Chapter Summaries

Meng Yu secured Qin Lu’s agreement to trade a portion of Great Qin’s fortune for support, secret realms, and a path toward immortality. As the Fortune Heaven Sect took control of key figures’ fates and reshaped the alliances, the Qin Clan began making new moves.

• Meng Yu offered Qin Lu recognition, a Spirit Ascension Secret Realm, and the Fortune Heaven Sect’s goodwill in exchange for a portion of Great Qin’s fortune, and Qin Lu agreed on the condition that Qin Zheng remained safe.
• Meng Yu gave Qin Lu the Wind Extremity Heaven secret realm and advised him to advance the Heart Sea Secret Realm and use Nascent Soul cultivators’ Great Daos to hasten Spirit Ascension.
• Meng Yu revealed that he intended to take Qin Hui and Zhao Gao’s original fates to direct Great Qin and the Song Alliance, and Qin Lu accepted.
• Heavenly Fate True Lord met Qin Lu secretly, after which Zhao Gao disappeared and returned with a different core and signs of forming a clique.
• True Lord Huang De guided the Han Alliance into rebellion against Qin, while Qin Xinzhou and the others pretended to pursue its forces toward the Western Desert.
• True Lord Leyin turned Qin Hui into a Dao Foundation corpse cultivator, and Qin Hui helped found Great Song as a nominal vassal of Great Qin; the Fortune Heaven Sect’s five Nascent Soul cultivators took control of their targets’ fates.

Qin Lu built the Qin Clan’s Fourth Heaven from four linked secret realms, making its completion the clan’s central priority as he shifted his ambition from empire-building to immortality. Years later, Qin Wen and Qin Minghan advanced their cultivation, Qin Xuanzhen became the third Qin Emperor, and Qin Xiao met Qin Hui in the Earth Nether Abyss.

• Qin Lu combined the secret realms into the Earth Nether Abyss, Crimson Flame Hell, Water Cloud Realm, and Wind Extremity Heaven, stacking them into the Fourth Heaven.
• Qin Lu redirected the Qin Clan’s resources toward developing the Fourth Heaven and reduced the clan’s public role in Great Qin.
• Qin Wen comprehended the Confucian Dao, survived the Core Formation tribulation, and became True Person Liwen.
• Qin Minghan abdicated, attained Golden Core with the King Wood Dao Principles, and became True Person Mugui before passing the throne to Qin Xuanzhen, the third Qin Emperor.
• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui met for tea at the summit of a lonely peak in the Earth Nether Abyss.

Qin Xiao and Qin Hui discussed the Qin Clan’s rapid growth, its bloodline inheritance, and the need to strengthen the Fourth Heaven by hunting Nascent Soul cultivators and absorbing ancient secret realms. They also considered the clan’s future prospects, including Qin Zheng’s preparations for Core Formation, and expected him to comprehend a third Dao Principle within a year or two.

• Qin Xiao said the Fourth Heaven needed to develop faster and proposed hunting Nascent Soul cultivators and absorbing spiritually ascended ancient secret realms.
• A Qin Clan member from the Ying generation broke through to Dao Foundation, displaying signs of the Wood Demon bloodline.
• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui reflected on the clan’s rapid expansion, its many Dao Foundation cultivators, and the brothers’ uncertain chances of reaching Nascent Soul.
• Qin Hui suggested directing more resources toward Lin Xuan, Ghost Fire, and Soul Frost, whom he thought most likely to break through soon.
• Qin Xiao explained that Qin Zheng had yet to comprehend a third Dao Principle, but might do so within a year or two before attempting Core Formation.

Qin Xiao and his companion reviewed the Qin Clan’s affairs and established plans to train elite successors and expand across the eastern and western seas. The Qin Clan’s broader aim was to acquire resources from other continents, perfect the Fourth Heaven, and help Qin Lu ascend to immortality.

