Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu overwhelmed Tang Yan despite her use of Nine-Colored Divine Lightning, then subdued her and uncovered why she had fled the Divine Court. He learned that Immortal Fuchen had tried to use her as a gift to secure connections, and considered whether he could exploit Fuchen in turn.

• Qin Lu froze a moon-sized meteor, shattered a star, and sent Tang Yan flying with a frost blade.
• Tang Yan attacked Qin Lu with Nine Lightning Divine Pearls, but he appeared behind her unharmed and seized her.
• Qin Lu recognized Tang Yan’s Profound Yin Dao Body and damaged her Primordial Spirit, leaving her unconscious.
• Qin Lu deduced that Immortal Fuchen had tried to offer Tang Yan to another True Immortal and that she had fled the Divine Court.
• Qin Lu judged Immortal Fuchen weak and considered gaining benefits from him, while distancing himself from the actions of Bai Yun.

Qin Lu brought Tang Yan to the Spirit-Burying Star Sea to hunt the Starfall Race, whose bodies could be used to improve his weapons and the Qin Clan’s artifact refining. He found a large Starfall settlement and began slaughtering its people, while carefully limiting his power to protect Bai Yun’s puppet body.

• Qin Lu reviewed a mission to kill a Starfall Race Spirit Transformation cultivator who had slain a Divine Court True Immortal’s descendant.
• Seven months later, Tang Yan traveled with Qin Lu as his personal attendant concubine after receiving cultivation guidance and resources from him.
• Qin Lu told Tang Yan they were heading to the Spirit-Burying Star Sea, where the Starfall cultivator was hiding among ancient ruins.
• Qin Lu discovered a Starfall settlement containing at least nine Spirit Transformation cultivators and a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators, and recognized their bodies as valuable materials for God Devouring and the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lu unleashed a vast wave of frost across the star sea, killing or injuring more than half of the Starfall Race while restraining his power to avoid harming Bai Yun’s puppet body.

Qin Lu unleashed a cold wave that nearly wiped out the Starfall Race, then defeated and devoured its Spirit Transformation cultivators. The fight raised Bai Yun’s cultivation to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage and slightly strengthened Qin Lu, who reflected on what determined a True Immortal’s power.

• Qin Lu’s cold wave killed more than ninety-nine percent of the Starfall Race, leaving only a few dozen powerful cultivators and some protected survivors.
• Nine Starfall Race Spirit Transformation cultivators attacked Qin Lu, who transformed his Primordial Spirit Dharma Manifestation into an ice-and-snow Shura wielding six Sixth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasures.
• Qin Lu killed two cultivators with his weapons and caused two more to die when their Primordial Spirits disintegrated from fear and soul toxin.
• Qin Lu froze the remaining five Spirit Transformation cultivators and devoured their Primordial Spirits, pushing Bai Yun to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage and gaining a small increase in strength himself.
• Qin Lu considered how a True Immortal’s world, authority, and control over the Great Dao determined their strength.

The chapter explained the stages of the True Immortal Realm and how Great Dao strength affected an immortal’s power. Over a century of traveling and carrying out missions with Tang Yan, Qin Lu strengthened her cultivation and amassed resources, leaving him ready to return to the Qin Realm with his spoils.

• The chapter described Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Jade Immortal, and Daluo Golden Immortal, while noting that a Great Dao’s strength and the distribution of its authority affected combat power.
• After returning to the Primordial Land with Tang Yan, Qin Lu turned in two missions, accepted seventeen more, and kept the mission to hunt Tang Yan so another executor would not pursue her.
• Qin Lu traveled the starry seas with Tang Yan for over a hundred years, completing missions and visiting powerful races while she served as his attendant and steward.
• With Qin Lu’s guidance, Tang Yan stabilized her cultivation at the Spirit Transformation Late Stage, reforged her foundation, and opened a Spirit Ascension Secret Realm using the Five Elements Creation Method.
• Qin Lu killed more than three hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators and gathered numerous treasures, including three Seventh-Tier treasures and over two hundred Sixth-Tier treasures, which he planned to take back to the Qin Realm.

Qin Lu returned from the star sea, completed his mission, and was promoted to a level-two executor before heading back to the Qin Realm. He brought Tang Yan with him and began secluded dual cultivation, hoping to strengthen his cultivation.

