Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu destroyed Mystic Sword True Person with borrowed Soul Dao power, but Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person seized bodies and attacked him. As Qin Lu recovered and summoned a third Dao Principle, his enemies’ emotions stirred under its influence.

• Mystic Sword True Person unleashed his full-strength sword strike, but Qin Lu borrowed a wisp of the Soul Dao’s power and dissolved the heavenly sword, wiping out Mystic Sword True Person’s soul.
• True Person Guiling possessed Mystic Sword True Person’s body, while Seven Emotions True Person took over Sha Spirit True Person’s remains and demanded to know whether Qin Lu had destroyed his cult.
• Seven Emotions True Person tried to manipulate Qin Lu into revealing how he borrowed Dao power, but Seven Emotions Ghost King broke the suggestion.
• Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person attacked Qin Lu, who used Soul Wood and Nether Soul Dao Principles to recover Spiritual Power as his Ghost Kings held the attackers back.
• Qin Lu summoned a third Dao Principle, whose influence stirred anger in Guiling and malice in Seven Emotions True Person.

Qin Lu overwhelmed True Person Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person by unleashing his three Dao principles and exploiting the Soul Poison Dao Principle. He devoured Guiling and turned to Seven Emotions True Person, who had also fallen into madness.

• True Person Guiling and Seven Emotions True Person struggled against Qin Lu, Soul Frost Ghost King, and Seven Emotions Ghost King as their attacks failed to overcome Qin Lu's recovery and soul defenses.
• True Person Guiling urged Seven Emotions True Person to fight to the death, while the Soul Poison Dao Principle drove both cultivators' anger and desires to extremes.
• Qin Lu manifested the Nether Soul Dao Principle's Ghost Emperor form and used his Soul Wood Dao Principle to withstand their assaults while the two Ghost Kings assisted him.
• Qin Lu unleashed the Nether Soul, Soul Wood, and Soul Poison Dao principles together, then seized True Person Guiling and pulled his soul from Mystic Sword True Person's body.
• Qin Lu swallowed True Person Guiling's soul bite by bite, then turned toward the maddened Seven Emotions True Person and began to devour him as well.

Qin Lu killed Sha Spirit True Person, Mystic Sword True Person, Guiling, and Seven Emotions True Person, then returned to Qin Island through a hidden teleportation formation. He appeared before Fairy Joy as she attacked the island, leaving her shocked and pleading to talk.

• Qin Lu took the Mystic True Sword from Mystic Sword True Person's corpse and declared that he would deal with Fairy Joy before destroying the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Qin Lu vanished after recalling his ghostly creatures, while the Great Qin fleet celebrated his defeat of four Golden Core cultivators.
• Fairy Joy and more than twenty Joyous Union Sect Dao Foundation elders attacked Qin Island, but Great Qin's forces suppressed infiltrators and most vassals refused to join the rebellion.
• Fairy Joy recalled that she and Seven Emotions True Person had planned to seize Guiling's treasure and unite their sects, but Qin Lu's power and Great Qin's preparations had ruined their scheme.
• Qin Lu used a Third-Tier teleportation formation to return to Qin Island and appeared before Fairy Joy, who asked to negotiate.
• Qin Lu dismissed Fairy Joy's claim that it was a misunderstanding and prepared to attack her.

Qin Lu defeated Fairy Joy and consumed her soul, then forced the Joyous Union Sect’s Dao Foundation cultivators to submit to Great Qin. A painter named Bai Yan recorded the surrender and attained Dao Foundation as a result.

• Fairy Joy filled Qin Island with spiritual mist and used her treasures and Dao Principles to conceal herself, but Qin Lu’s Soul Wood located her.
• Qin Lu struck Fairy Joy with a Soul Drill, then followed with a massive sword slash that damaged her umbrella and injured her.
• Fairy Joy tried to escape through the Great Dao, but Qin Lu dragged her out, incapacitated her, extracted her soul, and swallowed it as a soul pill.
• Qin Lu demanded submission, and the Joyous Union Sect’s Dao Foundation cultivators kowtowed and pledged themselves as slaves to Great Qin.
• Bai Yan recorded the surrender in a painting, attained Dao Foundation through his inspiration, and later joined the imperial court.

