Recaps

The immortals in the Vast Spirit Star Domain learned that the Human Race planned to exploit the conflict among the myriad races, and they prepared to help stir up disorder. Ye Qingzhu revealed his family connection to the Dharma Ancestor, leaving the group reassured that powerful backing watched over them.

• Hu Feng found E Chi’s storage Law Treasure and offered to split its modest contents with Qin Lu, who accepted without much interest.
• Ye Qingzhu reported that Ancestor Mu, a Daluo of the Poison Dao, had confronted the Samsara Underworld and that the Dharma Ancestor wanted them to escalate the conflict.
• The immortals learned that the Human Race’s six venerable ancestors intended to use the turmoil to seize opportunities and reshape the balance among the races.
• Qin Lu urged everyone to finish preparations and wait for a chance to act, then asked Ye Qingzhu about his ties to the Human Race’s higher-ups.
• Ye Qingzhu explained that the Dharma Ancestor’s dao companion was an ancestor of his Ye Clan and his forebear’s full sister, giving him a personal connection to the Dharma Ancestor.
• Hu Feng, Hu He, and the others felt reassured after learning that Ye Qingzhu had the Dharma Ancestor’s support.

The Qin Humans prospered as the Vast Spirit Star Domain filled with cultivators, while Qin Qianyu concealed the Great Qin Nebula and Qin Daoran completed his breakthrough to Purple Void True Immortal, establishing the Qin Humans as a great race. After meeting Qin Daoran, Long Yuntian decided to help the Qin Humans, hoping the opportunity would lead him to Taiyi.

• Cultivators from across the heavens flocked to the Vast Spirit Star Domain, where the Qin Humans profited from the trade and the Human Race quietly supported them.
• Qin Qianyu concealed the Great Qin Nebula with a Seventh-Tier array as Qin Daoran began forming his immortal world, bringing blessings to the nebula.
• Qin Daoran imprinted his True Spirit in the Primordial Dao Sea and became a Purple Void True Immortal, marking the Qin Humans’ rise as a great race.
• The Great Yang Dao Ancestor noticed Qin Daoran’s Yang Dao but suppressed his instinctive disgust and paid him no further attention.
• Long Yuntian met Qin Daoran at Long Yun Palace, then agreed with the Dao Lord to help the Qin Humans and pursue an opportunity to advance to Taiyi.

Long Yuntian joined the Vast Spirit Alliance, greatly increasing the Vast Spirit Star Domain’s strength, while the Great Qin Nebula took shape around the Qin Realm, Emperor Realm, and Scarlet Yang Realm. Long Yuntian told Qin Lu he had entered the fray mainly to seek benefits and advance toward Taiyi, while also doing Qin Lu a favor.

• Long Yuntian’s arrival and the alliance of the Qin Humans Race, the Winged Tiger Race, and Long Yuntian’s forces raised the Vast Spirit Star Domain’s deterrence and gave it nine beings with True Immortal combat power.
• After Qin Daoran advanced to True Immortal, the Scarlet Yang Immortal Palace became the Scarlet Yang Realm, and it joined the Qin Realm and Emperor Realm as the Great Qin Nebula’s foundation.
• The three realms and thirty subordinate planes formed the Great Qin Nebula, while Qin Lu’s foundation and combat power grew with its development.
• Qin Lu asked Long Yuntian why he had joined the alliance and whether Lord Flowing Cloud had sent him.
• Long Yuntian said he had come mainly to seek benefits and a chance to attain Taiyi, while also earning goodwill by helping Qin Lu.

Qin Lu and Hu Feng used the suspicious death of a Profound Wing Race prodigy to inflame rivalries and draw several races into war, while Qin Lu refined the victim’s innate physique into an immortal pill for Hu Feng. The chapter ended with Hu Feng holding a near-perfect Wind Dao physique and pledging his race’s support for Qin Lu’s plan to seize Soul Dao authority.

