Recaps

Chen Ning provoked Shark God in the City of Darkness, revealed his Half-God Realm strength, then fled as planned to make contact with Lone Wolf in Wolf City. There, Madam Spider arrived in a carriage before an attacker struck it down, revealing her unexpectedly beautiful face.

• Chen Ning challenged Shark God, who drove him back with a powerful palm strike.
• Chen Ning revealed his Half-God Realm cultivation, then escaped toward Wolf City instead of fighting Shark God.
• Chen Ning headed to Wolf City to earn Lone Wolf's trust and learn about the mysterious black-robed person connected to him.
• Wolf Den cleared a street for Madam Spider's carriage as the people of Wolf City discussed her reputation and her search for a lost treasure.
• An attacker descended and split Madam Spider's carriage with a sword, revealing her beautiful face to the stunned onlookers.

A poisoned Madam Spider faced an attack from a man seeking vengeance, while Duan Minggui offered to help her for his own predatory reasons. After Duan Minggui killed the attacker, Wolf Den barred the crowd from approaching, and Madam Spider warned that her capture would prevent the important discussion with Lone Wolf.

• Madam Spider explained that Rong'er had died saving the man who came to kill her, and he attacked her in anger.
• The man revealed that the tea Madam Spider drank contained God-Calamity Poison, which weakened her.
• Duan Minggui offered to kill the attacker in exchange for Madam Spider's body, but she refused and said she would rather die by the attacker's hand.
• Duan Minggui killed the man with a palm strike and approached Madam Spider as onlookers waited for a chance to seize her treasures.
• Dozens of Wolf Den experts blocked the crowd, and Madam Spider warned that her capture would leave no one to discuss the important matter with Lone Wolf.

Madam Spider discovered that Duan Minggui and the Wolf Den had lured her into a trap, then Chen Ning offered to save her in exchange for Spider Valley’s help uniting the Seven Kills Death Ground. Madam Spider accepted, leaving Chen Ning facing the Wolf Den and Duan Minggui.

• The Wolf Den offered to save Madam Spider if she joined forces against Frenzied Shark Fort, while Duan Minggui revealed that he had stolen the Heavenly Heart Cocoon and intended to claim her.
• The Wolf Den member said their leader could control Madam Spider and ordered Duan Minggui to act before her poison wore off.
• Chen Ning revealed himself and offered to save Madam Spider if Spider Valley helped him suppress Frenzied Shark Fort and the Wolf Den.
• Madam Spider agreed to Chen Ning’s bargain despite the crowd’s mockery and the Wolf Den’s threats.
• Duan Minggui threatened to kill Chen Ning with one palm strike.

Chen Ning killed Duan Minggui and the Wolf Den members who attacked him, then faced Lone Wolf as Spider Valley arrived to rescue Madam Spider. Madam Spider ordered her followers to take Chen Ning with them, and Lone Wolf let them go as the spiders overwhelmed his forces.

• Duan Minggui attacked Chen Ning with his flexible sword, but Chen Ning’s devil Qi shattered the sword and killed him.
• The Wolf Den leader tried to negotiate with Chen Ning, who killed the leader and the Wolf Den members who attacked him.
• Lone Wolf, the Wolf Den’s Lower God leader, arrived and confronted Chen Ning as more Wolf Den members gathered.
• Spider Valley women arrived with their spiders, and Madam Spider ordered them to take her and Chen Ning away.
• Lone Wolf let Madam Spider’s group leave because the spiders had overwhelmed the Wolf Den forces.

Madam Spider uncovered and punished the traitor who had poisoned her, then asked Kang Xiao to help her recover Spider Valley’s Heavenly Heart Cocoon and destroy Wolf Den. She brought Kang Xiao, bound in a spider cocoon, to Lone Wolf as an offering to seek peace, where Lone Wolf revealed he had backing of his own against Thunder God.

