Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu’s destruction of three factions strengthened his treasures and left the Seven Beauties Star Domain under Qin Clan control. The clan settled there to expand its influence and population, while True Lord Xinghe remained in flight overseas.

• Qin Lu refined his Ten Thousand Souls Banner: Heaven Burial with the souls of cultivators, turning it into a mid-grade Fifth-Tier treasure and awakening its Ghost God Power.
• Qin Lu used Xiaoyue’s Nascent Soul as the foundation for a phantom Nether Moon, which he planned to refine into a ghost infant bearing Nether Moon Dao Law.
• Qin Lu’s Nether Sha Sword: God Devouring grew stronger and began developing blood-colored patterns and a trace of spirituality, while the Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial changed little.
• The Qin Clan moved tens of thousands of people into the Seven Beauties Star Domain, took local female cultivators as wives, and established control as rival factions submitted or were destroyed.
• The Qin Clan delegated local power to compliant factions while gathering resources and expanding its bloodline, aiming to build strength for future generations.

The Nether Cold Domain and Myriad Spirits Dao Domain met after learning that Qin Lu had conquered the Seven Beauties Star Domain, and True Lord Minghuang proposed an alliance to kill him. The Nether Cold Domain’s factions refused to commit, and True Lord Minghuang invited Old Freak Xinghe to seek refuge in his domain.

• The six Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Nether Cold Domain met four Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Myriad Spirits Holy Land at Realm Domain Mountain, with Old Freak Xinghe between them.
• True Lord Minghuang proposed that the powers unite to hunt down Qin Lu before he expanded into their domains.
• True Lord Xueyun urged True Lord Wanlei to join the alliance, but True Lord Wanlei led the Purple Firmament Sect’s three cultivators away instead.
• True Lord Xueyun then departed with the Blood Ghost Sect’s two vice sect masters, leaving the alliance proposal without support from the Nether Cold Domain.
• True Lord Minghuang invited Old Freak Xinghe to move to the Myriad Spirits Dao Domain, where five Nascent Soul Cultivators could defend themselves together.

Qin Lu returned to the Qin Clan after the clan gained preliminary control of the Seven Beauties Star Domain, then used two captured Ye Clan Nascent Souls to develop the Moon Void Domain. After half a year, the domain expanded and formed new rivers of the Great Dao, leaving it populated by new spiritual life and Shadow Demons.

• Old Freak Xinghe gave True Lord Minghuang a Nascent Soul cultivation method in exchange for shelter, and the group left without pursuing Demon Qin.
• Qin Lu returned to the Qin Clan in the 155th year of the Great Qin calendar, leaving Lin Xuan to consolidate the clan's control of the Seven Beauties Star Domain.
• Qin Lu considered how the Spirit Ascension Secret Realms could help him complete the Seventh Heaven and reflected on escaping Venerable Shenji's control.
• Qin Lu released two Ye Clan Nascent Souls in the Moon Void Domain and crushed them, releasing their Mystic Yin and Star Dao Principles.
• After half a year, the Moon Void Domain expanded to more than 1,200 square kilometers, formed new Great Dao rivers, and gave rise to spiritual plants, objects, and Shadow Demons.

Qin Lu stabilized the Moon Void Domain, introduced Shadow Demons as useful spirit pets, and placed two Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasures within it. He then killed True Lord Qingyuan and strengthened the Myriad Manifestations Realm, which became one of the Seventh Heaven’s foremost realms and a new home for the Qin Clan’s Wood Dao cultivators.

• Qin Lu distributed Spirit Veins through the Moon Void Domain and bonded with the Shadow Demon best suited for cultivation.
• The Qin Clan learned to bond with Shadow Demons, which provided shadow evasion, protection, and physical enhancement, and began breeding them as secondary spirit pets.
• Qin Lu placed the Star-Annihilating Mirror in the Moon Void Domain, where it became a lake, and the Mystic Yin Treasure Pearl in a mountain later called Mystic Yin Peak.
• Qin Lu killed True Lord Qingyuan in the Myriad Manifestations Realm, scattering his soul and ending his life.
• The Dao laws of luxuriant growth and ancient wood formed two great rivers, expanding the Myriad Manifestations Realm and raising it to a level comparable to the Water Cloud Realm.
• The Azure Insect Abyss, Bi, the Bloodthirsty Vine, and Qin clansmen with Wood Demon bloodlines settled in the Myriad Manifestations Realm, where the Fleeting Life Wood grew into a colossal upside-down tree.

