Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu as the True God from Beyond the Heavens awakened and reignited the sun. The Yin and Yang Worlds separated, ending the calamity, while Feng Ruotong and the Grand Libationer were left to reckon with the sudden change.

• Chen Yindu replaced the Great Dao Wall’s witch sacrifice Dao patterns with talismans, led his group through, and reunited with Chen Shi, whom he invited to go home.
• Gong Wanqing suspected that her former disciple had returned to reignite the sun, while Zhong Wuang wondered whether the True God’s awakening required sacrificing the Innate Dao Embryo.
• Feng Ruotong pursued the Grand Libationer, hoping to draw out the Demon Emperor, whom the Grand Libationer knew was Chen Shi.
• The Yin and Yang Worlds began separating, allowing the Grand Libationer’s group to escape Feng Ruotong’s pursuit.
• The True God from Beyond the Heavens opened its eyes and lit the sun, and the Yin and Yang Worlds separated completely.
• People across the Western Ox Continent celebrated the end of the calamity, and Yan Xianshi embraced his family as he anticipated returning to Xijing.

Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu and brought him back to the Yang World, where the family and villagers welcomed him. After learning Yan Xianshi was leaving for Xijing, Chen Shi confronted him and demanded he turn back or face death.

• Gong Wanqing and Immortal Kou suspected a Heavenly Dao Immortal within Despair Slope had revived the true god, while Zhong Wuwang privately suspected Yu Changbai and Zhuang Wujiu.
• Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu aboard the owl boat, brought him to the Yang World, and used his dao field and Yin Yang Tempering to suppress Chen Yindu’s evil Qi.
• Chen Yindu reunited with the villagers of Huangpo Village, embraced Chen Tang, and thanked Wu Qingyu for holding the family together.
• Chen Shi learned Yan Xianshi had left for Xijing and flew to Taiping County to intercept him.
• Chen Shi warned Yan Xianshi that the Thirteen Noble Families harmed the people and demanded he choose between returning to Ganyang Mountain and dying; Yan Xianshi accused him of plotting rebellion.

Chen Shi killed Yan Xianshi, spared his concubine and young son, and returned to Huangpo Village with Chen Yindu. At Mirror Lake Villa, Chen Yindu explained the history of the Shang people and the destruction of the Xuan Bird Heavenly Court before opening a coffin to awaken its occupant.

• Yan Xianshi confronted Chen Shi with the power of the Thirteen Noble Families, but Chen Shi trapped him in a distorted domain and killed him with blade Qi.
• Chen Shi gave Yan Xianshi’s concubine silver and told her to raise her son away from the Yan family, then left before she could ask to become his secondary wife.
• Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu and rode with him toward Mirror Lake Villa, while Chen Tang and Created Being Xiao Wu exchanged barbs in Huangpo Village.
• Chen Yindu told Chen Shi that the Shang people had rebuilt the Xuan Bird Heavenly Court after their exile, but a powerful entity destroyed it around sixteen thousand years earlier.
• At Mirror Lake Villa, Chen Yindu stopped beside a coffin and said he had come as promised to awaken the person inside.

Chen Shi awakened the rogue cultivators in Mirror Lake Villa with his Dao Field and taught them his method of counter-proving the heavens. He left ready to descend into the Underworld, wake the Little King of Hell, reclaim the Immortal Capital, and confront the Yan family.

• Chen Yindu asked Chen Shi to deploy his Dao Field, which dispelled the evil Qi and strange afflictions troubling the people sealed in the coffins.
• Dragon Roaming Rogue Cultivator, Empress Shao, Pei Rogue Cultivator, and Mu Daozi emerged, and they recognized the extraordinary nature of Chen Shi's Dao Field.
• After learning Mu Daozi had undergone a second evil mutation before being sealed, the rogue cultivators competed to become Chen Shi's disciple, then bowed to him together.
• Chen Shi explained his counter-proving method and taught the four rogue cultivators Yin Yang Tempering and Yin Yang Transformation.
• Chen Shi told Chen Yindu that the world had to change so ordinary people could escape the aristocratic families' oppression.
• Chen Shi announced plans to wake the Little King of Hell, reclaim the Immortal Capital, and flatten the Yan family.

Sha Qiutong used a Three Lives Stone to awaken Nannan’s memories as the Benevolent Lord, while Underworld forces attacked the Fox Clan Courtyard to capture her. The courtyard returned safely to the Yang World, but Nannan’s recovery remained at a critical juncture.

