Recaps

Qin Ming defeated Old Immortal Lingtao, whose body was possessed by a God Transformation divided soul, and captured the soul after interrupting its attempt to summon its true body. He recognized the captive as Old Ancestor Nanming of Li Fire Palace, who pleaded for his life.

• Old Immortal Lingtao used the Earth Flame Sundering Light Banner, but Old Demon Qingyang broke the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Formation with the Blood Floating Pagoda.
• Qin Ming trapped Old Immortal Lingtao in his Nascent Soul Domain and repeatedly suppressed him, then bound him with poisonous Black Vines.
• Old Immortal Lingtao used the Lifeblood Blood Talisman to summon a projection of his God Transformation true body, but Qin Ming's vines disrupted the summoning and drained his body.
• Qin Ming destroyed Old Immortal Lingtao's body, captured his Nascent Soul and the possessing divided soul, and took his Storage Bag.
• Qin Ming recognized the Flame Mark and identified the divided soul as Old Ancestor Nanming, the vanished founding patriarch of Li Fire Palace, who asked Qin to spare him.

The Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint completed his breakthrough to fourth-rank Great Perfection and trapped the cultivators in his Nether Abyss Demon Domain. After he killed Li Qianjie and clashed with Xiao Xun’s starfall attack, Qin Ming and the survivors escaped Dragon Bone Reef.

• Qin Ming concluded that Old Ancestor Nanming could not descend in person and kept the old ancestor’s divine-soul wisp in his possession.
• The Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint finished his tribulation, revealed his fourth-rank Great Perfection aura, and trapped the group in his Nether Abyss Demon Domain.
• The Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint injured Li Qianjie, split his body with a tail blade, and devoured his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Xiao Xun evaded the Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint with Starfall Substitute Fate and summoned a meteor, which the demon saint shattered with lightning from his Demon Core.
• The Nine-Chi Old Ancestor and Xiao Xun escaped during the clash, and Qin Ming left with Xiao Xun.

Qin Ming defeated the Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint with his Primordial Demon Ape transformation and captured the Nine-Chi Old Ancestor after the wounded dragon arrived. As Qin Ming and Xiao Xun secured the Old Ancestor’s body, a concealed Demon Core exploded and engulfed them both.

• Qin Ming transformed into the Vajra Demon Aspect and overpowered the Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint, then revealed his Primordial Demon Ape form and killed him with the Ape-Demon Sky-Shaking Hand.
• Qin Ming captured the Sea-Cleaving Demon Saint’s Demon Core and stored his remains in the Lesser Spirit Realm before preparing to leave with Xiao Xun.
• The wounded Nine-Chi Old Ancestor crashed before Qin Ming and Xiao Xun, who joined forces to defeat him and stop his apparent Demon Core self-detonation.
• Qin Ming took the Nine-Chi Old Ancestor’s Demon Core, but a second, concealed Demon Core emerged from beneath the corpse and exploded, engulfing Qin Ming and Xiao Xun.

Qin Ming escaped the Outer Sea after a Fifth-Order Demon Lord appeared, then returned to Moon Gazing Island with the wounded Xiao Xun. After treating her, he and Xiao Xun recovered from the chi-jiao poison and divided their spoils, leaving their relationship awkward but changed.

• Xiao Xun used an Astral Jade Pendant to shield Qin Ming and herself from the Nine-Chi Blood Jiao's Demon Core explosion, but she fainted from her injuries and the poisonous mist.
• Qin Ming encountered the wounded Dragon Lady, then sensed a Fifth-Order Demon Lord near Dragon Bone Reef and used the Nine Heavens Azure Essence Mystic Response True Talisman to teleport away.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island and used his Azure Emperor Dharma Eye to heal Xiao Xun, but the chi-jiao poison affected them both and they became intimate.
• Several days later, Xiao Xun's injuries and the poison had healed, and Qin Ming found that his cultivation had advanced closer to Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
• Qin Ming gave Xiao Xun two Heart-Questioning Fruits, and she gave him a Storage Ring containing more than ten pieces of Deep Sea Blackstone as repayment for saving her.