• Qin Lu decided to return home after realizing that advancing further required finding and killing another Soul Immortal, a task he could not yet manage.
• Qin Lu returned to the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain, completed his mission, and was promoted to a level-two executor, making Bai Yun widely known.
• Qin Lu judged that Bai Yun and Ye Wuxu lacked the resources and time to attain immortality, then settled Bai Yun in and gave him fabricated memories.
• Qin Lu returned to his true body and used his True Immortal abilities to take Tang Yan back to the Qin Realm.
• Qin Lu began secluded cultivation with Tang Yan to test whether dual cultivation could strengthen them both.

After Qin Lu returned, he developed a plan to build a nebula of subordinate worlds around the Qin Realm and grow strong enough to pursue the Soul Dao Ancestor position. Over the following centuries, the Qin Realm and Qin Clan prospered, while Qin Zheng neared the final step to becoming a True Immortal.

• Qin Lu planned to bring Tang Yan’s origin world into the Qin Realm’s star ring and link it with worlds belonging to Qin Zheng and Qin Daoran.
• The Qin Realm grew stronger over the following centuries, and eight Qin Clan youths gained spiritual radiance exceeding nine inches, with Qin Yuanmao reaching Dao Foundation Perfection in his forties.
• Qin Qianyu led advances in refining, helping the Great Qin Empire reproduce Star Sea Boats, begin manufacturing Sixth-Tier warships, and establish its first Star Sea fleet.
• Qin Qianyu, Qin Zhenyu, Qin Mingyue, and Qin Minghan advanced to Spirit Transformation, while Qin Lu’s seven Ghost Emperors reached Spirit Transformation Perfection.
• Qin Zheng reached the final step toward True Immortal, needing only a crucial opportunity to inherit the Purple Void Immortal Realm.

By 3125, Great Qin had established Beichuan Market as a trading hub in the Guangling Star Cluster, with Bai He commanding the fleet that guarded it and gathered resources. A century later, Qin Lu’s God Devouring Sword became a Seventh-Tier Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact, while Earth Burial remained a clan-protecting treasure.

• Great Qin revised its Nine-Rank Immortal Clan System, reserving the marquisate for Purple Void True Immortals and naming its growing nebula the Great Qin Nebula.
• Bai He led the Great Qin First Star Sea Fleet into the star seas, where it gathered resources and built relations with travelers and nearby races.
• The Qin Clan established a permanent trading ground among fallen stars, which became Beichuan Market, one of only four markets in the Guangling Star Cluster.
• In 3215, Qin Qianyu oversaw centuries of reforging that turned Qin Lu’s God Devouring Sword into a Seventh-Tier Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.
• The sword became dangerously sentient and could be wielded only by Qin Lu, while the Earth Burial Seal served to protect the Qin Clan’s fortune.

The Qin Realm’s leaders convened their century assembly to review the race’s expanding territory, growing resources, and rising cultivation strength. They left the assembly with a picture of a rapidly developing Great Qin Nebula and predictions of further advances among their cultivators.

• Qin Xuanzi opened the century assembly and asked Qin Daoyuan to report on the Qin Realm’s resources, income, and stalled effort to introduce Qin Coins into the Star Sea.
• Qin Yingjie reported that the Qin Humans had gained twelve subordinate stars, granted five as fiefs, and established Beichuan Market in a newly incorporated meteorite belt.
• Qin Xuanzi considered how subordinate stars could strengthen the Qin Realm, attract Spirit Transformation cultivators, provide resources, and serve as defensive barriers.
• Qin Mingyue presented the register of advanced cultivators, counting one True Immortal, four prospective immortals, twenty-two Spirit Transformation cultivators, and one hundred seventy-four Nascent Soul cultivators across the race and its territories.
• Qin Mingyue predicted that the race would gain more than ten additional Spirit Transformation venerables within a thousand years, aided by the Taiyi Raw Creation Essence bestowed by the Old Ancestor.

Qin Zheng fused the Heaven-Reaching Sea Crystal into his Fortune-Suppressing Jade Seal, producing signs that he was nearing the final step toward becoming a True Immortal. The transformation strengthened hopes that the Qin Clan would gain another immortal and convinced more cultivators that serving Great Qin could offer a better path than ascending to the upper realm.

