Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming recruited Qi Xiaoyu to study a damaged ancient teleportation array and promised to obtain a Life Extension Pill in return. After arranging a search for its ingredients, Qin Ming refined three pills, while Mount Yuanji’s upheaval trapped several cultivators and revealed an ancient devil seeking to escape.

• Qi Xiaoyu showed Qin Ming his exceptional array works and identified the damaged formation as an ancient Long-Distance Teleportation Array written in Grand Beginning Runes.
• Qi Xiaoyu agreed to study the array, and Qin Ming promised to obtain a Life Extension Pill for him before leaving Hidden Immortal Valley.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island and ordered Mo Lingwei and Hua Tianxiong to search for the pill’s ingredients.
• At Mount Yuanji, Cold Crow Reverend, Celestial Foreseer, and Myriad Treasures True Monarch became trapped, while White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi were imprisoned by an ancient devil who plotted to use demonic cultivators to break its chains.
• Qin Ming gathered the ingredients and refined three Grade Four upper-grade Life Extension Pills.

Qin Ming gave Qi Xiaoyu a Life Extension Pill and received the Myriad Stars Grand Formation, which he installed to protect Moon Gazing Island. As the Devil Dao war spread, a massive force gathered to attack the Spirit Rest Archipelago, and Hundred-Eyed Daoist prepared to challenge Qin Ming.

• Qin Ming refined a Life Extension Pill, took one himself, and sent another to Qi Xiaoyu through Hua Tianxiong in exchange for news about the ancient formation's restoration.
• Qi Xiaoyu accepted the pill, reported progress on the restoration, and gave Qin Ming his fourth-tier supreme Myriad Stars Grand Formation as thanks.
• Qin Ming installed the formation over Moon Gazing Island and gave Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei pieces to control it.
• The Devil Dao launched a broad offensive, and Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat to repel a Nascent Soul Devil Master attacking Azure Sea Immortal City.
• Mo Lingwei reported that hundreds of thousands of Devil Dao cultivators from three Blood Abyss Realm sects had gathered near Wei Kingdom and were targeting the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• Hundred-Eyed Daoist dismissed his companions' warnings and resolved to test Qin Ming, claiming his demonic treasure was nearing the Thousand-Eyed realm.

Hundred-Eyed Daoist revealed that Chunqiu Zi and the Wugu Tribe’s Time Devouring Gu would use a Blood Spirit Soul Sacrifice Ritual to kill Qin Ming. When the demonic army reached the Spirit Rest Archipelago, Qin Ming appeared with the Devouring Sky Rat and began fighting the three Devil Lords.

• Hundred-Eyed Daoist told Fire Mingzi and Mo Tuozi that Chunqiu Zi would use the Spring Autumn Gu, empowered by sacrificed lifespans, to curse-kill Qin Ming.
• Chunqiu Zi said the ritual was ready and explained that his clan’s Time Devouring Gu could consume a thousand years of lifespan.
• Several days later, Qin Ming ordered Mo Lingwei and Hua Tianxiong to ready the Myriad Stars Grand Formation as the demonic army approached the Spirit Rest Archipelago.
• The Four Nations Alliance mobilized its forces, and the three Devil Lords were surprised by the Southern Wasteland’s strength.
• Qin Ming appeared before the demonic fleet, and the Devouring Sky Rat smashed through its defenses before engaging the Devil Lords.
• Hundred-Eyed Daoist attacked Qin Ming with his coin sword, and Qin Ming countered by summoning countless azure nails from his newly advanced Natal Spirit Treasure.

Qin Ming overwhelmed Hundred-Eyed Daoist, but Chunqiu Zi’s Spring Autumn Gu ritual failed to curse him because it sensed Qin Ming had more than three thousand years of lifespan remaining. Chunqiu Zi suffered the Gu’s backlash, while Hundred-Eyed Daoist’s Nascent Soul remained in flight.

• Qin Ming pierced Hundred-Eyed Daoist’s defenses with the Wood Sovereign Nails, forcing him to unleash the Thousand-Eyed Demon Soul Sail.
• Qin Ming calmly endured Hundred-Eyed Daoist’s evil-eye demonic light, then sliced his body apart with the Wood Sovereign Nails’ divine ability formation.
• Hundred-Eyed Daoist escaped as a weakened Nascent Soul and called for Chunqiu Zi to help him.
• Chunqiu Zi sacrificed the clan’s Third Elder and many Living Souls to summon the Spring Autumn Gu and curse Qin Ming.
• The Spring Autumn Gu appeared before Qin Ming but would not approach, sensing his vast remaining lifespan.
• Chunqiu Zi sacrificed his own lifespan and the demonic warship’s Living Souls, but the Gu’s backlash revealed that Qin Ming had more than three thousand years left.

