Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming accepted Yun Gu Zi’s invitation to become a freely acting Guest Elder of Heavenly Star City and discovered that Kun Peng Saliva had greatly benefited the Devouring Sky Rat. After returning to Little Turtle Peak to transplant the Azure Sky Tree, he was summoned by the recovered Mahayana Stage Myriad Flower Holy Lord.

• Yun Gu Zi gave Qin Ming three grains of Azure Origin Immortal Rice and invited him to serve Heavenly Star City; Qin declined a formal post but agreed to become a Guest Elder with freedom to refuse duties.
• Qin Ming found the Devouring Sky Rat weakened after it ate a pearl formed inside Little Qing, and Old Demon Qingyang identified the pearl as Kun Peng Saliva.
• The Devouring Sky Rat began absorbing Heaven and Earth Origin Qi in preparation for a breakthrough, and Qin Ming gave the remaining Kun Peng Saliva to the Silver Fox.
• Qin Ming studied how to cultivate Azure Origin Immortal Rice and decided to return to Little Turtle Peak for the Azure Sky Tree, then left Zhao Xuan in charge while he traveled.
• Qin Ming returned to the Kunlun Domain and encountered the thriving Flower Spirit Clan, where the Mahayana Stage Myriad Flower Holy Lord invited him to her palace.

Qin Ming accepted the Myriad Flower Holy Lord’s request to seek Innate Primordial Chaos Qi in the Myriad Spirits Realm in exchange for a True Dragon Pill formula. He returned to Little Turtle Peak, where Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei reported that Heavenly Star City had suffered heavy losses in the devil calamity.

• The Myriad Flower Holy Lord told Qin Ming that Yue Lingyan had been sent to a hidden Fox Clan inheritance site and discussed the coming Devil Race counterattack with him.
• The Myriad Flower Holy Lord revealed that she had recognized Qin Ming as a Lower Realm Ascended Cultivator and asked him to find Innate Primordial Chaos Qi in the Myriad Spirits Realm, giving him a True Dragon Pill formula and a rune token.
• Qin Ming agreed to enter the Myriad Spirits Realm when its entrance opened three hundred years later and seek the spiritual material from the Holy Lord’s old friend or search for it himself.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak and saw that its Spirit Land had flourished under the care of Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei.
• Bai Li Hui reported that the Flower Spirit Clan had protected Little Turtle Peak, while Heavenly Star City had become a major Devil Race target and several of Qin Ming’s acquaintances had died.

Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, cultivated a new Azure Sky Tree, and learned that Heavenly Star City had suffered heavy losses after the Feathered Spirit Race betrayed the Human Race. He arrived in the city and reunited with Jiang Tian just as Yun Gu Zi came to greet him.

• Bai Li Hui told Qin Ming that Jiang Wuji and Yu Hanzi had fallen after the Feathered Spirit Race attacked their delegation, while Jiang Tian had advanced to the Refining Void Stage and become an elder.
• Qin Ming reviewed Little Turtle Peak's resources, planted a Heavenly Tree Spirit Seed in the Lesser Spirit Realm, and quickly grew it into a ten-thousand-year Azure Sky Tree.
• Qin Ming checked on Little Qing, the Devouring Sky Rat, and the Silver Fox, then set out for Heavenly Star City to meet Yun Gu Zi.
• Qin Ming found Heavenly Star City damaged and heavily guarded, revealed his Body Integration aura at the entrance, and entered through the city array.
• Yun Gu Zi told Ancestor Beiling and Ancestor Che Qu that the Feathered Spirit Race planned to attack in half a month and discussed the city's losses and the Devil Race's withdrawal.
• Qin Ming encountered Jiang Tian in the city's Core Zone, and Yun Gu Zi arrived with two other cultivators to welcome him.

Qin Ming warned Heavenly Star City that four Demon Stars were coming, while a vast Feathered Spirit army joined the Devil Race and attacked the city. Yun Gu Zi fought Ancestor Golden Feather for seven days, but Qin Ming sensed a hidden threat just as Golden Feather activated a blood array and something immense began descending from the sky.

