Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao completed his Quasi-Immortal Emperor cultivation and realized that He Transforms at Ease was the Emperor Technique he had created himself. When the Corpse Immortal Emperor returned to his original body and attacked across time, Shi Hao was struck down and Qin Tian was forced to flee, but a sword light blocked the Corpse Immortal Emperor from reaching the present.

• Shi Hao completed Body as Seed and recognized He Transforms at Ease as his own Emperor Technique, which he had taught Qin Tian in the future.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor absorbed the being in the temple and reunited with Emperor Bone Brother's light side to become whole.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor attacked Shi Hao with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, and Qin Tian intervened with the Supreme Heavenly Blade.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor reached into the past through An Lan to kill young Shi Hao, but Qin Tian stopped him; the Corpse Immortal Emperor then cleaved and shattered Shi Hao in the present.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor pursued Qin Tian across time and restored himself to peak Immortal Emperor strength, but a brilliant sword light blocked his path beyond the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• Qin Tian realized the Corpse Immortal Emperor could not reach the present and praised Huang.

Shi Hao defeated the Corpse Immortal Emperor, revived and purified him as the Primordial Immortal Emperor, and explained that a hidden enemy had arranged his corruption. Qin Tian awkwardly faced the newly revived emperor, then decided to ask him for help becoming an Immortal Emperor.

• Shi Hao returned as the Desolate Heaven Emperor and repeatedly defeated the Corpse Immortal Emperor with his avatars, then scattered his body and sealed his ashes.
• Shi Hao revived the Corpse Immortal Emperor as the Primordial Immortal Emperor and spent a hundred years purifying the darkness from him.
• Shi Hao told the Primordial Immortal Emperor that the Weird Clan had planned his corruption, and warned him to recover before seeking revenge.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor befriended Qin Tian, who realized the emperor had returned earlier than expected and regretted having bullied his primordial spirit.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor confronted Qin Tian over his earlier taunts, and Qin Tian hurriedly claimed he had been speaking to the Corpse Immortal Emperor.
• Qin Tian decided the Primordial Immortal Emperor might help him become an Immortal Emperor and asked his new elder brother for assistance.

Qin Tian failed to persuade either Immortal Emperor to attack his past self as a shortcut to cultivation. The Desolate Heaven Emperor then reconstructed the Chaotic Ancient Era despite temporal backlash, causing several Heavenly Court members to become Quasi-Immortal Emperors and bringing Shi Fan's two brothers into reality.

• Qin Tian asked the Primordial Immortal Emperor to strike his past self so that great cause and effect power could accelerate his cultivation.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor refused and fled, and the Desolate Heaven Emperor vanished before Qin Tian could ask him for the same favor.
• Qin Tian recorded grievances against the Primordial Immortal Emperor and the Corpse Immortal Emperor in his notebook.
• The Desolate Heaven Emperor used He Transforms at Ease to establish a new history for the Chaotic Ancient Era and severed the resulting cause and effect backlash.
• Ge Gu, the Heavenly Horned Ant, Shi Yi, the Heavenly Son, the Banished Immortal, and others absorbed new memories and cultivation experiences and became Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Shi Fan's elder and younger brothers emerged into reality as Immortal Kings, making Shi Fan the Desolate Heaven Emperor's second son.

Shi Fan reunited with Shi Huang and Shi Feng while the revived Ten Fiends and their descendants found one another. Qin Tian reversed time to meet Reckless Vajra in the Great Dream Temple and agreed to enter The Sage Who Transcended Samsara to face its calamity and pursue the Dao.

• Shi Huang and Shi Feng reunited with Shi Fan, and the revived Ten Fiends met their children, including the Old Heavenly Horned Ant and the old True Dragon.
• Qin Tian chose to become an Immortal Emperor before pursuing his grudges, used the Yuanshi Śarīra, and reversed time to reach the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Qin Tian met Little Monk in the Great Dream Temple and learned that Teacher Yuanshi had sent him to seek someone capable of quelling a calamity.
• Qin Tian recognized Little Monk as Reckless Vajra, joked about his reputation, and learned that the calamity threatened The Sage Who Transcended Samsara.
• Reckless Vajra offered Qin Tian a chance to reach the End of the Path quickly by cultivating during the previous era's tribulation, and Qin Tian agreed to go.