• Qin Xiao and his companion surveyed the Lineage’s members, resources, and recent development, then drafted plans for its future.
• Qin Xiao created the Eight Sons of Dao Heaven plan, naming Qin Yingjie its leader and selecting Qin Daozhuo, Qin Daoming, Qin Daoxing, Qin Mingfeng, Qin Minghu, Qin Mingyuan, and Qin Mingyou as the other candidates.
• The Qin Clan devised the Two Seas Plan to seize the Seven Lights Sea Region and transport its marine resources to the Northern Continent.
• The Qin Clan planned to expand into the Silent Sea to hunt whale beasts for blood food, find a sea route to the Western Desert, and search for other continents.
• The Qin Clan resolved to focus on gathering resources and hunting Nascent Soul Cultivators to perfect the Fourth Heaven and help Qin Lu ascend to immortality.

Qin Lu and the Qin Clan decided to avoid the Northern Nether Domain’s conflicts and pursue their own growth. On the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall, Qin Zheng underwent a lightning tribulation, refined his life-bound Law Treasure, and named it the Fortune-Suppressing Jade Seal.

• Qin Lu and the Qin Clan chose to stay out of the Northern Nether Domain’s power struggles and focus on forging their own path.
• Qin Zheng stood atop the completed Ten Thousand Li Great Wall and manifested the Mystic Water, Aqua Regia, and Tidal Dao Principles as he began his tribulation.
• Qin Zheng used his sword and the Great Wall’s power to withstand the first waves of divine lightning, while soldiers supplied Demon Beast blood to replenish him.
• Qin Zheng endured the three-colored lightning with his body, then used his life-bound Law Treasure to withstand the remaining strikes.
• Qin Zheng’s jade seal transformed into a five-colored seal bearing words of heavenly mandate, and fortune gathered to heal and empower him.
• Qin Zheng named his life-bound Law Treasure the Fortune-Suppressing Jade Seal.

Qin Zheng survived the highest-order Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation, formed a Golden Core, and announced that he would preach the Dao in Heavenly Ice City. Decades of preparation had made Great Qin powerful enough to launch its first unified campaign against the Seven Lights Sea Region, where its fleets and dragon allies began crushing the Demon Kings.

• Qin Zheng consumed a Dragon-Shaped Infant Embryo Fruit and faced the Four-Colored Divine Lightning with a purple qi divine dragon.
• Qin Zheng formed a Golden Core after attaining the Great Daos of Profound Water, King Water, and Tides, and took the honored title Imperial Grace.
• Qin Zheng announced a Dao gathering in Heavenly Ice City one year later, where he would impart a supreme Immortal Method.
• Great Qin sent six fleets and its hidden dragon forces into the Seven Lights Sea Region, backed by a vast army and advanced warships.
• Qing Centipede, Mo Li, Black Dragon, and the three Frost Flood Dragon Kings led more than a hundred flood dragons in attacks on the sea Demon Kings.
• The flood dragons killed three whale-beast Demon Kings in a few days, and Great Qin's forces continued their slaughter for months.

Great Qin’s forces slaughtered giant whale Demon Kings at sea, with Golden Feather and Qing Centipede helping secure the kills and their Demon Cores. Qin Wu then pursued a fleeing beast tide toward the northwest to finish the mission, while assigning Qin Zhuang to deal with three Demon Kings to the southwest.

• Six dragons and Golden Feather attacked the giant whales, and Golden Feather drove them back while declaring that Great Qin was conducting its affairs.
• Qing Centipede and the dragons killed the wounded giant whale Demon King and took its Demon Core, then attacked the five remaining whales.
• Qin Wu counted sixteen Demon Cores from the battle and learned that Uncle Qing had intercepted six more Demon Kings, bringing their total to twenty-two.
• The Nether Thunder Ghost King reported three Purple Coral Dragon Horse Demon Kings to the southwest and a beast tide fleeing northwest, possibly hiding more Demon Kings.
• Qin Wu ordered the cultivators and six fleets to pursue the beast tide, called for the Azure Emperor to join them, and assigned Qin Zhuang and the Eight Immortals Sea legions to sweep the Seven Lights Sea Region.

After three years of Qin Clan slaughter devastated the Seven Lights Sea, Qin Lu moved the Fourth Heaven above the sea and led the Water Cloud Realm through spiritual ascension. The realm expanded to four million square kilometers, gained a new Great Dao of Tides and a medium-sized Spirit Vein, and its creatures began to transform.

