Chapter Summaries

Song Ping'an and his companions bought the Tiger Bearing Saber, which he recognized as a weapon Song Changming had given General Li Sanhu. After Zhan Xinshou barged into their private room and insulted Su Qingqing and Girl Huang, Lan Jin struck him and the group departed, leaving Zhan Xinshou to realize he had offended Immortal Song’s people.

• A bidder in a private room purchased the Spirit Saber for five hundred high-grade Spirit Crystals, outbidding Zhan Xinshou.
• Song Ping'an identified the saber as the Tiger Bearing Saber Song Changming had given General Li Sanhu and wondered what had happened to the Li Family’s descendants.
• Zhan Xinshou forced his way into the private room and made a lewd remark to Su Qingqing and Girl Huang.
• Lan Jin struck Zhan Xinshou, and Su Qingqing immobilized his guards as Song Ping'an led the group away.
• Zhan Xinshou’s old servant recognized Song Ping'an and told him they had offended Immortal Song’s people.

Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang stayed to compete for a Thunder Dragon Fruit, then swallowed it and fled as Demon Kings pursued them. Meanwhile, Song Ping'an's group recovered Li Sanhu's saber and learned its owner had been murdered, while Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix went to investigate a surge of energy and demon aura.

• Zhan Xinshou ordered his guards to keep quiet about his encounter with Song Ping'an and returned home after collecting his lost teeth.
• A snake Demon King and his companion found the Thunder Dragon Fruit in a forbidden forest, where demons and human Martial Artists gathered to claim it.
• Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang chose to stay for the fruit despite the Demon Kings among their rivals.
• The ripened fruit drew the gathered demons and Grandmasters into a battle, and Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang obtained and split it.
• Song Ping'an's group forced the saber's killer to confess that he had murdered Li Sanhu's descendant for the weapon; Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix then flew off to investigate a nearby energy fluctuation and demon aura.
• Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang fought off a thunder bird as a snake Demon King, a Thunder Elephant Demon King, and a tiger demon pursued them to seize the fruit and kill them.

Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix rescued Su Yaoguang and Nan Wuji from four Demon Kings, defeating the Elephant King and driving off the Thunderbird. Meanwhile, Song Changming continued studying the Seal Star Formation at the bottom of the Abyss, where he had become the leading researcher of its runes.

• Su Yaoguang and Nan Wuji escaped the Demon Kings' first attack, but the Thunderbird and Thunder Elephant caught up and trapped them again.
• Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix arrived, and Su Qingqing used her eye technique to immobilize the Elephant King while Little Phoenix's Golden Divine Flame destroyed it.
• The Thunderbird fled after recognizing Little Phoenix as a Heavenly Phoenix, while Su Qingqing collected the Elephant King's Demon King Core and blood-and-flesh energy.
• Su Qingqing invited Su Yaoguang to visit Song Changming, and Little Phoenix proposed that they challenge the Thunder Wheel Tiger King after growing stronger.
• Song Changming emerged from the seal's latest shockwave and continued analyzing Emperor Abyss's Seal Star Formation, whose completion had exceeded half and whose runes he could now deconstruct faster.

Song Changming learned from the Star Devouring Dragon about the Primal Land, a vast realm said to contain immortals, then consulted the Cloud Emperor about an ancient account of a similar place. The chapter left him unsettled by the connection between the Dragon’s claims and the old record.

• Song Changming stopped analyzing the seal after using more than half his Spiritual Power, but the Star Devouring Dragon contacted him and tried to persuade him to help it escape.
• Song Changming resisted the Dragon’s influence and questioned it about the Primal Land, learning that it contained immortals, diverse cultivation paths, and countless small worlds.
• After the Star Devouring Dragon’s voice faded, Song Changming left the Abyss when an Abyssal Strange Beast approached and told the Cloud Emperor about their conversation.
• The Cloud Emperor showed Song Changming an ancient imperial record that mentioned the Qiong Realm, immortals, and a Yuanzhou royal descendant’s dream of his missing father becoming an immortal there.
• Song Changming read the account and told the Cloud Emperor that the apparent connection was far too strange.

Song Changming reunited with Su Yaoguang and Nan Wuji, learned how they had obtained Thunder Dragon Fruits, and reflected on old companions and the passing of an era. As he continued his military duties, Lu Yuchen told him that age had left him with only a few years and that he planned to step down and find a successor.

• Song Changming discussed the possibility of immortals with the Cloud Emperor and delivered newly deciphered sealing runes to the Heavenly Dao Academy.
• Song Changming returned home, where Su Yaoguang and Nan Wuji refined Thunder Dragon Fruits with Hya's help, and learned that they had been rescued after risking themselves to obtain the fruits.
• Song Ping'an told Song Changming that Li Sanhu's descendants had been killed, the killer had been handed to the Li Family, and Li Sanhu's saber had been recovered.
• Song Changming shared Scorching Heart Wine with Su Yaoguang and Nan Wuji, told Nan Wuji that he was one step short of Grandmaster perfection, and saw them return to their mountain sect the next day.
• Lu Yuchen reported military affairs to Song Changming and said he was nearing the end of his life and wanted to hand his position to a younger successor.

