Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu searched the Mountain Mist Race progenitor’s spoils and discovered the Nine True Soul Methods, an inheritance authored by Hun Qiuzhen, the first Dao Ancestor of Souls. He left the chapter convinced it was more valuable than all the other treasures, though he had not yet understood its final method.

• Qin Lu found a Mustard Seed Sumeru containing the Mountain Mist Race’s inheritance, riches, and over a billion beings.
• Qin Lu collected numerous treasures, including a lightning bead that he planned to save for Qin Zhenyu and a portion of world origin capable of supporting another clansman’s Creation.
• Qin Lu opened the most heavily protected treasure box and found the Nine True Soul Methods, authored by Hun Qiuzhen.
• Qin Lu realized the inheritance came from the Dao Ancestor of Souls, who had also been the Dao Ancestor of Death before Ming Wang killed him.
• Qin Lu studied the nine methods, grasped hints of the first eight, and remained unable to interpret the True Self Soul Method.

After Qin Lu and his companions took the Mountain Mist Race’s three masterless worlds, the Grand Yin Hall exposed their actions and triggered a scramble among the heavens. As forces gathered for a possible war, the Grand Yin Hall’s master began seeking unity with the Dao, only for the Great Yang Dao Ancestor to attack and the Dao Ancestor of Emperors to intervene.

• Qin Lu erased the True Spirit imprints of the three Mountain Mist Race True Immortals, then joined Ye Qingzhu and Qin Daoran in taking their three masterless worlds.
• The Grand Yin Hall revealed the group’s actions across tens of thousands of star domains, drawing hundreds of True Immortals to the Gale Storm Nebula.
• The Human Race arrived to defend Qin Lu’s group, while the Samsara Underworld and other factions gathered as the dispute threatened to escalate into a wider war.
• The Grand Yin Hall’s master used the turmoil to seek unity with the Dao and enter the Dao Ancestor Realm.
• The Great Yang Dao Ancestor attacked the primordial moon, but the Dao Ancestor of Emperors extinguished his divine fire and forced him back.

The Grand Yin Hall Master reclaimed the Grand Yin Great Dao and became the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor, while Flowing Cloud stopped the fighting and secured a settlement between the Grand Yin Hall and the Vast Spirit Alliance. The factions withdrew, and the Great Yang Dao Ancestor reclaimed the Soul-Annihilating Bell from Qin Lu before departing.

• The Grand Yin Hall Master fused her True Spirit with the Dao Sea and ascended as the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor, suppressing the Great Yang Dao Ancestor.
• Flowing Cloud intervened to stop the fighting, and the Dao Ancestor of Emperors supported his effort to preserve the balance.
• The Grand Yin Dao Ancestor declared that the Grand Yin Hall would not pursue the Vast Spirit Alliance if its members survived the calamity.
• The Grand Yin Dao Ancestor and the Dao Ancestor of Emperors withdrew to the Endless Land, where the Grand Yin Hall established itself and its grudge with the Vast Spirit Alliance ended.
• Flowing Cloud advised the Great Yang Dao Ancestor to abandon his pursuit of power and then departed.
• The Great Yang Dao Ancestor summoned the Soul-Annihilating Bell from Qin Lu and left with it.

The Human Race and the Samsara Underworld agreed to divide the Ghost Xiao Clan’s Great Dao authority while the powerful races took portions of its nebula and the Profound Wing Nebula. Ancestor Mu then assured Qin Lu that the Qin Humans would receive territory in the Gale Storm Nebula and protection from future retaliation.

• Ancestor Mu claimed the Gale Storm Nebula for the Human Race and offered the Profound Wing Nebula to the other factions, while the Endless Land withdrew after securing its gains.
• Ghost Duke proposed that the Human Race and Samsara Underworld divide the Ghost Xiao Clan’s Great Dao authority and that the powerful races share its nebula and the Profound Wing Nebula.
• Xu Huai accepted Ghost Duke’s proposal, and the gathered factions agreed to eliminate the Ghost Xiao Clan.
• Qin Lu offered the Gale Storm Nebula’s resources to the Human Race, but Ancestor Mu granted the Qin Humans one unclaimed world and its subsidiary planes while reserving two worlds for the Human Race.
• Ancestor Mu told Qin Lu that the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor had settled his grievances with the Vast Spirit Alliance and that the Great Yang Dao Ancestor would not pursue him over the Soul-Annihilating Bell.

