Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng learned that the Sea Race had recruited Xiaokun, Demon Lord Fuhai, while Myriad Manifestations Palace lacked the reinforcements needed to match its enemies. After the Sea Race attacked Hundred Refinements Sect and destroyed most of its islands, both sides converged for battle as fighting erupted across the region.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch identified Xiaokun as a Fifth-Tier Ultimate Grade demon who had joined the Sea Race, and Song Changsheng realized the enemy held a major advantage.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch told Song Changsheng that potential allies demanded unbearable prices, while Yi Tianzheng said they were seeking other aid.
• Kongsang Baijue and Gao Yu argued over when to begin the war, but Kongsang Baijue eventually persuaded Gao Yu to join the battle by increasing the benefits.
• Zhuang Yuechan and Song Yuqing felt violent tremors near the Soaring Dragon Archipelago and traced their source toward Hundred Refinements Sect.
• Xiaokun devastated the Hundred Refinements Archipelago, prompting Thunder Elephant True Monarch to attack him as Kongsang Baijue, Gao Yu, Kongsang Lifeng, and Demon Lord Chihai arrived.
• Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng joined Thunder Elephant True Monarch against the Sea Race leaders, while True Lord Longxiang and Ji Shinian faced opponents elsewhere.

The East Sea battlefield’s Nascent Soul leaders engaged in targeted duels, with Song Changsheng tasked with holding off the powerful Demon Lord Chihai. Song Changsheng matched Chihai’s attacks and pursued him through the Bone-Scraping Wind layer, entering a new world as their fight continued.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch unleashed the [Mysterious Dragon Sea-Sweeping Banner], while Gao Yu and Song Changsheng sent their weapons to support him against the enemy.
• Yi Tianzheng confronted Kongsang Lifeng, and Song Changsheng faced Demon Lord Chihai without the [Chengyuan Sword].
• Song Changsheng used spatial abilities and the [Desolate Heaven Halberd] to counter Chihai’s attacks and imprison him, but Chihai broke free and revealed his Green-Blooded Chi Dragon true form.
• Song Changsheng blocked Chihai’s azure dragon breath with [Flowers Bloom in an Instant], and the two remained evenly matched.
• Chihai flew toward Above the Nine Heavens, and Song Changsheng pursued him through the Bone-Scraping Wind layer into a new world.

Song Changsheng fought Demon Lord Chihai while Yi Tianzheng and Thunder Elephant True Monarch battled powerful Sea Race opponents above the Shuofeng Layer. Elsewhere, the returning Song Qingyun saved Zhao Wuji and gave his name, while Song Changsheng prepared a hidden Void Demon Crystal trap for Chihai.

• Song Changsheng used his command of the Space Great Dao and the Desolate Heaven Halberd to evade Demon Lord Chihai while threatening him with sudden attacks.
• Yi Tianzheng wounded Kongsang Lifeng and pressed him in battle, while Thunder Elephant True Monarch held off Demon Lord Fuhai, Kongsang Baijue, and Gao Yu.
• Song Qingyun crossed the devastated Lu Kingdom Cultivation World and found Zhao Wuji fleeing a demonic Bear Demon.
• Song Qingyun killed the Bear Demon with his Azure Peak, and Zhao Wuji thanked him and asked his name.
• Song Changsheng drew Demon Lord Chihai away from the main battlefield and relied on a plan to detonate several thousand catties of Void Demon Crystals against him.

Song Changsheng lured Demon Lord Chihai to a remote sea and trapped him with the Spatial Iron Pestles before detonating thousands of jin of Void Demon Crystals. Chihai was swallowed by the resulting spatial black hole, but just as Song Changsheng prepared to return to the battlefield, an unforeseen change occurred.

• Song Changsheng led Demon Lord Chihai away from the main battlefield to a remote, barren sea region.
• Song Changsheng used [Thousand Shadow Tracing] to scatter decoys, then activated the Spatial Iron Pestles to seal Chihai inside a spatial cage.
• Demon Lord Chihai attacked the cage with his inner core but failed to break free before Song Changsheng detonated the buried Void Demon Crystals.
• The explosion shattered space across a thousand li, and the expanding black hole tore apart Chihai's defenses and swallowed him.
• Song Changsheng watched from a safe distance, believed Chihai was dead, and prepared to return to the battlefield before an unforeseen change arose.

Song Changsheng defeated Demon Lord Chihai, who escaped with only his True Spirit, then went to the Great Zhen battlefield to help True Lord Longxiang. Together they gained the upper hand against Demon Lord Tuntian and prepared to kill him.