• Qin Ming told Yun Gu Zi, Ancestor Beiling, and Ancestor Che Qu that four Demon Stars led by Jiu Mo Star would enter the realm with the Devil Race army.
• Elder Golden Feather prepared the Feathered Spirit army and ordered it to join the Devil Race in an assault on Heavenly Star City.
• Divine Lord Zichen reported that over a million Feathered Spirit troops were approaching, and half a month later the enemy forces surrounded the city and fought the defenders across the Starfall Plains.
• Yun Gu Zi answered Golden Feather's challenge and battled him with his matched Seventh Rank Dao Integration Treasures, while Golden Feather wielded the Seven-Colored Feather Fan.
• After seven days without a victor, Qin Ming sensed danger and urged Yun Gu Zi to retreat; Golden Feather activated a blood array, and giant claws reached through a rift in the sky.

Qin Ming rescued Yun Gu Zi, killed Golden Feather Ancestor with the Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword, and helped Golden Spirit and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee defeat the Nether Bone Corpse Vulture. The Feathered Spirit Race fled, the Devil Race withdrew to report his arrival, and the Human Race army celebrated Ancestor Wangyue on the Starfall Wasteland.

• Golden Feather Ancestor summoned a Nether Bone Corpse Vulture, which injured Yun Gu Zi and drove him toward defeat.
• Qin Ming appeared, repelled the vulture’s Bone Flame with the Primordial Poison Flame, and sent Yun Gu Zi to safety as Golden Spirit engaged the beast.
• Golden Feather Ancestor attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming’s Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword bypassed his defenses and killed him instantly.
• Qin Ming immobilized the Seven-Colored Feather Fan and captured it, while the Silver-Winged Frost Bee killed the vulture and claimed its Demon Core; the Primordial Poison Flame devoured its cold flame and advanced to the supreme level of Seventh Rank.
• Qin Ming unleashed Ghost Face Bees against the Feathered Spirit Race, causing its army to scatter, while the Devil Race withdrew to report that Ancestor Wangyue had appeared.
• The Human Race army cheered Qin Ming and chanted Ancestor Wangyue’s name.

After Qin Ming helped Heavenly Star City repel the Feathered Spirit Race, he returned to Little Turtle Peak, where the Devouring Sky Rat and Silver Wing advanced to powerful new ranks. As Qin Ming prepared for his next journey, Jiang Tian arrived with word that Elder Kui Mu had come to discuss an important matter.

• Qin Ming killed Ancestor Golden Feather, earning the gratitude of Heavenly Star City's elders and prompting the Devil Race army to withdraw.
• Jiu Mo Star ordered his forces to watch Qin Ming closely after learning that he had defeated Ancestor Golden Feather and killed Li Mo Star.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, harvested a Soul Pearl from Ancestor Golden Feather's remains, and found that it barely affected the Azure Emperor Immortal Vine.
• The Devouring Sky Rat advanced to Late Grade Six, then Silver Wing emerged from her cocoon as a Seventh Rank Body Integration Realm insect after refining part of the Insect Mother's power.
• Qin Ming celebrated the spirit pets' breakthroughs and planned to cultivate Azure Origin Immortal Rice before traveling to the Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Jiang Tian arrived from Heavenly Star City and told Qin Ming that Elder Kui Mu of the Star Palace had come to discuss an important matter.

Qin Ming agreed to represent Heavenly Star City at the Immortal Yuan Race’s Alliance Conference, then returned to the Spirit Mist Sect. In the Desolate Realm, Hatred Baleful Demon died attempting the Body Integration Realm, while Qin Ming’s Azure Emperor Immortal Vine absorbed his remaining essence and a law fragment, causing it to bloom.

