Recaps

Qin Ming warned the Skysea Alliance that the Netherworld Palace planned to act at the Immortal Abode Convention, then settled in Skywave Immortal City and refined three batches of Primal Chaos Pills with remarkable success. Long Yangzi and Xia Yuangong witnessed his pill-refining talent and began to reassess his potential.

• Qin Ming told Long Yangzi and Xia Yuangong that Netherworld Palace spies had infiltrated Dragon Abyss Island and might target the Immortal Abode Convention, prompting the two city lords to report the threat and purge their ranks.
• Qin Ming declined Long Yangzi's invitation to join Star Palace, accepted a jade plaque for the Nascent Soul exchange gathering, and visited Hua Tianxiong at Thousand Machines Pavilion.
• Hua Tianxiong gave Qin Ming the spiritual ingredients he had gathered, and Qin Ming moved into a cave abode on a Fourth-Grade Spirit Vein to cultivate and refine Primal Chaos Pills.
• Three months later, Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi discussed the demonic calamity when a purple-cloud phenomenon appeared above Qin Ming's cave, revealing that he had successfully refined a batch of Primal Chaos Pills.
• Qin Ming refined three batches of Primal Chaos Pills with almost no waste, keeping three bottles of high-quality pills for himself before emerging to meet the astonished Long Yangzi and Xia Yuangong.

Qin Ming harvested and brewed supreme fourth-rank Great Dao Tribulation Tea, then absorbed its Nascent Soul Mana Affix and advanced his cultivation. As the Immortal Abode Convention approached, he arranged to visit Penglai Sect before meeting Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi at Dragon Abyss Island.

• Qin Ming harvested fifty jin of Great Dao Tribulation Tea leaves with the Devouring Sky Rat and processed them into fifteen jin of tea.
• Qin Ming brewed and tasted the tea, then stored the rest and consumed its Nascent Soul Mana Affix, gaining mana comparable to ten years of cultivation.
• Qin Ming received messages from Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi inviting him to travel with them to the Immortal Abode Convention.
• Qin Ming told Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi that he planned to use his Penglai Immortal Token to visit Penglai Sect before meeting them at Dragon Abyss Island.
• Qin Ming bade Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi farewell and flew out of Skywave Immortal City.

Qin Ming entered the Penglai Immortal Tree to contemplate its inheritances and, guided by his Yin-Yang Mystic Vine, discovered a hidden treasure. He quickly obtained the fifth-rank Transformation Wood Spirit Classic and the ancient Spirit King Cauldron, then concealed the inheritance’s true rank from the Penglai elders.

• Qin Ming followed Dragonwood True Monarch into the Penglai Immortal Tree after Chen Muzhi emerged with a Jade Evolution Talisman Brush.
• Qin Ming used the Penglai Immortal Token to enter the tree’s starry inner space and learned from Old Demon Qingyang that its stars contained inheritances and treasures.
• Qin Ming’s Yin-Yang Mystic Vine guided him to an inconspicuous meteor containing a moss-covered three-legged cauldron, and he used his Great Dao Enlightenment Affix to decipher its inscriptions.
• Qin Ming obtained the fifth-rank Transformation Wood Spirit Classic and the cauldron, which Old Demon Qingyang identified as the legendary Spirit King Cauldron.
• The Penglai Immortal Tree erupted with golden light, and Qin Ming returned to Dragonwood True Monarch and Chen Muzhi, telling them he had obtained a Fourth-Grade Spirit Plant inheritance.

Qin Ming’s Spirit King Cauldron nearly killed the Devouring Sky Rat, but he discovered it could refine living vitality into Yi Wood Essence. Feeding that essence to his Natal Spirit Plant transformed it into the Ageless Immortal Vine and helped Qin Ming advance his spirit body to greater mastery and his Azure Emperor Art to its twelfth layer.

