Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu and Huang Yang collected Earth Dao treasures before reaching the Earth World Domain’s passage, where an unexpectedly powerful puppet blocked their way. As the Nascent Soul cultivators united to fight it, Qin Lu connected the realm’s Spirit Ascension to troubling questions about grotto-heavens and the Mieyang Immortal Palace.

• Qin Lu gathered Earth Dao treasures while Huang Yang gave him additional treasures to strengthen their alliance.
• Qin Lu and Huang Yang reached the passage to the next level and found a giant rock puppet at Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• True Person Badao explained that the Earth World Domain had undergone another Spirit Ascension, gaining the Great Dao of Desolate Breath.
• Qin Lu wondered whether the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven had undergone twelve Spirit Ascensions and suspected that the Mieyang Immortal Palace devoured the Great Daos of fallen Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The eleven Nascent Soul Cultivators joined forces to attack the puppet, postponing their rivalries until they reached the Mieyang Immortal Palace.

True Lord Tianfeng, True Lord Qingyou, Qin Lu, and the other cultivators defeated the earth spirit puppet and divided its treasures. Before entering the next level, Qin Lu left a Reincarnation Soul Embryo in a Golden Core cultivator as a backup plan.

• True Lord Tianfeng and True Lord Qingyou led the cultivators in attacking the earth spirit puppet, while it drew on the Earth World Domain to repair itself.
• True Lord Qingyou blasted open the puppet’s chest, and Qin Lu and the others joined the assault until the puppet collapsed and its core vanished.
• The Earth World Domain grew stronger after the puppet’s death, and True Lord Tianfeng and True Lord Qingyou claimed the three Fifth-Tier treasures while Qin Lu received two lumps of Fourth-Tier ore.
• The cultivators formed a passage to the next level and entered the scarlet vortex, while Qin Lu stayed behind and left a portion of his Divine Sense where the core had been.
• Qin Lu used his Reincarnation Soul Embryo on a young Core Formation Cultivator, then flew into the vortex as the Golden Core cultivators arrived to collect the puppet’s remains.

Qin Lu was isolated in the Fire World Domain and realized the Flame Puppet had lured him into an ambush. He sealed it off from the domain’s Fire Dao and killed it with one strike, then began replenishing his strength as Gu Xuanzhen, True Lord Badao, Ye Wuxu, and Huang Yang witnessed the battle.

• Qin Lu entered the Fire World Domain, failed to find his companions, and deduced that the Flame Puppet had targeted him as its weakest prey.
• Qin Lu used Emperor Nether's Ten Thousand Territories to seal the region and sever the Flame Puppet from the Fire World Domain’s Fire Dao.
• Qin Lu struck the Flame Puppet with Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand, destroying it and flattening the surrounding terrain, but was left nearly drained of strength.
• Gu Xuanzhen, True Lord Badao, and Ye Wuxu arrived and reacted to Qin Lu’s victory, while True Lord Badao noticed Huang Yang watching from a distance.
• Qin Lu manifested a vast Soul Wood and drew in spiritual power, converting fire Spiritual Power to replenish himself.

Qin Lu rapidly recovered his strength, claimed the Flame Puppet’s spirit flame, and shared part of it with his allies. The group decided not to attack the surviving sheep-headed dog and continued toward the Water World Domain, with Huang Yang following quietly.

• Qin Lu used the Soul Wood to drain the surrounding land and recover much of his Spiritual Power, then swallowed three high-grade pills to restore his Spiritual Power, Divine Sense, and Dao laws.
• Qin Lu collected the Fifth-Tier spirit flame left by the Flame Puppet, keeping one third for himself and giving one third to the Ghost Fire Ghost King to aid its transformation.
• Qin Lu gave the remaining spirit flame to Gu Xuanzhen and the other two, strengthening their friendship and alliance.
• True Lord Badao proposed killing the sheep-headed dog, but Ye Wuxu and Qin Lu argued that they should conserve their strength and avoid provoking him before reaching their goal.
• The group flew toward the Water World Domain, and Huang Yang gathered Fire Dao treasures before quietly following them.

Qin Lu and the other cultivators entered the Wood Domain, where he absorbed the poison protecting the Jianmu tree and revealed the Wood Puppet, Old Man Weng. The groups joined forces to attack Old Man Weng, who fled as the passage to the next layer appeared.