Qin Tian created a second true spirit and a mortal incarnation to cultivate in The Sage Who Transcended Samsara, allowing his original self to remain and protect the Three Realms. He sent the new incarnation toward that world as war spread into the Three Realms, and the Śarīra transformed into a blazing ray of divine light.

• Qin Tian refused to travel to The Sage Who Transcended Samsara in person and decided to create a true spirit and incarnation instead.
• Qin Tian used his Three Great Incarnations and the Dao of Creation by the Turning of the Fortune to forge a new true spirit, overcoming the myriad Dao’s attempt to stop him.
• Qin Tian made the true spirit into a second incarnation with a mortal body and primordial spirit, then agreed with Little Monk to send it to The Sage Who Transcended Samsara.
• The myriad heavens of the Three Realms continued absorbing worlds from chaos, and conflict with the Weird Clan spread into its expanding domain.
• Qin Tian ordered the Śarīra to go to The Sage Who Transcended Samsara, and it became a singularity that evolved into a blazing ray of divine light.

Qin Tian sent his Second Incarnation into The Sage Who Transcended Samsara and gained insights from witnessing Yuanshi Tianzun open a new era and the previous era’s destruction. He awoke in a mortal body, bound in a dilapidated woodshed among children, and cursed Xiao Meng for sending him there.

• Qin Tian realized his body lacked the innate nine apertures and sent only a strand of his true spirit into The Sage Who Transcended Samsara, expecting Little Meng to provide a suitable body.
• Qin Tian’s Second Incarnation traveled through the Chaos Sea and witnessed Yuanshi Tianzun open a new era with a single slash.
• Qin Tian observed the previous era’s final destruction and gained insights that advanced his understanding of the Immortal Emperor domain and the worlds’ methods of transcendence.
• Qin Tian decided not to risk being lost in the River of Time, believing his accelerated cultivation would let him attain the Dao within a few hundred years in the other world.
• Qin Tian’s true spirit awoke in a newly formed mortal body, unable to move or use divine sense, and found himself bound in a woodshed with about a dozen children.
• Qin Tian cursed Xiao Meng and demanded to know where he had sent him.

Qin Tian woke up bound in a woodshed after being captured by human traffickers who planned to make him a mine slave, then sell him to the Plain Maiden Lineage. After a young Sword Pavilion disciple failed to rescue the captives, Qin Tian persuaded him to teach a basic cultivation art, giving Qin Tian his first foothold in The Sage Who Transcended Samsara’s cultivation system.

• Qin Tian realized he had been captured and resolved to escape before the traffickers sent him to work in a mine.
• A young swordsman stormed the traffickers’ hideout, but Black Whirlwind defeated him and locked him in the woodshed with the other captives.
• Qin Tian learned that the new captive came from the Sword Pavilion and offered to help him escape in exchange for a cultivation technique.
• The young swordsman taught Qin Tian the Crimson Light Sword Art, a family foundation technique that could cultivate internal energy and open apertures.
• Qin Tian studied the Crimson Light Sword Art and began his first step toward mastering this world’s cultivation system.

Qin Tian transformed the Crimson Light Sword Art into the Five Dragon Sword Art, then adapted it into the Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Art while imprisoned by bandits. He freed himself and the little crybaby, killed Black Whirlwind, and left the surviving bandits fighting the boy.

• Qin Tian deduced the Crimson Light Sword Art into the Five Dragon Sword Art, developing techniques up to the Dharma Body level despite lacking precise knowledge of the nine innate apertures.
• Qin Tian tore through his bonds with formless sword qi, freed the little crybaby, and fashioned a Wooden Sword before they confronted the bandits.
• Qin Tian rejected Black Whirlwind's apology and sent the little crybaby to face the bandits' underlings while he challenged their leader.
• Qin Tian evaded Black Whirlwind's saber, achieved Qi Accumulation through his new sword art, and overwhelmed the bandit chief with the Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Art.
• Qin Tian beheaded Black Whirlwind with the art's final form and urged the little crybaby to watch his finishing strike.

