Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming entered North Star Immortal City under the name Long Taoist, where City Lord Feng invited him to join a dangerous Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce escort mission offering Virtual Spirit Divine Milk. After leaving the invitation undecided, Qin Ming visited the chamber’s branch and offered a Seventh Rank Demon Core in exchange for its Nether Spring Water.

• Qin Ming introduced himself as Long Taoist to City Lord Feng and the elders of North Star Immortal City, then proved his identity with a token registered in Heavenly Star City.
• City Lord Feng invited Qin Ming to escort special cargo for the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce, with Virtual Spirit Divine Milk among the rewards, but Qin Ming asked for time to consider.
• After Qin Ming left, Fairy Qi and the other elders discussed his strength and agreed to observe him cautiously.
• Qin Ming went to the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce branch and told its manager, Ge Yan, that he wanted to buy Nether Spring Water.
• Qin Ming offered Demon Commander Ao Yu’s Seventh Rank Demon Core, and Ge Yan was shocked by its value.

Qin Ming traded a Seventh Rank Demon Core for Nether Spring Water and agreed to join the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce’s dangerous escort mission to the Void Spirit Race. Before the caravan’s departure, he brewed several jars of Great Dream Thousand Autumns devil wine and stored them in the Desolate Realm to mature.

• President Ge offered Qin Ming an Integration Opportunity if he joined the escort mission, and Qin Ming agreed after seeing the secret route through devil abysses near the Demon Race territory.
• Gu Zangxuan tested Qin Ming with his Spiritual Pressure, judged him qualified, and arranged for him to join the caravan departing in half a month.
• Qin Ming exchanged the Seventh Rank Demon Core for a bottle of Nether Spring Water and returned to his rented cave residence.
• Qin Ming used the Demon Core, Nether Spring Water, and other materials to brew several jars of Great Dream Thousand Autumns devil wine, then stored them in the Desolate Realm for tempering.
• As the departure appointment approached, Qin Ming left his cave residence and headed to the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce.

Qin Ming discovered that Lu Lu was a high-ranking spy among the remnants of the Sky River Sect, then joined a Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce escort mission that appeared tied to the Star Palace. As the spirit ships departed, Lu Lu learned of the mission and set off to report it to the Ancestor.

• Qin Ming followed Lu Lu to a hidden cave, where Lu Lu met Demonic Cultivators and revealed his Late Void Refinement cultivation and ties to the Sky River Sect’s remnants.
• Qin Ming learned that Lu Lu was likely Ren Water Ancestor’s hidden disciple, marked him secretly, and left the cave.
• Qin Ming joined an escort team led by Gu Zangxuan, Fire Element Ancestor, and Xiahou Yun, then boarded the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce’s spirit ships with Feng Xuyu, Fairy Qi, and the Round-faced Elder surnamed Yu.
• The escort ships departed North Star Immortal City, and the group noticed that Star Palace cultivators were aboard.
• Lu Lu learned of the spirit ships’ departure through divine sense and headed toward the Heaven Spine Mountains to report to the Ancestor.

Qin Ming warned the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce that its route had been exposed, prompting the fleet to change course and slip through a hidden passage in the Demon Abyss. The fleet was nevertheless trapped by Ren Water Ancestor, Old Demon Sikong, and Elder Jin Huan, who blocked its path with a Devil Race army.

• Ren Water Ancestor learned that a Human Race fleet was heading toward the Heaven Spine Mountains and alerted Old Demon Sikong and Elder Jin Huan, who ordered the Devil Race forces to prepare an ambush.
• Qin Ming sensed that Lu Lu was following the fleet and warned Ge Yan that the merchant route might have been exposed.
• Qin Ming told Gu Zangxuan, Fire Element Ancestor, and Xiahou Yun about the suspected pursuit, and they ordered the fleet to alter its route and use a backup plan.
• The fleet entered Devil Race territory through a concealed Void Passage beneath the Demon Abyss, avoiding the Devil Race's scouts but fighting Demonic Beasts along the way.
• Ren Water Ancestor, Old Demon Sikong, and Elder Jin Huan appeared with a Devil Race army and sealed off the fleet's path through the Demon Abyss.