Lu Yuchen retired, and Song Changming relinquished his marshal position to Hu Fanyi as the Four Emperors prepared to invade Yuanzhou. In Fox Mountain, Song Changming began the final breakthrough toward Grandmaster perfection.

• Song Changming accepted Lu Yuchen's retirement and promised to protect the Lu Family's prosperity for a hundred years.
• Lu Yuchen and Wang Wenyu reminisced about their service under the Human Emperor, and Lu Yuchen stepped down a few days later.
• Song Changming resigned as marshal of Cuibai Way, and Hu Fanyi succeeded him as Grand Marshal of the Army.
• The Empress of Fengzhou, the Miao Emperor, the Cloud Emperor, and Pei Xinyuan agreed to send their armies against Yuanzhou, with Leizhou providing support.
• Song Changming cultivated at Fox Mountain as his ninety-nine drops of Grandmaster Essence Blood surged toward the final breakthrough to Grandmaster perfection.

The Insect King rallied Yuanzhou’s demon clans against the approaching human invasion while Kannan Gray agreed to summon his tiger brothers, secretly hoping the war would weaken the Insect Clan. Song Changming and Hya then attacked Worm King Tower, and after Hya’s lightning strike damaged it, Song Changming recognized Kannan Gray and prepared to settle their old grievances.

• The Insect King ordered the great insect demons to spread word of the human invasion and persuade other provinces’ demon clans to join the war.
• Kannan Gray agreed to help defend Yuanzhou and summon his four brothers, while privately hoping the Insect Clan and humans would both suffer heavy losses.
• Song Changming and Hya entered the White Peak Realm, where Hya killed the insect demons that challenged them.
• Hya’s lightning attack devastated hundreds of insect demons and damaged one corner of Worm King Tower.
• Kannan Gray recognized Hya and Song Changming, but Song Changming’s gaze shook him and Song Changming resolved to settle their old grievances.

Song Changming attacked the Worm King Tower alone and overwhelmed its insect clan defenders with his Grandmaster power. As the Worm King and several awakened Great Demon Kings joined the battle, Song Changming killed a black-armored beetle Great Demon King and faced a new volley of attacks.

• Kannan Gray and Hya clashed as Thunder Tigers while Song Changming confronted the Worm King outside the tower.
• Song Changming shattered the pincers and shell of a black-armored beetle demon with a single palm strike, prompting the sleeping insect clan Great Demon Kings to awaken.
• The Worm King was blasted away when Song Changming suddenly struck him, and the insect clan powerhouses retaliated with a barrage of demon arts.
• Song Changming used his speed and martial arts to break the black-armored beetle Great Demon King's body, trap its soul, and crush its heart core.
• Needle-thin beams entered Song Changming's Star Domain, and he used Cicada Step to evade them.

Song Changming overwhelmed the insect race’s Worm Kings in Yuanzhou’s Insect Realm, shrugging off their strongest attacks and turning the fight in his favor. After killing another old Worm King, he continued targeting the survivors.

• Song Changming used Cicada Step to evade the White Hairy Worm King’s eye beams, then showed that they could barely hurt him.
• The White Hairy Worm King sacrificed all eight Insect Eyes in a massive explosion, but Song Changming emerged with only minor wounds that quickly healed.
• Five old Worm Kings restrained Song Changming with insect chains while Kannan Gray knocked Hya away from the fight.
• Song Changming detonated his four-colored Thunder Seed, blasting the old Worm Kings and severely damaging the White Hairy Worm King.
• Song Changming expanded his star domain, broke the insect chains, and used Dream Invasion to interrupt a centipede old Worm King before beheading him and crushing his heart core.
• Song Changming turned his starlight-and-moonlight gaze on the remaining injured Worm Kings, who could find no way to defeat or seriously wound him.

Song Changming used the power he had developed over sixty years to defeat the Insect Clan’s Great Demon Kings and destroy the Worm King Tower at White Peak Realm. He left the ruined land with Hya, while surviving insects and other demon clans arrived to find the Insect Clan’s stronghold devastated.

• Song Changming trapped an Insect Clan old Demon King with starlight and moonlight, forcing him to detonate his demon core.
• Song Changming survived the blast inside a Human King Statue that combined starlight, moonlight, thunder, and Blade King Divine Intent.
• The White Hairy Worm King and the other Insect Kings fled, but Song Changming’s blade erased the old Insect King who stayed behind to defend the Worm King Tower.
• Song Changming struck down the Worm King Tower, devastating White Peak Realm and killing countless Insect Clan demons.
• Song Changming and Hya left through a light gate, and surviving insects and other demon clans gathered at the ruined site in confusion.

