Chapter Summaries

Su Qin, Gan Long, and Zhang Yi joined Great Qin’s new six grand scholars and planned a massive invasion of the Southern Province. More than eight million Northern Province troops advanced along multiple routes, and Southern Province defenses began collapsing.

• Su Qin and Gan Long returned to their clans and took leadership, while Zhang Yi revived the Xuan River Zhang Clan and joined the Qin court.
• Wang Xu withdrew to Ghost Valley, Han Fei died after retiring, and Qin Wen became head of the Daoist Learning Academy and keeper of Wenge Pavilion.
• Su Qin, Gan Long, and Zhang Yi joined Shang Yang, Li Si, and Zhao Gao as the new six grand scholars and arranged the Southern Province campaign.
• Great Qin and its allied forces mobilized millions of troops, with the Northern Province army reaching a total strength of more than eight million.
• The Northern Province army invaded the Southern Province along more than ten routes, and its defenders’ lines collapsed across the region.

The Northern Province’s invasion devastated the Southern Province as Qin forces and their allies crushed resistance across multiple battlefields. With Nangong Qinghong still absent and presumed dead, the Nangong Clan faced threats from enemies eager to divide its power.

• Observers waited for Nangong Qinghong to appear, while clans and forces prepared to attack the Nangong Clan if he had fallen.
• Bai Qi captured a mountain pass, slaughtered its defenders, and took several cities, killing or burying hundreds of thousands of resisting soldiers.
• Wang Jian, Wang Ben, and Wang Li led the Yingchuan Army through nearly ten forces, while Qin Wu’s five thousand Qin Elite Soldiers destroyed a Nangong army of a hundred thousand.
• The Extreme Yuan Dao Sect’s refined corpse army overwhelmed a major pass, where disciples slaughtered residents to refine blood treasures and advance their cultivation.
• Qin Mingdao led millions of insect demons across the eastern war zone, devouring everything in their path and overwhelming every army that resisted.

The Nangong Clan fell and the Southern Province was incorporated into the Northern Province, leaving Nangong Bahuo fleeing from Qin Minghan. Qin Mingdao and Qin Mingyuan joined the pursuit, and their attack left Qin Minghan trapped in Nangong Bahuo’s illusion as he prepared to strike.

• Northern Qin breached the Nangong Clan’s ancestral grounds, and the clan’s survivors fled as the Southern Province was incorporated into the Northern Province.
• Qin Minghan pursued Nangong Bahuo on Jinxuan, and the Golden-Winged Black Bird swallowed the fire dragon Nangong Bahuo sent to block their way.
• Qin Mingdao and Qin Mingyuan arrived and helped Qin Minghan surround Nangong Bahuo, who refused to surrender and attacked with three water flood dragons.
• Qin Mingdao froze Nangong Bahuo’s water flood dragons, while Qin Mingyuan and Qin Minghan pressed the attack through Nangong Bahuo’s protective talismans and artifacts.
• Nangong Bahuo used his chaotic pupils to trap Qin Minghan in an illusion and raised his sword to kill him.

Qin Minghan killed Nangong Bahuo with an illusion and poison, then the Qin Clan seized the Nangong inheritance and completed its conquest of Southern Province and nearby prefectures. The chapter ended with Qin Xiao reorganizing the enlarged territory into a province, protectorates, and counties.

• Qin Minghan revealed that he had trapped Nangong Bahuo in an illusion and poisoned him, and Nangong Bahuo died as his cultivation and breath faded.
• Qin Minghan and his two companions extracted Nangong Bahuo’s soul for Qin Lu’s Ten Thousand Souls Banner: Heaven Burial and discovered nearly a hundred Nangong Clan cultivation methods and secret arts in his storage ring.
• The Qin Clan wiped out nearly all the Nangong clanspeople, spared a small mortal branch that changed its surname to Nan, and brought Southern Province and nine nearby prefectures under its rule.
• The Qin Clan gave the Nangong Clan’s third-tier talisman inheritance to the Jade Maiden Sect, which became the Jade Talisman Palace, while the Four Great Sects and Seven Great Households took shape under Qin rule.
• Several months later, Qin Xiao convened a meeting and divided the expanded territory into Northern Province’s core region and five protectorates, abolishing the prefecture level in favor of a province-protectorate-county structure.