• Reports described how Qin Lu’s resource plundering and Great Qin’s ruthless selection system had driven the Qin Clan’s rapid growth.
• Qin Zheng fused the Heaven-Reaching Sea Crystal into his Fortune-Suppressing Jade Seal, unleashing a force that suppressed the heavens and earth.
• Cultivators interpreted the signs as evidence that Qin Zheng was nearing the final step and that the Qin Clan might soon have a second True Immortal.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators considered serving Great Qin, where they could gain resources and support instead of facing the dangers of the upper realm.
• The transformed Fortune-Suppressing Jade Seal held a massive blue crystal that faintly carried the might of a Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.

Qin Zheng used Mystic Water to complete his ascension and became a True Immortal, then entered the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain and met Long Yuntian. His arrival brought the Qin Humans Race to the Divine Court’s attention and prompted the Human Race to discuss courting the new branch.

• Qin Zheng gathered the world’s Mystic Water essence, transformed his body, crossed the Primordial Dao Sea, and became a True Immortal.
• Qin Zheng arrived at Long Yun Immortal Palace, introduced himself to Long Yuntian as Imperial Grace Immortal, and conveyed Qin Lu’s regards.
• Long Yuntian took Qin Zheng to the Divine Court for verification and offered to help Qin Lu in the future.
• The Divine Court took notice of the Qin Humans Race, and Long Yuntian chose to build ties with the emerging race.
• The Human Race discussed bringing the Qin Humans Race into its fold because it had already produced two True Immortals.

After Qin Zheng became a True Immortal, the Frost Cloud Realm was renamed the Emperor Realm and incorporated into the Great Qin Nebula, strengthening Qin Lu and expanding the nebula. Qin Lu planned to hunt a lone True Immortal for resources, while Qin Daoran waited for the clan’s worlds to gain enough origin power to support his ascension.

• Qin Zheng’s return as a True Immortal gave the Qin Humans Race its second immortal, and the Frost Cloud Realm was renamed the Emperor Realm and integrated into the Great Qin Nebula.
• Qin Lu’s power rose by more than a tenth after the Emperor Realm’s integration, and he began planning to hunt a lone True Immortal whose world he had secretly monitored.
• Qin Zheng used meteor debris to form five Great Dao Stars, expanding the Great Qin Nebula to two main worlds and twenty-five subordinate planes.
• As Water Dao cultivation flourished in the Emperor Realm, the Scarlet Yang Immortal Sect opened its gates to Fire Dao lineages and academies, making them inhabitants of the Scarlet Yang Immortal Palace.
• Qin Daoran postponed becoming an immortal because his cultivation was not yet flawless and the Qin Realm and Emperor Realm lacked enough origin power to support the Scarlet Yang Immortal Palace’s separation.

Qin Lu planned a gathering at Beichuan Market to meet the Vast Spirit Star Domain’s hidden True Immortal forces, trade for resources, and potentially seize a world’s origin. The Qin Humans’ rapid rise attracted migrants and drew three Mystic Immortals toward the market, where they weighed the danger of confronting Qin Lu and his son.

• Qin Lu told Qin Zheng to keep the clan’s power mysterious and proposed inviting the forces behind the domain’s other three markets to a gathering at Beichuan Market.
• Qin Lu planned to use the promise of a lone True Immortal world to draw the other forces into negotiations and possibly obtain world origin for Qin Daoran.
• News of the Qin Humans’ celebration spread, and many minor races moved toward Beichuan Market seeking the protection of the Qin Humans.
• Three Mystic Immortals watched the migration and discussed Qin Lu, known as Emperor Nether, and Qin Zheng, known as Imperial Grace.
• Brother Hu and the other two Mystic Immortals concluded that Qin Lu’s Soul Dao power made opposing the True Immortal father and son too dangerous.

The Karma-Stealing Immortal, Hu He, and Ye Qingzhu arrived at Beichuan Market to meet Qin Lu, whose oppressive presence unsettled all three True Immortals. They introduced themselves inside the Ghost Spirit Space, and Qin Lu assessed their identities and relative strength.

