Chapter Summaries

The Profound Vast Waters Immortal attacked the expedition with a giant starry sky python, but the six immortals overwhelmed him with coordinated techniques. Qin Zhenyu crushed him beneath the Primordial Magnetism Mountain, while the python remained engaged with Azure Lion and White Elephant.

• The Profound Vast Waters Immortal launched the Linlang Ancient Bell’s sonic attack, but Hu He pierced it with a cyan wind awl before the immortal shattered the awl with the Profound Jade Shears.
• Ming Qing stole both of the Profound Vast Waters Immortal’s mid-grade artifacts, enraging him and prompting him and the starry sky python to attack.
• Hu He and Ming Qing led the assault on the Profound Vast Waters Immortal while Golden Peng supported them, and Azure Lion and White Elephant fought the python.
• Ming Qing stole Xuanmiao’s thoughts, leaving him momentarily helpless.
• Qin Zhenyu summoned the Primordial Magnetism Mountain and crushed the Profound Vast Waters Immortal into a bloody mist.

Qin Zhenyu, Hu He, Ming Qing, and Golden Peng fought Profound Vast Waters Immortal, repeatedly crushing his body and stealing his Immortal Artifacts. Qin Zhenyu survived their final clash through a death-substitution treasure, while Ming Qing extracted Profound Vast Waters Immortal’s Water Dao authority and his Primordial Spirit dispersed.

• Profound Vast Waters Immortal regenerated in the Mara Armor, wielded the Mosa Blade, and attacked the group with water snakes.
• Ming Qing repeatedly used the Heaven-Collecting Pouch to seize Profound Vast Waters Immortal’s four Immortal Artifacts as Qin Zhenyu, Hu He, and Golden Peng struck him.
• Profound Vast Waters Immortal forged a body of Heavy Origin Mystic Water, battered Hu He and Golden Peng, and pierced Qin Zhenyu’s chest with a punch.
• Qin Zhenyu activated his Prison-Suppressing Ten Thousand Lightning Physique and trapped himself and Profound Vast Waters Immortal in compressed space.
• Profound Vast Waters Immortal detonated his body to escape, but Ming Qing captured his fleeing Primordial Spirit while Qin Zhenyu was reduced to dust.
• Qin Zhenyu revived with a death-substitution treasure, then used the Dao-Containing Pearl to drain Water Dao authority from Profound Vast Waters Immortal’s Primordial Spirit until it dispersed.

After the old snake destroyed himself, Qin Zhenyu claimed his Great Dao authority and arranged the spoils from the Profound Vast Waters Realm. The expeditionary army finished searching the realm, and the Qin Humans departed with a rich haul.

• Qin Zhenyu accepted the old snake's Great Dao authority and proposed dividing the realm's treasures and hiding the ownerless world for later use.
• The Spirit Transformation and Nascent Soul snake demons fled after their ancestor perished, but the expeditionary army hunted them down for their valuable materials.
• Azure Lion and the other immortals admired the snake formation, though only the Qin Humans and Winged Tiger Race had the foundations to put it to use soon.
• Qin Zhenyu, Ming Qing, Hu He, and Golden Peng divided the four captured immortal artifacts before the immortals returned to their ships to recover.
• Little Thunder Snake led Qin Clan cultivators on a three-to-five-year sweep of the Profound Vast Waters Realm, helping the Qin Humans gather countless treasures and advancing to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

The expeditionary army plundered the Profound Vast Waters Realm’s resources and departed, while the little thunder snake named himself Lei Xuan and vowed to rule the realm before Qin Zhenyu returned. In 4850 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu studied the Life Soul Method and began to glimpse a path to an undying True Soul.

• The Qin Humans gathered rare materials and spirit insects from the Profound Vast Waters Realm to strengthen their foundation and support future generations.
• After several years of plundering, Qin Zhenyu’s expeditionary army sailed onward, leaving the little thunder snake behind because he was too weak to join them.
• The little thunder snake named himself Lei Xuan and vowed to rule the realm and prove his worth to Lord Zhenyu when the expedition returned.
• In 4850 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu read a report on the expedition and felt free to focus on cultivating while Qin Zhenyu, Qin Zheng, and Qin Daoran handled the campaign.
• Qin Lu studied the Life Soul Method and learned that mastering it could refine his Primordial Spirit and True Spirit into a True Soul that even a Dao Ancestor could not kill.

