Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming used Dao Soldier Spirit Beans and his allies to destroy a Netherworld ghost force led by the Ghost-Masked Evil Monarch, then learned that the Netherworld Underworld’s invasion was tied to a sacred artifact and internal strife. He considered exploiting that conflict to reach a secret place and obtain the Azure Emperor’s inherited cultivation technique.

• The Ghost-Masked Evil Monarch led several thousand ghosts away from the main invasion, fearing that Old Ghost Che would use them as fuel for a sacrificial formation while searching for a Netherworld sacred artifact.
• Qin Ming detected the approaching force and prepared Little Turtle Peak’s defenders and Spirit Pets for an ambush.
• The Ghost-Masked Evil Monarch attacked Little Turtle Peak, and Qin Ming summoned a Sixth Order Giant Spirit warrior and Fifth Order Dao Soldier incarnations from Spirit Beans.
• The Giant Spirit warrior crushed the Ghost-Masked Evil Monarch, while Qin Ming pierced his Primordial Spirit with a Wood Sovereign Nail and searched his soul.
• Qin Ming and his allies eliminated the remaining ghosts, and Qin Ming learned that the Netherworld Underworld’s internal strife was connected to its invasion of the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming considered using the Netherworld Underworld’s internal conflict to reach a secret place and obtain the Azure Emperor’s inherited cultivation technique.

After the battle at Little Turtle Peak, Qin Ming learned that the fighting around Heavenly Star City had become a brutal stalemate, then set out for the Netherworld Underworld to seek the Azure Emperor’s inheritance. He reached the Withered Bone Abyss in the Senluo Domain, where the inheritance was said to be hidden.

• Qin Ming learned from Ghost-Masked Evil Monarch’s memories that the ghosts who fled to Little Turtle Peak had not been ordered to attack, and he judged the Spirit Land safe for the time being.
• A devastating clash erupted above Heavenly Star City, and Captain Zheng later told Qin Ming that the World-Devouring Dragon King had dragged Divine Seal Zen Master into another space while the battle remained unresolved.
• Qin Ming decided to seek the Azure Emperor’s inheritance while the Netherworld Underworld was distracted, and he entrusted Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei with guarding Little Turtle Peak.
• Qin Ming used the World Piercing Shuttle to enter the Netherworld Underworld, then had Lan Bing Fairy carry him past the great armies gathering and fighting across the Senluo Domain.
• Qin Ming reached the Withered Bone Abyss, the desolate site where the Azure Emperor was said to have left his cultivation method.

Qin Ming found the Azure Emperor’s inheritance inside the Withered Bone Abyss and awakened a hidden life force within the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Pagoda Tree. The Azure Emperor appeared and explained the conditions for cultivating the Eternal Azure Emperor Art, leaving Qin Ming to refine the tree’s heart-source essence and forge immortal divinity.

• Qin Ming activated the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror in the Withered Bone Abyss, and it transported him and the Devouring Sky Rat into a gray-mist space.
• The Devouring Sky Rat found a vast withered tree bearing the words “Tomb of Time,” and Qin Ming sensed a sealed life force within its trunk.
• The life force entered Qin Ming and resonated with his Azure Emperor Art and Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique.
• The Azure Emperor appeared in Qin Ming’s Sea of Consciousness and identified the inheritance as the Eternal Azure Emperor Art, which could be cultivated to the Mahayana Stage.
• The Azure Emperor said Qin Ming needed a hundred-thousand-year Natal Spirit Plant, all eighteen levels of the Azure Emperor Art, and the complete Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique before refining the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Pagoda Tree’s heart-source essence to forge immortal divinity.

Qin Ming received Emperor Qing’s Eternal Azure Emperor Art inheritance and began cultivating the Undying Immortal Body and his Natal Great Technique inside the Tomb of Time. Meanwhile, the war at Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss intensified, where Demon General Tu Luo confronted Great Elder Wind Rider.

• Emperor Qing explained the Tomb of Time’s accelerated cultivation conditions and passed Qin Ming the Refining Void Stage Mayfly Chapter after Qin Ming met the requirements for the inheritance.
• Qin Ming refined the Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Pagoda Tree’s origin and achieved the Undying Immortal Body.
• Qin Ming brought out the Yanfu Immortal Vine and Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror and began cultivating his Natal Great Technique as decades passed within the Tomb of Time.
• At Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, Elder Yu received word that Heavenly Star City’s rear had been attacked and that Hall Master Qian and Elder Fang had fallen.
• Demon General Tu Luo killed Elder Yu and nearly slew another Golden Armored Star Guard before Great Elder Wind Rider rescued the survivor.
• Wind Rider Elder remained to face Tu Luo, and the two unleashed their powers against each other.