The Devil Race ambushed the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce fleet, forcing the ships to scatter while Qin Ming sought his own escape from the Demon Abyss. Xiahou Yun used a Seventh Rank talisman to flee with a Soul Clan Widow, but Elder Jin Huan caught up to him as Qin Ming warned Feng Xuyu’s group that two powerful pursuers were approaching.

• The Devil Race and Heavenly Horn Clan attacked the fleet, and Xiahou Yun proposed splitting up while Elder Gu Zangxuan and Fire Element Ancestor held off the enemy.
• Ge Yan told Feng Xuyu’s group to flee toward Town Abyss Heavenly City, but Qin Ming questioned the plan and prepared to escape toward Demon Race territory.
• Ren Water Ancestor and Elder Jin Huan engaged the defenders as the Devil Race broke through a ship’s formation and pursued the fleeing vessels.
• Xiahou Yun used a Seventh Rank Secret Star Escape Talisman to teleport his ship away, then inspected the Soul Clan Widow being carried as the mission’s cargo.
• Elder Jin Huan caught up to Xiahou Yun’s ship after discovering the Soul Clan Widow and attacked it with his golden wheel.
• When Qin Ming’s ship’s defenses failed, he warned Feng Xuyu’s group that two Body Integration Realm pursuers were coming, then vanished as they fled in different directions.

Qin Ming hid in the Lesser Spirit Realm on Ice Crystal Summit Devil Peak after escaping Ren Water Ancestor, then learned that Elder Jin Huan had captured a Soul Clan Widow and killed Xiahou Yun. As Ren Water Ancestor and Elder Jin Huan returned to the mountain with Succubus Star, Qin Ming recognized the Purple-Clad Woman and cried out in alarm.

• Ren Water Ancestor pursued Qin Ming with the Demon Blood Sky Python Escape, but Qin Ming evaded its tracking by entering the Lesser Spirit Realm near Ice Crystal Summit Devil Peak.
• Elder Jin Huan arrived carrying Xiahou Yun’s severed head, searched and killed Xiahou Yun’s Primordial Spirit, then revealed he had captured a Soul Clan Widow.
• Ren Water Ancestor and Elder Jin Huan discussed the Soul Clan Widow’s value and left the mountain after identifying it as Succubus Star’s residence.
• Qin Ming learned that the Nine Dragons Chamber of Commerce and Star Palace had secretly transported the Soul Clan Widow, then prepared to flee before Succubus Star returned.
• Ren Water Ancestor and Elder Jin Huan returned, following a Demonic Imperial Carriage, and Qin Ming recognized the Purple-Clad Woman inside as someone he and his companions knew.

Qin Ming remained trapped near Devil Peak while Succubus Star took in the Soul Clan Widow, Shuang Ying, and his Great Dream Thousand Autumns finished brewing. In the Human Spirit Domain, the discovery that Lu Lu had betrayed Spirit Mist Sect led Ancestor Lingyuan and allies to prepare an expedition to the Devil Race, while Star Palace warned that Shuang Ying’s safety carried greater stakes than they knew.

• Succubus Star drove Ren Water Ancestor back with her spiritual pressure and made Elder Jin Huan hand over the unconscious Soul Clan Widow.
• Succubus Star cared for Shuang Ying and took her in as a servant, while Qin Ming stayed hidden because he could not escape Devil Peak.
• Two years passed as Succubus Star continued cultivating on the mountain, and Qin Ming’s stored jars of Great Dream Thousand Autumns finished brewing.
• Fire Element Ancestor and Elder Gu Zangxuan uncovered Devil Race spies in North Star Immortal City, but Lu Lu had disappeared, and Spirit Mist Sect faced blame for the betrayals.
• Ancestor Lingyuan told Spirit Mist Sect’s elders he would travel to the Devil Race Spirit Domain to capture Lu Lu or retrieve Shuang Ying, then left to join the other sects’ ancestors.
• Elder Kui Mu arrived with Divine Lord Zichen and warned the three sects’ ancestors that Star Palace’s consequences would be severe if Shuang Ying had been harmed.

