Chapter Summaries

Pei Qing brought Qin Ming into the Lesser Spirit Realm, where he settled in to farm, raise his Spirit Pets, and cultivate with the Tier 3 Supreme-Grade Spirit Vein. After ten years of growth and steady progress toward the Golden Core Middle Stage, Qin Ming left the realm with the Devouring Sky Rat to check on the outside world.

• Pei Qing led Qin Ming into the Lesser Spirit Realm and handed the place over to him.
• Qin Ming planted the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine, whose rapid growth nourished his Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique and accelerated his cultivation.
• Qin Ming and his Spirit Pets settled into a routine of farming, raising beasts, and cultivating, while he planted Spirit Rice and medicinal Spirit Plants across the realm.
• Over ten years, Qin Ming's fields flourished, his Spirit Rice neared maturity, and his cultivation reached the peak of the Golden Core Early Stage.
• Qin Ming continued visiting Beast King Valley and Three Immortals City, where he discreetly sold pills and Spirit Plants and helped Three Immortals City gain fame.
• Qin Ming took the Devouring Sky Rat and left the Lesser Spirit Realm to learn how the outside world had changed.

Qin Ming learned that coordinated demon, ghost, and demonic attacks had devastated the neighboring kingdoms, then helped the injured Lu Xiao with an antidote. As Qin Ming returned to the Lesser Spirit Realm, Six Demonic Sects forces secretly crossed into Wu Kingdom to launch an attack.

• Chen Beixuan told Qin Ming that a massive Beast Tide and ghost disaster had struck alongside two Demon Kings, and that the Six Demonic Sects had betrayed the human alliance, killing Ancestor Wan and Jade Balance Ancestor.
• Qin Ming judged that Wu Kingdom would eventually fall if Liang Kingdom and Wei Kingdom could not hold out, then rewarded Chen Beixuan with a Jade Mystery Pill before leaving for Beast King Valley.
• Qin Ming found Lu Xiao gravely injured and poisoned, and sold him a Water Gathering Pill that could dispel the Demon King's poison.
• As Qin Ming flew back toward the Lesser Spirit Realm, he worried about the worsening danger but took comfort in the realm's protection and the coming harvest of his Jade Emperor Spirit Rice.
• Qiu Ye of the Primal Fiend Sect and Ye Wuxian of the Joyous Union Sect led hundreds of Demonic Cultivators through a Nether Luo Teleportation Array and secretly into Wu Kingdom.

After returning to the Lesser Spirit Realm, Qin Ming harvested Jade Emperor Spirit Rice and used it to advance to the Golden Core Middle Stage. He consolidated his cultivation and then set out with the Devouring Sky Rat to deliver the promised rice to Beast King Valley.

• The Devouring Sky Rat told Qin Ming it had sensed demonic qi on their way back, and Qin Ming suspected the Six Demonic Sects were preparing to act.
• Qin Ming harvested fifteen hundred jin of Jade Emperor Spirit Rice, setting aside five hundred jin as rent for Beast King Valley.
• Qin Ming and his three Spirit Pets feasted on the Jade Emperor Spirit Rice, and Qin Ming used its spiritual qi to cultivate for seven days.
• Qin Ming used the Mana Spring Affixes to break through to the Golden Core Middle Stage, then used other Affixes to strengthen his lifespan, body, and soul.
• Qin Ming tested his Wood Sovereign Nails, consolidated his cultivation, and flew with the Devouring Sky Rat toward Beast King Valley to deliver the rice.

Qin Ming sensed a dense demonic aura near Three Immortals City and arrived as the city fell to a massive demonic assault. Just as the Azure Scale Ghost King pursued Chen Beixuan, Qin Ming appeared and turned the battle with an overwhelming display of power.

• Qin Ming left the Lesser Spirit Realm after the Devouring Sky Rat warned him of the demonic aura near Three Immortals City, then flew there with Silver Wing and the Mystic Water Crocodile.
• Qiu Ye and Ye Wuxian arrived with Envoy Yang, who unleashed the Azure Scale Ghost King against the besieged city.
• The Azure Scale Ghost King shattered the city’s defensive formation and killed City Lord Fan while demonic cultivators poured in and slaughtered the inhabitants.
• The Azure Scale Ghost King pursued Chen Beixuan, but an unknown streak severed one of its hands and immense Spiritual Pressure crushed many demonic cultivators.
• Qin Ming appeared in the sky, and Qiu Ye and Ye Wuxian identified him in shock as the Moon Gazing Adept.