Qin Ming traded a Yaoming Pill with Xiao Xun, learned about her Star Palace inheritance, and agreed to refine God Transformation Balm for her if she gathered the ingredients. After she returned to the Outer Sea, Qin Ming reviewed his gains and questioned Old Ancestor Nanming, while Old Demon Qingyang revealed that Nanming was lying and had been corrupted by Heavenly Demon Qi.

• Qin Ming exchanged a freshly refined fifth-grade Yaoming Pill for Xiao Xun's Deep Sea Black Iron and learned that she had inherited the Star Palace's legacy.
• Xiao Xun offered Qin Ming Mystic Abyss Cold Marrow and asked him to refine God Transformation Balm once she gathered the remaining materials; Qin Ming agreed.
• Xiao Xun left Moon Gazing Island for the Outer Sea, and the Devouring Sky Rat remarked that he sensed something unusual between her and Qin Ming.
• After returning to his cave abode, Qin Ming assessed his ingredients, artifacts, and other gains from the Outer Sea, including a Reversed Scale Tablet that marked an Ascension Platform leading to the Demon Realm.
• Qin Ming questioned Old Ancestor Nanming about his return to the five great immortal cultivation realms, and Nanming claimed his main body was trapped in a Demon Race secret realm.
• Old Demon Qingyang secretly told Qin Ming that Nanming was lying, had consumed Heavenly Demon Qi to reach Spirit Transformation, and had become mentally corrupted.

Old Ancestor Nanming revealed that Heavenly Demon Qi had left him half-human and half-demon, while Qin Ming secured the remaining ingredients needed for God Transformation Balm from Cloud Fishing Old Man. Cloud Fishing Old Man then began explaining how the Mortal Realm’s declining spiritual energy had made cultivation and ascension increasingly difficult.

• Old Ancestor Nanming explained that he had devoured Heavenly Demon Qi to break through, became half-human and half-demon, and stayed in the Demon Ruins to avoid endangering Li Fire Palace and the five great Immortal Cultivation Worlds.
• Qin Ming resealed Nanming after demonic aura overtook him, then learned from Old Demon Qingyang why Qin Ming had safely cultivated demonic powers.
• Qin Ming planted one Heart-Questioning Fruit in the Lesser Spirit Realm, tended his Spirit Plants, and left Moon Gazing Island to visit Cloud Fishing Old Man.
• Qin Ming gave Cloud Fishing Old Man two Yaoming Pills and received the Moonflower Spirit Fungus and Wish-Fulfilling Creation Clay, completing his five main ingredients for God Transformation Balm.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man shared how declining spiritual energy had hindered God Transformation cultivators and made reaching the Spirit Realm more difficult.

Qin Ming learned about Spirit Transformation from Cloud Fishing Old Man and prepared for the coming Final Battle against the Blood Abyss Realm. He discovered the Reversed Scale Tablet could help repair the Celestial Hall’s Ascension Platform, while White-Scaled Demon Lord considered an invitation to join forces.

• Cloud Fishing Old Man explained Spirit Transformation’s requirements and dangers, then told Qin Ming that the Mortal Realm’s cultivators were preparing to fight the Blood Abyss Realm’s demonic path.
• Qin Ming brought flood dragon essence blood and Deep Sea Black Iron to Qi Xiaoyu, who said he needed three to five years to refine the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation; Qin Ming gave him the promised Yaoming Pill.
• Qi Xiaoyu determined that the Reversed Scale Tablet could restore the Ascension Platform if they found its other half, and Old Ancestor Nanming revealed that half was with his true body in the Outer Sea’s Demon Ruins.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, prepared the Four Nations Alliance for war, and accepted Supreme Yang Reverend’s invitation to a gathering in Great Jin about the Final Battle.
• Mu Qingzi told White-Scaled Demon Lord that Cloud Fishing Old Man and the others had invited them to join forces against the Mortal Realm’s coming battle with the Blood Abyss Realm.

White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi prepared to join the coming war against the Blood Abyss Realm, while Qin Ming strengthened his plans for the battle and traveled to Great Jin for the alliance meeting. He arrived at Sky Abyss Immortal City with Yue Lingyan and Kong Xuan, where the gathered cultivators began discussing the final battle.

