Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu reassured the Qin Clan and helped rally its cultivators to prepare for the Cold Beast Clan’s invasion. The Northern and Southern Domains formed an alliance, but the Northern Domain’s vast military buildup exposed the Southern Domain’s far weaker forces and infrastructure.

• Qin Lu urged the Qin Clan to treat the coming invasion as an opportunity and raised its cultivators’ morale.
• The Qin Clan proposed a joint defense in the Mystic Heaven Sea, and Ye Wuxu agreed to the alliance.
• Great Qin sent five hundred thousand cultivators and a powerful fleet to establish a forward defense.
• The Qin Clan built more than a hundred floating fortresses, equipped them with military infrastructure, and prepared mass-destruction Law Treasures.
• The Southern Domain mobilized three hundred thousand cultivators but had far fewer warships and lacked the Northern Domain’s advanced workshops.
• The chapter contrasted the Northern Domain’s shared resources and military strength with the Southern Domain’s tradition of guarding its secrets.

The Cold Beast Clan discovered that the masterless Frost Cloud Realm might be a viable place to settle and considered invading it. The Grand Elder remained wary because the realm’s true strength was uncertain.

• The Cold Heaven Domain raced through the starry sea as the Cold Beast Clan searched for a realm where it could settle.
• A Nascent Soul Cold Beast told the Grand Elder that their divination had identified the Frost Cloud Realm and estimated it had two Spirit Transformation cultivators and about thirty Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The Cold Beasts considered conquering the realm, believing its Human Race population would be easy to defeat and a valuable resource.
• The Grand Elder urged caution because the realm might have concealed its true strength, while the Cold Beast Clan had lost its immortal and more than half its people.

The Cold Beast Clan chose to invade the Frost Cloud Realm, while Qin Lu and the Qin Clan prepared to ambush them as the Cold Realm approached. In year 450, the Cold Realm descended and the two worlds began to merge.

• The Cold Beast Clan's grand elder decided to send the Cold Heaven Domain toward the Frost Cloud Realm and attack its defenses head-on.
• Qin Lu waited at Heaven Beyond Pavilion, concealed by the Emperor Soul Crown's Divine Ability and eager to devour the invading Cold Beasts.
• Qin Minghan formed his Nascent Soul, and the flourishing King Wood Great Dao expanded the Wood Demon lineage and its ties with the Qin Clan.
• The Northern and Southern Domains gathered thirty-five Nascent Soul experts to face the Cold Beast Clan, while True Lord Badao's death left the Longlife Ancient Kingdom short of a fighter.
• In the seventh month of year 450, the Cold Realm descended, tore open the Frost Cloud Realm's world barrier, and began merging with it.

Qin Lu ambushed the Cold Realm as it merged with the Frost Cloud Realm, shattering its continent and wiping out hundreds of thousands of Cold Beasts. Trapped in the Frost Cloud Realm, the surviving Spirit Transformation Cold Beasts faced Qin Lu as he continued his attack.

• Qin Lu unleashed the Extreme Dao · Soul-Extinguishing Hand and Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand as the realms merged, destroying the Cold Heaven Domain and killing nearly half of the surviving Cold Beasts.
• The Cold Realm's Great Dao Long River collapsed, leaving its three Spirit Transformation elders weakened and unable to draw on either realm's Great Dao.
• Qin Lu taunted the three elders, prompting two of them to attack him with a beam of extreme cold.
• Qin Lu repelled the cold attack with Extreme Dao · Dao-Ash Flame, then used a Nether Thunder arrow and Nether Moon to destroy one elder's body.
• The wounded elder's Primordial Spirit fled, but the merged world's barrier trapped it and the other Cold Beasts inside the Frost Cloud Realm.
• Qin Lu mocked the fleeing elder and invited it to become one with him, as the remaining Cold Beasts faced his pursuit.

Qin Lu overwhelmed three Spirit Transformation Cold Beasts with his soul-based powers and trapped one in a domain where he killed and devoured him. He remained consumed by bloodlust and demanded more souls to eat.

