Recaps

Qin Ming strengthened his cultivation and nurtured his spirit pets while keeping a low profile on Little Turtle Peak. After a season passed, Su Yuqing arrived with news to share.

• Qin Ming consumed Refining Void Mana and Soul Power affixes, strengthening his Primordial Spirit and forming a Crystalline Mind Sword he could use only once.
• Lan Bing Fairy and the Devouring Sky Rat passed their heavenly tribulations and broke through, while Little Qing's advance to the Sixth Order humbled the rat.
• The Silver Fox, Mystic Water Crocodile, and Silver-Winged Frost Bee also passed their tribulations and advanced to the mid-grade five level.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat found Grade Six Supreme Mystery Rice sprouting, and Qin Ming carefully watered it with Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Ming continued farming and cultivating in seclusion on Little Turtle Peak, planning to develop his strength before pursuing Soul Integration.
• Su Yuqing arrived at Little Turtle Peak, and Qin Ming welcomed him and asked whether he had brought good news.

Su Yuqing visited Qin Ming after leaving Heavenly Star City’s Alchemy Pavilion and shared his Void-Spirit Pill Cultivation Art. Lu Yun arrived at Little Turtle Peak, recognized Su Yuqing’s talent, and took him as a disciple, leaving him poised to travel and cultivate under the powerful Daoist.

• Su Yuqing told Qin Ming that Heavenly Star City had released him from service after he refined a Sixth Order divine pill, and he had resigned from the Alchemy Pavilion to travel.
• Su Yuqing explained that Qin Ming’s reputation had spread because of his pill-making achievements and the upcoming auction of his Seven-Crimson Spirit Condensing Pills.
• Su Yuqing gave Qin Ming the Primal-Spirit Pill-Seeding Art, a secret method for creating growing pill seeds within a cultivator’s Primordial Spirit or body.
• Lu Yun arrived at Little Turtle Peak and offered to take Su Yuqing as his disciple after recognizing his talent for void-spirit pill refinement.
• After Qin Ming explained Lu Yun’s character and identified him as a figure from the Myriad Spirits Realm, Su Yuqing accepted Lu Yun’s offer, and Lu Yun marked him with spiritual light.

Lu Yun, the Daoist, accepted Su Yuqing as his final closed-door disciple, then shared Qin Ming’s Sixth Order Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar and praised its extraordinary power. Before departing with Su Yuqing and Deer Child for the Myriad Spirits Realm, Lu Yun gave Qin Ming valuable pill formulas and a token that granted entry to the realm.

• Lu Yun, the Daoist, accepted Su Yuqing as his final closed-door disciple after recognizing his talent in alchemy.
• Qin Ming opened a jar of Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar and explained that the Sixth Order spirit wine could benefit Refining Void Stage cultivators.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, and Qin Ming drank the wine and experienced its powerful spiritual effects, while the Devouring Sky Rat drank a cup and promptly passed out drunk.
• Qin Ming gave Lu Yun the remaining wine and shared a flask with Su Yuqing, while Lu Yun gifted Qin Ming an alchemical canon containing the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill formula and a Beast Bone token to the Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Lu Yun, the Daoist, departed with Su Yuqing and Deer Child after Deer Child asked Qin Ming to invite the Devouring Sky Rat to visit the Myriad Spirits Realm.

After recovering from the spirit wine, the Devouring Sky Rat was tasked with translating an ancient Demon Race script while Qin Ming resumed cultivating. Divine Lord Purple Chen later appointed Qin Ming to mediate postwar negotiations among allied races, and Qin accepted in exchange for the Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pill formula.

• The Devouring Sky Rat woke after three months, and Qin Ming assigned it to decipher the Blood Erosion Script on a golden page from the Zodiac Stone Statues.
• Elder Lin and Yu Hanzi arrived at Little Turtle Peak to summon Qin Ming to Heavenly Star City, where he stopped to visit Cloud Fishing Old Man.
• Cloud Fishing Old Man told Qin Ming that negotiations over territory and resources in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss had stalled, especially between the human race and the Wood Crystal Clan.
• Divine Lord Purple Chen asked Qin Ming to represent the human race at negotiations with its former allies and offered him twenty thousand Contribution Points and access to the city treasure vault.
• Qin Ming agreed to act as the peace envoy after securing the Nine Revolutions Enlightenment Pill formula, and the Devouring Sky Rat teased him about his new title.

