Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu oversaw the Eighth Heaven’s expansion and assessed several rising powers that could threaten the Qin Clan. He ordered the clan to withdraw from the Seven Beauties Star Domain, strip it of its resources, and use its living souls to hasten the Nether Moon Ghost Emperor’s descent.

• The Earth Nether Abyss expanded, forming new mountains and a third medium-grade Spirit Vein for the Qin Clan as the Eighth Heaven grew more complete.
• Qin Lu reviewed intelligence with Qin Xiao, Qin Hui, Qin Mingyi, and Qin Minghan and judged the Southern Demon Alliance and Nether Cold Domain Alliance to be potential but manageable threats.
• Qin Lu learned that Jinxuan Kui and four other Mieyang puppets had joined the Myriad Spirits Holy Land, creating a force of ten Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Qin Lu ordered the Qin Clan’s members and some slaves in the Seven Beauties Star Domain to withdraw to the Eighth Heaven.
• Qin Lu told Lin Xuan to plunder the Seven Beauties Star Domain, destroy it if necessary, and slaughter vast numbers of its inhabitants to bring the Nether Moon Ghost Emperor into the world sooner.

The Qin Clan openly mobilized Great Qin’s forces and sent a massive army through a Fifth-Tier teleportation passage to the Seven Beauties Star Domain. The expedition displayed Great Qin’s strength and aimed to expose capable allies and vassals, while Lord Shuangping joined the force.

• The Qin Clan recalled its dispersed power in Great Qin and openly revealed Lord Shuangping and its returning experts.
• Great Qin prepared a Fifth-Tier teleportation array powered by secret realms, with Lin Xuan helping stabilize the passage to the Seven Beauties Star Domain.
• Qin Wu rallied a hundred thousand cultivators by promising merit and a chance to establish a Lineage within Great Qin’s Nine-Rank Immortal Clan System.
• Ten strategic-class flagships, a large army, renowned generals, allied forces, and combat puppets passed through the spatial passage.
• Lord Shuangping followed in his ice-dragon-drawn carriage as the expedition displayed only a portion of Great Qin’s strength.

The Fortune Heaven Sect's leaders discussed how Great Qin and the Qin Clan had disrupted their plans, and decided to wait for the second struggle for Spirit Transformation to ambush Qin Lu. Heavenly Fate True Lord accepted the order to remain hidden, while the Sect's other schemes advanced across the realms; he was left troubled by the possibility of failure.

• Heavenly Fate True Lord told the Fortune Heaven Sect's leaders that Qin Lu and the rising Qin Clan had become impossible to suppress and might threaten his life.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect's leader ordered Heavenly Fate True Lord to stay hidden until the second struggle for Spirit Transformation, when they would join forces with the White Dragon Emperor to surround and kill Qin Lu.
• The deputy leaders reported that their plans for the Li Clan, the Zhu Clan's rebel army, Great Song, and Great Han were progressing, with Zhao Gou and Liu Ji gaining power.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect's leaders recognized Qin Zheng as their most difficult protagonist to influence and an important bargaining chip between the Sect and the Qin Clan.
• After the meeting, Heavenly Fate True Lord worried that Heavenly Fate could be defied and, for the first time, considered that he might fail.

Great Qin launched a merciless campaign across the Seven Beauties Star Domain, annihilating its powers and plundering their people, treasures, and Spirit Veins. As the stolen Spirit Veins expanded the Eighth Heaven, Qin Lu suspected that Venerable Mieyang had created the Silent Sea by stripping it of its Spirit Veins.

• Great Qin's army divided into ten forces and massacred mortals while destroying clans, sects, and immortal lineages across the Seven Beauties Star Domain.
• Great Qin's generals, puppets, warships, and cultivator formations overwhelmed the defenders, leaving even powerful cultivators unable to stop the slaughter.
• Great Qin plundered the defeated powers' treasuries and secret realms, shipping their resources back to the Qin Clan for sorting and processing.
• Great Qin stored captured Spirit Veins in crystal beads and merged them into the Eighth Heaven, increasing its Spiritual Power and expanding it.
• Qin Lu wondered whether Venerable Mieyang had stripped the Silent Sea of its Spirit Veins to build the enormous Mieyang Immortal Palace.

