Chapter Summaries

Qin Zheng led the juniors to track down a Yang Dao rogue immortal, and Tang Yan eventually detected his hidden world in an asteroid belt. The group revealed the scarlet insect realm, killed its sleeping immortal, and Qin Lu took the soul to refine into a spirit crystal.

• Qin Daoran used residual Yang Dao traces to guide Qin Zheng and the group toward the far southern stars, where they searched for the migrating world.
• Tang Yan sensed the hidden realm in an asteroid belt, and Qin Zheng used his array to dispel its Phantom Sun Rainbow Flame concealment.
• Qin Zhenyu identified the realm’s scarlet insect inhabitants, destroyed one subsidiary plane, and collected the remaining eight with the Vast Sea Nebula Diagram.
• Qin Zheng detected the insect immortal stirring in a volcano, and the four True Immortals attacked and killed him before he could awaken.
• Qin Lu took control of his physical body, seized the insect immortal’s soul, and began refining it into a spirit crystal for the Emperor Nether Immortal Crown.

Qin Zheng’s group killed a scarlet insect immortal, consumed an entire world’s inhabitants, and refined its Yang Dao authority before setting out to hunt the Jade Gum Sea Dragons. They launched a surprise assault on the dragons’ star region, where Qin Daoran battled one of the two immortals while his companions attacked and contained the surrounding worlds.

• Qin Lu’s physical body erased the insect immortal’s True Spirit imprint and refined its Primordial Spirit, while Qin Daoran absorbed its share of Yang Dao authority.
• Qin Lu marked and devoured every living being in the world, then ordered his descendants to take the world and extract its origin.
• After several months of absorbing authority, Qin Daoran reached nearly four percent control of the Yang Dao but fell short of becoming a Golden Immortal.
• Qin Zheng led Qin Daoran, Tang Yan, and Zhenyu toward the Jade Gum Sea Dragons, telling them to preserve the two immortals’ bodies so they could bring their True Dragon Essence Blood to Uncle Qing.
• In year 7571, Qin Zheng’s group attacked the dragon star region; Tang Yan’s Yin wind killed countless dragons, while Qin Zheng sealed the region and Qin Daoran struck at one of the immortals.
• Qin Daoran’s Yang giant battered the Jade Gum Dragon immortal despite its use of the world’s power, and Qin Zheng’s group continued their assault.

Qin Daoran, Qin Zheng, and Qin Zhenyu killed two Jade Flood Dragon Immortals and claimed their treasures. Qin Zheng gained only a small share of Water Dao authority, revealing how firmly the Dragon Race controlled it.

• Qin Daoran burned the first Jade Flood Dragon Immortal to death while preserving his True Dragon Essence Blood for the Azure Ancestor.
• Qin Zhenyu and Qin Zheng killed the second Jade Flood Dragon Immortal, with Qin Zhenyu destroying its body and Primordial Spirit to ensure it could not recover.
• Qin Zheng extracted the dragons’ authority, Qin Daoran refined their Essence Blood, and Qin Zhenyu looted their treasures.
• The Qin Humans Race acquired more than ten Seventh-Tier immortal items that could strengthen its dragon branches and help cultivate True Dragon demon immortals.
• Qin Zheng absorbed only 0.5% Water Dao authority from the two dragons, bringing his total to roughly 1.7%, while most of the authority remained controlled by the Dragon Race.

Qin Zheng and his companions prepared to attack the Thunder-Suppressing Race, Qin Lu’s final target, and crossed the star regions to reach its hidden nebula. After Qin Zheng shattered the spatial illusion around it, the Thunder-Suppressing Race detected the intruders and gathered the Lightning Dao to confront them.

• Qin Zheng reflected on Qin Lu’s ambition to seize multiple Great Daos and agreed that his family’s desire for power and eternal life drove its rise.
• Qin Daoran and the others finished their cleanup and took the Gum Jade Sea Dragon Clan’s unfinished nebula with the Vast Sea Nebula Diagram.
• Qin Zheng assigned roles for the assault on the Thunder-Suppressing Race, warning Tang Yan about the Quake Dao True Immortal and planning for the old ancestor to face the Lightning Dao immortals.
• In the Great Qin calendar year 7573, Qin Zheng’s party traveled across the Far Northern, Far Southern, and Far Western Seas of Stars toward the Thunder-Suppressing Race’s remote territory.
• Qin Zheng broke the spatial illusion concealing the Thunder-Suppressing Nebula, revealing its worlds and vessels as the Thunder-Suppressing Race’s immortals assembled to face the intruders.

