Recaps

Qin Ming reunited with Cloud Fishing Old Man, learned about the dangers facing Ascended Cultivators and the Giant Spirit Clan conflict, and exchanged information and materials with him. After Cloud Fishing Old Man departed, Qin Ming discovered that Chaos Yang Gold lay within Giant Spirit Clan territory.

• Cloud Fishing Old Man sensed someone tailing him and Bai Li Hui, but Wu Kui escaped detection with the help of a Phantom Spirit Ink Lizard.
• At Little Turtle Peak, the Devouring Sky Rat welcomed Cloud Fishing Old Man and accepted a Frost Chi Demon Fruit before Qin Ming invited him into the cave abode.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man told Qin Ming that Ascended Cultivators served dangerous missions for Heavenly Star City, Su Yuqing was stationed near the Giant Spirit Clan border, and the Human Race struggled against the powerful foreign clan.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man explained why the Spirit Realm had been unable to intervene in the Mortal Realm and why Ascended Cultivators needed World-Transformation Pills.
• Qin Ming traded Demonic Spiked Spirit Rice for Cloud Fishing Old Man's materials, including supplies for the Yin-Yang Return to Void Pill, and said he could not help Su Yuqing without an elder-level order.
• After Cloud Fishing Old Man left, Bai Li Hui gave Qin Ming information on spirit materials, and Qin Ming discovered that Chaos Yang Gold was in Giant Spirit Clan territory.

Qin Ming learned that Divine Lord Ling Tian had sent Wu Kui to kill him, while he considered traveling to seek rare pill ingredients. After Yao Tiannan returned from the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, he gave Qin Ming an invitation to Elder Lin’s Dao exposition in Heavenly Star City, where a special opportunity would be offered.

• Bai Li Hui reported that someone had secretly followed and coveted Qin Ming, and Qin Ming suspected the purple-robed man who had accompanied Jiang Tian.
• Yao Tiannan returned to Heavenly Star City and learned that Qin Ming had become a Sixth Order Pill God; Yu Hanzi gave him an invitation for Qin Ming to attend Elder Lin’s Dao exposition.
• Wu Kui told Divine Lord Ling Tian that Qin Ming would likely attend the exposition, and Divine Lord Ling Tian lent him the Inverted Cosmos Star Compass to use against Qin Ming.
• Divine Lord Ling Tian studied his Zodiac statues and sought rat-demon blood essence to unlock their secrets.
• Qin Ming reviewed intelligence about Chaos Yang Gold and Grand One Yin Jade, then decided to investigate the Giant Spirit Clan’s territory and consider visiting Su Yuqing.
• Yao Tiannan visited Qin Ming on Little Turtle Peak, thanked him for the pills that had helped the expedition, and invited him to Elder Lin’s Dao exposition two months later.

Qin Ming attended Elder Lin’s seven-day Dao teaching and learned vital details about the Giant Spirit Clan. At the final opportunity-giving, he obtained a token for Heavenly Star City’s Spirit Plant Inheritance Spire, while Li Changqing received a rare Dao Soldier Spirit Bean.

• Qin Ming exchanged spirit materials with Yao Tiannan, then traveled to Heavenly Star City with Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Li Changqing to attend Elder Lin’s Dao teaching.
• Elder Lin explained the Giant Spirit Clan’s abilities, weaknesses, and crystal-core vulnerability, and answered Qin Ming’s questions about reaching the Refining Void Stage.
• Elder Lin offered the attendees a chance to claim opportunities, and Lu Yun, the Daoist, guided Qin Ming toward a green light sphere whose Spirit Script resonated with Qin Ming’s Woodland Affinity.
• Qin Ming obtained an ancient wooden box, while Li Changqing received a Sixth Order Dao Soldier Spirit Bean and Lu Yun, the Daoist, obtained nothing.
• Li Changqing identified Qin Ming’s Azure Spiritwood Seal as a token to enter Heavenly Star City’s Spirit Plant Inheritance Spire, a prize he said surpassed the value of his own spirit seed.

Qin Ming returned to Heavenly Star City to use the Inheritance Spire opportunity, but Wu Kui ambushed him with a pseudo-Void Refinement Treasure. Qin Ming shattered the treasure with the Wind Thunder Mystic Staff, leaving Divine Lord Ling Tian shocked by the destruction of his Natal Spirit Treasure.