Demon General Tu Luo grievously wounded Wind Rider Elder, sending the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss battlefield toward collapse. Inside the Tomb of Time, Qin Ming cultivated his Natal Great Technique to minor mastery, advanced the Golden Light Divine Flame, and named the technique Eternal Embers.

• Demon General Tu Luo used Blood Luo Devours Realms and a blood-colored spear to grievously wound Wind Rider Elder, who escaped by splitting into clones.
• Demon General Tu Luo left for the Senluo Domain to discuss terms with the Netherworld Underworld.
• The human alliance forces began to collapse after a Golden Armored Star Guard elder died, another was wounded, and Wind Rider Elder disappeared.
• Qin Ming cultivated for a hundred years inside the Tomb of Time while only one day passed outside, advancing the Golden Light Divine Flame and illuminating six trigram patterns on the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror.
• Qin Ming assessed the enhanced power of his life-shortening divine ability and named his Natal Great Technique Eternal Embers.

After mastering his Eternal Embers Natal Great Technique in the collapsing Tomb of Time, Qin Ming emerged into the Netherworld Underworld and instantly killed Demon General Tuluo. Another Late Void Refinement cultivator arrived, realized Tuluo was dead, and fled.

• Qin Ming mastered Eternal Embers after a hundred years of cultivation inside the Tomb of Time, and the space and Withered Bone Abyss began collapsing.
• At Ghost Cry Ridge, Demon General Tuluo urged the Netherworld elder surnamed Ma to send more troops into the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, but a massive disturbance at Withered Bone Abyss interrupted them.
• Tuluo reached Qin Ming first and trapped him with poisonous vines, but Qin Ming used the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror and Eternal Embers to age Tuluo through six thousand years and kill him instantly.
• Qin Ming stored Tuluo's corpse in the Lesser Spirit Realm and detected another Late Void Refinement cultivator approaching.
• The elder surnamed Ma found Qin Ming standing where Tuluo had vanished, understood that Qin Ming had killed him, and fled in panic.

Qin Ming killed Cultivator Ma, then used Little Qing and his own Kun Peng transformation to destroy the World-Eroding Passage at Ghost Cry Ridge. The foreign army lost its commanders and supply route, forcing it into chaos and giving the Human Race an opening to counterattack.

• Qin Ming pursued and killed Cultivator Ma with the Eight Gates Reincarnation Mirror, then collected his corpse and headed toward Ghost Cry Ridge.
• Qin Ming ordered Little Qing to strike Ghost Cry Ridge, and the Kun Peng’s collision shattered the mountain and halted the passage’s flow of Yin Soldiers.
• Qin Ming transformed into a second Kun Peng and joined Little Qing in destroying the World-Eroding Passage, then fled the Netherworld Underworld with the Devouring Sky Rat.
• The Demon Race and Netherworld Underworld forces learned that their commanders had fallen and the passage was destroyed, and their allied army collapsed as the Demon Race withdrew.
• The Human Race commanders seized the opportunity to sound a counterattack, while the World-Devouring Dragon King sensed the passage’s destruction and abandoned his battle with Divine Seal Zen Master.

Qin Ming destroyed the Netherworld Underworld’s invasion passage and killed the Tuluo Demon General, then returned to Little Turtle Peak with the spoils of battle. As the war’s survivors reported the heavy casualties and the retreat of the enemy forces, Qin Ming learned that Cloud Fishing Old Man had survived and sent him healing pills.

• After learning that Tuluo had fallen and their retreat was cut off, Mo Ju Luo and Old Freak Che lost their composure; Divine Lord Purple Chen wounded Old Freak Che, and Mo Ju Luo ordered a retreat.
• Divine Lord Purple Chen learned that the World-Eroding Passage had been destroyed, but he and Divine Seal Zen Master realized neither of them knew who had arranged it.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, where his Yanfu Immortal Vine devoured the Tuluo Demon General’s corpse and grew; he also collected Soul Pearls, Immortal Jade, and the Eternal Azure Emperor Art inheritance.
• Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei told Qin Ming that the allied forces had been defeated at great cost, including the death of Qian Yuanzi, while Divine Seal Zen Master had been held back by the World-Devouring Dragon King.
• Su Yuqing and Yao Tiannan visited Qin Ming and reported that Cloud Fishing Old Man had survived but was badly injured; Qin Ming gave them healing pills to deliver to him.