Ren Water Ancestor revealed his plan to pursue the Soul Clan’s secret treasure with Lu Lu, while the Devouring Sky Rat befriended Shuang Ying beneath the Ice Crystal Demon Peak. The Rat learned that Shuang Ying’s missing grandmother was a Mahayana cultivator from the Myriad Spirits Realm, and realized the realm was connected to his master’s friends.

• Ren Water Ancestor told Lu Lu that the Soul Clan’s secret treasure might contain the Three-Yang Divine Water and an opportunity to advance, then ordered him to prepare for their journey to the Void Spirit Race.
• Lu Lu agreed to serve Ren Water Ancestor, hoping the treasure might help save Qing Yin’s damaged soul.
• The Devouring Sky Rat approached the grieving Shuang Ying with Spirit Fruits, introduced itself as the mountain god, and began earning her trust.
• Shuang Ying told the Devouring Sky Rat that she had run away from the strict grandmother who raised her and had been captured after leaving the Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Shuang Ying gave the Devouring Sky Rat her late mother’s wooden hairpin, then revealed that her grandmother was a Mahayana cultivator.
• The Devouring Sky Rat froze when it recognized the Myriad Spirits Realm as the place where Su Yuqing and Lu Yun had gone to cultivate.

The Devouring Sky Rat brought Qin Ming a Soul Seal Treasure Pattern that could lead to the Soul Clan's secret treasure, and Qin Ming later used Succubus Star's departure to escape the Demon Peak with Shuang Ying. Succubus Star sensed the escape and returned to find the barrier breached, smiling eerily as Qin Ming fled toward the Void Spirit Race.

• Qin Ming discovered that the wooden hairpin the Devouring Sky Rat had received from Shuang Ying bore the Soul Clan's inheritance mark, which Old Demon Qingyang said could help them obtain the secret treasure and an Integration Opportunity.
• Qin Ming ordered the Devouring Sky Rat to befriend Shuang Ying and obtain her blood, and it secured several drops over the following months.
• After ten years in hiding, Qin Ming heard devil generals summon Succubus Star to help oversee plans involving the Dark Demon Abyss and a future Saint Ancestor's descent.
• Succubus Star left the Demon Peak, allowing Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat to break through her barrier and rescue Shuang Ying into the Desolate Realm.
• Qin Ming escaped toward the Void Spirit Race in the World Piercing Shuttle, while Succubus Star sensed his departure, returned, and smiled at the breached barrier.

Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant Nascent Soul witnessed a battle between Elder Kui Mu’s forces and the Ren Water Ancestor, Lu Lu, and Elder Jin Huan, then secretly supplied intelligence that helped Elder Kui Mu gain the advantage. The Ren Water Ancestor fled after abandoning Lu Lu, who revealed that he had found the item his master had sought.

• Shuang Ying arrived in the Desolate Realm, where the Devouring Sky Rat left her in Clan Chief Wuli Man’s care before returning to Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant Nascent Soul discovered that several Human Race experts had gathered near the border to hunt Lu Lu and target the Ren Water Ancestor.
• Ancestor Lingyuan caught Lu Lu in the remote city, and the Human Race cultivators pursued him while Qin Ming initially avoided the conflict.
• Elder Kui Mu confronted the Ren Water Ancestor and Elder Jin Huan, and Qin Ming secretly sent Divine Lord Purple Chen intelligence about the Devil Race’s Twelve Demon Stars.
• Elder Kui Mu summoned the Abyssal Star Divine Wood and wounded Elder Jin Huan, while the Ren Water Ancestor used the Blood Sacrifice to All Beings Art to escape.
• Lu Lu told the fleeing Ren Water Ancestor that he had found the sought-after item, provoking his master’s furious curse.

