Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming attended Mituozi’s sermon beneath the Bodhi Treasure Tree, where the Dharma tested the cultivators’ will and deepened Qin Ming’s understanding of the Sword Dao. When Mituozi’s Mind Projection challenged him, Qin Ming destroyed it with the Demon-Slaying Gourd’s innate sword qi, leaving the result of the trial unresolved.

• Mituozi summoned Qin Ming and roughly a hundred cultivators to the Bodhi grove and began a three-month sermon beneath the Bodhi Treasure Tree.
• As the sermon granted cultivators insights and breakthroughs, Qin Ming cultivated the Nameless Sword Scripture while weaker listeners were teleported out by the trial.
• After a month, only thirty cultivators remained, including Qin Ming and Divine Lord Purple Chen, and Mituozi’s Mind Projection challenged Qin Ming to make it take one step back.
• Qin Ming summoned the Demon-Slaying Gourd and released innate sword qi, which split Mituozi’s Mind Projection and made it dissipate.

Qin Ming passed Mituozi’s test, gained a Bodhi blessing, and advanced his sword cultivation before the surviving cultivators claimed treasures from the Bodhi Treasure Tree. With the Devouring Sky Rat’s help, Qin Ming uncovered a hidden space containing the true Bodhi Immortal Tree, where an Ancient True Spirit Golden Crow awakened.

• Qin Ming broke free of Mituozi’s Sanskrit Sound Illusion and received a Bodhi leaf’s empowerment, awakening a nascent Sword Heart and entering a profound state of sword unity.
• Mituozi ended the Dharma Assembly, and the remaining cultivators each entered a Bodhi leaf to claim an opportunity from the treasure tree.
• Divine Lord Zichen obtained Upper-Grade Immortal Jade and Innate Prime Geng Metal, then left Qin Ming alone beneath the tree.
• Qin Ming summoned the Devouring Sky Rat, which used its bloodline ability to locate the greatest opportunity near the roots where Mituozi had sat.
• The Devouring Sky Rat recited a Buddhist verse, revealing a hidden space with the true Bodhi Immortal Tree and an enormous nest.
• An Ancient True Spirit Golden Crow emerged from the nest and awakened after sensing Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat.

Qin Ming and his companions entered the Bodhi Immortal Tree’s Tree Realm and met Fire Spirit, a Golden Crow Divine Flame spirit who offered him the nest’s treasures if he freed her. After the Devouring Sky Rat’s blood opened the barrier, Fire Spirit asked Qin Ming to merge her with his Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, and Qin Ming sought Old Demon Qingyang’s advice.

• Qin Ming, the Devouring Sky Rat, and Old Demon Qingyang saw the Golden Crow Phantom and discovered the Golden Crow and Golden-Winged Great Peng feathers in its nest.
• Fire Spirit transformed into a Golden-robed Maiden, recognized Qin Ming as the Fated Person, and offered him the treasures in exchange for taking her out.
• Old Demon Qingyang identified her as a Fire Spirit of Golden Crow Divine Flame, and Fire Spirit explained her history with Ancestor Changmei and the Great War against the Golden-Winged Great Peng.
• Fire Spirit said the barrier required Ancient True Spirit blood from the Soul-Devouring Race and a secret incantation, so Qin Ming ordered the Devouring Sky Rat to provide its blood.
• The Devouring Sky Rat’s blood and incantation opened the barrier, and Fire Spirit asked Qin Ming to summon his Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire so she could merge with it.
• Qin Ming asked Old Demon Qingyang whether the merging was safe, and Old Demon Qingyang said it could be tried.

Qin Ming began fusing his Primordial Poison Flame with the Golden Crow Divine Flame while collecting the True Spirit Natal Feathers in the Bodhi Tree Realm. As the new flame neared a Seventh Rank breakthrough, Qin Ming awakened a remnant of the Golden-Winged Great Peng Ming King, who turned his attention toward the Golden Crow.

