Recaps

Zhu Laoba and the army led by Marshal Guo crossed the desert into the Southern Marsh, where Zhu Laoba reflected on his ambition to overthrow the decayed world and build a new order. Meanwhile, Hanbang’s army left Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City to garrison a pass on the human front against the Ice and Snow Demon Race, with Liu Ji now at Dao Foundation Seventh Layer.

• Zhu Laoba led Marshal Guo’s army across the desert to Wangming Lake in the Southern Marsh, where they set up camp.
• Zhu Laoba felt an unexplained unease, then resumed cultivating after it faded.
• Zhu Laoba recalled his journey south and resolved to use force to overthrow the existing order and create a peaceful world, while first building strength under Marshal Guo.
• Hundreds of thousands of Hanbang troops departed Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City to garrison a pass on the defensive line against the Ice and Snow Demon Race.
• Liu Ji had reached Dao Foundation Seventh Layer, and Hanbang had become a major Dao Foundation power.

Liu Ji’s Hanbang had grown from a small band of rebels into a powerful force after fleeing south and earning military merits under Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City. As Liu Ji considered declaring independence, Zhang Liang’s inability to divine the chaotic heavenly secrets led him to reflect on the vanished Duke of Qin and reaffirm his resolve to build Hanbang’s future.

• Liu Ji had led Hanbang in revolt against Da Zhou and begun its southward migration before the Northern Demon Rebellion erupted in full.
• Hanbang had reached Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City, served under True Lord Poyuan, and grown through decades of fighting and fortuitous opportunities.
• Liu Ji told Zhang Liang that he felt uneasy and asked him to divine the reason, but Zhang Liang could not fathom the chaotic heavenly secrets.
• Zhang Liang recalled Mr. Mengyu’s remarkable ability to divine the secrets and wondered where the senior was now.
• Liu Ji remembered the Duke of Qin, whose bearing had inspired him to grow stronger, and resolved to keep building an enduring foundation for the people who relied on him.

The Song Alliance argued over whether to retreat from the Demon Race or defend Yin'an City, which lay in the path of the coming beast tide. Zhao Gou proposed seeking help from Hanbang, while Yue Fei warned that Qin Hui could not be trusted.

• Qin Hui urged the Song Alliance to flee south after repeated losses, while Yue Fei insisted they defend Yin'an City and threatened to kill anyone who advocated retreat.
• Zhao Gou acknowledged both men’s arguments and said retreating would make the Song Alliance responsible for the destruction of millions in Yin'an City.
• Zhao Gou revealed that Hanbang, led by Liu Ji, would soon garrison nearby Yanchuan City and proposed asking it to help defend Yin'an.
• Zhao Gou assigned Qin Hui to approach Liu Ji because of his Northern Qin lineage, and Qin Hui reluctantly accepted.
• After Qin Hui left, Yue Fei told Zhao Gou that Qin Hui had become a rotten old man who cared only about surviving.

Zhao Gou rejected Qin Hui’s plan to flee south and ordered the Song Alliance to fight the foreign race. Meanwhile, Hanbang took Yanchuan City, and Qin Hui arrived to meet Liu Ji, who questioned whether he truly belonged to the Qin Clan.

• Zhao Gou let Qin Hui go and declared that the Song Alliance would fight rather than retreat.
• Yue Fei pledged to follow Zhao Gou’s command.
• Hanbang took over Yanchuan City with an army of two hundred thousand warriors.
• Qin Hui visited Liu Ji with gifts, and Liu Ji welcomed him because he was a descendant of Northern Qin.
• Liu Ji’s presence overwhelmed Qin Hui, and Liu Ji asked why he seemed so unlike a Qin Clan disciple.

Qin Hui asked Liu Ji to ally Hanbang with the Song Alliance against the coming beast tide, but Liu Ji’s harsh words deepened Qin Hui’s sense of failure. Hanbang’s leaders debated whether to support or annex the Song Alliance, and Liu Ji chose to begin talks and send aid.