Qin Lu’s conquests expanded the Qin Clan’s territories and resources, but the clan lacked enough members to manage its holdings and needed time to strengthen its foundations. In Year 161 of the Great Qin calendar, the Longlife Ancient Kingdom and the Three Truths Ancient Kingdom rose in power, while the Northern Nether Domain’s factions fought over who could safely pursue Spirit Transformation.

• Qin Lu’s gains included the Seven Beauties Star Domain, a route through the Silent Sea, a cross-domain teleportation passage, and the deaths of four Nascent Soul Cultivators, but the Qin Clan still lacked personnel to manage its territories.
• The Qin Clan treated descendants who died pursuing power as martyrs, and its members believed their souls would return to the Soul Dao and become part of their ancestor.
• Gu Xuanzhen broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, gravely wounded a Nascent Soul Cultivator of the Four Kingdoms Alliance, and killed dozens of Golden Core cultivators for the Longlife Ancient Kingdom.
• Ye Wuxu emerged as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and defeated Old Monster Tianfeng, whose injuries and the threat of interference from rival kingdoms made a Spirit Transformation breakthrough unlikely.
• The powerful factions remained locked in conflict because any cultivator attempting Spirit Transformation risked being interrupted by their rivals.

As the struggle for Spirit Transformation intensified, the Fortune Heaven Sect secretly planned to prevent any new Venerables from emerging, while Gu Xuanzhen visited Qin Lu to recruit him to Senior Ye’s side. Gu Xuanzhen also warned that Venerable Tianyan might still be alive and that an unseen force could be causing Nascent Soul True Lords to die.

• The Longlife Ancient Kingdom and the Three Truths Ancient Kingdom allied against the Four Kingdoms Alliance, while the rival Eastern Wasteland kingdoms remained possible allies for whoever helped one destroy the other.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect’s six Nascent Soul bishops planned to eliminate candidates for Spirit Transformation and secretly wait for both sides to weaken, protecting their Fortune Tide Plan.
• Gu Xuanzhen visited Qin Lu in Northern Nether Capital, and the two friends exchanged praise before turning to business.
• Gu Xuanzhen asked Qin Lu to join Senior Ye’s side and make a Great Dao Oath promising support for Senior Ye’s breakthrough in exchange for not blocking their future attempts at Spirit Transformation.
• Gu Xuanzhen privately told Qin Lu that Senior Ye suspected a hidden plot connected to other domains and believed Venerable Tianyan might not be dead.

Qin Lu refused Gu Xuanzhen’s invitation to support the Longlife and Three Truths alliance, choosing to keep Great Qin neutral amid the conflict. True Lord Qingyuan of the Four Kingdoms Alliance then arrived to recruit him, but Qin Lu restated his neutrality and asked how he had reached the Northern Continent.

• Qin Lu realized Ye Wuxu had uncovered clues to the Fortune Heaven Sect and planned to eliminate potential threats, so Qin Lu decided to stay out of the conflict for now.
• Gu Xuanzhen urged Qin Lu to side with Senior Ye, but Qin Lu cited Great Qin’s vulnerability and refused to take sides.
• Gu Xuanzhen accepted Qin Lu’s neutrality and returned to the Central Lands, satisfied that Qin Lu would not support the Four Kingdoms Alliance.
• True Lord Qingyuan of the Four Kingdoms Alliance arrived to recruit Qin Lu, and Qin Lu welcomed him to discuss matters.
• Qin Lu promised not to interfere rashly in the Spirit Transformation dispute and asked how True Lord Qingyuan had crossed the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to reach the Northern Continent.

Qin Lu rejected True Lord Qingyuan’s attempt to recruit him into the Four Kingdoms Alliance, then heard Huang Yang’s offer to help him seize control of the Eastern Wasteland. Qin Lu accepted the secret plot in exchange for the Mystic Spirit Soul-Replenishing Stone and other rewards.

