Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming traded pills and spirit materials at the Nascent Soul exchange gathering, then followed Supreme Yang Reverend to the Skysea Alliance treasury. Supreme Yang Reverend questioned him about his strength and the deaths of several cultivators, and Qin Ming blamed Bloodthirst True Monarch’s death on Li Huo Shangren’s final counterattack.

• Celestial Foreseer traded information about the Sun Godstone for a Primal Chaos Pill, and Qin Ming exchanged his remaining pills for Fourth-Grade spirit materials.
• Nan Mengli exchanged the Azure Spirit Mystic Robe for Cold Crow Reverend’s Fourth-Order Demon Core, while Dragonwood True Monarch traded an Iceflame Herb to a cultivator surnamed Huang for Azure Sky Spirit Soil.
• Qin Ming outbid Guang Lingzi for Xuan Xiao’s two Fourth-Grade Demon Cores with Upper-Grade Spirit Stones and a Yin Infant Fruit.
• Celestial Foreseer won the Infant Condensation Pill, Dragonwood True Monarch obtained the Spirit Binding Ring, and Guang Lingzi won the Qian Yuan Sword Formation at the alliance’s auction.
• Supreme Yang Reverend led Qin Ming through guarded formations to a hidden treasury beneath the sea and asked whether he had been involved in the deaths of Secluded Sand True Monarch and Li Huo Shangren.
• Qin Ming recounted the events and claimed Li Huo Shangren’s desperate counterattack had killed Bloodthirst True Monarch.

Qin Ming chose a damaged ancient talisman from the Skysea Alliance’s treasure vault and learned it was a rare Spirit Realm treasure with powers to cross realms and observe distant targets. As he prepared to leave Dragon Abyss Island, he encountered Liu Yu being pressured by Ancient Sword Sect cultivators over a Golden Edict Page, and Qin Ming turned his divine sense toward it.

• Supreme Yang Reverend let Qin Ming choose a treasure from the alliance vault, and Qin Ming selected a damaged silver talisman at the Devouring Sky Rat’s urging.
• Qin Ming placed the talisman in his Lesser Spirit Realm, where his Ageless Immortal Vine began nourishing it and showed signs of repairing it.
• Old Demon Qingyang identified the talisman as the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman and explained its realm-travel and remote-observation abilities, while hinting that rare materials could unlock an additional benefit.
• Qin Ming declined Supreme Yang Reverend’s offer to become an alliance elder, then met with fellow cultivators before spending two more days watching the Immortal Abode Convention duels.
• Qin Ming set out with Hua Tianxiong to leave Dragon Abyss Island and found Liu Yu confronting three Ancient Sword Sect cultivators who demanded the return of a Golden Edict Page.
• Qin Ming quietly sent his divine sense toward the Golden Edict Page as the confrontation continued.

Qin Ming intervened when Liu Yu was pressured by Ancient Sword Sect cultivators over the Golden Edict Page, then accepted Qingfeng True Monarch’s challenge to settle the dispute in a duel. The chapter ends as Pure Dust True Monarch begins his attack before a crowd on Dragon Abyss Island.

• Three Ancient Sword Sect cultivators demanded that Liu Yu hand over the Golden Edict Page, while Liu Yu’s wife apologized for accidentally selling it with a book.
• Qingfeng True Monarch arrived, and Qin Ming revealed that he had made a deal with Liu Yu to collect the page.
• Qingfeng True Monarch proposed that Qin Ming endure three moves to claim the page, and Qin Ming accepted.
• Supreme Yang Reverend arrived and arranged the duel at Dragon Abyss Island’s central plaza, where he activated the Nine Twists Celestial River Grand Formation.
• Pure Dust True Monarch released his spiritual power and drew a fourth-rank blue longsword to begin the duel.

Qin Ming defeated Qingfeng True Monarch by trapping him in a powerful illusion, then accepted Liu Yu’s Golden Edict Page in exchange for Returning Yang True Water. The chapter ended with Liu Yu revealing that he had two more Golden Edict Pages for Qin Ming.

• Qingfeng True Monarch attacked Qin Ming with his Pure Dust Sword Sutra, but Qin Ming’s Divine Sense shield stopped the first strike.
• Qingfeng True Monarch believed he had wounded Qin Ming and won, while the onlookers saw that Qin Ming had trapped him in an illusion from the start.
• Supreme Yang Reverend asked Qin Ming to release Qingfeng True Monarch, who awoke, conceded, and left the plaza.
• Qin Ming accepted Liu Yu’s Golden Edict Page and gave him Returning Yang True Water in return.
• Liu Yu revealed that he had two more Golden Edict Pages, and Qin Ming inspected them.