• Qin Ming summoned his Spirit Pets to guard the Golden Crow Giant Nest while the Devouring Sky Rat strained to keep its barrier open.
• Qin Ming’s Primordial Poison Flame merged with the Golden Crow Divine Flame, producing a vast nine-colored fire ring as the flame advanced toward Seventh Rank.
• Qin Ming entered the nest and collected the Golden Crow’s Natal Feather before approaching the Golden-Winged Great Peng Ming King’s feather.
• The Great Peng feather’s Sharp Gold power cut Qin Ming despite his defenses, and he noticed golden blood concealed at its base.
• A golden-robed remnant of the Golden-Winged Great Peng Ming King manifested from the blood and looked toward the Golden Crow Divine Bird.

Qin Ming and his Spirit Pets fought the weakened Golden-Winged Great Peng Ming King in the Tree Realm while Ancestor Changmei’s intervention helped turn the battle. After the Ming King’s essence blood entered the Mystic Water Crocodile, Qin Ming’s Primordial Poison Flame completed its advancement to a low-grade Seventh Rank spirit fire and suppressed the threat within the Crocodile.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Ming King attacked Qin Ming, but Little Qing and Lan Bing Fairy disrupted his sword formation, and Ancestor Changmei’s Buddha Thought Incarnation shattered his true form.
• Ancestor Changmei revealed that he had weakened the Ming King and left the remaining Tree Realm matters to Qin Ming before his incarnation disappeared.
• Qin Ming and his Spirit Pets overwhelmed the Ming King, but the Ming King merged his remaining will into his essence blood and sent a drop into the Mystic Water Crocodile’s mouth.
• The Mystic Water Crocodile suffered as the essence blood swelled inside it, while Old Demon Qingyang admitted he could not remove it.
• The Fire Spirit completed its fusion with the Primordial Poison Flame, advancing it to a low-grade Seventh Rank spirit fire, then suppressed the Ming King within the Mystic Water Crocodile.

Qin Ming defeated the Golden-Winged Great Peng Ming King's remnant soul, secured its Natal Feather, and saw the Primordial Poison Flame advance to the Seventh Rank with the Golden Crow Fire Spirit. After returning to the Zen Monastery, he prepared to join Gu Chang'an and a powerful group of cultivators on a journey into the Demon Spirit Domain.

• The Golden Crow Fire Spirit sealed the Golden-Winged Great Peng's essence blood inside the unconscious Mystic Water Crocodile, and Qin Ming accepted Old Demon Qingyang's sealed Natal Feather.
• Qin Ming returned his injured Spirit Pets to the Lesser Spirit Realm, treated them, and learned that the advanced Primordial Poison Flame could refine high-rank immortal pills and threaten Integrated Body Early Stage cultivators.
• Qin Ming left the Bodhi Tree Realm without taking its Immortal Tree and returned to the Zen Monastery, where he sensed Mount Sumeru was on alert.
• Gu Chang'an asked Qin Ming about his gains and reminded him to honor their agreement to seek the Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass; Qin Ming agreed to go with him.
• Divine Lord Zichen, Master Kongzhi, Qin Shujian, Old Daoist Lu, Cultivator Fang, and others gathered with Qin Ming and decided to travel toward the Demon Race border.

Qin Ming joined Old Daoist Lu and the others on a covert journey to the Great Yan Demon Domain to seek Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass. As their Dharma Boat crossed the Heaven Spine Mountains, Qin Ming began refining a Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pill in the Lesser Spirit Realm and felt that his first attempt might succeed.

• Qin Ming questioned Old Daoist Lu about how he knew where the Withering Heart Meteor Grass grew, and Lu explained that he had found the location while gathering intelligence in the Great Yan Demon Domain.
• Old Daoist Lu gave the group Demon Race identity tokens and arranged for them to travel disguised among the Heavenly Fan Army sent to support the Demon Race against the Insect Calamity.
• Qin Ming and the group left Brahma City aboard a Dharma Boat, crossed the Heaven Spine Mountains without obstruction, and continued toward Demon Race territory.
• In the Lesser Spirit Realm, Qin Ming rewarded the recovering Devouring Sky Rat with a Mystic Spirit Immortal Peach and Void Demon Moon-Inviting Nectar.
• Qin Ming enlisted the Golden Crow Fire Spirit to help him refine a Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pill, and her control of the fire made the process unusually smooth.