• Jiang Tian told Qin Ming that the Immortal Yuan Race had summoned the allied races to discuss resisting the Devil Race camp.
• Elder Kui Mu asked Qin Ming to attend the Alliance Conference with Yun Gu Zi, and Qin Ming agreed after hearing that rare spirit materials might be available there.
• Qin Ming returned to the Spirit Mist Sect and resumed studying the True Dragon Pill formula in Cui Xu Garden.
• Qin Ming sensed a disturbance in the Desolate Realm and discovered Hatred Baleful Demon attempting the Body Integration Cataclysm.
• A single tribulation bolt killed Hatred Baleful Demon, and the Azure Emperor Immortal Vine absorbed his Primordial Spirit essence and a law fragment, causing its black flower bud to bloom.

Qin Ming discovered that his Azure Emperor Immortal Vine could devour fragments of the Power of Laws, then spoke with two ancient beings sealed beneath the Desolate Realm and received the Witch Tribe’s Primordial Undying Sacred Body. Three months later, he departed with Yun Gu Zi for the Immortal Yuan Race’s alliance gathering, where Devil Race scouts threatened their journey.

• Qin Ming found that the sealed land remained intact and learned that Yan Mo had released the fragment of the Law of Darkness to test the Azure Emperor Immortal Vine.
• Qin Ming rejected Yan Mo’s attempt to impersonate a Witch God and, after Old Demon Qingyang explained the situation, warned both sealed beings not to make trouble before he reached the Mahayana Stage.
• The ancient Witch God recognized Qin Ming’s Ancestral Witch Talisman Seal and passed the Primordial Undying Sacred Body to him; Qin Ming then left with the Devouring Sky Rat and brought Shuang Ying out to travel and train with them.
• Three months later, Qin Ming left Cui Xu Garden with Yun Gu Zi and began traveling toward the Immortal Yuan Race, using the World Piercing Shuttle to speed their journey.
• Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi encountered Devil Race scouts on the way, and Qin Ming learned through Soul Searching that the alliance negotiations were already underway and that they were among the last to depart.

Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi rescued Fairy Qian Mo and Wind Rider Elder from a Devil Race ambush, then traveled with the Nine Spirits Commerce caravan through the Vast Sea Sand Domain. The group reached Sky Sand City, where Yun Gu Zi recalled its ruler, Sky Sand Venerable.

• Qin Ming sensed Devil Race forces attacking a Nine Spirits Commerce caravan and went with Yun Gu Zi to help his old acquaintances, Fairy Qian Mo and Wind Rider Elder.
• Fairy Qian Mo fled the besieged caravan with several attendants, but a Refining Void Devil General intercepted her and killed them.
• Qin Ming arrived, immobilized the Devil General with his Integrated Body-level Spiritual Pressure, and used Soul Searching on him while Yun Gu Zi went to assist the caravan.
• Qin Ming revealed his true surname to Fairy Qian Mo and reunited with Wind Rider Elder after Yun Gu Zi defeated the remaining Devil Race attackers.
• Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi joined the caravan on its journey through the Vast Sea Sand Domain toward the Immortal Yuan Race.
• The caravan arrived at Sky Sand City, and Yun Gu Zi told Qin Ming about the city's powerful ruler, Sky Sand Venerable.

Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi arrived at Sky Sand City, where the Vast Sea Auction was due to begin, while news emerged that Succubus Star had become the Nightmare Saint Ancestor. As Qin Ming explored the city with his companions, a young guide named Jiang Xiao Yu introduced him to the Vast Sea Sand Domain and its dangers.

• Huang Ying Tian welcomed Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi to Sky Sand City on behalf of Sky Sand Venerable and treated them to a lavish meal.
• Fairy Qian Mo told Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi about the upcoming Vast Sea Auction, and they decided to stay for it.
• Jiu Mo Star learned that Succubus Star had advanced to the Mahayana Stage as the Nightmare Saint Ancestor and immediately left to answer her summons.
• Qin Ming hired Jiang Xiao Yu to guide him through Sky Sand City and take him to Earth Store Pavilion, which held the region's largest collection of books.
• Jiang Xiao Yu described the Vast Sea Sand Domain's opportunities, disasters, and the dangerous Stone Scale Divine Hall, then admitted that he carried a trace of Snake People bloodline.

