Chapter Summaries

Thunder Elephant True Monarch defeated the three demons’ attacks and pursued them after they escaped, using the Mysterious Dragon Sea-Sweeping Banner to survive Shenyun’s Mirage Pearl. He tracked them to Kongsang Lifeng’s water manor, where the cornered demons sent an urgent plea for help.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch shattered the dragon spear’s remnant soul and forced Kongsang Lifeng, Shenyun, and Kongsang Baijue to use their trump cards to escape.
• Kongsang Lifeng’s Vermilion Bird feather shielded the demons long enough for them to break through the Space Blockade, while Shenyun’s Mirage Pearl exploded to cover their retreat.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch used the Mysterious Dragon Sea-Sweeping Banner to contain the Mirage Pearl’s blast, then traced the demons’ auras through the shattered void.
• At Kongsang Lifeng’s water manor, Kongsang Baijue blamed Kongsang Lifeng for the failed plan, and the two argued as Shenyun mourned the loss of his Mirage Pearl.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch tracked the demons to the manor and struck through its concealment; Shenyun urged them to contact Thunder King Hall, and Kongsang Lifeng crushed a jade tablet to summon help.

Thunder King Hall’s Gao Yu prepared to unleash its thousand-year plan after the Sea Race’s early signal disrupted its arrangements, then intervened in the battle between Thunder Elephant True Monarch and the Sea Race demons. Gao Yu gained the upper hand with the [Imperial Seal] and [Human King Sword], but Yi Tianzheng arrived with a black great seal, claiming that he too wielded human Dao destiny.

• True Person Yuxian reported that the Sea Race’s signal had come early, and Gao Yu ordered her to activate all of Thunder King Hall’s hidden arrangements.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch battered Kongsang Lifeng’s water manor until Gao Yu appeared with the [Imperial Seal] and [Human King Sword].
• Gao Yu’s treasures strengthened him and helped him trap Thunder Elephant True Monarch alongside Kongsang Baijue, Shenyun, and the other demon.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch unleashed his Five Element Divine Thunders against Gao Yu’s sword strike, but Gao Yu emerged from their clash with the upper hand.
• Yi Tianzheng descended with a black great seal and declared that human Dao destiny was not Gao Yu’s alone.

Yi Tianzheng brought a substitute treasure that let Thunder Elephant True Monarch wield the [Imperial Seal] and turn the tide against Gao Yu, while Song Changsheng awoke after a month of recovery to learn that the borderland battles were still raging. Ji Shinian told Song Changsheng that Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s message was: the time had come.

• Yi Tianzheng arrived with a treasure that allowed Thunder Elephant True Monarch to use the [Imperial Seal] and restore his strength.
• Gao Yu drew on the power of luck to raise his power, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Yi Tianzheng summoned giant avatars to face him and the other enemy fighters.
• Zhuang Yuechan and the others prayed for the True Monarchs’ victory while Song Changsheng remained unconscious.
• Song Changsheng awoke after a month, and Medicine King and Wujie examined him and found that most of his injuries had healed.
• Zhuang Yuechan and Ji Shinian told Song Changsheng that the war continued, Thunder Elephant True Monarch had suffered internal injuries, and Shenyun’s body had been slain.
• Ji Shinian relayed Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s message to Song Changsheng: the time had come.

Song Changsheng planned to recover from his injuries and break through to the Nascent Soul Realm before the final battle, using death qi and Ji Liangyu’s insights into the Law of Death. As he entered seclusion, the Blood Demon Sect began to emerge from the shadows while the Southwest Alliance believed the war was nearing its end.

