Chapter Summaries

The Qin Clan planned how to govern its newly conquered Northern Continent and approved a rotating system of one emperor and six kings to divide the vast territory into seven realms. Qin Zheng became King Zheng, and Great Qin began imposing its laws and restructuring the region.

• Qin Xiao convened Qin Clan leaders to discuss governing the Northern Continent, whose population and surviving cultivation powers had been devastated by war.
• Qin Minghan proposed extending Great Qin’s centralized system across the continent, while Qin Xuanze suggested dividing the territory into seven autonomous realms governed by one emperor and six kings.
• Qin Xiao approved Qin Xuanze’s plan, and Qin Minghan set the first imperial rotation for the hundredth year of the Great Qin calendar, with the throne rotating among the seven branches.
• The Qin Clan appointed Qin Zheng, the only remaining member of his branch, as one of the six kings under the title King Zheng.
• Great Qin enforced its laws across the Northern Continent, absorbed families into its Immortal Clan system, and required sects to disband or reorganize as Dao Academies.

Fifty years after the war, Great Qin restructured its academies, immortal clans, and military as it consolidated control over the Northern Continent. The chapter left Great Qin with a new talent system and a reduced force, planning to rebuild its legions once its academies supplied enough cultivators.

• By the fiftieth year of the Great Qin calendar, Great Qin had divided its territory into seven regions and made the Imperial Nether Territory its main population center and cultivation holy land.
• Great Qin established the Imperial Dao Academy above the existing academies, expanded its academy network, and set graduation at forging a Dao Foundation by age sixty.
• Great Qin redefined the Nine-Rank Immortal Clan System and phased warriors out of the cultivation hierarchy, restricting instruction to people with sufficient aptitude.
• Great Qin disbanded the Black Dragon Legion and reassigned its warriors as local constables and yamen runners, while requiring Qi Condensation cultivators for soldiering and Dao Foundation cultivators for generalship.
• Great Qin completed its military restructuring with forty thousand Qi Condensation soldiers and planned to form three legions of one hundred thousand cultivators each once its talent system produced enough recruits.

Great Qin divided its lands into six territories and appointed six kings, then used the Heavenly Pivot Dao Academy to support reconstruction and seek spatial resources. As Great Qin’s power spread, its rise caused unease and division within the Song and Han Alliances.

• In the 53rd year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu established six territories and appointed Qin Wang Zheng, Qin Xuanyun, Qin Xuanzhen of Qin Wu's line, Qin Xuanzhen of Qin Wen's line, Qin Xuanyu, and Qin Xuanzhen of Qin Zhuang's line as their kings.
• Great Qin began restoring order and livelihoods across its territories, regulating Devil Cultivators, clearing rebels and collaborators, and building ranches.
• The Heavenly Pivot Dao Academy helped repair war damage and locate resources, rose into the top three of the thirty-six heavenly academies, and found a small Void Crystal Stone deposit in the Eight Immortals Sea.
• Great Qin's rise divided the Song Alliance and Han Alliance, whose members wondered whether they had chosen wrongly by leaving or feared the consequences of having opposed the Qin Clan.
• The Song Alliance faced particular anxiety because Zhao Gou had left Qin Lu, while Qin Hui had been turned into a corpse puppet.

Great Qin envoy Qin Xinyang confronted the Han Alliance over its failure to register under Great Qin's new laws, while Zhao Gou feared the Qin Clan would discover his role in Qin Hui's transformation. The chapter ended with Qin Xinyang demanding the alliance choose between compliance and death or exile.

• Zhao Gou learned that Great Qin's cultivators and Han Alliance leaders had gathered, and he struggled with guilt over his part in Qin Hui becoming a refined corpse.
• Qin Xinyang arrived with Zhao Gao and Zhang Yi, and the gathered faction leaders welcomed Great Qin's envoys.
• Zhang Yi slapped and kicked Zhang Liang, disowned him from the Zhang Household, and sent him away in humiliation.
• Zhao Gao mocked Zhang Liang for abandoning his clan, while Zhang Yi showed Liu Ji no favor.
• Qin Xinyang ordered the Han Alliance to reorganize as a Dao academy and register with Great Qin, threatening death or exile if they refused.

