Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to absorb the Sacred Body Origin, transforming into a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body. After suppressing the origin’s demonic nature and its awakening Underworld Curse, he concluded that combining demonic Sacred Body and Dao Embryo origins would be too dangerous, though transforming a demon embryo into a Dao Embryo remained a possible backup plan.

• Qin Tian filtered the Sacred Body Origin through the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and absorbed it into his own origin.
• Qin Tian transformed into a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, developing a golden Bitter Sea as the Black Emperor watched and asked to learn the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art.
• Qin Tian felt the art urging him to devour more origins, while Jiang Taixu warned him not to let demonic nature control him.
• The Sacred Body Origin awakened its Underworld Curse, causing red hair to appear on Qin Tian, but his Five-Colored Divine Light suppressed it and the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s laws turned his demonic nature into Dao nature.
• Qin Tian rejected combining Sacred Body and Dao Embryo origins because their demonic natures could create dangerous Great Dao shackles, and considered transforming a demon embryo into a Dao Embryo as a backup plan.

Qin Tian advanced to Four Extremes Second Heaven by absorbing the lightning tribulation, but discovered that his body lacked enough source to fully wield the Sacred Body Origin. He decided to acquire more source through a scheme and began looking for a powerful escape technique before stirring up trouble.

• Qin Tian triggered a vast heavenly tribulation, and the Black Emperor and Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King watched from within and beyond its reach.
• Qin Tian used the Yin-Yang Kunpeng Seal to devour the tribulation’s lightning, then tempered his body and Primordial Spirit through successive layers and reached Four Extremes Second Heaven.
• Qin Tian waited for an Innate Dao Diagram to appear, but none descended because his Sacred Body Origin was isolated by the Great Dao Treasure Bottle.
• Qin Tian realized his combat strength had reached the Eight Forbidden Domain, but his body could not fully unleash the Sacred Body Origin because he lacked roughly ten million jin of source.
• Qin Tian planned to gather source by launching a Ponzi scheme, then decided he needed an unsurpassed divine escape technique in case people pursued him.

Jiang Taixu entered seclusion in the Ageless Hall to use his accumulated Essence of Longevity to live a second life, while Qin Tian observed his transformation. Qin Tian discovered how Essence of Longevity awakened Xiantian One Qi to repair the Five Great Secret Realms, but he could not determine how to produce or accumulate enough Essence of Longevity himself.

• Jiang Taixu borrowed the Ageless Hall from the Azure Flood Dragon King and entered seclusion to attempt a second life, reassuring Fairy Caiyun that he would return.
• Jiang Yi arrived, learned that Jiang Taixu was attempting a breakthrough, and thanked Qin Tian and Black Emperor for rescuing his ancestor.
• Qin Tian watched Jiang Taixu’s transformation with his Divine Eyes and saw Essence of Longevity awaken his Wheel of Life and restore Xiantian One Qi.
• Qin Tian realized that Jiang Taixu’s Xiantian One Qi was repairing the Five Great Secret Realms as the basis of his second life.
• Qin Tian recorded the transformation but remained unable to understand how Essence of Longevity was produced or accumulated.

Jiang Taixu emerged from seclusion rejuvenated and broke through to the Saint realm after enduring a fierce heavenly tribulation. He reunited with Fairy Caiyun, and then prepared to take Jiang Yi back to the Jiang Family.

• Qin Tian observed Jiang Taixu's recovery inside the Ageless Hall, while Black Emperor tried unsuccessfully to see what Qin Tian saw through his Divine Eyes.
• Jiang Taixu emerged youthful and full of vitality, then tore open space and entered the cosmos to attest to his Dao before heaven and earth.
• Jiang Taixu endured a devastating Saint Tribulation, using the God King Rebirth Technique and the Hengyu Emperor Furnace to withstand its attacks and absorb its lightning essence.
• Jiang Taixu returned as a Saint, and Fairy Caiyun embraced him while the Azure Flood Dragon King, Jiang Yi, and the others marveled at his breakthrough.
• Black Emperor demanded Jiang Taixu's hair and blood, then Jiang Yi paid his respects, and Jiang Taixu offered to take him back to the Jiang Family.

