Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming witnessed three powerful Demon Kings attack Azure Sea Immortal City, and the city’s grand array was breached despite Azure Sea Adept’s efforts. As demon beasts flooded the outer city and the defenders fought back, Elder Xu offered Qin Ming a chance to escape through the teleportation array if the city fell.

• Qin Ming and Elder Xu saw demon beasts and the Sky Devouring Rat Demon King battering Azure Sea Immortal City’s grand array, while Lu Liang and Lu Wan-jun hurried to defend the outer city.
• A giant fireball and a rain of meteors struck the city as Azure Sea Adept and Ancestor Xuan Yu reinforced the array with the Spirit Vein’s power.
• Qin Ming saw the Sky Devouring Rat Demon King, the Earthshaking Bear King, and a Deer Demon lead a renewed assault that shattered the array at the northwest corner.
• Demon beasts flooded through the breach as cultivators fought them and Nalan Xi and Ancestor Xuan Yu battled the three Demon Kings outside the city.
• Elder Xu and Xu Jing urged Qin Ming to flee with them through the Immortal City’s teleportation array if the situation worsened, and Qin Ming agreed.

Wei Wuyai and Ancestor Wan arrived in time to drive the Demon Kings from Azure Sea Immortal City, but Qin Ming suspected a greater force was directing the Beast Tide. After buying supplies from the Pill Cauldron Pavilion, he learned Lu Liang was dying and went to see him.

• Wei Wuyai wounded the Earthshaking Bear King, and he and Ancestor Wan helped the other Golden Core cultivators repel the Three Demonic Kings and their beasts.
• Qin Ming discussed the unusually coordinated Beast Tide with Elder Xu and Xu Jing, warning that a stronger Demon Race force might be behind it.
• Qin Ming bought spiritual materials and sold Jade Scale Wine and pills at the Pill Cauldron Pavilion.
• Lu Wan-jun arrived injured and told Qin Ming that her master, Lu Liang, wanted to see him before he died.
• Qin Ming found Lu Liang gravely wounded in an outer-city tent, with his Qi Sea Dantian shattered and his cultivation ruined.

Qin Ming received two rare Nether Yin Bloom Spirit Seeds from the dying Lu Liang and promised to look after Lu Wan-jun. As Azure Sea Immortal City braced for a decisive battle against the Beast Tide, the demons launched another organized attack.

• Lu Liang entrusted Qin Ming with caring for Lu Wan-jun and gave him two Nether Yin Bloom Spirit Seeds before dying.
• Nalan Xi warned Qin Ming that stronger Demon Kings might be behind the attacks and that Azure Sea Immortal City faced a battle for survival.
• Nalan Xi arranged a rear-area position for Lu Wan-jun and transferred Lu Liang's ten thousand merit points to her.
• Qin Ming visited Lu Liang's spirit tablet and told Lu Wan-jun she could seek his help at Moon Gazing Island.
• The Beast Tide returned from its ambush and attacked Azure Sea Immortal City again under the Demon Kings' command.

Qin Ming tried to escape Azure Sea Immortal City through its teleportation array, but the Sky Devouring Rat Demon King's Forbidden Severing Dark Light altered his destination and destroyed the array. He arrived in an Earthshaker Bear's den deep in the Beast Cry Mountain Range and fought back as the furious bear attacked.

• Qin Ming joined Gu Qingzhao and other cultivators evacuating Azure Sea Immortal City after a mid-stage third-rank Demon King appeared outside.
• Qin Ming used a Teleportation Token to set the array's destination near Moon Gazing Lake in the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• The Sky Devouring Rat Demon King unleashed Forbidden Severing Dark Light, disrupting the array and shifting Qin Ming's destination to deep within the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Qin Ming appeared in a cave beside a second-rank perfection Earthshaker Bear, whose roar and attack alerted the bear demons outside.
• Qin Ming activated True Astral Transformation and Demonic Ape Transformation, then countered the bear's strike with a punch.

