Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi comprehended Yin Yang Transformation, used his growing power to restore temples across Lingzhou, and left for Baozhou with Black Pot. When the Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring resisted Zhong Wuwang’s attempt to recall it, Zhong Wuwang prepared to use himself and the Innate Dao Embryo as bait to expose the expert who had plotted against him.

• Chen Shi mastered Yin Yang Transformation, strengthened his Primordial Spirit, and discovered that he could refine the world’s evil Qi while spreading righteous Qi through his Dao field.
• Chen Shi and Black Pot visited a ruined temple, where the Goddess surnamed Guo, given name Zhongfu, began restoring her golden body and an ancient rattan grew into another spacetime.
• Chen Shi reunited with Lin Sheng in a town celebrating the New Year, stayed for the festivities, and slept beside Fairy Xiaoduan without realizing who she was.
• Chen Shi and Black Pot traveled through Lingzhou, enfeoffing deities and helping settlements form around their restored temples, before moving on to Baozhou Province.
• The Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring rejected Zhong Wuwang’s incense and remained with Chen Shi, prompting Zhong Wuwang to prepare a trap for the three old fellows and the expert from the Thirteen Noble Families who had attacked him.

Zhong Wuwang drew the Upper Realm’s attention to expose its location, while Yang Bi tried to prepare its factions for an attack from Despair Slope. As Feng Ruotong appeared inside the Upper Realm and began confronting its defenders, a deity’s severed head fell toward Chen Shi in Baozhou Province.

• The Upper Realm’s deities tracked Zhong Wuwang to Star Raft Mountain after his Innate Dao Embryo dimmed the moon, and Yang Bi ordered them not to send messages to the netherworld.
• Yang Bi warned the ten ancestors that Sky Listeners could detect communications, but an incense-fire message nearly escaped before the ancestors cut it off and ordered the Upper Realm to prepare its immortal treasures and Nine Halls of True Kings.
• The Upper Realm’s deities challenged Yang Bi’s cautious strategy, while he argued that they needed the Innate Dao Embryo to strengthen their defenses against Despair Slope.
• At Star Raft Mountain, Zhong Wuwang confronted Fei Zichong and revealed that Feng Ruotong had already entered the Upper Realm.
• Feng Ruotong introduced himself to the Upper Realm’s deities and declared that he would return them to the Dao of heaven and earth, prompting them to deploy their treasures and halls.
• In Baozhou Province, Chen Shi saw the sky split open to reveal the Upper Realm, and a giant deity’s head fell toward the earth.

Chen Shi witnessed the Upper Realm collapse as a Despair Slope immortal slaughtered its heavenly gods and ancestors, while the survivors’ deaths scattered corrupted flesh and immortal artifacts across the mortal world. As Chen Shi continued his search for temples and tried to pursue the fleeing treasures, the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade landed before him.

• Chen Shi watched the Upper Realm shatter, its fallen gods polluting the land, and hurried toward a temple with Scholar Zhu and Fairy Xiaoduan.
• The Nine Halls of True Kings and other immortal treasures attacked a single Despair Slope immortal, but he destroyed the halls and slaughtered the Upper Realm’s gods.
• An Upper Realm ancestor attuned to the Dao and began evil transformation, but the Despair Slope immortal killed him before he could complete it.
• Chen Shi fled the falling mass of evil-transformed flesh, then saw the Thirteen Noble Families’ ancestors attune to the Dao and die in the continuing slaughter.
• Chen Shi chased the Purple Green Two Qi Ring and the Green Sun Umbrella, but both escaped; the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade then landed at his feet.

Chen Shi refined the Yin Yang Qi of the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade and gained limited control of it, though its demonic nature still threatened to overpower him. While he meditated, the Black Pot battered the masterless Taiyi Demon-Dispelling Shuttle into submission and showed Chen Shi how it had subdued the immortal treasure.

• Chen Shi refused the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade at first because he feared its demonic influence, but he eventually took it and began refining its Yin Yang Qi.
• Chen Shi entered the Blood Sea Hell within the blade and used his understanding of Yin Yang Transformation to try to control its sun-and-moon manifestation.
• The Black Pot chased the Taiyi Demon-Dispelling Shuttle, which had emerged from the Upper Realm with the corpse of one of the Thirteen Noble Families’ ancestors.
• The Black Pot struck the shuttle repeatedly with the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler until it broke into ninety-nine soft swords, and a little girl formed from incense and fire begged for mercy.
• After more than ten days, Chen Shi finished refining the blade’s Yin Yang Qi and briefly reached the Great Ascension stage with the Blood Lake True Scripture, while barely resisting the blade’s demonic nature.
• The Black Pot assembled the soft swords into the Taiyi Demon-Dispelling Shuttle and demonstrated its speed, leaving Chen Shi astonished that it had subdued an immortal treasure by beating it.

