Recaps

Qin Ming’s spirit pets broke through to Tier 2 Great Demons, and he returned to Profound Stream Valley amid signs of a dangerous beast tide. While the sect’s defenses were strained, the Devouring Sky Rat infiltrated the Scripture Repository and copied the Core Formation Pill Formula along with many other pill formulas.

• The Mystic Water Crocodile and Silver-Winged Frost Bee broke through to Tier 2 Great Demons at perfection, and Qin Ming waited three days for them to consolidate their cultivation.
• Qin Ming returned to Profound Stream Valley disguised as Yu Changqing and learned from Yan Ruyan that demon beasts had attacked the sect and Ink Abyss Immortal City, while several Tier 3 Demon Kings had appeared.
• After warning bells sounded, Di Shan told Qin Ming that a late Tier 3 half-transformed Great Demon had fought Old Ancestor Qingxuan, who was injured; Qin Ming suspected the Azure-Faced Poisonous Jiao was responsible.
• Qin Ming disguised himself as a logistics disciple and sent the Devouring Sky Rat to Falling Cloud Peak while Ancestor Wan was away from the Scripture Repository.
• The Devouring Sky Rat copied the Core Formation Pill Formula and several other pill formulas, escaped past Ancestor Wan, and returned to Qin Ming, who praised it after examining the jade slips.

After a year at Profound Stream Valley, Qin Ming completed his Guest Elder assignment and exchanged his Contribution Points for Blazing Sun Spirit Emulsion. He secretly used it to reach Foundation Establishment Perfection, leaving him ready to prepare for Core Formation.

• Qin Ming planned to gather the Core Formation Pill ingredients and investigate the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror, while waiting out the Beast Tide.
• Qin Ming rewarded Yan Ruyan with one shi of Amethyst Crystal Rice after she helped harvest the crop.
• Qin Ming submitted an exceptional spirit medicine and earned over five thousand Contribution Points, surpassing Di Shan's harvest and reward.
• Qin Ming exchanged his Contribution Points for one drop of Blazing Sun Spirit Emulsion.
• Qin Ming secretly consumed the Spirit Emulsion in Ink Abyss Immortal City and broke through to Foundation Establishment Perfection.

After consolidating his breakthrough, Qin Ming left Ink Abyss Immortal City disguised as Long Taoist and arranged to buy rare materials for a Core Formation Pill. Linghu Yang challenged him over an old defeat, and after Qin Ming avoided him in the city, Linghu Yang pursued him and asked for a fair rematch with his cultivation suppressed.

• Qin Ming spent more than half a month consolidating his cultivation, solidifying ten percent of his liquid force and considering a future attempt to reach the Golden Core realm.
• Qin Ming left his cave abode disguised as Long Taoist, then visited Mirror Snow Pavilion and paid Aunt Long a deposit to gather rare materials or Spirit Seeds for a Core Formation Pill.
• Qin Ming sensed Linghu Yang enter Ink Abyss Immortal City and challenge Long Taoist, but stayed at Mirror Snow Pavilion rather than expose his strength or Trump Cards.
• Linghu Yang departed after Qin Ming ignored his challenge, and Qin Ming waited several more days before leaving the city to travel west.
• Linghu Yang pursued Qin Ming and asked him to fight, offering to suppress his cultivation to Foundation Establishment Perfection and promising not to harm him.

Qin Ming used the Devouring Sky Rat to defeat and kill Linghu Yang, a newly advanced Golden Core cultivator, and took his Golden Core and belongings. He then traveled to Tai Lake to investigate the Xiao Family’s ancestral hall, where the Artifact Spirit of the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror was said to be hidden.