Qin Lu halted Qin Xiao’s planned assault on the Beigao Clan and negotiated Medicine King Valley’s withdrawal in exchange for Beitai Province and an account of Chunyang’s death. He then discussed the Qin Clan’s expansion and the ambitions of rival powers, leaving the Northern Frontier’s future to unfold gradually.

• Qin Xiao prepared to invade Beitai Province, but Qin Lu ordered him to pause the operation and arrange to take the province in one month.
• Qin Lu told Fairy Chang and Mu that he would give them the Beigao Clan in exchange for Beitai Province and explained that Frost Demons had killed Chunyang and Gao Xiong.
• Fairy Chang and Mu accepted Qin Lu’s account and agreed that Beitai Province would be handed over in one month before leaving Baxuan Immortal City.
• Qin Lu and Lu Ming discussed Medicine King Valley, Xiashang Dao Academy, and how powerful cultivators sought resources and longevity.
• Qin Lu outlined his plan to consolidate three Northern Frontier provinces, expand the Qin Clan’s influence, and prepare for future conflict with rival clans and the Demon Race.

The Qin Clan reorganized its expanded Northern Province territory into nine protectorates and imposed centralized administrative, military, and economic controls. The Myriad Treasures Pavilion entered the province under Liu Ruyan, who signed Qin Zhao’s contract despite its restrictions.

• The Qin Clan divided its territory into nine protectorates and planned to select new protectors every thirty years to limit local power.
• The Qin Clan replaced the old army designations with the Northern Province Army, the Black Dragon Legion, and the Qin Elite Soldiers, while restricting the protectorates from directly commanding troops.
• Liu Ruyan became the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s representative in Northern Province, while Nalan took charge of the rival Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Zhao told Liu Ruyan that the pavilion had to use Qin Coins, obey Northern Province’s laws, arrange its own supplies of the Four Great Immortal Arts, and follow rules for outside cultivators.
• Liu Ruyan accepted the contract on behalf of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and signed it.

Five years after the Myriad Treasures Pavilion intervened, the Northern Province prospered under Qin Clan rule as Qin Coins and trade spread across the frontier. Huang Liang used the Soul Transformation Sand Fruit to survive his Dao Foundation breakthrough, then declared the Formation Evolution Sect’s allegiance to the Beichuan Qin Family and Northern Qin.

• The Qin Clan expanded its wealth and influence as Qin Coins circulated widely and trade grew across the peaceful Northern Province.
• The Hong Province Xie Clan and Tai Province Wu Clan formed friendly alliances with Northern Qin and began using Qin Coins in trade.
• Huang Liang refined Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, transformed his Raging Sand Dao Rhyme into a Dao Law, but failed to condense his soul into Divine Sense.
• Huang Liang consumed the Soul Transformation Sand Fruit Qin Lu had given him, stabilizing his soul and completing his Dao Foundation breakthrough.
• Huang Liang announced that the Formation Evolution Sect would honor the Beichuan Qin Family as its superior clan, join the Northern Province, and become a third-rank sect.

Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan weighed whether to submit to the Qin Clan after Huang Liang became its fourth Dao Foundation combatant, deciding to wait and avoid provoking it. Acting on Qin Wang’s orders, Huang Liang began reshaping Northern Province by combining its Spirit Veins and clearing the mountains near Baxuan Immortal City.

• Xie Yongnian proposed that the Xie and Wu clans submit to the Qin Clan while preserving their autonomy, and Wu Yan agreed they were too weak to risk a war.
• Wu Yan urged Xie Yongnian to wait, since the Qin patriarch’s cultivation was unknown and other powers might oppose the Qin Clan if it expanded south.
• News of Huang Liang’s Dao Foundation breakthrough spread, prompting other powers to reassess the Qin Clan’s strength.
• Qin Wang ordered Huang Liang to combine the weak Spirit Veins from the former Southern Province and Beitai Province at the center of Northern Province.
• Huang Liang used the Raging Sand Dao Law and formations to create a miniature Spirit Vein that raised the Spiritual Qi throughout Northern Province.
• Huang Liang began reshaping the land around Baxuan Immortal City, grinding away vast stretches of mountains and forest.