• The Cold Beast grand elder intervened after Qin Lu gravely injured one of the Spirit Transformation experts, shattering Qin Lu’s Primordial Spirit Dharma Manifestation with an ice blade.
• Qin Lu summoned a stronger Dharma Manifestation and wielded the Ten Thousand Souls Banner Heaven Burial, sending ghosts and soul-extinguishing wind against the three Cold Beasts.
• The grand elder tried to flee but was trapped by the ghosts and injured by the evil wind, while another Cold Beast remained weakened without his physical body.
• Qin Lu used Emperor Nether's Ten Thousand Territories with the Ghost Spirit Dao Principle to seal the remaining fighter in a domain that suppressed his Dao Laws and empowered Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu shattered the Cold Beast’s Dharma Manifestation, destroyed his Primordial Spirit with the Extreme Dao · Soul-Extinguishing Hand, and devoured his soul and consciousness.
• After eating the Cold Beast, Qin Lu laughed and cried out that he wanted to eat more souls.

Qin Lu devoured the Cold Beast Second Elder’s Primordial Spirit, extracted his Great Dao True Spirit, and grew stronger. The Cold Beast Great Elder and Third Elder then joined forces against him in a desperate battle across the Heaven Beyond Heaven.

• Qin Lu drained the Cold Beast Second Elder’s soul essence, killing him, then refined his Great Dao True Spirit into a crystal and set it in the Emperor Soul Crown.
• The Cold Beast Great Elder realized the Second Elder had fallen and recognized Qin Lu’s nine Great Dao Stars as a projection of his Grotto-Heaven core.
• The Cold Beast Third Elder formed a weakened new body, and Qin Lu emerged from a spatial rift to face both surviving elders.
• The Cold Beast Great Elder burned his Great Dao origin and attacked alongside the Third Elder, while Qin Lu summoned Heaven Burial and drew the Nether Sha Sword, God Devouring.
• Qin Lu and the two Cold Beast elders clashed with their Primordial Spirit Dharma Manifestations, turning much of the Heaven Beyond Heaven into an icy battlefield.

Ye Wuxu watched Qin Lu toy with the Cold Beast Clan’s Spirit Transformation fighters while the allied forces trapped the invading army across the Mystic Heaven Sea. With lower-level battles turning in their favor, the war’s outcome rested on the still-unresolved Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation fights.

• Ye Wuxu reflected on how Qin Lu had surpassed him and chose not to join either battlefield, trusting the younger fighters and letting Qin Lu test his strength.
• Ye Wuxu realized Venerable Ice Howl, Bai Yun, was watching from the Ice Sea and believed Qin Lu’s display would deter him from challenging Qin Lu.
• The Cold Realm’s shattered continental plate was absorbed by the Frost Cloud Realm, leaving the Cold Beast Clan no choice but to advance into the allied forces’ defenses.
• The allied forces used aerial strongholds, fortresses, puppets, cultivators, and the Great Qin fleet to suppress the Cold Beasts across the lower-level battlefields.
• The Great Qin Fifth-Tier mothership Beichuan overwhelmed the Core Formation battlefield, while the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation battles remained undecided.

Nether Flame Lord joined the seven Ghost Emperors in battle against the Nascent Soul Cold Beasts, with Ghost Fiend drawing ten enemies into the Ghost Spirit Space. The Ghost Emperors fought back against the Cold Beasts’ formation, and Nether Flame Lord killed one Nascent Soul Late Stage opponent with Nether Yang Heavenly Fire before turning on another.

• Nether Flame Lord entered the battlefield after Ghost Fiend opened a passage connecting to the Nine Heavens, bringing all seven Ghost Emperors into the fight.
• Ghost Fiend opened the Ghost Spirit Space and pulled ten Nascent Soul Cold Beasts inside with the other six Ghost Emperors.
• The leading Cold Beast formed the Tyrannical Cold Spirit-Severing Formation, while Hui Tong countered it by spreading Filth Earth Qi through the space.
• The Ghost Emperors and Yueji fought the Cold Beasts, with the four front-line Ghost Emperors holding off seven opponents as Lord Lei'an supported them.
• Nether Flame Lord used Nether Yang Heavenly Fire to burn through two Nascent Soul Late Stage Cold Beasts’ defenses, badly injuring one and destroying the other’s body.
• Nether Flame Lord swallowed and refined the injured Cold Beast’s remnant soul, then threatened the remaining opponent.

