Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu, Ye Wuxu, and Meng Yu clashed, and their exchange created the Fallen Venerable Desert. After Ye Wuxu and Meng Yu fought, Qin Lu struck Meng Yu from behind and destroyed his last chance to ascend to immortality.

• Qin Lu, Ye Wuxu, and Meng Yu exchanged a blow that devastated the surrounding region and created the Fallen Venerable Desert.
• Qin Lu hid within the souls of all things, making himself nearly impossible to observe or harm.
• Meng Yu used Imperial Mandate Fortune Seizure against Ye Wuxu, but Ye Wuxu’s Four Daos of Extreme Dharma scattered the attack.
• Ye Wuxu unleashed spells to drain Meng Yu’s Dao Law origin power, while Meng Yu’s defensive field blocked the attacks.
• Qin Lu reappeared behind Meng Yu and struck his palm, destroying Meng Yu’s final chance to ascend to immortality.

Qin Lu shattered Meng Yu’s Dao body, destroying his foundation for immortality and crippling Fortune Dao as the Qin Clan prepared to seize its authority. Meng Yu launched a final counterattack, but Qin Lu stepped away beyond his reach, leaving his victory secure.

• Qin Lu’s Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand shattered Meng Yu’s body and caused his Great Dao origin and fortune to drain away.
• Meng Yu realized his decades-long scheme had failed and his path to immortality was ruined.
• Meng Yu healed himself temporarily and vowed to take revenge on Qin Lu and Ye Wuxu before he died.
• Qin Lu stepped back, denying Meng Yu a chance to fight him to the death.
• Qin Lu’s Soul Dao made his true body nearly impossible for Meng Yu to locate or kill.

Qin Lu and Ye Wuxu joined forces against Shenji Meng Yu, while Ye Wuxu’s Four-Sided Extreme Dao Ruler cleaved the Northern Nether Domain in two and crushed Meng Yu’s body. Meng Yu still survived within the will of heaven and earth.

• Qin Lu persuaded Ye Wuxu to help destroy Meng Yu and divide the land between north and south.
• Ye Wuxu repeatedly shattered Meng Yu’s Dao body, steadily consuming his Great Dao origin.
• Ye Wuxu’s Four-Sided Extreme Dao Ruler split Meng Yu and cleaved the Northern Nether Domain into the Northern Domain and the Southern Domain.
• Ye Wuxu comprehended the Sharpness of Extremity as his strike obliterated Meng Yu’s body and severed part of the Long River of Fortune Dao.
• Meng Yu remained within the will of heaven and earth despite the destruction of his body and Primordial Spirit.

Qin Lu devoured Meng Yu’s will and spirituality, greatly strengthening his Primordial Spirit, but declined to seize control of the realm. After the war ended and the world’s factions turned to courting his support, Qin Lu destroyed the Myriad Spirits Holy Land.

• Qin Lu invaded the Fortune Dao and devoured Meng Yu’s will, extinguishing him and absorbing his last spirituality into the Emperor Soul Crown.
• Qin Lu’s Primordial Spirit grew powerful enough to project across nearly half the realm, but he chose not to contend for control of it.
• Ye Wuxu recognized that he would have to kill Bai Yun to advance, while both sides now needed Qin Lu’s support.
• Qin Lu went to the Myriad Spirits Dao Domain and killed Jinxuan Kui and the nine other Nascent Soul and Half-Step Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The Myriad Spirits Holy Land was destroyed after nearly fifty thousand years of existence.

After the fall of the Fortune Heaven Sect and Myriad Spirits Holy Land, Qin Lu and Ye Wuxu divided the conquered territories and reshaped the Frost Cloud Realm into rival Northern and Southern Domains. In the years that followed, Qin Lu created new Ghost Emperors and began merging continents, leaving the unified land still moving toward the Northern Domain.