Qin Ming overwhelmed the Earthshaker Bear Clan’s lair while its main force attacked Azure Sea Immortal City, then fled after learning how dangerous the raid could have been. At the city, the Earthshaking Bear King suddenly sensed trouble and ordered its forces to retreat, leaving the Sky Devouring Rat Demon King furious.

• Qin Ming fought the Second-Grade Peak Earthshaker Giant Bear, shattered its lightning attack with Law-Breaking Double Pupils, and killed it with a punch after using True Demon Illusion.
• Qin Ming used Yinchill Rain and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee to slaughter the remaining bear demons and collect Blood Orbs, including a Second-Grade Peak Blood Orb.
• Qin Ming soul-searched a bear demon, learned that the Earthshaking Bear King had taken most of the clan’s forces to Azure Sea Immortal City, and escaped Bear King Valley on the Silver-Winged Frost Bee.
• As the Beast Tide battered Azure Sea Immortal City’s failing formation, the Earthshaking Bear King sensed something amiss and ordered its forces to retreat toward the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• The Sky Devouring Rat Demon King cursed the retreat while continuing its battle against Azure Sea Adept.

Qin Ming escaped the Beast Cry Mountain Range after using Blood Escape to evade the Earthshaking Bear King, then returned to Moon Gazing Island to recover. He presented thousands of Blood Orbs to the Longevity Vine, which eagerly unfurled its vines.

• The Earthshaking Bear King withdrew from the battle at Azure Sea Immortal City after learning its clan was in danger, prompting the other Demon Kings to retreat.
• The four human Golden Core Ancestors struck the retreating Demon Kings with the city’s grand formation, grievously injuring one as the defenders celebrated their survival.
• Qin Ming fled through the Beast Cry Mountain Range, escaped the pursuing Earthshaking Bear King with Blood Escape, and reached the ruined Fangcun Mountain Market District.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, where he and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee collapsed from exhaustion before recovering with pills and a Spirit Transformation Fruit.
• After two days, Qin Ming brought thousands of Blood Orbs to the Longevity Vine, which awakened and eagerly unfurled its black vines.

Qin Ming fed the Blood Orbs to his Longevity Vine, which advanced into a Yin-Yang Mystic Vine and gained powerful new Affixes. The vine’s power helped him cultivate his Ancient Wood Evergreen Body to completion, greatly improving his aptitude and cultivation speed.

• Qin Ming fed all the Blood Orbs to his Longevity Vine, which grew and advanced into a Yin-Yang Mystic Vine.
• The Yin-Yang Mystic Vine gained Affixes that could grant lifespan, increase liquid mana, and nurture a planted magic treasure.
• The Yin-Yang Mystic Vine sent its power of time into Qin Ming, who cultivated his Ancient Wood Evergreen Body for three days.
• Qin Ming completed the Ancient Wood Evergreen Body at age fifty-eight, raising his four pseudo-spiritual roots to aptitude comparable to Heaven-Grade spiritual roots.

Qin Ming awakened the Four Seasons Divine Light and broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage beneath the Natal Spirit Vine Tree. After testing his increased strength, he prepared to seek the Core Formation Pill formula in Profound Stream Valley.

• Qin Ming used his completed Ancient Wood Evergreen Body to form the Four Seasons Divine Light and began cultivating for a breakthrough.
• Qin Ming absorbed the spiritual qi of Moon Gazing Island and advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, increasing his spiritual power, divine sense, and lifespan.
• Qin Ming tested his stronger wood-element spells and Azure Nether Sword Art, demonstrating that he could threaten even a Pseudo-Core Ancestor.
• Qin Ming resolved to travel to Profound Stream Valley to obtain the Core Formation Pill formula, having already secured seeds for the Fiery Golden Lotus and Nether Yin Bloom.

After consolidating his cultivation, Qin Ming discovered the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique and explored the Four Seasons Divine Light’s powers, then refined rare Void Breaking Pills. He summoned Wu Jiang to gather news about the Beast Tide and Azure Sea Immortal City, and awaited his report.