• The death of a Profound Wing Race genius with an innate spirit physique sparked mockery, escalating quarrels, and a war between the Profound Wing Race and the Mountain Mist, Earth Dragon, and Fandi Races.
• Ying, the Shadow Demon Sovereign raised by Qin Lu, revealed the dead Profound Wing Race young master, whose soul had been erased without leaving any injuries on his body.
• Qin Lu and Hu Feng revealed that Hu Feng had arranged the killing to weaken the Profound Wing Race and advance his own race’s fortunes.
• Qin Lu refined the corpse’s innate physique into a cyan immortal pill with nearly perfect compatibility for Hu Feng’s Dao origin.
• Hu Feng promised that the Winged Tiger Race would ally with the Qin Humans Race and help Qin Lu seize a portion of Soul Dao authority.
• Qin Lu declined to keep the physique because the Qin Humans Race lacked the resources to support another future True Immortal.

The Vast Spirit Alliance launched a plan to exploit the war between the Profound Wing Race and the Mountain Mist, Earth Spirit, and Fandi races by isolating and killing True Immortals. Qin Lu’s group trapped two combatants in Ghost Spirit Space, where Qin Lu prepared to devour them.

• The four races continued their century-long stalemate as the myriad races watched for a True Immortal to fall and trigger a struggle over Dao Sea authority.
• Qin Lu ordered the hidden immortals to carry out the original plan when battle broke out again.
• Ming Qing used Qieye’s power to steal the space containing a fighting Profound Wing Race True Immortal and Mountain Mist Race True Immortal.
• The two True Immortals reappeared in Ghost Spirit Space, isolated by Emperor Nether’s Ten Thousand Territories.
• Qin Lu greeted the trapped pair and invited them into his belly for a chat.

Qin Lu and Hu Feng killed two opposing True Immortals, claimed their resources, and displayed the corpses in the sea of stars. The deaths ignited a chaotic scramble for Great Dao authority, which escalated into a broader assault on the Mountain Mist and Profound Wing Races.

• Hu Feng killed the Mountain Mist Race's True Immortal, while Qin Lu used the Soul-Annihilating Bell to destroy the Profound Wing Race's True Immortal's Primordial Spirit and devoured it.
• Hu Feng gained Wind Dao authority, Qin Lu upgraded the Emperor Nether Immortal Crown with two True Spirit crystals, and Qin Lu fed the two True Immortals' bodies to the God Devouring Sword before Ming Qing sent their remains into the sea of stars.
• The two corpses appeared in the sea of stars, and the trembling Wind and Lightning Dao Seas revealed that both True Immortals had died.
• More than a hundred True Immortals fought over the Mountain Mist Race's corpse and its Great Dao authority, while the Mountain Mist Race watched its clansman's remains get torn apart.
• The gathered True Immortals turned against the Mountain Mist Race and then the Profound Wing Race, emboldened when Flame Lord appeared and E Chi joined the battle.

The Light Spirit Alliance joined the Human Race and the Samsara Underworld in attacking the Profound Wing Race and the Mountain Mist Race, turning the heavens into a struggle for territory and immortality. Qin Lu’s allies divided into two assault teams while Qin Zheng stayed behind to guard the Vast Spirit Star Domain.

• The Human Race and the Samsara Underworld entered the conflict, marking the Profound Wing Race and the Mountain Mist Race as targets for conquest.
• Qin Lu and the Light Spirit Alliance recognized that their plans had helped unleash widespread chaos, while the Divine Court chose not to intervene.
• Qin Lu urged the immortals to seize their share of the spoils and opportunities to rise.
• Qin Lu, Qin Daoran, the True Devil Immortal, and Ye Qingzhu joined the attack on the Mountain Mist Race.
• Hu Feng, Hu He, Ming Qing, and Long Yuntian joined the main force attacking the Profound Wing Race.
• Qin Zheng remained in charge of the Vast Spirit Star Domain, with Beichuan Market protected by young talents and forces from the Human Race and the Samsara Underworld.

