Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian tracked down the Black Emperor and turned him into the centerpiece of a dog meat hotpot, only for the greedy dog to join the feast and eat his own flesh. The Black Emperor’s limbs kept regenerating, leaving Qin Tian contemplating how to make the meal endless.

• Qin Tian recognized Duan De, who explained that he had spent a year being hunted because he used the same Cao Yusheng alias as Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian bought ingredients and herbs, divined the Black Emperor’s location, and found him relaxing on a Divine Source bed.
• Qin Tian prepared dog meat hotpot in the Xuanhuang Ancient Cauldron with Dragon Marrow and Reincarnation Sea water, then cut off the Black Emperor’s legs and added them to the pot.
• The Black Emperor overcame his horror and ate the hotpot, including his own meat, while his severed legs regenerated.
• After the first batch of dog meat was gone, Qin Tian cut off the Black Emperor’s limbs again and considered seeking Nine Secrets: Zhe to make the dog’s regeneration even more useful.

Qin Tian met Duan De, learned that Northern Emperor Wang Teng had come to Divine City, and decided to challenge him openly to claim the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s inheritance. The chapter ended with Qin Tian revealing his own name to Wang Teng before their fight began.

• Qin Tian joked about eating the Black Emperor’s regrown legs, then met Duan De and heard him call himself Great Virtue Daoist.
• Duan De told Qin Tian that the Northern Plains’ Wolf God, Wang Teng, had arrived in Divine City and was challenging Eastern Wasteland experts.
• Qin Tian recognized Wang Teng and resolved to seek the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s inheritance for insight into the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art.
• Wang Teng belittled the Eastern Wasteland’s talents, and Qin Tian stepped forward to challenge him under his real identity.
• When Wang Teng dismissed him, Qin Tian seized him by the face and carried him outside Divine City.
• Wang Teng broke free and demanded Qin Tian’s name, and Qin Tian proudly introduced himself as Qin Tian.

Qin Tian and Wang Teng clashed in the Eight Forbidden Domain, with Qin Tian gaining the upper hand and discovering that Wang Teng’s divine phoenix blood had not fully merged with him. As Wang Teng brought out Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s chariot and imperial killing art, Qin Tian announced that he would finally get serious.

• Wang Teng and Qin Tian traded divine eye techniques, then charged into a battle that stunned onlookers with its power.
• Bystanders recognized that both men had reached the Eight Forbidden Domain, making their duel a contest for the Emperor Road.
• Qin Tian overwhelmed Wang Teng in close combat, tearing through his flesh and noticing that divine phoenix runes healed his wounds.
• Wang Teng praised Qin Tian as the opponent he had wanted and switched from close combat to divine abilities.
• Wang Teng summoned Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s golden chariot, guarded by four kinds of divine beasts, and charged Qin Tian through spatial turbulence.
• Qin Tian said he had not yet gotten serious and prepared to reveal more of his strength.

Qin Tian battled Wang Teng, using the fight to record a clue to the Nine Secrets and locate the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s inheritance. As Qin Tian prepared to finish the battle, Wang Teng unleashed the Heaven-Rending Secret Art and trapped him in layers of spatial abysses.

• Wang Teng attacked Qin Tian with the Heavenly Emperor Sacred Sword, and their clash shook the surrounding space and nearly killed an elder with its aftershock.
• Wang Teng summoned the myriad spirits into a net of Dao laws, but Qin Tian’s Heavenly Venerable Manifestation tore through it and struck back with a five-colored Jade Ruyi.
• Qin Tian used his Time Eye to inspect Wang Teng’s past, recording the clue to the Nine Secrets and discovering the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s inheritance and Emperor Axe.
• Qin Tian prepared to unleash his full strength, while Wang Teng sensed the danger and used the Heaven-Rending Secret Art to swallow Qin Tian in overlapping spatial abysses.

Qin Tian defeated Wang Teng, took some of his Divine Phoenix Blood, and left him hoping to fight again after advancing in cultivation. As Qin Tian returned to Divine City to buy Beast Milk, Human World assassins attacked him, and he killed a white-robed assassin before vowing to punish them.

