Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe avoided the Wolf King’s manifestations so he could keep the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits alive and drain their resources, while the Demon God's Resentment tried to force him into a confrontation. The Wolf King began chasing Chu Xinghe, and Man Ben joined the pursuit, leaving everyone baffled by the strange hunt.

• Chu Xinghe refused Wu Beichen’s suggestion to investigate the first light and fled in the opposite direction, while the Demon God's Resentment wondered why he had run from the Wolf King’s manifestation.
• Man Ben found the Wolf King, set an ambush, and waited three days for Chu Xinghe, but Chu Xinghe never appeared.
• With time running out, the Demon God's Resentment sent the Wolf King flying away from Man Ben, then manifested again to draw Chu Xinghe toward it.
• Chu Xinghe continued fleeing from the Wolf King’s presence and Dharma Aspect, while the Demon God's Resentment chased him.
• Man Ben and the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits also pursued Chu Xinghe, bewildered that the Wolf King was chasing him instead of being difficult to find.

Chu Xinghe kept fleeing through the Spirit-Forbidden Realm while the Demon God's Resentment pursued him, and the Vast Heaven Holy Land desperately maintained the God-Controlling Formation despite its enormous cost. When the Demon God's Resentment finally emerged from the Wolf King's soul, Elder He interpreted Chu Xinghe’s running as a deliberate plan, though Chu Xinghe had only been trying to use up more resources; the Demon God's Resentment then decided to kill Chu Xinghe before time ran out.

• Chu Xinghe spent ten days running from the Wolf King and Man Ben’s Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits as his Misfortune Compass spun wildly.
• The Formation-Sealing Stone threatened to stop the God-Controlling Formation, so the Grand Elder asked White Tiger Holy Venerable to sustain it at immense cost.
• Running out of time, the Demon God's Resentment erupted from the Wolf King and filled the Spirit-Forbidden Realm with purple power.
• Elder He explained that the Demon God's Resentment had been hiding in the Wolf King's soul and claimed Chu Xinghe had run to force it out without harming the Wolf King.
• Wu Beichen marveled at Chu Xinghe’s supposed foresight, while Chu Xinghe wondered what the Demon God's Resentment was and admitted he had only wanted to consume more resources.
• The Demon God's Resentment chose Chu Xinghe as his target, deciding that all he wanted now was to kill him.

The Demon God's Resentment emerged from the Wolf King's soul as a colossal purple tide, threatening to kill Chu Xinghe and Wu Beichen inside the sealed Spirit-Forbidden Realm. Chu Xinghe revealed the Evil Repeller and split the tide apart with a single strike.

• The Demon God's Resentment filled the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, and Zheng Yu explained that Chu Xinghe had held back to force it out of the Wolf King's soul.
• The Demon God's Resentment advanced as a purple tide, pinning Wu Beichen down and leaving him unable to fight or escape.
• Wu Beichen urged Chu Xinghe to run as the tide reached them, but Chu Xinghe stepped in front of him.
• Chu Xinghe summoned the token-shaped divine sword called the Evil Repeller and enlarged it.
• Chu Xinghe swung the Evil Repeller and split the Demon God's Resentment's purple tide in two.

Chu Xinghe used Evil Repeller to split the Demon God's Resentment apart, nearly destroying it. The Resentment survived by possessing Man Ben and the other Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits, then resolved to use them to kill Chu Xinghe and seize his body.

• Chu Xinghe cleaved the Demon God's Resentment with vertical and horizontal strikes, cutting its purple tide into four pieces.
• The Demon God's Resentment reassembled with its body covered in cracks, realizing Evil Repeller could destroy its soul.
• The Demon God's Resentment abandoned its plan to possess the Wolf King and possessed Man Ben and the other Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits instead.
• The Demon God's Resentment strengthened the possessed Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and planned to use them to kill Chu Xinghe and seize his body.