Qin Ming attended the Vast Sea Auction with Yun Gu Zi and acquired a stone stele inscribed with a True Immortal Realm pill formula. The auction continued as Sky Sand Venerable and a foreign-race elder prepared to investigate a strange treasure in a distant ravine, while Qin Ming kept the stele’s value secret.

• Qin Ming read at the Earth Store Pavilion for several days, then joined Jiang Xiao Yu on the way to the Vast Sea Auction after Yun Gu Zi called him.
• Huang Ying Tian welcomed Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi, and Fairy Qian Mo invited them to consign treasures at the auction.
• Qin Ming consigned two Mystic Spirit Immortal Peaches and other treasures, while Yun Gu Zi offered a bottle of Seventh Rank Five Elements Merging Spirit Pills.
• Sky Sand Venerable and a gray-robed foreign elder discussed two arriving Human Race Body Integration Cultivators and the imminent birth of a strange treasure near a ravine.
• Qin Ming recognized a Spirit Tadpole Script pill formula for the Sky Green Creation Pill on an Ancient Rock Clan stele and bought it for one thousand Mid-Grade Immortal Jade.
• Fairy Qian Mo brought out a Grade Six Supreme-Grade Golden Sandworm Spirit Fruit as the auction continued.

At the Vast Sea Auction, Qin Ming acquired rare treasures and profited from the sale of his pills while secretly discovering innate divinity inside the Vast Sea Golden Sand Divine Iron. Elsewhere, Snake Ji learned that two human cultivators had arrived in Sky Sand Immortal City and set out to see them.

• Yun Gu Zi won the Golden Sandworm Spirit Fruits and gave them to Qin Ming as thanks for saving his life.
• Qin Ming outbid several Body Integration cultivators for the Vast Sea Golden Sand Divine Iron, then discovered it concealed a wisp of innate divinity.
• Fire Dog Boy bought Yun Gu Zi's Five Elements Merging Spirit Pills, while Mystic Whale King and Silkworm Old Monster each obtained a Mystic Spirit Immortal Peach.
• Deputy City Lord Huang praised the auction's success as it continued to draw crowds and sell rare finale items.
• Elder Shi told Snake Ji that Sky Sand Venerable was secretly searching near the Black Sand Rift and that two human Body Integration cultivators had come to the city.
• Snake Ji heard one human cultivator had an aura like an ancient evergreen tree and left the Stone Scale Divine Hall to meet the humans.

At the Vast Sea Auction, Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi acquired intelligence revealing the rise of Qin Ming’s spirit pet, the Mystic Water Crocodile, and Succubus Star’s advance to the Mahayana Stage. Qin Ming won a final intelligence lot about a treasure-rich site in the Black Sand Rift, agreed to investigate it with Yun Gu Zi, and then received an unexpected visit from Sky Sand Venerable.

• Sky Sand Venerable returned to Sky Sand Immortal City and asked Huang Ying Tian to report on the Body Integration cultivators and the city’s situation.
• Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi bought two intelligence lots and learned that the Mystic Water Crocodile had reached the Seventh Rank and Succubus Star had advanced to the Mahayana Stage.
• Fairy Qian Mo auctioned a Heaven-class A-grade intelligence lot about a fortune in the Vast Sea Sand Domain, and Qin Ming outbid Sky Sand Venerable and the other bidders to obtain it.
• Qin Ming read that the Black Sand Rift had repeatedly produced Seventh Rank or higher spiritual treasures and that it had helped Sky Sand Venerable reach the Body Integration Realm.
• Qin Ming invited Yun Gu Zi to investigate the Black Sand Rift, and Yun Gu Zi agreed.
• After the Vast Sea Auction ended, Sky Sand Venerable unexpectedly came to Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi’s residence.

Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi rejected Sky Sand Venerable’s invitation to explore the Black Sand Rift, then agreed to cooperate with Snake Ji under a Soul Contract. As they set out for the rift, a vast tree-shaped phenomenon erupted there, drawing cultivators from across the Vast Sea Sand Domain.

