Chapter Summaries

Chen Ning returned to Heavenly Lake Holy Land and declared that the Nine Provinces would be free of cultivation bottlenecks and Beyond the Heavens’ control. In You Province, he learned that Xiao Mei had gone north to meet the Yellow Springs Saint, who had approached her with a proposal.

• The Heavenly Lake Holy Lord used the lake water to purify lands corrupted by the now-inert Demonic Slurry, while leaders from the Nine Provinces’ superpowers gathered to meet Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning told the gathered leaders that the Nine Provinces’ people would control their own destiny, and they acclaimed him as the force behind the provinces’ rise.
• Chen Ning traveled to You Province and entered the Devil Palace, where the Heartless Devil King and the Devil Race experts knelt before him.
• Chen Ning demanded to know where Xiao Mei was, and the Heartless Devil King explained that she had gone north to meet someone mysterious.
• On a northern devil mountain, Xiao Mei met the Yellow Springs Saint, who said he knew she could not refuse his proposal.

Yellow Springs Saint lured Xiao Mei into a meeting by claiming he could stop the Demonic Slurry, then demanded the Devil Race’s sacred relic and tried to make her betray Wangyou Saint. When Xiao Mei refused and attempted to escape, he trapped her in a restriction formation, leaving her lost and in danger as her Devil God presence began to fade.

• Yellow Springs Saint asked Xiao Mei for the Ring of Calamity in exchange for a way to deal with the Demonic Slurry, and she showed him the relic.
• Yellow Springs Saint demanded that Xiao Mei lure Wangyou Saint to him, but Xiao Mei refused and tried to leave.
• Yellow Springs Saint attacked Xiao Mei with Saint pressure and revealed that he had invented the promised cure to steal the sacred relic.
• Xiao Mei crushed Chen Ning’s life-saving trump card, releasing a Devil God presence that suppressed Yellow Springs Saint.
• Xiao Mei fled toward Eternal Night Devil City but became lost in Yellow Springs Saint’s restriction formation as her protection began to weaken.

Chen Ning rescued Xiao Mei from the Yellow Springs Saint after she struck him down with the Demonic Moon Slash, then destroyed his escaping soul to avenge old and new grievances. After spending the night with Xiao Mei, Chen Ning left the Nine Provinces to return to the Vast Land, having quelled the Demonic Slurry threat.

• With the Devil God's presence expired and the sealing formation trapping her, Xiao Mei attacked the Yellow Springs Saint with the Demonic Moon Slash and cleaved him in two.
• Chen Ning arrived, broke the formation, and comforted Xiao Mei as the Yellow Springs Saint tried to flee as a wisp of his soul.
• Chen Ning seized and crushed the Yellow Springs Saint's soul, avenging his betrayal and his attempt to harm Xiao Mei.
• Xiao Mei invited Chen Ning to the Eternal Night Devil City, but he said he had to return to the Vast Land and relay the White Dragon King's intentions and help the Little Black Dragon take power.
• Xiao Mei and Chen Ning spent the night together on the devil mountain, and she saw him off the following morning.
• Chen Ning departed for the Vast Land after resolving the Demonic Slurry threat and restoring peace to the Nine Provinces.

The Purple Dragon King challenged the Blue Dragon King over who should assist the Primogenitor in leading the Dragon Clan. Their duel erupted over the Worry-Free Sea, where the Purple Dragon King gained an early advantage, but both kings transformed and resumed the fight.

• The Blue Dragon King claimed he should assist the Primogenitor because he was the strongest, but the Purple Dragon King challenged him to prove that claim.
• The Dragon Clan experts gathered over the Worry-Free Sea to watch the two Dragon Kings duel, while Chen Ning watched from the Little Black Dragon's back.
• The Purple Dragon King overpowered the Blue Dragon King in their clash of draconic might, then used a feint to strike him from behind and injure him.
• The Blue Dragon King transformed into a gigantic blue dragon wielding water, fire, and lightning, and the Purple Dragon King transformed to wield the Power of Space.
• The two dragon kings clashed again above the Worry-Free Sea as the battle intensified.

