Chapter Summaries

Venerable Silver Jade persuaded Blood Vajra Pang Heng to seize Xiang Prefecture by claiming Chen Yan was likely dead and promising support against their rival, Blood Old Demon. Pang Heng set out expecting to take the prefecture, while both men privately planned to betray each other and claim the Netherworld Realm for themselves.

• Venerable Silver Jade told Blood Vajra Pang Heng that Xiang Prefecture was unclaimed after Chen Yan vanished and was presumed dead.
• Pang Heng worried that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion might intervene, but Venerable Silver Jade argued it would remain neutral and promised to support him.
• Pang Heng agreed to seize Xiang Prefecture alone, intending to kill Venerable Silver Jade after they defeated Blood Old Demon.
• Venerable Silver Jade watched Pang Heng leave and privately resolved to eliminate Blood Old Demon before finding a way to kill Pang Heng and claim the Netherworld Realm.

Blood Vajra Pang Heng arrived at Mount Lao and attacked it to claim Xiang Prefecture, while Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada tried to summon help. The chapter left Pang Heng offering to spare Wang Lingguan if he submitted.

• Pang Heng surveyed Mount Lao and decided its spiritual resources made Xiang Prefecture a suitable territory for him.
• Pang Heng revealed his Yang God True Monarch aura, then struck Mount Lao’s Eight Trigrams Thunder Star Array with his crimson saber.
• The array withstood the blow, but the shockwave devastated Mount Lao’s main peak and injured Flying Fish Guards.
• Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada recognized Pang Heng as a powerful Yang God True Monarch and contacted Chen Yan and Manager Guo for help.
• Wang Lingguan flew to the barrier to confront Pang Heng, who recognized his potential as a Guardian Divine General and offered to spare him if he submitted.

Blood Vajra Pang Heng attacked Mount Lao and demanded Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada surrender, while they stalled and sought reinforcements. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion received their plea, and True Monarch Wuchen learned that Chen Yan had left a plan that apparently made Xiang Prefecture Pavilion territory.

• Pang Heng offered to spare Mount Lao if Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada submitted, but Wang Lingguan stalled while the Four-Winged Cold Cicada confirmed he had sent a plea for aid.
• The Four-Winged Cold Cicada tried to distract Pang Heng with offers of beauties and treasures, but Pang Heng demanded they lower the Eight Trigrams Thunder Star Array.
• Pang Heng attacked the array with his Blood-Red Saber, and Wang Lingguan ordered Mount Lao to defend.
• At the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion branch in Black Mountain City, Guo Tai told True Monarch Wuchen that an unknown Yang God True Monarch was attacking Chen Yan's Mount Lao.
• Guo Tai explained that Chen Yan had anticipated the crisis and left a contingency plan, and True Monarch Wuchen read the letter and asked when Xiang Prefecture had become Heavenly Secrets Pavilion territory.

Chen Yan arrived at Mount Lao just as Blood Vajra Pang Heng was about to break its protective array. He blocked Pang Heng’s saber strike with a punch and revealed himself as the unexpectedly powerful first-ranked Earth Ranking cultivator.

• True Monarch Wuchen learned that Xiang Prefecture had been entrusted to Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and set off to aid Mount Lao while Guo Tai stayed behind.
• Pang Heng’s attacks nearly broke Mount Lao’s Eight Trigrams Thunder Star Array, and Wang Lingguan, the Four-Winged Cold Cicada, and Lu Da struggled to hold out without a Super Thunder God Cannon.
• Pang Heng demanded that Mount Lao’s people kill half their own, but they refused and remained united under Chen Yan’s leadership.
• Pang Heng launched another devastating saber strike at the barrier, and Chen Yan suddenly arrived and stopped it with a powerful punch.
• Pang Heng recognized Chen Yan as the first-ranked Earth Ranking cultivator, and Chen Yan challenged him to try destroying Mount Lao.

Chen Yan returned to Mount Lao during Blood Vajra Pang Heng’s attack and confronted the Yang God Third-Realm body cultivator. With the Wood Spirit Physique standing by, Chen Yan fought Pang Heng himself and gained a slight edge in their opening clash, though Pang Heng launched another furious attack.

