Chapter Summaries

The six God Emperors used the Heaven and Earth Devil-Slaying Grand Formation to destroy the Eternal Demon Emperor, even though the backlash threatened to kill them all. God Emperor White Robe sacrificed himself to save the other five, leaving Chen Ning and the survivors grieving as the realms witnessed their victory.

• The six God Emperors trapped the Eternal Demon Emperor in their formation and resisted his attempt to break free, declaring they were willing to die to fulfill the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s wish.
• People across the realms watched the battle in the sky, while Chen Ning and the returning experts in the Canglan Realm hoped the God Emperors would survive.
• The Eternal Demon Emperor launched a desperate counterattack, but God Emperor Canglan led the formation in engulfing and destroying him.
• God Emperor White Robe ordered the other five God Emperors to release their Divine Sparks, then absorbed them and bore the formation’s backlash himself.
• The other five God Emperors survived but lost their power, and they mourned God Emperor White Robe as Chen Ning wept in the Canglan Realm.

The Eternal Demon Emperor revealed that the Demon Emperor destroyed in the Devil-Slaying Grand Formation had been his clone, while he had remained hidden for millions of years. He revived the Heavenly Demon Legion and set out to conquer the God Realm, then appeared before the five Human Race God Emperors in the Devil-Sealing Land.

• The Eternal Demon Emperor told the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor that he had sacrificed ninety percent of his power to create the clone that the Heavenly Emperor had defeated.
• As the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor dissipated, he claimed there was still hope, but refused to reveal who could stop the Demon Emperor.
• The Demon Emperor destroyed the Heavenly Palace and summoned millions of heavenly demons, including the seven great demon commanders.
• The Demon Emperor ordered the Heavenly Demon Legion to conquer the God Realm and turned his attention to the five Human Race God Emperors.
• The five God Emperors sensed the immense Demonic Qi as the Demon Emperor emerged from a crack in the sky above the Devil-Sealing Land.

The Demon Emperor imprisoned the five God Emperors and sent the Heavenly Demon Legion to invade the God Realm, leaving its realms overwhelmed. In the Canglan Realm, Chen Ning confronted the Blood Demon God, and their powers collided in an ongoing battle.

• The Demon Emperor revealed that the slain Demon Emperor had been his clone and imprisoned the five God Emperors in a tower of darkness at the Devil-Sealing Land.
• The Heavenly Demon Legion attacked the five great emperor realms, enslaving much of the Outer Divine Domain and pushing the God Realm toward ruin.
• Chen Ning fought the Blood Demon God, who could detonate his enemies’ blood and grow stronger by absorbing it.
• Chen Ning used Divine Power to protect his blood and attacked with a torrent of power, while the Blood Demon God countered with Blood Shadow Annihilation.

Chen Ning defeated and refined the Blood Demon God, turning the battle for the Canglan Realm in the defenders’ favor. The Eternal Demon Emperor then appeared and attacked Chen Ning, whose strongest punch failed to stop the descending palm strike.

• Chen Ning used the Canglan Divine Intention to assimilate the Blood Demon God’s Blood Feast, then pulled the fleeing devil marshal back with Universe in the Sleeve and refined him.
• The Blood Demon God’s death weakened the heavenly devil army, allowing the Canglan Realm’s defenders to counterattack as its experts praised Chen Ning.
• The Eternal Demon Emperor arrived, asked Chen Ning whether he had obtained the Nine Heavens Divine Intention and Emperor Body, and identified him as a threat to eliminate.
• Chen Ning unleashed his strongest golden fist imprint against the Demon Emperor’s palm strike, but it failed to make an impact as the attack descended toward him.

The Demon Emperor’s palm strike failed to kill Chen Ning, who escaped using the Heaven-Veiling Divine Furnace, leaving the Demon Emperor worried about the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s prophecy. The Lion God King surrendered and agreed to hunt Chen Ning, then declared himself the new king of the Canglan Realm and ordered its God Kings to search.