Qin Tian rescued Hong Mao, gave him the Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Art, and promised that changing his name to Rainbow Cat would lead him to a Dharma Body. After Hong Mao and his father accepted the inheritance and the name change, Yuanshi Tianzun noticed something amusing in the new era.

• Qin Tian defeated Black Whirlwind and his underlings, then told Hong Mao that changing his name to Rainbow Cat and mastering the sword art would guarantee him a Dharma Body.
• Qin Tian gave Rainbow Cat a wooden sword engraved with the Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Art and left to continue his business.
• Father Hong arrived, rescued Rainbow Cat and the other children, and carried them toward the capital; Rainbow Cat announced that he would change his name.
• Father Hong examined the sword art, recognized it as a Dharma Body-level inheritance, and agreed that Rainbow Cat could keep reading storybooks and change his name.
• At the Jade Void Palace, Yuanshi Tianzun smiled after noticing something amusing.

Yuanshi Tianzun Meng Qi altered the past to create the Seven Swords and concealed his plans from the other Heavenly Wills, while Gu Xiaosang questioned his treatment of Qin Tian. In the past, Qin Tian became lost in a desert but was transported to a familiar immortal land.

• Yuanshi Tianzun changed the past, creating the Rainbow family and six brother families whose successors became the Seven Swords.
• The Heavenly Wills studied the Seven Great Families, suspecting Meng Qi had created them to sever karma and advance toward reducing himself to seek emptiness.
• Gu Xiaosang teased Meng Qi about his amusement and asked whether it was wise to set up Qin Tian, and Meng Qi said Qin Tian could handle himself with her help.
• Qin Tian wandered lost through a desert, unable to find his way or use his divination arts in the unfamiliar world.
• Qin Tian prayed for help and was transported from the desert to a stone plaza in an immortal land, where he recognized a familiar sight.

Qin Tian mistook Meng Qi for an enemy from his future and attacked him before the group explained the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space. After exchanging for mundane materials, Qin Tian joined the others as their first reincarnation mission began in a Central Plains occupied by northern barbarians.

• Qin Tian appeared in the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space and put Meng Qi in a chokehold, accusing him of making Qin Tian a Mine Slave.
• Jiang Zhiwei stopped Qin Tian from continuing the attack, and Meng Qi concluded that Qin Tian's grudge likely involved the body's previous owner.
• Meng Qi explained the Reincarnation Space to the group while Xiao Zi cried for her mother, and Qin Tian exchanged his Crimson Light Sword Art for Good Karma.
• Qin Tian spent less than ten Good Karma on fireworks and ordinary materials, intending to show the martial artists how times had changed.
• The group received a mission to split into two teams and deliver a list of traitors to Shaolin Temple within three days, in a Central Plains ruled by northern barbarians.

After the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space split the team, Qin Tian traveled toward Shaolin with Meng Qi and Qi Zhengyan, secretly making a firearm from exchanged materials. The group survived two ambushes, and Qin Tian’s gun left Meng Qi convinced that he was a fellow transmigrator as they continued toward Shaolin Temple.

• Meng Qi and Qi Zhengyan found that their senior teammates were gone, then agreed to wait while Qin Tian made a concealed weapon.
• Qin Tian used his sword qi to assemble a weapon, and the group set out for Shaolin along a main road.
• At a roadside tea stall, attackers ambushed the group; Qin Tian killed the stall owner with a kitchen knife and helped secure the travelers’ horses.
• During a rain-soaked ambush, Qin Tian revealed his homemade handgun and shot down the attackers while Meng Qi and the others fought.
• Meng Qi questioned Qin Tian about the gun and suspected he was a fellow transmigrator, while Qin Tian reloaded and led the group onward to Shaolin Temple.

Qin Tian and his allies confronted Duo'ercha at Shaolin Temple, where an unexpected demonic transformation turned the battle against them. Qin Tian broke through to the Aperture Opening stage and renewed his attack, ending the chapter as he charged Duo'ercha with a broken sword.