• Qin Tian escaped Wang Teng's banishment technique, overwhelmed him with the Kunpeng King Fist, and took a portion of his Divine Phoenix Blood.
• Wang Teng asked Qin Tian to fight him again after he reached the Immortal Platform Realm, and Qin Tian dismissed him as an enemy he did not consider a rival.
• Bystanders recognized Qin Tian from the Wanted List and recalled his past escape from the Yaoguang Holy Land and his rise from Mine Slave.
• A Human World agent and the general store's owner watched Qin Tian and planned to assassinate him with an ambush.
• Qin Tian returned to Divine City to buy Beast Milk, caught an assassin's Cursed Sword between two fingers, and killed a white-robed attacker with its broken tip.

Qin Tian faced a Human World death warrant and several Great Powers who tried to kill him, using Nine Secrets: Xing, formations, and close combat to turn the attack against them. He left the attackers wary as he revealed the array formations and purple light behind his counterattack.

• A bloodstained Human World death warrant naming Qin Tian descended, while observers suspected jealous holy lands had commissioned his death.
• A Yaoguang elder attacked Qin Tian, but Qin Tian evaded his giant hand with Nine Secrets: Xing.
• Two more Great Powers joined the assault, and Qin Tian used the Six-Character Mantra with array formations to stop a sword barrage.
• The three Great Powers sealed the area, but Qin Tian used Nine Secrets: Xing and Time and Space to reach the Yaoguang Great Power and batter him with punches.
• Qin Tian escaped the Yaoguang Great Power's counterattack and forced the other two attackers to defend themselves against close combat.
• Qin Tian showed the Yaoguang Great Power the array marks covering the sky and a glimmer of purple light as his answer to their overwhelming cultivation advantage.

Qin Tian used the Divine Mark Purple Gold Diagram to summon the Houtu Formation, raising his cultivation to Great Power level and fighting three Great Powers. He then unleashed his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Talisman, leaving the Yaoguang Great Power’s Wheel of Life rapidly collapsing as Qin Tian prepared to finish him.

• Qin Tian revealed the Divine Mark Purple Gold Diagram and activated the Houtu Formation, drawing on Divine City’s earth veins to raise his combat power to the second level of Immortal Platform.
• Qin Tian challenged the Yaoguang Great Power, matched his Hunyuan Yaoguang Art, and knocked him from the sky with a stronger execution of the same art.
• Qin Tian attacked two Great Powers with his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Talisman, inflicting death energy on one and apparent rejuvenation on the Yaoguang Great Power.
• Qin Tian explained that the Yaoguang Great Power’s vitality had activated all at once, consuming his Wheel of Life and leaving him terrified as his body looked younger.
• Qin Tian intensified the curse, and the Yaoguang Great Power’s vitality plummeted as he staggered forward and tried to take Qin Tian down with him.

After Qin Tian killed three Great Powers in the Divine City, he invited Duan De to join him in searching for the Nine Secrets. Both men accepted the partnership while secretly planning to betray the other, and they set off together.

• Qin Tian’s Yin-Yang Curse Killing drained two Great Powers of their remaining vitality, while his Heaven and Earth Throw killed the third as he fled.
• Wang Teng watched the battle and considered studying the Chaotic Ancient Era Emperor Formation.
• Qin Tian offered fresh Beast Milk to His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor, then decided to seek the Nine Secrets before Wang Teng could reach them.
• Qin Tian found Duan De in the Divine City and invited him to explore the Nine Secrets, praising his talent for archaeology.
• Duan De agreed, delighted to meet someone who recognized his skills, but secretly planned to claim the bounty on Qin Tian after their treasure hunt.
• Qin Tian suspected Duan De’s intentions and sent a paper effigy to prepare to sell Duan De’s location to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop.

Qin Tian and Duan De searched Central Province for the Nine Secrets and discovered a Small World hidden among a network of realms. They opened a bridge to it, while Duan De concealed his connection to the place where he had been reborn.

