Recaps

Qin Lu confronted Zhao Yi over the sea, where Zhao Yi accepted responsibility for his past and fought to the death. Qin Lu destroyed Zhao Yi’s treasures and killed him, leaving the Primordial Unity Dao to fade beneath a sorrowful rain.

• Qin Lu mocked Zhao Yi for stopping his escape, and Zhao Yi calmly admitted that his past choices had brought him to this fight.
• Qin Lu manifested the Nether Soul Great Dao and attacked with Sword Intent, while Zhao Yi used the Primordial Unity Pagoda to suppress the surrounding Dao principles.
• Qin Lu relied on his powerful body to break Zhao Yi’s protective treasures and force him to recall the Primordial Unity Pagoda.
• Qin Lu unleashed Extreme Dao: Heaven Cleaving, cracking Zhao Yi’s pagoda and dispersing Zhao Yi’s body and Divine Sense.
• Qin Lu bowed farewell as Zhao Yi died, and a sunshower fell while the Primordial Unity Dao vanished.

Jianxuan, Sha Spirit, and Myriad Dharma agreed to join Great Qin in destroying the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect to end the turmoil in the Eight Immortals Sea. Qin Lu accepted a peace agreement after True Person Taixuan and his sect were annihilated, dividing the sea between the two sides.

• Jianxuan persuaded Sha Spirit and Myriad Dharma to join Great Qin against the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, arguing that ending the infighting would help the overseas human race.
• Jianxuan, Myriad Dharma, and Sha Spirit arrived at the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, where True Person Taixuan recognized that his death was certain.
• Qin Lu arrived, and True Person Taixuan attacked with his lifebound treasure before all six Golden Cores joined forces to kill him and destroy the sect and its island.
• Jianxuan claimed the Mystic Heaven Jade Tablet, and Qin Lu agreed to divide the Supreme Mystery Sea Region from the rest of the Eight Immortals Sea.
• The Taixuan turmoil ended with Great Qin victorious and its reputation spreading across the Eight Immortals Sea.

A month after the battle, Qin Lu chose to consolidate Great Qin’s gains rather than pursue the Mystic Sword Sect, and he began preparing for the Sha Spirit Sect’s eventual decline. He directed the Qin Clan to expand its strength and currency influence while asking Huang Liang to develop a Fourth-Tier teleportation array.

• Qin Lu gave the Great Void Fish Drum to Qing Centipede, whose injuries from the battle had healed, and noted that the three beasts of greed, anger, and delusion were still missing.
• Qin Zhuang urged Qin Lu to march north against the Mystic Sword Sect for taking the Supreme Mystery Jade Tablet, but Qin Lu refused to risk further conflict while Haiyue was unwell.
• Qin Xiao inferred that Qin Lu planned to wait for Sha Spirit True Person to die and then take advantage of the Sha Spirit Sect’s weakened inheritance.
• Qin Lu ordered the clan to prioritize its members, increase stipends, strengthen marriage ties, triple the clan’s population within thirty years, and help the younger generation advance.
• Qin Lu tasked Qin Zhao with making Qin Coins the standard currency across the Eight Immortals Sea and warned him to prepare for a currency war with the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Qin Lu gave Huang Liang Great Void Rock and offered him the Earth Treasury Dao’s inheritance and resources if he could build a Fourth-Tier teleportation array.

Qin Lu used the Soul Wood Great Dao to seize control of Zha Delei, remake him as a puppet, and learn how the Northern Continent had changed. He returned to his original body after confirming that the humans were near defeat and that the old formation in his homeland could be restored.

