Chapter Summaries

The Ghost Fire Ghost King defeated Daoist Mystic Rock after exploiting his Nether Flame’s advantage against flesh, while four allied Dao Foundation cultivators switched sides and helped trap him. Great Qin’s victory shattered the eastern front, prompting nearby righteous-path sects to surrender and the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect to lose its southeastern territory.

• The Ghost Fire Ghost King and Daoist Mystic Rock fought to a standstill with their Dao Principles before turning to close combat.
• The Ghost Fire Ghost King’s Nether Flame scorched Daoist Mystic Rock’s body, leaving him unable to escape the close-range fight.
• Four righteous-path Dao Foundation cultivators turned against Daoist Mystic Rock and joined the Ghost Fire Ghost King, Patriarch Lu Ming, and Xie Yongnian in trapping him inside a Four Symbols Dao Principles furnace.
• Daoist Mystic Rock was refined to death, and the Ghost Fire Ghost King devoured his remnant soul; the remaining eastern-front cultivators either died, fled, or submitted.
• Great Qin accepted the defectors and promised rewards for their service, prompting nearby righteous-path sects to surrender and some Dao Foundation factions to kill Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect members as proof of allegiance.
• The Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect lost all territory in the southeastern part of the Supreme Mystery Sea Region.

Zhao Yi assembled the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect’s forces on Wind and Thunder Island as Great Qin’s fleets and allies approached for a decisive battle. Qin Lu watched from above the clouds, confident that Great Qin had support and a hidden advantage.

• The Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect sent fifteen elders to halt the eastern front’s retreat, exhausting much of its reserves.
• Zhao Yi gathered nearly thirty Dao Foundation cultivators and the demons Greed, Anger, and Delusion on Wind and Thunder Island, promising rewards for victory.
• Great Qin’s First and Second Fleets advanced toward Wind and Thunder Island with a large force of Dao Foundation cultivators and spirit beasts.
• Great Qin’s assembled forces included the Soul Frost Ghost King, Qing Centipede, imperial cultivators, academy ancestors, and the Snow Crab mechanical puppet beast.
• Qin Lu watched from a cloud throne with Qin Wen, Flower Princess, and the Seven Wondrous Fairies, hinting that Great Qin had allies and a concealed advantage.

Great Qin’s fleet advanced beneath a mobile formation while its leaders and Dao Foundation cultivators fought the righteous Dao forces in a sprawling battle. As the fighting intensified, the Seven Wondrous Fairies, Qin Wen, and Flower Princess joined the melee on orders to strike the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect.

• Great Qin’s battleships linked their formations into a mobile defensive barrier as the fleet prepared to advance.
• The Beast of Greed fought Azure Emperor’s Qing Centipede, the Beast of Wrath battled the Soul Frost Ghost King, and the Beast of Delusion clashed evenly with Envoy Bai He.
• Righteous Dao and Great Qin Dao Foundation cultivators joined the battle, where Niu Shan charged through enemy ranks and Qin Hui transformed into a cyan wooden dragon.
• Qin Zhuang combined his power with the Forest Peak Giant Deer’s to kill a Dao Foundation cultivator, and Qin Zhao arrived on a black flood dragon to defend him from further attacks.
• The Seven Wondrous Fairies, Qin Wen, and Flower Princess followed orders to flank the melee and strike the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect.

Qin Wen's Forbidden Magic Decree wounded Daoist Luanqi, who decided to abandon the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect and began evacuating Mystic Heaven Dao's people. As the battle turned against Zhao Yi, the three beasts fused into a Core Formation Shura, and Qin Lu moved to stop its fatal blow against the Qing Centipede while Zhao Yi sprang his ambush.

• Qin Wen used Forbidden Magic Decree to suppress and injure Daoist Luanqi, who escaped and concluded that Great Qin offered a better chance of victory.
• Daoist Luanqi withdrew Mystic Heaven Dao's cultivators from the battlefield and went to save people instead of continuing to fight.
• Zhao Yi held back under Qin Lu's watch and urged the three beasts of Greed, Anger, and Delusion to attack so he could strike Qin Lu during an opening.
• The three beasts joined together as a three-headed, six-armed Shura and blasted the Qing Centipede apart with one punch.
• As the Shura prepared to kill the Qing Centipede, Qin Lu intervened, while Zhao Yi appeared beside him with a Dao Law attack.
• Qin Lu struck Zhao Yi with a spiritual soul assault as a faceless ghost blocked the Shura's fist with a powerful blow.