The Purple Dragon King defeated the Blue Dragon King, shifting the Dragon Clan’s balance of power and securing Little Black Dragon’s rise as Supreme. After accepting Heavenly Venerable Yifeng’s enhancement to regain his standing, the Blue Dragon King learned that earlier recipients had lost control and become violent.

• The Purple Dragon King defeated the Blue Dragon King in a fierce battle over the Worry-Free Sea, and Little Black Dragon became Supreme of the Dragon Clan.
• The Red Dragon King and Heavenly Venerable Yifeng persuaded the Blue Dragon King to accept the enhancement, and Yifeng raised his cultivation to the Late Stage of Saint Venerable.
• The Red Dragon King proposed secretly taking the Dragon Clan’s Dragon Pearl for Heavenly Venerable Yifeng, but the Blue Dragon King refused to agree immediately.
• A Dragon Clan expert warned the Blue Dragon King that the earliest enhancement recipients had lost control and were attacking their own kind.
• The Blue Dragon King saw an enhanced subordinate transformed with dragon claws and scales, and heard that the affected clan members seemed to have become battle-craving monsters.

The Blue Dragon King learned that the strengthening secret technique made Dragon Clan members lose their reason unless they consumed their own kind, but the Red Dragon King pressured him into helping steal the Dragon Pearl for Heavenly Venerable Yifeng. They opened the cave abode, then fled inside when the Golden Dragon King attacked, sealing the entrance as the Purple Dragon King, Chen Ning, and other experts arrived.

• The Blue Dragon King discovered that several strengthened Dragon Clan members had lost their reason, and the Red Dragon King explained that consuming their own kind could delay the effect.
• The Red Dragon King persuaded the Blue Dragon King to help take the Dragon Pearl and trade it to Heavenly Venerable Yifeng for more strengthening, despite the Blue Dragon King's objections.
• The Blue Dragon King and the Red Dragon King used their methods to open the Dragon God's cave abode, while Heavenly Venerable Yifeng eagerly watched.
• The Golden Dragon King attacked the three as they approached the entrance, accusing them of killing their own kind and targeting the Dragon Pearl.
• The Red Dragon King sealed the cave abode's entrance after the three retreated inside, and the Golden Dragon King was joined outside by the Purple Dragon King, Chen Ning, and Dragon Clan experts.

The Blue Dragon King turned against the Red Dragon King after Chen Ning reminded him of the White Dragon King’s last wish, and the Dragon Kings defeated the traitor. With the enhancement Secret Method’s cost still unknown, the Blue Dragon King asked the others to kill him before he could become a mindless monster.

• The Red Dragon King persuaded the Blue Dragon King to let Heavenly Venerable Yifeng retrieve the Dragon Pearl from the cave abode.
• Chen Ning reminded the Blue Dragon King that the White Dragon King had trusted him to protect the Dragon Clan, and the Blue Dragon King secretly wounded Heavenly Venerable Yifeng and opened the formation.
• The Golden Dragon King and Purple Dragon King entered the cave abode and joined the Blue Dragon King in fighting the Red Dragon King.
• The Golden Dragon King pierced the Red Dragon King with his claw, while Chen Ning captured the mortally wounded Heavenly Venerable Yifeng in the Heaven-Swallowing Bag.
• The Blue Dragon King asked the Golden Dragon King and Purple Dragon King to kill him rather than let him become a mindless monster.

Chen Ning saved the Blue Dragon King from the enhancement Secret Method and united the three Dragon Kings. He then led the Dragon Clan to the Darkness God Clan’s territory, where the clan demanded an explanation for their arrival.

• The Blue Dragon King prepared to kill himself, but Chen Ning stopped him and offered to save him.
• Chen Ning used the Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning to remove the enhancement Secret Method from the Blue Dragon King, restoring him to his former strength.
• The Blue Dragon King agreed to gather his subordinates so Chen Ning could undo the enhancement for them as well.
• Chen Ning set out to confront the Darkness God Clan, leading the Golden Dragon King, the Blue Dragon King, and more than a hundred dragons into its territory.
• A high-ranking elder of the Darkness God Clan challenged the Dragon Clan’s forceful arrival and demanded an explanation.

