Chapter Summaries

Da Zhou rewarded the Qin Clan for defending the Northern Frontier and sent Bai Zhilang to Qin Xiao with three matters. After presenting an imperial offer and proposing an alliance on behalf of the Yan Miao Bai Clan, Bai Zhilang prepared to explain his personal request.

• Da Zhou sent reinforcements south to aid Canglan State after Sea Race Demon Kings invaded and captured more than half its territory.
• An imperial decree granted the Qin Clan rewards and the Northern Frontier, and named Qin Lu Duke of the North and King Who Guards the North.
• Qin Xiao recognized Bai Zhilang as an old acquaintance and invited him to discuss his other two matters after receiving the decree.
• Bai Zhilang sought reconciliation and an offensive and defensive alliance between the Yan Miao Bai Clan and the Qin Clan.
• Bai Zhilang offered the Qin Clan a top-grade Third-Tier celestial star fragment containing a trace of Spatial Dao Law as a pledge of friendship.

Qin Xiao accepted the Bai Clan’s tribute and ended its grievances with the Qin Clan, while postponing a decision on an alliance and assuring Bai Zhilang that Bai Qi would be treated well. A month later, the Qin Clan concealed the Twenty-Four Peaks as the Spirit Tea King Bi began its breakthrough to the Dao Foundation realm.

• Qin Xiao accepted Bai Zhilang’s spatial secret treasure, declared the Bai and Qin clans’ grievances settled, and said he needed more time to consider an alliance.
• Bai Zhilang asked Qin Xiao to care for Bai Qi and severed Bai Qi’s remaining ties to the Bai Clan; Qin Xiao affirmed Bai Qi’s place as one of Northern Qin’s six great generals.
• Qin Lu chose the third-tier artifact-refining Dharma Sect, completing the Qin Clan’s collection of third-tier cultivation inheritances.
• A month later, Huang Liang placed a third-tier formation around the Twenty-Four Peaks, concealing them and blocking Divine Sense probes.
• The Spirit Tea King Bi gathered Spiritual Qi and manifested the Jade Origin Dao Principle as Qin Lu, Qin Hui, Qin Xiao, and others watched its breakthrough; Flower Princess also benefited from the Wood Dao blessings.

Qin Lu accepted Bi into the Qin Clan and gave her a treasure, while Huang Liang completed a one-way teleportation array to provide the clan with an escape route. Su Qin then secured the Xie and Wu families’ submission, uniting the Northern Frontier under Northern Province.

• Bi emerged from the growing tea tree and greeted Qin Lu and the Qin family members.
• Qin Lu approved of Bi and Qin Hui’s relationship, accepted her as his daughter-in-law, and gave her the Origin Harmony Jade Pendant.
• Huang Liang used the Heavenfall Gold Crystal to build a one-way great teleportation array that could send people south toward the Myriad Nations of the Central Lands.
• Su Qin traveled to Tai Province and Hong Province with the Zhou emperor’s decree and persuaded Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan to submit to the Qin Clan.
• The Xie and Wu families joined the Nine-Rank Immortal Registry as third-rank Immortal Clans and moved their clan lands into Northern Province.
• Northern Province absorbed Tai Province and Hong Province, expanded to over forty million square kilometers, and united the Northern Frontier.

Demon-Quelling True Person led seven Demon Kings in an assault on the Supreme Mysterious Immortal Palace, destroyed its teleportation array, and slaughtered its disciples. At Northern Nether Pass, Qian Guming confronted a Fifth-Tier Frost Spirit demon who revealed that demons and Central Lands conspirators had joined forces to seize the north and destabilize the human race.

• Demon-Quelling True Person and seven Fourth-Tier Demon Kings breached the Supreme Mysterious Immortal Palace’s defenses and killed its two Core Formation Ancestors.
• Demon-Quelling True Person destroyed the palace’s Fourth-Tier teleportation array, cutting off the northern continent from aid and leaving the sect ruined.
• Qian Guming tried to leave Northern Nether Pass to aid the palace, but a Fifth-Tier Frost Spirit demon blocked his way.
• Qian Guming accused the Frost Spirit demon of killing his nephew and conspiring with traitors in the Central Lands to isolate the north and seize control.
• The Frost Spirit demon acknowledged that Qian Guming’s suspicions were mostly correct and demanded his death.
• Qian Guming summoned his Poyuan Spear and fought the Frost Spirit demon and two other demons as the battle for Northern Nether Pass resumed.