• Liu Ji insulted Qin Hui’s courage and lineage, while Zhang Liang confirmed Qin Hui’s Northern Qin bloodline and urged Liu Ji to hear him out.
• Qin Hui requested Hanbang’s help defending Yin'an City from the beast tide on behalf of the Song Alliance, led by Zhao Gou.
• Zhang Liang described the Song Alliance’s history, and Liu Ji agreed to visit Yin'an in a few days to discuss an alliance with Zhao Gou.
• Hanbang’s generals, including Fan Kuai and Xiahou Ying, proposed annexing the Song Alliance instead of forming an alliance.
• Xiao He urged Liu Ji to avoid conflict and offer the Song Alliance troops until the beast tide passed, and Liu Ji assigned him to handle the matter.

Qin Lu repaired and activated the grand teleportation array linking Basikadun to the Eight Immortals Sea, then brought a five-person team across to the Northern Continent. After assigning them tasks to conceal the array, gather intelligence, and recruit cultivators, Qin Hui and Bi reached a secluded valley and opened Boundless City.

• Qin Lu used Zha Delei and the six other Frost Spirit Demon puppets to repair the grand teleportation array in Basikadun and connect it to the array near Qin Island.
• A test with a Second-Tier Demon Beast corpse showed that the passage was unstable, but Qin Hui, Huang Liang, Bi, Zichi, and Zimei crossed it with protective treasures and arrived with minor injuries.
• Qin Lu ordered Huang Liang to conceal and protect the array, Qin Hui and Bi to settle and recruit promising humans, and Zichi and Zimei to gather intelligence across the Northern Continent.
• Zichi and Zimei began searching the Frost Spirit Demon Domain, while Huang Liang hid the array and headed for Bayi Immortal City to find materials and maintain the arrays there.
• Qin Hui and Bi flew to a secluded valley near the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall, where Qin Hui opened Boundless City.

Qin Hui deployed Boundless City No. 2, a self-sufficient mobile fortress built from Qin Mingyi’s expandable Law Treasure, and organized its thousand cultivators to establish Great Qin’s forward base. The new outpost began preparing for a future counterattack while gathering intelligence, supporting production, and receiving survivors.

• Qin Hui expanded Boundless City No. 2 and activated its layered formations, concealing the city and the surrounding valley.
• The chapter explained how Boundless City’s eight independently upgradeable sub-cities could serve as mobile fortresses and teleportation points, raising Qin Mingyi’s strategic importance.
• A thousand loyal Qi Condensation cultivators emerged from the city, which also housed workshops for producing warships, Law Artifacts, and Qin-02 combat puppets.
• Qin Hui assigned the companies tasks including cultivating resources, expanding the city, surveying mineral deposits, receiving survivors, building an academy, and clearing nearby demonic creatures.
• Bi planted her true body, the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, on a barren mountain to gather Spiritual Qi and accelerate construction of the base.

Bi longed to return openly to her homeland, and Qin Hui promised they would reclaim what they had lost once the human race was strong enough. As the Ice and Snow Demon Race renewed its attacks, Qin Mingyi monitored the Qin Clan’s growing teleportation network and discussed Qin Hui’s strength.

• Bi asked Qin Hui what they should do next while looking toward the homeland she could not openly visit.
• Qin Hui explained that the Ice and Snow Demon Race remained too powerful to confront, promised to reclaim their losses in time, and offered to take Bi to Bayi Immortal City.
• The Ice and Snow Demon Race launched beast tides to thin its expanding herds, while competition among its races and mutual distrust kept the Demon Emperors from committing fully to war.
• Qin Mingyi activated Boundless City No. 2 and noted that the teleportation-array network across the Eight Seas was nearing completion.
• Qin Xuanzi praised Qin Hui’s strength, and Qin Mingyi cautioned him not to exaggerate or neglect the teleportation network.

Great Qin developed a teleportation network across the Eight Seas, and Qin Mingyi sought spatial resources by summoning leaders from two Dao academies. Meanwhile, Great Qin’s artifact refiners adopted mass-production methods and created standard military armor that strengthened the army.

• Qin Xuanzi showed Qin Mingyi that teleportation nodes had been established in seven of the Eight Seas, with the network awaiting celestial calibration, though Great Qin lacked enough spatial treasures to sustain it.
• Qin Mingyi ordered Qin Xuanzi to invite Daoist Luanqi and summon Tianshuzi, hoping the Mystic Heaven and Heavenly Pivot Dao Academies could help locate or produce spatial treasures.
• Artifact refiners from across the Eight Seas gathered at the Hundred Refinements Dao Academy and accepted its assembly-line methods after seeing them mass-produce Law Artifacts, warships, and puppets.
• A year later, five Rank-3 Artifact Refiners developed the Black Dragon-01 Model Standard Military Armor, a cheap integrated armor for True Martial Realm soldiers.
• Great Qin equipped its ordinary soldiers with the armor, raising their combat power and ability to survive in battle formations.

