Chapter Summaries

Qin Minghan defeated the dragon-blooded half-demon, whose attempted possession was destroyed by Qin Lu’s remaining power, and gained its memories of Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm. He learned how Demon Emperor Yunqi had been imprisoned by the Ye Clan and discovered that Yunqi’s hidden body was the realm’s greatest secret.

• Qin Minghan searched the Ye Clan Golden Core cultivators’ remnant souls but found that restrictions destroyed them when he tried to learn about the secret realm.
• Qin Minghan ordered Li Shan to eliminate the Ye Clan remnants, control the realm’s other inhabitants, gather information, and locate the secret realm’s core.
• The dragon-blooded half-demon attempted to possess Qin Minghan, but Qin Lu’s power destroyed its soul and left Qin Minghan with Nascent Soul-level soul fragments and the demon’s memories.
• Qin Minghan learned that Demon Emperor Yunqi had created the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm to find a body to possess, but the Ye Clan ancestor had captured and exploited his remnant will.
• Qin Minghan discovered that Yunqi’s body was hidden in a special spatial layer within the secret realm, and that the Ye Clan had imprisoned Yunqi in hopes of finding it.

The Great Qin Fourth Fleet conquered the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm, and Qin Minghan learned how its six Great Dao Rivers could benefit the Fourth Heaven. He activated the realm’s core, opening a spatial rift through which the remains of a giant dragon began to emerge.

• The Great Qin Fourth Fleet slaughtered the Ye Clan and plundered the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm under strict quotas.
• Qin Minghan learned that the spirit lake drew upon the Silent Sea and that the realm contained six naturally evolved Great Dao Rivers.
• Qin Minghan realized the realm could be drawn toward the Fourth Heaven and assimilated, filling gaps in several of its Great Daos.
• Qin Minghan activated the secret realm’s dragon-scale-shaped core with a special Method Formula.
• A spatial rift opened, and the remains of a mountain-sized giant dragon passed through the void.

The Qin Clan secured Demon Emperor Yunqi’s dragon remains and returned them to the Water Cloud Realm, where Qin Lu refined the remains into Dragon Blood Pills. The pills strengthened the clan’s Flood Dragons, and Qing Centipede later advanced to the golden core late stage.

• Qin Minghan stored Demon Emperor Yunqi’s well-preserved remains, which offered the Qin Clan valuable dragon blood and materials.
• Qin Mingyuan and Qin Mingle attained Golden Cores, becoming Illusory Long Clouds and Flowing Sound, respectively.
• The Great Qin Fourth Fleet departed, leaving Qin Mingyuan and a quarter of its personnel to guard the secret realm while the remaining people there were slated for slaughter.
• After two years of smooth travel, the fleet reached the Seven Lights Sea Region, and the dragon remains were delivered to Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu emerged from seclusion with greatly strengthened Divine Sense and refined the dragon remains into Dragon Blood Pills.
• The Dragon Blood Pills improved the Flood Dragons in the Water Cloud Realm, and Qing Centipede later broke through to the golden core late stage.

Qin Lu completed major preparations in the Fourth Heaven, including the Soul-Cleansing Pool, and reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. He planned to absorb the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm and expand the Qin Clan’s influence while preparing to move against his enemies.

• Qin Lu developed the Vast Dao Field’s six peaks around the medium-sized Spirit Vein and planned to use the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm to strengthen the Fourth Heaven’s Great Daos.
• Qin Lu established the Soul-Cleansing Pool as a Soul Dao blessed land that strengthened cultivators, replenished itself with returning souls, and nourished the Fourth Heaven.
• Qin Lu awoke in the Soul-Cleansing Pool after reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and considered his preparations against Shenji, Mieyang, and the Fortune Heaven Sect nearly complete.
• Qin Lu planned for Haiyue to settle in the Fourth Heaven and strengthen its tides after the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm was drawn there.
• The Great Qin Sixth Fleet found signs of another continent west of the Silent Sea, while the Fifth Fleet reached the Western Desert and began building a port.
• The Qin Clan planned to use its Western Desert foothold to obtain Buddhist cultivators’ Sariras.

Qin Lu concealed his cultivation while devising a plan to create Nine Heavens by combining the Four Origins Creation Method with the Five Elements Creation Method. Seven years later, he prepared to absorb the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm into the Fourth Heaven and began the process with a sword strike.