Qin Lu mobilized Great Qin to destroy the remaining powers resisting unification of the Eight Immortals Sea, while sects and cultivators across the region chose sides. As Great Qin’s forces closed in on the Myriad Dharma Sect, Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person faced the prospect of defeat with no safe place to flee.

• Qin Lu merged the Joyous Union Sect into the Jade Talisman Dao Academy, rewarded Qin Xinzhou, and ordered Great Qin’s fleets and allies to attack the Mystic Sword Sect and Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Unaffiliated powers and cultivators joined Great Qin, while Daoist Luanqi led the Mystic Heaven Dao into the war and many Mystic Sword Sect members defected.
• Great Qin’s forces destroyed the Mystic Sword Sect and its subordinate powers before the Fifth and Sixth Fleets headed for the Myriad Dharma Sea Area.
• Trapped on Dharma-Seeking Island by Qing Centipede and Haiyue, Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person learned that their southern territories had fallen and Great Qin’s army was approaching.
• Myriad Dharma True Person told Hundred Skills True Person to flee with the core disciples while he held off the Demon Kings, but Hundred Skills True Person said there was nowhere for the Myriad Dharma Sect to escape.

Myriad Dharma True Person ordered willing disciples to defend the sect and let the others leave, while Great Qin assembled to besiege Dharma-Seeking Island. As the battle devastated the island, Qin Lu confronted Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person with five Core Formation experts at his side and offered them a final choice.

• Myriad Dharma True Person ordered the sect’s resources distributed to disciples who would fight and expelled those who wished to flee, asking Great Qin to spare them.
• Great Qin allowed the expelled disciples to escape and surrounded Dharma-Seeking Island with its assembled forces.
• After several days, Great Qin and Myriad Dharma Sect fought across the sea, sky, and island as Great Qin’s forces overwhelmed the defenders.
• Qin Xiao raised the Ghost King Seal, Earth Burial, to sacrifice Myriad Dharma Sect and refine the treasure into a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure for Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu faced Myriad Dharma True Person and Hundred Skills True Person alongside Demon King Cangyue, Haiyue, Qing Centipede, Soul Frost Ghost King, and Seven Emotions Ghost King.
• Qin Lu demanded that the two elders choose between dying with dignity and letting him kill them, promising to spare the Myriad Dharma lineage if they accepted his terms.

Great Qin ended the Myriad Dharma Sect’s resistance after Hundred Skills True Person and Myriad Dharma True Person chose death to preserve the sect’s legacy. The Eight Immortals Sea was unified under Great Qin, and the newborn Qin Zheng advanced into True Martial.

• Hundred Skills True Person killed himself, and Qin Lu placed his body in a coffin with a wooden head fashioned from Soul Wood Dao Principles.
• Myriad Dharma True Person dispersed his cultivation, entrusted Qin Lu with historical records and the Treasures of the Eight Immortals, and passed away.
• The Myriad Dharma Sect’s leaders died, while its surviving disciples submitted to Great Qin and later joined the Myriad Dharma Dao Academy.
• Great Qin unified the Eight Immortals Sea, and Qin Wen later compiled its past into historical records.
• Qin Zheng laughed as a mysterious blessing of providence descended, and he stepped into True Martial.

Three months after Great Qin unified the Eight Immortals Sea, Qin Lu arranged protection and cultivation resources for his infant son, Qin Zheng, whose rare emperor Dao body promised extraordinary potential. The chapter left Qin Zheng surrounded by safeguards and a carefully prepared path toward future greatness.

• Three months after unification, Qin Lu appointed Gai Nie as Qin Zheng’s guard and sword Dao teacher, and Gai Nie vowed lifelong loyalty to the child.
• Qin Lu transferred Flower Princess’s contract to Qin Zheng and charged her with protecting and guiding him throughout his life.
• Qin Lu prepared a powerful dragon egg as Qin Zheng’s natal spirit beast and established the Hidden Dragon Dao Field for his future cultivation.
• Qin Mingzheng refined a Law Treasure Proto-embryo for Qin Zheng, while Qiao Mei and other talisman masters made a Fourth-Tier protective talisman that was placed inside him.
• Qin Lu identified Qin Zheng’s innate spirit physique as the emperor Dao body, noting its affinity for Kingly Qi and its still-unclear abilities.

