Chapter Summaries

Li Tianming entered the Ancient Divine Burial and found himself in a silent maze of blue-brick passages haunted by unexplained footsteps and shaking doors. After breaking through a Heavenly Pattern barrier, he saw Ye Lingfeng being pursued by Dongyang Fengchen, but emerged in a different passage as the footsteps closed in behind him.

• Li Tianming entered the Ancient Divine Burial after the blood-red count on the wooden door reached one, then arrived alone in an ancient blue-brick room.
• Li Tianming explored the maze, heard a closed stone house door shake, and sensed unseen footsteps following him.
• Li Tianming used his Dark Arm to tear through a Heavenly Pattern barrier and saw Ye Lingfeng being pursued by Dongyang Fengchen.
• Li Tianming crossed the barrier into another passage, where he found no sign of Ye Lingfeng or the pursuer.
• Footsteps sounded behind Li Tianming again, and a sinister chill rushed onto his back.

Li Tianming killed Dongyang Fengxiao and Jiang Fengyue, but both returned as grotesque monsters that reassembled after death. Each time he burned one away, a blood sphere appeared bearing a number and the victim’s face, leaving Li Tianming to wonder whether the numbers counted down toward a larger threat.

• Dongyang Fengxiao attacked Li Tianming, who killed him and helped his companions defeat the Azure Bat Devilwing Nine Infant.
• Dongyang Fengxiao and the Azure Bat Devilwing Nine Infant’s corpses fused into a monster, which Li Tianming’s group destroyed and burned, leaving a blood sphere marked with the number nine.
• Li Tianming encountered Jiang Fengyue, who attacked him after learning he had killed Dongyang Fengxiao.
• Li Tianming wounded Jiang Fengyue and killed one Blackwater Nether Poison Xiangliu, but Jiang Fengyue fused with her remaining beasts into a twenty-five-headed monster.
• Li Tianming cut apart and burned the monster, producing a second blood sphere marked with the number eight and Jiang Fengyue’s face.
• Li Tianming and Jiang Feiling wondered whether the numbers were counting down and whether he needed to kill nine people.

After three days wandering the Ancient Divine Burial’s labyrinth, Li Tianming found Ye Lingfeng being hunted by Dongyang Yunyi and helped him escape. The two reunited and continued through the tomb, determined to find a way to grow stronger and confront the Ancient Theocracy.

• Li Tianming followed the sounds of battle through the labyrinth and found Ye Lingfeng fleeing from Dongyang Yunyi.
• Dongyang Yunyi attacked Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng with his bow and Golden Thunder Purgatory Nine Infants, but Li Tianming used a formation book to cover their escape.
• Li Tianming gave Ye Lingfeng a formation book, and Ye Lingfeng explained that Dongyang Yunyi had attacked him shortly after they met.
• Ye Lingfeng said he wanted to kill someone from the Ancient Theocracy to avenge the Soulburning Clan, while Li Tianming urged him to wait for an opportunity.
• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng continued through the passages and discovered a concealed Heavenly Pattern barrier blocking their way.

Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng found a sealed palace filled with saint crystals and cultivated there for twenty days before fleeing when a threatening presence began to emerge from a stone house. Five days later, they followed blood-born ants to the mutilated remains of Bai Xiaozhu and Situ Yiyi.

• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng entered a sealed palace, found more than a million saint crystals, and divided them equally.
• The two cultivated in seclusion for twenty days, reaching the fifth and eighth levels of the Earthly Saint realm, respectively.
• The palace’s stone-house door opened, and Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng fled after a voice threatened to kill them.
• Five days later, Li Tianming discovered that a trail of ants in the passage turned into blood when crushed, and he and Ye Lingfeng followed it.
• Li Tianming found Bai Xiaozhu and Situ Yiyi dead at a crossroads, their bodies hollowed out and held in shape by swarms of ants.

Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng found Bai Xiaozhu and Situ Yiyi’s corpses, then confronted Dongyang Yunyi and Dongyang Zi Zhen in a dead-end passage. They coordinated with their companions to kill Dongyang Yunyi, and Ye Lingfeng vowed that the Soulburning Clan would never surrender.

• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng found two corpses and feared that Bai Xiaozhu and Situ Yiyi had been killed.
• Dongyang Yunyi and Dongyang Zi Zhen cornered Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng in a dead end, sealed the passage with lightning, and threatened them.
• Li Tianming summoned his companions and flooded the passage with three Sea Spirit Tomes, while Jiang Feiling supported the group with her time field.
• Li Tianming assigned Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang to hold off the four Nine Infants as he and Ye Lingfeng confronted Dongyang Yunyi together.
• Ye Lingfeng struck Dongyang Yunyi’s soul, giving Li Tianming the opening to pierce his chest with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Ye Lingfeng cut off Dongyang Yunyi’s head, smashed it against the ceiling, and declared that the Soulburning Clan would never surrender.

Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng killed Dongyang Zi Zhen and his companion beasts, then discovered that the Divine Burial had turned Bai Xiaozhu and Situ Yiyi into numbered blood orbs. Unable to explain the burial’s strange workings, Li Tianming led his companions onward, determined to survive and uncover the truth.

• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng joined forces to kill Dongyang Zi Zhen, with Ye Lingfeng’s soul attack creating an opening for Li Tianming to destroy his saint palace.
• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng defeated the four Nine-Infant companion beasts after the Sea Spirit Book’s seawater vanished, while Miaomiao and Lanhuang suffered injuries.
• When the corpses of Dongyang Yunyi and Dongyang Zi Zhen showed no signs of transforming, Li Tianming sent Miaomiao and Lanhuang into the Companion Space and headed toward Bai Xiaozhu and the others.
• The remains of Bai Xiaozhu and Situ Yiyi collapsed into blood and formed orbs bearing the numbers seven and six, leaving Li Tianming and Jiang Feiling unable to explain what had happened.
• Li Tianming concluded that the Divine Burial’s strange events might be connected to him, vowed to stay with his companions, and promised to kill the hidden existence if he got the chance.

Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng followed an ant swarm to an underground palace, where Chen Jinghong and then Dongyang Fengchen fought over the Crimson Blood Galaxy, a Saint Beast Weapon with ninety-nine Saint Heavenly Patterns. As Dongyang Fengchen tried to claim it, Li Tianming used the Formation Tome to envelop the palace in illusions and disrupt him.

• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng followed the ants to a vast underground palace where billions of them surrounded a Heavenly Pattern barrier containing a dagger.
• Li Tianming recognized the dagger as the Crimson Blood Galaxy, a rare Saint Beast Weapon with ninety-nine Saint Heavenly Patterns.
• Chen Jinghong attacked the barrier, but Dongyang Fengchen arrived with three companions and confronted him over the treasure.
• Chen Jinghong escaped with his Blood-Eyed Night Demonhawk, and Dongyang Fengchen began striking the barrier himself.
• Li Tianming sent Ye Lingfeng back and used the Formation Tome to cover the palace in mist and illusions, making Dongyang Fengchen mistake the scene before him for the Fengyue River.

Li Tianming escaped Dongyang Fengchen’s pursuit after being poisoned by the Nine Nether Poison, using a Divine Burial barrier to trap him. He reunited with Jiang Feiling and vowed to kill Dongyang Fengchen, while Jiang Feiling noticed something ahead that left her shaken.

• Li Tianming stole the Crimson Blood Galaxy and fled as Dongyang Fengchen’s black spikes killed his three lackeys and wounded him with Nine Nether Poison.
• Li Tianming reached the passage, but Ye Lingfeng was missing, so he continued alone while the poison weakened him and Dongyang Fengchen tracked him.
• Li Tianming reached a Divine Burial barrier and began breaking through it as Dongyang Fengchen caught up and taunted him.
• Li Tianming disappeared through the barrier, leaving Dongyang Fengchen to crash into it, and Jiang Feiling emerged to confront him.
• Li Tianming reunited with Jiang Feiling, learned the poison was dissipating, and vowed to kill Dongyang Fengchen before Jiang Feiling pointed out something ahead.