• The Karma-Stealing Immortal ended his argument with Hu He and Ye Qingzhu, and the three set out to meet Emperor Nether.
• The three True Immortals reached Beichuan Market, where their arrival shattered spying gazes and forced the inhabitants to bow.
• Qin Lu invited the three to meet him, and they entered the Ghost Spirit Space within Beichuan Market.
• Ming Qing introduced himself as the Karma-Stealing Immortal of the Nether Karma Race, and Qin Lu judged him an unusual and difficult figure.
• Hu He introduced himself as a Hu He Demon Immortal of the Winged Tiger Race, then Ye Qingzhu introduced himself as the Bamboo-Wood Immortal of the Human Race.

Qin Lu proposed that the four True Immortals join forces to kill the Silver Moon Immortal and divide the spoils, then negotiated a new balance of power in the Vast Spirit Star Domain. The four formed an alliance and agreed to make Beichuan Market the domain’s main trade center under Qin Humans’ management.

• Qin Lu showed the others a star map of the Silver Moon Realm and proposed that they kill its unaffiliated True Immortal together.
• Qin Lu offered forty percent of the world's origin and nearly all other resources to the three immortals, who accepted and swore Dao Oaths; Qin Lu swore one as well.
• Qin Lu shared the Silver Moon Realm's coordinates, and the four True Immortals planned an expeditionary army to fight the Silver Moon Immortal and assign the lower-level battles to their subordinates.
• The four factions agreed to center the Vast Spirit Star Domain on Beichuan Market, with the Qin Humans managing it and the other factions receiving fifteen percent of its profits.
• The three immortals agreed to move their markets to the domain's outskirts and use them as trade outposts and defensive barriers.

The four True Immortal powers mobilized their forces to destroy the Silver Moon Clan, while Ye Qingzhu visited Qin Lu with an offer from the Human Race. Qin Lu rejected the offer and asserted his independence, and Ye Qingzhu acknowledged the corruption that had driven him away from the Human Race.

• Qin Zheng ordered Great Qin to send Spirit Transformation, Nascent Soul, and Golden Core forces for the campaign against the Silver Moon Clan.
• The four True Immortal powers prepared their armies, whose combined strength would include forty Spirit Transformation experts and more than ten thousand Core Formation cultivators.
• Qin Lu met Ye Qingzhu in the starry sky and revealed that he had gathered intelligence through corrupted human puppets.
• Ye Qingzhu told Qin Lu that the Human Race wanted the Qin Humans to return and promised resources to support their growth.
• Qin Lu displayed the power of his realms and refused to let the Human Race control or use the Qin Humans.
• Ye Qingzhu agreed with Qin Lu and admitted that corruption and monopolized resources had driven many Human Race True Immortals to seek freedom elsewhere.

Ye Qingzhu left Qin Lu’s side with a new respect for the Qin Humans and a feeling that joining their rising power might benefit him. In 3205 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu and the Four Immortals Alliance began their assault on the Silver Moon Realm, aiming to draw out Silver Moon Immortal while sealing his escape routes.

• Ye Qingzhu accepted Qin Lu’s criticism of the Human Race and departed, considering the Qin Humans a promising ally.
• Great Qin’s First Star Sea Fleet and more than two hundred allied warships assembled in the star sea, bringing a vast force of cultivators and battle puppets.
• Qin Lu and the other three immortals agreed to have Hu He attack the Silver Moon Realm’s three subsidiary planes while they sealed off the surrounding cosmos.
• Hu He unleashed his presence, shaking the Silver Moon Realm with spatial tremors and preventing it from escaping.
• The allied fleet opened fire on the world barrier, and Hu He challenged Silver Moon Immortal to come out and die.

Hu He forced Silver Moon Immortal to reveal himself, then devastated the Silver Moon Realm with a full-strength strike. Silver Moon Immortal moved their battle into the starry sky, where he faced Hu He with the power of three moons as Qin Lu and his companions prepared to close in.