Chu Xinghe unleashed his Phoenix Wings and slaughtered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits controlled by the Demon God's Resentment, racing to save the Wolf King's destabilizing soul. As the prodigies' soul lamps went out one after another on the Evil Shadow Continent, the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord was left stunned.

• The Demon God's Resentment took over Man Ben's body and controlled the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit prodigies, but Chu Xinghe realized he could not flee because the Wolf King's soul was becoming unstable.
• Chu Xinghe told Wu Beichen to guard the Wolf King's soul and unfurled his Phoenix Wings, revealing his strongest Body Cultivation state to spectators watching through the Haotian Mirror.
• Chu Xinghe charged into the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and reduced them to ash with each strike, using Phoenix Fire to destroy them before the Wolf King's soul collapsed.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord watched the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit prodigies' soul lamps go out one after another and wondered what was happening.

The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord watched the soul lamps of the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits turn red, then saw them go out in rapid succession as Chu Xinghe attacked inside the Spirit-Forbidden Realm. The lamps revealed that the Demon God's Resentment had possessed the prodigies and found the Spine of the Evil God in Man Ben’s possession.

• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord worried after five Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit soul lamps went out, then felt relieved when the remaining lamps stayed lit for days.
• All the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit soul lamps turned red, and the evil lords assumed the prodigies had gained a fortuitous opportunity or killed Chu Xinghe.
• Man Ben’s lamp turned a red so deep it looked black, which the White Spirit Evil Lord identified as Ninth Rank Great Perfection.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord celebrated Man Ben’s breakthrough, but the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit soul lamps began going out in rapid succession.
• Inside the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, Chu Xinghe went on a killing spree against the possessed Strength Barbarian Evil Spirit prodigies, while the Demon God's Resentment discovered the Spine of the Evil God in Man Ben’s body.

Chu Xinghe slaughtered the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm before clashing with the Demon God's Resentment, whose power Cheng Xiaotian explained exceeded a normal Ninth Rank. The chapter left Chu Xinghe and Man Ben facing off amid the stunned spectators.

• The Three Continents' prodigies and major figures watched Chu Xinghe use his speed and Phoenix-boosted Power of Qi and Blood to massacre the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits.
• Man Ben, transformed into the Demon God's Resentment, charged Chu Xinghe and met his punch with a blow of his own.
• Their collision sent a devastating shockwave across the battlefield, injuring Wu Beichen even though he was a kilometer away and causing him to flee with the Wolf King's soul.
• Zheng Yu worried about his own strength after seeing the shockwave, and Cheng Xiaotian explained that Man Ben wielded a Main God's power while Chu Xinghe's body and Phoenix Fire made him far stronger than an ordinary Ninth Rank.

Chu Xinghe fought the Demon God's Resentment in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, relying on his overwhelming strength and Phoenix Fire rather than competing with the ancient foe in technique. After repeated head-on clashes, Chu Xinghe broke the Demon God's Resentment's arm and smashed him into the earth, leaving the battle unresolved.

• People across the Three Continents watched through the Haotian Mirror as Chu Xinghe demonstrated his combat strength, while Wu Beichen fled the clashes' aftershocks with the Wolf King's soul.
• Chu Xinghe's first punch tore his sleeve and badly injured the Demon God's Resentment's arm, though the Demon God's Resentment grew eager to possess Chu Xinghe's body.
• Chu Xinghe charged again and chose to fight with brute force, and Elder He explained that Chu Xinghe was wisely avoiding a contest of skill against an ancient combat veteran.
• The Demon God's Resentment met Chu Xinghe head-on, and their repeated collisions sent devastating shockwaves through the Spirit-Forbidden Realm, killing Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits nearby.
• Phoenix Fire repaired Chu Xinghe's torn arms as he continued to trade blows with the Demon God's Resentment.
• Chu Xinghe broke the Demon God's Resentment's arm, struck his chest with enough force to shatter his bones, and blasted him underground.

Chu Xinghe battered the Demon God's Resentment, who had taken over Man Ben's body, into a mangled heap and proved he could defeat a Ninth Rank Great Perfection opponent through sheer force. The Demon God's Resentment survived thanks to the Spine of the Evil God, which began rebuilding his body and unleashed power beyond his previous limit.