• The Spirit King Cauldron swallowed the Devouring Sky Rat, and Qin Ming later found it drained and near death inside the cauldron before releasing it and giving it a restorative pill.
• Qin Ming discovered that the cauldron had refined the Devouring Sky Rat’s vitality into Yi Wood Essence and fed the essence to his Natal Spirit Plant, the Yin-Yang Mystic Vine.
• The Yin-Yang Mystic Vine transformed into the Ageless Immortal Vine, gaining new affixes including Fleeting Time and Abundant Lifespan.
• The transformed vine’s Great Dao providence nourished Qin Ming, and after three days his Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique reached greater mastery.
• Qin Ming’s Azure Emperor Art broke through to the twelfth layer, which he expected would let him unlock the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror to fourth-rank spirit treasure level.

Qin Ming awakened the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror and fused its Soul-Burning Tribulation Fire with his other flames to create the Primordial Poison Flame. After setting out with the Penglai Sect for the Immortal Abode Convention, he arrived near Dragon Abyss Island and encountered a delegation from the Profound Darkness Sect.

• Old Demon Qingyang praised Qin Ming for reaching major completion in the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique and told him he could wield the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror.
• Qin Ming refined the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror with the Azure Emperor Art, awakening its Soul-Burning Tribulation Fire and raising it to a fourth-rank spirit treasure.
• Qin Ming fused the Soul-Burning Tribulation Fire, Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame, and Natal infant flame into the Primordial Poison Flame, then used the Four Seasons Divine Light to heal the Devouring Sky Rat.
• After receiving Dragonwood True Monarch's message, Qin Ming joined the Penglai Sect's spirit ships bound for Dragon Abyss Island and discussed the convention and sea clans with her and Chen Muzhi.
• The Penglai ships entered sea clan territory and encountered the Profound Darkness Sect's Crystal Palace, where Dragonwood True Monarch exchanged barbed words with Guang Lingzi.
• Qin Ming's delegation approached Dragon Abyss Island, whose defenses included a fourth-rank upper-grade Protective Grand Array and a high-rank detection array.

Qin Ming explored Dragon Abyss Island’s Immortal Abode Convention, bought a rare spirit seed bargain, and met Xuan Xiao, the East Sea Dragon Palace’s Third Prince. He then reached the Golden Core trading area and spotted a long-lost acquaintance haggling over a Dragon Elephant Horn.

• Qin Ming entered Dragon Abyss Island with the Penglai Sect and discovered that Netherworld Palace cultivators had infiltrated the island in disguise.
• Qin Ming told Dragonwood True Monarch he would browse alone, then contacted Hua Tianxiong and asked him to watch for Azure Sky Spirit Soil.
• Qin Ming bought every bag of Spirit Seeds from a Foundation Establishment stallholder after recognizing several Submerged Sea Purple Dew Grass seeds among them.
• Xuan Xiao recognized Qin Ming as the newly ascended Moon Gazing True Monarch and invited him to his residence, but Qin Ming politely declined.
• Qin Ming reached the island’s core trading area and saw a blue-robed acquaintance arguing with a shopkeeper over a fourth-order Dragon Elephant Horn.

At the Immortal Abode Convention, Qin Ming reunited with Cold Crow Reverend and traded Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar for Azure Sky Spirit Soil held in a Spirit Accumulation Gourd. The convention then opened on Dragon Abyss Island, where Qin Ming entered a hall filled with Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Qin Ming caught Cold Crow Reverend trying to slip away and invited him to browse the convention and share a meal.
• While following Cold Crow Reverend through the stalls, Qin Ming obtained several rare spirit materials and later offered him fourth-grade Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar.
• Cold Crow Reverend traded Qin Ming a gourd of Azure Sky Spirit Soil for half a jar of Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar, and Qin Ming discovered the gourd was a fourth-grade upper-grade Spirit Accumulation Gourd.
• Cold Crow Reverend rented a room to refine the wine's medicinal power, and two days later he and Qin Ming attended the Immortal Abode Convention's opening.
• Qin Ming entered a hall with more than twenty Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and stood out as the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm's sole representative.

Qin Ming attended the Immortal Abode Convention, where Supreme Yang Reverend revealed that the Blood Abyss Realm’s invasion was tied to the ancient Demon Realm and conflicts in the Spirit Realm. The gathering ended with the Nascent Soul cultivators recognizing that the war between realms was part of a larger struggle among the upper realms.