• Madam Spider learned that a trusted woman had poisoned her, betrayed Rong'er, and tried to flee, so she ordered the woman killed.
• Madam Spider thanked Kang Xiao for saving her and agreed to his plan to hold off Lone Wolf while he attacked Wolf Den.
• Madam Spider explained that Wolf Den’s Heavenly Heart Cocoon could restrain her and proposed offering Kang Xiao to Lone Wolf so they could recover it.
• Madam Spider brought the bound Kang Xiao into Wolf Den and claimed she had come to seek peace because Wolf Den held the Heavenly Heart Cocoon.
• Lone Wolf said he preferred joining forces with Madam Spider over Frenzied Shark Fort and revealed he had backing that let him challenge Thunder God.

Chen Ning escaped Lone Wolf’s trap by using the Profound Meaning of Deception to subdue his giant wolf mount. Meanwhile, Madam Spider agreed to join Lone Wolf against Frenzied Shark Fort, but Lone Wolf demanded that she take a medicine to ensure her cooperation.

• Lone Wolf asked Madam Spider to prove her sincerity by killing Chen Ning, but she refused because he had saved her.
• Lone Wolf sent Chen Ning to be fed to his giant wolf, and the Wolf Den members left him beside the beast.
• Chen Ning used a false, overwhelming beastly presence to defeat the giant wolf in a contest of wills.
• Lone Wolf proposed that Spider Valley help Wolf Den attack Frenzied Shark Fort while his backer kept Thunder God occupied.
• Madam Spider accepted the plan, but Lone Wolf demanded that she drink a medicine before he would trust her.
• Madam Spider realized she could neither seize the Heavenly Heart Cocoon nor safely refuse Lone Wolf’s demand.

Chen Ning arrived at Wolf Den as Lone Wolf fought Madam Spider over the Heavenly Heart Cocoon, then challenged him despite the difference in their realms. After their first clash, Chen Ning revealed that destroying Wolf Den and killing Lone Wolf was part of his plan to make Spider Valley the remaining choice for Great God White Brows.

• Kang Xiao’s escape caused chaos in Wolf Den, while Madam Spider tried to recover the Heavenly Heart Cocoon from Lone Wolf.
• Madam Spider attacked Lone Wolf with poisoned spider silk, but he endured the wounds to activate the Heavenly Heart Cocoon and suppress her.
• Wolf Den’s forces surrounded Madam Spider until Chen Ning burst into the hall and confronted Lone Wolf.
• Chen Ning called Lone Wolf a dog borrowing another’s power, provoking him into attacking.
• Chen Ning met Lone Wolf’s blood-colored fist with a devil fist, forcing the wounded Lower God to retreat several steps.
• Chen Ning explained that he had helped Madam Spider so he could destroy Wolf Den, kill Lone Wolf, and leave Spider Valley as Great God White Brows’ best option.

Chen Ning used the Devil Moon Overhead phenomenon to defeat Lone Wolf, then rejected Lone Wolf’s offer of an alliance and killed him. He burned Lone Wolf’s corpse to ashes to prevent the Lower God from reviving, while Madam Spider offered Chen Ning power and herself.

• Lone Wolf summoned his True God Dharma Body and launched a powerful attack at Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning invoked Devil Moon Overhead by deceiving the Heavenly Dao, seized Lone Wolf’s hands, and corrupted him with devil nature until Lone Wolf severed his own hands.
• Lone Wolf begged Chen Ning to spare him and offered an alliance, while Madam Spider countered with the promise of making Chen Ning king of the Seven Kills Death Ground and serving him.
• Chen Ning chose Madam Spider’s offer and killed Lone Wolf with a ray of Devil Qi, causing the Wolf Den members to flee.
• Chen Ning burned Lone Wolf’s corpse and scattered his ashes, preventing the Lower God from reviving.

After Lone Wolf’s death, Spider Valley absorbed the Wolf Den, and Madam Spider handed Chen Ning authority over the Seven Kills Death Ground. She revealed that she had tested him, recognized his hidden plans, and pledged Spider Valley’s support, including against Great God White Brows’ faction.