Qin Tian persuaded Jiang Taixu to join him in searching for one of the Nine Secrets at Saint Cliff, while the Black Emperor offered to arrange their journey. The chapter ended with the Black Emperor completing a teleportation platform that Jiang Taixu checked before they set out.

• Qin Tian invited Jiang Taixu to investigate the Nine Secrets at Saint Cliff, and Jiang Taixu agreed after learning the site was not a Life Forbidden Zone.
• The Black Emperor offered to bring them safely through Saint Cliff in exchange for Qin Tian's Phoenix Blood Red Gold, but Qin Tian refused.
• Jiang Taixu praised Qin Tian as having the makings of a Great Emperor, and Qin Tian warned that the phrase carried a curse.
• The Black Emperor proposed inscribing a Profound Jade Platform to travel to Saint Cliff, and Qin Tian asked Jiang Taixu to watch over him.
• The Black Emperor inscribed the platform, Jiang Taixu inspected it and found no problems, and the group prepared to depart.

Qin Tian, Jiang Taixu, Fairy Caiyun, and Black Emperor arrived at Saint Cliff, where they encountered a Corpse-Eating Bird and a dangerous Emperor Formation left by Great Emperor Wushi. Black Emperor repeatedly triggered the formation’s lightning, but Qin Tian provoked him into charging ahead again.

• Black Emperor used Void Shift to take the group from Yunze Prefecture to Saint Cliff at the border of Central Province and the Northern Region.
• Jiang Taixu and Qin Tian reflected on the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s death at Saint Cliff and the power of Great Emperors.
• Jiang Taixu struck a Corpse-Eating Bird with his Saint Dao power, and Fairy Caiyun identified it as a creature that fed on powerful corpses and collected bones.
• Black Emperor claimed he could guide the group through the array marks, but the Wushi Emperor Formation repeatedly struck him with divine lightning.
• Qin Tian refused to follow Black Emperor’s directions and provoked him into charging ahead, where the formation struck him again.

Qin Tian’s group explored the site where Great Emperor Wushi had sealed a powerful Faith Body, while Qin Tian’s knowledge and the Black Emperor’s stories revealed a secret about Wushi’s origins. The chapter ended with Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun learning that Great Emperor Wushi was the Western Emperor’s Son.

• Qin Tian explained that Great Emperor Wushi had sealed a powerful Primal Antiquity deity’s Faith Body at the black cliff, and the group advanced into the eerie area.
• The Black Emperor gave the group an incomplete Wushi Emperor Formation scroll, and Qin Tian healed him with Divine Spring Water.
• The Black Emperor tried to threaten Qin Tian over learning the Western Emperor Scripture, but Qin Tian claimed Jade Lake’s Holy Son had approved it.
• Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun questioned the existence of a Jade Lake Holy Son, and the Black Emperor acknowledged that one had existed.
• Qin Tian revealed that Great Emperor Wushi was the Western Emperor’s Son, astonishing Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun.

Qin Tian and his companions crossed Saint Cliff, where Jiang Taixu used the Lihuo Divine Furnace to quell the Taiyang True Fire and drive off a Three-Legged Golden Crow. After Reincarnation Lake showed Qin Tian a vision of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the group found the List of the Gods sealed to the central mountain.

• Qin Tian and Jiang Taixu studied the Wushi Emperor Formation for nine days, then used what they learned to find a safe path forward.
• Jiang Taixu absorbed the Taiyang True Fire into the Lihuo Divine Furnace, and his Divine King Pure Land crushed the attacking fire crows as the Three-Legged Golden Crow fled.
• Black Emperor rushed into the Golden Crow Cave to loot it, escaped burning with the treasures, and used Qin Tian's Divine Spring Water to regrow his fur.
• Jiang Taixu warned Qin Tian away from Reincarnation Lake, but its ghostly light drew Qin Tian into a vision of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Fruit of All Causes.
• The group reached the blood-red central mountain and discovered the List of the Gods sealed against its side; Black Emperor identified it as an Emperor Weapon.