Qin Xinzhou watched a great cultivator reshape the landscape and lamented that his own cultivation talent would leave him trapped in the True Martial Realm. After using the Tumbling Phoenixes Art to break through, he reflected on the Qin Clan’s hierarchy and the difficulty he faced in finding a living human pill to advance further.

• Qin Xinzhou admired the power of Ancestor Huang and the Qin Clan’s Dao Foundation cultivators while Qin Xinmu warned him not to expect to reach their heights.
• Qin Xinzhou assigned his spirit servants their work and summoned Xuan Shiliu, Xuan Qishier, and Xuan Jiushisan to his cave abode.
• Qin Xinzhou cultivated with the three women using the Tumbling Phoenixes Art and advanced from the True Martial Five Realms to the True Martial Sixth Realm.
• The three women praised Qin Xinzhou’s cultivation, but he dismissed their hopes that he could reach Qi Condensation because he lacked a living human pill and influential family support.
• Qin Xinzhou concluded that the Qin Clan valued strength above all and that its weak fourth-generation descendants were expected to produce children for the clan.

Qin Xiao oversaw Northern Qin’s affairs and reviewed Huang Liang’s work reshaping the land, which secretly prepared a foundation for a Third-Tier grand teleportation array. Secret reports then revealed that a great Nascent Soul cultivator in the Ten Nations Alliance had been killed by the Demon Race, prompting Qin Xiao to alert Qin Lu and mobilize resources while they awaited the array’s completion.

• Qin Xiao approved plans to reshape the land around Baxuan Immortal City, widening waterways and creating plains for transport, growth, and troop movements.
• Huang Liang continued leveling mountains, deepening his mastery of Dao Principles and secretly preparing earth-vein nodes for a future grand teleportation array.
• Qin Xiao reviewed Northern Qin’s growing strength and the forces supporting the Qin Clan.
• Qin Xiao received secret reports that the Demon Race had killed a great Nascent Soul cultivator stationed in the Ten Nations Alliance.
• Qin Xiao questioned how the Frost Spirit Demon Race had succeeded and resolved to notify Qin Lu and gather every resource they could mobilize while they waited for the array to be completed.

Qin Lu advised Qin Xiao to stay calm as the fall of a Nascent Soul True Lord threatened to unleash conflict between humans and demons, and he suspected powerful human cultivators might be manipulating the Demon Race’s centuries-old plans. Qin Xiao accepted the uncertainty and moved the Qin Clan to fortify its northern protectorates, preparing to profit from the coming turmoil while guarding against beast tides.

• Qin Xiao feared that the Ten Nations Alliance’s collapse would bring the Ice and Snow Demon Race south and expose Da Zhou to the Frost Spirit Demon Race.
• Qin Lu told Qin Xiao to keep the Qin Clan steady, predicted that the Central Lands would send reinforcements, and suggested ancient human cultivators might be using the Demon Race’s scheme to draw out powerful demons.
• Qin Xiao concluded that his clan should prepare to withdraw if necessary and saw lower-tier Demon Beasts as potential resources.
• The Qin Clan began building a ten-thousand-li fortress wall across the Northern Cold Protectorate, Northern Cry Protectorate, and Northern Wind Protectorate, with key passes designed to withstand Second-Tier Demon Beasts.

The Ice and Snow Demon Race marched on the Ten Nations Alliance as northern nations rushed to support it and a Nascent Soul True Lord’s death exposed a suspected traitor. At Northern Nether Grand Pass, Qian Guming confronted the demon leaders, and the battle began across every cultivation level.

• The northern nations mustered cultivators for the Ten Nations Alliance after the death of a Nascent Soul True Lord sparked panic and suspicion of a traitor.
• Qian Guming arrived from the Longlife Ancient Kingdom, reassuring the northern nations that the central lands would continue defending them.
• More than thirty Demon Kings and countless beasts gathered at Northern Nether Grand Pass, where the bear demon demanded that the humans leave.
• Qian Guming killed a third-tier great demon and challenged the bear and bird demons, who attacked him.
• The Nascent Soul fighters clashed in the ninth heaven as humans and demons fought across the Core Formation, Dao Foundation, and Qi Condensation battlefields.