After the campaign against the Ghost Xiao Clan, Qin Lu and Ye Qingzhu divided the spoils, and Qin Lu began planning to develop the Great Qin Nebula. Subsequent battles destroyed five great races, while Long Yuntian became a Taiyi and Hu Feng rose to the rank of Golden Immortal.

• Ancestor Mu, Xu Huai, Luo Sheng, Cold Venerable, and more than a hundred True Immortals set out to destroy the Ghost Xiao Clan and kill Ghost Xiao.
• Qin Lu and Ye Qingzhu settled their share of the spoils, with Qin Lu keeping the unclaimed world and ceding more than two hundred subsidiary planes to Ye Qingzhu.
• Qin Lu and Qin Daoran took the Wild Thunder World for Qin Zhenyu, and Qin Lu planned to spend the coming millennia developing the Great Qin Nebula.
• Battles across the heavens wiped out the Profound Wing Race, Ghost Xiao Clan, Mountain Mist Race, Golden Armor Race, and Hidden Wing Race, leaving nearly fifty Mystic Immortals, one Taiyi Jade Immortal, and three Golden Immortals dead.
• Long Yuntian killed a Cloud Firmament Race Golden Immortal and seized enough authority over the Dao of Clouds to become a Taiyi.
• Hu Feng killed the Profound Wing Race's progenitor with Long Yuntian's help, claimed Wind Dao authority to become a top-tier Golden Immortal, and gained an unclaimed world.

Ancestor Mu offered Qin Lu 5% of Ghost Xiao Mad Devil’s Soul Dao authority in exchange for 30% authority in the future, and Qin Lu accepted to strengthen the Qin Humans. After absorbing the authority, Qin Lu became a Golden Immortal, while the Vast Spirit Alliance prospered and the Ye Clan gained a Daluo ancestor.

• Ancestor Mu offered Qin Lu a loan of 5% Soul Dao authority and required repayment of six times that amount or the nurturing of a Human Race Daluo.
• Qin Lu agreed, deciding the authority would strengthen his position and help the Qin Humans, despite the debt and the risks of hunting immortals to repay it.
• Qin Lu absorbed Ghost Xiao Mad Devil’s authority and, after a few months of seclusion, reached about 5.5% Soul Dao authority and entered the Golden Immortal realm.
• Long Yunxian returned to the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain as a Taiyi with 15% authority over the Dao of Clouds.
• Ye Qingzhu returned to the Ye Clan, whose ancestor became a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Dao of Withering and Flourishing, raising the clan’s strength.

Qin Lu accepted that the Qin Humans Race needed the Human Race’s protection and resolved to use their alliance to strengthen his own people. By Great Qin year 3500, the Vast Spirit Star Domain was stable under joint Qin Humans and Winged Tiger rule, while the Qin Humans focused on consolidating their power and developing the region.

• Qin Lu concluded that the Qin Humans Race needed a powerful patron and decided to turn its ties to the Human Race to his advantage.
• Qin Lu’s acceptance of the alliance brought him peace of mind, allowing his cultivation to progress more smoothly.
• By year 3500 of the Great Qin calendar, Hu Feng and Qin Lu guarded the Vast Spirit Star Domain as representatives of the Winged Tiger Race and the Qin Humans Race.
• Ming Qing represented the unaffiliated minor races, while the Qin Humans Race retained primary control of the Vast Spirit Alliance and the domain.
• The Qin Humans Race pulled back from expansion and developed the region’s resources under Qin Xuanzi and the Great Qin Empire’s established administration.
• The Qin Humans maintained ten subordinate planes as grazing grounds, where prisoners and defeated alien races were raised as blood food for the Qin Realm, Emperor Realm, and Scarlet Yang Realm.

The Qin Humans Race used the Scarlet Yang Holy Land to build alliances across the heavens while developing the newly integrated Wild Thunder World. The chapter left Qin Zhenyu and Tang Yan refining their paths toward becoming immortals, a goal that could strengthen the Qin Humans Race further.