• Qin Lu transferred his consciousness a million li through a node in the Soul Wood Dao Principles and took control of Zha Delei’s body.
• Qin Lu destroyed Zha Delei’s sentience, turned him into a puppet, and examined his memories of the Frost Spirit Demon Domain.
• Qin Lu learned that Zha Delei had kept more than ten million humans and many half-demons alive as slaves and servants in Basikadun.
• Qin Lu studied a map showing that the demon races had conquered two-thirds of the Northern Continent, while the surviving humans held Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City under True Lord Poyuan.
• Qin Lu inspected his former homeland, found that its formation and infrastructure remained intact, and concluded that the formation could be used again after repairs.
• Qin Lu returned to his original body and decided to wait for the right moment rather than act in haste.

Great Qin established a unified calendar and entered an era of peace and prosperity, while Qin Minghan rose to become its second king. In Year 5, Qing Centipede survived the Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation and transformed into a near-true dragon.

• Great Qin expanded its territory, reorganized Dao academies, and declared its peaceful founding year the first year of the Great Qin Calendar.
• In Year 3, Qin Minghan comprehended King Wood Dao Principles, reached the Dao Foundation Realm, and announced he would expound the Dao.
• Three months later, Qin Minghan ascended the throne as Qin Wang, and the Tai'e Sword reforged itself as his sword and the Qin kings' heirloom.
• Qin Minghan took charge of external affairs while Qin Mingyi handled internal affairs, and the Qin Clan continued training its descendants under strict standards.
• In Year 5, Qing Centipede faced the Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation as dragon clans and insects gathered their strength to support it.
• Qing Centipede endured the final three-colored lightning strike and emerged as an azure, three-clawed dragon with only traces of its centipede origins in its eyes.

Qing Centipede formed a Dragon Core, became the Azure Frost Dragon King, and brought the flood dragons and much of the Eight Immortals Sea under Great Qin’s influence. As Great Qin expanded, the Mystic Sword Sect lost its Core Formation candidate to a lightning tribulation, while the Myriad Dharma Sect gained a second Core Formation expert and Great Qin appointed eighteen new marquises.

• Qing Centipede formed a Dragon Core, broke through to the Demon King realm, and proclaimed itself the Azure Frost Dragon King and Azure Emperor.
• Three flood dragons broke through under Qing Centipede’s Dragon Qi, while the Ink Flood Dragon submitted to Great Qin and later became Qin Minghan’s Natal Spirit Beast.
• Many factions, including most of the Sha Spirit Sect’s vassals, submitted to Great Qin, which expanded from five sea areas to six.
• The Mystic Sword Sect’s sect master died to the final bolt of a Three-Color Lightning Tribulation, and the sect surrendered the Supreme Mystery Jade Tablet to Myriad Dharma True Person.
• Mo Chuan, titled Hundred Skills True Person, became the Myriad Dharma Sect’s second Core Formation True Person.
• In the eighth year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Minghan appointed eighteen new marquises, and Wu Qi succeeded Marquis Wu after breaking through to Dao Foundation.

The Qin Clan named its seven most promising fifth-generation disciples the Seven Heroes of Dao Xuan while Great Qin advanced its artifact-refinement path. Qin Mingyuan absorbed the Ten Fiends Chaotic Pupils, reached the Dao Foundation Realm, and astonished Qin Wen by seeing phantoms of the Great Dao.

• The Qin Clan recognized seven outstanding fifth-generation disciples, including Qin Xuanzhen, Qin Xuanyu, Qin Xuanhai, Qin Xuanfeng, and Qin Xuanze, as the Seven Heroes of Dao Xuan and committed resources to their growth.
• Gongsun Jian comprehended a Dao Law at the Hundred Refinements Dao Academy, completing Great Qin's path of artifact refinement.
• Qin Mingzheng later comprehended the Molten Metal Dao Law, and Jin Yan pledged allegiance to Great Qin, joining them as a cornerstone of its artifact-refinement path.
• Qin Mingzheng developed the Qin-01 Model General-Purpose Puppet, which could replenish its Spiritual Power at a specially crafted base station and serve many practical roles.
• Qin Mingyuan absorbed the Ten Fiends Chaotic Pupils with Qin Wen's method, gained their abilities, and formed the Rosy Cloud Dao Foundation.
• Qin Mingyuan told Qin Wen he could see the phantoms of the Great Dao, startling his fourth uncle.