• Chen Yindu confirmed that Nannan was the reincarnated Benevolent Lord, and Chen Shi said Granny Sha had obtained Three Lives Stones through Xiang Tianyu.
• Sha Qiutong began using a Three Lives Stone to restore Nannan’s past-life memories while Chen Shi’s four rogue cultivator disciples guarded the courtyard.
• Nannan’s memories revealed the Benevolent Lord’s arrival in the Underworld and the creation of the Hall of Yama as Underworld forces attacked the Fox Clan Courtyard.
• Zhong Kui, Tie Chi, and the boatman and his daughter fought off the River of Forgetfulness’s runners, while Chen Shi’s dao field returned the courtyard from Iron Tree Hell to the Yang World.
• Pei Rogue Cultivator drove back the ghost gods outside the courtyard, and Nannan’s memories continued to show the Benevolent Lord’s long service as the Three Lives Stone dimmed.

Nannan awakened the Benevolent Lord's memories and power, but Chen Shi realized she remained a little girl rather than the former ruler of the Underworld. Back in Huangpo Village, Fairy Xiaoduan confided her fear about her father becoming a True God from Beyond the Heavens, and Chen Shi comforted her.

• Nannan's memories of the Benevolent Lord returned as the Three Lives Stone shattered, and her divine power subdued the fighting Yin guards.
• Nannan reunited with the surviving judges and thanked Chen Shi and his companions, while Chen Shi remembered their agreement.
• Chen Yindu warned Chen Shi that Nannan was still herself despite inheriting the Benevolent Lord's memories and cultivation, leaving Chen Shi worried about restoring order in the Underworld.
• Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village and asked Fairy Xiaoduan what troubled her as they watched over the forming temple.
• Fairy Xiaoduan told Chen Shi that the True God from Beyond the Heavens had her father's face and that she feared her father and brother's fate; Chen Shi comforted her, and they kissed after she awoke.

Chen Shi led Sha Qiutong, Xiang Tianyu, and Nannan into the Underworld to avenge Xiang Tianyu and restore the Benevolent Lord to the throne of King Yama. At the Tongue-Pulling Hell’s Ghost Gate Pass, the Dao Lao Tribe attacked the Yan family’s forces, and Chen Shi revealed that he intended to destroy the Yan family completely.

• Jueyangzi, Scholar Zhu, Daoist Liu, and the black pot speculated that Xiao Duan was the fairy in disguise, then concluded that Chen Shi already knew and was playing along with her.
• Sha Qiutong asked Chen Shi to help avenge Xiang Tianyu, and he set out with her, Xiang Tianyu, and Nannan while their allies stayed behind to guard the Empress Temple.
• Chen Shi traveled through the Underworld toward the Immortal Capital, explaining that his Three Corpses Gods had mapped the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• At the Tongue-Pulling Hell’s Ghost Gate Pass, Yan family ghost officials discovered the living travelers and prepared to attack.
• The Dao Lao Tribe stormed the Ghost Gate Pass, and Chen Shi fused with the skeleton king before declaring that he would destroy the Yan family.

Chen Shi wielded the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade to kill Yan Guang and seize the first level of hell, then led Sha Qiutong and the Asura tribe toward Scissor Hell. After breaking through Scissor Hell and killing Yan Shuang, he entered Iron Tree Hell and faced its two judges.

• Chen Shi overpowered the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, slaughtered the Yan Family ghost gods at Ghost Gate Pass, and killed Yan Guang as Yan Guang raised Tongue-Pulling Hell.
• Chen Shi put the blade away, told Sha Qiutong to leave the first level to the Daolao Tribe, and set off for Scissor Hell.
• At Scissor Hell, the Asura Patriarch answered Chen Shi's call and shattered Ghost Gate Pass with the Asura women following her into battle.
• Chen Shi killed the merit officer and split the ghost city behind Ghost Gate Pass with one strike.
• In Iron Tree Hell, Chen Shi killed the arriving Yan Shuang and turned to face the Fire Judge and Earth Judge.

Chen Shi led Nannan and the allied ghost tribes through the rebelling Eighteen Levels of Hell to the Hall of Yama, where Nannan and the defenders fought the Yan family. The Yan family summoned an immortal treasure to stop them, but Chen Shi’s Treasure Dropping Golden Coin neutralized it, and Granny Sha entered the hall with Xiang Tianyu.