Qin Ming defeated Envoy Yang and wiped out the demonic cultivators attacking Three Immortals City, learning that the Yin Demon Sect sought the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror at the Lake Tai Ruins. He rushed to aid the Golden Leader Sect, where four powerful Golden Core auras surrounded the invading forces.

• Qin Ming overwhelmed Envoy Yang with his Wood Sovereign Nails, killed him with Soul Searching, and learned the Yin Demon Sect had sent three envoys after the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror at the Lake Tai Ruins.
• Qin Ming and his spirit beasts sealed Three Immortals City and slaughtered its demonic attackers, then Qin Ming searched Qiu Ye and Ye Wuxian’s souls and gathered Blood Orbs from the corpses.
• Qin Ming reassured Chen Beixuan, learned the Golden Leader Sect was under attack, and flew there with Chen Beixuan.
• At the Golden Leader Sect, the seductive woman discovered that Yang Jian had died, and four powerful Golden Core auras surrounded her and the dark-faced burly man.

Qin Ming defeated the Devil Dao cultivators besieging the Golden Leader Sect, killing their leaders and helping drive off the remaining attackers. News of his victory spread across the four kingdoms, leaving the Six Demonic Sects afraid to target Wu Kingdom again.

• The seductive woman attacked Qin Ming with a Blood Jade Bracelet, but the Mystic Water Crocodile’s lightning shattered her attack and damaged her bone umbrella.
• The dark-faced burly man transformed into a horned monster and attacked Qin Ming, who blasted him away with a single punch.
• Qin Ming killed the burly man with Wood Sovereign Nails, wounded the woman, and had the Devouring Sky Rat finish her before ordering his spirit beasts to slaughter the remaining Devil Dao cultivators.
• Chen Beixuan and Chen Donglai thanked Qin Ming for saving the Golden Leader Sect, but he declined their invitation and departed.
• News of Qin Ming’s victory spread, and the Six Demonic Sects abandoned plans to invade Wu Kingdom.

After defeating three Golden Core Demonic Cultivators, Qin Ming delivered Jade Emperor Spirit Rice to Beast King Valley and received the Lesser Spirit Realm as repayment. He accepted the new Spirit Contract and wondered whether he could take the blessed land with him.

• Qin Ming counted the magic treasures, Blood Orbs, Spirit Stones, and other spoils he had taken from the demonic cultivators, then gave the black steel fork to the Devouring Sky Rat.
• Qin Ming arrived at Beast King Valley, where Pei Qing and Lu Xiao welcomed him and thanked him for protecting Wu Kingdom from the demonic envoys.
• Qin Ming handed Pei Qing and Lu Xiao the five hundred jin of Jade Emperor Spirit Rice he had promised for renting the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Pei Qing and Lu Xiao offered to gift Qin Ming the Lesser Spirit Realm in gratitude and in hopes of keeping his support in Wu Kingdom.
• Qin Ming offered to buy the Lesser Spirit Realm, but Pei Qing refused payment, destroyed the old Spirit Contract, and gave Qin Ming a new one covering the valley near Witchglow Mountain.
• Qin Ming accepted the Spirit Contract and wondered whether he could take the Lesser Spirit Realm away directly.

Qin Ming returned to the Lesser Spirit Realm and discovered that the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine had developed the Xumi Landscape affix, which could store a grotto-heaven inside a map. Its flowers transformed the Silver-Winged Frost Bee swarm and advanced the queen’s bloodline to Heaven-Grade; the chapter ended with Qin Ming harvesting spirit fruits from the vine.