Qin Lu resolved to seize the Seven Beauties Star Domain’s future for the Qin Clan, and Great Qin’s half-year campaign left the domain devastated and its population decimated. Qin Wu ordered the destruction to continue while Qin Mingzheng asked for more living souls to refine Ten Thousand Souls Banners.

• Qin Lu concluded that Venerable Mieyang’s slaughter of the Silent Sea might have served human survival and resolved to repeat that conquest for the Qin Clan.
• Great Qin’s campaign ravaged more than half the Seven Beauties Star Domain, killing nearly 200 billion living beings and collecting 134,756 million-soul banners.
• Qin Wu ordered Great Qin to keep destroying the domain, preserve a foothold for a future return, and use allied forces who had defected to fight one another.
• Qin Minghan judged the remaining local forces too weak to resist and expected Great Qin to break them apart through manipulation and offers of allegiance.
• Qin Mingzheng reminded Qin Wu to keep collecting living souls for the clan’s Soul Dao geniuses to refine superior Ten Thousand Souls Banners.

Qin Lu’s Qin Clan needed an ever-growing supply of living souls to strengthen its Soul Dao, while Qin Lu and Jinxuan Kui quietly agreed to let Great Qin strip the Seven Beauties Star Domain without fighting. True Lord Xueyun’s hopes of an alliance collapsed, leaving the Nether Cold Domain exposed to the Myriad Spirits Holy Land.

• Qin Minghan explained that the Qin Clan’s growing Soul Dao ranks and Devil Dao treasures demanded more living souls, making widespread chaos useful to Qin Lu’s long-term ambitions.
• True Lord Xueyun complained that Demon Qin had rapidly plundered the Seven Beauties Star Domain and left the Blood Ghost Sect facing the Myriad Spirits Holy Land’s expansion.
• Jinxuan Kui held back because he sensed Venerable Mieyang’s presence and understood Qin Lu’s withdrawal as a gesture of goodwill.
• Great Qin and the Myriad Spirits Holy Land tacitly agreed that Great Qin would take roughly seventy percent of the Seven Beauties Star Domain’s core resources before Jinxuan Kui annexed the Nether Cold Domain.
• True Lord Xueyun’s plan to ally with Qin Lu failed, leaving the Blood Ghost Sect and Purple Firmament Sect with no strong cultivator to protect them.

Great Qin withdrew from the devastated Seven Beauties Star Domain after slaughtering most of its population and taking its Spirit Veins, leaving a vast ghost domain behind. In the Moon Void Domain, Qin Mingyue and the other executors of the Daughter of the Nether Moon plan prepared to seize the moment of Yueji’s birth to advance their cultivation.

• Great Qin ended its campaign in the Seven Beauties Star Domain after killing more than sixty percent of its population and moving three medium-sized Spirit Veins to the Eighth Heaven.
• Great Qin withdrew, and the Myriad Spirits Dao Domain gathered survivors in the northwest while the rest of the region became a ghost domain where powerful ghosts arose and an unknown ghostly creature began to form.
• In the Moon Void Domain, Qin Mingyue and six other female cultivators waited beneath the Nether Moon for the birth of the Nether Moon Ghost Emperor, Yueji.
• Qin Mingyue, already at Qi Condensation Ninth Layer Perfection, planned to use the Nether Moon Dao Law’s resonance to forge a perfect Dao Foundation and secure the position of Daughter of the Nether Moon.
• A grand formation of ghost banners fed living souls into the Nether Moon, where a dark-purple baby girl devoured them as her Great Dao origin transformed.

Qin Lu completed the transformation of Silver Moon True Lord’s Nascent Soul into Yueji, the Nether Moon Ghost Emperor, using a hundred billion souls to create a new consciousness and reverse her Dao Law. As the Nether Moon Dao rose in the Moon Void Domain, the Shadow Demon race advanced and its first Demon King emerged.

