Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming discovered that Qiu Xiao Zi had joined the Candle Flame Dao and helped Calamity Extinguishing Venerable ambush Spirit Mist Sect cultivators. He rescued Qinglu Zi and the others, killed the demonic cultivators, and returned to Cui Xu Garden, where he uncovered a tracking rune hidden in his Immaculate Glazed Soul Jade.

• Qin Ming avoided traveling with Qiu Xiao Zi and delayed his return to the Spirit Mist Sect to buy pill-refinement supplies.
• Qin Ming found Qiu Xiao Zi and Calamity Extinguishing Venerable ambushing Qinglu Zi, Fairy Suxin, and Elder Chen with a Sixth Order formation and three puppets.
• Calamity Extinguishing Venerable revealed that he had marked Qin Ming’s Immaculate Glazed Soul Jade and recognized Qin Ming as the person who had released the Mystic Spirit Immortal Peach.
• Qin Ming used his overwhelming Divine Sense to Soul Search Qiu Xiao Zi and kill the attackers, saving Qinglu Zi and the others.
• Qin Ming returned to Cui Xu Garden, distributed the captured supplies, and fed the demonic cultivators’ corpses to his spirit plants.
• Qin Ming extracted a black tracking rune from the Immaculate Glazed Soul Jade and learned that it had been placed there through the Candle Flame Dao.

Qin Ming learned that Carefree Heaven had been infiltrated by the Devil Race, then refined the Grand Void Divine Sense Pill while the Spirit Mist Sect mobilized against the threat. In the Demon Spirit Domain, he also learned that two powerful demon stars had descended, and the chapter ended with him successfully making six divine pills.

• Qin Ming sacrificed the souls inside Calamity Extinguishing Venerable’s Black Divine Statue and began studying the Grand Void Divine Sense Pill formula.
• Ancestor Lingyuan treated Qinglu Zi and the other wounded elders, heard how Carefree Heaven had ambushed them, and ordered the Spirit Mist Sect to hunt the organization’s remnants.
• Zhao Xuan warned Qin Ming to stay in the Spirit Herb Garden and told him she was leaving to take rotating duty missions.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant Nascent Soul learned that the Succubus Star and another powerful demon star had descended into the Spirit Realm, then ordered his forces to prepare for another attack.
• Qin Ming and the Golden Crow Fire Spirit successfully refined six Grand Void Divine Sense Pills after several failed attempts.

Qin Ming used six Grand Void Divine Sense Pills to complete the first layer of the Grand Pure Origin Dao Visualization Technique, raising his Divine Sense to the Integrated Body Late Stage level. After emerging from five years of seclusion and completing his spirit-rice task, he encountered Fellow Daoist Lü, who had been seeking him.

• Qin Ming swallowed a Grand Void Divine Sense Pill and made rapid progress cultivating the Grand Pure Origin Dao Visualization Technique.
• Old Demon Sikong ordered the Heavenly Horn Clan to serve as the vanguard, and their arrival broke through the human defenses, killing Divine Seal Zen Master and badly injuring Dragon Fish Son.
• Qin Ming visited the Heaven Spine Mountains frontlines, learned that Jin Huan of the Heavenly Horn Clan had killed Divine Seal Zen Master, and discussed the crisis with Dragon Fish Son and Huo Linzi.
• Qin Ming spent five years refining all six pills, completed Divine Sense Crystallization, and detected the threads of laws with his strengthened Divine Sense.
• Qin Ming left seclusion, learned that the Green Grain Spirit Rice had ripened and Fellow Daoist Lü had visited, then harvested the crops and completed his sect task with Steward Chen.
• Fellow Daoist Lü arrived at the Spirit Herb Garden, recognized Qin Ming, and greeted him.

Qin Ming learned that Zhao Xuan had vanished near the Hanguang Cave Mountains and was sent with a squad to secretly investigate the region as the Three Great Sects prepared a joint purge. While Qin Ming stayed cautiously inside an inn, Zhao Xuan and a few surviving disciples were revealed to be trapped in the Gray Mist Wasteland, where hostile natives began pursuing them.

