Arc 7The Northern Province Rises

Qin Lu consolidated the Qin Clan’s rule, strengthened its cultivation base, and brought new allies and territories under its influence. The arc ended with the Hundred Lineages Grand Competition underway and Qin Mingzheng defeating Tong Hu in the second round.

  • Qin Lu defeated the siege’s leaders, purged the clans that supported them, and negotiated Northern Province’s recognition as a Qin-ruled domain with Xiashang Dao Academy.
  • The Qin Clan reorganized Northern Province, raised its subordinate forces, and mourned Zhao Zhen, while Zhao Gou and Qin Hui departed to seek a domain of their own.
  • Qin Lu expanded the Qin Clan’s cultivation strength, restored Yingchuan’s earth veins, and awakened the King Wood Spirit Physique by absorbing Jing Ke’s Dao seed.
  • The Qin Clan built up its institutions and alliances, then took control of Eastern Mystic Sea Commandery and established the Heart-Refining Pagoda as a guardian treasure.
  • Qin Xiao organized the Hundred Lineages Grand Competition, drawing competitors and spectators to Baxuan Immortal City as the Qin Clan prepared its younger members.
  • Qin Lu opened the competition, and Qin Mingzheng advanced through the early rounds before facing Jinxuan Dao Sect disciple Tong Hu.
  • Qin Mingzheng used his viper, Kui Wood Wolf, and Golden-Winged Eagle to exhaust Tong Hu, who surrendered.
Chapters 151–175 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 151Sweeping Away All Foes, the Might of Dao Foundation!

Qin Lu crushed Pure Yang Ancestor, wiped out the forces attacking the Qin Clan, and ordered the extermination of the attackers’ clans. After killing Chen Sheng and Wu Guang with a distant sword strike, he sat down with Xiashang Dao Academy representatives Shang Zhi and Xia Gui to talk.

  • Qin Lu’s tree demon drained Pure Yang Ancestor’s life and pure Yang Dao Charm, and Qin Lu stored the corpse before dismissing the demon.
  • The Rosy Cloud Battle Generals killed the remaining invaders, while Dao Foundation cultivators Shang Zhi and Xia Gui introduced themselves as representatives of Xiashang Dao Academy.
  • Qin Lu sent nearly thirty possessed tree demons to slaughter the clans and relatives of those who had joined the siege against the Qin Clan.
  • Qin Lu killed Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and their Qi Condensation followers with a sword strike from hundreds of miles away, causing the rebels’ mortal supporters to turn on one another.
  • Qin Lu met Shang Zhi and Xia Gui on Muxuan Mountain and drank tea with them while the fighting and clan purges continued outside.

Ch. 152Enfeoffed with a Commandery Kingdom, Named Northern Province!

Qin Lu hosted two Xiashang Dao Academy cultivators, sold them Tea Smoke, and negotiated the Beichuan Qin Family’s elevation to a Dao Foundation faction. The Great Zhou granted the family Northern Province, while the Qin Clan ceded two prefectures to the academy for substantial resources and faced the challenge of building up its own middle-ranking strength.

  • Qin Lu introduced Tea Smoke to Shang Zhi and Xia, then sold them several boxes for hundreds of Spirit Stones.
  • Dao Foundation cultivators and their tree demons carried out a massive purge of sects and lineages across several prefectures while Qin Lu and his guests discussed business indoors.
  • Qin Lu, Shang Zhi, and Xia agreed that the Great Zhou would recognize the Beichuan Qin Family as a Dao Foundation faction and grant Qin Lu the title King Who Guards the North.
  • The agreement established Northern Province under Qin Clan rule, with twelve prefectures and three hundred and seventeen county seats, while the Xiashang Dao Academy acquired two western prefectures in exchange for spiritual resources and Spirit Stones.
  • Qin Lu recognized that the Qin Clan lacked enough middle-layer combat power, since its strongest members could not reliably keep powerful Qi Condensation factions in check.

Ch. 153When One Attains the Dao, Even the Chickens and Dogs Ascend to Heaven; Victory Is Won!

After Qin Lu's rise to Dao Foundation, the Qin Clan consolidated Northern Province, punished the forces that had opposed it, and rewarded its loyal allies. The Jade Maiden Sect planned reforms to secure its future, the Wang Clan gained two new Qi Condensation cultivators, and Zhao Zhen warned his descendants to remain loyal to Qin.

