Chapter Summaries

Qin Qianyu and his companions developed growth-capable puppets powered by incense offerings, beginning with a puppet made from the remnant soul of Wang Jian. Their work transformed Great Qin’s puppet craft as famous generals were turned into puppets, which began advancing toward higher cultivation realms.

• The Qin Clan supported Qin Qianyu and his companions’ research, and Qin Qianyu completed Nascent Soul Formation as their work advanced.
• In 760 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Qianyu created the Wang Jian Puppet using the remnant soul of Wang Jian and a core powered by incense offerings from the Wang Clan.
• The Wang Jian Puppet could follow instructions and grow stronger by accumulating Incense and Fire Power without being corrupted by it.
• Qin Qianyu and his companions made growth-capable puppets from Wang Ben, Wang Li, Meng Wu, Meng Yi, Meng Tian, Zhang Han, Li Xin, Bai Qi, and other famous generals.
• Great Qin housed the generals’ puppets in the imperial palace, where they received their clans’ incense offerings and shared in the empire’s national fortune.
• By 790 of the Great Qin calendar, the puppets began reaching the Nascent Soul realm, with further advancement appearing possible.

The Qin Clan’s Incense-Fire Puppets preserved the talents and skills of the dead while strengthening Great Qin, as its early generations dwindled after decades of sacrifice. Under Great Qin’s peaceful rule and the Frost Cloud Realm’s spiritual resurgence, the realm entered a cultivation golden age with thirty-three Nascent Soul Cultivators beyond the Qin Clan.

• The Qin Clan developed Incense-Fire Puppets that inherited the abilities of the deceased and could serve as powerful commanders and vessels for passing down legacies.
• Qin Xinzhou, Qin Xinyang, and Qin Xinzhi died of old age, leaving no survivors of the Qin Clan’s fourth generation.
• The first six Qin generations were remembered for their losses in battle and toil, which had helped establish the clan’s present prosperity.
• Great Qin maintained peace across its territories for nearly two centuries, and the Frost Cloud Realm recovered as Spiritual Qi and Spirit Veins increased.
• Twenty-seven upper-third-grade Immortal Clans and other forces under Great Qin produced thirty-three Nascent Soul Cultivators outside the Qin Clan, many of them newly risen.

By Great Qin year 1150, Qin Zheng had become the Qin Clan’s second Spirit Transformation Venerable through steady cultivation, while the clan and its vassals gained many Nascent Soul cultivators. In Great Qin year 1300, Qin Daoran emerged from the Mieyang Immortal Palace as the Qin Clan’s third Spirit Transformation Venerable, joining Qin Zheng and Qin Lu.

• In Great Qin year 1150, Qin Zheng reached Spirit Transformation after cultivating six great Daos without relying on slaughter or breakthrough treasures.
• Qin Zheng’s Natal Spirit Beast, Jintong, reached Nascent Soul Peak and became the strongest dragon in the Qin Dragon Race.
• Several members of the Dao generation and seven members of the Ming generation formed Nascent Souls, while the Treasures of the Eight Immortals advanced to Fifth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasures.
• In Great Qin year 1300, Qin Daoran emerged from the Mieyang Immortal Palace with a powerful Primordial Spirit Dharma Manifestation.
• Qin Daoran joined Qin Zheng and Qin Lu as the Qin Clan’s third Spirit Transformation Venerable.

Qin Lu questioned Qin Daoran about the Mieyang Immortal Palace and supplied him with treasures to restore its foundations. Qin Daoran realized the Qin Clan had shifted its resources because Qin Lu had completed the Nine Heavens and stood on the brink of becoming an immortal.

• Qin Lu asked Qin Daoran how well he had gained control of the Mieyang Immortal Palace and how it compared with the Qin Clan's Nine Heavens.
• Qin Daoran explained that the Nine Heavens were more balanced and superior to the Mieyang Immortal Palace.
• Qin Lu gave Qin Daoran 1,215 Fourth-Tier source treasures, twenty-three Fifth-Tier root treasures, Spirit Veins, and other resources to repair the palace's deficiencies.
• Qin Daoran realized that the clan's support had shifted to him because Qin Lu had completed all eighty-one principal Daos of the Nine Heavens.
• Qin Lu declared that the Qin Clan's Dao would illuminate the heavens and displayed power over the stars and myriad worlds.