Qin Ming accepted his appointment as the Human Race’s Ambassador of Peace and prepared to lead a delegation to negotiations in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss. After traveling from Heavenly Star City, he arrived at the familiar Baowu Market District, where representatives of the other races had already gathered.

• Divine Lord Purple Chen exchanged two ten-thousand-year-old Fire Cloud Essence Mushrooms for Qin Ming’s Void Heaven Moon Invitation Wine and appointed him Ambassador of Peace.
• Qin Ming chose Elder Lin, Elder Yu Hanzi, Yao Tiannan, Cloud Fishing Old Man, Elder Jiang, and Jiang Tian to join the delegation.
• Qin Ming gave Tian Ling'er one Fire Cloud Essence Mushroom, then told the Devouring Sky Rat to continue researching the Blood Erosion Script.
• A fleet of several dozen Heavenly Star City Spirit Ships collected Qin Ming at Little Turtle Peak and transported the delegation across the Great Domain.
• The delegation reached the Baowu Market District in the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, where Qin Ming recognized the place he had once stayed.

Qin Ming reunited with his former neighbors in Baowu Market District and used his standing with the Human Race delegation to help them secure cave abodes. He then eased tensions between the races at the postwar negotiations, leaving the elders on friendly terms after a private discussion.

• Qin Ming recognized Yao Chenzi, Shi Susu, and their companions struggling to afford cave abodes in Baowu Market District, then greeted them and revealed himself as Senior Li Qianjie.
• Qin Ming explained that the Nascent Soul cultivators were his friends, and Elder Lin ordered the Hall of Affairs to arrange excellent cave abodes for them.
• Qin Ming left to attend the fourth round of negotiations, where elders from the Feathered Spirit Race, Azure Radiance Clan, Earth Spirit Clan, and Wood Crystal Clan argued over postwar distribution.
• Qin Ming entered with the Human Race delegation, and the foreign race elders set aside their anger to greet him after recognizing him as a newly advanced Void Refinement cultivator.
• Qin Ming invited the Great Elders to discuss matters privately, and they returned less than half a day later smiling and chatting amicably.

Qin Ming used spirit wine to settle the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss negotiations, then learned that the Demon Race was investigating Demon General Tu Luo’s death and another missing treasure. Elsewhere, Demon Commander Ao Yu discovered a Violet Gold Gourd containing a remnant soul that recognized Qin Ming and resolved to find him.

• Qin Ming gave the four Great Elders Void Heaven Moon Invitation Nectar and mediated an agreement that preserved the Human Race’s territory and Baowu Market District.
• After more than ten days of negotiations, Qin Ming met Yao Chenzi and learned that Demon Race cultivators were investigating Demon General Tu Luo’s death and a missing item.
• Qin Ming warned Yao Chenzi and the others to keep the information secret, learned where the Demon Race cultivators had been seen, and gave them cultivation pills.
• Demon Commander Ao Yu punished his subordinates for their lack of progress, then seized a Violet Gold Gourd they had salvaged from the Nether River and sensed a remnant soul inside.
• The awakened soul recognized the Violet-Gold Alchemy Furnace, recalled Qin Ming, and decided to find him to recover its strength.

After the peace negotiations ended, Qin Ming stayed behind in Baowu Market District while the human delegation returned to Heavenly Star City. He exchanged gifts and resources with other races’ elders, then departed to investigate the Demon Cultivators and the Golden Seal Script Page.

• Elder Lin praised Qin Ming for helping conclude the negotiations, but Qin Ming declined to return with the human delegation and stayed to handle personal matters.
• Qin Ming met with Wind Rider Elder, Divine Lord Xuan Yu, Old Devil Blazefire, and Elder Feng, who gave him Earthcore Jade Marrow and Dragon Saliva Agarwood Divine Wood as congratulatory gifts.
• Old Devil Blazefire asked to buy one of Qin Ming’s Sixth Order Dao Soldier Spirit Beans, and Qin Ming traded it for more than two hundred pieces of Immortal Jade.
• Qin Ming spent several days exchanging cultivation insights with the elders, then watched them depart after strengthening his ties with the other races.
• Qin Ming vanished from Baowu Market District to deal with an unresolved matter, including investigating the Demon Cultivators and clarifying the Golden Seal Script Page.

