Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming and Mo Lingwei arrived in Heavenly Star City with Yao Tiannan, saw the city’s immense scale and strict hierarchy, and went to the Duty Enforcement Hall to register. Elder Lin issued them Identity Tokens but required them to remain under observation for several years before receiving residency rights.

• Yao Tiannan brought Qin Ming and the others through Heavenly Star City’s towering wall and across the city to a guarded teleportation platform.
• Yao Tiannan led the group past Nascent Soul guards to the Duty Enforcement Hall, where the cultivators quietly remarked on his return and the losses his squad had suffered.
• Yao Tiannan reported his completed rotation mission to Elder Lin and introduced Qin Ming and Mo Lingwei as itinerant cultivators seeking to settle in the city.
• Elder Lin briefly examined Qin Ming and Mo Lingwei, accepted their verified identities, and gave them Identity Tokens while placing them under observation for several years.

Qin Ming obtained an Identity Token in Heavenly Star City and declined Elder Lin’s invitation to join the Star Guards, choosing instead to seek a quiet place to cultivate. After reuniting with Bai Li Hui and learning news of old friends and the Spirit Realm’s conflicts, he began looking for Spirit Land to develop.

• Qin Ming received an Identity Token from Elder Lin, revealed that his Spirit Plant and alchemy skills had reached the fifth grade, and refused Elder Lin’s offer to join the Star Guards.
• Yao Tiannan brought Qin Ming to the inner city and recommended that he seek Manager Cao at the Heavenly Jade Treasure Pavilion for a Spirit Land residence.
• Qin Ming found Bai Li Hui working outside the city, brought him and Mo Lingwei together, and asked Bai Li Hui for news about their acquaintances.
• Bai Li Hui reported that Xiao Xun had gone to cultivate at a Human Race sacred land, while Su Yuqing and Cloud Fishing Old Man had joined the Star Guards and gone on a dangerous mission to the Heaven Spine Mountains.
• Bai Li Hui explained the status of Ascended Cultivators and the Spirit Realm’s history of foreign invasions, and Qin Ming rewarded him with resources to aid his recovery.
• After resting at an inn, Qin Ming decided to find Spirit Land for cultivation and spotted the Heavenly Trade Company on the city map.

Qin Ming leased Little Turtle Peak near Heavenly Star City, paying for part of the rent with rare Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice. After he left, Manager Cao learned that Jiang Tian and several newly promoted Star Guards had returned from the frontline and were coming upstairs.

• Qin Ming visited the Heavenly Trade Company's Immortal Abode Pavilion, where Manager Cao personally welcomed him and showed him available spirit lands.
• Manager Cao described a vacant Sixth-Order spirit land in the Azure Mist Mountain Range, but Qin Ming rejected it after hearing that a Silver-Armored Star Guard squad had been killed by a Late Grade Six beast.
• Qin Ming chose remote Little Turtle Peak, and Manager Cao leased it to him for three hundred years at half price.
• Qin Ming paid with one hundred and twenty Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and three stalks of Fifth-Grade Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, which Manager Cao accepted in place of the remaining rent.
• After Qin Ming left, an attendant told Manager Cao that Jiang Tian and several newly promoted Star Guards had returned from the frontline and were coming upstairs.

After Jiang Tian revealed that two Devil Race Saint Ancestors were searching for a cultivator from the Mortal Realm, Yao Tiannan and his master began arranging to watch for the person’s arrival. Meanwhile, Qin Ming moved into Little Turtle Peak, secured it with a powerful formation, and learned that the neighboring Li Family was a prominent Spirit Plant clan.