After the war, Qin Ming rebuilt Little Turtle Peak’s alliances and tended his Spirit Plants while the mysterious Lu Yun, the Daoist, killed the fleeing World-Devouring Dragon King and Old Freak Che. Years later, Qin Ming accelerated the Spirit Summoning Demon Fruit’s growth until its nine fruits ripened, leaving his Spirit Pets eager to claim them.

• Qin Ming refused to form a faction but coordinated with neighboring forces, delegated their affairs to Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei, and helped Heavenly Star City by refining restorative pills.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, stopped the fleeing World-Devouring Dragon King and Old Freak Che and killed them with a thought before leaving with Deer Child.
• Qin Ming harvested mature Yanfu Immortal Vine fruits and used their Fleeting Time Affixes to accelerate the Spirit Summoning Demon Fruit’s growth.
• The Spirit Summoning Demon Fruit ripened into nine Grade Six Upper-Rank fruits, drawing the Devouring Sky Rat and Qin Ming’s other Spirit Pets to gather around it.

Qin Ming distributed Spirit Summoning Demon Fruits to his spirit pets, and Little Qing used two to break through to early Sixth Order as a True Spirit Kun Peng. The newly advanced Little Qing then took Tian Ling'er flying through the Lesser Spirit Realm.

• Qin Ming harvested nine Spirit Summoning Demon Fruits and gave them to the Devouring Sky Rat, Lan Bing Fairy, the Silver Fox, the Mystic Water Crocodile, and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee to cultivate with.
• Qin Ming gave Tian Ling'er spirit items for her cultivation and rewarded Little Qing with a Spirit Summoning Demon Fruit for its past deeds.
• Little Qing told Qin Ming it needed one more fruit to advance, so he gave it a second one despite having planned to save the remaining fruits for trade.
• A few days later, Little Qing broke through to early Sixth Order, revealed its enormous True Spirit Kun Peng form, and then returned to its smaller size.
• Little Qing transformed into a golden roc, carried Tian Ling'er on its back, and flew with her over the Lesser Spirit Realm.

Qin Ming strengthened his cultivation and nurtured his spirit pets while keeping a low profile on Little Turtle Peak. After a season passed, Su Yuqing arrived with news to share.

• Qin Ming consumed Refining Void Mana and Soul Power affixes, strengthening his Primordial Spirit and forming a Crystalline Mind Sword he could use only once.
• Lan Bing Fairy and the Devouring Sky Rat passed their heavenly tribulations and broke through, while Little Qing's advance to the Sixth Order humbled the rat.
• The Silver Fox, Mystic Water Crocodile, and Silver-Winged Frost Bee also passed their tribulations and advanced to the mid-grade five level.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat found Grade Six Supreme Mystery Rice sprouting, and Qin Ming carefully watered it with Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Ming continued farming and cultivating in seclusion on Little Turtle Peak, planning to develop his strength before pursuing Soul Integration.
• Su Yuqing arrived at Little Turtle Peak, and Qin Ming welcomed him and asked whether he had brought good news.

Su Yuqing visited Qin Ming after leaving Heavenly Star City’s Alchemy Pavilion and shared his Void-Spirit Pill Cultivation Art. Lu Yun arrived at Little Turtle Peak, recognized Su Yuqing’s talent, and took him as a disciple, leaving him poised to travel and cultivate under the powerful Daoist.

• Su Yuqing told Qin Ming that Heavenly Star City had released him from service after he refined a Sixth Order divine pill, and he had resigned from the Alchemy Pavilion to travel.
• Su Yuqing explained that Qin Ming’s reputation had spread because of his pill-making achievements and the upcoming auction of his Seven-Crimson Spirit Condensing Pills.
• Su Yuqing gave Qin Ming the Primal-Spirit Pill-Seeding Art, a secret method for creating growing pill seeds within a cultivator’s Primordial Spirit or body.
• Lu Yun arrived at Little Turtle Peak and offered to take Su Yuqing as his disciple after recognizing his talent for void-spirit pill refinement.
• After Qin Ming explained Lu Yun’s character and identified him as a figure from the Myriad Spirits Realm, Su Yuqing accepted Lu Yun’s offer, and Lu Yun marked him with spiritual light.