• Song Changsheng showed Ji Shinian the [Nascent Soul Formation Pill] and explained that he would use death qi to comprehend the Grand Dao of Life and Death and heal his injuries.
• Ji Shinian gave Song Changsheng Ji Liangyu’s cultivation insights and secret method for removing death qi, then left to assist the East Sea defense.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng that the Blood Soul Demonic Sect had multiple powerful Golden Core Cultivators and was secretly recruiting large numbers of people.
• Song Changsheng suspected the Blood Soul Demonic Sect was searching for the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins and entered seclusion, leaving the East Sea to Zhuang Yuechan.
• The Southwest Alliance’s morale rose after Song Changsheng awakened, while its forces believed he was only healing and the war was close to ending.
• The Blood Demon Sect, long believed destroyed, prepared to reveal itself again.

The demon countries renewed their attacks while the Southwest Alliance tried to uncover the enemy’s hidden path to victory. Demon King Dujiao discovered that his mission might be a test and secretly warned the Song Clan, but simultaneous attacks culminated in the destruction of the Mountain Protection Arrays at Rakshasa Hall and the Five Poisons Sect.

• The Kanglong Demon Lord and Golden-Eyed Demon Lord assembled new armies and launched relentless assaults on Linjiang City and Crimson Sunset Fortress to tie down human forces.
• Demon King Dujiao returned to the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom as a Song Clan informant and gained a trusted post supervising attacks on Crimson Sunset Fortress.
• Dujiao received orders to reinforce Broken Mountain City, secretly relayed the intelligence to the Song Clan, and traveled with Demon King Yexiao and other troops.
• When Yexiao failed to catch up, Dujiao realized the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord might be testing him and crushed a jade tablet to send a warning.
• The demon countries launched coordinated night attacks across the fronts, while uninvited guests destroyed the Mountain Protection Arrays of the Five Poisons Sect and Rakshasa Hall.

The Demon Race launched a surprise attack on the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, destroying the Five Poisons Sect and Rakshasa Hall and trapping the defenders at Rakshasa Hall Fortress. True Lord Nether Snake and True Lord Heavenly Killer sacrificed themselves to break the Space Blockade, and Shi Potian arrived to help evacuate the survivors as the Lu Kingdom began to fall.

• Shi Potian learned that the Demon Race had attacked the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World and that the teleportation nodes for the Five Poisons Sect and Rakshasa Hall had gone dark.
• The defenders at Rakshasa Hall Fortress fought the Beast Tide while True Lord Heavenly Killer and True Lord Nether Snake decided to sacrifice themselves to open a path for the trapped cultivators.
• True Lord Nether Snake and True Lord Heavenly Killer self-destructed their golden cores, breaking Venerable Blood Soul's Space Blockade and allowing cultivators from other regions to evacuate.
• Shi Potian and the reinforcements arrived at Rakshasa Hall Fortress, learned of the two True Lords' sacrifice, and took over the defense while the survivors withdrew.
• The allied forces evacuated nearly thirty thousand cultivators to the Gusu Cultivation World, while more than seventy thousand died and the remaining defenders began moving hundreds of millions of mortals to safety.

The Lu Kingdom Cultivation World fell, and the Southwest Alliance mounted a massive evacuation of its mortals as the alliance’s collective fortune surged. Song Changsheng realized hidden demonic cultivators were targeting the gathered refugees and sent aid, but Venerable Blood Soul and Venerable Blood Gu attacked a gathering point before it could be secured.

• The Southwest Alliance used [Paper Kites] and Cross-Domain Flying Boats to evacuate Lu Kingdom’s mortals, while its defenders fought the Beast Tide to buy time.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World had fallen and realized its factions’ fortune had merged into the Southwest Alliance’s collective fortune.
• Song Changsheng suspected hidden demonic cultivators planned to attack the concentrated refugees and sent the [Void Tower] and [Chengyuan Sword] with orders to summon True Monarch Tiger Elephant and recall the Protector Elder.
• Venerable Blood Soul and Venerable Blood Gu watched the evacuation and set out to seize the gathered mortals for their essence blood.
• At a gathering point holding nearly a million mortals, Chen Zhongfang ordered an evacuation and rushed to confront Venerable Blood Gu and Venerable Blood Soul as they attacked.

