Chapter Summaries

Qin Xiao and Qin Hui discussed Qin Mingwan’s mysterious rise, the prophecy surrounding her, and the possibility that she might threaten the Qin Clan. The chapter then outlined how the clan expanded its military, crafting, puppet, and spirit-beast resources over three years.

• Qin Xiao asked Qin Hui whether luck existed and raised concerns about Qin Mingwan’s sudden change in temperament and cultivation.
• Qin Hui explained that Mingwan’s fate had been divined as ordinary, but her rise might bring either fortune or disaster to Northern Qin.
• Qin Hui warned that the clan should eliminate Mingwan if her threat could not be contained and told Qin Xiao to act decisively if necessary.
• Qin Mingzheng became a Rank-1 Artifact Refiner after three years of training and gained access to the Gongsun Clan’s crafting knowledge.
• The Qin Clan acquired crafting and puppet inheritances, and Qin Mingzheng refined his first puppet.
• The Qin Clan raised spirit beasts to supply its forces and recruited long-term residents of Ba City to strengthen its ranks.

Qin Lu reached Qi Condensation Ninth Layer Perfection and prepared to break through to the Dao Foundation realm while the Qin Clan gathered resources and guarded Muxuan Mountain. Meanwhile, Jing Ke fully took over Qin Mingwan’s body and planned to attack the clan and seize its foundation.

• The Qin Clan’s Qin Coin system standardized trade and helped it gather resources and Spirit Stones across its territory.
• Qin Lu emerged from years of secluded cultivation at Qi Condensation Ninth Layer Perfection, having fully comprehended King Wood Dao Rhyme, and decided to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Qin Xiao mobilized the clan to gather spiritual items and more than ten thousand Spirit Stones, which were stored in a cavern and channeled into Qin Lu’s secret chamber.
• Jing Ke completely took over Qin Mingwan’s body, devoured her soul, and assessed the Qin Clan’s hidden strength.
• Jing Ke vowed to attack the Qin Clan, seize its foundation, and destroy its legacy.

Jing Ke coerced Ghost Elder into helping him destroy the Qin Clan and other powers, then triggered a message claiming the Qin Clan had seized a foundation and hidden the Flower Willow inheritance. Nearly a hundred Qi Condensation cultivators rushed toward the Qin Clan, leaving it under threat from rival factions.

• Qin Mingwan sought out a secluded place while Qin Zhuang watched her warily.
• Jing Ke’s split soul revealed that his main soul had entered the Qin Clan and demanded Ghost Elder’s help with revenge.
• Ghost Elder refused, but Jing Ke began destroying their Three Ingenuities Soul until Ghost Elder agreed to help and formed a life-and-death pact.
• Jing Ke ordered Ghost Elder to help destroy the Qin Clan, Huang Clan, and Zhang Clan, and vowed to bury Longchuan Prefecture with his parents.
• Jing Ke activated soul seals that broadcast a claim about the Qin Clan’s foundation and Flower Willow inheritance, drawing nearly a hundred Qi Condensation cultivators toward the region.

The Qin Clan mobilized its hidden strength after Qin Xiao ordered Qin Zhuang to kill Qin Mingwan, and Qin Wu destroyed her Chi Beast form. As hostile cultivators gathered around Ba City, the clan revealed its allies, spirit beasts, formations, and troops, preparing for a major battle.

• Qin Xiao ordered Qin Zhuang to kill Qin Mingwan, and Qin Wu used Instant of Splendor to destroy the Chi Beast that emerged from her body.
• Qin Wu and Jinxuan confronted the surrounding enemy cultivators as Qin Wu summoned the metal Sha Qi of Metal Sha Peak.
• Qing Centipede emerged at Second-Tier Upper Grade and led countless poisonous insects from Azure Insect Abyss, while Qin Zhuang and Qin Hui revealed their powerful spirit-beast and wood-demon allies.
• Qin Hui summoned Wang Jian, Meng Wu, Qiao Mei, the Fairy of Wind and Dust, the Fairy of Snow and Moon, Su Wanchang, Gan Ling, and Wang Xu to support the Qin Clan against Pure Yang Ancestor Luo Li and the other attackers.
• The Qin Clan activated its protective formations and poisonous cloud, while more than a thousand Qin Elite Soldiers formed ten Dao soldiers and prepared to fight.