Jiang Taixu, Qin Tian, and the Black Emperor reached the List of the Gods and encountered the Undying Daoist, who offered the Nine Secrets in exchange for his release. Qin Tian tried and failed to trace the Daoist’s past, then demanded that he teach them one secret before they considered freeing him.

• Jiang Taixu and Qin Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to protect the group as they passed the motionless figures and reached the List of the Gods.
• The Black Emperor spotted blood, a stolen spirit herb, and carvings of a Buddha and an ox-riding old man, then angrily claimed the site for Wushi’s lineage.
• The Undying Daoist appeared and asked the group to free him in return for peerless sacred arts from the Nine Secrets.
• Jiang Taixu raised the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and questioned the ancient stranger, who identified himself as the Undying Daoist.
• Qin Tian attempted to trace the Undying Daoist’s past with his Temporal Eye but could not pierce the Supreme’s obscured history.
• Qin Tian asked the Undying Daoist to teach them one of the Nine Secrets before they rescued him and swore in the Netherworld Emperor’s name.

Qin Tian and his companions opened the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s coffin on Saint Cliff and obtained Nine Secrets: Xing, which Qin Tian comprehended with surprising ease. After the Black Emperor claimed the Lord of the Assassin Heavenly Court’s Golden Scepter, Qin Tian and the Black Emperor left for Divine City to earn source and restore Qin Tian’s Sacred Body.

• The List of the Gods and Great Emperor Wushi’s formation suppressed the Undying Daoist, allowing Qin Tian and the others to approach the ancient coffin.
• Jiang Taixu opened the coffin with the formation’s help, revealing the Nine Secrets: Xing Dao Diagrams.
• Qin Tian comprehended Nine Secrets: Xing, while the Black Emperor also studied it and boasted that he would become the Lord of the Heavenly Court.
• The Black Emperor took the Golden Scepter from the former Lord of the Assassin Heavenly Court, and Jiang Taixu closed the coffin after everyone finished comprehending.
• Jiang Taixu gave Qin Tian a jade pendant containing a Saint’s strike before departing with Fairy Caiyun.
• Qin Tian and the Black Emperor traveled to Divine City to earn source and restore Qin Tian’s Sacred Body.

Qin Tian adopted the alias Cao Yusheng and brought Black Emperor to Divine City, planning to build a reputation as a Source Heavenly Master's successor before running a scam. After Black Emperor provoked Grandmaster Nangong, Qin Tian accepted his challenge to gamble at Yaoguang Holy Land's costly Heavenly Universe Stone Workshop, where onlookers gathered to watch.

• Qin Tian rejected the aliases Duan De and Shi Hao, chose Cao Yusheng, and told Black Emperor to use that name for him.
• Black Emperor struggled to remember Cao Yusheng and refused to take an alias, while Qin Tian wondered whether Black Emperor possessed an Immortal Dao-level Reincarnation Seal.
• Qin Tian explained that he would use Black Emperor to draw attention and establish his reputation as a Source Heavenly Master's successor in Divine City.
• Black Emperor provoked people at a stone workshop, prompting Grandmaster Nangong to confront Qin Tian and challenge him to gamble at Yaoguang Holy Land's Heavenly Universe Stone Workshop.
• Qin Tian accepted the challenge, and Black Emperor and Qin Tian entered the Heavenly Universe Stone Workshop as old stone-gamblers gathered to watch.

Qin Tian won the stone-cutting contest against Nangong Grandmaster by revealing a Primal Antiquity Qilin Divine Medicine seed, an Immortal Medicine seed coveted by the holy lands and ancient families. The Nangong Family disputed the result and claimed the seed, leaving the wager unresolved.

• Nangong Grandmaster chose the Blood Sacrifice Altar, while Qin Tian selected the Demon Embryo for the stone wager.
• Nangong Grandmaster cut open the Blood Sacrifice Altar and revealed a Slaughter Spear and the body of a beautiful Primordial Royal Clan woman pierced through the heart.
• Qin Tian opened the Demon Embryo and uncovered a purple divine source containing a Primal Antiquity Qilin Divine Medicine seed.
• The Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, and Jiang Family offered to buy the seed, but Qin Tian refused and said he would give it to a future Great Emperor.
• The Nangong Family rejected Qin Tian's victory, argued that the unusable seed could not outweigh the Saint's corpse, and claimed the seed belonged to them.