• Qin Ming returned to the Lesser Spirit Realm, released his Spirit Pets, and fed the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine the Blood Orbs he had collected.
• The vine resonated with Qin Ming’s Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique, changed form, and revealed the Xumi Landscape affix alongside Leaf of Spacetime and Abundant Lifespan.
• Qin Ming used Leaf of Spacetime affixes to accelerate the vine’s seven-colored flowers, and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee led its swarm to gather nectar and pollinate them.
• The spirit bee swarm advanced to second-tier low-grade, while the Silver-Winged Frost Bee emerged from a cocoon with a Heaven-Grade bloodline.
• Qin Ming accelerated the flowers again, harvested dozens of black-jade spirit fruits, and received two blue affix leaves and one purple affix leaf.

Qin Ming discovered that the Black Jade Spirit Fruit enhanced comprehension, then used his Landscape Painting to take the Lesser Spirit Realm with him. He left his Spirit Pets to cultivate inside it and flew back toward the Wei Kingdom.

• Qin Ming tested a Black Jade Spirit Fruit on the Devouring Sky Rat, whose first bite left it unconscious until Qin Ming revived it with the Four Seasons Divine Light.
• The Devouring Sky Rat found that the fruit had greatly improved its ability to comprehend cultivation techniques, and Qin Ming stored the remaining fruits in Jade Boxes.
• Qin Ming used the Landscape Painting to capture the Lesser Spirit Realm, including the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine and its Spirit Plants.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat, Mystic Water Crocodile, and Silver-Winged Frost Bee into the painting, where they were delighted to live and cultivate in the realm.
• Qin Ming mounted the Silver-Winged Frost Bee and flew toward the Wei Kingdom.

Qin Ming returned toward Wei Kingdom and was ambushed by the Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon, a powerful demon king who trapped him inside the All-Heavens Black Mist Grand Formation. Qin Ming attacked with his Wood Sovereign Nails and Solar Essence Flame, while the Dragon began to take him seriously.

• Qin Ming flew back from Beast King Valley and saw that the Beast Tide and ghost calamity had devastated much of Liang Kingdom.
• Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon tried to persuade Silver Moon and the White Fox Clan to join the demons, but Silver Moon warned him about Old Toad Ancestor and the Old Ghost before leaving.
• Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon sensed Qin Ming approaching and attacked him, shattering his Bone-Eroding Umbrella and blasting him hundreds of zhang away.
• The Devouring Sky Rat emerged to defend Qin Ming but fled back into the Mountains and Rivers Diagram after recognizing Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon.
• Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon sealed the area with the All-Heavens Black Mist Grand Formation and threatened to kill Qin Ming and search his soul.
• Qin Ming launched his six Wood Sovereign Nails, infused with Solar Essence Flame, and Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon recognized the flames and grew wary.

Qin Ming fought the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao, whose physical strength and abilities initially overwhelmed his attacks. He killed the Demon King with the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror at the cost of nearly fifteen hundred years of his lifespan, and the Devouring Sky Rat emerged to confirm the corpse was dead.

• The Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao blocked Qin Ming's Wood Sovereign Nails with his Myriad Scale True Body and struck Qin Ming in a physical clash.
• Qin Ming and the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao exchanged powerful attacks, and the Jiao recognized Qin Ming's Physical Body True Core and accused him of stealing the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art.
• The Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao transformed into his hundred-zhang Demon King form and unleashed poisonous dragon breath, which Qin Ming countered with his Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame.
• As the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao brought out an Ink-Colored Jiao Pearl, Qin Ming used the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror to drain the Jiao's life force and kill him.
• Qin Ming collected the Black Light Poison Dragon Drill and Ink-Colored Jiao Pearl, then the Devouring Sky Rat emerged and nervously asked whether the Jiao was dead.

After killing the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon, Qin Ming harvested its valuable remains and left before other beasts arrived. Its death disrupted the demon clans’ plans and weakened their alliance with White Bone King's Hall, while White Bone True Man demanded that Old Toad Ancestor find the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror.

• Qin Ming recovered from the battle, extracted the Poisonous Flood Dragon’s essence blood, collected its corpse, and refused the Devouring Sky Rat’s request for the Demon Core.
• Qin Ming returned the Devouring Sky Rat to the Lesser Spirit Realm and left the area to avoid attracting more demon beasts.
• Demon Kings in the Beast Cry Mountain Range discovered that the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon’s Soul Lamp had gone out and ordered the demons to retreat.
• The Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon’s death caused the demon clans to splinter and weakened their alliance with White Bone King's Hall.
• White Bone True Man scolded Old Toad Ancestor for failing to find the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror and warned him that he would suffer soul-devouring if he failed again.