The three transformed demons destroyed Northern Nether Pass with the Ice and Snow Dao, gravely wounding Qian Guming and forcing him to flee. Bear King then unleashed a massacre across the battlefield as the Ice and Snow Demon Race began its push to reclaim the north.

• The three demons combined their Ice and Snow Dao Principles, annihilating Northern Nether Pass and tainting more than half of Qian Guming’s body with the Great Dao.
• Qian Guming sacrificed a hundred years of lifespan to borrow the Spear Dao, survived the demons’ strike, and escaped with several Golden Core cultivators.
• Frost Demon Ancestor stopped Bear King and Penguin Emperor from pursuing Qian Guming, and a later spear strike killed two nearby Core Formation Demon Kings.
• Frost Ancestor warned Bear King that True Lord Jianxuan’s Nascent Soul was still alive and urged caution, while Bear King and Penguin Emperor vowed to destroy the Ten Nations Alliance.
• Bear King transformed into a gigantic bear and unleashed thunder across the battlefield, killing countless cultivators as the remaining demons slaughtered the survivors.

After Northern Nether Pass fell, Qin Lu seized control of Zhadelei and searched the Frost Demon Imperial Court for a Golden Core method. He uncovered the history of the Ice and Snow Demon Race and found a demon core formation technique, though he did not know whether a human could use it.

• The Demon Race emerged across the north as human nations collapsed and beast tides spread after Northern Nether Pass fell.
• Qin Lu used a soul seed to take control of Zhadelei and went to the Frost Demon Imperial Court to search for a core formation method.
• Qin Lu read records detailing the Ice and Snow Demon Race’s defeats and the human race’s rise to dominance in the Northern Nether Domain.
• Qin Lu suspected the human race was weakened by the fall of a Spirit Transformation mighty figure and internal turmoil.
• Qin Lu found a Frost Spirit Demon Race method that condensed Dao principles and tempered them nine times to forge a demon core.

Qin Lu memorized the Frost Spirit Demon Race’s cultivation and tribulation inheritances, then prepared to leave before the Demon Race swept in. As he gathered his allies, Huang Liang, Bi, and Lu Ming learned about the secret realm and great teleportation array, and each remained bound to the Qin Clan.

• Qin Lu learned the Ninefold Essence Tempering method and recorded the Frost Demon Kings’ tribulation techniques, including the Infant Embryo Fruit, foundation seizure, and Thunder-Absorbing Pearl.
• After Zhadelei returned home, Qin Lu left his body and recorded the acquired inheritances on Jade Slips; his cultivation reached Dao Foundation Fifth Layer Perfection.
• Qin Lu reviewed his Nether Soul and Soul Wood abilities, resolved to keep studying soul poison, concealed his presence, and told Qin Xiao it was time to leave.
• Huang Liang, Bi, and Lu Ming learned about the secret realm and great teleportation array, but none considered rebelling against the Qin Clan.

The Qin Clan and its affiliated forces evacuated Northern Province into the Boundless Mystic Realm, transferring their people, resources, and key foundations. As the migration ended, Qin Lu urged his six children to build the clan’s power and reclaim their homeland, while Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan submitted their clans to serve Qin for a hundred years.

• Qin Zhao returned to the Boundless Mystic Realm as the Qin Clan moved its resources into the realm, which had grown into a populated kingdom with farms, spirit beasts, and a central city.
• The Qin Clan evacuated Baxuan Immortal City, its affiliated forces, the Qin Elite Soldiers, the Black Dragon Legion, and their families into the realm, then Lu Ming’s Extreme Yuan Dao Sect and Huang Liang’s Formation Evolution Sect brought their allotted people.
• Huang Liang led the transplanting of Muxuan Mountain and its Spirit Vein, while Bi moved her foundation and formed it into Tea Mountain.
• Qin Lu stood with his six children in the abandoned city and declared that the Qin Clan would return stronger, renaming the Qin Palace the Qin Wang Palace and ordering them to conquer all under heaven.
• Xie Yongnian and Wu Yan arrived with their clans and agreed to serve Qin Lu for a hundred years in exchange for being brought to safety; their people entered the Boundless Mystic Realm as the final group.