• Chen Ning vanished after the Demon Emperor’s palm strike, and the Demon Emperor recognized the Heaven-Veiling Divine Furnace’s fragrance and feared Chen Ning had escaped.
• As the Heavenly Demon army overwhelmed Canglan’s forces, the Lion God King offered to surrender and promised to find Chen Ning.
• The Demon Emperor stopped the attack, ordered the Lion God King to kneel, and promised to make him a Demon Marshal if he captured Chen Ning.
• The Lion God King stopped the Vajra God King’s attack by claiming the other God Kings could help find Chen Ning, and the Demon Emperor left an army to assist and monitor him.
• The Vajra God King and other loyalists condemned the Lion God King, but he argued that surrender would save Canglan’s people and proclaimed himself the realm’s new king.
• The Lion God King ordered the God Kings to set out and search for Chen Ning.

After the Demon Emperor left Chen Ning paralyzed with fear, the winged demon army breached Unknowing Island, killing Yuan Xifeng and Master Geng before Yao Li helped drive them off. As Qi Yu buried his master, Chen Ning asked Yao Li to kill him and take his fortune so she could oppose the Demon Emperor.

• Yuan Xifeng ordered Unknowing Island's Divine Crystal cannons to repel the winged demons, but worried the island could not hold out against a stronger attack.
• Qi Yu failed to find a cure for Chen Ning's fear and went to seek help from Master Geng, while Yao Li stayed with Chen Ning.
• The winged demons shattered the Unknowing Pavilion, killed Yuan Xifeng, and overran the island's defenses.
• Chen Ning froze instead of resisting the demon arrows, and Master Geng shielded Qi Yu before dying from his wounds.
• Yao Li killed the winged demon commander and helped the island's defenders defeat the remaining attackers, while Qi Yu carried Master Geng's body to the pavilion ruins.
• Chen Ning asked Yao Li to kill him and take his fortune so she could stand against the Demon Emperor.

After burying Master Geng, Qi Yu and Hua Xiaodie faced a new Heavenly Demon attack on Unknowing Island, but the Lion God King stopped the demons from killing them while searching for Chen Ning. Meanwhile, demonic Qi gathered above the Vast Land, signaling that another calamity was approaching from the God Realm.

• Qi Yu mourned Master Geng and regretted the hurtful things he had said to Chen Ning while Hua Xiaodie comforted him.
• A Heavenly Demon army appeared on Unknowing Island, and an Upper God commander disarmed Qi Yu before turning on Hua Xiaodie.
• The Vajra God King protected Hua Xiaodie with an ancient bell, and the Lion God King argued that the demons should spare Chen Ning’s friends and stop attacking the Dragon-Tiger Realm.
• The one-eyed Demon King ordered the Winged Demon army to stop, while the Lion God King questioned Qi Yu and Hua Xiaodie about Chen Ning’s whereabouts and left them under guard.
• Demonic Qi gathered above the Vast Land, and the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden feared that another calamity was beginning.

Yao Li brought Chen Ning back to the Vast Land and reunited him with So Close Yet Worlds Apart, hoping their shared memories would help him overcome the Seed of Fear. Though the reunion comforted him, Chen Ning still struggled with his loss as the group took him to the City of Light.

• Yao Li brought Chen Ning to Brocade Zither City, where he reunited with Nalan Yao, Sui Qingshan, Old Man Yang, Xue Rang, Ding Erliang, Bai Ziyu, and Lü Xiaochuan.
• Yao Li told So Close Yet Worlds Apart that the Demon Emperor had planted a Seed of Fear in Chen Ning, and she hoped their memories together might help him recover.
• Chen Ning told the group that their founding patriarch had fallen while sacrificing himself for the God Realm, deeply saddening Lü Xiaochuan.
• The reunion gave Chen Ning some comfort, and Nalan Yao led him and the others toward the City of Light.
• Nalan Yao reminded Chen Ning that the people of the Vast Land honored him for saving them, but Chen Ning remembered what he had lost and still found it difficult to accept his condition.

Chen Ning returned to the City of Light, where the guards and cultivators welcomed him as a hero, and his companions used one of Ding Erliang’s stink bombs to clear a crowd. He reunited with Ji Hongyi, who invited him to stay with the Light God Clan, and Hua Luo ran toward him when she saw he had returned.

• The City of Light’s guards recognized Chen Ning and welcomed him reverently as he entered with Nalan Yao and the others.
• Cultivators crowded around Chen Ning with questions, so Ding Erliang used a stink bomb to drive them away.
• Chen Ning met Ji Hongyi beneath a peach tree, and she asked whether he would stay with the Light God Clan.
• Ji Hongyi led Chen Ning and the others into a garden and called to Hua Luo, who ran joyfully toward him.