• Qin Ming summoned the Devouring Sky Rat, and Linghu Yang fled after sensing the demon’s overwhelming pressure.
• The Devouring Sky Rat pursued Linghu Yang and defeated his Golden Sun Sword Formation while Qin Ming withstood several sword strikes with his body.
• The Devouring Sky Rat killed Linghu Yang and retrieved his Golden Core, which Qin Ming took for safekeeping until his search was complete.
• Qin Ming collected Linghu Yang’s possessions, turned his corpse into a Blood Orb, and destroyed the remaining traces.
• Three days later, Qin Ming arrived at Tai Lake, disguised himself as a rogue cultivator, and began investigating the Xiao Family’s ancestral hall.
• Qin Ming secretly approached the Xiao Family that night, released the Devouring Sky Rat, and asked whether it had noticed anything unusual.

Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat followed the Three Friends of Plum Mountain into a hidden chamber beneath Tai Lake, where Xiao Zhongren revealed his interest in an inheritance. They discovered a bone-filled cavern and a vast hoard of treasures, leaving the Three Friends ecstatic.

• Qin Ming sensed the Three Friends of Plum Mountain arrive at the Xiao family ancestral hall with map fragments and followed them after suspecting the map was bait.
• The Three Friends activated a portrait's hidden mechanism and entered a white Light Gate, followed by Xiao Zhongren and a gray-robed elder.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat entered the gate and found themselves in a vast ravine at the bottom of Tai Lake.
• Qin Ming explored the ravine with his divine sense and spotted the Three Friends cautiously traversing a cavern strewn with bones.
• The Three Friends reached a chamber filled with Spirit Stones, treasures, Core Formation Pills, and other rare items, and celebrated their discovery.

Qin Ming joined Xiao Zhongren to capture the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror’s Artifact Spirit, but Xiao betrayed him after Old Yan trapped the Devouring Sky Rat. As Xiao threatened Qin Ming, a monster from the black opening seized and dragged Xiao inside.

• Xiao Zhongren explained that he had sensed Qin Ming through the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror and proposed joining forces to capture its Artifact Spirit.
• Qin Ming saw through the illusion hiding a bone-filled cavern, then followed Xiao Zhongren and the Three Friends of Plum Mountain as the Artifact Spirit lured them deeper inside.
• The Artifact Spirit fed on the souls of the Three Friends of Plum Mountain, and Xiao Zhongren trapped it with a red spiritual net.
• Old Yan sacrificed himself to activate the Demon-Trapping Rings, sealing the Devouring Sky Rat’s demonic power, and Xiao Zhongren revealed that he wanted Qin Ming’s mirror.
• A blood-red tongue shot out of the black opening, wrapped around Xiao Zhongren, and dragged him inside as screams and the sound of chewing came from the cave.

Qin Ming subdued the Artifact Spirit of the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror, then encountered the powerful Old Toad Ancestor, who offered a deal to escape imprisonment. As Qin Ming considered the offer of the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art, the Artifact Spirit warned him telepathically not to accept.

• After Xiao Zhongren was devoured, Qin Ming defeated the ghosts summoned by the Artifact Spirit and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Qin Ming recovered the Demon-Trapping Rings and reunited with the Devouring Sky Rat, while Old Toad Ancestor revealed himself as the golden toad demon king imprisoned in the valley.
• Old Toad Ancestor admitted that he had scattered genuine mirror fragments to lure cultivators and offered to explain how to repair the mirror and help Qin Ming escape if Qin Ming freed him.
• Old Toad Ancestor offered Qin Ming the next part of the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art, and the Artifact Spirit warned Qin Ming not to agree because he would die.

Qin Ming escaped the valley beneath Tai Lake after learning from Jin Lingzi that the Artifact Spirit possessed the next part of the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art. His escape broke the White Bone King's Hall's restrictions, and the White Bone True Man began to awaken beneath the lake.