Qin Lu considered how long it would take to strengthen his Primordial Spirit enough to refine a True Soul and hoped Qin Qianyu would soon become a True Immortal. Meanwhile, the expeditionary army neared the Endless Land, and the Purple Lightning Mayfly Race sensed approaching enemies.

• Qin Lu judged that his Primordial Spirit needed to become ten times as strong as a Golden Immortal's before he could confidently refine a True Soul.
• Qin Lu hoped to obtain higher-tier Soul Dao treasures or rely on Qin Qianyu's breakthrough and Seventh-Tier immortal pills to strengthen his foundation.
• The expeditionary army sailed for several hundred years toward the Endless Land, a vast region expanding under the influence of the Dao Ancestor of Emperors.
• The Purple Lightning Mayfly Race's True Immortals, Zi You and Chi Ji, sensed danger but could not discern their opponents or the future.
• Zi You reassured Chi Ji that their combined attacks and half-completed nebula could help them withstand an assault.

Ming Qing’s expeditionary army reached the Violet Thunder Nebula and launched an assault on the Purple Lightning Mayfly Race. The four beast immortals confronted Zi You and Chi Ji, and the battle began with Azure Lion taking a devastating lightning strike before absorbing its energy.

• Ming Qing concealed the expeditionary army’s strength and agreed with Qin Zhenyu on a plan to divide the two True Immortals and attack with Hu He, Golden Peng, White Elephant, and Azure Lion.
• Ming Qing opened a portal through the Great Dao Long River, bringing the expeditionary army to the Violet Thunder Nebula.
• Hu He, Golden Peng, White Elephant, and Azure Lion manifested as giant beasts and challenged the mayfly immortals Zi You and Chi Ji.
• Zi You and Chi Ji confronted the four beast immortals, and Zi You threatened to kill them for invading the Insect Race.
• Hu He attacked with wind blades while Golden Peng and Azure Lion joined the assault; Zi You countered with lightning and blasted Azure Lion’s manifestation apart.
• Azure Lion survived the strike and began devouring the remaining nine-colored lightning, growing stronger and adapting to its properties.

Hu He and the other immortals fought Zi You and Chi Ji, whose combined Lightning and Magnetism attack threatened to overwhelm them. Qin Zhenyu and Ming Qing used a hidden technique to isolate and kill Chi Ji, and the four beasts then defeated Zi You and captured his Primordial Spirit.

• Hu He dismissed his Primordial Spirit Dharma Manifestation, attacked Zi You with the Linlang Ancient Bell and a cyan dagger, and chased him with Azure Lion when Zi You tried to retreat.
• Chi Ji’s Magnetism Dao and Zi You’s Lightning Dao combined into a storm that trapped the four immortals and began breaking down their bodies.
• A pitch-black figure used “Ten thousand arts steal immortals, one theft fixes the heavens” to separate Chi Ji from Zi You and strip away his senses.
• Qin Zhenyu crushed Chi Ji’s body with Primordial Magnetism Mountain, while Ming Qing sealed his soul and Primordial Spirit and extracted his Great Dao authority.
• After Chi Ji’s death triggered a backlash, the four beasts overwhelmed Zi You; White Elephant shattered his body, and Qin Zhenyu refined his captured Primordial Spirit and seized its Great Dao authority.

Qin Zhenyu killed the Purple Lightning Mayfly Race’s two True Immortals and seized 1% of the Lightning Dao’s authority, while the expeditionary army crushed the race’s remaining forces. The army plundered the nebula and began refining the spoils, leaving the Mayflies scattered and their territory divided among the victors.

• Qin Zhenyu gained control of 1% of the Lightning Dao’s authority after the Chiji Mayfly Immortal and Ziyou Mayfly Immortal died, and the Purple Lightning Mayfly Race was destroyed.
• Qin Zhenyu proposed that the other immortals harvest the nebula’s resources before they divided its subsidiary planes, and they agreed.
• The expeditionary legion overwhelmed the Mayfly Spirit Transformation cultivators, killing more than seventy percent of them in the first clash.
• The surviving Mayflies fled after their True Immortal progenitors died, leaving their race scattered and unprotected.
• The expeditionary army plundered the nebula, while Qin Humans cultivators refined blood and Sha Qi into powerful materials and weapons.