Qin Ming exchanged with Liu Yu and Cold Crow Reverend before attending the prodigy duels on Dragon Abyss Island. He discovered Liu Yu was secretly a demonic envoy activating a ritual beneath the island, and Supreme Yang Reverend and Qin Ming arrived as the formation opened a void rift.

• Qin Ming traded Liu Yu a bottle of Demon Flame Wine for two Golden Edict Pages, then shared a meal with Liu Yu and his family.
• Cold Crow Reverend exchanged four Golden Edict Pages with Qin Ming for Spirit Wine, and the two stayed to watch the final duels.
• Liu Yu advanced to the Golden Core Middle Stage with the Demon Flame Wine and won his first spell duel.
• Qin Ming detected the Netherworld Palace spies, the Shrimp Soldier and Crab General, meeting Liu Yu beneath Dragon Abyss Island.
• Liu Yu replaced the formation's core and opened a void rift with demonic qi, sacrificing a Golden Core guard as the island shook.
• Qin Ming and Supreme Yang Reverend arrived at the ritual site, and Liu Yu realized the spies had been exposed.

Liu Yu’s ritual opened a Void Rift beneath Dragon Abyss Island, allowing the Blood Demon Hall and powerful Devil Lords to enter the world. As Demon Qi spread and the Nascent Soul cultivators considered fleeing, Six Desires Demon Lord killed Old Man Huang and seized his Nascent Soul.

• Supreme Yang Reverend and Qin Ming arrived as Liu Yu’s ritual expanded the Void Anomaly, but a powerful Devil Master’s voice stopped Supreme Yang Reverend from killing Liu Yu and his companions.
• Qin Ming alerted the Nascent Soul cultivators outside, and the Blood Demon Hall burst through the underground and emerged on Dragon Abyss Island.
• Lord Seven Sorrows, Six Desires Demon Lord, and other Devil Lords emerged as Demon Qi spread across the island, corrupting and killing those it touched.
• Qin Ming urged Cold Crow Reverend and Dragonwood True Monarch to flee, warning that a Nascent Soul Late Stage Devil Master might descend.
• Old Man Huang tried to escape, but Six Desires Demon Lord trapped him in his Domain, destroyed his body, and captured his Nascent Soul.

Supreme Yang Reverend opened a path through the Six Desires Demon Lord’s domain so the human cultivators could flee Dragon Abyss Island. Qin Ming and the others escaped, but Lord Seven Sorrows hunted down Guang Lingzi’s group while Lan Bing pursued Cold Crow Reverend.

• Supreme Yang Reverend clashed domains with the Six Desires Demon Lord and urged the human Nascent Soul cultivators to evacuate through the opening.
• Qin Ming fled with Cold Crow Reverend, and Celestial Foreseer used a divination to persuade several cultivators to follow Qin Ming.
• Lord Seven Sorrows pursued Guang Lingzi, destroyed his ice-crystal palace with one punch, and killed the Profound Darkness Palace cultivators aboard it.
• Lan Bing caught up with the fleeing group as Cold Crow Reverend used a high-grade talisman to speed ahead of Qin Ming.
• Lan Bing used her own high-grade talisman to overtake the group and chase Cold Crow Reverend.

Qin Ming lured Lord Seven Sorrows into an undersea gorge, defeated him with the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror’s Primordial Poison Flame, and had his Demonic Nascent Soul possess the weakened cultivator. He prepared to infiltrate the Blood Refinement Demon Sect in Lord Seven Sorrows’ body and plunder its treasures while gaining intelligence.

• Lan Bing pursued Cold Crow Reverend while Lord Seven Sorrows killed a fleeing rogue cultivator and then chased Qin Ming into the sea.
• Qin Ming struck Lord Seven Sorrows with Soul-Destroying Spikes, but a protective treasure shielded most of his Nascent Soul.
• Qin Ming and Lord Seven Sorrows clashed in their demonic forms and domains, matching each other’s strength beneath the sea.
• Qin Ming used the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror’s Primordial Poison Flame to burn Lord Seven Sorrows’ Nascent Soul until it could barely resist.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Nascent Soul devoured Lord Seven Sorrows’ Nascent Soul, possessed his body, and absorbed his memories while preserving a wisp of his divine soul.
• Qin Ming used the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman to mark his Demonic Nascent Soul with a void coordinate, preparing to infiltrate the Blood Refinement Demon Sect.

Qin Ming returned from the Eastern Sea after escaping the Blood Refinement Demon Sect’s attack, while his demonic nascent soul impersonated Lord Seven Sorrows and helped steer the invasion away from the Southern Wilderness. Back home, Qin Ming asked Cold Crow Reverend to search for Abyssal Obsidian and continued onward to the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.