• Yueji devoured a hundred billion souls, transformed into a Nether Moon ghost cultivator, and inherited Silver Moon True Lord’s memories while reaching Nascent Soul Early Stage Perfection.
• Qin Lu accepted Yueji’s advances and took her away, while Haiyue wondered where he was and felt unhappy about his reluctance to cultivate with her.
• Yueji’s breakthrough established the Nether Moon Dao as the Moon Void Domain’s third major Dao, and the Mystic Yin, Nether Moon, and Stars Daos gave rise to Shadow Demons.
• Qin Lu’s Shadow Demon reached Fourth Tier, formed a Demon Core and a solid body, and became the race’s first king, taking the name Shadow.

Qin Mingyue became the Daughter of the Nether Moon after breaking through to Dao Foundation Third Layer Perfection, while the Qin Clan prepared its next move. The Myriad Spirits Holy Land began a large-scale deployment against the Nether Cold Domain, and the Qin Clan watched for a chance to seize the Blood Ghost Sect's inheritance.

• Qin Mingyue and the other six participants gained benefits from the Nether Moon Dao Law, and Qin Mingyue broke through to Dao Foundation Third Layer Perfection.
• The Qin Clan officially appointed Qin Mingyue as the Daughter of the Nether Moon and began plans to build the Nether Moon Palace, where Yueji would serve as palace master and Qin Mingyue as holy maiden.
• Qin Xuanzi reported that Great Qin's forces had withdrawn from the Seven Beauties Star Domain and that their hidden ghost seed could produce a Nascent Soul-level Ghost Emperor in thirty years.
• Qin Xuanzi also reported Qin Daoran's rapid progress and Qin Mingyue's growing authority, while both prepared to pursue Core Formation.
• Qin Xuanzi told Qin Xiao that the Myriad Spirits Holy Land had sent at least two hundred thousand cultivators to the Nether Cold Domain, where Nascent Soul Cultivators had clashed without a victor.

Qin Xiao outlined the Qin Clan’s secret projects and preparations for the coming struggle over Spirit Transformation as the Nether Cold Domain’s resistance crumbled. Qin Lu then arrived with three other Nascent Soul cultivators and clashed with Jinxuan Kui in Divine Sense, gaining the upper hand.

• Qin Xiao told Qin Hui, Qin Minghan, and Qin Mingyi that the Qin Clan needed to strengthen itself and gave them Jade Slips detailing projects for a Nascent Soul-level puppet, a Fifth-Tier warship, and Qin Zheng’s cultivation.
• The Qin Clan worked to protect Qin Zheng and prepare him to become its seventh Nascent Soul True Lord.
• By the 215th year of the Great Qin calendar, the Blood Ghost Sect and Purple Firmament Sect were wounded and their Nether Cold Domain alliance was collapsing amid defections, rebellions, and internal strife.
• Jinxuan Kui tried to make the two sects submit to annexation by the Myriad Spirits Holy Land, but they refused to surrender their independence and fought on.
• Qin Lu arrived in the Nether Cold Domain with Lord Shuangping, Yueji, and Lin Xuan, bringing four Nascent Soul cultivators together.
• Qin Lu and Jinxuan Kui clashed with their Divine Senses, and Qin Lu gained the upper hand.

Qin Lu and Jinxuan Kui assessed each other’s strengths, then agreed to divide their targets: Qin Lu would attack the Blood Ghost Sect while Jinxuan Kui’s forces struck the Purple Firmament Sect. Qin Lu’s group reached the Blood Ghost Sect, where Lin Xuan shattered its protective formation, beginning their assault.

• Qin Lu and Jinxuan Kui gauged one another’s abilities and recognized each other as rivals worthy of negotiating with.
• Qin Lu proposed taking the Blood Ghost Sect while leaving the Purple Firmament Sect and Nether Cold Domain to Jinxuan Kui, who agreed.
• Qin Lu and his three companions headed for the Blood Ghost Sect as Jinxuan Kui sent seven Nascent Soul experts, led by True Lord Minghuang, against the Purple Firmament Sect.
• Qin Lu planned to seize the Blood Ghost Sect’s Nether Soul and Ghost Spirit Dao principles while dismissing True Lord Xueyun’s Blood Dao as unimportant.
• Qin Lu ordered Lin Xuan to break the Blood Ghost Sect’s protective formation, and Lin Xuan used Time Sealing to freeze it before shattering one of its nodes.