• Chen Yan rushed to Mount Lao and found its protective array still holding against Blood Vajra Pang Heng.
• The Wood Spirit Physique arrived, revealing an aura at least as powerful as Pang Heng’s, and agreed to let Chen Yan fight first.
• Pang Heng grew enraged when Chen Yan and the Wood Spirit Physique discussed the fight as if he posed no threat, then charged Chen Yan with his Blood-Red Saber.
• Chen Yan met Pang Heng’s saber with a punch empowered by the Indestructible Vajra and Damo's Whale Toss Dao Fruits, shocking Pang Heng with the strength of his body.
• The first exchange sent shockwaves across Mount Lao, and Chen Yan gained a slight advantage before Pang Heng suppressed his pain and attacked again.

Chen Yan fought Blood Vajra Pang Heng to a standstill until Pang Heng unleashed his Yang God Dharma Manifestation and attacked with Blood Sun, sever. Chen Yan countered with the full power of the Dragon Sparrow Saber and his Dao Fruits, leaving the outcome of their collision unknown.

• Chen Yan and Blood Vajra Pang Heng fought across Mount Lao, devastating the battlefield while onlookers recognized the clash as a battle between Yang God True Monarchs.
• Pang Heng unleashed his thirty-three-zhang blood-saber Yang God Dharma Manifestation, alarming powerful cultivators across the Nine Provinces and prompting True Monarch Wuchen to rush toward Mount Lao.
• The Wood Spirit Physique prepared to intervene but stopped after receiving Chen Yan's intention to face Pang Heng himself.
• Pang Heng attacked with Blood Sun, sever, sending his blood-saber Dharma Manifestation hurtling toward Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan charged forward, fully unleashed Indestructible Vajra and Damo's Whale Toss, and drew the Immortal Embryo Dragon Sparrow Saber, which transformed into a divine bird.
• Pang Heng recognized the Dragon Sparrow Saber as an immortal artifact just before it collided with his Dharma Manifestation, and smoke and dust concealed the result.

Chen Yan lost his duel with Blood Vajra Pang Heng, but the Wood Spirit Physique intervened and killed Pang Heng, leaving Chen Yan to investigate the reason for Pang Heng’s attack on Xiang Prefecture. True Monarch Wuchen then emerged from the void and expressed astonishment at Chen Yan’s strength.

• Chen Yan and Pang Heng emerged from their devastating battle, with Chen Yan badly injured and Pang Heng’s Blood Saber Dharma Aspect severely weakened, and Pang Heng declared himself the winner.
• Pang Heng prepared to finish Chen Yan, but the Wood Spirit Physique appeared and revealed his Yang God Fourth Level cultivation and towering Dharma Aspect.
• The Wood Spirit Physique shattered Pang Heng’s Blood Saber Dharma Aspect and killed him in one stroke, while Chen Yan preserved the corpse to use Thousand Faces to read Pang Heng’s memories.
• Chen Yan suspected Pang Heng’s attack was connected to Venerable Silver Jade and explained that he meant to use Pang Heng’s death to warn other Yang God True Monarchs entering the Netherworld Realm.
• Chen Yan thanked Third Brother, True Monarch Wuchen, who revealed that he had arrived during the fight but had watched Chen Yan battle Pang Heng and was stunned by his strength.

After learning the truth about Blood Vajra Pang Heng’s arrival through the demon treasure Thousand Faces, Chen Yan decided to strike at Silver Jade Villa in Min Prefecture. He mustered the Dragon Sparrow Army and set out, with True Monarch Wuchen joining as an observer.

• Chen Yan used Thousand Faces on Pang Heng’s corpse, absorbed his memories, and learned that Venerable Silver Jade had designs on Xiang Prefecture.
• Chen Yan demonstrated that Thousand Faces could perfectly transform him into Pang Heng and imitate his aura, even fooling True Monarch Wuchen.
• Chen Yan refused to let True Monarch Wuchen intervene and ordered Xu Ji to muster one thousand Dragon Sparrow Army soldiers.
• Chen Yan left Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada to guard Mount Lao, then boarded the warship with the army and True Monarch Wuchen.
• Chen Yan ordered the force to target Silver Jade Villa in Min Prefecture, and nearby rogue cultivators followed the departing warship.

Venerable Silver Jade learned that Chen Yan had killed Pang Heng and tried to invite him to Silver Jade Villa, but Chen Yan arrived with a warship to attack the villa. The chapter ended with Venerable Silver Jade realizing Chen Yan had come to kill them.