Song Qingxing joined Cang Manyun and Xuan Tingyu to break Venerable Blood Soul’s blockade and drive back the demonic attackers. As they pursued the fleeing Venerable Blood Gu and Venerable Blood Soul, they learned that the Chihua Sect and Xuanfeng Pavilion had destroyed the Nine Profound Gate and that a suspected Demon Lord had appeared in the Central Region.

• Song Qingxing descended into the devastated Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, rescued mortals with the [Void Tower], and executed those who preyed on the chaos.
• Cang Manyun and Xuan Tingyu arrived to aid Elder Chen, but Venerable Blood Soul reinforced his Space Blockade by harvesting mortals’ essence blood.
• Song Qingxing lent the [Chengyuan Sword] his power with help from Cang Manyun and Xuan Tingyu, shattered the blockade, and struck at Venerable Blood Soul.
• Song Qingxing and Cang Manyun fought Venerable Blood Gu, whose Blood Sea contained the wronged souls of nearly a million mortals, and drove him back with the [Chengyuan Sword].
• Venerable Blood Gu and Venerable Blood Soul fled, and Xuan Tingyu, Cang Manyun, Song Qingxing, Shi Potian, and other reinforcements pursued them.
• The Southwest Alliance learned that the Chihua Sect and Xuanfeng Pavilion had breached the Nine Profound Gate, while a suspected Demon Lord’s aura kept True Monarch Tiger Elephant from coming to their aid.

Ji Shinian tracked down and fought Demon Lord Chixiao as chaos spread through the Central Region, while the Southwest Alliance faced worsening losses and Chen Zhongfang neared death. After the Lu Kingdom fell to the Beast Tide, slain Rakshasa Hall disciples Shen Qing and Chen Jie rose again as demonic beings and rode off with reanimated Demon Wolves.

• Ji Shinian sensed a concealed demon lord heading toward the Nine Regions of the Southwest, pursued him, and discovered he was Demon Lord Chixiao.
• Ji Shinian and Demon Lord Chixiao clashed, while the fighting’s shockwaves spread through the Central Region and its conflicts continued to worsen.
• Shi Potian sent Hou Yu to stabilize the Yulong Cultivation World, but Venerable Blood Soul and Venerable Blood Gu escaped after a day and night of pursuit.
• The Medicine King said Chen Zhongfang’s Golden Core Origin was nearly exhausted, and Song Qingxi explained that Song Changsheng remained in critical recovery.
• The Beast Tide overwhelmed Rakshasa Hall Fortress, and nearly a million Demon Race members invaded the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, leaving millions unable to evacuate.
• Shen Qing and Chen Jie rose from the dead as demonic beings, killed nearby Demon Wolves with demonic qi, and rode away on the reanimated wolves.

After the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World fell, the Southwest Alliance retreated and prepared new defenses while the Demon Race paused to recover. Song Changsheng emerged from more than two months of cultivation with his injuries healed and the Dao of Life and Death united, then confronted Soul Returnless, who offered intelligence on the Blood Demon Sect in exchange for his sister's safety.

• True Lord Heavenly Scorpion accepted the retreat from the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, and Li Mingxuan urged the surviving Five Poisons Sect disciples to live on and reclaim their homeland.
• The Southwest Alliance began conscripting cultivators and relocating mortals as the Human Race and Demon Race each used the pause to prepare for the next conflict.
• Song Qingxi received a secret message from Wang Zaixing while Song Changsheng remained in seclusion, treating his injuries by using the Dao of Death to stimulate his life force.
• Song Changsheng recovered, joined the Dao Flowers of Life and Death into the Dao of Life and Death, and learned that Soul Returnless had resurfaced with information about the Blood Demon Sect.
• Song Changsheng met Soul Returnless, who offered the sect's schemes and approximate location if Song Changsheng guaranteed the safety of his sister, Blood Consort, also known as Xue Fu.