• Qin Ming and his demonic nascent soul left the undersea canyon, and Lord Seven Sorrows’ Soul Lamp in the Blood Refinement Demon Sect resumed burning.
• Qin Ming found Cold Crow Reverend returning with reinforcements from Skywave Immortal City, then warned Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi about Dragon Abyss Island’s Eye of the Void.
• Cold Crow Reverend explained that the demonic pollution might overwhelm the Eastern Sea, so Qin Ming arranged for Hua Tianxiong to manage a Skywave Immortal City base and traveled home with Cold Crow Reverend.
• Qin Ming’s demonic nascent soul returned to Dragon Abyss Island disguised as Lord Seven Sorrows and persuaded the Devil Lords to focus their invasion elsewhere rather than on the Southern Wilderness.
• After nearly half a year, Qin Ming asked Cold Crow Reverend to search for Abyssal Obsidian in exchange for Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar, then continued to the Southern Wilderness and sent Shi Jin back to handle maritime trade.

Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island just as Elder Wu Kui and his demonic forces broke its protective formation, then killed the Nascent Soul Devil Master and restored order across the Southern Wasteland. He rewarded Mo Lingwei and Wu Wangfeng, sent his spirit pets to clear the remaining Void Anomalies, and left the Devouring Sky Rat preparing to break through to the Transformation Realm.

• Mo Lingwei learned that new Void Anomalies had appeared and asked Wu Wangfeng to help defend Moon Gazing Island while Qin Ming was away.
• Elder Wu Kui broke the island’s fourth-grade formation with a Barrier Breaking Talisman and prepared to raid its spirit fields.
• Qin Ming returned with the Devouring Sky Rat, which killed hundreds of demonic cultivators, while Qin Ming trapped and killed Elder Wu Kui.
• Qin Ming installed a new formation, rewarded Mo Lingwei with a Core Formation Pill and Mystic Wraith Spirit Liquid, and gave Wu Wangfeng pills and life-saving items.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and two other spirit pets to clear Void Anomalies across the four nations, restoring peace within months.
• Qin Ming told the Devouring Sky Rat to prepare for a breakthrough to the Transformation Realm and let it consume the Yin Infant Fruits.

Qin Ming learned that Longevity Temple and Boundless Mountain were preparing a major assault on the Beast Cry Mountain Range to gather materials for the Blood-Spirit Grand Pill, while Lord Skywrath arrived to coordinate a wider invasion of the Mortal Realm. Qin Ming secretly learned the invaders’ plans and took responsibility for the Southern Wilderness, easing the immediate threat to it.

• Qin Ming cultivated Bloodscale Dragon Rice on Moon Gazing Island as Mo Lingwei formed an Upper-Grade Golden Core and survived her lightning tribulation.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat to Yue Lingyan to learn about overcoming the transformation heavenly tribulation.
• Two Nascent Soul Devil Lords from Longevity Temple descended near Sword Lake, evaded a Four Nations Alliance spirit warship’s cannon, and left the alliance cultivators to seal the Void Anomaly.
• Qin Ming identified the Longevity Temple cultivators and warned the Demon Race that they were gathering resources in the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Lord Skywrath arrived at Demon Abyss Island, where the Devil Lords planned a large-scale assault on the Beast Cry Mountain Range with Longevity Temple and Boundless Mountain.
• Qin Ming learned the invasion plans through Lord Seven Sorrows and took charge of the arrangements concerning the Southern Wilderness.

Qin Ming’s intelligence helped the Skysea Alliance repel the Blood Abyss Realm’s assault, while Lord Skywrath punished those responsible for the failed attack. Back on Moon Gazing Island, the Devouring Sky Rat prepared for and began its transformation tribulation, which left its fate unresolved.

• Reverend Azure Crane ordered a counterattack, and the Skysea Alliance’s Brahma Solar Divine Light devastated the demonic fleet besieging Skywave Immortal City.
• Lord Skywrath crushed Reverend No-Form’s body and Nascent Soul for the Demon Alliance’s failed assault, then reassigned responsibility for the Eastern Sea campaign.
• The Devouring Sky Rat returned to Qin Ming with spoils from an ambush at Beast Cry Mountain Range and a transformation method learned from Silver Moon Demon Saint.
• Qin Ming evacuated Moon Gazing Island’s cultivators and gave the Devouring Sky Rat Great Dao Tribulation Tea as it prepared to attempt its transformation tribulation.
• Three days later, a vast spiritual-energy tide gathered over Moon Gazing Island as the Devouring Sky Rat began its tribulation, and a silver rune appeared between its brows.

