Chapter Summaries

Qin Xiao reorganized Great Qin around Dao academies, a stricter Immortal Clan register, and a network of provinces and lords, reshaping how talent and power were governed. The chapter ended with the Qin Clan maintaining separate centers on Qin Island and Qin Emperor Island, linked by a teleportation array.

• Qin Xiao established a plan for Dao academies to educate talent and channel graduates into official service, military posts, demon extermination, or recognized Immortal Clans.
• Qin Xiao summoned Dao Foundation sects to restructure as academies or disband, and twelve became the Twelve Heavenly Academies while smaller academies spread through Great Qin.
• Great Qin raised the rank of its Lineages and enfeoffed eighteen marquises, including the Huang, Wu, and Xie Clans, to govern the six provinces and eighteen protectorates.
• Great Qin adopted a new structure centered on the Six Ministries, six grand secretaries, Xianyang Immortal City, and the Efang Immortal Palace.
• The Qin Clan kept its ancestral foundations in the Boundless Mystic Realm on Qin Emperor Island while Qin Island served as a more public center.
• Huang Liang built a third-tier two-way teleportation array between Qin Emperor Island and Qin Island, powered by Spirit Stones.

Qin Wu broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm but was consumed by regret over the clan war and became a drunkard. Qin Wen also attained Dao Foundation while recording the clan’s inheritances, and years later Qin Xinzhou hunted down survivors to learn Shi Wenlong’s location.

• Qin Wu comprehended the Sha Metal Sword Dao and successfully formed his Dao Foundation with the aid of Soul-Awakening Tea.
• Qin Wu recalled how his injury had distracted Qin Zhuang during the war, contributing to casualties that included Qin Wu’s son Mingyue and two grandchildren.
• Qin Wu became despondent and spent his days drinking after his breakthrough.
• Qin Wen completed the Great Qin Biography, reviewed the library’s inheritances, and comprehended the Vast Dao Principle before attaining Dao Foundation.
• Qin Xinzhou interrogated and killed cultivators while searching for Shi Wenlong, until one captive revealed that Shi Wenlong was hiding on Pure Spring Island.

Qin Xinzhou and Qin Xinyang slaughtered Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect disciples while Great Qin’s currency system and expanding territory intensified its conflict with the sect. Great Qin continued to wear down its rival through small-scale battles, leaving the broader struggle unresolved.

• Qin Xinzhou killed a captive who claimed Shi Wenlong was on Pure Spring Island, then threatened the remaining disciples and demanded Shi Wenlong’s location from another captive.
• Qin Xinyang cultivated beside a heap of corpses, using a Sha Soul Pearl to absorb their essence blood and souls.
• Qin Xinyang considered how the righteous factions’ resistance in the Ten Thousand Winds Sea Area was restricting Great Qin’s expansion.
• Great Qin’s Qin Coin system and its supply of essential goods drew resources from across the Eight Immortals Sea, frustrating rival factions and weakening the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect.
• Great Qin attracted Rogue Cultivators with the promise of secure lives and advancement, helping it expand until the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect’s share of the Ten Thousand Winds Sea Area fell from a third to a fifth.
• Qin Xinzhou and Qin Xinyang carried out their Lineage’s order to exterminate Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect cultivators encroaching on Great Qin’s territory, as Great Qin’s leaders kept the conflict below the level of open war.

Qin Xinyang and Qin Xinzhou led a Qin force to destroy a Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect outpost, then Qin Xinzhou discovered a mysterious crystal that seemed to carry the Two Qis of Yin and Yang. Convinced it could help the patriarch produce a powerful heir, he rushed back to Qin Island with it.

• Qin Xinyang and Qin Xinzhou discussed their search for Shi Wenlong and set out with nine cultivators for Great Stone Island Reef.
• Qin Xinyang used a formation disk to take control of the island’s protective formation and lead the attack on the outpost.
• Qin Xinyang, Qin Xinzhou, and their companions killed all six Qi Condensation cultivators stationed there.
• Qin Xinzhou found a crystal among the menial disciples’ belongings and sensed that it stirred a primal reproductive urge in him.
• Qin Xinzhou concluded that the crystal might be a valuable reproduction aid and hurried back to Qin Island to present it to the patriarch.
• Qin Xinyang trusted Qin Xinzhou’s sudden departure and told the others to escort and protect him.