• Lu Lu told Qin Ming that Zhao Xuan had been missing for two years, and Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Silver Wing to search for her.
• The Devouring Sky Rat found traces of Zhao Xuan near the heavily defended Hanguang Cave Mountains but returned without locating her.
• Qinglu Zi announced a joint campaign by the Three Great Sects against Carefree Heaven, and Qin Ming was assigned to lead a five-person intelligence squad.
• Qin Ming led his squad in disguise to an immortal city near the Hanguang Cave Mountains, but kept everyone inside the inn after sensing terrifying presences.
• Zhao Xuan, now at the Late God Transformation Stage, tried to escape the Gray Mist Wasteland with the remaining Spirit Mist Sect disciples as hostile natives pursued them.
• A tremendous commotion erupted outside Qin Ming's city inn.

Qin Ming drank a mysterious wine offered by a purple-robed woman, slept for seven days, and gained a recipe for the Seventh-Rank Spirit Wine Great Dream Thousand Autumns. He learned she was likely a high-ranking Devil Race figure just as the Spirit Mist Sect ordered him and his companions to join the campaign in the Hanguang Cave Mountains.

• Qin Ming ignored the crowds celebrating Dugu Tian’s victories and went to a tavern, where he shared Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar with a purple-robed woman surnamed Zi.
• Zi offered Qin Ming Great Dream Thousand Autumns, and he drank it, entering a seven-day reverie while more than twenty of his void apertures filled.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Devouring Sky Rat had traded the wine recipe for his Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar, and he realized Great Dream Thousand Autumns was Seventh-Rank Spirit Wine.
• The Purple-Clad Woman met with Devil Race leaders in the Hanguang Cave Mountains, agreed to withdraw, and instructed them to keep a hidden human pawn in place.
• Old Demon Qingyang told Qin Ming that the woman was likely an upper-rank Devil Race figure who had concealed her aura, and Qin Ming decided to leave the area.
• A Spirit Mist Sect disciple surnamed Huang summoned Qin Ming and his four companions to join the main force in the Hanguang Cave Mountains, and Qin Ming set out with them.

Qin Ming rescued Spirit Mist Sect disciples from Carefree Heaven cultivators, then pursued and killed their leaders. After Old Monster Yan detonated a seventh-rank Demonic Lightning Pearl, Little Qing protected Qin Ming, but a spatial vortex swallowed them both.

• Qin Ming discovered Lü and the Spirit Mist Sect disciples surrounded by Carefree Heaven demons and secretly blocked a deadly attack with an invisible barrier.
• Qin Ming led his team to Lü's aid, routed the remaining demons, and pursued their fleeing Nascent Soul Perfection leader.
• Qin Ming caught the demonic cultivator, searched his soul, learned of a Carefree Heaven branch stronghold, and killed him.
• Qin Ming found Old Monster Yan hiding in the abandoned stronghold and struck him down with a giant Origin Qi hand.
• Old Monster Yan activated a seventh-rank Demonic Lightning Pearl, and Little Qing swallowed Qin Ming to shield him from the blast.
• A gray spatial vortex appeared over the ruins and swallowed Little Qing and Qin Ming before vanishing.

Qin Ming arrived in the Desolate Realm with Little Qing and saved Zhao Xuan from a Savage Bone Tribe hunter. Chieftain Wuli Man welcomed him to Black Stone City and explained the realm’s Killing Intent, the Savage Bone Tribe, and their rival Baleful Demon clan.

• The cultivators in the Hanguang Cave Mountains saw the dark-red explosion and feared that powerful devil-path cultivators had used a deadly one-use treasure.
• Zhao Xuan was struck by an arrow while fleeing a Savage Bone Tribe hunter, but Little Qing descended into the Desolate Realm and frightened the hunter and other natives into worshipping it.
• Qin Ming found Zhao Xuan unconscious and suffering from Killing Intent, gave her a spiritual pill, and questioned the native who had pursued her.
• The native identified the realm as the Desolate Realm and his people as the Savage Bone Tribe, descendants of the ancient Witch Tribe who worshipped True Spirit totems.
• Chieftain Wuli Man brought Qin Ming to Black Stone City and told him that the Savage Bone Tribe used Killing Intent for body refinement while fighting the Baleful Demon clan for control of the Seventh Rank Spirit Vein.
• Wuli Man said that no one in the Desolate Realm had risen above Void Refinement Peak, apparently due to a mysterious restriction.