  • The Qin Clan wiped out the forces that had joined the siege, renamed Wuping, Muyun, and Longchuan Prefectures as Northern Province, and assigned the three cities to the Huang, Gan, and Su clans as guardians.
  • The Qin Clan named seven loyal forces the Seven Mysteries of Northern Province, while Meng Wu mourned his parents and reflected on the Meng Family's prosperity.
  • Qiao Mei proposed reforming the Jade Maiden Sect with new cultivation methods, broader recruitment, and a saintess from each generation who would marry the Qin Clan patriarch.
  • Wang Ben and Wang Li used Qi Condensation Pills to break through, making the Wang Clan the second subordinate force after the Jade Maiden Sect to become a powerful clan; they received military titles alongside Wang Jian.
  • Zhao Zhen told Zhao Gao and Zhao Gou that the Zhao Family had risen because of Qin and would fall if it betrayed the Qin Clan.

Ch. 154Life Stretches Long, Looking Out Across the Ages!

Zhao Zhen looked back on his life supporting the Zhao Household and Qin Clan before dying at seventy-three, still regretting that his family had produced no immortal. At Muxuan Mountain, Qin Lu mourned his old friend and reflected on the pain and loneliness behind a cultivator’s pursuit of the Dao.

  • Zhao Zhen recalled taking charge of the Zhao Household, helping establish the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce, and later supporting Qin Xiao and the war between Zhou and Liang.
  • Zhao Zhen reflected on the Zhao Household’s growth and his wish for his lineage to endure, while regretting that none of his family had become an immortal.
  • Zhao Zhen died at the age of seventy-three after a life of hardship, family, and witnessing the rise of the Qin Clan.
  • At Muxuan Mountain, Qin Lu raised a cup to the moon and bid farewell to his old friend Zhao Zhen.
  • Qin Lu considered the suffering, loneliness, and sustained effort that accompanied a cultivator’s pursuit of the Dao.

Ch. 155Zhao Gou's Heart, Qin Hui's Ambition!

Northern Province began organizing its factions and government under the Qin Clan, while Zhao Gou and the young Qin Hui, sidelined by their Lineages, set out to build power elsewhere. They departed with an army and the Yue clan, as Qin Hui left home determined to prove himself through strategy.

  • The Da Zhou imperial family established Northern Province under the Beichuan Qin Family and appointed them Princes of the North.
  • A tally recorded 143 Qi Condensation factions, fifteen major sects and clans, three hegemon-level factions, and 309 Qi Condensation cultivators in Northern Province.
  • Zhao Gou lamented his diminished position and proposed that he and Qin Hui join forces to carve out a domain of their own.
  • Qin Hui agreed, saying he would pursue a path to the Dao and build a foundation with Zhao Gou elsewhere.
  • Months later, Zhao Gou gathered five thousand soldiers and more than two hundred warriors, and his party departed with the Yue clan.
  • Qin Hui left home alongside Yue Fei, determined to use his wits to establish himself and someday return after proving his worth.

Ch. 156Times Changed, a Great Leap Forward!

Over five years, Qin Lu’s clan expanded its cultivation power and transformed Beichuan, while Huang Liang prepared a grand formation to restore the region’s spiritual energy. The formation was ready, but its activation still required 108 cultivators and Qin Lu’s help.

  • Qin Hui left with Zhao Gou and his followers, while Qin Lu watched their departure with Divine Sense from Muxuan Mountain.
  • Qin Lu refined sixty Qi Condensation Pills, enabling Zhang Han, Li Xin, Bai Qi, and Zhao Gao to reach Qi Condensation.
  • Li Si and Shang Yang reached Qi Condensation; Shang Yang founded the Dharma Sect, while Han Xin became the Thousand Spirits Han Clan’s sole Qi Condensation cultivator.
  • The Qin Clan expanded Ba City into Baxuan Immortal City and established the Beichuan Minor Gathering and the Northern Province Grand Gathering.
  • Huang Liang explained that the Thick Earth Hundred Origins Grand Formation had been laid out to revive Beichuan’s earth veins, but activating it required 108 cultivators and Qin Lu’s power.