• News of Lone Wolf’s death spread through the Seven Kills Death Ground, where people marveled that Kang Xiao had killed a god while still in the Half-God Realm.
• Madam Spider told Chen Ning that Spider Valley was integrating Wolf City and offered to make him king of the Seven Kills Death Ground.
• Madam Spider tried to seduce Chen Ning, but he drove her back with a surge of demonic intent.
• Madam Spider admitted that she had been testing Chen Ning and had recognized that his earlier displays of desire were an act.
• Madam Spider pledged Spider Valley’s support for Chen Ning’s plans, even if they brought the valley into conflict with Great God White Brows’ faction.
• Chen Ning thanked Madam Spider and told her she would not regret her decision.

A black-robed envoy came to Spider Valley to offer cooperation over Innate Origin, but Chen Ning demanded support for his ambition to rule the Northern Territory. The envoy agreed to report Chen Ning’s terms to his lord, and Chen Ning explained that the envoy had no power to decide on his own.

• Xiao Rou told Madam Spider that a visitor in black robes wanted to discuss an important deal, and Madam Spider had him brought to the main hall.
• Madam Spider and Chen Ning met the envoy, who proposed that Spider Valley replace the Wolf Den as his partner in dealings involving Innate Origin.
• The envoy offered treasures and power in exchange for cooperation, but Chen Ning demanded help becoming king of the Northern Territory.
• The envoy questioned Chen Ning’s ability to challenge Thunder God, and Chen Ning pointed to his killing of Lone Wolf as proof of his potential.
• The envoy agreed to report Chen Ning’s demand to his lord and left Spider Valley.
• Madam Spider worried that Chen Ning’s insults might ruin the deal, but Chen Ning said the envoy could not make the decision himself.

Great God White Brows discussed the Wolf Den’s destruction and decided to accept the Devil Cultivator’s terms while using Willow God’s lineage as a scapegoat. Chen Guan escaped another prolonged game by losing deliberately, then revealed he had removed a hidden Gu from Great God White Brows; his disciples vowed to face their predicament together.

• A black-robed man reported that Spider Valley and a Devil Cultivator had destroyed the Wolf Den, and Great God White Brows agreed to meet the Devil Cultivator’s demands for the Seven Kills Death Ground.
• Great God White Brows said Willow God’s lineage would take the blame for the innate origin trade, upsetting Chen Guan, who was playing a board game with him.
• Chen Guan deliberately lost their game and was returned to his cell after Great God White Brows refused to kill him and ordered him imprisoned.
• Great God White Brows learned that Chen Ning was believed to be cultivating in his residence with the Azure Lotus of Life and the Divine Spark Fruit.
• Chen Guan showed Lang Xiaoshan, A Niu, Han Ya, and the other disciples the Gu he had secretly removed from Great God White Brows, then promised to protect them.
• Lang Xiaoshan and the other disciples rejected the possibility of Chen Guan sacrificing himself and pledged to advance and retreat with him.

Han Ya reported that someone intended to use a gu insect against Great God White Brows, who suspected Chen Ning and ordered the God of Calamitous Power to eliminate him. At Spider Valley, Madam Spider confessed her feelings for Chen Ning before the black-robed man returned with Great God White Brows’ agreement to their terms.

• Han Ya told Great God White Brows about the gu insect and Chen Guan’s attempt to keep it from being exposed.
• Great God White Brows suspected the Devil Cultivator was Chen Ning and sent the God of Calamitous Power to kill him while ordering Hei Ao to destroy Spider Valley.
• Great God White Brows confronted an illusion of Chen Ning at his residence and resolved to kill him under his assumed identity.
• At Spider Valley, Madam Spider told Chen Ning she truly liked him, but Xiao Rou interrupted them with news that the black-robed man had returned.
• The black-robed man told Chen Ning and Madam Spider that Great God White Brows had accepted their proposed terms.

Chen Ning foiled Hei Ao’s surprise attack by infecting him with demonic nature, then faced the God of Calamitous Power as the threat to Spider Valley escalated. Hei Ao dispelled the demonic influence and returned to full strength just as Chen Ning revealed his true appearance.