Qin Ming defeated the demonic invasion of the Spirit Rest Archipelago, then learned that Lord Skywrath and other demonic cultivators planned to free an ancient demon sealed at Mount Yuanji. He warned Su Yuqing and Yue Lingyan, who left to alert their allies, while Qin Ming wondered how Qi Xiaoyu’s formation repairs were progressing.

• Qin Ming captured the Spring Autumn Gu after it killed Chunqiu Zi, then soul-searched Hundred-Eyed Daoist and killed him.
• Qin Ming and the Supreme Myriad Stars Grand Formation helped defeat Fire Mingzi and Mo Tuozi, routing the demonic army and ending the invasion.
• Qin Ming learned from Hundred-Eyed Daoist’s memories that Lord Skywrath and his allies sought to release an ancient demon sealed inside Mount Yuanji.
• Su Yuqing and Yue Lingyan arrived after the battle, heard how Qin Ming had defeated three Nascent Soul Devil Lords, and met with him on Moon Gazing Island.
• Qin Ming told Su Yuqing and Yue Lingyan about the ancient demon and the threat to the Mortal Realm, and they departed to warn allies in other cultivation worlds.

As the Demonic Path intensified its raids and the Blood Abyss Realm’s convergence neared its end, Qin Ming traveled to Skywave Immortal City to join a gathering of the human realm’s remaining Nascent Soul cultivators. The assembly unanimously chose him as the leading candidate for alliance leader, but Qin Ming declined the position while promising to help fight.

• Qin Ming tended his Spirit Plants as the Ageless Immortal Vine gained new Nascent Soul Mana, Nascent Soul Spirit Power, and Abundant Lifespan affixes.
• Xia Yuangong invited Qin Ming to an alliance assembly in Skywave Immortal City, and Qin Ming agreed to attend with his spirit beasts.
• Qin Ming and the other cultivators traveled through Demonic Cultivator attacks to Skywave Immortal City, where representatives from across the human realm, Demon Race, and East Sea Dragon Palace gathered.
• Supreme Yang Reverend revealed that the God Transformation ancestors and other leading cultivators had vanished inside Mount Yuanji, leaving the alliance to prepare for the coming battle and seek a way to stop Lord Skywrath.
• The assembly overwhelmingly nominated Qin Ming as alliance leader, but he declined the responsibility and pledged to contribute to the fight.

Qin Ming declined leadership of the human alliance, traded demonic treasures at the Nascent Soul gathering, and returned to the Southern Wilderness. There, he reunited with Qi Xiaoyu, whose visit might bring progress on the ancient formation.

• Qin Ming refused the alliance leader position, and Supreme Yang Reverend was elected acting leader while the Nascent Soul cultivators planned their war against the demonic path.
• Qin Ming exchanged several fourth-grade demonic treasures at the gathering for over a hundred thousand Upper-Grade Spirit Stones and rare spirit materials.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, where Mo Lingwei told him Qi Xiaoyu had been waiting to discuss an important matter.
• Qin Ming greeted Qi Xiaoyu and invited him to share tea, asking whether there had been progress regarding the ancient formation.

Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu restored all five Yuanhe Five Elements Demon Subduing Formations, which were connected to Mount Yuanji and an ancient demon. As they prepared to test the formations, Qin Ming tasked the Devouring Sky Rat with taking the risk.

• Qi Xiaoyu identified the ancient formation as part of the Yuanhe Five Elements Demon Subduing Formation and explained that Abyssal Profound Crystal could power it.
• Qin Ming took Qi Xiaoyu to the Western Gloom Cultivation Realm, where Qi Xiaoyu repaired the first formation and calculated the locations of the other four.
• Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu located the remaining formations across several cultivation realms and restored all five in the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man escaped Mount Yuanji through a secret Void Rift route and freed Cold Crow Reverend, Celestial Foreseer, and Myriad Treasures True Monarch from a demonic trap.
• The three Nascent Soul cultivators tried to follow Cloud Fishing Old Man but lost his trail, while Qin Ming decided to use the Devouring Sky Rat to test the restored formations.

The Devouring Sky Rat scouted the Great Sky Dao Palace, and Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu entered Mount Yuanji after confirming the route was safe. Their arrival restored the ancient sealing formation, while a powerful stranger approached them and a dormant Green Gourd awakened.

