Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming refined the Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword with Blood Jade Demonic Date pits, Void Mystic Crystal, and powerful Grudge Crystals, then consecrated it with the Paradise Demon Lord’s Primordial Spirit. After celebrating his new Great Divine Ability, he learned that Mo Lingwei planned to travel to the Eastern Sea to pursue information about spiritual materials he needed.

• Qin Ming assessed his newly strengthened body and gathered Blood Jade Demonic Date pits to cultivate the Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword.
• Qin Ming used Void Mystic Crystal and Grudge Crystals from the Blood Prison Demon Lord and Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths to refine the demonic sword over several months.
• Qin Ming completed the Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword and consecrated it by absorbing the Paradise Demon Lord’s Primordial Spirit, greatly increasing its power.
• Qin Ming held a feast beneath the spirit peach tree with the Devouring Sky Rat, Mo Lingwei, and Lan Bing Fairy while Hua Tianxiong and Xiao Xun remained in seclusion.
• Mo Lingwei told Qin Ming that the Eastern Sea had information about several spiritual materials he needed and planned to travel there.

Qin Ming traveled to Skywave Immortal City on Lan Bing Fairy, where the Eastern Sea sect leaders presented him with ore from an unexplained rift. He confirmed the ore contained Goldflame Essence Crystals and learned how they had been found.

• Qin Ming summoned Lan Bing Fairy and flew with her from Moon Gazing Island to the Eastern Sea.
• Supreme Yang Reverend and the other sect leaders discussed black ore discovered on East Peak Island, which had emerged from an Abyssal Rift filled with deadly Void Turbulence.
• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy arrived at Skywave Immortal City, startling its residents and earning a respectful welcome from Supreme Yang Reverend.
• Qin Ming entered the Great Hall and peeled away the black ore to reveal three Goldflame Essence Crystals.
• Qin Ming confirmed the crystals were genuine, and Supreme Yang Reverend asked Elder Lu to explain how they had been discovered.

Qin Ming investigated the Void Rift and discovered that the floating island inside was a sealed Immortal Abode Treasure connected to Heavenly Star City in the Spirit Realm. He sealed the rift, returned to Moon Gazing Island, and prepared to send his Demonic Infant Nascent Soul to scout the Spirit Realm.

• Qin Ming entered the Void Rift with Lan Bing Fairy and found a mist-shrouded floating island in the Void Abyss.
• Qin Ming discovered the remains and identity token of Huang Chao, learning that the island was an Immortal Abode Treasure sealed by a Refining Void Stage elder.
• Qin Ming sensed a terrifying presence within the island but left after deciding he could not yet break its restriction.
• Qin Ming returned to the mining island, sealed the Void Rift with a Five Elements formation, and declared the area forbidden.
• Qin Ming distributed cultivation pills to the Nascent Soul cultivators, giving Elder Lu of East Peak Island extra pills as compensation.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island and planned to send his Demonic Infant Nascent Soul to Heavenly Star City, then had it possess a demonic cultivator and go to the Great Sky Dao Palace.

Qin Ming's demonic nascent soul and Lan Bing Fairy ascended toward the Spirit Realm, but Jiang Tian sabotaged their passage to protect his own ambitions. Qin Ming's true body learned who was responsible and vowed to settle the debt when he reached the Spirit Realm.

• Qin Ming's demonic nascent soul and Lan Bing Fairy began their ascent using the coordinates on a jade inspection token.
• At the Spirit Realm's Immortal Reception Platform, Jiang Tian complained that an earlier Ascended Cultivator had cost him a coveted Star Abyss Guard position.
• Jiang Tian detected Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy arriving, then altered the platform's coordinates and shut down their ascension passage.
• Exposed to the void beyond the domain, Qin Ming had Lan Bing Fairy transform into an Icy Netherworld Sparrow, and they fled through the turbulence.
• Jiang Tian concealed his actions and told Xiao Ming that the ascenders had apparently failed to reach the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming's true body recorded Jiang Tian's appearance on a jade slip and told the Devouring Sky Rat to watch for him in the Spirit Realm.

Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy crossed the outer-realm void and arrived in the Spirit Realm, where the abundant spiritual qi strengthened them and extended their lifespans. After emerging in the Crimson Azure Wilds, Qin Ming questioned local cultivators about their location.

• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy traveled through the void until a rift brought them into the Spirit Realm, cutting a Crimson Azure Spirit Grass in half as they arrived.
• Qin Ming tested the Spirit Realm’s dense spiritual qi and stable space, and he and Lan Bing Fairy each gained more than two thousand years of lifespan.
• Qin Ming noticed the terrified local cultivators and restrained his aura, allowing them to breathe again.
• Qin Ming asked the cultivators where they were, and they identified the region as the Crimson Azure Wilds.

Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy hid in Fallen Cloud City while learning about the Spirit Realm and seeking a way to remove their otherworldly aura. After three years, Qin Ming followed Xu Ergou and his father into the Fallen Cloud Mountains to investigate the Wood Crystal Clan’s demand for Ink Spirit Mushrooms.

• Qin Ming learned that he and Lan Bing Fairy carried an otherworldly aura that larger Spirit Realm powers could detect, and that World-Transformation Pills could eventually remove it.
• Qin Ming studied books about the Spirit Realm and discovered that Heavenly Star City lay far away, while Fallen Cloud City was in territory belonging to the Wood Crystal Clan.
• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy spent three years living as shopkeepers in Fallen Cloud City, where Xu Ergou came seeking a Mountain Splitting Spirit Axe for his father, Xu Han.
• Xu Ergou revealed that the Wood Crystal Clan was buying Ink Spirit Mushrooms and that Azure Floating Spirit Wood from the Fallen Cloud Mountains could be used to grow them.
• Xu Ergou led Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy to Xu Han, and the group spent the day cutting down Azure Floating Spirit Wood.
• Qin Ming asked Xu Han whether he had any Ink Spirit Mushroom spores.

Qin Ming joined Xu Han and Xu Ergou in trading Ink Spirit Mushrooms with the Wood Crystal Clan, using the visit to learn about their territory and a powerful young woman’s cultivation method. After discovering that the mushrooms nourished her Scarlet Willow and helped her approach Golden Core, he returned to Fallen Cloud City and decided to use this connection as a starting point.

• Qin Ming bought Spirit Seed Spores from Xu Han at a discount on the Mountain Splitting Spirit Axe, then successfully cultivated more than a hundred jin of Ink Spirit Mushrooms.
• Xu Han and Xu Ergou took Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy through a formation into the Wood Crystal Clan marketplace, where Steward Wu bought their mushrooms.
• Qin Ming secretly observed Qian Mo feed the mushrooms to a Scarlet Willow, which produced scarlet spheres that helped her advance her cultivation.
• Qin Ming learned that the Wood Crystal Clan had a distant major territory with Spirit Transformation-level forces, then returned to Fallen Cloud City and resolved to start from Qian Mo and the connection he had made.

Qin Ming earned Fairy Qian Mo’s trust by cultivating Tier 2 Crimson Sunfire Mushrooms, securing an invitation to the Gathering of Immortals Assembly in Wan Sen Immortal City. After arriving, he learned the city held a World-Transformation Pill and a route to human territory, but using its teleportation array could expose him as an Ascended Cultivator.

• Qin Ming built ties with the Wood Crystal Clan through mushroom trade, then accepted Fairy Qian Mo’s commission to cultivate Tier 2 Crimson Sunfire Mushrooms.
• Qin Ming succeeded where Xu Han and his son had failed, became a Tier 2 Spirit Planter, and received an invitation to Wan Sen Immortal City; he invited the Xu father and son to join him.
• Qin Ming, Lan Bing Fairy, and the Xu father and son traveled with Fairy Qian Mo’s caravan to Wan Sen Immortal City, where Qin Ming concealed his aura and observed the city’s defenses and diverse clans.
• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy searched the city library and learned that Qian Mo was the City Lord’s daughter and that the city possessed a World-Transformation Pill and a teleportation route to human territory.
• Qin Ming concluded that using the central Long-Distance Teleportation Array could reveal his identity as an Ascended Cultivator, so he planned to seek another way to obtain the pill and reach human territory.