• Chu Xinghe seized the initiative and broke the Demon God's Resentment's bones before pounding him into the earth and reducing his body to a mangled heap.
• Elder He explained that the Demon God's Resentment had forcibly raised Man Ben's body to Ninth Rank Great Perfection, a state believed to be invincible at that level.
• White Tiger Holy Venerable noticed that the Formation-Sealing Stone's power remained, revealing that the Demon God's Resentment was still alive.
• The Spine of the Evil God emerged above the Demon God's Resentment and gathered the scattered pieces of Man Ben's body.
• The Demon God's Resentment declared that the Spine of the Evil God had activated its power to protect its master, and the re-forming monster surpassed its former Ninth Rank Great Perfection strength.

Demon God's Resentment reassembled Man Ben's body and activated the Spine of the Evil God, gaining a two-hundred-percent power boost that left Chu Xinghe facing an apparently hopeless battle. With Wolf King's soul close to collapsing and everyone urging him to flee, Chu Xinghe stood his ground as Demon God's Resentment attacked, then moved to deliver a punch he called “Basic Attack.”

• Demon God's Resentment used the Spine of the Evil God to reassemble Man Ben and boost his Ninth Rank Great Perfection power by two hundred percent.
• The people watching across the Three Continents feared the boosted Demon God's Resentment could kill Chu Xinghe before the Spine's power wore off.
• Wu Beichen warned Chu Xinghe that Wolf King's soul was close to collapsing, while the grand elder, Zheng Yu, and Ma Liang urged him to flee and survive.
• Chu Xinghe remained motionless instead of abandoning Wolf King and Wu Beichen, and Demon God's Resentment rushed in to kill him.
• As Demon God's Resentment's power enveloped him, Chu Xinghe moved and announced that his punch was called “Basic Attack.”

Chu Xinghe destroyed the Demon God's Resentment and Man Ben's body with a single punch he called a basic attack, then used Evil Repeller to shatter the Resentment's soul. The Demon God's Resentment turned into countless rays of light and entered the Spine of the Evil God.

• The Demon God's Resentment attacked Chu Xinghe with power boosted by two hundred percent, but Chu Xinghe stayed his ground and punched it with his Basic Attack.
• Chu Xinghe's punch shattered the Demon God's Resentment's attack and reduced Man Ben's body to dust, leaving the Resentment without a vessel.
• Chu Xinghe revealed that he had used the Power of Fortune and the Power of Misfortune at full strength, which left him severely weakened.
• The Demon God's Resentment asked Chu Xinghe how he had done it, and Chu Xinghe claimed the Basic Attack had landed a critical hit by accident.
• Chu Xinghe stabbed the Demon God's Resentment with Evil Repeller, shattering its soul, but the fragments of light entered the Spine of the Evil God.

Chu Xinghe defeated the Demon God's Resentment, but its remaining power gathered in the Spine of the Evil God, which Wu Beichen took. As the Spirit-Forbidden Realm collapsed, Chu Xinghe escaped with Wu Beichen and the Wolf King's soul, while the Three Continents marveled at his strength and wondered how far ahead he was.

• Evil Repeller shattered the Demon God's Resentment, whose power flowed into the Spine of the Evil God and broke the Formation-Sealing Stone.
• Wu Beichen picked up the Spine of the Evil God, realizing it contained power that could let someone inherit the Demon God's Resentment's strength.
• The Spirit-Forbidden Realm began to collapse, so Chu Xinghe grabbed Wu Beichen and the Wolf King's soul and escaped through the reversed God-Controlling Formation.
• The Spirit-Forbidden Realm vanished, and Vast Heaven Holy Land celebrated Chu Xinghe's return.
• People across the Three Continents discussed Chu Xinghe's basic attack punch and wondered how many levels ahead he was.