• The Devouring Sky Rat used the ancient formation to scout the Great Sky Dao Palace, found an unpolluted spiritual land, and returned safely to report to Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu.
• Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu traveled with the Devouring Sky Rat through the formation into Mount Yuanji to investigate the abandoned palace.
• Lord Skywrath and Lan Bing questioned the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths, who revealed that destroying five subsidiary arrays could free her and identified two Sentient Treasures suppressing her.
• As Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu repaired the formation, its restored power strengthened the seal around the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths, cutting off her communication with Lord Skywrath.
• The Green Gourd in the Great Sky Dao Palace awakened when Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu arrived, while Qin Ming sensed a connection to it and then detected an immensely powerful presence approaching.
• Qi Xiaoyu used his formation disk to conceal himself, Qin Ming, and the Devouring Sky Rat from the approaching stranger.

Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu reached the Great Sky Dao Palace, where Cloud Fishing Old Man had been trapped by a stone beast. Meanwhile, Rock Demon slaughtered a group of cultivators at Li Tian Hall and joined Lord Skywrath, while the Immortal Cultivation World learned of the deaths of several powerful elders.

• Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu concealed themselves as Cloud Fishing Old Man fled from Rock Demon, who searched for humans to restore his strength before returning through a blood-colored gate.
• Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu deduced that Lord Skywrath had released Ancient Demons and headed toward the Great Sky Dao Palace.
• At Li Tian Hall, Lord Skywrath and Lan Bing confronted cultivators from several sects, and Rock Demon killed Azure Crane True Lord, Ice Xuanzi, Myoling True Monarch, Dragonwood True Monarch, and others to harvest their Nascent Souls.
• Rock Demon told Lord Skywrath that he could not force open Li Tian Hall and ordered him to take him to the Sacred Ancestor; the deaths extinguished Soul Lamps and stirred turmoil across the Immortal Cultivation World.
• At the Celestial Hall, Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu found Cloud Fishing Old Man pinned beneath a stone beast, and Qin Ming assessed the old man's remaining lifespan before deciding he could kill him at a steep cost.

Qin Ming, Qi Xiaoyu, and Cloud Fishing Old Man entered the Celestial Hall through an ancient Summoning Gate, each arriving in a different place. Cloud Fishing Old Man found the damaged Ascension Platform, while a newly awakened Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths ordered the Rock Demon to stop the three intruders.

• Qi Xiaoyu and the Devouring Sky Rat opened the Celestial Hall’s stone door and revealed an ancient Summoning Gate.
• Qi Xiaoyu identified the gate as a teleportation restriction, and Qin Ming and Cloud Fishing Old Man entered after the Devouring Sky Rat.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man arrived before the Ascension Platform and discovered that it was cracked and damaged.
• Qi Xiaoyu was transported to the Spirit Array Pavilion, while Qin Ming arrived at an ancient ancestral hall in a verdant mountain land.
• The Rock Demon awakened the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths, who sensed the three intruders and ordered him to stop them before they reached the Sentient Treasure left by Emperor Qing.

Cloud Fishing Old Man and Qi Xiaoyu discovered that the Celestial Hall contained a damaged Ascension Platform, while Qin Ming found an ancestral hall tied to Emperor Qing’s legacy. The Rock Demon was expelled with Cloud Fishing Old Man, leaving Qin Ming to face Lord Skywrath and Lan Bing as they attacked him.

• The Rock Demon gave Lord Skywrath an ancient talisman and ordered him to retrieve the Demon-Slaying Gourd from the Celestial Hall.
• Mu Qingzi told White-Scaled Demon Lord that the Celestial Hall held the Mortal Realm’s final Ascension Platform and predicted they would escape within half a month.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man showed Qi Xiaoyu the damaged Ascension Platform and asked him to investigate repairing it, then they searched for Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming reached an ancestral hall that Old Demon Qingyang identified as the likely repository of Emperor Qing’s legacy, but the Rock Demon, Lord Skywrath, and Lan Bing arrived.
• The Celestial Hall expelled the Rock Demon and Cloud Fishing Old Man when they prepared to fight, while Lord Skywrath and Lan Bing attacked Qin Ming at the ancestral hall.
• Qin Ming summoned his Vajra Demon Aspect and struck at Lord Skywrath’s Soul Weeping Pagoda and Lan Bing’s Ice Soul Demonic Light.