Qin Lu established a cautious plan to strengthen the Qin Clan through the Scarlet Yang Immortal Sect, Great Qin, and the clan before venturing into the wider heavens. By 1521, he had reached Spirit Transformation Perfection and expanded the Nine Heavens into a vast, saturated world.

• In 1355, Qin Daoran renamed Mieyang Immortal Palace the Scarlet Yang Immortal Palace and founded the Scarlet Yang Immortal Sect as Great Qin’s recognized counterpart to the Imperial Academy.
• Qin Lu planned to use the sect, the empire, and the Qin Clan as complementary powers, building their strength before entering the Star Sea and facing its many formidable forces.
• In 1521, Qin Lu reached Spirit Transformation Perfection within the Nine Heavens at just over 1,700 years old.
• The Nine Heavens perfected all eighty-one Great Daos and more than a hundred other major Daos, grew beyond two billion square kilometers, and approached saturation.

Qin Lu reached the peak of Spirit Transformation and considered establishing the Nine Heavens as an independent world, but he worried that the Frost Cloud Realm lacked enough origin to sustain the separation. Meanwhile, the Qin Clan had become the Qin Humans Race, a powerful and long-lived people whose growth was supported by Great Qin’s rule.

• Qin Lu perceived the Primordial Dao Sea and understood how separating the Nine Heavens would require the Frost Cloud Realm to nourish a new world branch and his Great Dao true spirit to connect it to the Dao Sea.
• Qin Lu decided to suppress his cultivation and wait for the Frost Cloud Realm to recover further before attempting the separation.
• By Great Qin calendar year 1898, the Qin Clan had grown to more than thirteen million members, with many cultivators and lifespans far exceeding those of ordinary humans.
• The Qin Clan had officially renamed itself the Qin Humans Race in year 1800, as its descendants developed distinct bloodline traits and its cultivation strength rivaled the Great Qin Empire.
• Great Qin’s laws, education, and social mobility helped maintain popular support for the Qin Humans and their rule over ordinary people.

A naturally born Lightning Dao Spirit Physique appeared in the Qin Clan, and Qin Lu took the child under his guidance. Nearly two thousand years later, Qin Zhenyu became the clan’s third possessor of an Innate Spirit Physique and its new young lord.

• In 2003 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Qifang and Lady Song’s baby was born amid a violent thunderstorm with a Lightning Dao Spirit Physique and True Martial Realm cultivation.
• Qin Lu recognized the child’s rare talent and the possibility that he could claim the vacant position of Dao Ancestor of Lightning.
• Qin Lu took the baby to cultivate under him and ordered Qin Qifang and Lady Song to return with him for secluded cultivation.
• Nearly two thousand years later, the child was revealed as Qin Zhenyu, possessor of the Prison-Suppressing Ten Thousand Lightning Physique.
• Qin Lu personally taught Qin Zhenyu and named him the Qin Clan’s new young lord.

The Qin Clan learned that Qin Lu needed the Frost Cloud Realm’s weakened origin to recover before he could attempt to advance to Purple Void, and Qin Xuanzi proposed sacrificing the clan’s accumulated resources to restore the world. The clan unanimously approved the plan, which revitalized the realm and reaffirmed Qin rule, while other imperial factions followed its example.

• Qin Daoran explained that Qin Lu feared the Frost Cloud Realm could not withstand the cost of his breakthrough to Purple Void.
• Qin Xuanzi proposed returning the Qin Clan’s stored resources and remains to the world, restoring sea blessed lands, and encouraging opportunities and contributions that would revive the Frost Cloud Realm.
• The Qin Clan held a lineage meeting, and every attending Nascent Soul Cultivator unanimously approved the costly plan.
• The Qin Clan redirected its resources into restoring the realm, while limiting support for members who had reached the Golden Core Realm.
• The Qin Clan killed and publicly punished people who tried to steal its distributed treasures, reminding the realm of its authority.
• The empire’s academies and Immortal Clans began restoring spirit mountains, spirit waters, and the flow of Spiritual Qi in imitation of the Qin Clan.