• Qin Daoran’s sect system turned the Scarlet Yang Realm into a thriving cultivation world, with the Scarlet Yang Immortal Sect revered as its Holy Land.
• Qin Lu opened the Great Qin Nebula to human cultivators, using master-disciple ties to deepen the Qin Humans Race’s alliances while it bided its time.
• The Qin Humans Race integrated the Wild Thunder World, exploited its abundant resources, and traded Lightning Dao blood food and Blood Lightning Pills.
• Qin Zhenyu honed eight branches of the Lightning Dao in the Lightning Palace, aiming to inherit the Wild Thunder World and become a powerful True Immortal.
• Tang Yan cultivated Profound Yin in the ocean trench, used Qin Lu’s gift of world origin to prepare for immortality, and privately mourned that she had not conceived a child.

Haiyue sought Qin Lu’s help because the growing inner world within her body had slowed her cultivation and threatened to limit her lifespan. Qin Lu promised to support her advancement, increase resources for the Wood Demon lineage, and grant them five subsidiary planes.

• Haiyue teased Qin Lu about his other partners, then asked him to suppress his immortal presence because it made her uncomfortable.
• Haiyue explained that a spatial treasure had become a Spirit Ascension Secret Realm inside her, hindering her cultivation as her lifespan dwindled.
• Qin Lu realized he had neglected Haiyue and the Wood Demon lineage while directing resources toward himself and promising True Immortal candidates.
• Qin Lu offered to seek Long Yuntian’s insights on creating an Inner World and redirect Zhenyu’s future resources to Haiyue.
• Qin Lu promised a fivefold increase in the Wood Demon lineage’s resources, granted them one high-grade and four first-generation subsidiary planes, and offered to obtain Haiyue’s needed cultivation methods.

Mad Devil was reborn as a Soul Dao True Immortal and plotted to rebuild his power, preserve the Ghost Xiao Clan, and eventually take revenge on Qin Lu and the Human Race. Meanwhile, Li Ping'an learned that the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow he needed to become a Purple Void True Immortal was held by the powerful Mountain Piercer Clan, and he struggled over whether to tell the Qin Clan.

• Mad Devil revived in a new body, reclaimed Spirit Transformation Peak cultivation, and used a barren world to regain his status as a Soul Dao True Immortal.
• Mad Devil accepted that he could not yet defeat Qin Lu, then resolved to gather the Ghost Xiao Clan and infiltrate the Human Race to pursue revenge.
• Li Ping'an learned that the Mountain Piercer Clan possessed the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow and ordered his clansmen to watch them without reporting the discovery.
• Li Ping'an recalled that the marrow came from the descendants of an ancient River Dao Taiyi and was his best chance to become an immortal.
• Li Ping'an weighed his desire to keep the treasure secret against his affection for the Qin Clan and his promise to protect his mother's family.

Li Ping'an led the Li Clan fleet out of the Great Qin Nebula to seize the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, while Imperial Guard commanders Lu Zheng and Qin Yuan'an secretly followed. After they entered the Liu'an Star Domain, the commanders killed seven Spirit Transformation cultivators tailing the fleet and took their spoils.

• Li Ping'an departed with a small fleet, relying on his Spirit Transformation cultivation, a Sixth-Tier warship, and the Incense-Fire Puppet made from Li Shan's remnant soul.
• Lu Zheng and Qin Yuan'an debated whether to report Li Ping'an's movements and decided to notify the Qin Clan, then follow the fleet discreetly.
• The Imperial Guard commanders followed the Li Clan fleet into the Liu'an Star Domain and discovered seven Spirit Transformation cultivators trailing it.
• Qin Yuan'an killed one pursuer with a soul nail while Lu Zheng held off the others using his five Blood and Soul Sacred Beasts.
• Qin Yuan'an unleashed nine Ghost King Flags, and the commanders killed all seven pursuers before devouring their Primordial Spirits and collecting their valuables.

Li Ping'an's fleet fought the Mountain Piercer Clan, while Qin Yuan'an and the Imperial Guard revealed they had been watching over him. Qin Wu arrived with the Qin Humans army, ordered the Mountain Piercer Clan exterminated, and left a few surviving Golden Core cultivators enslaved to manage its territory.

