Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming learned that Jiang Tian had been punished for sabotaging his ascension, then explored Fire God Child’s Xumi Spirit Garden in the Void Abyss and discovered rare spirit medicines. As Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat harvested them, a trapped Spirit Realm cultivator attacked, and Qin Ming countered with the Great Evolution Star Chart and Imperial Brush.

• Bai Li Hui told Qin Ming that Jiang Tian had been exiled to the barbaric wastelands for tampering with the Welcoming Immortals Platform, and explained that he had sought to protect his chance at becoming Star Abyss Guard Captain.
• Qin Ming returned to his cave abode to study Huang Chao’s jade slip, then used the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman to travel with the Devouring Sky Rat to the Void Abyss.
• Qin Ming opened the Immortal Abode Treasure’s outer region and learned from Old Demon Qingyang that it was Fire God Child’s Xumi Spirit Garden, where he found numerous rare Fifth-Grade spirit medicines.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat broke the garden’s restrictions while Silver Fox and Tian Ling'er transplanted the recovered spirit plants into the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• A cyan human face appeared and attacked Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat, but Qin Ming used the Great Evolution Star Chart and Imperial Brush to summon a meteor that shattered the attacker’s face.

Qin Ming escaped the Xumi Spirit Garden after defeating an attack from the Spirit Realm fugitive, uncovering a hidden jade slip that recorded a calamity-defying treasure’s refining method. Back on Moon Gazing Island, he resumed cultivating and refining Fifth Order pills while Xiao Xun continued preparing for her breakthrough.

• Qin Ming drove off the Spirit Realm fugitive with his Sentient Treasures, then recovered his mana and had the Devouring Sky Rat collect the remaining spirit herbs.
• The Devouring Sky Rat discovered Fire God Child’s hidden cave abode and helped Qin Ming break the restriction concealing a jade box.
• Qin Ming found a jade slip containing the detailed refining method for a high-grade treasure designed to resist heavenly tribulations.
• Qin Ming left the Xumi Spirit Garden using the Ancient Talisman and returned to his spirit island, where he studied Fifth Order pill formulas.
• Qin Ming refined God Transformation Balm for Xiao Xun, who continued preparing carefully for her Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Ten years later, Qin Ming refined Spirit Pills for God Transformation cultivators and steadily increased his mana cultivation.

Qin Ming advanced to the Mid God Transformation Stage after decades of cultivation, then learned about developments across the Human Realm and checked on his growing influence in the Spirit Realm. The True Spirit Egg still had not hatched after absorbing all of Demon Lord Cangming’s blood, leaving Qin Ming to consider finding more fifth-order demon beasts after he reached the Spirit Realm.

• Qin Ming mastered the Azure Wood Longevity Scripture, used pills and God Transformation Mana affixes, and broke through to the Mid God Transformation Stage.
• Mo Lingwei and Hua Tianxiong congratulated Qin Ming, and he rewarded them before hearing their report on the Cultivation World.
• Qin Ming learned that Xiao Xun was preparing to attempt God Transformation, Cold Crow Reverend had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and several major sects were nurturing God Transformation candidates.
• Qin Ming’s demonic infant investigated the Ascension Platform incident, confirmed it was a man-made accident, and punished Jiang Tian in the Spirit Realm.
• The Devouring Sky Rat used the last of Demon Lord Cangming’s blood essence on the True Spirit Egg, but the egg still did not hatch.
• Qin Ming inspected the egg and considered obtaining more fifth-order demon beast blood after ascending to the Spirit Realm.

Qin Ming prepared for the Spirit Realm by studying the Five Extremes True Spirit Tablet and strengthening his cultivation, then decided to ascend from the Mortal Realm. After bidding farewell to Xiao Xun and his friends, he reached the Spirit Realm and used Mystic Crow Void Escape to head toward his demonic infant and Lan Bing Fairy.