Chen Ning and the Dragon Clan launched a devastating assault on the Darkness God Clan over its attack on the Nine Provinces Realm. The Darkness God Clan Leader arrived to confront them, but Chen Ning rejected his claim that the disaster had been a misunderstanding.

• The Blue Dragon King accused the Darkness God Clan of causing the Nine Provinces Realm’s calamity, and the Golden Dragon King demanded they fight.
• Chen Ning declared that the Darkness God Clan would be destroyed, then signaled the Dragon Clan experts to attack.
• The Golden Dragon King and Blue Dragon King led the assault, crushing the Darkness God Clan’s elders and breaking their attempt to form an array.
• The Darkness God Clan Leader arrived on a black boat and tried to discuss the Nine Provinces Realm’s disaster with Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning rejected the Darkness God Clan Leader’s claim of a misunderstanding, and the leader warned that the Dragon Clan would face calamity if it continued attacking.

Chu Tianji held off the Dragon Clan’s Saint Venerables while the Darkness God Clan mounted a counterattack, but Chen Ning entered the battle and devastated its formations and elders. The Darkness God Clan’s chief elder then attacked Chen Ning as its defenses neared collapse.

• Chu Tianji warned the Blue Dragon King and Golden Dragon King that attacking the Darkness God Clan would bring calamity upon the Dragon Clan, but the two kings attacked him anyway.
• Chu Tianji repelled the dragon kings and several Dragon Clan Saint Venerables, giving the Darkness God Clan time to activate killing formations and counterattack.
• Chen Ning charged into the battlefield and shattered numerous killing formations with his sword force.
• Chen Ning used his Capital Punishment Sin Stele techniques to kill Darkness God Clan Saint Emperor elders, terrifying the clan and its watching enemies.
• The Darkness God Clan’s chief elder attacked Chen Ning after his assault brought the clan’s defenses close to collapse.

Chen Ning killed the Darkness God Clan's grand elder, but Chu Tianji used the old sect master as a hostage to halt the Dragon Clan's attack. Qingxuzi of the Kunlun God Clan arrived and accused Chu Tianji of secretly taking the true Gods and Devils' Evil Thought back to the Vast Land.

• Chen Ning shattered the Darkness God Clan's grand elder's Shadow Domain with the Ruyi Jingu Bang and killed him with one strike.
• As Chu Tianji's battle with the Dragon Clan's Saint Venerables wore on, he threatened Chen Ning with the old sect master's life and demanded that the Dragon Clan withdraw.
• Chen Ning agreed to negotiate for the old sect master's release, while the Golden Dragon King and the other Dragon Clan experts stopped fighting and surrounded Chu Tianji.
• Qingxuzi arrived and confronted Chu Tianji over the Darkness God Clan's actions in the Heaven of Profound Understanding.
• Qingxuzi revealed that the evil thought returned to the Moon God Clan was a decoy and accused Chu Tianji of secretly taking the true Gods and Devils' Evil Thought back to the Vast Land.

Qingxuzi exposed Chu Tianji’s plot, and the Kunlun Clan Leader revealed that he had rescued the old sect leader and seized the Gods and Devils’ Evil Thought. With Chu Tianji captured and the Darkness God Clan destroyed, Chen Ning carried the weakened old sect leader away to recover.

• Qingxuzi confronted Chu Tianji and demanded his surrender, while Chu Tianji tried to bargain with Chen Ning by threatening the old sect leader.
• The Kunlun Clan Leader emerged from the Darkness Temple with the old sect leader, causing Chu Tianji to give up without resisting.
• Qingxuzi sealed Chu Tianji’s cultivation and took him away for interrogation, while Chu Tianji warned Chen Ning that he was also the Kunlun Clan Leader’s pawn.
• The Kunlun Clan Leader told Chen Ning that the Darkness God Clan would be struck from the rolls of the Vast Land and departed with the Gods and Devils’ Evil Thought.
• Chen Ning gave the old sect leader a pill and carried him toward the Light God Clan, where the old man thanked him for his efforts.