• Venerable Silver Jade ordered his disciple to investigate the identity of the person fighting Pang Heng, fearing Blood Old Demon might be involved.
• The disciple reported that Chen Yan had killed Pang Heng, and Venerable Silver Jade struggled to believe that Chen Yan could defeat a third-level Yang God cultivator.
• Venerable Silver Jade decided to invite Chen Yan to Silver Jade Villa and hoped to persuade him to join forces against Blood Old Demon.
• A massive warship appeared outside Silver Jade Villa's mountain-protecting formation, and the disciple revealed that Chen Yan had come to attack.
• Venerable Silver Jade kicked the disciple aside and suspected Pang Heng had told Chen Yan that Silver Jade Villa had been plotting against him.

Chen Yan’s forces attacked Silver Jade Villa, and True Monarch Wuchen shattered its mountain-protecting array before the Dragon Sparrow Army charged in. Silver Jade Villa’s elders rallied a counterattack against Xu Ji, who prepared to meet them with the Dragon Sparrow Army’s Bing Fire Thunder God Cannon.

• Venerable Silver Jade headed toward Silver Jade Villa’s array, hoping to kill Chen Yan and reclaim his plans for Xiang Prefecture.
• Chen Yan sent the Wood Spirit Physique to fight Venerable Silver Jade, while True Monarch Wuchen asked to break the array.
• True Monarch Wuchen destroyed Silver Jade Villa’s mountain-protecting array with a single strike.
• Xu Ji led the Dragon Sparrow Army in an assault that killed many Silver Jade Villa disciples and spread panic through the villa.
• Three Yin God elders rallied Silver Jade Villa’s forces and charged toward Xu Ji, who ordered his soldiers to form the array.

Xu Ji’s Dragon Sparrow Army used Lu Da’s improved Bing Fire Thunder God Cannons to annihilate Silver Jade Villa’s charging forces, including three Yin God elders. True Monarch Wuchen recognized that the cannons could overturn the cultivation world’s balance of power.

• Xu Ji ordered the Dragon Sparrow Army to form up and expose ten Bing Fire Thunder God Cannons as Silver Jade Villa’s forces charged.
• The Dragon Sparrow Army activated blood-qi seal disks, and its soldiers channeled their power into the cannons.
• Xu Ji ordered the cannons to fire when the Silver Jade Villa forces came within fifty meters.
• The ten cannons’ combined blast killed the three Yin God elders and devastated more than a thousand Silver Jade Villa disciples.
• True Monarch Wuchen marveled at the cannons’ power, and Chen Yan explained that they could change the balance of strength between factions.

Chen Yan’s forces crushed Silver Jade Villa with a cannon barrage, and Venerable Silver Jade fled after discovering Xiang Prefecture had three Yang God combatants. The Wood Spirit Physique intercepted him and effortlessly shattered his strongest attack, leaving Venerable Silver Jade’s escape stalled.

• Xu Ji’s ten Bing Fire Thunder God Cannons devastated Silver Jade Villa, killing its three Yin God elders and breaking the defenders’ morale.
• Venerable Silver Jade reached the mountain gate, saw the destruction, and realized Chen Yan stood alongside two powerful Yang God True Monarchs.
• Venerable Silver Jade abandoned his followers and fled, causing the surviving Silver Jade Villa disciples to surrender to Xu Ji and the others.
• The Wood Spirit Physique used spatial displacement to intercept Venerable Silver Jade and refused his plea to leave the Netherworld Realm.
• Venerable Silver Jade attacked with his Yang God Dharma Manifestation, but the Wood Spirit Physique froze and shattered the silver strike.
• Venerable Silver Jade recognized his opponent’s strength and tried to escape into the void, but surging tides halted him.

The Wood Spirit Physique shattered Venerable Silver Jade’s Dharma Manifestation, then used Chen Yan’s Super Thunder God Cannon to destroy him and Silver Jade Villa’s surroundings. True Monarch Wuchen warned Chen Yan that the cannon’s power of laws might attract Yellow Springs’ attention.