Chen Ning reunited with Hua Luo, Little Black, and Emperor Yu in the Vast Land, finding comfort in the people who had missed him. Their warm welcome eased his unease, but memories of the Demon Emperor’s victory and the God Realm’s fall still weighed on him.

• Hua Luo embraced Chen Ning and told him she had missed him, while he reassured her that he had never stopped wanting to protect her.
• The Light Clan Leader teased Ji Hongyi about missing Chen Ning and offered to tell Emperor Yu that he had returned.
• Chen Ning called for Little Black, and the Progenitor Black Dragon arrived before shrinking down and affectionately rubbing against him.
• Emperor Yu hurried to Chen Ning, and the two were moved to tears as they reunited.
• The Light Clan Leader and Emperor Yu traded jokes, and Chen Ning smiled before recalling how the Demon Emperor had destroyed the God Realm and left him powerless.

God King Qingxuan joined the Demon Emperor’s forces and revealed that Chen Ning came from the Vast Land, leading the One-Eyed Demon King and the God Kings there. Chen Ning’s reunion with his friends was interrupted by the invading army, and as danger closed in, Hua Luo changed out of the dress Chen Ning had given her so it would not be stained.

• God King Qingxuan arrived in the Dragon-Tiger Realm and blocked the Vajra God King’s attack, then announced that he had found Chen Ning’s origin in the Vast Land.
• God King Qingxuan accused the Lion God King of secretly protecting the Dragon-Tiger Realm, but the Lion God King insisted on joining the hunt for Chen Ning.
• The One-Eyed Demon King agreed to travel to the Vast Land with God King Qingxuan and the Lion God King to capture Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning reunited with familiar friends in the Vast Land and celebrated with them at the Light God Clan.
• The One-Eyed Demon King, the Lion God King, God King Qingxuan, and their army appeared outside the Light God Clan, while Emperor Yu urged Yao Li to take Chen Ning away.
• Hua Luo changed out of the dress Chen Ning had given her, saying she did not want to get it dirty.

Chen Ning refused to flee from the Heavenly Demon army, choosing to fight beside his friends despite the Seed of Fear. As the Vast Land’s forces struggled against the invasion, the Lion God King revealed himself and challenged God King Qingxuan.

• Luo Wuxia, Li Changsheng, Luo Qingcheng, and the others prepared to face death, while Chen Ning grieved that they were risking their lives to protect him.
• Yao Li offered to help Chen Ning escape, but Chen Ning refused to abandon everyone, and Emperor Yu agreed to fight beside his disciple.
• The Heavenly Demon army charged, and Yao Li, Emperor Yu, the members of So Close Yet Worlds Apart, and the Little Black Dragon’s empowered allies fought back.
• Goddess Holy Radiance and the experts of the Vast Land’s God Clans arrived, but the One-Eyed Demon King and God King Qingxuan entered the battle.
• The Lion God King attacked with a sacred golden sound wave, then declared God King Qingxuan a traitor and vowed to kill him.

The Lion God King and the Canglan Realm experts defeated the heavenly demons and killed God King Qingxuan, while Chen Ning continued to feel the Seed of Fear. When Chen Ning accepted his fear instead of overcoming it, he found the courage to dodge the One-Eyed Demon King's attacks.

• The Lion God King and the Canglan Realm God Kings destroyed God King Qingxuan's Dharma Body, and the Lion God King obliterated his divine soul.
• The Lion God King explained his defection to Chen Ning and joined the Canglan Realm experts in wiping out most of the heavenly demons.
• The Lion God King and the others went to help Yao Li fight the One-Eyed Demon King, while Chen Ning remained unable to attack because of the Seed of Fear.
• The One-Eyed Demon King's enormous eyeball lunged at Chen Ning, but Chen Ning dodged it despite still trembling with fear.
• Yao Li explained that Chen Ning had accepted his fear rather than overcome it, allowing him to draw on his body's power and keep dodging the attacks.

After the One-Eyed Demon King died, Chen Ning became trapped in a chaotic vision and met the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor, whose true history contradicted the heroic legends. The Heavenly Emperor revealed the essence of the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body and entrusted Chen Ning with protecting the myriad realms.

