Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu returned to Muxuan Mountain and warned Qin Xiao and Qin Hui that a great upheaval would soon engulf the northern continent. He gave them preparations to strengthen the Qin Clan, gather resources, and secretly develop the Boundless Mystic Realm, leaving them to carry out his plans.

• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui discussed mounting dangers across the continent, including sea demons, regional unrest, and the deaths of powerful figures.
• Qin Lu reunited with Qin Xiao and Qin Hui on Muxuan Mountain and shared a fragment of memory that left them excited and alarmed.
• Qin Lu ordered the clan to limit outside contact, strengthen its forces, stockpile supplies, cultivate more Qi Condensation cultivators, and expand family ties and descendants.
• Qin Lu tasked Qin Xiao and Qin Hui with obtaining at least seventy percent of hundreds of rare materials, including spatial items, as the Qin Clan's way out of the coming upheaval.
• Qin Lu gave them the Boundless Mystic Realm key and ordered them to establish a gateway, settle marked warriors there, conceal the secret, and have Zhao'er manage the realm when he returned.

Qin Lu summoned Huang Liang to the Azure Insect Abyss and revealed a complete inheritance of High Antiquity teleportation arrays, intending to secure a way out for their clans. He removed the Dao Principle that had kept Huang Liang injured and stalled, helping him break through to the Ninth Layer of Qi Condensation; Huang Liang pledged his life and service to the Qin Clan.

• Qin Lu entered seclusion in the Boundless Mystic Realm, leaving Xiao and Hui to manage the Qin Clan.
• Huang Liang worried about Qin Lu’s intentions as he reflected on the Huang Clan’s aging and lack of promising successors.
• Qin Lu showed Huang Liang a complete inheritance of teleportation-array blueprints and explained that he needed to leave both clans a way out.
• Qin Lu used his Soul Daos to remove the lingering blazing fire Dao Principle from Huang Liang’s origin and treated his injuries.
• Huang Liang’s Spiritual Power erupted, allowing him to reach the Ninth Layer of Qi Condensation and resume his path toward Dao Foundation.
• Qin Lu gave Huang Liang a Third-Tier Dao Principle treasure, and Huang Liang pledged his life to Qin Lu and the Qin Clan.

Qin Lu established the Vast Dao Field and spent a year and seven months forging a new life-bound Law Treasure from a Frost Demon elder’s remains and Nangong Qinghong’s soul. He completed a black bone banner called Soul Weapon: Heaven Burial, which could grow stronger as he added resentful souls.

• Qin Lu created the Vast Dao Field, arranging its four peaks around a Central Peak where the ice, fire, lightning, and soul Dao Principles converged.
• Qin Lu decided to forge a Ten Thousand Souls Banner using the Frost Demons' second elder's remains and Nangong Qinghong's living soul.
• Qin Lu refined the demon bones with Ghost Fire, Soul Frost, and Nether Thunder, then spent months balancing the fused Dao Principles and strengthening the treasure.
• After one year and seven months, Qin Lu fixed Nangong Qinghong's resentful soul in the banner as its main soul and completed a Third-Tier Lower Grade Law Treasure.
• Qin Lu named the unfinished banner Soul Weapon: Heaven Burial and planned to strengthen it with more resentful souls.

Qin Lu finished the preliminary refinement of Heaven Burial and planned to turn the Tai'e Sword fragments into a Qin Clan inheritance. Five years into the Qin Clan’s childbirth drive, Qin Mingyi found two gifted twins and registered them as fourth-generation disciples.

• Qin Lu stored Heaven Burial in his Dantian and considered reforging the Tai'e Sword fragments with the King Qi of the Qin Palace for his descendants.
• Qin Lu rejected the idea of heavenly fate and vowed to defy any gods, buddhas, or forces that tried to control his future.
• Over five years, the Qin Clan’s childbirth decree expanded the family to more than a hundred people, while rewards encouraged mortal descendants to have children.
• Qin Mingyi tested the children and discovered that Qin Fei’s twins, Qin Zhou and Qin Xiaomu, each had eight-tenths of an inch of spiritual light.
• Qin Mingyi registered the twins as fourth-generation disciples and renamed them Qin Xinzhou and Qin Xinmu.