Li Tianming hid in the sealed palace while the monster fought Dongyang Fengchen, then found a message from Ye Lingfeng saying he was safe and had been summoned elsewhere. He returned to the palace to cultivate and, forty days later, reached the sixth level of the Earth Saint realm.

• Li Tianming stayed behind the Divine Burial barrier to let the Supreme Unity Tower purge the Nine Nether Poison, while a monster fought Dongyang Fengchen outside.
• After the poison cleared, Li Tianming searched the underground palace for Ye Lingfeng and found his claw-carved message saying a voice had led him away and a monster that obeyed him had left the note.
• Li Tianming returned to the sealed palace with Jiang Feiling and cultivated with his lifebound beasts, using Sacred Crystals and the Voiddark Realmstone.
• After forty days of cultivation, Li Tianming reached the sixth level of the Earth Saint realm.

Li Tianming broke through to sixth-level Earth Saint Heavenly Will and advanced his Immortal Sword Body while waiting for Ye Lingfeng in the Divine Burial. When Chen Jinghong attacked him over the Crimson Blood Galaxy, Li Tianming defeated him, then fought and destroyed the fused monster he became; afterward, the monster's blood formed the number five and became a blood sphere.

• Li Tianming completed his breakthrough and continued forging the Thousand Calamity Sword, determined to protect Jiang Feiling in the Divine Burial.
• After finding no sign of Ye Lingfeng, Li Tianming encountered Chen Jinghong, who demanded the Crimson Blood Galaxy and threatened to kill him.
• Li Tianming recognized that Chen Jinghong was an inexplicable being from the Divine Burial and fought him alongside Jiang Feiling and his three lifebound beasts.
• Using Miaomiao's poison and lightning with his Immortal Sword Qi, Li Tianming defeated Chen Jinghong without striking a vital point.
• Chen Jinghong fused with the Blood-Eyed Night Demon Eagle into a monster, which Li Tianming and his beasts finally destroyed after a prolonged battle.
• The monster's blood gathered into the number five and then transformed into a blood sphere.

Li Tianming learned that a mysterious presence inside Jiang Feiling was forcing him to collect four more blood spheres, and he resolved to find her weakness and protect Jiang Feiling. While wandering through the Ancient Divine Burial, he encountered Huang Ziting and Jiang Yanwu, who tried to capture him for the crown prince.

• A mysterious voice took control of Jiang Feiling and demanded that Li Tianming collect four more blood spheres, threatening Jiang Feiling if he refused.
• Jiang Feiling encouraged Li Tianming to resist the unknown presence, but it seized control again and warned him to stop resisting.
• Li Tianming concluded that the presence must have a weakness, kept his thoughts guarded, and vowed to die before Jiang Feiling did.
• While exploring the Ancient Divine Burial, Li Tianming came upon Huang Ziting and Jiang Yanwu together and turned to leave.
• Huang Ziting stopped Li Tianming and ordered Jiang Yanwu to gouge out his eyes and cut out his tongue before delivering him to the crown prince.

Li Tianming fought Huang Ziting and Jiang Yanwu after they blocked his way, while their lifebound beasts battled his three companions. He defeated Huang Ziting with a two-sword strike, leaving her gravely wounded and disarmed as the confrontation continued.

• Li Tianming challenged Huang Ziting and Jiang Yanwu to attack together, then charged first and summoned his three lifebound beasts.
• Lanhuang, Miaomiao, and Yinghuo each engaged one of the opponents’ lifebound beasts, dividing the fight into four battles.
• Huang Ziting attacked Li Tianming with her Golden-Spiked Dragonbone Whip, but he evaded her strikes within his time field and countered with the Fourth Nethersky Sword and Five Hundred Tribulation Swords.
• Li Tianming pierced through Huang Ziting’s Life-Reaping Vortex with both Eastern Emperor Swords, shattered her whip, and tore through her armor with Immortal Sword Qi.
• Huang Ziting fell against the wall gravely wounded, and Li Tianming held his Eastern Emperor Sword to her throat.

Li Tianming killed Huang Ziting after she exposed her betrayal of Jiang Yanwu, then left him grieving without a blood orb. Meanwhile, Ye Lingfeng summoned Soulfiend against eight members of the ancient imperial clan, and five days later Li Tianming defeated Meng Qingqing to collect the blood orb marked four.