• Qin Ming chose to return to Heavenly Star City and parted ways with Lu Yun and Li Changqing.
• Wu Kui ambushed Qin Ming in a mountain gorge and trapped him inside the Universe Inversion Star Disk.
• Qin Ming broke free of the yin-yang attack and fought Wu Kui with his Primordial Demon Ape transformation.
• Qin Ming summoned the Devouring Sky Rat to battle Wu Kui's Phantom Spirit Giant Lizard.
• Qin Ming used the Wind Thunder Mystic Staff to shatter the Universe Inversion Star Disk in one blow.
• Divine Lord Ling Tian spat blood and realized that his Natal Spirit Treasure had been destroyed.

Qin Ming shattered Wu Kui’s treasure, killed him and his demon pet, then escaped Divine Lord Ling Tian with help from Lu Yun, the Daoist. Heavenly Star City’s Star Guards arrived afterward but found that the battle’s traces had been erased.

• Qin Ming destroyed the Universe Inversion Star Disk, and the Devouring Sky Rat killed the Phantom Spirit Giant Lizard.
• Qin Ming killed Wu Kui, harvested Blood Orbs from the corpses, and prepared to leave before Divine Lord Ling Tian arrived.
• Divine Lord Ling Tian sealed the area and attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming’s Divine Sense and Primordial Poison Flame forced him to withdraw long enough for Qin Ming to teleport away.
• An unseen Spiritual Pressure struck Ling Tianjun, and Lu Yun, the Daoist, revealed that he had secretly intervened to help Qin Ming escape.
• Qin Ming reappeared nearby, considered Lu Yun, the Daoist’s hidden power, and left the area.
• Heavenly Star City’s Star Guards investigated the devastated battlefield, but their Sky Inspection Mirror found no traces.

After returning to Little Turtle Peak, Qin Ming stayed cautious while investigating Wu Kui’s belongings and dealing with the fallout from the battle involving Ling Tianjun and Lu Yun, the Daoist. As new neighbors prepared to move into Cloud Dream Mountain and Bai Li Hui recovered his God Transformation cultivation, Qin Ming began preparing to leave Little Turtle Peak in their care.

• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, warned Mo Lingwei to stay in seclusion, and found Wu Kui’s Violet Sun Overlord Body Art, Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, and records revealing that Ling Tianjun had targeted the Devouring Sky Rat’s blood essence and the Zodiac Stone Statues.
• Qin Ming told the Devouring Sky Rat about Ling Tianjun’s interest in its blood essence, and the Devouring Sky Rat vowed to cultivate until it could take revenge.
• Two months later, Yao Tiannan visited Qin Ming after reaching Nascent Soul Perfection and questioned him about Lu Yun, the Daoist’s disappearance; Qin Ming denied knowing where he had gone.
• Li Changqing visited Qin Ming to discuss mutual support and said the Wang Family, a beast-taming clan, had acquired Cloud Dream Mountain.
• Bai Li Hui recovered his God Transformation Stage cultivation, and Qin Ming planned to leave him and Mo Lingwei to guard Little Turtle Peak while he traveled toward the Giant Spirit Clan border.

After recovering his cultivation, Bai Li Hui investigated the Wang Family that had moved into Cloud Dream Mountain and discovered it secretly worshipped a powerful Heaven Devouring Hou. Qin Ming decided to avoid provoking the family and began pursuing the materials needed to advance, while the Devouring Sky Rat encountered a familiar visitor.

• Qin Ming sent Bai Li Hui to visit the Wang Family and investigate its background while continuing to gather intelligence on the Giant Spirit Clan.
• Bai Li Hui visited Cloud Dream Mountain, met Wang Tianxuan, and then bought intelligence from the Listening Rain Pavilion in Heavenly Star City.
• Bai Li Hui learned that the Wang Family secretly worshipped a Fifth-Order perfected Heaven Devouring Hou whose strength rivaled the Refining Void Stage.
• The Wang Family ancestor ordered Wang Tianxuan to keep Little Turtle Peak and the Li Family under secret surveillance and provide blood food for the Venerable Lord.
• Qin Ming learned of the Heaven Devouring Hou, chose to avoid alarming the Wang Family, and entered secluded cultivation to plan for Refining Void spiritual materials.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man told Qin Ming he had been sent to the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, and the Devouring Sky Rat later spotted a familiar face while patrolling.