Great Qin expanded its military and artifact industry while Qin Wu cultivated in the Heavenly Meteor Sea Eye, reaching the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer and deepening his Sword Intent. His sword stroke resonated with the Great Dao, helping a lost infant in the long river of the Sword Dao find a way home.

• Great Qin issued Black Dragon-01 armor to its standing Black Dragon Legion and developed Black Dragon-02 armor for its ten thousand Qin Elite Soldiers.
• The Hundred Refinements Dao Academy established workshops to produce Mingyue Battle Standards and other Law Artifacts, while Great Qin expanded demon hunting to supply materials.
• Qin Wu cultivated beneath the Heavenly Meteor Sea Eye, broke through to the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer, and condensed his seventh drop of Great Dao water.
• Qin Wu's growing obsession with protecting his Lineage sharpened his Sword Intent as he contemplated his grief and continued training.
• Qin Wu's sword stroke stirred the Great Dao, allowing an infant lost in the long river of the Sword Dao to tear free and race toward home.

Gu Xuanzhen emerged from the Sword Dao and possessed Qin Wu, restoring his body and raising its cultivation while searching Qin Wu’s memories. He traveled to Qin Island to seek a Golden Core body, where Qin Lu confronted him and demanded his son back.

• A figure appeared amid a thunderous celestial phenomenon, and its Great Dao power nearly destroyed Qin Wu after he looked at it.
• The figure possessed Qin Wu, restored his body, and raised his cultivation to the Dao Foundation Extreme Realm before realizing he had nearly erased Qin Wu’s consciousness.
• Gu Xuanzhen learned from Qin Wu’s memories that he had been lost in the Sword Dao for nearly seventy years and decided to seek a Golden Core body in Great Qin.
• Gu Xuanzhen traveled from the Spirit Burial Sea to Qin Island in search of a suitable body.
• Qin Lu confronted Gu Xuanzhen, unleashed his three Dao Principles, and demanded that he return Qin Wu’s body.

Qin Lu used the Seven Emotions Soul Poison to weaken Gu Xuanzhen and force the Nascent Soul True Lord to back down. He escaped toward Qin Island with Haiyue, while Gu Xuanzhen destroyed the ghosts covering their retreat and searched for a body to possess.

• Gu Xuanzhen recognized Qin Lu's Innate Spirit Physique and felt threatened by his combat strength.
• The Seven Emotions Soul Poison amplified Gu Xuanzhen's brief fear, forcing him to cut away the contaminated part of his Nascent Soul and seal his emotions.
• Gu Xuanzhen abandoned Qin Wu's body and pleaded with Qin Lu to talk, but Qin Lu reclaimed Qin Wu and attacked before fleeing with Haiyue toward Qin Island.
• Qin Lu left the Soul Frost Ghost King and the Seven Emotions Ghost Generals behind to cover their retreat.
• Gu Xuanzhen shattered the Heaven-Cleaving Sword strike and destroyed the Soul Frost Ghost King and Seven Emotions Ghost King, but his Nascent Soul weakened further.
• Gu Xuanzhen realized he needed to find a body to possess before his Nascent Soul disintegrated.

Qin Lu discovered that Qin Wu had survived and learned that the injured Nascent Soul was Gu Xuanzhen, who claimed he had come seeking help rather than harm. After accepting Gu Xuanzhen’s explanation, Qin Lu gave him a temporary body, leaving Gu Xuanzhen to recover while still asking for a better one later.

• Qin Lu found Qin Wu alive but in suspended animation with severe Divine Sense damage, and realized Qin Wu’s cultivation had risen to Dao Foundation Ninth Layer Perfection.
• Qin Lu told Haiyue to evacuate the children and core clan members while he confronted the Nascent Soul himself.
• Gu Xuanzhen identified himself as True Lord Mystic Sword and explained that he had protected the Northern Continent and had not intended to harm Qin Wu.
• Gu Xuanzhen pierced Qin Lu’s formation with a thread of sword light to prove he could have killed him, and Qin Lu accepted that he might have attacked the wrong person.
• Qin Lu offered Gu Xuanzhen two Golden Core bodies, and Gu Xuanzhen chose the incomplete old man’s body over the woman’s body.