By Year 2481 of the Great Qin calendar, centuries of growth had transformed the Frost Cloud Realm, where Spiritual Qi Tides and an attribute-bearing water Spirit Vein brought new opportunities. Jintong had become a Spirit Transformation True Dragon and the strongest being beneath Qin Lu.

• A fourth large Spirit Vein formed in the Mystic Heaven Sea as the Demon Race grew and Nascent Soul Realm Demon Emperors helped circulate Spiritual Qi under Qin people's rules.
• Great Qin organized Nascent Soul Cultivators to assist the Demon Emperors in maintaining Spiritual Qi Tides that benefited cultivators and living beings throughout the realm.
• The Mystic Heaven Sea's large Spirit Vein developed a water attribute and produced valuable attribute-bearing mid-grade Spirit Stones, along with an azure-blue treasure that could become a sixth-tier spiritual item.
• Jintong settled in the water Spirit Vein to guard the treasure and overcame the Spirit Transformation tribulation thirty or forty years earlier.
• Jintong became the Spirit Transformation Dragon Emperor of the Qin Dragon Race, evolved into a Five-Clawed Golden-Eyed Black Dragon with a True Dragon bloodline, and rose to become the strongest beneath Qin Lu.

Qin Zheng obtained the Sixth-Tier Heaven-Reaching Sea Crystal, strengthening his control over the Frost Cloud Realm as the world neared the opportunity for immortality. Qin Mingyi died after more than twenty-six hundred years, and the Qin Clan gathered to honor him and carry on its will.

• Qin Zheng recognized the Heaven-Reaching Sea Crystal's power and considered refining it into his lifebound Law Treasure.
• The Heaven-Reaching Sea Crystal strengthened the Great Dao of Profound Water and helped the Frost Cloud Realm recover.
• Qin Zhenyu emerged from cultivation at Nascent Soul Peak after a little over four hundred years, awaiting an opportunity to reach Spirit Transformation.
• The Qin Clan's bell rang nine times, summoning its Dao Foundation Realm descendants to Muxuan Mountain.
• Qin Mingyi died surrounded by Qin Minghan and Qin Mingyuan, regretting that he had not lived to see Qin Zheng become an immortal.
• The Qin Clan descendants, dressed in black, solemnly bid farewell to Qin Mingyi and vowed to carry Qin's will forward.

Qin Lu broke through toward True Immortal, causing the Nine Heavens to separate from the Frost Cloud Realm and form a new world. The cultivators of the Frost Cloud Realm joined forces to keep their world alive until the Qin Realm was born.

• As Qin Lu mourned his departed family, his State of Mind became flawless and his Great Dao of Nether Soul spread across the universe.
• Qin Lu began breaking through, and the Nine Heavens descended into the Frost Cloud Realm as the world shook and its Spiritual Qi drained away.
• Qin Zheng and Jintong released their power to sustain the Frost Cloud Realm, then Bai Yun, Ye Wuxu, and Qin Daoran joined them.
• Cultivators across the Frost Cloud Realm united to restore Spiritual Power and halt the world's decline.
• The nine layers merged around the Profound Soul Grotto-Heaven, forming the world core, land, oceans, sky, sun, moon, and stars.
• Heaven Beyond Heaven merged into the new world, its will and barrier formed, and the Qin Realm was born.

Qin Lu became a Soul Dao True Immortal, binding his True Spirit to the Primordial Dao Sea and entering the heavens as the Qin Humans Race’s first immortal. He was forcibly transported to the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain, where Long Yuntian welcomed him.

• Qin Lu followed the Dao Sea of Soul to its deepest reaches and bound his Great Dao True Spirit to its source.
• The Dao Sea remade Qin Lu, and a grotesque statue in his likeness appeared among the statues guarding its source.
• Qin Lu awakened as a Soul Dao True Immortal, marking the Qin Humans Race’s formal entry into the myriad worlds of the heavens.
• Soul Dao immortals and ancient beings sensed Qin Lu’s ascension and recognized him as a potential contender for the vacant position of Dao Ancestor of Soul.
• A rule forcibly displaced Qin Lu from the Dao Sea of Soul and sent him to a supreme hall, where Long Yuntian congratulated him on ascending to the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain.