Li Changqing traded Qin Ming two Rank 6 Dao Soldier Spirit Beans and five hundred Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones for part of a future Spirit Plant inheritance cultivation method, then told him about a nearby Nascent Soul family that had vanished. Qin Ming sent Mo Lingwei and Bai Li Hui to investigate and broke through his Demonic Infant body-tempering cultivation to the Late God Transformation Stage.

• Li Changqing offered Qin Ming two Rank 6 Dao Soldier Spirit Beans in exchange for part of a Spirit Plant inheritance method, and Qin Ming negotiated five hundred Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones as well.
• Li Changqing told Qin Ming that a nearby Nascent Soul family had disappeared and wondered whether it was connected to Lu Yun's disappearance; they agreed to investigate.
• Qin Ming sent Mo Lingwei and Bai Li Hui to secretly investigate the vanished family while Li Changqing arranged for his own subordinates to do the same.
• The Devouring Sky Rat asked to examine a Dao Soldier Spirit Bean, saying it felt familiar and might relate to its bloodline memories.
• Qin Ming consumed Demonic Jujubes and qi-and-blood affixes, breaking through the fifth layer of the Demon True Force Art and reaching the Late God Transformation Stage in body-tempering cultivation.

After breaking through to the Late God Transformation Stage, Qin Ming learned that the Wang Family of Cloud Dream Mountain might be feeding cultivators to its Heaven Devouring Hou. He secretly sent the evidence to Li Changqing, while the Wang Family’s Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord announced it would handle the growing danger itself.

• Qin Ming strengthened his Soul-Slaying Demonic Sword, celebrated his breakthrough with his spirit beasts, and learned that Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei had been injured investigating a missing Nascent Soul family.
• Bai Li Hui reported that their investigation pointed to the Wang Family and its Heaven Devouring Hou, which might be consuming the family as blood food.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat to deliver his intelligence to Li Changqing and warned him to alert Heavenly Star City without tipping off the Wang Family.
• Li Changqing accepted the evidence and set out for Heavenly Star City, while the Devouring Sky Rat received two Fifth Order spirit items for its service.
• The Wang Family patriarch rebuked Wang Tianxuan and Wang Yunhai for allowing the investigation to approach their secret, but the Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord told them it would personally resolve the matter.

Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord sought the Sixth-Order pill formula from Ling Tianjun, who revealed it had passed to Qin Ming, prompting them to secretly plan against him. Meanwhile, Heavenly Star City’s failed raid left the Wang Family wary, and Qin Ming sensed that the True Spirit Egg was about to hatch.

• Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord left the Wang Family’s forbidden area to seek Ling Tianjun, while the Wang Family ancestor revealed he had mastered a secret art to sacrifice the demon beast during its breakthrough.
• Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord met Ling Tianjun, learned that Qin Ming had obtained and used the Beast Bone’s pill formula, and agreed to plot with Ling Tianjun against him.
• Heavenly Star City’s elders searched Cloud Dream Mountain but found no evidence against the Wang Family, which then became more cautious.
• Qin Ming and Bai Li Hui discussed the failed investigation and continued monitoring the Wang Family as Ling Tianjun and Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord waited outside Little Turtle Peak.
• Qin Ming sensed a spiritual connection from the gray True Spirit Egg and realized it was about to hatch.

Qin Ming moved the True Spirit Egg into the Lesser Spirit Realm, where its emergence drew spiritual energy and revealed two powerful laws. The egg hatched into a primordial Kun that commanded spatial and water laws, while Qin Ming collected the Essence of Innate Mystic Water it produced.

• Qin Ming transferred the True Spirit Egg to the Lesser Spirit Realm as Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord felt its bloodline-suppressing aura and left Little Turtle Peak with Ling Tianjun.
• The Devouring Sky Rat predicted the egg held a turtle or True Dragon, then recalled the hierarchy and powers of True Spirits.
• The egg absorbed vast clouds of spiritual radiance, grew to a thousand zhang, and revealed powerful spatial and water laws as it cracked.
• Qin Ming collected the Essence of Innate Mystic Water that emerged from the egg.
• The egg shattered, and a three-thousand-zhang dragon-headed, fish-bodied True Spirit emerged; Qin Ming recognized it as a Kun.