• Qin Lu collected eight Nascent Souls and three Nascent Soul remains from Ye Wuxu, while the surviving Demon Race Nascent Souls submitted to Great Qin and the Three Truths Empire.
• Ye Wuxu claimed the Lesser Spirit Domain and Fortune Heaven Domain, while Qin Lu’s Great Qin held the Nether Cold Domain, Myriad Spirits Dao Domain, and Seven Beauties Star Domain; the Seven Seas became the Mystic Heaven Sea.
• In Year 255, Qin Lu created Ghost Fiend from True Lord Guiling’s Nascent Soul and made him the fourth Ghost Emperor, bringing Qin Lu to eight mastered branches of the Soul Dao.
• In Year 270, the Nether Thunder Ghost King devoured part of the Whale Emperor’s Great Dao, advanced to Nascent Soul, and took the name Lord Lei'an as Qin Lu’s fifth Ghost Emperor.
• The Qin Clan’s Nascent Souls joined the three conquered continents into one landmass, which moved eastward toward the Northern Domain as Qin Lu guided the Northern Domain northwest.

Qin Lu created the Filth Earth Ghost Emperor Hui Tong and used his nine Soul Dao branches to open the Profound Soul Grotto-Heaven. After Qin Xuanzi established Heaven Beyond Heaven, Qin Lu fused the grotto-heaven and nineteen Nascent Souls into the Nine Heavens, which now held sixty-three principal Daos.

• The newborn continent’s mass deaths awakened Qin Lu’s buried ghost seed, which became the Filth Earth Ghost Emperor Hui Tong and gave Qin Lu mastery of his ninth Soul Dao branch.
• Qin Lu gathered his nine Soul Dao branches into a celestial system and opened the Profound Soul Grotto-Heaven.
• Qin Xuanzi devoured the remnants of Heavenly Fate True Lord, became the Qin Clan’s third Nascent Soul True Lord, and established Heaven Beyond Heaven around the Great Dao of Heavenly Fate.
• Qin Lu used Meng Yu’s treasures to establish six Fortune Dao branches in Heaven Beyond Heaven, with the bronze mask anchoring its fortune.
• Qin Lu crushed nineteen Nascent Souls and fused their Great Dao power and the Profound Soul Grotto-Heaven into the Nine Heavens, bringing its total to sixty-three principal Daos.

As the Nine Heavens expanded, their creation fortune strengthened the Qin Clan and helped its members develop bloodline cultivation alongside traditional Dao cultivation. Qin Xuanzi’s rise to Nascent Soul and mastery of the Heaven Beyond Heaven marked him as a legendary Qin Clan cultivator.

• The Nine Heavens’ growing fortune strengthened the Qin Clan’s bloodlines, eased cultivation bottlenecks, and raised the aptitude of its newborns.
• Qin Clan disciples developed the Bloodline Dao by cultivating their Wood Demon heritage, producing Dao Foundation cultivators and offering older clan members a chance to advance.
• The clan’s bloodline fusion weakened its fertility, while Qin Lu prepared to use Meng Yu’s reincarnation technique if the six second-generation brothers could not reach Nascent Soul.
• The Nine Heavens grew to five hundred million square kilometers after incorporating the Profound Soul Grotto-Heaven and sacrificing nineteen Nascent Souls.
• Qin Xuanzi used his fortune, inherited the Heavenly Fate True Lord’s Great Dao remnants, and absorbed most of the scattered Fortune Dao origin to reach Nascent Soul at just over three hundred and eighty.
• Qin Xuanzi became master of the Heaven Beyond Heaven and inherited the Sixth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasure, the Heavenly Evolution Bronze Mask.

Qin Daoyuan became Great Qin’s fifth emperor and imposed sweeping, ruthless reforms that centralized power and reshaped the empire’s clan and currency systems. At court, he demanded that the Northern Domain’s lands be joined within twenty years and killed a minister who said the task would take at least seventy.

• In year 300 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Yinghai abdicated after a century-long reign, and Qin Daoyuan succeeded him as Emperor Qin Yuan.
• Qin Daoyuan executed millions during his first three years, purged wavering clans, and centralized imperial authority.
• Qin Daoyuan abolished Qi Condensation Immortal Clan ranks, restructured the clan hierarchy, and introduced Blue Qin Coins tied to mid-grade Spirit Stones and Soul Dao crystals.
• Qin Daoyuan established a harem of three thousand female cultivators to balance clan interests and add descendants to his branch of the Qin Clan.
• At court, Qin Daoyuan demanded a deadline for joining the Northern Domain’s lands; after a minister estimated the work would take at least seventy years, Qin Daoyuan killed and devoured him.
• Qin Daoyuan gave his ministers twenty years to unite the lands and warned them that failure or further excuses would mean death.