• Qin Tian shot the disguised Kuang Chengwang as he tried to ambush Master Xinji, and the team learned that Duo'ercha was close.
• Qin Tian, Meng Qi, Jiang Zhiwei, and Master Xinji joined the Central Plains fighters in resisting Duo'ercha and his Iron Wolf Soldiers.
• Jiang Zhiwei and Qin Tian wounded Duo'ercha, but he invoked an unknown supreme being and transformed amid strange lightning.
• Qin Tian opened his ear apertures and reached the Aperture Opening stage while his companions bought him time.
• Qin Tian resumed fighting the demonized Duo'ercha, and after his sword broke, he rushed forward with the broken blade.

After Duo'ercha was defeated, demonic power transformed him and Abbot Xinji into the Heart Demon, forcing Qin Tian to fight again at Shaolin Temple. Qin Tian destroyed the temple but could not finish the Heart Demon before Gu Xiaosang appeared, killed it, and turned her attention toward him; Qin Tian fled with his companions.

• Qin Tian severed Duo'ercha's neck, but Duo'ercha invoked demonic power and transformed into a threat beyond his earlier strength.
• Abbot Xinji sacrificed himself to strike Duo'ercha with Buddhist light, but the light merged with the demonic power and Xinji emerged fused with Duo'ercha as the Heart Demon.
• The Heart Demon's aura drove people to attack one another, so Qin Tian used Lion's Roar to wake them and then unleashed the Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Art against the demon.
• Qin Tian's final attack devastated Shaolin Temple, but the Heart Demon survived and crawled from the ruins.
• Gu Xiaosang arrived, killed the weakened Heart Demon with the Wusheng Finger, and revealed that she wanted to kill Qin Tian's master because Xiao Zi liked Meng Qi.
• Qin Tian carried Zhang Yuanshan and Qi Zhengyan toward the rear mountain to escape Gu Xiaosang, while Meng Qi followed with Jiang Zhiwei; Gu Xiaosang called after them, "Husband!"

Qin Tian discovered that the past had diverged in ways that suggested a greater danger, then saw Meng Qi become demonized in Shaolin’s hidden cave. As the group struggled to stop him, Qin Tian prepared to fight Meng Qi with his friends’ permission.

• Qin Tian escaped Gu Xiaosang with Zhang Yuanshan and Qi Zhengyan, then helped Meng Qi’s group find the hidden passage in Shaolin’s back mountain.
• The group explored the cave, where Meng Qi comprehended Ananda’s Precept-Breaking Saber Technique and Qin Tian noticed the changed warning, “Beware the Reckless Vajra.”
• Meng Qi’s eyes turned black with a scarlet inverted swastika, and he clashed with Qin Tian after Qin Tian warned the others.
• Demonized Meng Qi overpowered Jiang Zhiwei and sent her flying, while Qin Tian rescued her from a potentially fatal strike.
• Qi Zhengyan suggested Meng Qi might be possessed by demonic qi, and Qin Tian offered to fight him; Jiang Zhiwei agreed that Qin Tian could beat him as hard as he liked.

Qin Tian fought the demonically corrupted Meng Qi in the tunnel as Meng Qi drew upon techniques and strength from his future. When Qin Tian could no longer suppress Meng Qi alone, he ordered their companions to open the door and unleash Gu Xiaosang.

• Qin Tian and demonized Meng Qi clashed with saber and sword techniques while Jiang Zhiwei and the others struggled against the battle’s spiritual pressure.
• Jiang Zhiwei watched the fighters’ extraordinary moves and resolved to follow the path toward the summit, but Zhang Yuanshan stopped her from joining the fight.
• Qin Tian and Meng Qi exchanged increasingly powerful attacks, including the Heavenly Rules and Earthly Principles, the Void Seal, and Raging Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens.
• Their weapons snapped, and Qin Tian drew Jiang Zhiwei’s Rainbow-Piercing-the-Sun Sword, severing Meng Qi’s arm, which Meng Qi immediately regenerated.
• As Meng Qi’s power and combat experience continued to grow, Qin Tian ordered their companions to open the door and unleash Gu Xiaosang.

Qin Tian forced the demonized Meng Qi into a fight with Gu Xiaosang, hoping one Other Shore being could restrain another while he kept watch. As Gu Xiaosang battled Meng Qi, the real Meng Qi awoke inside the Spiritual World and encountered a strange version of himself.