Song Changming single-handedly destroyed the insect race and its Worm King Tower, allowing the human armies to conquer Yuanzhou and elevating him to near-mythic status. As the human race celebrated its victory, Kannan Gray informed Tiger King An that Yuanzhou had fallen and explained the Human King’s role.

• The demon forces learned that Song Changming had destroyed the Worm King Tower and wiped out the insect race alone.
• Song Changming confirmed his victory to the Cloud Emperor, and news from Wind Province soon verified it.
• The human race invaded Yuanzhou with four armies and conquered the province within a few months.
• Human commanders praised Song Changming’s achievement, and people across the Nine Provinces hailed him as a successor to Emperor Abyss.
• King Cui restricted access to Cuibai Main City after Song Changming’s fanatical admirers overwhelmed it.
• Kannan Gray told Tiger King An that the human race had taken Yuanzhou and explained that Song Changming had destroyed the insect race.

Kannan Gray persuaded Tiger King An to join a demon alliance against the advancing human race, while the White Hairy Worm King sought the Fire King’s support in Yanzhou. The Insect King aimed to unite demon clans and awaken Ancient Blood Demon Kings to defeat Song Changming.

• Kannan Gray warned Tiger King An that the demons would be conquered unless they united, and Tiger King An chose to leave Silver Snow and join him.
• The White Hairy Worm King led his insect swarm across Yanzhou to meet the Fire King, while local fire demons watched without intervening.
• The White Hairy Worm King confirmed that Song Changming had wounded him and offered the Fire King a choice between fighting the humans and submitting to them.
• The Fire King agreed to ally with the Insect King but rejected his proposal to involve the Ancient Blood Demon Kings.
• The White Hairy Worm King insisted that the Ancient Blood Demon Kings had to be drawn into the conflict, and the Fire King let the insect swarm settle in his volcanic territory.

Song Changming reflected on the end of his martial path and received the Talisman Arts Immortal trait in his annual evaluation. The trait let him break through to the ninth tier of Talisman arts, and he asked Xi Yanxue to help test his new rune.

• Song Changming wondered whether he could find a path beyond Grandmaster cultivation and considered exploring martial arts further on his own.
• The annual evaluation recognized Song Changming’s completed martial arts and offered him several rewards, including the Orange-level Talisman Arts Immortal trait.
• Song Changming claimed Talisman Arts Immortal and quickly solved problems that had stalled his Talisman studies.
• After several days of focused work, Song Changming inscribed his first ninth-tier rune and advanced to the pinnacle of Talisman arts.
• Song Changming used the ninth-tier Sky Prison rune to darken the sky, and Xi Yanxue arrived to examine its power.
• Song Changming asked Xi Yanxue to help him test the rune.

Song Changming gained the Orange Spatial Eye trait and tested its ability to distort and solidify space. He then used a panel reward to cultivate a one hundred and first drop of Grandmaster Essence Blood, surpassing the established limit and revealing strength beyond his former perfection.

• Song Changming used his ninth-tier talisman to test Xi Yanxue, then claimed the Talisman Arts Immortal trait and broke through his talisman arts bottleneck.
• Song Changming claimed the Spatial Eye trait, endured its painful awakening, and discovered that his uncontrolled power could distort space and trap him in rock.
• Song Changming tested his left eye's ability to render space intangible and his right eye's ability to freeze a section of space.
• Song Changming claimed the remaining rewards and used the cultivation reward to form a one hundred and first drop of Grandmaster Essence Blood.
• Song Changming confirmed that his Purple Mansion remained unharmed and demonstrated his increased Grandmaster power with a massive Great Hand Seal that scattered the clouds.

Song Changming used his new abilities to dismantle Abyssal runes far faster, then learned from Li Jinyu that the future he had long foreseen was now obscured and humanity’s fate might have changed. He vowed to follow Emperor Abyss’s path, as humanity seized all of Yuanzhou and conflict with the demon race neared a breaking point.

• Song Changming used his Spatial Eye to study the teleportation gate, then returned to the Abyss and dismantled fifteen runes in less than a day with Talisman Arts Immortal.
• Song Changming restrained and killed several Abyssal Strange Beasts before leaving the Abyss with their flesh-and-blood energy.
• Song Changming told Gongshan Zhi and the Talisman Masters that he had inscribed a ninth-tier rune, bringing the complete Seal Star Grand Array closer to completion.
• Li Jinyu found that the apocalyptic future he had repeatedly divined could no longer be observed and said humanity’s future might have been rewritten.
• Song Changming declared that he would follow Emperor Abyss’s path and make humanity rule the Nine Provinces again.
• Humanity occupied all of Yuanzhou within a few months, while the defeated demon hordes had nowhere left to retreat and conflict across the Nine Provinces threatened to erupt.

