Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu destroyed the lingering wills of the Ice and Snow Demon Emperors and forged their remnants into an immortal pill for the Soul Frost Ghost King. He then entered the ancestral court’s deepest realm, where he found the preserved legacies of the Ice and Snow Demon Venerables and the spirit of the Heavenly Frost Demon Venerable.

• Qin Lu overwhelmed and extinguished the remnant wills of the Ice and Snow Demon Emperors, ending the Ice and Snow Demon Race’s last inheritance.
• Qin Lu gathered the emperors’ remnants and refined them with the Ice and Snow Dao Principles into a fifth-grade immortal pill for the Soul Frost Ghost King.
• Qin Lu protected Qin Zheng and his companions, then opened hidden gates to the ancestral court’s deepest reaches and entered alone.
• Qin Lu found a half-finished grotto-heaven containing thirteen white-jade ice sculptures of the Ice and Snow Demon Venerables.
• Qin Lu discovered that only the last sculpture, belonging to the Heavenly Frost Demon Venerable, retained a trace of spirit.

Qin Lu’s projection of will fought the remnant will of the Heavenly Frost Demon Venerable inside the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court. After drawing on the Soul Dao and the Seventh Heaven’s power, Qin Lu destroyed the ancestral court, absorbed its remnants, and returned to his body with his cultivation advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage Perfection.

• The Heavenly Frost Demon Venerable appeared before Qin Lu and recognized his extraordinary Soul Dao strength and ruthless nature.
• The Heavenly Frost Demon Venerable manifested his true form and battled Qin Lu’s projection of will in a struggle to devour and erase each other.
• Qin Lu’s true body drew on the Nether Flame Lord and the Seventh Heaven, then summoned the Soul Dao’s power through a rift into the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court.
• Qin Lu defeated the Heavenly Frost Demon Venerable and annihilated the ancestral court, while the dying venerable cursed the future of the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lu absorbed the remnant wills and Dao laws, returned to his true body, and stabilized his cultivation at Nascent Soul Middle Stage Perfection.

Qin Lu’s gains from the destruction of the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court shifted the balance of power, though Meng Yu wrongly believed he could still control him. As the Ancestral Court began collapsing, the Soul Frost Ghost King attempted to reach the Nascent Soul realm and become its new pillar.

• Heavenly Fate True Lord divined that the ice and snow would perish and the Soul Dao would flourish, but could not determine what had happened.
• Meng Yu divined that the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court had been destroyed and planned to restore his cultivation so he could eventually control Qin Lu.
• Meng Yu underestimated Qin Lu, who had reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage Perfection and could aim for the Nascent Soul Late Stage within a century.
• The chapter described the human powers competing for the future Spirit Transformation position as the Demon Race withdrew from the struggle.
• After the Demon Emperor and Demon Venerable statues vanished, the damaged layers of the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court began to collapse.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul realm so he could support the Ancestral Court as its new pillar.

The Soul Frost Ghost King faced the Nascent Soul tribulations with Qin Zheng and his companions guarding him, relying on a fifth-grade immortal pill from Qin Lu to survive. He passed the Lightning and Heart Demon tribulations, formed his Nascent Soul, and emerged as Lord Shuangping.

• Qin Zheng and his companions guarded the Soul Frost Ghost King as he began breaking through, despite his poor odds and lack of outside power or a special bloodline.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King swallowed Qin Lu's fifth-grade immortal pill and faced the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation, enduring repeated destruction and restoration of his ghostly body.
• After passing the Lightning Tribulation, the Soul Frost Ghost King transformed into a youth and returned from the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court to the real world.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King faced the Heart Demon Tribulation, severed part of the Soul Frost Great Dao River, and refined it to construct his Nascent Soul.
• The Soul Frost Ghost King passed the Human Tribulation, attained Nascent Soul fruition, and took the title Lord Shuangping.

Lord Shuangping took control of the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court after its damaged layers could not be fully repaired, and Qin Lu and the Nether Flame Lord helped move it toward the Seventh Heaven. Qin Zheng returned to the Northern Frontier Wang Estate with his companions and began preparing a Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasure for his future breakthrough.