Song Changsheng and Soul Returnless attacked the Blood Demon Sect’s lair at Qingfeng Mountain to stop Blood Gu and Blood Soul from recovering their strength. Song Changsheng battled the Demon Kings above while Soul Returnless and Blood Consort raced underground to disrupt the Blood Refining Arrays, leaving the confrontation escalating as reinforcements approached.

• Soul Returnless revealed that Blood Gu and Blood Soul were recovering through Blood Refining Arrays and led Song Changsheng to the Blood Demon Sect’s hidden base at Qingfeng Mountain.
• Song Changsheng sealed the area with spatial formations, trapped more than a dozen Demon Kings, and fought them with his World in the Palm and Thousand Shadow Tracing abilities.
• Song Changsheng gave Soul Returnless his Void-Breaking Bead and tasked him with finding Blood Consort and destroying the Blood Refining Array.
• Soul Returnless met Blood Consort underground, but she explained that there were two arrays and that destroying hers immediately would let Hun Sha interfere and leave Blood Gu unchecked.
• Soul Returnless went to find and kill Hun Sha while Blood Consort returned to warn True Lord Zixu, as Song Changsheng continued fighting above and more human and demon forces rushed toward the battle.

Song Qingxi called the Nine Regions of the Southwest to reinforce Song Changsheng, and the Human Race powers answered with a united rush toward Qingfeng Mountain. Song Changsheng slew Demon King Xuanyu, but the Demon Race broke his Space Blockade with a secret treasure; as Demon King Zihuan prepared another attack, urgent arrivals approached from behind.

• Song Qingxi sent out pleas for aid, and forces across the Nine Regions independently chose to fight and hurried toward Qingfeng Mountain.
• The Demon Race's reinforcements reached Qingfeng Mountain first and attacked Song Changsheng's Space Blockade while he remained pinned down by Demon Kings.
• Song Changsheng unleashed the [Third Killing Formation Under Heaven] and killed Demon King Xuanyu, scattering the remaining demons.
• Six powerful Demon Kings arrived, and Demon King Zihuan used a white-bone bracelet's bead to break the Space Blockade and strike at Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng escaped the giant claw with Space Shuttle, and Demon King Zihuan prepared to attack again before urgent sounds came from behind him.

Human forces turned the battle against the Demon Race, while Song Changsheng broke Demon Lord Huanyan’s illusion and pursued Blood Gu after he fled with the Sacred Artifact. Song Changsheng confronted Blood Gu, who unleashed a blood sea and emerged as a terrifying Nascent Soul-like giant.

• Song Qingxing, Mu Guibai, Shi Potian, and other Golden Core cultivators joined the battle, bringing the human forces to near parity with the demons.
• Demon Lord Huanyan trapped Song Changsheng in an illusion, but Song Changsheng used the Chengyuan Sword and human fortune to break free.
• Song Changsheng entered the collapsed cavern and learned from Soul Returnless that Blood Gu had escaped after draining the Blood Pool, while Blood Soul had been left ruined.
• Song Changsheng tracked Blood Gu toward the Demon Domain and caught up with him, cutting the space ahead to prevent his escape.
• Blood Gu swallowed a bead filled with demonic essence blood and unleashed a vast blood sea after Song Changsheng struck him down.
• Blood Gu’s Nascent Soul rose from the blood sea and formed a towering blood-colored giant.

Blood Gu trapped Song Changsheng in his Dao Rule Domain and battered him with the Blood Sea, but Song Changsheng used the Chengyuan Sword, the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven, and the power of fortune to hold him off. He began forcing a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, and the chapter ended as his Golden Core shattered and his nascent soul rose toward the Mudball Palace.