Qin Ming traded with the Savage Bone Tribe for Desolate Jade before joining its defense against a Baleful Demon attack. The chieftain was badly wounded when the Fiend Demon of Vengeance revived at True Grade Six Perfection, and Qin Ming froze it with his powerful Divine Sense.

• Qin Ming exchanged spirit pills, spiritual materials, immortal jade, and Supreme Mystery Rice for the Savage Bone Tribe's Desolate Jade.
• A Baleful Demon army attacked Black Stone City under the command of the Fiend Demon of Vengeance, and Qin Ming accompanied Tribe Leader Wuli Man to the walls.
• Tribe Leader Wuli Man unleashed his ancestral secret art, raised his strength, and blasted apart the Fiend Demon of Vengeance.
• The Fiend Demon of Vengeance reformed as a stronger flood dragon and struck Tribe Leader Wu down, demanding the Savage Bone Tribe's secret.
• Qin Ming locked the Fiend Demon of Vengeance in place with his Divine Sense.

Qin Ming destroyed the Fiend Demon of Vengeance, then negotiated with the Savage Bone Tribe to eradicate the remaining Fiend Demons in exchange for its body-tempering technique. After revealing the Giant Spirit God Ancestral Mark and receiving the Myriad Tribulations Undying Fiend Controlling Profound Art, he considered using the Desolate Realm’s Fiend Beads to pursue Physical Body Dao Integration.

• Qin Ming crushed the Vengeful Fiend Demon Dragon with his Divine Sense and condensed its Killing Intent into a Fiend Bead, saving the Savage Bone Tribe.
• Tribe Leader Wu told Qin Ming that the Fiend Demon of Vengeance was one of the Four Great Fiend Demons and asked him to eradicate the others in return for the tribe’s worship.
• Old Demon Qingyang examined the Fiend Bead and said its accumulated resentment could strengthen body cultivators above the Refining Void Stage.
• Qin Ming arranged for his Demonic Infant Nascent Soul to travel from the Demon Spirit Domain toward the Heaven Origin Domain while the Savage Bone Tribe’s elders deliberated.
• Qin Ming revealed the Giant Spirit God Ancestral Mark, prompting the Savage Bone Tribe to worship him and give him its cultivation technique.
• Qin Ming read the Myriad Tribulations Undying Fiend Controlling Profound Art and considered using Fiend Beads to pursue Physical Body Dao Integration.

Qin Ming settled in the Savage Bone Tribe’s Spirit Land and sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Silver Wing to eliminate the Baleful Demons. After discovering a seal beneath their territory, he learned that killing the remaining demons could break the balance sustaining the Desolate Realm.

• Qin Ming accepted the Savage Bone Tribe’s cultivation art, chose a cave abode by its Seventh Rank Spirit Vein, and considered creating a Divine Statue to gather Incense and Fire Prayer Power.
• The Devouring Sky Rat proclaimed Qin Ming the Venerable Emperor Qing before Black Stone City’s people, then joined Silver Wing in hunting the Baleful Demons.
• Silver Wing killed one Baleful Demon, and the Devouring Sky Rat refined another, but they stopped pursuing the last demon after discovering a sealed Earth Abyss beneath a black mountain.
• Qin Ming followed the Devouring Sky Rat to the abyss and immobilized the Hatred Baleful Demon, but sensed that destroying it might loosen the seal below.
• The Fiend Demon of Fear explained that the ancient Witch God and Demon God had sealed themselves beneath the Earth Abyss, creating a balance that sustained the Desolate Realm; removing either side could collapse the Small World.