Qin Ming refined three Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pills and used one to strengthen his cultivation and deepen his insights. As the Heavenly Brahma Army entered Demon Race territory, he and the other cultivators split up to pursue their mission, while Demon Commander Ao Yu secretly followed them, suspecting their intentions.

• Qin Ming used Dao Sound Afterglow and the Golden Crow Fire Spirit’s flames to refine three exceptional Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pills on his first attempt.
• Qin Ming swallowed one pill and cultivated for several days, advancing his cultivation and sword insights while his Spirit Pets absorbed the surrounding vegetation essence.
• Qin Ming left the Lesser Spirit Realm and joined Old Daoist Lu, Gu Chang'an, and the others to hear their plan to enter Demon Race territory in pairs and meet at the Lei Sea Demon Ruins.
• The Heavenly Brahma Army crossed into Demon Race territory, and Demon Commander Ao Yu sensed a familiar aura among the humans and secretly pursued them.
• Qin Ming paired with Gu Chang'an, while the other cultivators split up and slipped away from the army; Ao Yu emerged from hiding and decided to discover their purpose.

Demon Commander Ao Yu discovered the group’s plan to enter the Lei Sea Demon Ruins, controlled Old Daoist Lu and Fang, and recognized Qin Ming as the one who killed his son. The group reached the hidden Thunder Sea World and prepared to face its Void Yuan Beasts for the Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass.

• Demon Commander Ao Yu secretly marked the departing cultivators while Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an flew through territory devastated by Insect Realm swarms.
• Ao Yu ambushed Old Daoist Lu and Fang, searched Lu’s memories for the Lei Sea Demon Ruins, and controlled them to guide the other cultivators there.
• Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an noticed traces of demon aura on Lu and Fang, while Ao Yu identified Qin Ming and marked the group for death.
• Old Daoist Lu led the group through a concealed canyon into the Thunder Sea World, where they found Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass guarded by four Void Yuan Beasts.
• Qin Ming explained that the herbs would wither if removed from the site and said he had a way to harvest them, while privately eyeing the lightning pool for his Lesser Spirit Realm.

Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an gathered Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass while the others fought the Void Yuan Beasts, but Old Daoist Lu and Cultivator Fang betrayed the group and triggered devastating Primordial Spirit explosions. A Silver-haired Demonic Man appeared and began killing the survivors, leaving Qin Ming, Gu Chang'an, and Divine Lord Purple Chen facing a powerful enemy.

• Old Daoist Lu and the others attacked the Void Yuan Beasts, while Gu Chang'an sent his Mystic Turtle and Qin Ming sent the Mystic Water Crocodile to gather the Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass.
• Old Daoist Lu and Cultivator Fang suddenly attacked their companions, killing several cultivators and leaving others badly wounded.
• Gu Chang'an's talismans forced demon qi and Demon Ice Talismans out of the two traitors, revealing that a powerful Demon Cultivator had controlled them.
• Old Daoist Lu and Cultivator Fang self-destructed their Primordial Spirits, killing or injuring more than half of the twelve cultivators; Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an survived beneath the Mystic Turtle's shield.
• A Silver-haired Demonic Man appeared, annihilated Master Kongzhi and two other survivors, and turned his terrifying demon power toward Qin Ming, Gu Chang'an, and Divine Lord Purple Chen.

Demon Commander Ao Yu attacked Qin Ming, Gu Chang'an, and the Human Race envoys, but a hidden force dragged them beneath the Lei Sea Demon Ruins, where a Demonized True Dragon tried to seize the Mystic Water Crocodile’s body. Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an fought back, and the chapter ended as the crocodile’s sealed Golden-Winged Great Peng Essence Blood awakened.