• Blood Gu awakened his Nascent Soul at the cost of his physical body and imprisoned Song Changsheng in his Blood Dao Rule Domain.
• Blood Gu attacked Song Changsheng with blood tentacles and the Blood Hand Covering the Heavens, while Song Changsheng endured severe injuries and used the Chengyuan Sword to defend himself.
• Song Changsheng cut his palm to deepen his bond with the Chengyuan Sword, manifested the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven, and used it to absorb the Blood Sea's Killing Intent and resentment.
• Song Changsheng swallowed a Nascent Soul Formation Pill and used over a thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to force his Golden Cores toward a breakthrough as Blood Gu's mind succumbed to the Blood Sea's corruption.
• Song Changsheng held off Blood Gu with the Chengyuan Sword and the killing formation while the six Demon Lords watched from the Demon Domain.
• Song Changsheng's Golden Core cracked and shattered, and his nascent soul rose from his dantian toward the Mudball Palace.

Song Changsheng completed his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, manifesting a three-hundred-zhang Dharma Form and an unprecedented connection to the Great Dao. He defeated and suppressed Blood Gu, then turned his attention to the six Demon Lords across the Canglan River.

• Song Changsheng fused his True Spirit and divine soul with his Golden Core infant, then joined with the Great Dao to form his Nascent Soul.
• Song Changsheng manifested a three-hundred-zhang Nascent Soul Dharma Form while the Heavenly Dao Tree and its false infant remained, leaving him with two apparent Nascent Souls and Dharma Forms.
• Song Changsheng used the Chengyuan Sword, thunder, and his Dharma Form to break Blood Gu’s Blood Sea and destroy his giant body.
• Song Changsheng imprisoned Blood Gu’s Nascent Soul with Law Chains and burned the Corrupted Blood across the ground with Violet Void Divine Fire.
• Song Changsheng looked across the Canglan River at the six Demon Lords and vowed not to spare them if he could counterattack the Demon Domain.

Song Changsheng secured a decisive victory at Qingfeng Mountain after revealing his Nascent Soul breakthrough, while the Canglan Water Monarch’s neutrality helped save the Southwest. As he turned to postwar dangers, he ordered Song Qingxing to investigate signs of a spreading demonic calamity in the devastated Lu Kingdom Cultivation World.

• Song Changsheng apologized to the Canglan Water Monarch for disturbing the Canglan River and left with Blood Gu’s Nascent Soul; the Water Monarch confirmed his decision to stay out of the battle had been a wager on Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng returned to Qingfeng Mountain, announced Blood Gu’s death, and showed the battlefield that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Demon Race’s forces broke into a chaotic retreat, and after a day and night of fighting, fewer than twenty of the nearly hundred Demon Kings who joined the battle returned to the Demon Domain.
• The Southwest Alliance celebrated Song Changsheng’s breakthrough and victory, while Song Changsheng spent a month consolidating his cultivation before discussing the scattered Demon Beasts and Lu Kingdom’s reconstruction with Song Qingxi.
• Song Changsheng learned that a Foundation Establishment Cultivator had caused demonic corruption in a village and ordered Song Qingxi to send Song Qingxing to investigate whether calamities had appeared elsewhere.
• Song Changsheng went to the dungeon to interrogate the captured Blood Demon Sect leaders, hoping to learn about the demonic calamity and the Abyss.

Song Changsheng searched Hun Sha’s memories, uncovered the Blood Demon Sect’s history and its links to the Gu Immortal Sect, and ordered preparations for future investigations and expeditions. He then examined Yin Jue’s great halberd and recognized a formation inside it as the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven.

• Song Changsheng soul-searched Hun Sha, learned that the Blood Demon Sect had obtained the Calamity Heart Gu from the Gu Immortal Sect, and spared her for Soul Returnless to deal with.
• Song Changsheng questioned the Blood-Eyed Crow but postponed searching Blood Soul and Blood Gu, fearing the risks of confronting their immense memories.
• Song Changsheng told Song Qingxi that the recent demonic disaster was likely caused by a rogue cultivator and ordered Song Qingxing to investigate the wider threat.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingxi the Blood Demon Sect’s hidden locations to investigate and ordered her to gather demon essence blood and rare herbs for his plans.
• Song Changsheng entered the Artifact Forging Room to inspect Yin Jue’s great halberd and discovered that its Blood Fiend Qi came from the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven.