The Qin Clan’s northern Great Wall strengthened Da Zhou’s defenses as the Sea Race invaded the coast and Da Zhou could spare little support for the Northern Frontier. The Frost Demon King and the third elder discussed the unknown Soul Dao expert behind their losses, but the expert’s identity and whereabouts remained a mystery.

• The Qin Clan learned that Northern Nether Pass remained locked in a costly stalemate and that the Demon-Quelling True Person had disappeared, deepening Qin Lu’s concern about hidden plots.
• The Qin Clan expanded its Northern Frontier Great Wall with fortified platforms and watchtowers, earning respect for defending northern Da Zhou.
• The Eastern Sea Sea Race invaded Da Zhou’s coast with more than twenty Fourth-Tier Demon Kings, forcing Da Zhou to commit most of its strength to the coastal battle.
• Da Zhou’s ancestors stayed to confront the Sea Race and Frost Demon King, leaving the Beichuan Qin Family to defend the Northern Frontier largely alone.
• The Frost Demon King asked the third elder about the person who killed the second elder and took the Boundless Mystic Realm.
• The third elder said he could not trace the powerful Soul Dao expert, who had erased all traces and eliminated their agents in Da Zhou.

The Frost Demon King ordered Sa Mu to prolong the fighting while preparing to seize Northern Nether and destroy Da Zhou. At Qinbei Pass, Qin Wu and the Northern Frontier’s allied clans prepared their forces to meet the approaching demons.

• The Frost Demon King told Sa Mu to stage a limited war against Da Zhou until the grand elder’s plan succeeded, then vowed to conquer Northern Nether and destroy Da Zhou’s Dao lineage.
• Scouts reported to Qin Wu that demons had gathered three hundred li away and that a Third-Tier Frost Demon had killed three of their companions.
• Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan joined Qin Wu and Lu Ming in a temporary alliance, and Lu Ming said that a large-scale war would strengthen his Blood Soul Dao Law.
• Qin Wu mobilized five million soldiers across the Northern Frontier and concentrated more than two million at Qinbei Pass, which held three Dao Foundation cultivators and nearly two thousand Qi Condensation cultivators.

Qin Mingyuan and the defenders of the Northern Frontier Great Wall faced a massive beast tide, but Wang Ben took command and used coordinated troops and fire to halt its first assault. The demons’ main force remained behind the apparent feint as the battle continued.

• A humanoid Wolf Demon killed and devoured a sentry before Qin Mingyuan decapitated it and raised the alarm.
• Qin Mingyuan recognized the attackers as likely Snow Wolf Half-Demons and suspected the Frost Spirit Demon Race was using them to probe the defenses.
• Wang Ben arrived with thirty cultivators, assumed command, and rallied the soldiers with a banner of flame.
• Wang Ben ordered the archers to fire explosive-dust and flaming arrows while fifty thousand North Wind Army soldiers formed ten defensive formations outside the wall.
• The arrows ignited the powder and burned tens of thousands of beasts, while the Qin Clan soldiers killed the Snow Wolf Half-Demons that survived the flames.

Wang Ben led the North Wind Seventh Army Group in a fierce defense against the beast tide, but the fighting escalated when Lu Ming intervened to protect him from a Third-Tier Snow Wolf Half-Demon. Lu Ming and the Snow Wolf Half-Demon unleashed their Dao Laws and clashed in a battle that ended with both attacks annihilating each other.

• Wang Ben drove the beast tide back with cultivators, battle formations, cavalry, and a flame-enhancing battle standard, killing more than a hundred thousand beasts.
• Dozens of Second-Tier Snow Wolf Half-Demons charged Wang Ben, prompting cultivators and reinforcements to fight them, including Dao Foundation combatants.
• A Third-Tier Snow Wolf Half-Demon appeared and attacked Wang Ben, but Lu Ming arrived and dispersed its ice-crystal wolf manifestation.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon unleashed its Ice Crystal Dao Law and Bone-Shattering Ice Blade against Lu Ming, who answered with his Blood Soul Dao Law and Soul-Locking Blood Chains.
• Lu Ming summoned the Blood Beast Kui Ox and used Crimson Blood · Annihilating Blood Jade, which collided with the Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s glacier attack and destroyed both forces.