• True Lord Qingyuan warned Qin Lu that the Four Kingdoms Alliance could force its way into the Northern Continent, but Qin Lu refused to join them and remained neutral.
• After True Lord Qingyuan left, Qin Lu detected Huang Yang hiding nearby and summoned him to appear.
• Huang Yang offered Qin Lu a Mystic Spirit Soul-Replenishing Stone, which greatly increased Divine Sense, in return for helping him eliminate the Yang Cloud Ancient Kingdom and the Desolate Sand Ancient Kingdom.
• Huang Yang promised Qin Lu thirty middle-grade Spirit Stones and the natal Law Treasures of Grandmaster Yangyun and True Lord Huangsha as well.
• Qin Lu agreed to help but insisted on choosing when to act and keeping his involvement secret, and Huang Yang accepted.

Qin Lu considered Great Qin’s strategy and the shifting fortunes of the Frost Cloud Realm while Qin Zheng steadily refined the Great Wall as the foundation of his cultivation. The chapter ended with Qin Zheng comprehending the Gui Water Dao Principles, bringing the number of his manifested Daos to four.

• Qin Lu decided that the Qin Clan would keep building its strength in secret and considered ways to interfere with the Fortune Heaven Sect’s plans in the Eastern Wasteland.
• By the 170th year of the Great Qin calendar, the ice and snow receded as the Frost Cloud Realm’s ice Daos weakened and its fortune Daos grew stronger.
• The Great Dao of Extreme Dharma also flourished, becoming a new contender for the Frost Cloud Realm’s core great Dao because Qin Lu had appeared.
• Qin Zheng continued refining the Great Wall day after day, reaching the Golden Core Late Stage while making the wall the foundation of his path toward Nascent Soul.
• Qin Zheng comprehended the Gui Water Dao Principles, manifesting four Daos and matching the formidable standing of Ye Wuxu, the Extreme Dharma True Lord.

Qin Zheng completed his fourth Dao principle while Gai Nie and Flower Princess marveled at his potential and the Northern Frontier’s growing strength. He arrived at the royal residence and was acclaimed as King Zheng by the followers and clans who had pledged themselves to him.

• Gai Nie and Flower Princess watched Qin Zheng complete his fourth Dao principle and discussed how many more his body might withstand.
• Flower Princess described Qin Zheng’s effort to refine the Great Wall as the foundation of his Dao, while Gai Nie reflected on the Qin Clan’s growing Wood Demon population and talents.
• Qin Zheng comforted Flower Princess, then flew with her and Gai Nie to the Northern Frontier’s main city.
• Meng Tian, Meng Yi, the four leading clans, and Qin Zheng’s other followers gathered in the royal residence to await him.
• Qin Zheng entered the great hall, took the throne, and received the gathered figures’ allegiance as King Zheng.

Qin Zheng prepared an expedition into the ice fields to find the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court and aid Soul Frost Ghost King’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul. Seven days later, he led a powerful force into the frozen wilderness, with the court’s location still unknown.

• Qin Zheng learned that his subordinates had found no trace of the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court and announced he would lead the search himself.
• Qin Zheng met with Soul Frost Ghost King and Nether Thunder Ghost King, who emerged from a Shadow Demon’s portal.
• Guiyang assured Qin Zheng that the Historical Record Book could sense the ancestral court nearby, whether it was a physical place or a secret realm.
• Guiyang said the court could hold vast treasures, including an ice-and-snow Dao spiritual object that could help Soul Frost Ghost King break through and advance Qin Zheng’s Dao.
• Seven days later, Qin Zheng departed for the ice fields aboard a Fourth-Tier battleship with seven Golden Core cultivators, more than a hundred Dao Foundation cultivators, five thousand combat puppets, and his hidden ghostly allies.

Qin Zheng led Great Qin's warship across the ice plains, using a Frost Spirit Demon as a guide while his forces seized resources and destroyed demon tribes. A huge beast tide and six Demon Kings confronted them, but Qin Zheng's side held the advantage as the battle unfolded.

• Qin Zheng erased a Frost Spirit Demon's mind, used its bloodline to guide the ship toward the Ice and Snow Demon Court, and hung its body at the bow as a living lantern.
• Qin Zheng's group found rare resources, including a spatial crystal vein, and marked several spirit mines for later exploitation.
• Great Qin's Dao Foundation cultivators wiped out ice and snow tribes, while the expedition collected demon souls and corpses and killed or tamed young demons.
• Hundreds of thousands of Demon Beasts and several Fourth-Tier Demon Kings gathered to intercept the warship, and Great Qin unleashed its cold-resistant puppet army against them.
• Gai Nie sent the snow leopard Demon King flying with a giant-sword strike, Flower Princess trapped the Silverback Rhinoceros King, and Qin Zheng's other fighters gained the upper hand in their duels.