Lu Yun, the Daoist, accepted Su Yuqing as his final closed-door disciple, then shared Qin Ming’s Sixth Order Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar and praised its extraordinary power. Before departing with Su Yuqing and Deer Child for the Myriad Spirits Realm, Lu Yun gave Qin Ming valuable pill formulas and a token that granted entry to the realm.

• Lu Yun, the Daoist, accepted Su Yuqing as his final closed-door disciple after recognizing his talent in alchemy.
• Qin Ming opened a jar of Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar and explained that the Sixth Order spirit wine could benefit Refining Void Stage cultivators.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Qin Ming drank the wine and experienced its powerful spiritual effects, while the Devouring Sky Rat drank a cup and promptly passed out drunk.
• Qin Ming gave Lu Yun the remaining wine and shared a flask with Su Yuqing, while Lu Yun gifted Qin Ming an alchemical canon containing the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill formula and a Beast Bone token to the Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, departed with Su Yuqing and Deer Child after Deer Child asked Qin Ming to invite the Devouring Sky Rat to visit the Myriad Spirits Realm.

After recovering from the spirit wine, the Devouring Sky Rat was tasked with translating an ancient Demon Race script while Qin Ming resumed cultivating. Divine Lord Purple Chen later appointed Qin Ming to mediate postwar negotiations among allied races, and Qin accepted in exchange for the Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pill formula.

• The Devouring Sky Rat woke after three months, and Qin Ming assigned it to decipher the Blood Erosion Script on a golden page from the Zodiac Stone Statues.
• Elder Lin and Yu Hanzi arrived at Little Turtle Peak to summon Qin Ming to Heavenly Star City, where he stopped to visit Cloud Fishing Old Man.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man told Qin Ming that negotiations over territory and resources in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss had stalled, especially between the human race and the Wood Crystal Clan.
• Divine Lord Purple Chen asked Qin Ming to represent the human race at negotiations with its former allies and offered him twenty thousand Contribution Points and access to the city treasure vault.
• Qin Ming agreed to act as the peace envoy after securing the Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pill formula, and the Devouring Sky Rat teased him about his new title.

Qin Ming accepted his appointment as the Human Race’s Ambassador of Peace and prepared to lead a delegation to negotiations in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss. After traveling from Heavenly Star City, he arrived at the familiar Baowu Market District, where representatives of the other races had already gathered.

• Divine Lord Purple Chen exchanged two ten-thousand-year-old Fire Cloud Essence Mushrooms for Qin Ming’s Void Heaven Moon Invitation Wine and appointed him Ambassador of Peace.
• Qin Ming chose Elder Lin, Elder Yu Hanzi, Yao Tiannan, Cloud Fishing Old Man, Elder Jiang, and Jiang Tian to join the delegation.
• Qin Ming gave Tian Ling'er one Fire Cloud Essence Mushroom, then told the Devouring Sky Rat to continue researching the Blood Erosion Script.
• A fleet of several dozen Heavenly Star City Spirit Ships collected Qin Ming at Little Turtle Peak and transported the delegation across the Great Domain.
• The delegation reached the Baowu Market District in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, where Qin Ming recognized the place he had once stayed.

Qin Ming reunited with his former neighbors in Baowu Market District and used his standing with the Human Race delegation to help them secure cave abodes. He then eased tensions between the races at the postwar negotiations, leaving the elders on friendly terms after a private discussion.

• Qin Ming recognized Yao Chenzi, Shi Susu, and their companions struggling to afford cave abodes in Baowu Market District, then greeted them and revealed himself as Senior Li Qianjie.
• Qin Ming explained that the Nascent Soul cultivators were his friends, and Elder Lin ordered the Hall of Affairs to arrange excellent cave abodes for them.
• Qin Ming left to attend the fourth round of negotiations, where elders from the Feathered Spirit Race, Azure Radiance Clan, Earth Spirit Clan, and Wood Crystal Clan argued over postwar distribution.
• Qin Ming entered with the Human Race delegation, and the foreign race elders set aside their anger to greet him after recognizing him as a newly advanced Void Refinement cultivator.
• Qin Ming invited the Great Elders to discuss matters privately, and they returned less than half a day later smiling and chatting amicably.