• Qin Ming greeted Dragonwood True Monarch, Chen Muzhi, Xia Yuangong, and Long Yangzi at the convention, while Cold Crow Reverend was astonished by his connections.
• Prince Xuan Xiao arrived with other sea-race cultivators and greeted Qin Ming, prompting the nearby cultivators to marvel at his ties to the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Supreme Yang Reverend arrived and announced that the Blood Abyss Realm’s invasion threatened to contaminate the Mortal Realm, urging the cultivators to join forces against it.
• Qin Ming questioned Old Demon Qingyang about his True Demon Qi, and Old Demon Qingyang reassured him that his small amount posed little cause for concern.
• Nan Mengli questioned whether the Blood Abyss Realm’s invasion could be reconciled, and Supreme Yang Reverend explained that it was connected to the Spirit Tide Realm and the wider conflicts in the Spirit Realm.

Supreme Yang Reverend formed an alliance of Nascent Soul forces to fight the demonic invasion and assigned Qin Ming responsibility for the Southern Wilderness. After learning Qin Ming had killed Bloodthirst Demon Lord, Supreme Yang Reverend rewarded him and began the Immortal Abode Convention’s exchange meeting.

• Supreme Yang Reverend used his authority and power to make the Nascent Soul forces agree to an alliance and accept assignments against the demonic invasion.
• Supreme Yang Reverend assigned Qin Ming to gather the Southern Wilderness forces and oversee logistics, with Cold Crow Reverend and Old Man of Heavenly Secrets agreeing to cooperate.
• Supreme Yang Reverend privately asked Qin Ming whether he had killed Bloodthirst Demon Lord, and Qin Ming admitted it after learning Old Man of Heavenly Secrets had divined the truth.
• Supreme Yang Reverend praised Qin Ming, offered him a fourth-rank treasure from the alliance treasury, and continued assigning tasks to the other factions.
• Supreme Yang Reverend declared the discussions finished and opened the exchange meeting, where the Nascent Soul cultivators began trading treasures.

During the exchange meeting, Qin Ming learned that two East Sea Dragon Palace infiltrators had been left without orders while a hidden pawn remained on Dragon Abyss Island. He traded a Primal Chaos Pill for a powerful talisman, then exchanged more pills for a healing formula and Sun Godstone to strengthen his magic treasures.

• Celestial Foreseer apologized to Qin Ming for revealing his killing of the Bloodthirst Demon Lord, but Qin Ming remained cold toward him.
• Qin Ming sensed two Foundation Establishment cultivators, Junior Brother Ling and Senior Brother Yan, discussing the purge of their fellow infiltrators and an unknown hidden pawn on Dragon Abyss Island.
• Guang Lingzi offered a fourth-rank Iceburst Talisman Treasure, and Qin Ming traded a Primal Chaos Pill for it before giving the talisman to Cold Crow Reverend in exchange for two pieces of Void Essence Stone.
• Qin Ming offered six Primal Chaos Pills for rare materials or information and traded one pill for a Sweet Rain Pill formula.
• Qin Ming traded another Primal Chaos Pill with the old fisherman for Sun Godstone, which he planned to use with the Void Essence Stone to upgrade his Wood Sovereign Nails.

Qin Ming traded pills and spirit materials at the Nascent Soul exchange gathering, then followed Supreme Yang Reverend to the Skysea Alliance treasury. Supreme Yang Reverend questioned him about his strength and the deaths of several cultivators, and Qin Ming blamed Bloodthirst True Monarch’s death on Li Huo Shangren’s final counterattack.