• Demon Lord Chihai emerged from the spatial black hole as a skeletal remnant, and Song Changsheng pursued him with his full strength.
• Song Changsheng struck Demon Lord Chihai with [World in the Palm], but Chihai escaped as a True Spirit after detonating his Dragon Pearl.
• Song Changsheng collected Chihai's bone fragments and detoured to the Great Zhen battlefield, where he helped the army by attacking Sea Race forces along the way.
• Demon Lord Tuntian tried to flee from True Lord Longxiang when Song Changsheng approached, but Longxiang collapsed his spatial tunnel and forced him to fight.
• Song Changsheng and True Lord Longxiang wounded Demon Lord Tuntian with coordinated attacks, then manifested their Nascent Soul Dharma Forms and prepared to kill him.

Thunder Elephant True Monarch battled Xiaokun, Kongsang Baijue, and Gao Yu until Feng Wanli arrived and split the fight, while Song Changsheng and True Lord Longxiang defeated Demon Lord Tuntian and returned to the Main Battlefield. Song Changsheng found Yi Tianzheng still fighting Kongsang Lifeng and revealed that Chihai and Tuntian were dead, leaving Lifeng terrified.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s Dao Rule Domain collapsed under the combined attacks of Xiaokun, Kongsang Baijue, and Gao Yu, but he countered by severing several of Xiaokun’s tentacles with [Geng Metal Divine Thunder].
• Feng Wanli arrived, cut off Xiaokun’s attack, and used his Dao Rule Domain to hold back Kongsang Baijue and Gao Yu while Thunder Elephant True Monarch faced Xiaokun.
• Song Changsheng and True Lord Longxiang killed Demon Lord Tuntian’s physical body after a long battle, but his True Spirit escaped; they then set out for the Main Battlefield.
• Song Changsheng and True Lord Longxiang reached the Main Battlefield and learned that Feng Wanli had arrived, then split up so Longxiang could support Feng while Song Changsheng went to Yi Tianzheng.
• Song Changsheng found Yi Tianzheng pressing Kongsang Lifeng in their ongoing duel and told Lifeng that he had personally killed Chihai and that Tuntian was dead too.

Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng trapped Kongsang Lifeng and drove him into a desperate fight, while he hoped Xiaokun could turn the tide. A tall figure approached across the waves, cutting off his last hope.

• Kongsang Lifeng realized he could not retreat without losing his fief and his life, so he prepared to fight Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng.
• Kongsang Lifeng manifested his Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect and attacked, but Yi Tianzheng froze his Flood Dragons and sealed space with [Seal and Sever Heaven and Earth].
• Song Changsheng broke through Kongsang Lifeng's barrier and summoned the Heavenly Dao Tree to absorb his counterattacks and further restrict him.
• Kongsang Lifeng fought fiercely to delay his defeat, hoping Xiaokun would turn the tide.
• A tall figure appeared, treading the waves toward Kongsang Lifeng.

Song Changsheng, Yi Tianzheng, and True Monarch Fengyin killed Kongsang Lifeng, while the battle against Kongsang Baijue’s forces turned more dangerous. Gao Yu used the [Human King Sword] and [Imperial Seal] to reach Nascent Soul Great Perfection, losing control of himself as he struck down True Lord Longxiang.

• True Monarch Fengyin arrived from the Qingcang Cultivation World and wounded Kongsang Lifeng with Wind Gale Piercing Strike.
• Song Changsheng, Yi Tianzheng, and True Monarch Fengyin attacked together, destroyed Kongsang Lifeng’s Merfolk True Spirit, and trapped him with Yi Tianzheng’s spatial-sealing divine ability.
• Kongsang Lifeng launched a final strike at Song Changsheng, but Song’s Nascent Soul Dharma Idol blocked it before Kongsang Lifeng was frozen, shattered, and slain.
• Yi Tianzheng thanked True Monarch Fengyin, who explained that he had waited to join the battle until the outcome looked favorable because Qingfeng Dao Sect needed him to survive.
• After hearing that Kongsang Lifeng had died, Gao Yu borrowed the [Human King Sword] and [Imperial Seal] to force his cultivation to Nascent Soul Great Perfection and cut down True Lord Longxiang.
• Gao Yu lost control of his power and sword, while True Monarch Xiaoyao kept his distance from the wild Sword Qi.

Yi Tianzheng and Song Changsheng fought Kongsang Baijue while True Lord Longxiang’s body was destroyed, and Song Changsheng received the Chengyuan Sword. As the battle continued, the Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance completed its tribulation and its artifact spirit took human form, announcing its name as Xuanlei.