• Qin Tian suppressed Meng Qi long enough for Qi Zhengyan to open the door, then hurled the demonized Little Monk toward Gu Xiaosang.
• Gu Xiaosang engaged Meng Qi, who weakened against her but still wielded powerful saber techniques and drew on the might of heaven and earth.
• Qin Tian sent Jiang Zhiwei and the others back into the tunnel, then vanished into the void while keeping his attention on Gu Xiaosang.
• Gu Xiaosang struck Meng Qi with the Ten Thousand Silk Heavenly Net, and Meng Qi countered with the Precept-Breaking Saber Technique, forcing her to retreat and focus on defense.
• Inside the Spiritual World, Meng Qi awoke and heard a strange, electronically altered version of his own voice address him as its true self.

Meng Qi confronted the Demon Buddha in his Spiritual World, resisted his attempt to merge with him, and seemingly defeated him with Ananda's Precept-Breaking Saber Technique. After Meng Qi returned to the battle with Gu Xiaosang and was taken away by the mission recall, the Demon Buddha revealed that the defeat was only temporary and encountered another presence in the Spiritual World.

• The Demon Buddha told Meng Qi that he was a newly born second Demon Buddha and tried to persuade him to merge so they could control a third of the heavenly will.
• The Demon Buddha attacked Meng Qi with the Tathagata Divine Palm and Tathagata Reverse Palm, but Meng Qi used Ananda's Precept-Breaking Saber Technique to cut him down.
• Meng Qi regained consciousness during his fight with Gu Xiaosang, but she kicked him through several trees and he collapsed after calling to Qin Tian for help.
• Qin Tian blocked Gu Xiaosang from taking Meng Qi, and the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation recalled the group when the mission ended.
• The Demon Buddha reappeared in Meng Qi's Spiritual World and explained that Meng Qi's belief in victory had let him overcome the attack, while the Demon Buddha had hoped to replace him as Yuanshi Tianzun's anchor.
• A second, compassionate but demonic presence appeared, and the Demon Buddha accepted that his attempt had failed.

The Demon Buddha and a compassionate voice planned to eliminate Qin Tian while using the coming calamity to reach their peak, and Meng Qi woke in the reincarnation space after the operation. After hearing Meng Qi’s dream, Qin Tian guessed the Demon Buddha might be the cause and effect Yuanshi Tianzun had severed, and resolved to advance quickly.

• The Demon Buddha and the compassionate voice discussed their limits, Mother of No Birth, and a plan to send Qin Tian on a dangerous mission through the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space.
• Meng Qi woke to learn that the operation had succeeded and that he had become a girl, then panicked until Zhang Yuanshan revealed it was a joke.
• Qin Tian offered Meng Qi the Sunflower Scripture, but Meng Qi firmly refused to cultivate it.
• Meng Qi told his companions about his dream of the Demon Buddha, and they decided to ask their masters for information.
• Qin Tian considered what the calamity could be and concluded that the Demon Buddha might be the cause and effect Yuanshi Tianzun had severed.
• Qin Tian resolved to progress through the nine apertures and reach the Other Shore within two hundred years.

Qin Tian exploited the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation to trade self-created arts for powerful cultivation manuals, then followed the Yuxu Divine Calculations toward a restaurant in the Central Plains. After killing a Luo Sect half-step Exterior Scenery cultivator who tried to capture him, he discovered that the latest Human Ranking List placed him third as the Transmigrated Divine Saint.

• Qin Tian exchanged self-created cultivation arts for the Yuanshi Golden Chapter and the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, but the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation sharply reduced the buyback price for arts made outside the Reincarnation Space.
• Qin Tian used the Yuxu Divine Calculations to travel east by river toward a restaurant, following guidance that included praising Yuanshi Tianzun and riding a log downstream.
• A White-Browed Man from the Luo Sect confronted Qin Tian and said the holy maiden wanted him brought in, revealing that Gu Xiaosang had arranged to search for him.
• Qin Tian killed the Luo Sect half-step Exterior Scenery cultivator with a sword technique that condensed a vast hurricane into a tremendous blade.
• At a restaurant in Qinshan City, Qin Tian saw the latest Human Ranking List and learned that he had been ranked third under the epithet Transmigrated Divine Saint.