• Hu He cursed Silver Moon Immortal and struck at Spirit Transformation cultivators until Silver Moon Immortal intervened and ordered his clan to abandon three subsidiary planes and withdraw.
• Silver Moon Clan cultivators retreated to the Silver Moon Realm while warships destroyed two subsidiary planes and Hu He swept the last one away with a Seventh-Tier Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.
• Qin Lu, Ming Qing, and Ye Qingzhu completed a blockade around the region, and Qin Lu told Hu He to probe Silver Moon Immortal without pressing him too hard.
• Hu He crashed into the Silver Moon Realm with a full-strength strike, destroying much of the world and killing nearly half the Silver Moon Clan.
• Silver Moon Immortal tore open a spatial rift and forced Hu He out of the Silver Moon Realm, then appeared with the red, silver, and Profound Moon phantoms behind him.

Hu He, Ye Qingzhu, and Ming Qing fought Silver Moon Immortal, whose spatial and lunar powers forced them to reveal their strongest abilities. Ye Qingzhu trapped Silver Moon Immortal in the Azure Bamboo Immortal-Locking Formation and called on Qin Lu to attack.

• Silver Moon Immortal shattered Hu He with his spatial power, but Ye Qingzhu revived him with the Fortune Azure Bamboo’s spirit water.
• Hu He unleashed a cosmic storm with his Gale Treasure Wings, forcing Silver Moon Immortal to reveal his Silver Moon Dharma Manifestation and absorb the storm with the Serene Dark Moon.
• Ming Qing intercepted Silver Moon Immortal’s counterattack and returned its moonlight with even greater force, but Silver Moon Immortal redirected it through a spatial passage and destroyed several stars.
• Hu He called for everyone to attack together and warned them about Silver Moon Immortal’s silver, dark, and unknown blood moons.
• Ye Qingzhu summoned his Bamboo and Wood Dharma Manifestation and bound Silver Moon Immortal with the Azure Bamboo Immortal-Locking Formation.
• Ye Qingzhu called on Qin Lu to make his move.

Ye Qingzhu, Hu He, and Ming Qing attacked Silver Moon Immortal, but he survived their opening assault and revealed three Seventh-Tier Profound Heaven Immortal Artifacts. The battle continued as the immortals tried to suppress him, with Silver Moon Immortal still posing a formidable threat.

• Ye Qingzhu struck Silver Moon Immortal with the Dao-Transforming Immortal-Extinguishing Hand, melting away his Silver Moon Dharma Manifestation and severely injuring him.
• Silver Moon Immortal revealed the Supreme Yin Maha Armor and Three Moons Shining Together Disc, then used a Great Dao saber to split Hu He's cosmic storm and sever his head.
• Ye Qingzhu used Fortune Spirit Water to restore Hu He, while Ming Qing stole Silver Moon Immortal's corruption affliction and transferred it back onto him.
• Ye Qingzhu changed the formation to suppress Silver Moon Immortal's immortal spirit power, and Hu He charged in to keep him occupied.
• Qin Lu stayed hidden as the immortals continued fighting Silver Moon Immortal, whose three Seventh-Tier Profound Heaven Immortal Artifacts and formidable body made him difficult to defeat.

Qin Lu stayed hidden in the Ghost Spirit Space while Silver Moon Immortal battled Hu He, Ming Qing, and Ye Qingzhu, then struck with the God Devouring Sword. Silver Moon Immortal had anticipated the attack and pursued Qin Lu into the space, where Qin Lu summoned a True Devil Immortal to join the fight.

• Hu He and Ming Qing struggled to break through Silver Moon Immortal’s defenses while Ye Qingzhu supported them with a formation.
• Silver Moon Immortal pretended to be exhausted to lure Qin Lu into attacking, but Qin Lu recognized the ruse by sensing his soul.
• Qin Lu empowered himself with the Emperor Soul Crown and swung the God Devouring Sword at Silver Moon Immortal from the Ghost Spirit Space.
• Silver Moon Immortal deflected the strike, then used the Three Moons Shining Together Disc to find Qin Lu and attack him inside the Ghost Spirit Space.
• Qin Lu severed his own left arm to stop the Blood Moon Disc’s corrosive Qi, then sent Heaven Burial Boy and its ghosts to assist him.
• Silver Moon Immortal summoned Yuexi to fight Heaven Burial Boy, while Qin Lu merged the seven Ghost Emperors into a powerful True Devil Immortal.