• Qin Ming learned that the Ancient Wood Longevity Art could lead beyond the Ancient Wood Evergreen Body to the legendary Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique.
• Qin Ming used the Four Seasons Divine Light to revive a withering Void Bamboo and found the divine light could extract medicinal essence for pill refinement.
• Qin Ming asked Wu Jiang to gather information about the Beast Tide and the attack on Azure Sea Immortal City, especially to learn what had happened to Gu Qingzhao and the others.
• Qin Ming’s mana advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and he began preparing to cultivate the third transformation of the True Gang Transformation.
• Qin Ming refined six common-quality and two premium Void Breaking Pills after using the Four Seasons Divine Light to improve his pill-making.
• Wu Jiang returned to Moon Gazing Island and went to report his findings about the Beast Tide to Qin Ming.

Qin Ming learned that the Beast Tide had receded, but the Earthshaker Bear Demon Clan was searching for someone, so he decided to stay hidden on the island. After sending Wu Jiang to deliver a Spirit Transformation Fruit to Azure Sea Adept, Qin Ming cultivated and discovered promising affixes on his budding Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peach trees.

• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that the Beast Tides had weakened and that the Earthshaker Bear Demon Clan had fled the battle at Azure Sea Immortal City, allowing its Golden Core Ancestors to wound a Demon King.
• Qin Ming realized the Earthshaker Bear Demon Clan was likely searching for him because he had killed a high-status bear demon, and he chose not to travel to the Immortal City himself.
• Qin Ming gave Wu Jiang a sealed jade box containing a Spirit Transformation Fruit and spirit soil, instructing him to deliver it to Azure Sea Adept.
• Qin Ming inspected the demon flowers on Yin-Yang Mystic Vine and left the Silver-Winged Frost Bee undisturbed while it slept and showed signs of advancing.
• Qin Ming consumed Void Breaking Pills and cultivated the Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture, increasing his Vital Energy True Force.
• Qin Ming found that his Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peach trees had flower buds and displayed the Vitality Spring and Abundant Lifespan affixes.

Qin Ming ripened his Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peaches to obtain their Vitality Spring Affix, but a mysterious thief stole several fruits and evaded his defenses. After catching a glimpse of the intruder, Qin Ming kept watch, but the thief vanished before he could identify it.

• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming he had delivered the jade box to Azure Sea Adept and had already received a bottle of cultivation pills as a reward.
• Qin Ming used eight Accelerated Growth Affixes to ripen the Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peach blossoms and later grew fruit on all five trees.
• Qin Ming found that five Spirit Peaches had disappeared, ruled out the Mystic Water Crocodile, and placed restrictions around the trees.
• Qin Ming watched the trees overnight with the Mystic Water Crocodile, but a black shadow slipped past the restrictions and stole fruit before vanishing.
• Qin Ming searched the Main Peak but found no trace of the thief.

Qin Ming caught the spirit-peach thief, a weakened Sky Devouring Rat Demon King, while cultivating his body-tempering art. The rat revealed that Qin Ming’s Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture was actually a disguised Demon Race technique and offered to tell him how to obtain its full cultivation method.

• Qin Ming used the Abundant Lifespan and Vitality Spring affixes, then advanced True Gang Transformation to its third transformation after two days of cultivation.
• Qin Ming learned that completing the third transformation required the essence blood of three Second Tier peak demon beasts.
• The Yin-Yang Mystic Vine caught a gray rat demon trying to steal a Spirit Transformation Fruit, and Qin Ming recognized it as the Sky Devouring Rat Demon King.
• Qin Ming prepared to kill the rat, but stopped when it claimed his Hundred Treasures Glazed Scripture was the Demon Race’s Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art.
• The Sky Devouring Rat Demon King admitted its identity and said it knew how Qin Ming could obtain the art, threatening to commit suicide if he continued to attack.

Qin Ming forced the defeated Devouring Sky Rat Demon King to sign a Blood Forbidden God Contract and learned how it had reached his island. The rat revealed that the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon clan had driven the Beast Tide, leaving Qin Ming determined to warn Azure Sea Immortal City’s cultivators.