• Qin Ming rejected Old Toad Ancestor's offer after Jin Lingzi showed him part of the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art and warned that Old Toad Ancestor was lying.
• The Devouring Sky Rat used its Forbidden Severing Dark Light for half a month to open a hole in the valley's barrier, allowing Qin Ming and his spirit pets to escape.
• Qin Ming surfaced from Tai Lake, where Jin Lingzi warned that breaking the White Bone King's Hall's restrictions would revive the White Bone True Man.
• Yin Sha Qi surged from Tai Lake as dark clouds and baleful lightning gathered, and the resulting Killing Intent gale killed fishermen and drew cultivators from the surrounding area.
• Qin Ming watched the upheaval briefly, then left without looking back.

After returning to Ink Abyss Immortal City, Qin Ming learned more about the ancient danger beneath Tai Lake and reviewed the treasures he had taken from his enemies. He left the newly emerged ruins to the cultivators flocking there and focused on preparing to form his Golden Core, until an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Rogue cultivators poured toward the Tai Lake Ruins as Qin Ming returned to Ink Abyss Immortal City, knowing the site hid a deadly pitfall and that Old Toad Ancestor lurked below.
• Jin Lingzi told Qin Ming that the Golden Toad had been White Bone True Man’s Spirit Pet and that White Bone True Man, sealed in his palace by an ancient Nascent Soul cultivator, could revive through the Soul-Hosting Art.
• Jin Lingzi revealed that White Bone True Man had wielded the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror, slain Nascent Soul cultivators, and might return as a Ghost Cultivator beyond Qin Ming’s ability to resist.
• Jin Lingzi postponed discussing the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art until Qin Ming reached the Golden Core Stage and told him not to wake him again without reason.
• Qin Ming examined Linghu Yang’s and Old Yan’s Storage Bags, finding a Golden Meteor Sword, Myriad Transformation Spirit Liquid, Spirit Stones, materials, and cultivation items, along with a Pseudo-Core-grade Blood Orb and Xiao Zhongren’s Soul Shackling Net.
• As Qin Ming finished taking stock of his spoils, an unexpected visitor knocked outside his room.

Qin Ming, disguised as Long Taoist, refused Huangfu Qi’s invitation to explore the Lake Tai Ruins and warned him that a Golden Core Ancestor had vanished there. As cultivators flooded Ink Abyss Immortal City, Aunt Long brought word that she had gathered all the third-rank spirit materials on his list.

• Huangfu Qi invited Long Taoist to join a group of Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators seeking Core Formation opportunities in the Lake Tai Ruins.
• Long Taoist declined, explaining that he had no need to risk himself for the ruin’s resources and planned to return to Moon Gazing Island.
• Long Taoist warned Huangfu Qi that he had seen a Golden Core Ancestor enter the ruins and never return.
• Huangfu Qi thanked Long Taoist and left to discuss the warning with his companions before deciding whether to go.
• More than half a month later, cultivators poured into Ink Abyss Immortal City as news of the ruins spread.
• Aunt Long told Long Taoist that she had gathered all the third-rank spirit materials he had requested.

Qin Ming returned to Wei Kingdom with the materials for a Core Formation Pill and learned that the Lake Tai Ruins had unleashed a devastating ghost calamity. Back on Moon Gazing Island, he strengthened his spirit plant and began preparing to cultivate the Core Formation Pill’s ingredients.

• Qin Ming bought the Tier 3 spirit materials he needed and left for Wei Kingdom, while Huangfu Qi withdrew from the Lake Tai Ruins expedition after trusting Long Taoist’s warning.
• Qin Ming arrived in Wei Kingdom and learned that the breached White Bone King's Hall had unleashed a ghost calamity that overwhelmed the four kingdoms’ major powers.
• Qin Ming learned Huangfu Qi survived by avoiding the ruins, checked on Lu Wan-jun and the Feng Family, and returned to Moon Gazing Island.
• Qin Ming fed two powerful Blood Orbs to the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine, raising the Wood Sovereign Nails to mid-grade Tier 3; Jin Lingzi explained their origins and mentioned Solar Essence Gold.
• Qin Ming planted the Abundant Nether Ghost Jujube and used the Seed Wraith Incantation to cultivate ghost jujubes, then planned to grow the Fiery Golden Lotus and Nether Yin Bloom at extreme yang and extreme yin sites.

