Chapter Summaries

Bai Yun faced death and the likely destruction of his clan, so he sold his possessions and freedom to become an immortal slave of the Divine Court in hopes of attaining immortality. He accepted a future of centuries of service, repeated transfers between masters, and missions for the Divine Court.

• Bai Yun considered his dwindling lifespan and the threat to his legacy, and concluded that serving the Divine Court was his only chance to survive and ascend.
• A black-skinned, single-horned True Immortal warned Bai Yun that signing the contract would end his freedom and require him to surrender wealth and resources.
• Bai Yun declared that he was willing to give everything he owned to the Divine Court for a chance at immortality.
• The True Immortal accepted Bai Yun as a servant and explained that he would command Bai Yun for a million years if he helped him become a True Immortal.
• Bai Yun agreed to obey, beginning a life of service that would eventually include further masters, Divine Court missions, and the loss of his accumulated wealth.

Qin Lu manipulated Bai Yun and planned to use him to strengthen the Qin Humans’ position, while the Vast Spirit Star Domain prospered over two centuries. Hu Xuan became the Winged Tiger Race’s third True Immortal, and his public Dao sermon was announced.

• Qin Lu considered forcibly strengthening Bai Yun’s Primordial Spirit so he could become an immortal, though it would permanently limit his future cultivation.
• Qin Lu planned to publicize the Winged Tiger Race’s new True Immortal and recruit more cultivators to strengthen the Vast Spirit Alliance and the Qin Humans.
• Over two hundred years, the Great Qin Empire and Scarlet Yang Realm grew, and the Scarlet Yang Realm’s recurring Dao Contention Assembly attracted increasing numbers of cultivators.
• Hu Xuan advanced to True Immortal, becoming the Winged Tiger Race’s third immortal and earning the title Mystic Immortal Hu.
• Hu Feng announced that he would preach the Dao publicly at Beichuan Immortal City in three years, continuing the Vast Spirit Alliance’s effort to attract cultivators.

Qin Yuhua escaped with a Sixth-Tier Spirit-Transforming Precious Jade after losing his Dragon Blood Ant to a Spirit Transformation jade dragon, then returned to the Qin Humans Clan to prepare for a breakthrough. As the Golden Crow recovered in the Scarlet Yang Realm, the first-generation Yang Ancestor reflected on his race’s past downfall and resolved to rely on the clan’s resources.

• Qin Yuhua and the Golden Crow escaped after Qin Yuhua obtained a Sixth-Tier Spirit-Transforming Precious Jade and the jade dragon killed his Dragon Blood Ant.
• Qin Yuhua planned to refine the jade, advance to Spirit Transformation, and return to kill the jade dragon.
• Three years later, Qin Yuhua returned to the clan, heard Mystic Immortal Hu lecture on the Dao, and entered secluded cultivation.
• Qin Daoyuan left the Golden Crow to roam the Scarlet Yang Realm and encouraged him to propagate his bloodline.
• The first-generation Yang Ancestor recovered in a volcanic Spirit Vein and considered how his descendants’ betrayal had weakened the Golden Crow Race.

The expeditionary army returned after a 946-year campaign, having killed nine True Immortals and seized seven worlds. The Qin Humans Race distributed the captured Great Dao authority and used Lightning Dao resources to transform the Wild Thunder World, where a new thunder dragon branch emerged.

• Qin Xuanzi and Qin Lu watched Qin Yuhua’s Golden Crow spirit pet and suspected it was a powerful figure’s reincarnation, deciding to restrict its resources and monitor it.
• The expeditionary army conquered two more worlds, bringing its total to nine True Immortals killed and seven ownerless worlds seized.
• The Grand Yin Dao Ancestor stood aside after reaching an agreement with the expedition and later gave two high-grade immortal artifacts to the Human Race and the Qin Humans.
• Qin Zhenyu took Jade Dao authority, absorbed Lightning Dao authority, and used Lightning Dao resources and Great Dao origin to transform the Wild Thunder World.
• A new thunder dragon branch with three Spirit Transformation thunder dragons formed, expanding the Qin Dragon Race from three branches to four.

The Qin Humans Race prepared the Wild Thunder World for Qin Xuanzi and considered its plans for the unclaimed Jade Dao world. Qin Lu learned that the Human Race had located the Void Soul Spirit Race, whose authority could help him advance in the Soul Dao, but he suspected Ye Ming’s sudden role was part of a hidden scheme.