Qin Lu learned from Long Yuntian why newly ascended immortals were transported to the Primordial Land and was told to establish an Ascension Platform. After hearing the Divine Court’s rules and leaving his mark in its bronze cauldron, Qin Lu secretly made the trace destroy itself, leaving his location harder to track.

• Long Yuntian introduced Qin Lu to the Primordial Land’s rules, explaining that Lord Kong Yan’s law transported newly ascended immortals to Divine Court territory.
• Long Yuntian told Qin Lu to establish an Ascension Platform so Spirit Transformation cultivators from his world could ascend without weakening his cultivation by surrendering its origin.
• Long Yuntian described the Primordial Land’s domains, the Divine Court’s influence, and the dangers of the wilderness between immortal domains.
• Long Yuntian brought Qin Lu to a bronze cauldron, where Qin Lu left the required trace of his presence and secretly caused it to destroy itself.
• Qin Lu learned that immortals had broad autonomy so long as they avoided violating the Divine Court’s limited restrictions.

After receiving Divine Court certification, an Ascension Platform method and materials, and a star map from Long Yuntian, Qin Lu returned to the Dao Sea of Soul and considered how the Qin Clan could remain independent while expanding into the upper realm. He planned to use Bai Yun and Ye Wuxu to test the way forward and hoped Qin Qianyu could eventually develop an ascension formation that bypassed the Divine Court.

• Long Yuntian invited Qin Lu to join the Divine Court and gave him a star map, but Qin Lu departed without accepting the invitation.
• Qin Lu returned from the immortal palace to the Dao Sea of Soul by merging with the Great Dao, then used its extensions to locate a route back to the Qin Realm.
• Qin Lu assessed the Divine Court’s certification and Ascension Platform, concluding that ascending cultivators risked becoming servants or prey unless they found a way to avoid the Divine Court’s control.
• Qin Lu decided Bai Yun and Ye Wuxu could ascend first and test whether the Qin Clan could establish itself in the upper realm.
• Qin Lu considered Qin Qianyu’s potential to develop an independent ascension formation and examined the star map Long Yuntian had given him, a subsidiary of the Myriad Rivers Star Map that could record new regions of the cosmos.

After Qin Lu returned to the Qin Realm as a Purple Void True Immortal, his presence became too powerful for most cultivators—even his descendants—to face. Qin Daoran reported how the reshaped Qin Realm was organized and connected to the Frost Cloud Realm.

• Qin Lu’s return made cultivators across the Qin Realm sense his presence, and those below Spirit Transformation could not communicate with him; even some Nascent Soul cultivators risked having their Divine Sense and souls damaged by looking at him.
• Qin Lu summoned meditation cushions for Qin Zheng and Qin Daoran and asked for a report on the Qin Realm’s situation.
• Qin Daoran reported that the Qin Realm had stabilized without casualties and had grown several times larger than the Nine Heavens, with the Ancestral Domain as its sole complete continent.
• Qin Daoran described the Northern Immortal Island and its Vast Dao Field, Qin Dragon Island at the southern pole, and the Profound Soul Sea where the clan’s dragons lived.
• Qin Daoran explained that eight cultivable stars encircled the Qin Realm, each corresponding to one of eight Great Daos, and that a modified Fifth-Tier teleportation array now connected the Qin Realm and Frost Cloud Realm.

Qin Lu set plans for the Qin Humans to cultivate ties in the upper realm and expand through the star sea while keeping their realm hidden. The chapter left the Qin Clan reorganizing its leadership and resources for long-term development.

• Qin Lu gave Qin Daoran an Ascension Token and instructed him to help Qianyu build a teleportation array and arrange for Ye Wuxu and Bai Yun to ascend and seek ties with Long Yunxian and the Divine Court.
• Qin Lu's Soul Seed had already influenced Bai Yun, allowing Qin Lu to control him without his awareness.
• Qin Lu gave Qin Zheng a star map and ordered him to build an expeditionary army, develop star-faring ships, and recruit clans with military merit as their incentive.
• Qin Xuanzi became the Qin Clan's fourth patriarch, and the clan limited future patriarchs to two thousand-year terms while raising the minimum succession requirement to Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Qin Clan withdrew most of its disciples from the Frost Cloud Realm and allocated its Spirit Vein resources among Qin Daoran, the empire, and the clan, leaving Qin Lu with only a modest share of Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

The Ascension Platform’s completion and public ascensions strengthened Great Qin’s authority and encouraged cultivators across the Frost Cloud Realm to pursue cultivation rather than conflict. Over the following centuries, the Qin Clan’s subordinate races and family members gained new Spirit Transformation Venerables, leaving the two worlds more secure under Qin Lu and the Qin Clan.