• The Lion God King killed the fleeing One-Eyed Demon King, ending the immediate battle, while everyone remained afraid of the Demon Emperor.
• Hua Luo and Nalan Yao noticed Chen Ning standing motionless, and Yao Li could not explain what had happened to him.
• Chen Ning saw visions of the Heavenly Demon army’s devastation and of the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor surviving past battles through cunning and deception.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor explained that he had feared the Demon Emperor and had hidden his methods to preserve his heroic image.
• Chen Ning told the Heavenly Emperor that his survival and victory did not diminish his greatness, and the Emperor revealed that understanding the Tyrant Body’s true essence was key to mastering it.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor disappeared after asking Chen Ning to protect the myriad realms.

Chen Ning emerged from the Seed of Fear with the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body and God King Realm cultivation just as the Spider Demon God trapped the others. He freed them and turned the demon’s own spider silk against him, weaving a vast web over the Spider Demon God.

• Chen Ning remained vacant as Hua Luo and the others tried to comfort him, until the Spider Demon God appeared and revealed he had been tracking the Lion God King.
• The Lion God King ordered everyone to flee, but the Spider Demon God ensnared the group in spider cocoons and began draining their Essence Power and life force.
• The Spider Demon God nearly captured the Lion God King, but Chen Ning arrived, broke open the cocoons, and pushed the Lion God King out of danger.
• Chen Ning said he still feared the Demon Emperor but had mastered the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body and reached the God King Realm.
• The Spider Demon God attacked Chen Ning and threatened the others, but Chen Ning’s Shadows of Chaos seized the incoming silk and wove it into a huge web that fell over the Spider Demon God.

Chen Ning used fear and chaotic tactics to outmaneuver the Spider Demon God, wounding him while avoiding his attacks. When the Spider Demon God began draining the Vast Land’s World Origin to grow stronger, Chen Ning turned his spider demon silk into channels that sent the power back through his body, leaving the two flows balanced.

• Chen Ning slipped through the Spider Demon God’s attacks and used feints, sudden strikes, and spatial movement to wound him, eventually slicing off all eight spider legs.
• The Spider Demon God grew furious as Chen Ning continued attacking, while observers in the Vast Land marveled at Chen Ning’s changed fighting style.
• The Spider Demon God sent spider demon silk underground to drain the Vast Land’s Power of the World Origin, swelling his body and alarming the Lion God King.
• Chen Ning pulled strands of silk from the ground and stuck them into the Spider Demon God, redirecting the stolen power until the inflow and outflow reached a balance.

Chen Ning killed Spider Demon God and told the Lion God King they had to fight the Demon Emperor before he could attack the Vast Land. They joined forces with the God Alliance, and Chen Ning arrived at Heavenly Cauldron City in time to save the wounded Heavenly Saint God King and kill Corpse Demon God.

• Chen Ning defeated Spider Demon God by pulling out his spider silk, and Spider Demon God died after threatening that the Demon Emperor would avenge him.
• Chen Ning told the Lion God King they had no time to wait and revealed that he still had a trump card against the Demon Emperor.
• The Lion God King explained that the surviving Emperor Realms had formed the God Alliance and suggested they join forces against the Heavenly Demon Legion.
• The Heavenly Saint God King led the God Alliance to rescue the Shenji Realm’s people at Heavenly Cauldron City, but Corpse Demon God regenerated after losing his head and trapped him beneath a mountain of corpses.
• Chen Ning and the Canglan Realm’s experts arrived, and Chen Ning destroyed Corpse Demon God’s head and killed him.

Chen Ning merged with Yao Li’s True God Dharma Body, proved his Dao, and destroyed the Eternal Demon Emperor, saving the myriad realms. Ten years later, he lived peacefully in the Nine Provinces with his companions, though Yao Li’s voice returned to him at the end.

• Chen Ning used the Dao of Deception to imitate the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor and fight the Demon Emperor, but his borrowed Emperor Realm power gave out.
• Yao Li revealed that she was the True God Dharma Body and merged with Chen Ning, sacrificing her consciousness to give him power from the myriad realms.
• Chen Ning became a true emperor, shattered the Demon Emperor’s attack, and destroyed the Demon Emperor’s soul and the Heavenly Demon Legion.
• The five God Emperors praised Chen Ning, and the God Realm was rebuilt; ten years later, the five retired and entrusted its leadership to the Heavenly Saint God King, God King Invincible, and others.
• Chen Ning lived on Vermilion Bird Peak with his companions and discovered that his system had been a power of creation, then heard Yao Li’s voice in his mind.