Qin Mingle taught music to female cultivators and a half-demon, while Qin Zhuang and Qin Hui discussed drawing the Three Qing Great Void Swallow clan into Great Qin. Qin Mingyi began refining Boundless City as his treasure after comprehending the Dao Principle of Protection.

• Qin Mingle taught a group of female cultivators music, then began teaching a half-demon who wanted to play for her mother and people.
• Qin Zhuang and Qin Hui watched Qin Mingle and discussed loosening the Three Qing Great Void Swallow clan’s bonds to bring them into Great Qin.
• Qin Zhuang explained that the clan’s spatial abilities could provide materials for Great Qin’s teleportation arrays and that Qin Minghan planned to expand into the Ancient Bone Sea Area.
• Qin Hui agreed to build ties with the clan and suggested giving Qin Mingle and the half-demon more resources.
• Qin Mingyi infused his Essence Blood into Boundless City to refine it as his treasure, matching his newly comprehended Dao Principle of Protection.

Qin Mingyi felt the strain of leading the Qin Clan while considering taking the determined Qin Xuanzi under his wing. Great Qin conquered the Ancient Bone Sea Area and transformed it into the Dragon-Nurturing Sea, where it established a pool that could breed flood dragons for the dynasty.

• Qin Xiao ordered Fortune Bitter Fruit to be sent to Qin Mingyi when it ripened, and Qin Xuanzi resolved to improve himself through hard work and study.
• Qin Mingyi noticed Qin Xuanzi's determination and considered nurturing him as a future aide, though he felt exhausted by the burden of leading the Qin Clan.
• In the fifteenth year of the Great Qin calendar, Great Qin launched its third and fourth third-tier warships, formed two fleets, and appointed Wang Jian and Meng Wu as commanders-in-chief after their breakthroughs to Dao Foundation.
• Great Qin's three fleets and the Lei Kun puppet beast conquered the Ancient Bone Sea Area after more than half a year of campaigns.
• Great Qin set the conquered waters apart as the Dragon-Nurturing Sea, where five flood dragons reshaped the seabed and Qingming established a spirit spring atop a spirit mountain.
• Qing Centipede and the five flood dragons infused the spring with Dragon Qi and their blood, transforming the former Insect-Nurturing Pool into the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, a source of future flood dragons for Great Qin.

The Dragon-Nurturing Sea flourished under Great Qin, and a search party killed the three beasts of greed, wrath, and delusion, turning their remains into weapons, armor, pills, and war machines. Great Qin also gained new Dao Foundation officials and established the Xi Mountain Li Clan, while the Chu Clan continued to decline.

• The reborn Dragon-Nurturing Sea gained the Azure Black Dragon Fish, and five flood-dragon bloodlines established a demon domain under Great Qin.
• Net uncovered the whereabouts of the three beasts of greed, wrath, and delusion, and a search party led by Emissary Bai He tracked them down.
• The Seven Emotions Ghost gravely wounded the three beasts before the search party killed them, and he devoured their Dao principles and souls.
• Great Qin sent the beasts' remains to its academies and workshops, producing pills, Law Treasures, a mechanical puppet beast, a warship, and the Dawnbreak Divine Bow.
• Li Shan broke through to Dao Foundation, entered court, and established the fourth-grade Xi Mountain Li Clan with his son Li Ping'an as its first head.
• Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Shang Yang attained Dao Foundation, while the Chu Clan's fortunes continued to fade.

Great Qin used the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce and Qin Coin to extend its influence across the Eight Immortals Sea and weaken rival factions. Years later, Qin Lu became a Rank-4 Alchemist and prepared to advance to the Golden Core Middle Stage, but he lacked a method for forming a Nascent Soul.