Qin Lu badly injured Zhao Yi in their Core Formation clash, while Shura and Seven Emotions Ghost began a brutal fight of their own. As the battlefield’s other cultivators held back, Zhao Yi recovered enough to stop fleeing and prepare to fight Qin Lu to the death.

• Qin Lu endured the clash with Zhao Yi and reconstructed his shattered organs, while the impact on Zhao Yi’s soul left him nearly mindless and fleeing.
• Shura recognized the faceless ghost as one of the seven Dao Foundation ghost generals, and Seven Emotions Ghost taunted him before they began a fierce battle.
• The Core Formation fighters’ battle forced both sides’ Dao Foundation cultivators to move away and conserve their strength until a victor emerged.
• Fairy Joy and Haiyue blocked True Person Taixuan from supporting the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, while Haiyue watched three other Core Formation True Persons for signs of their decision.
• Zhao Yi’s mind partially recovered as Qin Lu pursued him, but fearing his sea of Divine Sense would collapse, Zhao Yi stopped fleeing and prepared to fight to the death.

Qin Lu confronted Zhao Yi over the sea, where Zhao Yi accepted responsibility for his past and fought to the death. Qin Lu destroyed Zhao Yi’s treasures and killed him, leaving the Primordial Unity Dao to fade beneath a sorrowful rain.

• Qin Lu mocked Zhao Yi for stopping his escape, and Zhao Yi calmly admitted that his past choices had brought him to this fight.
• Qin Lu manifested the Nether Soul Great Dao and attacked with Sword Intent, while Zhao Yi used the Primordial Unity Pagoda to suppress the surrounding Dao principles.
• Qin Lu relied on his powerful body to break Zhao Yi’s protective treasures and force him to recall the Primordial Unity Pagoda.
• Qin Lu unleashed Extreme Dao: Heaven Cleaving, cracking Zhao Yi’s pagoda and dispersing Zhao Yi’s body and Divine Sense.
• Qin Lu bowed farewell as Zhao Yi died, and a sunshower fell while the Primordial Unity Dao vanished.

Jianxuan, Sha Spirit, and Myriad Dharma agreed to join Great Qin in destroying the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect to end the turmoil in the Eight Immortals Sea. Qin Lu accepted a peace agreement after True Person Taixuan and his sect were annihilated, dividing the sea between the two sides.

• Jianxuan persuaded Sha Spirit and Myriad Dharma to join Great Qin against the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, arguing that ending the infighting would help the overseas human race.
• Jianxuan, Myriad Dharma, and Sha Spirit arrived at the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect, where True Person Taixuan recognized that his death was certain.
• Qin Lu arrived, and True Person Taixuan attacked with his lifebound treasure before all six Golden Cores joined forces to kill him and destroy the sect and its island.
• Jianxuan claimed the Mystic Heaven Jade Tablet, and Qin Lu agreed to divide the Supreme Mystery Sea Region from the rest of the Eight Immortals Sea.
• The Taixuan turmoil ended with Great Qin victorious and its reputation spreading across the Eight Immortals Sea.

A month after the battle, Qin Lu chose to consolidate Great Qin’s gains rather than pursue the Mystic Sword Sect, and he began preparing for the Sha Spirit Sect’s eventual decline. He directed the Qin Clan to expand its strength and currency influence while asking Huang Liang to develop a Fourth-Tier teleportation array.

• Qin Lu gave the Great Void Fish Drum to Qing Centipede, whose injuries from the battle had healed, and noted that the three beasts of greed, anger, and delusion were still missing.
• Qin Zhuang urged Qin Lu to march north against the Mystic Sword Sect for taking the Supreme Mystery Jade Tablet, but Qin Lu refused to risk further conflict while Haiyue was unwell.
• Qin Xiao inferred that Qin Lu planned to wait for Sha Spirit True Person to die and then take advantage of the Sha Spirit Sect’s weakened inheritance.
• Qin Lu ordered the clan to prioritize its members, increase stipends, strengthen marriage ties, triple the clan’s population within thirty years, and help the younger generation advance.
• Qin Lu tasked Qin Zhao with making Qin Coins the standard currency across the Eight Immortals Sea and warned him to prepare for a currency war with the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Qin Lu gave Huang Liang Great Void Rock and offered him the Earth Treasury Dao’s inheritance and resources if he could build a Fourth-Tier teleportation array.

Qin Lu used the Soul Wood Great Dao to seize control of Zha Delei, remake him as a puppet, and learn how the Northern Continent had changed. He returned to his original body after confirming that the humans were near defeat and that the old formation in his homeland could be restored.