Song Changsheng unlocked the sealed power of Yin Jue’s great halberd, subdued its Baleful Spirit, and identified it as the Desolate Heaven Halberd. When Song Qingxi reported that the Nine Profound Gate was under siege and True Monarch Tiger Elephant had stopped responding, Song Changsheng went to investigate.

• Song Changsheng recognized the incomplete Third Killing Formation Under Heaven engraved in the halberd and broke its hidden seal with killing intent.
• The formation showed him the slaughter of enormous cities, after which a Baleful Spirit emerged from the halberd and attacked him.
• Song Changsheng repeatedly crushed the spirit, lured it with his essence blood, and subdued it with a Divine Soul Imprint.
• The halberd shed its impurities and revealed the name Desolate Heaven Halberd; Song Changsheng tested its power by cutting open a Spatial Rift.
• Song Qingxi told Song Changsheng that the Nine Profound Gate was under siege and that True Person Hou Yu had requested alliance aid.
• After Song Qingxi reported that True Monarch Tiger Elephant had not replied, Song Changsheng set out through a Spatial Rift to investigate.

Song Changsheng used his Thousand Shadow Tracing ability to pacify the rebellions across the Yulong Cultivation World, then hurried to the Tianming Cultivation World to find Ji Shinian. There he discovered a Merfolk’s Sound of Heavenly Music had put the region to sleep, and an unknown speaker invited him to talk.

• Song Changsheng split into more than a dozen clones to suppress unrest throughout the Yulong Cultivation World and went to the Nine Profound Gate’s ruins.
• Song Changsheng’s pressure forced the rebel forces attacking Hou Yu’s defenses to kneel, and he slaughtered more than ten thousand rebels with the Desolate Heaven Halberd.
• Song Changsheng told Hou Yu to restore order, then learned that his clones had pacified the other regions as well.
• Song Changsheng reached the Tianming Cultivation World and found its inhabitants asleep under the Merfolk’s Sound of Heavenly Music while he searched for Ji Shinian.
• Song Changsheng identified the divine ability and wondered whether another Merfolk Feudal Lord had entered the war before an unseen speaker invited him to talk.

Song Changsheng met Kongsang Lingxi, a powerful Merfolk royal who had lured him away from Ji Shinian to plead for peace. After she left him a fifth-rank Merfolk Tear, Song Changsheng suppressed the rebellions and warned Myriad Manifestations Palace that Kongsang Lifeng and Bai Jue had found new allies; he arrived at the palace as the Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance’s tribulation gathered.

• Song Changsheng followed the Sound of Heavenly Music to Kongsang Lingxi, who revealed she had trapped Ji Shinian to bring him to their meeting and urged him to agree to a truce.
• Song Changsheng rejected Kongsang Lingxi’s plea, and his accusations shattered her self-deception and caused her to lose the Sound of Heavenly Music.
• Kongsang Lingxi warned Song Changsheng that Lifeng and Bai Jue had sought other helpers, then vanished and left behind a fifth-rank Merfolk Tear.
• Song Changsheng freed the city from Kongsang Lingxi’s influence, suppressed rebel forces across the cultivation worlds, and collected souls that might have been parasitized by the Soul Race.
• Yi Tianzheng told Song Changsheng to join Myriad Manifestations Palace after the rebellions were resolved, and Song Changsheng left Ji Shinian guarding the region as he departed.
• Song Changsheng arrived at Myriad Manifestations Palace, where Yi Tianzheng and Thunder Elephant True Monarch welcomed him and reported that their investigation had concluded.