foreign Realm.
• Qin Tian learned that the battle had happened fifty thousand years earlier and realized the Foreign Realm had become a Weird Clan bridgehead.
• Qin Tian found a sacred altar surrounded by dragon veins and burial pits, where the Weird Clan revived the dead as war generals.
• Qin Tian discovered An Lan and Yu Tuo absorbing gray substance to break the Emperor Dao seals on their bodies.
• Qin Tian tested the gray substance and found that, unlike dark matter, it still affected him despite his resistance.

Qin Tian seized and exiled the deity statue, then crushed the Foreign Realm’s Quasi-Immortal King and defeated nearly all of its Undying Ones. When the statue returned in the form of a huge raven dharma manifestation, Qin Tian prepared to face it.

• Qin Tian used the gray substance to disguise himself, sealed the deity statue in a wooden box, and exiled it through layers of space.
• Qin Tian shattered a Quasi-Immortal King’s attack, defeated him, and destroyed An Lan’s battle spear before killing him with the World-Extinguishing Millstone.
• Qin Tian stopped the Quasi-Immortal King from calling for help, then fought the Foreign Realm’s twenty-seven Immortal Dao beings and killed all but one.
• Qin Tian discovered the survivor had orchestrated the war fifty thousand years earlier and awakened the deity’s manifestation before Qin Tian killed him.
• The sealed statue returned as a raven dharma manifestation, and Qin Tian challenged it with his Quasi-Immortal King aura.

Qin Tian rejected Raven’s offer to join the Weird Clan and destroyed Raven’s Immortal King Dharma Manifestation in battle. Raven vowed revenge, while Qin Tian expected to grow powerful enough that the Immortal King might arrive too late to challenge him.

• Raven showed Qin Tian a vision of the Weird Clan’s future harvest of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds and offered him an Immortal King Dao Fruit if he submitted.
• Qin Tian refused and declared that he would protect all living beings and destroy Weirdness, then fought Raven’s Dharma Manifestation.
• After Qin Tian tore apart Raven’s attacks, Raven mistook him for a descendant of the Desolate Heaven Emperor, but Qin Tian denied any connection.
• Qin Tian activated the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and Emperor Venerable’s immortal art, smashing Raven’s Dharma Manifestation apart.
• Qin Tian used the Three Essentials Unite as One Great Immortal Art to destroy Raven’s restored Dharma Manifestation and suppress its scattered Dao Principles.
• Raven vowed to find and kill Qin Tian, who calmly invited him to come and thought that waiting too long could leave Raven facing a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

Qin Tian captured the Immortal King Corpses An Lan and Yu Tuo, but a Weird Clan Quasi-Immortal Emperor crossed the River of Time to seize him. Just as Qin Tian's attempt to summon help seemed to fail, a powerful being arrived to intervene.

• Qin Tian decided to take An Lan and Yu Tuo's Immortal King Corpses back to study, then stored them in his bitter sea.
• A Weird Clan Quasi-Immortal Emperor traveled from the future, using Crow's encounter with Qin Tian to locate him and freeze him in place.
• The Quasi-Immortal Emperor announced that the Ancestor wanted Qin Tian and offered him the possibility of becoming the clan's Eleventh Immortal Emperor.
• Qin Tian resisted and used Dao Illuminating the Years in an attempt to summon aid from his future self, but no response appeared at first.
• As the Quasi-Immortal Emperor reached to take Qin Tian, an overwhelming force halted the River of Time and a being shrouded in Emperor Dao laws arrived.

Shi Fan, the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s son, arrived in the River of Time to rescue Qin Tian and confronted the future Quasi-Immortal Emperor. Their battle began, leaving the enemy bleeding and the River of Time frozen.

• Shi Fan appeared in the River of Time and freed Qin Tian from the future Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s restraints.
• Qin Tian recognized Shi Fan as Huang’s son and learned that his father had sent him to help.
• Shi Fan and the future Quasi-Immortal Emperor clashed, unleashing power that threatened the surrounding worlds.
• The future Quasi-Immortal Emperor tried to seize Qin Tian, but Shi Fan intercepted him.
• Shi Fan wounded his opponent, while the strain of time travel and their battle caused Emperor Blood to fall and time to stop.

Shi Fan used He Transforms into Eternity to fight a weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor, who revealed that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had died in the future. Shi Fan resolved to protect his father’s last thread of life and cornered the enemy in the river of time, where he prepared to finish him with the Emperor-Slaying War Spear.