• Jiang Tian told Yao Tiannan that Soul Weeping Sage Ancestor and the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths had ordered searches for a Mortal Realm cultivator.
• Yao Tiannan informed his master, the Golden-Haired Old Man, who ordered secret surveillance for ascended cultivators and set out to question Jiang Wuji.
• Qin Ming brought Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei to Little Turtle Peak and settled his group into its cave abodes.
• Qin Ming installed the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation around Little Turtle Peak.
• Bai Li Hui reported that the nearby Li Family occupied Phoenix Tree Mountain and that its leader, Li Changqing, was a Fifth-Grade Upper-Rank Spirit Planter with a Shennong Spirit Body.

Qin Ming settled into life on Little Turtle Peak, where a mysterious mountain aura awakened the True Spirit Egg and his spirit crops ripened. He consumed the harvest to break through to the Late God Transformation Stage, leaving his companions to absorb the spiritual energy released by his breakthrough.

• Bai Li Hui described the Li Clan's prized spirit plants and the renowned Sixth Order alchemist Daoist Tengyun to Qin Ming.
• The Li Clan and Daoist Tengyun sent visitors with housewarming gifts, and Qin Ming accepted them before continuing his quiet cultivation on Little Turtle Peak.
• After five years, the Devouring Sky Rat told Qin Ming that the True Spirit Egg had begun reacting, and Qin Ming moved it to his cave abode, where Little Turtle Peak's aura nourished the True Spirit inside.
• Qin Ming harvested ripe Withering Flourishing Mystic Vine fruits and Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, then used their God Transformation Mana affixes to break through to the Late God Transformation Stage.
• Lan Bing Fairy, the Devouring Sky Rat, and the others witnessed Qin Ming's breakthrough, then absorbed the spiritual energy released as he continued consolidating his realm.

Qin Ming completed his breakthrough to the Late God Transformation Stage, then learned that Heavenly Star City was investigating Lower Realm Ascended Cultivators and Devil Race infiltrators. In the city, he encountered Jiang Tian and reunited with Yao Tiannan, who revealed he had a rare Late Fifth-Grade Demon Core to trade.

• Qin Ming strengthened his cultivation and Divine Sense, began cultivating the Solar True Fire Art, and completed his breakthrough to the Late God Transformation Stage.
• Bai Li Hui reported that Heavenly Star City was investigating Ascended Cultivators and Devil Race infiltrators, so Qin Ming ordered him to keep watch on the matter.
• Qin Ming left Little Turtle Peak for Heavenly Star City to seek breakthrough resources for his spirit pets and encountered Jiang Tian, who planned to visit Qin Ming after the auction to investigate his Spirit Rice.
• Qin Ming met Yao Tiannan in the city, admitted he had grown Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, and heard that the Heavenly Trade Company was holding an auction.
• Yao Tiannan offered to trade his demonic beast materials for Qin Ming's Spirit Rice and presented a Late Fifth-Grade Demon Core.

Qin Ming traded Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice with Yao Tiannan and learned that Yao’s Star Guard team would soon be sent to the perilous Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss. At the Heavenly Trade Company auction, Qin Ming discovered a Grade Six Blood Soul Nirvana Pill formula that could awaken ancient bloodlines in spirit beasts, while the auction progressed to the first stalk of Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice.

• Qin Ming exchanged eight stalks of Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice and Spirit Stones with Yao Tiannan for a Golden Kui Skywolf Demon Core and its essence blood.
• Yao Tiannan told Qin Ming that his Star Guard team would soon travel to the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss to fight Netherworld Underworld ghosts and reseal the junction between the Two Realms.
• Qin Ming and Yao Tiannan went to the Heavenly Trade Auction House, where Qin Ming consigned Crimson Spirit Pills and Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice.
• Manager Cao told Qin Ming that the auction included a Grade Six Blood Soul Nirvana Pill formula, which could help spirit beasts awaken ancient bloodlines.
• Yao Tiannan won the Golden Dragon Soul Severing Spear for two thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, while Qin Ming watched the auction proceed.
• Manager Cao began secret bidding for a complete stalk of Grade Five Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice.