• Qin Ming threatened to Soul Search the Devouring Sky Rat, which agreed to become his Spirit Pet after he demanded a Blood Forbidden God Contract lasting one hundred and twenty years.
• The Devouring Sky Rat offered its natal essence soul, and Qin Ming bound it with the contract before freeing it from the Mystic Vine.
• Qin Ming questioned the rat, which explained that its bloodline talents let it break restrictions, turn invisible, and detect treasures.
• The Devouring Sky Rat said it had fled to Qin Ming’s island after being gravely wounded by four human Golden Core cultivators at Azure Sea Immortal City.
• The rat revealed that the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon King had forced its clan and other Demon Race clans to join the Beast Tide.
• Qin Ming realized the late Tier 3 Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon posed a major threat and resolved to warn Azure Sea Adept, Wei Wuyai, and the others.

Qin Ming learned from the captured Devouring Sky Rat about powerful Demon Race clans in the Beast Cry Mountain Range and forced it to farm for him instead of granting it a Spirit Transformation Fruit. He decided to warn Azure Sea Adept about the danger and came up with an idea for how to deliver the message.

• The Devouring Sky Rat revealed that several Demon Race clans in the Beast Cry Mountain Range had Demon Kings nearing third-order late stage, and that more unknown clans might lurk deeper in the range.
• Qin Ming asked where the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art was, and the Devouring Sky Rat admitted it did not know, though it believed the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon lineage possessed the art.
• The Devouring Sky Rat asked Qin Ming for a Spirit Transformation Fruit, but Qin Ming refused because it had stolen and eaten his Spirit Peaches.
• Qin Ming gave the Devouring Sky Rat a Shennong Hoe and Spirit Seeds and ordered it to farm the Spirit Fields on the Main Peak.
• Qin Ming decided to inform Azure Sea Adept about the Demon Race threat, then had an idea while watching the Devouring Sky Rat work.

Qin Ming sent news about the Beast Cry Mountain Range through Li Yuanqing, stirring alarm across the Southern Wilderness as the Beast Tide worsened. After two years of cultivation and farming, Qin Ming rewarded the Devouring Sky Rat, and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee advanced and gained a new ability.

• Qin Ming gave the Devouring Sky Rat a jade slip signed Long Taoist and ordered it to secretly deliver the Beast Cry Mountain Range news to Li Yuanqing.
• Li Yuanqing read the jade slip, summoned alliance leaders, and carried the news to Golden Core Ancestors in Azure Sea Immortal City, after which it spread across the four kingdoms.
• Qin Ming stayed on his island for two years as the Beast Tide intensified, cultivated toward Foundation Establishment Perfection, and had the Devouring Sky Rat farm Spirit Rice and herbs.
• Qin Ming rewarded the Devouring Sky Rat with a Spirit Transformation Fruit, restoring its cultivation to the Second-Order mid-stage.
• The Silver-Winged Frost Bee advanced to the Second-Order Late-Stage, gained black-and-white Spirit Marks, and awakened the Time Poison ability.

Qin Ming learned the Silver-Winged Frost Bee’s lifespan-burning Time Poison Thorn and traveled to Azure Sea Immortal City as the Beast Tide threat continued to draw reinforcements. He delivered the promised Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peaches to Mirror Snow Pavilion, where Huangfu Qi and Gu Qingzhao were astonished by them.

• Qin Ming learned that the Silver-Winged Frost Bee’s Time Poison Thorn could rapidly age and kill a target, but cost the bee part of its own lifespan.
• Qin Ming left Moon Gazing Island with his three Spirit Pets, observed that demon hunters had returned to the area, and entered Azure Sea Immortal City.
• Qin Ming found the city crowded with cultivators from across the four nations and sensed several unfamiliar Golden Core Ancestor auras; he also checked on the Feng Family and learned Lu Wan-jun had been transferred to logistics.
• Qin Ming met Huangfu Qi and Gu Qingzhao at Mirror Snow Pavilion and discussed the worsening Beast Tide, which Gu Qingzhao said was being orchestrated by a late-stage Tier 3 Demon King.
• Qin Ming handed Gu Qingzhao more than twenty Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peaches, and Huangfu Qi asked whether they could increase cultivation and extend lifespan.

