Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian, a transmigrator and former sect disciple now enslaved in the Yaoguang Holy Land’s mines, used his intuition and rising fortune to discover a divine source. He suppressed an imminent cultivation breakthrough to avoid punishment and hoped his fortune would eventually rival his son Wang Teng’s.

• Qin Tian recalled how horse bandits destroyed his sect, killed his master, and sold him into the Northern Region mines three years earlier.
• A Yaoguang Holy Land steward whipped a mine slave for hiding a piece of Heterogeneous Source and warned the other miners not to steal.
• Qin Tian avoided the other miners and followed his intuition into a branch vein, where he uncovered a dazzling divine source.
• The divine source’s spiritual essence stirred Qin Tian’s Bitter Sea and nearly advanced his cultivation, but he suppressed the breakthrough because miners were punished for changing realms.
• Qin Tian celebrated his discovery and believed his ritual was increasing his Qi of Fortune, bringing him closer to matching his son Wang Teng.

Qin Tian used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to hide a hundred jin of Divine Source and returned to mining, then confronted a gang extorting source from the miners. After years of keeping his head down, he decided to test the mine’s authorities, and struck down a man who tried to stop him.

• Qin Tian opened a Temporal-Spatial Realm with his eyes and stashed the Divine Source alongside his hidden hoard of Source Stones.
• Qin Tian met his daily mining quota and headed for the exit without needing to work overtime.
• A group of Life Spring cultivators blocked the miners and stole a high-quality Source Stone from each person.
• An old man warned Qin Tian not to challenge the gang, but Qin Tian resolved to stop enduring after years of slavery and thoughts of revenge.
• Qin Tian walked toward the exit, and when a short man stepped up to stop him, a tremendous crash rang through the mine.

Qin Tian defeated the mine’s bullies, reclaimed the stolen source, and planned to resist the Yaoguang Holy Land while secretly purchasing beast milk for a ritual meant to improve his fortune. He left with the ritual’s supplies and wages, while the god he worshipped was revealed to be a Dao Ancestor and Path-End Immortal Emperor.

• Qin Tian beat the Life Spring Burly Man and his followers, then made the miners reclaim their source stones.
• A Divine Bridge Realm newcomer arrived to challenge the miners, but a Yaoguang Holy Land steward sent everyone back to work.
• Qin Tian hid his temporal-spatial realm from the Yaoguang Mirror and collected one hundred and thirty bottles of source liquid as wages.
• Qin Tian bought beast milk from the proprietor as the central component of his faith ritual, which he hoped would improve his aptitude and fortune.
• Qin Tian invited the shopkeepers to worship his god, and the narration revealed that the god was a Dao Ancestor and Path-End Immortal Emperor.

Qin Tian worshipped Shi Hao as the founding patriarch, believing that his offerings let him share in the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s fortune. After drinking the offered beast milk, Qin Tian sensed another opportunity and discovered a Divine Source Fruit hidden in a stone.

• Qin Tian placed a tablet bearing Shi Hao’s name on his altar and offered him premium beast milk.
• Qin Tian reasoned that worshipping Shi Hao let him draw on the founding patriarch’s fortune, making him unusually lucky.
• Qin Tian drank the beast milk after the incense burned out.
• Qin Tian sensed an opportunity in his stone house, broke open a stone, and found a Divine Source Fruit inside.

Qin Tian consumed a Divine Source Fruit and broke through from the Sea of Bitterness into the Life Spring realm by comprehending the Kunpeng Method. He left the breakthrough with a new understanding of the secret realm cultivation system and traces of a Kunpeng technique.

• Qin Tian swallowed the Divine Source Fruit, which opened hidden gates in his body and strengthened his fundamental essence.
• Qin Tian used the fruit’s remaining medicinal power to attack his Bitter Sea and seek a breakthrough into the Life Spring realm.
• Qin Tian recalled how the Great Bandits had stolen his sect’s Dao Scripture Life Spring Chapter, murdered his friends and family, and sold him into slavery.
• Qin Tian visualized a Kunpeng and connected the Kunpeng Method’s transformations of life and death, yin and yang, to his Bitter Sea and Life Spring.
• Qin Tian opened a divine spring within his Bitter Sea, witnessed visions of Immortal Kings, a Kunpeng, and a Green Lotus, and assumed a fist stance with golden Kunpeng wings behind him.
• Qin Tian successfully entered the Life Spring realm.