Qin Xiao used the Qin Palace’s power to repel the cultivators besieging Qin lands, and Qin Wu led the counterattack. The chapter ended as Qin Wu unleashed a giant sword formed from ten thousand weapons against a Fifth Layer Qi Condensation cultivator.

• Qin Xiao gathered the rivers’ Qi and the people’s worship through the Qin Palace, then rallied the Qin Clan to defend their lands.
• The Qin Palace’s phantom conjured golden weapons and armored cavalry, scattering the cultivators who had gathered to seize an opportunity.
• Qin Wu pursued the fleeing cultivators with the Golden-Winged Black Bird and killed one who called for help.
• Qin Wu gathered the soldiers’ weapons into a giant sword and prepared to strike down a Fifth Layer Qi Condensation cultivator.

Qin Wu, Qin Zhuang, and their allies fought off the attacking cultivators as the conflict spread throughout Qin territory and rebellion broke out. The battlefield reached a stalemate as Huang Liang appeared with his newly comprehended Raging Sand Dao Rhyme.

• Qin Wu killed a high-level cultivator with the Profound Spirit Golden Sword and challenged the battlefield, while Qin Zhuang arrived to fight beside him.
• Qin Zhuang used Marsh: Great Return to Origin Annihilation to kill a cultivator, and he and Qin Wu swept aside their opponents as the Qing Centipede intervened against a silver-spear wielder.
• The Jade Maiden Sect immortals, Su and Gan, Wang Xu, generals Wang and Meng, Qin Hui, Qin Xiao, and the Dao soldiers fought across the battlefield against the invading forces.
• Wu Guang and Chen Sheng raised a rebellion against the Qin Clan, gathered soldiers, and attacked Qin military checkpoints as unrest spread through Qin territory.
• More cultivators gathered as the fighting reached a stalemate, and Huang Liang appeared amid raging sand with his Raging Sand Dao Rhyme.

Huang Liang arrived to defend the Qin Clan and fought Luo Li, rejecting his offer to join forces against Qin Lu. Their battle left the surrounding land transformed into red-earth dunes.

• Huang Liang blocked Luo Li and the other cultivators, declaring that he would defend his friend Qin Lu as Qin Xiao's phantom was forced back.
• Luo Li warned Huang Liang that Qin Lu's rise would threaten the Huang Clan, then urged him to abandon the Qin Clan and share in its foundation.
• Huang Liang reflected that he had come both out of loyalty and to preserve the Huang Clan, and offered Luo Li the chance to help the Qin Clan instead.
• Luo Li refused and declared that Huang Liang would die alongside his master, and the two began fighting with their Dao Charms.
• Huang Liang's sand dragon and Luo Li's pure yang Dao Charm clashed, scorching and reshaping the battlefield into red-earth dunes.

As the Qin Clan fought its enemies in Ba City, Qin Lu broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm on Muxuan Mountain. At his moment of weakness, Jing Ke absorbed the Three Ingenuities Soul and Ghost Elder, then invaded Qin Lu’s body to enslave him and seize it.

• Qin Xiao’s phantom held back dozens of Qi Condensation cultivators while the battle devastated Ba City.
• Qin Lu endured the souls of the dead and reached beyond the long river of the Great Dao, forging his Dao Foundation and transforming his soul into Divine Sense.
• Qin Lu’s emergence as a Dao Foundation cultivator stopped the battlefield, and the Qin Clan celebrated his breakthrough.
• Jing Ke’s main soul, the Three Ingenuities Soul, and Ghost Elder arrived at Qin Lu’s place of seclusion as his Divine Sense was at its weakest.
• Jing Ke absorbed the Three Ingenuities Soul and Ghost Elder, then entered Qin Lu’s body to use the Parasitic Slave Heart Method and seize control of him.