Qin Ming spared the Hatred Baleful Demon after discovering its link to a sealed land, then claimed the Baleful Demon Clan’s allegiance and established the Yanfu Immortal Vine as an object of worship for the Desolate Realm’s peoples. With the two great tribes at peace, Qin Ming began cultivating through both his true body and Demonic Infant while planning to move the Desolate Realm into the Lesser Spirit Realm.

• Qin Ming brought his Demonic Infant Nascent Soul into the Earth Abyss, where the Hatred Baleful Demon mistook its True Demon Qi for that of a Demon Realm ancestor and pledged the Baleful Demon Clan’s loyalty to Azure Emperor.
• Qin Ming learned that the sealed land beneath the Desolate Realm affected the world’s origin, then took over the Baleful Demon Clan’s Seventh Rank Spirit Vein as a cultivation site.
• Qin Ming followed Old Demon Qingyang’s advice and transplanted the Yanfu Immortal Vine to the junction of the tribes’ Spirit Veins, refining it to collect their faith and Wish Power.
• Qin Ming revealed his Dharma Idol above the immense Black Vine and instructed the Desolate Realm’s peoples to worship it, while the Savage Bone Tribe and Baleful Demon Clan accepted his rule and ended their conflict.
• Qin Ming cultivated the Myriad Tribulations Undying Fiend Controlling Profound Art with his Demonic Infant and the Eternal Azure Emperor Art with his true body, while planning to move the Desolate Realm into the Lesser Spirit Realm.

After years of receiving worship in the Desolate Realm, Qin Ming returned to the Spirit Realm to break through to Perfected Void Refinement and face his final Void Returning Heavenly Tribulation. His Five Elements Heavenly Punishment struck as Taiyi Gate’s Dugu Tian and his group entered the mountains, and the lightning overwhelmed their defenses.

• Qin Ming sent the recovered Zhao Xuan out of the Desolate Realm, and Little Qing returned after she awakened and left safely.
• Years later, the Black Vine had become a revered pilgrimage site in the Desolate Realm, where believers received responses and offerings from the Azure Emperor Immortal Vine.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant Nascent Soul reached a cultivation peak, and his true body perfected the Mayfly Chapter of the Eternal Azure Emperor Art.
• Qin Ming left the Desolate Realm for the Hanguang Cave Mountains, prepared to sever his False Self, and began breaking through with his true body and Demonic Infant Nascent Soul.
• Qin Ming’s breakthrough drew a terrifying Five-Colored Divine Thunder tribulation, while Dugu Tian and Taiyi Gate elders entered the mountains to compete for control of them.
• The tribulation’s aftershock shattered the Taiyi Gate cultivators’ defenses, and a silver lightning arc broke Dugu Tian’s sword shield and sent him falling from the sky.

Qin Ming survived a succession of immense tribulations and broke through to Void Refinement Paragon in both his true body and Demonic Infant Nascent Soul. He returned to Spirit Mist Sect in disguise, where Zhao Xuan and Lu Lu visited him as news of the Hanguang Cave tribulation spread.

• Taiyi Gate's group fled the Hanguang Cave Mountains after the first tribulation's aftershocks badly injured Dugu Tian and the elders.
• Qin Ming's Demonic Infant Nascent Soul reached Void Refinement Paragon, and the resulting tribulations empowered the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill before Qin Ming blocked the lightning with the True Spirit Five Peaks Mountain.
• Qin Ming used the Withering Heart Meteor Demon Grass to expose and destroy the False Self in his Sea of Consciousness, completing his breakthrough to Void Refinement Paragon.
• Qin Ming sent his Demonic Infant Nascent Soul back toward the Demon Spirit Domain and flew his true body to Spirit Mist Sect, where he resumed his ordinary identity at Cui Xu Garden.
• Zhao Xuan visited Qin Ming and asked whether he had searched for her in Hanguang Cave, then Lu Lu joined them and mentioned the recent tribulation phenomenon there.