The Mountain Mist Ancestor fled from more than thirty True Immortals after the Mountain Mist Race’s fortunes and lineage were sabotaged, escaping their ambush by destroying his lightning umbrella. Qin Lu and his companions tracked the other Mountain Mist True Immortal to the Gale Storm Nebula, where they found the Mountain Mist Race’s vast, lightning-rich domain.

• The Mountain Mist Ancestor discovered that a Daluo of the Grand Yin Dao had concealed the mastermind’s identity, then split from his clansman to draw pursuers away.
• Qin Lu placed a hidden soul mark on the Mountain Mist Ancestor and followed as four True Immortals attacked him with their Dao techniques.
• The Mountain Mist Ancestor shattered his Myriad Lightning Attraction Umbrella to erase his presence and escape the encirclement.
• Qin Lu, Qin Daoran, Ye Qingzhu, and the True Devil Immortal followed the soul mark toward the Thunderclap Star Region while the other pursuers searched for the Mountain Mist clansman.
• The four immortals reached the Gale Storm Nebula and saw its three central lightning worlds and 243 subsidiary planes.

Ye Qingzhu trapped Mountain Mist Ancestor inside a vast bamboo formation while Qin Lu and Qin Daoran attacked him. Qin Lu and Mountain Mist Ancestor traded lethal blows and repeatedly revived, and Qin Lu ended the chapter preparing to strike at Mountain Mist Ancestor’s soul again.

• Ye Qingzhu drained the life from countless stars to create a bamboo formation around the Gale Storm Nebula.
• Qin Daoran and two others attacked Mountain Mist Ancestor, but Mountain Mist Ancestor destroyed Qin Daoran’s physical body with a lightning strike.
• Qin Lu took over the fight and sent the True Devil Immortal against Mountain Mist Ancestor, who interrupted the Soul-Annihilating Bell and revealed several Profound Heaven Immortal Artifacts.
• Qin Lu and Mountain Mist Ancestor exchanged devastating attacks, destroying each other’s bodies and souls before returning from the Dao Sea or using treasures to revive.
• Mountain Mist Ancestor used the Gale Storm Nebula’s power and a soul-substitution stone to recover, while Qin Lu strengthened his Primordial Spirit and prepared another soul-piercing attack.

Qin Lu survived the Mountain Mist Ancestor’s attacks and transformed into his Seven Ghost True Devil Body, trapping and overwhelming him in a sealed realm. After killing the Mountain Mist Ancestor seventeen times and exhausting his Soul Substitution Stones, Qin Lu devoured his Primordial Spirit and reflected on the cost of the battle.

• The Mountain Mist Ancestor shattered Qin Lu’s body and Primordial Spirit, but Qin Lu’s voice returned from the void and unnerved him.
• The Mountain Mist Ancestor attacked Qin Daoran, and Qin Lu revived through the Emperor Nether Immortal Crown’s True Spirit Death Substitution.
• Qin Lu trapped the Mountain Mist Ancestor in Ghost Spirit Space and cut the realm off from the Primordial Dao Sea with Emperor Nether’s Ten Thousand Territories.
• Qin Lu used the Seven Ghost True Devil Body and unleashed a barrage of Soul Dao attacks against the Mountain Mist Ancestor.
• After the Mountain Mist Ancestor’s Soul Substitution Stones ran out, Qin Lu tore apart his Primordial Spirit and devoured it.
• Qin Lu returned to his original form and noted that the battle had tested him, while considering how to replace the Immortal Soul Crystal he had lost.

Qin Lu searched the Mountain Mist Race progenitor’s spoils and discovered the Nine True Soul Methods, an inheritance authored by Hun Qiuzhen, the first Dao Ancestor of Souls. He left the chapter convinced it was more valuable than all the other treasures, though he had not yet understood its final method.