• Qin Lu transferred his consciousness a million li through a node in the Soul Wood Dao Principles and took control of Zha Delei’s body.
• Qin Lu destroyed Zha Delei’s sentience, turned him into a puppet, and examined his memories of the Frost Spirit Demon Domain.
• Qin Lu learned that Zha Delei had kept more than ten million humans and many half-demons alive as slaves and servants in Basikadun.
• Qin Lu studied a map showing that the demon races had conquered two-thirds of the Northern Continent, while the surviving humans held Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City under True Lord Poyuan.
• Qin Lu inspected his former homeland, found that its formation and infrastructure remained intact, and concluded that the formation could be used again after repairs.
• Qin Lu returned to his original body and decided to wait for the right moment rather than act in haste.

Great Qin established a unified calendar and entered an era of peace and prosperity, while Qin Minghan rose to become its second king. In Year 5, Qing Centipede survived the Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation and transformed into a near-true dragon.

• Great Qin expanded its territory, reorganized Dao academies, and declared its peaceful founding year the first year of the Great Qin Calendar.
• In Year 3, Qin Minghan comprehended King Wood Dao Principles, reached the Dao Foundation Realm, and announced he would expound the Dao.
• Three months later, Qin Minghan ascended the throne as Qin Wang, and the Tai'e Sword reforged itself as his sword and the Qin kings' heirloom.
• Qin Minghan took charge of external affairs while Qin Mingyi handled internal affairs, and the Qin Clan continued training its descendants under strict standards.
• In Year 5, Qing Centipede faced the Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation as dragon clans and insects gathered their strength to support it.
• Qing Centipede endured the final three-colored lightning strike and emerged as an azure, three-clawed dragon with only traces of its centipede origins in its eyes.

Qing Centipede formed a Dragon Core, became the Azure Frost Dragon King, and brought the flood dragons and much of the Eight Immortals Sea under Great Qin’s influence. As Great Qin expanded, the Mystic Sword Sect lost its Core Formation candidate to a lightning tribulation, while the Myriad Dharma Sect gained a second Core Formation expert and Great Qin appointed eighteen new marquises.

• Qing Centipede formed a Dragon Core, broke through to the Demon King realm, and proclaimed itself the Azure Frost Dragon King and Azure Emperor.
• Three flood dragons broke through under Qing Centipede’s Dragon Qi, while the Ink Flood Dragon submitted to Great Qin and later became Qin Minghan’s Natal Spirit Beast.
• Many factions, including most of the Sha Spirit Sect’s vassals, submitted to Great Qin, which expanded from five sea areas to six.
• The Mystic Sword Sect’s sect master died to the final bolt of a Three-Color Lightning Tribulation, and the sect surrendered the Supreme Mystery Jade Tablet to Myriad Dharma True Person.
• Mo Chuan, titled Hundred Skills True Person, became the Myriad Dharma Sect’s second Core Formation True Person.
• In the eighth year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Minghan appointed eighteen new marquises, and Wu Qi succeeded Marquis Wu after breaking through to Dao Foundation.

The Qin Clan named its seven most promising fifth-generation disciples the Seven Heroes of Dao Xuan while Great Qin advanced its artifact-refinement path. Qin Mingyuan absorbed the Ten Fiends Chaotic Pupils, reached the Dao Foundation Realm, and astonished Qin Wen by seeing phantoms of the Great Dao.

• The Qin Clan recognized seven outstanding fifth-generation disciples, including Qin Xuanzhen, Qin Xuanyu, Qin Xuanhai, Qin Xuanfeng, and Qin Xuanze, as the Seven Heroes of Dao Xuan and committed resources to their growth.
• Gongsun Jian comprehended a Dao Law at the Hundred Refinements Dao Academy, completing Great Qin's path of artifact refinement.
• Qin Mingzheng later comprehended the Molten Metal Dao Law, and Jin Yan pledged allegiance to Great Qin, joining them as a cornerstone of its artifact-refinement path.
• Qin Mingzheng developed the Qin-01 Model General-Purpose Puppet, which could replenish its Spiritual Power at a specially crafted base station and serve many practical roles.
• Qin Mingyuan absorbed the Ten Fiends Chaotic Pupils with Qin Wen's method, gained their abilities, and formed the Rosy Cloud Dao Foundation.
• Qin Mingyuan told Qin Wen he could see the phantoms of the Great Dao, startling his fourth uncle.