Golden Core Ancestors learned that the Beast Tide and ghost calamity were retreating because Qin Ming had killed the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon. Qin Ming returned to Azure Sea Immortal City with the Demon Core, considering its value and the peace his actions had brought.

• Old Ancestor Qingxuan and the other Golden Core Ancestors discussed the worsening Beast Tide and ghost calamity and wondered whether Qin Ming would help them.
• A scout reported that the demonic beasts and many ghosts had withdrawn, and the Ancestors confirmed the retreat at Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Wei Wuyai searched a demon’s soul and learned that the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon King had been killed.
• The Ancestors realized the Demon King’s death had caused the Demon Race’s chaos and returned to plan their next steps.
• After half a month of travel, Qin Ming reached the border near Azure Sea Immortal City with the poisonous flood dragon’s Demon Core and reflected on its uses and the Beast Tide’s disappearance.

After returning to Azure Sea Immortal City as a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, Qin Ming met with the city’s ancestors, traded pills for spirit materials, and visited old acquaintances. He returned to the Spirit Rest Archipelago, unaware that black shadows had watched his movements.

• Qin Ming greeted Old Ancestor Qingxuan, Nalan Xi, Wei Wuyai, and Pei Qing, then discussed the retreating Beast Tide and their plans to reclaim the Lake Tai Ruins and Jin Kingdom.
• Old Ancestor Qingxuan asked Qin Ming to take charge of the Jin Kingdom, but Qin Ming declined, saying he preferred an idle life and had no interest in founding a sect.
• Qin Ming joined a celebration and trade fair, exchanging Tier 3 spirit pills for precious spirit materials from the ancestors.
• Qin Ming visited Mirror Snow Pavilion, where Manager Liao welcomed him and explained that Gu Qingzhao had gone to Liang Kingdom to fight demon beasts and ghosts.
• Qin Ming left a letter and fifty jin of Jade Emperor Spirit Rice for Su Yuqing, visited Lu Wan-jun, and returned to the Spirit Rest Archipelago on a Silver-Winged Frost Bee.
• Several tiny black shadows observed Qin Ming near the Immortal City before vanishing into the void.

Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, tended to his spiritual realm, and refined the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao’s Essence Blood. He advanced his body-refining cultivation to the True Core middle stage and gained the jiao’s Myriad Scale True Body, along with a trace of True Spirit Bloodline.

• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, where Wu Jiang and his children welcomed him and reported that the island had been well maintained.
• Qin Ming split the Spirit Marrow Sumeru Flesh Fungus and transplanted part of it into the Lesser Spirit Realm, then moved additional Spirit Plants and Rice Flower Spirit Fish there.
• Qin Ming drank the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao’s Essence Blood and spent seven days refining it with the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art.
• Qin Ming broke through to the True Core middle stage, gained the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao’s Myriad Scale True Body, and discovered a trace of True Spirit Bloodline in its blood.
• The Devouring Sky Rat congratulated Qin Ming, who offered to grill dragon meat for it.

Qin Ming celebrated his victory over the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon, refined Imperial Zenith Pills, and learned that the allied forces were moving to suppress the ghost disaster. The chapter ended with news that Gu Qingzhao had returned to Azure Sea Immortal City gravely wounded and unconscious, prompting Mirror Snow Pavilion to ask Qin Ming for help.

• Qin Ming rewarded Wu Jiang and the Spirit Farmers with demonic beast meat and fruit, then shared roasted dragon meat with his Spirit Pets.
• Qin Ming began refining Imperial Zenith Pills from the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon’s flesh and blood while receiving reports on the Southern Wilderness.
• Wu Jiang reported that four major powers had contained the ghost disaster near the Lake Tai Ruins, while the war in Jin Kingdom remained deadlocked.
• Qin Ming learned that Li Fire Palace elders would join the effort to destroy White Bone True Man and hoped their ghost-suppressing treasure would succeed.
• After three months, Qin Ming refined more than twenty Imperial Zenith Pills, reached the superior third-rank pill-refinement level, and used a pill to cultivate his body.
• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that Gu Qingzhao was unconscious and gravely injured in Azure Sea Immortal City, and Qin Ming read a letter requesting that he examine her.