Qin Lu and six other Dao Foundation cultivators escaped the Northern Province through a great teleportation formation, leaving Da Zhou exposed to the invading Frost Demon forces. The demons conquered the province and ravaged Da Zhou, whose nearly ten-thousand-year-old state fell in bloodshed.

• Huang Liang activated the great teleportation formation, and Qin Lu, Xie Yongnian, Wu Yan, Lu Ming, Bi, Huang Liang, and Qing Centipede fled through its spatial passage.
• A Da Zhou Imperial Family cultivator arrived to find Baxuan Immortal City abandoned and the formation ruined, then was killed and devoured by Zhadelei and the other great demons.
• The Frost Demon King granted Zhadelei the Northern Province and tasked him with watching the damaged teleportation formation.
• Zhadelei led the demons south, killing Da Zhou cultivators while Zhou Ronghao remained missing and Zhou Changsheng faced five Demon Kings.
• The Demon Race overwhelmed Da Zhou, slaughtering its people and destroying the state after nearly ten thousand years of existence.

After recovering from their teleportation, Qin Lu discovered that the group had landed in the remote Eight Immortals Sea, far from the Northern Continent. He learned about the sea’s powers and chose Eastern Li Island as his first target.

• Qin Lu sent the exhausted group into the secret realm to recuperate while he and the Qing Centipede recovered their strength.
• Qin Lu traveled south across the sea for a month and found a small island inhabited by a few thousand people.
• Qin Lu ordered the Qing Centipede to seal off the island, then subdued its lone Qi Condensation cultivator and searched his memories.
• Qin Lu learned that the island lay in the Eight Immortals Sea, hundreds of thousands of li from the Northern Continent, and that eight Core Formation-led powers ruled the region.
• Qin Lu identified Eastern Li Island, home of the Eastern Li Dao Sect, as a powerful nearby target and decided to begin there.

Qin Lu and five Dao Foundation allies launched a surprise assault on Eastern Li Island, trapping its inhabitants and confronting the Eastern Li Sect’s two ancestors. As the battle turned against Lu Ming, Huang Liang, and Wu Yan, Qing Centipede and Qin Lu intervened, leaving the Dongli Ancestor facing Qin Lu’s next attack.

• Qin Lu burned the island he had previously raided, hunted Demon Beasts at sea, and reached Eastern Li Island with Qing Centipede.
• Qin Lu opened a temporary portal with the Boundless Jade Ring, bringing Lu Ming, Huang Liang, Xie Yongnian, Wu Yan, and others to join the assault.
• Lu Ming covered the island in blood clouds while Huang Liang sealed it with three formations, drawing out the Dongli Ancestor and Dongli Second Ancestor.
• The Dongli Ancestor’s Yi Wood Dao Law drained Lu Ming’s blood beasts and blood clouds, while Wu Yan’s Seven Xuan Mirror attack failed to injure him; the Dongli Bell then wounded Lu Ming, Huang Liang, and Wu Yan.
• The Dongli Second Ancestor’s wooden giant attacked the wounded cultivators, but Qing Centipede froze it and poisoned the island’s protective formation.
• Qin Lu struck at the Dongli Ancestor with Soul Severing, disrupting the Dongli Bell before the ancestor sensed another deadly attack aimed at him.

Qin Lu defeated the Dongli Ancestor and captured his soul and body for his own cultivation. He then helped bring down the Dongli Second Ancestor, adding both souls to Heaven Burial and planning to refine the second ancestor’s body into pills.

• Qin Lu shattered the Dongli Ancestor’s natal Law Treasure with a Soul Dao strike and drew his soul into Heaven Burial.
• Flower Princess rooted herself in the Dongli Ancestor’s chest and absorbed his body as nourishment.
• Qin Lu sent the Soul Frost Ghost King to attack the Dongli Second Ancestor, who was already fighting Lu Ming and Huang Liang.
• Wu Yan and the Qing Centipede joined the assault, and the Soul Frost Ghost King’s attacks numbed the Dongli Second Ancestor’s Divine Sense until he fell.
• Qin Lu burned the second ancestor’s giant-tree form with Ghost Fire, refined his soul into Heaven Burial, and planned to turn his body into Body Strengthening Pills.