Qin Ming cultivated Nether Yin Blooms in the Northern Domain and discovered their Essence Cleansing affix could improve Golden Core quality. He then rented a Tier 3 high-grade fire-vein cave abode in Azure Sea Immortal City to grow a Fiery Golden Lotus and prepare to refine a Tier 3 pill.

• Qin Ming planted Nether Yin Bloom Spirit Seeds beside a frigid yin pool and used Leaf of Spacetime affixes to grow them to five hundred years of maturity.
• Qin Ming discovered the blooms had Essence Cleansing and Mana Spring affixes, then tasked the Devouring Sky Rat with guarding them until the Nether Yin Dew formed.
• Qin Ming met Lu Wan-jun in Azure Sea Immortal City and arranged to rent a Tier 3 high-grade fire-vein cave abode after Sun Jinnian's lease ended.
• Qin Ming rented Cave Abode A for two years, surprising Lu Wan-jun and leading Sun Jinnian to suspect he planned to attempt refining a Tier 3 pill.
• Qin Ming entered the cave abode to cultivate the Fiery Golden Lotus and prepare to refine a Dustfall Pill using materials from Linghu Yang's and Old Yan's Storage Bags.

Qin Ming rented a Tier 3 fire-vein cave abode, nurtured Fiery Golden Lotuses, and spent years studying how to refine the Tier 3 Dustfall Pill. After many failures, he successfully refined three pills, and the astonishing dragon-and-phoenix phenomenon revealed that Azure Sea Immortal City had gained a new Pill Dao Grandmaster.

• Qin Ming set up concealment formations in the fire-vein cave abode and nurtured six Fiery Golden Lotuses until they gained an affix that added two hundred and fifty years of lifespan.
• Qin Ming spent two years tending the lotuses and refining Dustfall Pills while Sun Jinian and other alchemists waited outside to learn whether he would succeed.
• When Qin Ming's rental period expired, Nalan Xi waived his fees and ordered everyone not to disturb his secluded cultivation.
• Qin Ming condensed the medicinal liquid in his Mystic Jade Furnace and successfully refined three Dustfall Pills as dragon and phoenix phantoms appeared.
• Sun Jinian and the watching cultivators recognized the Tier 3 pill phenomenon, while Nalan Xi arrived outside the cave abode and marveled at Qin Ming's achievement.

Qin Ming completed a batch of Dustfall Pills, including a premium pill, and emerged from seclusion to find Azure Sea Immortal City gathered outside. After revealing his Tier 3 achievement and showing the alchemists a Dustfall Pill, he left with Nalan Xi, who resolved to obtain one for her own cultivation.

• Qin Ming refined three Dustfall Pills, one of which had nine pill patterns, and used five Abundant Lifespan affixes from the Fiery Golden Lotuses to increase his lifespan to 1,460 years.
• Qin Ming left the cave abode and found a crowd led by Nalan Xi waiting outside to congratulate him on becoming a Tier 3 Pill Dao Grandmaster.
• Nalan Xi invited Qin Ming to Main Peak, and he accepted after greeting the gathered cultivators and alchemists.
• Sun Jinian asked Qin Ming what Tier 3 spirit pill he had refined, and Qin Ming revealed that it was the Dustfall Pill.
• Qin Ming displayed a Dustfall Pill to the gathered alchemists, then departed with Nalan Xi, who decided to obtain one from him to aid her breakthrough to the Golden Core Middle Stage.

Qin Ming traded a Dustfall Pill to Nalan Xi for Solar Essence Gold and Spirit Stones, then left Azure Sea Peak as news of his Tier 3 Pill Dao Grandmaster breakthrough swept through Azure Sea Immortal City. He headed to Mirror Snow Pavilion to meet Gu Qingzhao, having to enter through the back door to avoid the crowds.