• The Ascension Platform was completed, and Ye Wuxu and Bai Yun ascended before the Frost Cloud Realm’s Nascent Soul Cultivators, inspiring them to proclaim their loyalty to Great Qin.
• Cultivators increasingly pursued Spirit Transformation and cooperation, reducing violence and helping the Frost Cloud Realm recover while Great Qin sought resources for its growing needs.
• In 2536, the White Dragon Emperor advanced to Spirit Transformation as the White Dragon Venerable, and the Qin Dragon Race became the Qin Clan’s strongest subordinate group.
• The Wood Demon race grew into the Qin Clan’s second-ranking subordinate group, with seven Nascent Soul Wood Demons including Zhu Xiao and Bai Lian.
• Qin Xuanzi and, a century later, Qin Yingjie advanced to Spirit Transformation, bringing the Qin Clan’s total to six Venerables alongside Qin Lu, a True Immortal.

Bai Yun and Ye Wuxu established themselves as level-three Executors in the Divine Court’s Cloud Sea Immortal Domain, each taking a distant cultivation ground. Qin Lu then took over Bai Yun’s body and considered raising his rank to level one to provide cover for future expansion.

• Ye Wuxu and Bai Yun joined the Divine Court after Qin Lu recommended them and eventually became level-three Executors under Long Yunxian.
• The two established their own cultivation grounds in the North Sea and brought their Spirit Ascension Secret Realms and followers to the Primordial Land.
• Bai Yun suddenly lost control of his body, and Qin Lu’s consciousness took it over.
• Qin Lu considered raising Bai Yun’s cultivation so he could become a level-one Executor and help conceal the expansion to come.

Qin Lu controlled Bai Yun and accepted three Divine Court missions to hunt Spirit Transformation Evil Cultivators, seeking resources and a Star Sea Boat for the Qin Clan. He tracked down and destroyed the Night Cat Race, devoured its Spirit Transformation cultivator’s Primordial Spirit, and left Bai Yun strengthened.

• Qin Lu took control of Bai Yun, accepted three missions to hunt Spirit Transformation Evil Cultivators, and planned to secretly take their resources and treasures.
• Qin Lu set out in a Divine Court Star Sea Boat to pursue a Night Cat cultivator into the Darkest Nebula, hoping the vessel could help the Qin Clan develop star-sea warships.
• Qin Lu found the Night Cat Race dwelling among the shattered remains of a world and decided to destroy them rather than take them as a vassal race.
• Qin Lu unleashed tens of millions of Heaven-Piercing Frost Nails, killing nearly all the Night Cats and leaving their Spirit Transformation cultivator as the sole survivor.
• The Spirit Transformation Night Cat attacked with the Dao of space, but Qin Lu erased its attacks, seized it, crushed its Primordial Spirit, and devoured it, strengthening Bai Yun.

After plundering a night cat clan and learning about the Supreme Unity Creation Pure Marrow, Qin Lu set out to find the fugitive Tang Yan in Human Race territory. He located her on a meteor and discovered she possessed a rare Profound Yin Dao Body, deciding to take her for himself.

• Qin Lu looted the night cat clan, collected its stolen treasures and corpses, and planned to use further kills to advance Bai Yun and his own position in the Divine Court.
• Qin Lu chose Tang Yan, a Human Race Spirit Transformation cultivator who had fled after killing three fourth-rank executors, as his next target.
• Qin Lu traveled to the Dao Domain Star Sea and concealed his identity while entering the prosperous Human Race territory.
• Qin Lu found Tang Yan hiding inside a large meteor by sensing her unique soul.
• Qin Lu recognized Tang Yan's Profound Yin Dao Body and decided to make her his concubine.