Xie Yongnian and Qin Lu’s forces destroyed the Eastern Li Sect and transformed Eastern Li Island into a fortified home for the Qin Clan and its allies. The island was renamed Qin Emperor Island, and Qin Lu’s group planned to build strength in secret before expanding into the Eight Immortals Sea.

• Xie Yongnian reported that he had killed the Eastern Li Sect’s sect master, protectors, core members, and principal successors, while Qing Centipede and Lu Ming’s forces slaughtered the island’s inhabitants.
• Huang Liang, Lu Ming, and Wu Yan constructed three linked formations around the island to disorient intruders, kill weaker attackers, and restrain Dao Foundation cultivators.
• Qin Lu opened a gateway to the Boundless Mystic Realm, brought cultivators through it, and renamed Eastern Li Island Qin Emperor Island.
• The Qin Clan claimed the island’s Spirit Vein, Boundless City was established for trade, and allied sects and households were assigned territory around the clan’s central lands.
• Qin Lu and his advisers decided to secure their new home and remain hidden for years before gradually moving into the Eight Immortals Sea.

After Qin Emperor Island stabilized, Qin Lu focused on cultivation and monitored the Northern Continent through Zhadelei, while the island remained isolated for ten years. The Qin Clan and other forces grew stronger, with seven fourth-generation Qin Clan disciples reaching Qi Condensation.

• Qin Lu and the surviving cultivators settled into secluded cultivation, and a wave of cultivation spread across Qin Emperor Island.
• Qin Lu failed to possess Zhadelei from afar but read his memories and maintained the three instructions he had planted in Zhadelei’s soul.
• Qin Lu learned that the Ice and Snow Demon Race had taken nearly half the Northern Continent and that the human and demon forces had returned to a stalemate.
• Qin Lu concluded that a weakened human race and Ice and Snow Demon Race would benefit the Qin Clan when it returned to reclaim Great Qin.
• Qin Emperor Island stayed closed to outsiders for ten years, while its forces grew and seventy or eighty Qi Condensation cultivators emerged.
• The Qin Clan lifted restrictions on its fourth generation, and seven disciples, including Qin Xinmu and Qin Xinzhou, reached Qi Condensation using the Cauldron Primordial Dao-Seeking Method and spiritual items.

After nearly seventy years leading the Qin Lineage, Qin Xiao decided it was time to choose a successor, but the capable candidates each had drawbacks. At the clan meeting, the elders removed Qin Mingyuan from consideration and rejected Xin'an because he was a concubine-born child, leaving the succession unresolved.

• Qin Xiao considered stepping down after overseeing the Lineage for nearly seventy years and reviewed the strengths and flaws of potential successors across the clan’s generations.
• Qin Hui proposed Qin Mingyi, Qin Mingyuan, Xin'an, Qin Xinzhi, or Qin Xinyang as suitable candidates for clan head.
• Qin Zhao argued that Qin Mingyuan should focus on cultivating his Dao and developing his Acquired Spirit Physique, so the others agreed to exclude him.
• Qin Zhuang proposed Xin'an, but Qin Xiao rejected him because his birth as Mingdao’s son by a maidservant made him a child of a concubine.

Qin Mingyi was chosen as the Qin Clan’s third clan leader and formally took charge of its internal affairs. He organized clan resources, established cultivation-based stipends, and reestablished three halls to manage clan matters.

• Qin Hui proposed a vote between Qin Mingyi and Qin Xinzhi, and Qin Mingyi won with three and a half votes.
• Qin Mingyue told Qin Mingyi that the clan had chosen him and that his succession ceremony would be held in a month.
• Qin Mingyi formally became clan leader, while Qin Xiao retained the separate Qin Wang position and responsibility for external affairs.
• Qin Mingyi coordinated clan resources and established monthly stipends that varied by cultivation realm.
• Qin Mingyi reestablished the Law Enforcement Hall, the Elders’ Hall, and the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall to handle internal clan matters.