Qin Ming tracked the Demon Cultivators who had ambushed the Profound Heaven Sword Sect disciples and defeated their leader, Cang Ya, before using Soul Searching to uncover secrets about the Demon Race and an Immortal Abode Secret Realm. He left with Cang Ya’s remains and learned that Demon Commander Ao Yu and Lu Yun were connected to the search for the realm.

• Qin Ming summoned the Devouring Sky Rat, which tracked several demonic auras, including one belonging to a canine Demon Cultivator.
• Cang Ya led his surviving subordinates toward the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss and decided to capture more Human Race disciples for Soul Searching.
• Qin Ming ambushed Cang Ya and killed his Fifth-Rank subordinates with his powerful divine sense.
• Cang Ya attacked Qin Ming with his Silver Fang Demon Blades, but Qin Ming wounded him with his Wood Sovereign Nails and severed two of his heads with the Five Elements Demon Slayer Wheel.
• Qin Ming trapped Cang Ya’s Demon Core and brutally performed Soul Searching, learning about the Blood Erosion Markings, Demon Commander Ao Yu, and the Immortal Abode Secret Realm.
• Qin Ming put Cang Ya’s body and core away and left, while the Devouring Sky Rat and the others marveled at his strength.

After returning to the Kunlun Domain, Qin Ming received a Violet Gold Token from Divine Lord Purple Chen and spent his Contribution Points in Heavenly Star City's treasury on rare materials for pills. He returned to Little Turtle Peak without finding the Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm and prepared to send the Devouring Sky Rat to decipher the sealed page.

• Qin Ming returned to the Kunlun Domain, reported his peacekeeping success to Divine Lord Purple Chen, and received permission to enter the treasury's core area.
• Qin Ming spent his Contribution Points on a Ten Thousand Year Tribulation Lightning Wood Core and two Void Origin Spirit Flowers.
• Qin Ming heard rumors praising his accomplishments and worried that the Demon and Devil Races might target him.
• Qin Ming searched the Nine Spirits Commerce for a Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm but found none.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, asked Bai Li Hui and Mo Lingwei to seek the insect, and summoned the Devouring Sky Rat for a new task.

Qin Ming refined Primal Pole Mountain with the Devouring Sky Rat’s True Spirit Essence Blood and later discovered a new longevity-and-fortune Affix on his Mystic Spirit Immortal Peach. When the sun and moon shone together, the Devouring Sky Rat deciphered the golden-script page, revealing a dangerous Immortal Abode Secret Realm and giving Qin Ming a golden talisman to enter it; Qin Ming warned against going there recklessly.

• Qin Ming used three drops of the Devouring Sky Rat’s True Spirit Essence Blood to refine Primal Pole Mountain, then healed the weakened rat.
• Qin Ming completed the refinement of Primal Pole Mountain and nurtured it alongside Thunder-Magnet Mountain in his Purple Mansion Spirit Platform.
• Qin Ming discovered the Mystic Spirit Immortal Peach’s Longevity and Good Fortune Affix, which granted a thousand years of lifespan and a small amount of fortune.
• When the sun and moon shone together, the Devouring Sky Rat used its blood to decipher the golden-script page and recorded information about the Spirit Exquisite Immortal Abode and its golden entry talisman.
• Qin Ming read the deciphered account of the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, learned of the Demon Race traitor who had reached Integrated Body Late Stage, and examined the rat’s rough map.
• The Devouring Sky Rat urged Qin Ming to visit the secret realm, but Qin Ming called it too dangerous and told the rat not to consider going.

Qin Ming learned about the Demon Race’s Spirit Exquisite Immortal Abode Realm and practiced a new pill-refining art while tending to his people and spirit plants. Tian Ling'er broke through to Sixth Order with help from the Yanfu Immortal Vine, but Qin Ming later learned that Bai Li Hui had gone missing in the Crimson Water Wasteland and asked Mo Lingwei for details.