Qin Ming’s Kunpeng hatched as a powerful True Spirit, drawing the attention of the Spirit Realm’s great races, and he named it Little Qing. After obtaining the Azure Bloom Spirit Codex, Qin Ming was warned that the Spirit Realm faced coming changes, then set out from Heavenly Star City with Lan Bing Fairy.

• The Kunpeng hatched in Qin Ming’s Lesser Spirit Realm, bonded with him and the Devouring Sky Rat, and brought nourishing spiritual rain to the realm.
• The Human and Devil Race Creation Mystery Mirrors revealed the birth of Kunpeng, prompting the Sacred Emperor and several Devil Race Sacred Ancestors to react to the news.
• Qin Ming named the Kun Little Qing and left the Devouring Sky Rat responsible for raising it as the two became inseparable.
• Qin Ming obtained the Azure Bloom Spirit Codex from Heavenly Star City’s inheritance tower and learned it contained methods for cultivating Sixth-Order Dao Soldier Spirit Beans.
• Elder Lin warned Qin Ming that the Spirit Realm’s situation was about to change and advised him to stay safe; Qin Ming then summoned Lan Bing Fairy and departed toward the Giant Spirit Clan.

Months after reaching the Giant Spirit Clan border, Qin Ming learned that Chaos Yang Gold had drawn the Demon Race and Devil Race into a struggle in the Sky Pillar Mountain Range. Disguised as a Giant Spirit Clan cultivator, he entered the region and was invited to help the Mountain Rock Tribe compete for the Sacred Stones.

• Qin Ming observed the Human Race losing heavily to the Giant Spirit Clan at the Blazing Fire Wasteland.
• Alliance Leader Fang told the allied cultivators that Chaos Yang Gold had sparked conflict among the giant tribes and proposed leading them to the Sky Pillar Mountain Range; they agreed to depart in three days.
• Qin Ming overheard the meeting, then traveled toward the Sky Pillar Mountain Range after learning that the Demon Race and Devil Race had also entered the contest for Chaos Yang Gold.
• Qin Ming disguised himself as Pan Shi of the Flame Force Tribe and mingled among the Giant Spirit Clan at the mountain foothills.
• Huang Yue of the Mountain Rock Tribe invited Qin Ming to help his tribe compete for the Sacred Stones, explaining that the contest would begin in ten days and could include outsiders.

Qin Ming joined the Mountain Rock Tribe for the eighteen peaks’ competition over Chaos Yang Gold, then arrived at Blazing Sun Peak and discovered his old acquaintance Su Yuqing among the Human Race participants. The High Priest opened the competition by displaying the Sacred Stones and announcing the rewards, as the tribes prepared to draw lots.

• Huang Yue explained that the Sacred Stone’s discovery had displaced tribes and caused border conflicts, and invited Qin Ming to compete for the Mountain Rock Tribe; Qin Ming agreed after learning about the other peaks.
• Qin Ming met the Mountain Rock Tribe’s chieftain, Huang Shan, and explored the tribe’s library, where he studied Giant Spirit Clan histories and totem runes.
• Huang Yue gathered several reinforcements, including Dark Eye, whom Qin Ming recognized as a disguised Devil Race cultivator, and led the group to the competition on Blazing Sun Peak.
• Qin Ming spotted Su Yuqing among the Human Race cultivators but concealed his identity; the fiery-robed Kui Hai then mocked Huang Yue and the Mountain Rock Tribe.
• The High Priest announced the Sacred Stone rewards for the top five tribes and presented the stones before the clans began drawing lots.

Qin Ming watched the Giant Spirit Clan’s contest for Chaos Yang Gold, where Dark Eye defeated Kui Hai and Qin Ming entered the arena against a Devil Race cultivator. The chapter ended with Qin Ming’s Sky Burning Divine Power destroying the opponent’s Blood Yakshas and blasting him into a vast crater.

• The High Priest activated a Sixth-Grade Forbidden Grand Formation, and the contests for Chaos Yang Gold began.
• A Devil Race cultivator’s Black Spirit Soul Devouring Banner released three Blood-Winged Yakshas that devoured a Mountain Rock Tribe fighter, while Dark Eye later defeated Kui Hai with his black giant devil form and Dark Crystal Armor.
• After Su Yuqing narrowly won his match, Qin Ming volunteered to fight Tianji Peak’s Devil Race cultivator and faced the same black-banner wielder who had killed the Mountain Rock Tribe fighter.
• Qin Ming disguised himself as a crimson Flame Giant and unleashed Sky Burning Divine Power, destroying all three Blood-Winged Yakshas and striking the Devil Race cultivator into a huge crater.