• Nalan Xi welcomed Qin Ming with spirit tea and asked to buy one of the two Dustfall Pills he had refined.
• Qin Ming traded a Dustfall Pill to Nalan Xi for a piece of Tier 3 Solar Essence Gold and five thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, then received a refund for his cave-abode rental.
• Qin Ming gave Lu Wan-jun a bottle of Yellow Dragon Pills, and Azure Sea Adept appointed her an elder in the inner city's Hall of Affairs and offered her a cave abode on a Main Peak.
• Qin Ming received invitations from Gu Qingzhao and Xu Jing, then chose to visit Mirror Snow Pavilion while concealing his appearance.
• News of Qin Ming's grandmaster breakthrough spread across Azure Sea Immortal City, and he entered Mirror Snow Pavilion through the back door to avoid the crowds.

Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island with the harvested Nether Yin Bloom ingredients and prepared to refine a Core Formation Pill and pursue the Golden Core realm. After his reputation as a Tier 3 Pill Dao Grandmaster drew visitors from many factions, Yuwen Hong of the Spirit Feather Sect arrived unexpectedly.

• Qin Ming harvested the matured Nether Yin Bloom and Nether Yin Dew, then left the iceberg with the Devouring Sky Rat after asking it to guard him during core formation.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, checked the Abundant Nether Ghost Jujube Tree, rested, and began studying the core formation formula.
• Wu Jiang told Qin Ming that Wei Wuyai wished to visit, and Qin Ming accepted the Thunder Origin Sect elder’s invitation.
• Wei Wuyai visited Moon Gazing Island and exchanged three sets of Dustfall Pill materials for one Dustfall Pill from Qin Ming.
• Cultivators from many factions sought audiences with Qin Ming, but he refused them all.
• Yuwen Hong, the Golden Core Ancestor of the Spirit Feather Sect, arrived at Moon Gazing Lake.

Yuwen Hong visited Qin Ming on Moon Gazing Island, offered him rare Jade Emperor Rice Spirit Seeds, and tried to recruit him back into Spirit Feather Sect, but Qin Ming refused and stayed independent. After Yuwen Hong left, Qin Ming examined the seeds and prepared to refine the Wood Sovereign Nails with the Solar Essence Gold he had obtained.

• Qin Ming welcomed Yuwen Hong to Moon Gazing Island, where Yuwen Hong gave him more than a dozen Jade Emperor Rice Spirit Seeds and praised his Snow Soul Spirit Tea.
• Yuwen Hong described the rivalry between Spirit Feather Sect and Thunder Origin Sect, then asked whether Qin Ming had sold Dustfall Pills to Wei Wuyai; Qin Ming said he had only refined one, which Azure Sea Adept had acquired.
• Yuwen Hong invited Qin Ming to return to Spirit Feather Sect as a Grand Elder, but Qin Ming declined because he wanted to remain an independent island lord.
• Yuwen Hong bought three Five Elements Vitality Spirit Peaches from Qin Ming and left with a box of Snow Soul Spirit Tea.
• Qin Ming inspected the Jade Emperor Rice Spirit Seeds, took out the Solar Essence Gold, and asked Jin Lingzi how to refine the Wood Sovereign Nails.

Qin Ming received Jin Lingzi's complete Treasure Refinement Art and used it to upgrade his Wood Sovereign Nails. Half a month later, Gongsun Yang and Fang Han visited Moon Gazing Island, where Qin Ming and Gongsun Yang began exchanging pill-refining knowledge.