• Qin Ming learned that the Demon Race was searching for the Spirit Exquisite Immortal Abode Realm and considered keeping the intelligence and golden talisman for a future trade.
• Qin Ming opened a Void Alchemy Domain to practice Su Yuqing’s pill-refining art, and Mo Lingwei later brought him materials for the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill and reported that Bai Li Hui had gone to the Crimson Water Wasteland.
• Tian Ling'er absorbed a Sixth-Order Crimson Essence Cloud Mushroom and began her breakthrough, triggering a heavenly tribulation that the Yanfu Immortal Vine absorbed after Thunder-Magnet Mountain failed to divert it.
• Tian Ling'er successfully transformed into a Sixth-Order spirit plant and began producing purple Spiritual Essence that could aid Qin Ming’s high-grade plants.
• After more than half a year, Mo Lingwei reported that she had found no trace of Bai Li Hui in the Crimson Water Wasteland, and Qin Ming asked her to describe the place he had left behind.

Qin Ming traveled to the Crimson Water Wasteland to retrieve Bai Li Hui and investigate the Ancient Insect Valley, where the Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm might be found. After rescuing Bai Li Hui from Moonshadow Gate cultivators, Qin Ming received his map and headed for the valley, arriving at a gorge filled with poisonous mist.

• Qin Ming set out for the Thunderfire Mountain Range after Mo Lingwei revealed Bai Li Hui's last known location and said he would search for the Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm.
• Qin Ming found Bai Li Hui cornered by Luo Chenzi and Moonshadow Gate disciples in Cloudwater Market District and used his spiritual pressure to stop them.
• Lady Qingfu intervened, learned Qin Ming was the Moon Gazing Divine Lord, and invited him to join the Moonshadow Gate's expedition, but Qin Ming refused and departed with Bai Li Hui.
• Bai Li Hui gave Qin Ming a Map Jade Slip containing information about the Ancient Insect Valley and returned to Little Turtle Peak with his reward.
• Qin Ming studied the jade slip, learned the valley had recently emerged from underground amid shifting earth veins and Space Rifts, and flew toward the poisonous-mist gorge marking its location.

Qin Ming entered the Ancient Insect Valley seeking the Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm and reached a massive Void Insect Nest after passing through dangerous insect territory. Behind him, the Refining Void cultivators confronted the Iron-Devouring Fire Ants, and a gigantic fire ant split Old Monster Lei in two.

• Qin Ming entered the Ancient Insect Valley through its poisonous miasma, while the four great sect ancestors and Yinlingzi arrived and followed him inside.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat encountered Iron-Devouring Fire Ants feeding on Crimson Vein Gold Essence Ore, and the Silver-Winged Frost Bee’s aura subdued the swarm long enough for them to pass.
• Qin Ming flew deeper into the valley, found a vast Void Rift surrounded by countless insect eggs, and recognized it as a massive Void Insect Nest.
• Lady Qingfu and the other Refining Void cultivators reached the ore deposit, where Old Monster Lei attacked the Iron-Devouring Fire Ants with his Water Control Mystic Banner.
• A gigantic flaming insect emerged, pierced Old Monster Lei’s defenses with a thread of flame, and split him in two.

Qin Ming entered the Void Insect Nest, where his Silver-Winged Frost Bee and Spirit Bees devoured ancient insect eggs and transformed. He captured three Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worms, then escaped as a dangerous fluctuation stirred, leaving Yin Lingzi and the others to find the nest stripped bare.

• Lady Qingfu, Yuanyangzi, and the Sloppy Daoist fled the Iron-Devouring Fire Ant Queen until Yin Lingzi arrived with a swarm of Blood Mosquitoes and forced them to help him fight.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat entered the Void Insect Nest and found ancient eggs marked with Blood Erosion Script, along with signs of a connection to the Demon Spirit Domain.
• The Silver-Winged Frost Bee and Qin Ming's Spirit Bees devoured the eggs, transforming as many of them died from the overwhelming energy.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat trapped and captured three Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worms from a lightning-filled pool.
• After the surviving bees finished feeding, Qin Ming collected them, erased the evidence, and escaped into the starry sky with Lan Bing Fairy.
• Yin Lingzi, Lady Qingfu, and the other two reached the nest after surviving the battle, but found it completely empty.