• Qin Ming studied Fire God Child’s method for refining the Five Extremes True Spirit Tablet and ordered his demonic infant to search for divine stones and rare Five Elements materials.
• After years of cultivating the Profound Nether True Water Scripture, Qin Ming decided to ascend because the Mortal Realm offered too few resources and the Spirit Realm offered greater opportunities.
• Qin Ming told Xiao Xun he would settle in the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp and urged her to ascend only after reaching the God Transformation Stage.
• Half a year later, Qin Ming said farewell to Xiao Xun, Qi Xiaoyu, Su Yuqing, and other friends at Mount Yuanji’s Ascension Platform, then ascended to the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming arrived near the Welcoming Immortals Platform and transformed into countless blood crows with Mystic Crow Void Escape to travel toward his demonic infant and Lan Bing Fairy.

Qin Ming ascended to the Spirit Realm with the Icy Netherworld Sparrow and arrived in the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp. He slew a wounded Six-Winged Ferocious Centipede to obtain its blood essence, then vanished before the Scattered Alliance’s Left Vice-Alliance Master arrived and learned of the mysterious killer.

• Qin Ming and the Icy Netherworld Sparrow crossed the void and reached the Spirit Realm, while the Welcoming Immortals Platform guards mistook the disrupted ascension for a failure.
• Qin Ming released his spirit pets in the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp, then concealed his cultivation and set off toward Thousand Machine City.
• Qin Ming sensed the wounded Six-Winged Ferocious Centipede slaughtering miners and Scattered Alliance overseers, and decided to take its blood essence for the True Spirit Egg.
• Qin Ming appeared in a black disguise and killed the Six-Winged Ferocious Centipede with the Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword, then stored its corpse in the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• The Left Vice-Alliance Master arrived and questioned a wounded deacon, who reported that a mysterious senior had slain the Fifth-Order Demon Lord; the Vice-Alliance Master reacted with surprise.

After killing a Fifth-Order Demon Lord, Qin Ming hid his identity, continued cultivating Fifth-Order Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, and asked Bai Li Hui to seek the World-Transformation Pill formula. He joined his neighbors to hear Yao Chenzi propose a dangerous Netherworld Sect expedition to clear demon beasts from a newly discovered mineral region, and the group weighed the risks and rewards.

• The Left Vice-Alliance Master learned that a mysterious black-mist cultivator had instantly killed a Fifth-Order Demon Lord and suspected a Late God Transformation Stage cultivator from the Netherworld Sect.
• Qin Ming processed the vicious centipede's corpse, gave its essence blood to the Devouring Sky Rat, and fertilized the Brahma Demon Holy Tree with its remains.
• Bai Li Hui told Qin Ming that the World-Transformation Pill formula was tightly controlled but might be obtainable through black-market channels; he then noticed Qin Ming's thriving Fifth-Order Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice and left impressed.
• Yao Chenzi invited Qin Ming and their neighbors to meet Ninefold Xuan Reverend and Ling Yang, then revealed that the Netherworld Sect wanted cultivators to clear demon beasts from a mineral-rich area of the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp.
• Yao Chenzi offered the group a chance to keep their hunting gains and earn resources, including a possible aid to breaking through the Nascent Soul Late Stage, while the cultivators considered the danger of the expedition.

Qin Ming declined to join Yao Chenzi and the others in clearing demon beasts from the Crimsonblaze Wasteland, choosing to trade with them for their spoils instead. When Yao Chenzi later visited, he discovered Qin Ming had cultivated fifth-order Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, then told him that a sixth-order Nether Crystal Stone had been found in the wasteland and would likely draw the Yellow Springs Sect's attention.

• Yao Chenzi invited Qin Ming and other cultivators to join the Netherworld Sect's demon-clearing mission, but Qin Ming declined and offered to exchange spirit plants and alchemy services for their finds.
• Luo Jinghong and the other cultivators agreed to the mission, and Yao Chenzi showed them a map of their destination in the ring-shaped mountains of the Crimsonblaze Wasteland.
• After the Netherworld Sect began recruiting in Thousand Machine City, Qin Ming continued cultivating while his rare spirit plants flourished and his companions improved in the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Yao Chenzi returned from the wasteland and visited Qin Ming, where he was astonished to see fifth-order Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice growing in Qin Ming's fields.
• Yao Chenzi exchanged demon cores and other materials for spirit medicines, then told Qin Ming that a sixth-order Nether Crystal Stone had been discovered in the wasteland and that the Yellow Springs Sect would likely claim it.