• Qin Tian sent Black Emperor to investigate Purple Mansion Holy Land and look for the Innate Dao Embryo.
• Qin Tian and Duan De traveled to a desolate landscape in Central Province to search for the Nine Secrets.
• Duan De recognized the landscape as the place where he had been buried in a previous life and reborn, and secretly resolved to keep Qin Tian from discovering its deeper mysteries.
• Qin Tian and Duan De found the Small World containing the Nine Secrets and noticed it was nearing destruction.
• Qin Tian and Duan De inscribed Source Heavenly Array Marks across the terrain and formed a Divine Bridge through the void.

Qin Tian and Duan De entered an ancient Small World in search of the Nine Secrets, and Qin Tian raced ahead using Nine Secrets: Xing to reach a Dragon Cave first. He found a radiant treasure ground at the heart of the Dragon Vein, while Duan De was still rushing after him.

• Qin Tian and Duan De crashed into the Small World after the Other Shore Divine Bridge forced its way through the world's barrier.
• Duan De hurried off to search for the Nine Secrets, while Qin Tian followed and considered which Heavenly Venerables might have created the unknown arts.
• Qin Tian and Duan De reached a towering Dragon Vein, and Duan De claimed he would scout ahead before flying toward its summit.
• Qin Tian used Nine Secrets: Xing to overtake Duan De, who recognized the art and burned his essence, qi, and spirit to catch up.
• Qin Tian collected ancient medicinal plants as he raced along the Dragon Vein and reached its Dragon Cave before Duan De.
• Qin Tian saw rosy light and auspicious radiance pouring from the Dragon Cave and cried out in astonishment.

Qin Tian drained a Dragon Lair's Dragon Marrow, claimed the ancient wood containing Nine Secrets: Qian, and formally became Duan De's disciple. He then set Duan De up by alerting Yaoguang forces to his whereabouts, while Duan De mistook the ancient wood for worthless wood and fled to search elsewhere.

• Qin Tian collected the Dragon Marrow, killed the powerful humanoid monster guarding it, and found the ancient wood containing Nine Secrets: Qian.
• Qin Tian could not activate the scripture in the ancient wood, so he stored it and gave Duan De a flask of Dragon Marrow.
• Qin Tian offered to become Duan De's disciple, and Duan De accepted after Qin Tian showed him the ancient wood.
• Qin Tian's Paper Effigy told a Yaoguang elder that Duan De was in Central Province, prompting the elder to gather forces and pursue him.
• Duan De decided the ancient wood was not the vessel for Nine Secrets: Qian, handed Qin Tian a book on archaeology, and hurried off to search elsewhere.
• Qin Tian began reading Duan De's book and found its grave-robbing knowledge strangely familiar.

Qin Tian studied Duan De's Tomb-Raiding Notes and connected Duan De's techniques to the Ruthless Great Emperor, then lured the Yaoguang Holy Land's pursuers toward Duan De. He collected Heavenly Venerable Blood from his fleeing master and left Duan De to face the pursuit.

• Qin Tian read Duan De's Tomb-Raiding Notes and speculated that Duan De and the Ruthless Great Emperor's techniques and scriptures were connected.
• Qin Tian found treasures and an incomplete copy of the Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art while Duan De searched for the Nine Secrets.
• Duan De sensed danger as the Yaoguang Holy Land's forces approached, escaped the secret realm, and was pursued after Qin Tian revealed his direction.
• Duan De tried to deny his identity and invoked Qin Tian as his disciple, but Qin Tian accepted payment from the Yaoguang Holy Land and let the pursuers hunt him.
• Qin Tian caught up with the pursuit in disguise and drew three bowls of Heavenly Venerable Blood from Duan De before pretending to be defeated by his attack.

Qin Tian entered the Yan Capital and unexpectedly met the starving Xiao Nannan, the Ruthless Great Emperor's Dao Fruit. He took her in, and after getting her food and new clothes, he began caring for her despite her warning that she might soon forget him.