Qin Xinyang and Zhao Gao forced Liu Ji and Zhao Gou to submit to Great Qin, revealing that the Han Alliance would be sent ahead to the Myriad Nations of the Central Lands as an expendable foothold. Liu Ji accepted Qin Minghan’s offer of help in exchange for submission, while Zhao Gou was left humiliated and powerless.

• Qin Xinyang rejected Liu Ji and Zhao Gou’s appeal, saying Qin Hui’s status as a discarded son of his Lineage could not overturn Great Qin’s laws.
• Zhao Gao offered Liu Ji a great-horned deer while calling it a spirit horse, and Liu Ji played along by praising the “horse” and pledging service to the court.
• Qin Xinyang presented Qin Minghan’s edict ordering the Han Alliance to serve as an advance force in the Myriad Nations of the Central Lands, and Liu Ji accepted submission to Great Qin.
• Zhang Yi took Essence Blood from Liu Ji and the gathered Dao Foundation cultivators to create a Blood Slip that could kill anyone whose name was erased.
• Zhao Gao mocked Zhao Gou and Qin Hui before Qin Xinyang and the other officials departed without acknowledging the gathered leaders.

Great Qin consolidated its control over the Han and Song Alliances while the Northern Continent transformed under its rule, with Devil Cultivators gaining room to prosper. By the 60th year of the Great Qin calendar, the continental teleportation formation was complete, and Great Qin chose to watch the Central Lands’ conflict before deciding when to intervene.

• The Han Alliance broke apart, with most factions remaining under Hanbang and the rest joining the Song Alliance, leaving both alliances as Great Qin’s puppets.
• In the 58th year of the Great Qin calendar, Huang Liang achieved Core Formation as True Person Wild Sand, and Lu Ming achieved Core Formation as True Person Blood Soul.
• Great Qin tolerated orthodox Devil Cultivators, who increasingly joined its army and traded through Qin Coins as the Northern Continent’s cultivation economy expanded.
• Great Qin selected one hundred Dao Foundation cultivators for the Central Lands, placed them under the Hundred Immortals Life Register, and assigned Qin Xinzhou to lead them with Han Xin as his deputy.
• Han Feizi succeeded Shang Yang as a grand scholar, while the Han Family rose again through Han Xin’s military appointment and Han Feizi’s civil post.
• In the 60th year, Great Qin completed the continental teleportation formation, and Qin Lu agreed with Qian Guming and Gu Xuanzhen that Great Qin would remain a contingency and wait for the Central Lands’ situation to develop.

Qin Minghan received two ancient treasures after the Shang and Xia Households were exterminated, ordered Shang Yang executed for breaking Great Qin's laws, and heard that the Great Wall and a set of chime bells would help secure the kingdom. The chapter ended with the Qin Clan’s sixth generation producing a remarkable crop of cultivators, led by Qin Yingjie.

• Han Feizi reported that the Shang Household had secretly colluded with Shang Yang, and that True Person Ten Thousand Weapons had exterminated the Shang and Xia Households.
• Han Feizi presented Qin Minghan with the Nine Provinces Cauldron and the Myriad Li Rivers and Mountains Map, which Qin Minghan placed in the Qin Palace to suppress the clan’s fortune.
• Qin Minghan ordered Shang Yang sentenced to death by dismemberment for knowingly violating Great Qin’s laws.
• Han Feizi reported that the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall was progressing and that Qin Mingle had designed chime bells to help suppress Great Qin’s national fortune.
• In Great Qin’s sixty-second year, 270 of the Qin Clan’s sixth-generation disciples could cultivate, and Qin Yingjie had the generation’s highest aptitude.

The Qin Clan fostered fierce competition among its younger scions as Great Qin’s laws and the rising Soul Dao reshaped the Northern Continent. After five years of seclusion, Qin Lu awakened in the Heart Sea Secret Realm, stabilized in the Nascent Soul Realm, and reflected on the trials ahead and the conviction he might eventually have to relinquish.