• Jiang Yanwu begged Li Tianming to spare Huang Ziting, but she scorned his sacrifice and revealed that she had been involved with Dongyang Fengchen.
• Li Tianming stabbed Huang Ziting to death, then left Jiang Yanwu behind when her corpse produced no blood orb.
• Dongyang Lie and seven companions surrounded Ye Lingfeng, who summoned Soulfiend and asked whether eight souls were enough to eat.
• Five days later, Li Tianming fought and killed Meng Qingqing, whose blood orb formed the number four.
• Li Tianming considered what gathering three more blood orbs might trigger and continued wandering, while the person inside Ling'er still forbade him from returning to the sealed palace to cultivate.

Li Tianming reunited with Ye Lingfeng and discovered that Jiang Feiling’s other self feared Soulfiend and was connected to the Divine Burial. After the tomb opened beneath them, Li Tianming reached an underground altar and saw Jiang Feiling’s face inside an ancient crystal coffin.

• Li Tianming found Ye Lingfeng’s message beside the corpses of eight people and more than a dozen lifebound beasts, then waited for him to return.
• Jiang Feiling’s other self demanded that Li Tianming leave and threatened to kill Jiang Feiling, but Li Tianming resisted when he realized she feared something approaching.
• Ye Lingfeng arrived with Soulfiend, and Jiang Feiling’s other self triggered a change in the Divine Burial that dropped them into a vast underground palace.
• Jiang Feiling transformed into Wings of Heaven and flew toward an azure altar while Li Tianming and Soulfiend chased her through spatial barriers.
• Li Tianming saw a woman resembling Jiang Feiling lying inside a crystal coffin at the altar’s center.

Jiang Feiling used Spirit Burning to enter dormancy and suppress the person who had taken control of her body, buying Li Tianming two months to find a solution. With Soulfiend’s fragmented memories revealing a possible way to save her, Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng left the underground palace to plan their next move.

• Li Tianming tried to keep the person inside Jiang Feiling away from the altar while Ye Lingfeng and their companions held back Soulfiend.
• Jiang Feiling regained control, possessed Li Tianming, and used Heavenly Ling Love to begin Spirit Burning.
• Jiang Feiling exhausted herself and entered dormancy inside Heavenly Ling Love, silencing the other person and calming Soulfiend.
• Ye Lingfeng explained that Soulfiend was a soul-eating entity imprisoned in Demon City and shared a memory fragment about the divine embryos merging.
• Li Tianming concluded that the crystal coffin and the person within it might be key to saving Jiang Feiling, then left the underground palace with Ye Lingfeng and Soulfiend.

Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng discussed how to save Jiang Feiling by destroying the Innate Divine Fetus’s soul during the divine fetuses’ merger, then investigated the demon city and Ye Lingfeng’s Primordial Demon Lord inheritance. They encountered three Soul Servants modeled after Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang, and the chapter ended with the group struggling against their stronger, regenerating opponents.

• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng reasoned that Ye Lingfeng would need to destroy the Innate Divine Fetus’s soul when it merged with Jiang Feiling’s body, while Soulfiend could carry Ye Lingfeng’s body if he left it as a soul.
• Ye Lingfeng revealed that the demon city had guided him to an inheritance from the Primordial Demon Lord, including two mysterious eyes that had merged with his own.
• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng considered how breaking the Divine Burial barriers might have triggered the strange events, and Li Tianming decided to collect the three Soul Servants he was missing.
• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng encountered three Soul Servants shaped like Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang, and Li Tianming inferred that Dongyang Fengxiao, Bai Xiaozhu, and the others were still alive.
• Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang fought their respective Soul Servants while Li Tianming, Ye Lingfeng, and Soulfiend joined in to help.
• Li Tianming and Yinghuo struggled against the stronger Soul Servant phoenix, while Lanhuang and Soulfiend tore apart the regenerating two-headed dragon without being able to kill it.

Li Tianming defeated the remaining Soul Servants and was taken by them to meet the Chaos Divine Emperor, who named him his successor and charged him with leading the Chaos God Clan against a future calamity. After receiving the Emperor’s eyes and returning to Ye Lingfeng, Li Tianming began cultivating and felt the Eastern Emperor Sword’s third gate open.