• Hei Ao tried to kill Chen Ning with a surprise attack when Chen Ning reached for the storage ring, but Chen Ning pressed a finger to Hei Ao’s brow and infected him with demonic nature.
• The God of Calamitous Power arrived outside the hall and attacked Madam Spider, whose webs shattered and forced her to dodge.
• Chen Ning realized Hei Ao was no longer a serious threat and focused on the God of Calamitous Power, explaining that he had anticipated the attack through the Gu insect and turned the enemy’s plan against them.
• Hei Ao began suppressing the demonic influence and revealed that he had held back because he feared fighting Chen Ning.
• After the God of Calamitous Power threatened him, Hei Ao dispelled the demonic nature and returned to peak condition.
• Chen Ning transformed from his Kang Xiao disguise and revealed his true appearance.

Chen Ning revealed his true appearance and fought Hei Ao while Madam Spider struggled to hold back the God of Calamitous Power. The chapter ended with Hei Ao using his Mayfly Dharma Body to cling to Chen Ning, who turned his Six-Colored Divine Lightning against himself.

• Chen Ning returned to his original appearance, and Madam Spider recognized him and felt reassured that she had chosen to support him.
• The God of Calamitous Power suppressed Madam Spider while Hei Ao charged Chen Ning, but Chen Ning's Six-Colored Divine Lightning injured Hei Ao and forced him back.
• Madam Spider struggled to hold off the God of Calamitous Power as Hei Ao decided to stake his life on a desperate attack.
• Hei Ao activated his Mayfly Dharma Body, ranked ninety-fifth on the Dharma Body Heaven Ranking, and shrank until he was nearly invisible.
• Chen Ning formed a lightning barrier, but Hei Ao slipped through the void and clung to his chest; Chen Ning then drew the lightning toward his own body.

Chen Ning defeated Hei Ao with Gui Water Yin Lightning after tricking him with an illusion of Six-Colored Divine Lightning, then faced the God of Calamitous Power alone. He was badly outmatched in their first clash but answered the god’s boast with a taunt.

• Chen Ning feigned a mutual death by summoning Six-Colored Divine Lightning, making Hei Ao flee before the illusion vanished.
• Hei Ao tried to cling to Chen Ning again, but Gui Water Yin Lightning he had planted inside Hei Ao destroyed his meridians and organs, killing him.
• Madam Spider collapsed after fighting the God of Calamitous Power, and Chen Ning caught her, gave her a healing pill, and took over the battle.
• The God of Calamitous Power attacked Chen Ning with a punch, and Chen Ning’s strongest strike could not prevent him from being hurled dozens of zhang backward.
• The God of Calamitous Power said he had used only eighty percent of his strength, and Chen Ning replied that he had been holding back from punching him in the face.

Chen Ning was overwhelmed by the God of Calamitous Power until Lu Sisi intervened, but the enemy threatened them both. Chen Ning swallowed the Divine Spark Fruit and ascended to godhood, then summoned his Savage Bull Dharma Body as the two giants prepared to clash.

• The God of Calamitous Power battered Chen Ning with a relentless barrage, leaving him unable to activate his True God Dharma Body.
• Lu Sisi arrived on a Wind Spirit Giant Eagle and used Thousand Illusions at Will to distract the God of Calamitous Power.
• The God of Calamitous Power revealed that Lu Sisi carried Chen Guan's Innate Origin and vowed to take it for Lord White Brows.
• Chen Ning swallowed the Divine Spark Fruit and entered the God Realm in a single step.
• Chen Ning summoned his thirty-thousand-meter Savage Bull Dharma Body, and the God of Calamitous Power formed a matching giant shadow wielding a dark golden scepter.

Chen Ning fought the God of Calamitous Power’s formidable Calamity Dharma Body, but the Incantation of Calamity nearly overwhelmed him. Yao Li ambushed the God of Calamitous Power, destroyed his Dharma Body, and left him gravely wounded, revealing that she had reached the God Realm.