Jing Ke’s plan to seize Qin Lu’s body failed when Qin Lu’s overwhelming Divine Sense crushed him. Before dying, Jing Ke revealed that he had targeted Qin Lu to avenge his kin, who had died in a poisonous cloud during the siege of the Blue Wave Sect.

• Jing Ke’s scheme relied on splitting his soul, manipulating the Qin Clan, and using Ghost Elder’s soul to strengthen himself before taking Qin Lu’s body.
• Jing Ke’s Divine Sense invaded Qin Lu’s sea of Divine Sense, but Qin Lu’s imperial majesty overwhelmed him.
• Qin Lu asked Jing Ke why he had targeted him, and Jing Ke said Qin Lu had killed his kin by poisoning their village during the siege of the Blue Wave Sect.
• Qin Lu accused Jing Ke of using revenge to disguise his fear of death and desire to seize Qin Lu’s Dao Foundation body.
• Qin Lu crushed Jing Ke’s soul with his Divine Sense, killing him.

After defeating Jing Ke and Gui Su, Qin Lu claimed their remnants and Dao Principle for his own purposes. He emerged at Muxuan Mountain to attack the gathered enemies, while the Pure Yang Ancestor, Luo Li, fled only to be intercepted by a tree demon.

• Jing Ke's shattered Divine Sense fragments expanded Qin Lu's sea of Divine Sense by nearly a third.
• Qin Lu stripped Gui Su of his Nether Soul Dao Principle and trapped his remnant soul inside an illusory cloud gold crystal for a Heart-Refining Pagoda.
• Qin Lu refined the Nether Soul Dao Principle into the Tai'e Sword, strengthening the Third-Tier Law Treasure.
• Qin Lu emerged at Muxuan Mountain, immobilized the gathered enemies, and sent his poisonous-cloud battle generals to attack them.
• The Pure Yang Ancestor, Luo Li, escaped nearly a hundred li, but Qin Lu awakened a nearby tree into a Qi Condensation Peak tree demon that pursued him.

Qin Lu crushed Pure Yang Ancestor, wiped out the forces attacking the Qin Clan, and ordered the extermination of the attackers’ clans. After killing Chen Sheng and Wu Guang with a distant sword strike, he sat down with Xiashang Dao Academy representatives Shang Zhi and Xia Gui to talk.

• Qin Lu’s tree demon drained Pure Yang Ancestor’s life and pure Yang Dao Charm, and Qin Lu stored the corpse before dismissing the demon.
• The Rosy Cloud Battle Generals killed the remaining invaders, while Dao Foundation cultivators Shang Zhi and Xia Gui introduced themselves as representatives of Xiashang Dao Academy.
• Qin Lu sent nearly thirty possessed tree demons to slaughter the clans and relatives of those who had joined the siege against the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lu killed Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and their Qi Condensation followers with a sword strike from hundreds of miles away, causing the rebels’ mortal supporters to turn on one another.
• Qin Lu met Shang Zhi and Xia Gui on Muxuan Mountain and drank tea with them while the fighting and clan purges continued outside.

Qin Lu hosted two Xiashang Dao Academy cultivators, sold them Tea Smoke, and negotiated the Beichuan Qin Family’s elevation to a Dao Foundation faction. The Great Zhou granted the family Northern Province, while the Qin Clan ceded two prefectures to the academy for substantial resources and faced the challenge of building up its own middle-ranking strength.

• Qin Lu introduced Tea Smoke to Shang Zhi and Xia, then sold them several boxes for hundreds of Spirit Stones.
• Dao Foundation cultivators and their tree demons carried out a massive purge of sects and lineages across several prefectures while Qin Lu and his guests discussed business indoors.
• Qin Lu, Shang Zhi, and Xia agreed that the Great Zhou would recognize the Beichuan Qin Family as a Dao Foundation faction and grant Qin Lu the title King Who Guards the North.
• The agreement established Northern Province under Qin Clan rule, with twelve prefectures and three hundred and seventeen county seats, while the Xiashang Dao Academy acquired two western prefectures in exchange for spiritual resources and Spirit Stones.
• Qin Lu recognized that the Qin Clan lacked enough middle-layer combat power, since its strongest members could not reliably keep powerful Qi Condensation factions in check.