Qin Tian built his reputation as a Source Heavenly Master's successor, challenged the Source Arts masters to a massive stone wager, and invited Holy Sons and Holy Maidens to a banquet. At the banquet, he used his Void Eye to see through the Jade Pool Holy Maiden's concealment and perceive her body and secret realms.

• Qin Tian kept the Kirin Immortal Medicine seed, stored the Fighting King Consort in his Bitter Sea, and introduced himself to Yao Xi and the others as Cao Yusheng, a Source Heavenly Master's successor.
• Qin Tian defeated several Source Arts grandmasters, won precious life-extending medicines and a million jin of source, then accepted a two-million-jin stone wager against leading Source Arts Masters.
• Qin Tian invited prominent Holy Sons and Holy Maidens to a banquet, while the Black Emperor accused him of pursuing the Jade Pool Holy Maiden and tried to seize the Kirin Immortal Medicine.
• At the Illusory Food Pavilion, Qin Tian welcomed the Jade Pool Holy Maiden and traded remarks with her about the Source Heavenly Master Lineage and Jade Pool.
• Qin Tian activated his Void Eye and saw through the Jade Pool Holy Maiden's concealment, viewing her beauty, inner body, and secret realms.

Qin Tian persuaded the holy lands and great clans to invest in a supposed oceanic Source mine, then slapped away the Golden-Winged Little Peng King when he demanded the Primal Antiquity Qilin Divine Medicine. The chapter left Qin Tian’s strength and his growing influence in Divine City on display, while the Black Emperor’s altered coordinates remained undiscovered.

• At a banquet, Qin Tian claimed his family had found a trillion-jin Source mine in the ocean and invited the holy lands and great clans to fund a merchant association that would share its proceeds.
• The guests were captivated by Qin Tian’s story and left to report the proposed investment to their factions.
• The Black Emperor, drunk and mistaking Qin Tian’s Profound Jade Platform coordinates for an error, changed its destination westward.
• After three days of promoting his merchant association at banquets, Qin Tian went out to attend the Source Arts contest and encountered the Golden-Winged Little Peng King.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King demanded the Primal Antiquity Qilin Divine Medicine, but Qin Tian slapped him flying and left him unconscious.

Qin Tian selected three stones for the wager at the Ji Family Stone Workshop and uncovered an Immortal Medicine, while the Nangong Family elders schemed to kill him and seize his treasures. After they attacked him through a hidden Source Arts Killing Formation, Qin Tian secretly took control of their formation with his Houtu Earthly Fiend Formation and prepared to turn it against them.

• Qin Tian chose one stone at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop, then selected two more at the Ji Family Stone Workshop while searching unsuccessfully for Divine Child.
• Qin Tian cut open his first stone and revealed an Immortal Medicine, prompting the Jade Lake Holy Maiden to offer Divine Spring Water to revive it.
• The four Nangong Family elders plotted to kill Qin Tian and claim his Immortal Medicines, and a hidden formation sent a killing strike at him from a nearby stone.
• Qin Tian paid the Ji Family elder ten thousand jin of Source for the damaged stone and warned the Nangong Family elders that he would retaliate.
• Qin Tian finished laying his Houtu Earthly Fiend Formation, absorbed the enemy formation into his control, and ordered it to attack.

Qin Tian defeated the Source Arts Families’ grandmasters in a stone-gambling wager, then used the fame and a supposedly enormous underwater Source Mine to lure investors into a merchant association. He left the independent cultivators with early profits while drawing the great families and holy lands into his scheme, with their vast investments now in his hands.