• Qin Tian entered the Yan Capital, hoping to find Xiao Nannan through his connection to the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid.
• Xiao Nannan found Qin Tian and begged him for food, and he bought her a steamer of buns.
• Qin Tian offered to take Xiao Nannan in, and she agreed while warning that she periodically forgot everything.
• Xiao Nannan gave Qin Tian a seven-colored stone, which he recognized as containing traces of the Great Dao and returned to her as a pendant.
• Qin Tian took Xiao Nannan to an inn, arranged for her to be washed, and had new clothes bought for her.

Qin Tian settled into a quiet life with Xiao Nannan in the Yan Kingdom while trying to comprehend Nine Secrets: Qian. Xiao Nannan’s ability to see the ancient script helped him obtain the secret art, and he began preparing to use her dreams to perfect another technique.

• Qin Tian bought a small courtyard in the Yan Kingdom and spent his days tending plants and playing with Xiao Nannan.
• Qin Tian underwent a tribulation and advanced two heavens to Dragon Transformation Seventh Heaven, choosing the Amitabha Buddha Sutra for the realm.
• Unable to comprehend Nine Secrets: Qian, Qin Tian asked Xiao Nannan to copy the words she could see, but neither of them could read the Mythical Era writing.
• The golden characters Xiao Nannan copied entered Qin Tian’s mind and revealed Nine Secrets: Qian, which became a Dao Seed in his heart and strengthened the circulation of his other Nine Secrets.
• Qin Tian asked Xiao Nannan to sleep so he could perfect a secret art in her dreams, then began forming Buddha Seals as mental power spread through her room.

Qin Tian created a dream world spanning Yan Kingdom and asked Xiao Nannan to reshape its rules, allowing Ruthless Great Emperor to experience his Six Paths of Reincarnation. Xiao Nannan completed the transformation and entered reincarnation, then returned to Qin Tian’s arms, while he remained worried that she might try to establish reincarnation in reality.

• Qin Tian cooked dumplings for Xiao Nannan, then used the Reincarnation Seal to create a Cloud Dream Realm without risking real-world backlash.
• Qin Tian expanded the dream across Yan Kingdom, drawing its people into a shared world and adding a divine kingdom and prayer tasks.
• Qin Tian asked Xiao Nannan to reshape the dream world so its stray thoughts would not make him lose himself, and she spent thirty dream-years changing its rules.
• Xiao Nannan’s aura weakened, and Qin Tian comforted her as she dissolved into light and entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Ruthless Great Emperor appeared before the Six Paths, and Qin Tian warned her not to establish reincarnation in reality because its cause-and-effect backlash could kill her.
• Ruthless Great Emperor entered the dream’s reincarnation, and Xiao Nannan soon reappeared asleep in Qin Tian’s arms.

Qin Tian awakened from the Cloud Dream Realm, received the Self-Slaying, Dao-Illuminating Art from the Female Emperor, and learned that Ruthless Great Emperor had transformed the dream method into a world-bearing secret art. He decided Earth would be the ideal place to establish its first node and began considering a separate identity for stirring up trouble on Big Dipper.

• The Female Emperor passed Qin Tian the Self-Slaying, Dao-Illuminating Art, and he used it to suppress the flood of information and distracting thoughts from the Cloud Dream Realm.
• Qin Tian discovered the Yan Kingdom's prayers had generated abundant, pure faith praising his Sacred Buddha identity, apparently at Amitabha Great Emperor's direction.
• The Cloud Dream Realm collapsed into a scripture, revealing that Ruthless Great Emperor had modified it to become one facet of the world, sustained by faith and the thoughts of living beings.
• Qin Tian concluded that Earth was an ideal anchor for the Cloud Dream Realm because of its population, hidden defenses, powerful protectors, and deep Primordial Ancient Star heritage.
• Qin Tian resolved to seek Earth's coordinates through the Yuhua Dynasty ruins or the Ji Family and Jiang Family, then considered using another name to cause trouble on Big Dipper.