The Devouring Sky Rat consumed a five-thousand-year Yin Infant Fruit and began its transformation tribulation while Qin Ming protected it from two ambushing Nascent Soul devil cultivators. After its transformation great core formed, the rat faced the heavenly tribulation head-on, leaving its breakthrough still underway.

• The Devouring Sky Rat ate the Yin Infant Fruit, and Old Demon Qingyang speculated that it might awaken a powerful rat bloodline ability.
• Old Monster Luo and the young man surnamed Shan arrived to ambush the Devouring Sky Rat during its tribulation and steal its Demon Core.
• Qin Ming trapped the two devil cultivators inside the Blood Floating Pagoda, where Old Demon Qingyang attacked them.
• The Devouring Sky Rat formed its transformation great core, and transformation tribulation clouds gathered above Moon Gazing Island.
• The Devouring Sky Rat drank Qin Ming’s Great Dao Tribulation Tea and charged head-on at the first heavenly tribulation bolt as cultivators watched.

The Devouring Sky Rat survived its transformation tribulation and became a fourth-order Demon Saint, transforming into a child and revealing that it had awakened unusual bloodline memories. After Qin Ming questioned its new powers, the rat prepared to demonstrate an eating-related ability on two people trapped outside Moon Gazing Island.

• Qin Ming noticed the Devouring Sky Rat's silver Spirit Marks resembled those on his Ageless Immortal Vine as the rat endured its transformation tribulation.
• Yue Lingyan and the Ancient Mountain Demon Saint watched the tribulation with other fourth-order Demon Saints, while the Peacock Saintess reported it to a white-robed Venerable Lord who chose not to attend.
• The Devouring Sky Rat endured the lightning with its body and Demon Slayer Halberd, then used its Demon Core to devour the final two bolts and completed its transformation.
• The Devouring Sky Rat transformed into a fair, chubby child, reunited with Qin Ming, and explained that its juvenile form and awakened memories came from its bloodline.
• Qin Ming asked how its strength had changed, and the Devouring Sky Rat said its awakened bloodline power involved eating before preparing to demonstrate it on two people trapped outside the spirit island.

After the Devouring Sky Rat advanced to the fourth order, he killed two demonic cultivators and revealed that he could produce Abyssal Obsidian. Qin Ming stored the crystals and welcomed Nascent Soul guests to Moon Gazing Island to celebrate the beast's breakthrough.

• The Devouring Sky Rat emerged from Moon Gazing Island and trapped Luo the Freak and the young man surnamed Shan with his Forbidden Severing Dark Light.
• The Devouring Sky Rat destroyed Luo the Freak's demonic sword, killed him, devoured his Nascent Soul, and swallowed the young man surnamed Shan.
• Qin Ming collected the corpses, then learned that the Devouring Sky Rat's bloodline ability could devour treasures and Nascent Souls.
• The Devouring Sky Rat showed Qin Ming three crystals of Abyssal Obsidian that he had excreted after eating food from the Fox Clan.
• Qin Ming rewarded the Devouring Sky Rat with Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar and told him to stabilize his cultivation in the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming invited Nascent Soul cultivators to Moon Gazing Island, where Ancient Mountain Demon Saint, Yue Lingyan, Celestial Foreseer, Cold Crow Reverend, Myriad Treasures True Monarch, and others arrived to congratulate him.

At Qin Ming’s celebration, Black Wind Demon Saint challenged his claim over the Devouring Sky Rat, but Qin Ming stood his ground and the dispute was set aside. After impressing the guests with his Fourth-Order Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar, Qin Ming learned that the White-Scaled Spirit Lord was a Fifth-Order Venerable, though Yue Lingyan said the Spirit Lord would not interfere.

• The Nascent Soul cultivators and four great demons congratulated Qin Ming and presented gifts intended for the Devouring Sky Rat.
• Black Wind Demon Saint argued that the Fourth-Order Demon Saint should leave Qin Ming’s service, but Yue Lingyan defended Qin Ming’s investment in the rat.
• Qin Ming told Black Wind Demon Saint that the expired contract left the Devouring Sky Rat free to choose and dared him to fight; Ancient Mountain Demon Saint and Cold Crow Reverend helped calm the dispute.
• Qin Ming served the guests Fourth-Order Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar, then deliberately gave Black Wind Demon Saint Foundation Establishment Wine when the jade nectar ran out.
• After the guests departed, Qin Ming gave Yue Lingyan a jar of jade nectar and asked about the Spirit Lord; she identified him as the White-Scaled Spirit Lord, a Fifth-Order Venerable who would not interfere.