Qin Ming obtained the complete World-Transformation Pill formula and gathered the ingredients needed to refine it. Netherbone Venerable visited to recruit him into the Netherworld Sect and buy his Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, but Qin Ming remained independent and began refining pills.

• Qin Ming discovered that Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice needed corpse-derived nether yin aura and used demon beast corpses to help the plants grow.
• After news of Five-Pattern Nether Crystal Stone spread, cultivators flooded into Thousand Machine City, and Qin Ming avoided joining the rush for profit.
• Bai Li Hui brought Qin Ming the two halves of the World-Transformation Pill formula, and Qin Ming paid for the missing half and acquired the remaining ingredients.
• Netherbone Venerable visited Qin Ming, invited him to join the Netherworld Sect, and asked to buy some of his rice when it matured; Qin Ming declined the invitation but agreed to sell rice.
• Qin Ming returned to the Lesser Spirit Realm, took out the Spirit King Cauldron, and began refining World-Transformation Pills.

After refining World-Transformation Pills to remove the otherworldly aura from himself and his Spirit Pets, Qin Ming learned that the Yellow Springs Sect had entered a conflict over rare ores in the Crimsonblaze Wasteland. Suspecting a greater treasure lay beneath the mine, he sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy to investigate.

• Qin Ming refined World-Transformation Pills, took one himself, and gave one to each of his Spirit Pets so they could move around the Spirit Realm without revealing their origins.
• Xuan Jiuyin of the Yellow Springs Sect arrived in Thousand Machine City, where Qin Ming learned the Netherworld Sect had angered the superior sect by withholding a sixth-order Nether Crystal Stone.
• Bai Li Hui reported that Xuan Jiuyin's negotiations with the Netherworld Sect failed, and the Yellow Springs Sect group departed for the Crimsonblaze Wasteland.
• Yao Chenzi and his companions returned injured and told Qin Ming that Yellow Springs Sect cultivators had seized their mining site after discovering abundant lightning-attributed ore beneath the Nether Crystal Stone vein.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy to secretly investigate the ring-shaped mountain range in the Crimsonblaze Wasteland.

The Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy secretly infiltrated the ring-shaped mountain range in the Crimsonblaze Wasteland and dug beneath the Netherworld Sect’s mine. They uncovered a vast lightning abyss and a floating Thunder-Magnet Mountain, leaving them stunned by the immense power below.

• Lan Bing Fairy carried the Devouring Sky Rat to the Crimsonblaze Wasteland, where they concealed themselves and entered a hidden Void Passage.
• The pair overheard Netherbone Venerable order the Netherworld Sect to mine through the Ink Crystal Wall Rock Layer in search of Thunder Marrow Crystal for the Nine Dragon Tribulation Seal.
• The Devouring Sky Rat dug through the rock, collecting Nether Crystal Stones and following the scent of an unknown treasure despite the growing lightning danger.
• Lan Bing Fairy shielded them with the Power of Space as they dug through lightning-filled layers toward the source of the underground thunder.
• The Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy broke into a vast azure lightning abyss and saw a ten-thousand-zhang Thunder-Magnet Mountain floating at its center.

Qin Ming learned of a ten-thousand-zhang Thunder-Magnet Mountain beneath the Crimsonblaze Wasteland and traded for a rare reference that revealed how to capture it. After preparing a Spirit-Absorbing Formation, he descended into the abyss and reached the mountain, where Old Demon Qingyang awoke in astonishment.