• Mu Qingzi urged White-Scaled Demon Lord to join the war, and White-Scaled Demon Lord agreed before ordering Kong Xuan and Yue Lingyan to prepare their tribes.
• Qin Ming saw that his Ageless Immortal Vine and Source Demon Jujube had gained new affixes, including Spell Replication, and planned to use them to prepare for battle.
• Two years later, Qin Ming traveled toward Great Jin and picked up Yue Lingyan and Kong Xuan in the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Qin Ming congratulated Yue Lingyan on her breakthrough and gave her a defensive spirit treasure, while Devouring Sky Rat introduced Tian Ling'er.
• Qin Ming and his companions reached Sky Abyss Immortal City, where Supreme Yang Reverend and the allied Nascent Soul cultivators had gathered.
• Cold Crow Reverend remarked on Qin Ming's companions, and Qin Ming teased him about his breakthrough and his gains from Mount Yuanji.

At the five Immortal Cultivation Worlds alliance meeting, Azurewood True Monarch revealed that Qin Ming had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, and both accepted dangerous missions for the coming war against the Blood Abyss Realm. After the seven-day meeting, Qin Ming’s friends pledged to accompany him on the mission to close the Void Eyes, and he promised to bring them back safely.

• Azurewood True Monarch arrived at the alliance meeting and recognized Qin Ming as a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivator, surprising the assembled Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Supreme Yang Reverend outlined the war plan and explained that the alliance needed to destroy demonic formations and close the Blood Abyss Realm’s Void Eyes.
• Qin Ming volunteered to close the Void Eyes, while Azurewood True Monarch agreed to lead the assault on the demonic formations.
• Supreme Yang Reverend promised Qin Ming and Azurewood True Monarch each a treasure from the alliance treasury as a merit reward.
• After the seven-day meeting, Su Yuqing, Cold Crow Reverend, Celestial Foreseer, Yue Lingyan, and the others pledged to accompany Qin Ming, who promised to lead them back safely.

Qin Ming traded a Yaoming Pill to Cold Crow Reverend for a ten-thousand-year God Crystal Fruit and the Crystal Mind Pill formula, then chose a mysterious ancient lamp from the alliance treasure vault. Meanwhile, demons discussed their losses at Mount Yuanji and suspected Qin Ming of interfering with their plans.

• Cold Crow Reverend asked Qin Ming about their dangerous assignment, then traded him a Yaoming Pill for a ten-thousand-year God Crystal Fruit and the Crystal Mind Pill formula.
• Qin Ming followed Azurewood True Monarch to the alliance treasure vault and chose a rusty ancient lamp that the Devouring Sky Rat identified as a valuable treasure.
• Supreme Yang Reverend said the ancient lamp had come from another survivor of Mount Yuanji and might require further study.
• Blood Prison Demon Lord questioned Rock Demon about the deaths of the Yin Demon Sect's Holy Son, Saintess, and Sky Hatred Elder at Mount Yuanji.
• Rock Demon recalled that two human Nascent Soul cultivators had entered Celestial Hall and suspected one of them had found the core inheritance and removed the Blood Ring Curse Mark.
• The Longevity Temple patriarch urged Blood Prison Demon Lord to focus on the coming war and asked Rock Demon how to release the Holy Ancestor from Mount Yuanji.

Qin Ming uncovered the Aurora Glazed Flame inside an ancient lamp and fused it with his Primordial Poison Flame, advancing it to the fifth grade. Five years later, he harvested silver fruits from his Ageless Immortal Vine and gained fifteen purple Affix leaves.

• The Rock Demon told the demon lords that Mount Yuanji’s seal required finding the Human Race Formation Master who reinforced it, then turned their attention to choosing a commander after Lord Skywrath’s death.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, arranged the Four Nations Alliance’s preparations for war, and sent Xiao Xun to investigate Old Ancestor Nanming’s Demon Ruins.
• Old Demon Qingyang identified the ancient lamp’s Kui Spirit Marks and explained how Qin Ming could activate it, revealing the fifth-grade Aurora Glazed Flame within.
• Qin Ming fused the Aurora Glazed Flame with his Primordial Poison Flame, advancing the latter to the fifth grade and gaining some command of aurora power.
• Qin Ming planted the fifth-grade God Crystal Fruit and tended his spirit plants as five years passed.
• Qin Ming harvested the Ageless Immortal Vine’s silver fruits and gained fifteen purple Affix leaves.

