Recaps

The Qin Clan reorganized its expanded Northern Province territory into nine protectorates and imposed centralized administrative, military, and economic controls. The Myriad Treasures Pavilion entered the province under Liu Ruyan, who signed Qin Zhao’s contract despite its restrictions.

• The Qin Clan divided its territory into nine protectorates and planned to select new protectors every thirty years to limit local power.
• The Qin Clan replaced the old army designations with the Northern Province Army, the Black Dragon Legion, and the Qin Elite Soldiers, while restricting the protectorates from directly commanding troops.
• Liu Ruyan became the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s representative in Northern Province, while Nalan took charge of the rival Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Zhao told Liu Ruyan that the pavilion had to use Qin Coins, obey Northern Province’s laws, arrange its own supplies of the Four Great Immortal Arts, and follow rules for outside cultivators.
• Liu Ruyan accepted the contract on behalf of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and signed it.

Five years after the Myriad Treasures Pavilion intervened, the Northern Province prospered under Qin Clan rule as Qin Coins and trade spread across the frontier. Huang Liang used the Soul Transformation Sand Fruit to survive his Dao Foundation breakthrough, then declared the Formation Evolution Sect’s allegiance to the Beichuan Qin Family and Northern Qin.

• The Qin Clan expanded its wealth and influence as Qin Coins circulated widely and trade grew across the peaceful Northern Province.
• The Hong Province Xie Clan and Tai Province Wu Clan formed friendly alliances with Northern Qin and began using Qin Coins in trade.
• Huang Liang refined Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, transformed his Raging Sand Dao Rhyme into a Dao Law, but failed to condense his soul into Divine Sense.
• Huang Liang consumed the Soul Transformation Sand Fruit Qin Lu had given him, stabilizing his soul and completing his Dao Foundation breakthrough.
• Huang Liang announced that the Formation Evolution Sect would honor the Beichuan Qin Family as its superior clan, join the Northern Province, and become a third-rank sect.

Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan weighed whether to submit to the Qin Clan after Huang Liang became its fourth Dao Foundation combatant, deciding to wait and avoid provoking it. Acting on Qin Wang’s orders, Huang Liang began reshaping Northern Province by combining its Spirit Veins and clearing the mountains near Baxuan Immortal City.

• Xie Yongnian proposed that the Xie and Wu clans submit to the Qin Clan while preserving their autonomy, and Wu Yan agreed they were too weak to risk a war.
• Wu Yan urged Xie Yongnian to wait, since the Qin patriarch’s cultivation was unknown and other powers might oppose the Qin Clan if it expanded south.
• News of Huang Liang’s Dao Foundation breakthrough spread, prompting other powers to reassess the Qin Clan’s strength.
• Qin Wang ordered Huang Liang to combine the weak Spirit Veins from the former Southern Province and Beitai Province at the center of Northern Province.
• Huang Liang used the Raging Sand Dao Law and formations to create a miniature Spirit Vein that raised the Spiritual Qi throughout Northern Province.
• Huang Liang began reshaping the land around Baxuan Immortal City, grinding away vast stretches of mountains and forest.

Qin Xinzhou watched a great cultivator reshape the landscape and lamented that his own cultivation talent would leave him trapped in the True Martial Realm. After using the Tumbling Phoenixes Art to break through, he reflected on the Qin Clan’s hierarchy and the difficulty he faced in finding a living human pill to advance further.

• Qin Xinzhou admired the power of Ancestor Huang and the Qin Clan’s Dao Foundation cultivators while Qin Xinmu warned him not to expect to reach their heights.
• Qin Xinzhou assigned his spirit servants their work and summoned Xuan Shiliu, Xuan Qishier, and Xuan Jiushisan to his cave abode.
• Qin Xinzhou cultivated with the three women using the Tumbling Phoenixes Art and advanced from the True Martial Five Realms to the True Martial Sixth Realm.
• The three women praised Qin Xinzhou’s cultivation, but he dismissed their hopes that he could reach Qi Condensation because he lacked a living human pill and influential family support.
• Qin Xinzhou concluded that the Qin Clan valued strength above all and that its weak fourth-generation descendants were expected to produce children for the clan.