• The Qin Clan assigned its young scions posts across Great Qin and required them to present the head of an equal-realm cultivator every few years to prove their strength.
• Great Qin’s rule and flourishing Soul Dao made it easier for animals, plants, and objects to awaken intelligence, and Haiyue persuaded a Bloodthirsty Vine to join the Qin Clan as its fourth Wood Demon.
• The Northern Nether Capital displayed the Heart Sea Secret Realm and eight other secret realms, while Qin Lu cultivated in the Heart Sea Secret Realm because the Penguin Emperor had taken the Northern Continent’s medium-sized Spirit Vein.
• In the sixty-fifth year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu awoke after five years of seclusion and released enough Nascent Soul pressure to make the Heart Sea Secret Realm tremble.
• Qin Lu assessed his slow progress and pondered how to pass the Nascent Soul Heart Tribulation by letting go of the conviction that had driven him to seek longevity.

Qin Lu completed three Soul Dao cultivation methods and a Soul-Devouring Spirit Physique method, then ordered Qin Wen to establish them as the Qin Clan’s inheritance and spread them among cultivators. Three years later, Qin Zhuang and the Forest Peak Giant Deer survived the heavenly tribulation and attained Core Formation, with Qin Zhuang taking the exalted title Spirit Marsh.

• Qin Lu’s three main Law Treasures had transformed into Fifth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasures, and he resolved to strengthen the Soul Dao by leaving behind an inheritance.
• Qin Lu created methods for the Soul Wood, Soul Poison, and Nether Soul Dao Principles, along with the Soul-Devouring Spirit Physique method.
• Qin Lu gave the three Soul Dao methods to Qin Wen and ordered him to organize, simplify, and spread them as the Qin Clan’s highest inheritance; Qin Wen reached the Dao Foundation Ninth Layer.
• In the 70th year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Zhuang and the Forest Peak Giant Deer faced the four-nine heavenly lightning tribulation at Blood Sun Lake and overcame it together.
• Qin Zhuang and the Forest Peak Giant Deer formed a Golden Core and a Demon Core, and Qin Zhuang attained the Dao of Ten Thousand Marshes and took the title Spirit Marsh.

Qin Zhuang and Lu Yang formed their cores, and Lu Yang awakened his ancient Heavenly Origin bloodline as the Heavenly Origin Giant Deer, Demon King Maoyuan. They set out across the Northern Continent to restore its lands, while Qin Yingjie traveled with the moving city toward the Northern Frontier, eager to meet the Seventh Ancestor.

• Lu Yang formed a Demon Core, became a Fourth-Tier Demon King, and awakened his ancestral bloodline as the Heavenly Origin Giant Deer.
• Lu Yang declared himself the ancestor of all deer and chose the name Lu Yang, explaining to Qin Zhuang why he would not use Lin Yue.
• Qin Zhuang and Lu Yang began traveling across the Northern Continent to repair its earth veins and restore its lands using their Daos of Flourishing and All-Enriching.
• A month later, Lu Yang carried Boundless City No. 9, with a transmission array and a herd of giant deer bearing buildings, toward the Northern Frontier.
• Qin Yingjie watched from the moving city and said he wanted to meet the Seventh Ancestor, while his powerful spiritual perception and hunger were revealed.

Qin Yingjie tracked three Evil Cultivators who were stalking a young cultivator and devoured two of them after defeating them. He pretended to leave the survivor alone, then killed him to seize the Soul Fire he had hidden inside his body.

• Qin Yingjie followed three Evil Cultivators as they pursued a young cultivator from the Blue Lake Liu Clan.
• The young cultivator fought the three attackers with fire techniques, but Qin Yingjie arrived as his strength began to fail.
• Qin Yingjie killed one Evil Cultivator with a soul assault and devoured his soul, then hunted down and consumed another while destroying the corpse.
• Qin Yingjie left the young cultivator behind, and the cultivator retrieved a Soul Fire he had hidden in his body.
• Qin Yingjie returned, killed the young cultivator, devoured his soul, and took the Soul Fire.

Qin Zhao formed a Golden Core in the Eight Immortals Sea, strengthening the Qin Clan’s overseas defenses, while Qin Yingjie reached the Northern Frontier and set out to find Qin Zheng. Qin Zheng displayed the power of his Mystic Water Dao by killing a group of bears, and the chapter left Qin Yingjie heading toward him.