Qin Daoyuan and Qin Xuanze planned reforms to renew the empire’s civil and military leadership, reduce the number of marquis titles, and expand the army. The chapter ended with a blueprint for nine legions and an Imperial Guard Army, totaling one million cultivators.

• Qin Xuanze urged Qin Daoyuan to replace entrenched founding elders and warned that their descendants’ loyalties could not be assumed.
• Qin Daoyuan agreed to expand the Han Academy and Combat Commanders Palace to nine senior positions each, fill them through examinations, rotate them every century, and restrict how many posts any Lineage could hold.
• Qin Daoyuan proposed cutting the empire’s two hundred marquis titles to eighteen and making the positions attainable through service, competition, and bloody challenges against incumbents.
• Qin Daoyuan planned to add six army groups to the existing three legions, creating nine legions of nine hundred thousand cultivators under grand marshals.
• Qin Daoyuan established an Imperial Guard Army under a Qin Clan Guard Commander to protect the emperor, watch the empire, and carry out covert operations, bringing the total force to one million cultivators.

Over decades of reforms and continent-merging, Great Qin reshaped the Northern Domain into a unified realm under Qin Clan rule. In year 325, the continents fused, and Qin Lu established the new Northern Nether Capital around a great Spirit Vein, which the empire’s academies began connecting to the realm’s other veins.

• Qin Daoyuan's reforms created paths for commoners and humble families to rise through military service, examinations, and challenges for the feudal lords' seats.
• Great Qin's unified, law-governed system contrasted with the Southern Domain's Three Truths Empire and its vassal ancient kingdoms.
• Over sixty or seventy years, the Delusion Beast Emperor, the Wind-Rest Demon Emperor, and the Mountain-Piercing Demon Emperor helped pull the continents together alongside Golden Core cultivators and mountain-moving formations.
• In year 325, two continental plates fused, completing the new Northern Domain and reshaping the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Qin Lu moved half of a large Spirit Vein from the Central Lands to the domain's center and established the new Northern Nether Capital and imperial palace around it.
• The Nine Heavens settled above the Spirit Vein, while Great Qin's Dao academies connected nine medium-sized Spirit Veins to it and organized the realm's earth veins and Qi.

After the empire settled into peace, Qin Lu learned from Meng Yu’s memories how the myriad worlds, immortals, Dao Ancestors, and Gods came to be, and discovered that Blue Star—his former home—had been destroyed in 2012. He accepted the Qin Clan as his only home, but the knowledge left him increasingly silent as his humanity faded and divinity took root.

• Qin Lu prepared to cultivate in peace until he completed the Nine Heavens and reached Spirit Transformation perfection, then attempted to break through to Purple Void.
• Qin Lu judged Meng Yu’s reincarnation secret art largely useless because he already possessed a reincarnation-type Innate Divine Ability, though he kept it as a possible way to save descendants.
• Qin Lu learned how immortals created the myriad worlds and how Dao Ancestors and Gods emerged through control and fusion of the Great Daos.
• Qin Lu discovered that Blue Star had been created by a primordial immortal and destroyed in 2012 during a battle between two immortals, after which Meng Yu had obtained and nurtured his soul.
• Qin Lu accepted the Qin Clan as his home and only surviving bloodline from Blue Star, while the revelation made him quieter and caused his humanity to fade as divinity took root.

Qin Lu took control of Meng Yu’s plan, arranging for Qin Zheng to absorb the imperial fortune of four captive emperors and their kingdoms. In the Nine Heavens, the Seven Emotions Ghost Generals merged into Le Wuyou, who completed Nascent Soul formation and joined the other Ghost Emperors before Qin Lu.

• Qin Lu decided Qin Zheng was best suited to inherit the Kingly Dao fortune and potentially cultivate both the Water Dao and the Kingly Dao.
• The Qin Clan captured Liu Ji, Li Shiming, Zhu Laosan, and Zhao Gou, planted Dao Seeds in them, and confined their kingdoms in secret realms to funnel their imperial fortune to Qin Zheng.
• The Seven Emotions Ghost Generals devoured one another’s wills and united into the Seven Emotions Ghost Emperor.
• The newly formed Ghost Emperor survived his tribulations, reached Nascent Soul, and named himself Le Wuyou.
• Le Wuyou emerged from the Soul-Cleansing Pool and was welcomed by the six other Ghost Emperors before Qin Lu.