Qin Zheng turned the chaotic battle against the Demon Kings by killing the Ice-Winged White Tiger King with one sword strike and capturing the other five. He destroyed them with Dao Law-infused water, leaving the battlefield littered with their bodies and Demon Cores.

• The Core Formation Demon Kings and cultivators fought across several battlefields, with their powers reshaping mountains, rivers, and glaciers.
• Qin Zheng drew Lulu and sent Sword Qi at the six Demon Kings, severing the Ice-Winged White Tiger King's head and destroying the other five Demon Kings' bonded weapons.
• The five Demon Kings fled, but Qin Zheng used the Tidal Dao Principles to drag them back.
• Qin Zheng infused the five Demon Kings with fragments of Mystic Water, Tides, King Water, and Gui Water Dao Laws, causing their bodies to undergo irreversible Dao transformation.
• Qin Zheng continued pouring Mystic Water Dao Principles into the five Demon Kings until their bodies burst apart, then removed their Demon Cores and discarded their remains in the snow.

Qin Zheng’s group destroyed most of the demon beast tide, harvested the Demon Kings’ remains, and followed clues from their souls to a frozen region where the Ice and Snow Demon Court was hidden. After Guiyang found a spatial disturbance and the warship’s cannon leveled a mountain, an ice crystal archway appeared above a lava lake, revealing the Demon Court’s entrance.

• Qin Zheng used a blackwater vortex to slaughter more than seventy percent of the demon beasts while leaving the rest alive to replenish future resources.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King consumed the six Demon King souls, while Flower Princess and the others divided and processed the Demon King corpses and the alchemists began refining the beast remains.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King learned that the surviving Demon Kings had last entered a hidden valley, and Qin Zheng’s group used that clue and the living lantern to search the ice field.
• The warship reached a barren region where the living lantern lost its vitality, suggesting that the Ice and Snow Demon Court was nearby and would soon move.
• Guiyang sensed a spatial fluctuation near a small mountain, and Qin Zheng’s warship cannon destroyed the peak, revealing an ice crystal archway above a lava lake.

Qin Zheng and Flower Princess entered the Ice and Snow Demon Race’s ancestral court, where twenty-seven Demon Kings surrounded them. Qin Zheng fought nine of them at once with the aid of his Ghost Kings and Jintong, while the Peak Core Formation Frost Spirit Demon remained the only enemy capable of threatening him.

• Qin Zheng sensed an ancient presence at the gateway and entered the ancestral court with Flower Princess, leaving the other cultivators outside under Gai Nie’s command.
• Twenty-seven Demon Kings surrounded Qin Zheng and Flower Princess, led by a pure-blooded Frost Spirit Demon at the Peak Core Formation Realm.
• Qin Zheng summoned the Soul Frost Ghost King and Nether Thunder Ghost King, while Jintong revealed his thousand-zhang dragon form to counter the demons’ pressure.
• The Demon Kings attacked with thirteen kinds of ice and snow Dao Principles, and Flower Princess transformed into living armor around Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng activated his Fortune-Suppressing Jade Seal and Imperial Dao Body, then fought nine Demon Kings at once with his sword and water Dao Principles.
• Qin Zheng’s attacks overwhelmed the weaker demons, while the Peak Core Formation Frost Spirit Demon remained the only foe able to hurt him.

Qin Zheng and his allies fought the Demon Kings, with Qin Zheng using himself as bait to divide their forces while Nether Thunder Ghost King and Jintong struck from the flank. After six Demon Kings died, Qin Zheng healed his grave wound and charged back into battle, promising to kill the rest.