After several years of recovery, Gu Xuanzhen approached Qin Lu to negotiate Great Qin’s support for a campaign to reclaim the Northern Continent and return to the Central Lands. He offered Great Qin territory, protection, and Nascent Soul techniques in exchange for repairing the ancient teleportation array and backing the Longlife Ancient Kingdom.

• Qin Lu arranged a residence for the injured Gu Xuanzhen, then sent clan members out to gain experience and concealed the secret realm as a precaution.
• Over the following years, Qin Lu neared the Golden Core Late Stage while Gu Xuanzhen secluded himself to heal his Nascent Soul and assimilate Sha Spirit True Person’s body.
• In Year 41 of the Great Qin calendar, Gu Xuanzhen emerged with thirty percent of his strength restored and resolved to return to the Central Lands by way of the Northern Continent.
• Gu Xuanzhen found Qin Lu in Tai'e Immortal Palace and discovered that Qin Lu had reached the Golden Core Late Stage and was speaking through a puppet while hiding his real body.
• Gu Xuanzhen swore a Great Dao Oath not to harm the Qin Clan without cause, interfere in Great Qin’s affairs, or attack Qin Lu for three hundred years.
• Gu Xuanzhen asked Great Qin to help him retake the Northern Continent and repair its ancient teleportation array, promising territory, protection, and Nascent Soul techniques in return for joining the Longlife Ancient Kingdom.

Qin Lu accepted Gu Xuanzhen’s offer, and Gu provided him with Nascent Soul formation records and helped him unlock the inheritance of the Eight Seas Dao Sect. Qin Lu entered the Heart Sea Secret Realm, where he found a medium-sized Spirit Vein and a powerful Golden Core demon beast.

• Qin Lu agreed to work with Gu Xuanzhen on forming a Nascent Soul and counterattacking the Northern Continent, asking Gu to swear a Great Dao Oath.
• A week later, Gu Xuanzhen gave Qin Lu a volume of Nascent Soul formation insights and records from the Longlife Ancient Kingdom.
• Gu Xuanzhen helped Qin Lu fuse the Treasures of the Eight Immortals, opening a gateway to the Eight Seas Dao Sect’s hidden realm.
• Qin Lu entered the Heart Sea Secret Realm, where the treasures returned to eight altars and he received the Eight Seas Command Token from eight remnant souls.
• Qin Lu explored the secret realm and discovered a medium-sized Spirit Vein, dozens of Third-Tier Demon Beasts, and a Golden Core demon with a white-tiger body and suanni head.

Qin Lu attacked Lin Xuan, the guardian spirit beast of the Eight Seas Dao Sect, to claim his body and soul for his own use. After a fierce battle, Qin Lu’s three Dao-law wielding selves overwhelmed and surrounded Lin Xuan, threatening him into submission.

• Lin Xuan introduced himself as the Three Suanni and guardian spirit beast of the Eight Seas Dao Sect, then told Qin Lu he could use the Eight Seas Command Token to leave.
• Qin Lu attacked Lin Xuan without warning, hoping to seize his bloodline, materials, and soul.
• Lin Xuan retaliated with his third eye, sealing Qin Lu’s Law Power and Dao laws, but Qin Lu escaped the attack by splitting into three selves.
• Qin Lu’s three selves attacked together, forcing Lin Xuan to shrink and fight back while they overwhelmed him with spells and close combat.
• The Ghost King Seal crushed Lin Xuan into the ground, and the three Qin Lus surrounded him as Qin Lu threatened him with his sword.

Qin Lu defeated Lin Xuan’s sealing trick and forced the Three-Eyed Suanni to submit, placing him under a Parasitic Soul Seed and other restrictions. Lin Xuan agreed to serve Great Qin and led Qin Lu through the Heart Sea Secret Realm while asking for female dragons.