• Kongsang Baijue struck True Lord Longxiang with a water spear, destroying his physical body, while Yi Tianzheng and Song Changsheng joined the fight against him.
• Kongsang Baijue activated the Mysterious Origin Water Control Pearl and used his heartblood to strengthen it, but Song Changsheng countered with the Water-Fire Control Technique and Universe in the Sleeve.
• Yi Tianzheng intercepted Kongsang Baijue’s follow-up attack, and Song Changsheng received the Chengyuan Sword and drew on its Power of Luck.
• Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng used sealing divine abilities to stall Kongsang Baijue while the battle between the Nascent Soul cultivators continued.
• The Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance endured the thirty-six Heavenly Dipper divine thunders, and its artifact spirit transformed into an old man who announced that his name was Xuanlei.

Xuanlei completed his tribulation and prepared to reinforce the East Sea as the defeated Sea Race leaders and Gao Yu fled in separate directions. Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng pursued Kongsang Baijue to the Qingcang Cultivation World, while an urgent message from the Great Qi Cultivation World reached Myriad Manifestations Palace.

• Xuanlei broke through to the Deity Transformation Stage, took the name Grandmaster Xuanlei, and ordered Myriad Manifestations Palace to prepare for war.
• Xiaokun fled into the deep sea, Kongsang Baijue broke Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng’s seal and escaped, and the Human King Sword drove Gao Yu out of his pursuers’ encirclement.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch chased Xiaokun, Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng pursued Kongsang Baijue, and True Monarch Xiaoyao and True Monarch Fengyin followed Gao Yu.
• A Deity Transformation Supreme warned outside cultivators away from the East Sea, causing them to abandon their pursuit of the Treasures of Human Dao Luck.
• Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng reached the Qingcang Cultivation World and contacted Qingfeng Dao Sect to seek help trapping Kongsang Baijue.
• Zhuang Yuechan’s urgent transmission from the Great Qi Cultivation World reached Myriad Manifestations Palace after she failed to contact Song Changsheng.

Song Qingyun investigated Demonic Qi infecting demon beasts in the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World and discovered an organized attack on mortals. After sending Zhao Wuji to warn the Wangyue Song Clan, he recognized his elder brother’s sword intent and flew toward it.

• Ling Xiao told Zhuang Yuechan that the Sea Race was nearly defeated and urged her to send elites back to guard against the demonic disaster.
• Song Qingyun rescued Zhao Wuji, learned of abnormal demon beasts, and found Demonic Qi hidden inside a Savage Bear.
• Song Qingyun and Zhao Wuji found a destroyed village, and Song Qingyun used Dream of Yellow Millet to witness Demon Wolves and two Demonic Qi-shrouded figures slaughtering its residents.
• Song Qingyun gave Zhao Wuji his Waist Token and ordered him to warn the Wangyue Song Clan about the attacks.
• Zhao Wuji sensed familiar Sword Intent in a distant sword flare, and Song Qingyun recognized his elder brother’s sword and flew toward it.

Song Qingxing uncovered a rapidly spreading demonic calamity in the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World and reunited with his missing younger brother, Song Qingyun, while pursuing two Rakshasa Hall disciples tied to its source. The Southwest Alliance’s purge revealed more than a hundred thousand victims and a disaster spreading into the Central Region, while Song Changsheng remained unreachable after the decisive battle.

• Song Qingxing destroyed a demon den of more than three thousand corrupted people, then used soul searching to identify two Rakshasa Hall disciples as a lead and sent their portraits to Vast Peak.
• Song Qingxing reunited with Zhao Wuji and his younger brother, Song Qingyun, who had been missing for over two hundred years; he told them to return to Vast Peak while he continued his investigation.
• Song Qingyun reported that Demon Wolves had crossed the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World and were heading toward the Cangyuan Cultivation World, so he and Song Qingxing set off to pursue them.
• Song Qingxi mobilized the Southwest Alliance, and its forces uncovered hundreds of demonic lairs containing more than one hundred thousand victims.
• The demonic calamity erupted across the Southwest and spread into the Central Region, prompting Song Qingxi to send an urgent message to Song Changsheng, who could not be reached.

Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng surrounded Kongsang Baijue’s Water Mansion with a blockade while studying its Nine Dragons Sea-Calming Array, and Qingfeng Dao Sect Sect Master Ren Mufeng arrived to join them. An urgent message then revealed that a demonic calamity had erupted in the Borderlands, forcing Song Changsheng to confront the disaster he had foreseen during his tribulation.