• Qin Yingjie gained a rare soul fire and continued north with the giant deer herd, which grew as it repaired the land and found resources.
• In Great Qin’s year 72, Qin Zhao formed his Golden Core alongside Black Dragon, who became the Abyss Sea Dragon King, bringing the Eight Immortals Sea to ten Core Formation cultivators.
• In year 74, Qin Yingjie reached the edge of the Northern Frontier and left for the royal residence to meet Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng, now a Dao Foundation Seventh Layer cultivator and ruler of the Northern Frontier, killed a Third-Tier Bear Demon with his sword.
• Qin Zheng used the Mystic Water Dao to drain the blood from one white bear and kill another with a condensed drop of water.

Qin Zheng returned to the Northern Frontier King's Residence and received the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven Ring that Qin Lu had entrusted to Qin Yingjie. Moved by his father's care, Qin Zheng rewarded Qin Yingjie and invited him to stay by his side.

• Qin Zheng, Flower Princess, and Gai Nie spent half a month hunting monsters and gathering spirit medicines and precious materials before returning to the Northern Frontier King's Residence.
• Qin Yingjie met Qin Zheng and explained that Qin Lu had sent him with a treasure box as both a delivery and a test.
• Qin Zheng opened the box, sealed the surge of the Great Dao of Profound Water, and found the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven Ring inside.
• Qin Zheng remembered Qin Lu's care, then rewarded Qin Yingjie with a Third-Tier Upper Grade gourd Law Treasure and offered to guide him.

Aristocratic Clans invested in Qin Clan descendants competing to become Great Qin’s next emperor, though Qin Zheng remained focused on governing the Northern Frontier rather than seeking the throne. In the Heart Sea Secret Realm, Qin Xiao safely endured his tribulation and formed a Golden Core, taking the honored title Dingyuan.

• The Meng Clan and other powers backed Qin Zheng with resources and support, seeing him as a leading candidate for the next Qin Emperor.
• Aristocratic Clans increasingly invested in potential successors as the hundred-year imperial transition approached, while the Qin Clan allowed its descendants to compete under its rules.
• Qin Zheng had no intention of competing for the throne and stayed committed to governing the people of his region.
• Qin Xiao underwent his tribulation in the Heart Sea Secret Realm and endured several bolts of three-colored divine lightning with the Qin Clan’s protections in place.
• Blessed by Great Qin’s national fortune, Qin Xiao formed a Golden Core and received the honored title Dingyuan.

Qin Mingyi brought Qin Lu and Qin Xiao a secret report describing the Central Lands’ three major factions and their escalating conflict. Qin Lu concluded that Great Qin should remain neutral while it developed its strength, as both sides would soon try to win over the remaining powers.

• Qin Mingyi delivered a secret mechanical treasure box containing messages from Qin Xinzhou and Gu Xuanzhen’s group.
• Qin Xinzhou reported that civil war had devastated the Central Lands and that the Longlife Ancient Kingdom and Three Truths Ancient Kingdom had formed an alliance.
• Qin Xinzhou described the Four Kingdoms Alliance, led by True Lord Tianfeng, and the Daoqing Lineage, led by True Lord Qingyou, as the two main powers in the conflict.
• Qin Xinzhou warned Qin Lu that Great Qin should think carefully before intervening, since choosing the wrong side could bring its destruction.
• Qin Lu reasoned that the Spirit Transformation cultivator was dead and that the two rival factions would now compete to win over the neutral powers.
• Qin Xiao maintained that Great Qin should focus on developing the Northern Continent and producing another Nascent Soul cultivator.

After learning that Mieyang Immortal Palace had opened, Qin Lu chose to risk traveling to the Central Lands to pursue its treasures and strengthen his Dao. He left Great Qin with strict plans to defend the Northern Continent or retreat if he did not return, while the Qin Clan continued expanding in secret.

• Qin Lu read the Longlife Ancient Kingdom’s message and learned that Venerable Mieyang’s legacy opened once every thousand years.
• Qin Lu weighed the dangers of joining the struggle for Mieyang Immortal Palace against the risk that Great Qin’s rivals would grow stronger, then decided to go.
• Qin Lu ordered Qin Xiao and Qin Mingyi to strengthen the Northern Continent, assigned Lin Xuan and Qing Centipede to guard the clan’s territories, and gave them instructions in case he died.
• Qin Lu released his Nascent Soul pressure across the Northern Nether and teleported to the Central Lands using a Fourth-Tier spatial treasure.
• Great Qin publicly announced that Ancestor Qin had resumed secluded cultivation while quietly increasing security and investing more resources in its growing disciples.