After Qin Lu's rise to Dao Foundation, the Qin Clan consolidated Northern Province, punished the forces that had opposed it, and rewarded its loyal allies. The Jade Maiden Sect planned reforms to secure its future, the Wang Clan gained two new Qi Condensation cultivators, and Zhao Zhen warned his descendants to remain loyal to Qin.

• The Qin Clan wiped out the forces that had joined the siege, renamed Wuping, Muyun, and Longchuan Prefectures as Northern Province, and assigned the three cities to the Huang, Gan, and Su clans as guardians.
• The Qin Clan named seven loyal forces the Seven Mysteries of Northern Province, while Meng Wu mourned his parents and reflected on the Meng Family's prosperity.
• Qiao Mei proposed reforming the Jade Maiden Sect with new cultivation methods, broader recruitment, and a saintess from each generation who would marry the Qin Clan patriarch.
• Wang Ben and Wang Li used Qi Condensation Pills to break through, making the Wang Clan the second subordinate force after the Jade Maiden Sect to become a powerful clan; they received military titles alongside Wang Jian.
• Zhao Zhen told Zhao Gao and Zhao Gou that the Zhao Family had risen because of Qin and would fall if it betrayed the Qin Clan.

Zhao Zhen looked back on his life supporting the Zhao Household and Qin Clan before dying at seventy-three, still regretting that his family had produced no immortal. At Muxuan Mountain, Qin Lu mourned his old friend and reflected on the pain and loneliness behind a cultivator’s pursuit of the Dao.

• Zhao Zhen recalled taking charge of the Zhao Household, helping establish the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce, and later supporting Qin Xiao and the war between Zhou and Liang.
• Zhao Zhen reflected on the Zhao Household’s growth and his wish for his lineage to endure, while regretting that none of his family had become an immortal.
• Zhao Zhen died at the age of seventy-three after a life of hardship, family, and witnessing the rise of the Qin Clan.
• At Muxuan Mountain, Qin Lu raised a cup to the moon and bid farewell to his old friend Zhao Zhen.
• Qin Lu considered the suffering, loneliness, and sustained effort that accompanied a cultivator’s pursuit of the Dao.

Northern Province began organizing its factions and government under the Qin Clan, while Zhao Gou and the young Qin Hui, sidelined by their Lineages, set out to build power elsewhere. They departed with an army and the Yue clan, as Qin Hui left home determined to prove himself through strategy.

• The Da Zhou imperial family established Northern Province under the Beichuan Qin Family and appointed them Princes of the North.
• A tally recorded 143 Qi Condensation factions, fifteen major sects and clans, three hegemon-level factions, and 309 Qi Condensation cultivators in Northern Province.
• Zhao Gou lamented his diminished position and proposed that he and Qin Hui join forces to carve out a domain of their own.
• Qin Hui agreed, saying he would pursue a path to the Dao and build a foundation with Zhao Gou elsewhere.
• Months later, Zhao Gou gathered five thousand soldiers and more than two hundred warriors, and his party departed with the Yue clan.
• Qin Hui left home alongside Yue Fei, determined to use his wits to establish himself and someday return after proving his worth.

Over five years, Qin Lu’s clan expanded its cultivation power and transformed Beichuan, while Huang Liang prepared a grand formation to restore the region’s spiritual energy. The formation was ready, but its activation still required 108 cultivators and Qin Lu’s help.

• Qin Hui left with Zhao Gou and his followers, while Qin Lu watched their departure with Divine Sense from Muxuan Mountain.
• Qin Lu refined sixty Qi Condensation Pills, enabling Zhang Han, Li Xin, Bai Qi, and Zhao Gao to reach Qi Condensation.
• Li Si and Shang Yang reached Qi Condensation; Shang Yang founded the Dharma Sect, while Han Xin became the Thousand Spirits Han Clan’s sole Qi Condensation cultivator.
• The Qin Clan expanded Ba City into Baxuan Immortal City and established the Beichuan Minor Gathering and the Northern Province Grand Gathering.
• Huang Liang explained that the Thick Earth Hundred Origins Grand Formation had been laid out to revive Beichuan’s earth veins, but activating it required 108 cultivators and Qin Lu’s power.