After Chu Xinghe’s overwhelming punch silenced challengers across the Three Continents, he returned the Wolf King’s soul to his body and helped restore the Demon God’s inheritance. The Wolf King survived his lightning tribulation, reached Half-Step Main God, and was recognized across Demon Star Continent as its new Demon God.

• Chu Xinghe’s basic-attack punch convinced the young heaven’s chosen across the Three Continents that they needed to reach Great Perfection before challenging him.
• Chu Xinghe returned the Wolf King’s soul to his body, allowing the Demon God’s Arm Bone to fuse with him and release its inheritance.
• The Wolf King’s breakthrough summoned a lightning tribulation over the Vast Heaven Holy Land, and the Grand Elder ordered everyone away from the grounds.
• The Wolf King transformed into a four-armed werewolf and shattered the golden lightning before reaching Half-Step Main God.
• The Demon Race watched the Wolf King’s breakthrough through the Haotian Mirror, prostrated themselves, and accepted him as their new Demon God.

The Wolf King reached the Half-Step Main God realm and publicly honored Chu Xinghe, while Chu Xinghe worried about the Spine of the Evil God in Wu Beichen’s hands. After the spine’s incomplete ownership imprint was identified, Wu Erke broke it open, and something shocking happened.

• The Wolf King ascended as the new god of the Demon Star Continent, bowed to Chu Xinghe, and thanked him for making his rise possible.
• Chu Xinghe noticed that his Misfortune Compass was still spinning and wondered why the Spine of the Evil God had not caused a reversal.
• Elder He examined the spine, and Wu Man determined that its ownership imprint could not be removed because only three of its nine segments were present.
• The Great Elder summoned Wu Erke, who used the Power of Void to forcibly break the spine’s ownership imprint.
• Something shocked everyone after Wu Erke opened the spine.

Wu Erke repeatedly tried to remove the binding contracts from the Spine of the Evil God, but they kept returning because the primary body on the Evil Shadow Continent controlled its secondary sections. Vast Heaven Holy Land realized it could not use the captured relics or extract the Demon God's Resentment, leaving Chu Xinghe delighted that the treasure could not derail his plans.

• Wu Erke used his Power of Void to devour the binding contract on the Spine of the Evil God, but the contract instantly returned.
• Chu Xinghe checked his still-spinning Misfortune Compass and realized the pure power could not be extracted.
• Elder He explained that the Spine of the Evil God had one primary body and eight secondary parts, and the primary body controlled the contracts on the others.
• The Holy Mother of Wujiang produced an ancient manual that confirmed Elder He's explanation and showed that the secondary parts could not be used without the primary body.
• The Grand Elder learned that Vast Heaven Holy Land had no way to extract the Demon God's Resentment, while Chu Xinghe celebrated the setback as a victory for himself.

Chu Xinghe took possession of the Spine of the Evil God and hid it in his storage ring, while the Wolf King’s Half-Step Main God banquet celebrated his rising authority and gratitude to the Holy One. The chapter ended with the Wolf King learning that the Ning Clan faced a crisis severe enough to threaten its survival.

• Chu Xinghe persuaded the Grand Elder to let him keep the Spine of the Evil God by claiming his Star Divination Art had revealed some clues, then sealed it in his storage ring.
• The Vast Heaven Holy Land held a grand banquet for the Wolf King’s breakthrough, and factions across the Three Continents sought cooperation with him.
• The Wolf King’s new strength made him the undisputed authority of the Demon Star Continent, while factions that had once rejected him rushed to make amends.
• The Wolf King remembered how the Holy One had risked his life to help him reach the Half-Step Main God realm and resolved to repay that kindness.
• The Wolf King noticed Clan Head Ning was absent, and the Hua, Cui, and Ming clan heads told him the Ning Clan was in serious trouble.

At the Wolf King's banquet, Clan Head Hua explained that the Ning Clan was on the verge of collapse after the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring became a burning domain surrounding the Flame Dunjia Heavenly Book. Chu Xinghe recognized the flame world as a resource-draining dungeon but resolved to wait rather than rush in.