Chen Shi traveled through the shattered Upper Realm and encountered Fei Zichong fighting Zhong Wuwang, who sought to use the battle to advance toward immortality. After Fei Zichong succumbed to calamity transmutation, Chen Shi killed him at his request, and Fei Zichong died longing to return home.

• Chen Shi studied the Taiyi Demon-Dispelling Shuttle, but its spirit refused Black Pot’s incense and soothed it when Black Pot tried to refine it.
• Chen Shi warned villagers that the strange suns and moons would not grow crops, but they returned to planting after he left.
• Chen Shi found the Saint Aunt Temple and witnessed Fei Zichong clash with Zhong Wuwang, who fought to take the final step toward becoming an immortal.
• Chen Shi left Scholar Zhu and Black Pot to guard the temple and pursued Zhong Wuwang, intent on reclaiming his Dao fetus.
• Fei Zichong’s calamity transmutation overwhelmed him, and he asked Chen Shi to kill him before he harmed others.
• Chen Shi struck down Fei Zichong, who recalled that he and the true king had burned the Great Ming treasure ships to keep evil Qi from reaching their homeland, then died wishing he could go home.

Chen Shi succumbed to the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade’s demonic influence and pursued Zhong Wuwang, whose wounds and immortal-Dao pollution left him near death. Zhong Wuwang escaped and met his master, Daoist Wei, who stayed behind to face Chen Shi while Luo Wushang took Zhong Wuwang for treatment.

• Fei Zichong’s blood and cultivation strengthened the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, and Chen Shi gave in to its demonic nature and set out to kill Zhong Wuwang.
• Zhong Wuwang suppressed Fei Zichong’s immortal-Dao pollution with the Innate Dao Embryo, then realized Fei Zichong’s demonic domain had vanished and assumed a Despair Slope immortal had killed him.
• Chen Shi attacked Zhong Wuwang with the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, while Zhong Wuwang used immortal arts and the Innate Dao Embryo to fight back and evade his strikes.
• The blade wounded Zhong Wuwang repeatedly and drained his blood-Qi, so he used his corrupted flesh wings to escape, then collapsed after flying tens of thousands of miles.
• Daoist Wei and Luo Wushang found the gravely injured Zhong Wuwang, and Daoist Wei sent Luo Wushang to take him back to Despair Slope while he stayed to confront Chen Shi.

Luo Wushang took the wounded Zhong Wuwang away while Chen Shi confronted Daoist Wei, who subdued the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and revealed its history and Chen Shi’s past refusal to serve Despair Slope. When Chen Shi realized Daoist Wei had taken his Innate Dao Embryo, the blade’s demonic influence surged again.

• Luo Wushang urged the badly wounded Zhong Wuwang to return to Despair Slope instead of going back to help Daoist Wei.
• Daoist Wei used the Supreme Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture to suppress the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and restore Chen Shi’s clarity.
• Daoist Wei recounted the blade’s deadly history and offered to teach Chen Shi the scripture if he joined Despair Slope; Chen Shi agreed, but insisted his conflict with Zhong Wuwang would remain unresolved.
• Daoist Wei explained that Chen Shi had once refused to kneel to an outer god and that Despair Slope had consequently taken his Innate Dao Embryo.
• Chen Shi’s demonic nature broke through Daoist Wei’s suppression, and Chen Shi accused him of taking the Innate Dao Embryo.

Chen Shi fought Daoist Wei with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade after accusing him of stealing his Innate Dao Embryo. Chen Shi overcame Daoist Wei’s seals and beheaded him, leaving his own struggle against the blade’s demonic nature unresolved.

• Daoist Wei used the Earth Fiend Seal, Three Powers Seal, and Heavenly Dipper Seal to suppress Chen Shi, but Chen Shi’s demonic nature intensified and his Blood Sea Hell absorbed the attacks.
• Daoist Wei recalled Chen Shi’s childhood and the men and children who had gathered around him before his Innate Dao Embryo was taken.
• Chen Shi unleashed Thousand Rivers of Sun, and Daoist Wei broke through many rivers of blade light with Despair Slope’s seal arts.
• The blade lights wounded Daoist Wei across his body, drained his blood qi, and blinded him and his Primordial Spirit as he fought blindly for hours.
• Daoist Wei begged Chen Shi to spare him and offered to serve him, but Chen Shi severed his hands and feet before cutting off his head.