• Great Qin integrated Devil Cultivators into its laws and institutions, leaving Rogue Cultivators and Evil Cultivators with little room to operate within its territory.
• By the twenty-third year of Great Qin, the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce had spread across the nation and promoted Qin Coin, gathering Spirit Stones and expanding its control over trade.
• The Qin Coin weakened rival factions: the Myriad Dharma Sect's currency remained limited, the Mystic Sword Sect's territory shifted toward Qin Coin, and the Sha Spirit Sect neared collapse.
• Qin Zhao used wealth and Great Qin's power to recruit secret contacts inside major Golden Core factions, preparing to undermine them before a future unification.
• In the twenty-seventh year of Great Qin, Qin Lu refined his first Fourth-Tier spiritual pill and became a Rank-4 Alchemist.
• Qin Lu planned to use the pill to reach the Golden Core Middle Stage, but wondered where to find a method to shatter his Core and form a Nascent Soul.

Qin Lu developed a Seven Emotions Soul Poison and considered cultivating a third Dao Principle before entering seclusion with a fourth-grade spirit pill. Years later, Bai Qi became a Dao Foundation cultivator and was rewarded with a marquisate after enforcing Great Qin’s laws.

• Qin Lu devised a soul poison that used the seven emotions and Dao Principles to exhaust its victim’s soul, though he was still experimenting with it.
• Qin Lu reasoned that his Mystic Soul Dao Body might allow him to cultivate a third Dao Principle and entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• By the twenty-ninth year of the Great Qin calendar, the Hundred Refinements Dao Sect had expanded, and Great Qin launched its fifth and sixth Third-Tier warships as new fleets.
• Bai Qi broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm, took command of the Fourth Fleet, and executed a marquis and thousands of others for colluding with the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Minghan made Bai Qi Marquis of Martial Peace, while the case warned Great Qin’s nobles that its laws applied even to those with merit.

Qin Zheng was born amid extraordinary celestial signs, and Qin Lu proclaimed war on the Sha Spirit Sect, Mystic Sword Sect, and Myriad Dharma Sect. As Great Qin’s armies advanced, Fairy Joy abandoned her alliance with Qin Lu, and Mystic Sword True Person planned to kill Qin Lu and Qin Zheng.

• Qin Zheng was born with an innate spirit physique as celestial phenomena filled the sky, and Qin Lu named him his seventh son and the empire’s future ruler.
• Qin Lu ordered Great Qin to wage war on the Sha Spirit Sect, Mystic Sword Sect, and Myriad Dharma Sect, and Great Qin’s forces set out for the western sea.
• Great Qin’s army reached Sha Spirit Sect territory and began a bloody assault while Qing Centipede and Haiyue blocked Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person from intervening.
• Mystic Sword True Person urged Fairy Joy to turn against Great Qin, and Fairy Joy stepped aside to let him pass.
• Mystic Sword True Person proposed that Fairy Joy kill Qin Zheng while he killed Qin Lu, hoping to destroy Great Qin.

Fairy Joy agreed to join Mystic Sword True Person in attacking Qin Lu, while Great Qin prepared a defensive formation on Qin Island. Qin Lu led Great Qin’s forces into the Sha Spirit Sea Region, where Sha Spirit True Person refused to submit and was killed; the Sha Spirit Sect’s fate remained unresolved.

• Fairy Joy agreed to help Mystic Sword True Person attack Qin Lu in exchange for dividing Great Qin’s territory, while a Mystic Sword Sect elder secretly alerted Qin Zhao.
• Qin Zhao and Qin Xiao mobilized Great Qin’s forces, and Huang Liang led thirty-six Dao Foundation cultivators in forming a grand defensive formation around Qin Island.
• Great Qin’s fleet entered the Sha Spirit Sea Region with local forces and Sha Spirit Sect elders joining or welcoming them onto Sha Spirit Island.
• Qin Lu confronted Sha Spirit True Person and offered him submission or death, but Sha Spirit True Person refused and drew the Nether Sha Sword.
• Qin Lu, the Soul Frost Ghost King, and the Seven Emotions Ghost King overwhelmed Sha Spirit True Person, and Qin Lu beheaded him.