• Lin Xuan used his innate Divine Ability to seal three wooden puppets, but Qin Lu’s true body appeared behind him with a sword at his neck.
• Qin Lu threatened Lin Xuan until the Suanni gave in and opened his sea of Divine Sense.
• Qin Lu implanted a Parasitic Soul Seed in Lin Xuan and placed restrictions on him, taking control of his life and death.
• Qin Lu asked Lin Xuan to explain the Heart Sea Secret Realm and promised to release him after a thousand years.
• Lin Xuan led Qin Lu onward, pledged loyalty to Great Qin, and asked him to find young female dragons.
• Qin Lu promised Lin Xuan ten or even a hundred female dragons if he served Great Qin faithfully.

Qin Lu entered the Eight Seas Dao Sect’s inheritance hall and received the legacy of the Eight Seas True Lord. He obtained the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven Ring and the Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand, leaving him with a powerful new cultivation ground and decisive combat technique.

• Lin Xuan explained the Heart Sea Secret Realm, its ecosystem, and how Qin Lu’s Eight Seas Command Token gave him control of its Fifth-Tier grand array.
• Qin Lu entered the inheritance hall and found the dead Eight Seas True Lord seated in a small grotto-heaven with a scroll and a ring.
• Qin Lu respectfully bowed to the Eight Seas True Lord, whose lingering obsession then faded as his body turned to dust.
• Qin Lu received the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven Ring, a Fifth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasure and cultivation ground linked to future breakthroughs.
• Qin Lu learned the scroll contained the Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand and recognized it as the decisive combat technique his growing abilities lacked.

Qin Lu emerged from the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven riding Lin Xuan and used the Eight Seas Command Token to remove the Eight Seas Grand Array’s restraint. Across the region, cultivators and demons prepared to break through to Core Formation, while Mo Li became a Dragon King and Great Qin’s control over the Demon Race remained a condition for their advancement.

• Qin Lu left the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven on Lin Xuan’s back and returned to the Eight Immortals Sea, where his arrival drew the attention of cultivators and mortals.
• Qin Lu activated the Eight Seas Command Token, removing the restraint of the Eight Seas Grand Array and prompting long-waiting cultivators to thank him.
• Mo Li underwent tribulation in the Dragon-Nurturing Sea, formed a Dragon Core, and declared himself Dragon King Hanli.
• Mo Li merged a drop of dragon blood into the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, strengthening the bloodline and potential of the life-bound dragon egg prepared for Qin Zheng.
• In the Heart Questioning Sea, a young girl played Qin Mingle’s tune as her mother prepared for Core Formation, and the melody revealed her promising future.
• Sealed demons and hidden cultivators prepared for breakthroughs, while Great Qin demanded that Demon Race beings submit to its control or face destruction.

Huai Qing overcame her Core Formation tribulation, then swore loyalty to Great Qin and agreed to Qing Yan’s marriage to Qin Mingle after Lin Xuan pressured her. Elsewhere, Yan Sheng reached Core Formation, but True Person Guiling’s hidden split soul seized his body and returned to life.

• Huai Qing overcame her lightning tribulation and reunited with Qing Yan as the Three Qing Great Void Swallow clan gained a foothold in the Eight Immortals Sea.
• Lin Xuan, disguised as the Three-Eyed Suanni, ordered Huai Qing to swear a Great Dao Oath to Great Qin and announced Qing Yan’s marriage to Qin Mingle.
• Huai Qing pledged her loyalty, ordered her clan to search for spatial treasures, and began preparing Qing Yan’s dowry.
• Lin Xuan identified himself as the Qilin Emperor, Chiyan Demon King, and left for another tribulation site.
• Yan Sheng completed his Core Formation tribulation, but True Person Guiling’s hidden split soul activated and took control of his body.

Lin Xuan enforced Great Qin’s demand for submission, killing True Person Guiling and saving Yan Sheng’s fading soul by restoring it with Soul Qi. He then dealt with the other cultivators who had reached Core Formation, ending with Guo Shun, the sect master of No Mystery Dao, willingly pledging himself and his sect to Great Qin.

• Lin Xuan demanded that True Person Guiling swear a Great Dao Oath and serve Great Qin, but Guiling insulted him, so Lin Xuan killed him and sealed the escaping souls.
• Lin Xuan devoured True Person Guiling’s soul and used a wisp of Soul Qi to stabilize Yan Sheng’s soul, declaring that Yan Sheng would serve Ancestor Qin.
• A Third-Tier Peak great demon and an old Rogue Cultivator died to tribulation lightning, while Lin Xuan killed the Giant Shark Demon King after he refused to submit to the Qin Clan.
• At the final tribulation site, Guo Shun, the sect master of No Mystery Dao, survived the tribulation and voluntarily pledged his sect’s loyalty to Great Qin and Ancestor Qin.