• Qin Lu suppressed his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Early Stage and began reshaping the Four Origins Creation Method and Five Elements Creation Method into his own plan for Nine Heavens.
• By the Great Qin calendar’s Year 132, Great Qin remained under the Qin Clan’s control while its national fortune went to the Fortune Heaven Sect, and Zhao Gao secretly siphoned away Great Qin’s fortune.
• Qin Lu persuaded Haiyue to settle her true body in the Water Cloud Realm, where she connected with the Great Dao of Tides and helped accelerate the realm’s evolution.
• After Haiyue settled in, Qin Lu prepared to break apart the empty Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm so the Fourth Heaven could absorb it, while the Qin Clan’s Golden Core cultivators stood ready to stabilize the realm.
• Qin Lu gathered his Sword Intent, named his strike World Destruction, and sent the Great Dao of Soul surging forth as the absorption began.

Qin Lu destroyed the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm and absorbed its fragments and Great Daos to transform the Fourth Heaven into the Seventh Heaven. The Qin Clan began settling into the new realms, which offered fresh paths for its cultivators, as its descendants celebrated their expanding world.

• Qin Lu shattered the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm, and the Golden Core cultivators drew its fragments into the Fourth Heaven.
• Qin Lu created the Metal Origin Realm, Myriad Manifestations Realm, Crimson Flame Domain, and Moon Void Domain, establishing the Seventh Heaven and the Great Dao of Nether Moon.
• Wind Extremity Heaven and the Crimson Flame Hell expanded as they absorbed the Great Daos of Long Clouds and Pure Yang.
• Qin Zhuang placed Soul Dao treasures and materials in the Moon Void Domain, and the Qin Clan's upper ranks agreed to raise a female cultivator to inherit the Great Dao of Nether Moon.
• Qin Minghan guarded the Myriad Manifestations Realm, while the Qin Clan's descendants answered Qin Mingle's music with cries of “Qin!”

Qin Lu completed the Seven Heavens’ transformation after devouring the Immortal-Seeking Secret Realm, strengthening its realms and their Great Daos. He planned to develop the Seven Heavens toward a Nine Heavens world and prepare to hunt Nascent Soul experts.

• Qin Lu established the Metal Origin Realm beneath the Earth Nether Abyss, with Qin Wu helping stabilize it through the Sha Metal Dao principles.
• The Water Cloud Realm expanded, and Haiyue advanced to Middle Core Formation as the Great Dao of Tides broadened.
• The Dragon-Nurturing Pool gathered Dragon Qi and Spiritual Power, while spirit mountains rose around it as lairs for dragon kings.
• Qin Lu’s Vast Dao Field gained Moon Peak as he developed the Great Dao of the Nether Moon and considered refining a new ghost king.
• Qin Lu compared his Nine Heavens Creation Method with other approaches and planned nine main Daos for each heaven and nine branches of the Soul Dao for a grotto-heaven.
• Qin Lu resolved to keep improving the Seven Heavens and set his sights on hunting Nascent Soul experts on other continents.

The chapter surveys the powers and secret arrangements across the Northern Nether Domain, showing how Great Qin’s growing strength has made it a potential ally or threat to competing factions. The Fortune Heaven Sect’s plans to harvest several kingdoms and alliances remain in motion, while Qin Lu and the Qin Clan pursue their own interests.

• The Longlife Ancient Kingdom continued to regard Great Qin as an ally, while the Three Truths Ancient Kingdom grew wary of Qin Lu’s potential and the Four Kingdoms Alliance secretly sought to court the Qin Clan.
• The chapter described the divided Eastern Wasteland and chaotic Southern Marsh, while the Qin Clan and the Fortune Heaven Sect prepared to contest the Western Desert through their respective arrangements involving Liu Ji and the Xiang Clan.
• Great Qin stopped interfering in the Song Alliance under Qin Lu and Meng Yu’s deal, leaving True Lord Leyin to supplant Qin Hui’s fate as the Fortune Heaven Sect prepared to harvest the alliance.
• The Qin Clan retained control of Great Qin until Qin Zheng took the throne, after which the Heavenly Fate True Lord would take over and use Hu Hai as a scapegoat.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect underestimated Qin Lu and left the Qin Clan alone for the time being, while Meng Yu remained missing and may have been restoring his power and making arrangements.