• The Qin Humans Race planned to reshape the Wild Thunder World so Qin Xuanzi could use it to advance his Fortune Dao cultivation and conceal the clan’s future actions.
• The Qin Humans Race kept the Jade Dao world for its plans and considered Qin Yuhua the leading candidate to become a Jade Immortal if he broke through to Spirit Transformation.
• The Vast Spirit Alliance returned with seven unclaimed worlds, and the Human Race chose not to take them, valuing the alliance’s future more than immediate gains.
• Qin Lu learned that the Human Race had found the Void Soul Spirit Race, which had thirteen Soul Dao True Immortals, and hoped that hunting them would help him advance to Taiyi.
• Ye Qingzhu explained that Ye Ming’s Thousand Grievances Devilfall Body had helped locate the race and said Ghost Duke would later give Qin Lu most of his authority.
• Qin Lu sensed that Ye Ming might be the target of a concealed scheme, but decided to cooperate and play his part.

Qin Lu agreed to join the Human Race’s operation against the Void Soul Spirit Race, which was equipped to capture Soul Immortals and prevent them from reviving. Three months later, he and his companions arrived at the staging point, where An Lu took charge and the Daluo of the Withering and Flourishing Ye Clan stood by to hold the fort.

• Qin Lu planned to form a team with Qin Daoran and Qin Zhenyu, while Qin Zheng stayed behind to guard the Great Qin Nebula.
• Ye Qingzhu told Qin Lu the operation would begin in three months and explained that the Human Race had prepared the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda to suppress captured souls and prevent their escape or revival.
• Qin Lu and his companions arrived at a spatial node and found Ye Qingzhu, the Daluo of the Withering and Flourishing Ye Clan, Zhao Sheng, An Lu, and the other immortals waiting there.
• An Lu greeted Qin Lu and explained that she would direct the operation while Senior Ye held the fort and would not intervene unless something unexpected happened.

An Lu led twenty-one Human Race True Immortals on a secret mission to exterminate the Void Soul Spirit Race, whose shifting home they reached after more than ten years of travel through the void. Qin Lu launched the assault with his Heaven Burial Banner and an overwhelming ghost army, while the Human Race sealed the battlefield to prevent escape.

• An Lu assigned Qin Lu to lead the fighting, Zhao Sheng to seal the Void Soul Spirit Race immortals’ essences and Primordial Spirits, and Ye Ming to guide the party to the race’s shifting location.
• Zhao Sheng carried the twenty-one True Immortals through the void in a treasure ship so they could avoid leaving traces in the Great Dao Long River.
• After more than ten years, the party reached a void storm and found the Void Soul Spirit Race’s nebula and its manta-ray-like demons in the starry sky.
• An Lu sealed the region with divination coins, and Zhao Sheng deployed the Spirit-Locking and Essence-Sealing Formation to block escape.
• Qin Lu charged toward the nebula, enlarged the Heaven Burial Banner, and released countless ghosts and seven ghost emperors.
• Qin Lu’s ghostly forces devoured tens of thousands of low-realm demons and surged toward the nebula, astonishing both the Human Race immortals and the thirteen Void Soul Spirit Race True Immortals.

Luo Moke and the Void Soul Spirit Race confronted Qin Lu’s forces, unleashing their ancestral treasure and a Golden Immortal-level Ghost Immortal. Qin Lu answered with two pseudo-Golden Immortal combatants as the battle spread across the starry sky, while Zhao Sheng led an assault on the Void Soul Nebula.

• Luo Moke ordered the Void Soul Spirit Race to fortify the nebula and led seven True Immortals to confront Qin Lu.
• Luo Moke summoned the Holy Soul Jade Seal, which released a powerful Ghost Immortal and countless ghosts.
• Qin Lu summoned a Qilin Demon Immortal with the Ancient Qilin Jade and strengthened the True Devil Immortal with his Essence Blood, sending both to fight the Ghost Immortal.
• Qin Zhenyu led the Human Race’s True Immortals against the Void Soul Mystic Immortals, using the Primordial Magnetism Mountain to split the battlefield.
• Zhao Sheng led three True Immortals toward the Void Soul Nebula to attack its defenses and the five Mystic Immortals inside.
• The Ye Clan’s founding ancestor watched Qin Lu from the shadows and judged that Qin Lu had not yet shown his full strength.

Qin Lu battled Luo Moke, destroying many of his ghosts and surviving the Soul-Annihilating Divine Needle before extracting most of Luo Moke’s Soul Dao authority. With Zhao Sheng imprisoning Luo Moke in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, Qin Lu rushed to attack the other Void Soul immortals while Zhao Sheng and three Mystic Immortals held back the Void Soul Nebula.

• Qin Lu used the God Devouring Sword and Heaven Burial Banner to slaughter the ghosts from Luo Moke’s Holy Soul Jade Seal, severely injuring Luo Moke through the backlash.
• Luo Moke struck Qin Lu with the Soul-Annihilating Divine Needle, but Qin Lu revived with the Emperor Nether Immortal Crown and an Immortal Soul Crystal.
• Qin Lu defeated Luo Moke, extracted 2.5% of his Soul Dao authority, and left his main soul alive to prevent his resurrection contingency from activating.
• Zhao Sheng imprisoned Luo Moke’s main Primordial Spirit in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and lent the pagoda to Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu charged toward the other Void Soul immortals while Zhao Sheng and three veteran Mystic Immortals worked to hold back the Void Soul Nebula.

Qin Lu overwhelmed the Void Soul immortals but lost several chances to capture their main souls when they chose death to evade suppression. After the fighting badly wounded six Human True Immortals, Qin Lu refined the authority he had seized and prepared to use the Soul-Locking Lamp.

• Qin Lu defeated the Void Soul immortals, and the second ancestor destroyed his main soul to escape suppression while Qin Lu seized his Soul Dao authority.
• The second ancestor's split soul awakened in a flesh bodhisattva and vowed revenge against the Human Race.
• The third, fourth, and fifth ancestors self-detonated, killing no Human True Immortals but badly wounding six and scattering one share of Soul Dao authority.
• Qin Lu refined three shares of authority, bringing his Soul Dao authority to 9%, then brought out the Soul-Locking Lamp.

Qin Lu and his allies destroyed the Void Soul Spirit Race’s defenses and defeated its remaining immortals, allowing him to absorb their Soul Dao authority. His authority reached 12%, and he ascended to become a Soul Dao Taiyi.

• Qin Lu sealed the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Ancestors, extracted their Soul Dao authority, and imprisoned them in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
• The Qilin demon immortal and True Devil Immortal destroyed the Ghost Immortal, and True Devil Immortal took the Holy Soul Jade Seal and Soul-Extinguishing Needle.
• Zhao Sheng used the Realm-Breaking Pearl to shatter part of the Void Soul Nebula’s formation and annihilate one Void Soul True Immortal.
• Qin Lu captured three of the four remaining Void Soul True Immortals, while the Thirteenth Ancestor destroyed his Dao body and main soul to escape with some authority.
• Qin Lu absorbed twelve portions of Soul Dao authority, reached 12% authority, and ascended to become a Soul Dao Taiyi.

Qin Lu used his 12% Soul Dao authority to annihilate the Void Soul Spirit Race, devoured its countless souls, and forged a True Soul ahead of time. The True Soul let him glimpse the heavens and their supreme powers, but the sight left him with a severe Dao injury as the Ye Progenitor treated him.

• Qin Lu unleashed the Soul Dao across the Void Soul Nebula, twisting and destroying the Void Soul Spirit Race throughout the heavens.
• Qin Lu devoured the race’s countless souls, strengthening his Primordial Spirit until he formed a True Thought and retrieved his True Spirit from the Dao Sea of Soul.
• Qin Lu used himself as a foundation to unite his True Thought and True Spirit, forging a True Soul and bypassing the Dao Ancestor restriction.
• Qin Lu glimpsed the heavens, the Divine Court, the four superpowers, seven True Gods, and more than eighty Dao Ancestors, but the vision destroyed his eyes and inflicted a severe Dao injury.
• The Ye Progenitor arrived and used the Dao of Withering and Flourishing to treat Qin Lu, while Qin Lu kept the cause of his injury to himself.

After the Void Soul Spirit Race’s defeat, Qin Lu received twenty-seven subsidiary planes and returned to the Vast Spirit Star Domain with Qin Daoran and Qin Zhenyu. Meanwhile, Luo Kefa, the only surviving ancestor to retain his True Immortal cultivation, awakened and swore vengeance against the Human Race and Qin Lu.

• Ancestor Ye divided the spoils, granting the Human Race most of the Void Soul Nebula and Qin Lu twenty-seven subsidiary planes as compensation for the Crimson Yang Immortal.
• Ancestor Ye gave Qin Lu the Vast Sea Nebula Diagram, which Qin Lu used to absorb the twenty-seven stars into the Great Qin Nebula.
• Qin Lu took Qin Daoran and Qin Zhenyu through the Great Dao Long River and returned to the Vast Spirit Star Domain.
• Luo Kefa awakened in the Primordial Land, regained his True Immortal cultivation by absorbing a portion of Soul Dao authority, and discovered that his five companions had also survived.
• Luo Kefa learned that seven of his race’s ancestors were sealed in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and vowed to destroy Qin Lu’s Dao Path before he could become a Dao Ancestor.

By year 5800, the Human Race had grown powerful through successive wars and Emperor Nether Immortal had ascended to Taiyi. Qin Siyuan was born with the Nether Abyss Death Spirit Physique, and Qin Lu began teaching him at the Heaven Beyond Pavilion, where his Dao teaching stirred the Great Dao and drew Spirit Transformation cultivators to watch.

• The Human Race’s victories and expansion over several thousand years brought it a Daluo, a Taiyi, and a Wind Dao Golden Immortal, while the Vast Spirit Alliance also rose in strength.
• The Qin Humans Race adopted the [Si] generation character, and Ancestor Zhuang’s first Si-generation child was born amid strange phenomena with the Nether Abyss Death Spirit Physique.
• Qin Lu named the child Qin Siyuan, who was regarded alongside Qin Yuhua as a peerless star, though his affinity for the Nether Dao threatened future conflict with the Samsara Underworld.
• After emerging from secluded cultivation, Qin Lu took six-year-old Qin Siyuan under his care and prepared to teach him, having created a Sixth-Tier Nether Dao inheritance for him.
• Qin Lu taught Qin Siyuan the foundations of cultivation at the Heaven Beyond Pavilion, stirring the Dao Sea of Soul and drawing a hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators to contemplate his manifestation of the Great Dao.

Qin Lu expounded the Dao to Qin Siyuan while assessing the Great Qin Nebula’s growth and planning how to secure further True Immortals and Golden Immortal fruits. He concluded that the Qin Humans Race could develop safely for now, while Xuhun’s threat was contained by Qin Lu’s Taiyi status and the balance among powerful factions.

• Qin Lu observed that the Great Qin Nebula held six main worlds and 325 subordinate nebulas, with Qin Xuanzi restoring the Profound Realm and Qin Yuhua advancing in the Yuhua Realm.
• Qin Lu noted that Qin Xuanzi and Qin Yuhua could become True Immortals within one or two thousand years, while Tang Yan could ascend within a thousand years and become the first Great Qin Nebula True Immortal without the Qin surname.
• Qin Lu planned to wait for those ascensions before launching another expedition to plunder resources, and considered pursuing the Lightning Dao to obtain a Golden Immortal fruit for the Qin Humans Race.
• Qin Lu judged that his True Soul and Taiyi status protected him from Xuhun, while rival factions and the Human Race’s upper ranks would prevent Xuhun from seizing his Soul Dao authority.

The six Human Race Dao Ancestors met to plan the race’s growth, prioritizing Cold Venerable’s ascent and Mu’s progress while preparing for opposition from other powers. They agreed to use a contest for the Soul Dao to conceal their efforts to attain the Ice and Poison Daos, while keeping other alliances and plans as possible fallbacks.

• Dharma Ancestor said Cold Venerable was close to gaining the authority needed to ascend and that Mu was nearing completion in the Poison Dao, so the Human Race needed to strengthen its defenses.
• Weapon Ancestor warned the Dao Ancestors not to depend on only Cold Venerable and Mu, and proposed preparing candidates for several Great Daos to attempt Dao Integration.
• The Dao Ancestors considered how new Dao Ancestors shifted the balance of power among the heavens and how the gods sought to gain their support.
• Sword Ancestor proposed making the Human Race’s contest for the Soul Dao partly genuine and partly feigned while pursuing Dao Integration with the Ice and Poison Daos.
• The six Dao Ancestors agreed to conceal their intentions and pursue more Dao Ancestor positions, while their plans involving Yang Ancestor, the Endless Land, and the Qin Humans provided further options for the Human Race.

The Human Race consolidated its power while the Withering and Flourishing Ye Clan rose to prominence and openly moved to contest the Dao Ancestor position, amid a staged split that strengthened its alliance with the Qin Humans Race. Years later, the Vast Spirit Star Domain had expanded further, and Qin Lu turned his attention from healing toward studying the Soul Driving Method.

• The Human Race's leaders backed Ye Ming while monitoring him, and Progenitor Ye took charge as Cold Venerable and Mu withdrew from public affairs.
• Ye Wuxu became the Extreme Dao Immortal, helping the Withering and Flourishing Ye Clan grow to seventeen True Immortals and attract attention from across the heavens.
• A Wood Ancestor-backed ape advanced to Daluo in the Dao of Withering and Flourishing, prompting Progenitor Ye's clan to launch an expedition to hunt its True Immortals.
• Ye Qingzhu, Ye Huai'en, and Ye Gutai left the Withering and Flourishing Ye Clan and founded the Ancient Wood Ye Clan, which joined the Vast Spirit Alliance; the split was secretly orchestrated by Progenitor Ye to strengthen ties with the Qin Humans Race.
• By the year 6521, the Vast Spirit Star Domain had annexed more than forty star domains, and Tang Yan became the Qin Humans Race's fifth True Immortal by forming the Profound Yin Realm.
• After years of exploring the Great Dao with Tang Yan and easing his injuries, Qin Lu began contemplating the Soul Driving Method and its potential to increase his strength.

Qin Lu began comprehending the Soul Driving Truth-Seeking Method and started refining his body together with his treasures to create a vessel for commanding ghosts. Centuries later, the Qin Humans welcomed Qin Sixue, the final child of the Si generation, whose rare Bloodthirsty Vine bloodline made him a prodigy.

• Qin Lu separated his True Soul from his body and learned that the Soul Driving Truth-Seeking Method used his own True Soul to guide his physical form.
• Qin Lu summoned the seven Ghost Emperors into his body, manifesting the terrifying original form of his Great Dao.
• Qin Lu began refining the Heaven Burial Banner, Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial, and Holy Soul Jade Seal together with his body to complete his ghost-driving method.
• The Qin Humans continued supplying Qin Lu with cultivators and vital spirits as he pursued his cultivation for several more centuries.
• Qin Sixue was born on the last day of the Si generation with an exceptionally pure Bloodthirsty Vine bloodline and three bloodline talents.
• The Qin clan recognized Qin Sixue as another Qilin child, calling him the Blood Prodigy alongside Qin Siyuan, the Nether Genius.

Bai Yun became a True Immortal after sacrificing his followers, but Qin Lu took over his body and erased his original personality. Infiltrating the Divine Court, Qin Lu learned about the Lightning-Suppressing Great Clan and headed to meet Hei Feng.

• Bai Yun reached the True Immortal realm by refining his disciples and clansmen, becoming a Purple Void True Immortal.
• Qin Lu sensed Bai Yun's breakthrough and used his Soul Dao Secret Method to replace Bai Yun's personality with a version of himself carrying Bai Yun's memories.
• The new Bai Yun killed the inhabitants of his origin world and devoured their souls.
• Qin Lu, acting through Bai Yun, visited the Divine Court branch hall and memorized intelligence about the Lightning-Suppressing Great Clan and Lei Tu.
• Qin Lu headed to the Ten Thousand Peaks Forest to pay his respects to Hei Feng, Bai Yun's master.

Bai Yun spread Qin Lu’s Soul Plague through Hei Feng and a Qilin, while the Qin Humans Race restored the Fortune Realm and gained a new true immortal. With Qin Xuanzi concealing their movements, Qin Zheng prepared a mission to hunt three targets and strengthen the clan.

• Bai Yun watched Hei Feng and a Qilin succumb to the Soul Plague, beginning Qin Lu’s plan to corrupt the Divine Court from within.
• Qin Xuanzi became the Fortune Dao true immortal Mystic Fortune Immortal as the Qin Humans Race completed the Fortune Realm’s restoration.
• Qin Xuanzi concealed the Qin Humans Race’s new strength and helped prepare a mission targeting a Yang Dao itinerant immortal, two Water Dao True Dragons, and the Thunder-Suppressing Race.
• Qin Zheng assigned roles for the mission, planning to hunt the itinerant immortal first and later eliminate the Thunder-Suppressing Race.
• Qin Zhenyu, Qin Daoran, Qin Zheng, and Tang Yan prepared to depart with Qin Lu’s physical body, while Qin Xuanzi and Qin Lu’s true soul remained behind.