Qin Lu received Sha Spirit True Person’s final message, treasures, and request to spare the Sha Spirit Sect’s disciples, then used the Nether Sha Sword, God Devouring, to confront Mystic Sword True Person. Their battle devastated Sha Spirit Island, while Great Qin’s formation protected its fleet and captured the surviving sect members.

• Qin Lu activated Sha Spirit True Person’s jade tablet and learned that Sha Spirit had chosen to die to support Great Qin’s unification of the Eight Immortals Sea, asking Qin Lu to spare his disciples and their descendants.
• Qin Lu took Sha Spirit True Person’s treasures, including the Fourth-Tier Nether Sha Sword, God Devouring, and sensed that it had begun forming an artifact spirit.
• Qin Lu attacked Mystic Sword True Person with God Devouring, and their sword strikes collided with enough force to split the sky and destroy a nearby island.
• Mystic Sword True Person tried to flee, but the Soul Frost Ghost King and Qin Lu trapped him and forced him to fight.
• Mystic Sword True Person unleashed a storm of enormous swords that destroyed Sha Spirit Island, while Great Qin’s fleet formation shielded its ships and helped preserve some Sha Spirit Sect disciples and elders.
• The surviving Sha Spirit Sect members surrendered to Great Qin’s soldiers as the Golden Core battle continued beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators.

Qin Lu destroyed Mystic Sword True Person with borrowed Soul Dao power, but Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person seized bodies and attacked him. As Qin Lu recovered and summoned a third Dao Principle, his enemies’ emotions stirred under its influence.

• Mystic Sword True Person unleashed his full-strength sword strike, but Qin Lu borrowed a wisp of the Soul Dao’s power and dissolved the heavenly sword, wiping out Mystic Sword True Person’s soul.
• True Person Guiling possessed Mystic Sword True Person’s body, while Seven Emotions True Person took over Sha Spirit True Person’s remains and demanded to know whether Qin Lu had destroyed his cult.
• Seven Emotions True Person tried to manipulate Qin Lu into revealing how he borrowed Dao power, but Seven Emotions Ghost King broke the suggestion.
• Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person attacked Qin Lu, who used Soul Wood and Nether Soul Dao Principles to recover Spiritual Power as his Ghost Kings held the attackers back.
• Qin Lu summoned a third Dao Principle, whose influence stirred anger in Guiling and malice in Seven Emotions True Person.

Qin Lu overwhelmed True Person Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person by unleashing his three Dao principles and exploiting the Soul Poison Dao Principle. He devoured Guiling and turned to Seven Emotions True Person, who had also fallen into madness.

• True Person Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person struggled against Qin Lu, Soul Frost Ghost King, and Seven Emotions Ghost King as their attacks failed to overcome Qin Lu's recovery and soul defenses.
• True Person Guiling urged Seven Emotions True Person to fight to the death, while the Soul Poison Dao Principle drove both cultivators' anger and desires to extremes.
• Qin Lu manifested the Nether Soul Dao Principle's Ghost Emperor form and used his Soul Wood Dao Principle to withstand their assaults while the two Ghost Kings assisted him.
• Qin Lu unleashed the Nether Soul, Soul Wood, and Soul Poison Dao principles together, then seized True Person Guiling and pulled his soul from Mystic Sword True Person's body.
• Qin Lu swallowed True Person Guiling's soul bite by bite, then turned toward the maddened Seven Emotions True Person and began to devour him as well.

Qin Lu killed Sha Spirit True Person, Mystic Sword True Person, Guiling, and Seven Emotions True Person, then returned to Qin Island through a hidden teleportation formation. He appeared before Fairy Joy as she attacked the island, leaving her shocked and pleading to talk.

