Recaps

Qin Lu and the Qin Humans Clan annihilated the Thunder-Suppressing Race, killed all nine of its True Immortals, and raised Qin Zhenyu’s Lightning Dao authority to 9%. The Qin group erased the evidence and escaped, while the Divine Court later found the race gone and could not identify its killers.

• Qin Lu used Seven Emotions Soul Poison to expose the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s weakness, then killed him with the God Devouring Sword, which transformed into a high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.
• Qin Daoran, the Qilin demon immortal, Qin Zheng, Qin Zhenyu, and Tang Yan defeated the remaining Thunder-Suppressing Race immortals across the other battlefields.
• Qin Zhenyu absorbed the fallen immortals’ Lightning Dao authority, reaching 9% and becoming a peak Golden Immortal, though his weak Primordial Spirit kept him from fully using that power.
• Qin Lu drew on the Soul Dao to erase the Thunder-Suppressing Race and devoured the souls of ten quadrillion beings, strengthening his True Soul before returning to his ice coffin.
• Qin Zheng and the others captured the Thunder-Suppressing Nebula in the damaged Vast Sea Nebula Diagram and fled toward the Great Qin Nebula, while Qin Daoran destroyed the region’s suns to erase their traces.
• Decades later, the Divine Court discovered that the Thunder-Suppressing Race had vanished but could find no clues to who had destroyed it.

By Great Qin year 8100, the Qin Humans Race had expanded its hidden and public holdings while preparing five candidates for True Immortality. The chapter outlined the candidates’ talents and strategic value, leaving the Lineage focused on strengthening its future position.

• Over the centuries after the Thunder-Suppressing Race’s destruction, the Qin Humans Race expanded the Great Qin Nebula to more than seven hundred subordinate planes, while secretly holding eleven ownerless worlds and over three hundred more planes.
• Qin Yuhua advanced to Jade Dao True Immortal, giving the Qin Humans Race another True Immortal.
• The Lineage selected Qin Yuan, Qin Qianyu, Qin Yingjie, Qin Siyuan, and Qin Sixue as candidates for True Immortality.
• Qin Yuan’s Dao of Protection made him suited to inherit Boundless City and safeguard the Lineage.
• The Lineage backed Qin Qianyu’s pursuit of True Immortality because his Dao of Refining could let the Qin Humans produce Seventh-Tier immortal items.

The Qin Humans Race’s new True Immortals were chosen to strengthen its control over the Soul Dao and expand into the Nether Dao and Dao of Blood. After Haiyue devoured the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s origin world, the Qin Realm formed its first Origin Spirit Mountain, though Qin Zheng concluded that Haiyue still needed more worlds to grow.

• The Qin Humans Race planned to raise Qin Yingjie as a Soul Immortal and selected Sixue and Mingjie to fill gaps in the Nether Dao and Dao of Blood.
• The Qin Humans Race set aside five unclaimed worlds for future immortality seeds and designated the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s larger origin world for Haiyue to consume.
• Haiyue absorbed the world, and her true body grew as its laws and space nourished her and the world within her.
• The Qin Realm underwent sublimation and formed its first Origin Spirit Mountain, which could heal Dao injuries and produce origin spirit liquid and High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Zheng concealed the Origin Spirit Mountain and decided that Haiyue would need to consume more worlds to continue growing.

Qin Lu finished refining the Earth Burial Seal and mastered the Soul Driving Method, gaining powerful new abilities and a second version of himself. He then studied the Soul Dispersal and Soul Seizing Methods, which he believed could let him resurrect through all living beings in the heavens, and continued cultivating for his future plans.

• Qin Lu explained how ancient Inner World True Immortals differed in strength and resource demands from those who became immortals through the Creation Method.
• In 8675 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu refined the Holy Soul Jade Seal with the Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial, creating the Seventh-Tier Earth Burial Seal and its Golden Immortal-strength artifact spirit, Earth Burial Spirit.
• Qin Lu mastered the Soul Driving Method, allowing him to create a soul fragment and body identical to himself and merge them with his main soul for greater power.
• Qin Lu considered the Soul Dispersal and Soul Seizing Methods and concluded that together they could let him merge with the heavens and return through any living being.
• Qin Lu continued studying the Nine True Soul Methods and sought to grow stronger for his plans.