Song Shi investigated attacks on the Song Clan’s farms and discovered that a fire wolf demon was forcing bandits to capture people for food. He confronted the demon at Black Mountain and unleashed a powerful talisman as the battle began.

• Song Ping'an warned Song Shi to investigate the bandits targeting the family’s grain stores and report any signs of demons.
• Song Shi led Innate martial artists to Black Mountain, where they found demon aura, bloodstains, and severed limbs.
• Song Shi’s group overheard the fire wolf demand more human blood and captured the bandits sent to gather victims.
• The bandit leader and his men suddenly burst into flames and died, revealing that the demon had discovered the intruders.
• The fire wolf emerged and attacked Song Shi’s group, and Song Shi activated a lightning talisman that sent a dragon of lightning crashing toward it.

Song Shi and his men encountered Yanzhou fire wolves on Black Mountain, and Su Qingqing rescued them before warning that a vast Fire Monster invasion had reached Cuibai Way. King Cui and the military assembled to hold the boundary as the monsters attacked, while Song Changming remained away from Cuibai Way.

• Song Shi used talismans to fend off the fire wolves until Su Qingqing arrived and killed them with sword qi.
• Su Qingqing learned that monster hordes had broken through Cuibai Way’s eastern and southern defenses, then ordered Song Shi and his men to flee from an approaching sea of Fire Monsters.
• Song Shi’s group saw Su Qingqing face the immense horde as military generals and King Cui arrived to confront it.
• King Cui drew a boundary with his sword and rallied the military; Su Qingqing agreed to help defend Cuibai Way, and the Fire Monsters launched their attack.

Humanity faced a widespread demon counterattack as Ancient Blood Demon Kings attacked, and Cloud Emperor mobilized the realms while searching for Song Changming. In the Abyss, Song Changming used his knowledge of the Seal Star Grand Array to repair it, cutting off the Star Devouring Dragon’s Cosmic Qi and thwarting its escape.

• Demon forces attacked humanity’s territories across multiple provinces, and an urgent report announced that Shuan Dao had fallen and King of Shuan had died in battle.
• Cloud Emperor sent the royal elders to fight the Ancient Blood Demons and issued orders to mobilize humanity’s clans, sects, and demon hunters.
• Cloud Emperor learned that Song Changming could not be found and considered seeking him in the Abyss, but stayed to coordinate defenses after the fox clan requested aid against the Insect King.
• In the Abyss, Song Changming learned that the Star Devouring Dragon’s Cosmic Qi had begun reaching beyond its seal after the array was activated.
• Song Changming inscribed 137 high-tier runes and fed them into the Seal Star Grand Array, repairing it and causing the Star Devouring Dragon’s voice and Cosmic Qi to vanish.

Song Changming discovered that the Star Devouring Dragon’s Cosmic Qi had dulled his awareness for a month, then returned to find humanity overwhelmed by a united demon invasion. After reaching Cuibai Main City and seeing its battered defenders, he set out to confront the retreating demon army.

• Song Changming partially repaired the seal, realized a month had passed outside while his consciousness had been dulled by the Star Devouring Dragon’s Cosmic Qi, and left the Abyss.
• At Cuibai Main City, King Cui, Yang Zhen, Tang Leshan, and the other defenders survived another brutal battle, while Elder Ling urged King Cui to evacuate the civilians.
• King Cui ordered the civilians to withdraw but left the soldiers free to stay and fight; the generals chose to defend the city to the death.
• Song Changming emerged from a light gate, reassured the defenders, and learned that demons had invaded five human provinces while Qing Qing and Hya fought at Fox Mountain.
• After replying to the Cloud Emperor, Su Qingqing, and others, Song Changming left Little Phoenix to guard the city and went after the demon army, which still included more than fifty great demons.

Song Changming annihilated the demon army attacking Cuibai Way and learned that Yanzhou’s Fire King had claimed he would not appear in the war. He then headed to Fox Mountain, where Hya and the fox race were fighting overwhelming insect and tiger forces.

• The Fire Monster ordered the demon army to retreat and prepare to attack Cuibai Way again in three days, but Song Changming arrived and revealed his Great Grandmaster strength.
• Song Changming killed tens of thousands of demons with a single blade strike, then destroyed the fleeing army with a second strike.
• Song Changming questioned the dying Fire Monster and learned that the Fire King had promised Yunzhou’s invading Great Demons that the Human King would not appear; King Cui then killed the Fire Monster to avenge his fallen brothers.
• Song Changming left for Fox Mountain, where Talisman Masters warned that the insect-corroded protective formation might last only three more days.
• Hya refused the five Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings’ offer to join them, and they attacked her while the fox race battled the insect race for survival.