Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian battled Ji Haiyue, whose Void Art and Ji Family techniques overwhelmed Qin Tian’s attacks and shattered his jade hairpin. The clash left Qin Tian recognizing Ji Haiyue’s strength and the immense foundation behind his family’s inheritance.

• Qin Tian used Future Sight and his spatial eye to anticipate Ji Haiyue emerging from the void with the Black Banner.
• Qin Tian countered the banner with the Seven-Star Sword, but Ji Haiyue used the banner to crush more than a thousand streaks of sword light.
• Ji Haiyue summoned the Void Great Hand Seal, and Qin Tian’s Mutton-Fat White Jade Hairpin shattered while shielding him long enough to escape the attack.
• Qin Tian realized Ji Haiyue matched his strength and considered how physique, cultivation, emperor scriptures, and the Ji Family’s accumulated legacy shaped their fight.
• Qin Tian assessed Ji Haoyue as a Divine King of the Eastern Wasteland and concluded that even the Yaoguang Holy Son would struggle to defeat him.

Qin Tian fought Ji Haiyue, who wielded a replica of the Void Mirror and the Void Ancient Scripture, and struggled against the superior artifact and inherited techniques. Realizing he needed an emperor scripture, Qin Tian tried to use his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to glimpse Ji Haiyue's scripture as he launched a vast barrage of sword Qi.

• Ji Haiyue brought out a replica of the Void Mirror, and Qin Tian retreated before its power.
• Qin Tian summoned a Fire Domain array to counter Ji Haiyue, but Ji Haiyue used the mirror and the Void Ancient Scripture to break through the array and gain the advantage.
• Qin Tian judged that Ji Haiyue's superior origin, realm, and scripture outweighed his own better Dao comprehension.
• Qin Tian decided he needed an emperor scripture and resolved to glimpse the Void Ancient Scripture using his Temporal-Spatial Eyes.
• Qin Tian invoked Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Qi and sent a vast river of sword Qi toward Ji Haiyue.

Qin Tian created the Divine Spirit secret art and tested it against Ji Haiyue’s Innate Grand Void Astral Energy, learning that it could not unravel an emperor’s technique. As the two attacks collided, Qin Tian used the Eye of Time to peer into Ji Haiyue’s past and saw the Ji Family’s children studying an ancient mirror.

• Ji Haiyue unleashed an ice storm, and Qin Tian created the Divine Spirit secret art to reduce his attack to primal energy.
• Ji Haiyue countered with Innate Grand Void Astral Energy, which crushed Divine Spirit and gave Qin Tian insight into how he could improve the art.
• Qin Tian formed five Innate Dao Diagrams into a supreme formation and collided them with Ji Haiyue’s attack.
• Qin Tian’s Eye of Time opened onto Ji Haiyue’s past, where children of the Ji Family studied an ancient mirror in an immortal palace.

Qin Tian learned the Void Ancient Scripture through the Eye of Time, defeated Ji Haiyue, and escaped his protectors before using paper effigies to evade the many cultivators hunting him for a million jin of source. While the pursuers chased a decoy, Qin Tian secretly returned to the Fire Domain, where he spotted a plump Daoist descending nearby.

• Qin Tian used the Eye of Time to memorize the Void Ancient Scripture and then defeated Ji Haiyue with the Reverse Five-Elements Divine Needles.
• Ji Haiyue's two protectors chose to spare Qin Tian for Ji Haoyue to kill and ordered their family to capture him alive.
• Qin Tian reflected on his limited strength and worried about facing Ji Haoyue, the Divine King Body.
• Qin Tian used time-based paper effigies to mislead the cultivators pursuing him for his million jin of source.
• Qin Tian slipped away from the chase and returned to the Fire Domain, where he saw a plump Daoist arrive on a rainbow light.

Qin Tian secretly followed Duan De through the Fire Domain and discovered that he had unearthed the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid. Duan De decided to risk erasing the imprints on the lid so he could keep the Emperor weapon fragment and protect himself.

• Qin Tian recognized Duan De as the reincarnated Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerable and secretly followed him into the Fire Domain.
• Qin Tian failed to observe Duan De with Future Sight, so he used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to hide and track him through space.
• Duan De activated a broken bowl and revealed the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, which Qin Tian recognized as part of the Ruthless Great Emperor's weapon.
• Duan De tried to erase the lid's imprints with the Fire Domain's flames, but the lid devoured them, and his attempt in the tenth layer also failed.
• Duan De explained that Ruthless's lineage could reclaim the lid and seize control of him if its imprints remained, then resolved to erase them despite the cost.