Ch. 157Northern Province Rises, Gathering Ten Thousand Currents of Qi!

Qin Lu found Qin Feizi’s remains and destroyed the Dao remnants blocking Yingchuan’s earth veins. With Huang Liang’s formations guiding the released energy, Yingchuan’s mountains and rivers flourished anew, and the Northern Province began to rise as a cultivation holy land.

  • Qin Xiao thanked Huang Liang for his service, and Huang Liang avoided accepting his gesture because of its significance to the Qin Clan.
  • Qin Lu discovered Ten-Thousand-Year Stone Milk beneath a barren mountain and collected it before continuing deeper into the cavern.
  • Qin Lu found Qin Feizi’s crystalline remains, placed them in a crystal coffin, and decided to bury them at Eternal Sleep Peak.
  • Qin Lu used the King Wood Dao Principles to destroy the Crystal Earth Dao Principles suppressing Yingchuan’s earth veins.
  • Huang Liang coordinated thirty-six grand formations as Qin Lu shattered the remaining Dao chain, releasing Yingchuan’s earth-vein Qi and transforming its landscape.

Ch. 158A Spirit Vein Is Born, the Search for the Spirit Physique!

The awakening of the earth veins transformed Baxuan Immortal City and Muxuan Mountain into a cultivation stronghold centered on a growing Spirit Vein. Qin Lu then ordered an expanded search for the Returning Soul Spirit Physique, believing it could help him overcome his stalled cultivation.

  • Spiritual Qi flooded Baxuan Immortal City, causing the Spirit Vein beneath Muxuan Mountain to grow and nourish the Twenty-Four Peaks.
  • Qin Wu, Qin Xiao, Qin Zhuang, and Qin Hui advanced in cultivation as Baxuan Immortal City grew into a major cultivation holy land.
  • The Qin Elite Soldiers expanded into three legions under Li Xin, Bai Qi, and Zhang Han, while Qin Wu commanded them and Military Martial Peak studied larger battle formations.
  • Several months later, Qin Lu entered seclusion and learned that three hundred Great Qin Iron Cavalry had failed to find the two people he sought.
  • Qin Lu ordered the shadow guards to greatly expand the search and resolved to obtain the Returning Soul Spirit Physique to restore his own Spirit Physique and advance toward forming a Golden Core.

Ch. 159Capturing Gai Nie and Obtaining the Physical Body!

Gai Nie fought the Qin Clan’s elite soldiers to protect Jing Ke’s body, but Qin Wu captured him alive. The Jinxuan Dao Sect watched the operation without intervening, and the Qin Clan prepared to deliver Jing Ke’s body to Qin Lu.

  • Qin Wu’s forces surrounded the mountain and agreed to capture Gai Nie quickly to avoid exposing the operation to the Jinxuan Dao Sect.
  • Gai Nie fled the sword hut carrying Jing Ke’s body, but Qin Elite Soldiers surrounded him and demanded that he surrender it.
  • Gai Nie refused to abandon his promise to protect Jing Ke’s body and fought the soldiers in the mountain forest.
  • Qin Wu and Wang Xu watched the battle while two Jinxuan Dao Sect cultivators observed from nearby without intervening.
  • The Qin Elite Soldiers exhausted Gai Nie, and Qin Wu captured him alive before the Jinxuan Dao Sect observers withdrew.

Ch. 160Training Gai Nie, Refining a Living Pill!

Gai Nie woke in Ghost Valley after losing his cultivation and began a new life of study and training under Wang Xu, gradually changing his view of Qin rule. Meanwhile, Qin Lu began refining Jing Ke’s body into a living pill to transfer the spirit body’s origin.

  • Gai Nie woke in Ghost Valley, discovered he had lost his cultivation, and agreed to remain there and cultivate anew.
  • Gai Nie trained alongside Su Qin, Gan Long, and Zhang Yi under Wang Xu, gradually settling into life at Ghost Valley.
  • Gai Nie came to see the Qin Clan’s legal system as more capable of rewarding talent and protecting ordinary people than Da Zhou’s looser rule.
  • Qin Lu used earthly fire to refine Jing Ke’s fleshly body and spirit body into a pill intended to transfer the spirit body’s origin.