• The God of Calamitous Power summoned his Calamity Dharma Body, and Chen Ning met it with his Savage Bull Dharma Body and the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Chen Ning and the God of Calamitous Power fought through more than a hundred exchanges while Madam Spider and Lu Sisi watched.
• The God of Calamitous Power exploited Chen Ning’s opening and used the Incantation of Calamity to overwhelm him before launching a decisive attack.
• Yao Li attacked from behind, pierced the Calamity Dharma Body, and severely injured the God of Calamitous Power’s origin.
• Chen Ning revealed that he had expected Yao Li to intervene because she had involved him and would not let her plan fail.
• Yao Li approached the defeated God of Calamitous Power to claim his fortune, while Chen Ning noticed that she had reached the God Realm with the help of the Divine Spark Fruit.

Chen Ning revealed that he had fought the God of Calamitous Power without entering the God Realm, while Yao Li seized the wounded god’s fortune. As Chen Ning began a natural breakthrough, he rejected choosing a single path for his Divine Spark and declared that he wanted them all.

• Chen Ning revealed that he had given his Divine Spark Fruit to Yao Li and had fought the God of Calamitous Power as a Half-God.
• Yao Li began seizing the God of Calamitous Power’s fortune, and Chen Ning pretended he might kill her before choosing to spare her.
• Chen Ning felt his body transform and realized that he was on the verge of advancing to the God Realm without a Divine Spark Fruit.
• Madam Spider and Lu Sisi sensed the power of Chen Ning’s breakthrough as his Primordial Qi began transforming into Divine Power.
• In his sea of consciousness, Chen Ning refused to choose a single ability or technique for his Divine Spark and declared that he wanted them all.

Chen Ning fused all his abilities into an unprecedented Divine Spark and ascended to the God Realm, then helped expose Great God White Brows’s schemes. Great God White Brows was punished with a hundred years of confinement, while Chen Ning’s standing in the Dragon-Tiger Realm became unshakable.

• Chen Ning endured the dangerous process of gathering and fusing all his abilities, formed a pure Divine Spark, and ascended to the God Realm.
• Yao Li finished absorbing the God of Calamitous Power’s fortune and discussed with Chen Ning when she would claim the favor he had promised her.
• Chen Ning returned to the Western Territory with Lu Sisi and gave the evidence to Yutian True God after explaining the matter to Qilin True God and Thunder God.
• Qilin True God, Thunder God, and Crimson Refinement True God jointly petitioned Yutian True God to investigate Great God White Brows.
• Great God White Brows blamed the dead God of Calamitous Power and accepted responsibility for his subordinate’s crimes, so Yutian True God confined him to Reflection Peak for a hundred years.

Chen Ning reunited with Chen Guan’s group, then visited Qi Yu before taking Zhao Xiuxiu to the Red-Haired God Fortress to demand his mother’s return. The Red-Haired God recognized Chen Ning and invited him inside to talk.

• Chen Ning rescued Chen Guan and the others, learned Lang Xiaoshan had killed the traitorous Han Ya, and agreed to visit Lu Sisi at Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Chen Guan’s group returned to Azure Cloud Mountain to rebuild the Willow God’s statue and spread faith in the Dragon-Tiger Realm.
• Chen Ning drank with Qi Yu on Unknowing Island and decided to help Zhao Xiuxiu recover his mother.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu arrived at the Red-Haired God Fortress, where Chen Ning stopped a guard with his divine might.
• The Red-Haired God recognized Chen Ning and invited him and Zhao Xiuxiu into the fortress.

Chen Ning confronted the Red-Haired God over Zhao Xiuxiu’s missing mother, but Yutian True God summoned him to the Land of Exile to kill the Blood Devil King and retrieve his Devil Core. There, Chen Ning found a bewildered Blood Devil and attacked him, prompting the man to charge.

• Chen Ning demanded the Red-Haired God release Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother, but the Red-Haired God denied knowing where she was.
• Chen Ning threatened to destroy the Red-Haired God Fortress, but Yutian True God contacted him and ordered him to kill the Blood Devil King before his weakened seal failed.
• Chen Ning left Zhao Xiuxiu in Mao Chunqiu’s care and hurried to the Land of Exile.
• Chen Ning sensed strong devilish intent and found a bewildered man with an ancient sword standing on a desolate mountain.
• Chen Ning identified the man as a possible Blood Devil and attacked with One Finger Destroys Demons and Evils, causing the man to charge at him.