Qin Ming reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, while the Devouring Sky Rat advanced to the middle fourth rank and awakened a power that could devour an opponent’s fortune. After Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei reported gathering rare alchemy materials amid rising tensions, Qin Ming concluded that the Final Battle was near.

• Qin Ming harvested Source Demon Jujubes, used Nascent Soul Magical Power affixes to break through to Nascent Soul Great Perfection, and increased his lifespan and Divine Sense.
• The Devouring Sky Rat underwent a lightning tribulation and advanced to the middle fourth rank, awakening the Fate-Devouring Fangs bloodline ability.
• Old Demon Qingyang warned Qin Ming that the Devouring Sky Rat’s ability to devour fortune suggested its origins were extraordinary.
• Qin Ming and his spirit pets celebrated their breakthroughs, while Qin Ming sensed that the Silver-Winged Frost Bee was transforming in its slumber.
• Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei delivered rare materials for God Transformation Balm and Crystal Mind Pills, explaining that rising prices and a trade fair had helped them gather supplies.
• Qin Ming rewarded Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei and concluded that the Final Battle was about to begin.

Qin Ming received Qi Xiaoyu’s completed Taihao Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation and learned that the Celestial Hall’s Ascension Platform might be restored if they obtained the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet. As the demonic invasion gathered strength, Blood Prison Demon Lord announced that the Blood Refinement Demon Sect would open its descent passage in the Southern Wilderness and that he would guard it personally.

• Qin Ming studied alliance intelligence about growing Void anomalies and considered infiltrating the demons to close the Void Eye, then examined the Crystal Mind Pill formula and tended to his spirit plants.
• Qi Xiaoyu visited Qin Ming and presented the completed Grade Five Middle-Rank Taihao Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation, which could be upgraded with rare Grade Five materials and required five Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones to activate.
• Qin Ming told Qi Xiaoyu to remain behind and guard Mount Yuanji during the coming war, while Qi reported that acquiring the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet could give them over an eighty percent chance of restoring the Celestial Hall’s Ascension Platform.
• Blood Prison Demon Lord learned that the five great demonic sects were preparing seven descent passages and declared that he would personally guard the Blood Refinement Demon Sect’s Void Eye in the Southern Wilderness.

Qin Ming attended the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance’s Black Market to acquire Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and materials for refining God Transformation Balm. After trading for several materials, he offered the Soul Weeping Pagoda, and the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators reacted with shock at its identity.

• Qin Ming left Moon Gazing Island and traveled to Red Maple Valley to attend the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance’s Black Market trade fair.
• A Myriad Paths Trading Alliance maid gave Qin Ming a Jade Talisman and showed him how to enter the Sky Ruins Cloud Realm for virtual trades.
• Qin Ming entered the virtual trading hall, where Nascent Soul cultivators displayed rare treasures, including a fourth-grade high-grade talisman treasure and a stolen fourth-grade high-grade Profound Jade Sky Root Grass.
• Qin Ming exchanged several Life Extension Pills for four or five auxiliary materials needed to refine God Transformation Balm.
• Qin Ming offered the fourth-grade supreme Soul Weeping Pagoda in exchange for ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones or specified spiritual materials, prompting the cultivators to recognize it as Lord Skywrath’s Natal Demonic Treasure.

Qin Ming sold treasures at the Sky Ruins Cloud Realm black market, acquired the Mystic Crow Void Escape Art, and returned toward Moon Gazing Island. At the chapter’s end, demonic cultivators emerged above the abandoned City of Immortal Fate and pursued an old man and a little girl fleeing for refuge.

• Qin Ming sold the Soul Weeping Pagoda for ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, bringing his total to eighteen.
• Qin Ming traded the Eight Extremes Ruler for the Mystic Crow Void Escape Art and exchanged other demonic cultivator loot for resources.
• Qin Ming received his traded items, left Red Maple Valley, and studied the secret art, learning its demanding soul requirements and life-saving techniques.
• An old man and Third Girl left the City of Immortal Fate for the Spirit Rest Archipelago, hoping to find refuge under Moon Gazing True Monarch’s protection.
• Envoy Xiang and more than ten demonic cultivators arrived through black vortices and ordered their disciples to kill any survivors in the city.
• Envoy Xiang sensed the old man and Third Girl, flew toward them, and the old man cried out that a Void Anomaly had appeared.