Qin Ming learned what advancing to the Body Integration Realm required and prepared to seek the rare resources he needed, while monitoring the war and protecting Little Turtle Peak. Three months later, the Spirit Mist Sect summoned its disciples for a three-sect tournament whose revised rules could let Outer Disciples compete.

• Lu Lu and Zhao Xuan told Qin Ming that Dugu Tian had been gravely injured by the tribulation and that the three sects would contest ownership of the Hanguang Cave Mountains.
• The cultivator surnamed Huang and his three teammates visited Qin Ming, then tried to curry favor with him after seeing Zhao Xuan and Lu Lu at his garden.
• Old Demon Qingyang explained the Three Origins as One and other requirements for entering the Body Integration Realm, and Qin Ming began planning to obtain the necessary opportunities.
• Qin Ming warned Mo Lingwei and Bai Li Hui to prepare to evacuate Little Turtle Peak if the war worsened, then studied the Great Dream Thousand Autumns recipe while seeking Nether Spring Water.
• After three months, Qin Ming learned that the three-sect tournament would be held at the Spirit Mist Sect and that its revised rules would pit God Transformation Disciples as well as Refining Void elders against one another.

Qin Ming traveled to the Spirit Mist Sect for the Three Sects Combat Tournament, concealed his strength during Qinglu Peak’s selection, and sensed the three sect ancestors gathering to decide the fate of the Hanguang Cave Mountains. As the tournament was about to begin, Ancestor Beiling proposed a wager involving rare treasures, prompting Ancestor Che Qu to suspect he had a hidden motive.

• Qin Ming declined Huang’s urging to compete seriously and traveled with the Spirit Herb Garden disciples to the Spirit Mist Sect’s Main Peak.
• Qinglu Zi announced Qinglu Peak’s selection, and Qin Ming deliberately revealed an opening and conceded his match.
• Qinglu Peak completed its selections, and Qin Ming sensed Ancestor Beiling, Ancestor Che Qu, and Ancestor Lingyuan meeting above the Main Peak to discuss the Hanguang Cave Mountains.
• Ancestor Beiling proposed that the three sects wager treasures on the tournament’s outcome and offered a Grade Seven Tribulation Reversal Profound Jade.
• Ancestor Che Qu questioned Beiling’s motives and wondered whether the injuries of Taiyi Gate’s Sword Son had healed.

The three sect ancestors wagered rare treasures and Nether Spring Water information, while Qin Ming learned more about the stakes. At the tournament on Divine Mist Peak, Zhao Xuan killed her Taiyi Gate opponent, and Lu Lu revealed a powerful fire-body divine ability against Si Yehan before a Taiyi Gate ancestor intervened.

• Ancestor Lingyuan, Ancestor Dongling, and Ancestor Che Qu agreed to wager a Jade Essence Immortal Ganoderma, Mysterious Jade of Countering Tribulation, and information about Nether Spring Water.
• Qin Ming learned from Old Demon Qingyang that Mysterious Jade of Countering Tribulation contained an ancient cultivator’s cultivation essence and Dao insights, then watched the three-sect tournament begin.
• Zhao Xuan defeated a Taiyi Gate sword cultivator and killed him despite his concession, provoking alarm among the spectators.
• Si Yehan entered the arena to fight Lu Lu, unleashing Heavenly Absolute Sword Qi that rivaled a Refining Void cultivator’s divine ability.
• Lu Lu revealed the Leaving Flame Phoenix Nirvana Golden Body, shattered Si Yehan’s sword attack, and prepared to strike him before a Taiyi Gate Body Integration Ancestor immobilized him.

Lu Lu’s victory secured Spirit Mist Sect the Three Great Sects’ tournament and the Hanguang Cave Mountains, while Qin Ming considered how to obtain intelligence about Nether Spring Water. As the sect’s ships departed, a masked infiltrator’s master prepared an ambush against them, and Qin Ming sensed the approaching danger.