• The cultivators defeated the Water Puppet, and True Lord Qingyou and True Lord Tianfeng claimed its fifth-tier treasures before entering the Wood Domain.
• Ye Wuxu warned the group that the Metal Domain was a deadly battleground and urged them to stay together there.
• Qin Lu absorbed the Nascent Soul-corroding poison surrounding the Jianmu tree, causing it to vanish and revealing Old Man Weng.
• Old Man Weng animated the forest and drove the Nascent Soul cultivators back, while Ye Wuxu persuaded True Lord Tianfeng to join the attack.
• The cultivators combined their attacks, and Old Man Weng threw out fourth-tier treasures and fled as the passage to the next layer appeared.

Qin Lu and his companions reached the Metal Domain, where Ye Wuxu fulfilled a thousand-year agreement by giving the Metal Puppet a heart and gaining access to the palace core. The heart transformed the puppet into a humanlike Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator, who then confronted eight Nascent Soul experts and attacked them with the power of the Metal Dao.

• Qin Lu and his three companions crossed into the Metal Domain and headed for the Metal Puppet at its center.
• The Metal Puppet invoked a thousand-year agreement, and Ye Wuxu gave him a heart in exchange for passage to the core.
• The Metal Puppet implanted the heart, overcame the Great Dao of Metal’s extinction intent, and transformed into a humanlike being at Nascent Soul Perfection.
• The Metal Puppet cried out to Mieyang and called himself his successor and son as his transformation awakened his senses and soul.
• True Lord Tianfeng, True Lord Qingyou, True Lord Huangyang, and five other Nascent Soul experts arrived and realized Qin Lu’s group had likely reached the core.
• The eight experts joined forces against the Metal Puppet, but he wielded the Metal Dao to unleash a storm that tore their physical bodies apart.

Qin Lu and his companions arrived on the sixth floor of the Mieyang Immortal Palace, where Ye Wuxu revealed why he had arranged to obtain a Dao Source Treasure. Qin Lu explored the Ten Thousand Palaces World Domain but resisted its growing temptations, determined to reach the far north and discover the palace’s secret.

• Metal Puppet’s metal storm severely wounded True Lord Huangyang, the ancient Western Desert monk, and the Nascent Soul True Lord of the Daoqing Faction.
• Ye Wuxu told Qin Lu that he had spent two thousand years seeking a Dao Source Treasure to overcome his cultivation bottleneck, and admitted that he killed True Lord Huangyan to fulfill his bargain with Metal Puppet.
• Qin Lu remained wary of Ye Wuxu, and the companions split up to search the Ten Thousand Palaces World Domain for opportunities.
• Qin Lu explored northward, collecting Fourth-Tier treasures while wondering why the Mieyang Immortal Palace repeatedly gathered and nurtured the remains of those who died inside it.
• Qin Lu ignored increasingly valuable palaces and continued toward the far north, hoping to uncover Mieyang’s true secret before the trial ended.

Qin Lu recognized that the endless immortal palaces embodied boundless desire and entered the sun above them, discovering the Profound Yang Grotto-Heaven and meeting Venerable Mieyang. He explained that even if he died, a reincarnated successor would inherit his memories and will, while Mieyang listened.

• Qin Lu reflected on the immortal palaces and concluded that desire had no end.
• Qin Lu used the Soul Frost Ghost King's power to approach the sun, then plunged into it as his body and Nascent Soul neared destruction.
• Qin Lu entered the Profound Yang Grotto-Heaven, where the sun healed his injuries and Venerable Mieyang appeared before him.
• Venerable Mieyang asked Qin Lu how he could return from death after the immortal palace intercepted a dead cultivator's Great Dao.
• Qin Lu told Venerable Mieyang that a new life modeled after him would inherit his memories and will, then calmly brewed tea.

Venerable Mieyang told Qin Lu the history of the Frost Cloud Realm and explained why he had failed to become an immortal. He urged Qin Lu to create a grotto-heaven and a world of his own, then clarified why ordinary ascension was impossible in their realm.