Qin Ming examined Gu Qingzhao and used his Four Seasons Divine Light to remove the poison eroding her Qi Sea Dantian. After five days of treatment, she was healed and began to wake.

• Qin Ming read Su Yuqing’s letter and learned that Great Jin had stabilized and that Su Yuqing had become a prominent Golden Core cultivator.
• Qin Ming flew to Azure Sea Immortal City and met Nalan Xi at Mirror Snow Pavilion to examine Gu Qingzhao.
• Qin Ming used the Yin-Yang Mystic Mirror to discover that black strands of poison were consuming Gu Qingzhao’s vitality, but said she could still be saved.
• Qin Ming treated Gu Qingzhao in private with his Four Seasons Divine Light, gradually dissolving the poison over five days.
• Gu Qingzhao’s source recovered and her spiritual power began circulating normally; she stirred awake and grasped Qin Ming’s lapel.

Qin Ming healed Gu Qingzhao and traded her a Core Formation Pill after learning she had been ambushed by a Golden Core demonic cultivator near the Lake Tai Ruins. He and Nalan Xi then set out for the Liang Kingdom to support the cultivators confronting the demonic threat.

• Qin Ming treated Gu Qingzhao's injuries and learned that a Golden Core demonic cultivator had ambushed her near the Lake Tai Ruins.
• Qin Ming offered Gu Qingzhao a Core Formation Pill in exchange for 120 Upper-Grade Spirit Stones or equivalent resources, and she accepted.
• Qin Ming told Gu Qingzhao he planned to travel to the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty and then left to speak with Nalan Xi.
• Qin Ming warned Nalan Xi that demonic cultivators might disrupt Old Ancestor Qingxuan's expedition into the Lake Tai Ruins.
• Nalan Xi decided to go to the Liang Kingdom, and Qin Ming agreed to accompany her and fight demonic cultivators outside the ruins.

Qin Ming and Nalan Xi reached the Lake Tai Ruins as the battle against the White Bone True Man began, only to encounter the Old Toad Ancestor outside. Qin Ming faced the Old Toad Ancestor while Nalan Xi and his spirit pets went to stop the approaching demonic cultivators.

• Qin Ming summoned the Silver-Winged Frost Bee and carried Nalan Xi toward Liang Kingdom at high speed.
• Old Ancestor Qingxuan, Wei Wuyai, Pei Qing, and the Li Fire Palace envoys entered the White Bone King's Hall and confronted the White Bone True Man.
• Liu Jinyuan and Old Demon Yan arrived and revealed that the Six Demonic Sects had colluded with the White Bone True Man; Elder He Kang used a crimson pearl to suppress them as the battle erupted.
• After two days of travel, Qin Ming and Nalan Xi arrived near the Lake Tai Ruins and sensed that Golden Core demonic cultivators were approaching.
• The Old Toad Ancestor appeared before Qin Ming and Nalan Xi, and Qin Ming recognized him and took him on himself.
• Qin Ming sent Nalan Xi to fight the demonic cultivators with the Devouring Sky Rat and Mystic Water Crocodile's help.

Qin Ming and his allies fought powerful enemies outside the Lake Tai Ruins while the battle continued underground. White Bone True Man revealed a bone sword and announced that his warm-up was over, leaving the fight poised to escalate.

• Qin Ming resisted Old Toad Ancestor's poison and illusions, destroyed his Soul Cuckoos, and forced him to transform into a gigantic late third-rank black toad.
• Nalan Xi fought Tong Yin and his ghosts, while Devouring Sky Rat arrived with Old Ghost Li's head and split Tong Yin's Blood Armor Demon Corpse in two.
• Tong Yin fled from Devouring Sky Rat, and Mystic Water Crocodile chased a Fire Worship Sect Golden Core Ancestor into retreat.
• Underground, Old Ancestor Qingxuan and the others fought Liu Jinyuan, Old Demon Yan, and White Bone True Man, while the Li Fire Palace envoys struggled against White Bone True Man.
• White Bone True Man declared the warm-up finished and summoned a bone sword burning with pale, frigid flames.