After the Blood Ghost Sect’s formation shattered, its Nascent Soul cultivators fled, but Qin Lu and his allies intercepted them. Qin Lu captured True Lord Nether Soul, while True Lord Gui'e trapped Lord Shuangping and Yueji in separate spaces as the battle continued.

• True Lord Xueyun fled in seven blood clouds, and the other two Soul Dao Nascent Soul Cultivators tried to escape after the sect’s formation shattered.
• Lin Xuan sealed the area with his innate Divine Ability, but True Lord Nether Soul abandoned his body and sent his Nascent Soul into the void.
• Qin Lu captured True Lord Nether Soul’s Nascent Soul with a Nether Thunder net and used the Nether Moon to put his consciousness into an endless slumber.
• Qin Lu pursued True Lord Xueyun while Lord Shuangping and Yueji fought True Lord Gui'e.
• True Lord Gui'e split the space around Lord Shuangping and Yueji, trapped each in a separate realm, and summoned Guiling Dao Soldiers to wear them down.

Lin Xuan, Lord Shuangping, and Yueji defeated True Lord Gui'e and captured his Nascent Soul, while Qin Lu continued destroying True Lord Xueyun’s blood-cloud bodies. True Lord Xueyun fled as the last cloud, burning his Essence Blood to escape.

• Lin Xuan shattered True Lord Gui'e’s Myriad Evils Ghost Domains, allowing Lord Shuangping and Yueji to escape.
• Yueji trapped True Lord Gui'e in an illusion, and Lord Shuangping pierced him with his spear and shattered his body.
• True Lord Gui'e’s Nascent Soul fled, but Lin Xuan sealed it with his third eye, and Yueji put it into a deep sleep for Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu destroyed more of True Lord Xueyun’s blood clouds with his Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand, Nether Thunder, and Nether Fire.
• True Lord Xueyun burned his Essence Blood and fled as Qin Lu pursued the last remaining blood cloud.

Qin Lu defeated and killed True Lord Xueyun, destroying the Blood Ghost Sect and claiming its treasures, inheritance, and Spirit Veins for the Qin Clan. He left some young disciples alive to cultivate for a future harvest while further weakening the Myriad Spirits Holy Land.

• True Lord Xueyun unleashed the Scarlet Blood Nine Spirits and a thirty-thousand-foot Blood Demon, but Qin Lu shattered his attack with a colossal palm.
• Qin Lu's palm crushed True Lord Xueyun's body and Nascent Soul, and Xueyun died after reflecting on the gulf between them.
• Qin Lu recognized that his overwhelming display also warned Jinxuan Kui, who was watching.
• Qin Lu's group seized the Blood Ghost Sect's inheritance, captured two Soul Dao Nascent Souls, and claimed its Spirit Veins and a blood-Dao heavenly treasure.
• Qin Lu's group spared several young Golden Core disciples and many lower-realm cultivators to rebuild the sect's foundation for later harvesting.

After Qin Lu’s forces crushed the Blood Ghost Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators, the Qin Clan used its growing prominence to confuse rival powers and conceal its true strength. By the 220th year of the Great Qin calendar, the clan had withdrawn to consolidate its gains as Qin Zheng neared the chance to form a Nascent Soul.

• Qin Lu and his companions defeated the Blood Ghost Sect’s three Nascent Soul cultivators, leaving the Myriad Spirits Holy Land poised to control three domains.
• Qin Lu deliberately spread and encouraged information about the Qin Clan to mix truth with falsehood and hide its strength and trump cards.
• Rival powers speculated that the Qin Clan had hidden Nascent Soul cultivators, but its secrecy and protections prevented them from obtaining reliable intelligence.
• In the 220th year of the Great Qin calendar, the Qin Clan entered another period of retreat to consolidate its gains from the Nether Cold Domain.
• Qin Zheng was expected to refine the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall within five to ten years and gain the opportunity to form a Nascent Soul.

True Lord Tianfeng assessed the coming struggle and agreed to join Ye Wuxu’s plan to target the Fortune Heaven Sect first. Meanwhile, the Fortune Heaven Sect Master accepted that his fate foretold death but prepared to fight for victory anyway.