Chen Ning fought the Blood Devil King but was stopped from killing him by Grandpa Liu, allowing the king to escape the Land of Exile. Grandpa Liu and his companions blamed Chen Ning for disrupting the king’s conversion and asked him to help bring the fugitive back.

• Chen Ning tested his new God Realm strength against the Blood Devil King, disarmed him with Heaven-Stealing Ghost Hand, and fought him in a berserk state.
• As Chen Ning moved to deliver a killing blow, Grandpa Liu intervened with a flash of immortal light and forced them apart.
• The Blood Devil King saw Grandpa Liu and fled, while Grandpa Liu accused Chen Ning of ruining his long effort to convert the king.
• A girl in a floral dress and her three companions arrived and reported that the Blood Devil King had likely escaped the Land of Exile.
• Grandpa Liu refused to let the group kill Chen Ning, saying they needed an outsider’s help, and the girl asked Chen Ning to atone by rendering service.

Chen Ning heard Old Liu’s alternative account of the Blood Devil Race’s curse and learned that the Blood Devil King’s transformation could free the entire race. Unable to decide which history was true, Chen Ning agreed to help find the Blood Devil King, leaving the question of the race’s fate unresolved.

• Chen Ning questioned Old Liu and the four Blood Devil Race members about transformation and the curse.
• Chen Ning recounted the accepted history in which Lingyu True God betrayed the other heroes and the dying devil god cursed Lingyu’s people.
• Old Liu offered a conflicting story in which a power-hungry hero framed and killed Lingyu True God, then said the Blood Devil Race could be saved through transformation.
• Old Liu explained that the Blood Devil King carried generations of hatred toward Yutian True God and Willow God, and that Chen Ning’s intervention had disrupted his near-complete transformation.
• Hua'er urged Chen Ning to believe Old Liu and join their search, while Old Liu asked whether Chen Ning would spare the Blood Devil Race if his story proved true.
• Chen Ning said he would verify the conflicting accounts later and went with them to find the Blood Devil King.

Chen Ning and Old Liu’s group pursued the Blood Devil King east to a quiet town, where Hua'er and the others experienced ordinary human life over a meal. The chapter left Chen Ning tense when Hua'er approached a woman whose finger had begun to bleed.

• Hua'er sensed that the Blood Devil King had gone east, so Chen Ning and Old Liu’s group set out to find him before his bloodthirsty power grew stronger.
• Old Liu explained that Hua'er and the others would retain their bloodthirsty side until the Blood Devil King completed his transformation, and he avoided revealing his own identity to Chen Ning.
• In a small town where Hua'er sensed the Blood Devil King’s presence, the four youths accepted roasted sweet potatoes from a woman and followed her into her home for a meal.
• The woman told them about her family while preparing food, then accidentally cut her finger with a knife.
• Hua'er rose and walked toward the bleeding woman, making Chen Ning tense as he watched her reaction.

Chen Ning and Old Liu brought Hua'er and the others to a woman's home, where the four hid their Blood Devil nature until a sudden attack exposed their fangs. After the frightened family rejected them, Chen Ning offered to help them find their elder brother and complete their transformation.

• Hua'er healed the woman's cut, and Old Liu explained that she had a good Root Bone, easing Chen Ning's worries that the four still craved blood.
• The woman invited Chen Ning, Old Liu, Hua'er, and the others to stay, but an Evil Wind Bat tore through her house and A Kui killed it.
• A Kui, Hua'er, Sikong, and Zhuxing revealed their Blood Devil features, frightening the woman and her son, who demanded that they leave.
• Hua'er cried over the town's prejudice, and Chen Ning told her and the others that he accepted them and would help them find their elder brother.
• Chen Ning, Old Liu, and the four split up to search the town for the Blood Devil King.