• Qin Tian turned the Source Arts formation’s attacks against its masters, killing four grandmasters and a descendant who challenged the wager.
• Qin Tian opened the opponents’ stones and his own, claimed the treasures, and was hailed as the Source Arts Master closest to becoming a Source Heavenly Master.
• Qin Tian promoted a supposedly discovered supermassive Source Mine beneath the sea and established a merchant association to fund its development.
• Investors rushed to join, and the first dividend payment returned at least a third of each investor’s initial contribution, prompting many to reinvest.
• The great families and holy lands each invested millions of jin of Source, while Qin Tian and Black Emperor discussed the scheme and its risks.

Qin Tian collected nearly a hundred million pounds of Source from the merchant association’s investors and fled the Divine City before the scheme was exposed. The Black Emperor stayed behind to pursue one last score, then realized Qin Tian had gone all the way to the Western Desert.

• Qin Tian gathered the third month’s Source haul, collected more than half of the mountain, and prepared to abandon his alias before the next distribution.
• Qin Tian warned the Black Emperor to leave soon and escape the investors’ wrath, then used the Profound Jade Platform to travel west.
• The Black Emperor stayed behind, intending to make one last profit before leaving.
• Jiang Taixu arrived and recognized that Cao Yusheng’s merchant association had swindled the sacred lands and ancient families, including the Jiang Family.
• Jiang Taixu asked where Qin Tian had gone, and the Black Emperor discovered from the Profound Jade Platform that he had headed to the Western Desert.

Qin Tian discovered that the Black Emperor’s teleportation had stranded him in the Western Desert, far from the Eastern Wasteland. After locating a powerful temple linked to Amitabha Buddha’s plan, he decided to stay and explore the region.

• Qin Tian used the Heavenly Secret Art to determine that he had landed in the Western Desert.
• Qin Tian blamed the Black Emperor for tampering with his Profound Jade Platforms and vowed to make dog meat hotpot from him once the turmoil passed.
• Qin Tian searched the empty desert with the Void Eye and found a temple protected by immense Power of Faith and a bell that blocked his probing.
• Qin Tian recognized the temple as a node in Amitabha Buddha’s formation and recalled the Great Emperor’s plan to lead the Western Desert’s faithful into the Immortal Domain.
• Qin Tian decided to remain in the Western Desert.

Qin Tian absorbed ten million jin of Source in the Western Desert, strengthening his Sacred Body and advancing to the third level of Four Extremes. After enduring a massive heavenly tribulation, he emerged with a perfected physique and wondered whether Nine Secrets: Qian could improve his weaker primordial spirit.

• Qin Tian used ten million jin of Source to expand his Bitter Sea, strengthen his Sacred Body Origin, and raise his combat strength within the Eight Forbidden Domain.
• Qin Tian broke through to the third level of Four Extremes and released his aura to verify his Dao Fruit, summoning a vast heavenly tribulation.
• Qin Tian endured the lightning and other heavenly punishments as they fused the Source Qi with his body and tempered his physique.
• Qin Tian recovered with Five Qis Returning to the Origin and found that his perfected physique had become his second-strongest aspect, behind his divine power.
• Qin Tian considered seeking Nine Secrets: Qian to strengthen his primordial spirit and wondered when Wang Teng would appear in the Eastern Wasteland as Wolf God.

Qin Tian reached Great Dream Temple at the far western edge of the Western Desert and decided to seek its Dream Realization Method by debating its younger generation. He explained that a faulty Profound Jade Platform had transported him there, and the young monk believed his account despite finding it extraordinarily unlikely.

• Qin Tian learned from pilgrims that he had been transported to the westernmost edge of the Western Desert, where Great Dream Temple stood.
• After learning that Great Dream Temple's renowned Dream Realization Method might aid his cultivation, Qin Tian planned to obtain it by challenging the temple's disciples to debate the Dao.
• Qin Tian admired the temple's vast, faith-powered holy land and entered its gilded main hall without bowing to the Buddha.
• A young monk asked why Qin Tian had traveled so far, and Qin Tian said he wished to debate the Dao with Great Dream Temple's younger generation.
• Qin Tian explained that a mishandled Profound Jade Platform had transported him from the Northern Region; the young monk said he sensed Qin Tian's sincerity but had never heard of anyone being transported across two great regions.