• Shi Fan manifested his past self, Willow Deity, and Footprint Emperor through He Transforms into Eternity and attacked the weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• The weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor claimed that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had died in the future, shocking Shi Fan and Qin Tian.
• The weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor blamed Qin Tian for sustaining Huang’s last thread of life and tried to kill him, but Shi Fan intervened.
• Shi Fan and his three manifestations blocked the enemy’s escape and wounded him with their combined attacks.
• The weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor brought out an ancient bell and burned his origin, but Shi Fan sealed the area with emperor fire and struck with the Emperor-Slaying War Spear.

Shi Fan and his three incarnations fought a Weirdness Quasi-Immortal Emperor, while the Weirdness Immortal Emperor sent an army through time to kill Qin Tian. Qin Tian battled three Weirdness Immortal Kings in the past and summoned allies with He Transforms at Ease as the fight continued.

• The Weirdness Quasi-Immortal Emperor summoned power from the Weirdness Immortal Emperor, who ordered him to capture Qin Tian and granted him Immortal Emperor power.
• The Weirdness Immortal Emperor sent an army of Quasi-Immortal Emperors and Immortal Kings into the past, but Shi Hao’s sword light killed nearly all of them, leaving three Immortal Kings to escape upstream.
• Qin Tian tried to leave the Quasi-Immortal Emperor battlefield, but the three surviving Immortal Kings found him and attacked.
• Qin Tian unleashed his full power and fought the three Immortal Kings in the River of Time, injuring one but suffering a serious wound himself.
• Qin Tian used He Transforms at Ease to summon Willow Deity, Shi Fan, and Footprint Emperor to fight beside him.

Qin Tian fought three weird Immortal Kings across the River of Time, eventually sealing them despite sustaining devastating injuries. After falling into the past, he arrived in the Great Wilderness during the Chaotic Ancient Era, where brilliant immortal light descended from above.

• Qin Tian and his manifestations battled the three Immortal Kings, and he broke through a temporal boundary to glimpse the Mythic Battlefield of the Immortal Ancient Era.
• The manifestations faded, leaving Qin Tian to fight the Kings alone; under the pressure of battle, he broke through his limits and gained the power to overpower an Immortal King.
• Qin Tian's origin power ran out, but his manifestations returned as the Kings' protection from cause and effect faded, allowing him to defeat them and seal their origins in the River of Time.
• Worn out and unable to maintain his transcendence, Qin Tian fell into the River of Time and landed in a ruined world in the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• Brilliant immortal light descended into the Great Wilderness, marking the end of the Shrouding the Heavens arc and the beginning of Perfect World.

Qin Tian endured the River of Time’s tribulation and arrived in Stone Village, where the Willow Deity helped suppress his aura as he recovered. Half a year later, Little One fed him beast milk, and Qin Tian explained to the Willow Deity why he could remain in the past temporarily.

• Qin Tian crossed into the past through the River of Time, endured its tribulation, and fell into Stone Village beside the Willow Deity.
• The Willow Deity removed the remaining tribulation power from Qin Tian and gave him divine liquid, recognizing signs of one of the Ten Fiends.
• For half a year, Qin Tian’s breathing drew spiritual energy into Stone Village, helping nourish the villagers as the Willow Deity absorbed most of it.
• Little One visited Qin Tian and poured beast milk into his mouth, giving his damaged body a small amount of divine substance.
• Qin Tian thanked Little One and sent him to ask the Old Village Chief for more beast milk.
• The Willow Deity questioned Qin Tian about coming from the future, and Qin Tian explained that this lifetime’s tangled cause and effect let him remain temporarily.

Qin Tian recovered in Stone Village, studied the Primordial True Explanation, and began guiding Shi Hao while considering a new path to regain his strength. The secret realm method remained sealed by the power of time, so he resolved to rely on his Yang God Dao for now.

• Qin Tian settled in Stone Village, where Little One cared for him with beast milk as he examined his shattered cultivation and secret realms.
• Qin Tian accepted Shi Yunfeng's request to guide Little One and received the Divine Guidance volume of the Primordial True Explanation.
• Qin Tian studied the bone scripture and devised a breathing method that helped Little One rapidly improve but depleted Stone Village's food stores.
• Little One defeated Bei Village's Divine Archer after the villagers went hunting for food.
• Qin Tian considered following Willow Deity's example to rebuild his cultivation from the human dao, but found the secret realm method sealed and chose to rely on his Yang God Dao.

Qin Tian contemplated the Willow Deity Method and began creating a withering-and-flourishing nirvana method to recover from his ruined state. He remained trapped by Immortal King curses, but planned to seek help from the nearby Immortal King spirits and take Little One to the Void God Realm for his own evolution.