• The Wood Spirit Physique struck Venerable Silver Jade’s Silver Jade Dharma Manifestation with a massive palm, shattering it and badly injuring him.
• Venerable Silver Jade fled, but the Wood Spirit Physique appeared in his path beside the Super Thunder God Cannon.
• The Wood Spirit Physique fired the cannon, overwhelming Venerable Silver Jade’s attempt to defend himself with his Dharma Manifestation.
• The blast annihilated Venerable Silver Jade and devastated the surrounding land, while onlookers watched the destruction from afar.
• True Monarch Wuchen told Chen Yan to keep the cannon hidden until he reached grand completion of the Yang God realm, warning that its power of laws might draw Yellow Springs’ covetous gaze.

True Monarch Wuchen warned Chen Yan that the Super Thunder God Cannon carried an essence resembling the Destruction Law and could attract Yellow Springs' attention if exposed. After Chen Yan destroyed Silver Jade Villa, news of his victory spread throughout the Netherworld Realm and the Three Thousand Worlds, leaving his peers stunned.

• True Monarch Wuchen explained how Dao Fruits could lead to comprehension of law power and cautioned Chen Yan to keep the Super Thunder God Cannon secret.
• Chen Yan agreed to be cautious, considering that he might one day fuse his High-grade Dao Fruits and gain law power, though he had no way to challenge Immortals yet.
• After Venerable Silver Jade died, Chen Yan ordered Silver Jade Villa's leaders and core disciples executed, and the remaining resistance collapsed.
• Rogue cultivators reacted to Silver Jade Villa's destruction with fear, relief, and excitement as word spread that a foreign Yang God force had been wiped out.
• At the Spiritual Mountain Dao Sect, Li Shouyi learned that Chen Yan had killed a third-level Yang God Body Cultivator and destroyed Silver Jade Villa.
• Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, Little Monk Tianyin, and Ao Shuang also received the news and were stunned to learn the victor was Chen Yan.

Yin Qifeng learned that Chen Yan had killed Venerable Silver Jade and destroyed Silver Jade Villa, then moved to avoid provoking Chen Yan’s growing power. Meanwhile, Chen Yan’s former peers received news of the destruction and learned that their sects would regain territory.

• A Blood Demon Cult scout reported to Yin Qifeng that Chen Yan had killed Venerable Silver Jade and Blood Vajra Pang Heng, and that three Yang God True Monarchs were associated with Xiang Prefecture.
• Yin Qifeng ordered the Blood Demon Cult to prepare a generous gift for Chen Yan, restrain its disciples, and stop conducting blood sacrifices in the Netherworld Realm.
• Yin Qifeng offered to return the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s mountain gate and relocate the Blood Demon Cult to ease tensions with Mount Lao.
• Ye Ming, Yin Mo, and Gu Panpan discussed Chen Yan’s feat and realized the gap between him and themselves had grown even wider.
• Ye Ming received word that Chen Yan intended to exchange Min Prefecture to the Chongming Sect, while Yin Mo learned that the Blood Demon Cult would return the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s mountain gate and jointly govern Dianzhou with them.

After destroying Silver Jade Villa, Chen Yan returned its mountain gate to the Chongming Sect and set out for Xiang Prefecture. He assessed the 400,000 merit he had gained and planned to use it to advance his cultivation, while still needing an extremely yang heavenly treasure to reach the Yang God realm.

• Chen Yan had Silver Jade Villa’s battlefield stripped by Xu Ji’s thousand Dragon Sparrow Army soldiers, then left ten Flying Fish Guards to await the Chongming Sect’s takeover.
• Chen Yan left for Mount Lao aboard the warship, while True Monarch Wuchen returned early to Blackstone City to oversee the Netherworld Realm and matters concerning other realms.
• Chen Yan checked his personal panel in Void Space and found that destroying Silver Jade Villa had earned him 400,000 merit, including 100,000 each from Blood Vajra Pang Heng and Venerable Silver Jade.
• Chen Yan decided to spend the merit on four exchanges of Heavenly Official's Blessing, hoping to reach the ninth refinement of the Yin God realm through twelve days of enlightenment.
• Chen Yan considered how difficult it would be to find an extremely yang heavenly treasure for his breakthrough to Yang God, and worried that news of Immortal Spiritual Energy could attract powerful immortals to the Netherworld Realm.

Chen Yan used Heavenly Official's Blessing to pursue Yin God Nine Refinements, while the destruction of Silver Jade Villa subdued outside cultivators and brought local sects under his lead. His first three days of enlightenment advanced him to Yin God Eight Refinements, but he nearly lost himself in the Great Dao before the Dragon Sparrow Saber and Thunder Department Seal awakened him.