• Lord Shuangping merged the shattered third layer of the Ancestral Court with the second and claimed control of the realm through Soul Frost’s Dao principles.
• Qin Lu summoned Lord Shuangping to help move the Ancestral Court, and Qin Lu, the Nether Flame Lord, and Lord Shuangping pulled it toward the Seventh Heaven to support the Eighth Heaven’s development.
• Qin Zheng and his party returned safely to the Northern Frontier Wang Estate after helping the clan secure the Ancestral Court.
• Qin Zheng kept the thirty-three Demon Cores and the materials he had collected from the Demon Kings he killed.
• Qin Zheng hired artifact-refining masters to forge the Demon Cores into a Fifth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasure for his future Nascent Soul breakthrough.

The Qin Clan began merging the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court with the Seventh Heaven to strengthen its realm. Lin Xuan’s time-sealing Dao Law slowed the Ancestral Court’s Great Daos from escaping, allowing the Seventh Heaven to be placed atop it, though Lin Xuan was nearly exhausted.

• The Qin Clan cleared the waters around Guizhong Island as the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court arrived, its spatial rifts threatening anyone below Nascent Soul.
• Qin Lu, Lord Shuangping, and the Nether Flame Lord began dismantling the Ancestral Court’s false sky and preparing the two worlds for fusion.
• Lin Xuan sealed the space with his Time-Sealing Dao Law, slowing the thirteen ice-and-snow Great Daos as Qin Lu and Lord Shuangping shattered the false sky.
• The Nether Flame Lord raised the Seventh Heaven and grafted it atop the Ancestral Court, which became the base supporting the seven worlds.
• Lin Xuan released the time seal after the initial structure was complete, nearly drained of strength and Dao Laws.

Qin Lu led the merger of the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court with the Seventh Heaven, creating the Eighth Heaven, renamed the Eternal Frost Court. Its incorporation reshaped the world and spawned new ice-related Great Daos, while Qin Lu’s ambition remained to complete a Ninth Heaven of Fortune Dao and Heavenly Fate.

• The Nether Flame Lord and Lord Shuangping helped merge the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court into the Seventh Heaven as Qin Lu aligned the realms’ Great Daos.
• After months of work, Qin Lu stabilized the merger, and Lin Xuan reinforced the structure with the power of space; the new Eighth Heaven was named the Eternal Frost Court.
• The Eternal Frost Court’s incorporation refined the seasons and expanded the other seven layers, though Qin Lu considered the world unbalanced and incomplete.
• The Moon Void Domain gained the Frost Moon Great Dao, the Myriad Manifestations Realm gained the Azure Frost Great Dao, and the Earth Nether Abyss gained the Jade Stone Dao.
• The Metal Origin Realm developed the Cold Crystal Dao, while the Water Cloud Realm’s pools became icy polar regions and gave rise to the Gui Water Great Dao.
• Lin Xuan hurried to the Seven Beauties Star Domain as Qin Lu looked toward completing the Ninth Heaven with Fortune Dao and Heavenly Fate.

Over two decades after the Eighth Heaven was built, the Qin Clan flourished, gained more Core Formation cultivators, and strengthened its standing after Lord Shuangping’s Nascent Soul breakthrough. Great Qin became a rising regional power as former Daoqing Lineage dependents sought its protection, while major forces reassessed it with caution.

• The Eighth Heaven’s growth created opportunities that helped Qin Clan disciples and their descendants, while the clan’s rising strength brought heavier responsibilities and new enemies.
• By the 195th year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Yingjie and Qin Xuanzi had broken through to Core Formation, and the Qin Clan had gained several other Core Formation True Persons.
• Lord Shuangping’s Nascent Soul breakthrough made the world recognize that the Qin Clan had two Nascent Soul experts, increasing Great Qin’s deterrence and earning it greater courtesy from other forces.
• Qin Xinzhou, Qin Xinyang, and Qin Xinzhi became known as the Three Heroes of the Qin Clan and drew Core Formation cultivators seeking to connect their forces with Great Qin.
• Nearly one-seventh of the former Daoqing Lineage’s dependent forces submitted to Great Qin, and more than fifty kingdoms and other forces joined the Three Mysteries Kingdom.
• With Great Qin’s influence expanding across the Northern Nether Domain, even the Fortune Heaven Sect had to reassess the danger it posed.