• Qin Lu found a Mustard Seed Sumeru containing the Mountain Mist Race’s inheritance, riches, and over a billion beings.
• Qin Lu collected numerous treasures, including a lightning bead that he planned to save for Qin Zhenyu and a portion of world origin capable of supporting another clansman’s Creation.
• Qin Lu opened the most heavily protected treasure box and found the Nine True Soul Methods, authored by Hun Qiuzhen.
• Qin Lu realized the inheritance came from the Dao Ancestor of Souls, who had also been the Dao Ancestor of Death before Ming Wang killed him.
• Qin Lu studied the nine methods, grasped hints of the first eight, and remained unable to interpret the True Self Soul Method.

After Qin Lu and his companions took the Mountain Mist Race’s three masterless worlds, the Grand Yin Hall exposed their actions and triggered a scramble among the heavens. As forces gathered for a possible war, the Grand Yin Hall’s master began seeking unity with the Dao, only for the Great Yang Dao Ancestor to attack and the Dao Ancestor of Emperors to intervene.

• Qin Lu erased the True Spirit imprints of the three Mountain Mist Race True Immortals, then joined Ye Qingzhu and Qin Daoran in taking their three masterless worlds.
• The Grand Yin Hall revealed the group’s actions across tens of thousands of star domains, drawing hundreds of True Immortals to the Gale Storm Nebula.
• The Human Race arrived to defend Qin Lu’s group, while the Samsara Underworld and other factions gathered as the dispute threatened to escalate into a wider war.
• The Grand Yin Hall’s master used the turmoil to seek unity with the Dao and enter the Dao Ancestor Realm.
• The Great Yang Dao Ancestor attacked the primordial moon, but the Dao Ancestor of Emperors extinguished his divine fire and forced him back.

The Grand Yin Hall Master reclaimed the Grand Yin Great Dao and became the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor, while Flowing Cloud stopped the fighting and secured a settlement between the Grand Yin Hall and the Vast Spirit Alliance. The factions withdrew, and the Great Yang Dao Ancestor reclaimed the Soul-Annihilating Bell from Qin Lu before departing.

• The Grand Yin Hall Master fused her True Spirit with the Dao Sea and ascended as the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor, suppressing the Great Yang Dao Ancestor.
• Flowing Cloud intervened to stop the fighting, and the Dao Ancestor of Emperors supported his effort to preserve the balance.
• The Grand Yin Dao Ancestor declared that the Grand Yin Hall would not pursue the Vast Spirit Alliance if its members survived the calamity.
• The Grand Yin Dao Ancestor and the Dao Ancestor of Emperors withdrew to the Endless Land, where the Grand Yin Hall established itself and its grudge with the Vast Spirit Alliance ended.
• Flowing Cloud advised the Great Yang Dao Ancestor to abandon his pursuit of power and then departed.
• The Great Yang Dao Ancestor summoned the Soul-Annihilating Bell from Qin Lu and left with it.

The Human Race and the Samsara Underworld agreed to divide the Ghost Xiao Clan’s Great Dao authority while the powerful races took portions of its nebula and the Profound Wing Nebula. Ancestor Mu then assured Qin Lu that the Qin Humans would receive territory in the Gale Storm Nebula and protection from future retaliation.

• Ancestor Mu claimed the Gale Storm Nebula for the Human Race and offered the Profound Wing Nebula to the other factions, while the Endless Land withdrew after securing its gains.
• Ghost Duke proposed that the Human Race and Samsara Underworld divide the Ghost Xiao Clan’s Great Dao authority and that the powerful races share its nebula and the Profound Wing Nebula.
• Xu Huai accepted Ghost Duke’s proposal, and the gathered factions agreed to eliminate the Ghost Xiao Clan.
• Qin Lu offered the Gale Storm Nebula’s resources to the Human Race, but Ancestor Mu granted the Qin Humans one unclaimed world and its subsidiary planes while reserving two worlds for the Human Race.
• Ancestor Mu told Qin Lu that the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor had settled his grievances with the Vast Spirit Alliance and that the Great Yang Dao Ancestor would not pursue him over the Soul-Annihilating Bell.