Qin Ming returned from the Void Insect Nest, where his Spirit Bee Swarm began a powerful mutation, and successfully planted a Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill seed. After learning that the mutated insects had caused a spreading Insect Tide, he hurried to Heavenly Star City to report the crisis to Divine Lord Purple Chen.

• Yin Lingzi and the other Refining Void ancestors fled the Void Insect Nest after a terrifying presence emerged and attacked them with soundwaves.
• Qin Ming returned to Little Turtle Peak, found the Spirit Bee Swarm asleep and marked by strange runes, and confirmed that Bai Li Hui had secured the Ten Thousand Tribulation Sympathetic Worm.
• Qin Ming used the Void-Spirit Pill Cultivation Art to form a Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill seed and plant it in his Purple Mansion Spirit Platform.
• The Spirit Bee Swarm rapidly matured, while the Silver-Winged Frost Bee Queen reached the peak of Grade Five and began advancing toward the Sixth Order.
• Bai Li Hui reported that a Seventh-Order Fierce Insect had emerged and an expanding Insect Tide was devastating the Crimson Water Wasteland, so Qin Ming went to Heavenly Star City.
• Divine Lord Purple Chen paused the council meeting to meet Qin Ming, who asked to speak with him in a side hall.

Qin Ming traded intelligence about the Spirit Exquisite Immortal Abode Realm and its golden talisman to Divine Lord Zichen for a million Contribution Points and a favor, then returned to Little Turtle Peak. There, Yinlingzi of the Sky River Sect confronted him about the insect valley, but Qin Ming denied gaining anything and sent him away, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Qin Ming told Divine Lord Zichen about the Immortal Abode Secret Realm in Demon Race territory and the insect valley, then traded him the golden talisman for a million Contribution Points and a favor.
• Qin Ming spent the Contribution Points on high-grade materials and returned to Little Turtle Peak, where he resumed cultivation and farming.
• Bai Li Hui reported that the Human Race had confirmed Qin Ming's intelligence, that the Immortal Abode would open in a hundred years, and that Yinlingzi had been driven from the sealed insect valley by a powerful presence.
• Yinlingzi arrived at Little Turtle Peak with a swarm of insects and pressed Qin Ming to reveal what he had gained in the insect valley.
• Qin Ming denied obtaining anything, told Yinlingzi to leave, and relied on Divine Lord Zichen's protection as Yinlingzi departed with a threat.

Thirty years after Yin Lingzi’s threat emerged, Qin Ming remained focused on cultivation and farming while friends warned him that Yin Lingzi had taken charge of developing the Ancient Insect Valley. After ripening spirit fruits and advancing his beasts, Qin Ming was summoned by Bai Li Hui, who had returned with an urgent matter.

• Daoist Xuan Guan and Master Kongzhi visited Qin Ming, warned him that Yin Lingzi had become Great Elder and would lead the Sky River Sect’s development of the Ancient Insect Valley, and offered to help mediate.
• Qin Ming accelerated the Spirit Summoning Demon Fruit’s growth, harvested eight fruits, and distributed them among the Devouring Sky Rat, Lan Bing Fairy, Little Qing, the Mystic Water Crocodile, the Silver Fox, and himself.
• Qin Ming tended his spirit plants and wine while his cultivation advanced toward the Mid-stage Refining Void.
• The Silver Fox and the Mystic Water Crocodile consumed demon fruits and advanced to the Late Fifth-Grade Stage, with their True Spirit Bloodlines rising above eighty percent.
• Bai Li Hui returned to Little Turtle Peak with an urgent matter, and Qin Ming left the Lesser Spirit Realm to meet him.

Qin Ming learned that fierce insects had opened a dangerous route into the Human Spirit Domain, then watched the Silver-Winged Frost Bee advance into a powerful Sixth Order primordial insect. After surviving its heavenly tribulation, Silver Wing took human form and left to handle an urgent matter, promising to return.