After reaching the Life Spring Realm, Qin Tian experienced the freedom of flight and suppressed the divine power stirred by his longing to escape. He weighed the risks of forging a weapon and resolved to forge a diagram before leaving the Yaoguang Mine.

• Qin Tian flew through the sky for an hour, overwhelmed by the freedom and remembering his years as a mining slave.
• Qin Tian suppressed his surging divine power and used his Spirit Eyes to glimpse a future opportunity to leave openly.
• Qin Tian’s Life Spring formed, and fifty-five new Divine Patterns appeared above his Bitter Sea.
• Qin Tian considered the dangers of revealing his Spirit Eyes and the risks of forging a single weapon across all four realms.
• Qin Tian decided that the weapon he would forge was a diagram.

Qin Tian decided to forge a formation-diagram artifact and began refining its Divine Patterns, while also trying to reconstruct the Dao Scripture’s Divine Bridge chapter. The next day, an unusually powerful intuition led him to a deep pit in the mine, where he uncovered something that left him stunned.

• Qin Tian chose a formation diagram as his Dao-attainment artifact, planning to combine four diagrams made from the Divine Patterns nurtured in his secret realms.
• Qin Tian condensed fifty-five Divine Patterns into a mass and began refining it, but could not yet shape it into a formation diagram.
• Qin Tian tried to repair and complete the Dao Scripture’s Divine Bridge chapter, intending to keep the result as a backup scripture rather than cultivate with it.
• Qin Tian planned to exchange two pieces of Heterogeneous Source for access to the Scripture Repository and study formations.
• The next day, Qin Tian followed an unusually strong intuition through the mine to a deep pit, where purple Dao light revealed an object that shocked him.

Qin Tian unearthed a fragment of divine mark purple gold and earned access to the Yaoguang Holy Land's Library Pavilion. There, he picked up a book on array Dao and froze after recognizing the author's name.

• Qin Tian discovered a fragment of divine mark purple gold buried in the mine and stored it in his Temporal-Spatial Realm, straining his eyes.
• Qin Tian collected a piece of fiery sun source to meet his mining quota and exchanged his accumulated points for a Library Pavilion token.
• Qin Tian entered the Library Pavilion and considered studying array Dao to improve his use of an array diagram as a weapon.
• Qin Tian picked up Elementary Array Dao, saw a familiar name in its author's byline, and froze.

Qin Tian chose Cao Yusheng’s Elementary Array Dao and used it to deepen his understanding of cultivation and refine his Divine Bridge Chapter. He began practicing a basic array that gathered heaven and earth vital energy, but felt exhaustion and pain as he worked.

• Qin Tian took the Elementary Array Dao after recognizing Cao Yusheng as its author.
• Qin Tian realized the scripture’s pages might come from the Enlightenment Tea Tree and blamed the Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerable for inspiring generations to exploit it.
• Qin Tian entered a Dao Realm, studied the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm, and refined his Divine Bridge Chapter to seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven characters.
• Qin Tian drew a basic array formation from Cao Yusheng’s notes, gathered vital energy and moonlight into its marks, and began to feel exhausted and pained.

Qin Tian learned to form arrays safely with divine power and earth as a medium, then studied Cao Yusheng’s formation notes and began modifying the Spirit Gathering Formation. His skill advanced as he practiced while mining, until he could break through the formation surrounding the Source Mine.

• Qin Tian’s first attempt to draw array marks directly with spiritual sense drained him and failed, so he recovered before using divine power and the earth to complete a Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Qin Tian became fascinated with the Formation Dao and considered inscribing laws into his body, but decided to master formations before pursuing that idea.
• The next morning, Qin Tian copied the Spirit Gathering Formation and tried to modify it, eventually dismantling and rebuilding it to add elemental transformations and offensive power.
• Qin Tian studied formations while mining and used his spiritual sense to perceive the rhythms of the earth’s veins.
• Qin Tian quickly devised several powerful formations and became skilled enough to pass through the large formation around the Source Mine.

After three months of studying Cao Yusheng's formation inheritance, Qin Tian learned that the A-Class Mining Field would close and its slaves would be transferred. Seeing the chance to act when the source vein was sealed, he resolved to make a dramatic escape and turn the mine upside down.