• Venerable Mieyang praised Qin Lu’s insight and offered to reveal the truth about the path to immortality.
• Venerable Mieyang recounted how his ancestor and companions discovered the Frost Cloud Realm after an immortal fell, settled there, and founded humanity’s rule over it.
• Venerable Mieyang explained that he could not inherit the Frost Cloud Realm because his Yang Dao clashed with its Ice and Snow Dao Principles, and that Venerable Huadao and Venerable Shenji also failed to become immortals by inheriting it.
• Venerable Mieyang described how he created the Mieyang Immortal Palace and its Five Spirit Puppets to await a successor, but told Qin Lu that his incompatible Soul Dao meant he would need to create a grotto-heaven and a world of his own.
• Venerable Mieyang warned that Venerable Shenji was pursuing reincarnation to strengthen his Dao and inherit the Frost Cloud Realm, making him a dangerous rival to Qin Lu.
• Venerable Mieyang explained that ascension to the upper realm was real in ordinary worlds, but the Frost Cloud Realm’s fallen immortal master had left no way to ascend without inheriting the realm or creating a new one.

Qin Lu learned how creating a world could lead to immortality and chose three treasures to aid his future breakthroughs rather than inherit Venerable Mieyang’s cultivation method. After Venerable Mieyang warned him to beware of Shenji, Qin Lu was transported to the Mieyang Immortal Palace, where he gained the Historical Record Book and its artifact spirit, Guiyang, as a new subordinate.

• Qin Lu learned that a cultivator needed Spirit Transformation to create a grotto-heaven and eventually build a world capable of supporting a breakthrough to the Purple Void Realm.
• Venerable Mieyang offered Qin Lu three treasures to aid his tribulations or a cultivation method he could inherit or pass on, and Qin Lu chose the treasures.
• Qin Lu asked whether Venerable Mieyang could return to life, and Venerable Mieyang explained that his will might eventually merge with the Great Dao and be born anew.
• Venerable Mieyang warned Qin Lu that Shenji harbored a deep obsession and that Qin Lu’s fortune was special.
• Qin Lu was transported to the Mieyang Immortal Palace and received the Historical Record Book, whose artifact spirit Guiyang bowed to him as its new master.

Nascent Soul cultivators clashed across Mieyang Immortal Palace while Qin Lu observed the battle. A fleeing ancient monk targeted Qin Lu to steal his devil heart, and Qin Lu confronted him with his Ghost Emperor form.

• True Lord Qingyou learned that his nephew had died in the Metal Domain and attacked True Lord Tianfeng in a rage, while Tianfeng exploited his grief to damage his Dao heart.
• True Lord Huangyang, True Lord Qingyuan, and True Lord Qianling surrounded True Lord Hualing and fought to kill him as the ancient monk fled toward Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu discovered and erased a mark on his robe, then attacked the monk with the Nether Sha Sword: God Devouring.
• The monk revealed that he wanted Qin Lu's devil heart to extend his life and attacked with a vajra pestle.
• Qin Lu unleashed Extreme Dao · Heaven-Overturning Emperor Form, and his Ghost Emperor phantom clashed with the monk's Buddha domain.

Qin Lu battled the ancient monk of the Western Desert, using Nether Thunder and the Dao Spirit Poison Art to withstand his attacks. The fighting escalated into a six-against-five Nascent Soul melee at Mieyang Immortal Palace.

• The ancient monk of the Western Desert overwhelmed Qin Lu with Buddha-light attacks, exploiting his greater experience as a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Qin Lu summoned the Nether Thunder Ghost King, the Dawnbreak Divine Bow, and Ghost King Seal: Ksitigarbha, then struck the monk with Extreme Dao: Thunder Shatters Ten Thousand Nethers.
• The ancient monk used Conversion and Return to Origin to try to convert Qin Lu, but Qin Lu activated Dao Spirit Poison Art and broke free.
• Extreme Dharma True Lord, Ye Wuxu; True Lord Mystic Sword, Gu Xuanzhen; and True Lord Badao arrived, and Qin Lu withdrew to join True Lord Qingyou and True Lord Hualing.
• True Lord Qingyou called on Extreme Dharma to join forces against True Lord Tianfeng, while Tianfeng's allies gathered opposite them, leaving six Nascent Soul cultivators facing five.
• True Lord Qingyou and True Lord Tianfeng ordered their sides to attack, beginning a chaotic battle that shook the battlefield.