Qin Ming helped the Mountain Rock Tribe win first place in the Giant Spirit Clan’s contest and obtained Chaos Yang Gold, but Dark Eye revealed himself as the Devil Race cultivator Ming Yan and sabotaged the gathering. The resulting collapse exposed an ancient Giant Spirit King’s remains and a mass of Prime Geng Metal.

• Qin Ming killed a Devil Race cultivator with a single punch, shocking the contestants and making the Mountain Rock Tribe a favorite to win.
• Qin Ming agreed with Huang Yue to help the Mountain Rock Tribe reach the top three in exchange for an extra share of Chaos Yang Gold.
• Ming Yan secretly met Devil Race cultivators and revealed his plan to seize treasures from an ancient Giant Spirit King’s remains beneath the Eighteen Sky-Supporting Peaks.
• Qin Ming and Dark Eye led the Mountain Rock Tribe to first place, and Huang Yue gave each of them two pieces of Chaos Yang Gold.
• Ming Yan attacked the gathering with a Sky-Rending Demon Pearl, disrupted the Sixth-Grade Grand Formation, and caused Blazing Sun Peak’s space to collapse.
• Qin Ming spotted a gigantic bronze severed arm and recognized the golden mass upon it as Prime Geng Metal.

Qin Ming seized the Giant Spirit King's remains and treasures while Ming Yan fought the High Priest, then drew Ming Yan away so Su Yuqing could escape. Qin Ming transformed into his Thousand-Hand Demon Form and charged into battle against Ming Yan's skeletal corpse demon.

• Qin Ming changed his plan to leave after spotting Prime Geng Metal, while the Devil Race's bead explosion sent cultivators scrambling to survive.
• Ming Yan transformed into a skeletal corpse demon, pierced the High Priest with the Dragon Spine Bone Spear, and was interrupted by a giant drum that saved the High Priest.
• Ming Yan slaughtered the fleeing Human Race cultivators, but Su Yuqing survived, and Qin Ming secretly took the Giant Spirit King's remains and treasures into the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Ming Yan recognized Qin Ming as Pan Xing of the Flame Force Tribe and charged after him, while Qin Ming told Su Yuqing to escape and revealed his identity as Brother Qin.
• Qin Ming used the Demon True Force Art to transform into a Thousand-Hand Demon Form and clashed with Ming Yan beneath Blazing Sun Peak.

Qin Ming defeated Ming Yan and the Devil Race cultivators who had attacked the Giant Spirit Clan, then reunited with Su Yuqing and discussed their plans. After obtaining Chaos Yang Gold, Qin Ming set out to seek Grand One Yin Jade for the Yin-Yang Return to Void Pill while Su Yuqing returned to his duties.

• Qin Ming used the Thousand-Hand Demon Form and Wind Thunder Mystic Staff to kill Ming Yan and the fleeing Devil Race cultivators, then fed their Blood Orbs to his Withering Flourishing Mystic Vine.
• Qin Ming collected five pieces of Chaos Yang Gold and erased the traces of the battle before leaving the Giant Spirit Clan’s mountain range.
• Qin Ming reunited with the injured Su Yuqing at an oasis, where Su Yuqing met Qin Ming’s Spirit Pets and gave them pills.
• Qin Ming told Su Yuqing that he had slain the Devil Race cultivators and become a Sixth Order Pill God, leaving Su Yuqing astonished.
• Qin Ming showed Su Yuqing the Yin-Yang Return to Void Pill formula and asked him to study it, while Su Yuqing shared a piece of Chaos Yang Gold and agreed to help gather auxiliary materials.
• Qin Ming planned to seek Grand One Yin Jade from the Wood Crystal Clan, while Su Yuqing prepared to return to Heavenly Star City.

Qin Ming discovered that the Giant Spirit King's severed arm contained a massive piece of Prime Geng Metal, whose removal revealed the king's ancestral rune inheritance. After using some of the metal to upgrade his Wood Sovereign Nails, he reached the Wood Crystal Clan's territory and headed toward a familiar city in disguise.