Qin Mingyi celebrated the Qin Clan’s expansion, including Qin Yingjie’s conquest of the Western Desert and the cultivation opportunities it provided. Qin Xuanzi reported that Qin Mingyue, a gifted eighth-generation disciple, had become a leading candidate for the Daughter of the Nether Moon plan.

• Qin Mingyi read a report on Qin Yingjie’s Tuomo Kingdom, where the Qin Clan had replaced the Buddhist temples’ leadership and turned Buddhist cultivators into blood food.
• Qin Mingyi praised the Western Desert’s resources, while Qin Xuanzi said Qin Yingjie might eventually form a Nascent Soul.
• Qin Xuanzi recommended more resources for Qin Daoran, and Qin Mingyi approved the support.
• Qin Mingyi asked about the Seven Beauties Star Domain and the Daughter of the Nether Moon plan.
• Qin Xuanzi named Qin Mingyue, whose spiritual light measured seven point seven inches, as a leading candidate for the role.

Qin Lu completed the Emperor Soul Crown after thirteen years of forging, greatly strengthening his Divine Sense and bringing his Nascent Soul close to Spirit Transformation pressure. He planned to use Nascent Soul cultivators to fill the crown’s seven sockets, while the Fleeting Life Wood quietly began awakening.

• The Qin Clan continued advancing its Daughter of the Nether Moon plan and considered Qin Mingyue its most promising candidate.
• Qin Lu used the Mystic Spirit Soul-Replenishing Stone and gathered materials to forge a supreme Soul Dao treasure in the Vast Dao Field.
• After thirteen years, the treasure’s completion triggered a three-day phenomenon that benefited Qin Clan disciples and helped the Fleeting Life Wood awaken intelligence.
• Qin Lu completed the Emperor Soul Crown, which more than doubled his Divine Sense and strengthened his Nascent Soul.
• Qin Lu planned to fill the crown’s seven sockets with Nascent Souls, targeting cultivators from the Eastern Wasteland and Nether Cold Domain, and vowed revenge against Shenji.

After years of clan developments, Qin Lu traveled in secret to the Central Lands, where he instructed his three great-grandsons before heading toward the Eastern Wasteland. He reached Green Hills Strait, a demon territory ruled by the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan, while continuing to conceal his identity and plans.

• Qin Xuanzhen broke through to Core Formation and later abdicated, and Qin Yinghai became the fourth Qin Emperor as the Qin Clan intensified competition for political positions.
• Qin Lu secretly arrived in the Central Lands and summoned Qin Xinzhou, Qin Xinyang, and Qin Xinzhi, his three great-grandsons, to instruct them and leave them fourth-grade pills.
• Qin Lu used the Shadow Demon to travel across the Central Lands while hiding his identity and avoiding attention from the Fortune Heaven Sect.
• After more than half a year, Qin Lu reached Green Hills Strait, a buffer zone between the Central Lands and the Eastern Wasteland ruled by the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan.

Qin Lu encountered the Green Fox King after she attacked his Shadow Demon and used the power of the Great Dao to begin transforming her into dust. He stopped the attack when she offered a secret method for cultivating Fifth-Tier spiritual items, then warned her not to threaten or manipulate him.

• The Green Fox King sensed the Shadow Demon in Green Hills and pursued it, hoping to seize a treasure that could help her form a Nascent Soul.
• The Green Fox King struck the Shadow Demon, and Qin Lu emerged from its shadow to confront her.
• Qin Lu used his Divine Sense to command the power of the Great Dao, causing the Green Fox King’s body to transform into crystalline dust.
• The Green Fox King begged for her life and offered to serve Qin Lu, then revealed that her clan possessed a secret method for cultivating Fifth-Tier spiritual items.
• Qin Lu halted the Dao transformation, slammed the Green Fox King into the earth with a soul palm, and warned her against threatening him again.