• Celestial Foreseer traded information about the Sun Godstone for a Primal Chaos Pill, and Qin Ming exchanged his remaining pills for Fourth-Grade spirit materials.
• Nan Mengli exchanged the Azure Spirit Mystic Robe for Cold Crow Reverend’s Fourth-Order Demon Core, while Dragonwood True Monarch traded an Iceflame Herb to a cultivator surnamed Huang for Azure Sky Spirit Soil.
• Qin Ming outbid Guang Lingzi for Xuan Xiao’s two Fourth-Grade Demon Cores with Upper-Grade Spirit Stones and a Yin Infant Fruit.
• Celestial Foreseer won the Infant Condensation Pill, Dragonwood True Monarch obtained the Spirit Binding Ring, and Guang Lingzi won the Qian Yuan Sword Formation at the alliance’s auction.
• Supreme Yang Reverend led Qin Ming through guarded formations to a hidden treasury beneath the sea and asked whether he had been involved in the deaths of Secluded Sand True Monarch and Li Huo Shangren.
• Qin Ming recounted the events and claimed Li Huo Shangren’s desperate counterattack had killed Bloodthirst True Monarch.

Qin Ming chose a damaged ancient talisman from the Skysea Alliance’s treasure vault and learned it was a rare Spirit Realm treasure with powers to cross realms and observe distant targets. As he prepared to leave Dragon Abyss Island, he encountered Liu Yu being pressured by Ancient Sword Sect cultivators over a Golden Edict Page, and Qin Ming turned his divine sense toward it.

• Supreme Yang Reverend let Qin Ming choose a treasure from the alliance vault, and Qin Ming selected a damaged silver talisman at the Devouring Sky Rat’s urging.
• Qin Ming placed the talisman in his Lesser Spirit Realm, where his Ageless Immortal Vine began nourishing it and showed signs of repairing it.
• Old Demon Qingyang identified the talisman as the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman and explained its realm-travel and remote-observation abilities, while hinting that rare materials could unlock an additional benefit.
• Qin Ming declined Supreme Yang Reverend’s offer to become an alliance elder, then met with fellow cultivators before spending two more days watching the Immortal Abode Convention duels.
• Qin Ming set out with Hua Tianxiong to leave Dragon Abyss Island and found Liu Yu confronting three Ancient Sword Sect cultivators who demanded the return of a Golden Edict Page.
• Qin Ming quietly sent his divine sense toward the Golden Edict Page as the confrontation continued.

Qin Ming intervened when Liu Yu was pressured by Ancient Sword Sect cultivators over the Golden Edict Page, then accepted Qingfeng True Monarch’s challenge to settle the dispute in a duel. The chapter ends as Pure Dust True Monarch begins his attack before a crowd on Dragon Abyss Island.

• Three Ancient Sword Sect cultivators demanded that Liu Yu hand over the Golden Edict Page, while Liu Yu’s wife apologized for accidentally selling it with a book.
• Qingfeng True Monarch arrived, and Qin Ming revealed that he had made a deal with Liu Yu to collect the page.
• Qingfeng True Monarch proposed that Qin Ming endure three moves to claim the page, and Qin Ming accepted.
• Supreme Yang Reverend arrived and arranged the duel at Dragon Abyss Island’s central plaza, where he activated the Nine Twists Celestial River Grand Formation.
• Pure Dust True Monarch released his spiritual power and drew a fourth-rank blue longsword to begin the duel.

Qin Ming defeated Qingfeng True Monarch by trapping him in a powerful illusion, then accepted Liu Yu’s Golden Edict Page in exchange for Returning Yang True Water. The chapter ended with Liu Yu revealing that he had two more Golden Edict Pages for Qin Ming.

• Qingfeng True Monarch attacked Qin Ming with his Pure Dust Sword Sutra, but Qin Ming’s Divine Sense shield stopped the first strike.
• Qingfeng True Monarch believed he had wounded Qin Ming and won, while the onlookers saw that Qin Ming had trapped him in an illusion from the start.
• Supreme Yang Reverend asked Qin Ming to release Qingfeng True Monarch, who awoke, conceded, and left the plaza.
• Qin Ming accepted Liu Yu’s Golden Edict Page and gave him Returning Yang True Water in return.
• Liu Yu revealed that he had two more Golden Edict Pages, and Qin Ming inspected them.

Qin Ming exchanged with Liu Yu and Cold Crow Reverend before attending the prodigy duels on Dragon Abyss Island. He discovered Liu Yu was secretly a demonic envoy activating a ritual beneath the island, and Supreme Yang Reverend and Qin Ming arrived as the formation opened a void rift.