• The grand elder learned that the Ning Clan had received its invitation, and Clan Head Hua revealed that the clan was facing a crisis severe enough to threaten its place among the Four Great Clans.
• Clan Head Hua explained that a red glow appeared beneath the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring, killing investigators before the spring caught fire and revealed the Flame Dunjia Heavenly Book.
• Clan Head Ning led Ning Clan experts into the book's flame world, where only fire power worked and outside spiritual power could not be absorbed; the attempt left him gravely injured and killed three elders and many elites.
• The Ning Clan borrowed resources from the other three clans and tried again, but failed to reach the book, exhausted its supplies, and left its members guarding the burning spring with no way forward.
• Chu Xinghe recognized the flame world as a pay-to-play dungeon suited to him, but decided to wait and avoid entering if it contained resources.

Chu Xinghe cautiously avoided rushing into the Ning Clan’s Land of Flames, while the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord waged war on the Witch Curse Evil Spirits over the deaths of his young prodigies. Facing defeat and abandonment by the other Evil Spirit branches, the Witch Curse Evil Lord threatened to surrender to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and reveal how to restore the Four Continents and break their barrier.

• Chu Xinghe decided to wait until he knew the Land of Flames held no resources before making a move.
• Clan Head Hua explained that the Ning Clan could not attend because it was overwhelmed by the Land of Flames and the search for the Dunjia Fire Book.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord attacked the Witch Curse Evil Spirits, blaming them for the deaths of the Strength Barbarian prodigies in the Spirit-Forbidden Realm.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord blamed Man Ben and his companions for being tools rather than worthy opponents for Chu Xinghe, and the two branches continued their all-out war.
• The Heavenly Secrets Evil Lord and other branches refused to help, hoping to benefit after the fighting weakened both sides.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord threatened to surrender to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and reveal how to return the Four Continents to their places and break the Four Continents Barrier.

The evil lords halted the fighting between the Strength Barbarian Evil Spirits and the Witch Curse Evil Spirits, and the Witch Curse Evil Lord proposed recovering the lost Spine of the Evil God sections as compensation. He offered to transport the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord near the Vast Heaven Holy Land so he could recall the sections and claim the Demon God's Resentment power inside them.

• The White Spirit Evil Lord and the other evil lords halted the two branches' fighting after the Witch Curse Evil Lord threatened to join the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord demanded redress for the deaths of his branch's young prodigies, whose loss could not be compensated with ordinary resources.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord pointed out that the three lost sections of the Spine of the Evil God contained pure Demon God's Resentment power that could advance the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord's cultivation.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord explained that the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord could recall the lost sections through the relic's main body if he came within ten thousand li of them.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord offered to use the Skull of the Evil God to send the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord near the Vast Heaven Holy Land for a quarter of an hour, replacing his anger with desire for the trapped power.

The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord agreed to use the Skull of the Evil God to recover the Spine of the Evil God and claim the Demon God's Resentment's pure power. Despite the threat of the supreme expert who killed the Nightmare Evil Lord, the other Evil Lords offered defensive treasures to help ensure the power returned.

• The Witch Curse Evil Lord proposed using the Skull of the Evil God to send the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord across the Four Continents Barrier for a quarter of an hour while he summoned the stolen spine segments.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord chose the chance to obtain the Demon God's Resentment's pure power despite his division's losses.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord warned that the Strength Barbarian Evil Lord had to remain within the shattered domain and accepted no responsibility for attacks during his stay.
• The Evil Lords recognized that the supreme expert who killed the Nightmare Evil Lord could threaten the mission.
• The Strength Barbarian Evil Lord agreed to proceed, requested a landing near the ten-thousand-li summoning limit, and planned to conceal his presence and carry defensive treasures.
• The White Spirit Evil Lord and other Evil Lords offered their divisions' defensive supreme treasures because they wanted the Demon God's Resentment's pure power brought back.