Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng discovered that the perfectly preserved corpse Jun Mochou sought belonged to the Hell Demon Emperor and watched as Jun Mochou broke through the formation to claim its heart. The Devil Emperor awakened and began possessing Jun Mochou, who questioned how anyone had learned the location of his sealed corpse.

• Bodhi identified the corpse as a Great Emperor and explained that the Bodhi Divine Tree’s growth had restored fragments of its memories.
• Chen Feng planned to stop Jun Mochou from absorbing the corpse and remained concealed while Jun Mochou and his followers attacked the formation.
• Jun Mochou entered the opened formation, removed the Devil Emperor’s crimson robe, and used his Demon Sword to pierce the corpse’s chest.
• The Hell Demon Emperor opened his eyes, seized Jun Mochou’s sword, and sent his remnant soul into Jun Mochou’s sea of consciousness to take over his body.
• Jun Mochou realized the Devil Emperor was possessing him and challenged him to explain how the maps and books revealing the corpse’s location had been obtained.

The Hell Demon Emperor abandoned Jun Mochou after discovering the Celestial Being mark in his Spiritual Sense, then tried to seize Chen Feng's body instead. Chen Feng's nine extraordinary Martial Souls and Bodhi trapped the Devil Emperor's remnant soul, leaving him defeated in Chen Feng's Sea of Consciousness.

• The Hell Demon Emperor tried to devour Jun Mochou's divine soul, but fled when he discovered the Celestial Being mark in Jun Mochou's Spiritual Sense.
• The Hell Demon Emperor escaped in his heart, found Chen Feng, and sent his remnant soul into Chen Feng's Sea of Consciousness to seize his body.
• The Hell Demon Emperor discovered Chen Feng's nine Martial Souls and grew determined to take over his body and claim their power.
• The Hell Demon Emperor attacked Chen Feng's Sea of Consciousness, but the divine trees and Chen Feng's will resisted him.
• Bodhi struck the Hell Demon Emperor and the Bodhi Divine Tree bound him, leaving him unable to escape.

Chen Feng defeated the Devil Emperor’s remnant soul and kept the demonic heart, then fought Jun Mochou over it in the lava world. After using the Bodhi Soul’s possession to overpower Jun Mochou and kill his allies, Chen Feng let Jun Mochou escape and prepared to return with the heart.

• Chen Feng bound the Devil Emperor’s remnant soul and took the demonic heart while Jun Mochou collected the Devil Emperor’s body and throne.
• Jun Mochou demanded the heart, and Chen Feng refused, prompting Jun Mochou and his allies to attack him.
• Chen Feng and Jun Mochou fought across the underground lava world, trading attacks with their weapons, Laws, defenses, and treasures.
• Jun Mochou unleashed the Demon Origin Heavenly Book’s stored demonic power, so Chen Feng used the Bodhi Soul’s possession to strike back with overwhelming strength.
• Chen Feng killed Xiang Tianhao, the rain serpent, and Jun Mochou’s other allies with one punch, while Jun Mochou fled.
• Chen Feng decided not to pursue Jun Mochou and turned his attention to absorbing the demonic heart and dealing with the Hell Demon Emperor and the Netherworld entrance.

After driving Jun Mochou away, Chen Feng searched the ocean for an entrance to the Netherworld while the Life Divine Tree absorbed the Devil Emperor’s heart. The Hell Demon Emperor revealed that the Sea Well moved through space and gave Chen Feng its current location in the South Sea.

• Chen Feng reunited with Nie Wuji, Yu Mengqing, and the others, showed them the Devil Emperor’s heart, and set off with them to search for the Netherworld entrance.
• As they flew across the ocean, Chen Feng’s Life Divine Tree absorbed the heart’s demonic energy and steadily increased his strength.
• When the group could not find the Sea Well, Chen Feng questioned the Hell Demon Emperor, who offered to share what he knew in exchange for being spared.
• The Hell Demon Emperor explained that he had built three entrances to the Netherworld and said the Sea Well moved as a space fragment.
• The Hell Demon Emperor calculated that the Sea Well was currently in the southeast corner, so Chen Feng needed to search along the South Sea.

Chen Feng found the shifting sea well, fought past its Ancient Demon guards, and entered the Netherworld with Nie Wuji and the others. After the Ancient Demon Emperor dismissed reports of their arrival, Chen Feng sought a way to find human souls and learned he would need help from the Nether Emperors.