• Qin Ming heard from the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy about the Thunder-Magnet Mountain and Netherworld Ancestor’s plans to refine a Calamity-Quelling Treasure.
• Qin Ming met the Scattered Alliance’s Left Vice-Alliance Master, exchanged Spirit Plant Dao insights, and traded a stalk of Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice plus ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones for the Record of Rare Treasures of the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming used the record to learn how to capture Thunder-Magnet Divine Stones and refined a Spirit-Absorbing Formation into the Spirit King Cauldron with help from the Mystic Water Crocodile.
• Qin Ming, Lan Bing Fairy, and the Devouring Sky Rat secretly traveled to the abyss and passed the Netherworld Sect’s slow, dangerous excavation.
• Qin Ming reached the thunder world and saw the enormous Thunder-Magnet Mountain, waking Old Demon Qingyang, who recognized it and marveled at Qin Ming’s good fortune.

Qin Ming spent more than half a year collecting the Thunder-Magnet Mountain, discovering and capturing the Primordial Thunder Essence with Old Demon Qingyang’s help. After Qin Ming returned to Obsidian Peak, a Netherworld Sect disciple uncovered a strange azure ore beneath the Crimsonblaze Wasteland, and Netherbone Venerable arrived to inspect it.

• Qin Ming used the Spirit King Cauldron and an eighteen-flag formation to refine the Thunder-Magnet Mountain, but it began resisting his control.
• The Devouring Sky Rat detected a hidden lightning creature, and Qin Ming identified it as Primordial Thunder Essence after his attempts to seize it failed.
• Old Demon Qingyang bound the Primordial Thunder Essence with demonic chains, allowing Qin Ming to collect it in the Spirit King Cauldron and then shrink the Thunder-Magnet Mountain into the cauldron.
• Qin Ming left the Thunder Abyss with the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy, returned to Obsidian Peak, and visited his neighbors after reading their messages.
• A Netherworld Sect disciple mining beneath the Crimsonblaze Wasteland uncovered an enormous azure-glowing ore stone and sent word to the sect.
• Netherbone Venerable appeared at the mine, saw the ore stone, and declared that Heaven favored the Netherworld Sect.

Netherbone Venerable discovered a Thunder Marrow Crystal, while Qin Ming decided to cultivate his Thunder-Magnet Mountain into a powerful treasure. Ninefold Xuan Reverend asked Qin Ming to grow rare Ghoulface Silver Hemp, and five years later the hemp and Qin Ming’s Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice had matured.

• Netherbone Venerable rewarded Lu Yu for uncovering a Thunder Marrow Crystal, then secretly left the Crimsonblaze Wasteland with it.
• Xuan Jiuyin questioned why the Netherworld Sect had gone quiet and threatened his subordinates with his late-stage Spirit Transformation pressure.
• Qin Ming and Old Demon Qingyang agreed that the Thunder-Magnet Mountain should become a mountain-type magic treasure, while Qin Ming reserved the Essence of Innate Thunder Origin for cultivation.
• Ninefold Xuan Reverend visited Qin Ming after advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and paid him ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones to grow Ghoulface Silver Hemp for a talisman.
• Qin Ming planted and tended the Ghoulface Silver Hemp, whose Affix revealed Leaf of Spacetime, and five years later its harvest and his Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice had ripened.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Ming harvests mature fifth-tier Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, gaining affixes that significantly improve his cultivation.
• He feeds his Spirit Pets the Spirit Rice, leading to their breakthroughs.
• Qin Ming exchanges a stalk of Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice for 'Cloud Wanderer's Record of Rare Treasures of the Spirit Realm' at Mist Immortal Pavilion.
• He encounters Ninefold Xuan Reverend at Mist Immortal Pavilion, who reveals that he has business with the Left Alliance Master.

Character Developments

• Qin Ming's cultivation improves significantly after consuming the Spirit Rice affixes.
• His Spirit Pets (Devouring Sky Rat, Silver Fox, Mystic Water Crocodile, Silver-Winged Frost Bee) break through to higher tiers after consuming the Spirit Rice.
• Ninefold Xuan Reverend is revealed to have dealings with the Left Alliance Master.

Significant Themes

• The power of Spirit Rice and its affixes in enhancing cultivation.
• The value and rarity of fifth-tier Spirit Rice.
• The potential benefits and risks of joining the Hidden Mist Loose Alliance.