After escaping the Human Race Ancestors with a spatial talisman, Lu Lu encountered Qin Ming and revealed the secret of the Soul Washing Pool in exchange for a promise to save his sleeping Dao companion, Qing Yin. Lu Lu died before finishing his final message, and Qin Ming set off to find the hidden location he had disclosed.

• Jin Huan escaped the battle, and Lu Lu used an ancient Stone Talisman to flee, though Ancestor Lingyuan's attack left him gravely wounded.
• Elder Kui Mu and the other Human Race Ancestors abandoned their pursuit and headed toward the Void Spirit Race, planning to seek the Soul Clan Secret Treasure by another route.
• Qin Ming found Lu Lu after his spatial teleportation and revealed his true identity as Junior Brother Li.
• Lu Lu told Qin Ming that he had betrayed the Human Race to save Qing Yin and disclosed the Soul Washing Pool, a hidden opportunity within the Soul Clan Secret Treasure.
• Lu Lu offered Qin Ming the secret treasure map and entrance method in exchange for helping awaken Qing Yin, then died before completing his final message.
• Qin Ming collected Lu Lu's belongings and flew toward the hidden location, hoping the Soul Washing Pool could help him attain Physical Body Dao Integration.

Qin Ming followed Lu Lu’s map to the Soul Clan Secret Treasure in the Soul Burying Wilderness, where he opened the ancient entrance with Shuang Ying’s relics and bloodline. He and Shuang Ying entered the ruins and arrived in an independent space.

• Qin Ming found Lu Lu’s hidden cave abode, confirmed Qing Yin’s soul could still be saved, and retrieved a map jade slip and stone talisman.
• Qin Ming reunited with his Demonic Infant Nascent Soul and learned from Old Demon Qingyang that the Soul Washing Pool could help him break through to the Body Integration Realm, though it carried great danger.
• Qin Ming reached the Void Spirit Race’s territory and used the map to find the Soul Clan Secret Treasure beneath the Soul Burying Wilderness.
• Qin Ming activated the ruins’ entrance with Shuang Ying’s wooden hairpin, but the silver gate began closing when his drop of Soul Clan blood proved insufficient.
• The Devouring Sky Rat brought Shuang Ying to Qin Ming, and her bloodline caused the gate guardians to kneel and the entrance to remain open.
• Qin Ming brought Shuang Ying through the silver gate, and they arrived in an independent space.

Qin Ming and his companions entered the Sacred Soul Hall, where he killed a powerful Soul Beast and discovered that its Soul Pearl greatly benefited his Yanfu Immortal Vine. As they ventured deeper, dangerous higher-rank Soul Beasts forced them to detour, while Elder Kui Mu and the sect ancestors entered the realm behind them, intending to claim the treasure and trap anyone who had arrived first.

• Qin Ming, his servant, and Shuang Ying reached the Sacred Soul Hall and found sealed Soul Clan treasures as they searched for the Soul Washing Pool.
• The Devouring Sky Rat broke restrictions and collected rare materials before a grade six perfection Soul Beast attacked Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming crushed the Soul Beast, obtained its Soul Pearl, and fed it to the Yanfu Immortal Vine, which grew new branches and flower buds.
• The Devouring Sky Rat opened a purple jade casket and received a Purple Qi Dragon Origin Fruit as a reward from Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming's group encountered seventh-rank and stronger Soul Beasts and detoured around them as they continued deeper into the hall.
• Elder Kui Mu, Divine Lord Purple Chen, and the three sect ancestors entered the secret realm, agreed that Star Palace would choose three treasures first, and prepared to stop whoever had entered ahead of them.