Qin Lu developed the Origin-Evolving Pill, a rare medicine that could greatly improve cultivation aptitude, and decided how the Qin Clan would distribute its limited supply. He kept the final pill in reserve for a future clan prodigy, then took one himself to strengthen his own aptitude.

• Qin Lu reached the third level of the Dao Foundation realm and completed his Third-Tier middle-grade Origin-Evolving Pill after years of research.
• Qin Lu explained that the pill used the Spirit-Evolving Flower to improve a person's acquired compatibility with heaven and earth, though each person could take it only once.
• Qin Lu allocated pills to himself, his six sons, Minghan, Mingdao, Mingyuan, Mingle, and Qin Mingzheng, while reserving the final pill for the Qin Clan's next qilin child.
• Qin Lu withheld the last pill from Mingxi, Mingyue, and Mingyi because he judged that none of them had the talent to justify using it.
• Qin Lu sent the pills to Qin Xiao and swallowed one himself, expecting it to raise his aptitude and improve his cultivation speed.

After absorbing the Origin-Evolving Pill, Qin Lu reflected on its limits as the Qin Clan kept a low profile and its younger generation grew stronger. When a Blood Demon Ghost King threatened to break out of the Blood-Colored Plain, Qin Xiao executed the official responsible and mobilized troops and cultivators to contain the demons.

• Qin Lu absorbed the Origin-Evolving Pill's effects, which increased his spiritual light by one inch and sharpened his perception, and concluded that Dao-principle tempering could only be done once in a lifetime.
• Qin Lu's figure vanished as his heavenly soul roamed freely.
• The Qin Clan's low profile drew hostile spies and challengers to the Northern Province, but a powerful figure in the sandstorm drove them away with a warning.
• Qin Wen broke through to Qi Condensation and forged Literary Courage, while Qin Hui reached the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer and the other second-generation members also advanced.
• A Zi Clan guard reported that a Blood Demon Ghost King with at least Qi Condensation Seventh Layer cultivation and Blood Dao Rhyme was gathering demons to break through the Blood-Colored Plain's checkpoints.
• Qin Xiao executed Gu Du'an for failing to patrol the Blood Plain and ordered the Yingchuan Army, Cloud Dream Army, Black Dragon Legion, and subordinate forces to defend the checkpoints and slaughter the demons.

Qin Xiao mobilized the Northern Province’s armies to confront the Blood Demons, while Lu Ming took command of the campaign. Lu Ming ordered the northern gateway sealed and the allied armies to enter through the south and sweep through the Blood-Colored Plain.

• Qin Xiao ordered the Yingchuan Army, Cloud Dream Army, Black Dragon Army, and forces from across the Northern Province to mobilize toward the Blood-Colored Plain.
• Qin Xiao noted which clans and sects contributed little, and considered how to punish those who had benefited from Qin rule without helping.
• Qin Xiao entrusted the campaign to Lu Ming, the elderly Dao Rhyme cultivator, because other available cultivators could not take command.
• Lu Ming assessed that the Blood Demons were likely to attack south toward the province’s heartland and chose to take the initiative.
• Lu Ming ordered the northern gateway defended to the death and directed the allied forces to split into three armies, enter through the southern gateway, and sweep inward through the Blood-Colored Plain.

Lu Ming organized the allied armies to clear the Blood Plain, but the Blood Demons’ nighttime attacks caused heavy losses and revealed that the enemy had more high-tier demons than expected. Qin Hui approved Bai Qi’s plan to raid their lair in daylight, with Jingzhe assigned to guide the force.

• Lu Ming divided the armies into groups to clear the Blood Plain in different directions, while the Yingchuan Army, Gan Clan Army, and Black Dragon Legion remained mobile reserves.
• After three days of advance, Blood Demons attacked at night, killing thirty thousand soldiers from Xuan 1 through Xuan 10 and a minor-clan cultivator.
• Qin Hui summoned his generals and worried that the allied forces had underestimated the number of intelligent, high-tier Blood Demons.
• Wang Jian urged the army to keep advancing and proposed a daylight raid on the Blood Demons’ northeast lair.
• Bai Qi volunteered to lead ten thousand Black Dragon troops on the raid, and Qin Hui assigned Jingzhe of the Net to guide them while ordering the generals to retreat if danger arose.