The chapter explained how the Ice Dragon Lineage, True Dragon Lineage, and Azure Lineage formed the Qin Dragon Race under the Qin Clan. In year 340 of the Great Qin calendar, the golden age continued to rise as Qing Ling became Qin Zheng’s wife and the Three-Tailed Green Fox Clan aligned itself with his branch.

• The White Dragon Emperor led the Ice Dragon Lineage, Lin Xuan led the True Dragon Lineage, and Qing Centipede established the Azure Lineage, together forming the Qin Dragon Race.
• The Qin Clan invested heavily in Qing Centipede, helping him reach the Nascent Soul Realm and build the Azure Lineage in the Myriad Manifestations Realm.
• Fusheng helped Qing Centipede improve insect dragons such as the Azure Dragon Mantis and Azure Dragon Dragonfly, strengthening their alliance.
• In year 340 of the Great Qin calendar, Qing Ling passed the Six-Nine Heavenly Lightning Tribulation and became the Nascent Soul Demon Emperor Green Fox.
• Qing Ling married Qin Zheng as his wife of equal standing with Flower Princess, making the Three-Tailed Green Fox branch a staunch supporter of Qin Zheng’s branch.

Qin Mingyi and four other third-generation Qin Clan members established new rules to curb conflicts among the seven branches and manage the clan’s vast population. Their reforms introduced competitive selection and a contribution point system, leaving the Qin Clan’s resources and opportunities open to descendants who could earn them.

• The Qin Clan’s expanding branches began competing over fixed resources, with Qin Zheng’s branch wielding unusual influence through its Nascent Soul backers.
• Qin Mingyi joined Qin Minghan, Qin Mingyuan, Qin Mingzheng, and Qin Mingle to draw up new clan rules and establish two systems.
• The first system introduced regular competitions to promote collateral-line disciples and demote underperforming main-line members, while selecting candidates for major clan and imperial positions.
• The second system let descendants use contribution points to compete for cultivation methods, spirit beasts, resources, trial places, and main-line status.
• The reforms made main-line disciples earn resources through tasks and competition, reducing the influence of branch ancestors over younger descendants.

Lu Ming died after a long life beside Qin Lu, and Great Qin honored him as its first king of a different surname. Ten years later, Huang Liang reached the end of his life and entrusted his life's work on formations to his gifted great-grandson, Qin Qianyu.

• Lu Ming recalled his life and his more than four centuries alongside Qin Lu before dying atop Blood Sea Mountain.
• Great Qin mourned Lu Ming for three days, Emperor Qin Yuan wore mourning, and Lu Ming received the posthumous title of King Lu.
• Huang Liang, weakened by years of work and old injuries, faced death at Yellow Lotus Mountain as his descendants gathered around him.
• Huang Liang called Qin Qianyu to his side and gave him True Exposition of the Dao of Formations' Return to the Origin as his legacy.

Huang Liang passed his formations legacy and final Great Dao essence to Qin Qianyu before dying, leaving the boy to carry on his work and protect the Huang Clan. Years later, Qin Qianyu rose as a young formation master, while the Qin Clan advanced bloodline cultivation and Qin Zhuang successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.

• Huang Liang gave Qin Qianyu his formations writings and transferred his last trace of Great Dao essence into him, asking him to carry on the Dao of Formations and look after the Huang Clan.
• Qin Qianyu promised to fulfill Huang Liang's wishes, and Huang Liang died in meditation surrounded by his kin; the empire later posthumously honored him as King of Liang.
• At age twenty-seven, Qin Qianyu reached the Dao Foundation realm and became the Great Qin Empire's youngest third-rank formation master.
• Qin Yinghao used bloodline power to reach the Golden Core realm, prompting Qin Xuanzi and Qin Lu to create the [True Extreme Blood Refining Method] for cultivating from True Martial to Nascent Soul Peak.
• Qin Zhuang used karmic merit fortune and the [True Extreme Blood Refining Method] to withstand the Six-Nine Heavenly Lightning Tribulation and Heart Demon Tribulation, forming a Nascent Soul and proving the combined cultivation method viable.