Qin Ming stopped Envoy Xiang from killing two travelers, possessed him to spy on the Blood Abyss Realm’s invasion plans, and learned that the demon sects would descend in ten days. He mobilized the Four Nations Alliance to ambush the demons at City of Immortal Fate while preparing to face the assault on the Spirit Rest Archipelago himself.

• Qin Ming froze Envoy Xiang, saved an old man and young girl, and used his demonic infant to possess the cultivator and infiltrate the demon sects.
• Qin Ming returned to Moon Gazing Island, sent the Great Jin Alliance intelligence about the approaching invasion, and cultivated the Mystic Crow Void Escape Art until he could form spirit crows from his Divine Sense.
• Candle Yin Old Demon arrived at City of Immortal Fate and revealed that the Blood Refinement Demon Sect would descend in ten days, while the other sects would enter through Eyes of the Void in Great Li and Great Jin.
• Qin Ming told Mo Lingwei and Hua Tianxiong that war would begin in ten days and ordered them to keep the news secret.
• Qin Ming instructed Wei Wuyai, Gu Qingzhao, Fang Han, Huangfu Qi, Patriarch Pei Qing, and the other alliance leaders to gather their forces at City of Immortal Fate while he handled the Spirit Rest Archipelago.

As the demonic path invaded the Mortal Realm through the Eyes of the Void, Qin Ming and the Four Nations Alliance defended the Spirit Rest Archipelago with prepared warships and the Myriad Stars Grand Formation. The battle turned in their favor when Xiao Xun confronted and swiftly killed Nether Fiend Demon Lord, though the invasion continued.

• Qin Ming welcomed Xiao Xun to Moon Gazing Island, and she agreed to help in the coming battle while reporting that the Demon Ruins existed behind a special barrier.
• Ten days later, the demonic army opened Eyes of the Void and poured into the Mortal Realm as the Four Nations Alliance revealed its concealed Sky-Patrol Warships and bombarded the invaders.
• Nether Fiend Demon Lord sent three Golem Demonic Avatars against the alliance, but Hua Tianxiong and Mo Lingwei activated the Myriad Stars Grand Formation and set the puppets ablaze.
• Nether Fiend Demon Lord activated the Nine Nether Bloodflame Wheel Formation using the sacrificed blood of forty-nine Golden Core demonic cultivators, and its attack collided with the Myriad Stars Grand Formation.
• Xiao Xun attacked Nether Fiend Demon Lord with her Starfall Spirit Sword, extinguished the Nine Nether Ghostfire, and pierced his body with Starry Sword Qi.
• The Four Nations Alliance's morale rose after the demonic war machines were destroyed and Xiao Xun revealed her Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivation.

Human forces ambushed and destroyed the demonic army near the City of Immortal Fate, while Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant possessed Candle Yin Demon Lord and set off to plunder the Blood Abyss Realm’s sects. As Spirit Transformation battles erupted across the human realm, Qin Ming faced the arrival of Blood Prison Demon Lord in the Spirit Rest Archipelago.

• Cold Crow Reverend, Yue Lingyan, Kong Xuan, Su Yuqing, Celestial Foreseer, and other Nascent Soul True Lords ambushed the demonic cultivators pouring through the Void Passages near the City of Immortal Fate and annihilated them.
• Qin Ming’s Demonic Infant revealed itself as an impostor Envoy Xiang, overpowered Candle Yin Demon Lord, possessed him, and used the Ancient Talisman to travel toward the Blood Abyss Realm’s treasure vaults.
• After the allied forces killed two Nascent Soul Demon Lords, Cold Crow Reverend and the others followed Qin Ming’s instructions and hurried toward Great Jin’s Void Eyes.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man and Ice Yi Zi fought the Rock Demon above the Ninth Heavens before Paradise Demon Lord, White-Scaled Demon Lord, and Mu Qingzi joined the battle against the human Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Xiao Xun beheaded Nether Fiend Demon Lord, but Blood Prison Demon Lord crushed his fleeing Nascent Soul and appeared from the Void Eye.
• The Devouring Sky Rat retreated to Qin Ming, and Qin Ming inspected Blood Prison Demon Lord and judged that he remained within his full-health execution range.