Qin Lu discovered that the crystal Qin Xinzhou had brought contained the rare Yin-Yang Dual Qi Essence Transformation Fruit and began planning to use it to create a future ruler for Great Qin. He sent Qin Xiao to seek the Joyous Union Sect’s Fetus-Nurturing Technique while preparing to expand Great Qin’s influence across the Eight Immortals Sea.

• Qin Lu rewarded Qin Xinzhou with an Origin-Evolving Pill, a Law Treasure Proto-embryo, Qing Coins, and the chance to choose a holy maiden as a partner.
• Qin Lu revealed the crystal’s Yin-Yang Dual Qi Essence Transformation Fruit and explained that it could improve offspring’s aptitude.
• Qin Lu rejected Qiao Mei as the best mother for his planned heir and declared his intention to create an emperor who could uphold Great Qin.
• Qin Lu sent Qin Xiao to negotiate with Fairy Joy for the complete Fetus-Nurturing Technique and to bring Qin Xinzhou to the Joyous Union Sect for cultivation.
• Qin Lu said Xiao Wu needed time to recover from the deaths at sea and expected Mingzheng and Qin Xinzhou to help sustain the Martial Branch.
• Qin Lu planned to unite the Eight Immortals Sea, strengthen Great Qin, and wait for the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect to expose an opening.

After emerging from half a year of seclusion, Qin Lu obtained the Fetus-Nurturing Technique and began his plan to produce an exceptionally talented heir. He chose Haiyue as the mother, forced himself on her, and promised her a proper status in the Qin Clan afterward.

• Qin Lu emerged from seclusion and learned that Qin Xiao had obtained the Fetus-Nurturing Technique from Fairy Joy, who had also taken Qin Xinzhou into the Joyous Union Sect.
• Qin Lu decided Haiyue was the best candidate to bear his child and went to visit her in the Vast Sea Daoist Sanctuary.
• Qin Lu overpowered Haiyue with his Dao Principles and forced her into an intimate encounter despite her objections.
• A month later, Qin Lu concluded that their use of the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Essence Transformation Fruit would soon form an embryo he could nurture with the Fetus-Nurturing Technique.
• Qin Lu promised Haiyue the status of Qin Clan matriarch and said he and the clan would repay her favor.

Haiyue told Qin Lu about the long pregnancy and the resources their child would need, while a seed formed inside her Bright Moon Begonia body and stirred omens among the future kings. Elsewhere, Bai He and Niu Shan set out for Great Qin, and the Qin Clan’s fifth-generation youths prepared to leave school as Qin Xuanzhen stood out for his exceptional aptitude.

• Haiyue warned Qin Lu that carrying their child could take ten to thirty years and require a steady supply of spiritual items, and Qin Lu agreed to provide the resources.
• A seed formed inside Haiyue’s Bright Moon Begonia body as a powerful Dao Law marked it with a golden dragon pattern and six strands of fortune gathered around it.
• Qin Xiao and the other five future kings sensed the omen and turned their attention toward the Vast Sea Daoist Sanctuary.
• Bai He told Niu Shan he would seek help from True Person Lu to resolve the conflicting Dao Laws in his Purple Firmament Wings, and the two set off for Great Qin.
• The Qin Clan’s fifth-generation youths attended their final clan lesson before taking on adult responsibilities, and Qin Xuanzhen emerged as the generation’s most talented member.
• Qin Xuanzhen dismissed the lesson and planned to prepare for Qi Condensation.

Qin Xuanzhen reached Qi Condensation at eighteen and planned to use his new status to win freedom from clan duties and travel the Eight Immortals Sea. Meanwhile, Great Qin’s established factions plotted to contain the Newly Risen Faction while continuing the empire’s expansion.