Ch. 161King Wood Spirit Physique, Parasitic Soul!

Qin Lu refined Jing Ke’s body to extract a Dao seed, then merged it with his wood heart and toxic miasma spirit body to create the King Wood Spirit Physique. He awakened its Parasitic Soul ability and named a newly intelligent Second-Tier Spirit Plant Flower Princess.

  • Qin Lu refined Jing Ke’s body and nourished the extracted Dao seed with spiritual liquid and Third-Tier Spirit Plants until its original imprint faded.
  • Qin Lu merged the Dao seed with his wood heart and toxic miasma spirit body, suppressing the Soul Dao remnants with his Nether Soul Dao Principle.
  • Qin Lu awakened the King Wood Spirit Physique, which absorbed spiritual Qi efficiently and granted him the Parasitic Soul Divine Ability to drain hosts’ souls.
  • The little white flower broke through to become a Second-Tier Spirit Plant and awakened its intelligence.
  • Qin Lu named the newly intelligent flower Flower Princess.

Ch. 162Steady Development, a Period of Transition!

The Qin Clan consolidated its rule as the Northern Province prospered, expanding its control over cultivation, industry, and the region’s resources. A marriage alliance with the Xiashang Dao Academy strengthened its ties to another Dao Foundation power, and Shang Yue gave birth to Qin Mingle, a gifted new member of the third generation.

  • The Qin Clan supported smaller powers and brought the Northern Province’s major clans and sects under its influence as the province recovered and cultivation flourished.
  • The Forest Peak Giant Deer, Golden-Winged Black Bird, and Black Armor Crocodiles multiplied across Beichuan, turning it into a prosperous beast-taming garden and source of resources for the Qin Clan.
  • Gongsun Jian founded the Hundred Refinements Sect, while Qin Mingzheng became its deputy sect master and excelled at artifact refining and puppetry, giving the Qin Clan control of the Northern Province’s artifact-refining path.
  • The Qin Clan maintained its command over alchemy and formations, strengthening its influence across the Northern Province.
  • Qin Zhuang married Shang Yue, a direct descendant of the Shang Clan branch of the Xiashang Dao Academy, establishing a marriage alliance between the two Dao Foundation powers.
  • Shang Yue gave birth to Qin Zhuang’s son, Qin Mingle, whose aptitude measured two inches and one tenth.

Ch. 163The Great Devil Presents a Treasure: Illusory Soul Crystal!

During Qin Mingle’s birth celebration, Ancestor Blood Cry secretly met with Qin Lu and offered him an illusion Dao treasure in exchange for a path to survival for Devil Venerable Heaven’s descendants. He proposed that Devil Venerable Heaven and the Qin Clan form a covert alliance, leaving Qin Lu’s response unresolved.

  • Qin Mingle’s birth drew congratulations from several Dao Foundation powers and strengthened the Qin Clan’s connections.
  • Ancestor Blood Cry and other Qi Condensation cultivators came to find Qin Lu during the Qin Clan’s celebration.
  • Ancestor Blood Cry greeted Qin Lu as both Ancestor Qin and Fellow Daoist Lu, and they sat together to talk.
  • Ancestor Blood Cry offered Qin Lu a jade box, saying it held an illusion Dao secret treasure sought by the Qin Clan.
  • Ancestor Blood Cry proposed an alliance, asking the Qin Clan to help secure a path to survival for Devil Venerable Heaven’s descendants.

Ch. 164A Dragnet to Gather the Devil Cultivators!

Qin Lu accepted Lu Ming and the Devil Cultivators’ submission, offering them positions in the Qin Clan’s service and planning to take control of Eastern Mystic Sea Commandery. The chapter ended with Qin Lu preparing to build a tower using rare illusion materials and the help of Huang Liang and Zi Yan.