Character Interactions

• Qin Ming interacts with Manager Chen and the Left Alliance Master at Mist Immortal Pavilion.
• He encounters Ninefold Xuan Reverend at Mist Immortal Pavilion, revealing their neighborly relationship.
• The Left Alliance Master expresses interest in recruiting Qin Ming to the Hidden Mist Loose Alliance.

Qin Ming learned that the Netherworld Sect had raised Poison Cleansing Pill prices amid renewed mining in the Crimsonblaze Wasteland, then discovered the Scattered Alliance was recruiting him through Ninefold Xuan Reverend. The chapter ended with Ninefold Xuan explaining the benefits the Left Vice-Alliance Master had given him, including a fifth-grade Talisman Dao inheritance and a Spirit Source Talisman Seed.

• Qin Ming saw the Netherworld Sect selling overpriced Poison Cleansing Pills in White Jade Plaza and gave Bai Li Hui a bottle of pills he had refined himself.
• Bai Li Hui told Qin Ming that the Netherworld Sect had reportedly excavated something valuable in the Crimsonblaze Wasteland and that the Yellow Springs Sect was recruiting miners too.
• The Left Vice-Alliance Master told Ninefold Xuan Reverend to persuade Qin Ming to join the Scattered Alliance, warning that the alliance's coming operation would leave Thousand Machine City no more.
• Ninefold Xuan intercepted Qin Ming near Obsidian Peak and asked him to keep their conversation confidential before inviting him to join the Scattered Alliance.
• Ninefold Xuan told Qin Ming that the Left Vice-Alliance Master had helped him advance by providing a fifth-grade Talisman Dao inheritance and a Spirit Source Talisman Seed.

Qin Ming refused the Scattered Alliance’s offer, exposed a false breakthrough to Nascent Soul Late Stage to protect his peace, and spent thirty years cultivating in Thousand Machine City. When the Hidden Mist Loose Alliance attacked the city on the Yellow Springs Sect’s orders, he discovered Xuan Jiuyin and Ninefold Xuan Reverend preparing to use a Fifth-Grade Barrier Breaking Talisman.

• Old Demon Qingyang recognized the Spirit Source Talisman Seed draining Ninefold Xuan Reverend’s life, but Qin Ming refused to join the Scattered Alliance and kept the secret.
• Qin Ming staged a breakthrough to Nascent Soul Late Stage, earning the respect of nearby cultivators and driving away those coveting Obsidian Peak.
• Over the next thirty years, Qin Ming farmed and cultivated as cultivators flooded into Thousand Machine City after the Netherworld Sect withdrew from the Crimsonblaze Wasteland.
• The Hidden Mist Loose Alliance and allied forces attacked Thousand Machine City, claiming the Yellow Springs Sect had ordered them to eradicate the Netherworld Sect.
• Qin Ming spotted the Scattered Alliance’s Left Vice-Alliance Master, Xuan Jiuyin, and Ninefold Xuan Reverend preparing a Fifth-Grade Barrier Breaking Talisman, which Old Demon Qingyang linked to the Ghoulface Silver Hemp Qin Ming had planted.

The Hidden Mist Loose Alliance and Yellow Springs Sect broke Thousand Machine City's protective array with a supreme Barrier Breaking Talisman, and the city fell into chaos. Qin Ming rescued Bai Li Hui and returned to Obsidian Peak, where he sensed a Refining Void great tribulation gathering over the Netherworld Sect's main altar.

• Ninefold Xuan Reverend and the other talisman masters sacrificed their vitality to raise the Barrier Breaking Talisman to Fifth-Grade supreme.
• Alliance Master Zuo used the talisman to shatter Thousand Machine City's protective array, and the Netherworld Sect's bald elder fled after sensing Xuan Jiuyin.
• Independent cultivators began looting Thousand Machine City as the Netherworld Sect's disciples suffered heavy losses.
• Qin Ming rescued Bai Li Hui from the chaos and flew with him to Obsidian Peak.
• Xuan Jiuyin and the Left Vice-Alliance Master noticed Heaven and Earth Origin Qi gathering over the Netherworld Sect's main altar, where a golden Refining Void tribulation cloud formed.
• Qin Ming sensed the golden tribulation lightning and recognized it as the great heavenly tribulation of the Refining Void Stage.