• Qin Lu took the Mystic True Sword from Mystic Sword True Person's corpse and declared that he would deal with Fairy Joy before destroying the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Qin Lu vanished after recalling his ghostly creatures, while the Great Qin fleet celebrated his defeat of four Golden Core cultivators.
• Fairy Joy and more than twenty Joyous Union Sect Dao Foundation elders attacked Qin Island, but Great Qin's forces suppressed infiltrators and most vassals refused to join the rebellion.
• Fairy Joy recalled that she and Seven Emotions True Person had planned to seize Guiling's treasure and unite their sects, but Qin Lu's power and Great Qin's preparations had ruined their scheme.
• Qin Lu used a Third-Tier teleportation formation to return to Qin Island and appeared before Fairy Joy, who asked to negotiate.
• Qin Lu dismissed Fairy Joy's claim that it was a misunderstanding and prepared to attack her.

Qin Lu defeated Fairy Joy and consumed her soul, then forced the Joyous Union Sect’s Dao Foundation cultivators to submit to Great Qin. A painter named Bai Yan recorded the surrender and attained Dao Foundation as a result.

• Fairy Joy filled Qin Island with spiritual mist and used her treasures and Dao Principles to conceal herself, but Qin Lu’s Soul Wood located her.
• Qin Lu struck Fairy Joy with a Soul Drill, then followed with a massive sword slash that damaged her umbrella and injured her.
• Fairy Joy tried to escape through the Great Dao, but Qin Lu dragged her out, incapacitated her, extracted her soul, and swallowed it as a soul pill.
• Qin Lu demanded submission, and the Joyous Union Sect’s Dao Foundation cultivators kowtowed and pledged themselves as slaves to Great Qin.
• Bai Yan recorded the surrender in a painting, attained Dao Foundation through his inspiration, and later joined the imperial court.

Qin Lu mobilized Great Qin to destroy the remaining powers resisting unification of the Eight Immortals Sea, while sects and cultivators across the region chose sides. As Great Qin’s forces closed in on the Myriad Dharma Sect, Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person faced the prospect of defeat with no safe place to flee.

• Qin Lu merged the Joyous Union Sect into the Jade Talisman Dao Academy, rewarded Qin Xinzhou, and ordered Great Qin’s fleets and allies to attack the Mystic Sword Sect and Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Unaffiliated powers and cultivators joined Great Qin, while Daoist Luanqi led the Mystic Heaven Dao into the war and many Mystic Sword Sect members defected.
• Great Qin’s forces destroyed the Mystic Sword Sect and its subordinate powers before the Fifth and Sixth Fleets headed for the Myriad Dharma Sea Area.
• Trapped on Dharma-Seeking Island by Qing Centipede and Haiyue, Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person learned that their southern territories had fallen and Great Qin’s army was approaching.
• Myriad Dharma True Person told Hundred Skills True Person to flee with the core disciples while he held off the Demon Kings, but Hundred Skills True Person said there was nowhere for the Myriad Dharma Sect to escape.

Myriad Dharma True Person ordered willing disciples to defend the sect and let the others leave, while Great Qin assembled to besiege Dharma-Seeking Island. As the battle devastated the island, Qin Lu confronted Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person with five Core Formation experts at his side and offered them a final choice.

• Myriad Dharma True Person ordered the sect’s resources distributed to disciples who would fight and expelled those who wished to flee, asking Great Qin to spare them.
• Great Qin allowed the expelled disciples to escape and surrounded Dharma-Seeking Island with its assembled forces.
• After several days, Great Qin and Myriad Dharma Sect fought across the sea, sky, and island as Great Qin’s forces overwhelmed the defenders.
• Qin Xiao raised the Ghost King Seal, Earth Burial, to sacrifice Myriad Dharma Sect and refine the treasure into a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure for Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu faced Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person alongside Demon King Cangyue, Haiyue, Qing Centipede, Soul Frost Ghost King, and Seven Emotions Ghost King.
• Qin Lu demanded that the two elders choose between dying with dignity and letting him kill them, promising to spare the Myriad Dharma lineage if they accepted his terms.