After the campaign against the Ghost Xiao Clan, Qin Lu and Ye Qingzhu divided the spoils, and Qin Lu began planning to develop the Great Qin Nebula. Subsequent battles destroyed five great races, while Long Yuntian became a Taiyi and Hu Feng rose to the rank of Golden Immortal.

• Ancestor Mu, Xu Huai, Luo Sheng, Cold Venerable, and more than a hundred True Immortals set out to destroy the Ghost Xiao Clan and kill Ghost Xiao.
• Qin Lu and Ye Qingzhu settled their share of the spoils, with Qin Lu keeping the unclaimed world and ceding more than two hundred subsidiary planes to Ye Qingzhu.
• Qin Lu and Qin Daoran took the Wild Thunder World for Qin Zhenyu, and Qin Lu planned to spend the coming millennia developing the Great Qin Nebula.
• Battles across the heavens wiped out the Profound Wing Race, Ghost Xiao Clan, Mountain Mist Race, Golden Armor Race, and Hidden Wing Race, leaving nearly fifty Mystic Immortals, one Taiyi Jade Immortal, and three Golden Immortals dead.
• Long Yuntian killed a Cloud Firmament Race Golden Immortal and seized enough authority over the Dao of Clouds to become a Taiyi.
• Hu Feng killed the Profound Wing Race's progenitor with Long Yuntian's help, claimed Wind Dao authority to become a top-tier Golden Immortal, and gained an unclaimed world.

Ancestor Mu offered Qin Lu 5% of Ghost Xiao Mad Devil’s Soul Dao authority in exchange for 30% authority in the future, and Qin Lu accepted to strengthen the Qin Humans. After absorbing the authority, Qin Lu became a Golden Immortal, while the Vast Spirit Alliance prospered and the Ye Clan gained a Daluo ancestor.

• Ancestor Mu offered Qin Lu a loan of 5% Soul Dao authority and required repayment of six times that amount or the nurturing of a Human Race Daluo.
• Qin Lu agreed, deciding the authority would strengthen his position and help the Qin Humans, despite the debt and the risks of hunting immortals to repay it.
• Qin Lu absorbed Ghost Xiao Mad Devil’s authority and, after a few months of seclusion, reached about 5.5% Soul Dao authority and entered the Golden Immortal realm.
• Long Yunxian returned to the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain as a Taiyi with 15% authority over the Dao of Clouds.
• Ye Qingzhu returned to the Ye Clan, whose ancestor became a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Dao of Withering and Flourishing, raising the clan’s strength.

Qin Lu accepted that the Qin Humans Race needed the Human Race’s protection and resolved to use their alliance to strengthen his own people. By Great Qin year 3500, the Vast Spirit Star Domain was stable under joint Qin Humans and Winged Tiger rule, while the Qin Humans focused on consolidating their power and developing the region.

• Qin Lu concluded that the Qin Humans Race needed a powerful patron and decided to turn its ties to the Human Race to his advantage.
• Qin Lu’s acceptance of the alliance brought him peace of mind, allowing his cultivation to progress more smoothly.
• By year 3500 of the Great Qin calendar, Hu Feng and Qin Lu guarded the Vast Spirit Star Domain as representatives of the Winged Tiger Race and the Qin Humans Race.
• Ming Qing represented the unaffiliated minor races, while the Qin Humans Race retained primary control of the Vast Spirit Alliance and the domain.
• The Qin Humans Race pulled back from expansion and developed the region’s resources under Qin Xuanzi and the Great Qin Empire’s established administration.
• The Qin Humans maintained ten subordinate planes as grazing grounds, where prisoners and defeated alien races were raised as blood food for the Qin Realm, Emperor Realm, and Scarlet Yang Realm.

The Qin Humans Race used the Scarlet Yang Holy Land to build alliances across the heavens while developing the newly integrated Wild Thunder World. The chapter left Qin Zhenyu and Tang Yan refining their paths toward becoming immortals, a goal that could strengthen the Qin Humans Race further.

• Qin Daoran’s sect system turned the Scarlet Yang Realm into a thriving cultivation world, with the Scarlet Yang Immortal Sect revered as its Holy Land.
• Qin Lu opened the Great Qin Nebula to human cultivators, using master-disciple ties to deepen the Qin Humans Race’s alliances while it bided its time.
• The Qin Humans Race integrated the Wild Thunder World, exploited its abundant resources, and traded Lightning Dao blood food and Blood Lightning Pills.
• Qin Zhenyu honed eight branches of the Lightning Dao in the Lightning Palace, aiming to inherit the Wild Thunder World and become a powerful True Immortal.
• Tang Yan cultivated Profound Yin in the ocean trench, used Qin Lu’s gift of world origin to prepare for immortality, and privately mourned that she had not conceived a child.

Haiyue sought Qin Lu’s help because the growing inner world within her body had slowed her cultivation and threatened to limit her lifespan. Qin Lu promised to support her advancement, increase resources for the Wood Demon lineage, and grant them five subsidiary planes.

• Haiyue teased Qin Lu about his other partners, then asked him to suppress his immortal presence because it made her uncomfortable.
• Haiyue explained that a spatial treasure had become a Spirit Ascension Secret Realm inside her, hindering her cultivation as her lifespan dwindled.
• Qin Lu realized he had neglected Haiyue and the Wood Demon lineage while directing resources toward himself and promising True Immortal candidates.
• Qin Lu offered to seek Long Yuntian’s insights on creating an Inner World and redirect Zhenyu’s future resources to Haiyue.
• Qin Lu promised a fivefold increase in the Wood Demon lineage’s resources, granted them one high-grade and four first-generation subsidiary planes, and offered to obtain Haiyue’s needed cultivation methods.

Mad Devil was reborn as a Soul Dao True Immortal and plotted to rebuild his power, preserve the Ghost Xiao Clan, and eventually take revenge on Qin Lu and the Human Race. Meanwhile, Li Ping'an learned that the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow he needed to become a Purple Void True Immortal was held by the powerful Mountain Piercer Clan, and he struggled over whether to tell the Qin Clan.

• Mad Devil revived in a new body, reclaimed Spirit Transformation Peak cultivation, and used a barren world to regain his status as a Soul Dao True Immortal.
• Mad Devil accepted that he could not yet defeat Qin Lu, then resolved to gather the Ghost Xiao Clan and infiltrate the Human Race to pursue revenge.
• Li Ping'an learned that the Mountain Piercer Clan possessed the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow and ordered his clansmen to watch them without reporting the discovery.
• Li Ping'an recalled that the marrow came from the descendants of an ancient River Dao Taiyi and was his best chance to become an immortal.
• Li Ping'an weighed his desire to keep the treasure secret against his affection for the Qin Clan and his promise to protect his mother's family.

Li Ping'an led the Li Clan fleet out of the Great Qin Nebula to seize the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, while Imperial Guard commanders Lu Zheng and Qin Yuan'an secretly followed. After they entered the Liu'an Star Domain, the commanders killed seven Spirit Transformation cultivators tailing the fleet and took their spoils.

• Li Ping'an departed with a small fleet, relying on his Spirit Transformation cultivation, a Sixth-Tier warship, and the Incense-Fire Puppet made from Li Shan's remnant soul.
• Lu Zheng and Qin Yuan'an debated whether to report Li Ping'an's movements and decided to notify the Qin Clan, then follow the fleet discreetly.
• The Imperial Guard commanders followed the Li Clan fleet into the Liu'an Star Domain and discovered seven Spirit Transformation cultivators trailing it.
• Qin Yuan'an killed one pursuer with a soul nail while Lu Zheng held off the others using his five Blood and Soul Sacred Beasts.
• Qin Yuan'an unleashed nine Ghost King Flags, and the commanders killed all seven pursuers before devouring their Primordial Spirits and collecting their valuables.