• Qin Zheng and Soul Frost Ghost King fought the Demon Kings while Nether Thunder Ghost King used his bow to kill a savage lion Demon King.
• The Frost Spirit Demon sent five Demon Kings to attack Nether Thunder Ghost King and ordered the others to overwhelm Qin Zheng and Soul Frost Ghost King.
• Qin Zheng was badly wounded by a giant claw, but Nether Thunder Ghost King killed a Frost Snow Wolf King and Soul Frost Ghost King shielded him.
• Jintong and Nether Thunder Ghost King killed all five Demon Kings sent after them, including the Cloud-Winged Tiger King.
• Qin Zheng revealed that he had deliberately drawn the Demon Kings’ attacks to help Jintong and Nether Thunder Ghost King pick them off, then healed and rejoined the fight.

Qin Zheng and the Soul Frost Ghost King turned their battle against the Demon Kings by exploiting the enemy’s divided forces and killing several opponents. Qin Zheng replenished his strength with pills from his father’s collection, leaving the fight in their favor.

• Qin Zheng and the Soul Frost Ghost King fought together as the Demon Kings split their forces between two battlefields.
• Qin Zheng killed a Cloud Python Demon King and a leopard demon, despite suffering a grave wound that quickly regenerated.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King killed a giant ape Demon King with Qin Zheng’s help, then swallowed its soul and recovered much of his strength.
• Qin Zheng took pills from several bottles to restore most of his strength.

After Qin Zheng’s group defeated the Demon Kings, they learned that the realm was the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court, a vast three-layered Spirit Ascension Secret Realm. They discovered they could not return through the entrance, so Qin Zheng ordered them to explore deeper while fearing what might await them in the inner layers.

• Jintong and the Nether Thunder Ghost King helped Qin Zheng’s group defeat the Demon Kings; three survivors submitted, while the rest were killed, including the Frost Spirit Demon King, whose soul the Soul Frost Ghost King searched and devoured.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King learned from the Frost Spirit Demon King’s memories that the realm was the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court, with three layers and a gateway to the second layer that required Core Formation cultivation.
• The Nether Thunder Ghost King judged the Ancestral Court to be an ancient, unusually complete Spirit Ascension Secret Realm rather than a grotto-heaven.
• Qin Zheng decided that he and Flower Princess would leave to inform the clan while Nether Thunder, Jintong, and Soul Frost held their position, but he discovered the entrance had vanished.
• Unable to find an exit or break out of the stable realm, Qin Zheng ordered the group to continue deeper and worried that the Ancestral Court might conceal powerful Ice and Snow Demon Race threats.

Qin Zheng used water-sphere spirits to scout the first level of the ancestral court while Soul Frost Ghost King shared what he knew about the second level. The map revealed abundant resources that could strengthen the Qin Clan, and Qin Zheng realized the ancestral court had helped the Ice and Snow Demon Race survive repeated exterminations.

• Qin Zheng sent thousands of water-sphere spirits through the first level to map its regions, resources, and Demon Race settlements.
• Soul Frost Ghost King said the second level held more than a hundred statues of ancient Demon Emperors, some of which might still retain power or wills.
• Qin Zheng's spirits mapped glaciers, forests, and plains, finding nearly two hundred Demon Beast populations and Spirit Veins at the heart of each region.
• Qin Zheng identified valuable mineral veins, abundant spirit plants and ancient cold ironwood, and ten-thousand-year-old mystic ice and cold marrow that could benefit the Qin Clan.
• Qin Zheng recalled the Ice and Snow Demon Race's repeated defeats and concluded that the ancestral court's treasures had enabled it to recover and endure.

Qin Zheng and his companions entered the Ice and Snow Demon Race’s ancestral hall, where the Soul Frost Ghost King absorbed the remnants left in ancient Demon Emperor sculptures. The surviving Demon Emperor apparitions rose to stop them, but three powerful apparitions appeared behind Qin Zheng and challenged them.

• Qin Zheng led his companions through the gateway into the ice-crystal palace, where stone sculptures recorded 154 Demon Emperors of the Ice and Snow Demon Race.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King absorbed the remaining spiritual essence from the ancient sculptures, causing them to crumble into rubble.
• The dozen or so sculptures that still held spiritual essence manifested as Demon Emperor apparitions to defend the Ice and Snow Demon Race’s legacy.
• The Demon Emperors’ overwhelming pressure immobilized Qin Zheng and his companions, and three contingencies activated as Qin Zheng’s jade token shattered.
• Three immense apparitions emerged behind Qin Zheng, and the gray imperial apparition condemned the Demon Emperor remnants for their presumption.