• The Fire Judge and Earth Judge defended the Iron Tree Hell as the Leiyuan Tribe and other allies attacked, while Chen Shi’s carriage passed through the fighting.
• Chen Shi crossed successive hells as ghost tribes battled the Yan family’s forces, and Granny Sha realized he had arranged their infiltration.
• At the Saw Hell, Zhong Kui, Tie Chi, Wang Fu, Jia Yuan, Zhu Shun, Black and White Impermanence, and the boatman father and daughter held the pass while Nannan led the assault on the Hall of Yama.
• Nannan’s guillotines killed Yan family ghost deities who confessed their crimes, breaking the family’s morale as Wei Yue prayed to the Yan ancestors.
• Yan Shihai and the two old sect masters sent the Purple Green Two Qi Ring from the Yang World, but Chen Shi’s Treasure Dropping Golden Coin nullified it and caused the Yan family’s magical treasures to fall.
• Chen Shi reached the Hall of Yama, reminded Granny Sha that he had promised to avenge Brother Tianyu, and watched her enter with Xiang Tianyu.

Granny Sha confronted Wei Yue over Xiang Tianyu’s death, defeated him, and chose to send her son into reincarnation rather than keep him as a ghost. Nannan reclaimed King Yama’s throne and ordered the Underworld to subjugate the Thirteen Noble Families, while Xiang Tianyu was reborn as Fan Pu.

• Granny Sha and Xiang Tianyu confronted Wei Yue in the Hall of Yama, where he revealed that he had waited for Xiang Tianyu outside Buddhist hell and cruelly blamed Granny Sha for sending her son there.
• Granny Sha used her soul arts and Void Realm to torture Wei Yue, then destroyed him after Chen Shi urged her to end the revenge.
• Nannan took King Yama’s throne, issued a decree to subjugate the Thirteen Noble Families, and offered Xiang Tianyu a place among the Underworld’s ghost-gods.
• Granny Sha declined Nannan’s offer and sent Xiang Tianyu into the Six Paths of Reincarnation so he could have a new life.
• Xiang Tianyu was born into the Fan family as Fan Pu, carrying the Three Lives Stone, and Chen Shi and Granny Sha watched over him before departing.

Yan Shihai sent Yan Shaoxuan and young Fang Zhenxiu away under Yan Hanqing’s protection, then stayed in Liuzhou as the Chen clan’s campaign destroyed the Yan lineage’s forces across the realm. Chen Shi arrived at the Yan residence, condemned the Yan lineage as Sui, and began the attack.

• Yan Shihai told Yan Shaoxuan to abandon revenge and made young Zhenxiu accept the name Fang Zhenxiu before sending them away with Yan Hanqing.
• Yan Shihai and the patriarchs learned that Red Mountain Hall talisman masters had attacked Yan forces across more than two thousand prefectures and counties.
• The Yan lineage gathered to face its impending defeat, and a black dog delivered Chen Shi’s calling card to the residence.
• Chen Shi met Yan Shihai and argued that the Yan lineage’s long record of abuses made its members Sui who deserved to be slain.
• Chen Shi’s power shattered the Yan estate, and a Yan cultivator charged him as he drew the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade.

Chen Shi unleashed the Blood Sea Hell and the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade against the Yan family, defeating their three Great Ascension ancestors and slaughtering the clan’s defenders. He left Liuzhou City declaring the Yan family erased.

• Chen Shi’s Blood Sea Hell suppressed Yan Shihai’s Void Realm, and Yan Wuji and Yan Siqing joined him but could not overpower it.
• Yan family members charged Chen Shi to help their ancestors, but his blood-wave blade attack killed most of them.
• Chen Shi killed Yan Shihai and Yan Wuji, then beheaded Yan Siqing and slew the remaining Void Returning experts.
• Chen Shi drew the Blood Sea Hell back into the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, suppressed the blade’s demonic nature, and stowed it in the little temple.
• Chen Shi walked out of Liuzhou City and declared the Yan family erased.

Chen Tang confronted Yan Hanqing while pursuing the fleeing Yan Family members and revealed the resentment behind his old rivalry with him. After Yan Hanqing challenged him with the Luotian Twelve Divine Demons, Chen Tang unleashed his Great Ascension cultivation and killed him.