• Jin Lingzi passed the complete Treasure Refinement Art into Qin Ming's Sea of Consciousness, revealing his extraordinary inheritance and insights.
• Qin Ming refined Solar Essence Gold into the three Wood Sovereign Nails, raising them to top-grade Tier 3 magic treasures and testing their power.
• Qin Ming planted the enhanced Wood Sovereign Nails in his Natal Spirit Plant, noting that their tremendous mana consumption limited his ability to use them.
• Half a month later, Gongsun Yang and his disciple Fang Han arrived at Moon Gazing Island, and Gongsun Yang praised Qin Ming's island and discussed the Pill Dao with him.
• Gongsun Yang asked Qin Ming about the Dustfall Pill formula and his successful refinement, prompting Qin Ming to steer their discussion toward the Core Formation Pill.
• Qin Ming and Gongsun Yang exchanged pill-refining questions and insights through three days and three nights.

After refusing to receive visitors from Jin Kingdom, Qin Ming drove Duanmu Sheng and Luo Feixue away with the Mystic Water Crocodile’s demonic sense. Days later, he saw through Gu Qingzhao’s disguise and attacked the apparent visitor, revealing a Foundation Establishment Perfection intruder using the Thousand Illusions Demon Art.

• Gongsun Yang praised Qin Ming’s alchemy, asked him to look after Fang Han, and failed to persuade him to join Profound Stream Valley.
• Qin Ming continued studying the Core Formation Pill formula while his spiritual power solidification advanced to two-thirds completion.
• Qin Ming refused to meet Duanmu Sheng and Luo Feixue, and Duanmu Sheng fled after encountering the Mystic Water Crocodile beneath the lake.
• Duanmu Sheng suspected Qin Ming was stronger than expected and said someone else would come looking for trouble with him.
• Qin Ming welcomed the apparent Gu Qingzhao, saw through her disguise with his Law-Breaking Double Pupils, and struck her with an azure sword attack.
• The false Gu Qingzhao re-formed from black smoke and revealed a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator using the Thousand Illusions Demon Art.

Qin Ming defeated Old Devil Yan after the demonic cultivator attacked his island to seize spirit pills. Old Devil Yan died before he could detonate his Golden Core, and Qin Ming learned that Duanmu Sheng had sent him after the island.

• Old Devil Yan revealed himself and attacked Qin Ming with the Ghost Wail Blade, but Qin Ming's True Extremity Body repelled it.
• Qin Ming summoned three spirit beasts and revealed his Golden Core-level mana and three third-rank top-grade Wood Sovereign Nails, prompting Old Devil Yan to flee.
• Old Devil Yan used the Black Bone Staff and its ghosts to cover his escape, but a Wood Sovereign Nail destroyed the staff and the three nails caught him, costing him an arm.
• Old Devil Yan admitted that Duanmu Sheng had supplied him with information and pleaded for his life, but Qin Ming sent the nails through his head before he could self-explode his Golden Core.
• Qin Ming drained Old Devil Yan's corpse with Thorn Art, and the Devouring Sky Rat retrieved the Golden Core and gave it to him.

After killing Old Devil Yan, Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, prepared to refine Core Formation Pills, and sold Wu Jiang a premium Foundation Establishment Pill. News then arrived that Spirit Feather Sect and Thunder Origin Sect were nearing war, and Qin Ming watched Spirit Feather Sect’s army pass through the Spirit Rest Archipelago before returning his focus to pill refinement.

• Qin Ming absorbed Old Devil Yan’s Blood Orb with the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine, searched his Storage Bag, and decided to remember Duanmu Sheng’s name.
• Qin Ming entered seclusion to refine Core Formation Pills and sold Wu Jiang a premium Foundation Establishment Pill for eighty thousand Lower-grade Spirit Stones.
• After his third refining attempt failed, Qin Ming read Gu Qingzhao’s message warning that the Spirit Rest Archipelago might be caught up in the coming war between Spirit Feather Sect and Thunder Origin Sect.
• Qin Ming watched Yuwen Hong lead Spirit Feather Sect’s vast fleet through the archipelago toward Thunder Origin Sect.
• Qin Ming ignored the growing reports of war and continued refining pills.