The Black Dragon Third Army fought its way through the Blood Plain, destroying successive waves of Blood Demons. Bai Qi broke through during the battle and led the killing of the high-tier demons, while the army suffered hundreds of casualties but annihilated twenty-one thousand enemies.

• The Black Dragon Third Army followed Jingzhe into the Blood Plain and crushed a first wave of more than a thousand Blood Demons with cavalry and infantry formations.
• More than ten thousand Blood Demons emerged, and Bai Qi ordered the archers to loose arrows while the cavalry fell back and charged again.
• Bai Qi attacked the high-tier Blood Demons with his Law Sword and giant scythe, breaking through to the Qi Condensation Third Layer during the fight.
• Jingzhe, Zhang Han, Wang Jian, Wang Ben, and Wang Li encircled the remaining three high-tier Blood Demons and joined Bai Qi in killing them.
• The Black Dragon Third Army lost more than four hundred soldiers and had six hundred wounded, while killing twenty-one thousand Blood Demons, including five high-tier demons.

After the Blood Demons’ night raids inflicted heavy losses on the allied armies, Wang Jian ordered the forces to advance and begin an all-out battle across the Blood Plain. The armies fought a brutal, sprawling melee, with the chapter leaving the outcome undecided.

• Bai Qi and the generals learned that Blood Demon night raids had cost the allied armies forty thousand soldiers, one thousand warriors, and five cultivators.
• Wang Jian ordered the armies to keep advancing, with the Yingchuan Army and Gan Clan Army clearing the way and the Black Dragon Legion following; he also called for the Second Young Master and Sixth Young Master.
• At sunrise, the Heaven, Earth, and Mystic armies advanced together as countless Blood Demons emerged from the mist and met them in battle.
• Human commanders deployed archers, formations, infantry, and cavalry, while mortal soldiers were driven into a deadly frontline where arrows struck friend and foe alike.
• The Yingchuan Army, Gan Clan Army, and thirty thousand Black Dragon Legion elites fought the Blood Demons’ main force as Bai Qi, Zhang Han, Wang Ben, Wang Li, Wang Jian, Zi Yan, and Jingzhe battled high-level demons.
• Cultivators and high-level Blood Demons clashed above the Blood Plain as the land below ran red, and later generations named the conflict the Battle of the Blood Plain.

Qin Hui joined the increasingly desperate battle and unleashed his Azure Wood Transformation against the Blood Demons, but a heavily armored Blood Demon general shattered his wooden dragon and attacked him. Qin Hui called on Bi for strength, approaching Qi Condensation Completion as the two began a fierce clash, with the wood dragon restored and striking at the general.

• Qin Zhuang sent Bai Qi and Zhang Han to reinforce the northeast after high-tier Blood Demons wiped out the Xuan Seven, Xuan Four, Di Six, and Di Nine armies.
• Qin Hui revealed his wooden transformation and used his wood dragon and forest to attack the Blood Demons and give the human forces time to regroup.
• A heavily armored Blood Demon general destroyed Qin Hui's wood dragon and attacked him with mother-and-child swords.
• Qin Hui stopped the mother sword with a surge of Spiritual Qi and called for Bi to lend him her strength.
• Bi answered from Spirit Tea Peak, and Qin Hui drew on the Tea King's power as he resumed fighting the Blood Demon general with his restored wood dragon.

Lu Ming confronted the four resurrected Daliang generals and fought them with the help of Qing Centipede. After Qing Centipede and Lu Ming killed three generals, Wang Hanzhong faced them alone.

• Lu Ming identified the blood demon generals as Wang Hanzhong, Xie Hua, Wei Ran, and Huang Wenxin, then summoned blood beasts to fight them.
• The four generals combined their Dao Rhymes to form a Blood Buddha, but Qing Centipede emerged and swallowed Xie Hua.
• Lu Ming and Qing Centipede separated the remaining generals, and Lu Ming wore down Wei Ran's Crimson Blood Dao Rhyme before beheading him.
• Qing Centipede's poisonous breath triggered Qin Hui's earlier poison, which rotted Huang Wenxin's body until Qing Centipede swallowed him.
• Lu Ming asked Wang Hanzhong whether he still wanted to fight now that the battle had become two against one.