• Yan Hanqing escorted Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu through Red Mountain Hall’s checkpoints while avoiding clashes with the talisman masters and the revived deities.
• Chen Tang arrived to inspect the carriage, and Yan Hanqing sent Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu away before facing him.
• Yan Hanqing recalled their imperial examination duels and taunted Chen Tang with the mocking nickname Ping Shou Chen.
• Chen Tang explained how his desire to win his father’s attention had led him to the examinations and how witnessing the Thirteen Noble Families exclude talented people deepened his hatred.
• Yan Hanqing summoned twelve Primordial Spirits and challenged Chen Tang, who drew the Xuanwei Sword and fought him at the Great Ascension stage.
• Chen Tang’s sword qi pierced Yan Hanqing’s defenses and split his body in two, after which Chen Tang said he no longer needed to fight him to a draw.

Chen Tang killed Yan Hanqing’s eleven remaining primordial spirits and continued pursuing the surviving Yan family members, while Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu escaped to Lingzhou. There, Zhong Wuwang took Fang Zhenxiu as a prospective disciple and taught Yan Shaoxuan twelve deadly techniques intended to help her kill Chen Shi.

• Chen Tang destroyed Yan Hanqing’s eleven primordial spirits, then found the carriage empty and flew off to aid Red Mountain Hall fighters.
• Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu reached Lingzhou in disguise and were led to Zhong Wuwang’s manor by his Sky Listener Lord guards.
• Zhong Wuwang told Yan Shaoxuan that the Yan family had been destroyed and that her father, Yan Hanqing, had died at Chen Tang’s hands.
• Yan Shaoxuan asked Zhong Wuwang to take Fang Zhenxiu as his disciple, and he agreed to test the boy’s aptitude.
• Zhong Wuwang taught Yan Shaoxuan twelve techniques after explaining that he had studied Chen Shi’s moves and found fatal flaws.
• Zhong Wuwang instructed Yan Shaoxuan to tell Chen Shi that he had sent her, then use the final three techniques to strike at Chen Shi’s life.

Yan Shaoxuan learned fourteen techniques devised by Zhong Wuwang and Yang Bi to kill Chen Shi, then confronted him at Ganyang Mountain. Chen Shi halted his blade and asked her to demonstrate the techniques, eager to see how they could break his dao field.

• Yan Shaoxuan left Fang Zhenxiu with Zhong Wuwang, who warned that her revenge mission would likely kill her and urged Fang to survive the Despair Slope assessment.
• Yan Shaoxuan met the crippled Yang Bi in Tianyu County, and he recognized that Zhong Wuwang's first nine techniques targeted weaknesses in Chen Shi's dao field.
• Yang Bi deduced and taught Yan Shaoxuan five more techniques, completing the fourteen-move sequence, while warning that Zhong Wuwang had sent her to test Chen Shi's response and that she was unlikely to defeat him.
• Yan Shaoxuan traveled to Huangpo Village and told Chen Shi that Zhong Wuwang and Yang Bi had given her fourteen moves to kill him.
• Chen Shi summoned the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, halted it before Yan Shaoxuan, and asked her to demonstrate the techniques.

Yan Shaoxuan used Zhong Wuwang and Yang Bi’s techniques to attack Chen Shi, but her fourteen moves only damaged his clothes because their cultivation gap was too great. Zhong Wuwang fled with Fang Zhenxiu after Created Being Xiao Wu attacked, while Yan Shaoxuan later fell into the Dejiang River after Chen Shi’s strike shattered her Primordial Spirit.

• Yan Shaoxuan returned to challenge Chen Shi, and he identified that Zhong Wuwang and Yang Bi had taught her techniques meant to test his Dao Fields.
• Yan Shaoxuan unleashed fourteen techniques that disrupted Chen Shi’s Yin Yang Dao Field and struck his vital points, but she could not injure him beyond tearing his clothes.
• Created Being Xiao Wu bewitched Fang Zhenxiu, prompting Zhong Wuwang to flee in the Azure Luan Treasure Carriage with him before the carriage was destroyed.
• Chen Shi and the others pursued Zhong Wuwang, but Zhong Wuwang used his Innate Dao Embryo to break through and escape with Fang Zhenxiu.
• Chen Shi said there was no need to pursue Yan Shaoxuan because his strike had cut off her vitality, and she fell into the Dejiang River after her Primordial Spirit shattered.

Yang Bi reunited with Zhong Wuwang, who revealed that he had come to test Yang Bi’s cultivation and discuss what he discovered at Despair Slope. Chen Shi arrived before Zhong Wuwang could attack, then challenged him to fight, leaving their battle underway.