Qin Mingyi tightened the Qin Clan’s secrecy, prepared Qin Xuanzi to counter the Fortune Dao, and sent Qin Yingjie to build the clan’s influence in the Western Desert. Meanwhile, Qin Zhao’s secret expedition across the Silent Sea found an inhabited island and destroyed it, leaving the fleet poised to explore a new continent.

• Qin Xuanzi reported that he had released false information, imposed strict surveillance on travelers, and reached the Dao Foundation Realm while cultivating Heavenly Fate to conceal Seventh Heaven.
• Qin Mingyi named Qin Xuanzi a key asset against the Fortune Dao and kept the Qin Clan’s preparations secret.
• Qin Mingyi gave Qin Yingjie authority to support a power in the Western Desert and told him to act boldly with the Lineage behind him.
• In year 145 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Zhao’s small Sixth Fleet found an inhabited island deep in the Silent Sea after nearly thirty years of exploration.
• Qin Zhao ordered a Dao Foundation general to destroy the island, then swallowed the souls of two captured cultivators.

Qin Zhao led the Sixth Fleet to the Seven Beauties Star Domain, where Great Qin established a concealed foothold and activated a cross-continent teleportation formation. As Qin Mingyi mobilized forces to build a relay station, Qin Zhao assessed the domain’s major powers and their strength.

• Qin Zhao ordered the Sixth Fleet west, and it reached the continent after four more months of sailing.
• Qin Zhao seized a small Spirit Vein, established Boundless City, and had the area concealed beneath poisonous miasma as a forbidden land.
• The Sixth Fleet activated its modified grand teleportation formation, and Qin Mingyi sensed the arrival of the fleet at the subsidiary city.
• Qin Mingyi mobilized resources and formation masters while Great Qin sent its Second and Third Fleets toward the Silent Sea to build a relay station.
• Qin Zhao began planning Great Qin’s infiltration of the Seven Beauties Star Domain, where the Grand Yin Ancient Kingdom, Star River Holy Land, and Qingyuan Holy Land held power.

Qin Lu prepared the Qin Clan to manage without him while the teleportation network was built, and Lin Xuan accepted the clan’s terms as he prepared to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. The chapter ended with seven Dragon Kings answering Lin Xuan’s call and gathering Dragon Qi to support his breakthrough.

• Qin Lu told Qin Mingyi to give Lin Xuan fifth-grade Dragon Blood Pills and aim for Lin Xuan to form his Nascent Soul within two years, while Qin Mingyi worked to raise his own cultivation.
• Qin Lu gave Qin Mingyi fourth-grade Adversity-Breaking Pills and left, and Qin Mingyi vowed to obey his orders and bring glory to the Qin Clan.
• At the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, Lin Xuan recognized that he could not safely resist Qin Lu and decided to bind himself to the Qin Clan in exchange for a chance to advance.
• Lin Xuan swallowed the Dragon Blood Pills and called on the living beings to lend him strength as he prepared to form his Nascent Soul.
• Qing Centipede, Mo Li, the Black Dragon, and four Frost Flood Dragon Kings answered Lin Xuan’s call and gathered Dragon Qi around the Dragon-Nurturing Pool.

Lin Xuan endured the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation and formed his Nascent Soul as the Seventh Heaven was stabilized by the Qin Clan. After becoming a transformed Demon Emperor, he proclaimed the name of Chiyan and bestowed benefits on the Seventh Heaven and its flood dragons.

• The Qin Clan’s Golden Core cultivators stabilized the Seventh Heaven with their Dao powers and the Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial.
• Lin Xuan faced the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation, with the seven dragon kings supplying him with Dragon Qi during the final five-colored lightning strike.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the lightning cocoon, merged his Time-Sealing Dao Law with the Seventh Heaven, and helped expand and strengthen it.
• The Seventh Heaven’s Great Dao power returned to Lin Xuan, allowing his Dragon Core to transform into a young Suanni and his Nascent Soul to form.
• Lin Xuan declared that he had attained the Nascent Soul and become a transformed Demon Emperor, then enlarged the Dragon-Nurturing Pool and advanced the flood dragons’ bloodlines.
• Lin Xuan proclaimed the name of Chiyan and gave back to heaven and earth.