• Chen Yan decided to spend all four hundred thousand merit points on staged enlightenment in hopes of reaching Yin God Nine Refinements and finding pure-yang treasures afterward.
• The destruction of Silver Jade Villa reduced the outside cultivators' abuses, and Chongming Sect, Heavenly Corpse Sect, and Joyful Sect declared that they would follow Chen Yan and forbid sacrifices of ordinary mortals.
• Chen Yan left the Wood Spirit Physique and Super Thunder God Cannon to guard Mount Lao, then returned to Thunder Cliff to cultivate.
• Chen Yan redeemed three days of Heavenly Official's Blessing and immersed himself in the mysteries of the Thunder Jade Scripture, gaining insight into the immortal perspective and the principles of Yin and Yang.
• Chen Yan nearly lost himself in the Great Dao, but the Dragon Sparrow Saber and Thunder Department Seal jolted him awake; he discovered that he had reached Yin God Eight Refinements.

Chen Yan discovered that luck upon his body had let him enter an immortal’s perspective during an epiphany, advancing his Yin God to the eighth refinement. As he resumed cultivation at Thunder Cliff, the Rebirth Cult prepared to turn the Nine Provinces into the Old Mother Buddha Kingdom and asked about Chen Yan’s Yang God power.

• Chen Yan reviewed his breakthrough to the eighth refinement and reasoned that his vanished Fortunate Star Shining blessing had enabled him to observe the Laws of Lunar Yin and Solar Yang from an immortal’s perspective.
• Chen Yan spent one hundred thousand merit points on another Heavenly Official’s Blessing, but after three days of ordinary epiphany, he confirmed that luck upon his body was necessary to enter an immortal’s perspective.
• Chen Yan decided to cultivate without another epiphany for a while, while a faint radiance flickered between his brows.
• Yang God True Monarchs who descended into the Netherworld Realm hid themselves after learning that native cultivators had killed two True Monarchs.
• Kong Liang reported that the formation nodes were ready to transform the Nine Provinces into the Old Mother Buddha Kingdom, and the Protector ordered him to proceed despite the visiting Yang God True Monarchs.
• The Protector asked Kong Liang whether Chen Yan already possessed the power of the Yang God.

The Rebirth Cult Protector learned that Chen Yan could contend with a Yang God True Monarch and ordered Kong Liang to recruit him, even offering a Yang Extremity Pill. Meanwhile, Chen Yan overcame an inner demon at Thunder Cliff and broke through to Yin God Nine Refinements, leaving him with strength beyond the third level of the Yang God realm.

• The Rebirth Cult Protector heard that Chen Yan had fought Blood Vajra Pang Heng to a draw and suspected Chen Yan possessed a Dao Fruit.
• The Protector ordered Kong Liang to invite Chen Yan into the Rebirth Cult with a Yang Extremity Pill, threatening to make him an Old Mother Dao Soldier if he refused.
• The Protector ordered Kong Liang to send Liu Xian'er to meet Chen Yan and promised to choose another bearer for the Old Mother's Dharma Body if she recruited him.
• At Thunder Cliff, Chen Yan's breakthrough stirred an inner demon that appeared as his own face and demanded its body back.
• Chen Yan's Dragon Sparrow Saber and Thunder Department Seal jolted him awake, and he severed the inner demon.
• Chen Yan shattered the Hundun in his Niwan Palace and reached Yin God Nine Refinements, gaining combat strength between the third and fourth levels of the Yang God realm.

Chen Yan finished his seclusion and learned that Liu Xian'er, now the Rebirth Cult's Netherworld Realm branch saintess, had been waiting on Mount Lao for a month to meet him. He went to her residence and reunited with her, leaving their conversation yet to begin.

• Chen Yan assessed his need for Earth Fiend Yin Veins and utmost-yang treasures to prepare for the Yang God realm, and decided to seek treasures and earn merit by targeting vicious cultivators.
• Chen Yan read the sound-transmission talisman sword from the Wood Spirit Physique and learned that Liu Xian'er had requested an audience.
• Chen Yan learned that Liu Xian'er had waited at his Mount Lao residence for a month while Zhang Tianzheng's Flying Fish Guards secretly monitored her.
• Chen Yan entered the rear garden and met Liu Xian'er, who greeted him as Lord Chen, the Cold-Faced Divine Blade.