Qin Ming chose valuable bids for his Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice and other auction goods, then decided against bidding on a Sixth Order pill formula because its seller required Sixth Order spiritual items. Yao Tiannan offered him one in exchange for thirty years of logistics support, and the two secured the Blood Soul Nirvana Pill formula for Qin Ming.

• Qin Ming selected the Li Clan's Violet Yang Thunder Bamboo for a stalk of Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, then chose Myriad Flowers Valley's Crimson Flame Spirit Soil for another.
• Qin Ming sold a bottle of Crimson Spirit Pills for five hundred Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and acquired two materials for artifact forging and array refinement.
• Lu Yun won the Li Clan's Violet Jade Spirit Millet, while Qin Ming declined to bid and explained that he wanted the final Sixth Order pill formula.
• Yao Tiannan offered Qin Ming a Sixth Order spiritual item in exchange for thirty years of logistics support for his squad, based at Little Turtle Peak.
• Yao Tiannan won the Sixth-Grade Blood Soul Nirvana Pill formula, then handed the Beast Bone containing it to Qin Ming as promised.

Qin Ming secured the Sixth Order Blood Soul Nirvana Pill formula at auction, joined Yao Tiannan’s Star Guard squad as logistical support, and returned to Little Turtle Peak. Jiang Tian began plotting to obtain Qin Ming’s spirit rice, while Li Henian and Lu Yun arrived together to visit Qin Ming.

• Qin Ming traded with Yao Tiannan for the Sixth Order pill formula, gave him Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, and declined an official Star Guard post.
• Jiang Tian learned that Qin Ming owned Little Turtle Peak and had no spirit rice left, then planned to deal with him after Yao Tiannan’s squad entered the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, showed the Devouring Sky Rat the Blood Soul Nirvana Pill formula, and warned it that the required ingredients would be difficult to obtain.
• Qin Ming studied the formula and discovered it required rare Sixth Order materials, including Ten-Thousand-Year Bloodsoul Ginseng King and Heavenly Star Dragon Scale Fruit.
• Li Henian met Lu Yun near Little Turtle Peak, and the two agreed to visit Qin Ming together.

Qin Ming hosted Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Li Henian at Little Turtle Peak, trading the Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice cultivation method for spirit materials and exchanging a sixth-order pill formula with Lu Yun. After several days of discussing alchemy, Qin Ming discovered that Lu Yun’s body concealed his life force, leaving his true identity and cultivation shrouded in mystery.

• Lan Bing Fairy sensed visitors, and Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Li Henian arrived at Little Turtle Peak to meet Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming negotiated with Li Henian, exchanging the Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice cultivation method for a three-thousand-year Blood Soul Spirit Ginseng and several rare fifth-grade spirit materials.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, revealed that Deer Child’s bloodline ability had identified Qin Ming as the person who obtained the sixth-order pill formula at the Heavenly Star City auction.
• Qin Ming exchanged the beast bone for Lu Yun, the Daoist’s, Yin-Yang Return to Void Pill formula, and the two agreed to keep the matter secret.
• Qin Ming and Lu Yun, the Daoist, discussed alchemy for several days, and Lu Yun was surprised by Qin Ming’s near-sixth-order attainments.
• Before Lu Yun, the Daoist, departed, Qin Ming used the Yin-Yang Mystic Mirror and found that a strange power concealed all life force in his body.

Qin Ming cultivated a ten-thousand-year Blood Soul Spirit Ginseng, gathered materials, and refined three Blood Soul Nirvana Pills, establishing himself as a Sixth Order divine pill master. He gave pills to the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy to help them advance, while his ties with the Li Clan and Lu Yun, the Daoist, continued to grow.

