Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming exposed the Great Dark Sky Demon Saint’s disguise, warned Hua Tianxiong, and prepared to withdraw from Five Elements Mountain as threats around the Azure Origin Sect Secret Realm escalated. After the Devouring Sky Rat reported that the demonic cultivators were beginning their ritual, Qin Ming followed it underground to the altar near the secret realm.

• Qin Ming recognized the black-feathered cultivator as the Great Dark Sky Demon Saint, who later revealed his plan to harvest cultivators’ Golden Cores.
• Qin Ming sent Hua Tianxiong to report the demon to the Defenders of the Dao Alliance and told him to prepare to evacuate Five Elements Mountain Market District.
• Qin Ming sold his Sky Net Powder, delayed selling his Spirit Fields, and instructed Old Jia to prepare the shop and its people for withdrawal.
• Hua Tianxiong reported that Divine Path Mountain and the Yin Demon Sect planned to make the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree bloom early, prompting Qin Ming to send the Devouring Sky Rat to investigate.
• The Devouring Sky Rat returned three days later and led Qin Ming through its underground passage to the altar near the secret realm as the ritual was about to begin.

Qin Ming witnessed the demonic sects use a blood sacrifice to begin awakening the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree, then chose to avoid the coming battle over the Secret Realm and focus on preparing for Nascent Soul formation. After his Demon Flame Wine matured, he drank it and broke through to golden core completion.

• Qin Ming secretly watched Lord of Myriad Poisons oversee the Soul-Burying Heaven-Blessing Art, which fed blood and souls into the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree and began opening its flower buds.
• Qin Ming learned the tree would need at least three years to bloom, spotted the Black-Feather Demon Cultivator spying on the Secret Realm, and decided to leave the coming conflict to the major forces.
• Hua Tianxiong invited Qin Ming to Su Yuqing’s fourth-rank Pill King celebration, and Qin Ming agreed to attend and prepare a congratulatory gift.
• The Devouring Sky Rat detected treasure beneath the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine, where Qin Ming found his Demon Flame Wine had finished fermenting.
• Qin Ming drank a bowl of Demon Flame Wine, absorbed its vast spiritual energy, and advanced to golden core completion.

After reaching Golden Core completion, Qin Ming mastered soul-path arts from the Nether Soul Art and tested their illusions on the Devouring Sky Rat. He then led Mirror Snow Pavilion to Li Tian Immortal City for the Su Clan’s celebration of its fourth-rank Pill King.

• Qin Ming celebrated his breakthrough by giving Demon Flame Wine to the Devouring Sky Rat, Mystic Water Crocodile, and Silver-Winged Frost Bee, which stayed drunk for over half a month.
• Qin Ming studied the Nether Soul Art, cultivated its illusion and soul techniques, and gained another 120 years of lifespan.
• Qin Ming tested an illusion on the sleeping Devouring Sky Rat, making it see a Silver Fox, an Azure-Faced Poisonous Wyrm, and a demonic abyss before he dispelled the vision.
• Qin Ming teased the embarrassed Devouring Sky Rat, then said he would take it to Su Yuqing’s celebration and bring Demon Flame Wine as a gift.
• Qin Ming and Old Jia led Mirror Snow Pavilion’s delegation through the teleportation array to Li Tian Immortal City for the Su Clan’s celebration.

Qin Ming brought Mirror Snow Pavilion to Li Tian Immortal City for Su Yuqing’s Pill King celebration, where Hua Tianxiong protected the pavilion from Brocade Heaven Commerce’s provocation. Qin Ming gave Su Yuqing the final key materials for the Infant Condensation Pill and Demon Flame Wine, then revealed he planned to return to the Southern Wasteland to prepare to condense an infant.

• Qin Ming arrived in Li Tian Immortal City with Mirror Snow Pavilion and traveled onward to Dragon Court Lake for Su Yuqing’s celebration.
• Brocade Heaven Commerce’s Lu Huayuan nearly collided with Mirror Snow Pavilion’s Dharma Boat, then tried to take its seats at the celebration.
• Hua Tianxiong slapped Lu Huayuan and sent Brocade Heaven Commerce away, declaring Mirror Snow Pavilion his partner.
• Qin Ming attended Su Yuqing’s celebration, then visited him privately and gifted him Yin Infant Fruit, Ten Thousand Year Azure Spirit Saliva, and Demon Flame Wine.
• Qin Ming showed Su Yuqing that he had reached golden core completion and said he was leaving for the Southern Wasteland to prepare to condense an infant.