After Great Qin unified the Eight Immortals Sea, Qin Lu entered seclusion to absorb his gains and refine his treasures while the Qin Clan strengthened its rule. The sea regions were reorganized into eight great seas and a new provincial system, leaving Great Qin entering a period of consolidation.

• Qin Lu entered seclusion to absorb the souls of three Core Formation True Persons and refine the Nether Sha Sword: God Devouring and Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial.
• Qin Lu established five Spirit Gathering Great Formations to nourish the Treasures of the Eight Immortals and stabilize the Eight Seas Grand Array.
• Haiyue tended Qin Zheng, guided Flower Princess and Bi, and worked with them to awaken the intelligence of Spirit Plants at the Hidden Dragon Dao Field.
• Qin Xuanze rose to become a powerful third-rank minister, purged corruption from Great Qin's Dao academies, and reached the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer.
• Qin Xuanze proposed reorganizing the eight seas, and Great Qin consolidated them into eight great sea regions, seventy-two provinces, and three hundred and sixty protectorates.

Great Qin flourished under Qin Xuanze’s rule while, far away in the Eastern Wasteland, Meng Yu named Li Yuan’s infant son Li Shiming. After leaving a letter and a Qiankun Pouch, Meng Yu vanished, choosing to step away and witness the coming upheaval.

• Qin Xuanze helped Great Qin prosper, strengthening the court and secretly eliminating threats to its stability.
• In the Eastern Wasteland, Li Yuan visited Meng Yu with his newborn second son and asked him to choose the child’s name.
• Meng Yu named the infant Li Shiming and warned that competing Heavenly Fates and Great Daos made the age both promising and dangerous.
• Meng Yu returned Li Shiming to Li Yuan, left him a Qiankun Pouch and a letter, then vanished as a wisp of wind.
• Li Yuan read the letter, accepted Meng Yu’s departure, and bowed to the heavens to bid him farewell.

Zhu Laoba and the army led by Marshal Guo crossed the desert into the Southern Marsh, where Zhu Laoba reflected on his ambition to overthrow the decayed world and build a new order. Meanwhile, Hanbang’s army left Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City to garrison a pass on the human front against the Ice and Snow Demon Race, with Liu Ji now at Dao Foundation Seventh Layer.

• Zhu Laoba led Marshal Guo’s army across the desert to Wangming Lake in the Southern Marsh, where they set up camp.
• Zhu Laoba felt an unexplained unease, then resumed cultivating after it faded.
• Zhu Laoba recalled his journey south and resolved to use force to overthrow the existing order and create a peaceful world, while first building strength under Marshal Guo.
• Hundreds of thousands of Hanbang troops departed Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City to garrison a pass on the defensive line against the Ice and Snow Demon Race.
• Liu Ji had reached Dao Foundation Seventh Layer, and Hanbang had become a major Dao Foundation power.

Liu Ji’s Hanbang had grown from a small band of rebels into a powerful force after fleeing south and earning military merits under Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City. As Liu Ji considered declaring independence, Zhang Liang’s inability to divine the chaotic heavenly secrets led him to reflect on the vanished Duke of Qin and reaffirm his resolve to build Hanbang’s future.

• Liu Ji had led Hanbang in revolt against Da Zhou and begun its southward migration before the Northern Demon Rebellion erupted in full.
• Hanbang had reached Ten Thousand Soldiers Immortal City, served under True Lord Poyuan, and grown through decades of fighting and fortuitous opportunities.
• Liu Ji told Zhang Liang that he felt uneasy and asked him to divine the reason, but Zhang Liang could not fathom the chaotic heavenly secrets.
• Zhang Liang recalled Mr. Mengyu’s remarkable ability to divine the secrets and wondered where the senior was now.
• Liu Ji remembered the Duke of Qin, whose bearing had inspired him to grow stronger, and resolved to keep building an enduring foundation for the people who relied on him.