• Qin Xuanzhen cultivated in seclusion and became the first member of the Qin Clan’s fifth generation to reach Qi Condensation before turning twenty.
• Qin Xuanzhen planned to obtain a Law Treasure Proto-embryo, travel the Eight Immortals Sea, and eventually avoid further clan oversight.
• Wang Jian and other leaders of Great Qin’s established factions gathered to discuss the Newly Risen Faction’s takeover of newly opened territory in the Ten Thousand Winds Sea Area.
• Zhang Yi argued that His Majesty had permitted factional competition and proposed using Great Qin’s laws to pressure the newcomers without openly breaking the rules.
• The established faction planned to ask His Majesty to assign members of the Newly Risen Faction to confront the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, limiting losses among their own forces while advancing Great Qin’s expansion.

Qin Xiao demanded that Bai He submit to Great Qin in exchange for help overcoming the conflict between his lightning and fire Dao Principles. Qin Lu used Nether Soul Dao Principle power and Scarlet Yang Divine Lightning to make the two Daos coexist, freeing Bai He’s wings and helping him break through to the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer.

• Qin Xiao hosted Bai He and Niu Shan in Efang Immortal Palace, where Bai He asked to meet True Person Lu.
• Bai He offered Qin Xiao a thunderbird Demon Core, but Qin Xiao insisted he join Great Qin and submit to the Qin Clan.
• Bai He accepted Qin Xiao’s terms, choosing his Dao Path over freedom, and Qin Xiao told him to return in three days.
• Qin Lu identified how Bai He’s thunderbird essence made his lightning and fire Daos conflict, then used the Nether Soul Dao Principle and Scarlet Yang Divine Lightning to help them coexist.
• Bai He gained control of his wings, merged lightning and fire into Scarlet Yang Divine Lightning, and broke through to the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer.

Bai He and Niu Shan joined Great Qin, strengthening its court and military as Qin Xiao appointed them to official roles. Meanwhile, Zhao Yi approached the ancient demons on the Island of Extreme Evil to propose a deal, but the Beast of Greed mocked him and questioned the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect’s motives.

• Qin Lu warned Bai He that he needed external aids to stabilize his lightning and fire Daos, then accepted Bai He's Thunderbird Demon Core.
• Bai He swore an oath to the great Dao, accepted Qin Xiao's restriction, and became his personal guard and envoy.
• Niu Shan pledged allegiance to Great Qin, and Qin Xiao appointed him a general whose loyalty belonged solely to the court.
• Zhao Yi went to the Island of Extreme Evil and proposed a deal to the three ancient demons.
• The Beast of Greed ridiculed Zhao Yi and suggested the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect was worried about Great Qin's rise and the weakness of its Tai disciples.

Zhao Yi negotiated with the three beasts, offering their freedom in exchange for assassinations that would cripple the Qin Clan. As Great Qin prepared to defend against the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect’s invasion, Qin Xiao ordered reinforcements and defensive deployments across the war’s three theaters.

• Zhao Yi survived the beasts’ combined attack and offered to free them if they killed members of the Qin Clan.
• The Beast of Greed reviewed Zhao Yi’s target list, which included Qin Xiao and several Qin Clan descendants, and agreed to pursue the assassinations in exchange for freedom.
• A minister reported that the Canglan Thirteen Sects had invaded the Ten Thousand Winds Sea Area across western, central, and eastern theaters.
• Qin Xiao ordered key figures and legions to reinforce the academies and theaters, recalled Qin Zhao to the capital, and sent troops and officials to defend Wind Prefecture City.

Great Qin and the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect began a new war across the Ten Thousand Winds Sea Area. Great Qin’s commanders won brutal clashes in the western and eastern war zones, leaving the conflict underway.

• Qin Xinyang spotted the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect’s advance force and withdrew his scouts after realizing their warship was bait for an ambush.
• Wang Ben and Wang Li led Spirit-Coordinating Dao Soldiers in the western war zone, overturning enemy warships and driving the righteous Dao coalition back.
• Wang Jian fought Sun Xuanqi, inheritor of the Mystic Heaven Dao, and killed him with a flaming spear attack aided by Wang Ben and Wang Li.
• Bai Qi killed two cultivators in the eastern war zone and then killed Tang Ronghao, who had hoped to avoid risking his life in battle.