The Netherworld Ancestor survived the Refining Void tribulation with the Nine Dragon Tribulation Seal, forcing the Yellow Springs Sect’s allies to flee and leaving the Yellow Springs Sect facing a possible war. Before the two sects could clash, the Profound Heaven Sword Sect issued a decree forbidding hostilities, while Qin Ming weighed how to protect himself and his neighbors.

• The Yellow Springs Sect’s Xuan Jiuyin realized the Netherworld Ancestor had prepared to break through, then hurried toward the Netherworld Sect as Alliance Master Yang and the Left Vice-Alliance Master considered the danger.
• The Nine Dragon Tribulation Seal blocked the tribulation lightning, and the Netherworld Ancestor successfully reached the Refining Void Stage; Xuan Jiuyin and the alliance leaders fled, abandoning the talisman masters.
• The Netherworld Sect declared that everyone involved in the chaos would be killed and issued wanted orders for the Scattered Alliance’s leaders.
• Yao Chenzi and the other cultivators sought Qin Ming’s protection, while Qin Ming agreed to wait and see before deciding whether to flee.
• The Yellow Springs Ancestor prepared to confront the Netherworld Ancestor, but the Profound Heaven Sword Sect issued a Cease War Edict forbidding the two sects from fighting, and both sects obeyed.

Ninefold Xuan Reverend warned Qin Ming that the Scattered Alliance’s Left Vice-Alliance Master coveted his Spirit Plants, but the warning came too late. When the Left Vice-Alliance Master and Xuan Jiuyin attacked Obsidian Peak, Qin Ming revealed his God Transformation-level strength and turned the assault around, then faced Xuan Jiuyin directly.

• The Left Vice-Alliance Master and Xuan Jiuyin agreed to plunder Thousand Machine Immortal City while the Netherworld Ancestor recovered from his breakthrough.
• Ninefold Xuan Reverend visited Qin Ming on Obsidian Peak, confessed his role in the city’s chaos, and warned that the Left Vice-Alliance Master might come for Qin Ming’s Spirit Plants.
• Qin Ming sensed the two God Transformation cultivators approaching, and the Left Vice-Alliance Master shattered his cave abode’s formation and attacked.
• Qin Ming revealed cultivation strength far beyond the Nascent Soul Realm, crushed the Left Vice-Alliance Master’s attack, and trapped him with black vine thorns.
• Xuan Jiuyin severed the Left Vice-Alliance Master’s legs, allowing his Primordial Spirit to escape, as Qin Ming transformed into a thousand-zhang Vajra Demon Aspect and struck at Xuan Jiuyin.

Qin Ming revealed his formidable body-cultivation power in Thousand Machine City, killing Alliance Leader Zuo and overpowering Xuan Jiuyin’s Yellow Springs Sword Domain. Xuan Jiuyin survived by reincarnating through his bound Spirit Sword, then produced a fifth-grade Sentient Treasure sword case as the battle continued.

• Qin Ming’s Vajra Demon Aspect struck Xuan Jiuyin and killed Alliance Leader Zuo with one blow, gaining another Myriad Forms Heavenly Demon Mark.
• Xuan Jiuyin summoned his Yellow Springs Sword Domain and attacked Qin Ming, while Netherbone Venerable and the bald elder halted outside Thousand Machine City and reported the battle to the Netherworld Ancestor.
• Qin Ming transformed the Vajra Demon Aspect into a Mountain Giant Ape and used the Heaven-Dropping Strike to shatter the Sword Domain and blast Xuan Jiuyin apart.
• Xuan Jiuyin re-formed himself through the Yellow Springs Nirvana Reincarnation Art, spending part of his lifespan to survive Qin Ming’s attack.
• Xuan Jiuyin put away his yellow longsword and brought out an ancient sword case that Qin Ming recognized as a fifth-grade Sentient Treasure.