After the Darkness God Clan fell, Chen Ning rescued Yellow Dragon and escorted the old sect master back to the Nine Provinces Realm before setting out alone for the Vast Land. A cosmic current damaged his ship and sent him crashing into a strange, primitive world filled with ancient beasts.

• The Vast Land remained peaceful after the Darkness God Clan's destruction, and Chen Ning rested in the Light God Clan while rescuing Yellow Dragon with his power over time.
• The old sect master asked to return to the Nine Provinces Realm, and Chen Ning agreed to escort him there.
• Chen Ning left the Nine Provinces Realm without meeting his old friends or the women in his life and headed back toward the Vast Land alone.
• Chen Ning lost his bearings in the universe and found a small world where he expected the Vast Land to be.
• A turbulent current of space and time damaged the Other Shore Immortal Ship and forced Chen Ning to descend into the strange world, where he found a wild landscape inhabited by ancient beasts.

Chen Ning returned from a hidden primeval world to find the Vast Land in upheaval, with its seasons and day-night cycle disrupted and the God Clans cut off from their gods. He joined the Light Clan Leader at a gathering on Kunlun Immortal Mountain, where the clan leaders began discussing the crisis and noticed that the Kunlun and Mysterious Nether Clan Leaders were absent.

• Chen Ning explored a hidden primeval world, found a palace containing a statue of the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden, repaired the Other Shore Immortal Ship, and returned to the Vast Land.
• Nalan Yao told Chen Ning that the Vast Land’s seasons and day-night cycle were in disarray and that even the Snow God Clan’s frozen mountains were melting.
• The Light Clan Leader told Chen Ning that every God Clan had lost contact with its gods and invited him to discuss the crisis with the Kunlun God Clan.
• Chen Ning and the Light Clan Leader joined the other God Clan leaders at Little Ultimate Peak on Kunlun Immortal Mountain.
• The Light Clan Leader began the discussion and asked why the Kunlun Clan Leader and Mysterious Nether Clan Leader were absent.

The Profound Nether Clan Leader revealed that he had caused the upheaval in the Vast Land, captured Li Yuanqing, and reached the Demigod Realm. The clan leaders gathered on Little Ultimate Peak considered how to stop him, but the Vast Land’s migration and his growing influence left their next move uncertain.

• Qingxuzi announced that the Kunlun Clan Leader was missing, and the clan leaders saw the Profound Nether Clan Leader’s message in the clouds.
• The Profound Nether Clan Leader admitted responsibility for the upheaval, showed Li Yuanqing trapped in a formation, and revealed that he had reached the Demigod Realm.
• The Profound Nether Clan Leader declared that he intended to break away from the gods and urged the other clans to join him or oppose him.
• Chen Ning and the clan leaders discussed the threat, with the Light Clan Leader proposing a united attack and Qingxuzi outlining two possible ways to resolve the crisis.
• Qingxuzi said they could either kill the Profound Nether Clan Leader early or stop the Vast Land’s migration, though stopping it seemed nearly impossible.

Chen Ning proposed that the God Clans submit to the Profound Nether God Clan as a strategy to discover how to reverse the Vast Land’s migration. As the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader rallied his new allies, the story left the God Clans divided and the Vast Land in chaos.

• Chen Ning suggested joining the Profound Nether God Clan to seek the means of moving the Vast Land back, and Qingxuzi persuaded the War God Clan Leader to hear him out.
• Chen Ning arranged for some God Clans to submit while others remained opposed, including the Kunlun God Clan, the Moon God Clan, and the Light God Clan.
• The Fate God Clan, War God Clan, and Death God Clan publicly allied themselves with the Profound Nether God Clan as disasters and unrest spread across the Vast Land.
• At a banquet, the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader praised the submitting clans and asked for their support in moving the Vast Land to a new position.