Great Qin won its first clash in the eastern war zone, but the fighting spread to the central war zone, where Wu Yan stayed behind to cover Fairy Lanxiao’s retreat. He died fighting Daoist Luanqi and a Metal Dao cultivator, after severely wounding the latter.

• Bai Qi led Great Qin’s generals to annihilate all eighteen righteous Qi Condensation cultivators in the eastern war zone, though six Great Qin generals also died.
• Yunxiaozi, Fairy Lanxiao, and Wu Yan fought three Dao Foundation cultivators from the Canglan Thirteen Sects in the central war zone.
• When the Great Qin cultivators began to retreat, Daoist Luanqi ambushed Wu Yan, destroying his left arm and right eye.
• Wu Yan burned through his Dao Law to bind Daoist Luanqi and the Metal Dao cultivator, then sent Fairy Lanxiao away and asked her to look after his descendants.
• Wu Yan shared his final attack’s damage with the Metal Dao cultivator, but Daoist Luanqi’s golden light killed him and space tore apart his body.

Yunxiaozi sacrificed himself to destroy much of the battlefield, but Bai He arrived and killed the wounded Metal Dao cultivator and the two cultivators of wind and lightning, while Daoist Luanqi escaped. At Refining Island, the Beast of Wrath isolated the Hundred Refinements Dao Academy and began hunting Qin Mingzheng.

• Yunxiaozi self-destructed, killing nearly seventy percent of the cultivators on the battlefield and gravely wounding the two cultivators of wind and lightning.
• Bai He arrived and destroyed the Metal Dao cultivator, seizing his remnant soul before Daoist Luanqi could save it.
• Bai He fought Daoist Luanqi, then defeated the two wind and lightning cultivators who joined the battle; Daoist Luanqi escaped into the void.
• The Beast of Wrath used the front-line chaos to isolate Refining Island and target the Hundred Refinements Dao Academy and Qin Mingzheng.
• The Beast of Wrath revealed his enormous true form and began his hunt, feeding on the fear and wrathful thoughts of humans.

The Beast of Wrath attacked Refining Island, but Great Qin’s defenses and Lei Kun forced him to flee. On Pill Island, the Beast of Delusion also withdrew after receiving a message, leaving Qin Hui and Flower Princess to wonder whether the enemy’s plan had failed.

• Xie Yongnian and Patriarch Lu Ming activated Refining Island’s grand array to confront the Beast of Wrath.
• Qin Mingzheng and six Artifact Refiners awakened the Lei Kun puppet and fired its Lightning Horn, burning the Beast of Wrath with Gui Water Divine Lightning.
• The Beast of Wrath recognized the danger and fled, while Lu Ming and Xie Yongnian prepared to alert Great Qin and discussed the threat of an early war.
• The Beast of Delusion received a message from the Beast of Greed and withdrew from Pill Island before attacking.
• Qin Hui and Bi stood together on Pill Island as Flower Princess arrived; she said their enemy’s plan had failed and joked about eating ancient demon meat.

Qing Centipede stopped the Beast of Greed’s planned attack on Qin Emperor Island, and the beast’s attempt to recruit him failed because Qing Centipede’s fear and loyalty to Qin Lu overcame his greed. After learning that the attacks on Great Qin had failed, Qin Lu sent his seven subordinates to hunt the three beasts.

• Qing Centipede confronted the Beast of Greed at sea and mocked him for attacking alone after the Beast of Wrath’s assault on Refining Island had failed.
• The Beast of Greed offered to help Qing Centipede kill Qin Lu and Haiyue, free the Eight Immortals Sea, and rule alongside him.
• Qing Centipede broke free of the Beast of Greed’s ability, pursued him briefly, then cut away the memory of his lingering desire to become a king.
• Qin Lu sensed the failed attacks through the Soul-Returning Gourd and decided Great Qin would strike back.
• Qin Lu summoned Heaven Burial and ordered his seven subordinates, strengthened by the Seven Emotions Cult’s Secret Method, to hunt Greed, Wrath, and Delusion.