• Qin Ming traded Liu Yu a bottle of Demon Flame Wine for two Golden Edict Pages, then shared a meal with Liu Yu and his family.
• Cold Crow Reverend exchanged four Golden Edict Pages with Qin Ming for Spirit Wine, and the two stayed to watch the final duels.
• Liu Yu advanced to the Golden Core Middle Stage with the Demon Flame Wine and won his first spell duel.
• Qin Ming detected the Netherworld Palace spies, the Shrimp Soldier and Crab General, meeting Liu Yu beneath Dragon Abyss Island.
• Liu Yu replaced the formation's core and opened a void rift with demonic qi, sacrificing a Golden Core guard as the island shook.
• Qin Ming and Supreme Yang Reverend arrived at the ritual site, and Liu Yu realized the spies had been exposed.

Liu Yu’s ritual opened a Void Rift beneath Dragon Abyss Island, allowing the Blood Demon Hall and powerful Devil Lords to enter the world. As Demon Qi spread and the Nascent Soul cultivators considered fleeing, Six Desires Demon Lord killed Old Man Huang and seized his Nascent Soul.

• Supreme Yang Reverend and Qin Ming arrived as Liu Yu’s ritual expanded the Void Anomaly, but a powerful Devil Master’s voice stopped Supreme Yang Reverend from killing Liu Yu and his companions.
• Qin Ming alerted the Nascent Soul cultivators outside, and the Blood Demon Hall burst through the underground and emerged on Dragon Abyss Island.
• Lord Seven Sorrows, Six Desires Demon Lord, and other Devil Lords emerged as Demon Qi spread across the island, corrupting and killing those it touched.
• Qin Ming urged Cold Crow Reverend and Dragonwood True Monarch to flee, warning that a Nascent Soul Late Stage Devil Master might descend.
• Old Man Huang tried to escape, but Six Desires Demon Lord trapped him in his Domain, destroyed his body, and captured his Nascent Soul.

Supreme Yang Reverend opened a path through the Six Desires Demon Lord’s domain so the human cultivators could flee Dragon Abyss Island. Qin Ming and the others escaped, but Lord Seven Sorrows hunted down Guang Lingzi’s group while Lan Bing pursued Cold Crow Reverend.

• Supreme Yang Reverend clashed domains with the Six Desires Demon Lord and urged the human Nascent Soul cultivators to evacuate through the opening.
• Qin Ming fled with Cold Crow Reverend, and Celestial Foreseer used a divination to persuade several cultivators to follow Qin Ming.
• Lord Seven Sorrows pursued Guang Lingzi, destroyed his ice-crystal palace with one punch, and killed the Profound Darkness Palace cultivators aboard it.
• Lan Bing caught up with the fleeing group as Cold Crow Reverend used a high-grade talisman to speed ahead of Qin Ming.
• Lan Bing used her own high-grade talisman to overtake the group and chase Cold Crow Reverend.

Qin Ming lured Lord Seven Sorrows into an undersea gorge, defeated him with the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror’s Primordial Poison Flame, and had his Demonic Nascent Soul possess the weakened cultivator. He prepared to infiltrate the Blood Refinement Demon Sect in Lord Seven Sorrows’ body and plunder its treasures while gaining intelligence.

• Lan Bing pursued Cold Crow Reverend while Lord Seven Sorrows killed a fleeing rogue cultivator and then chased Qin Ming into the sea.
• Qin Ming struck Lord Seven Sorrows with Soul-Destroying Spikes, but a protective treasure shielded most of his Nascent Soul.
• Qin Ming and Lord Seven Sorrows clashed in their demonic forms and domains, matching each other’s strength beneath the sea.
• Qin Ming used the Curved Jade Golden Light Mirror’s Primordial Poison Flame to burn Lord Seven Sorrows’ Nascent Soul until it could barely resist.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Nascent Soul devoured Lord Seven Sorrows’ Nascent Soul, possessed his body, and absorbed his memories while preserving a wisp of his divine soul.
• Qin Ming used the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman to mark his Demonic Nascent Soul with a void coordinate, preparing to infiltrate the Blood Refinement Demon Sect.