Qin Xiao oversaw Northern Qin’s affairs and reviewed Huang Liang’s work reshaping the land, which secretly prepared a foundation for a Third-Tier grand teleportation array. Secret reports then revealed that a great Nascent Soul cultivator in the Ten Nations Alliance had been killed by the Demon Race, prompting Qin Xiao to alert Qin Lu and mobilize resources while they awaited the array’s completion.

• Qin Xiao approved plans to reshape the land around Baxuan Immortal City, widening waterways and creating plains for transport, growth, and troop movements.
• Huang Liang continued leveling mountains, deepening his mastery of Dao Principles and secretly preparing earth-vein nodes for a future grand teleportation array.
• Qin Xiao reviewed Northern Qin’s growing strength and the forces supporting the Qin Clan.
• Qin Xiao received secret reports that the Demon Race had killed a great Nascent Soul cultivator stationed in the Ten Nations Alliance.
• Qin Xiao questioned how the Frost Spirit Demon Race had succeeded and resolved to notify Qin Lu and gather every resource they could mobilize while they waited for the array to be completed.

Qin Lu advised Qin Xiao to stay calm as the fall of a Nascent Soul True Lord threatened to unleash conflict between humans and demons, and he suspected powerful human cultivators might be manipulating the Demon Race’s centuries-old plans. Qin Xiao accepted the uncertainty and moved the Qin Clan to fortify its northern protectorates, preparing to profit from the coming turmoil while guarding against beast tides.

• Qin Xiao feared that the Ten Nations Alliance’s collapse would bring the Ice and Snow Demon Race south and expose Da Zhou to the Frost Spirit Demon Race.
• Qin Lu told Qin Xiao to keep the Qin Clan steady, predicted that the Central Lands would send reinforcements, and suggested ancient human cultivators might be using the Demon Race’s scheme to draw out powerful demons.
• Qin Xiao concluded that his clan should prepare to withdraw if necessary and saw lower-tier Demon Beasts as potential resources.
• The Qin Clan began building a ten-thousand-li fortress wall across the Northern Cold Protectorate, Northern Cry Protectorate, and Northern Wind Protectorate, with key passes designed to withstand Second-Tier Demon Beasts.

The Ice and Snow Demon Race marched on the Ten Nations Alliance as northern nations rushed to support it and a Nascent Soul True Lord’s death exposed a suspected traitor. At Northern Nether Grand Pass, Qian Guming confronted the demon leaders, and the battle began across every cultivation level.

• The northern nations mustered cultivators for the Ten Nations Alliance after the death of a Nascent Soul True Lord sparked panic and suspicion of a traitor.
• Qian Guming arrived from the Longlife Ancient Kingdom, reassuring the northern nations that the central lands would continue defending them.
• More than thirty Demon Kings and countless beasts gathered at Northern Nether Grand Pass, where the bear demon demanded that the humans leave.
• Qian Guming killed a third-tier great demon and challenged the bear and bird demons, who attacked him.
• The Nascent Soul fighters clashed in the ninth heaven as humans and demons fought across the Core Formation, Dao Foundation, and Qi Condensation battlefields.

The Qin Clan’s northern Great Wall strengthened Da Zhou’s defenses as the Sea Race invaded the coast and Da Zhou could spare little support for the Northern Frontier. The Frost Demon King and the third elder discussed the unknown Soul Dao expert behind their losses, but the expert’s identity and whereabouts remained a mystery.

• The Qin Clan learned that Northern Nether Pass remained locked in a costly stalemate and that the Demon-Quelling True Person had disappeared, deepening Qin Lu’s concern about hidden plots.
• The Qin Clan expanded its Northern Frontier Great Wall with fortified platforms and watchtowers, earning respect for defending northern Da Zhou.
• The Eastern Sea Sea Race invaded Da Zhou’s coast with more than twenty Fourth-Tier Demon Kings, forcing Da Zhou to commit most of its strength to the coastal battle.
• Da Zhou’s ancestors stayed to confront the Sea Race and Frost Demon King, leaving the Beichuan Qin Family to defend the Northern Frontier largely alone.
• The Frost Demon King asked the third elder about the person who killed the second elder and took the Boundless Mystic Realm.
• The third elder said he could not trace the powerful Soul Dao expert, who had erased all traces and eliminated their agents in Da Zhou.

The Frost Demon King ordered Sa Mu to prolong the fighting while preparing to seize Northern Nether and destroy Da Zhou. At Qinbei Pass, Qin Wu and the Northern Frontier’s allied clans prepared their forces to meet the approaching demons.