Over the centuries, the Vast Spirit Alliance grew to twenty-three True Immortals, while the Qieye Race rose under Ming Qing’s leadership. At the first Vast Spirit Grand Assembly, Qin Lu was honored as the Emperor Nether Immortal King, and the alliance drew the attention of powers across the Far Southern Sea of Stars.

• Six True Immortals joined the Vast Spirit Alliance, and together with Golden Peng, White Elephant, and Azure Lion, they became known as the Nine Great Demon Saints.
• Ming Qing renamed his branch of the Nether Karma Race the Qieye Race and aimed to make it a major alliance faction.
• In the year 10000, the Qin Humans Race, Winged Tiger Race, and Ancient Wood Ye Clan convened the first Vast Spirit Grand Assembly.
• Beichuan Immortal City was renamed the Vast Spirit Sacred Domain, and the alliance honored Qin Lu as the Emperor Nether Immortal King.
• The Human Race and other major powers turned their attention toward the alliance, while local races sought its friendship and avoided making it an enemy.

At the Vast Spirit Grand Assembly, Qin Lu arrived before the alliance’s True Immortals and revealed the young man seated in the extra cushion as Qin Humans Race’s newest True Immortal. The chapter ended with Qin Lu introducing Qin Qianyu, the clan’s only True Immortal of the Dao of Refining.

• The Vast Spirit Sacred City hosted the Vast Spirit Grand Assembly in the Hall of Immortals, where the alliance’s True Immortals gathered around twenty-four cushions despite the alliance previously having only twenty-three members.
• The immortals welcomed Emperor Nether Immortal King Qin Lu, whose growing power impressed Hu Feng and strengthened his resolve to rely on the Qin Humans Race.
• Qin Lu took his seat, and the young man accompanying him sat in the extra cushion, revealing himself as the alliance’s twenty-fourth member.
• Qin Lu introduced the newly ascended Qin Qianyu as the Qin Humans Race’s eighth True Immortal and its only True Immortal of the Dao of Refining.

Qin Lu announced that Qin Qianyu was a True Immortal of the Dao of Refining and offered alliance members favorable access to her services, strengthening the Vast Spirit Alliance. He then outlined a series of immortal-hunting expeditions over the next ten thousand years, leaving the alliance preparing an elite army to hunt True Immortals and seize their Daos.

• The immortals learned that Qin Qianyu was a True Immortal of the Dao of Refining and celebrated the benefits her craft could bring.
• Qin Lu offered alliance members priority refining services in exchange for two sets of materials and set higher terms for outsiders, with a share for members who referred them.
• Qin Lu explained that the alliance had selected members with distinct Great Daos to reduce internal conflict.
• Qin Lu scheduled an expedition for five hundred years later, led by Hu Feng and the Crimson Yang Immortal with eight other True Immortals.
• Qin Lu ordered a second expedition five thousand years later and specified that each force would include ten True Immortals, one hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators, and ten thousand Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The alliance members approved the smaller, clan-based expeditionary army, which would hunt True Immortals and seize their Daos.

Qin Lu assigned the Vast Spirit Alliance’s immortals to annex fifty surrounding star domains, explaining that reaching a hundred-star-domain territory would establish the alliance as a major power. The immortals accepted their assignments as the alliance prepared to expand in every direction.

• The immortals accepted Qin Lu’s command without objection, satisfying him with their response.
• Qin Lu displayed the Vast Universe Vast Spirit Star Map and located the Vast Spirit Star Domain in the Far Southern Sea of Stars.
• Qin Lu assigned the Qin Humans Clan to annex ten star domains to the north and the Ancient Wood Ye Clan to annex ten to the east.
• Qin Lu ordered Grand Peng, White Elephant, and Azure Lion to annex twenty star domains to the south, while the Winged Tiger Race and Mingchong were assigned ten to the west.
• Qin Lu explained that annexing fifty star domains would make the Vast Spirit Star Domain a hundred-star great domain and give the Vast Spirit Alliance standing as a hegemon in the Far Southern Sea of Stars.
• Qin Lu described how occupied star domains could provide resources, room for development, and population for the alliance.