After absorbing Daoist Wei, Chen Shi succumbed further to the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and flew to Bozhou, where he killed Ren Feng and confronted Ren Xiao and the former Fuzheng Pavilion officials. Fairy Xiaoduan tried to restrain him, while a group of powerful newcomers arrived outside the city, declaring they had found His Majesty.

• Chen Shi absorbed Daoist Wei into the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, but failed to put down the blade and began craving slaughter.
• Fairy Xiaoduan briefly halted the Blood Sea Hell, but Chen Shi attacked her, forcing her to retreat into the small temple.
• Fairy Xiaoduan realized Chen Shi retained some reason when he stopped his blade from striking the small temple, and she considered using the Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring to help him.
• Ren Xiao discussed the Ren family's ambitions with Shui Xuanzhi, Qin Su, and Dou Qi as they weighed who should inherit leadership and whether the family could claim the throne.
• Chen Shi arrived in Bozhou after killing Ren Feng and his raiding party, then confronted Ren Xiao, Shui Xuanzhi, and Qin Su.
• Several formidable figures appeared outside Bozhou beneath an eye-shaped full moon and said they had finally found His Majesty.

Chen Shi killed the Ren family and Fuzheng Pavilion forces in Bozhou City with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, then let the starving townspeople take the Ren family's food. As they praised him as their benefactor and his murderous impulse eased, a monk, a Daoist priest, and a Confucian scholar entered the restaurant.

• Fairy Xiaoduan sensed that the visitors were calamity-tier beings and grew wary of them.
• Chen Shi killed Dou Qi and a Fuzheng Pavilion official with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade after they threatened and mocked him.
• Ren Xiao and the Ren family forces attacked, but Chen Shi's blade swept through Bozhou City and killed them, along with Shuan Xuanzhi as he fled.
• Chen Shi told the starving townspeople to take food from the Ren family estate, and they celebrated his deed and called him their Great Benefactor.
• As the townspeople served Chen Shi a meal, their warmth eased his grip on the blade and its killing intent, until a monk, a Daoist priest, and a Confucian scholar entered the restaurant.

Chen Shi met three corrupted cultivators who claimed he was the former Divine Emperor and urged him to return to Divine Capital and undo his sealed memories. When they attacked, Fairy Xiaoduan intervened, recognized by the Confucian scholar as the Heavenly Maiden, and escaped with Chen Shi.

• Chen Shi heard the monk, Daoist, and Confucian scholar claim he was the Divine Emperor and invite him to return to Divine Capital.
• Chen Shi learned that his grandfather had sealed his memories, then attacked the three when they suggested undoing the seal.
• Dao Cheng revealed his identity and attacked Chen Shi with the Tai Zhen Jade Art as the monk and Confucian scholar joined the fight.
• Fairy Xiaoduan struck Chen Shi’s Blood Sea Hell, then fought off the monk while the three pressed their attack.
• Fairy Xiaoduan summoned a Xuan Bird, causing the Confucian scholar to recognize her as the Heavenly Maiden, and fled through the void with Chen Shi.

Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk accepted evil transformation as the path to becoming new immortals and searched for Chen Shi after Fairy Xiaoduan abducted him. Elsewhere, Zhong Wuwang mourned his master's death, while Jing Yushu revealed the Divine Capital’s plan to Chen Yindu and invoked Chen Shi’s idea of ending evil spirits by transforming everyone.

• Dao Chengzi recovered from his wounds, and Song Yi explained that his Shang bloodline compelled him to bow to Fairy Xiaoduan, the Xuan Bird Heavenly Court’s princess.
• Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk agreed that evil transformation was the changing Great Dao and set out to find Chen Shi before Fairy Xiaoduan could harm him.
• Feng Ruotong told Zhong Wuwang that Daoist Wei Luowei had died protecting him, and Zhong Wuwang asked to kill Chen Shi himself.
• Feng Ruotong returned the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and told the Heavenly Dao Immortals to wait for their enemies to emerge before awakening the true god.
• Jing Yushu met Chen Yindu in the Divine Capital, revealed that the city had founded the rogue cultivator organization, and described its plan to transform the world into a realm of new immortals.
• Chen Yindu rejected Jing Yushu’s allegiance, and Jing Yushu argued that Chen Shi’s proposal to transform everyone could end the suffering caused by evil spirits.