Qin Lu revealed his overwhelming power and killed the ancient monk from the Western Desert with the Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand. The surviving Nascent Soul Cultivators turned their attention to Qin Lu, but Gu Xuanzhen, True Lord Badao, and Extreme Dharma True Lord Ye Wuxu moved to protect him.

• The ancient monk from the Western Desert relentlessly attacked Qin Lu, while Gu Xuanzhen joined the fight by striking the monk with a sword of Dao laws.
• The ancient monk transformed into a rakshasa and shattered Gu Xuanzhen's greatsword, but Qin Lu summoned a giant palm that erased the surrounding land and reduced the monk to dust.
• A golden Nascent Soul escaped from the destruction, while the other Nascent Soul Cultivators recognized Qin Lu as a threat and shifted their attention to him.
• Gu Xuanzhen and True Lord Badao stood on either side of Qin Lu to protect him as Extreme Dharma True Lord Ye Wuxu revealed his four extremes and challenged anyone who dared attack one of his own.

Ye Wuxu’s overwhelming presence forced the cultivators to set aside their feud and attack Qin Lu and his allies. Qin Lu recovered by devouring the ancient monk’s Nascent Soul, then rejoined the battle and helped Huang Yang wound True Lord Hualing.

• Ye Wuxu appeared and suppressed the six True Lords, prompting True Lord Tianfeng and True Lord Qingyou to stop targeting each other and attack.
• True Lord Tianfeng led the assault while the other cultivators attacked True Lord Badao and Gu Xuanzhen, and Qin Lu tried to recover his depleted strength.
• Qin Lu used the Historical Record Book to pursue and devour the ancient monk’s weakened Nascent Soul, restoring most of his power.
• Qin Lu and Huang Yang fought together against True Lord Hualing and the others, while True Lord Badao battled True Lord Qianling and True Lord Qingyuan and Gu Xuanzhen held off True Lord Hualing.
• Qin Lu struck Huang Yang to make him appear gravely wounded, drawing True Lord Hualing into range, and Huang Yang then severely wounded Hualing with a short purple dagger.

Qin Lu and his allies killed True Lord Hualing, then Qin Lu’s frenzied attack badly wounded True Lord Qingyou. With Daoqing’s power collapsing, Ye Wuxu and True Lord Tianfeng agreed to join forces against Qingyou to prevent the lineage from producing another Spirit Transformation Venerable.

• True Lord Huangyang betrayed True Lord Hualing, allowing Qin Lu to strike him in the heart and Gu Xuanzhen to destroy his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Qin Lu refined and swallowed True Lord Hualing’s Nascent Soul, then lost himself in a frenzy for more soul power while maintaining his rationality.
• Qin Lu unleashed a powerful Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand that injured True Lord Qingyou and sent him reeling as his Dao heart collapsed.
• True Lord Qingyou lamented Daoqing’s downfall and questioned how he could lead its lineage through the crisis.
• Ye Wuxu proposed that he and True Lord Tianfeng join forces to kill True Lord Qingyou, and Tianfeng agreed to prevent Daoqing from producing another Venerable.

After True Lord Qingyou accepted his defeat and was destroyed, Qin Lu reflected on mortality and emerged from the Mieyang Immortal Palace changed by his experiences. The Daoqing Lineage collapsed, while Qin Lu spent the following years consolidating resources and preparing Great Qin’s expansion into the Western Desert.

• Ye Wuxu and True Lord Tianfeng joined forces to destroy True Lord Qingyou, who willingly accepted his fate after the Daoqing Empire’s decline became inevitable.
• Qin Lu meditated on the fragility of life and saw himself as one of the immortals in the Historical Record Book, wondering how future generations would judge him as True Lord Diyou.
• The Mieyang Immortal Palace sent Qin Lu back to the outside world after three months, and he reunited with Gu Xuanzhen and the other two before they returned home.
• The Daoqing Lineage fell into decline, and Qin Lu remained in the Central Lands for several years, acquiring its lands and resources and distributing them among his allies and advance party.
• Qin Lu helped Qin Xinzhou, Qin Xinyang, and Qin Xinzhi advance their cultivation, placed newly acquired territory under their management, and began planning for Great Qin’s expansion into the Western Desert.

