Chapter Summaries

Hu Yang reunited with You Lan, conquered the Void God Realm, and completed the second floor of the Desert Tower after passing its authorities to his son. He entered the third floor and woke in a woman's bedroom, weak and confused about who she was and where he was.

• Hu Yang spared the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and found You Lan at the entrance to the Netherworld, bringing her back to the dense forest.
• Hu Yang and You Lan reunited, and his Dark Green Nether Armor Generals hailed them as the Saint Lord and Saint Empress.
• Hu Yang led his army into the Void God Realm, defeated the Void Saint Ruler, and transformed the realm into the Calamity God Realm.
• Hu Yang refined the World Central Hub, lived with You Lan, and transferred the realm's authorities to their son before he and You Lan vanished.
• Hu Yang returned to the Desert Tower entrance and entered the third floor, where he woke in a woman's bedroom and asked her who she was and where he was.

Hu Yang discovered that his new identity in the third-floor world was a Star King Residence guard, and his awakened Yuanyang Sacred Body gave him strength and renewed vigor. After learning more about the Mang Dynasty from Shangguan Yanyan, he began considering how to gain power and take over the world.

• Hu Yang returned to the Star King Residence, where the Royal Consort revealed their secret relationship and his Yuanyang Sacred Body awakened during their encounter.
• The Royal Consort’s maid hid Hu Yang from the returning Star King, but Hu Yang also became intimate with her before leaving her chamber.
• Hu Yang returned to the Royal Consort, and they continued their affair for many days after the Star King departed.
• Hu Yang left the residence and returned to Shangguan Yanyan, who explained that the Mang Dynasty was a small realm of twenty cities in a world ruled by strength.
• Hu Yang dismissed the Mang Dynasty with a sneer and considered learning more about the world before pursuing his ambition to take it over.

Hu Yang joined the Imperial Guard with Tuoba Yue’s help and used dangerous night patrols to raise his level by killing spies. After becoming a squad leader, he encountered the Mang King and noticed a richly dressed woman approaching him.

• Hu Yang asked Tuoba Yue to help him enter the Imperial Guard so he could change the Mang Dynasty’s ruler and name, and she persuaded her Father to arrange an introduction to the Imperial Guard Commander.
• Hu Sanhai tested Hu Yang with an attack, accepted him into the Imperial Guard, and took him to the barracks while Tuoba Yue stayed in Mang City.
• Hu Yang was assigned to patrol Cloud Splendor Hall on the dangerous third shift, killed several groups of spies, and reached Level 10, then Level 12 after another encounter.
• Hu Yang’s commander took credit for his first victory, but the commander later died while drinking with courtesans; a more honorable commander replaced him.
• Hu Yang was promoted to Imperial Guard Squad Leader and, while patrolling Cloud Splendor Hall, saw the Mang King enter with military ministers before a richly dressed woman approached.

Hu Yang won Ling Yao over, seized the Mang Dynasty after the Mang King unexpectedly abdicated, and founded the Xing Dynasty. The chapter ended with Hu Yang granting the captured Star King a title while Tuoba Yue and Dongfang Yanyan entered his new court.

• Ling Yao summoned Hu Yang, tested his cultivation, and revealed that she was the Saintess of Soaring Palace, sent to help Dian Dynasty conquer the Mang Dynasty.
• Hu Yang persuaded Ling Yao to join his plans, and she helped him become Imperial Guard Commander and take control of the palace defenses.
• Hu Yang surrounded the Mang King and his ministers while they were hunting, but the Mang King willingly handed over the Royal Seal and abdicated.
• Hu Yang became king of the new Xing Dynasty, named Ling Yao empress, and later welcomed Tuoba Yue and Dongfang Yanyan into the palace.
• Hu Yang captured the Star King and granted him the title of Green Hat King.

Hu Yang expanded the Xing Dynasty by conquering the Dian Dynasty, while Mang Xing reunited with his destitute brother Mang Tang at the Green Hat King Residence. After returning to Xing City, Hu Yang paused his campaigns to strengthen the realm and await an opportunity to counterattack neighboring dynasties.

• Hu Yang established an Inner Cabinet and Twenty Battalions, then led an army with Ling Yao to defeat Dian Dynasty forces and seize its border garrisons.
• Mang Tang arrived at Mang Xing’s residence as a beggar and, after taking a servant’s job, revealed himself to his younger brother.
• Mang Xing and Mang Tang discussed how Hu Yang had taken the throne and granted Mang Xing a princely title, then reunited and began living together.
• Hu Yang’s army captured Dian City after the new Dian King fled, bringing the Dian Dynasty’s twenty-six cities into the Xing Dynasty.
• Hu Yang returned to Xing City, where the court began governing the new lands, and decided to build up strength before fighting neighboring dynasties.