Qin Ming returned from the Eastern Sea after escaping the Blood Refinement Demon Sect’s attack, while his demonic nascent soul impersonated Lord Seven Sorrows and helped steer the invasion away from the Southern Wilderness. Back home, Qin Ming asked Cold Crow Reverend to search for Abyssal Obsidian and continued onward to the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.

• Qin Ming and his demonic nascent soul left the undersea canyon, and Lord Seven Sorrows’ Soul Lamp in the Blood Refinement Demon Sect resumed burning.
• Qin Ming found Cold Crow Reverend returning with reinforcements from Skywave Immortal City, then warned Xia Yuangong and Long Yangzi about Dragon Abyss Island’s Eye of the Void.
• Cold Crow Reverend explained that the demonic pollution might overwhelm the Eastern Sea, so Qin Ming arranged for Hua Tianxiong to manage a Skywave Immortal City base and traveled home with Cold Crow Reverend.
• Qin Ming’s demonic nascent soul returned to Dragon Abyss Island disguised as Lord Seven Sorrows and persuaded the Devil Lords to focus their invasion elsewhere rather than on the Southern Wilderness.
• After nearly half a year, Qin Ming asked Cold Crow Reverend to search for Abyssal Obsidian in exchange for Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar, then continued to the Southern Wilderness and sent Shi Jin back to handle maritime trade.

Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island just as Elder Wu Kui and his demonic forces broke its protective formation, then killed the Nascent Soul Devil Master and restored order across the Southern Wasteland. He rewarded Mo Lingwei and Wu Wangfeng, sent his spirit pets to clear the remaining Void Anomalies, and left the Devouring Sky Rat preparing to break through to the Transformation Realm.

• Mo Lingwei learned that new Void Anomalies had appeared and asked Wu Wangfeng to help defend Moon Gazing Island while Qin Ming was away.
• Elder Wu Kui broke the island’s fourth-grade formation with a Barrier Breaking Talisman and prepared to raid its spirit fields.
• Qin Ming returned with the Devouring Sky Rat, which killed hundreds of demonic cultivators, while Qin Ming trapped and killed Elder Wu Kui.
• Qin Ming installed a new formation, rewarded Mo Lingwei with a Core Formation Pill and Mystic Wraith Spirit Liquid, and gave Wu Wangfeng pills and life-saving items.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and two other spirit pets to clear Void Anomalies across the four nations, restoring peace within months.
• Qin Ming told the Devouring Sky Rat to prepare for a breakthrough to the Transformation Realm and let it consume the Yin Infant Fruits.

Qin Ming learned that Longevity Temple and Boundless Mountain were preparing a major assault on the Beast Cry Mountain Range to gather materials for the Blood-Spirit Grand Pill, while Lord Skywrath arrived to coordinate a wider invasion of the Mortal Realm. Qin Ming secretly learned the invaders’ plans and took responsibility for the Southern Wilderness, easing the immediate threat to it.

• Qin Ming cultivated Bloodscale Dragon Rice on Moon Gazing Island as Mo Lingwei formed an Upper-Grade Golden Core and survived her lightning tribulation.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat to Yue Lingyan to learn about overcoming the transformation heavenly tribulation.
• Two Nascent Soul Devil Lords from Longevity Temple descended near Sword Lake, evaded a Four Nations Alliance spirit warship’s cannon, and left the alliance cultivators to seal the Void Anomaly.
• Qin Ming identified the Longevity Temple cultivators and warned the Demon Race that they were gathering resources in the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Lord Skywrath arrived at Demon Abyss Island, where the Devil Lords planned a large-scale assault on the Beast Cry Mountain Range with Longevity Temple and Boundless Mountain.
• Qin Ming learned the invasion plans through Lord Seven Sorrows and took charge of the arrangements concerning the Southern Wilderness.

Qin Ming’s intelligence helped the Skysea Alliance repel the Blood Abyss Realm’s assault, while Lord Skywrath punished those responsible for the failed attack. Back on Moon Gazing Island, the Devouring Sky Rat prepared for and began its transformation tribulation, which left its fate unresolved.