• The Hell Demon Emperor explained that his sea well shifted through spatial turbulence, but Chen Feng spotted it almost immediately and questioned the explanation.
• Chen Feng defeated the Ancient Demons guarding the sea well, then entered the Netherworld with Nie Wuji and the others.
• The Ancient Demons reported the intruders to the Ancient Demon Emperor, who chose not to pursue them and ordered that more defenses be sent to another Netherworld passage.
• The Ancient Demon Emperor ordered more than a hundred thousand newly arrived Hell's Sinful Beings to be tortured through the Eighteen Levels of Hell before being sent back to the Netherworld.
• In the Netherworld, Chen Feng asked how to find human souls, and the Hell Demon Emperor advised him to ask the ten Nether Emperors and their soul-hunting organizations for help.

Chen Feng learned from Hell Demon Emperor how official positions in Hell and the Netherworld granted cultivation through service to the Heavenly Dao. Hell Demon Emperor offered to lead Chen Feng to a Death Nether Emperor who might help locate Jun Qianwu’s family, and Chen Feng agreed to go.

• Hell Demonic Path explained that Nether Emperors gained strength by managing souls and that the ten Nether Emperors sought to unify the Netherworld as Yin Heavenly Son.
• Hell Demon Emperor told Chen Feng that Hell and the Netherworld each had ten Heavenly Dao positions, and described how he had once advanced by helping Hell’s beings release their obsessions.
• Hell Demon Emperor explained that the Immortal Realm controlled the higher planes and that its order had long since stabilized.
• Chen Feng decided that finding Jun Qianwu’s parents’ and brother’s souls was more urgent than investigating the Netherworld’s broader order.
• Hell Demon Emperor offered to take Chen Feng to a Death Nether Emperor with whom he had ties, and Chen Feng agreed to go in exchange for releasing him if he helped find the souls.

Chen Feng absorbed the Hell Demon Emperor’s heart for a month, advancing from the Immortal First Stage to the Saint Realm. His breakthrough triggered heavenly phenomena and a tribulation, while Fan Xingtian wondered who had become a Saint.

• Chen Feng halted the search for the Nether Emperor and spent ten days absorbing the Hell Demon Emperor’s heart while Nie Wuji and the others recovered.
• Chen Feng continued absorbing the heart for another month, reaching the Immortal Tenth Stage as the Life Divine Tree transformed back into white light.
• Chen Feng gained an understanding of sainthood and prepared to break through, while Fan Xingtian failed to advance to the Great Emperor Realm at Misty Mountain.
• Chen Feng broke through to the Saint Realm, causing auspicious phenomena that astonished Fan Xingtian, Nie Wuji, and Leng Feng.
• A heavenly tribulation descended, and Chen Feng faced it without fear.

After absorbing the Devil Emperor's cultivation, Chen Feng broke through to the Saint Realm and consumed the Life Divine Tree to rise to fourth rank. He awakened his fifth martial soul, the Divine Punishment Tree, and demonstrated its overwhelming lightning power.

• Chen Feng endured his Saint Realm tribulation unharmed as his Lightning Divine Tree absorbed the lightning.
• Chen Feng absorbed the Life Divine Tree's essence until it withered, advancing from first rank to fourth rank of the Saint Realm.
• Chen Feng used his increased Soul Power to awaken his fifth martial soul, the Divine Punishment Tree, which could absorb and transform lightning from across the heavens and hell.
• Chen Feng fired a single bolt from the Divine Punishment Tree and flattened a distant mountain, stunning Yu Mengqing, Bai Cheng, and Leng Feng.

Chen Feng’s breakthrough to the Saint Realm caused his five Divine Trees to grow dramatically, giving him power he believed could contend with a Great Emperor. He turned toward finding the Death Nether Emperor while the Hell Demon Emperor’s hope of using the Nether Emperor to escape faded.

• Chen Feng drained the Lightning Dragon’s power into the Divine Punishment Tree and left the shrunken dragon to rest inside it.
• Chen Feng’s five Divine Trees absorbed energy from across space and grew to two hundred meters tall as Bodhi explained that his Martial Souls were advancing.
• Chen Feng sensed the Divine Punishment Tree’s Immortal Lightning and believed his strength could contend with a Great Emperor and restrain the Death Nether Emperor.
• Chen Feng noticed his sixth Martial Soul, a Space Tree, and said he could now go find the Death Nether Emperor.
• The Hell Demon Emperor realized Chen Feng had become too powerful for his plan to work and decided he would have to help find the divine soul and hope Chen Feng kept his promise.

Chen Feng and his companions crossed the Death Nether Emperor’s territory and reached Imperial Palace City, where Yan Mo claimed he was the Nether Emperor’s friend. The Nether Emperor denied knowing Yan Mo and refused to meet him.

• Chen Feng and his companions flew through Netherworld City and the other cities in the Death Nether Emperor’s domain.
• Chen Feng’s Spiritual Sense alarmed the officials in the cities they passed over.
• Chen Feng and the others arrived at Imperial Palace City, where underworld soldiers warned them not to fly over the city.
• Yan Mo identified himself as a friend of the Nether Emperor and asked the soldiers to announce his arrival.
• The underworld soldiers reported back that the Nether Emperor did not know Yan Mo and would not see him.

Chen Feng forced his way into Imperial Palace City after the Death Nether Emperor refused to meet the Hell Demon Emperor, Yan Mo. He broke the Emperor’s formation and entered the city, where its forces surrounded him.

• The Death Nether Emperor recognized Yan Mo but dismissed his request for an audience and went back to ignoring the disturbance.
• Chen Feng attacked the city gate, then defeated the nether soldiers who tried to stop him with a lightning strike.
• Chen Feng flew to the barrier protecting Imperial Palace City and broke it with Purple Immortal Lightning after his first attack failed.
• Chen Feng, Yan Mo, Nie Wuji, and the others entered the city, where more than a hundred experts and hundreds of thousands of nether soldiers surrounded Chen Feng.

Chen Feng forced his way into Imperial Palace City and asked Death Nether Emperor to locate his friend’s divine soul, but the emperor rejected the request and insulted the Hell Demon Emperor. Chen Feng challenged him and summoned the Divine Punishment Tree as Death Nether Emperor launched a devastating punch.

• Chen Feng used lightning to break through the Nether army and demanded to speak with Death Nether Emperor.
• Death Nether Emperor recognized the Hell Demon Emperor but dismissed him as a powerless remnant soul and refused to help find Chen Feng’s friend.
• The Hell Demon Emperor lamented that Death Nether Emperor had discarded their former friendship, while Chen Feng decided to use force if necessary.
• Chen Feng challenged Death Nether Emperor, who unleashed his Great Emperor aura and threatened to kill him.
• Chen Feng summoned the Divine Punishment Tree, and Death Nether Emperor attacked him with a massive fist of nether energy.

Chen Feng used the Immortal Lightning of his Divine Punishment Tree to overwhelm the Death Nether Emperor in Imperial Palace City. The Nether Emperor surrendered and began searching the records for Jun Qianwu’s parents and older brother.

• Chen Feng’s Immortal Lightning shattered the Death Nether Emperor’s Nether King Divine Fist and destroyed his arm.
• The Death Nether Emperor attacked Chen Feng with the Clear Nether Demonic Sword, but Chen Feng’s lightning shattered it and struck his soul body.
• Chen Feng’s lightning broke through the Nether Emperor’s defenses, and the Divine Punishment Tree sent the Five Aggregates Nether Seal crashing back into him.
• Chen Feng seized the Nether Emperor with a hand of lightning and forced him to agree to help.
• Chen Feng gave the names of Jun Qianwu’s parents and older brother, and the Death Nether Emperor sent someone to search the records.

Chen Feng searched the Netherworld for Jun Qianwu’s family and found records showing that her parents, elder brother, and villagers lived in Ghost Nether City. He arranged for the Underworld Nether Emperor to bring them to him, while Jun Qianwu’s parents wondered how their daughter was faring.

• Chen Feng defeated Death Nether Emperor with Immortal Lightning and forced him to guide the search for his friends’ divine souls.
• Chen Feng visited the other Nether Emperors, defeated one who refused to cooperate, and learned about the danger his lightning posed to them.
• Underworld Nether Emperor found records of Jun Nong, Zhou Xiu, Jun Niansheng, and the people of Hundred Flowers Village, who had all died at Jun Qianwu’s hands.
• Underworld Nether Emperor offered to create a soul barrier so the villagers could return to the mortal world if they wished, and Chen Feng asked him to bring them over.
• In Ghost Nether City, Jun Qianwu’s parents grieved over their separation from her and wondered how she was doing.

Jun Nian and Jun Qianwu’s parents longed for the daughter they had lost, while the people of Hundred Flowers Village suffered abuse and forced labor in the Netherworld. After the Chang Family steward took the villagers to mine, a Ghost Officer arrived asking where they had gone.

• Jun Nian and Jun Qianwu’s parents worried about Jun Qianwu and recalled how their family had been separated by death.
• A warning sent the villagers into fear as the Chang Family steward arrived and ordered them to work in the mines.
• The steward whipped Jun Nian’s mother for moving too slowly, and Jun Nian hurried her along as the villagers followed.
• The steward led the people of Hundred Flowers Village to mine Soul Crystal Stone for the Chang Family.
• After the villagers had been taken away, a Ghost Officer arrived and asked where they had gone, and a little ghost said they had already left.

Chen Feng found Jun Qianwu’s family and the other residents of Hundred Flowers Village enslaved in the Chang Family’s mines. After hearing how they had been abused, he had the Nether Emperor punish the Chang Family and send its members to Ice Hell.

• The yin soldiers searched the mines for the people of Hundred Flowers Village and brought them before Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng reunited with Jun Nong, Zhou Xiu, and Jun Nian, then questioned the villagers about their treatment and whether everyone was present.
• The villagers described their abuse, and Chen Feng asked the Nether Emperor to address the matter.
• The Nether Emperor ordered his yin soldiers to arrest the Chang Family and the steward and sentence them to five hundred years in Ice Hell without reincarnation.
• The Chang Family was destroyed, leaving its members and the ghosts throughout the city stunned.

Chen Feng rescued the people of Hundred Flowers Village from the Underworld and secured the Nether Emperor’s permission for them to return to the human world. After returning to Hell Dimension, he found the passage closed and many travelers stranded there.

• The Nether Emperor reported that the Chang Family had been arrested and sent to Ice Hell, and Chen Feng explained to Jun Nian and the people of Hundred Flowers Village why he had come to help them.
• Chen Feng asked the villagers to return to Hundred Flowers Village, and the Nether Emperor promised them safe passage, a spirit realm, and ghost-cultivation techniques.
• Chen Feng gave the Underworld Nether Emperor and the Death Nether Emperor a transmission talisman, then led Nie Wuji and the villagers away and released the Hell Demon Emperor.
• A Devil Emperor in Hell Dimension abandoned his plan to confront Chen Feng after learning that Chen Feng had defeated the Nether Emperor.
• Chen Feng returned to the entrance with the group and discovered that Jun Mochou had closed the passage, leaving many people stranded without a way back to the human world.

Chen Feng rescued the people trapped in Hell by punching open a passage back to the human realm, then returned to Divine Mountain with Jun Qianwu’s parents and his companions. The Witch Ancestor learned that Chen Feng had reached the Saint Realm and defeated a Great Emperor, leaving him astonished and elated.

• Chen Feng tore open a passage from Hell to the human realm with a punch, and the trapped people followed him out.
• Chen Feng decided to help the people of Hundred Flowers Village settle down and planned to see Jun Qianwu.
• Jun Mochou returned to Divine Mountain furious after his plan failed, and he absorbed the Devil Emperor’s bloodline while communicating with his true body in the Heavenly Realm.
• The Witch Ancestor welcomed Chen Feng back and learned from Nie Wuji that Chen Feng had defeated Jun Mochou and the Great Emperor of the Netherworld Realm.
• The Witch Ancestor realized Chen Feng had become the strongest person on Divine Mountain and trembled with excitement.

Chen Feng left Divine Mountain after giving Witch Ancestor Bodhi Seeds and promising to protect the sect, then returned to the Panwu Divine Dynasty. At Great Qian Academy, Jun Qianwu demonstrated her terrifying newly awakened power and wondered how Chen Feng was doing.

• Witch Ancestor warned Chen Feng that the celestial being backing Jun Mochou could threaten Divine Mountain, and Chen Feng promised to protect them.
• Chen Feng gave Witch Ancestor Bodhi Seeds to aid his cultivation, declined an escort, and set up a teleportation array before leaving with the people of Hundred Flowers Village.
• Tuoba Huang and Witch Ancestor discussed Chen Feng's strength and the possibility that the Bodhi Seeds were Immortal Fruits.
• Chen Feng crossed into the Sun Moon Empire and raced toward the Panwu Divine Dynasty.
• At Great Qian Academy, Jun Qianwu used her awakened pupil power to turn a treasure sword to dust, then wondered how Chen Feng was doing.

Chen Feng brought Jun Qianwu’s family and the people of Hundred Flowers Village back from the Netherworld, reuniting them with her. He took them to their ruined village and began restoring its barren land with the Life Divine Tree.

• Chen Feng arrived at Great Qian Academy and told Jun Qianwu he had rescued her family and the villagers from the Netherworld.
• Chen Feng released the people of Hundred Flowers Village, and Jun Qianwu reunited with her parents, brother Jun Nian, and the rest of her family.
• The villagers forgave Jun Qianwu for causing their deaths and thanked her and Chen Feng for freeing them from the Chang Family and the Netherworld.
• Chen Feng took Jun Qianwu and the villagers to the ruined site of Hundred Flowers Village in the Great Xia Nation.
• Chen Feng raised the Life Divine Tree to restore the village’s barren land.