Nether Flame Lord and the Ghost Emperors defeated the Cold Beasts, exploiting their weak souls despite their formidable bodies and Dao mastery. After collecting the corpses, they entered a spatial passage to join Qin Lu’s main battlefield.

• Nether Flame Lord burned the fleeing Cold Beast’s Nascent Soul to nothing after its icy body crumbled and it tried to escape.
• Lord Lei'an, Yueji, Le Wuyou, Lord Shuangping, Ghost Fiend, and Hui Tong each killed their opponents, with Hui Tong refining a Cold Beast into a ghost slave.
• Le Wuyou identified the Cold Beasts’ weak souls as the key to defeating them, and the Ghost Emperors noted their Soul Dao strengths and vulnerabilities.
• Nether Flame Lord urged the Ghost Emperors to finish off the remaining Cold Beasts and gather their valuable flesh and blood.
• The Ghost Emperors collected the Cold Beast corpses, opened a spatial passage, and entered the main battlefield.

Qin Lu killed the last two Cold Beast Spirit Transformation experts and helped bring about the Cold Beast Clan’s near-total destruction. With the battle over, he reflected on the rules of power and fate that governed the myriad heavens and worlds.

• Qin Lu assessed his strength and considered how rare it was for someone without an innate spirit physique or powerful faction to ascend to immortality.
• Qin Lu erased the two weakened Cold Beast Spirit Transformation experts, refined their Great Dao spirituality, and absorbed their souls.
• The seven Ghost Emperors exterminated the Cold Beast Nascent Soul cultivators, while Bai Yun took the final seven in exchange for two Spirit Ascension Secret Realms.
• The Cold Beast Clan was reduced to ten thousand survivors, with only five Core Formation cultivators remaining, and its Demon Cores became resources for the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lu declared the farce over as the battle ended and reflected that the strong preyed on the weak throughout the universe.

After the Cold Beast Clan was defeated, Qin Hui urged Qin Xuanzi to spread knowledge and strengthen the Qin Clan, recognizing that their victory had depended on Qin Lu’s overwhelming power. Years later, the Frost Cloud Realm entered a period of revival, while Ye Wuxu accepted that the Ye Clan could not match Qin Lu and chose to support his rise and seek a future alliance.

• Qin Hui learned that the Cold Beast Clan’s high-level members had been killed and one branch had been left in captivity to preserve its bloodline.
• Qin Hui told Qin Xuanzi to teach more disciples and require Nascent Soul Cultivators to pass on their knowledge so the Qin Clan could grow stronger.
• The chapter reflected on how Qin Lu had decided the war’s outcome and how the Cold Beast Clan’s defeat revealed the dangers facing weaker powers in the starry sky.
• In year 451 of the Great Qin calendar, the Cold Beast War ended in victory, and fragments of the Cold Heaven Domain formed the Frost Cloud Realm’s third continent, the Cold Domain.
• By year 460, Ye Wuxu accepted that he could not defeat Qin Lu and decided to let Qin Lu become an immortal, hoping to gain him as a powerful backer for the Three Truths Empire’s future.

After the Ye Clan withdrew from the struggle, the Qin Clan consolidated control over most of the Frost Cloud Realm and began preparing to claim Mieyang Immortal Palace. Qin Daoran and three Ghost Emperors entered the palace, where Qin Daoran assessed its potential and the wealth of its legacy.

• Ye Wuxu and Qin Lu upheld their Dao Oaths, with the Ye Clan withdrawing and agreeing to support the Qin Clan's world-creation efforts in exchange for protection and a path to the upper realm.
• The Three Truths Empire dissolved, and Qin Daoran led the Qin Clan's integration of the Southern Domain into the Great Qin Empire.
• The Qin Clan began planning to enter Mieyang Immortal Palace, and Qin Lu sent Qin Daoran and three Ghost Emperors through a breach because he could not enter himself.
• Qin Daoran and the others passed through the palace's first five levels, which were easier to cross because Jinxuan Kui had removed the Five Elements Puppets.
• Qin Daoran determined that Mieyang Immortal Palace held forty-nine Great Daos and abundant yang fire Qi, and he saw its resources as a foundation for his future cultivation and the Qin Clan.