After the War Dynasty invaded the Xing Dynasty and killed Liu Changhe, Hu Yang set out with Ling Yao to avenge him and eradicate the enemy nation. He slaughtered city after city, reached Spirit Rank, and finally killed the War King in Battle City.

• The War Dynasty captured Ju City after Liu Changhe defended it for seven days, then killed him and hung his body from the city gates.
• After receiving the delayed request for reinforcements, Hu Yang flew to Ju City with Ling Yao, burned Liu Changhe’s corpse, and slaughtered the War Dynasty soldiers there.
• Hu Yang and Ling Yao massacred the enemy camp and continued across the border, with Hu Yang destroying Tuwa City and awakening War Slaughter Power.
• Hu Yang annihilated city after city, reached level 100 and Spirit Rank, and killed officials sent to investigate the devastation.
• A month later, Hu Yang and Ling Yao arrived in Battle City, where Hu Yang killed the War King and massacred the ministers who begged for mercy.

After divine punishment destroyed Hu Yang and the Xing Dynasty, his preserved soul awakened in a new world as an Azure Sky Green Wutong tree. He discovered that Ling Yao had survived and resolved to grow strong enough to reunite with her.

• Hu Yang’s slaughter of the War Dynasty triggered a plague that devastated the world, and divine lightning later killed him and his Beloved Consorts.
• A century after the poison mist vanished, Hu Yang awakened as a tree and gained immense power from Heaven and Earth.
• Hu Yang followed a little girl named Xiao Li to her home and recognized her sick mother as Ling Yao.
• Hu Yang secretly sent Life Force to Ling Yao, curing her illness, then tried to speak to her without revealing himself.
• Hu Yang decided to raise his level and attain a Dao Body so he could reunite with Ling Yao.

Hu Yang transformed into a Dao Body and returned to find Ling Yao and Xiao Li, rescuing Ling Yao from village thugs and revealing his identity. The family reunited, and Ling Yao told him how she had ended up in the village, while mysteries about the world remained.

• Hu Yang endured ninety-nine lightning strikes, became a God Punishment Emperor and Life Emperor, and returned to the Thatched Cottage.
• Hu Yang found Xiao Li hiding in the cellar and learned that thugs had taken Ling Yao.
• Hu Yang used Divine Punishment to kill the thugs and freed Ling Yao, who did not recognize him because his appearance had changed.
• Hu Yang revealed that he was the Great Prosperity Emperor, Hu Yang, and Ling Yao recognized him through his imperial seal before reuniting with him.
• Ling Yao told Hu Yang that a white light had brought her to the village, erased her cultivation, and left her pregnant, and that she had recovered from her illness two years earlier.

Hu Yang met Ji Ge, the village chief of Gathering Dragon Village, and discovered that a great tree nearby was Tuoba Yue, his former consort who had survived as a tree after the calamity. He gave her Origin Essence to speed her transformation and left, while Ji Ge believed the Xing Dynasty could be restored.

• Hu Yang heard Ji Ge tell village children that Heaven and Earth had consumed the plague, revived the dead with Ling, and filled the world with newborns.
• Ji Ge recognized Hu Yang's extraordinary fortune and led him beneath a familiar great tree, where a giant woman's face appeared.
• Hu Yang summoned the Xing Dynasty Imperial Seal, and Tuoba Yue recognized him and explained how she had become a tree.
• Ji Ge revealed that he had once been a palace eunuch and had searched for Hu Yang for ten years using his Qi Gazing Art.
• Hu Yang gave Tuoba Yue a strand of Origin Essence to accelerate her cultivation, then left as she began refining it.
• Ji Ge departed, hopeful that His Majesty could restore the Xing Dynasty.

Hu Yang accepted the villagers’ call to restore the Xing Dynasty, gathered intelligence, and led an army to seize Ling Province. After defeating the province’s first dispatched force, he revealed himself as the Xing King, leaving its captured general kneeling before him.

• Hu Yang told Ling Yao that Tuoba Yue had become the village’s great tree, and the three visited her together.
• Ji Ge and more than a hundred villagers asked Hu Yang to leave the village and restore the country, and Hu Yang later agreed to prepare for the campaign.
• A year later, Hu Yang learned that the world had been divided among ten empires and decided to take Ling Province as the first step toward restoring the Xing Dynasty.
• Hu Yang led more than a thousand armored men to Ling Province and ambushed the three hundred soldiers sent from the city, killing half and capturing the rest.
• Hu Yang identified himself to the captured city guard general as the Xing King and declared that he wanted Ling Province, prompting the general to kneel.

Hu Yang conquered Ling Province and expanded the Xing Dynasty across much of Yue Kingdom, defeating its strongest general and forcing the emperor to seek peace. After receiving Yue Kingdom's tribute, Hu Yang granted Minister Suo Rong an audience in Xing City.