Wei Wuyai’s Thunder Origin Sect defeated the Spirit Feather Sect after he turned the tide against Yuwen Hong and Old Ghost Yu. Two years later, Qin Ming successfully refined two Core Formation Pills and prepared to attempt the Golden Core Stage.

• The Spirit Feather Sect and Thunder Origin Sect launched a massive battle, while Wei Wuyai and Yuwen Hong fought with their natal magic treasures.
• Old Ghost Yu ambushed Wei Wuyai and joined Yuwen Hong, but Wei Wuyai activated the Primal Lightning Armor and gained the upper hand.
• Wei Wuyai severely wounded Yuwen Hong and Old Ghost Yu, and the Thunder Origin Sect ultimately defeated the Spirit Feather Sect.
• Qin Ming received Mirror Snow Pavilion’s report that the Thunder Origin Sect had won and the Spirit Feather Sect had been wiped out.
• Two years later, Qin Ming refined two nine-pattern Core Formation Pills and prepared to break through to the Golden Core Stage.

After completing his preparations, Qin Ming attempted to form his Golden Core on Moon Gazing Island while powerful cultivators gathered to witness the breakthrough. He achieved an Upper-Grade Golden Core, then the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine triggered another transformation within it.

• Qin Ming refined two premium Core Formation Pills and heard Wu Jiang report that the Thunder Origin Sect had destroyed the Spirit Feather Sect while the Soaring Cloud Sect invaded Wei Kingdom.
• Qin Ming completed solidifying his spiritual power, sent the Wu Family away for safety, and gathered his core-forming resources beneath the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine.
• Qin Ming began his breakthrough as a vast spiritual qi vortex formed over Moon Gazing Island, and the Devouring Sky Rat stopped Nalan Xi and Ancestor Wan from disturbing him.
• Nalan Xi, Ancestor Wan, and later Wei Wuyai watched the vortex expand as Qin Ming’s breakthrough continued for nine days.
• Qin Ming formed an Upper-Grade Golden Core, but Silver Runes from the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine entered it and transformed it into a flawless Mysterious Pearl.

Qin Ming stabilized his Flawless Golden Core and faced an immense Golden Core lightning tribulation over Moon Gazing Island. With Jin Lingzi’s guidance, he decided to use the descending lightning to form a Physical Body True Core as well.

• Qin Ming passed the divine sense barrier, stabilized his Flawless Golden Core, and expanded his divine sense to three hundred li.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Longevity Vine’s silver seed rested atop Samadhi True Fire within his Golden Core.
• Terrifying tribulation clouds gathered over Moon Gazing Island, forcing nearby cultivators and beasts to flee while Nalan Xi, Wei Wuyai, Ancestor Wan, and Gu Qingzhao watched anxiously.
• Jin Lingzi explained that the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art could use tribulation lightning to temper Qin Ming’s body and form a Physical Body True Core.
• Qin Ming received the remaining techniques of the Heavenly Demon Body Refining Art and resolved to form his Physical Body True Core as golden lightning struck down.

Qin Ming endured the Golden Core lightning tribulation, formed a flawless Golden Core and a Physical Body True Core, and consolidated his new cultivation on Moon Gazing Island. After welcoming his visitors, he chose the Daoist title Moon Gazing Adept.

• Qin Ming drew eight bolts of tribulation lightning into his body and condensed a crimson Mysterious Pearl.
• Qin Ming used his Shattered Star divine ability to withstand the final black lightning bolt and completed his Physical Body True Core.
• Qin Ming consolidated his Golden Core cultivation, tested his ability to wield all eighteen Wood Sovereign Nails, and greeted his three Spirit Pets.
• The pink mist dispersed, and Wei Wuyai, Azure Sea Adept Nalan Xi, Ancestor Wan, Gu Qingzhao, and the others arrived on Moon Gazing Island to congratulate Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming told his guests that he would be known as the Moon Gazing Adept.