The Human Race and Devil Race parties fought through the Soul Clan Secret Realm, while Xi Ying discovered that its halls concealed a larger seal and a dangerous soul-type presence. Qin Ming reached the black Sacred Soul Hall, where Shuang Ying was recognized as a descendant of the Soul Clan’s royal bloodline and taken away by an ancient presence, leaving Qin Ming to follow an newly revealed staircase.

• Elder Kui Mu led the injured Human Race party past the stone statue puppets and into the Sacred Soul Hall.
• Xi Ying detected signs that a powerful soul-type existence had been sealed beneath the halls and warned the Devil Race party that it had been destroyed in a single strike.
• Qin Ming recovered after fighting several powerful soul beasts, gathered rare treasures, and learned from Silver Wing that the beasts were formed under the influence of a greater existence.
• Qin Ming saw the Human Race and Devil Race parties clash, then entered the black Sacred Soul Hall with the Devouring Sky Rat and the others.
• An ancient presence recognized Shuang Ying as a descendant of the Soul Clan’s royal bloodline and transported her away in silver light.
• A staircase appeared, and Qin Ming led the others upward to follow Shuang Ying.

Qin Ming entered the Soul Clan’s Sacred Soul Hall and encountered the Succubus Star, who forced him to help activate the Brahma Light Soul Suppressing Demonic Bell. They traveled through a soul pillar to the Soul Well’s Core Area, where Qin Ming found himself in a medicinal garden.

• Qin Ming activated the Stone Talisman and entered a space with nine towering soul pillars, which Old Demon Qingyang identified as the Sacred Soul Hall’s core and the routes to its hidden areas.
• The Succubus Star followed Qin Ming into the pillar chamber and attacked him with her demonic thought, but Qin Ming resisted with his Divine Sense.
• The Succubus Star revealed that she needed Qin Ming’s powerful Divine Soul Strength to activate the Brahma Light Soul Suppressing Demonic Bell and threatened him if he refused.
• Old Demon Qingyang warned Qin Ming that the bell could control him, then taught him how to resist its effects and pretend to be under its control.
• The Succubus Star explained that her Stone Talisman led to the Soul Well and warned Qin Ming against entering the other soul pillars before activating hers.
• Qin Ming and the Succubus Star were drawn through the soul pillar and arrived in a sizable medicinal garden.

Qin Ming and Succubus Star split up to search the Soul Clan herb garden, where Qin Ming gathered rare spirit plants and discovered a Mysterious Dew Sky-Reaching Grass. A Seventh Rank Soul Beast ambushed the Devouring Sky Rat, and after Qin Ming defeated it, the remains of its tentacles revealed sinister Great Dao Law power.

• Succubus Star gave Qin Ming a Message Talisman, marked him with a sigil, and sent him down a separate path through the herb garden.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat searched the garden and collected high-grade Spirit Medicines into the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• The Devouring Sky Rat found a Mysterious Dew Sky-Reaching Grass growing in a pond, and Old Demon Qingyang identified it as a Seventh Rank mid-grade Spirit Plant.
• A hidden gray toad attacked the Devouring Sky Rat, but Qin Ming used the Primordial Poison Flame and Crystalline Mind Sword to defeat it and sever its tentacles.
• Qin Ming collected the Soul Pearl and Gray Tentacles, but the tentacles disintegrated into fragments filled with sinister Great Dao Law power.

Qin Ming collected rare Seventh Rank spirit herbs in the Soul Clan medicinal garden while Elder Zhong led the Void Spirit Race into the secret realm and clashed with the other intruders. After a mysterious force drove the elders from the Sacred Soul Hall, Succubus Star summoned Qin Ming to the Soul Well.