Qin Lu arrived in the Central Lands and joined Gu Xuanzhen and several Nascent Soul cultivators to discuss an alliance over the treasures in the Mieyang Immortal Palace. The gathering accepted Qin Lu as a potential ally, while a hidden observer sent a scarlet ladybug away from the teleportation site.

• Qin Lu teleported into the Central Lands, and his released pressure killed several Qi Condensation cultivators and forced four Core Formation True Persons to their knees.
• Gu Xuanzhen welcomed Qin Lu, then took him to his sect while the four True Persons resumed their vigil.
• A Golden Core cultivator secretly sent a scarlet ladybug away after the group dispersed.
• Gu Xuanzhen brought Qin Lu to a meeting with Qian Guming, Badao, Ye Wuxu, and Ye Tingfeng to discuss the Mieyang Immortal Palace's treasures.
• Ye Wuxu praised Qin Lu's Innate Spirit Physique, Dao marks, and clear Dao heart, and the gathered Nascent Souls formally welcomed him.

True Lord Badao explained the Mieyang Immortal Palace and the group chose who would enter it, then spent months discussing the Dao and preparing for the expedition. After Qin Lu refined his cultivation, the palace’s appearance brought two suns and warmth that began melting the Northern Nether Domain’s ice and snow.

• True Lord Badao explained that the Mieyang Immortal Palace would appear within two years, described its six nested realms, and listed its dangers and treasures.
• Ye Wuxu said he would lead the expedition, while Ye Tingfeng would stay behind; True Lord Badao and Gu Xuanzhen also chose to go.
• Qin Lu decided to join the expedition to protect Great Qin’s ties with its allies, and the group finalized its plans before exchanging insights on the Dao for several months.
• Qin Lu used the guidance of the True Lords to correct gaps in his cultivation and improve the coordination of his abilities during a year of preparation.
• Two suns appeared in the sky, bringing intense heat that melted ice and snow across the Northern Nether Domain.

Twelve Nascent Soul cultivators gathered at Mount Xuyang as the Mieyang Immortal Palace opened, and Qin Lu entered with the others. He found himself in a vast, sandstorm-lashed domain rich in Earth Dao presence, which appeared to be the Earth World Domain.

• True Lord Badao located the Mieyang Immortal Palace’s opening at Mount Xuyang and entered through a spatial passage with Qin Lu, Ye Wuxu, and Gu Xuanzhen.
• The Four Kingdoms Alliance and Daoqing Faction each sent three Nascent Soul cultivators, while True Lord Huangyang and an ancient Buddha joined the gathering from the east and west.
• Qin Lu introduced himself as Emperor Nether to True Lord Huangyang, whose Divine Sense proved weaker than Qin Lu’s.
• True Lord Qingyou warned True Lord Tianfeng to settle their dispute inside the Immortal Palace as the solar portal opened.
• Twelve Nascent Soul cultivators entered the portal, followed by eager Core Formation cultivators.
• Qin Lu arrived in a desert filled with Earth Dao presence and recognized it as the Earth World Domain.

Qin Lu entered the Earth World Domain, where he defeated a giant sandworm and struggled against the realm’s shifting space. He met True Lord Huangyang, learned how to navigate the domain, and agreed to consider a secret alliance against their common enemies from the Central Lands.

• Qin Lu sent the Ghost Fire Ghost King to kill a Fourth-Tier Low-Grade sandworm Demon King, then kept its Demon Core and let the Ghost King salvage the corpse.
• Qin Lu realized the Earth World Domain’s Great Dao of Earth Marsh stretched and contracted space, making travel difficult.
• True Lord Huangyang approached Qin Lu and explained how to overcome the domain’s restrictions.
• Qin Lu and Huangyang traveled together, cautiously probing each other until Huangyang asked whether Qin Lu was a half-demon.
• Huangyang proposed that they secretly support each other against the Central Lands, and Qin Lu responded favorably to the idea.