• Qin Tian exchanged two pieces of heterogeneous source for Saint-level scriptures and attracted other miners hoping to find source of their own.
• Three months after receiving Cao Yusheng's formation inheritance, Qin Tian saw a Yaoguang Holy Land notice announcing the A-Class Mining Field's closure and the transfer of its slaves to the D-Class Mining Area.
• An old miner who had spent most of his life at the A-Class Mining Field worried about being moved, while Qin Tian celebrated the news as the moment he had awaited.
• Qin Tian rejected the idea of slipping away unnoticed and decided to use the coming Vein Sealing to unleash his accumulated fury.
• Qin Tian considered how Saints used formations to seal source veins and how the Big Dipper regenerated source over cycles lasting ten thousand years.

Qin Tian experimented with a path of using his body as a formation, then conceived of turning varied physiques into Dao patterns to create an artificial Chaos Body. After the old mining slave who had cared for him died in the Yaoguang Mine, Qin Tian suspected foul play and demanded to know who had killed him.

• Qin Tian considered using his body as a formation to strengthen himself and inscribed a Spirit Gathering Formation onto his skin, but found that it consumed more power than it gained.
• Qin Tian concluded that formations should be branded into his origin and imagined combining many physiques and formations to create an artificial Chaos Body.
• Qin Tian decided that pursuing the idea would require him to become at least a Quasi-Emperor and gather unusual physiques across the world.
• Qin Tian learned that the little old man who had cared for him had died while mining source and mourned that he had never escaped the mining district.
• Qin Tian suspected the outsider he had recently beaten was involved in the old man's death and asked who had killed him.

After the old man died, Qin Tian decided to uproot the people responsible and used an array to trap and burn the Life Spring Burly Man, the Divine Bridge Boss, and their crew. The chapter left them pleading for mercy as Qin Tian watched coldly.

• The Life Spring Burly Man mocked Qin Tian over the old man's death, and Qin Tian resolved to avenge him despite lacking proof.
• Qin Tian displayed a piece of ice-snow source in the mine, intimidating the other slaves into backing down.
• The Divine Bridge Boss seized the section of the mine and found another piece of ice-snow source, hoping to trade it for the Other Shore Chapter and escape slavery.
• Qin Tian confronted the crew and activated the array he had planted, sealing the tunnel and engulfing them in slow-burning divine flames.
• The trapped men begged Qin Tian for mercy and denied responsibility for the old man's death, but Qin Tian refused to spare them.

Qin Tian waited three months while secretly modifying the Sacred Formation beneath the source mine, then triggered his trap as the Yaoguang Great Power came to collect the mine’s annual source. The formation turned destructive and overwhelmed the Great Power, while Qin Tian used divine source to empower his cultivation and Future Sight.

• Qin Tian sacrificed the miners who uncovered heterogeneous source, using their souls, blood, and bones to alter the Sacred Formation and conceal their deaths as a mining accident.
• Over three months, Qin Tian studied the Sacred Formation and secretly changed its function from sealing and accumulating energy to releasing destructive power.
• The Yaoguang Great Power arrived through the Domain Gate, accepted the mine overseer as his named disciple, and began activating the formation.
• Qin Tian triggered his alterations, causing the underground veins and Sacred Formation to erupt in destructive flame around the Yaoguang Great Power.
• Qin Tian used divine source to strengthen his Bitter Sea and fuel his temporal-spatial eyes as Future Sight guided events toward his advantage.
• The Yaoguang Great Power struggled to regain control, but the fully awakened Sacred Formation overpowered his efforts.

Qin Tian triggered the altered Sacred Formation and ignited the Source Vein, turning the mining district into a destructive chaos that the Yaoguang Great Power struggled to suppress. Qin Tian revealed himself and used the formation to kill the Yaoguang Great Power, then proclaimed himself the killer.

• Qin Tian’s altered formation ignited the Source Vein and unleashed the destructive power of earth, wind, water, and fire across the mining district.
• The Yaoguang Great Power used his control token to try to suppress the broken Sacred Formation while the mine owner reassured the frightened crowd.
• Qin Tian pushed Future Sight to its limits as the formation’s four corners collapsed and the Yaoguang Great Power realized an infiltrator had sabotaged it.
• The Yaoguang Great Power ordered the knights to search for the infiltrator and slaughtered mining slaves indiscriminately to force Qin Tian out.
• Qin Tian stepped forward and combined the formation’s power with the Laws of Time and Space, killing the Yaoguang Great Power with a blast of sacred light.
• Qin Tian declared, “The killer was none other than Qin Tian!”

Qin Tian used the Sacred Formation to kill Yaoguang Holy Land’s supreme elder, then escaped by hiding among paper effigies and activating a concealed Profound Jade Platform. News of the killing spread through the Eastern Wasteland, and Yaoguang Holy Land placed a bounty on him.