• The Seven Lights Sea's Demon Beast groups lost sixty percent of their numbers, while many surviving beasts were tamed or fled.
• Qin Lu moved the Fourth Heaven from above the Northern Continent to a position over the sea and gathered Water Dao auspicious Qi with other cultivators.
• Qin Lu crushed thirty Water Dao Demon Cores, guiding the Water Cloud Realm's spiritual ascension and the birth of the Great Dao of Tides.
• Qin Lu added Water Dao treasures, Spirit Stones, and Spirit Veins, expanding the realm to four million square kilometers and strengthening its spirit mountains.
• Several Second-Tier flood dragons comprehended Tidal Dao Principles and advanced, while other creatures gained spiritual awareness and became Demon Beasts.

After ten years of seclusion, Qin Lu refined a fifth-tier spirit fire into the Soul-Burning Divine Fire, a weapon that could destroy Nascent Souls. He judged the remaining powerful cultivators who could threaten him and resolved to pursue the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• The Water Cloud Realm's Spirit Ascension bound the Fourth Heaven together, and the Great Dao of Tides began to emerge through its connection to Wind Extremity Heaven.
• The Qin Clan shifted its focus toward the sea while Great Qin developed the Northern Continent and supplied the clan's needs.
• Qin Lu emerged from ten years of seclusion in Great Qin's year 115 with his Nascent Soul and a refined gray spirit fire.
• Qin Lu named the soul-attacking flame the Soul-Burning Divine Fire and judged it a major new trump card against enemies.
• Qin Lu recognized that several Nascent Soul Late Stage figures and Meng Yu could still threaten him, then decided to cultivate toward the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

As Qin Lu entered seclusion, the Ghost Fire Ghost King prepared to break through to Nascent Soul by separating from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and merging with the Fourth Heaven. He offered his Dao to the world, beginning to transform into a Nether Yang as Heaven Burial Boy and Guiyang watched.

• The Ghost Fire Ghost King advanced toward Nascent Soul after absorbing Fifth-Tier spiritual fire, while Lin Xuan also neared a breakthrough with a much lower chance of success.
• Heaven Burial Boy warned the Ghost Fire Ghost King that merging with the Fourth Heaven would bind him to it for life, and the Ghost Fire Ghost King confirmed his decision.
• The Ghost Fire Ghost King severed his connection to the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and fused his ghost pearl with the false Nether Yang, binding his fate to the Fourth Heaven.
• Heaven Burial Boy used the Ghost King Seal, Earth Burial, to send hundreds of millions of ghosts and evil spirits into the Nether Yang as fuel.
• The Ghost Fire Ghost King offered his Dao to the world and called for Nether Fire to endure as a ghost took the sun's place.

The Ghost Fire Ghost King fused with the Fourth Heaven, reached the Nascent Soul realm, and became Nether Flame Lord after Crimson Flame Hell underwent spiritual elevation. As the Fourth Heaven gained a Nether Yang and new Nether Flame Ghost inhabitants, Qin Lu arranged for Qin Yingjie to study under Nether Flame Lord.

• The Ghost Fire Ghost King fused with the Fourth Heaven, broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, and gave Qin Lu access to some of the world's power.
• Crimson Flame Hell expanded to five million square kilometers as the Great Dao of Nether Fire formed and a Nether Yang rose over the Fourth Heaven.
• The Ghost Fire Ghost King chose the title Nether Flame Lord and created tens of thousands of Nether Flame Ghosts as Crimson Flame Hell's first inhabitants.
• Heaven Burial's child spirit and Guiyang left Nether Flame Lord to govern Crimson Flame Hell, while the Fourth Heaven's growth began influencing other realms and the Earth Nether Abyss.
• Qin Lu ordered Qin Yingjie to return to the clan and study under Nether Flame Lord, and instructed the clan to build Nether Flame Lord a residence.

The Qin Clan directed resources and Fire Dao cultivators to Crimson Flame Hell while maintaining a brutal system that rewarded strength and aptitude. Years later, the mediocre collateral disciple Qin Daoran found a crimson orb that entered his body, raising his cultivation and improving his absorption of fire Spiritual Power.