• Lu Yun, the Daoist, left Little Turtle Peak and wondered about Qin Ming's background and the Devouring Sky Rat's bloodline.
• Li Changqing learned from Li Henian about Qin Ming and Lu Yun, the Daoist, and urged the Li Clan to befriend their new neighbor.
• Qin Ming matured the Blood Soul Spirit Ginseng into a ten-thousand-year medicine, and its essence helped Tian Ling'er approach a breakthrough to the Fifth Order.
• Qin Ming arranged for Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei to gather ingredients, studied Sixth Order pill formulas with Lu Yun, the Daoist, and spent ten years cultivating and engraving Thunder-Magnet Mountain's restrictions.
• Qin Ming refined three Blood Soul Nirvana Pills after more than ten failures, becoming a Sixth Order divine pill master.
• Qin Ming gave one pill each to the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy, then began refining pills again with his remaining materials.

After more than ten years of secluded alchemy, Qin Ming refined five Blood Soul Nirvana Pills and watched his spirit pets advance. The Devouring Sky Rat awakened an ancient True Spirit bloodline while undergoing its Fifth Order tribulation, just as Jiang Tian and Wu Kui arrived at Little Turtle Peak and provoked Qin Ming.

• Qin Ming refined five Blood Soul Nirvana Pills, advanced to Sixth Order Pill Deity, and fed Yi Wood Essence to his Withering Flourishing Mystic Vine, which neared a breakthrough.
• Jiang Tian led Wu Kui and several Star Guards toward Little Turtle Peak to obtain Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice, while warning Wu Kui about dangers in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss.
• Qin Ming moved the Devouring Sky Rat outside the Lesser Spirit Realm and activated the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation as it began its Fifth Order tribulation.
• The Devouring Sky Rat overcame its inner demon and Five Elements tribulations, awakened a True Spirit bloodline, and began resisting the final lightning tribulation by absorbing the strikes.
• Jiang Tian and Wu Kui stopped near Little Turtle Peak to observe the tribulation, and Qin Ming attacked them with a thousand-zhang hand formed from Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.

Qin Ming drove off Jiang Tian and Wu Kui when they intruded on Little Turtle Peak, then guarded the Devouring Sky Rat through its tribulation. The rat awakened the Soul-Devouring Rat King bloodline, reached the Fifth-Order Demon Lord realm, and eventually took human form.

• Qin Ming used his divine abilities to repel Wu Kui and Jiang Tian's Star Guards after they disrupted the Devouring Sky Rat's tribulation.
• Wu Kui apologized and withdrew, while Qin Ming struck Jiang Tian until Jiang Wuji's life-saving jade pendant appeared and persuaded Qin Ming to spare him.
• Qin Ming guarded the Devouring Sky Rat as it endured several days of tribulation lightning, devoured some of the bolts, and advanced to the Fifth-Order Demon Lord realm.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, recognized the rat's Soul-Devouring Rat King bloodline and resolved to visit Little Turtle Peak with congratulatory gifts.
• Several months later, the Devouring Sky Rat stabilized its breakthrough and took human form, then thanked Qin Ming for his protection.

Qin Ming celebrated the Devouring Sky Rat’s breakthrough and welcomed Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Li Changqing, who learned of Qin Ming’s formidable alchemy and combat abilities. Meanwhile, Jiang Wuji punished Jiang Tian, and Ling Tianjun ordered Wu Kui to secretly watch Qin Ming’s Fifth-Order rat demon before making a move; Lu Yun, the Daoist recognized the rat’s rare True Spirit identity but kept it to himself.

• Qin Ming discovered the Devouring Sky Rat had awakened a powerful bloodline and reached sixty percent True Spirit Bloodline purity, then celebrated its Fifth-Order breakthrough with his companions.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Li Changqing visited Little Turtle Peak with generous gifts, and Qin Ming hosted them with Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, revealed that Qin Ming had refined a Sixth-Grade Blood Soul Nirvana Pill, and Qin Ming admitted he had driven off Jiang Tian’s Star Guards and Wu Kui.
• Jiang Wuji scolded Jiang Tian for provoking Qin Ming and demoted him from Star Guard captain to guarding the Scripture Pavilion for a hundred years.
• Wu Kui told Ling Tianjun about Qin Ming’s Fifth-Order rat demon, and Ling Tianjun ordered him to observe Qin Ming secretly before attempting to seize the beast.
• After leaving Little Turtle Peak, Deer Child asked why Lu Yun, the Daoist had not revealed the rat’s Soul-Devouring Race identity, and Lu Yun, the Daoist said Qin Ming and the Silver Fox were also extraordinary.

After Qin Ming’s reputation as a sixth-order alchemy grandmaster spread, Little Turtle Peak grew busy before settling back into its routines. While Qin Ming prepared for the Refining Void Stage and his companions advanced, Bai Li Hui sought rare materials and encountered Cloud Fishing Old Man, whom he brought to meet Qin Ming.

• News of Qin Ming’s sixth-order alchemy and his spirit pet’s fifth-order breakthrough spread through Heavenly Star City, drawing visitors to Little Turtle Peak and frightening Jiang Tian, who realized how reckless he had been.
• Qin Ming organized receptions for visitors, discussed the Devouring Sky Rat’s weapon and the True Spirit Egg, and resumed farming and cultivation after the crowds subsided.
• Lan Bing Fairy broke through to the mid-grade five realm, and Tian Ling'er survived her fifth-order transformation tribulation with help from Qin Ming’s Withering Flourishing Mystic Vine.
• Qin Ming sent Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei to seek Chaos Yang Gold and Grand One Yin Jade; Bai Li Hui learned both materials were in the hands of other races.
• At the Heavenly Jade Treasure Pavilion, Bai Li Hui recognized Captain Lu as Cloud Fishing Old Man, told him Qin Ming was in the Spirit Realm, and brought him to Little Turtle Peak.

Qin Ming reunited with Cloud Fishing Old Man, learned about the dangers facing Ascended Cultivators and the Giant Spirit Clan conflict, and exchanged information and materials with him. After Cloud Fishing Old Man departed, Qin Ming discovered that Chaos Yang Gold lay within Giant Spirit Clan territory.

• Cloud Fishing Old Man sensed someone tailing him and Bai Li Hui, but Wu Kui escaped detection with the help of a Phantom Spirit Ink Lizard.
• At Little Turtle Peak, the Devouring Sky Rat welcomed Cloud Fishing Old Man and accepted a Frost Chi Demon Fruit before Qin Ming invited him into the cave abode.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man told Qin Ming that Ascended Cultivators served dangerous missions for Heavenly Star City, Su Yuqing was stationed near the Giant Spirit Clan border, and the Human Race struggled against the powerful foreign clan.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man explained why the Spirit Realm had been unable to intervene in the Mortal Realm and why Ascended Cultivators needed World-Transformation Pills.
• Qin Ming traded Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice for Cloud Fishing Old Man's materials, including supplies for the Yin-Yang Return to Void Pill, and said he could not help Su Yuqing without an elder-level order.
• After Cloud Fishing Old Man left, Bai Li Hui gave Qin Ming information on spirit materials, and Qin Ming discovered that Chaos Yang Gold was in Giant Spirit Clan territory.

Qin Ming learned that Divine Lord Ling Tian had sent Wu Kui to kill him, while he considered traveling to seek rare pill ingredients. After Yao Tiannan returned from the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, he gave Qin Ming an invitation to Elder Lin’s Dao exposition in Heavenly Star City, where a special opportunity would be offered.