Chen Shi’s cultivation restored the Great Shang descendants in nearby ghost villages to human form, revealing that Fairy Xiaoduan was not the last survivor of her people. The chapter left Chen Shi’s Dao field reversing evil transformations while Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk departed, returning to their disaster forms beyond its boundary.

• Jing Yushu left Chen Yindu wondering why powerful evil-transformed beings had once revered Chen Shi as emperor and whether Chen Shi’s seal still held.
• Fairy Xiaoduan hid Chen Shi in a ghost village, where he befriended the little ox-heads by beating them at head-butting games and agreed to wait until his pursuers had left.
• Chen Shi asked Fairy Xiaoduan to undo his grandfather’s seal so he could recover his Underworld memories, then began cultivating the Three Corpses with the Sixth New Talisman.
• Chen Shi’s expanding Dao field transformed the ox-demons and neighboring ghost tribes into human descendants of Great Shang, and Fairy Xiaoduan realized her people had survived as ghost tribes.
• Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk felt alive within Chen Shi’s Dao field, then left it and reverted to natural disasters.

Chen Shi continued refining his Three Corpses Gods while traveling with Xiaoduan and Fairy Xiaoduan to find ancient temples, and he discovered that his Dao field could restore the ox-demons of Niu Village to human form. In Northern Alliance Province, he encountered the battered Yang Bi, whose bitterness over the destruction of his world left him contemplating the despair of Despair Slope.

• Chen Shi attempted to refine his Three Corpses Gods through Yin Yang Tempering, converting Peng Ju and Peng Zhi to cultivation while Peng Huang resisted until dawn.
• Chen Shi found Fairy Xiaoduan teaching children in Niu Village, where his Dao field had changed the ox-demons back into humans, and she explained that the cataclysm had brought the True Gods from Beyond the Heavens.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan spent several days in the village before he recalled his Dao field, returning its people to ox-headed forms; afterward, he resumed traveling with Xiaoduan, Fairy Xiaoduan, Scholar Zhu, and Black Pot to locate temples.
• Chen Shi continued refining Peng Huang as the group discovered more temples and mapped new regions, then identified the Bodhi Dojo's likely location in Northern Alliance Province.
• Chen Shi recognized Yang Bi among a group of refugees, gave him a Ginseng Grass Fruit, and pretended he had mistaken him for an old friend.
• Yang Bi recalled the destruction of the Upper Realm and his ancestors, then concluded that the despair of Despair Slope was what its enemies experienced.

After losing hope in the ruined Upper Realm, Yang Bi recovered among displaced villagers and began protecting them, then joined Red Mountain Hall after learning Chen Shi was rebuilding the state. He left with the villagers for a settlement around Peng Zu Pavilion, where he resolved to rely on himself and help restore the world.

• Yang Bi initially refused the Ginseng Grass Fruit while Xiao Fang cared for his severe injuries and urged him to keep living.
• When a sheng sheng attacked the villagers, Yang Bi swallowed the fruit and used zither music to kill it; he later killed government riders who tried to punish and exploit the villagers.
• Yang Bi recognized the riders' leader as a member of the Tingzhou Yang family, denounced the family he had once protected, and collapsed before recovering with Xiao Fang's help.
• Yang Bi healed, taught cultivation to the villagers, married Xiao Fang, and agreed to join Red Mountain Hall after Tian Yue'e invited him on behalf of Chen Shi.
• Tian Yue'e led Yang Bi and the villagers to a settlement near Peng Zu Pavilion, where Yang Bi saw the revived deity and resolved to rely on himself.

Saintess Xuan reunited with Chen Shi, whose account of his work and request to help revive Huaxia deities convinced her to leave the Bodhi Dojo and join the Red Mountain Hall Talisman Association. As she rode out with many monks and nuns, Chen Shi discovered she had left him a scripture containing the Bodhi leaf she had been reading.

• Saintess Xuan returned to the Bodhi Dojo after advancing to the Spirit Refining Realm and described the suffering she had witnessed among the people.
• Saintess Xuan learned that Chen Shi was nearby, and his sudden greeting stirred feelings she had thought she had let go.
• Chen Shi and Saintess Xuan discussed her doubts about whether to save people or remain in meditation, and she listened as he recounted his struggles and work.
• Chen Shi asked Saintess Xuan to join the Red Mountain Hall Talisman Association and help save people, find ancient temples, and revive Huaxia deities; she agreed.
• Saintess Xuan led many monks and nuns down the mountain, leaving Abbess Miaoyin furious and Huiyin Bodhi resigned to their departure.
• Chen Shi opened the scripture Saintess Xuan had given him and found a Bodhi leaf pressed inside.