• Qin Ming stored the pond and the Ice Soul Flame Grass, along with its underground fire vein, in the Lesser Spirit Realm and continued gathering herbs with the Devouring Sky Rat.
• Elder Zhong entered the secret realm and used his unrestricted Integrated Body cultivation to force the Human and Devil Race elders to reconsider fighting him.
• The elders discovered that Master Xi Ying had vanished, then agreed to search the Sacred Soul Hall before she could claim its treasures.
• A colossal face appeared above the Soul Clan's Past Divine Positions and blasted the intruders out of the Sacred Soul Hall.
• Succubus Star summoned Qin Ming five li inward, where he found her beside the Soul Well and felt an inexplicable sense of dread.

Qin Ming escaped Succubus Star’s control as a terrifying soul beast emerged from the Soul Well and dragged them both inside. The beast’s Law powers froze time, leaving Qin Ming trapped beside Succubus Star while his Spirit Pets began to recover.

• Succubus Star entered the Soul Well to retrieve a black book and ordered Qin Ming to use the Brahma Light Soul Suppressing Demonic Bell against the souls pouring out.
• Qin Ming suppressed the attacking souls while secretly erasing Succubus Star’s demonic mark, but enormous Gray Tentacles emerged and dragged him and Succubus Star into the well.
• Qin Ming found himself inside the well with a colossal octopus-like soul beast chained beneath a pool of gray water, and he and his Spirit Pets fought to break free of its tentacles.
• The soul beast unleashed Silver Runes that froze time throughout the well, trapping Qin Ming and Succubus Star together as Old Demon Qingyang identified its Shadow and time Laws.
• The Silver-Winged Frost Bee and the Devouring Sky Rat recovered from the time freeze while Qin Ming remained immobilized beside Succubus Star.

Qin Ming and Succubus Star escaped the Soul Well after severing two of the Shadow Realm soul beast’s law-bearing tentacles, then fled the collapsing medicinal garden. Qin Ming used a Stone Talisman to enter another Soul Pillar as the beast broke free, while Succubus Star escaped into the Soul Hall’s outer grounds and struck down the newly arrived Void Spirit Race Fifth Elder.

• Old Demon Qingyang identified the soul beast as a Shadow Realm Void Race creature and used a secret technique to free Qin Ming and Succubus Star from the Time Law’s restraint.
• Succubus Star held off the soul beast while Qin Ming used the Demon-Slaying Gourd to sever its Shadow Law and Time Law tentacles.
• The soul beast broke free and pursued Qin Ming and Succubus Star, who escaped the medicinal garden with Succubus Star’s Stone Talisman.
• Qin Ming found a matching rune on another Soul Pillar and used his Stone Talisman to teleport away, while Succubus Star fled as the medicinal-garden pillar shattered.
• The Void Spirit Race Fifth Elder arrived outside the Soul Hall and threatened the gathered cultivators, but Succubus Star burst out of the hall and struck him away with a demonic qi hand.

Lord Succubus Star warned the old monsters that a great terror was emerging from the Soul Clan Secret Realm, and the Shadow Realm soul beast rampaged through the ruins. Qin Ming escaped with the Soul Washing Pool and reunited with Shuang Ying, but Ren Water Ancestor spotted his World Piercing Shuttle and attacked him.

• Lord Succubus Star revealed her Integrated Body Peak Stage strength, warned the old monsters to flee, and the Shadow Realm soul beast burst from the Soul Hall.
• The soul beast wounded Ancestor Lingyuan and killed Fire Element Ancestor, while Qin Ming took the Soul Washing Pool into the Lesser Spirit Realm and escaped the Soul Pillar Space.
• Qin Ming encountered Shuang Ying in the Great Hall, learned she had gained the Soul Clan's core inheritance, and sent her with the Silver Fox to the Desolate Realm.
• Qin Ming fled the Soul Clan Ruins in the World Piercing Shuttle and found Ren Water Ancestor pursuing a gravely wounded Ancestor Lingyuan.
• Ren Water Ancestor abandoned Ancestor Lingyuan when he discovered Qin Ming, then summoned a blood-colored giant hand to seize the World Piercing Shuttle.