• Bai Li Hui reported that two Integrated Body Level fierce insects had emerged through a Void Insect Hole in the Ancient Insect Valley, grievously wounding Ren Water Ancestor and prompting the Human Race to prepare for war.
• Two years later, the Devouring Sky Rat advanced to Fifth Order Great Perfection, and Qin Ming told it to focus on farming rather than fighting.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Ghost-Faced Spirit Bee Swarm had mutated and grown powerful enough to devour Sixth Order ore.
• The Silver-Winged Frost Bee’s giant hive transformed, and Silver Wing emerged as a Sixth Order primordial fierce insect that absorbed the heavenly tribulation lightning.
• Silver Wing took human form, thanked Qin Ming, and left to settle an urgent matter, promising to return and entrusting her offspring to his care.
• The Devouring Sky Rat worried that Silver Wing might betray Qin Ming, but Qin Ming rebuked it and said she likely had her own reasons.

The Calamity Doomworm appeared on the Spirit Realm’s rankings, alarming the major races, while Qin Ming sent Bai Li Hui to find Mao Yuanzi’s descendants and continued cultivating. A silver-haired woman slaughtered two Demon Race commanders, and a hundred years later Qi Xiaoyu, Yue Lingyan, and Cold Crow Reverend ascended to the Spirit Realm to reunite with Qin Ming.

• The Creation Mystery Mirror ranked the Calamity Doomworm as the Mother of Cinder, prompting the human Sacred Emperor and Demon Commander Ao Yu to discuss the threat and prepare for trouble.
• Qin Ming raised the Lesser Spirit Realm’s Spirit Vein to the Sixth Order and sent Bai Li Hui to seek Mao Yuanzi’s descendants, giving him Dao Soldier Spirit Beans for protection.
• The Devouring Sky Rat and Mystic Water Crocodile discussed their absent Third Brother, while Qin Ming returned to his cave abode to cultivate.
• A silver-haired woman emerged in the Demon Spirit Domain, killed two Mid-stage Refining Void Demon Cultivators, took their Demon Cores, and vanished.
• A hundred years later, Qi Xiaoyu, Yue Lingyan, and Cold Crow Reverend used the Ascension Platform to travel from the Mortal Realm to the Spirit Realm, intending to contact Qin Ming.

After a century on Little Turtle Peak, Qin Ming rescued Qi Xiaoyu, Yue Lingyan, and Cold Crow Reverend from danger during their ascension to the Spirit Realm. He reunited Yue Lingyan with the Silver Fox and welcomed the three newcomers to Little Turtle Peak, where old friends gathered again.

• Qin Ming learned that Qi Xiaoyu, Yue Lingyan, and Cold Crow Reverend were ascending, then took the World Piercing Shuttle to meet them.
• Two Outer Realm Devils attacked the exhausted trio, but Qin Ming arrived and destroyed them with a single palm.
• Qin Ming brought the trio aboard the shuttle, where Yue Lingyan reunited with the Silver Fox, and he revealed that he had reached the Refining Void Stage.
• Qin Ming took the three ascenders to Little Turtle Peak, gave each a World-Transformation Pill, and introduced them to Mo Lingwei and Bai Li Hui.
• Qin Ming gathered Cloud Fishing Old Man and the other old acquaintances, and they traded stories about their lives in the Spirit Realm.

Qin Ming helped his Mortal Realm companions settle into the Spirit Realm, while the Spirit Exquisite Immortal Abode Realm opened and drew cultivators into a struggle for its treasures. Back on Little Turtle Peak, Lan Bing Fairy broke through to the Sixth Order and revealed her powerful Ice Phoenix form.

• Qin Ming arranged identities and cave abodes for Cold Crow Reverend, Qi Xiaoyu, and Yue Lingyan, who adapted to the Spirit Realm and learned that Su Yuqing had been taken to Star Palace.
• Demon Commander Ao Yu and a Devil Race devil commander sent cultivators with Golden Talisman Keys into the Spirit Exquisite Immortal Abode Realm, while a silver-haired woman entered without a key and human cultivators followed in disguise.
• Cold Crow Reverend told Qin Ming that he, Qi Xiaoyu, and Cloud Fishing Old Man planned to open a shop in Heavenly Star City, and Qin Ming arranged a storefront for them.
• Lan Bing Fairy absorbed surging Origin Qi, reached the Sixth Order, and transformed into an Ice Phoenix with powerful space and ice abilities.
• Qin Ming praised Lan Bing Fairy and teased the still-Fifth-Order Devouring Sky Rat, which recovered its spirits at the celebratory banquet.