• Ancestor Dongling intervened to protect Si Yehan, but Ancestor Lingyuan freed Lu Lu and Dongling apologized with two Moonlight Profound Pills.
• Elder Chen discovered that Lu Lu possessed the Innate Leaving Light Saint Body and warned him to conceal it.
• Spirit Mist Sect won both tournament tiers, claimed the Hanguang Cave Mountains, and received the other sects’ wagers.
• Qin Ming pondered how to get Nether Spring Water intelligence from Ancestor Lingyuan, then traveled with Zhao Xuan as the sect departed.
• A masked youth gave his master the spirit ships’ return route, and the black-robed elder said he and the Heavenly Horn Clan would handle the next step.
• Qin Ming sensed concealed killing intent approaching the Spirit Mist Sect ships from the mountains below.

Qin Ming discovered that demonic cultivators and the Heavenly Horn Clan had ambushed the Three Great Sects, and Spirit Mist Sect Patriarch Lingyuan arrived to rescue his disciples. Lingyuan was outmatched by the revealed Ren Water Ancestor until an unknown cultivator’s silver Crystalline Mind Sword shattered Ren Water Ancestor’s attack.

• Qin Ming sensed hidden demonic cultivators and foreign races lying in wait, while Taiyi Gate and Beast King Valley were already caught in devastating ambushes.
• The Spirit Mist Sect fleet was attacked, and Zhao Xuan joined the fighting after warning Qin Ming to seek a chance to survive.
• Ancestor Lingyuan arrived and crushed the attackers around the Spirit Mist Sect vessel, but Ren Water Ancestor appeared and challenged him as an Integrated Body Middle Stage cultivator.
• The Devouring Sky Rat and Old Demon Qingyang identified the masked attacker as Ren Water Ancestor, who had colluded with the Devil Race and helped coordinate the ambushes.
• Ren Water Ancestor trapped Lingyuan with a Demonic Bell and nearly struck him with a demonic blade, but an unseen cultivator’s silver Crystalline Mind Sword broke the attack and forced Ren Water Ancestor to recognize an Integrated Body Late Stage presence.

Qin Ming used his newly advanced Divine Sense to drive Ren Water Ancestor from an attack on Spirit Mist Sect and exposed him as a Human Race traitor. After the fallout spread across the Spirit Realm, Qin Ming left the sect years later to collect the Desolate Realm and seek Nether Spring Water.

• Qin Ming secretly struck Ren Water Ancestor with his Divine Sense, then posed as a powerful cultivator and traded with Ancestor Lingyuan for information about Nether Spring Water.
• Ren Water Ancestor escaped, and Qin Ming revealed his identity to Ancestor Lingyuan before Ancestor Lingyuan drove off the remaining demonic cultivators and supported the other sects.
• Qin Ming returned safely to the Spirit Herb Garden, learned from Lu Lu that the Heavenly Horn Clan had badly wounded Ancestor Dongling and Ancestor Che Qu, and discovered that Nether Spring Water was sold by the Nine Dragons Merchant Guild.
• The Human Race learned that Ren Water Ancestor had betrayed them, and Star Palace destroyed Sky River Sect while Ren Water Ancestor fled toward Devil Race territory with his followers.
• Several years later, Qin Ming left the sect to collect the Desolate Realm and visit the Nine Dragons Merchant Guild in search of Nether Spring Water.

Qin Ming stored the Desolate Realm inside the Lesser Spirit Realm after witnessing the Black Vine prosper from its natives’ worship. Months later, he arrived at North Star Immortal City seeking Nether Spring Water and was welcomed by the city lord, Feng Xuyu.

• Qin Ming entered the Desolate Realm with Little Qing and found that the natives’ offerings had greatly nourished the Black Vine, which was nearing another advancement.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Silver Fox to answer the natives’ prayers, and they rewarded the two clan chiefs and distributed other requested items.
• Qin Ming used the Xumi Landscape Affix to store the entire Desolate Realm as a pearl within the Lesser Spirit Realm, then left without drawing attention.
• Several months later, Qin Ming traveled openly toward North Star Immortal City, where Feng Xuyu and the elders discussed a risky Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce escort proposal involving powerful figures.
• Qin Ming reached North Star Immortal City, and Feng Xuyu personally greeted him and invited him inside to talk.