Qin Ming used spirit wine to settle the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss negotiations, then learned that the Demon Race was investigating Demon General Tu Luo’s death and another missing treasure. Elsewhere, Demon Commander Ao Yu discovered a Violet Gold Gourd containing a remnant soul that recognized Qin Ming and resolved to find him.

• Qin Ming gave the four Great Elders Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar and mediated an agreement that preserved the Human Race’s territory and Baowu Market District.
• After more than ten days of negotiations, Qin Ming met Yao Chenzi and learned that Demon Race cultivators were investigating Demon General Tu Luo’s death and a missing item.
• Qin Ming warned Yao Chenzi and the others to keep the information secret, learned where the Demon Race cultivators had been seen, and gave them cultivation pills.
• Demon Commander Ao Yu punished his subordinates for their lack of progress, then seized a Violet Gold Gourd they had salvaged from the Nether River and sensed a remnant soul inside.
• The awakened soul recognized the Violet-Gold Alchemy Furnace, recalled Qin Ming, and decided to find him to recover its strength.

After the peace negotiations ended, Qin Ming stayed behind in Baowu Market District while the human delegation returned to Heavenly Star City. He exchanged gifts and resources with other races’ elders, then departed to investigate the Demon Cultivators and the Golden Seal Script Page.

• Elder Lin praised Qin Ming for helping conclude the negotiations, but Qin Ming declined to return with the human delegation and stayed to handle personal matters.
• Qin Ming met with Wind Rider Elder, Divine Lord Xuan Yu, Old Devil Blazefire, and Elder Feng, who gave him Earthcore Jade Marrow and Dragon Saliva Agarwood Divine Wood as congratulatory gifts.
• Old Devil Blazefire asked to buy one of Qin Ming’s Sixth Order Dao Soldier Spirit Beans, and Qin Ming traded it for more than two hundred pieces of Immortal Jade.
• Qin Ming spent several days exchanging cultivation insights with the elders, then watched them depart after strengthening his ties with the other races.
• Qin Ming vanished from Baowu Market District to deal with an unresolved matter, including investigating the Demon Cultivators and clarifying the Golden Seal Script Page.

Qin Ming tracked the Demon Cultivators who had ambushed the Profound Heaven Sword Sect disciples and defeated their leader, Cang Ya, before using Soul Searching to uncover secrets about the Demon Race and an Immortal Abode Secret Realm. He left with Cang Ya’s remains and learned that Demon Commander Ao Yu and Lu Yun were connected to the search for the realm.

• Qin Ming summoned the Devouring Sky Rat, which tracked several demonic auras, including one belonging to a canine Demon Cultivator.
• Cang Ya led his surviving subordinates toward the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss and decided to capture more Human Race disciples for Soul Searching.
• Qin Ming ambushed Cang Ya and killed his Fifth-Rank subordinates with his powerful divine sense.
• Cang Ya attacked Qin Ming with his Silver Fang Demon Blades, but Qin Ming wounded him with his Wood Sovereign Nails and severed two of his heads with the Five Elements Demon Slayer Wheel.
• Qin Ming trapped Cang Ya’s Demon Core and brutally performed Soul Searching, learning about the Blood Erosion Markings, Demon Commander Ao Yu, and the Immortal Abode Secret Realm.
• Qin Ming put Cang Ya’s body and core away and left, while the Devouring Sky Rat and the others marveled at his strength.

After returning to the Kunlun Domain, Qin Ming received a Violet Gold Token from Divine Lord Purple Chen and spent his Contribution Points in Heavenly Star City's treasury on rare materials for pills. He returned to Little Turtle Peak without finding the Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm and prepared to send the Devouring Sky Rat to decipher the sealed page.

• Qin Ming returned to the Kunlun Domain, reported his peacekeeping success to Divine Lord Purple Chen, and received permission to enter the treasury's core area.
• Qin Ming spent his Contribution Points on a Ten Thousand Year Tribulation Lightning Wood Core and two Void Origin Spirit Flowers.
• Qin Ming heard rumors praising his accomplishments and worried that the Demon and Devil Races might target him.
• Qin Ming searched the Nine Spirits Commerce for a Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm but found none.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, asked Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei to seek the insect, and summoned the Devouring Sky Rat for a new task.