• Qin Mingyi arranged for Fire Dao cultivators to gather in Crimson Flame Hell and recalled Qin Yingjie to cultivate under the Nether Flame Lord.
• The Qin Clan's collateral and direct disciples competed fiercely for resources and status, with weak descendants demoted and capable ones promoted.
• By the 121st year of the Great Qin calendar, the Qin Clan had developed Crimson Flame Hell into a volcanic region with Spirit Veins, spirit beasts, and cultivated fire-attribute plants.
• Qin Daoran discovered a crimson bead in an extinct volcano while tending Spirit Plants, and it flew into his body.
• Qin Daoran woke from a deep sleep with his cultivation increased from the Qi Condensation First Layer to the Sixth Layer and an improved ability to absorb fire Spiritual Power.

The Nether Flame Lord secretly marked Qin Daoran, while Li Shan achieved Core Formation and revealed a lead to an ancient secret realm on Immortal-Seeking Island. The Great Qin fleet set out for the island through the dangerous Northern Nether Sea, with Qin Clan cultivators and a hidden escort accompanying it.

• The Nether Flame Lord sent Nether Yang Heavenly Fire to mark Qin Daoran’s neck with a hidden flame-shaped sign.
• Li Shan received permission from Qin Mingyi to form his Core in the Earth Nether Abyss, survived the Four-Nine Lightning Tribulation, and helped the Li Clan become a third-rank Immortal Clan of Great Qin.
• Li Shan told Qin Mingyi about Immortal-Seeking Island and its ancient secret realm, hoping his Core Formation status would earn his clan future benefits.
• The Great Qin Fourth Fleet departed the Seven Lights Sea, carrying Li Shan, Qin Minghan, and more than a hundred Qin Clan disciples toward the Northern Nether Sea and the Silent Sea.
• Dragon King Hanli, Mo Li, secretly followed the fleet as it began its expedition to locate Immortal-Seeking Island.

Qin Daoran refined the orb enough to claim the Golden Flame Divine Fire and broke through to Qi Condensation Seventh Layer, while the Fourth Fleet encountered a massive Demon Beast tide. The fleet formed a defensive line as Qin Minghan and Li Shan prepared to meet the probing attack.

• Qin Daoran refined the orb and Golden Flame Divine Fire, then advanced to Qi Condensation Seventh Layer and began to imagine a greater future for himself.
• Qin Daoran spotted giant Demon Beasts beneath the sea, and Qin Minghan sounded the alarm across the Fourth Fleet.
• The Fourth Fleet arranged its warships into a defensive formation as twenty Dao Foundation cultivators took to the air.
• Li Shan sensed more than fifty Third-Tier greater demons but found no Demon King within a thousand li, and Qin Minghan concluded the tide was testing their strength.
• Qin Minghan ordered all troops to open fire in every direction.

Great Qin’s fleet fought off a sea-demon tide with cannon fire, battle puppets, and Dao Foundation cultivators. Qin Mingyuan and Qin Mingle dominated their opponents, while Qin Daoran plunged into the beast tide with divine fire.

• Great Qin’s ships bombarded the approaching sea demons, killing many but failing to stop the tide from advancing.
• Five thousand Great Qin Type-06 Puppets entered the sea and fought the demons while cultivators attacked from the ships.
• Qin Mingyuan suppressed five Third-Tier Upper Grade greater demons with his pupil techniques and cloud weapons, while Qin Mingle used flute music to bolster Great Qin’s forces and disrupt the demons.
• The other Dao Foundation cultivators held their positions, and Qin Minghan let the younger disciples gain battlefield experience.
• Qin Daoran charged into the beast tide, piercing sea demons and incinerating them with his golden divine flames.

Qin Daoran used Golden Flame Divine Fire to kill a flood dragon beast and help rout the sea demon tide, while the Fourth Fleet suffered few losses. The battle’s aftermath highlighted how Great Qin’s unified laws and military system had made its forces formidable.