The Vast Spirit Grand Assembly established plans for expansion, an immortal-hunting expedition, a recurring Hundred Immortals Assembly, and systems to strengthen the alliance. Afterward, Qin Lu assigned his descendants their responsibilities and preparations for the coming expedition and the clan’s future.

• The alliance agreed to hold its first Hundred Immortals Assembly in 3,333 years and to create a spiritual treasure exchange system for cultivating younger members.
• The Vast Spirit Grand Assembly lasted half a month and finalized alliance institutions, laws, and plans for warfare, trade, and talent cultivation.
• Qin Lu instructed Qin Zheng to monitor Anfeng and Liyuan, assess several other allied figures, and investigate Yangui’s true lineage and history.
• Qin Lu assigned Qin Daoran to protect Tang Yan and Yuhua during the immortal-hunting expedition and ordered him to keep the hunting list secret.
• Qin Lu put Qin Zhenyu in charge of territorial expansion and told him to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and prepare for the future.
• Qin Lu urged Qin Xuanzi to focus on cultivation and tasked Qin Qianyu with refining eleven Sixth-Tier warships and researching a Seventh-Tier mobile fortress.

Qin Lu gave the Qin Humans Clan’s True Immortals instructions for their future development, then secretly left to hunt the injured Soul Dao Taiyi Bai E. He used the attention surrounding the Vast Spirit Star Domain and an agent’s discovery to conceal his plans from everyone except Qin Xuanzi.

• Qin Lu ordered the clan to advance its fortifications, support Haiyue’s cultivation, and test the Golden Crow for information.
• Qin Yuhua accepted the order concerning the Golden Crow and began making plans of his own.
• In the year 10059 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu secretly traveled into the void with his body, main soul, and five high-grade immortal artifacts.
• Qin Lu targeted the injured Bai E, whose location he had learned from a Gray Stone Race agent more than seven hundred years earlier.
• Qin Xuanzi concealed Qin Lu’s Qi and helped cover his operation, while the rest of the Human Race remained unaware.

Qin Lu tracked the injured Taiyi Bai E into an unknown star region and found him hiding inside a black hole. Qin Lu attacked with the Soul-Extinguishing Needle, but Bai E returned after his body and soul were destroyed, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Lu entered the unknown universe and spent several years following the faint traces of Bai E's Soul Dao Qi.
• Qin Lu found Bai E inside a black hole and charged into its deepest region.
• Qin Lu saw Bai E's severe injuries and learned that Xu Huai had wounded him.
• Qin Lu struck Bai E with the Soul-Extinguishing Needle, apparently destroying his body and soul.
• Bai E emerged again from the void, gasping for breath and more badly injured.

Qin Lu unleashed his full arsenal against Bai E, manifesting the Emperor Nether Astral Manifestation and overwhelming Bai E in battle. Bai E learned Qin Lu’s true identity and lost another life, but he resurrected again with only four Dao Seals remaining.

• Qin Lu and Bai E traded attacks, with Qin Lu’s Soul-Extinguishing Needle costing Bai E one life while Bai E’s Soul-Destruction Spear pierced Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu summoned the True Devil Immortal, the Qilin Demon Immortal, and the Earth Burial Ghost Immortal, then revealed his True Soul Astral Manifestation.
• Bai E recognized Qin Lu as Hun Qiuzhen and summoned the Four Emperors Myriad Evil Cauldron, sending its four ancient true devils into battle against Qin Lu’s ghostly allies.
• Qin Lu trapped Bai E’s white-boned true form in the Soul-Locking Heavenly Lantern’s flames and annihilated his body and Primordial Spirit with a sword strike.
• Bai E resurrected again, losing another Dao Seal and leaving four remaining.

Qin Lu battled Bai E and the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil, sacrificing his own treasures to exhaust Bai E’s lives and defenses. With no escape left, Bai E detonated himself and scattered his authority into fragments to deny Qin Lu an easy victory.