• True Lord Tianfeng’s followers reported that they could not locate Venerable Tianyan and suspected the Fortune Heaven Sect was divided.
• True Lord Tianfeng reasoned that Shenji stayed hidden because the Fortune Heaven Sect’s own members might turn against him while he remained vulnerable.
• True Lord Tianfeng agreed to play his part in Ye Wuxu’s show and outlined how the rival factions would enter the final battle.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect Master’s divination predicted his certain death, but he resolved to fight for the opportunity before him.
• The Fortune Heaven Sect Master put on an ancient bronze mask, one of his lineage’s treasured Sixth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasures.

Qin Zheng tempered his body in the Blood Pool until he reached the utmost limits of the Core Formation Realm, then began Nascent Soul Formation at age 195. He easily endured the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation and brought out a section of the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall as the lightning intensified.

• Qin Clan disciples used the Blood Pool to strengthen their bodies and aptitude, while the clan’s cultivation base and population of talented cultivators continued to grow.
• Qin Zheng absorbed the Blood Pool’s Blood Qi, pushing his body and Core Formation cultivation to their limits.
• Qin Zheng entered the Water Cloud Realm, where the Great Dao of Water responded to him, and began Nascent Soul Formation at age 195.
• Qin Zheng destroyed the tribulation lightning with his bare hands and suffered only minor wounds through the first four rounds, though his Fourth-Tier robes burned to ash.
• Qin Zheng summoned a gate pass from the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall to face the growing Lightning Tribulation.

Qin Zheng endured the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation, overcame the Heart Demon Tribulation, and completed his breakthrough into the Nascent Soul Realm. He emerged as True Lord Imperial Grace, surrounded by an immense water-formed imperial phantom.

• Qin Zheng used the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall to withstand most of the Lightning Tribulation, then endured the final bolts and healed from his injuries.
• Qin Zheng drew on the Great Dao of Profound Water to construct his Nascent Soul and broke through the Heart Demon Tribulation with his invincible heart.
• Qin Zheng waited more than eight hours to complete the Human Tribulation and connect with his Nascent Soul.
• Qin Zheng's Nascent Soul opened its eyes, and he achieved the Nascent Soul Realm as a thirty-thousand-foot water-formed imperial phantom and nine water dragons appeared around him.
• Qin Zheng's new honored title became True Lord Imperial Grace.

Qin Zheng’s Nascent Soul formation strengthened the Water Cloud Realm, while the Qin Clan’s Fifth-Tier flagship, the North Mountain, completed testing and gained combat capability. With three years remaining before the predicted decisive battle, conflict among the Central Lands’ ancient kingdom alliances was escalating.

• Qin Zheng formed a Nascent Soul, becoming the Qin Clan’s seventh Nascent Soul Cultivator and a hidden trump card.
• Qin Zheng’s breakthrough expanded the Water Cloud Realm and brought it to six Great Dao Long Rivers, including two main Daos.
• The Four Kingdoms Alliance and the Three Truths Ancient Kingdom Alliance escalated their dispute from clashes among lower-level cultivators toward Core Formation conflicts.
• The Qin Clan brought the Fifth-Tier flagship North Mountain to initial combat readiness after years of construction and testing.
• The North Mountain was equipped with a Nascent Soul power core, eleven defensive formations, lightning and Five Elements cannons, and a Fifth-Tier Soul-Severing Cannon.

The chapter detailed the North Mountain’s mass-production, teleportation, and battlefield capabilities, along with the Profound Yin Puppet created from True Lord Profound Yin’s body. Together, the two could challenge Nascent Soul Cultivators, showcasing Great Qin’s unmatched system of warship and artifact crafting.

• The North Mountain was revealed to carry a Soul-Severing Cannon, craft workshops, puppet legions, escort warships, spatial teleportation, and a toxin-dispersal Law Artifact.
• The Qin Clan’s strategy relied on the North Mountain either tying down an enemy Nascent Soul Cultivator or devastating forces and cutting off their future talent.
• Great Qin had secretly transformed True Lord Profound Yin’s body into the Profound Yin Puppet, which consumed vast amounts of Spiritual Power to fight.
• The North Mountain and Profound Yin Puppet could jointly hold off two Nascent Soul Cultivators and might kill one if only a single opponent came to stop them.
• The chapter credited Great Qin’s dominance to its combined crafts, strict governance, Qin Coin system, and academy network across the Northern Continent.