• Hu Yang killed the middle-aged general who recognized him, then led his troops to Ling Province City and destroyed its gate.
• Hu Yang killed Governor Yang Sanheng and the officials and generals defending Duzhou Prefecture, and Ling Province surrendered.
• After stabilizing Ling Province, Hu Yang conquered Tian Zhou, Ding Zhou, and Ci Zhou, then destroyed Niu Jian and his hundred-thousand-strong army with Thunder Punishment.
• Hu Yang continued conquering provinces, brought Ling Yao and her mother to Ling Province City, and reestablished the Xing Dynasty when he captured the twentieth province.
• The Yue Country Emperor ordered Suo Rong to bring tribute and seek peace, and Hu Yang accepted the tribute before receiving him in court.
• Suo Rong bowed before Hu Yang and admitted he was afraid of him.

Hu Yang conquered the Yue Kingdom and unified the world, then abandoned the throne to live quietly in Gathering Dragon Village with his family. After Tuoba Yue returned in human form, an Imperial Rank bull-headed beast attacked Hu Yang, and its retreat into the forest left him wondering what lay in the depths.

• After Hu Yang defeated the Yue Kingdom army, the Yue Country Emperor fled, and Hu Yang took control of the kingdom.
• Hu Yang rejected the title of Imperial Dynasty, later founded the Xing Imperial Dynasty, unified the world, and entrusted government to the Inner Cabinet.
• Hu Yang secretly left the capital with Ling Yao and Xiao Li and settled in Gathering Dragon Village, where the ministers failed to find him.
• Tuoba Yue endured sixty-six lightning tribulations, regained human form, and reunited with Hu Yang, Ling Yao, and Xiao Li.
• An Azure Sky Giant Beast attacked Hu Yang, who transformed into an Azure Sky Green Wutong and fought it to a stalemate.
• The giant beast retreated into a dense forest, and Hu Yang wondered why it had appeared and what lay in the forest's depths.

Hu Yang entered a hidden World Origin Space, reached the Ancestor Level, and learned he needed to find the world's central hub to pass the trial. After years of searching, Chi Yu transported him and Niu Geng to a massive gear, leaving them before an unknown destination.

• Hu Yang touched a stone lotus in the forest and entered a Special Space, where he awakened the Source Ancestor True Body and rose to the millionth level.
• Hu Yang found the minotaur beast, transformed it into a man named Niu Geng, and learned that Niu Geng had entered the space to escape Calamity Qi.
• Old Man told Hu Yang that the space was the World Origin Space and instructed him to seize the world's central hub to pass the trial.
• Hu Yang searched for the central hub's entrance while the Xing Imperial Dynasty fell into turmoil and divided into multiple dynasties.
• After Hu Yang searched for years without success, Chi Yu transported him and Niu Geng to a massive gear surging with Origin Essence.

Hu Yang acquired the World Central Hub, reunited with his companions, and was forced to leave the fourth level behind after lingering for thousands of years. He began a new trial as a golden python and attacked a Calamity Beast that was mauling his mother.

• Hu Yang collected the World Central Hub, escaped the collapsing space with Niu Geng, and returned to Gathering Dragon Village with his companions.
• Ji Ge found Hu Yang and asked him to restore the Xing Imperial Dynasty, but Hu Yang refused and gave Ji Ge cultivation techniques instead.
• After Hu Yang delayed for several thousand years, the Old Man forcibly moved him to the Desert Tower entrance and brought Ling Yao, Xiao Li, Tuoba Yue, and Niu Geng along.
• Hu Yang began the fourth-level trial as a newly hatched golden python and saw a Calamity Beast attack his injured mother.
• Hu Yang bit the Calamity Beast, gained new powers by devouring its flesh and hide, and grew larger than his mother.
• Hu Yang attacked the Calamity Beast again and bit its neck as it was about to kill his mother.

Hu Yang killed the Calamity Beast and used his essence blood to turn the dying Mother Metal Serpent into a blood egg, then raised his newly hatched siblings while waiting for her to hatch. When an injured Azure Flower Green Python fled into Mang Shan Stream, Hu Yang confronted its pursuers and learned that the nearby Cliff Bottom held Spirit Spring water needed to enter the Spirit Rank.

• Hu Yang killed the Calamity Beast, fed his essence blood to the dying Mother Metal Serpent, and watched her transform into a blood egg.
• Hu Yang incubated the golden eggs until they hatched, then hunted Spirit Boars to feed his younger siblings while the blood egg remained still.
• Hu Yang saw White Wolves leap from a cliff and suspected that the Cliff Bottom might hold a key to passing the fourth level.
• An injured Azure Flower Green Python stumbled into Hu Yang's nest, and a group of winged bird beasts soon arrived in pursuit.
• Hu Yang confronted the Three-Feathered Bird Beast, who identified himself as a Phoenix King Guard and explained that Spirit Rank creatures had to consume Spirit Spring water at the Cliff Bottom.

