Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong entered the battle between the Tengning Tribe and the Golden Blood Tribe, using his Destruction Sword Dao to kill Midgods and Highgods alike. His attacks shifted the battle in the Tengning Tribe’s favor as he continued cutting through the Highgod battlefield.

• The Tengning Tribe and the Golden Blood Tribe clashed at close quarters after five volleys had killed two thousand Midgods.
• Zhou Tong switched to his Destruction God Avatar and killed two Midgods with Sword One after they charged at him.
• Zhou Tong killed a Midgod who tried to ambush him, then used Sword Four to annihilate more than a dozen nearby Midgods.
• Zhou Tong charged into the Highgod battlefield and killed a Highgod with Sword Six in a single strike.
• The Tengning Tribe’s morale rose and the Golden Blood Tribe’s morale fell as Zhou Tong swept through the Highgods, leaving corpses falling from the sky.

Zhou Tong saved hundreds of Demon Assessment participants at the Black Blood Plain, then reached Purple Cloud City and officially became a Demon under the name Kahn. The chapter ended with him wearing his Demon Medal as a recognized Demon of Hell.

• Zhou Tong defeated the enemy forces at the Black Blood Plain, and the surviving participants passed the assessment.
• Demon Castle staff reflected on the Blood Fiend Divine Iron scheme, while members of the two tribes discussed the failure to kill enough God Level experts and warned against provoking Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong cultivated his new insight into the Destruction Rule during the journey to Purple Cloud City.
• The survivors gathered at Demon Castle, where the purple-haired beauty led them to the second floor to register as Demons.
• Zhou Tong gave the name Kahn, registered his soul aura, bound his Demon Medals, and put one on.

Zhou Tong completed his Silent Extinction sword technique and integrated it with his other Destruction Rule paths, naming the resulting sword strike Sword Nine. Seeing a gap in his Destruction Sword Dao, he accepted a Two-star combat mission to fight the Black Wind Gorge bandits and continue cultivating through battle.

• Zhou Tong meditated for months and refined Silent Extinction into a silent strike that briefly annihilated space.
• Zhou Tong named his completed sword strike Sword Nine and concluded that his Destruction Rule surpassed his Earth Law.
• Zhou Tong compared his four Destruction Rule paths with the Three Great Sword Arts and recognized that his Destruction Sword Dao lacked the path represented by the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art.
• Zhou Tong went to the Demon Castle and requested a Two-star combat mission departing within three days.
• Zhou Tong accepted the mission to eliminate the Black Wind Gorge bandits for two hundred thousand Ink Stones and was told to report to the South Gate at dawn two days later.

Zhou Tong rapidly rose through the Demon ranks by taking combat-and-slaughter missions and killing powerful opponents. A hundred years after passing the Demon Assessment, he became a Six-star Demon and brought his Destruction Rule to the verge of perfection.

• Zhou Tong completed the Demon Assessment at Black Wind Gorge, killed the Highgod bandit leader, and advanced to Two-star Demon.
• He accepted a Three-star mission to kill the Seven-jointed Worm Tribe leader, then continued grinding missions until he destroyed Green Snake Fort and became a Four-star Demon.
• Zhou Tong completed three Five-star missions, including wiping out Sword Lake Fort and killing 192 Highgods, to advance to Five-star Demon.
• He spent decades taking combat missions, gradually completing the requirements for Six-star Demon while earning a reputation as a terrifying Midgod who concealed his true strength.
• After a hundred years and thousands of missions, Zhou Tong advanced to Six-star Demon, comprehended Knowledge Annihilation, and nearly perfected his Destruction Rule.

After reaching a new insight into Earth Law, Zhou Tong decided to leave Purple Cloud City on an escort mission to seek a breakthrough. He departed for the Sea of Star Mist after bidding farewell to the hotel where he had stayed for over a century.

• Zhou Tong comprehended the Gravity Space Profundity and recognized that his Innate Ultimate Move would require fusing it with the Power and Life Force Profundities.
• Zhou Tong decided to take a break from cultivation and fighting, then met Purple Cloud Demon, Guterres, at the Demon Castle.
• Zhou Tong told Guterres he had accepted a five-star escort mission to the Sea of Star Mist and hoped the journey might help him break through his bottleneck.
• Guterres offered to give Zhou Tong copies of his rare books and cultivation notes about powerful experts.
• Eight days later, Zhou Tong checked out of the Elven Clan Hotel and left Purple Cloud City.

Zhou Tong joined a five-star escort mission from Purple Cloud City to Divine Wing City, traveling with fifty-four Demons aboard a high-end Metal Life. As the journey began, he found what he believed was the final piece missing from his understanding of the Destruction Rule.