• Sky Sand Venerable visited Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi, revealed that he knew the Black Sand Rift intelligence, and invited them to seek its opportunity with him.
• Qin Ming declined Sky Sand Venerable’s invitation, and he and Yun Gu Zi left Sky Sand Immortal City several days later.
• Snake Ji followed Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi, tested Qin Ming’s Divine Sense, and revealed that she had leaked the Black Sand Rift intelligence to bring them into the affair.
• Snake Ji offered to cooperate in exchange for one item from the rift, and Qin Ming agreed to sign a Soul Contract with her.
• At the Black Sand Rift, a milky-white pillar transformed into a gigantic tree bearing multicolored spheres of treasure, while Sky Sand Venerable failed to conceal the phenomenon.
• Qin Ming, Yun Gu Zi, and Snake Ji felt the change in spiritual energy and saw the unprecedented spectacle as cultivators rushed toward the rift.

Qin Ming learned that the anomaly in the Black Sand Rift marked the emergence of the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron, a powerful treasure-collecting Mysterious Spirit Treasure. As the old monsters descended into the seemingly endless abyss, the cauldron’s devouring force stripped away their spirit treasures and left the competitors pressing deeper into the dark.

• Old Demon Qingyang identified the anomaly as the emergence of the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron and explained its history and connection to the Soul-Devouring Race.
• Qin Ming and Snake Ji traveled to the Black Sand Rift while Sky Sand Venerable tried to seize the treasures emerging there.
• Mystic Whale King, Fire Dog Boy, and Silkworm Old Monster confronted Sky Sand Venerable, and their battle broke out near the rift.
• The cauldron’s black light seized the cultivators’ spirit treasures, exposed Qin Ming and Snake Ji, and disrupted the fight.
• Sky Sand Venerable escaped into the abyss with a spatial talisman, and Qin Ming, Snake Ji, and the other old monsters followed while Yun Gu Zi stayed behind.
• The old monsters flew deeper into the abyss as their divine-sense range shrank, but the valley showed no end.

Qin Ming found the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron’s inner world and confronted its Taotie Artifact Spirit, while other cultivators faced deadly attacks from stolen Spirit Treasures and sword formations. Snake Ji killed Silkworm Old Monster as Sky Sand Venerable and Mystic Whale King headed toward the disturbance.

• The Body Integration Old Monsters discovered that their treasures were being taken inside the abyss, and Fire Dog Boy and Silkworm Old Monster were trapped in a Seventh Rank sword formation and attacked by their stolen Spirit Treasures.
• The Devouring Sky Rat sensed a powerful bloodline aura, guiding Qin Ming to an altar where an Ice Crystal Divine Tree stood among stone steles.
• The Taotie revealed that the cultivators were inside its belly, transformed from the Ice Crystal Divine Tree, and attacked Qin Ming with a tide of self-destructing Spirit Treasures.
• Old Demon Qingyang told Qin Ming to hold off the Taotie while the Silver-Winged Frost Bee and Devouring Sky Rat removed the cauldron and restored the Soul Suppressing Stone Stele.
• Snake Ji petrified and killed Silkworm Old Monster, prompting Fire Dog Boy to flee, while Sky Sand Venerable and Mystic Whale King learned of Silkworm Old Monster’s death and followed the battle’s disturbance.

Qin Ming and his companions uncovered the Void Flame and the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron sealed beneath the altar while Snake Ji battled Sky Sand Venerable and the Mystic Whale King over the treasures. The Devouring Sky Rat ultimately swallowed the cauldron, leaving its fate inside the rat uncertain.

• Snake Ji discovered her clan's Snake Spirit Sacred Statue and attacked Sky Sand Venerable and the Mystic Whale King when they turned back to contest the treasures.
• The Devouring Sky Rat broke the restrictions beneath the altar, where it and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee found the cauldron sealed by the Void Flame.
• Silver Wing tried to extract the cauldron, but the Taotie and a Soul-Devouring Race giant rat phantom resisted her; Qin Ming summoned the Golden Crow Fire Spirit to help.
• The Primordial Poison Flame clashed with the Void Flame, allowing Silver Wing to pull the cauldron free as Qin Ming crushed the Taotie with the True Spirit Five Peaks Mountain.
• The Devouring Sky Rat drew the cauldron toward itself, and the Soul-Devouring Race phantom sent it into the rat's mouth, leaving the rat choking after swallowing it.