  • Lu Ming offered Qin Lu an illusory soul crystal and argued that Devil Cultivators were driven to their path by circumstance.
  • Qin Lu laid out a plan to use Devil Venerable Heaven’s attack on Eastern Mystic Sea Commandery as a pretext to seize the region and establish Extreme Yuan Sea Commandery under Northern Province.
  • Qin Lu appointed Lu Ming to govern Extreme Yuan Sea Commandery and offered Lu Ming’s juniors places in the Qin Clan’s secret guards, army, or arts training.
  • Lu Ming accepted Qin Lu’s offer and planned to assign his more violent juniors to the Net and the more peaceful ones to the Shadow Secret Guard.
  • Qin Lu described a tower to be made from a thousand-year-old Illusory Form Demon Tree, an illusory soul crystal, and a Dao Foundation remnant soul, then asked Huang Liang and Zi Yan to prepare its arrays.

Ch. 165Yuan Sea Immortal Sect, Forging the Treasure Pagoda!

Huang Liang and Zi Yan founded the Formation Evolution Sect, while Gongsun Jian and his companions spent over a year forging the Heart-Refining Pagoda. The Qin Clan crushed a devil invasion, established the Extreme Yuan Sea Commandery, and helped the former Devil Cultivators become the Yuan Sea Immortal Sect; the completed pagoda then passed into Qin Lu’s hands.

  • Huang Liang and Zi Yan joined forces with the Huang and Zi Clans and formation-master families to establish the Formation Evolution Sect, which later became a major power under the Qin Clan.
  • Gongsun Jian, Huang Liang, and Zi Yan refined the Illusory Form Demon Tree and Ghost Elder’s remnant soul into the Heart-Refining Pagoda over forty-nine cycles.
  • Devil Cultivators devastated Eastern Mystic Sea Commandery, prompting the Dragon-Gazing Immortal Sect to seek aid from the Qin Clan.
  • The Qin Clan quelled the devil calamity and established the Extreme Yuan Sea Commandery, while the former Devil Venerable Heaven became the Yuan Sea Immortal Sect and submitted as the Qin Clan’s regional guardian.
  • Gongsun Jian completed the Heart-Refining Pagoda as a Third-Tier Law Treasure, and Qin Lu took it into his hand.

Ch. 166The Clan's Guardian Treasure, Five Corpses Enter!

Qin Lu passed through the Heart-Refining Pagoda’s illusion, revisiting his past and strengthening his Dao heart before refining the pagoda as a clan treasure. He installed it in the canyon plain and assigned five corpse puppets to guard it.

  • Qin Lu entered the Heart-Refining Pagoda’s illusion and relived his path from discovering the Azure Wood Scripture to establishing Great Qin.
  • Qin Lu suppressed the strange phenomena of his King Wood Spirit Physique, emerged with a firmer Dao heart, and praised the pagoda as a Third-Tier Law Treasure.
  • Qin Lu accepted several Three Origins Dao Fruits as a reward, refined the pagoda with his heart’s blood, and enlarged it into a seven-story guardian treasure.
  • Qin Lu placed the pagoda in the canyon plain to suppress the Twenty-Four Peaks’ earth veins, the Ba River’s water vein, and the region’s fortune.
  • Qin Lu summoned five Qi Condensation Corpse Puppets, including the former sect master of the Golden Saber Sect and the Pure Yang Ancestor, and assigned them to guard the pagoda.

Ch. 167Five Birds with One Stone, Planning the Grand Competition!

Qin Lu completed the Heart-Refining Pagoda’s five-element defenses and decided to put it to wider use. Qin Xiao proposed a grand competition to promote the pagoda and develop the Qin Clan, and Qin Lu approved holding it in one year alongside the Northern Province Minor Gathering.

  • Qin Lu used five corpse puppets to form a five-element natural barrier around the Heart-Refining Pagoda and establish new illusion trials within it.
  • Qin Lu scolded Qin Xiao and Qin Hui for neglecting their cultivation and warned Qin Hui about the danger of turning into a living corpse.
  • Qin Xiao proposed a grand competition for Northern Province clans and ordinary warriors, with benefits including recruiting talent, training the Qin Clan’s younger generation, gathering intelligence, and earning resources.
  • Qin Lu agreed to the competition and set it for one year later, alongside the Northern Province Minor Gathering.

Ch. 168The Younger Generation: Han, Dao, and Yuan!

Qin Lu reflected on reforming the Cauldron Primordial Dao-Seeking Method while the Qin Clan prepared for its future. Qin Minghan, Qin Mingdao, and Qin Mingyuan pursued Black Tiger Gang fugitives and confronted their hidden leader, Black Tiger Liu Yang.