• Yang Bi joined the Heavenly Court Ministry of Rites after meeting Li Tianqing, then asked him to find out whether Yan Shaoxuan was alive or dead.
• Zhong Wuwang visited Yang Bi and explained that he had deduced Yang Bi was alive from Yan Shaoxuan’s final two moves, while admitting he had come with killing intent.
• Xiao Fang encountered Chen Shi in the Lesser Heavens and brought him to Yang Bi’s home, where Chen Shi recognized the child Fang Zhenxiu and questioned him about Yan Shaoxuan.
• Chen Shi learned that Zhong Wuwang had also figured out how to break his Blood Sea Hell Dao field, then demanded that Zhong Wuwang fight him before discussing his discoveries about the True King and the Heavenly Honored One.
• Chen Shi attacked Zhong Wuwang with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, and Zhong Wuwang defended himself with an immortal sword as their battle rose into the air.

Chen Shi and Zhong Wuwang fought to a standstill before ending their duel and discussing Zhong Wuwang’s discovery about the Innate Dao Embryo. Zhong Wuwang revealed that it resembled the True God from Beyond the Heavens and might be part of the god’s attempt to save himself.

• Chen Shi’s Blood-Transforming Divine Blade damaged Zhong Wuwang’s Vermilion Bird Sword, but Zhong Wuwang used the Heavenly Immortal Finger to stop the blade and the Qiankun Reconstruction Spring Return Art to restore the ghosts in Chen Shi’s blood sea.
• Chen Shi reversed yin and yang in his Dao field, countered Zhong Wuwang’s attempt to disrupt it, and continued attacking until he called off the fight and invited Zhong Wuwang to drink tea.
• Yang Bi and Chen Shi watched Zhong Wuwang’s finger technique, and Yang Bi realized its witch sacrifice Dao patterns came from a prehistoric hand bone.
• Over tea, Zhong Wuwang said that records at Despair Slope described the True King’s Innate Dao Embryo as identical to the True God from Beyond the Heavens.
• Zhong Wuwang proposed that the True God had bestowed the Innate Dao Embryo on an exceptional person so he could reclaim it later and prolong his life.

Chen Shi and Yang Bi agreed to help Zhong Wuwang oppose the Heavenly Venerate, while negotiating a visit to Despair Slope and planning to follow Zhong Wuwang in search of bones. As Chen Shi and Yang Bi left Tianyu County, Yang Bi agreed to help him challenge the Thirteen Noble Families, though he urged Chen Shi to kill fewer people.

• Zhong Wuwang revealed that his Innate Dao Embryo had been carved from Chen Shi's and said he wanted reinforcements to oppose the Heavenly Venerate, who he believed planned to sacrifice him.
• Chen Shi and Yang Bi learned that Zhong Wuwang suspected the Heavenly Venerate had falsely claimed the True God's authority, and Chen Shi agreed to visit Despair Slope under Zhong Wuwang's arrangements.
• Zhong Wuwang took Fang Zhenxiu away and accepted him as his disciple after stopping him from turning toward Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi and Yang Bi compared how much of the Heavenly Immortal Finger's witch sacrifice Dao patterns they had memorized and decided to follow Zhong Wuwang in search of more bones.
• Chen Shi offered Yang Bi a place in the Heavenly Court Ministry of Rites and said he planned to subjugate the Thirteen Noble Families; Yang Bi agreed to help if Chen Shi killed fewer people.

Chen Shi and Yang Bi followed Zhong Wuwang into the Sea of Darkness and discovered the ruins of the Great Shang Heavenly Court, where the Dao was distorted and the remains revealed a catastrophic defeat. As they caught up with Zhong Wuwang, two masked figures ambushed him and stole a severed bone from his hand.

• Chen Shi and Yang Bi tracked Zhong Wuwang’s tianlu treasure carriage into the Sea of Darkness, where they noticed that the Dao rules distorted their paths and abilities.
• The pair followed Zhong Wuwang’s spells through the dark sea and reached a sunlit region of shattered land and ancient ruins.
• Chen Shi recognized reliefs depicting Great Shang history and suspected the ruins were the Great Shang Heavenly Court; he and Yang Bi found shattered immortal artifacts, dangerous fruit, and a pierced ancestral god’s skeleton.
• Chen Shi and Yang Bi discovered the ruined heavenly court strewn with the corpses of Great Shang ancestral gods and concluded that an evil force had defeated them.
• Chen Shi and Yang Bi caught up with Zhong Wuwang as he examined a severed bone, but two masked figures attacked using the Heavenly Immortal Finger and stole it.
• Zhong Wuwang summoned the Innate Dao Embryo and called out Chen Shi and Yang Bi as the masked figures retreated.