Qin Ming received congratulations after the Devouring Sky Rat became a fourth-rank Demon Saint, while Ancient Mountain Demon Saint warned Black Wind Demon Saint against undermining cooperation between the races. After the Devouring Sky Rat emerged from seclusion and chose to remain with Qin Ming, Qin Ming used him to test an ancient talisman’s long-distance teleportation ability.

• Qin Ming warned Cold Crow Reverend that Lord Seven Sorrows had targeted the Southern Wasteland, prompting Cold Crow Reverend to leave in a hurry.
• Cultivators flocked to Moon Gazing Island to congratulate Qin Ming, and the Skysea Alliance presented him with rare treasures and an Ascension Dragon Pill formula.
• Ancient Mountain Demon Saint threatened Black Wind Demon Saint with the destruction of his clan if he betrayed the cooperation between the races, then had him monitored after he left.
• The Devouring Sky Rat emerged from seclusion, rejected the Demon Saints’ invitation to return to the Demon Race, and chose the title Devouring Sky Demon Saint.
• Qin Ming gave the Devouring Sky Rat the restored Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman and sent him to test a teleportation to the demon infant near Demon Abyss Island.
• The Devouring Sky Rat activated the talisman and vanished in a flash of light.

Qin Ming tested an ancient talisman that could transport people across great distances, then learned that Lord Skywrath planned an attack on the Eastern Sea and a cross-realm invasion of the Southern Wasteland. He warned Wei Wuyai and began preparing the Four Nations Alliance for war.

• The Devouring Sky Rat used the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman to travel between the Eastern Sea and Moon Gazing Island, consuming Abyssal Obsidian with each use.
• Qin Ming let the newly advanced Devouring Sky Rat visit the Silver Moon Sky Fox clan and told him to keep a low profile while investigating what he had eaten.
• At the Blood Demon Palace, Lord Skywrath introduced Prince Xuan Ce of the East Sea Dragon Palace, who had defected and agreed to cooperate with the devil forces.
• Lord Skywrath revealed plans to attack East Peak Island and the Crystal Palace and ordered a large-scale invasion of the Southern Wasteland, assigning Lord Seven Sorrows two Nascent Soul Devil Lords to assist him.
• Qin Ming summoned Wei Wuyai, gave him a jade slip detailing the invasion, and told him to prepare the Four Nations Alliance while Qin contacted other allies.

Qin Ming’s intelligence enabled the Four Nations Alliance and its allies to ambush demonic forces across the Southern Wilderness, while Lord Seven Sorrows descended directly on Moon Gazing Island. Qin Ming went out to face him after telling Mo Lingwei and Celestial Foreseer to hide.

• Wei Wuyai and the Demon Race, Western Gloom Cultivation Realm, and Defenders of the Dao Alliance mobilized to reinforce the Southern Wilderness after Qin Ming warned them of the invasion.
• Celestial Foreseer and Cold Crow Reverend reported that the Blood Abyss demonic path had seized two Eastern Sea sects and that Lord Skywrath had defeated Azure Crane True Lord.
• Wei Wuyai led an ambush that trapped and killed demonic cultivators who descended near the border of Wei Kingdom and the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Reports reached Qin Ming that forces across the four kingdoms had repelled the invasions, and he allowed Mo Lingwei to pursue the remaining demonic stragglers.
• Lord Seven Sorrows emerged from a massive Void rift near Moon Gazing Island and demanded that Wang Yue surrender; Qin Ming rose to meet him.

Qin Ming staged a battle with Lord Seven Sorrows to conceal that they were allies, but Ancient Mountain Demon Saint arrived and forced the two into a real clash. The demons withdrew after fighting to a near draw, leaving Qin Ming to treat Ancient Mountain and reflect on his devil nascent soul’s strength.

• Qin Ming blocked Lord Seven Sorrows’ punch with the Spirit King Cauldron, then secretly coordinated with him to stage an even battle and satisfy the watching Netherworld Palace cultivator.
• Qin Ming and Lord Seven Sorrows sensed a powerful Demon Cultivator approaching, and Ancient Mountain Demon Saint arrived to challenge Lord Seven Sorrows.
• Ancient Mountain transformed into a Mountain Giant Ape and attacked, prompting Lord Seven Sorrows to reveal his Primal Fiend True Demon Body and Qin Ming’s devil nascent soul to join the fight.
• The giants battled fiercely, destroying the devil warship and killing nearby cultivators before Lord Seven Sorrows and Demon Lord Guiming escaped.
• Ancient Mountain returned to Moon Gazing Island, where Qin Ming gave him a Sweet Rain Pill and considered the strength of his devil nascent soul.