Lu Ming fought the Snow Wolf Half-Demon in a desperate battle, broke through to the Dao Foundation Third Layer, and brought them both down. As the wounded half-demon threatened Lu Ming, Qin Lu and Huang Liang arrived, and Qin Lu declared that no one would harm his people.

• Lu Ming destroyed the Snow Wolf Half-Demon's ice crystal wolf form and pierced his chest with a concentrated attack of the Blood Soul Dao Law.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon transformed into an Ice Snow Heavenly Wolf and unleashed an ice storm that killed nearly a hundred thousand soldiers, while Lu Ming regenerated after being stripped of his flesh.
• Lu Ming summoned a blood giant and fought the Ice Snow Heavenly Wolf, absorbing battlefield blood and souls to break through to the Dao Foundation Third Layer.
• The two giants exchanged devastating blows until both collapsed and their Dao Law power dissipated, leaving Lu Ming and the Snow Wolf Half-Demon gravely wounded but alive.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon pointed his weapon at Lu Ming, but Qin Lu and Huang Liang appeared to protect him, and Qin Lu revealed his Dao Foundation Fifth Layer cultivation and warned that no one could harm his people.

Qin Lu and his companions fought Zhadelei’s Frost Spirit demons after the enemy forces emerged from the snow. While the others paired off against their opponents, Qin Lu confronted Zhadelei and concealed his identity by manifesting the Soul Wood Dao Principles.

• Xie Yongnian helped Lu Ming recover while Lu Ming silently absorbed the battlefield’s blood and souls.
• Zhadelei and Qin Lu ordered their forces to attack, and the Dao Foundation experts split into separate battles.
• Qing Centipede clashed with the Frost Flood Dragon, while Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan fought two Frost Demons.
• Huang Liang used formations and the Raging Sand Dao Law to hold back the mixed-blood Snow Wolf half-demon.
• Qin Lu challenged Zhadelei, who formed layers of ice armor, while Qin Lu manifested a giant gray tree using the Soul Wood Dao Principles.

Qin Lu defeated Zhadelei by secretly planting a soul seed in his consciousness, then fought beside Lu Ming to bring down the snow wolf half-demon. As the battle turned in the Northern Province’s favor, Qin Lu killed the Wolf Demon, and its Dao Principles dispersed.

• Qin Lu struck Zhadelei’s sea of Divine Sense with Soul Severing, knocked him unconscious, and planted a soul seed in him.
• Qin Lu awakened Zhadelei, whose altered memories made him resume their fight, and the pair appeared evenly matched before separating to aid their sides.
• Qin Lu sent a voice transmission to Lu Ming, and they attacked the snow wolf half-demon while Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan blocked the demons’ rescue efforts.
• Huang Liang activated the Thick Earth Returns to Dust Grand Formation, trapping several great demons and scattering the blizzard with yellow sand.
• Qin Lu pierced the snow wolf half-demon through the heart and split him in two, killing the Third-Tier demon and shattering his sea of Divine Sense.

After Qin Lu and his allies killed the Snow Wolf Half-Demon, both sides withdrew rather than risk further losses. Three months later, a prolonged lull and small-scale beast tides benefited the Qin Clan, while the Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s remains were forged into treasures for Qin Lu, Qin Zhuang, and Qin Mingdao.

• Lu Ming claimed the Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s soul for his Blood Soul Dao Law, while Qin Lu took its body and materials.
• Zhadelei and the other great demons abandoned the fight after the Snow Wolf Half-Demon fell, and Qin Lu’s group chose not to pursue them.
• The Frost Demon King held back from retaliation because an all-out war with Da Zhou would be too costly amid the unsettled northern situation.
• For three months, only ordinary beasts and Second-Tier Demon Beasts appeared outside Qinbei Pass, and their resources helped the Qin Clan and Northern Province’s Four Great Immortal Arts flourish.
• The Snow Wolf Half-Demon’s remains were made into three Law Treasure Proto-embryos: Qin Lu received the Frost and Snow Robe, Qin Zhuang the Ice Mysterious Pearl, and Qin Mingdao the Ice Crystal Dao Mysterious Blade.