Lin Xuan’s advancement transformed the Water Cloud Realm into a thriving dragon ecosystem bound to the Qin Clan, and he went to pay his respects to Qin Lu. Qin Lu ordered him to impersonate him and guard the Seventh Heaven while he traveled, leaving Lin Xuan to decide whether to accept.

• Lin Xuan’s rise and the birth of the Great Dao of Time Sealing expanded the Seventh Heaven and transformed the Dragon-Nurturing Pool, where flood dragons and dragon-blooded creatures multiplied.
• A complete dragon food chain formed in the Water Cloud Realm, with Qilin Emperor Lin Xuan at its summit and the Qin Clan set to benefit from the dragons’ growth and treasures.
• Lin Xuan visited Qin Lu and stood trembling under his Nascent Soul Middle Stage pressure before kneeling to pay his respects.
• Qin Lu placed a hand on Lin Xuan’s head, acknowledged him, and told him to follow along.
• Qin Lu said he would travel far away and asked Lin Xuan to disguise himself as Qin Lu and guard the Seventh Heaven in his place.

In the 143rd year of Great Qin, Qin Lu traveled from Glory Island to the Purple Poison Forest in the Seven Beauties Star Domain. He emerged before cultivators drawn by a false treasure omen and began killing them, leaving the surviving Core Formation True Persons helpless beneath his Nascent Soul pressure.

• Qin Lu secretly planted black-gray Qi in Lin Xuan’s sea of consciousness before leaving him.
• Qin Lu arrived at Glory Island, an artificial outpost in the Silent Sea, and used its grand teleportation formation to travel to the Seven Beauties Star Domain.
• A pillar of light above the Purple Poison Forest drew nearby cultivators, who gathered expecting an extraordinary treasure.
• Qin Lu’s voice killed more than a hundred Dao Foundation cultivators and drained their souls.
• When a Core Formation True Person tried to flee, Qin Lu tore out his Golden Core and consumed it, then sat upon an imperial throne and ate souls as the survivors waited in terror.

Qin Lu slaughtered the cultivators and people within a thousand li by devouring their souls, then fought several Nascent Soul Cultivators with overwhelming force. He suppressed one opponent and badly injured others, while the remaining cultivators continued attacking.

• The Golden Core cultivators fled, but Qin Lu dragged them back with chains of Dao principles, refined their Golden Cores and souls into pills, and devoured them.
• Qin Lu unleashed the Great Dao of Nether Soul across a thousand li, killing every living being there and consuming their souls.
• Qin Lu struck a hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator with a demonic claw, dragged him back from the void, and pinned him beneath the Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial.
• Other Nascent Soul Cultivators attacked Qin Lu, but his soul-power barrier blocked their assaults as he countered with the Nether Sha Sword: God Devouring and Soul-Burning Divine Fire.
• A female cultivator was badly injured by Qin Lu's giant sword, while a young man sacrificed an arm and part of his soul and Nascent Soul to escape the divine fire, losing his physical body.

Qin Lu fought three Nascent Soul cultivators of the Grand Yin Ancient Kingdom and captured Xiaoyue and the young man after overpowering them. He planned to refine Xiaoyue into a Ghost King and take the young man to the Seventh Heaven, where his death would strengthen it.

• The young man's Nascent Soul recognized Qin Lu as the Soul Dao True Lord who had risen to the Nascent Soul Realm a hundred years earlier, and Xiaoyue persuaded him to stay and rescue their patriarch.
• The young man unleashed Star River Return to Origin and the Star-Extinguishing Mirror against Qin Lu, but Qin Lu blocked the attacks with his treasures.
• Xiaoyue used Moon Shadows Under Heaven to attack Qin Lu from behind, but his Emperor Nether's Ten Thousand Territories suppressed her Great Dao and he shattered her head with one slap.
• Qin Lu seized Xiaoyue's Nascent Soul and corpse, intending to make her his fifth Ghost King and keep her body for a puppet or corpse fiend.
• Qin Lu captured the young man's Nascent Soul and planned to kill him in the Seventh Heaven so the Seventh Heaven could absorb his Great Dao.