• Bai E sacrificed a life to let the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil kill Qin Lu’s three Golden Immortal allies.
• Qin Lu burned Bai E and the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil with the Soul-Locking Heavenly Lantern, but they escaped through a spatial interlayer.
• A hidden Soul-Extinguishing Needle destroyed the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil and killed Bai E again.
• Qin Lu shattered Bai E’s immortal artifacts and cut him down, leaving Bai E with no spare lives.
• Bai E detonated the Soul-Destruction Spear, his body, and his Primordial Spirit, scattering his authority into countless fragments.

After killing Taiyi Bai E, Qin Lu returned to the Human Race and gathered enough Soul Dao authority to reach Daluo by sacrificing Ghost Duke’s authority and refining Ye Ming. The chapter ended with Qin Lu ascending to Daluo and the Heaven Burial Banner evolving into a high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.

• Qin Lu seized 7% of Taiyi Bai E’s scattered Soul Dao authority, then planned to take Ye Ming’s origin to make up the remaining amount needed for Daluo.
• Progenitor Ye and the Human Race leaders mobilized to protect Qin Lu, while the Samsara Underworld sent a force led by Xu Huai toward the Vast Spirit Star Domain.
• Qin Lu traveled in the King of Shadow Demon’s shadow, entered the Human Race’s territory, and reunited with its leaders at the Myriad Dharma Sacred Court.
• Ghost Duke willingly destroyed himself through Liberation by Violence, transferring most of his Soul Dao authority to Qin Lu before being reborn in a Human Race child’s body.
• Qin Lu refined Ye Ming into a gray pill and swallowed it, reaching 30% Soul Dao authority as the Dao Sea of Soul descended.
• Qin Lu became a Daluo, and the Heaven Burial Banner transformed into a high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.

Qin Lu completed his transformation through the Soul Dao and confronted the immortals gathered outside the Human Race’s star domain. After his attack was blocked by Xu Huai, Shi Gan, and Xue Tu, the Human Race’s forces arrived and demanded that the intruders leave or die.

• Qin Lu completed the Dao Sea’s baptism, gaining both Soul Dao physiques and power approaching the Dao Ancestor realm.
• Qin Lu arrived at the Human Race’s star domain and found three Daluo, seven Golden Immortals, and more than three hundred True Immortals gathered outside it.
• Qin Lu summoned the Heaven Burial Banner and seven Ghost Emperors, then attacked the gathered immortals with a powerful palm strike.
• Xu Huai called on Shi Gan and Xue Tu, and the three Daluo joined forces to block Qin Lu’s attack.
• Human Race immortals arrived in force, and their leaders ordered the intruders to leave or face death.

The Human Race and the Samsara Underworld halted their imminent battle, while their Dao Ancestors negotiated rules for the struggle over the Soul Ancestor position. The younger generations would decide the contest without aid from either side.

• Xu Huai and the Samsara Underworld forces withdrew after exchanging threats with Emperor Nether, and the Human Race refrained from pursuing a battle.
• Qin Lu returned to the Vast Spirit Star Domain, dissatisfied that the Human Race had chosen restraint and resolved to pursue his ambitions gradually.
• Progenitor Ye defended Emperor Nether's ambition, calling him a true madman whose strength and desire surpassed ordinary Daluo.
• Nine Dao Ancestors of the Samsara Underworld faced six Human Race Dao Ancestors above the high heavens to negotiate the Soul Ancestor struggle.
• The Weapon Ancestor and Evil Ancestor proposed restrictions, and both sides agreed that Dao Ancestors and other forces could not aid their younger generations.

The Human Race and Samsara Underworld agreed that Qin Lu and Xu Huai would gather their own allies and fight to the death after ten thousand years, with the victor becoming Dao Ancestor. As Xu Huai’s camp rapidly gained support, Long Yunxian joined Qin Lu and recognized the strength of his preparations.

• The Human Race and Samsara Underworld barred their own forces and vassals from intervening, setting a ten-thousand-year deadline for Qin Lu and Xu Huai to lead their allies in a decisive battle.
• News of the wager spread across the heavens, and many races weighed which side to support while small forces lost the chance to profit without taking risks.
• Xu Huai’s greater numbers and the backing of the Spirit Locust Race attracted three more great races, bringing his forces to forty-seven True Immortals.
• Long Yunxian joined Qin Lu with two other Cloud Dragon immortals, becoming the first Taiyi to support either side.
• At the Heaven Beyond Pavilion, Long Yuntian praised Qin Lu’s Immortal-Slaying Grand Formation and said it could hold off enemies several times its number.