Qin Lu found Qin Feizi’s remains and destroyed the Dao remnants blocking Yingchuan’s earth veins. With Huang Liang’s formations guiding the released energy, Yingchuan’s mountains and rivers flourished anew, and the Northern Province began to rise as a cultivation holy land.

• Qin Xiao thanked Huang Liang for his service, and Huang Liang avoided accepting his gesture because of its significance to the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lu discovered Ten-Thousand-Year Stone Milk beneath a barren mountain and collected it before continuing deeper into the cavern.
• Qin Lu found Qin Feizi’s crystalline remains, placed them in a crystal coffin, and decided to bury them at Eternal Sleep Peak.
• Qin Lu used the King Wood Dao Principles to destroy the Crystal Earth Dao Principles suppressing Yingchuan’s earth veins.
• Huang Liang coordinated thirty-six grand formations as Qin Lu shattered the remaining Dao chain, releasing Yingchuan’s earth-vein Qi and transforming its landscape.

The awakening of the earth veins transformed Baxuan Immortal City and Muxuan Mountain into a cultivation stronghold centered on a growing Spirit Vein. Qin Lu then ordered an expanded search for the Returning Soul Spirit Physique, believing it could help him overcome his stalled cultivation.

• Spiritual Qi flooded Baxuan Immortal City, causing the Spirit Vein beneath Muxuan Mountain to grow and nourish the Twenty-Four Peaks.
• Qin Wu, Qin Xiao, Qin Zhuang, and Qin Hui advanced in cultivation as Baxuan Immortal City grew into a major cultivation holy land.
• The Qin Elite Soldiers expanded into three legions under Li Xin, Bai Qi, and Zhang Han, while Qin Wu commanded them and Military Martial Peak studied larger battle formations.
• Several months later, Qin Lu entered seclusion and learned that three hundred Great Qin Iron Cavalry had failed to find the two people he sought.
• Qin Lu ordered the shadow guards to greatly expand the search and resolved to obtain the Returning Soul Spirit Physique to restore his own Spirit Physique and advance toward forming a Golden Core.

Gai Nie fought the Qin Clan’s elite soldiers to protect Jing Ke’s body, but Qin Wu captured him alive. The Jinxuan Dao Sect watched the operation without intervening, and the Qin Clan prepared to deliver Jing Ke’s body to Qin Lu.

• Qin Wu’s forces surrounded the mountain and agreed to capture Gai Nie quickly to avoid exposing the operation to the Jinxuan Dao Sect.
• Gai Nie fled the sword hut carrying Jing Ke’s body, but Qin Elite Soldiers surrounded him and demanded that he surrender it.
• Gai Nie refused to abandon his promise to protect Jing Ke’s body and fought the soldiers in the mountain forest.
• Qin Wu and Wang Xu watched the battle while two Jinxuan Dao Sect cultivators observed from nearby without intervening.
• The Qin Elite Soldiers exhausted Gai Nie, and Qin Wu captured him alive before the Jinxuan Dao Sect observers withdrew.

Gai Nie woke in Ghost Valley after losing his cultivation and began a new life of study and training under Wang Xu, gradually changing his view of Qin rule. Meanwhile, Qin Lu began refining Jing Ke’s body into a living pill to transfer the spirit body’s origin.

• Gai Nie woke in Ghost Valley, discovered he had lost his cultivation, and agreed to remain there and cultivate anew.
• Gai Nie trained alongside Su Qin, Gan Long, and Zhang Yi under Wang Xu, gradually settling into life at Ghost Valley.
• Gai Nie came to see the Qin Clan’s legal system as more capable of rewarding talent and protecting ordinary people than Da Zhou’s looser rule.
• Qin Lu used earthly fire to refine Jing Ke’s fleshly body and spirit body into a pill intended to transfer the spirit body’s origin.