Qin Lu sent the Seven Emotions Ghost Generals and three ghost kings to war against the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, deciding that destroying the enemy was the best way to secure his child’s future. Zhao Yi then received reports of repeated defeats as Great Qin launched a full-scale invasion of the Supreme Mystery Sea Region.

• Qin Lu deployed the Seven Emotions Ghost Generals alongside Soul Frost, Ghost Fire, and Nether Thunder, beginning the war against the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect.
• Zhao Yi assessed the losses on both sides and pinned his hopes on the three ancient beasts, Greed, Anger, and Delusion.
• Shi Zhong read a message reporting that the beasts had been thwarted by Great Qin’s forces and had withdrawn wounded to recover.
• Zhao Yi received reports that Great Qin’s attacks had broken the eastern and central fronts, killing leaders and destroying the Golden Light Sect.
• The Great Qin First Fleet broke through the western blockade, and Great Qin’s armies invaded the Supreme Mystery Sea Region.
• Zhao Yi learned that the Supreme Mystery front line had collapsed and the Supreme Unity Dao had been wiped out.

True Person Taixuan ordered the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect to mobilize the righteous forces and rebuild its defenses as Great Qin advanced on multiple fronts. In the eastern war zone, Great Qin assembled its forces and the Ghost Fire Ghost King ordered them to raze the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect.

• True Person Taixuan told Zhao Yi that their allies were unreliable and that they had to stake everything on fighting Great Qin.
• True Person Taixuan ordered the sects to retreat, form new defensive lines, and mobilize the remaining eleven sects and other righteous forces.
• Zhao Yi destroyed independent sects that refused to join the war, killing their ancestors and sending their disciples to the front lines as battle thralls.
• Great Qin’s forces gathered in the eastern war zone under the Ghost Fire Ghost King, with eleven Dao Foundation cultivators, fleets, sea demons, and Feather Race troops.
• The Ghost Fire Ghost King drew the Crimson Flame Gilded Gold Sword and ordered his army to raze the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect.

Great Qin’s military and institutional strength allowed it to break Grand Subtlety Island’s defenses and overwhelm Grand Subtlety Dao. Its forces invaded the island and carried out mass killings and the capture of female cultivators, while the battle continued.

• Great Qin bombarded Grand Subtlety Island for hours until its island-protecting formation shattered.
• Grand Subtlety Dao’s three Dao Foundation patriarchs and other defenders emerged to face Great Qin’s fleet, Feather Race army, and eleven Dao Foundation cultivators.
• Great Qin’s hundred Spirit-Bearing Dao Soldiers routed the defenders at sea, destroying their warships and killing many cultivators.
• Great Qin’s soldiers landed on Grand Subtlety Island, killing male cultivators and killing or capturing female cultivators for the Warm Fragrance Pavilion.
• Great Qin’s soldiers tested captured women’s aptitude, seeking those who could be sold to the Warm Fragrance Pavilion.

Great Qin’s forces killed the remaining Grand Subtlety Dao ancestors, including Daoist Grand Subtlety, before Daoist Mystic Rock arrived to avenge the fallen sects. His clash with the Ghost Fire Ghost King began as more righteous-path leaders joined the battle.

• The Ghost Fire Ghost King devoured one Grand Subtlety Dao ancestor, and Marquis Vast Sea, Marquis Dragon Flame, and Marquis Great Expansion killed another.
• Daoist Grand Subtlety used the Macrocosmic Dao Art to attack Ancestor Lu Ming, but the gathered cultivators tore apart his body and the Ghost Fire Ghost King devoured his soul.
• Daoist Mystic Rock arrived and lamented that the Grand Subtlety Dao, the Supreme Unity Dao, and the Golden Light Sect had been destroyed.
• The Ghost Fire Ghost King confronted Daoist Mystic Rock, and ten more righteous-path ancestors and sect leaders arrived.
• Daoist Mystic Rock and the Ghost Fire Ghost King exchanged powerful attacks, beginning another great Dao Foundation melee.