• Song Changsheng identified the Nine Dragons Sea-Calming Array around Kongsang Baijue’s Water Mansion and explained its origins and the nine dragon pillars that powered it.
• Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng decided not to assault the array and instead established a Space Blockade while Song Changsheng studied its construction.
• Ren Mufeng, Sect Master of the Qingfeng Dao Sect, arrived and learned from Yi Tianzheng that the battle’s overall situation had been settled and Grandmaster Xuanlei had reached the sixth rank.
• Song Changsheng, Yi Tianzheng, and Ren Mufeng agreed to strengthen the blockade around Kongsang Baijue’s Water Mansion as they waited for reinforcements.
• Ren Mufeng received an urgent message relayed through the East Sea’s Heaven-tier Black Market stating that a demonic calamity had erupted in the Borderlands and that Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng must return at once.
• Song Changsheng realized that the demonic calamity he had seen during his tribulation had come to pass.

Song Changsheng, Yi Tianzheng, and True Monarch Henghua broke through Kongsang Baijue’s array and confronted him and its nine dragon-beast guardians. Song Changsheng unleashed the [Song of the Fallen Kingdom Sword] to destroy six beasts, leaving the battle against Kongsang Baijue unresolved.

• Song Changsheng urged Yi Tianzheng to deal with Kongsang Baijue before returning to help contain the demonic disaster in the Borderlands.
• True Monarch Henghua lent them the fifth-grade [Profound Breaking Awl], and the three men used it to shatter the array’s barrier.
• Kongsang Baijue activated the [Nine Dragons Sea-Calming Array] at full power and emerged with nine mixed-blood dragon beasts as Yi Tianzheng attacked him.
• Song Changsheng and True Monarch Henghua fought the nine beasts while Yi Tianzheng battled Kongsang Baijue.
• Song Changsheng used [Chengyuan] and the remaining Power of Luck to unleash the [Song of the Fallen Kingdom Sword], annihilating six beasts and exhausting nearly all his strength.

Song Changsheng, Yi Tianzheng, and True Monarch Henghua defeated Kongsang Baijue after his damaged array and a trap in the Mysterious Origin Water Control Pearl turned against him. With Kongsang Baijue dead and the battle over, they divided the surviving treasures and prepared to leave for the Borderlands.

• Yi Tianzheng pierced Kongsang Baijue with the Qianyuan Profound Dragon Ruler as the weakened Nine Dragons Sea-Calming Array faltered.
• Song Changsheng and True Monarch Henghua destroyed the remaining array beasts, then charged the Profound Breaking Awl while Yi Tianzheng kept Kongsang Baijue under attack.
• Kongsang Baijue’s Mysterious Origin Water Control Pearl backfired, and the Profound Breaking Awl killed him before his True Spirit exploded and tore open a spatial black hole.
• Song Changsheng used Yin and Yang power to rescue Yi Tianzheng and True Monarch Henghua from the blast, though the Profound Breaking Awl was lost in the Boundless Void.
• The three found the Dragon-Slaughtering Pillars and Mysterious Origin Water Control Pearl intact; True Monarch Henghua yielded both treasures to Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng to divide.
• Song Changsheng chose the great array, Yi Tianzheng took the Mysterious Origin Water Control Pearl, and the group prepared to head toward the Borderlands.

Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng returned to Myriad Manifestations Palace and learned that the demonic calamity had spread across much of the Borderlands, while Sea Race resistance continued to tie down the main forces. Song Changsheng set out to find Kongsang Qian, whose defeat could break the Sea Race army, and his deduction pointed southeast.

• True Monarch Henghua parted from Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng, while Kongsang Lingxi appeared afterward and used her white conch to restore the damaged sea and Space Barrier.
• Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng returned to Myriad Manifestations Palace, where True Person Cangyuan reported that Grandmaster Dragon Elephant was recovering but Ji Shinian remained locked in battle with Demon Lord Chixiao.
• True Person Cangyuan explained that Kongsang Qian had reorganized the Sea Race forces into scattered raiding units, while the demonic calamity spread through concealed, highly erosive Demonic Qi linked to Shen Qing and Chen Jie.
• The Council of Elders planned to suppress the remaining Sea Race forces, isolate regions, and screen cultivators using protective talismans and artifacts.
• Yi Tianzheng went to assist Ji Shinian and search for Shen Qing and Chen Jie, while Song Changsheng went to break the Sea Race resistance by finding Kongsang Qian.
• Song Changsheng used deduction to locate Kongsang Qian toward the southeast, then tore through space to pursue him.