  • Qin Xiao and Qin Hui left to organize preparations for the grand competition and strengthen Northern Province.
  • Qin Lu concealed himself to cultivate and considered improving the Cauldron Primordial Dao-Seeking Method for the Qin Clan.
  • Qin Minghan, Qin Mingdao, and Qin Mingyuan tracked seventeen Black Tiger Gang fugitives through Ironwood Forest.
  • Qin Mingdao sent the Nine-Segment Frost Centipede to block the fugitives, while Qin Minghan killed several with jade-green silver needles.
  • Qin Minghan exposed Black Tiger Liu Yang's Illusory Body Talisman and struck him with a powerful punch.

Ch. 169Spirit-Observing Dao Eyes, Qin Mingyuan!

Qin Mingyuan used his Spirit-Observing Dao Eyes, twin blades, talismans, and a Thunderbolt Pellet to defeat five opponents alone. After the fight, he worried that he had wasted a set of five-element talismans.

  • Qin Minghan killed Liu Yang with a silver needle while Qin Mingdao and the Nine-Segment Frost Centipede slaughtered the Black Tiger Gang.
  • Qin Minghan praised Qin Mingyuan’s strength and Spirit-Observing Dao Eyes, saying he might be the strongest of their generation.
  • Qin Mingyuan used his mismatched eyes to read his opponents’ movements and killed two of five attackers with a set of five-element talismans.
  • Qin Mingyuan killed two more attackers with his twin blades, then disarmed the last man and killed him with a Thunderbolt Pellet.
  • Qin Mingyuan lamented that he had wasted a set of talismans and judged his strength insufficient.

Ch. 170Scions of a Great Clan, Provided For!

After defeating members of the Black Tiger Gang, Qin Minghan, Qin Mingdao, and Qin Mingyuan returned to the Qin Clan with loot. They learned that every third-generation Qin Clan member must enter the Hundred Lineages Grand Competition, whose divisions and rewards were announced.

  • Qin Minghan, Qin Mingdao, and Qin Mingyuan gathered after their cleanup and divided the Black Tiger Gang members' Spirit Stones and Law Artifacts.
  • The chapter described the Qin Clan's generous stipends, substantial income, and major yearly expenses, including expanding its Spirit Vein.
  • The Qin Clan ordered every eligible third-generation member to participate in the Hundred Lineages Grand Competition.
  • The youth division was announced for competitors aged fifteen to eighteen in the True Martial Four Realms through Sixth Realm, with rewards including a Heart-Refining Pagoda trial place and spirit beasts for the top three.
  • The young adult division was announced for competitors aged eighteen to twenty-five in the True Martial Seventh through Ninth Realm, with a Qi Condensation Pill and other rewards for the top three.
  • The cultivator division was announced as an exhibition for Qi Condensation cultivators under sixty, with the victor receiving an immortal art inheritance, a custom Law Artifact, and a Heart-Refining Pagoda trial place.

Ch. 171A Gathering of Heroes, Immortals of a Hundred Lineages!

As Baxuan Immortal City filled with visitors for the Hundred Lineages Grand Competition, several factions’ young prodigies arrived and assessed the Qin Clan and one another. Nangong Bahuo dismissed Qin Lu as merely lucky and vowed to rise by defeating the Qin Clan, while another senior hinted that the Qin Clan’s hidden strength would soon be revealed.

  • Crowds from the Northern Province and neighboring provinces traveled to Baxuan Immortal City for the competition and the Heart-Refining Pagoda.
  • Nangong Bahuo mocked Qin Lu’s achievements as luck and shortcuts, then declared he would make his name by stepping on the Qin Clan.
  • Ji Qing arrived with Senior Brother Liu, who warned him against arrogance and reminded him that the Ji Clan’s wind-and-thunder Dao cultivated the heart as well as Techniques.
  • Onlookers identified Nangong Bahuo and Ji Qing as prodigies, noting Bahuo’s inherited Chaotic Pupils and Qing’s exceptional wind affinity.
  • A senior told Fawen that the Qin Clan had concealed its depths and urged him to learn what true heavenly destiny and a true prodigy were.

Ch. 172Heroes Gather, the Grand Competition Begins!