Qin Lu emerged from the ice coffin and confronted the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal, declaring that he would seize the race’s lives and authority for the Human Race’s future. Their battle began, and Qin Lu’s Taiyi power overwhelmed the Golden Immortal, leaving him badly wounded.

• Qin Daoran used the Inextinguishable Yang Flame to protect Qin Zheng and the others from the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s lightning.
• Qin Lu awakened in the Thunder-Suppressing Star Origin, summoned the Qilin demon immortal to occupy the Thunder-Suppressing Race’s other immortals, and faced the Golden Immortal with the God Devouring Sword.
• The Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal emerged and pleaded for mercy, but Qin Lu rejected negotiations and demanded the race’s lives and authority.
• Qin Lu and the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal fought, with Qin Lu sealing the star region and shattering the enemy’s lightning spears.
• Qin Lu crushed the Golden Immortal’s Lightning Dao with a sword strike and a giant palm, shattering most of his body and destroying more than ten subsidiary planes.

Qin Lu and the Qin Humans Clan annihilated the Thunder-Suppressing Race, killed all nine of its True Immortals, and raised Qin Zhenyu’s Lightning Dao authority to 9%. The Qin group erased the evidence and escaped, while the Divine Court later found the race gone and could not identify its killers.

• Qin Lu used Seven Emotions Soul Poison to expose the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s weakness, then killed him with the God Devouring Sword, which transformed into a high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.
• Qin Daoran, the Qilin demon immortal, Qin Zheng, Qin Zhenyu, and Tang Yan defeated the remaining Thunder-Suppressing Race immortals across the other battlefields.
• Qin Zhenyu absorbed the fallen immortals’ Lightning Dao authority, reaching 9% and becoming a peak Golden Immortal, though his weak Primordial Spirit kept him from fully using that power.
• Qin Lu drew on the Soul Dao to erase the Thunder-Suppressing Race and devoured the souls of ten quadrillion beings, strengthening his True Soul before returning to his ice coffin.
• Qin Zheng and the others captured the Thunder-Suppressing Nebula in the damaged Vast Sea Nebula Diagram and fled toward the Great Qin Nebula, while Qin Daoran destroyed the region’s suns to erase their traces.
• Decades later, the Divine Court discovered that the Thunder-Suppressing Race had vanished but could find no clues to who had destroyed it.

By Great Qin year 8100, the Qin Humans Race had expanded its hidden and public holdings while preparing five candidates for True Immortality. The chapter outlined the candidates’ talents and strategic value, leaving the Lineage focused on strengthening its future position.

• Over the centuries after the Thunder-Suppressing Race’s destruction, the Qin Humans Race expanded the Great Qin Nebula to more than seven hundred subordinate planes, while secretly holding eleven ownerless worlds and over three hundred more planes.
• Qin Yuhua advanced to Jade Dao True Immortal, giving the Qin Humans Race another True Immortal.
• The Lineage selected Qin Yuan, Qin Qianyu, Qin Yingjie, Qin Siyuan, and Qin Sixue as candidates for True Immortality.
• Qin Yuan’s Dao of Protection made him suited to inherit Boundless City and safeguard the Lineage.
• The Lineage backed Qin Qianyu’s pursuit of True Immortality because his Dao of Refining could let the Qin Humans produce Seventh-Tier immortal items.

The Qin Humans Race’s new True Immortals were chosen to strengthen its control over the Soul Dao and expand into the Nether Dao and Dao of Blood. After Haiyue devoured the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s origin world, the Qin Realm formed its first Origin Spirit Mountain, though Qin Zheng concluded that Haiyue still needed more worlds to grow.

• The Qin Humans Race planned to raise Qin Yingjie as a Soul Immortal and selected Sixue and Mingjie to fill gaps in the Nether Dao and Dao of Blood.
• The Qin Humans Race set aside five unclaimed worlds for future immortality seeds and designated the Thunder-Suppressing Golden Immortal’s larger origin world for Haiyue to consume.
• Haiyue absorbed the world, and her true body grew as its laws and space nourished her and the world within her.
• The Qin Realm underwent sublimation and formed its first Origin Spirit Mountain, which could heal Dao injuries and produce origin spirit liquid and High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Zheng concealed the Origin Spirit Mountain and decided that Haiyue would need to consume more worlds to continue growing.

Qin Lu finished refining the Earth Burial Seal and mastered the Soul Driving Method, gaining powerful new abilities and a second version of himself. He then studied the Soul Dispersal and Soul Seizing Methods, which he believed could let him resurrect through all living beings in the heavens, and continued cultivating for his future plans.

• Qin Lu explained how ancient Inner World True Immortals differed in strength and resource demands from those who became immortals through the Creation Method.
• In 8675 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu refined the Holy Soul Jade Seal with the Ghost King Seal: Earth Burial, creating the Seventh-Tier Earth Burial Seal and its Golden Immortal-strength artifact spirit, Earth Burial Spirit.
• Qin Lu mastered the Soul Driving Method, allowing him to create a soul fragment and body identical to himself and merge them with his main soul for greater power.
• Qin Lu considered the Soul Dispersal and Soul Seizing Methods and concluded that together they could let him merge with the heavens and return through any living being.
• Qin Lu continued studying the Nine True Soul Methods and sought to grow stronger for his plans.

Over the centuries, the Vast Spirit Alliance grew to twenty-three True Immortals, while the Qieye Race rose under Ming Qing’s leadership. At the first Vast Spirit Grand Assembly, Qin Lu was honored as the Emperor Nether Immortal King, and the alliance drew the attention of powers across the Far Southern Sea of Stars.

• Six True Immortals joined the Vast Spirit Alliance, and together with Golden Peng, White Elephant, and Azure Lion, they became known as the Nine Great Demon Saints.
• Ming Qing renamed his branch of the Nether Karma Race the Qieye Race and aimed to make it a major alliance faction.
• In the year 10000, the Qin Humans Race, Winged Tiger Race, and Ancient Wood Ye Clan convened the first Vast Spirit Grand Assembly.
• Beichuan Immortal City was renamed the Vast Spirit Sacred Domain, and the alliance honored Qin Lu as the Emperor Nether Immortal King.
• The Human Race and other major powers turned their attention toward the alliance, while local races sought its friendship and avoided making it an enemy.

At the Vast Spirit Grand Assembly, Qin Lu arrived before the alliance’s True Immortals and revealed the young man seated in the extra cushion as Qin Humans Race’s newest True Immortal. The chapter ended with Qin Lu introducing Qin Qianyu, the clan’s only True Immortal of the Dao of Refining.

• The Vast Spirit Sacred City hosted the Vast Spirit Grand Assembly in the Hall of Immortals, where the alliance’s True Immortals gathered around twenty-four cushions despite the alliance previously having only twenty-three members.
• The immortals welcomed Emperor Nether Immortal King Qin Lu, whose growing power impressed Hu Feng and strengthened his resolve to rely on the Qin Humans Race.
• Qin Lu took his seat, and the young man accompanying him sat in the extra cushion, revealing himself as the alliance’s twenty-fourth member.
• Qin Lu introduced the newly ascended Qin Qianyu as the Qin Humans Race’s eighth True Immortal and its only True Immortal of the Dao of Refining.

Qin Lu announced that Qin Qianyu was a True Immortal of the Dao of Refining and offered alliance members favorable access to her services, strengthening the Vast Spirit Alliance. He then outlined a series of immortal-hunting expeditions over the next ten thousand years, leaving the alliance preparing an elite army to hunt True Immortals and seize their Daos.

• The immortals learned that Qin Qianyu was a True Immortal of the Dao of Refining and celebrated the benefits her craft could bring.
• Qin Lu offered alliance members priority refining services in exchange for two sets of materials and set higher terms for outsiders, with a share for members who referred them.
• Qin Lu explained that the alliance had selected members with distinct Great Daos to reduce internal conflict.
• Qin Lu scheduled an expedition for five hundred years later, led by Hu Feng and the Crimson Yang Immortal with eight other True Immortals.
• Qin Lu ordered a second expedition five thousand years later and specified that each force would include ten True Immortals, one hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators, and ten thousand Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The alliance members approved the smaller, clan-based expeditionary army, which would hunt True Immortals and seize their Daos.

Qin Lu assigned the Vast Spirit Alliance’s immortals to annex fifty surrounding star domains, explaining that reaching a hundred-star-domain territory would establish the alliance as a major power. The immortals accepted their assignments as the alliance prepared to expand in every direction.

• The immortals accepted Qin Lu’s command without objection, satisfying him with their response.
• Qin Lu displayed the Vast Universe Vast Spirit Star Map and located the Vast Spirit Star Domain in the Far Southern Sea of Stars.
• Qin Lu assigned the Qin Humans Clan to annex ten star domains to the north and the Ancient Wood Ye Clan to annex ten to the east.
• Qin Lu ordered Grand Peng, White Elephant, and Azure Lion to annex twenty star domains to the south, while the Winged Tiger Race and Mingchong were assigned ten to the west.
• Qin Lu explained that annexing fifty star domains would make the Vast Spirit Star Domain a hundred-star great domain and give the Vast Spirit Alliance standing as a hegemon in the Far Southern Sea of Stars.
• Qin Lu described how occupied star domains could provide resources, room for development, and population for the alliance.

The Vast Spirit Grand Assembly established plans for expansion, an immortal-hunting expedition, a recurring Hundred Immortals Assembly, and systems to strengthen the alliance. Afterward, Qin Lu assigned his descendants their responsibilities and preparations for the coming expedition and the clan’s future.

• The alliance agreed to hold its first Hundred Immortals Assembly in 3,333 years and to create a spiritual treasure exchange system for cultivating younger members.
• The Vast Spirit Grand Assembly lasted half a month and finalized alliance institutions, laws, and plans for warfare, trade, and talent cultivation.
• Qin Lu instructed Qin Zheng to monitor Anfeng and Liyuan, assess several other allied figures, and investigate Yangui’s true lineage and history.
• Qin Lu assigned Qin Daoran to protect Tang Yan and Yuhua during the immortal-hunting expedition and ordered him to keep the hunting list secret.
• Qin Lu put Qin Zhenyu in charge of territorial expansion and told him to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and prepare for the future.
• Qin Lu urged Qin Xuanzi to focus on cultivation and tasked Qin Qianyu with refining eleven Sixth-Tier warships and researching a Seventh-Tier mobile fortress.

Qin Lu gave the Qin Humans Clan’s True Immortals instructions for their future development, then secretly left to hunt the injured Soul Dao Taiyi Bai E. He used the attention surrounding the Vast Spirit Star Domain and an agent’s discovery to conceal his plans from everyone except Qin Xuanzi.

• Qin Lu ordered the clan to advance its fortifications, support Haiyue’s cultivation, and test the Golden Crow for information.
• Qin Yuhua accepted the order concerning the Golden Crow and began making plans of his own.
• In the year 10059 of the Great Qin calendar, Qin Lu secretly traveled into the void with his body, main soul, and five high-grade immortal artifacts.
• Qin Lu targeted the injured Bai E, whose location he had learned from a Gray Stone Race agent more than seven hundred years earlier.
• Qin Xuanzi concealed Qin Lu’s Qi and helped cover his operation, while the rest of the Human Race remained unaware.

Qin Lu tracked the injured Taiyi Bai E into an unknown star region and found him hiding inside a black hole. Qin Lu attacked with the Soul-Extinguishing Needle, but Bai E returned after his body and soul were destroyed, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Lu entered the unknown universe and spent several years following the faint traces of Bai E's Soul Dao Qi.
• Qin Lu found Bai E inside a black hole and charged into its deepest region.
• Qin Lu saw Bai E's severe injuries and learned that Xu Huai had wounded him.
• Qin Lu struck Bai E with the Soul-Extinguishing Needle, apparently destroying his body and soul.
• Bai E emerged again from the void, gasping for breath and more badly injured.

Qin Lu unleashed his full arsenal against Bai E, manifesting the Emperor Nether Astral Manifestation and overwhelming Bai E in battle. Bai E learned Qin Lu’s true identity and lost another life, but he resurrected again with only four Dao Seals remaining.

• Qin Lu and Bai E traded attacks, with Qin Lu’s Soul-Extinguishing Needle costing Bai E one life while Bai E’s Soul-Destruction Spear pierced Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu summoned the True Devil Immortal, the Qilin Demon Immortal, and the Earth Burial Ghost Immortal, then revealed his True Soul Astral Manifestation.
• Bai E recognized Qin Lu as Hun Qiuzhen and summoned the Four Emperors Myriad Evil Cauldron, sending its four ancient true devils into battle against Qin Lu’s ghostly allies.
• Qin Lu trapped Bai E’s white-boned true form in the Soul-Locking Heavenly Lantern’s flames and annihilated his body and Primordial Spirit with a sword strike.
• Bai E resurrected again, losing another Dao Seal and leaving four remaining.

Qin Lu battled Bai E and the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil, sacrificing his own treasures to exhaust Bai E’s lives and defenses. With no escape left, Bai E detonated himself and scattered his authority into fragments to deny Qin Lu an easy victory.

• Bai E sacrificed a life to let the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil kill Qin Lu’s three Golden Immortal allies.
• Qin Lu burned Bai E and the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil with the Soul-Locking Heavenly Lantern, but they escaped through a spatial interlayer.
• A hidden Soul-Extinguishing Needle destroyed the Eight-Armed Heavenly Devil and killed Bai E again.
• Qin Lu shattered Bai E’s immortal artifacts and cut him down, leaving Bai E with no spare lives.
• Bai E detonated the Soul-Destruction Spear, his body, and his Primordial Spirit, scattering his authority into countless fragments.

After killing Taiyi Bai E, Qin Lu returned to the Human Race and gathered enough Soul Dao authority to reach Daluo by sacrificing Ghost Duke’s authority and refining Ye Ming. The chapter ended with Qin Lu ascending to Daluo and the Heaven Burial Banner evolving into a high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.

• Qin Lu seized 7% of Taiyi Bai E’s scattered Soul Dao authority, then planned to take Ye Ming’s origin to make up the remaining amount needed for Daluo.
• Progenitor Ye and the Human Race leaders mobilized to protect Qin Lu, while the Samsara Underworld sent a force led by Xu Huai toward the Vast Spirit Star Domain.
• Qin Lu traveled in the King of Shadow Demon’s shadow, entered the Human Race’s territory, and reunited with its leaders at the Myriad Dharma Sacred Court.
• Ghost Duke willingly destroyed himself through Liberation by Violence, transferring most of his Soul Dao authority to Qin Lu before being reborn in a Human Race child’s body.
• Qin Lu refined Ye Ming into a gray pill and swallowed it, reaching 30% Soul Dao authority as the Dao Sea of Soul descended.
• Qin Lu became a Daluo, and the Heaven Burial Banner transformed into a high-grade Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact.

Qin Lu completed his transformation through the Soul Dao and confronted the immortals gathered outside the Human Race’s star domain. After his attack was blocked by Xu Huai, Shi Gan, and Xue Tu, the Human Race’s forces arrived and demanded that the intruders leave or die.

• Qin Lu completed the Dao Sea’s baptism, gaining both Soul Dao physiques and power approaching the Dao Ancestor realm.
• Qin Lu arrived at the Human Race’s star domain and found three Daluo, seven Golden Immortals, and more than three hundred True Immortals gathered outside it.
• Qin Lu summoned the Heaven Burial Banner and seven Ghost Emperors, then attacked the gathered immortals with a powerful palm strike.
• Xu Huai called on Shi Gan and Xue Tu, and the three Daluo joined forces to block Qin Lu’s attack.
• Human Race immortals arrived in force, and their leaders ordered the intruders to leave or face death.