Qin Lu accepted Qing Ling’s Spirit Infusion and Essence Nurturing Method after learning that it could create Fifth-Tier treasures that improved the odds of Core Formation. He offered to take the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan under his protection and promised Qing Ling a chance to form a Nascent Soul before taking her with him to the Eastern Wasteland.

• Qing Ling transformed into a woman, offered Qin Lu her soul as compensation, and apologized for offending him.
• Qin Lu questioned whether the Green Fox Clan could really cultivate Fifth-Tier spiritual objects, and Qing Ling explained the hundred-year method and its benefits.
• Qin Lu accepted the method and considered how it could increase the Qin Clan’s number of Core Formation Cultivators.
• Qin Lu offered to protect the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan and promised Qing Ling he would guarantee her Nascent Soul formation if the clan followed him.
• Qing Ling recognized Qin Lu as True Lord Diyou and feared that her discovery would endanger her clan.
• Qin Lu took Qing Ling with him as the Shadow Demon carried them away toward the Eastern Wasteland.

Qin Lu visited Huang Yang at the Desolate Yang Immortal Palace, where they discussed mounting tensions and a hidden threat in the Eastern Wasteland. Qin Lu agreed to deal with Grandmaster Yunyang and True Lord Huangsha so Huang Yang could unite the region.

• Huang Yang sensed Qin Lu’s arrival and was overwhelmed when Qin Lu appeared behind him and demonstrated his superior power.
• Huang Yang welcomed Qin Lu and Qing Ling into the inner hall, and Qin Lu casually described his interest in bedchamber pets.
• Huang Yang warned that conflict could erupt within thirty years and suggested that a dangerous presence might also exist in the Eastern Wasteland.
• Qin Lu sealed their conversation from the Heavenly Secrets and reassured Huang Yang that the future could still change.
• Huang Yang revealed clues linking a hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator to the Li Clan and asked Qin Lu to help unite the Eastern Wasteland.
• Qin Lu agreed to handle Grandmaster Yunyang and True Lord Huangsha, leaving Huang Yang to choose the time and place.

Qin Lu accepted Huang Yang’s request to help pacify the Eastern Wasteland while planning to use the resulting conflict to weaken the Fortune Heaven Sect and plunge the world into chaos. Months later, he trapped True Lord Huangsha and Grandmaster Yangyun at sea and began hunting them with his ghosts.

• Qin Lu saw the Fortune Heaven Sect and other powers as vulnerable schemers and decided that widespread chaos would best serve the Qin Clan.
• Huang Yang sent word to Qin Lu, who left the Desolate Yang Immortal Palace and traveled to the Eastern Wasteland.
• Huang Yang and True Lord Huangsha lured Grandmaster Yangyun to a stretch of sea, hoping to kill him and unite the Eastern Wasteland.
• Qin Lu sealed the area off from the Great Dao, cut the two Nascent Soul cultivators off from the outside world, and summoned countless ghosts to attack them.

Qin Lu killed Grandmaster Yunyang and True Lord Huangsha, devouring their Nascent Souls and suppressing a surge of power that threatened to trigger a breakthrough. He prepared to return north to the Qin Clan and bring the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan under its control, while Qing Ling feared what would happen if her clan refused.

• Qin Lu used Emperor Nether’s power and ten thousand ghosts to defeat Grandmaster Yunyang, tear out his Nascent Soul, and consume its soul.
• The Soul Poison Dao Principle drove True Lord Huangsha mad, and Qin Lu extracted and refined his Nascent Soul before swallowing it.
• Qin Lu suppressed his rising Soul Dao power to avoid exposing his breakthrough and planned to wait until he reached the Eighth Heaven.
• Qin Lu decided to return north after settling his deal with Huang Yang and bringing the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan under the Qin Clan’s control.
• Qing Ling trembled as she realized Qin Lu had slain the two powerful enemies of her clan and feared the consequences of refusing him.

After Qin Lu returned north, a thirty-year countdown to the final battle began, driving powers across the world to unite and prepare. The chapter ended as five elemental figures appeared in the Myriad Spirits Holy Land, summoning Mieyang’s descendants to contend for the world’s fortune.