Qin Ming confronted the Blood Prison Demon Lord above the Spirit Rest Archipelago and used the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation to destroy the demon army’s portal and drive off the Demon Lord. The Blood Prison Demon Lord then learned that reinforcements had been annihilated and his sect’s treasury looted after Candle Yin Elder’s betrayal.

• The Blood Prison Demon Lord descended and clashed with Qin Ming’s Divine Sense, finding that Qin Ming could match him despite being a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Blood Prison Demon Lord activated the Blood Prison Heavenly Demon Formation, while Qin Ming deployed the Grand Azure Sun Nine Luminaries Immortal Severing Formation and wounded him with its beams and the Primordial Poison Flame.
• Qin Ming fueled the formation with more Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and unleashed a massive attack that destroyed the Eyes of the Void, severed the demonic passage, and vaporized many demonic cultivators.
• A wounded Nascent Soul Devil Master reported that City of Immortal Fate’s reinforcements had been annihilated, the sect treasury had been looted, and Candle Yin Elder had betrayed the Blood Refinement Demon Sect.
• The Blood Prison Demon Lord reacted to the news by spitting blood in rage.

Qin Ming used the fifth-rank Demon-Slaying Gourd to kill Blood Prison Demon Lord at the Spirit Rest Archipelago, turning the battle in the Human Realm’s favor. After recovering, he set out with Xiao Xun to support Great Jin, where news of Blood Prison Demon Lord’s death shocked both sides of the battle.

• Blood Prison Demon Lord unleashed the Nine Abyss Slaughtering Blade, and Old Demon Qingyang urged Qin Ming to use the Demon-Slaying Gourd instead of the Eight Gates Golden Light Mirror.
• Qin Ming spent his magical power and five stored affixes to activate the gourd, whose Azure Profound Chains bound Blood Prison Demon Lord before Mystic Fissure Spirit Severance cut him down and the gourd refined his Primordial Spirit.
• The cultivators at the Spirit Rest Archipelago celebrated Blood Prison Demon Lord’s death, while Xiao Xun, the Devouring Sky Rat, Mo Lingwei, and Hua Tianxiong witnessed Qin Ming’s victory.
• After recovering much of his magical power, Qin Ming agreed with Xiao Xun to go support Great Jin.
• At the Great Jin battlefield, the Demon Lords learned that a disguised Nascent Soul cultivator had ravaged the Blood Abyss Realm’s rear, then heard that Blood Prison Demon Lord had fallen.

Qin Ming arrived at the Great Jin battlefield after slaying the Blood Prison Demon Lord, helping drive the Blood Abyss forces into retreat as the realms’ convergence ended. Back at Moon Gazing Island, he had escaped with treasures from the Blood Abyss sects and gathered the final ingredients for God Transformation Balm, while anticipating visits from the Mortal Realm’s Spirit Transformation ancestors.

• The Mortal Realm ancestors learned that Moon Gazing True Monarch had killed the Blood Prison Demon Lord, and the Blood Abyss Demon Lords retreated, with Rock Demon warning that the Sage Ancestor would come.
• Qin Ming and Xiao Xun arrived at the Great Jin battlefield, where Qin Ming’s Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivation and his victory over the Demon Lord shocked Cold Crow Reverend and the other cultivators.
• The Mortal Realm coalition continued fighting as the Blood Abyss forces lost morale, then withdrew through the Eyes of the Void when the realms’ convergence began to end.
• Qin Ming’s demonic infant looted the treasure vaults of the Blood Abyss’s five major sects and collected the remaining ingredients for God Transformation Balm before escaping the Paradise Demon Lord.
• Qin Ming and Xiao Xun returned to Moon Gazing Island, while the Spirit Transformation ancestors went to recover from realm backlash and Qin Ming expected them to visit soon.

After the war, Qin Ming rewarded the Southern Wasteland cultivators and took stock of his spoils while planning his path toward God Transformation. Cloud Fishing Old Man visited Moon Gazing Island to ask whether Qin Ming’s Sentient Treasure came from the Celestial Hall, and Qin Ming confirmed it before beginning to reassure him.