Great Qin consolidated its court, military, and secret networks while the Qin Clan’s younger generations advanced, and Qin Lu and Gu Xuanzhen secretly began preparing a counterattack against the Northern Continent. As Great Qin’s power gathered, Qin Zheng grew into a gifted and fiercely ambitious child determined to expand its territory.

• Guo Shun submitted to Great Qin as True Person Shuntian and became left chancellor, while Bai He became right chancellor and the two posts joined the six grand scholars to form the Great Qin Cabinet.
• The Great Void Swallow Clan integrated into Great Qin, Yan Huaiqing became its first female marquis, and Yan Sheng became True Person Lingjue, overseeing the Net and the Shadow Secret Guard.
• Qin Mingle and Qin Xinzhou broke through to Dao Foundation, while Qin Xinzhou used his influence and relationships to build an information network across Great Qin’s lineages and academies.
• Qin Lu and Gu Xuanzhen secretly launched preparations for a counterattack against the Northern Continent, sending Qin Lu’s split soul there through the great teleportation formation.
• Gu Xuanzhen continued recovering and teaching Qin Wu and Gai Nie as Qin Zheng reached Qi Condensation Seventh Layer and resolved to expand Great Qin’s lands.

Flower Princess and Gai Nie hurried Qin Zheng to the Dragon-Nurturing Sea after learning that his Natal Spirit Beast was about to be born. Meanwhile, Gu Xuanzhen recognized that he was facing the Heart Tribulation and began searching for its answer as Qin Zheng’s party reached the Dragon-Nurturing Pool.

• Flower Princess received an urgent message from True Person Lingjue: Yan Sheng and took Qin Zheng away, with Gai Nie following them.
• Gu Xuanzhen reflected on his life of pursuing the sword and regretted the people and experiences he had missed.
• Gu Xuanzhen realized that his struggle to advance stemmed from the Heart Tribulation and resolved to keep searching for its answer.
• Gai Nie used a token to pass the guards at Mystic Dragon Immortal City, then flew Qin Zheng and Flower Princess toward the dragon-nurturing grounds.
• Gai Nie brought Qin Zheng and Flower Princess to the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, where Great Qin nurtured dragons.

Qin Zheng visited the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, where he gained a corrosive dragon-claw ability and met the dark-gold egg’s hatchling. After the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon hatched, it bonded with Qin Zheng, who named it Jintong.

• Qin Zheng approached the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, where its little flood dragons flocked to him, and Qing Centipede welcomed him with a Dragon Fruit.
• Mo Li gave Qin Zheng an ancient dragon pearl, which the illusory dragon swallowed and which helped Qin Zheng awaken the Dao of Corrosion: Dragon Claw Hand.
• Qing Centipede took Qin Zheng to Lin Xuan and the dark-gold dragon egg, where Qin Zheng waited as the dragons served him food.
• The egg hatched into a four-clawed, golden-eyed black dragon, which immediately coiled around Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng formed a Natal Contract with the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon and suggested naming it Jintong.

Great Qin expanded its military and cultivated resources from the Heart Sea Secret Realm while preparing for war. In the 45th year of the Great Qin calendar, Bai He passed his Core Formation tribulation and became the Crimson Firmament True Person.

• The Qin Clan secured thirteen complete Fourth-Tier inheritances and two Fifth-Tier inheritances, including the forbidden Thought-Severing Heaven-Enslaving Method, which Qin Wen guarded.
• The Qin Clan transformed the Heart Sea Secret Realm into a resource-growing region, and Great Qin increased its academy funding and planned to double the Black Dragon Legion.
• Great Qin prepared a tribulation island with a Fourth-Tier lightning-avoidance formation and lightning-attracting stones, while teaching promising cultivators to refine Infant Embryo Fruits.
• Bai He drew down the Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation and endured its bolts with the aid of an Infant Embryo Fruit, though his Law Treasures were damaged.
• Bai He survived the final nine bolts of three-colored divine lightning, formed a Golden Core, and received the title Crimson Firmament True Person.