• The Frost Demon King told Sa Mu to stage a limited war against Da Zhou until the grand elder’s plan succeeded, then vowed to conquer Northern Nether and destroy Da Zhou’s Dao lineage.
• Scouts reported to Qin Wu that demons had gathered three hundred li away and that a Third-Tier Frost Demon had killed three of their companions.
• Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan joined Qin Wu and Lu Ming in a temporary alliance, and Lu Ming said that a large-scale war would strengthen his Blood Soul Dao Law.
• Qin Wu mobilized five million soldiers across the Northern Frontier and concentrated more than two million at Qinbei Pass, which held three Dao Foundation cultivators and nearly two thousand Qi Condensation cultivators.

Qin Mingyuan and the defenders of the Northern Frontier Great Wall faced a massive beast tide, but Wang Ben took command and used coordinated troops and fire to halt its first assault. The demons’ main force remained behind the apparent feint as the battle continued.

• A humanoid Wolf Demon killed and devoured a sentry before Qin Mingyuan decapitated it and raised the alarm.
• Qin Mingyuan recognized the attackers as likely Snow Wolf Half-Demons and suspected the Frost Spirit Demon Race was using them to probe the defenses.
• Wang Ben arrived with thirty cultivators, assumed command, and rallied the soldiers with a banner of flame.
• Wang Ben ordered the archers to fire explosive-dust and flaming arrows while fifty thousand North Wind Army soldiers formed ten defensive formations outside the wall.
• The arrows ignited the powder and burned tens of thousands of beasts, while the Qin Clan soldiers killed the Snow Wolf Half-Demons that survived the flames.

Wang Ben led the North Wind Seventh Army Group in a fierce defense against the beast tide, but the fighting escalated when Lu Ming intervened to protect him from a Third-Tier Snow Wolf Half-Demon. Lu Ming and the Snow Wolf Half-Demon unleashed their Dao Laws and clashed in a battle that ended with both attacks annihilating each other.

• Wang Ben drove the beast tide back with cultivators, battle formations, cavalry, and a flame-enhancing battle standard, killing more than a hundred thousand beasts.
• Dozens of Second-Tier Snow Wolf Half-Demons charged Wang Ben, prompting cultivators and reinforcements to fight them, including Dao Foundation combatants.
• A Third-Tier Snow Wolf Half-Demon appeared and attacked Wang Ben, but Lu Ming arrived and dispersed its ice-crystal wolf manifestation.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon unleashed its Ice Crystal Dao Law and Bone-Shattering Ice Blade against Lu Ming, who answered with his Blood Soul Dao Law and Soul-Locking Blood Chains.
• Lu Ming summoned the Blood Beast Kui Ox and used Crimson Blood · Annihilating Blood Jade, which collided with the Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s glacier attack and destroyed both forces.

Lu Ming fought the Snow Wolf Half-Demon in a desperate battle, broke through to the Dao Foundation Third Layer, and brought them both down. As the wounded half-demon threatened Lu Ming, Qin Lu and Huang Liang arrived, and Qin Lu declared that no one would harm his people.

• Lu Ming destroyed the Snow Wolf Half-Demon's ice crystal wolf form and pierced his chest with a concentrated attack of the Blood Soul Dao Law.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon transformed into an Ice Snow Heavenly Wolf and unleashed an ice storm that killed nearly a hundred thousand soldiers, while Lu Ming regenerated after being stripped of his flesh.
• Lu Ming summoned a blood giant and fought the Ice Snow Heavenly Wolf, absorbing battlefield blood and souls to break through to the Dao Foundation Third Layer.
• The two giants exchanged devastating blows until both collapsed and their Dao Law power dissipated, leaving Lu Ming and the Snow Wolf Half-Demon gravely wounded but alive.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon pointed his weapon at Lu Ming, but Qin Lu and Huang Liang appeared to protect him, and Qin Lu revealed his Dao Foundation Fifth Layer cultivation and warned that no one could harm his people.

Qin Lu and his companions fought Zhadelei’s Frost Spirit demons after the enemy forces emerged from the snow. While the others paired off against their opponents, Qin Lu confronted Zhadelei and concealed his identity by manifesting the Soul Wood Dao Principles.