• Bai Li Hui reported that someone had secretly followed and coveted Qin Ming, and Qin Ming suspected the purple-robed man who had accompanied Jiang Tian.
• Yao Tiannan returned to Heavenly Star City and learned that Qin Ming had become a Sixth Order Pill God; Yu Hanzi gave him an invitation for Qin Ming to attend Elder Lin’s Dao exposition.
• Wu Kui told Divine Lord Ling Tian that Qin Ming would likely attend the exposition, and Divine Lord Ling Tian lent him the Inverted Cosmos Star Compass to use against Qin Ming.
• Divine Lord Ling Tian studied his Zodiac statues and sought rat-demon blood essence to unlock their secrets.
• Qin Ming reviewed intelligence about Chaos Yang Gold and Grand One Yin Jade, then decided to investigate the Giant Spirit Clan’s territory and consider visiting Su Yuqing.
• Yao Tiannan visited Qin Ming on Little Turtle Peak, thanked him for the pills that had helped the expedition, and invited him to Elder Lin’s Dao exposition two months later.

Qin Ming attended Elder Lin’s seven-day Dao teaching and learned vital details about the Giant Spirit Clan. At the final opportunity-giving, he obtained a token for Heavenly Star City’s Spirit Plant Inheritance Spire, while Li Changqing received a rare Dao Soldier Spirit Bean.

• Qin Ming exchanged spirit materials with Yao Tiannan, then traveled to Heavenly Star City with Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Li Changqing to attend Elder Lin’s Dao teaching.
• Elder Lin explained the Giant Spirit Clan’s abilities, weaknesses, and crystal-core vulnerability, and answered Qin Ming’s questions about reaching the Refining Void Stage.
• Elder Lin offered the attendees a chance to claim opportunities, and Lu Yun, the Daoist, guided Qin Ming toward a green light sphere whose Spirit Script resonated with Qin Ming’s Woodland Affinity.
• Qin Ming obtained an ancient wooden box, while Li Changqing received a Sixth Order Dao Soldier Spirit Bean and Lu Yun, the Daoist, obtained nothing.
• Li Changqing identified Qin Ming’s Azure Spiritwood Seal as a token to enter Heavenly Star City’s Spirit Plant Inheritance Spire, a prize he said surpassed the value of his own spirit seed.

Qin Ming returned to Heavenly Star City to use the Inheritance Spire opportunity, but Wu Kui ambushed him with a pseudo-Void Refinement Treasure. Qin Ming shattered the treasure with the Wind Thunder Mystic Staff, leaving Divine Lord Ling Tian shocked by the destruction of his Natal Spirit Treasure.

• Qin Ming chose to return to Heavenly Star City and parted ways with Lu Yun and Li Changqing.
• Wu Kui ambushed Qin Ming in a mountain gorge and trapped him inside the Universe Inversion Star Disk.
• Qin Ming broke free of the yin-yang attack and fought Wu Kui with his Primordial Demon Ape transformation.
• Qin Ming summoned the Devouring Sky Rat to battle Wu Kui's Phantom Spirit Giant Lizard.
• Qin Ming used the Wind Thunder Mystic Staff to shatter the Universe Inversion Star Disk in one blow.
• Divine Lord Ling Tian spat blood and realized that his Natal Spirit Treasure had been destroyed.

Qin Ming shattered Wu Kui’s treasure, killed him and his demon pet, then escaped Divine Lord Ling Tian with help from Lu Yun, the Daoist. Heavenly Star City’s Star Guards arrived afterward but found that the battle’s traces had been erased.

• Qin Ming destroyed the Universe Inversion Star Disk, and the Devouring Sky Rat killed the Phantom Spirit Giant Lizard.
• Qin Ming killed Wu Kui, harvested Blood Orbs from the corpses, and prepared to leave before Divine Lord Ling Tian arrived.
• Divine Lord Ling Tian sealed the area and attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming’s Divine Sense and Primordial Poison Flame forced him to withdraw long enough for Qin Ming to teleport away.
• An unseen Spiritual Pressure struck Ling Tianjun, and Lu Yun, the Daoist, revealed that he had secretly intervened to help Qin Ming escape.
• Qin Ming reappeared nearby, considered Lu Yun, the Daoist’s hidden power, and left the area.
• Heavenly Star City’s Star Guards investigated the devastated battlefield, but their Sky Inspection Mirror found no traces.