Qin Mingle taught music to female cultivators and a half-demon, while Qin Zhuang and Qin Hui discussed drawing the Three Qing Great Void Swallow clan into Great Qin. Qin Mingyi began refining Boundless City as his treasure after comprehending the Dao Principle of Protection.

• Qin Mingle taught a group of female cultivators music, then began teaching a half-demon who wanted to play for her mother and people.
• Qin Zhuang and Qin Hui watched Qin Mingle and discussed loosening the Three Qing Great Void Swallow clan’s bonds to bring them into Great Qin.
• Qin Zhuang explained that the clan’s spatial abilities could provide materials for Great Qin’s teleportation arrays and that Qin Minghan planned to expand into the Ancient Bone Sea Area.
• Qin Hui agreed to build ties with the clan and suggested giving Qin Mingle and the half-demon more resources.
• Qin Mingyi infused his Essence Blood into Boundless City to refine it as his treasure, matching his newly comprehended Dao Principle of Protection.

Qin Mingyi felt the strain of leading the Qin Clan while considering taking the determined Qin Xuanzi under his wing. Great Qin conquered the Ancient Bone Sea Area and transformed it into the Dragon-Nurturing Sea, where it established a pool that could breed flood dragons for the dynasty.

• Qin Xiao ordered Fortune Bitter Fruit to be sent to Qin Mingyi when it ripened, and Qin Xuanzi resolved to improve himself through hard work and study.
• Qin Mingyi noticed Qin Xuanzi's determination and considered nurturing him as a future aide, though he felt exhausted by the burden of leading the Qin Clan.
• In the fifteenth year of the Great Qin calendar, Great Qin launched its third and fourth third-tier warships, formed two fleets, and appointed Wang Jian and Meng Wu as commanders-in-chief after their breakthroughs to Dao Foundation.
• Great Qin's three fleets and the Lei Kun puppet beast conquered the Ancient Bone Sea Area after more than half a year of campaigns.
• Great Qin set the conquered waters apart as the Dragon-Nurturing Sea, where five flood dragons reshaped the seabed and Qingming established a spirit spring atop a spirit mountain.
• Qing Centipede and the five flood dragons infused the spring with Dragon Qi and their blood, transforming the former Insect-Nurturing Pool into the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, a source of future flood dragons for Great Qin.

The Dragon-Nurturing Sea flourished under Great Qin, and a search party killed the three beasts of greed, wrath, and delusion, turning their remains into weapons, armor, pills, and war machines. Great Qin also gained new Dao Foundation officials and established the Xi Mountain Li Clan, while the Chu Clan continued to decline.

• The reborn Dragon-Nurturing Sea gained the Azure Black Dragon Fish, and five flood-dragon bloodlines established a demon domain under Great Qin.
• Net uncovered the whereabouts of the three beasts of greed, wrath, and delusion, and a search party led by Emissary Bai He tracked them down.
• The Seven Emotions Ghost gravely wounded the three beasts before the search party killed them, and he devoured their Dao principles and souls.
• Great Qin sent the beasts' remains to its academies and workshops, producing pills, Law Treasures, a mechanical puppet beast, a warship, and the Dawnbreak Divine Bow.
• Li Shan broke through to Dao Foundation, entered court, and established the fourth-grade Xi Mountain Li Clan with his son Li Ping'an as its first head.
• Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Shang Yang attained Dao Foundation, while the Chu Clan's fortunes continued to fade.

Great Qin used the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce and Qin Coin to extend its influence across the Eight Immortals Sea and weaken rival factions. Years later, Qin Lu became a Rank-4 Alchemist and prepared to advance to the Golden Core Middle Stage, but he lacked a method for forming a Nascent Soul.

• Great Qin integrated Devil Cultivators into its laws and institutions, leaving Rogue Cultivators and Evil Cultivators with little room to operate within its territory.
• By the twenty-third year of Great Qin, the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce had spread across the nation and promoted Qin Coin, gathering Spirit Stones and expanding its control over trade.
• The Qin Coin weakened rival factions: the Myriad Dharma Sect's currency remained limited, the Mystic Sword Sect's territory shifted toward Qin Coin, and the Sha Spirit Sect neared collapse.
• Qin Zhao used wealth and Great Qin's power to recruit secret contacts inside major Golden Core factions, preparing to undermine them before a future unification.
• In the twenty-seventh year of Great Qin, Qin Lu refined his first Fourth-Tier spiritual pill and became a Rank-4 Alchemist.
• Qin Lu planned to use the pill to reach the Golden Core Middle Stage, but wondered where to find a method to shatter his Core and form a Nascent Soul.