Hu Yang sheltered the wounded Azure Flower Green Python, learned she had stolen the Phoenix King's Cold Pill to advance, and helped protect her while she refined it. After she reached Sect Rank, the Phoenix King arrived at Mang Shan Stream.

• The Three-Feathered Bird Beast told Hu Yang that the Azure Flower Green Python had stolen the Phoenix King's treasured Cold Pill and gave him a Passage Spirit Mark.
• Hu Yang treated the unconscious Azure Flower Green Python, and she awoke and recovered in his den.
• The Azure Flower Green Python revealed that she had stolen the Cold Pill to break through from peak Spirit Rank to Sect Rank, then asked Hu Yang to protect her while she refined it.
• Hu Yang learned about the fourth-layer world and raised his level by hunting demon beasts as the Azure Flower Green Python refined the Cold Pill.
• The Azure Flower Green Python shattered her bottleneck and advanced to Sect Rank, but the Phoenix King's terrifying aura descended upon Mang Shan Stream.

Hu Yang fled the Phoenix King into a cave beneath a great lake, where Nether Cold Breath and Primordial Unity Water propelled him past level 300,000. He discovered Nine Hells Spirit Fruits that greatly strengthened the pythons, and the chapter ended as the Blood Egg consumed the vines and began to hatch.

• The Phoenix King traced the Cold Pill’s aura to the python nest, so Hu Yang swallowed the Blood Egg and led the Azure Flower Green Python and his siblings south.
• Hu Yang plunged into a great lake and entered an underwater cave, where devouring Nether Cold Breath and Primordial Unity Water raised his level to 300,000.
• Hu Yang found Nine Hells Spirit Fruits and vines, and the fruits helped the little golden pythons break through to Spirit Rank and speak.
• The pythons ate the fruits, raising Hu Yang’s level above 500,000, the Azure Flower Green Python to peak Venerable Rank, and the little golden pythons to early Venerable Rank.
• The Blood Egg shook, consumed the remaining vines, and cracked open as a golden python streaked with blood-red emerged.

Hu Yang explored the Great Lake cave, devoured the Profound Nether Remnant Soul, and found the Nine Hells World Orb. After his mother awakened her memories, he led the pythons through a portal, which brought them to Tang Mountain.

• Hu Yang found a withered tree, where the Profound Nether Remnant Soul attacked him and he swallowed it along with its treasures.
• The Mother Metal Serpent swallowed the black coffin, grew to Spirit Rank, and regained her memories, recognizing Hu Yang as her child.
• Hu Yang found a hidden black pearl beneath the tree and obtained the Nine Hells World Orb, increasing his fourth-layer clearance progress.
• Hu Yang read the characters carved into a boulder, revealing an altar and a spatial gate that he and the other pythons entered.
• Azure Flower Green Python recognized their destination as Tang Mountain.

Hu Yang and the pythons arrived on Tang Mountain through a mysterious altar and found the Black Bull King’s territory. After devouring the Black Bull herd and the Black Bull King, Hu Yang killed the Kui Long King, whose corpse the others began eating as a strange light appeared nearby.

• Hu Yang concluded that the altar in Mang Shan Stream had transported them to Tang Mountain and led the pythons to explore.
• A four-horned black bull challenged Hu Yang, who swallowed him and devoured the surrounding herd.
• Hu Yang learned that the Black Bull King had gone to Kui Long Territory and caught up with his forces on the way there.
• The Black Bull King attacked Hu Yang, but Hu Yang was unharmed and swallowed him, awakening Black Armor, Strength, and Brute Body.
• The Kui Long King tried to devour Hu Yang, but Hu Yang crushed his head, and the pythons gathered to eat the corpse.
• Hu Yang noticed a flash of light near the Kui Long King’s body.

Hu Yang entered the Crystal Mountain Secret Realm and followed Old Man’s directions to the ruined Myriad-Mile Dragon Palace. There, he met Ling Ao, who revealed the Sea Dragon Pearl and explained that it had kept her in her phantom state.

• Hu Yang found a Spirit Crystal beside Kui Long King’s corpse and gave it to Mother Metal Serpent to consume.
• Hu Yang and his serpents traveled to the Kui Long Territory as the Crystal Mountain Secret Realm opened, and Hu Yang entered it alone.
• Old Man told Hu Yang to swim through the sea and pass eight colossal pillars to reach the Myriad-Mile Dragon Palace and obtain the Sea Dragon Pearl.
• Hu Yang reached the dark ruins and met Ling Ao, a dragon-shaped phantom who explained that the Dragon Palace had been destroyed by a powerful enemy.
• Ling Ao brought Hu Yang to the Water Race Space and showed him the Sea Dragon Pearl, the treasure sustaining her phantom form.