Lu Ming and Qing Centipede defeated Wang Hanzhong and unleashed a tide of blood beasts that crushed the Blood Demons across the Blood-Colored Plain. The battle completed Lu Ming’s State of Mind and laid the foundation for his Dao Foundation breakthrough, while the Qin Clan’s revealed strength brought the Northern Province back under its influence.

• Wang Hanzhong abandoned his remaining humanity and attacked Lu Ming, who trapped him with chains after Qing Centipede froze his demonic shadow and the Kui Ox hurled him away.
• Lu Ming declared that he would hand Wang Hanzhong to Qin so he could be refined into a tonic pill and help Lu Ming reach the Dao Foundation realm.
• Lu Ming summoned his blood beasts, which devoured the Blood Demons as Blood Soul Dao Rhyme sublimated and his State of Mind reached flawless completion.
• Three months later, the Qin Clan had suppressed four Blood Demons who had mastered Dao Rhyme, and its forces and Qing Centipede had revealed their formidable strength.
• The Northern Province returned to calm, and other forces showed greater deference to the Qin Clan.

After the Battle of the Blood Plain, Qin Xiao ordered every Northern Province faction to register under a nine-rank Immortal Registry and mandated the use of Qin Coins. He left Shang Yang and Wang Xu to implement the policies, assuring them the Qin Clan’s growing strength would support them.

• Qin Xiao reviewed the battle’s casualties and the reorganization of minor clans and schools.
• Qin Xiao ordered Shang Yang to announce the Immortal Registry and declared that unregistered factions would be treated as Evil Cultivators.
• Qin Xiao ordered Qin Coins introduced throughout the Northern Province and restricted unregistered factions from trade and access to cities and checkpoints.
• Shang Yang and Wang Xu considered the risk that Da Zhou would oppose the new policies.
• Qin Xiao said the clan’s patriarch, Patriarch Lu Ming, and Patriarch Qing Centipede would soon strengthen the Qin Clan with Dao Foundation power.
• Shang Yang and Wang Xu pledged to carry out Qin Xiao’s orders.

Qin Lu advanced to the Dao Foundation Fourth Layer, refined a Blood Soul Good Fortune Pill, and discovered that Ghost Elder had escaped with a sliver of his remnant soul. He then fused the hearts of his five mature Blood Centipedes and vanished into the void.

• Qin Lu broke through to the Dao Foundation Fourth Layer after absorbing soul Dao resources and strengthening his Divine Sense.
• Qin Lu refined Wang Hanzhong and spirit medicines into a Third-Tier Middle Grade Blood Soul Good Fortune Pill.
• Qin Lu discovered that Ghost Elder had escaped with a sliver of his remnant soul, while the fugitive hid in a youth's body and later disappeared.
• Qin Lu released the five Blood Centipedes from the poison puppets and crushed their bodies to retrieve their hearts.
• Qin Lu fused the five elemental insect hearts into one and vanished into the void with it.

After months of unrest over the Qin Clan’s decrees, Ancestor Lu Ming and the Qing Centipede broke through to the Dao Foundation realm while the Qin Clan sealed and guarded Baxuan Immortal City. Lu Ming became Ancestor Lu, and the Qing Centipede earned the title Azure King.

• The Qin Clan’s decrees provoked resistance from powerful Northern Province factions, while Shang Zhi arrived to investigate on behalf of Xiashang Dao Academy.
• Lu Ming swallowed the Blood Soul Good Fortune Pill, and Huang Liang barred intruders from entering the Blood Plain.
• The Qing Centipede consumed a Five-Colored Insect Heart as Qin Mingdao directed the insects of the Azure Insect Abyss in a ritual.
• Qin Hui, Qin Wu, the Black Dragon Legion, and Qin Clan cultivators secured Baxuan Immortal City against troublemakers while Shang Zhi watched.
• Lu Ming manifested the Blood Soul Dao Law, opened his sea of Divine Sense, and completed his Dao Foundation.
• The Qing Centipede transformed its body, advanced its Azure Frost Dao Rhyme into a Dao Law, and broke through as the Azure King.