Great Qin ended the Myriad Dharma Sect’s resistance after Hundred Skills True Person and Myriad Dharma True Person chose death to preserve the sect’s legacy. The Eight Immortals Sea was unified under Great Qin, and the newborn Qin Zheng advanced into True Martial.

• Hundred Skills True Person killed himself, and Qin Lu placed his body in a coffin with a wooden head fashioned from Soul Wood Dao Principles.
• Myriad Dharma True Person dispersed his cultivation, entrusted Qin Lu with historical records and the Treasures of the Eight Immortals, and passed away.
• The Myriad Dharma Sect’s leaders died, while its surviving disciples submitted to Great Qin and later joined the Myriad Dharma Dao Academy.
• Great Qin unified the Eight Immortals Sea, and Qin Wen later compiled its past into historical records.
• Qin Zheng laughed as a mysterious blessing of providence descended, and he stepped into True Martial.

Three months after Great Qin unified the Eight Immortals Sea, Qin Lu arranged protection and cultivation resources for his infant son, Qin Zheng, whose rare emperor Dao body promised extraordinary potential. The chapter left Qin Zheng surrounded by safeguards and a carefully prepared path toward future greatness.

• Three months after unification, Qin Lu appointed Gai Nie as Qin Zheng’s guard and sword Dao teacher, and Gai Nie vowed lifelong loyalty to the child.
• Qin Lu transferred Flower Princess’s contract to Qin Zheng and charged her with protecting and guiding him throughout his life.
• Qin Lu prepared a powerful dragon egg as Qin Zheng’s natal spirit beast and established the Hidden Dragon Dao Field for his future cultivation.
• Qin Mingzheng refined a Law Treasure Proto-embryo for Qin Zheng, while Qiao Mei and other talisman masters made a Fourth-Tier protective talisman that was placed inside him.
• Qin Lu identified Qin Zheng’s innate spirit physique as the emperor Dao body, noting its affinity for Kingly Qi and its still-unclear abilities.

After Great Qin unified the Eight Immortals Sea, Qin Lu entered seclusion to absorb his gains and refine his treasures while the Qin Clan strengthened its rule. The sea regions were reorganized into eight great seas and a new provincial system, leaving Great Qin entering a period of consolidation.

• Qin Lu entered seclusion to absorb the souls of three Core Formation True Persons and refine the Nether Sha Sword: God Devouring and Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial.
• Qin Lu established five Spirit Gathering Great Formations to nourish the Treasures of the Eight Immortals and stabilize the Eight Seas Grand Array.
• Haiyue tended Qin Zheng, guided Flower Princess and Bi, and worked with them to awaken the intelligence of Spirit Plants at the Hidden Dragon Dao Field.
• Qin Xuanze rose to become a powerful third-rank minister, purged corruption from Great Qin's Dao academies, and reached the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer.
• Qin Xuanze proposed reorganizing the eight seas, and Great Qin consolidated them into eight great sea regions, seventy-two provinces, and three hundred and sixty protectorates.

Great Qin flourished under Qin Xuanze’s rule while, far away in the Eastern Wasteland, Meng Yu named Li Yuan’s infant son Li Shiming. After leaving a letter and a Qiankun Pouch, Meng Yu vanished, choosing to step away and witness the coming upheaval.

• Qin Xuanze helped Great Qin prosper, strengthening the court and secretly eliminating threats to its stability.
• In the Eastern Wasteland, Li Yuan visited Meng Yu with his newborn second son and asked him to choose the child’s name.
• Meng Yu named the infant Li Shiming and warned that competing Heavenly Fates and Great Daos made the age both promising and dangerous.
• Meng Yu returned Li Shiming to Li Yuan, left him a Qiankun Pouch and a letter, then vanished as a wisp of wind.
• Li Yuan read the letter, accepted Meng Yu’s departure, and bowed to the heavens to bid him farewell.