• Qin Tian unleashed the Sacred Formation’s final strike, killing the mine owner and destroying the grounds, then used a paper effigy to draw the surviving cultivators’ attacks.
• A second paper effigy activated the Profound Jade Platform, while a Half-Step Great Power disrupted the void and believed Qin Tian had been killed in its turbulence.
• Qin Tian revealed that his real body had stayed hidden in the crowd, activated a buried Profound Jade Platform, and escaped safely despite suffering backlash from the paper effigy’s destruction.
• The shopkeeper, stunned that the mining slave had killed a Yaoguang Great Power, drank beast milk and decided to make it a rule for his family’s children.
• News of the supreme elder’s death shocked the Northern Region and Eastern Wasteland, and Yaoguang Holy Land ordered Qin Tian killed and offered a bounty.

After the Yaoguang Holy Land launched a region-wide hunt, Qin Tian fled into the Fire Domain with its disciples close behind. He trapped them in a formation and unleashed the domain’s flames, but the Holy Land’s wider pursuit still threatened him.

• The Yaoguang Holy Land used memories of cultivators and the Mystic Light Platform’s array marks to track Qin Tian’s location and sent more than a hundred cultivators to search for him.
• Cultivators and powerful families across the Northern Region joined the hunt for Qin Tian, treating the search as a trial for their younger generations.
• Qin Tian reached the Fire Domain while more than a dozen Jade Light Holy Land disciples pursued him into its outer reaches.
• Qin Tian completed a formation that trapped his pursuers, then drew on the Fire Domain’s flames to attack them.
• Burning disciples warned Qin Tian that the Yaoguang Holy Land and other Eastern Wasteland powers would pursue him, but Qin Tian declared that he would face them all.

Qin Tian used Shi Hao’s wooden tablet to withstand the Fire Domain, forged three formation diagrams from Divine Mark Purple Gold, and attempted to break through to the Other Shore. The calamity of lostness struck him, and he found himself standing amid traffic in an unfamiliar place.

• Qin Tian entered the Fire Domain, was nearly burned to charcoal, then used Shi Hao’s wooden tablet to pass safely through its first six layers.
• Qin Tian studied the flames and planned four formation diagrams based on the five elements, the Four Symbols, yin and yang, and chaos.
• Qin Tian comprehended the five elements and forged three formation diagrams into his artifact using purple immortal fire and Divine Mark Purple Gold.
• Qin Tian replenished his divine power with pure source and began breaking through from the Divine Bridge Realm to the Other Shore.
• Qin Tian was engulfed by the calamity of lostness, regained his senses after a flash of light, and found himself surrounded by traffic.

Qin Tian rejected the chance to return to his previous life, broke through the trial of the Other Shore, and strengthened his Temporal-Spatial Eyes and spiritual sense. After reaching the Fire Domain, he examined the Yaoguang Great Power’s corpse and claimed its treasures, leaving himself with powerful equipment and a huge cache of source.

• Qin Tian chose to remain in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, and his decision broke the illusion of his previous life and transformed his spirit.
• Qin Tian’s Temporal-Spatial Eyes gained double pupils and greater power over time and space, while his spiritual sense expanded after he passed the unknown trial.
• Qin Tian crossed the Bitter Sea, reached the Dao Palace, and soon forged his fourth diagram.
• Qin Tian took the Yaoguang Great Power’s corpse from his Bitter Sea and removed a jade hairpin, the Phoenix-Winged Gilt Halberd, and protective treasure armor.
• Qin Tian opened the mine owner’s Storage Bag and found about three million jin of source.

Qin Tian acquired the Primordial Sacred Light Technique and fire essence, then escaped the Fire Domain as cultivators searched for him. A Ji Family descendant named Ji Haiyue intercepted him and trapped him with prepared dao patterns, setting the stage for a fight.

• Qin Tian found the Primordial Sacred Light Technique and valuable lifespan-extending treasures among his spoils, then unearthed fire essence to aid his cultivation.
• Qin Tian set protective formations and slept in the Fire Domain while cultivators gathered outside to hunt him.
• Qin Tian used spatial footwork to escape the encirclement, though someone from the Ji Family noticed him.
• Ji Haiyue blocked Qin Tian near barren hills and demanded that he surrender three million jin of Source.
• Qin Tian tried to flee, but Ji Haiyue's prepared dao patterns and earth-vein power sealed the area and forced him back down.