After returning from the Mieyang Immortal Palace, Qin Lu brought wealth and powerful treasures back to Great Qin and entered secluded cultivation. Meanwhile, the Fortune Heaven Sect began a plan to manipulate rulers across the Frost Cloud Realm, harvest their fortune, and prepare for the Venerable One’s return.

• Qin Lu returned to the Northern Continent with mid-grade Spirit Stones, Fourth-Tier treasures, and the Profound Heaven Wheel, then entered secluded cultivation.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect’s six Nascent Soul cultivators gathered after the Mieyang Immortal Palace’s twenty-fifth opening and declared that Heavenly Fate had appeared.
• The archbishop sent Xiangze, Fuxi, Huang De, Heavenly Fate, and Le Yin to guide rulers and factions across the Eastern Wasteland, Southern Marsh, Western Desert, Northern Continent, and Central Lands.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect planned to gather the protagonists’ fortune, suppress the Dao of Ice and Snow, and use the Venerable One’s return to pursue immortality and Spirit Transformation.

After recovering his memories as Venerable Shenji, Meng Yu discovered that Qin Lu had disrupted his long-laid plan to gather Heavenly Fate, and he decided to seek a peaceful agreement. Unaware that the Historical Record Book had broken the restraints on his fate, Qin Lu continued cultivating while Meng Yu ordered the Fortune Heaven Sect to stop targeting the Qin Clan.

• Meng Yu regained his memories upon reaching the Nascent Soul realm and learned that his Fortune Tide Plan had changed because Qin Lu established Great Qin ahead of schedule.
• Meng Yu recognized that Qin Lu had gained the Dao Transformation inheritance and the Historical Record Book, making him difficult to oppose, and considered negotiating for Liu Ji and Zhao Gou.
• The Historical Record Book’s Fortune Dao Exhaustion Diagram dispersed and revealed a portrait of True Lord Diyou as Qin Lu felt an unseen shackle break.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators received Meng Yu’s order to suspend their efforts to control the Qin Clan.
• Meng Yu planned to meet Qin Lu and negotiate an exchange for Liu Ji and Zhao Gou rather than risk ruining his plan.

The Fortune Heaven Sect adjusted its plans after learning that Qin Lu had escaped his destined fate and reached the Nascent Soul realm. Meng Yu met with his Golden-Horned Beast Jin Yao before confronting Qin Lu in his old homeland, where Qin Lu recognized him as Venerable Shenji.

• Heavenly Fate True Lord, True Lord Leyin, and True Lord Huang De learned that Great Qin had risen early and Qin Lu had become a Nascent Soul True Lord, so they settled down to await further orders.
• True Lord Leyin proposed several ways to gather fortune, including destroying Great Qin, killing Extreme Dharma True Lord, or slaughtering cultivators of ice- and snow-related Dao principles.
• Meng Yu reunited with Jin Yao in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and Jin Yao offered to kill Qin Lu, but Meng Yu chose to negotiate first.
• Meng Yu told Jin Yao he would wake him on the day he broke through to Spirit Transformation, then departed as Jin Yao turned into a golden boulder.
• Qin Lu left the Heart Sea Secret Realm and traveled to his old homeland, where Meng Yu waited for him near the former Yunmeng Marsh.
• Qin Lu recognized that Meng Yu was actually Venerable Shenji.

Meng Yu negotiated with Qin Lu, offering a world-creation method in exchange for control over Liu Ji and Zhao Gou, and asking for Great Qin’s fortune. He revealed that Qin Lu and many figures in history had been created as part of his plan, and Qin Lu accepted the revelation before asking what he and the Qin Clan would gain.

• Qin Lu assured Meng Yu that he did not intend to contend with him over the Dao or become his enemy.
• Meng Yu asked Qin Lu to stop interfering with Liu Ji and Zhao Gou, offering to teach him the Four Origins Creation Method in return.
• Meng Yu proposed that Qin Lu hand over Great Qin and Qin Zheng so he could claim Great Qin’s fortune while sparing Qin Zheng and protecting the Qin Clan.
• Meng Yu explained that he had used Qin Lu’s memories to recreate historical kings and sages, and planned to create Hu Hai to inherit Great Qin’s fortune and die in Qin Zheng’s place.
• Qin Lu accepted that Meng Yu had once manipulated his fate but noted that he had now transcended it, then asked what agreeing to Meng Yu’s demands would gain for him and the Qin Clan.