• Zhou Tong accepted the long escort mission to Divine Wing City for eight hundred and seventy million Ink Stones.
• At the Metal Life, Demon Castle staff verified Zhou Tong's identity, and other Demons greeted him with respect as a renowned Six-star Demon.
• Zhou Tong learned that some Demons had already suffered heavy losses on the route and considered the prospect of danger welcome.
• Milston announced that all fifty-four Demons had arrived, and the Metal Life departed toward Divine Wing City.
• Zhou Tong read a rare book on the Destruction Rule in his room and recognized a passage as its final missing piece.

After years of uneventful travel aboard the Metal Life, Zhou Tong advanced his Illusionary Destruction and decided to reach the Highgod level before continuing to fuse his Six Destructions. As the ship crossed the Sea of Star Mist, attackers emerged from the water and forced it to stop.

• Zhou Tong traveled aboard the Metal Life for decades, passing dangerous regions and eventually leaving the Karosa Continent for the Sea of Star Mist.
• The Metal Life crossed the Sea of Star Mist for seventeen years and survived one mist sea riot.
• Zhou Tong found two points of compatibility for Illusionary Destruction and decided to perfect it before pursuing further fusion.
• A Highgod Demon praised Zhou Tong's presence, but Zhou Tong spotted an attack approaching the Metal Life.
• Figures rose from the sea as an earth-yellow giant bear struck at the Metal Life, and a Highgod Demon summoned an azure Flood Dragon that crushed it.

Milston’s group was intercepted above the Sea of Star Mist by Israel, Horace, Della, and their Highgod force, who demanded an item for the Star Ring Prefecture Lord. After Milston surrendered it, Zhou Tong killed Israel with one sword strike and challenged the remaining Demons by mentioning Paragons.

• Milston stored the Metal Life, and his group appeared above the Sea of Star Mist surrounded by more than three hundred Highgods.
• Israel, Horace, and Della confronted Milston and demanded the interspatial ring containing an item wanted by their Prefecture Lord.
• Milston agreed to surrender the ring after Israel promised to sign a Supreme God Contract guaranteeing their release.
• Zhou Tong killed Israel with a sudden sword strike and collected his divine spark and interspatial ring through God's Domain.
• Horace and Della realized Zhou Tong was the hidden expert Kahn and warned him that they served the Star Ring Prefecture Lord.
• Zhou Tong said Lyman was not among Hell’s Paragons or suspected Paragons, shocking Horace and Della.

Zhou Tong fought Bloodwing Demon, Soul-of-Death Demon, and their forces after rejecting their attempt to intimidate him with the Star Ring Prefecture Lord’s backing. He used the Void Breaker Divine Sword and his soul attacks to overwhelm them, ending with Soul-of-Death Demon’s death.

• Zhou Tong challenged Bloodwing Demon and the others to produce a Sovereign’s command, then attacked after concluding that Lyman had sent them.
• Bloodwing Demon met Zhou Tong’s strike but was hurled back, and her divine sword was nearly destroyed by the Void Breaker Divine Sword.
• Soul-of-Death Demon’s strongest soul attack failed against Zhou Tong’s defense, and Zhou Tong’s counterattack left him badly shaken.
• Bloodwing Demon rushed Zhou Tong, but his soul attack made her fall limp from the air.
• Zhou Tong unleashed three Sword Five strikes that killed several hundred high-level gods, prompting Soul-of-Death Demon to flee.
• Zhou Tong cut down Soul-of-Death Demon with Sword One.

After defeating the bandits, Zhou Tong took their wealth and canceled Milston’s mission to travel to Emerald City, where he discovered a dead egg tied to the Vitae Volcano and learned it was the child of a dead Main God of Destruction. The egg resisted Zhou Tong’s attack, leaving its nature and the treasure supposedly inside it unresolved.

• Zhou Tong collected the fallen experts’ divine sparks and spatial rings, then told Milston he could continue to Divine Wing City or cancel the mission.
• Milston chose to cancel the mission and took Zhou Tong and the surviving demons toward Emerald City in the Metal Life.
• Zhou Tong counted the bandits’ immense wealth and found a dark golden, lifeless egg in the final spatial ring.
• Zhou Tong recognized the egg’s aura as coming from the central volcano of the Vitae Volcano Cluster and asked Milston about it.
• Milston said the egg was the dead unborn child of a former Main God of Destruction and that the Prefecture Lord of Thundercloud Prefecture had sent him to retrieve it.
• Zhou Tong’s Destruction Sword Qi vanished against the egg without leaving a mark.