• Qin Tian used the Willow Deity Method as the basis for a personal nirvana method, and his contemplation awakened the Willow Deity’s memories of her technique.
• The Willow Deity transformed, grew nine new willow branches, and restored much of her trunk’s vitality.
• Qin Tian realized Immortal King curses left by his enemies were destroying his foundation and preventing him from recovering, so he considered asking the Immortal Gold Daoist and Second Under Heaven to remove them.
• Qin Tian recognized that the Eight Regions’ fear of his lightning tribulation had temporarily halted the struggle over the Mountain Treasure, but expected the factions to return once that fear faded.
• Qin Tian decided Little One could use the Mountain Treasure’s techniques and prepared to take him to the Void God Realm after his 108,000-li training journey.

Qin Tian and the Willow Deity entered the Void God Realm with Little One so Qin Tian could study its laws and seek a way to remove his curses. Little One earned the name Loves Drinking Beast Milk after breaking the initial passage, while Qin Tian began using his powers to uncover the past of Essence Wall Grandpa and Lord Bird.

• The Willow Deity opened a gate to the Void God Realm and sent Little One and Qin Tian inside.
• Qin Tian let Little One explore alone while he studied the realm's laws and the Willow Deity drew upon its remaining power.
• Little One dug treasured bones from the initial passage, earning a primordial treasured bone and drawing a crowd's attention.
• Little One entered Loves Drinking Beast Milk on the Void God Realm's record stele, and Qin Tian recorded the moment.
• A Venerable sensed Qin Tian's dangerous aura, and Qin Tian admitted his injuries had weakened his control.
• Qin Tian pulled Essence Wall Grandpa and Lord Bird aside and used a secret technique to trace their true spirits and recover their memories.

Qin Tian awakened Essence Wall Grandpa and Lord Bird, then asked them to help deal with the curses covering him. After they led him to the Void God Realm’s prison, his idea of sacrificing Weird Clan beings threatened to distort the future, so the Desolate Heaven Emperor and two other taboo powers concealed it.

• Qin Tian used Buddhist Dao power to restore Essence Wall Grandpa and Lord Bird’s memories, then asked them to remove his curses.
• Essence Wall Grandpa and Lord Bird explained that they could not remove the curses, but agreed to transfer them onto the Dark Immortal Kings imprisoned in the Void God Realm.
• Immortal Gold Daoist and Second Under Heaven led Qin Tian through the Void God Realm’s prison, where they showed him sealed Dark Creatures and their bodies.
• Qin Tian realized that Weird Clan primordial spirits and lives might be sacrificed to the Lord of the Plateau, imagining a cycle of slaughter and sacrifice that would devastate the Weird Clan.
• The Desolate Heaven Emperor saw the dangerous future Qin Tian’s idea created and used He Transforms at Ease, while Dao Illuminating the Years and One Leaf Shrouding the Heavens concealed it from the Weird Ancestors.

Qin Tian transferred the curses afflicting him onto sealed prisoners in the Void God Realm, clearing his body while helping Immortal Gold Daoist and Second Under Heaven recover. He revealed that he was a Red Dust Immortal who had lived eight lives, leaving the Immortal Kings stunned and eager to learn what power he might reach.

• Qin Tian used a karmic Glazed Lamp to transfer his curses onto the Stone Embryos and prisoners sealed in the Void God Realm.
• The curses weakened the imprisoned Dark Immortal Kings, who attacked Qin Tian and tried to break the seal, but Immortal Gold Daoist and Second Under Heaven held them back.
• Willow Deity arrived, and Second Under Heaven and Immortal Gold Daoist praised Qin Tian while she kept his origins secret.
• Qin Tian severed every curse, and the Void God Realm grew stronger as Immortal Gold Daoist and Second Under Heaven recovered.
• Immortal Gold Daoist and Second Under Heaven asked Qin Tian what kind of immortal he was, and he identified himself as a Red Dust Immortal who had lived eight lives.
• Second Under Heaven and Immortal Gold Daoist realized that Qin Tian might surpass the level of Immortal Kings and stared at him with fervent interest.

The True Dragon's lingering will asked Second Under Heaven to protect his deficient crimson dragon egg, whose hatching would consume the last of the True Dragon's strength. Unable to leave his cage, Second Under Heaven asked Qin Tian and the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit to help, and Qin Tian agreed to investigate the True Dragon.