Duan De used Heavenly Venerable blood to erase the imprints on the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, awakening the half Emperor Weapon. Qin Tian ambushed Duan De to steal it and left him dazed with a wooden plaque stamped onto his head.

• Duan De sacrificed his Heavenly Venerable blood to awaken the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and burn away the imprints protecting it.
• Qin Tian watched as Duan De overcame the nine-colored imprints and caught the lid after the blood was exhausted.
• Qin Tian decided to steal the lid and approached Duan De while concealed in the void.
• Qin Tian struck Duan De twice with the Phoenix-Winged Gilt Trident, then hit his head with Shi Hao's wooden plaque.

Qin Tian knocked Duan De unconscious and stole the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, leaving Duan De devastated when he woke. Qin Tian escaped with the Emperor Weapon and reflected on the danger of making an enemy of Duan De.

• Qin Tian repeatedly struck Duan De with a wooden plaque and stacked formation diagrams until he knocked him unconscious.
• Qin Tian took the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and fled, leaving behind a stone bearing the concept of his past to watch Duan De.
• Duan De woke, discovered his Emperor Weapon was missing, and raged over losing it before he could mark it.
• Duan De’s fury erupted as smoke and divine power, and he ran hundreds of laps around the Fire Domain before collapsing and spitting blood.
• Qin Tian watched from afar, recognized Duan De’s immense strength, and decided the Emperor Weapon was worth the risk.

Qin Tian used a blood sacrifice to imprint the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, briefly sensing the terrifying presence of the Ruthless Great Emperor before establishing a faint connection with the artifact. He decided to hide in the Fire Domain until Duan De left and began studying Ji Haiyue’s memories of the Void Ancient Scripture.

• Qin Tian isolated himself, examined the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, and decided to leave his imprint on it before Duan De could reclaim it.
• Qin Tian used his essence blood, divine sense, and divine power in a blood sacrifice to refine the lid.
• The lid released immense pressure and a hazy female figure, frightening Qin Tian with an aura he mistook for the Ruthless Great Emperor’s.
• Qin Tian established a faint connection with the lid, then decided to stay in the Fire Domain until Duan De left.
• Qin Tian reviewed Ji Haiyue’s memories by constructing an illusion and entering an ancient hall to hear a Great Power explain the Void Ancient Scripture.

As Qin Tian listened to the Ji Family Great Power explain the Sea of Bitterness cultivation stages, he considered opening many gates of potential during the Other Shore’s nine transformations to awaken part of the strongest physique. To rebuild his flawed cultivation foundations, he dismantled his secret realms and returned himself to an ordinary person.

• The Ji Family Great Power taught the children how cultivators progressed through the Sea of Bitterness and Other Shore realms.
• Qin Tian reasoned that opening most of the gates of potential during the Other Shore’s nine transformations might release some of the strongest physique’s power.
• Qin Tian recognized that his Divine Bridge and Other Shore were weaker than his first two secret realms because he had cultivated them with different scriptures.
• Qin Tian destroyed his Other Shore, Divine Bridge, Life Spring, and Wheel of Life, letting their energy nourish his body until he became an ordinary person.

Qin Tian rebuilt his Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm with the Void Ancient Scripture, transforming his foundation and reaching the Other Shore. He then pushed past his mortal body's limits to seek a deeper transformation, suppressing the approaching Nine Transformations of the Other Shore.

• Qin Tian used divine source and the Void Ancient Scripture to reopen his Sea of Bitterness, where a Kunpeng embodied the interplay of yin and yang, life and death.
• Qin Tian's body and Life Spring were tempered by the new energies, and his Void Divine Bridge drew in primal power from the universe.
• Qin Tian crossed the Void Divine Bridge to the Other Shore and felt his essence, qi, spirit, and divine power undergo a qualitative transformation.
• Qin Tian began absorbing more divine substance to pursue the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore, but reached the limit of a mortal body.
• Qin Tian forced himself to keep absorbing despite his body's cracks and the warning that the nine transformations were near, seeking a deeper transformation instead.

Qin Tian perfected his human body domain and Open Gate Method, gaining the strength to contend with Divine Bodies and Sacred Bodies in the Sea of Bitterness realm despite the risk of hidden injuries. After healing and completing the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore, he was confronted by two Daoists and moved to stop their escape.