Zhou Tong discovered that the indestructible egg was a Heaven and Earth Oddity formed from a dead Main God’s unborn child, then purified and absorbed it with his Fusion Divine Power. Five years later, he arrived at Emerald City on Gem Island, completed the escort mission, and checked into a hotel to cultivate in seclusion.

• Zhou Tong used soul power to discover that the egg contained fused power from the Fire Element Law and the Power of Destruction, then sent Milston away and examined it with his Fusion Divine Power.
• Zhou Tong identified the egg as a Heaven and Earth Oddity containing Destruction Fire and infused it until it shrank into a transparent marble.
• The marble merged into Zhou Tong’s body and settled above his sea of souls, forming a deep connection with him.
• Zhou Tong studied the oddity’s power and Law mysteries as five years passed during the group’s journey to Emerald City on Gem Island.
• Milston led the demons to the Demon Castle to cancel the escort mission, and Zhou Tong checked into a high-class hotel to cultivate in seclusion.

Zhou Tong spent over a century fusing Earth Pulse with the Mystery of Explosion, preparing to combine them with the Destruction Rule. Unable to complete the Destruction Rule’s final step, he went to Emerald City’s Demon Castle to accept a Seven-star Demon mission.

• After three years without progress on fusing the Destruction Rule and Fire Element Law, Zhou Tong discovered a way to fuse Earth Pulse with the Mystery of Explosion.
• Zhou Tong spent ten years merging the Mystery of Explosion into all 256 layers of Earth Pulse, then another hundred years unifying them.
• Zhou Tong decided his Destruction God Avatar would pursue Illusionary Destruction while his Earth God Avatar and Fire God Avatar studied fusion mysteries.
• With the Destruction Rule still one step short of completion, Zhou Tong went to the Demon Castle in Emerald City to try advancing to Seven-star Demon.
• Two Highgod guards stopped Zhou Tong from entering the fourth floor until they confirmed his Six-star Demon identity, then respectfully let him pass.

Zhou Tong accepted a Seven-star Demon Mission to destroy the Canglong Island bandits, hoping to complete it quickly. After learning about the powerful leaders and vast force awaiting him, he prepared to depart the next morning.

• Zhou Tong asked Randolph for a combat-focused Seven-star Demon Mission that could be completed in less than a year.
• Randolph offered Zhou Tong a mission to suppress the Canglong Island bandits and kill their four leaders for a reward of 180 billion Ink Stones.
• Zhou Tong accepted the mission and paid the required 54 billion Ink Stones deposit.
• Randolph warned Zhou Tong that the four leaders were at least Six-star Demon-level experts and commanded hundreds of Highgods and twenty thousand Midgods.
• Randolph completed the mission procedures and arranged for Demon Castle personnel to escort Zhou Tong to within a thousand kilometers of Canglong Island the next morning.

Zhou Tong arrived at Canglong Island and slaughtered its bandits with his Destruction Sword Dao. Demon Castle observers watched from a distant sea, while Nick suggested the banditry might be backed by Shura experts.

• Zhou Tong reached Canglong Island after a month at sea and openly entered the bandit den.
• The bandits gathered and attacked Zhou Tong, but he evaded their strikes with overwhelming speed.
• Zhou Tong unleashed sword attacks that killed hundreds of bandits and devastated Canglong Island.
• Three high-level gods from Demon Castle watched the destruction from a Metal Life a thousand miles away.
• Nick told his companions that powerful bandit groups across Hell were often connected to the one hundred and eight Shuras.

Zhou Tong swept through Canglong Island, killing its bandits as he pursued his promotion mission to become a Seven-star Demon. He defeated the four chiefs and nearly wiped out the island’s remaining forces.

• Zhou Tong killed more than eighteen thousand bandits as he advanced from Canglong Island’s shore to its castle.
• Kasapa, Jerome, Arora, and Kui’an gathered with the surviving elites and confronted Zhou Tong, who announced that he needed their heads for his promotion mission.
• Zhou Tong unleashed his Destruction Sword Dao, dissolving most of the Highgods’ attacks and shattering the four chiefs’ combined assault.
• Zhou Tong’s Sword Sixteen cut Kasapa in two, sending part of his body and divine spark into spatial turbulence.
• Zhou Tong rapidly killed the other three chiefs and more than a hundred Highgod bandits, leaving only a few escaped experts alive.

After defeating the forces on Canglong Island, Zhou Tong collected their wealth and gained inspiration from the island chief’s final attack. He broke through to Highgod in the Destruction Rule, awakened powerful willpower, and fused his five paths of Destruction to their limit, leaving him ready to advance his sword techniques further.