• Qin Ming removed the Prime Geng Metal from the Giant Spirit King's arm, triggering the arm's essence to form an Ancestral Rune Totem that entered his body and granted him the Giant Spirit King's inheritance.
• Qin Ming stored the Thunderbolt Star Drum, searched Ming Yan's belongings, and learned that the dead cultivator had been a core disciple of the Primal Demon Sect.
• Qin Ming used Prime Geng Metal and the Primordial Poison Flame to begin upgrading his eighty-one Wood Sovereign Nails, then paused the refinement when the Devouring Sky Rat reported reaching the Wood Crystal Clan's territory.
• Qin Ming descended near the city beneath the Giant Tree, recalled his past connections with Mu Kun and Qian Mo, and disguised himself as an ordinary Wood Crystal Clan cultivator before flying toward the city.

Qin Ming reached Azure Sky Tree City and reunited with Fairy Qian Mo, now the chief manager of the Nine Spirits Commerce, while seeking three pieces of Grand One Yin Jade. He learned the jade was held by the commerce association but pawned by a Wood Crystal Clan Void Refinement senior, then heard that trouble had arisen at the Tree Heart Sanctuary.

• Qin Ming disguised himself as a Wood Crystal Clan member and heard that Fairy Qian Mo was about to become chief manager of the Nine Spirits Commerce.
• Qin Ming visited the Nine Spirits Commerce as Li and reunited with Fairy Qian Mo, who credited him with helping her rise after he gave her a Wood Spirit Soul.
• Qin Ming told Fairy Qian Mo he had come to obtain Grand One Yin Jade, and she revealed that the association held three pieces pawned by a Wood Crystal Clan Void Refinement senior who might redeem them soon.
• An attendant reported that something had happened at the Tree Heart Sanctuary and that Senior Feng Qi had returned and summoned Fairy Qian Mo.
• Qin Ming asked Fairy Qian Mo whether he could help with the trouble.

Qin Ming examined the ailing Azure Sky Mother Tree in the Tree Heart Sanctuary, concealed that he had discovered the cause, and left with Fairy Qian Mo. In private, he revealed that someone had tampered with the tree and that the plot was connected to Wind Rider Elder.

• Fairy Qian Mo told Qin Ming that the Azure Sky Mother Tree was worsening and that helping it might earn him a chance to trade for Grand One Yin Jade.
• Qin Ming entered the Tree Heart Sanctuary with Fairy Qian Mo and met Wind Rider Elder and the Wood Crystal Clan Spirit Planters.
• After examining the tree, Qin Ming claimed he could not identify the cause of its declining vitality, drawing disappointment from Fairy Qian Mo and Wind Rider Elder.
• Qin Ming left the sanctuary with Fairy Qian Mo and asked her privately whether she had offended anyone.
• Qin Ming told Fairy Qian Mo that someone had secretly tampered with the mother tree and that the matter was connected to Wind Rider Elder.

Qin Ming exposed Luo Chen’s plot with the Devil Race, then treated the Azure Sky Mother Tree and received Grand One Yin Jade from Wind Rider Elder. After Silver Fox and Tian Ling'er revived the tree, its Tree Spirit rewarded Qin Ming with a Sixth Order Azure Sky Spirit Sapling.

• Fairy Qian Mo concluded that Luo Chen and Wind Rider Elder might be connected to the Mother Tree’s illness, and Qin Ming suggested secretly watching Luo Chen.
• Wind Rider Elder, Qin Ming, and Fairy Qian Mo caught Luo Chen conspiring with a Devil Race cultivator to poison the Mother Tree, and Wind Rider Elder killed them after searching their souls.
• Wind Rider Elder offered Qin Ming Grand One Yin Jade if he healed the Mother Tree, and Qin Ming used his Azure Emperor Dharma Eye to slow its decline.
• Fairy Qian Mo gave Qin Ming the largest piece of Grand One Yin Jade, and he secretly summoned Silver Fox and Tian Ling'er to restore the tree.
• More than half a year later, Silver Fox and Tian Ling'er revived the Mother Tree, and its Tree Spirit gifted Qin Ming a Sixth Order Azure Sky Spirit Sapling.

