Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming uncovered the Aurora Glazed Flame inside an ancient lamp and fused it with his Primordial Poison Flame, advancing it to the fifth grade. Five years later, he harvested silver fruits from his Ageless Immortal Vine and gained fifteen purple Affix leaves.

• The Rock Demon told the demon lords that Mount Yuanji’s seal required finding the Human Race Formation Master who reinforced it, then turned their attention to choosing a commander after Lord Skywrath’s death.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, arranged the Four Nations Alliance’s preparations for war, and sent Xiao Xun to investigate Old Ancestor Nanming’s Demon Ruins.
• Old Demon Qingyang identified the ancient lamp’s Kui Spirit Marks and explained how Qin Ming could activate it, revealing the fifth-grade Aurora Glazed Flame within.
• Qin Ming fused the Aurora Glazed Flame with his Primordial Poison Flame, advancing the latter to the fifth grade and gaining some command of aurora power.
• Qin Ming planted the fifth-grade God Crystal Fruit and tended his spirit plants as five years passed.
• Qin Ming harvested the Ageless Immortal Vine’s silver fruits and gained fifteen purple Affix leaves.

Qin Ming reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, while the Devouring Sky Rat advanced to the middle fourth rank and awakened a power that could devour an opponent’s fortune. After Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei reported gathering rare alchemy materials amid rising tensions, Qin Ming concluded that the Final Battle was near.

• Qin Ming harvested Source Demon Jujubes, used Nascent Soul Magical Power affixes to break through to Nascent Soul Great Perfection, and increased his lifespan and Divine Sense.
• The Devouring Sky Rat underwent a lightning tribulation and advanced to the middle fourth rank, awakening the Fate-Devouring Fangs bloodline ability.
• Old Demon Qingyang warned Qin Ming that the Devouring Sky Rat’s ability to devour fortune suggested its origins were extraordinary.
• Qin Ming and his spirit pets celebrated their breakthroughs, while Qin Ming sensed that the Silver-Winged Frost Bee was transforming in its slumber.
• Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei delivered rare materials for God Transformation Balm and Crystal Mind Pills, explaining that rising prices and a trade fair had helped them gather supplies.
• Qin Ming rewarded Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei and concluded that the Final Battle was about to begin.

Qin Ming received Qi Xiaoyu’s completed Taihao Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation and learned that the Celestial Hall’s Ascension Platform might be restored if they obtained the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet. As the demonic invasion gathered strength, Blood Prison Demon Lord announced that the Blood Refinement Demon Sect would open its descent passage in the Southern Wilderness and that he would guard it personally.

• Qin Ming studied alliance intelligence about growing Void anomalies and considered infiltrating the demons to close the Void Eye, then examined the Crystal Mind Pill formula and tended to his spirit plants.
• Qi Xiaoyu visited Qin Ming and presented the completed Grade Five Middle-Rank Taihao Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation, which could be upgraded with rare Grade Five materials and required five Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones to activate.
• Qin Ming told Qi Xiaoyu to remain behind and guard Mount Yuanji during the coming war, while Qi reported that acquiring the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet could give them over an eighty percent chance of restoring the Celestial Hall’s Ascension Platform.
• Blood Prison Demon Lord learned that the five great demonic sects were preparing seven descent passages and declared that he would personally guard the Blood Refinement Demon Sect’s Void Eye in the Southern Wilderness.

Qin Ming attended the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance’s Black Market to acquire Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and materials for refining God Transformation Balm. After trading for several materials, he offered the Soul Weeping Pagoda, and the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators reacted with shock at its identity.