• Zhou Tong collected the interspatial rings and divine sparks from the corpses on Canglong Island and found a hundred billion trillion Ink Stones in the chief’s ring.
• Zhou Tong entered the castle and used the island chief’s final slash as inspiration to break through to the Highgod level in the Destruction Rule.
• Zhou Tong tested his new willpower by tearing open a thousand-meter spatial rift with a finger.
• Zhou Tong used his Sky Horn Ant innate divine ability and found that it greatly increased his speed, soul strength, and physical strength.
• Zhou Tong deduced Annihilation, Obliteration, Disintegration, Silent Annihilation, and Knowledge Annihilation to their limits and fused them into one.
• Zhou Tong concluded that he could advance Sword Sixteen toward Sword Twenty and that, without a Lord God’s intervention, he would have no opponents in Hell.

After Zhou Tong wiped out the Canglong Island bandits, the Demon Castle team confirmed his mission was complete and learned that he had become a highgod. On the journey back to Emerald City, Zhou Tong discovered how to refine Ink Stone into Lord God Power of Destruction and used Amethyst to strengthen his transformed soul.

• Zhou Tong fired a signal flare to summon the Demon Castle team to Canglong Island.
• Nick and the other two experts arrived, found the island covered with corpses, and realized Zhou Tong’s aura had become that of a highgod.
• The three searched the fallen bandits, confirmed Zhou Tong had completed his mission, and told him to exchange his badge at the Emerald City Demon Castle to become a Seven-star Demon.
• Aboard the Metal Life, Zhou Tong used divine power of destruction to extract Lord God Power from Azure Stone and refined his Ink Stone into ten drops.
• Zhou Tong stored the ten drops in the Vermilion Bird Ring and refined Amethyst to strengthen his soul.

Zhou Tong received his Seven-star Demon Medal and asked about challenging a Shura, but decided to travel around Hell before choosing an opponent. He bought the latest information on every Shura and Inferno Commander, including dossiers on several familiar figures.

• Randolph congratulated Zhou Tong on becoming a Seven-star Demon and gave him his medal and 234 billion Ink Stones in mission rewards and deposits.
• Zhou Tong asked Randolph how challenges to Shuras worked and said he would explore Hell before deciding whether to issue one.
• Randolph explained that the Demon Castle arranged challenges and privately noted that Zhou Tong might face the White Dew Prefecture Lord's revenge.
• Zhou Tong asked the Demon Castle's information clerk for the latest records on all Shuras and Commanders, then paid 100 million Ink Stones to take them away.
• Zhou Tong stored the files and spotted information on Beirut, Aiken, and Danlington among the prominent dossiers.

Ouros investigated Kahn after Kahn stole his fortune and weighed whether to pursue him, while Zhou Tong studied Aiken’s battle and broke through the final step of fusing parts of his Destruction Rule. Ouros ordered spies to track Kahn, and Zhou Tong turned to further research.

• Ouros learned that Kahn had killed Kasapa and stolen the Ink Stone, then reviewed the limited records of Kahn’s history and strength.
• Ouros concluded that Kahn was formidable but believed he could defeat him, and ordered the Golden-browed Highgod to watch Kahn in Emerald City.
• Zhou Tong watched a crystal recording of Aiken defeating a challenger with a slash of his crimson warblade.
• Zhou Tong gained inspiration from Aiken’s attack and quietly completed the final step in his Destruction Rule fusion.
• Zhou Tong planned to study the compatibility of Illusionary Destruction with other paths and have his Destruction God Avatar research the fusion of Destruction, Earth Pulse, and the Mystery of Explosion.

After more than two hundred years of cultivation, Zhou Tong fused the Gravity Space Profundity with the Power Profound Meaning and Life Force Profundity, creating his Innate Ultimate Move, the Distortion Field. He left the hotel to seek inspiration from more Floating Images on Miluo Island, while his other cultivation remained at difficult bottlenecks.

• Ouros ordered the Golden-browed Highgod to keep watching Kahn, who had stayed secluded in the hotel for over a century.
• Zhou Tong tested his newly formed Distortion Field, initially injuring his fist before improving his control over the space-distorting power.
• Zhou Tong named the move the Distortion Field and realized it could turn strange attacks into direct contests of physical strength.
• Zhou Tong reviewed his progress in the Earth Law and Destruction Rule, noting that several fusions and breakthroughs remained stalled.
• Zhou Tong decided to leave, take a mission, and visit Morth on Miluo Island to view more Floating Images.