Qin Ming hosted the Sky River Sect delegation, which sought Azure Sky Tree Core Sap to heal Ren Water Ancestor’s damaged divine soul. After refusing to give it up, Qin Ming heard Hall Master Ye’s offer of a large payment and a chance to hear an Integrated Body Great Talent expound the Dao.

• Qin Ming celebrated Lan Bing Fairy’s breakthrough with his spirit pets and later returned to his peaceful cultivation life on Little Turtle Peak.
• Qin Ming saw a massive Sky River Sect Cross-Domain Spirit Ship arrive and received Hall Master Ye, Yinlingzi, Elder Lin, Daoist Xuan Guan, and Master Kongzhi.
• Yinlingzi apologized to Qin Ming for their past disagreements, but Qin Ming barely acknowledged him.
• Master Kongzhi explained that Hall Master Ye wanted Azure Sky Tree Core Sap to help Ren Water Ancestor recover from divine-soul damage.
• Qin Ming refused, warning that extracting the sap could kill the Azure Sky Tree, and Hall Master Ye offered five hundred thousand Contribution Points and a chance to hear an Integrated Body Great Talent expound the Dao.

Qin Ming traded three drops of Azure Sky Tree core sap to Sky River Sect for entry to the Little Sumeru Dharma Assembly and other rewards, then secretly sent Lan Bing Fairy and the Devouring Sky Rat after their spirit ship. He learned that Kuchanzi and Yinlingzi sought the sap to put an ancient ferocious insect to sleep and claim a Golden Talisman Key leading to the Immortal Abode Secret Realm.

• Master Kongzhi and Kuchanzi offered Qin Ming a place at Divine Seal Zen Master's Little Sumeru Dharma Assembly in exchange for Azure Sky Tree core sap.
• Qin Ming demanded three drops of sap, a place at the assembly, and one million Contribution Points; Kuchanzi agreed and transferred eight hundred thousand Merit Points, along with an entry token and Buddhist scripture.
• Qin Ming extracted three drops of core sap, used Four Seasons Divine Light to begin restoring the weakened Azure Sky Tree, and handed the sap to Kuchanzi.
• After Sky River Sect's spirit ship departed, Qin Ming ordered Lan Bing Fairy and the Devouring Sky Rat to follow it and investigate the elders' plans.
• Lan Bing Fairy and the Devouring Sky Rat caught up with the ship and followed it through a concealed Void Passage.
• Kuchanzi told Yinlingzi that they needed the sap to lull an ancient ferocious insect guarding a Golden Talisman Key in Insect Valley, which would qualify them to enter the Immortal Abode Secret Realm.

The Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy discovered that Sky River Sect cultivators Kuchanzi and Yinlingzi had obtained Golden Talisman Keys from the insect valley, then reported it to Qin Ming. After escaping a powerful ancient insect, the two Sky River Sect elders set out for the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, while Yinlingzi secretly headed toward the Kunlun Domain to pursue his own plans.

• The Devouring Sky Rat and Lan Bing Fairy watched Kuchanzi and Yinlingzi subdue a grade-six fierce insect with Azure Sky Tree Core Sap and take two Golden Talisman Keys.
• Yinlingzi sensed a presence nearby, and powerful auras surged toward the two elders, forcing them to flee the insect valley.
• The Devouring Sky Rat reported the events to Qin Ming, who showed little interest in the keys and sent it and Lan Bing Fairy back to cultivate.
• Tian Ling'er restored the Azure Sky Tree while Qin Ming returned to his cave abode to cultivate the Eternal Azure Emperor Art.
• Kuchanzi and Yinlingzi escaped the valley and agreed to travel separately toward the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, but Yinlingzi secretly headed for the Kunlun Domain to investigate the tree core sap's usefulness.