Qin Ming saved the Azure Sky Mother Tree, gained the Wood Crystal Clan’s friendship and rare resources, and returned to Little Turtle Peak after upgrading his Wood Sovereign Nails. Back home, he rewarded his disciples and began gathering old acquaintances, while the Devil Race’s expanding activity remained a concern.

• The Azure Sky Tree Spirit gave Qin Ming an Azure Sky sapling and bestowed a cultivation method on Tian Ling'er before returning to the mother tree.
• Wind Rider Elder and Fairy Qian Mo rewarded Qin Ming with spiritual materials, Spirit Stones, and a Nine Spirits Commerce VIP Token, while he exchanged spirit plants for two more pieces of Grand One Yin Jade.
• Qin Ming learned that a Demon General from the Heaven Spine Mountains had directed the Devil Race infiltration and warned Wind Rider Elder about Devil Race activity among the Giant Spirit Clan.
• During his return journey, Qin Ming refined the eighty-one Wood Sovereign Nails into a top-grade Sentient Treasure and arrived at Little Turtle Peak six months after leaving the Wood Crystal Clan.
• Bai Li Hui reported that he and Mo Lingwei had gathered the requested materials, and Qin Ming rewarded them with Crimson Spirit Pills before sending a cultivation method to the Li Clan Patriarch.
• Qin Ming sent Mo Lingwei, accompanied by the Devouring Sky Rat, to invite Su Yuqing and Cloud Fishing Old Man to Little Turtle Peak.

Qin Ming reunited with Su Yuqing and Cloud Fishing Old Man, learned that rival factions were forming in Heavenly Star City, and later improved Little Turtle Peak while cultivating in seclusion. By drawing on Primal Pole Mountain and the Giant Spirit King's inheritance, he perfected the sixth layer of the Demon True Spirit Art and reached the Perfection Realm of Spirit Transformation body tempering.

• Qin Ming welcomed Su Yuqing and Cloud Fishing Old Man to Little Turtle Peak, where they discussed the dangerous political struggle over Heavenly Star City's vacant Violet Gold Saint Armor Grand Commander position.
• Su Yuqing gave Qin Ming his insights on refining the Yin-Yang Return to Void Pill, and Qin Ming exchanged a piece of Grand One Yin Jade for them.
• Nine-Spirited Primordial Lord and Divine Lord Ling Tian planned to use the Wang Family's support for Elder Jin Ao to create an opportunity to attack Little Turtle Peak.
• Qin Ming planted the Azure Sky Tree and Sixth Order Dao Soldier Spirit Beans, then shut himself away to cultivate.
• Qin Ming used the Giant Spirit King's Ancestral Rune Totem to draw power from Primal Pole Mountain and cultivated the sixth layer of the Demon True Spirit Art.
• Qin Ming reached the Perfection Realm of Spirit Transformation body tempering, while the Devouring Sky Rat and his companions were shocked by the immense pressure from his cave residence.

Qin Ming completed his body-refinement breakthrough, tended his advancing spirit plants, and learned that the Wang Family was retaliating against the Li Clan amid Heavenly Star City’s factional turmoil. After Li Changqing asked for help and warned Qin Ming of danger, Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy to secretly protect the Li Clan and punish any Wang Family attack.

• Qin Ming broke through to great completion of God Transformation body refinement, gaining combat power comparable to a Sixth Order primordial demon god, then celebrated with his companions.
• Bai Li Hui told Qin Ming that Heavenly Star City’s factions were taking sides and that the Wang Family had joined Golden Arrogance Divine Lord’s faction; Qin Ming ordered his followers to keep watching them.
• Qin Ming found his Withering Flourishing Mystic Vine nearing another transformation, saw the Brahma Demon Holy Tree approaching Sixth Order, and continued cultivating Dao Soldier Spirit Beans and the Azure Sky Tree.
• The Wang Family’s ancestors decided to retaliate against the Li Clan for reporting them and chose the clan as a token of allegiance to Golden Arrogance Divine Lord.
• After two months, Li Changqing told Qin Ming that the Wang Family had attacked the Li Clan, causing casualties and heavy losses; he asked Qin Ming to watch over the clan and warned him to guard against the Wang Family.
• Qin Ming sent the Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy to follow the Li Clan and intervene if the Wang Family attacked, then returned to cultivating the Profound Nether True Water Scripture.