• Xie Yongnian helped Lu Ming recover while Lu Ming silently absorbed the battlefield’s blood and souls.
• Zhadelei and Qin Lu ordered their forces to attack, and the Dao Foundation experts split into separate battles.
• Qing Centipede clashed with the Frost Flood Dragon, while Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan fought two Frost Demons.
• Huang Liang used formations and the Raging Sand Dao Law to hold back the mixed-blood Snow Wolf half-demon.
• Qin Lu challenged Zhadelei, who formed layers of ice armor, while Qin Lu manifested a giant gray tree using the Soul Wood Dao Principles.

Qin Lu defeated Zhadelei by secretly planting a soul seed in his consciousness, then fought beside Lu Ming to bring down the snow wolf half-demon. As the battle turned in the Northern Province’s favor, Qin Lu killed the Wolf Demon, and its Dao Principles dispersed.

• Qin Lu struck Zhadelei’s sea of Divine Sense with Soul Severing, knocked him unconscious, and planted a soul seed in him.
• Qin Lu awakened Zhadelei, whose altered memories made him resume their fight, and the pair appeared evenly matched before separating to aid their sides.
• Qin Lu sent a voice transmission to Lu Ming, and they attacked the snow wolf half-demon while Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan blocked the demons’ rescue efforts.
• Huang Liang activated the Thick Earth Returns to Dust Grand Formation, trapping several great demons and scattering the blizzard with yellow sand.
• Qin Lu pierced the snow wolf half-demon through the heart and split him in two, killing the Third-Tier demon and shattering his sea of Divine Sense.

After Qin Lu and his allies killed the Snow Wolf Half-Demon, both sides withdrew rather than risk further losses. Three months later, a prolonged lull and small-scale beast tides benefited the Qin Clan, while the Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s remains were forged into treasures for Qin Lu, Qin Zhuang, and Qin Mingdao.

• Lu Ming claimed the Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s soul for his Blood Soul Dao Law, while Qin Lu took its body and materials.
• Zhadelei and the other great demons abandoned the fight after the Snow Wolf Half-Demon fell, and Qin Lu’s group chose not to pursue them.
• The Frost Demon King held back from retaliation because an all-out war with Da Zhou would be too costly amid the unsettled northern situation.
• For three months, only ordinary beasts and Second-Tier Demon Beasts appeared outside Qinbei Pass, and their resources helped the Qin Clan and Northern Province’s Four Great Immortal Arts flourish.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s remains were made into three Law Treasure Proto-embryos: Qin Lu received the Frost and Snow Robe, Qin Zhuang the Ice Mysterious Pearl, and Qin Mingdao the Ice Crystal Dao Mysterious Blade.

Da Zhou rewarded the Qin Clan for defending the Northern Frontier and sent Bai Zhilang to Qin Xiao with three matters. After presenting an imperial offer and proposing an alliance on behalf of the Yan Miao Bai Clan, Bai Zhilang prepared to explain his personal request.

• Da Zhou sent reinforcements south to aid Canglan State after Sea Race Demon Kings invaded and captured more than half its territory.
• An imperial decree granted the Qin Clan rewards and the Northern Frontier, and named Qin Lu Duke of the North and King Who Guards the North.
• Qin Xiao recognized Bai Zhilang as an old acquaintance and invited him to discuss his other two matters after receiving the decree.
• Bai Zhilang sought reconciliation and an offensive and defensive alliance between the Yan Miao Bai Clan and the Qin Clan.
• Bai Zhilang offered the Qin Clan a top-grade Third-Tier celestial star fragment containing a trace of Spatial Dao Law as a pledge of friendship.

Qin Xiao accepted the Bai Clan’s tribute and ended its grievances with the Qin Clan, while postponing a decision on an alliance and assuring Bai Zhilang that Bai Qi would be treated well. A month later, the Qin Clan concealed the Twenty-Four Peaks as the Spirit Tea King Bi began its breakthrough to the Dao Foundation realm.

• Qin Xiao accepted Bai Zhilang’s spatial secret treasure, declared the Bai and Qin clans’ grievances settled, and said he needed more time to consider an alliance.
• Bai Zhilang asked Qin Xiao to care for Bai Qi and severed Bai Qi’s remaining ties to the Bai Clan; Qin Xiao affirmed Bai Qi’s place as one of Northern Qin’s six great generals.
• Qin Lu chose the third-tier artifact-refining Dharma Sect, completing the Qin Clan’s collection of third-tier cultivation inheritances.
• A month later, Huang Liang placed a third-tier formation around the Twenty-Four Peaks, concealing them and blocking Divine Sense probes.
• The Spirit Tea King Bi gathered Spiritual Qi and manifested the Jade Origin Dao Principle as Qin Lu, Qin Hui, Qin Xiao, and others watched its breakthrough; Flower Princess also benefited from the Wood Dao blessings.