• Qin Lu left the Eastern Wasteland with Qing Ling, but the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan split into three groups: one followed Qing Ling north, one sought refuge with Huang Yang, and one stayed at Green Hills.
• Huang Yang overthrew the Desolate Sand Ancient Kingdom and the Yang Cloud Ancient Kingdom, unified the Eastern Wasteland, and founded the Desolate Sui Ancient Kingdom.
• The Mystic Sacred Turtle Emperor broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, united the three Aurora Sea clans, and led them into an alliance with True Lord Vermilion Bird and the Azure Scale Clan.
• A white-robed cultivator persuaded the Nine Dragons Sea’s Dragon Emperors, the White Dragon Emperor, the Penguin Emperor, and the Whale Emperor to join an alliance.
• The Blood Ghost Sect and Purple Firmament Sect made peace and formed the Nether Cold Domain Alliance.
• Five elemental figures appeared in the Myriad Spirits Holy Land and called for Mieyang’s descendants to follow Mieyang’s command and contend for the world’s fortune.

Jinxuan Kui subdued the Myriad Spirits Holy Land and made the Mieyang lineage a contender for world supremacy. Meanwhile, Qin Lu returned to the Northern Continent, broke through to Nascent Soul Late Stage, and awakened the Qin Clan’s bloodline across the Eighth Heaven.

• Jinxuan Kui claimed to be Venerable Mieyang’s son and pressured True Lord Minghuang into submission.
• True Lord Minghuang and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators knelt to Jinxuan Kui and agreed to follow him.
• The Mieyang lineage took control of the Myriad Spirits Holy Land and joined the struggle for supremacy.
• In the 210th year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu returned safely to the Northern Continent and entered seclusion at the Vast Dao Field.
• Qin Lu’s breakthrough triggered a Soul Dao phenomenon that improved the souls of Qin Clan disciples throughout the Eighth Heaven and transformed their bloodline.
• Qin Lu reached Nascent Soul Late Stage and concluded that his Divine Sense was unrivaled in the present age.

Qin Lu’s breakthrough awakened and empowered countless Wood Demons across the Eighth Heaven, while the Fleeting Life Wood completed its transformation into a Nascent Soul cultivator. Qin Lu offered the newly awakened man a place as patriarch of the Wood Demon clan, and the man agreed to serve him and asked for a name.

• Qin Lu’s breakthrough flooded the Eighth Heaven with Soul Dao Qi, awakening Demon Beasts and influencing them to regard the Qin Clan as their masters.
• Thirty-six Wood Demons arose in the Myriad Manifestations Realm, including a Core Formation thorn woman, a Purple Thunder Divine Bamboo youth, and an Evil-Purifying White Lotus girl.
• The Fleeting Life Wood concealed his presence as he stabilized his Nascent Soul cultivation after overcoming a threshold that had trapped him for thousands of years.
• Qin Lu approached the middle-aged man and invited him to sit and talk, then offered him freedom or the role of patriarch of the Wood Demon clan.
• The middle-aged man feared Qin Lu’s offer was a threat in disguise, declared his loyalty, and asked Qin Lu to give him a name.

Qin Lu named Fusheng True Lord Changsheng, marked him with a soul seal, and made him the Wood Demon race’s grand elder and an envoy of the Qin Clan. He then developed the Earth Nether Abyss as the Qin Clan’s future ancestral seat, leaving new Great Dao rivers and a medium-sized Spirit Vein as his goals.

• Qin Lu placed a soul mark on Fusheng and appointed him grand elder of the Wood Demon race, entrusting him with the Myriad Manifestations Realm and service to the Qin Clan.
• Fusheng accepted his new position and chose True Lord Changsheng as his honorific title.
• Qin Lu told Fusheng to rally the Qin Clan and Wood Demons, strengthen their standing, and secure his place within the clan.
• After stabilizing the Eighth Heaven, Qin Lu went to the Earth Nether Abyss to improve the Qin Clan’s future ancestral seat.
• Qin Lu crushed the Nascent Souls of True Lord Huangsha and Grandmaster Yunyang, returning their Great Dao power to heaven and earth.
• Qin Lu placed a hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones beneath Muxuan Mountain to help form new Great Dao rivers and secure a medium-sized Spirit Vein for the Qin Clan.