• Qin Ming left Moon Gazing Island and traveled to Red Maple Valley to attend the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance’s Black Market trade fair.
• A Myriad Paths Trading Alliance maid gave Qin Ming a Jade Talisman and showed him how to enter the Sky Ruins Cloud Realm for virtual trades.
• Qin Ming entered the virtual trading hall, where Nascent Soul cultivators displayed rare treasures, including a fourth-grade high-grade talisman treasure and a stolen fourth-grade high-grade Profound Jade Sky Root Grass.
• Qin Ming exchanged several Life Extension Pills for four or five auxiliary materials needed to refine God Transformation Balm.
• Qin Ming offered the fourth-grade supreme Soul Weeping Pagoda in exchange for ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones or specified spiritual materials, prompting the cultivators to recognize it as Lord Skywrath’s Natal Demonic Treasure.

Qin Ming sold treasures at the Sky Ruins Cloud Realm black market, acquired the Mystic Crow Void Escape Art, and returned toward Moon Gazing Island. At the chapter’s end, demonic cultivators emerged above the abandoned City of Immortal Fate and pursued an old man and a little girl fleeing for refuge.

• Qin Ming sold the Soul Weeping Pagoda for ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, bringing his total to eighteen.
• Qin Ming traded the Eight Extremes Ruler for the Mystic Crow Void Escape Art and exchanged other demonic cultivator loot for resources.
• Qin Ming received his traded items, left Red Maple Valley, and studied the secret art, learning its demanding soul requirements and life-saving techniques.
• An old man and Third Girl left the City of Immortal Fate for the Spirit Rest Archipelago, hoping to find refuge under Moon Gazing True Monarch’s protection.
• Envoy Xiang and more than ten demonic cultivators arrived through black vortices and ordered their disciples to kill any survivors in the city.
• Envoy Xiang sensed the old man and Third Girl, flew toward them, and the old man cried out that a Void Anomaly had appeared.

Qin Ming stopped Envoy Xiang from killing two travelers, possessed him to spy on the Blood Abyss Realm’s invasion plans, and learned that the demon sects would descend in ten days. He mobilized the Four Nations Alliance to ambush the demons at City of Immortal Fate while preparing to face the assault on the Spirit Rest Archipelago himself.

• Qin Ming froze Envoy Xiang, saved an old man and young girl, and used his demonic infant to possess the cultivator and infiltrate the demon sects.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, sent the Great Jin Alliance intelligence about the approaching invasion, and cultivated the Mystic Crow Void Escape Art until he could form spirit crows from his Divine Sense.
• Candle Yin Old Demon arrived at City of Immortal Fate and revealed that the Blood Refinement Demon Sect would descend in ten days, while the other sects would enter through Eyes of the Void in Great Li and Great Jin.
• Qin Ming told Mo Lingwei and Hua Tianxiong that war would begin in ten days and ordered them to keep the news secret.
• Qin Ming instructed Wei Wuyai, Gu Qingzhao, Fang Han, Huangfu Qi, Patriarch Pei Qing, and the other alliance leaders to gather their forces at City of Immortal Fate while he handled the Spirit Rest Archipelago.

As the demonic path invaded the Mortal Realm through the Eyes of the Void, Qin Ming and the Four Nations Alliance defended the Spirit Rest Archipelago with prepared warships and the Myriad Stars Grand Formation. The battle turned in their favor when Xiao Xun confronted and swiftly killed Nether Fiend Demon Lord, though the invasion continued.

• Qin Ming welcomed Xiao Xun to Moon Gazing Island, and she agreed to help in the coming battle while reporting that the Demon Ruins existed behind a special barrier.
• Ten days later, the demonic army opened Eyes of the Void and poured into the Mortal Realm as the Four Nations Alliance revealed its concealed Sky-Patrol Warships and bombarded the invaders.
• Nether Fiend Demon Lord sent three Golem Demonic Avatars against the alliance, but Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei activated the Myriad Stars Grand Formation and set the puppets ablaze.
• Nether Fiend Demon Lord activated the Nine Nether Bloodflame Wheel Formation using the sacrificed blood of forty-nine Golden Core demonic cultivators, and its attack collided with the Myriad Stars Grand Formation.
• Xiao Xun attacked Nether Fiend Demon Lord with her Starfall Spirit Sword, extinguished the Nine Nether Ghostfire, and pierced his body with Starry Sword Qi.
• The Four Nations Alliance's morale rose after the demonic war machines were destroyed and Xiao Xun revealed her Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivation.

Human forces ambushed and destroyed the demonic army near the City of Immortal Fate, while Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant possessed Candle Yin Demon Lord and set off to plunder the Blood Abyss Realm’s sects. As Spirit Transformation battles erupted across the human realm, Qin Ming faced the arrival of Blood Prison Demon Lord in the Spirit Rest Archipelago.

• Cold Crow Reverend, Yue Lingyan, Kong Xuan, Su Yuqing, Celestial Foreseer, and other Nascent Soul True Lords ambushed the demonic cultivators pouring through the Void Passages near the City of Immortal Fate and annihilated them.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant revealed itself as an impostor Envoy Xiang, overpowered Candle Yin Demon Lord, possessed him, and used the Ancient Talisman to travel toward the Blood Abyss Realm’s treasure vaults.
• After the allied forces killed two Nascent Soul Demon Lords, Cold Crow Reverend and the others followed Qin Ming’s instructions and hurried toward Great Jin’s Void Eyes.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man and Ice Yi Zi fought the Rock Demon above the Ninth Heavens before Paradise Demon Lord, White-Scaled Demon Lord, and Mu Qingzi joined the battle against the human Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Xiao Xun beheaded Nether Fiend Demon Lord, but Blood Prison Demon Lord crushed his fleeing Nascent Soul and appeared from the Void Eye.
• The Devouring Sky Rat retreated to Qin Ming, and Qin Ming inspected Blood Prison Demon Lord and judged that he remained within his full-health execution range.

Qin Ming confronted the Blood Prison Demon Lord above the Spirit Rest Archipelago and used the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation to destroy the demon army’s portal and drive off the Demon Lord. The Blood Prison Demon Lord then learned that reinforcements had been annihilated and his sect’s treasury looted after Candle Yin Elder’s betrayal.

• The Blood Prison Demon Lord descended and clashed with Qin Ming’s Divine Sense, finding that Qin Ming could match him despite being a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Blood Prison Demon Lord activated the Blood Prison Heavenly Demon Formation, while Qin Ming deployed the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation and wounded him with its beams and the Primordial Poison Flame.
• Qin Ming fueled the formation with more Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and unleashed a massive attack that destroyed the Eyes of the Void, severed the demonic passage, and vaporized many demonic cultivators.
• A wounded Nascent Soul Devil Master reported that City of Immortal Fate’s reinforcements had been annihilated, the sect treasury had been looted, and Candle Yin Elder had betrayed the Blood Refinement Demon Sect.
• The Blood Prison Demon Lord reacted to the news by spitting blood in rage.

Qin Ming used the fifth-rank Demon-Slaying Gourd to kill Blood Prison Demon Lord at the Spirit Rest Archipelago, turning the battle in the Human Realm’s favor. After recovering, he set out with Xiao Xun to support Great Jin, where news of Blood Prison Demon Lord’s death shocked both sides of the battle.

• Blood Prison Demon Lord unleashed the Nine Abyss Slaughtering Blade, and Old Demon Qingyang urged Qin Ming to use the Demon-Slaying Gourd instead of the Eight Gates Golden Light Mirror.
• Qin Ming spent his magical power and five stored affixes to activate the gourd, whose Azure Profound Chains bound Blood Prison Demon Lord before Mystic Fissure Spirit Severance cut him down and the gourd refined his Primordial Spirit.
• The cultivators at the Spirit Rest Archipelago celebrated Blood Prison Demon Lord’s death, while Xiao Xun, the Devouring Sky Rat, Mo Lingwei, and Hua Tianxiong witnessed Qin Ming’s victory.
• After recovering much of his magical power, Qin Ming agreed with Xiao Xun to go support Great Jin.
• At the Great Jin battlefield, the Demon Lords learned that a disguised Nascent Soul cultivator had ravaged the Blood Abyss Realm’s rear, then heard that Blood Prison Demon Lord had fallen.

Qin Ming arrived at the Great Jin battlefield after slaying the Blood Prison Demon Lord, helping drive the Blood Abyss forces into retreat as the realms’ convergence ended. Back at Moon Gazing Island, he had escaped with treasures from the Blood Abyss sects and gathered the final ingredients for God Transformation Balm, while anticipating visits from the Mortal Realm’s Spirit Transformation ancestors.

• The Mortal Realm ancestors learned that Moon Gazing True Monarch had killed the Blood Prison Demon Lord, and the Blood Abyss Demon Lords retreated, with Rock Demon warning that the Sage Ancestor would come.
• Qin Ming and Xiao Xun arrived at the Great Jin battlefield, where Qin Ming’s Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivation and his victory over the Demon Lord shocked Cold Crow Reverend and the other cultivators.
• The Mortal Realm coalition continued fighting as the Blood Abyss forces lost morale, then withdrew through the Eyes of the Void when the realms’ convergence began to end.
• Qin Ming’s demonic infant looted the treasure vaults of the Blood Abyss’s five major sects and collected the remaining ingredients for God Transformation Balm before escaping the Paradise Demon Lord.
• Qin Ming and Xiao Xun returned to Moon Gazing Island, while the Spirit Transformation ancestors went to recover from realm backlash and Qin Ming expected them to visit soon.

After the war, Qin Ming rewarded the Southern Wasteland cultivators and took stock of his spoils while planning his path toward God Transformation. Cloud Fishing Old Man visited Moon Gazing Island to ask whether Qin Ming’s Sentient Treasure came from the Celestial Hall, and Qin Ming confirmed it before beginning to reassure him.

• Qin Ming distributed postwar rewards, gave Wei Wuyai and Mo Lingwei Infant Condensation Pills, and placed another pill in the alliance’s treasure vault.
• Xiao Xun returned to the Outer Sea, and Qin Ming promised to visit later to seek Old Ancestor Nanming’s half of the Reversed Scale Tablet.
• Qin Ming fed Blood Prison Demon Lord’s essence to the Ageless Immortal Vine, which gained new affixes and neared another transformation.
• Qin Ming examined Blood Prison Demon Lord’s hoard, acquiring the Nine Abyss Slaughtering Blade, True Demon Qi, and the Blood River True Scripture.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man visited Qin Ming and asked whether the Sentient Treasure used against Blood Prison Demon Lord came from the Celestial Hall; Qin Ming confirmed that it did and said he had handled the situation properly.

Qin Ming discussed the escaped ancient demon and the damaged Ascension Platform with Cloud Fishing Old Man, while Old Ancestor Nanming agreed to give up the World-Transmitting Stone fragment in exchange for help with his demonic corruption. White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi arrived to discuss the platform, and Old Demon Qingyang emerged to greet them with a pointed remark.

• Qin Ming told Cloud Fishing Old Man that he would deal with the ancient demon that had escaped into Mount Yuanji.
• Qin Ming revealed Old Ancestor Nanming's split soul, and Cloud Fishing Old Man negotiated for Nanming's World-Transmitting Stone fragment in exchange for help removing his demon qi.
• Old Demon Qingyang warned Qin Ming that ascension also required a Reception Token to protect travelers from extraterrestrial heavenly demons and Void Turbulence.
• White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi flew to Moon Gazing Island and abandoned Mu Qingzi's suggestion to seize Qin Ming's treasure after White-Scaled Demon Lord warned that fighting Qin Ming would be dangerous.
• Qin Ming welcomed the two visitors, and Old Demon Qingyang emerged from the Blood Floating Pagoda and mocked their sorry states.

White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi reunited with Old Demon Qingyang, then paid Qin Ming for access to the Ascension Platform. After collecting resources from several God Transformation cultivators, Qin Ming returned to cultivation and planned to mature the ingredients for God Transformation Balm before choosing where to attempt his breakthrough.

• White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi recognized Old Demon Qingyang and learned he had survived as a spirit body beside Qin Ming.
• White-Scaled Demon Lord revealed that an old acquaintance had entrusted him with the Devouring Sky Rat, whose bloodline had advanced rapidly while it followed Qin Ming.
• White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi paid Qin Ming cultivation resources for information and access to the Ascension Platform, and Qin Ming gave them Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar before they left.
• Venerable Bing Yi and Venerable Fuyao paid Qin Ming a steep ticket fee to use the Ascension Platform, then complained that he had exploited their need to ascend.
• Qin Ming inspected the Devouring Sky Rat, tended his Spirit Plants, and arranged to cultivate in seclusion while accelerating the Heart-Questioning Fruit and God Crystal Fruit for God Transformation Balm.

Several years after the righteous-demonic war, Qin Ming traveled to the Outer Sea to find the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet and help repair the Ascension Platform. He discovered promising tribulation-assisting affixes on his Spirit Plants, while the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths planned to seize his treasures and destroy him; the chapter ended with Qin Ming asking Xiao Xun why demon activity had increased.

• Qin Ming visited Qi Xiaoyu, gave him cultivation resources, and urged him to keep guarding the Demon-Subduing Grand Formation while he searched the Outer Sea for the Reversed Scale Tablet.
• Rock Demon burned his Natal Demon Blood to awaken the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths, who identified Qin Ming as the wielder of Emperor Qing's Demon-Slaying Gourd and warned that he threatened their survival.
• The Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths told Rock Demon to gather blood food while she took control of the serpent body and prepared to break through the formation's seal and kill Qin Ming.
• On his journey east, Qin Ming found that his Heart-Questioning Fruit Tree had gained a Severing Red Dust affix and his God Crystal Fruit tree had gained an Essence of Soul Power affix.
• Qin Ming reached the Outer Sea by a secret route and met Xiao Xun at End of the World Cape after encountering several large Beast Tides.
• Qin Ming asked Xiao Xun why the Demon Race had been so active in the Outer Sea.

Qin Ming infiltrated the Sea-Returning Demon Ruins disguised as a merfolk to retrieve the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet. When Old Ancestor Nanming demonified and seized the tablet, Qin Ming used the Azure Emperor Dharma Eye to strip away his Heavenly Demon Qi and absorbed it, leaving the tablet still in Nanming’s possession.

• Qin Ming learned from Xiao Xun that Demon Lord Cangming threatened the Outer Sea and planned to infiltrate the Sea-Returning Demon Ruins alone in disguise.
• Qin Ming reached the ruins while Cangming was away, and the Devouring Sky Rat broke through the ancient restrictions to let him enter.
• Qin Ming released Old Ancestor Nanming’s soul, and Nanming produced the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet before suddenly demonifying and taking it back.
• Old Demon Qingyang urged Qin Ming to use the Azure Emperor Dharma Eye to strip Heavenly Demon Qi from Nanming, and Qin Ming pinned the monster down and did so.
• Qin Ming absorbed the purified Heavenly Demon Qi after his demonic infant destroyed the remnant soul within it.

Qin Ming rescued Old Ancestor Nanming from the Heavenly Demon Qi and learned that Demon Lord Cangming was feeding a Myriad-Year Wood Sprite with human cultivators to advance his power. After discovering something powerful hidden beneath the demon plant, Qin Ming and Nanming escaped and returned to the End of the World Ocean Pavilion.

• Qin Ming removed the Heavenly Demon Qi from Old Ancestor Nanming, restoring his clarity but reducing his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and accepted Nanming's half of the Reversed Scale Tablet.
• Qin Ming and Old Ancestor Nanming left the Demon Ruins, then hid in a Void Passage created by the Devouring Sky Rat when two Demon Cultivators approached.
• Blood Shark told Old Croc Monster that Demon Lord Cangming was gathering blood food to nourish a Myriad-Year Wood Sprite that was nearing a breakthrough.
• Qin Ming used his divine sense to find the Wood Sprite in a hidden swamp, where the Ageless Immortal Vine reacted eagerly and Old Demon Qingyang urged him to inspect beneath it.
• Qin Ming's divine sense was repelled by a mysterious force beneath the blood pool, so he and Old Ancestor Nanming fled and returned to the End of the World Ocean Pavilion several days later.

Qin Ming refined a Crystal Mind Pill that greatly strengthened his divine soul, though he failed to make the God Transformation Balm. After learning the Outer Sea Beast Tide remained locked in a stalemate, he planned to infiltrate the Soul-Eating Bone Marsh and confront the source of the crisis.

• Qin Ming brought Old Ancestor Nanming to meet Xiao Xun and agreed to help the End of the World Ocean Pavilion resist the Beast Tide.
• Qin Ming harvested affixes from his Spirit Plants, strengthened his divine soul, and gathered the materials needed for the Crystal Mind Pill and God Transformation Balm.
• Qin Ming successfully refined three Crystal Mind Pills and consumed one, transforming his divine soul and increasing its power to rival a middle Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Qin Ming failed more than ten times to refine the God Transformation Balm and stopped to reconsider his approach.
• Qin Ming learned that the Human Race powers had joined forces against the Beast Tide and proposed infiltrating the Soul-Eating Bone Marsh to confront Demon Lord Cangming.
• Qin Ming, Xiao Xun, and Old Ancestor Nanming agreed that Xiao Xun and Old Ancestor Nanming would stage a false final battle while Qin Ming infiltrated Demon Lord Cangming's lair.

Qin Ming infiltrated the Soul-Eating Bone Marsh while Demon Lord Cangming was away and discovered a True Spirit Egg beneath the Myriad-Year Wood Sprite. He took the weakened egg, and Cangming sensed that someone had tampered with his property.

• Qin Ming returned to the Soul-Eating Bone Marsh and killed its Fourth-Order demon guards with his Divine Sense.
• Qin Ming cleared the remaining demon cultivators from the island and let the Ageless Immortal Vine devour the Myriad-Year Wood Sprite.
• Qin Ming uncovered a gray giant egg beneath the blood pool, and Old Demon Qingyang identified it as a True Spirit Egg.
• Old Demon Qingyang said Cangming had been using the Wood Sprite to draw out the egg's bloodline essence and might become a Sixth-Order Demon God if he succeeded.
• Qin Ming shrank the nearly lifeless True Spirit Egg and placed it in the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Demon Lord Cangming sensed that someone had taken his property and grew furious, while the human forces' Fifth-Order formation continued to threaten his Beast Tide.

Demon Lord Cangming abandoned the attack on the Human Race and rushed to the Soul-Eating Bone Marsh, where he fought Qin Ming over the destroyed Myriad-Year Wood Sprite and stolen True Spirit Egg. Qin Ming killed Cangming by copying his soul-devouring technique and draining his remaining lifespan, then stored the demon’s corpse and the True Spirit Egg in the Lesser Spirit Realm.

• After Demon Lord Cangming withdrew, Xiao Xun and Old Ancestor Nanming decided to wait for Qin Ming rather than risk interfering in his battle.
• Cangming arrived at the Soul-Eating Bone Marsh and attacked Qin Ming, who matched him in strength and transformed into a Primordial Demon Ape.
• Cangming unleashed the Soul-Devouring Grand Ritual at the cost of nearly half his lifespan, but Qin Ming used Spell Replication to copy and counter the technique.
• Qin Ming activated the Eight Gates Golden Light Mirror and the Evergreen Magical Power, draining Cangming’s remaining lifespan until the Fifth-Order Demon Lord died.
• Qin Ming collected Cangming’s corpse and placed it and the True Spirit Egg in the Lesser Spirit Realm, where the Devouring Sky Rat celebrated his victory.