Qin Ming defeated and killed Lord Skywrath, then joined Old Demon Qingyang against Lan Bing. Lan Bing escaped after Qin Ming and Qingyang shattered her Ice Phoenix body, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Qin Ming blocked Lord Skywrath and Lan Bing’s combined attacks, then used the Primordial Poison Flame to devastate Lord Skywrath.
• Qin Ming crushed Lord Skywrath’s Nascent Soul, stopped it from self-destructing, and collected it and his Storage Bag.
• The Devouring Sky Rat fought Lan Bing while Qin Ming turned to face the Ice Phoenix.
• Old Demon Qingyang trapped Lan Bing in the Blood Floating Pagoda and attacked her, but she froze his blood spears and waves.
• Qin Ming’s Wood Sovereign Nails pierced and shattered Lan Bing’s Ice Phoenix body, but Lan Bing used her Ice Phoenix Nirvana divine ability to escape through a Void Rift.

Qin Ming searched Lord Skywrath’s soul, discovered the Demon-Slaying Gourd in the ancestral hall, and began using its innate qi to strengthen his cultivation. Lan Bing agreed to help the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths gain control of the three-headed serpent, while Qin Ming advanced toward the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• Qin Ming looted Lord Skywrath’s Storage Bag, searched his nascent soul, and gave it to the Devouring Sky Rat to devour.
• Lan Bing escaped near Mount Yuanji, learned the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths could rebuild her body if she helped seize a serpent head, and agreed to the plan.
• Qin Ming found the Demon-Slaying Gourd in the ancestral hall and heard Emperor Qing’s phantom say that a cultivator with the sixteenth layer of the Azure Emperor Art could take it without disrupting Mount Yuanji’s formation.
• Old Demon Qingyang taught Qin Ming how to refine the gourd’s innate qi, which strengthened Qin Ming’s nascent soul and accelerated the Ageless Immortal Vine’s growth.
• Qin Ming fed Lord Skywrath’s Blood Orb to the Ageless Immortal Vine, harvested fifteen purple Affix leaves, and used five Nascent Soul Magical Power Affixes to break through toward the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

Qin Ming broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and advanced the Azure Emperor Art to its sixteenth layer, awakening the Azure Emperor Dharma Eye. He reunited the Artifact Spirit of the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror, claimed the Demon-Slaying Gourd, and left Mount Yuanji with a new void escape ability.

• After five years of refining the Green Gourd’s innate qi, Qin Ming advanced to the sixteenth layer of the Azure Emperor Art and reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Qin Ming reunited the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror’s Artifact Spirit with its other half, transforming it into the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror.
• The treasure’s advancement astonished the cultivators trapped on Mount Yuanji, while Lan Bing and the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths sensed its aura from the gray space.
• Qin Ming learned the mirror’s origin from Old Demon Qingyang, claimed the Demon-Slaying Gourd, and promised the Azure Emperor phantom he would resolve Mount Yuanji’s hidden danger when strong enough.
• Qin Ming increased his lifespan and spiritual power with his affixes, then bowed to the ancestral tablets and departed using a newly comprehended void escape divine ability.

Qin Ming emerged from Mount Yuanji and learned from Qi Xiaoyu about the losses in the human realm, the ancient demon’s attack, and a damaged Ascension Platform that might require World-Transmitting Stone to repair. After parting with Qi Xiaoyu, Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, where Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei welcomed him.

• Qin Ming reunited with Qi Xiaoyu, confirmed that he had killed Lord Skywrath, and said Lan Bing had escaped using a secret art of nirvana.
• Qi Xiaoyu told Qin Ming that the Rock Demon had ravaged the Three Kingdoms of Central Province before Cloud Fishing Old Man and two other God Transformation cultivators drove it back, and that many human cultivators had died at Mount Yuanji.
• Qi Xiaoyu revealed that he had secretly rescued Cold Crow Reverend, Celestial Foreseer, and another cultivator, while Qin Ming reported that the formation inside Mount Yuanji had been reinforced and resealed.
• Qi Xiaoyu showed Qin Ming an image of the damaged Ascension Platform, and Old Demon Qingyang explained that its construction required World-Transmitting Stone from the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu resealed the cavern, agreed to investigate repairing the Ascension Platform, and parted ways after Qin Ming invited Qi Xiaoyu to Moon Gazing Island.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, where Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei flew out to welcome him.

After returning to Moon Gazing Island, Qin Ming settled back into cultivation and investigated his newly awakened Azure Emperor Dharma Eye and the Demon-Slaying Gourd. He learned the gourd’s terrifying abilities and the secrets of its Burial Immortal Sea, then left it to be nurtured by his Ageless Immortal Vine.

• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, reassured Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei that the island was well managed, and rewarded them with Golden Core pills.
• Qin Ming checked on the sleeping Devouring Sky Rat and the nearly breakthrough-ready Silver Fox in the Lesser Spirit Realm, rewarding the Silver Fox for tending his spirit plants.
• Qin Ming studied the Azure Emperor Dharma Eye and learned that it combined Four Seasons Divine Light and Law-Breaking Eyes into a powerful ability that could perceive truth, intimidate foes, and transfer life force.
• Old Demon Qingyang explained the Demon-Slaying Gourd’s dangerous activation costs and its three divine abilities, including Soul Capture and Mystic Fissure Spirit Severance.
• Qin Ming explored the gourd’s inner world, the Burial Immortal Sea, and learned about its remnant souls, nine bone altars, and Annihilation Void.
• Qin Ming learned that the Demon-Slaying Gourd evolved by devouring the souls of powerful cultivators, then returned it to his Ageless Immortal Vine, whose nourishment made its Artifact Spirit acknowledge him slightly more.

Qin Ming studied his newly advanced Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror and received the God Transformation Balm Formula from Old Demon Qingyang, giving him a potential path toward Spirit Transformation. After two years of cultivation, he emerged to welcome Cloud Fishing Old Man, whose visit revealed that Qin Ming’s strength and hidden methods had become difficult even for a God Transformation cultivator to judge.

• Qin Ming examined the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror and noted that its Golden Light Divine Flame could threaten God Transformation cultivators by reducing their lifespans.
• Old Demon Qingyang gave Qin Ming the God Transformation Balm Formula, and Qin Ming recognized that its rare fifth-tier ingredients and demanding refinement would make it difficult to use.
• Qin Ming entered seclusion to consolidate his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation, while the Devouring Sky Rat remained at the initial fourth tier and gave him two Abyssal Obsidian stones.
• After two years, Qin Ming sensed a formidable presence approaching Moon Gazing Island and brought the Devouring Sky Rat and Silver Fox out to meet it.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man arrived through the void and congratulated Qin Ming on reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage; Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei realized their Island Master had ties to a God Transformation Venerable.
• Qin Ming hosted Cloud Fishing Old Man at Greenwood Pavilion, where the visitor enjoyed his spirit fish and wine and sensed that Qin Ming might possess methods capable of challenging a God Transformation cultivator.

Qin Ming agreed to attempt refining the Yaoming Pill for Cloud Fishing Old Man, who had little lifespan left and sought one final chance to survive. In exchange, Cloud Fishing Old Man promised to obtain two rare ingredients Qin Ming needed for God Transformation Balm, and Qin later set out to consult Pill King Su Yuqing before attempting the ancient pill.

• Cloud Fishing Old Man told Qin Ming that the ancient Rock Demon could not be killed easily and revealed that his battle against it had reduced his remaining lifespan to about two hundred years.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man offered Qin Ming the Yaoming Pill formula and its gathered ingredients, hoping to extend his life after learning that he had already taken a Life Extension Pill.
• Qin Ming agreed to refine the Yaoming Pill and asked Cloud Fishing Old Man to trade for two of the rare ingredients needed for God Transformation Balm; Cloud Fishing Old Man accepted.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man left Moon Gazing Island, believing Qin Ming had strong prospects of reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Qin Ming studied the formula, then planned to consult Pill King Su Yuqing and visit Penglai Sect to seek Tian Ling'er; less than half a month later, he set off with Qi Xiaoyu.

Qin Ming visited Su Yuqing and discussed refining the fifth-tier Yaoming Pill formula recovered from Mount Yuanji, then traveled with Qi Xiaoyu to the Eastern Sea to gather materials for a powerful formation. At the Penglai Sect, they learned that Myoling True Monarch and Dragonwood True Monarch had died, and Qin Ming paid his respects to Dragonwood True Monarch.

• Su Yuqing welcomed Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu, and Qin Ming revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Qin Ming told Su Yuqing how he and Qi Xiaoyu had entered Mount Yuanji, where Qin Ming killed Lord Skywrath and obtained a fifth-tier Yaoming Pill formula from Cloud Fishing Old Man.
• Qin Ming and Su Yuqing worked out three possible methods for refining the Yaoming Pill, while Qi Xiaoyu asked for a surplus pill in exchange for helping with formation research.
• Qi Xiaoyu agreed to travel with Qin Ming to the Eastern Sea to gather materials for the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation.
• Qin Ming and Qi Xiaoyu arrived at the Penglai Sect, where Chen Muzhi received them and they learned the sect was mourning Myoling True Monarch and Dragonwood True Monarch.
• Qin Ming paid his respects to Dragonwood True Monarch at the Penglai Sect's ancestral hall.