Qin Lu developed a Seven Emotions Soul Poison and considered cultivating a third Dao Principle before entering seclusion with a fourth-grade spirit pill. Years later, Bai Qi became a Dao Foundation cultivator and was rewarded with a marquisate after enforcing Great Qin’s laws.

• Qin Lu devised a soul poison that used the seven emotions and Dao Principles to exhaust its victim’s soul, though he was still experimenting with it.
• Qin Lu reasoned that his Mystic Soul Dao Body might allow him to cultivate a third Dao Principle and entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• By the twenty-ninth year of the Great Qin calendar, the Hundred Refinements Dao Sect had expanded, and Great Qin launched its fifth and sixth Third-Tier warships as new fleets.
• Bai Qi broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm, took command of the Fourth Fleet, and executed a marquis and thousands of others for colluding with the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Minghan made Bai Qi Marquis of Martial Peace, while the case warned Great Qin’s nobles that its laws applied even to those with merit.

Qin Zheng was born amid extraordinary celestial signs, and Qin Lu proclaimed war on the Sha Spirit Sect, Mystic Sword Sect, and Myriad Dharma Sect. As Great Qin’s armies advanced, Fairy Joy abandoned her alliance with Qin Lu, and Mystic Sword True Person planned to kill Qin Lu and Qin Zheng.

• Qin Zheng was born with an innate spirit physique as celestial phenomena filled the sky, and Qin Lu named him his seventh son and the empire’s future ruler.
• Qin Lu ordered Great Qin to wage war on the Sha Spirit Sect, Mystic Sword Sect, and Myriad Dharma Sect, and Great Qin’s forces set out for the western sea.
• Great Qin’s army reached Sha Spirit Sect territory and began a bloody assault while Qing Centipede and Haiyue blocked Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person from intervening.
• Mystic Sword True Person urged Fairy Joy to turn against Great Qin, and Fairy Joy stepped aside to let him pass.
• Mystic Sword True Person proposed that Fairy Joy kill Qin Zheng while he killed Qin Lu, hoping to destroy Great Qin.

Fairy Joy agreed to join Mystic Sword True Person in attacking Qin Lu, while Great Qin prepared a defensive formation on Qin Island. Qin Lu led Great Qin’s forces into the Sha Spirit Sea Region, where Sha Spirit True Person refused to submit and was killed; the Sha Spirit Sect’s fate remained unresolved.

• Fairy Joy agreed to help Mystic Sword True Person attack Qin Lu in exchange for dividing Great Qin’s territory, while a Mystic Sword Sect elder secretly alerted Qin Zhao.
• Qin Zhao and Qin Xiao mobilized Great Qin’s forces, and Huang Liang led thirty-six Dao Foundation cultivators in forming a grand defensive formation around Qin Island.
• Great Qin’s fleet entered the Sha Spirit Sea Region with local forces and Sha Spirit Sect elders joining or welcoming them onto Sha Spirit Island.
• Qin Lu confronted Sha Spirit True Person and offered him submission or death, but Sha Spirit True Person refused and drew the Nether Sha Sword.
• Qin Lu, the Soul Frost Ghost King, and the Seven Emotions Ghost King overwhelmed Sha Spirit True Person, and Qin Lu beheaded him.

Qin Lu received Sha Spirit True Person’s final message, treasures, and request to spare the Sha Spirit Sect’s disciples, then used the Nether Sha Sword, God Devouring, to confront Mystic Sword True Person. Their battle devastated Sha Spirit Island, while Great Qin’s formation protected its fleet and captured the surviving sect members.

• Qin Lu activated Sha Spirit True Person’s jade tablet and learned that Sha Spirit had chosen to die to support Great Qin’s unification of the Eight Immortals Sea, asking Qin Lu to spare his disciples and their descendants.
• Qin Lu took Sha Spirit True Person’s treasures, including the Fourth-Tier Nether Sha Sword, God Devouring, and sensed that it had begun forming an artifact spirit.
• Qin Lu attacked Mystic Sword True Person with God Devouring, and their sword strikes collided with enough force to split the sky and destroy a nearby island.
• Mystic Sword True Person tried to flee, but the Soul Frost Ghost King and Qin Lu trapped him and forced him to fight.
• Mystic Sword True Person unleashed a storm of enormous swords that destroyed Sha Spirit Island, while Great Qin’s fleet formation shielded its ships and helped preserve some Sha Spirit Sect disciples and elders.
• The surviving Sha Spirit Sect members surrendered to Great Qin’s soldiers as the Golden Core battle continued beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators.