Chapter Summaries

Fairy Xiaoduan and Chen Yindu captured Gong Wanqing and began burning her with Phoenix Strange Fire, then Xiaoduan disguised herself as Gong Wanqing and joined Wen Wuyu beside the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace. Xiaoduan decided to sabotage the furnace’s batch of heavenly soldiers, and its flames turned black as Zhong Wuwang watched in alarm.

• Gong Wanqing tried to escape as Chen Yindu and Fairy Xiaoduan attacked her, but they bound her and left the Phoenix Strange Fire burning inside her so she would not die before they could conceal her fate.
• Fairy Xiaoduan transformed into Gong Wanqing’s likeness, and Wen Wuyu chose to help her rather than expose her.
• Fairy Xiaoduan told Wen Wuyu about the Heavenly Venerate and said she would stay to wreck the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace or prevent its heavenly soldiers from being forged.
• Fairy Xiaoduan and Wen Wuyu reached the furnace, where Zhuang Wujiu appeared and named Chen Tang as his master’s killer.
• Zhong Wuwang spotted Zhuang Wujiu and worried that trouble would break out, just as the furnace flames turned pitch black at Fairy Xiaoduan’s hands.

Fairy Xiaoduan entered the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace with Created Being Xiao Wu and discovered that its inner world was refining Heavenly Soldiers by making countless Xiao Wu-like creations fight and evolve. Xiao Wu chose to remain there, while Fairy Xiaoduan was forced back outside and told the immortals that Wujiu had met with disaster.

• The black Phoenix Strange Fire spread through the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, and the immortals found that it accelerated the Heavenly Soldiers’ formation.
• Fairy Xiaoduan entered the furnace with Zhuang Wujiu, who revealed himself as Created Being Xiao Wu, and they discovered a world where creations battled to become Heavenly Soldiers.
• Created Being Xiao Wu found countless copies of himself fighting across the furnace world and refused Fairy Xiaoduan’s warnings to leave.
• The furnace’s power of creation began transforming Fairy Xiaoduan, so Created Being Xiao Wu struck her out of the inner world to protect her.
• Fairy Xiaoduan emerged from the furnace and told the waiting immortals that Wujiu had met with disaster.

Fairy Xiaoduan and the immortals pressed on with refining the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace while Created Being Xiao Wu grew powerful inside its furnace world. After Xiao Wu refused the furnace’s ascension, Chen Shi announced that the Celestial Venerable’s cultivation method was complete.

• Fairy Xiaoduan urged the grieving immortals at Despair Slope to resume refining the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, while secretly considering how to steal it.
• Created Being Xiao Wu hunted other Xiao Wus in the furnace world, absorbing their black fire brands and strengthening himself.
• Created Being Xiao Wu defeated an ascended Xiao Wu, seized its Dao patterns, and advanced toward an immortal body and Primordial Spirit.
• Created Being Xiao Wu resisted the guiding rosy light instead of ascending, prompting an immortal outside the furnace to report the anomaly to Fairy Xiaoduan.
• Fairy Xiaoduan asked a fellow Daoist to investigate, and Chen Shi announced that the Celestial Venerable’s cultivation method was complete.

Chen Shi revealed his Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection and gathered allies to identify weaknesses they could exploit in the Heavenly Lord. They found seven possible flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s incomplete mastery, then learned the True God from Beyond the Heavens had been demonized, prompting the Witch Covenant to act.

• Chen Shi showed Fairy Xiaoduan the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection, which matched the Blood Lake True Scripture in power, though he could find no flaws in it.
• Fairy Xiaoduan knocked Wen Wuyu unconscious and hid her in Chen Shi’s small temple before gathering Li Tianqing, Yang Bi, the Witch Covenant, and Zhong Wuwang to study the technique.
• Chen Shi demonstrated the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection’s Great Desolation immortal realm, leaving the gathered cultivators struggling to comprehend its depths.
• The Witch Covenant suggested the Heavenly Lord had learned the technique from someone else and had not mastered it completely, easing Zhong Wuwang’s despair.
• Chen Yindu proposed looking for flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s understanding rather than in the technique, and the group identified seven potential weaknesses.
• After Zhong Wuwang reported that the True God from Beyond the Heavens had been demonized, the Witch Covenant declared that seven potential flaws were enough and led the group to act.

Chu Feng used the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art during his divine descent, demonizing the True God from Beyond the Heavens. As Chen Shi’s group moved against the Heavenly Honored, Gong Wanqing was killed by Chen Yindu’s Proliferation Dao Pattern, while Fairy Xiaoduan tried to steal the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and was exposed; the Heavenly Honored then recognized Wu Qi, whom he believed dead.

• The Grand Libationer helped Chu Feng refine Chen Shi’s Grand Pure Purple Qi, raising his cultivation until his divine embryo returned to the True God from Beyond the Heavens.
• Chu Feng used the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art, causing demonic domains to form behind the True God and the True God’s body and Heavenly Dao to become demonized.
• Wu Qi mourned the King of Shang and left to repay Chen Shi’s kindness, while Li Tianqing and Yang Bi headed toward the Heavenly Dao Academy and Zhong Wuwang followed them.
• Chen Yindu placed his Proliferation Dao Pattern inside Gong Wanqing, whose body expanded until the immortals mistook her for an evil Sui and burned her and the immortal mountain to ashes.
• Fairy Xiaoduan, disguised as Gong Wanqing, tried to take the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and enlisted the immortals to move it.
• The Heavenly Honored exposed Fairy Xiaoduan’s disguise, then saw Wu Qi and demanded to know how he could be alive.

The Witch Covenant trapped the Heavenly Venerate in the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, but the Heavenly Venerate escaped after his wings were nearly melted. As the Witch Covenant and Heavenly Venerate began their decisive fight, Chen Shi used the Innate Dao Embryo to search for one of seven possible flaws, but the first proved ineffective.

• The Witch Covenant caught the Heavenly Venerate off guard and pulled him into the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s inner world, where the Heavenly Venerate used wind and thunder wings to break free.
• The Heavenly Venerate tried to seize the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, while Zhong Wuwang lent Chen Shi the Innate Dao Embryo and went to help Fairy Xiaoduan.
• Zhong Wuwang and Fairy Xiaoduan fought the seven Heavenly Dao Immortals around the furnace, then jumped inside as the immortals pursued them.
• Chen Shi used the Innate Dao Embryo to sharpen his mind and joined Yang Bi and Li Tianqing in watching the fight for the Heavenly Venerate’s flaws.
• The Witch Covenant attacked the Heavenly Venerate’s Taiji Mengyi Heaven with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, but the Heavenly Venerate restored his dao light and blocked the Witch Covenant’s strike, leaving Chen Shi six flaws to investigate.

Wu Qi tested seven suspected flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s cultivation, and only the final one proved genuine before the Heavenly Lord concealed it by revealing his demonic aspect. As Despair Slope became overrun by evil flesh, Chen Yindu led Chen Shi, Yang Bi, and Li Tianqing out through the collapsing gateway, leaving Wu Qi behind fighting the Heavenly Lord.

• Wu Qi tested the first six suspected flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s Dao realm, but each proved too brief or ineffective to exploit.
• Wu Qi’s seventh strike exposed that the Heavenly Lord’s Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection had immortal and demonic aspects, and the Heavenly Lord used his demonic Primordial Spirit to conceal the flaw.
• The Heavenly Lord unleashed evil flesh across Despair Slope, contaminating its spiritual qi and causing the Heavenly Dao Walkers to mutate.
• Chen Yindu activated the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and led Yang Bi and Li Tianqing toward the exit, while Chen Shi reluctantly followed.
• Chen Yindu fought through the flesh with the furnace’s black Phoenix Strange Fire and Created Being Xiao Wu, then escaped Despair Slope with the others and sealed its gateway behind them.

Chen Yindu, Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and Yang Bi escaped Despair Slope as Witch Covenant fought the Heavenly Zun alone amid a spreading invasion of flesh and evil qi. Witch Covenant died in battle but immediately appeared reborn in the New Xiang Imperial Capital, while the Heavenly Zun reclaimed the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and prepared to conquer the realm.

• Chen Yindu led Li Tianqing and Yang Bi away from Despair Slope while Chen Shi reviewed the battle for a weakness in the Heavenly Zun.
• Evil qi invaded Despair Slope and the True God Dao Field, transforming Heavenly Dao Walkers and killing many cultivators; Fairy Qiu Ning also transformed and was struck down by the Heavenly Zun.
• The Heavenly Zun taunted Witch Covenant about sacrificing the ancestral gods of Great Shang, while Witch Covenant fought through the encroaching flesh and blood and tried to send the Yin Yang Qi Bottle away.
• Witch Covenant exhausted his life in a final attack, and the Heavenly Zun destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit before the Yin Yang Qi Bottle could escape.
• Witch Covenant detached from the Purple Sky Vine in the New Xiang Imperial Capital and left the palace after asking Little Chenzi about his whereabouts and the King of Shang.
• The Heavenly Zun drove the flesh and blood from Despair Slope, kept the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, and resolved to assimilate the world.

Chen Shi emerged from his study of the Heavenly Lord’s cultivation technique and claimed he had found its flaw, using that claim to control his allies and enemies. The chapter ended with him confessing to Black Pot that he had found no flaw and had no confidence in defeating the Heavenly Lord, then proposing they flee to the Earthly Immortal Realm.

• Chen Shi returned the Innate Dao Embryo to Zhong Wuwang, then announced that he had completed the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection and discovered the Heavenly Lord’s flaw.
• Chen Shi kept the supposed flaw secret, ordered Li Tianqing to distribute copies of the technique, and warned Zhong Wuwang that the secret would keep him in check.
• Chen Shi revealed that he had tampered with the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art so that only he could use its ninth layer and command the power of a True God from Beyond the Heavens, forcing the Grand Libationer and Chu Feng to submit.
• Black Pot returned from the Underworld, and Chen Shi drank with him before admitting he had found no flaw in the Heavenly Lord’s technique.
• Chen Shi told Black Pot he had no confidence in defeating the Heavenly Lord and asked him to escape with him to the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Chen Shi sent a golden boat carrying eight people across the Dark Sea, while he stayed behind in the Western Ox Continent. The travelers reached the Huaxia Divine Continent aboard the Great Ming Treasure Ship, only to learn that the Great Ming had fallen and the land was now ruled by the Great Shun Dynasty.

• Chen Shi struggled to choose who could leave on Empress Houtu’s eight-person boat, and Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, Qiao Zhuo, Green Goat, and Black Pot made room for one another.
• The golden boat sped into the Dark Sea with Chen Tang, Wu Qingyu, Li Tianqing, Yang Bi, Fairy Xiaoduan, Huo Dou, and the others aboard, leaving Chen Shi behind.
• The travelers spotted Daoist Qingyuan’s wooden boat, then encountered the Great Ming Treasure Ship carrying the corpses of a true king and his officials.
• Wu Qingyu suggested the Huaxia Divine Continent might help defeat the Heavenly Venerate, so the group abandoned the golden boat and boarded the Great Ming Treasure Ship.
• After reaching the Huaxia Divine Continent, Chen Tang announced that they had come from the Western Ox Continent to pay respects to the Great Ming emperor and Longevity Emperor Monarch.
• A general told Chen Tang that the Great Ming and Longevity Emperor Monarch were long gone and that the land was now the Great Shun Dynasty.

Chen Tang’s delegation returned to the Divine Continent, where the former True King and his long-dead followers fulfilled their wish to reach their homeland and turned to dust. As Chen Shi’s group prepared to face the Heavenly Honored One, the monster Xunjiang’s vast flesh-and-blood form spread across the Western Ox Continent’s skies and attacked Empress Houtu.

• Chen Tang’s delegation waited aboard the ship until the Great Shun Emperor summoned them to the capital, and the True King and his followers walked ashore to return to their ancestral homeland.
• The True King embraced the soil, then he and his followers crumbled into dust after fulfilling their wish; Chen Tang thanked the major general and followed the envoy toward the capital.
• Chen Yindu told the passenger ship’s occupants that Chen Shi had sent Green Goat and the others to the Earthly Immortal Realm, and Chen Shi apologized to those who stayed behind before preparing for battle.
• Chen Shi cultivated at Ganyang Mountain while Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu refined the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, and cultivators across the land studied the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection.
• Empress Houtu saw Xunjiang’s flesh-and-blood tentacles spread across the Underworld and stars, recognized it as a weapon being cultivated to face the Opening Tribulation, and questioned its identity.
• Xunjiang resisted Empress Houtu’s influence and attacked her with a meat-spike and flesh weapons, but the Purple Sky Vine blocked the assault as Houtu vowed to settle accounts with it.

As the Heavenly Lord spread evil transformation across the Western Ox Continent, Chen Yindu devised a technique that let cultivators petrify themselves and everyone within their domains. The continent fell silent beneath overlapping Ghost and God Domains, leaving the Heavenly Lord enraged and determined to bury the stone world in flesh and blood before confronting Empress Houtu.

• Flesh-and-blood flowers spread across the sky, and evil qi transformed corpses, animals, plants, and local goddesses into threats across the Western Ox Continent.
• Sha Qiutong and the others found Chen Yindu refining the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, and he gave them a petrification technique to counter the continent-wide Ghost and God Domain.
• Sha Qiutong delivered the technique to Xuan Shan, who petrified Ganyang Mountain and its inhabitants across a thousand-mile domain.
• Yulingzi, Saintess Xuan, Daoist and Buddhist experts, and Divine Capital cultivators joined the imperial court’s effort to cover all fifty provinces with petrified domains.
• Cultivators across the continent activated the Stone Louse Transformation Technique, and Empress Shi Ji’s domain spread until the entire Western Ox Continent became still and stone.
• The Heavenly Lord found no living people to torment, smashed stone figures in fury, then sent flesh and blood raining down to engulf them before setting out to confront Empress Houtu.

Empress Houtu and the defenders of the Underworld fought the Heavenly Lord and his Primeval Insect as demonic corruption devastated the realms. Skeleton Chen Shi defended Tianchi Kingdom, and the chapter ended with him entrusting Chu Feng to Wu Qi and asking Wu Qi to help him kill someone.

• Empress Houtu used the Purple Sky Vine to shield the Underworld, but the Heavenly Lord unleashed the Primeval Insect and accelerated the corruption of its people and Great Dao.
• Ghosts and deities offered incense to Empress Houtu, while Little King of Hell Nannan and the arriving Yang World deities fought to defend her; the Heavenly Lord's tentacles devastated the Immortal Capital and the hells.
• Skeleton Chen Shi used the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade to drive the Primeval Insect away from Tianchi Kingdom and caught the Heavenly Lord's Yin Yang Qi Bottle with the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin.
• The Grand Libationer entrusted Chu Feng, the heir to Great Shang's inheritance, to Skeleton Chen Shi before transforming into a giant ghost deity and charging toward the Heavenly Lord.
• Skeleton Chen Shi explained Chu Feng's inheritance to the bewildered Wu Qi, then gave Wu Qi the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and asked him to help kill someone.

Skeleton Chen Shi sent Witch Covenant to fight the Heavenly Venerate while he stayed to protect Tianchi Kingdom, then rushed to recover the Yin Yang Qi Bottle after Witch Covenant fell. He escaped to the Yang World with the bottle, calling after Witch Covenant that he still owed him a favor.

• Witch Covenant agreed to fight the Heavenly Venerate and said Skeleton Chen Shi was the best Shang King after observing the people of Tianchi Kingdom.
• Skeleton Chen Shi gave Chu Feng the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade and Blood Lake True Scripture, taught him the ninth tier of the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art, and left him to guard Tianchi Kingdom.
• Witch Covenant and the Grand Libationer attacked the Heavenly Venerate with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, but the Heavenly Venerate's primordial-insect tentacles overwhelmed them and killed them both.
• The Heavenly Venerate seized the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and threatened to use it against the defenders of Houde Palace.
• Skeleton Chen Shi used the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin to knock the bottle away, recovered it, and fled to the Yang World toward the New Xiang Imperial Capital.

Skeleton Chen Shi fought off the Heavenly Venerate’s primordial worms while Witch Covenant went to aid Empress Houtu, and Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu sought the Heavenly Venerate’s hidden place of joining with the Dao. Chen Yindu found the concealed Dao Realm on the moon and entered with Xiao Wu, who sent countless copies of himself to devour its manifestations as they prepared to break it.

• Skeleton Chen Shi used the Yin Yang Qi Bottle to capture thousands of Heavenly Venerate figures, then gave the bottle to Witch Covenant to reinforce Empress Houtu in the Underworld.
• Witch Covenant fought the Heavenly Venerate and died, but another Witch Covenant emerged from the Boundless Level-Balancing Heaven and nearly pulled the Heavenly Venerate into the bottle.
• Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu broke through the blood-cloud barrier and fought their way across the sea of flesh and blood, using the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace to capture and refine blood dragons.
• Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu climbed a pillar of flesh and blood to the moon, where Chen Yindu used his calculations to locate the Heavenly Venerate’s hidden place of joining with the Dao.
• Created Being Xiao Wu struck the moon and revealed the Heavenly Venerate’s Taiji Mengyi Heaven Dao Realm, then entered it with Chen Yindu and sent countless copies of himself to devour its Dao manifestations.

Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu fought the Heavenly Honored One’s Dao body inside his Dao domain, while Skeleton Chen Shi rescued the six-winged heavenly moth from the Heavenly Honored One’s grasp. After escaping, Chen Shi turned back toward Liangtian Cliff to protect his main body and the Purple Sky Vine, leaving him facing the Heavenly Honored One’s attack.

• Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu defeated the thirty-two child attendants, refined them into cyan pills, and ate them to increase their cultivation.
• Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu entered the immortal palace and attacked the Heavenly Honored One’s Dao body, but it blocked the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and forced them to fight for their lives.
• The Heavenly Honored One tried to seize the silkworm pupa on the Fusang Tree, but a six-winged heavenly moth emerged and cut apart his giant hand with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Skeleton Chen Shi used his Yin Yang Dao field to weaken the Heavenly Honored One’s flesh and blood, then helped the moth escape with him on its back.
• The Heavenly Honored One discovered the Purple Sky Vine at Liangtian Cliff and sent a giant hand to strike its temple, but the moth and Chen Shi stopped the attack.
• Skeleton Chen Shi turned back to rescue his main body as the Heavenly Honored One declared he would kill Chen Shi and claim the moth and Purple Sky Vine.

Chu Feng defended Tianchi Capital City from the Heavenly Venerate’s blood clouds until Zhong Wuwang helped him wound the Fog Moon Eye. The Heavenly Venerate was injured but killed Witch Covenant, who returned from death and charged at him again despite the Purple Sky Vine withering.

• Chu Feng used the three stored strikes in the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade to repel the blood clouds, then drew on the Blood Lake True Scripture and fought as the attack resumed.
• The Fog Moon Eye revived dead specters and sent them against Chu Feng, who battled the specters and blood tentacles until Zhong Wuwang arrived and used the Yin Yang Dao Field to dispel the evil Qi.
• Zhong Wuwang carried Chu Feng to the Fog Moon Eye, where Chu Feng’s empowered strikes cut and wounded it, forcing the meta-worms to retreat.
• Zhong Wuwang revealed his name as Zhong Er Niu and left for Houde Palace, while the Heavenly Venerate cried out as blood ran from his injured brow.
• The Heavenly Venerate recovered and killed Witch Covenant, who returned from the Purple Sky Vine and charged at him again despite the vine’s dwindling power.

Witch Covenant mortally wounded the Heavenly Venerate by exploiting the injury to his third eye, allowing Zhong Wuwang to steal the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and Empress Houtu to strike at the Heavenly Venerate’s bodily flaws. The primordial worms then took control of the wounded Heavenly Venerate, while Chen Shi rose toward the outer heavens to integrate with the Dao using the True God from Beyond the Heavens.

• Witch Covenant used the Heavenly Venerate’s expectation of his familiar water-and-fire technique transition to land a fatal strike with two finger bones through the Heavenly Venerate’s injured brow.
• Zhong Wuwang seized the Yin Yang Qi Bottle as the dazed Heavenly Venerate missed with his counterattack, and Empress Houtu attacked the Heavenly Venerate at eight physical flaws.
• Primordial worm tentacles entered the Heavenly Venerate’s wounds, healed him, and took control of him; he then attacked Houde Palace and forced Empress Houtu and the surviving deities to defend it.
• Created Being Xiao Wu shielded Chen Yindu from the Heavenly Venerate’s Dao avatar, and the True God from Beyond the Heavens arrived and cut the avatar in half.
• Chen Shi announced that he would achieve Dao Integration by using the True God from Beyond the Heavens as his Primordial Spirit, prompting the flesh-and-blood Heavenly Venerates to flee toward the outer heavens.

Chen Shi fought through the flesh-and-blood Celestial Venerables and reached the True God from Beyond the Heavens, then began merging his Dao with the Heavenly Dao of the Western Ox Continent. His expanding Dao realm purified the corrupted moon, which shone over the continent for the first time in sixteen thousand years.

• Chen Shi used the purple vine and his saber intent to break through the Celestial Venerables’ attacks, while Can'er carried Skeleton Chen Shi toward the heavens.
• Chen Shi’s attacks, aided by the True God from Beyond the Heavens, burned the ten-thousand-zhang Celestial Venerable and cut apart the flesh-and-blood assault from the moon.
• Chen Shi reflected on the True God’s sacrifices and declared that he would change the world and make the True God his Innate Dao Embryo.
• Chen Shi began merging the Heavenly Dao of the Western Ox Continent with his own Dao, expanding his Dao realm across the continent.
• Chen Shi’s Dao realm purified the moon’s malevolent qi, melted the flesh covering it into water, and revealed the moon shining above the Western Ox Continent.

Chen Shi used the True God from Beyond the Heavens to expand his domain across both worlds, refining the primordial insect while the deities fought the Heavenly Lord. As Empress Houtu faced the Heavenly Lord, Chen Shi arrived and challenged him to a contest between their Great Desolation Ming Dao Collections.

• Chen Shi severed one of the primordial insect’s wings with the Zi Wu Zhan Xie Sword, struck it with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman, and refined it into ash with the Spirit Banner Ten Absolute Array.
• Chen Shi’s domain spread through the Underworld, refining the primordial insect’s flesh inside the Heavenly Lord and freeing him from its control as Empress Houtu and the remaining deities attacked him.
• Zhong Wuwang weakened the Heavenly Lord’s legs with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, and Empress Houtu took up the Purple Sky Vine to fight him alone.
• Chen Shi arrived in the Underworld and offered the Heavenly Lord a chance to survive by defeating him in a fair battle.
• The Heavenly Lord revealed his own Taiji Mengyi Heaven domain and claimed Chen Shi’s borrowed Golden Immortal power would fail, but Chen Shi matched his aura with the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection and challenged him to compare their strength.