Qin Lu used Qing Centipede and Lu Ming’s breakthroughs to enforce the Qin Clan’s rule over the Northern Province, then received Shang Zhi, who brought word that the Zhou Emperor wished to meet him. The chapter ended with Qin Lu and Shang Zhi paying their respects as the emperor’s figure appeared.

• Qing Centipede transformed, gained greater intelligence, and joined Lu Ming as the Qin Clan’s second Dao Foundation combatant.
• Lu Ming and Qing Centipede announced Qin Coins, the Nine-Rank Immortal Registry, and the Jiyuan Immortal Sect’s submission and renaming as the Extreme Yuan Dao Sect.
• Shang Zhi congratulated Lu Ming and Qing Centipede, then asked to meet Qin Lu at Welcoming Guests Peak.
• Qin Lu received Shang Zhi and learned that the Zhou Emperor wished to meet him.
• Shang Zhi used an imperial document to summon the emperor’s figure, and Qin Lu and Shang Zhi saluted him.

Qin Lu secured the Zhou Emperor’s approval to reorganize the Northern Frontier, provided he delivered more than half its annual profits to the imperial court. After the emperor’s phantom departed, Qin Lu arranged to purge forces on Xiao’er’s list and gave Lu Ming the Heaven Burial banner.

• The Zhou Emperor praised Qin Lu, then asked to oversee his currency and immortal registration policies; Qin Lu accepted the imperial family’s involvement.
• The Zhou Emperor authorized Qin Lu to govern and reorganize the Northern Frontier, dismissed any inquiry into Nangong Qinghong and Gao Xiong’s deaths, and demanded more than half the region’s annual profits as tribute.
• Qin Lu thanked the Zhou Emperor and watched his phantom vanish.
• Shang Zhi congratulated Qin Lu and asked for his help in seizing leadership of the Xiashang Dao Academy; Qin Lu agreed to cooperate.
• Qin Lu told Lu Ming to act on Xiao’er’s purge list, confiscating property and exterminating designated clans, and entrusted him with the Heaven Burial ghost banner.

Lu Ming pursued the seven clans that had fled Hundred Spirits Commandery and used the Blood Soul Dao Law to force them into slaughtering one another. He harvested their vengeful souls for his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, where the blood Sha soul became the Blood Soul General under Nangong Qinghong.

• Lu Ming assessed the nine clans that remained in Hundred Spirits Commandery and entered them into the Nine-Rank Immortal Registry.
• Lu Ming used the Essence Blood of seven mortals to track the seven fleeing clans and caught up with them.
• Lu Ming restricted the fleeing cultivators’ Spiritual Qi and ordered one clan head to kill everyone in exchange for his life.
• The clan head slaughtered his own relatives and members of the other clans before Lu Ming killed him and harvested his soul.
• Lu Ming sealed fifteen or sixteen vengeful souls into Heaven Burial, and Nangong Qinghong suppressed the strongest one, which became the Blood Soul General.

Lu Ming purged Northern Province factions and lured a traitorous cultivator across the border, giving the Qin Clan grounds to declare war on the Nangong Clan. The declaration exposed suspicions that Nangong Qinghong was dead and plunged the Southern Province into chaos, clearing the way for the Qin Clan’s expansion.

• Lu Ming spent half a month destroying more than twenty factions and killing nearly seventy cultivators, then chased a traitorous clan cultivator into the Southern Province while recording the escape.
• Lu Ming framed the Nangong Clan as having meddled in Northern Province affairs and plotted against the Qin Clan, providing grounds for Qin Xiao to declare war.
• Nangong clan elders raged at the declaration, prompting independent factions to suspect that the Nangong Clan’s Dao Foundation cultivator was dead and to move into the Southern Province.
• The Qin Clan’s scheme stirred conflict across the region so it could attack the Nangong Clan, annex the Southern Province, and use the turmoil as a pretext to subdue other factions.
• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui led Zhang Yi, Su Qin, and Gan Long in planning the chain of schemes to make Great Qin great again.