Qin Ming prepared to leave Great Jin for the Southern Wasteland, learning more about Infant Condensation Pill alchemy from Su Yuqing and arranging a future passage from Five Elements Mountain Market District. He remained behind to harvest Li Lan’s Spirit Rice and monitor the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree while studying a new way to advance his body-refinement cultivation.

• Qin Ming told Su Yuqing about the danger around Five Elements Mountain and his plan to return to the Southern Wasteland, then spent seven days learning about refining the Infant Condensation Pill.
• Qin Ming obtained the final Spirit Materials from Hua Tianxiong, gave him two Divine Wood Pills, and instructed him to stay in Great Jin and look after Mirror Snow Pavilion.
• Qin Ming returned to Five Elements Mountain Market District and arranged with Han Yuan to board Brocade Heaven Commerce’s Tian Lan for the Southern Wasteland in a year and a half.
• Qin Ming reunited with Li Lan, promised to take him and his family to Central Province after the Spirit Rice harvest, and resumed cultivation while the Devouring Sky Rat watched the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree.
• Qin Ming studied the Primal Fiend Demon Scripture and considered combining its Primal Fiend Demon Physique with the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art using Source Demon Qi.

Qin Ming learned that the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree would soon bloom and that powerful demonic cultivators were gathering near the Azure Origin Sect Secret Realm, so he prepared to escape before the conflict. After harvesting his third-tier Jade Emperor Spirit Rice, he witnessed the treasure flowers bloom and the tree burst through Five Elements Mountain.

• Qin Ming saw Wind-Rending Eagles near his Spirit Fields, then learned from the Devouring Sky Rat that the Yin Demon Sect, Divine Path Mountain, and Blood Refinement Demon Sect were preparing for the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree to bloom within three months.
• Qin Ming decided to flee before the Azure Origin Sect Secret Realm opened and asked Han Yuan when Brocade Heaven Commerce's merchant ship would depart for the Southern Wasteland.
• Qin Ming warned Han Yuan, Gao Feng, and Liu Ye that they might become cannon fodder in the coming conflict, but they explained they could not leave their posts.
• Two months later, Qin Ming had Li Lan and the Spirit Farmers harvest three thousand jin of mature Jade Emperor Spirit Rice.
• The Seven Wonders Treasure Tree's seven flowers bloomed, and the tree erupted through Five Elements Mountain and grew thousands of zhang tall.

The Seven Wonders Treasure Tree’s bloom exposed the Azure Origin Sect Secret Realm and sparked a rush toward the Five Elements Mountain Range, while Qin Ming tried to evacuate before the danger reached him. The Great Dark Sky Demon Saint massacred Spirit Ruins Market District, then pursued Qin Ming toward Dusk Cloud Mountain, where Qin Ming’s Crimson Demonic Ape struck him head-on.

• Cultivators across the Immortal Cultivation World saw the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree bloom, and Qin Ming ordered Li Lan to evacuate the spirit farmers before leaving for Spirit Ruins Market District.
• Qin Ming found a scheduled Brocade Heaven Commerce ship to the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm, but Lu Huayuan blocked him from boarding.
• The Great Dark Sky Demon Saint attacked Spirit Ruins Market District, slaughtered countless cultivators, destroyed the merchant ship, and recognized Qin Ming as an old acquaintance.
• Qin Ming fled toward Dusk Cloud Mountain, used the Blood Escape Technique to evade the Great Dark Sky Demon Saint, and sent Yue Lingyan a Message Talisman.
• The Great Dark Sky Demon Saint revealed his Wind-Rending Eagle true form and intercepted Qin Ming, who summoned a Crimson Demonic Ape and blasted him away with a punch.

Qin Ming used the Blood Floating Pagoda and his soul attack to weaken Great Dark Sky Demon Saint, then struck him with a powerful punch. Yue Lingyan intervened and killed Great Dark Sky, capturing his escaping Demonic Soul.

• Great Dark Sky recognized Qin Ming's Mountain Giant Ape bloodline and Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art, while Qin Ming trapped him in the Blood Floating Pagoda's sea of blood and suppressed his cultivation.
• Qin Ming struck Great Dark Sky with the Demon-Slaying Thorn, exploiting the Wind-Rending Eagle clan's weakness to soul attacks.
• Qin Ming unleashed a flaming punch that blew apart half of Great Dark Sky's body, but Great Dark Sky began to heal and countered with Sky-Rending Strike.
• Yue Lingyan arrived and shattered Great Dark Sky's attack with her fox tails, then struck him with a silver beam that extinguished his life.
• Great Dark Sky's Demonic Soul tried to flee, but Yue Lingyan trapped it in a white jade bracelet and pulled it back as Qin Ming came down to her.