After completing his trade with Gu Qingzhao, Qin Ming discovered Spirit Sword Mountain was forcing Feng Sihai to surrender a bronze mirror that might be a Fragmented Magic Treasure. As Feng Sihai prepared to hand it over, Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat King recognized the mirror’s extraordinary aura.

• Gu Qingzhao accepted the Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peaches and gave Qin Ming a high-grade Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Qin Ming left Mirror Snow Pavilion and found Lu Wan-jun confronting Spirit Sword Mountain cultivators at the Feng Family’s talisman shop.
• Guan Mo demanded Feng Sihai surrender a rusty bronze mirror, claiming a Spirit Sword Mountain disciple had reserved it first.
• Lu Wan-jun shielded Feng Sihai from Guan Mo’s spiritual pressure, but Feng Sihai decided to give up the mirror to protect his family.
• Qin Ming recognized the mirror as a Fragmented Magic Treasure, while the Devouring Sky Rat King sensed a powerful treasure within it.

Qin Ming disguised himself as the famed Long Taoist and stopped Guan Mo from taking the Feng Family’s Bronze Mirror fragment. He accepted the fragment, gave Feng Sihai a Foundation Establishment Pill, and learned from the Devouring Sky Rat that the mirror carried an ancient restriction it could break in two days.

• Qin Ming transformed into Long Taoist and arrived as Feng Sihai was about to surrender the Bronze Mirror fragment to Guan Mo.
• Feng Sihai gave the fragment to Long Taoist, who severed Guan Mo’s probing divine sense and drove him and his disciples away.
• Qin Ming accepted the Bronze Mirror fragment and presented Feng Sihai with a Foundation Establishment Pill, advising him to refine his mana before using it.
• Qin Ming left the Feng Family after telling Feng Sihai that the family’s future was now in his own hands.
• The Devouring Sky Rat told Qin Ming that the Bronze Mirror fragment had an ancient restriction and that it could break it in two days.

Qin Ming, disguised as Long Taoist, met with Nalan Xi and the assembled Ancestors to explain how he learned of the danger in the Beast Cry Mountain Range. After he declined Nalan Xi’s offer to join Azure Sea Immortal City, Chu Tianhe challenged him over Spirit Sword Mountain’s reputation.

• Lu Wan-jun brought Qin Ming to the Great Hall atop Azure Sea Peak, where Nalan Xi and several Ancestors questioned him.
• Qin Ming said he learned the Demon Race’s secrets by soul-searching a second-tier peak demon beast, then showed its Demon Core to prove his claim.
• Nalan Xi praised Qin Ming’s warning, offered him generous terms to join the Immortal City, and accepted his polite refusal.
• Chu Tianhe accused Qin Ming of humiliating Spirit Sword Mountain’s disciples and challenged him to a personal contest.

Qin Ming, disguised as Long Taoist, accepted Chu Tianhe’s duel and wagered his lightning-attributed Demon Core against a prize of equal value. He shattered Chu Tianhe’s sword attack and seized the Rainbow Spirit Sword, leaving Chu Tianhe wounded as Qin Ming’s fist struck toward him.

• Nalan Xi agreed to witness the duel and secretly warned Qin Ming that Chu Tianhe was a formidable Pseudo-Core cultivator.
• Chu Tianhe demanded Qin Ming’s second-rank perfected lightning-attributed Demon Core as the stake, and Qin Ming accepted an equal-value wager.
• Nalan Xi established a protective barrier on Azure Sea Peak’s side peak as Chu Tianhe and Qin Ming began their duel before a crowd of cultivators.
• Chu Tianhe unleashed his Rainbow Sword and Awakening of Insects Sword Intent against Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming manifested a Four-Armed Demonic Ape, caught and shattered Chu Tianhe’s sword radiance, then seized the Rainbow Spirit Sword.
• Chu Tianhe lost his connection to the sword and spat blood as Qin Ming’s demonic ape swung a fist at him.