• Demon Commander Ao Yu confronted Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an over the death of Ao Qing and killed Master Kongzhi before attacking the group.
• The Lei Sea Demon Ruins erupted with black lightning, shattered Ao Yu’s attack, and dragged everyone underground along with the Mystic Water Crocodile.
• Qin Ming discovered that an Azure-Black Dragon had trapped the crocodile and was performing a Body Seizure Ritual to escape its imprisonment.
• Gu Chang'an used a Grade Seven Dao Integration Spirit Descent Talisman to battle Ao Yu while Qin Shujian and Divine Lord Purple Chen fought the Void Yuan Beasts.
• Qin Ming unleashed the Demon Emperor Banner’s Six Desires Chaos Demons against the Demonized True Dragon, draining its demonic qi as it thrashed between the pillars.
• The Mystic Water Crocodile’s two sealed drops of Golden-Winged Great Peng Essence Blood erupted with Fierce Spirit Pressure.

Qin Ming and the Mystic Water Crocodile defeated the Demonized True Dragon, but the collapse of the Earth Abyss scattered the survivors and left Qin Shujian and Divine Lord Purple Cloud's fates unknown. Qin Ming reunited with the injured Gu Chang'an, gave him two Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grasses, and planned to help him return to human territory before continuing to the Heavenly Brahma Domain.

• Qin Ming used the Demon Emperor Banner and the Golden-Winged Great Peng bloodline to weaken the Demonized True Dragon, allowing the Mystic Water Crocodile to devour its soul and seize control of its body.
• The four Sea Suppressing Mystic Spirit Pillars collapsed, and the resulting Space Storm scattered the fighters; Qin Ming escaped with Lan Bing Fairy while Qin Shujian and Divine Lord Purple Cloud remained missing.
• Qin Ming moved the Mystic Water Crocodile and the Lightning Pool into the Lesser Spirit Realm, where the crocodile's True Spirit bloodlines clashed and its scales began changing into dragon scales.
• Demon Commander Ao Yu escaped the Space Storm and searched for Qin Ming, while Qin Ming later recovered in a hidden mountain cave in the Great Yan Demon Domain.
• Gu Chang'an arrived badly injured, and Qin Ming gave him a healing pill and two Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grasses, promising to divide two more among Qin Shujian and the Grand Commander if they survived.
• Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an agreed to seek a route back to human territory, while Qin Ming planned to travel to the Heavenly Brahma Domain afterward.

Qin Ming reached Crossing Dust Dock and settled there to cultivate the Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree using the marketplace’s accumulated wish power. After discovering that Incense Pills and Incense Copper Coins could nourish the sapling, he set out to investigate how to refine better Incense Pills.

• Qin Ming and Gu Chang'an returned to Human Race territory, where they learned that Ao Yu's attack had ended cooperation between the Human and Demon Races.
• Qin Ming parted from Gu Chang'an and traveled to Crossing Dust Dock, a marketplace where Buddhist and Daoist factions gathered incense offerings.
• Qin Ming rented a secluded shop for sixty years and planted the Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree sapling in an underground chamber.
• Qin Ming tested an Incense Pill and Incense Copper Coins beneath the sapling and found that it absorbed the wish power they contained.
• Qin Ming decided he might improve Incense Pills to accelerate the tree’s growth, left the shop, and went to investigate their refinement.

Qin Ming secretly diverted the Wish Power gathered by Golden Lotus Temple and Cold Mountain Monastery to nourish his Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree. After ten years, the tree rapidly blossomed during Golden Lotus Master’s latest Dharma Assembly, leaving him furious and unable to discover why his harvest was vanishing.