Qin Lu accepted Bi into the Qin Clan and gave her a treasure, while Huang Liang completed a one-way teleportation array to provide the clan with an escape route. Su Qin then secured the Xie and Wu families’ submission, uniting the Northern Frontier under Northern Province.

• Bi emerged from the growing tea tree and greeted Qin Lu and the Qin family members.
• Qin Lu approved of Bi and Qin Hui’s relationship, accepted her as his daughter-in-law, and gave her the Origin Harmony Jade Pendant.
• Huang Liang used the Heavenfall Gold Crystal to build a one-way great teleportation array that could send people south toward the Myriad Nations of the Central Lands.
• Su Qin traveled to Tai Province and Hong Province with the Zhou emperor’s decree and persuaded Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan to submit to the Qin Clan.
• The Xie and Wu families joined the Nine-Rank Immortal Registry as third-rank Immortal Clans and moved their clan lands into Northern Province.
• Northern Province absorbed Tai Province and Hong Province, expanded to over forty million square kilometers, and united the Northern Frontier.

Demon-Quelling True Person led seven Demon Kings in an assault on the Supreme Mysterious Immortal Palace, destroyed its teleportation array, and slaughtered its disciples. At Northern Nether Pass, Qian Guming confronted a Fifth-Tier Frost Spirit demon who revealed that demons and Central Lands conspirators had joined forces to seize the north and destabilize the human race.

• Demon-Quelling True Person and seven Fourth-Tier Demon Kings breached the Supreme Mysterious Immortal Palace’s defenses and killed its two Core Formation Ancestors.
• Demon-Quelling True Person destroyed the palace’s Fourth-Tier teleportation array, cutting off the northern continent from aid and leaving the sect ruined.
• Qian Guming tried to leave Northern Nether Pass to aid the palace, but a Fifth-Tier Frost Spirit demon blocked his way.
• Qian Guming accused the Frost Spirit demon of killing his nephew and conspiring with traitors in the Central Lands to isolate the north and seize control.
• The Frost Spirit demon acknowledged that Qian Guming’s suspicions were mostly correct and demanded his death.
• Qian Guming summoned his Poyuan Spear and fought the Frost Spirit demon and two other demons as the battle for Northern Nether Pass resumed.

The three transformed demons destroyed Northern Nether Pass with the Ice and Snow Dao, gravely wounding Qian Guming and forcing him to flee. Bear King then unleashed a massacre across the battlefield as the Ice and Snow Demon Race began its push to reclaim the north.

• The three demons combined their Ice and Snow Dao Principles, annihilating Northern Nether Pass and tainting more than half of Qian Guming’s body with the Great Dao.
• Qian Guming sacrificed a hundred years of lifespan to borrow the Spear Dao, survived the demons’ strike, and escaped with several Golden Core cultivators.
• Frost Demon Ancestor stopped Bear King and Penguin Emperor from pursuing Qian Guming, and a later spear strike killed two nearby Core Formation Demon Kings.
• Frost Ancestor warned Bear King that True Lord Jianxuan’s Nascent Soul was still alive and urged caution, while Bear King and Penguin Emperor vowed to destroy the Ten Nations Alliance.
• Bear King transformed into a gigantic bear and unleashed thunder across the battlefield, killing countless cultivators as the remaining demons slaughtered the survivors.

After Northern Nether Pass fell, Qin Lu seized control of Zhadelei and searched the Frost Demon Imperial Court for a Golden Core method. He uncovered the history of the Ice and Snow Demon Race and found a demon core formation technique, though he did not know whether a human could use it.

• The Demon Race emerged across the north as human nations collapsed and beast tides spread after Northern Nether Pass fell.
• Qin Lu used a soul seed to take control of Zhadelei and went to the Frost Demon Imperial Court to search for a core formation method.
• Qin Lu read records detailing the Ice and Snow Demon Race’s defeats and the human race’s rise to dominance in the Northern Nether Domain.
• Qin Lu suspected the human race was weakened by the fall of a Spirit Transformation mighty figure and internal turmoil.
• Qin Lu found a Frost Spirit Demon Race method that condensed Dao principles and tempered them nine times to forge a demon core.