• The Li Clan fleet discovered the Mountain Piercer Clan's three high-grade planes and prepared for battle against its five Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Li Ping'an and the fleet's puppets and warships attacked, and Li Ping'an killed the Mountain Piercer Clan's Spirit Transformation Middle Stage cultivator at the cost of severe injuries.
• Lu Zheng emerged from hiding and killed the Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivator, while Qin Yuan'an killed the two Early Spirit Transformation cultivators trapped by the fleet's formation.
• Qin Wu arrived with more than a hundred warships, revealed that the Qin Humans would take over, and ordered the Mountain Piercer Clan exterminated.
• The Qin Humans army killed the Mountain Piercer Clan's high-level cultivators, and the few Golden Core survivors who surrendered became slaves.

Qin Wu learned that Li Ping'an had secretly taken the Mountain Piercer Clan’s treasure and warned him before accepting his help in searching for more spoils. After Qin Lu unlocked the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, he discovered it could perfect the aptitude of Earth and River Dao cultivators, but his children could not use it, so he left it for Li Ping'an.

• Qin Wu learned about Li Ping'an’s affair, warned him for acting behind the Qin Clan’s back, and chose not to punish him harshly.
• Li Ping'an led Qin Wu and the others to the Mountain Piercer Clan temple, where they found the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, which they could not open.
• Qin Wu ordered three higher planes returned to the Great Qin Nebula, while the Mountain Piercer Clan was enslaved and the Li Clan stood to receive a share of the spoils.
• In Year 3619 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu emerged from seclusion and opened the imitation immortal artifact containing the true Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow.
• Qin Lu discovered that the treasure could raise an Earth and River Dao cultivator’s aptitude to nine-point-nine inches of spiritual light, but his children could not use it, so he left it for Li Ping'an and kept the other treasures.

Qin Lu catalogued the treasures in River Dao Taiyi’s ancestral hall, taking the Ancient Qilin Jade and assigning other artifacts to protect the Qin Humans Race. Months later, Li Ping'an received the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow and his clan a subsidiary plane, while Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng reflected on how difficult it would be for him—or even themselves—to reach immortality.

• Qin Lu identified the Ancient Qilin Jade as a powerful artifact and set aside defensive immortal artifacts for Qin Zheng and Qin Daoran, with the remaining treasures destined for the clan treasury.
• Several months later, Li Ping'an received the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, and the Qin Clan rewarded the Li Clan with a subsidiary plane.
• The Li Clan celebrated for months, believing the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow would help Li Ping'an overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng discussed the many obstacles Li Ping'an still faced in becoming immortal, including comprehending the Great Dao and acquiring world origin.
• Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng accepted that their own efforts might end in regret, hoping that later generations would inherit their legacies and continue the path to immortality.

Great Qin expanded across the star domains while the Human Race discussed how to exploit Mad Devil’s infiltration and pursue Soul Dao authority. The elders approved a plan to use Emperor Nether as a pawn in their bid to contend for the position of Soul Ancestor.

• Great Qin conquered surrounding territories, attracted cultivators and Spirit Transformation Lineages, and established the Scarlet Yang Holy Land in the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain.
• Ye Ming, a Soul Dao True Immortal with an Innate Spirit Physique, joined the Human Race and merged their world into the Myriad Dao Nebula.
• The Human Race’s Daluo Golden Immortals met secretly and discussed Mad Devil’s survival and infiltration of their ranks.
• A Daluo proposed using Mad Devil to hunt immortals and Soul Dao True Immortals, while backing Emperor Nether’s bid to gain Soul Dao authority.
• Ancestor Mu supported the proposal, noting that the Human Race could reveal its hidden Dao Ancestors to improve its chances of securing the Soul Ancestor position.

The Human Race appointed Ancestor Ye to oversee support for Qin Lu and the Qin Humans, while Ancestor Mu took charge of guiding Mad Devil toward fighting for the race. By year 4000 of the Great Qin calendar, the Vast Spirit Alliance had grown into a prosperous power through carefully directed Human Race resources and new allies.

• Ancestor Ye agreed to lead the plan to support Qin Lu, whom the Human Race viewed as a promising candidate for the Dao Ancestor of Souls.
• Ghost Duke withdrew from the contest for the Dao of Souls and passed the opportunity to someone with greater resolve.
• Ancestor Mu took charge of guiding Mad Devil and planned to ally with Qin Lu in hopes of helping the Human Race produce two gods.
• By year 4000 of the Great Qin calendar, the Great Qin Nebula had absorbed six star domains, and Beichuan Market had become a major immortal city.
• Golden Peng Immortal, Azure Lion Immortal, and White Elephant Immortal joined the Vast Spirit Alliance with their peoples, bringing its publicly known True Immortals to nine.
• The Human Race funneled talent and resources to the Vast Spirit Star Domain through trade, helping the Qin Humans and the alliance prosper while binding its allies to the Human Race.

The Great Qin Empire expanded rapidly as Qin Zhenyu became the Qin Humans Race’s fourth True Immortal at just two thousand years old. After discovering that Yin Lightning Taiyi was rejected by the Lightning Dao Sea, Qin Zhenyu resisted the Divine Court’s summons, leaving the empire openly defiant.

• The Great Qin Nebula grew to 135 subordinate worlds, while the empire’s population of cultivators and its network of officials and fleets expanded.
• Qin Zhenyu entered the Lightning Dao Sea and engraved his True Spirit there, becoming a True Immortal.
• Qin Zhenyu saw the lingering thoughts of past Lightning Dao True Immortals and realized that Yin Lightning Taiyi had killed them in pursuit of the Dao Ancestor position.
• Qin Zhenyu sensed that the Dao Sea rejected Yin Lightning Taiyi for stealing its origin, giving Qin Zhenyu a chance to pursue the Lightning Ancestor position.
• Qin Zhenyu resisted the Divine Court’s reception light instead of traveling to the Cloud Sea Immortal Domain to leave his mark.

Qin Zhenyu became a Lightning Dao True Immortal and the Qin Humans’ protector, while Qin Lu entrusted more of the race’s affairs to the next generation. In 4539, a six-immortal expedition set out to hunt immortals, and it found a Black Water Profound Snake domain where a mysterious hand seized a snake demon.

• Qin Zhenyu vowed to avenge Qin Lu, returned to the Great Qin Nebula, and became the Qin Humans’ successor and bulwark.
• Qin Lu saw Qin Zhenyu’s ascension and judged that Qin Zheng, Qin Daoran, and Qin Zhenyu could manage the race’s affairs while he recuperated and continued the immortal-hunting plan through the Vast Spirit Alliance.
• In 4539, Qin Zhenyu led five other True Immortals, nearly a thousand Spirit Transformation cultivators, and a vast force on an expedition to hunt immortals.
• The expedition entered a barren star domain where three Black Water Profound Snake demons ruled a planar star and demanded more female snakes as tribute.
• A huge hand seized the lecherous snake demon and crushed his two companions, then asked whether he ruled the place.

A Spirit Transformation general brought a little snake demon before Qin Zhenyu and the other immortals after sensing a trace of True Immortal bloodline in him. Qin Zhenyu ordered them to hunt the demon’s Black Water Profound Snake ancestor, and the snake offered a way to locate the clan’s moving origin world.

• The Spirit Transformation general captured the little snake demon and carried him to a vast fleet in the starry sky.
• The general presented the demon to Qin Zhenyu and five other immortals, reporting the trace of a True Immortal’s presence.
• The immortals identified the demon as a descendant of the Black Water Profound Snake clan, and Qin Zhenyu ordered them to find and kill the clan’s hidden immortal for its Water Dao.
• Azure Lion and the other immortals agreed to follow Qin Zhenyu’s orders.
• Qin Zhenyu asked the demon where his ancestor’s origin world was, and the demon said it lay somewhere in the Cold Marsh Star Belt and could be located by sacrificing several million of his offspring.

Qin Zhenyu transformed the little snake demon with Lightning Dao origin and ordered him to blood-sacrifice his home plane to prepare for a hunt for the Profound Vast Waters Immortal. As the little snake began the sacrifice, the Profound Vast Waters Immortal gathered his descendants to face an approaching Vast Spirit Alliance expeditionary legion.

• Qin Zhenyu awakened the little snake demon’s True Immortal bloodline, transformed him into a lightning serpent, and warned that he could live only if the hunt went smoothly.
• The little lightning snake returned to his home plane and began sacrificing its inhabitants, including his relatives and descendants, to refine a bloodline guide.
• The Profound Vast Waters Immortal sensed the approaching fleet, summoned his King Snake Lineage descendants, and learned that six True Immortals led the Vast Spirit Alliance force.
• The King Snake Lineage formed the Seventh-Tier Ten Thousand Marshes Heavenly Snake Immortal Formation, creating a vast starry-sky python to meet the expeditionary legion.