Qin Daoran entered Mieyang Immortal Palace’s seventh level and met Venerable Mieyang, who welcomed him and spoke with him about the Dao and life. After hearing about Shenji Meng Yu’s death and learning Qin Daoran’s hopes and ambitions, Mieyang recognized that the young man had the makings of an immortal.

• Le Wuyou and Hui Tong stayed outside to search for treasures while Qin Daoran flew through the True Yang Fire into the Mieyang Grotto-Heaven.
• Venerable Mieyang appeared, asked Qin Daoran about his family, and learned that he was a descendant of Qin Lu and a young Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Venerable Mieyang invited Qin Daoran to play chess and talk, then fell silent when Qin Daoran told him Shenji Meng Yu had died.
• Venerable Mieyang reflected on Shenji’s fall, reincarnation, and the struggle over the Great Dao without blaming Qin Daoran.
• Qin Daoran shared his hopes, ambitions, and sense of responsibility with Venerable Mieyang, who judged that he had the makings of an immortal.

Venerable Mieyang passed away after choosing Qin Daoran as his successor, and Qin Daoran inherited the Mieyang Immortal Palace and advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Qin Lu then prepared to secure the Frost Cloud Realm for Qin Zheng, whose Profound Water Grotto-Heaven began reshaping the realm’s Great Dao.

• Venerable Mieyang passed away after entrusting his legacy and ideals to Qin Daoran.
• Qin Daoran inherited the Mieyang Immortal Palace, absorbed the Mieyang Heavenly Fire, and advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage before falling asleep inside the grotto-heaven.
• Qin Lu decided to pursue control of the Frost Cloud Realm for Qin Zheng, with Venerable Ice Howl, Bai Yun, as the remaining obstacle.
• The Great Qin Empire spent more than a decade suppressing the Great Dao of Ice and Snow while building formations and preparing to merge the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven into the Frost Cloud Realm.
• Qin Zheng crushed the Profound Water Grotto-Heaven Ring and placed the grotto-heaven into the empire’s formation network.
• The thirteen subsidiary branches of the Water Dao spread through the Frost Cloud Realm, allowing the Great Dao of Profound Water to challenge the Great Dao of Ice and Snow for the world’s core.

Qin Lu confronted Bai Yun and pressured him to give up his claim to the Frost Cloud Realm, then took him beyond the heavens to demonstrate their difference in strength. Bai Yun attacked with Cold Descent, and Qin Lu answered with the Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Palm.

• Bai Yun realized the Qin Clan had seized control of the Southern Domain and was now pressuring him over the Frost Cloud Realm.
• Qin Lu visited Bai Yun, threatened him with a mocking offer to enter his stomach, and made clear that resistance could cost him his life.
• Bai Yun swallowed his anger and questioned why Qin Lu was pressing him so relentlessly.
• Qin Lu took Bai Yun beyond the heavens and invited him to attack so he could experience the gap between them firsthand.
• Bai Yun unleashed his Cold Descent Divine Ability, but Qin Lu countered with the Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Palm, leaving Bai Yun in disbelief.

Qin Zheng became Emperor Qin Jie as Great Qin unified the Frost Cloud Realm and replaced its ice-and-snow core Great Daos with the Great Dao of Profound Water. The Qin Clan reorganized its rule around lineage, tribute, and sects, setting out to expand across the heavens.

• Qin Lu defeated Bai Yun with a restrained palm strike, and Bai Yun later founded the Ice Cloud Extreme Dao Palace and withdrew from the world.
• Bai Yun and Ye Wuxu condensed their Grotto-Heavens, drawing out much of the Frost Cloud Realm’s Great Dao power to weaken its ice-and-snow Daos and make way for Qin Zheng’s Great Dao of Profound Water.
• In year 500 of the Great Qin calendar, the Great Dao of Profound Water became the Frost Cloud Realm’s core Great Dao, transforming the realm as ice receded and life flourished.
• Emperor Qin An abdicated in favor of Qin Zheng, who received the Tai’e Sword, became Emperor Qin Jie, and completed Great Qin’s unification of the Frost Cloud Realm.
• Qin Zheng advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and Great Qin extended imperial and royal terms and changed the schedule for its examinations.
• Qin Lu’s Qin Clan established lineage, tribute, and sects as its three principal systems for building power and expanding across the heavens.