Li Ping'an's fleet fought the Mountain Piercer Clan, while Qin Yuan'an and the Imperial Guard revealed they had been watching over him. Qin Wu arrived with the Qin Humans army, ordered the Mountain Piercer Clan exterminated, and left a few surviving Golden Core cultivators enslaved to manage its territory.

• The Li Clan fleet discovered the Mountain Piercer Clan's three high-grade planes and prepared for battle against its five Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Li Ping'an and the fleet's puppets and warships attacked, and Li Ping'an killed the Mountain Piercer Clan's Spirit Transformation Middle Stage cultivator at the cost of severe injuries.
• Lu Zheng emerged from hiding and killed the Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivator, while Qin Yuan'an killed the two Early Spirit Transformation cultivators trapped by the fleet's formation.
• Qin Wu arrived with more than a hundred warships, revealed that the Qin Humans would take over, and ordered the Mountain Piercer Clan exterminated.
• The Qin Humans army killed the Mountain Piercer Clan's high-level cultivators, and the few Golden Core survivors who surrendered became slaves.

Qin Wu learned that Li Ping'an had secretly taken the Mountain Piercer Clan’s treasure and warned him before accepting his help in searching for more spoils. After Qin Lu unlocked the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, he discovered it could perfect the aptitude of Earth and River Dao cultivators, but his children could not use it, so he left it for Li Ping'an.

• Qin Wu learned about Li Ping'an’s affair, warned him for acting behind the Qin Clan’s back, and chose not to punish him harshly.
• Li Ping'an led Qin Wu and the others to the Mountain Piercer Clan temple, where they found the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, which they could not open.
• Qin Wu ordered three higher planes returned to the Great Qin Nebula, while the Mountain Piercer Clan was enslaved and the Li Clan stood to receive a share of the spoils.
• In Year 3619 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu emerged from seclusion and opened the imitation immortal artifact containing the true Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow.
• Qin Lu discovered that the treasure could raise an Earth and River Dao cultivator’s aptitude to nine-point-nine inches of spiritual light, but his children could not use it, so he left it for Li Ping'an and kept the other treasures.

Qin Lu catalogued the treasures in River Dao Taiyi’s ancestral hall, taking the Ancient Qilin Jade and assigning other artifacts to protect the Qin Humans Race. Months later, Li Ping'an received the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow and his clan a subsidiary plane, while Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng reflected on how difficult it would be for him—or even themselves—to reach immortality.

• Qin Lu identified the Ancient Qilin Jade as a powerful artifact and set aside defensive immortal artifacts for Qin Zheng and Qin Daoran, with the remaining treasures destined for the clan treasury.
• Several months later, Li Ping'an received the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, and the Qin Clan rewarded the Li Clan with a subsidiary plane.
• The Li Clan celebrated for months, believing the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow would help Li Ping'an overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng discussed the many obstacles Li Ping'an still faced in becoming immortal, including comprehending the Great Dao and acquiring world origin.
• Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng accepted that their own efforts might end in regret, hoping that later generations would inherit their legacies and continue the path to immortality.

Great Qin expanded across the star domains while the Human Race discussed how to exploit Mad Devil’s infiltration and pursue Soul Dao authority. The elders approved a plan to use Emperor Nether as a pawn in their bid to contend for the position of Soul Ancestor.

• Great Qin conquered surrounding territories, attracted cultivators and Spirit Transformation Lineages, and established the Scarlet Yang Holy Land in the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain.
• Ye Ming, a Soul Dao True Immortal with an Innate Spirit Physique, joined the Human Race and merged their world into the Myriad Dao Nebula.
• The Human Race’s Daluo Golden Immortals met secretly and discussed Mad Devil’s survival and infiltration of their ranks.
• A Daluo proposed using Mad Devil to hunt immortals and Soul Dao True Immortals, while backing Emperor Nether’s bid to gain Soul Dao authority.
• Ancestor Mu supported the proposal, noting that the Human Race could reveal its hidden Dao Ancestors to improve its chances of securing the Soul Ancestor position.