Qin Xuanzi stepped down as patriarch, and Qin Daoyuan took over as the Qin Humans Race’s fifth patriarch. Meanwhile, Qin Lu’s six sons chose to end their lives and reincarnate so they could cultivate anew, and Qin Lu sent their True Spirits into the Qin Realm’s Great Dao Long River.

• Qin Xuanzi retired after two thousand years as patriarch, and Qin Daoyuan succeeded him while Qin Yuan became the fifth patriarch.
• The six old ancestors of the Qin second generation relinquished their authority after Qin Daoyuan took office.
• Qin Lu tried to dissuade Qin Xiao and his five brothers from reincarnating, warning that the process could harm their soul imprints.
• Qin Xiao and his brothers insisted on reincarnating to free resources for the clan and seek another chance at True Immortality.
• Qin Lu took his six sons to the Soul-Cleansing Pool, where they used Liberation by Violence to dissolve their souls.
• Qin Lu used his Soul Immortal methods to send their remaining True Spirits into the Qin Realm’s Great Dao Long River so they would reincarnate within the Great Qin Nebula.

Qin Lu protected the six second-generation Qin’s True Spirits so they could reincarnate and pursue new Dao Paths, then planned to exploit the expedition’s distraction to advance the Qin Humans’ interests. He sent Qin Daoran and Qin Zheng into Golden Crow territory to seek revenge and seize Yang Dao foundations.

• Qin Lu explained how the six second-generation Qin could reincarnate through the Great Dao Long River and why they needed new paths to pursue True Immortality.
• Qin Lu resolved to secretly scheme for the Qin Humans while Zhenyu’s expeditionary army drew attention elsewhere.
• Qin Lu, Qin Daoran, and Qin Zheng entered the Eternal Radiance Star Region disguised as Golden Crow souls.
• Qin Daoran and Qin Zheng followed Qin Lu into Golden Crow territory to take revenge and strengthen Qin Daoran’s Yang Dao foundations.

Qin Daoran disguised himself as a pure-blooded Golden Crow and lured the Sun Sparrow Immortal into a trap so Qin Lu and his companions could kill him and weaken the Golden Crow Race. Qin Lu trapped the Sun Sparrow Immortal in Ghost Spirit Space and cut him off from the Dao Sea as he prepared to attack.

• Qin Lu and his companions decided to target mixed-blood Golden Crow vassals to seize their Daos and weaken the Golden Crow Race.
• Qin Daoran disguised himself as a pure-blooded Golden Crow and persuaded the Sun Sparrow Immortal, Senior Kaiyang, to help him obtain a True Immortal's Dao Path.
• Qin Daoran led the Sun Sparrow Immortal into a barren stretch of starry sky and taunted him when he could not find the supposed hidden realm.
• Qin Lu's group shifted the Sun Sparrow Immortal into Ghost Spirit Space and used Emperor Nether's Ten Thousand Territories to seal the space and sever his connection to the Dao Sea.
• Qin Lu confronted the trapped Sun Sparrow Immortal and began summoning a Water Dao Emperor.

Qin Lu and his allies killed Immortal Yang Que, seized his Yang Dao authority, and erased his True Spirit to prevent his return. As Qin Daoran infiltrated the Eternal Radiance Star Region to seek more targets, the Golden Crow Race began investigating Yang Que’s death, only for two more of its vassal True Immortals to fall.

• Qin Lu used his Soul Dao methods to seize and destroy Yang Que’s soul, while Qin Zheng cut off his head and Qin Daoran refined the Yang Dao authority left in his body.
• Qin Lu entered the Dao Sea and erased Yang Que’s True Spirit, ensuring that he could not reincarnate.
• Qin Lu and Qin Daoran discussed using the turmoil over Yang Que’s masterless world to lure out more vassal immortals and increase Qin Daoran’s authority.
• Qin Daoran adopted another identity and infiltrated the Eternal Radiance Star Region, believing the Great Yang Dao Ancestor was still recovering from a Dao injury.
• A Golden Crow Golden Immortal ordered an investigation into Yang Que’s death after discovering he had been killed for his Dao without a trace of the culprit.
• Two more Golden Crow vassal True Immortals died, and their worlds lost vitality as their Yang Dao authority was stripped away.

Qin Lu and his companions killed three Golden Crow vassal True Immortals, seized their Great Dao authority, and concealed their tracks while planning further attacks. Elsewhere, Qin Lu’s Soul Dao puppets watched over Human Race territories and revealed that the Great Yang Dao Ancestor might be recovering from Dao injuries.

• The Golden Crow Ancestor led more than a dozen True Immortals to the battle site, where they found three dead immortals and no trace of the killers.
• Qin Lu and his companions escaped with seven Immortal Artifacts, Fire Dao authority, and the bodies of three True Immortals after Qin Daoran lured the two vassals into an ambush.
• Qin Lu scrubbed away their Qi traces and planned to keep hunting isolated Golden Crow immortals, while later trading the Fire Dao authority for Lightning Dao or Water Dao authority.
• Qin Daoran spread Soul Seeds across the Eternal Radiance Star Region, and Qin Lu planned to use their growth to weaken the Golden Crow bloodline.
• Qin Lu’s Soul Dao puppets controlled the Wang Clan and other subsidiary planes, and they reported that the Great Yang Dao Ancestor might be recovering in the Supreme Yang Immortal Domain.

After the Golden Crow Race’s three vassal True Immortals were killed, Qin Lu stayed hidden while the Qin Humans Race expanded quietly. Qin Daoyuan reorganized the clan’s lineage and inheritance rules, while Qin Yuhua began gaining experience at the Qin Humans’ branch base in the Primordial Land.

• The heavens speculated about who had plotted against the Golden Crow Race, but no one suspected the Qin Humans Race.
• By the 5,000th year of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu had gone into hiding and the Qin Humans Race had turned inward after expanding its nebula.
• Qin Daoyuan added twenty generation characters and changed the system so descendants shared a character within each thousand-year period.
• Qin Daoyuan restricted the direct bloodline to descendants with sufficient aptitude and made Spirit Transformation cultivation the requirement for collateral descendants to join it.
• Qin Daoyuan divided the direct bloodline into seven branches and the collateral lines into forty-nine sub-branches, using competition to cultivate capable clan members.
• Qin Yuhua, a gifted direct descendant who had reached the Golden Core Late Stage, went to the Qin Humans’ Immortal Ascension Mountain branch base to gain experience.

Qin Yuhua searched Immortal Ascension Mountain for high-grade treasures to advance his cultivation and discovered a young Golden Crow sealed inside a piece of seven-colored immortal jade. He began refining the jade, hoping it would help him reach Nascent Soul, and considered taming the bird.

• Qin Yuhua left to explore Immortal Ascension Mountain after deciding the clan's resources could no longer advance his cultivation.
• He found a Third-Tier jade vein and spent several months cultivating with his Jade Stone Dao art, refining all the jade's vital essence.
• Qin Yuhua sensed life inside the jade mountain and sent his Late Core Formation Dragon Blood Ant to bore into it.
• Qin Yuhua discovered a young Golden Crow sealed inside a massive piece of seven-colored immortal jade.
• Qin Yuhua began refining the high-grade immortal jade and considered taming the weakened Golden Crow.

Qin Yuhua refined immortal jade and broke through to Nascent Soul, becoming Jade Transformation True Lord, while the little Golden Crow revealed the memories of his betrayal by his sons and resolved to protect his human benefactor. In the Great Qin calendar year 5051, the Immortal-Hunting Expeditionary Army reported killing four more True Immortals and claiming their Dao authorities and worlds, underscoring how much the Qin Humans Race’s success depended on Qin Lu.

• Qin Yuhua refined the immortal jade over decades, survived the Nascent Soul Tribulations, and became Jade Transformation True Lord.
• Qin Yuhua took the little Golden Crow with him as he searched for a place to stabilize his new realm and planned to return to the wasteland blessed land.
• The little Golden Crow revealed that his nine sons had betrayed and killed him, then resolved to repay Qin Yuhua by protecting him.
• In year 5051, the Immortal-Hunting Expeditionary Army reported hunting down four True Immortals and obtaining the Jade Dao authority, the River Dao world, and other spoils.
• The account noted that Qin Lu, rather than the Qin Humans Race’s other leaders, had been the main reason for the race’s prosperity.

Qin Zhenyu led the expeditionary army into the Endless Land and changed course to seek an audience with the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor. He met Grand Yin alone at the Grand Yin Hall, where the Dao Ancestor had already anticipated his arrival and hinted that Grand Yang’s fate was nearing its end.

• The expeditionary army entered the Endless Land, whose three laws protected local forces and restricted outsiders.
• Qin Zhenyu redirected the army toward the Grand Yin Hall as part of Qin Lu’s secret mission.
• Hu He and Ming Qing joined the plan because their peoples had suffered from earlier schemes and had been abandoned by their former allies.
• A Lan received Grand Yin’s order to bring in the guests, while Grand Yin said Grand Yang’s fate was dim and his allotted span had ended.
• Qin Zhenyu entered the Grand Yin Hall alone, paid his respects to the Grand Yin Dao Ancestor, and the other five Immortals waited elsewhere.

Qin Zhenyu approached Grand Yin Dao Ancestor on behalf of the Qin Humans, seeking her agreement to stay out of their plan against Grand Yang and the Divine Court. Grand Yin agreed not to interfere and sent him back with two high-grade immortal artifacts, though his memory of their conversation became hazy.

• Qin Zhenyu asked Grand Yin Dao Ancestor to support the Qin Humans' plan to kill Grand Yang and reshape the Divine Court, offering three Golden Crow True Immortal corpses as proof of sincerity.
• Grand Yin considered whether the Qin Humans' proposal concealed a broader Human Race scheme to claim the Grand Yang and Grand Yin Daos and challenge her own ambitions.
• Grand Yin agreed not to act against the Qin Humans' plans in the Endless Land and gave Qin Zhenyu two treasures as a token of goodwill.
• Grand Yin transported Qin Zhenyu back to the expeditionary fleet, and his memory of their conversation was obscured.
• Qin Zhenyu identified one treasure as the high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact Lightning Martial Blade and the other as the Soul-Locking Lamp, intended for Qin Lu.

In 5222, Qin Lu planned to strengthen the Great Qin Humans Race’s future schemes by cultivating Qin Xuanzi and Haiyue into True Immortals. He also considered planting powerful puppets and allies across several factions, while waiting for Zhenyu and Brother Tiger’s developments.

• Qin Lu decided to redirect the Qin Humans Race’s resources toward Qin Xuanzi so he could attain the Fortune Dao and predict future events.
• Qin Lu planned for Haiyue to become a True Immortal and turn her body into a world that could support the Great Qin Nebula.
• Qin Lu expected Zhenyu’s return and anticipated that a new Tiger Immortal would emerge within three hundred years.
• Qin Lu sought ways to push Bai Yun to the True Immortal Realm and make Ye Wuxu a puppet inside the Human Race.
• Qin Lu considered finding Lin Xuan’s clan and bloodline to win over another Dragon Race faction, and said he might pursue the Soul Dao Taiyi fruition himself if the Human Race elders could not be relied upon.

Qin Daoyuan advanced a long-term plan to turn Boundless City into a defensive network protecting the Great Qin Nebula, while preparing the next generation to lead the clan. The chapter ended with the young Yuan promising to become clan leader after Qin Daoyuan’s death.

• Qin Daoyuan planned to place Boundless City’s nine cities across nine True Immortal worlds and link them with the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall to defend the Great Qin Nebula.
• Qin Daoyuan oversaw the conversion of Boundless City’s main city into Qin Pass, while the Emperor Realm’s Imperial Pass, the Scarlet Yang Realm’s Yang Pass, and the Wild Thunder World’s Thunder Pass were also upgraded to Sixth-Tier Heaven-Penetrating Spirit Treasures.
• Qin Daoyuan held the young Yuan, the most talented child of the Yu generation, and asked him to take over as clan leader after his death.
• Yuan agreed to become the next clan leader, though he was only three or four years old and did not understand the responsibility.
• The chapter described how older cultivators such as Qin Xuanzi and Qin Daoran had overcome modest innate talent through study, combat, and fortuitous opportunities.