Qin Ming helped the Devouring Sky Rat awaken an ancient bloodline, then devoured the Void Flame and advanced his Natal Spirit Fire to Grade Eight. After driving off Sky Sand Venerable and the Mystic Whale King and helping Snake Ji claim her clan’s sacred statue, he learned the Black Wind Heavenly Disaster blocked the route to the Immortal Yuan Race, and Snake Ji offered another way across the sand domain.

• The Devouring Sky Rat swallowed the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron, absorbed a drop of Ancient True Spirit blood, and fell unconscious as its Soul-Devouring Race inheritance awakened.
• Qin Ming empowered the Primordial Poison Flame, which consumed the Void Flame and advanced to Grade Eight before he escaped the collapsing cauldron space.
• Qin Ming joined Snake Ji against Sky Sand Venerable and the Mystic Whale King, and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee wounded the Mystic Whale King and forced both opponents to flee.
• Snake Ji claimed the Snake Spirit Sacred Statue, while Qin Ming collected the remaining treasures and took the luminous tree before the space collapsed.
• Qin Ming and Snake Ji emerged from the Black Sand Rift, where Snake Ji warned that the Black Wind Heavenly Disaster would block travel and offered them another route across the sand domain.

Qin Ming visited the Snake People Clan, traded Great Dream Thousand Autumns devil wine for Grade Seven Spirit Eye Spring water, and discovered that the journey had also strengthened his Primordial Poison Flame. The chapter ended with the Devouring Sky Rat suffering a dangerous reaction after swallowing the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron.

• Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi entered the Snake People Clan’s Stone Scale Divine Hall, where Snake Ji welcomed them with Snake Spirit Wine.
• Qin Ming learned that the wine used water from a Grade Seven Spirit Eye Spring and exchanged his Great Dream Thousand Autumns devil wine for two gourds of the spring water.
• Snake Ji showed Qin Ming the Spirit Eye Spring, and he later sheltered in the clan’s territory as a Black Wind Heavenly Disaster swept across the Vast Sea Sand Domain.
• Qin Ming examined his gains, including materials for the Sky Green Creation Pill, and tested his newly advanced Grade Eight Primordial Poison Flame before Old Demon Qingyang warned him not to wield it recklessly.
• A call from the Lesser Spirit Realm alerted Qin Ming that the Devouring Sky Rat was in grave distress after swallowing the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron.

Devouring Sky Rat awakened the Soul-Devouring Race’s inheritance, fused with the Gourmet Heaven Swallowing Cauldron, and broke through to the Seventh Rank. Meanwhile, Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi left for the Immortal Yuan Race after Snake Ji warned them that the Alliance Conference would include contests between races.

• Qin Ming stabilized Devouring Sky Rat’s rampaging power with vital essence and fed it the Golden Sandworm Spirit Fruit, triggering its ancestral memories.
• Devouring Sky Rat met its Fifth Great-Grandmother, who taught it a Spirit Fusion Secret Method and helped it refine the Sky Swallowing Cauldron.
• Qin Ming agreed that Devouring Sky Rat could refine the treasure, and the rat received its ancestor’s essence blood and inherited method.
• After Yun Gu Zi emerged from seclusion, Snake Ji revealed a secret route through a spatial fissure and warned that the Alliance Conference would rank races through sparring matches.
• Qin Ming and Yun Gu Zi entered the spatial fissure beneath the Stone Scale Divine Hall to travel toward the Immortal Yuan Race.
• Devouring Sky Rat completed its fusion, advanced to the Seventh Rank Body Integration Realm, and renamed the cauldron the Soul-Devouring Heaven Swallowing Cauldron.