• Qin Ming distributed postwar rewards, gave Wei Wuyai and Mo Lingwei Infant Condensation Pills, and placed another pill in the alliance’s treasure vault.
• Xiao Xun returned to the Outer Sea, and Qin Ming promised to visit later to seek Old Ancestor Nanming’s half of the Reversed Scale Tablet.
• Qin Ming fed Blood Prison Demon Lord’s essence to the Ageless Immortal Vine, which gained new affixes and neared another transformation.
• Qin Ming examined Blood Prison Demon Lord’s hoard, acquiring the Nine Abyss Slaughtering Blade, True Demon Qi, and the Blood River True Scripture.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man visited Qin Ming and asked whether the Sentient Treasure used against Blood Prison Demon Lord came from the Celestial Hall; Qin Ming confirmed that it did and said he had handled the situation properly.

Qin Ming discussed the escaped ancient demon and the damaged Ascension Platform with Cloud Fishing Old Man, while Old Ancestor Nanming agreed to give up the World-Transmitting Stone fragment in exchange for help with his demonic corruption. White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi arrived to discuss the platform, and Old Demon Qingyang emerged to greet them with a pointed remark.

• Qin Ming told Cloud Fishing Old Man that he would deal with the ancient demon that had escaped into Mount Yuanji.
• Qin Ming revealed Old Ancestor Nanming's split soul, and Cloud Fishing Old Man negotiated for Nanming's World-Transmitting Stone fragment in exchange for help removing his demon qi.
• Old Demon Qingyang warned Qin Ming that ascension also required a Reception Token to protect travelers from extraterrestrial heavenly demons and Void Turbulence.
• White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi flew to Moon Gazing Island and abandoned Mu Qingzi's suggestion to seize Qin Ming's treasure after White-Scaled Demon Lord warned that fighting Qin Ming would be dangerous.
• Qin Ming welcomed the two visitors, and Old Demon Qingyang emerged from the Blood Floating Pagoda and mocked their sorry states.

White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi reunited with Old Demon Qingyang, then paid Qin Ming for access to the Ascension Platform. After collecting resources from several God Transformation cultivators, Qin Ming returned to cultivation and planned to mature the ingredients for God Transformation Balm before choosing where to attempt his breakthrough.

• White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi recognized Old Demon Qingyang and learned he had survived as a spirit body beside Qin Ming.
• White-Scaled Demon Lord revealed that an old acquaintance had entrusted him with the Devouring Sky Rat, whose bloodline had advanced rapidly while it followed Qin Ming.
• White-Scaled Demon Lord and Mu Qingzi paid Qin Ming cultivation resources for information and access to the Ascension Platform, and Qin Ming gave them Spirit Rhinoceros Jade Nectar before they left.
• Venerable Bing Yi and Venerable Fuyao paid Qin Ming a steep ticket fee to use the Ascension Platform, then complained that he had exploited their need to ascend.
• Qin Ming inspected the Devouring Sky Rat, tended his Spirit Plants, and arranged to cultivate in seclusion while accelerating the Heart-Questioning Fruit and God Crystal Fruit for God Transformation Balm.

Several years after the righteous-demonic war, Qin Ming traveled to the Outer Sea to find the other half of the Reversed Scale Tablet and help repair the Ascension Platform. He discovered promising tribulation-assisting affixes on his Spirit Plants, while the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths planned to seize his treasures and destroy him; the chapter ended with Qin Ming asking Xiao Xun why demon activity had increased.

• Qin Ming visited Qi Xiaoyu, gave him cultivation resources, and urged him to keep guarding the Demon-Subduing Grand Formation while he searched the Outer Sea for the Reversed Scale Tablet.
• Rock Demon burned his Natal Demon Blood to awaken the Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths, who identified Qin Ming as the wielder of Emperor Qing's Demon-Slaying Gourd and warned that he threatened their survival.
• The Sage Ancestor of the Six Paths told Rock Demon to gather blood food while she took control of the serpent body and prepared to break through the formation's seal and kill Qin Ming.
• On his journey east, Qin Ming found that his Heart-Questioning Fruit Tree had gained a Severing Red Dust affix and his God Crystal Fruit tree had gained an Essence of Soul Power affix.
• Qin Ming reached the Outer Sea by a secret route and met Xiao Xun at End of the World Cape after encountering several large Beast Tides.
• Qin Ming asked Xiao Xun why the Demon Race had been so active in the Outer Sea.