Heroes and sects gathered in Baxuan Immortal City as the Hundred Lineages Grand Competition approached, bringing a new generation of talents into the spotlight. The opening minor competition began as scheduled, with the Qin Clan opening a betting pool.

  • Su Qin, Gan Long, and Zhang Yi arrived from Cloud Dream Mountain with Gai Nie, while their differing philosophies drew attention to their promise in the Northern Province.
  • Ye Huan and Ye Qiao, newly chosen holy maidens of the Jade Maiden Sect, appeared with their attendants; Ye Huan was expected to inherit the sect, while Ye Qiao was destined to marry into the Qin Clan.
  • Qin Mingzheng returned to Baxuan Immortal City after studying at the Hundred Refinements Sect, believing he could contend with ordinary eighth- or ninth-realm True Martial experts in the minor competition.
  • Meng Tian and Meng Yi, both fifteen and newly stabilized at the True Martial Five Realms, were brought forward by Meng Wu to be tempered at the grand competition.
  • Disciples and cultivators from across the provinces gathered in Baxuan Immortal City, and the opening minor competition began as the Qin Clan opened a betting pool.

Ch. 173Displaying the Qin Clan's Might, Two of Four Eliminated!

Qin Lu opened the Hundred Families Competition by displaying his Dao Foundation power, while Qin Hui, Qin Wu, and Qin Zhuang unveiled Boundless City as the contest venue. The opening contest began with four Qin Clan juniors facing one another, and Qin Mingxi and Qin Mingzheng advanced after Qin Mingyi conceded and Qin Mingyue was poisoned.

  • Qin Lu manifested his King Wood Dao Grace and Tai'e Sword to destroy a towering peak, then exchanged a brief glance with Nangong Bahuo as a possible contact with Nangong Qinghong.
  • Qin Hui assembled Boundless City from Law Artifacts, Qin Wu concealed it with a compound formation, and Qin Zhuang shaped the surrounding terrain into a spiritual region.
  • Qin Hui, Qin Wu, and Qin Zhuang invited the factions into Boundless City and announced the opening contest, where 384 competitors fought in groups of three.
  • Qin Mingxi defeated Qin Mingyi in their group after he conceded, revealing her True Martial Sixth Layer Perfection cultivation.
  • Qin Mingyue and Qin Mingzheng first eliminated their other opponent, then Qin Mingzheng poisoned Qin Mingyue with his puppet snake and advanced.

Ch. 174Probing for Information, Round Two!

Qin Mingzheng reflected on his victory over Qin Mingyue as the first round eliminated most minor-sect competitors and the major forces’ disciples advanced. The second round began with a draw that paired Qin Mingzheng against Tong Hu of the Jinxuan Dao Sect.

  • Qin Mingyue blamed Qin Mingzheng’s underhanded tactics after losing and was carried away to have the poison removed.
  • Qin Mingzheng resolved to preserve his strength and ensure the Qin Clan won the grand competition.
  • Qin Zhao, disguised as the Black Dragon Rogue Person, discussed rival cultivation methods with Lin Qi, who avoided comparing the great forces’ techniques.
  • The first round concluded with 128 competitors advancing, most of them disciples of major sects.
  • Qin Zhuang distributed the second-round lots, and Qin Mingzheng drew number three, matching him with Tong Hu, a Jinxuan Dao Sect disciple famed for his body-refinement method.

Ch. 175Three Beast Puppets Battle Tong Hu!

Qin Mingzheng faced Tong Hu in the third match and used three beast puppets to overcome the Jinxuan Dao Sect disciple’s powerful metal-refining body. Tong Hu surrendered after the puppets’ combined attacks exhausted him.

  • Qin Mingzheng stepped onto the platform and exchanged formal introductions with Tong Hu.
  • Tong Hu surged forward with his Ten Thousand Metals Body Refinement and struck through Qin Mingzheng’s sea of fire.
  • Qin Mingzheng raised a bronze shield while directing the Six-Lock Viper to engulf and bind Tong Hu.
  • Qin Mingzheng summoned the Kui Wood Wolf and Golden-Winged Eagle, combining their attacks with the viper’s flames.
  • Tong Hu’s True Essence ran out, and he surrendered.
Arc 7 of 30
Arc 7 of 30