• Reverend Azure Crane ordered a counterattack, and the Skysea Alliance’s Brahma Solar Divine Light devastated the demonic fleet besieging Skywave Immortal City.
• Lord Skywrath crushed Reverend No-Form’s body and Nascent Soul for the Demon Alliance’s failed assault, then reassigned responsibility for the Eastern Sea campaign.
• The Devouring Sky Rat returned to Qin Ming with spoils from an ambush at Beast Cry Mountain Range and a transformation method learned from Silver Moon Demon Saint.
• Qin Ming evacuated Moon Gazing Island’s cultivators and gave the Devouring Sky Rat Great Dao Tribulation Tea as it prepared to attempt its transformation tribulation.
• Three days later, a vast spiritual-energy tide gathered over Moon Gazing Island as the Devouring Sky Rat began its tribulation, and a silver rune appeared between its brows.

The Devouring Sky Rat consumed a five-thousand-year Yin Infant Fruit and began its transformation tribulation while Qin Ming protected it from two ambushing Nascent Soul devil cultivators. After its transformation great core formed, the rat faced the heavenly tribulation head-on, leaving its breakthrough still underway.

• The Devouring Sky Rat ate the Yin Infant Fruit, and Old Demon Qingyang speculated that it might awaken a powerful rat bloodline ability.
• Old Monster Luo and the young man surnamed Shan arrived to ambush the Devouring Sky Rat during its tribulation and steal its Demon Core.
• Qin Ming trapped the two devil cultivators inside the Blood Floating Pagoda, where Old Demon Qingyang attacked them.
• The Devouring Sky Rat formed its transformation great core, and transformation tribulation clouds gathered above Moon Gazing Island.
• The Devouring Sky Rat drank Qin Ming’s Great Dao Tribulation Tea and charged head-on at the first heavenly tribulation bolt as cultivators watched.

The Devouring Sky Rat survived its transformation tribulation and became a fourth-order Demon Saint, transforming into a child and revealing that it had awakened unusual bloodline memories. After Qin Ming questioned its new powers, the rat prepared to demonstrate an eating-related ability on two people trapped outside Moon Gazing Island.

• Qin Ming noticed the Devouring Sky Rat's silver Spirit Marks resembled those on his Ageless Immortal Vine as the rat endured its transformation tribulation.
• Yue Lingyan and the Ancient Mountain Demon Saint watched the tribulation with other fourth-order Demon Saints, while the Peacock Saintess reported it to a white-robed Venerable Lord who chose not to attend.
• The Devouring Sky Rat endured the lightning with its body and Demon Slayer Halberd, then used its Demon Core to devour the final two bolts and completed its transformation.
• The Devouring Sky Rat transformed into a fair, chubby child, reunited with Qin Ming, and explained that its juvenile form and awakened memories came from its bloodline.
• Qin Ming asked how its strength had changed, and the Devouring Sky Rat said its awakened bloodline power involved eating before preparing to demonstrate it on two people trapped outside the spirit island.

After the Devouring Sky Rat advanced to the fourth order, he killed two demonic cultivators and revealed that he could produce Abyssal Obsidian. Qin Ming stored the crystals and welcomed Nascent Soul guests to Moon Gazing Island to celebrate the beast's breakthrough.

• The Devouring Sky Rat emerged from Moon Gazing Island and trapped Luo the Freak and the young man surnamed Shan with his Forbidden Severing Dark Light.
• The Devouring Sky Rat destroyed Luo the Freak's demonic sword, killed him, devoured his Nascent Soul, and swallowed the young man surnamed Shan.
• Qin Ming collected the corpses, then learned that the Devouring Sky Rat's bloodline ability could devour treasures and Nascent Souls.
• The Devouring Sky Rat showed Qin Ming three crystals of Abyssal Obsidian that he had excreted after eating food from the Fox Clan.
• Qin Ming rewarded the Devouring Sky Rat with Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar and told him to stabilize his cultivation in the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming invited Nascent Soul cultivators to Moon Gazing Island, where Ancient Mountain Demon Saint, Yue Lingyan, Celestial Foreseer, Cold Crow Reverend, Myriad Treasures True Monarch, and others arrived to congratulate him.