After Qin Zheng ascended the throne, Great Qin established a realm-wide teleportation network and reorganized its military and cultivation education systems. The chapter ended with the empire’s regular army and tiered Dao Academy structure in place, while Qin Zheng remained the Qin Clan’s fastest cultivator.

• The Qin Clan built Fifth-Tier teleportation arrays between all three continents and expanded the network across the Frost Cloud Realm.
• Great Qin opened lower-tier treasure-ship techniques to the public and reserved Fourth-Tier and higher ships as imperial weapons of war.
• The empire reduced the role of Qi Condensation soldiers and established a regular army of Dao Foundation cultivators.
• Great Qin reorganized education into stages that screened young cultivators for commandery and county Dao Academies, Earth Academies, and Heavenly Academies.
• Graduates of the highest academies could enter the Imperial Academy, train to become Nascent Soul cultivators, and take senior posts in government or the military.
• Qin Zheng’s record of reaching Nascent Soul Formation at 197 remained the Qin Clan’s fastest cultivation achievement.

Over the centuries after Qin Zheng’s reforms, Great Qin became a powerful empire while its founding generation’s elders gradually died or fell behind. As the Qin Clan faced the loss of its third-generation members, Qin Mingyi sacrificed his humanity to remain alive until the Three Immortals, Three Realms Plan was complete.

• Qin Wen compiled histories of the Qin Clan and Great Qin in the 525th and 530th years of the Great Qin calendar.
• Wang Jian, Wang Ben, Wang Li, Meng Wu, Meng Yi, Meng Tian, Li Xin, Li Si, Han Feizi, Bai Qi, Zhang Han, Su Qin, Gan Long, and Zhang Yi died over the following decades.
• Qin Mingzheng died at age seven hundred after pioneering the Qin Clan’s systematic artifact refining and puppet making.
• Qin Mingyuan formed a Nascent Soul at an advanced age, while Qin Mingle died during the Heart Demon Tribulation after losing the woman he loved in battle.
• After Qin Mingle’s death, Qin Mingyi became plagued by nightmares and transformed himself into a Wood Demon, sacrificing his emotions and freedom to live until the Qin Clan completed its plan.

In Year 600 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Qianyu became a leading formation grandmaster and uncovered how the Dao of Refining enabled the creation of sixth-tier and higher items. He demonstrated its power by instantly forming a fifth-tier formation, while the Qin Clan’s future plans turned toward cultivating this rare Dao.

• By Year 600, Qin Qianyu had become a Golden Core Middle Stage formation grandmaster who could set up large fifth-tier formations, while the Qin Clan remained unable to refine sixth-tier items.
• Qin Qianyu concluded that refining sixth-tier items required cultivating the Dao of Refining and perfectly fusing Dao and matter.
• Qin Qianyu credited Huang Liang with discovering the Dao of Refining and set out a plan to develop its practice within the Qin Clan.
• Qin Qianyu used mountains, rivers, and lakes to instantly create a lower-grade fifth-tier Mountains, Rivers, Lakes and Seas Formation without formation tools or advance preparations.

Qin Qianyu explored how the Dao of Refining could purify and transform living beings, then teamed up with Qin Qiling and Qin Yingjie to create a living Nascent Soul puppet from a remnant soul. Their experiment produced a puppet with weak sentience that could not cultivate independently, leaving them to consider how to improve the method.

• Qin Qianyu refined Spiritual Qi into an extraordinarily pure wisp, then refined beast slaves to extract vitality and transform a Wolf Demon's bloodline, though the transformed creature lost its intelligence.
• Qin Qianyu summoned Qin Qiling and Qin Yingjie to discuss using the Dao of Refining, puppet techniques, and souls to turn the dead into living beings.
• Qin Qianyu and Qin Qiling built a prototype Nascent Soul puppet, and Qin Yingjie added a Core Formation general's remnant soul from the Ten Thousand Souls Spirit-Preserving Pearl.
• Qin Qianyu refined beast slaves into bloody pus and infused it into the puppet, giving it a body resembling the deceased general and a trace of sentience.
• Qin Qianyu, Qin Qiling, and Qin Yingjie concluded that the puppet could not cultivate or grow stronger, and considered using a five-element power source to improve future experiments.