Qin Ming and Yue Lingyan divided Great Dark Sky Demon Saint’s remains, and Yue Lingyan told Qin Ming of a route from Great Jin back to the Southern Wasteland. The chapter ended with Qin Ming setting out for Little Turtle Island, a secret port connected to the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm.

• Qin Ming thanked Yue Lingyan for helping kill Great Dark Sky Demon Saint, and they traveled to the Fox Clan Holy Land to discuss the battle.
• Yue Lingyan and Qin Ming divided Great Dark Sky Demon Saint’s remains, with Qin Ming taking the Demon Core and Natal Feather containing his Lifeblood Essence.
• Qin Ming told Yue Lingyan he wanted to avoid the coming conflict over the Azure Origin Sect secret realm and return to the Southern Wasteland.
• Qin Ming gave the Silver Fox two Yin Infant Fruits and a jar of Demon Flame Wine before preparing to leave Dusk Cloud Mountain.
• Yue Lingyan gave Qin Ming a map and dark wooden plaque showing the route to Little Turtle Island, where private ships could carry him to the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.

After learning more about the cultivation realms from Yue Lingyan, Qin Ming traveled across the Black Sea toward Little Turtle Island to find a ship to the Southern Wasteland. He disguised himself as Manager Lu, joined a group of waiting cultivators, and watched the ship arrive under the command of an elderly Golden Core cultivator and a boy.

• Yue Lingyan explained the major cultivation realms, the Southern Wilderness’s lost past, and the Blood Abyss Realm’s strength to Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming left the Fox Clan Holy Land and chose to travel by ship from Little Turtle Island rather than risk crossing territory controlled by powerful demon clans.
• After flying across the Black Sea for more than ten days, Qin Ming reached Little Turtle Island, disguised himself as Manager Lu, and met Luo and his clan members waiting for the ship.
• Qin Ming learned that Luo’s small Eastern Sea family planned to travel to an island for training and sea-demon hunting, but their knowledge of the wider cultivation world was limited.
• A small, battered black vessel docked at Little Turtle Island, and its elderly Golden Core captain and a boy appeared on deck.

Qin Ming traveled aboard the pirate-run Black Sail Ship toward the Southern Wasteland, where the Luo Twins ambushed the vessel. After revealing his overwhelming power to save the ship, he ordered Shi Jin to continue the voyage, and three months later the ship reached a familiar coastline.

• Qin Ming boarded Shi Jin's Black Sail Ship after paying eight thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for passage to the Southern Wasteland.
• Qin Ming learned the ship traveled underwater at great speed but regularly surfaced to rob passing vessels.
• Shi Jin warned Cultivator Luo and the others to return when the Luo Twins' ship attacked and shattered the Black Sail Ship's protective array.
• The Luo Twins nearly killed Shi Jin with a concealed flying needle, but Qin Ming stopped it and the Devouring Sky Rat killed the twins.
• Qin Ming killed the attackers aboard the enemy ship with the Thorn Art, then ordered Shi Jin to sail on without provoking more trouble.
• Three months later, Qin Ming stepped onto the prow as the Black Sail Ship surfaced near a familiar coastline.

Qin Ming returned to the Southern Wilderness in a grand procession after completing his journey across the sea. He rescued Elder Huang and a group of cultivators from a Black Mane Demon Hog horde, then the chapter ended with them witnessing his overwhelming power.

• Shi Jin reached the Southern Wilderness with Qin Ming, returned his passage fee, and gave him a Myriad Spirit Conch to contact the Black Sail Pirates.
• Qin Ming left the pirates, revealed his ordinary appearance, and traveled toward home in a lavish Azure Sky Treasure Carriage pulled by the Mystic Water Crocodile and escorted by eight sea horses.
• Elder Huang and Qi Refinement cultivators killed a Black Mane Demon Hog, only to find themselves surrounded by thousands more and confronted by a Tier 3 Demon King.
• Qin Ming arrived in his carriage, and the Mystic Water Crocodile killed the demon hog horde and its Demon King with a single lightning attack.

Qin Ming returned to the Southern Wasteland and found that its cultivation world had weakened while demonic forces and demon-beast troubles grew. After rescuing Azure Sea Immortal City and reuniting with Nalan Xi and Gu Qingzhao, he asked them to explain the crisis.