The Song Alliance argued over whether to retreat from the Demon Race or defend Yin'an City, which lay in the path of the coming beast tide. Zhao Gou proposed seeking help from Hanbang, while Yue Fei warned that Qin Hui could not be trusted.

• Qin Hui urged the Song Alliance to flee south after repeated losses, while Yue Fei insisted they defend Yin'an City and threatened to kill anyone who advocated retreat.
• Zhao Gou acknowledged both men’s arguments and said retreating would make the Song Alliance responsible for the destruction of millions in Yin'an City.
• Zhao Gou revealed that Hanbang, led by Liu Ji, would soon garrison nearby Yanchuan City and proposed asking it to help defend Yin'an.
• Zhao Gou assigned Qin Hui to approach Liu Ji because of his Northern Qin lineage, and Qin Hui reluctantly accepted.
• After Qin Hui left, Yue Fei told Zhao Gou that Qin Hui had become a rotten old man who cared only about surviving.

Zhao Gou rejected Qin Hui’s plan to flee south and ordered the Song Alliance to fight the foreign race. Meanwhile, Hanbang took Yanchuan City, and Qin Hui arrived to meet Liu Ji, who questioned whether he truly belonged to the Qin Clan.

• Zhao Gou let Qin Hui go and declared that the Song Alliance would fight rather than retreat.
• Yue Fei pledged to follow Zhao Gou’s command.
• Hanbang took over Yanchuan City with an army of two hundred thousand warriors.
• Qin Hui visited Liu Ji with gifts, and Liu Ji welcomed him because he was a descendant of Northern Qin.
• Liu Ji’s presence overwhelmed Qin Hui, and Liu Ji asked why he seemed so unlike a Qin Clan disciple.

Qin Hui asked Liu Ji to ally Hanbang with the Song Alliance against the coming beast tide, but Liu Ji’s harsh words deepened Qin Hui’s sense of failure. Hanbang’s leaders debated whether to support or annex the Song Alliance, and Liu Ji chose to begin talks and send aid.

• Liu Ji insulted Qin Hui’s courage and lineage, while Zhang Liang confirmed Qin Hui’s Northern Qin bloodline and urged Liu Ji to hear him out.
• Qin Hui requested Hanbang’s help defending Yin'an City from the beast tide on behalf of the Song Alliance, led by Zhao Gou.
• Zhang Liang described the Song Alliance’s history, and Liu Ji agreed to visit Yin'an in a few days to discuss an alliance with Zhao Gou.
• Hanbang’s generals, including Fan Kuai and Xiahou Ying, proposed annexing the Song Alliance instead of forming an alliance.
• Xiao He urged Liu Ji to avoid conflict and offer the Song Alliance troops until the beast tide passed, and Liu Ji assigned him to handle the matter.

Qin Lu repaired and activated the grand teleportation array linking Basikadun to the Eight Immortals Sea, then brought a five-person team across to the Northern Continent. After assigning them tasks to conceal the array, gather intelligence, and recruit cultivators, Qin Hui and Bi reached a secluded valley and opened Boundless City.

• Qin Lu used Zha Delei and the six other Frost Spirit Demon puppets to repair the grand teleportation array in Basikadun and connect it to the array near Qin Island.
• A test with a Second-Tier Demon Beast corpse showed that the passage was unstable, but Qin Hui, Huang Liang, Bi, Zichi, and Zimei crossed it with protective treasures and arrived with minor injuries.
• Qin Lu ordered Huang Liang to conceal and protect the array, Qin Hui and Bi to settle and recruit promising humans, and Zichi and Zimei to gather intelligence across the Northern Continent.
• Zichi and Zimei began searching the Frost Spirit Demon Domain, while Huang Liang hid the array and headed for Bayi Immortal City to find materials and maintain the arrays there.
• Qin Hui and Bi flew to a secluded valley near the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall, where Qin Hui opened Boundless City.