Qin Lu recognized that the Human Race had advanced him in the Dao contest for its own interests, but resolved to win and protect the Qin Humans Clan. Meanwhile, Qin Hui began returning as a Spirit of Heaven and Earth, and new cultivators rose in the Vast Spirit Star Domain.

• Qin Lu and Long Yuntian discussed how the Human Race and the Samsara Underworld had made the ten-thousand-year wager over Dao authorities, and Qin Lu vowed to become its victor.
• Bi welcomed Qin Hui’s True Spirit as an origin ancient tree, while tens of thousands of Wood Demons celebrated their king’s return.
• Qin Lu sensed that Qin Hui would rebuild his body, flesh, and soul as a Spirit of Heaven and Earth, and considered how his return might benefit their clan.
• Ming Ye neared a breakthrough to the Purple Void True Immortal realm through the Stealing Dao.
• Hu Xiao became the Winged Tiger Race’s fourth True Immortal through the Sha Dao and took the title Tiger Sha Demon Immortal.

The Vast Spirit Alliance gained new members and support as Qin Lu prepared for the battle over the Soul Ancestor’s Dao. Hu Feng led an immortal-hunting expedition to help Qin Daoran and Qin Zhenyu advance in secret, leaving the alliance with the prospect of two more powerful immortals before the wager battle.

• Two great strength divine apes defected and joined the Vast Spirit Alliance, forming the Mountain Giant Apes with the three Mighty Ape Immortals.
• The Phoenix Race sent an ice phoenix immortal and a golden phoenix to join Anfeng in establishing the Variant Phoenix Demon Race.
• Qin Lu secretly met with the Phoenix Ancestor, who proposed helping him become a Dao Ancestor and then joining forces against the Yang Ancestor.
• Hu Feng led ten True Immortals and a host of cultivators on an expedition against a major race, using intelligence supplied by Qin Lu.
• Hu Feng discussed Qin Daoran and Qin Zhenyu’s progress as the two concealed their plans to break through to Golden Immortal and Taiyi during the expedition.

Hu Feng realized the ten-thousand-year agreement was a trap and rushed back toward the Vast Spirit Star Domain, where the Samsara Underworld had launched a full-scale attack. Qin Lu revealed his preparations, rallied allies against the invaders, and drew Xu Huai into a Soul Dao realm to kill him and claim the Dao Ancestor’s seat.

• Hu Feng questioned the ten-thousand-year agreement, prompting Qin Zhenyu and Qin Daoran to realize the Vast Spirit Star Domain was exposed and race back to defend it.
• The Samsara Underworld tore up the agreement and sent 1,080 True Immortals to attack the Human Race’s domains and the Vast Spirit Star Domain.
• Qin Lu thanked four allied Dao Ancestors, who joined the battle and temporarily suppressed the Samsara Underworld’s nine Yamas.
• Qin Lu gathered more than 230 allied True Immortals and sent the Qilin demon immortal and a Ghost Immortal of High Antiquity to fight the enemy’s forces.
• Qin Lu confronted Xu Huai, cleaved him with his sword, and trapped him in a new Soul Dao realm through his two great divine abilities.

Qin Lu fought Xu Huai in the Emperor's Territory, using his True Soul and Soul Dao rules to overcome Xu Huai's greater authority. Xu Huai repeatedly resurrected, so Qin Lu kept killing him until his soul began to wear away.

• Xu Huai mocked Qin Lu and manifested his Primordial Spirit, but Qin Lu's True Soul Astral Manifestation proved stronger.
• Qin Lu struck Xu Huai with the God Devouring Sword, destroying his soul, but Xu Huai resurrected through his unrestricted method.
• Qin Lu used the Earth Burial Seal to erase Xu Huai again, and Xu Huai returned and attacked with a life-burning strike that poisoned Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu sacrificed his old body, reshaped a new one, and drove the Soul-Locking Heavenly Lantern to burn Xu Huai away.
• Qin Lu repeatedly killed Xu Huai with Soul Dao rules and Soul Flames as Xu Huai resurrected, gradually wearing down his soul.