Chen Shi defeated a sea demon while traveling to restore temples, then refined the Three Corpses God into three yin gods and entered the Three Corpses Realm. He claimed Fairy Xiaoduan’s promised reward, leaving her garments untied and himself staring at her chest.

• Saintess Xuan continued healing plague-stricken people, and Abbess Miaoyin realized that her disciple had devoted herself to saving the world.
• Chen Shi used the West King's Jade Seal to kill a sea demon threatening the Temple of Saintess Shuiwei, then discussed the Sea of Darkness and a possibly banished Daoist priest with Scholar Zhu.
• Chen Shi refined Peng Qiu, joining Peng Qiu with Peng Zhi and Peng Ju as three yin gods and advancing into the Three Corpses Realm.
• Chen Shi summoned Fairy Xiaoduan and demonstrated that he had refined the three corpses, demanding that she honor her promise.
• Fairy Xiaoduan agreed to let Chen Shi undress her, and he removed her layers of clothing before staring at her exposed chest.

Chen Shi’s cultivation caused a third small temple to appear, signaling that his godmother might soon revive. At the high ridge, Chen Tang witnessed the stone tablet awaken and met Yu Changbai, who revealed that the buried goddess was Madam Houtu.

• Chen Shi touched Fairy Xiaoduan after she let him look, but she struck him and sent cold light after Scholar Zhu when he speculated about their encounter.
• As Chen Shi revived more deities, his cultivation accelerated and the small temples behind his head grew; he realized his godmother might soon return.
• Chen Shi revived Shi Gandang, and a third small temple appeared beside the temple housing Fairy Xiaoduan.
• At the high ridge, Chen Tang saw the stone tablet rise as the ground trembled, and he concluded that Chen Shi’s godmother was nearing revival.
• Yu Changbai arrived with Zhuang Wujiu, invited Chen Tang aboard his carriage, and explained that the high ridge held the avatar of Madam Houtu, ruler of the gods and the Underworld Bureau.

Chen Shi confronted Yu Changbai over Despair Slope’s plan to destroy Empress Houtu’s orthodoxy, but Yu Changbai overpowered him and altered the portal to his Heavenly Mechanisms. After the willow tree drove Yu Changbai back, Zhuang Wujiu revealed that he was actually Created Being Xiao Wu, Chen Shi’s younger brother.

• Yu Changbai told Chen Shi that Despair Slope intended to destroy Empress Houtu’s temple and orthodoxy, and revealed that Chen Yindu had once served as a Heavenly Dao Walker there.
• Chen Shi activated his thirty-seven Talisman God Heavenly Mechanisms and attacked Yu Changbai with the Xuanwei Sword, but Yu Changbai froze the domains, absorbed the strike, and changed the box’s talismanic patterns to cut off access to the mechanisms.
• Yu Changbai ascended the high ridge using Heavenly Gate Ascension, but the old willow tree struck him with a branch and forced him back onto the glazed chariot.
• Zhuang Wujiu used a silver needle to freeze Yu Changbai’s Void Realm and pierce his head, then revealed that he was Created Being Xiao Wu, Chen Shi’s younger brother.

Chen Tang reunited with Created Being Xiao Wu, who took Yu Changbai’s place to conceal news of Empress Houtu and shared what he knew about Despair Slope. Meanwhile, Chen Shi’s growing primordial spirit led Scholar Zhu to suspect he had already reached the Spirit Refining Realm before his death, with the truth hidden in his sealed memories.

• Chen Tang opened a box of Talisman God Heavenly Mechanisms, forcing Created Being Xiao Wu to abandon his plan to kill him and discuss the threat to Empress Houtu.
• Created Being Xiao Wu transformed into Yu Changbai and said he would suppress the Sky Listeners’ report while Zhong Wuwang was in seclusion.
• Yu Changbai told Chen Tang that Despair Slope’s immortals revered a Heavenly Lord, but he could not confirm whether Chen Tang’s mother came from Despair Slope.
• Chen Tang left the carriage, offered incense at the high ridge, and worried that Empress Houtu’s recovery might not be enough to protect people from Despair Slope.
• Chen Shi noticed that his primordial spirit had grown beyond the Three Corpses Realm’s limit, and Scholar Zhu suggested he had reached the Spirit Refining Realm before he died.