• Qin Tian inscribed a mountain-and-river domain in his body and used it to open hidden gates, releasing pure radiance that strengthened his origin and transformed his Bitter Sea.
• Qin Tian completed nine internal dao patterns and recognized that forcibly opening gates could cause hidden injuries, so he considered studying the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to overcome the method's flaws.
• Qin Tian concluded that he could match Divine Bodies and Sacred Bodies in the Sea of Bitterness realm, though he remained uncertain about later realms.
• Over the next two months, Qin Tian completed the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore and healed the injuries caused by opening his gates.
• Two Daoists intercepted Qin Tian after he left the Fire Domain, then tried to flee when they realized his cultivation was at the Other Shore.
• Qin Tian caught up with the fleeing Daoists in an instant and raised his hand to stop them.

Qin Tian learned that Duan De had helped hunters locate him through heavenly divination, then changed course and encountered Ji Haoyue, who had been waiting for him on behalf of the Ji Family. The chapter ended with Qin Tian recognizing the danger of Ji Haoyue’s challenge and the Demon Emperor’s Saint Weapon poised to strike.

• Qin Tian captured two pursuers and learned that a fat Daoist resembling Duan De had sold them his location for ten thousand jin of source.
• Qin Tian realized Duan De had likely used heavenly divination to track him and sent out a paper-effigy puppet before taking another route.
• Qin Tian traveled far from the Fire Domain until Ji Haoyue announced that the Ji Family had been waiting for him.
• Ji Haoyue identified himself and said a Heavenly Diviner had predicted Qin Tian’s arrival.
• Qin Tian recalled Ji Haoyue’s history and considered the danger of confronting the Demon Emperor’s Saint Weapon, whose lid trembled with threatening black energy.

Qin Tian fought Ji Haoyue, matching the Ji Family’s Divine King Body with the power of his Human Body Dao Field and Five-Element Killing Array. Ji Haoyue then unveiled his Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea Manifestation and shattered Qin Tian’s sword, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ji Haoyue attacked Qin Tian with Void Art techniques, but Qin Tian countered them and matched him in a clash of palms.
• Qin Tian drew power from the earth veins and his Human Body Dao Field, then used a Five-Element Killing Array against Ji Haoyue’s imitation Void Mirror.
• After their techniques collided, Ji Haoyue acknowledged Qin Tian’s strength and offered to recruit him as a War General, but Qin Tian refused.
• Ji Haoyue manifested the Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea and invited Qin Tian to surrender, while Qin Tian mocked his divine body and challenged him.
• Ji Haoyue sent the Manifestation’s moonlight against Qin Tian; Qin Tian’s sword broke apart, and Ji Haoyue’s next move remained pending.

Qin Tian shattered Ji Haoyue’s moon manifestation, learned Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea through his temporal-spatial eyes, and unveiled his Kunpeng King Fist to overwhelm the Divine King. As Ji Haoyue neared defeat, his Ji Family Dao protectors decided to intervene.

• Qin Tian broke Ji Haoyue’s first moon revolution and used Future Sight to study the second revolution while defending himself with a golden formation shield.
• Qin Tian used his temporal-spatial eyes to learn Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea, then revealed the Kunpeng King Fist he had created from the Kunpeng Method’s principles.
• Qin Tian combined Kunpeng speed and strength with his eyes’ powers to anticipate Ji Haoyue’s movements and batter him, leaving the Divine King bloodied and struggling.
• Ji Haoyue summoned three moons and fought back with all his strength, but Qin Tian continued to suppress him and carve wounds into him.
• Ji Haoyue’s Dao protectors watched him nearing defeat and decided to intervene on behalf of the Ji Family.

Qin Tian escaped after Ji Haoyue’s Protectors intervened to give him an unfair advantage, while Ji Haoyue broke through into the Dao Palace Secret Realm and vowed to fight Qin Tian again. Qin Tian fled far away, wary that the Protectors might try to kill him.

• Qin Tian foresaw Ji Haoyue’s Protectors altering the void to strengthen his Void Art, then used the Profound Jade Platform to escape.
• Ji Haoyue confronted his two grand uncles about their intervention, and they said they had sealed off the space to prevent Qin Tian from fleeing.
• Ji Haoyue absorbed a heterogeneous source, broke through into the Dao Palace Secret Realm, and manifested Five Qi Converging Towards the Origin.
• Ji Haoyue vowed to find Qin Tian and fight him again, then left with the two Protectors using Void Art.
• Qin Tian shifted repeatedly across great distances and continued fleeing because he feared the Protectors would attack him.