Qin Lu and Xu Huai continued their life-and-death struggle for the Soul Dao, each using rule-based powers to survive and fight. Qin Lu had mastered eight of the Nine True Soul Methods, but still needed to advance to Dao Ancestor to perfect the Soul Enfeoffment Method.

• The heavens’ True Immortals sensed Qin Lu and Xu Huai’s struggle in the soul kingdom territory.
• Emperor Nether repeatedly sacrificed himself and refined his being into dark Dao light, while Xu Huai repeatedly died and returned as pale Dao radiance.
• Qin Lu grasped the essence of the Soul Dispersal and Soul Seizing Methods, making his flesh and soul ethereal and letting him control life and death through his will.
• Qin Lu had already mastered the Soul Destruction, Soul Defense, Soul World, and Soul Enfeoffment Methods, though he needed Dao Ancestor power to perfect the last one.
• Qin Lu used every skill and technique at his disposal as he pursued final victory in the Dao struggle.

Two Underworld True Immortals discussed the stalemate between Emperor Nether and Xu Huai and the wider war, which had continued for millennia without a decisive result. As the struggle dragged on, the Qin Human Race strengthened the Vast Spirit Star Domain’s defenses and produced more True Immortals.

• Two Underworld True Immortals said Emperor Nether and Xu Huai had fought for 3,379 years, killing and reviving Xu Huai 118,972 times.
• The Underworld True Immortals reported that the campaign to slay immortals had cost the Human Race more than fifty True Immortals, while the battle for the Vast Spirit Star Domain remained fierce.
• In the 5,966th year of the fighting, Haiyue and Qin Yingjie advanced to True Immortal.
• The Qin Human Race completed a Seventh-Tier immortal formation around the Great Qin Nebula, then built four Seventh-Tier war fortresses to guard the approaches to the Vast Spirit Alliance.
• In the 8,078th year of the Dao struggle, several more Qin Human True Immortals appeared, including the first Crow Ancestor, who replaced a pureblood Golden Crow and advanced to True Immortal.

As the ten-thousand-year Dao struggle ended, Qin Lu ascended as the Dao Ancestor of the Soul Dao and entered the supreme heaven. Ming Wang offered to recruit him, but Qin Lu refused, and the Samsara Underworld withdrew its forces, restoring peace.

• The Dao struggle ended with Emperor Nether winning, and the Dao Ancestors of the heavens witnessed a new Soul Ancestor’s ascension.
• Ming Wang decided to recruit Emperor Nether into the samsara to fill the vacant position of Yama.
• Qin Lu ascended as the Dao Ancestor of the Soul Dao and entered the supreme heaven, leaving behind his physical form.
• Ming Wang offered Qin Lu a place in the Samsara Underworld, but Qin Lu rejected the offer.
• Ming Wang accepted Qin Lu’s refusal, and the Samsara Underworld withdrew its True Immortals and stopped troubling the Qin Humans Race and Qin Lu.

Qin Lu built the Qin Humans Race into a top-tier power and resolved to forge his own path to godhood after the existing paths were blocked. The story ended with Qin Lu continuing forward, followed by the author's note explaining the abrupt ending and announcing a planned new book.

• Qin Lu ascended to Dao Ancestor, helped Ghost Duke and Qin Yingjie ascend to Soul Dao Taiyi, and later helped Hu Feng ascend to Wind Dao Taiyi.
• Qin Lu joined Phoenix Ancestor and Grand Yin in killing the Great Yang Dao Ancestor, then helped Qin Daoran ascend to Taiyi as the factions divided Grand Yang's authority.
• Qin Zhenyu became Lightning Ancestor and Qin Yuhua became Jade Stone Dao Ancestor, making the Qin Humans Race a top-tier powerful race.
• Qin Lu abandoned the idea of advancing by plundering True Gods and resolved to forge a new path to godhood.
• The author apologized for the abrupt ending, wished readers a happy New Year, and announced a planned patriotic supernatural novel.