• Qin Ming learned from Huang Qinan that demon hogs had triggered another Beast Tide and that several prominent cultivators had died, vanished, or been injured.
• Qin Ming arrived at Azure Sea Immortal City as a Two-Headed Black-Mane Demon King attacked its protective formation, then had his crocodile companion kill it.
• Qin Ming reunited with Nalan Xi and Gu Qingzhao, who were astonished by his return and the Sky Devouring Rat Demon King's third-grade cultivation.
• Qin Ming asked Nalan Xi and Gu Qingzhao how the four Southern Wasteland nations had fallen into crisis, and Nalan Xi began explaining the rise of a Demonic Path Overlord.

Qin Ming returned to the Southern Wasteland and learned that Lin Zixiao was likely behind the Beast Tide, then confronted and killed him before Lin could act against him. Lin Zixiao's mysterious old master, Qingyangzi, survived and begged Qin Ming to spare him.

• Qin Ming told Nalan Xi and Gu Qingzhao about his history with Lin Zixiao and revealed that he had reached golden core completion.
• Qin Ming examined demonic crystals from the Beast Tide and concluded that Lin Zixiao was probably manipulating it, then set out to eliminate the Six Demonic Sects and settle their old grudge.
• Lin Zixiao dismissed his old master's warnings, ordered the Six Demonic Sects to test Qin Ming, and declared his ambition to unify the Southern Wasteland.
• Qin Ming appeared in Lin Zixiao's cave, overwhelmed his attack with the Devouring Sky Rat's help, and killed him.
• Qin Ming trapped Qingyangzi's escaping spirit with the Demon Luo Sky Curtain, and Qingyangzi identified himself as a former Azure Origin Sect cultivator and offered Qin Ming his life-bound soul.

Qin Ming destroyed the Six Demonic Sects, rescued Pei Qing, and gathered the sects’ treasures and Golden Core corpses. With the Southern Wilderness threat dealt with, he and Pei Qing parted ways and returned toward their respective homes.

• Qin Ming sealed Old Demon Qingyang in the Lesser Spirit Realm, fed Lin Zixiao’s corpse and the Blood Orb to his Spirit Plants, and slaughtered the Primal Demon Sect’s cultivators.
• Qin Ming sent Devouring Sky Rat to eliminate the remaining Six Demonic Sects while he looted the Primal Fiend Sect, and rumors spread that all five demonic Golden Core Ancestors had fallen.
• Old Demon Qingyang told Qin Ming that Lin Zixiao had imprisoned Pei Qing, so Qin Ming broke into the secret prison and freed the Golden Core Ancestor of Beast King Valley.
• Qin Ming told Pei Qing that he had no intention of establishing a sect and explained that Lin Zixiao’s plan to unleash a Beast Tide had been stopped.
• Devouring Sky Rat returned with the Six Demonic Sects’ treasures and five Golden Core corpses, and Qin Ming set off with Pei Qing in his Azure Sky Treasure Carriage.
• After traveling together for more than ten days, Qin Ming and Pei Qing parted and flew toward their respective homes.

Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island after decades away, reunited with the Wu Family, and learned that old friends had aged or died while his own cultivation had grown profound. After declining a wave of visitors, he prepared to enter seclusion to refine pills for his next tribulation.

• Wu Wangyue and Wu Wangfeng told Wu Jiang that Qin Ming had returned to the Southern Wasteland and helped prepare Moon Gazing Island for his arrival.
• Qin Ming returned to the island, dispelled its Mist Illusion Realm, and summoned the Wu Family to Greenwood Pavilion.
• Qin Ming learned that Wu Hanyuan had died and gave Wu Jiang a Longevity Fruit Pill to extend his life.
• After hearing that Wei Wuyai had been injured during a failed breakthrough, Qin Ming gave Wu Wangfeng a Li Yun Pill for him.
• Ren Tianqi and other powerful figures prepared to visit Qin Ming, but Qin Ming declined their visits and announced he was entering seclusion to refine pills for his tribulations.

Qin Ming gathered ingredients and refined two Ice Heart Jade Soul Pills, advancing his preparation for the Nascent Soul Realm and establishing himself as a fourth-grade Pill King. He began refining the Infant Condensation Pill while Old Demon Qingyang, trapped in a box, was stunned to discover Qin Ming had succeeded without his help.