The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader began the Vast Land’s migration early and sought the other God Clans’ power to sustain the array. As the land suffered through a month of chaos, the undercover leaders of the Death, Fate, and War God Clans watched the array, leaving the plan to stop the migration and rescue the Kunlun Clan Leader still uncertain.

• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader revealed that he needed the God Clans’ foundations to power the Vast Land’s migration, and the War, Fate, and Death God Clan Leaders agreed to support him, believing it would shorten the suffering.
• Chen Ning received Qingxuzi’s report that the migration array required enormous power supplied by the God Clans, and he and the Light Clan Leader recognized that the undercover leaders might reach the array’s core and reverse the migration.
• Chen Ning’s allies planned to rescue the Kunlun Clan Leader and unite their strength against the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, setting aside their past grudges for the crisis.
• A month of celestial chaos and disasters brought fear and suffering across the Vast Land, while evil forces such as the Hall of Ten Evils exploited the upheaval and supplied treasures to the Profound Nether God Clan.
• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader watched the array draw in a vast flow of power as the Death, Fate, and War God Clan Leaders stood silently behind him.

The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader exposed the Death God Clan Leader’s attempt to decipher the relocation formation and killed him after a clash. He warned the Fate God and War God Clan Leaders against resisting him, then installed Ren Ziru as the new Death God Clan Leader.

• The Fate God Clan Leader worried that the Vast Land’s people could not endure another three months of turmoil, but the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader insisted the relocation plan had to proceed carefully.
• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader accused the Death God Clan Leader of secretly trying to seize control of the formation and showed evidence from a Communication Spirit Stone used to contact Qingxuzi.
• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader attacked and killed the Death God Clan Leader after demanding that he name any accomplices.
• The Fate God Clan Leader and War God Clan Leader did not intervene, and the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader warned them that he would slaughter their clans if they secretly resisted him.
• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader named Ren Ziru, who had betrayed the former leader, as the new Death God Clan Leader.

The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader ordered the War God, Fate God, and Death God Clans to seize the Dragon Clan’s Dragon Pearl, even if it meant war. Their allied army attacked the Dragon Clan, and although Ren Ziru threatened the other clan leaders into joining the battle, their strange smiles suggested they had a plan of their own.

• Ren Ziru pledged loyalty to the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, who ordered the three clans to attack the Dragon Clan and bring him its Dragon Pearl.
• The Fate God Clan Leader warned that attacking the Dragon Clan could draw in its allies and disrupt the great migration plan, but the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader threatened to fight personally if necessary.
• Thousands of void warships arrived at Dragon Clan territory, and the Fate God Clan Leader claimed the army had come to borrow the Dragon Clan’s supreme treasure.
• Ren Ziru ordered the allied forces to destroy the Dragon Clan, and the three clans’ army attacked as the Dragon Clan fought back.
• Ren Ziru pressured Clan Leader Ning and Clan Leader Wang to join the battle, while the Fate God Clan Leader and War God Clan Leader exchanged strange smiles as they charged in.

Chen Ning killed Ren Ziru during the siege of Dragon Clan territory, then Emperor Yu’s Rogue Cultivator forces arrived and helped drive back the three-clan allied army. At the Profound Nether God Clan’s headquarters, the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader berated the Fate God Clan Leader and the War God Clan Leader, who offered to help activate the great array.

• Chen Ning attacked and killed Ren Ziru with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, five-element divine lightning, and sword Qi.
• Emperor Yu led Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water into the battle, with Li Xuanjun among the reinforcements.
• The Fate God Clan Leader ordered the three-clan allied army to retreat after the Rogue Cultivators joined the fight.
• Emperor Yu asked Chen Ning whether they had fooled the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, and Chen Ning said their plan had one final step before the decisive battle.
• At the Profound Nether God Clan’s headquarters, the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader scolded the Fate God Clan Leader and the War God Clan Leader for failing to seize the Dragon Pearl.
• The Fate God Clan Leader offered to help the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader by learning to activate the great array.