Qin Tian reflected on his revenge against Xu Yuan and tested his connection with the Ruthless Great Emperor by letting Xiao Nannan choose coordinates on the Profound Jade Platform. They arrived at the place where the Central Province Ancestral Dragon Vein had been broken, and Qin Tian wondered whether its remnants held some fortune.

• Qin Tian resolved to wait until he reached the Immortal Platform realm before taking revenge on Xu Yuan and wiping out the Xu family.
• Qin Tian had Xiao Nannan enter random coordinates into the Profound Jade Platform to test whether the Ruthless Great Emperor would provide him with an opportunity to grow.
• Qin Tian and Xiao Nannan arrived in a desolate place in Central Province, which Qin Tian first suspected was the site of the Imperial Dao Fire Spirit's death or the Saint Spirit Ancestral Land.
• Xiao Nannan remembered a beautiful big sister striking the place with her palm and breaking a little dragon, and she began to cry.
• Qin Tian realized they were at the site of the Central Province Ancestral Dragon Vein and wondered whether its remains held fortune.

Qin Tian followed his fortune ahoge into the Central Province Ancestral Dragon Vein’s hidden cave, where he discovered its shattered Chaos Dragon Pearl. He absorbed the chaos imprint left by the Ruthless Great Emperor’s handprint, gaining insight that strengthened his cultivation and prepared him for the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.

• Qin Tian followed his fortune ahoge to a narrow cave and used Source Arts array marks to open the entrance.
• Qin Tian and Xiao Nannan entered the hidden space within the Ancestral Dragon Vein, where Qin Tian sensed its dragon qi and found the Chaos Dragon Pearl.
• Qin Tian discovered that the Ruthless Great Emperor’s handprint had shattered the pearl and destroyed most of its power.
• Qin Tian used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to find and absorb the chaos imprint formed by the handprint and the pearl’s remaining Dao resonance.
• Qin Tian comprehended the Indestructible Heavenly Art through the chaos imprint, strengthening his Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and laying groundwork for his Immortal Platform.

Qin Tian broke through the dragon transformation realm by surviving a devastating lightning tribulation and advancing his spine toward the immortal platform. He sensed that ascending would summon the Immortal-Slaying Executioner’s Blade, so he stopped and left to prepare a Dao-Protecting Artifact.

• Qin Tian refined the chaos dragon marrow, shattered the Dragon Pearl, and absorbed its essence into his spine, then spent half a month comprehending chaos laws.
• Qin Tian underwent a lightning tribulation, joined his four Dao Diagrams with the Divine Mark Purple Gold Diagram, and tempered his primordial spirit and body with lightning.
• Qin Tian endured eighty-one Emperor Weapon imprints, used Immortal Runes and Reincarnation Sea divine liquid to restore himself, and heard the youthful Dao shout as his spine’s great dragon rose.
• Qin Tian sensed that ascending to the immortal platform would bring certain death and recognized the threat as the Immortal-Slaying Executioner’s Blade.
• Qin Tian concluded that the blade would appear in his next tribulation and decided to forge a Dao-Protecting Artifact before attempting the immortal platform secret realm.

Qin Tian secretly entered the Qin Sect’s rear mountain and learned the Nine Secret: Bing, then spent days mastering its weapon-forging principles. He forged a new cauldron by merging a void-made cauldron with the Xuanhuang Ancient Cauldron, preparing to use it in crafting his Unique Immortal Weapon.

• Qin Tian sent his paper effigy clone to return Xiao Nannan to the Yan Kingdom and traveled to the Qin Sect, where he evaded its Great Power guards.
• Qin Tian waited until nightfall for the weapon carvings on the rear mountain to reveal the Nine Secret: Bing.
• Qin Tian comprehended the Nine Secret: Bing and concluded that Yuanshi Tianzun may have created it, while the Battle Saint Method may have come from Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable.
• Qin Tian formed a cauldron from the void and merged it with the Xuanhuang Ancient Cauldron, creating a new cauldron of black and yellow that he expected to withstand his fire of the Great Dao.