Qin Hui deployed Boundless City No. 2, a self-sufficient mobile fortress built from Qin Mingyi’s expandable Law Treasure, and organized its thousand cultivators to establish Great Qin’s forward base. The new outpost began preparing for a future counterattack while gathering intelligence, supporting production, and receiving survivors.

• Qin Hui expanded Boundless City No. 2 and activated its layered formations, concealing the city and the surrounding valley.
• The chapter explained how Boundless City’s eight independently upgradeable sub-cities could serve as mobile fortresses and teleportation points, raising Qin Mingyi’s strategic importance.
• A thousand loyal Qi Condensation cultivators emerged from the city, which also housed workshops for producing warships, Law Artifacts, and Qin-02 combat puppets.
• Qin Hui assigned the companies tasks including cultivating resources, expanding the city, surveying mineral deposits, receiving survivors, building an academy, and clearing nearby demonic creatures.
• Bi planted her true body, the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, on a barren mountain to gather Spiritual Qi and accelerate construction of the base.

Bi longed to return openly to her homeland, and Qin Hui promised they would reclaim what they had lost once the human race was strong enough. As the Ice and Snow Demon Race renewed its attacks, Qin Mingyi monitored the Qin Clan’s growing teleportation network and discussed Qin Hui’s strength.

• Bi asked Qin Hui what they should do next while looking toward the homeland she could not openly visit.
• Qin Hui explained that the Ice and Snow Demon Race remained too powerful to confront, promised to reclaim their losses in time, and offered to take Bi to Bayi Immortal City.
• The Ice and Snow Demon Race launched beast tides to thin its expanding herds, while competition among its races and mutual distrust kept the Demon Emperors from committing fully to war.
• Qin Mingyi activated Boundless City No. 2 and noted that the teleportation-array network across the Eight Seas was nearing completion.
• Qin Xuanzi praised Qin Hui’s strength, and Qin Mingyi cautioned him not to exaggerate or neglect the teleportation network.

Great Qin developed a teleportation network across the Eight Seas, and Qin Mingyi sought spatial resources by summoning leaders from two Dao academies. Meanwhile, Great Qin’s artifact refiners adopted mass-production methods and created standard military armor that strengthened the army.

• Qin Xuanzi showed Qin Mingyi that teleportation nodes had been established in seven of the Eight Seas, with the network awaiting celestial calibration, though Great Qin lacked enough spatial treasures to sustain it.
• Qin Mingyi ordered Qin Xuanzi to invite Daoist Luanqi and summon Tianshuzi, hoping the Mystic Heaven and Heavenly Pivot Dao Academies could help locate or produce spatial treasures.
• Artifact refiners from across the Eight Seas gathered at the Hundred Refinements Dao Academy and accepted its assembly-line methods after seeing them mass-produce Law Artifacts, warships, and puppets.
• A year later, five Rank-3 Artifact Refiners developed the Black Dragon-01 Model Standard Military Armor, a cheap integrated armor for True Martial Realm soldiers.
• Great Qin equipped its ordinary soldiers with the armor, raising their combat power and ability to survive in battle formations.

Great Qin expanded its military and artifact industry while Qin Wu cultivated in the Heavenly Meteor Sea Eye, reaching the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer and deepening his Sword Intent. His sword stroke resonated with the Great Dao, helping a lost infant in the long river of the Sword Dao find a way home.

• Great Qin issued Black Dragon-01 armor to its standing Black Dragon Legion and developed Black Dragon-02 armor for its ten thousand Qin Elite Soldiers.
• The Hundred Refinements Dao Academy established workshops to produce Mingyue Battle Standards and other Law Artifacts, while Great Qin expanded demon hunting to supply materials.
• Qin Wu cultivated beneath the Heavenly Meteor Sea Eye, broke through to the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer, and condensed his seventh drop of Great Dao water.
• Qin Wu's growing obsession with protecting his Lineage sharpened his Sword Intent as he contemplated his grief and continued training.
• Qin Wu's sword stroke stirred the Great Dao, allowing an infant lost in the long river of the Sword Dao to tear free and race toward home.