Qin Ming learned more about the Spirit Realm’s powers and attended an auction with Lan Bing Fairy, where a World-Transformation Pill appeared to be bait for Ascended Cultivators. After the auction, he discovered that the Blood Race had failed to lure anyone out and was awaiting Supreme Elder Shentu and a Demon Venerable.

• Qin Ming read about the Human Race’s seventy-two spirit domains and planned to find a place with resources suited to his and Lan Bing Fairy’s cultivation needs.
• At the auction, Qian Mo Fairy’s clan cousin mocked her over her bonded Spirit Plant, Red Willow, before competing with her for a third-order Soul-Devouring Mushroom containing a Wood Spirit Soul.
• Qin Ming recognized the World-Transformation Pill as possible bait and watched as a late Nascent Soul Blood Race elder bought it.
• Qin Ming followed the Blood Race members back to their inn and overheard Elder Ma explain that Supreme Elder Shentu had arranged the bait to find an Ascended Cultivator.
• Elder Ma said Supreme Elder Shentu and the Devil Race’s Demon Venerable were on their way, leaving the Blood Race members to wait for their decision.

Qin Ming learned that Blood Race and Devil Race cultivators were hunting Ascended Cultivators and plotting to steal the Wood Crystal Clan’s Dream Weaving Tree. When Venerable Shen Tu and Demon Spirit Venerable attacked Wan Sen Immortal City, Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy revealed their overwhelming power and intervened.

• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy suspected the Devil Race was searching for Qin Ming because he had destroyed the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths’ fragment soul.
• Two disguised Blood Race God Transformation cultivators arrived in Wan Sen Immortal City and secretly met with Venerable Shen Tu and Demon Spirit Venerable.
• Qin Ming overheard their plan to seize a branch of the Wood Crystal Clan’s Dream Weaving Tree and kept watch as the Gathering of Immortals Assembly neared its end.
• Venerable Shen Tu shattered the City Lord’s Hall formation and reached for the Dream Weaving Tree as the Wood Crystal Clan’s City Lord realized his eldest son had admitted the attackers.
• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy appeared and struck Venerable Shen Tu and Demon Spirit Venerable with Qin Ming’s late God Transformation-level divine sense.
• Qin Ming declared that he would not stand by while the attackers schemed to seize the Wood Crystal Clan’s treasure.

Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy killed two God Transformation Venerables who attacked Wan Sen Immortal City, then secured a World-Transformation Pill and access to the Wood Crystal Clan’s Cross-Domain Teleportation Array. After adapting their auras to the Spirit Realm, Qin Ming chose a human region as their next destination.

• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy pursued and killed Venerable Shen Tu and the Demon Spirit Venerable, then collected their Blood Orbs and found the World-Transformation Pill.
• Qin Ming had Lan Bing Fairy eliminate the remaining Blood Race and Devil Race cultivators, saving Wan Sen Immortal City.
• Mu Kun arrived, and Qin Ming told him he had ascended from the Blood Abyss Realm and sought a World-Transformation Pill; Mu Kun gave him one and agreed to let him use the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array.
• Qin Ming returned the Soul-Devouring Mushroom to Fairy Qian Mo, extracted its Wood Spirit Soul, and left resources and instructions for Xu Han and his son to remain with Qian Mo.
• Several days later, Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy took World-Transformation Pills, and Qin Ming selected a human region from a geographical book as their destination.

Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy traveled cautiously to the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp in the Profound Heaven Domain, where they planned to cultivate in seclusion. Meanwhile, Qin Ming's true body continued cultivating in the Mortal Realm and considered how to prepare for his eventual ascension.

• Mu Kun used the Wood Crystal Clan's Cross-Domain Teleportation Array to send Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy to a Human Immortal City.
• Qin Ming repeatedly changed his identity and appearance while crossing several Spirit Domains to evade the Six Paths Sage Ancestor's search for Ascended Cultivators.
• Qin Ming told Lan Bing Fairy they were heading to the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp in the Mogu Wasteland to cultivate and hide among its many cultivators.
• Qin Ming rode Lan Bing Fairy in her Icy Netherworld Sparrow form across the void to the Profound Heaven Domain, and they disguised themselves as independent cultivators before reaching the swamp.
• Qin Ming's true body continued farming and cultivating on Moon Gazing Island while considering the World-Transformation Pill, the Welcoming Immortals Platform, and the Immortal Abode Treasure in the Void Abyss.

Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy entered Thousand Machine City disguised as Nascent Soul cultivators and bought a detailed map from the dwarf broker Bai Li Hui. As Qin Ming reviewed the city’s factions and trade, he considered using Bai Li Hui to gather intelligence for his investigation.

• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy crossed the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp and reached Thousand Machine City, protected by a powerful formation.
• The pair disguised themselves as rogue cultivator spouses, paid the entrance toll, and explored the bustling city.
• Bai Li Hui offered Qin Ming a map containing detailed information about the city, its shops, and its factions, and Qin Ming bought it for ten Spirit Stones.
• After selling the map, Bai Li Hui introduced himself and went to Delicacy Pavilion to order softshell turtle whip, leaving the other brokers baffled.
• Qin Ming examined the map and learned that the Netherworld Sect controlled Thousand Machine City and the Nether Crystal Stone trade, while the Scattered Alliance was its main rival.
• Qin Ming considered asking Bai Li Hui to run errands as he investigated Heavenly Star City's reception envoy, Huang Chao, and the Immortal Abode Treasure.

Qin Ming rented a secluded Grade-A cave mansion on Obsidian Peak in Thousand Machine City for a hundred years and settled there with Lan Bing Fairy. When nearby cultivators came to meet their new neighbors, Qin Ming introduced himself under an alias and claimed to practice pill refining and gardening.

• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy visited the Deacon Hall, where Si Kongwang offered to recruit them into the Netherworld Sect, but Qin Ming declined.
• Qin Ming rented a Grade-A cave mansion with a Fifth-Grade Upper-Rank Spirit Vein for one hundred years, astonishing Si Kongwang.
• Qin Ming settled into the secluded mountain mansion and assigned a nearby cave mansion to Lan Bing Fairy while they waited for her true body to ascend to the Spirit Realm.
• Several days later, Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy welcomed five nearby Nascent Soul cultivators, including Yao Chenzi, Wu Chongxian, Shi Susu, Luo Jinghong, and Que Tianyin.
• When Yao Chenzi asked what craft he practiced, Qin Ming said he enjoyed farming and could sometimes refine Fourth-Grade Middle-Rank spirit pills.

After impressing Yao Chenzi and the others with his cultivation arts and Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar, Qin Ming learned about rare Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice and explored Thousand Machine City for advanced cultivation arts. The chapter left him reviewing Refining Void Stage manuals at the Mist Immortal Pavilion.

• Yao Chenzi and the others learned that Qin Ming cultivated two fourth-tier arts, offered him gifts, and shared his Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar in exchange for local information and spirit materials.
• Shi Susu told Qin Ming about the rare fifth-tier Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice and gave him an illustrated guide to it.
• Qin Ming returned to his cave dwelling, cultivated in seclusion for several months, and then traveled to Thousand Machine City.
• At the Mist Immortal Pavilion, manager Chen Xuyang led Qin Ming to the library and introduced its high-level cultivation arts.
• Qin Ming examined Refining Void Stage manuals, including the Geng Metal Tribulation Severing Sword Canon, the Profound Nether True Water Scripture, and the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture.

Qin Ming purchased all six cultivation arts that combined into the Primal Chaos Yin-Yang Art, believing its Five Elements abilities suited him despite the deadly risks. After studying its tribulations and requirements, he began cultivating the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture.

• Qin Ming questioned Manager Chen about how single-attribute arts could lead to the Refining Void Stage, and learned that the five arts had to be combined with the Primal Chaos Yin-Yang Art.
• Qin Ming recognized that Mist Immortal Pavilion was selling the six manuals separately and pressed Manager Chen for a discount before buying them all.
• At his cave dwelling on Obsidian Peak, Qin Ming spent his remaining Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and Demon Crystals on the cultivation arts, while Lan Bing Fairy offered to ambush Spirit Transformation cultivators for money.
• Qin Ming studied the Primal Chaos Yin-Yang Art and learned that its breakthroughs involved deadly heavenly tribulations, including the Five Elements Heavenly Punishment.
• Qin Ming decided the risks were worth taking and began cultivating the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture.

Qin Ming discovered that Bai Li Hui was a former God Transformation Stage cultivator hiding as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and recruited him to gather intelligence. After Bai Li Hui found clues about Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy traveled to Four Winds Valley to search for it.

• Qin Ming visited Bai Li Hui in the Thousand Machine City Shantytown and sensed that the broker had more than two thousand years of life remaining despite appearing to have Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation.
• Bai Li Hui revealed that he had once reached the Perfection Realm of the God Transformation Stage but had suffered cultivation deviation while attempting to break through to the Refining Void Stage, forcing him to flee and rebuild his cultivation.
• Qin Ming hired Bai Li Hui to investigate Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, Huang Chao, and other matters, then gave him Third Order Poison Cleansing Pills as an advance reward.
• Half a month later, Bai Li Hui sent Qin Ming clues that immature Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice had appeared south of the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp.
• Qin Ming and Lan Bing Fairy flew to Four Winds Valley, a dangerous swamp where astral winds and Nether mist threatened to tear apart the spirit.

Qin Ming arrived at Four Winds Valley, where several forces gathered to contend for the ripening fifth-order Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice. When a Fifth-Order Demon Lord emerged from the swamp, it killed Poison Dragon True Monarch and Wu Yangzi, leaving the contest in chaos.

• Qin Ming met Yao Chenzi, Shi Susu, Luo Jinghong, and Que Tianyin, who explained that powerful forces had gathered to claim the Spirit Rice.
• Qin Ming used his Divine Sense to find a great demon beneath the swamp and warned the others to keep their distance.
• Several days later, the Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice matured, and Qin Ming cautioned his companions as cultivators rushed toward it.
• Poison Dragon True Monarch crushed several Golden Core cultivators, then confronted Wu Yangzi of the Hidden Mist Loose Alliance.
• A thousand-zhang centipede Demon Lord emerged from the swamp and dissolved Poison Dragon True Monarch and Wu Yangzi with its venom.

Qin Ming and the other cultivators were trapped by a Fifth-Order Demon Lord in Four Winds Valley until Netherbone Venerable arrived and drove it off. Qin Ming collected the discarded Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice roots and revived them with a Rebirth Spirit Seed Affix, leaving the plants sprouting anew.

• The Six-Winged Ferocious Centipede imprisoned and killed cultivators in its Demon Domain, trapping Qin Ming, Lan Bing Fairy, Yao Chenzi, Shi Susu, and the others.
• Netherbone Venerable arrived and fought the centipede with his black banner and Ghost-Faced Spider, while Yao Chenzi gathered the mature Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice.
• The centipede escaped after breaking free of the spiderweb, and Netherbone Venerable took the rice ears and rewarded Yao Chenzi and Shi Susu.
• Qin Ming collected the broken Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice roots and gathered poisonous miasma and Nine Yin Marrow-Corroding Water before returning to Obsidian Peak.
• Qin Ming planted the roots in his Spirit Field and used a Rebirth Spirit Seed Affix, causing new shoots to sprout.

Qin Ming revived and advanced his Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, then received new clues from Bai Li Hui about Huang Chao and the Immortal Abode Treasure. A jade slip’s runes resembled those at the Void Abyss floating island, leading Qin Ming to suspect they could open the treasure’s entrance.

• Qin Ming used Accelerated Growth Affixes to mature the revived Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice and obtained new Affixes that strengthened vitality and soul power.
• Over several years, Bai Li Hui continued handling errands for Qin Ming and recovered his cultivation to the early Golden Core Stage.
• Bai Li Hui reported that Huang Chao had been killed by a fellow inspector who stole an Immortal Abode Treasure and fled to a lower realm.
• Bai Li Hui explained that Huang Chao had hidden a jade slip bearing strange symbols, which eventually reached Thousand Machine City.
• Qin Ming recognized the jade slip’s runes as similar to the restrictions at the Void Abyss floating island and suspected they could open the treasure’s entrance.
• Qin Ming rewarded Bai Li Hui and ordered him to keep investigating Huang Chao, while concealing his reason for asking.