Qin Tian tracked down the hidden former site of the Jade Pool Holy Land, hoping to find the Western Emperor Scripture. After entering its ruins, he discovered a stark contrast between thriving grounds and an ominous, lifeless region, while another Qin Tian emerged through the Void Gate.

• Qin Tian traveled through more than thirty cities and mocked the inaccurate wanted portrait issued by the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Qin Tian followed reports of the Jade Pool Flying Immortal phenomenon to the Northern Region and used a paper effigy clone to draw his pursuers toward the cursed old site.
• Qin Tian uncovered a jade well beneath the crimson wasteland and descended through it into the sealed Jade Pool grounds.
• Qin Tian crossed vibrant lakes and vegetation, then entered a region of dead trees, eerie spiritual energy, and ruined halls.
• A new disturbance arose on the wasteland as the Void Gate opened and another, bedraggled Qin Tian stepped out.

Qin Tian used the Immortal Pool’s curse to kill a Half-Step Great Power who pursued his paper effigy. Afterward, he returned to cultivating beside a lake in the Jade Pool Ruins, where his cultivation advanced further.

• Qin Tian saw that the Immortal Pool’s bodies had become vessels for the great accomplishment sacred body’s curse and sealed the curse mist from its deeper layers.
• A Half-Step Great Power caught up with Qin Tian’s paper effigy and demanded everything he had obtained from the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Qin Tian unleashed the curse mist on his pursuers, turning the attendants into Golden-Haired Monsters and infecting the Half-Step Great Power.
• The Half-Step Great Power tried to strike Qin Tian, but the paper effigy revealed itself as a clone, and the curse killed him.
• Qin Tian finished drawing out the curse and cultivated beside a lake, strengthening his cultivation further.

Qin Tian recovered at the Immortal Pool, then left it to search Jade Pool’s ruins for imprints of the Western Emperor Scripture. He found ancient stone carvings of combat techniques and began studying them, recognizing how ordinary moves could combine into formidable power.

• Qin Tian thanked the lingering female corpses, then resolved to cultivate at the Immortal Pool after finding the Western Emperor Scripture.
• Qin Tian saw eerie figures reappear in the pool and, despite his fear, decided to stay before quietly moving away.
• Qin Tian searched Jade Pool’s empty palaces and barren mountains for imprints left by the Western Emperor.
• Qin Tian used his Temporal Eye to restore the worn stone carvings and studied their ancient techniques, including the Mountain-Embracing Seal.
• Qin Tian realized that combining more than a hundred ordinary moves could create a powerful art.

Qin Tian used the stone carvings in the Jade Pool Ruins to refine his Kunpeng King Fist and obtain the complete Dao Palace Scroll of the Western Emperor Scripture. After his Temporal Eye was damaged, he resolved to remain in the ruins, but a terrifying black mist erupted from the Immortal Pool.

• Qin Tian used the incomplete Battle Saint Method to deduce a second move for his Kunpeng Loose Hands.
• Qin Tian projected the Dao Palace guiding passage with his Temporal Eye and comprehended the heart divine treasury's Dao pattern.
• Qin Tian found the lung, liver, spleen, and kidney divine treasury chapters and completed the Western Emperor Scripture's Dao Palace Scroll.
• Qin Tian's Temporal Eye bled and nearly exhausted its origin power, so he stopped using it and decided to stay in the Jade Pool Ruins.
• A surge of black mist poured from the Immortal Pool, and Qin Tian hid behind a wooden plaque while shouting that he was the founding patriarch.

Qin Tian studied the Western Emperor Scripture before using divine source to break into the Dao Palace and open his Heart Divine Treasury. His deity transformed into three strands of Dao qi above his head, and he called upon his past, present, and future selves to enter the Dao Palace.

• Qin Tian studied the Western Emperor Scripture until he understood its principles for cultivating the Dao Palace.
• Qin Tian drew divine substance from a piece of divine source and crossed from the Sea of Bitterness into the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Qin Tian chose the Heart Divine Treasury and used the divine substance to nourish its lotus-shaped deity until it opened.
• Qin Tian developed the Heart Divine Treasury into a blazing heavenly sun and felt his strength increase.
• Qin Tian's deity reversed its origin and transformed into three strands of Dao qi, forming three Dao flowers above his head.
• Qin Tian called for his past, present, and future selves to enter the Dao Palace.