Kongsang Qian refused to retreat, but Song Changsheng found and killed him and the black-robed old man, then took their treasures, including a strange merfolk jade carving. After crushing the Sea Race forces in the Southeast, Song Changsheng headed toward the Southwest and learned that Shen Qing and Wang Jie had been found.

• Kongsang Qian rejected the black-robed old man's plea to withdraw, insisting that the Sea Race should keep the battle going.
• Song Changsheng broke into the island, suppressed Kongsang Qian and the old man, and killed them with Great Divine Ability—World in the Palm.
• Song Changsheng found a strange red-jade merfolk carving among the spoils and stored it away before heading to the Myriad Manifestations Archipelago.
• Song Changsheng slew twelve Demon Kings, routed the Sea Race forces, and learned that Zhuang Yuechan had returned to the clan while Ling Xiao and Dong Hua pursued the Blood Soul Demonic Sect's fleet.
• Song Changsheng ordered Song Yuqing and the others to clear the remaining Sea Race and prepare protective items, then traveled toward the Southwest through the chaotic Central Region.
• Song Changsheng contacted Ji Shinian and Yi Tianzheng and learned that Shen Qing and Wang Jie had been found.

Song Changsheng reached the Abyss rift and learned that Shen Qing and Wang Jie had triggered a Demonic Calamity after a blood sacrifice weakened the ancient seal. As he helped the gathered cultivators reinforce it, the rift began to split open and a gigantic creature started forcing its way out.

• Song Changsheng arrived at the Yellow Sand Gobi and found dozens of Golden Core cultivators trying to contain the Abyss's Demonic Qi.
• Ji Shinian explained that Shen Qing had entered the Abyss, Wang Jie had been captured, and their blood sacrifice had damaged the original seal.
• Ji Shinian gave Song Changsheng a damaged Array Plate, which Song recognized as one he had made for Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun; he concluded that Shadow Pavilion cultivators might have been exposed to Demonic Qi.
• Song Changsheng warned Yi Tianzheng and Ji Shinian that the Demonic Calamity could have spread through Shadow Pavilion's Black Markets, but Yi Tianzheng insisted they reinforce the seal first.
• As Song Changsheng opened the array diagram, the rift shook, the five-colored ring began to fail, and a huge scarlet horn emerged from the Demonic Qi.

Song Changsheng and the others reinforced the Abyss seal to repel a colossal Ancient Devil, but the seal remained weak and demonic qi continued to spread. Song Changsheng resolved to enter the Abyss for intelligence, while the group began preparations for the wider threat; five days later, Yi Tianzheng reached Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Grandmaster Xuanlei.

• A colossal creature forced open the spatial rift, and Yi Tianzheng rallied the cultivators to reinforce the seal.
• Song Changsheng used formation flags and a grand formation to stabilize the Space Barrier and drive the Ancient Devil back into the Abyss.
• Yi Tianzheng warned that the weakened seal would last only several days and urged the group to seek help from Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Grandmaster Xuanlei.
• Yi Tianzheng identified the creature as an Ancient Devil and explained that the Abyss connected to the Ancient Devil Race, prompting Song Changsheng to insist on scouting it for intelligence.
• Yi Tianzheng assigned Ji Shinian to deal with the demonic calamity, while he sought outside help and Song Changsheng stayed with the Southwest Alliance to maintain the formation.
• After five days of uneasy waiting and several tremors in the seal, Yi Tianzheng reported that Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Grandmaster Xuanlei had finally been contacted.

Song Changsheng and the Southwest Alliance waited as the Ancient Devil Race threatened to break through the spatial rift, while the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty and Shadow Pavilion responded cautiously. Grandmaster Xuanlei and Thunder Elephant True Monarch returned, assessed the seal, and prepared to reinforce it alongside the Palace Master and Ji Shinian.

• Yi Tianzheng told Song Changsheng that the Shadow Pavilion would send specialists after hearing about the Ancient Devil Race, while the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty had not yet made its position clear.
• Yi Tianzheng announced that Grandmaster Xuanlei and Thunder Elephant True Monarch were returning, and Song Changsheng, Ji Shinian, and Yi Tianzheng reinforced the seal together.
• Two days later, Grandmaster Xuanlei and Thunder Elephant True Monarch arrived, and Grandmaster Xuanlei praised Song Changsheng's talent before hearing his account of the crisis.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei inspected the seal and explained that destroying the spatial rift could let the Ancient Devil Race open invasion channels elsewhere.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei ordered the Palace Master and Ji Shinian to join him in reinforcing the seal.