• The True Dragon sensed Second Under Heaven's aura and remembered his old rival, then asked him to help his child hatch and survive.
• Second Under Heaven explained that he could not leave his cage, but said the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit and a Red Dust Immortal could help.
• The True Dragon praised the Red Dust Immortal's attainment and asked Second Under Heaven to contact them.
• Second Under Heaven told Qin Tian about the True Dragon's request, and Qin Tian recognized that his awakening of Second Under Heaven had drawn the True Dragon's attention.
• Qin Tian decided to go see the pure-blooded True Dragon and compare it with his own Innate Mortal Body.

Qin Tian brought the True Dragon’s lingering obsession and Chaos Dragon Nest to Stone Village, where he used the Phoenix Treasure Art and a withered Treasure Medicine to hatch the True Dragon egg. The newborn, named Ge Gu, immediately confronted Little One for wanting to eat him.

• Qin Tian restored the True Dragon’s strength with yin virtue divine light and carried his Chaos Dragon Nest to Stone Village.
• The True Dragon reunited with the Willow Deity, while Little One eagerly asked whether the legendary creature had dragon milk.
• The True Dragon gave Qin Tian a Bone Mirror to help the egg, but Qin Tian used the Phoenix Treasure Art instead to nourish it.
• Little One debated eating the egg and suggested roasting the two lifeless eggs nearby, angering the True Dragon.
• A Five-Colored Sparrow brought a withered Treasure Medicine, which Qin Tian fused into the egg, helping it hatch into a crimson True Dragon.
• The newborn True Dragon, Ge Gu, confronted Little One for wanting to eat him.

Little One defeated the newborn True Dragon Ge Gu in their first fight, earning Ge Gu’s promise to keep challenging him. Qin Tian offered to teach Ge Gu the True Dragon Treasure Technique, and the chapter ended with Ge Gu accepting his defeat but demanding a rematch in a few days.

• Little One challenged Ge Gu to a fight, wagering that Ge Gu would become his disciple if he lost, and Ge Gu confidently agreed.
• Ge Gu failed to summon the True Dragon Treasure Technique, so Qin Tian demonstrated it and offered to teach him after the fight.
• Little One and Ge Gu battled as Ge Gu rapidly grew stronger, while Little One used his combat experience and the Primordial True Explanation to keep pace.
• Little One seized Ge Gu by the horn and tail and kicked his belly, defeating him in their first battle.
• The True Dragon comforted Ge Gu, who recovered his resolve and demanded a rematch with Little One in a few days.

Little One and Ge Gu’s mischief drove the fierce beasts away from Stone Village, while their teasing about Qin Tian’s resemblance to Little One stirred up questions about family. Qin Tian restored Little One’s memories, then punished Ge Gu for inventing a tragic backstory about him.

• Little One and Ge Gu learned the True Dragon Treasure Technique, then roamed the Great Wilderness stealing bird eggs and roasting them with dragon flame.
• With Ge Gu’s True Dragon bloodline frightening away nearby beasts, Little One mistook their disappearance for a sign that the battle for the Mountain Treasure had begun and hurried to tell Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian confirmed that the Mountain Treasure battle was underway, while Ge Gu asked whether he and Little One were related because they looked so alike.
• Ge Gu invented stories about Qin Tian abandoning Little One and later returning in secret, leaving Little One upset and Qin Tian exasperated.
• Qin Tian awakened Little One’s memories of his past, and Little One remembered that Qin Tian was not his father or brother.
• Qin Tian bound Ge Gu with a lightning whip and sent him into the sea to temper his body, while Little One turned away rather than watch.

Qin Tian seized the Supreme Hall and brought the Vermilion Bird and Furry Ball to Stone Village, where they discovered its extraordinary treasures and a battered True Dragon. After Little One and Ge Gu endured Qin Tian’s harsh training and unlocked eight Grotto-Heavens, Little One went home to drink beast milk alongside Qin Tian.

• The Mountain Treasure appeared, and Qin Tian recognized it as the Supreme Hall inheritance before flicking away the four creatures fighting over it and taking the treasure.
• Qin Tian brought the Vermilion Bird and Furry Ball to Stone Village, where they saw the Chaos Dragon Nest, the Willow Tree, and the exhausted True Dragon Ge Gu.
• Ge Gu recalled that Qin Tian had sealed his and Little One’s qi and blood and chased them toward a towering Divine Mountain as part of their training.
• Little One and Ge Gu endured the training, unlocked eight Grotto-Heavens, and became exhausted; Ge Gu collapsed in a pool after eating two pure-blooded creatures.
• Little One went home to boil beast milk, while he and Qin Tian each reasoned that drinking it was perfectly justified.