Qin Mingyi reorganized the Qin Clan and formed a Demon Hunting Team to explore the Eight Immortals Sea and gather resources. The team departed aboard the clan’s new treasure ship, while Qin Zhao secretly sent Black Dragon after it with orders to protect the clan’s secrets at any cost.

• Qin Mingyi established new clan halls and rules to manage the growing Qin Lineage more systematically.
• Qin Mingyi proposed a Demon Hunting Team led by Qin Mingyuan, with Qin Xin'an, Qin Xinmu, Xinzhou, spirit slaves, and other young clan members among its first members; Qin Xiao supported the plan.
• The Hundred Refinements Sect completed the Beichuan, a large, armed treasure ship built for open-sea travel.
• Qin Mingyuan and the first Demon Hunting Team departed Qin Emperor Island aboard the Beichuan.
• Qin Zhao secretly sent Black Dragon to follow the ship, ordering it to protect the clan’s safety by killing everyone aboard if an irreversible crisis threatened to expose the Lineage.

After Qin Zhuang left Qin Zhao behind, the Beichuan sailed east toward a rich Demon Beast hunting ground. Qin Xinzhou, Qin Xin'an, and Qin Xinmu killed a Second-Tier Medium Grade whale beast, then began dividing up its valuable remains.

• Qin Zhuang calmly patted Qin Zhao on the shoulder and departed, leaving Qin Zhao watching the sea.
• The Beichuan left the bloody mist and sailed east toward warm waters filled with islands and Demon Beasts.
• Qin Xinzhou went to the deck when sea demons attacked and saw a huge whale beast swallow nearly half a swarm of giant shrimp demons.
• Qin Xinzhou, Qin Xin'an, and Qin Xinmu battled the whale beast, suffering damage as they wore it down.
• Qin Xinmu bound the whale with the Heaven-Binding Four Symbols Rings while Qin Xin'an and Qin Xinzhou struck its skull, killing it.
• Qin Xinmu offered Qin Xin'an fifty percent of the whale's spoils, and he ordered the spirit slaves to butcher the carcass.

After months of exploring and hunting across the sea, the Beichuan reached the dangerous Ten Thousand Reefs Sea Area, where Qin Mingyuan and his crew prepared to aid several people fleeing a pack of demons. The chapter ended with the ship’s defenses and weapons activated as Qin Mingyuan and Qin Xinmu and Qin Xinzhou readied their techniques.

• The Beichuan continued east, and Qin Mingyuan’s expedition hunted demons, charted unknown waters, explored islands, and recorded their findings for the Qin Clan.
• Qin Xin'an and the other two defeated several devil cults and discovered that the Eight Immortals Sea’s devil-path methods were often crueler than those inland.
• After several months, the Beichuan arrived in the Ten Thousand Reefs Sea Area, where the crew hunted seven Second-Tier sea demons and thousands of First-Tier ones.
• Qin Mingyuan secretly maintained Fifth Layer of Qi Condensation while publicly claiming to be at the Fourth Layer, and continued scanning the waters with his Spirit-Observing Dao Eyes.
• Qin Mingyuan spotted several people fleeing toward the Beichuan with more than ten demons pursuing them and ordered everyone to battle stations.
• Qin Xin'an took charge of the Beichuan as the crew activated its formations and cannons, while Qin Mingyuan, Qin Xinmu, and Qin Xinzhou prepared to attack.

Qin Mingyuan ambushed the sea raiders, subdued the Eight-Tailed Octopus Shark King, and pursued the survivors. He slaughtered most of them, while a Joyous Union Sect disciple begged him to spare her.

• Qin Mingyuan used his fire wyrm and cannons to ambush the raiders, and the deep-sea beasts killed two wounded cultivators as the others fled.
• Qin Mingyuan used his Spirit-Observing Dao Eyes and cloud techniques to slay the lesser Eight-Tailed Octopus Sharks and defeat their king.
• Qin Mingyuan forced the Eight-Tailed Octopus Shark King into a master-servant contract and ordered it to calm its pack and track down the raiders.
• Qin Mingyuan caught five fleeing cultivators and killed them with his cloud-enhanced blades.
• A disciple of the Joyous Union Sect begged Qin Mingyuan to spare her, offering to do anything he wanted.