Qin Daoran fused three supreme spirit fires into a never-before-seen flame and advanced to golden core perfection, revealing the potential to become a supreme nascent soul. Qin Lu considered how Daoran might inherit Venerable Mieyang’s legacy and also planned to give his six second-generation children a chance at rebirth with stronger foundations.

• Qin Daoran fused the nine purple Li fire, profound heaven Yang flame, and golden flame divine fire into a greenish-red lotus flame that joined with the precious orb inside him.
• Qin Daoran advanced to golden core perfection and developed an acquired spirit physique that could grow stronger by devouring spirit fires.
• Qin Lu judged Qin Daoran to have the potential to become a supreme nascent soul and considered arranging for him to inherit Venerable Mieyang’s legacy.
• Qin Lu compared the futures of Qin Yingjie, Qin Mingyue, and the other descendants, concluding that Qin Daoran stood out as a possible immortal.
• Qin Lu planned to have his six second-generation children undergo Liberation by Violence after he became an immortal, preserve their souls, and reincarnate them with stronger foundations.

During Qin Daoran's seclusion, the Qin Clan expanded its power as several members reached the Nascent Soul Realm and the Northern Domain came under its control. In the 400th year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Daoyuan abdicated and Qin Qi'an succeeded him as the sixth emperor.

• Qin Hui, Qin Wu, Qin Xiao, Qin Zhao, Qin Wen, and Qin Daoran successively reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while Qin Daoran became the True Lord of the Scarlet Sun.
• The Qin Clan's influence spread across the Northern Domain, and the Northern and Southern Domains each recovered much of their strength as the world's Great Daos revived.
• Ye Wuxu and Bai Yun accepted the Qin Clan's growing influence and avoided confronting its plans for the Great Dao of Profound Water.
• Qin Daoyuan abdicated after a hundred years of rule, leaving Great Qin strengthened by his reforms.
• The Qin Clan selected Qin Qi'an, a ninth-generation disciple from Qin Wen's branch, to become the sixth emperor of Great Qin.

An Ice Dao immortal with 39% authority over the Primordial Ice Dao Sea killed the Frost Cloud Demon Immortal, causing his world to shatter and a surviving fragment to drift toward the Frost Cloud Realm. Qin Lu, Bai Yun, and Ye Wuxu sensed the approaching threat, each reacting differently as they prepared for the possible clash.

• An Ice Dao immortal killed the Frost Cloud Demon Immortal and devoured his origin Dao Laws, raising his authority over the Primordial Ice Dao Sea to 39%.
• The Frost Cloud Demon Immortal’s world broke apart, scattering fragments across the cosmos, and one relatively intact fragment began drifting toward the Frost Cloud Realm.
• Qin Lu, Bai Yun, and Ye Wuxu sensed the approaching force after the Great Dao’s impact threw the Frost Cloud Realm into chaos.
• Ye Wuxu grew thoughtful, Bai Yun showed excitement, and Qin Lu smiled coldly at the prospect of the newcomers clashing with the realm’s inhabitants.

Qin Xuanzi survived divine punishment to divine that the Cold Realm would begin merging with the Frost Cloud Realm in fifteen years, bringing a powerful Cold Beast force. The Qin Clan considered the risk of Venerable Ice Howl betraying them, but Qin Lu appeared and assured them he could kill him, explaining why creating a world gave him exceptional power.

• Qin Xuanzi used divination to learn that the Cold Realm would connect to the Frost Cloud Realm in fifteen years, bringing at least a million Cold Beasts, thirty Nascent Souls, and two Spirit Transformation experts.
• Qin Daoran suggested notifying the Southern Domain, while Qin Hui warned that Venerable Ice Howl might side with the foreign race and exploit a conflict between the Qin and Ye clans.
• Qin Lu emerged from the Great Dao Long River and declared that Ice Howl would not dare betray them, and that he would destroy him if he did.
• Qin Lu explained that creating a new world let him draw on its power at the Spirit Transformation realm, giving him an advantage over cultivators seeking to inherit an existing world.