• Qin Daoran killed a turtle Demon Beast with Golden Flame Divine Fire, then charged into the sea demon horde.
• Qin Daoran shattered the flood dragon beast’s ice attack, trapped it in flames, and killed it with a concentrated beam of divine fire.
• The demon beasts broke and fled, and the Fourth Fleet pursued them as the Third-Tier great demons also withdrew.
• Great Qin counted just over a thousand destroyed puppets and a dozen cultivators killed, with no low-tier warships lost.
• The battle’s outcome demonstrated the strength of Great Qin’s military system, which had been developed through nearly two hundred years of unified rule and refinement.

After the beast tide receded, Qin Minghan tracked down and killed the giant shark Demon King with the King Wood Dao Principles, the Tai'e Sword’s power, and a series of poisons and restraints. A dragon watching from the depths recognized the immense gray phantom behind Qin Minghan and was ordered to leave.

• Qin Minghan located the giant shark Demon King a hundred li away and summoned an imperial phantom wielding the Tai'e Sword’s might.
• Qin Minghan struck the shark with Sword Poison, then pursued it as it tried to flee and block its meridians.
• Qin Minghan bound the shark with vines, pinned it to the seabed, and used poison and the King Wood Dao Principles to suppress and destroy it.
• Qin Minghan collected the shark’s soul fragments and Demon Core, noting that its Tidal Dao Principles could strengthen the Great Dao of Tides in the Water Cloud Realm.
• A dragon watching from the depths saw the gray phantom behind Qin Minghan, and the phantom ordered it to scram.

Qin Lu confirmed that the White Dragon Emperor would stay out of outside affairs, and the Fourth Fleet crossed the Northern Nether Sea without opposition before entering the barren Silent Sea. After six months of searching for Immortal-Seeking Island, the fleet had found no land at all.

• Qin Lu tested the White Dragon Emperor's response and concluded that the old dragon intended to avoid involvement in outside affairs.
• The Fourth Fleet crossed the Northern Nether Sea smoothly, collecting some Water Dao resources along the way.
• Qin Minghan told Li Shan to preserve the route and offered his clan responsibility for managing it under Qin Clan supervision, while reminding him to raise Li Ping'an in honor of Qin Mingxi's last wish.
• The Fourth Fleet entered the Silent Sea, where its warships' formations lost power, and Qin Clan spirit beasts were harnessed to tow the ships.
• The fleet searched the Silent Sea for six months but found neither Immortal-Seeking Island nor even a reef.

After months of searching, Qin Minghan and the Fourth Fleet broke through the Water-Moon Array and entered Immortal-Seeking Island’s secret realm. Qin Minghan quickly learned that it was a vast Spirit Ascension Secret Realm guarded by three Core Formation cultivators, leaving a difficult battle ahead.

• Qin Minghan realized the island was hidden by a Water-Moon Array and found its reflection in the sea during the night.
• After repeated failures, the Fourth Fleet flipped beneath the sea and then returned to the surface near the island, revealing Immortal-Seeking Island.
• Li Shan used the jade crescent token to open the ancient doorway, and Qin Minghan, Dragon King Hanli, and the Great Qin forces entered the secret realm.
• Qin Minghan killed the guards at the altar and searched a female cultivator’s soul to learn about the realm.
• Qin Minghan determined that the realm was a vast, complete Spirit Ascension Secret Realm with an unfathomable presence and three Core Formation cultivators.

Qin Minghan used Great Qin’s Five Elements Puppets to trap the three Ye Clan cultivators while he confronted a mysterious figure in the Spirit Ascension Secret Realm. He subdued the dragon-blooded half-demon that held a remnant thought of a Nascent Soul and sealed it away.

• Qin Minghan deployed the Great Qin Type A-01 Five Elements Puppets and rode his dragon to face the mysterious aura.
• Li Shan joined the puppets against three Ye Clan Golden Core cultivators, who were trapped in the Five Elements Spirit Annihilation Grand Array.
• Qin Minghan and Mo Li combined their power to repel the mysterious figure’s attacks and strike it with the phantom of the Tai'e Sword.
• Qin Minghan revealed that the figure was a dragon-blooded half-demon with vacant eyes and the instincts of a puppet.
• A remnant thought at the Nascent Soul level pleaded with Qin Minghan to save it, and he subdued the half-demon and sealed it in an ice coffin after disabling its body.