Qin Lu memorized the Frost Spirit Demon Race’s cultivation and tribulation inheritances, then prepared to leave before the Demon Race swept in. As he gathered his allies, Huang Liang, Bi, and Lu Ming learned about the secret realm and great teleportation array, and each remained bound to the Qin Clan.

• Qin Lu learned the Ninefold Essence Tempering method and recorded the Frost Demon Kings’ tribulation techniques, including the Infant Embryo Fruit, foundation seizure, and Thunder-Absorbing Pearl.
• After Zhadelei returned home, Qin Lu left his body and recorded the acquired inheritances on Jade Slips; his cultivation reached Dao Foundation Fifth Layer Perfection.
• Qin Lu reviewed his Nether Soul and Soul Wood abilities, resolved to keep studying soul poison, concealed his presence, and told Qin Xiao it was time to leave.
• Huang Liang, Bi, and Lu Ming learned about the secret realm and great teleportation array, but none considered rebelling against the Qin Clan.

The Qin Clan and its affiliated forces evacuated Northern Province into the Boundless Mystic Realm, transferring their people, resources, and key foundations. As the migration ended, Qin Lu urged his six children to build the clan’s power and reclaim their homeland, while Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan submitted their clans to serve Qin for a hundred years.

• Qin Zhao returned to the Boundless Mystic Realm as the Qin Clan moved its resources into the realm, which had grown into a populated kingdom with farms, spirit beasts, and a central city.
• The Qin Clan evacuated Baxuan Immortal City, its affiliated forces, the Qin Elite Soldiers, the Black Dragon Legion, and their families into the realm, then Lu Ming’s Extreme Yuan Dao Sect and Huang Liang’s Formation Evolution Sect brought their allotted people.
• Huang Liang led the transplanting of Muxuan Mountain and its Spirit Vein, while Bi moved her foundation and formed it into Tea Mountain.
• Qin Lu stood with his six children in the abandoned city and declared that the Qin Clan would return stronger, renaming the Qin Palace the Qin Wang Palace and ordering them to conquer all under heaven.
• Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan arrived with their clans and agreed to serve Qin Lu for a hundred years in exchange for being brought to safety; their people entered the Boundless Mystic Realm as the final group.

Qin Lu and six other Dao Foundation cultivators escaped the Northern Province through a great teleportation formation, leaving Da Zhou exposed to the invading Frost Demon forces. The demons conquered the province and ravaged Da Zhou, whose nearly ten-thousand-year-old state fell in bloodshed.

• Huang Liang activated the great teleportation formation, and Qin Lu, Xie Yongnian, Wu Yan, Lu Ming, Bi, Huang Liang, and Qing Centipede fled through its spatial passage.
• A Da Zhou Imperial Family cultivator arrived to find Baxuan Immortal City abandoned and the formation ruined, then was killed and devoured by Zhadelei and the other great demons.
• The Frost Demon King granted Zhadelei the Northern Province and tasked him with watching the damaged teleportation formation.
• Zhadelei led the demons south, killing Da Zhou cultivators while Zhou Ronghao remained missing and Zhou Changsheng faced five Demon Kings.
• The Demon Race overwhelmed Da Zhou, slaughtering its people and destroying the state after nearly ten thousand years of existence.

After recovering from their teleportation, Qin Lu discovered that the group had landed in the remote Eight Immortals Sea, far from the Northern Continent. He learned about the sea’s powers and chose Eastern Li Island as his first target.

• Qin Lu sent the exhausted group into the secret realm to recuperate while he and the Qing Centipede recovered their strength.
• Qin Lu traveled south across the sea for a month and found a small island inhabited by a few thousand people.
• Qin Lu ordered the Qing Centipede to seal off the island, then subdued its lone Qi Condensation cultivator and searched his memories.
• Qin Lu learned that the island lay in the Eight Immortals Sea, hundreds of thousands of li from the Northern Continent, and that eight Core Formation-led powers ruled the region.
• Qin Lu identified Eastern Li Island, home of the Eastern Li Dao Sect, as a powerful nearby target and decided to begin there.