• Qin Ming cultivated, and Old Demon Qingyang was shocked to discover that Qin Ming had mastered the Azure Emperor Art and developed the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique.
• Qin Ming collected spirit herbs to refine the Ice Heart Jade Soul Pill, and Old Demon Qingyang recognized the ingredients and suspected Qin Ming was preparing to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Qin Ming questioned Old Demon Qingyang about his identity and the Azure Origin Sect; Old Demon Qingyang described the sect’s split and revealed that its sect master had sealed himself inside the mountain gate beneath the Seven Wonders Treasure Tree.
• Old Demon Qingyang offered pill-refining guidance in exchange for access to the Starsea Divine Vine, but Qin Ming put him in his Storage Bag and proceeded without trusting him.
• After six failed attempts, Qin Ming refined two twelve-pattern Ice Heart Jade Soul Pills and began preparing the ingredients for an Infant Condensation Pill.
• Old Demon Qingyang sensed the Ice Heart Jade Soul Pill Qin Ming tossed into the Storage Bag and cried out in disbelief that Qin Ming had refined it so quickly.

Qin Ming discovered the flaw in his pill-condensation process and successfully refined an Infant Condensation Pill, opening his path toward the Nascent Soul Realm. He then began preparing to survive the heavenly tribulation by studying a fourth-rank artifact-refining inheritance, while Old Demon Qingyang and the Devouring Sky Rat clashed over Qin Ming’s attention.

• After two months of failed attempts, Qin Ming saw a spirit pearl inside a clam caught by the Devouring Sky Rat and realized he needed to gently steam and nurture the medicinal essence before finishing the pill.
• Qin Ming refined the Infant Condensation Pill after several more months, producing a pill with fourteen Dao patterns and resolving to prepare for at least the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Old Demon Qingyang recognized Qin Ming’s Infant Condensation Pill and urged him to use the Source Demon Qi to strengthen his body, but Qin Ming chose to consider the risky method before acting.
• Qin Ming studied the fourth-rank artifact-refining inheritance "Demonic Engineering Unveiled" and planned to use the Great Dark Sky Demon Saint’s fourth-rank Demon Core to upgrade the Blood Floating Pagoda Pseudo-Spirit Treasure.
• The Devouring Sky Rat kicked Old Demon Qingyang’s wooden box away and threatened him for competing for Qin Ming’s favor, then urinated on the box before leaving.

After two years of refining the Blood Floating Pagoda, Qin Ming upgraded it to a fourth-grade Spirit Treasure, but it developed an unruly intelligence and tried to escape. Old Demon Qingyang became its Artifact Spirit, leaving Qin Ming with a powerful, obedient treasure and greater confidence in his future Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Qin Ming finished refining the Great Dark Sky Demon Saint’s Demon Core and upgraded the Blood Floating Pagoda to a fourth-grade Spirit Treasure.
• The Blood Floating Pagoda developed independent intelligence and tried to flee, but a vine of Qin Ming’s Yin-Yang Mystic Vine struck it down.
• Old Demon Qingyang offered to become the treasure’s Artifact Spirit and handed Qin Ming a wisp of his natal divine soul as proof of sincerity.
• Qin Ming released Old Demon Qingyang from the wooden box and sealed the soul wisp inside spirit jade.
• Old Demon Qingyang entered the Blood Floating Pagoda, and Qin Ming refined him into its Artifact Spirit, making the treasure obedient and nearly mid-grade fourth-grade.

Qin Ming prepared to form his Nascent Soul by raising Moon Gazing Island’s Spirit Vein to Tier 4, gathering treasures, and learning of the war spreading through Great Jin. After several years of travel and preparation, he returned to the island, ordered everyone away, and began his breakthrough with the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine.

• Qin Ming learned from Old Demon Qingyang that the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror was an ancient spirit treasure whose power would grow as Qin Ming advanced his Azure Emperor Art or physique.
• Qin Ming fed four thousand Upper-Grade Spirit Stones to the Spirit Marrow Tai Sui, raising Moon Gazing Island’s Main Peak to a Tier 4 Spirit Vein, then concealed its aura with a formation.
• Qin Ming received Hua Tianxiong’s report that the Azure Origin Sect Secret Realm had sparked conflict among the three nations and that Li Fire Palace was conscripting cultivators for the war.
• Qin Ming visited Wei Wuyai at Thunder Origin Sect, accepted heirloom treasures, and learned the sect had sent disciples to serve in the war.
• Qin Ming visited Profound Stream Valley, paid respects to Old Ancestor Qingxuan and Grandmaster Gongsun Yang, exchanged pills with Ancestor Xuan Yu, and guided Fang Han in the Pill Dao.
• Qin Ming harvested mature affixes from the Thunder Origin Demon Jujube Tree, sent Wu Jiang and the island’s residents away, assigned his three spirit pets to guard the island, and began his Nascent Soul breakthrough with the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine.