Chapter Summaries

Qin Lu absorbed the Rising Sun Wood Heart, gaining a second heart and changes to his body, cultivation, and Wood Dao. As he went to meet two Da Zhou cultivators approaching the marsh, they attacked him over access to its opportunities.

• Qin Lu merged the Rising Sun Wood Heart into his chest, where it complemented the Azure Wood human heart and formed a connection between opposing aspects of the Wood Dao.
• After three days of cultivation, Qin Lu found his cave overgrown and discovered that his Spiritual Power had nearly doubled, his physical strength had increased, and sunlight and moonlight could double his cultivation speed.
• Qin Lu noticed his Qing Centipede had also grown stronger and its emerald color was turning sky blue.
• Qin Lu saw two Da Zhou Qi Condensation cultivators approaching while Zhang Xuan cultivated in seclusion and Huang Liang was missing.
• The two cultivators decided Qin Lu had no right to claim the marsh's opportunities and charged at him with a treasure umbrella, a war saber, and seven short blades.

Qin Lu defeated two cultivators who attacked him, then gained the Split Divine Sense secret method from their belongings. A week later, the Daliang Plain battlefield collapsed, leaving millions dead and wounded and earning the plain the name Blood-Colored Plain.

• Qin Lu used his sword, defensive techniques, and Jinyuan Needle to kill the spirit-eyed cultivator, then poisoned the Qi Condensation Third Layer cultivator to death.
• Qin Lu realized that his recent change had greatly strengthened his soul and doubled his Spiritual Power.
• Qin Lu collected the cultivators’ corpses and found Spirit Stones, Law Artifacts, and the Split Divine Sense secret method in their Qiankun Pouches.
• Qin Lu cleared away the battle traces and returned to the mountains to cultivate.
• The fighting on the Daliang Plain collapsed a week later, killing or wounding millions of mortals and earning the battlefield the name Blood-Colored Plain.

Da Zhou completed its conquest of Zhengyuan Dao District and divided its territory, while its court and clans gained resources and influence. Qin Lu was promoted to head the Longchuan Commandery Hundred Arts Bureau’s pill division, but he still lacked the Qi Clan inheritance needed to refine Second-Tier pills.

• Da Zhou’s war left Daliang’s defenses shattered, and the surviving cultivators either fled, surrendered, or were killed as the state seized their resources.
• Da Zhou absorbed Zhengyuan Dao District into Xuan Province, establishing fifteen prefectures and more than three hundred counties.
• The Beichuan Qin Family received Cloud Dream County, where Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan helped deter rival clans from contesting its territory.
• The Xuan River Zhang Clan and Huanglian Huang Family expanded their holdings in Longchuan Prefecture, and the Zhang Clan gained another Qi Condensation cultivator.
• Wu Yanmian, Gongsun Zhe, and the third Imperial Dynasty Cultivator survived; two left Longchuan Prefecture to establish lineages, opening posts in the Hundred Arts Bureau.
• Qin Lu became head of the bureau’s pill division, but he still could not make Second-Tier spirit pills without the Qi Clan’s formula and inheritance.

After a year of peace in Dream Cloud County, Qin Lu advanced to the Qi Condensation Third Layer and discovered that his mutated Qing Centipede had awakened a new ability. He returned to the Beichuan Qin Family to name his newborn grandson, Han, and assess his aptitude.

• Qin Lu said goodbye to Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan after the three helped secure Dream Cloud County, while rumors about Daliang and wars elsewhere continued.
• Qin Lu reached the Qi Condensation Third Layer and considered using his wood heart to forge a new cultivation method and establish a Dao Foundation.
• The Qing Centipede transformed in the Myriad Poisons Pool, grew more than three feet long, and awakened an ability that concealed its presence by hiding it within Qin Lu's.
• Qin Lu returned to the Beichuan Qin Family, where his six sons welcomed him and told him the newborn's name was Han.
• Qin Lu prepared to formally give Han his generational character and enter him into the genealogy, then moved to assess the child's aptitude.

Qin Minghan was born with excellent cultivation aptitude, and Qin Lu announced he would personally train him as the Qin Clan celebrated its new Immortal Seedling. Meanwhile, Qing Centipede consumed vast resources and broke through to the Second Tier, leaving the Qin Clan with both a promising heir and a powerful spirit beast.

• Qin Lu tested Qin Minghan's aptitude and found his spiritual light measured one and a half inches, making Qi Condensation attainable.
• Qin Lu rejected Qin Xiao's suggestion to conceal Minghan's talent and declared he would personally train the child.
• The Qin Clan announced Minghan's birth and held a grand celebration, receiving gifts and congratulations from subordinate forces and neighboring clans.
• Qin Xiao passed two women sent as gifts to his younger brother Qin Zhao after Madam Zhang grew angry.
• Qing Centipede gathered Blood Qi after consuming demons, corpses, and herbs, then began breaking through on Spirit Beast Peak.
• Qing Centipede formed an Insect Heart, shed his old shell, and emerged as a Second-Tier demon over a zhang long.

Qing Centipede created the Azure Insect Abyss as a home and nurturing ground for demonic insects, while Qin Zhuang managed the expanding Spirit Deer Peak. Qin Hui successfully formed a life contract with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, transforming part of himself into a plant spirit and strengthening his soul.

• Qing Centipede triggered Spirit Rain that nourished Spirit Beast Peak and awakened spirituality in countless insects, then dug a pit for them to inhabit.
• The insects expanded the pit into the Azure Insect Abyss, where Qing Centipede established the Insect-Nurturing Pool.
• Qin Zhuang reviewed Spirit Deer Peak's growing herds and planned to send a deer each month to feed the Insect Abyss.
• Qin Hui used the Beast Taming Method to forge a life contract with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, and the tree's nourishment changed his body and strengthened his soul.

Qin Hui survived a dangerous bond with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree and became the Qin Clan’s second Alchemist, freeing Qin Lu to pursue alchemy research. Nearly three years later, Qin Xiao oversaw the clan’s affairs and issued orders aboard a treasure ship as the chapter left him contemplating the Wuzhi Mountains.

• Qin Hui formed a reversed natal bond with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, and Qin Lu arrived in time to stop him from becoming entirely wood.
• Qin Lu accepted Qin Hui’s choice, warned him to keep the bond secret, and encouraged him to pursue the Dao of Alchemy.
• A little over a month later, Qin Hui refined his first batch of Muxuan Pills and became the Qin Clan’s second Alchemist, while Qin Lu devoted himself to cultivation and seeking a Second-Tier alchemy inheritance.
• Nearly three years later, Qin Xiao questioned two Shadow Guards about the Yegan Huang Clan, ordered them to investigate the clan’s spies and the fugitive bloodline of Wu Yong, and told them to expose an embezzler at the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Xiao considered the potential of the Wuzhi Mountains as a future spirit-mountain blessed land.
• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui discussed changes in the Qin Clan, including Zhao Gou’s promotion, Zhao Gao’s appointment in Yingchuan, and Qin Wen’s assignment as magistrate of Cloud Dream County.

Qin Xiao explained a new military structure to Qin Hui, dividing the forces among county armies, the clan-controlled Black Dragon Legion, and the Qin Elite Soldiers. A year later, Qin Hui’s three wives and concubines gave birth to his first three children.

• Qin Xiao asked Qin Hui for feedback as he outlined the clan’s new military structure and the roles of its county armies, Black Dragon Legion, and Qin Elite Soldiers.
• Qin Hui praised Qin Xiao’s thorough plan, and the Qin Clan’s military reforms were settled.
• A year passed as Qin Hui managed the clan’s agricultural and cultivation duties while following Qin Xiao’s instruction to have more children.
• Lady Zhao, Lady Han, and Lady Meng became pregnant, and Qin Hui became a father to three children in the same month.

Qin Hui named the mortal child born to Lady Han Qin Hui, and the child was sent to the Han Family to be raised. Years later, Qin Zhao visited Ba Lake with Qin Zhuang to choose a spirit pet and found an extraordinary crocodile egg with a dangerously weak life force; they discussed ways to save it.

• Qin Hui named his two gifted newborns Qin Mingdao and Qin Mingxi, while the mortal son was also named Qin Hui and sent with Lady Han to the Han Family.
• The Qin Clan continued developing Ba Lake, where more than thirty Black Armor Crocodiles supported its water transport.
• Qin Zhao and Qin Zhuang toured the lake so Qin Zhao could choose a crocodile as a fighting companion.
• Qin Zhao asked Qin Zhuang to show him the exceptional crocodile egg, and they found it marked with blue patterns and barely alive.
• Qin Zhuang explained that the egg could be saved by a lifebound contract, a highly cultivated expert's aid, or the Essence Blood of a high-tier Demon Beast.

Qin Zhao used Profound Yin Water Marrow and Qing Centipede’s Second-Tier Insect Demon blood to save a Black Armor Crocodile egg. The egg hatched into a powerful first-tier beast, and Qin Zhao named it Black Dragon and bound it to himself.

• Qin Zhuang rejected methods that would risk Qin Zhao’s life or disturb their father, and explained that the Black Armor Crocodile needed a higher-tier Demon Beast’s blood to survive.
• Qin Zhao showed Qin Zhuang his Profound Yin Water Marrow and asked whether it could help save the egg; Qin Zhuang said it needed to be paired with a great Demon’s blood.
• Qin Zhao offered three drops of Profound Yin Water Marrow to Qing Centipede and received the blood of a Second-Tier Insect Demon in return.
• Qin Zhao used the insect blood and a drop of water marrow to nourish the egg, while allocating other drops to Qin Zhuang, the Lineage’s water vein, and Black Dragon’s future breakthrough.
• Qin Zhao and Qin Zhuang watched the egg hatch into a first-tier inferior-grade Black Armor Crocodile with dark green pupils and a blue stripe.
• Qin Zhao formed a master-servant contract with the hatchling and named it Black Dragon, intending it to guard Black Dragon Peak and the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.

Qin Lu broke through to the Qi Condensation Fourth Layer by refining a poison pearl, then reunited with Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan, who revealed their plan to seize Longchuan Prefecture. The chapter ended with them explaining that Biyunzi, the Blue Wave Sect’s old sect master, was dead.

• Qin Lu gathered the poisonous cloud above Dao-Seeking Peak into a poison pearl, swallowed it, and broke through to the Qi Condensation Fourth Layer.
• Qin Lu stored his excess Spiritual Power in the wooden heart, lowering his apparent cultivation to Qi Condensation Third Layer Perfection.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan visited Qin Lu, and the three reunited before descending to Dao-Seeking Peak together.
• Qin Lu explained that the Qin Clan had used the Sword Sect disciples’ corpses as fertilizer for poisonous plants and spirit medicines.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan told Qin Lu that they planned to seize Longchuan Prefecture.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan revealed that Biyunzi, the Blue Wave Sect’s old sect master, was dead.

Zhang Xuan and Huang Liang persuaded Qin Lu to join their plan to seize Longchuan, and Qin Lu secured their promise to help destroy the Yegan Huang Clan. Half a month later, Nalan sabotaged the Blue Wave Sect’s formation, leaving its leader expecting Huang Liang’s attack and preparing to purge the sect.

• Zhang Xuan told Qin Lu that Biyunzi had died and proposed that the Qin, Huang, and Zhang Clans divide Longchuan after destroying the Blue Wave Sect and subduing the Gong, Yu, and Pan Clans.
• Qin Lu agreed to help, on the condition that the others join him in destroying the Yegan Huang Clan; Huang Liang revealed his clan’s history of persecution by them and agreed eagerly.
• The three men planned the campaign in detail and prepared to commit their clans’ forces.
• Half a month later, Nalan entered the Blue Wave Sect’s formation core and used Second-Tier talismans to destroy the formation plates and break the grand formation.
• Nalan escaped using another talisman, while the sect’s leader realized a high-ranking mole had sabotaged the formation and anticipated Huang Liang’s arrival.

Huang Liang activated the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation and fought the Blue Wave Sect defenders, revealing that he had reached the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer. Hundreds of li away, Qin Lu faced three opponents, resisted a soul-type Law Technique, and prepared to fight at full strength.

• Huang Liang activated the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation, assigned his Fifth Uncle to control it, and led his allies in an assault on the Blue Wave Sect.
• Huang Liang fought Hou Guan, Yunxiaozi, and Huang Tianming, knocking Hou Guan away and forcing the others to recognize his Qi Condensation Seventh Layer cultivation.
• Zhang Xuan and the others fought the remaining defenders while Huang Liang's Fifth Uncle used the formation to harass their opponents.
• Wu Daoping called for the expected support as Huang Liang's side continued to suppress the fighters at Blue Rosy Cloud Peak.
• Qin Lu confronted the Yu family head, the Pan family head, and a third opponent while secretly releasing poisonous smoke, but a soul-type Law Technique briefly disoriented him and left the Qing Centipede fighting alone.
• Qin Lu recovered, revealed his Qi Condensation Fourth Layer cultivation, and declared that none of the three opponents would leave.

Qin Lu used his swordsmanship, poison, and Qing Centipede to overwhelm the three clan heads who had attacked him. After killing the Pan Clan head and the Gong Clan head, he offered the last survivor, the Yu Clan head, a chance to live if he submitted.

• Qin Lu drove the Yu Clan head, the Gong Clan head, and the Pan Clan head into a poisonous miasma with his sword and Qing Centipede.
• The three clan heads discovered they had been poisoned and fought back, but Qin Lu and Qing Centipede countered their attacks.
• Qin Lu broke through the Pan Clan head's divine-soul Technique, bound him with vines, and killed him with wooden spikes.
• Qing Centipede overcame the Gong Clan head's fire spells and crushed him after his Spiritual Power ran low.
• Qin Lu told the Yu Clan head to submit as his master or die, warning that the Yu Clan would otherwise be finished.

Qin Lu forced Yu Lin to submit, then sent him to help Huang Liang while attacks ravaged the Gong, Yu, and Pan Clans and their allies. At Blue Cloud Rosy Clouds, Yu Lin arrived claiming to have killed Qin Lu, but he suddenly killed Hou Guan instead, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Qin Lu poisoned Yu Lin, took his heart blood, and forced him to serve as his master in exchange for sparing the Yu Clan.
• The Qin army stormed the Yu Clan, the Zhang army attacked the Gong Clan, and Qin Xiao and Qin Wen led troops against the Pan Clan while Liu Ruyan arranged the deaths of their scattered disciples.
• Yunxiaozi, Huang Tianming, and Hou Guan struggled against Huang Liang, who had the upper hand despite Yunxiaozi's pills and Spirit Stones.
• Yu Lin arrived at Blue Cloud Rosy Clouds claiming he had slain Qin Lu and would help Huang Liang's opponents.
• Yu Lin struck Hou Guan with a heavy-sword artifact and beheaded him, shocking both sides and enraging Yunxiaozi.

Qin Lu joined the battle between the Blue Wave Sect and its enemies, blanketing the battlefield in poison as Yunxiaozi and Lingyun made desperate last stands. After Lingyun and a Zhang clan cultivator died together, Qin Lu confronted Huang Tianming, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Huang Tianming, Wu Daoping, and Luo Shizhong broke through the formation as the Blue Wave Sect and its attackers descended into a chaotic battle.
• Qin Lu and Qing Centipede spread poisonous clouds across the battlefield, killing Blue Wave Sect disciples while Huang Liang and his allies survived using Qin Lu's antidote pills.
• Yunxiaozi detonated himself to open a path through the poison, and Huang Liang was blasted away as Huang Tianming and his companions escaped.
• Lingyun fought Zhang Xuan's group alone and died alongside Zhang Xuan's younger clansman, prompting Zhang Xuan to burn Blue Wave Sect disciples in a frenzy.
• Qin Lu stopped Huang Tianming and let Wu Daoping and Luo Shizhong flee before attacking Huang Tianming, but the two fought evenly.

Qin Lu and the Qing Centipede defeated Huang Tianming, while the cold and other poisons killed Wu Daoping and Luo Shizhong. After the survivors divided the conquered territories, Qin Lu exposed Yu Lin’s mistaken belief that his clan had been promised protection and had the Qing Centipede kill him.

• Qin Lu and Huang Tianming fought across the wilderness until Huang Tianming was fatally weakened and died; Wu Daoping and Luo Shizhong also succumbed to poison.
• Huang Liang survived his injuries, and the victors gathered to divide the Yu Clan’s territory, with Huang Liang giving some of his family’s interests to the Zhang Clan.
• Yu Lin demanded that Qin Lu honor his promise to preserve the Yu Clan, but Qin Lu claimed he had only promised to spare Yu Lin himself and taunted him over the clan’s destruction.
• Yu Lin tried to attack Qin Lu, but the Qing Centipede pierced and killed him; Qin Lu said his spirit pet had never promised to spare Yu Lin.
• The Huang Clan’s forces continued clearing out Bibo holdouts as the victors assigned the Yu, Gong, Pan, and other territories to the Zhang, Qin, and Huang families.
• The Beichuan Qin Family gained the lower Ying River and more than 60,000 square kilometers of land, while the Huanglian Huang Family and Xuan River Zhang Clan expanded to about 110,000 and 80,000 square kilometers respectively.

The Qin Clan divided the spoils from the Blue Wave Sect, Pan Clan, and Yu Clan, gaining vast resources and all three main ingredients needed to eventually refine Qi Condensation Pills. After the clans settled their claims and subdued Longchuan Prefecture, the Yegan Huang Clan was destroyed in a mysterious overnight attack and its surviving branches were eliminated.

• The Qin Clan received a large share of the Blue Wave Sect's wealth and half the Pan Clan's property, including inheritances, spiritual items, and valuable Spirit Plants.
• The Qin Clan took all the Yu Clan's spoils, including Pure Origin Spirit-Transforming Ginseng, completing its set of three main ingredients for Qi Condensation Pills.
• Qin Lu created the Cauldron Primordial Dao-Seeking Method and prepared captured female cultivators as cauldrons for his children or subordinates.
• The Qin, Zhang, and Huang Clans finished dividing their interests and brought all of Longchuan Prefecture under their control.
• Several black-robed cultivators attacked Yegan Mountain at night, wiping out the Yegan Huang Clan's direct line and plundering its treasury and inheritances.
• The surviving Yegan branches fought among themselves before Muyun Prefecture's other Lineages destroyed them, ending the Yegan Huang Clan.

Three years after the three families took Longchuan, their rule brought stability and recovery while the Qin Clan built a grand palace to consolidate its power and seek the fortune of the people. The chapter ends by introducing the Qin Clan’s younger generation, including Qin Zhao’s son Qin Mingyuan, whose father valued the Dao above family affection.

• The Huang, Zhang, and Qin families divided Longchuan’s government and military posts, then worked together to restore order and livelihoods after the war.
• The Qin Clan spent three years building the Qin Palace on Muxuan Mountain, installing three formations and establishing it as the clan’s administrative center and symbol.
• The Qin Palace’s ancestral shrine held fifteen life tablets, including those of five new children born into the Qin Clan’s third generation.
• Qin Wu’s sons Qin Mingyue and Qin Mingzheng showed strength and promise, while Qin Wen’s children Qin Mingyi and Qin Mingwan had weaker spiritual aptitudes.
• Qin Zhao’s son Qin Mingyuan had nine fen of spiritual light, while Qin Zhao’s pursuit of the Dao remained more important to him than familial affection.

Qin Xiao presided over the Qin Clan’s annual reports, approving the new Daoist Learning Academy and hearing updates on the clan’s counties, resources, and defenses. The reports also revealed a split within the Zhao Household over whether to establish an independent domain or remain loyal to the Qin Clan.

• Yan Quan reported that the Daoist Learning Academy was ready to open the following year, and Qin Xiao approved its establishment with the clan seal.
• Zhao Gao, Han Fei, and the Wang Clan generals reported that Yunmeng Pass and Yunchuan Pass were complete and would secure Yingchuan’s river routes.
• Qin Wen, Li Si, and Meng Wu described Cloud Dream County’s growing population and its Ironwood Forest and Zhuyun Space resource sites.
• The report explained that Zhuyun Space supplied snakes for breeding, venom, trade, medicine, food, and combat, as well as spiritual bamboo for construction and artifact-making.
• The reports described a division in the Zhao Household between Zhao Gou’s supporters, who favored independence, and Zhao Gao’s supporters, who favored loyalty to the Qin Clan.
• Zhao Zhen continued managing finances and supervising the region while trying to keep the Zhao Household’s internal dispute from provoking Qin Xiao.