• Li Tianming and his companions defeated Soul Servant Miaomiao and Soul Servant Lanhuang, completing the set of nine blood spheres.
• The nine Soul Servants carried Li Tianming through the shifting demon city to meet the Chaos Divine Emperor, who declared him a fated successor and ordered him to inherit his legacy and command the Chaos God Clan.
• Two eyes fused into Li Tianming’s eyes, turning one gold and making the other darker, while nine red marks appeared on his chest.
• Li Tianming returned to Ye Lingfeng, told him about the Chaos Divine Emperor’s inheritance, and decided to cultivate while Jiang Feiling recovered.
• As Li Tianming held the Eastern Emperor Sword, he felt its third deep golden gate burst open.

Li Tianming unlocked the Imperial Domain Sword Emperor Barrier and rapidly strengthened his cultivation while waiting for Jiang Feiling to awaken. Ye Lingfeng reached the Heavenly Saint realm, received the Bloodred Star River, and told Li Tianming about another weapon with ninety-nine Saintly Heavenly Patterns.

• Li Tianming discovered that the Eastern Emperor Sword's deep golden gate contained the Imperial Domain Sword Emperor Barrier, an automatically attacking sphere of Emperor Sword Qi and Sovereign Sword Qi.
• Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng cultivated rapidly; Li Tianming reached the eighth level of the Earthly Saint realm while Ye Lingfeng advanced to the peak of the ninth level.
• Li Tianming stood guard as Ye Lingfeng broke through and entered the Heavenly Saint realm at eighteen.
• Li Tianming gave Ye Lingfeng the Bloodred Star River dagger, which Ye Lingfeng eagerly tested and found suited him.
• Ye Lingfeng said the Soulfiend remembered a place with another weapon bearing ninety-nine Saintly Heavenly Patterns, and he and Li Tianming set out to find it before returning to await Jiang Feiling's awakening.

Li Tianming and Ye Lingfeng set their plan in motion to stop the innate divine fetus soul from taking over Jiang Feiling. The crystal coffin sealed with Jiang Feiling and Ye Lingfeng inside, leaving Li Tianming to wait and hope that their attempt succeeded.

• Li Tianming found a blue, extendable chain weapon in an underground palace and named it Three Thousand Starfields.
• After six days, Jiang Feiling awakened under the innate divine fetus soul’s control, and Ye Lingfeng hid his soul inside Li Tianming’s sea of consciousness.
• Li Tianming and his companions pursued Jiang Feiling to the crystal coffin while pretending to fear Soulfiend and the innate divine fetus soul.
• As the innate divine fetus soul entered the coffin, Li Tianming held its lid open long enough for Ye Lingfeng to slip inside and merge with her and Jiang Feiling.
• A force blasted Li Tianming away, the coffin shut, and the voice inside promised him a gift.

Li Tianming confronted Dongyang Fengchen and his group in the underground palace while Jiang Feiling fought to survive inside the crystal coffin. After Jiang Feiling announced that she had survived, Li Tianming prepared to kill Dongyang Fengchen and avenge her ordeal.

• Eight survivors fell into the underground palace, where Dongyang Fengchen recognized Jiang Feiling and ordered Meng Qingqing to block the exit.
• Dongyang Fengchen declared that only his group and Jiang Feiling would leave alive, and Li Tianming killed Dongyang Fengxiao and Jiang Fengyue with the Three-Thousand Starfield.
• Li Tianming struck Dongyang Fengchen and sent him crashing off the altar, then assigned Chen Jinghong to fight Meng Qingqing while the Soulfiend pursued Jiang Yanwu.
• Jiang Yanwu fled, leaving Dongyang Fengchen and Meng Qingqing to face Li Tianming and the Soulfiend.
• Jiang Feiling said goodbye to the soul of the innate divine fetus and declared that she only wanted to live, confirming that she had survived.
• Li Tianming rejoiced at Jiang Feiling's survival and vowed to kill Dongyang Fengchen as a sacrifice to the soul of the innate divine fetus.