• Qin Ming infiltrated Golden Lotus Temple, learned Golden Lotus Master’s incense-refining secrets, and had the Devouring Sky Rat connect the temple’s incense cauldron to his courtyard.
• Qin Ming repeated the scheme at Cold Mountain Monastery, routing Wish Power from Master Wuxin’s pill furnace to the Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree.
• Over ten years, Qin Ming’s tree grew to more than two feet tall as Golden Lotus Temple and Cold Mountain Monastery lost much of their Wish Power; he also refined three Fifth Order Spirit Pills.
• Liu Guangyuan told Qin Ming that Golden Lotus Master was holding another Dharma Assembly, and Qin Ming stayed behind to tend his shop while the gathering began.
• As Golden Lotus Master preached, the tree absorbed the assembly’s Wish Power, grew over a zhang tall, and produced a Seven-Colored Flower Bud.
• Golden Lotus Master sensed that his Wish Power was being stolen, ended the Dharma Assembly early, and heard a mocking voice taunt him.

Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin used Spirit Rhinoceros Connection Incense to trace the theft of their Incense and Fire Prayer Power, while the Black Flame Cult recruited Liu Guangyuan and tried to bring Qin Ming into its ranks. The incense revealed the cult’s secret altar just as Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin attacked it, exposing the chamber and confronting the cultists.

• Daoist Wuxin brought Golden Lotus Master Spirit Rhinoceros Connection Incense, and the two planned to use it to trace whoever was stealing their Incense and Fire Prayer Power.
• Liu Guangyuan secretly delivered stolen prayer power to a Black Flame Emissary, who ordered him to recruit cultivators and spread the Black Flame Cult throughout Crossing Dust Dock.
• The Black Flame Cult began gaining mortal followers by promising that people without Spirit Roots could cultivate immortality.
• Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin lit the incense at their ritual grounds, and its gray aura guided them toward the cult’s altar.
• Liu Guangyuan brought Qin Ming to the secret altar, where Steward Liu offered him a Foundation Establishment Pill to join the Black Flame Cult; Qin Ming recognized the cult’s Divine Statue as resembling the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths.
• The Spirit Rhinoceros Connection Incense linked to the beads at the altar, and Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin exposed the chamber with a thunderous attack, accusing the cultists and Steward Liu of theft and betrayal.

Qin Ming exposed his concealed strength to stop the Black Flame Cult Master and learned that the cult served the Devil Race’s Candle Flame Dao. After studying two incense cultivation techniques, he demanded that Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin hand over their sects’ incense offerings for the next ten years.

• Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin confronted Liu Guangyuan, Steward Liu, and Qin Ming over the Black Flame Cult’s hidden stronghold, but Steward Liu’s Black Divine Statue blocked Daoist Wuxin’s attack before breaking apart.
• The Black Flame Cult Master descended through a blood-colored gate, seized Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin, and revealed his God Transformation Stage cultivation.
• Qin Ming unleashed his spatial suppression, Soul Searched the Black Flame Cult Master, learned about the Devil Race’s Candle Flame Dao, and threw the man into the Lesser Spirit Realm as fertilizer for the Brahma Demon Holy Tree.
• Qin Ming erased Liu Guangyuan and Steward Liu’s memories of the incident, then questioned Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin and examined their Myriad Thoughts Incense Return Flow Art.
• Qin Ming ordered Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin to give him all incense offerings from their two sects for the next ten years, and they agreed.

Qin Ming used the Black Flame Cult’s defeat to gather Crossing Dust Dock’s incense and fire power, advancing his Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree toward the Seventh Rank. As the tree began to form a flower bud, Devil Race forces prepared to retaliate against Crossing Dust Dock and continued searching for the human Ascended Cultivator.

• Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin gave Qin Ming their collected Incense Pills and Incense Copper Coins, and he provided them with the Black Flame Cult’s hidden pawns and strongholds to eliminate.
• Qin Ming erased Liu Guangyuan and Steward Liu’s memories, sent Steward Liu away with Daoist Wuxin, and kept Liu Guangyuan for his own purposes.
• Qin Ming fed the Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree incense offerings and Wish Power, using five Fleeting Time affixes to raise it to Grade Six Upper-Rank as believers experienced a cleansing sensation and saw a rainbow phenomenon over the Forget Dust River.
• Old Freak Sikong learned that the Black Flame Cult in Crossing Dust Dock had been wiped out and ordered Devil Race cultivators to retaliate while continuing to seek the human Ascended Cultivator.
• Several months later, Qin Ming refined a Grade Six Incense Divine Pill and fed it to the now top-grade Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree, causing a flower bud to form as Tian Ling'er and the Silver Fox watched.

The Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree absorbed the incense offerings at Crossing Dust Dock and advanced to a Seventh Rank Immortal Tree, creating a vast heavenly phenomenon. Devil Race cultivators led by General Jintian attacked the dock, but the Devouring Sky Rat, Lan Bing Fairy, and Silver Wing confronted them as the battle began.

• The Seven Emotions Six Desires Tree transformed into a Seventh Rank Immortal Tree, drawing worshippers’ Wish Power and cleansing the people of Crossing Dust Dock.
• General Jintian and his Devil Race group saw the phenomenon and headed for Crossing Dust Dock, where they intended to retaliate for the destruction of the Black Flame Cult.
• Qin Ming sensed the Devils approaching, moved the immortal tree into the Lesser Spirit Realm, and decided to stop the attack himself.
• General Jintian’s group revealed their true forms and struck Crossing Dust Dock with a thousand-zhang demonic hand, but the Devouring Sky Rat deflected it.
• Lan Bing Fairy and Silver Wing joined the Devouring Sky Rat; Silver Wing killed one Refining Void Devil, while the two Sixth Order demons suppressed the others.
• General Jintian recognized Silver Wing’s aura from the Insect Calamity and attacked her as the fighting escalated.

Qin Ming joined the battle at Crossing Dust Dock and overwhelmed General Jintian with powerful treasures and the Seventh-Rank Primordial Poison Flame. The chapter ended as Qin Ming’s flame swallowed General Jintian’s World-Ending Demonic Flame and the surrounding battlefield.

• The Devouring Sky Rat and Silver Wing defeated Devil Race cultivators, while Lan Bing Fairy and the Ziling devil woman were dragged into Void Turbulence.
• General Jintian attacked the Devouring Sky Rat, but it vanished; Qin Ming then appeared and wounded Jintian with his Wood Sovereign Nails.
• Qin Ming crushed General Jintian with the Thunder-Magnet Mountain and Primal Pole Mountain, breaking his Ancient Heavenly Demon blood armor and forcing him to flee briefly.
• General Jintian summoned his World-Ending Demonic Flame and attacked Qin Ming with nine flame dragons.
• Qin Ming summoned the Golden Crow Fire Spirit and forcefully unleashed the Seventh-Rank Primordial Poison Flame, whose Halo of the Sun overwhelmed the battlefield.

Qin Ming defeated General Jintian and the Devil Race forces at Crossing Dust Dock, then fled before arriving Body Integration experts could investigate. He later encountered Master Yuanjue near Brahma Immortal City and learned that a Conscription Order had been issued to Refining Void cultivators.

• Qin Ming used the Primordial Poison Flame to overwhelm General Jintian, whose Candle Flame Dao statue summoned the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths to shield him.
• Qin Ming unleashed the Demon Emperor Banner’s Six Desires Chaos Demons, killing General Jintian, Ziling, and the other Devil Race cultivators.
• Qin Ming erased Golden Lotus Master and Daoist Wuxin’s memories of him, left them Fifth-rank Great Incense Pills, and escaped Crossing Dust Dock with Ice Fairy.
• Divine Seal Zen Master and Mituozi arrived at the devastated dock, but Mituozi’s attempt to uncover what happened was blocked; he detected the Primordial Poison Flame’s aura.
• Qin Ming changed course toward Brahma Immortal City after studying the Candle Flame Dao statue and encountered Master Yuanjue leading a vast army of cultivators.
• Master Yuanjue showed Qin Ming a golden token and revealed that the upper ranks had issued a Conscription Order covering Refining Void cultivators.