Qin Lu defeated the Grand Yin Ancient Kingdom cultivator, who traded information about two rival sects for the survival of his clan’s bloodline. Qin Lu killed him, then ordered Qin Zhao to bring the kingdom’s forces under Qin Clan rule and secretly use the Ye Clan to produce a Daughter of the Nether Moon.

• Qin Lu dismissed the middle-aged cultivator’s resistance and questioned him about his calm acceptance of defeat.
• The cultivator gave Qin Lu a Jade Slip detailing the weaknesses, locations, secret realms, and treasure caches of Old Freak Xinghe’s and True Lord Qingyuan’s sects.
• The cultivator asked Qin Lu to spare his clan’s bloodline and destroy the two sects; Qin Lu agreed, then extracted and sealed the cultivator’s Nascent Soul.
• Qin Lu ordered Qin Zhao to subdue the Grand Yin Ancient Kingdom’s forces and make the Ye Clan a slave clan that supplied blood food.
• Qin Lu told Qin Zhao to secretly send Qin Clan descendants to the Ye Clan to produce a Daughter of the Nether Moon.

Qin Lu headed for the Qingyuan Holy Land after destroying the Grand Yin Ancient Kingdom and capturing its three Nascent Soul cultivators. He attacked True Lord Qingyuan and Old Freak Xinghe, driving Qingyuan toward madness as Xinghe fled into the Great Dao river.

• Qin Lu set out northwest to kill the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, True Lord Qingyuan and Old Freak Xinghe.
• True Lord Qingyuan sensed that the Silver Moon, Stars, and Mystic Yin Great Daos had weakened and feared an unknown enemy had struck the Grand Yin Ancient Kingdom.
• Old Freak Xinghe arrived at the Qingyuan Holy Land to speak with True Lord Qingyuan, but Qin Lu's soul blades severed Xinghe's arm and forced both men to defend themselves.
• Qin Lu emerged from a spatial rift and overwhelmed True Lord Qingyuan with his Divine Sense.
• Qin Lu used his Seven Emotions Soul Poison Dao Principle to fill True Lord Qingyuan with terror and drive him toward madness.
• Old Freak Xinghe transformed into starlight and fled into the Great Dao river.

Qin Lu fought True Lord Qingyuan, who had cut away part of his soul to escape the Soul Poison, and overwhelmed him with the six Great Daos of the Soul Dao. After destroying Qingyuan’s formation and shattering his Divine Sense, Qin Lu seized his fleeing Nascent Soul and prepared to devour it.

• True Lord Qingyuan tore out the corrupted part of his soul to recover from the Soul Poison, though the act left him badly weakened.
• True Lord Qingyuan summoned sword attacks and the Wood Dao’s Jianmu manifestation as Qin Lu brought forth his six Soul Dao branches and suppressed them.
• Qin Lu’s Nether Fire overwhelmed the Jianmu tree, while True Lord Qingyuan attacked with Fleeting Life Wood and the Myriad Manifestations Soul-Devouring Great Formation.
• Qin Lu combined Soul-Burning Divine Fire with Nether Fire to suppress the Fleeting Life Wood, then broke the formation with a soul drill.
• Qin Lu shattered True Lord Qingyuan’s Divine Sense, intercepted his fleeing Nascent Soul, and seized it to devour its soul and spirit.

Qin Lu captured True Lord Qingyuan and claimed his body and the Fleeting Life Wood for plans to strengthen the Qin Clan and develop the Seventh Heaven. After Old Freak Xinghe escaped west, Qin Lu chose to focus on consolidating the Seven Beauties Star Domain rather than pursuing him or invading nearby domains.

• Qin Lu restrained himself from killing True Lord Qingyuan, sealed his weakened Nascent Soul in a treasure casket, and reserved his body to cultivate Wood Demons.
• Qin Lu decided to transplant the Fleeting Life Wood into the Myriad Manifestations Realm and use the Soul Dao to help it gain intelligence and become a Wood Demon.
• Qin Lu reflected that his Wood Demon bloodline had made him a new species with greater strength, regenerative abilities, and a longer lifespan, and he planned to use that bloodline to benefit his descendants.
• Qin Lu discovered that Old Freak Xinghe had fled west toward the Cangyuan Sea and judged that pursuing him or attacking nearby domains would be too risky.
• Qin Lu decided to develop the Seven Beauties Star Domain, whose full integration would take centuries.