Chapter Summaries

Song Changming returned to Fox Mountain and killed Chong Er instantly, turning the battle against the insect clan. He then moved to protect Hya and pursued the retreating Thunder Tiger Kings as the Insect King summoned reinforcements.

• Su Qingqing rescued the badly wounded Xi Yanxue from Chong Er and used Song Changming's Cicada Step to evade his attacks while defending Fox Mountain.
• Song Changming emerged through a gate of light, trapped Chong Er with spatial power, and killed him with a single strike.
• Fox Immortal Granny confronted the Insect King, who resolved to kill Song Changming and contacted Demon Kings from other provinces for reinforcements.
• Song Changming told Hya to rest, and the five Thunder Tiger Kings abandoned their attack and fled.
• Song Changming pursued the Thunder Tiger Kings, struck one with four-colored lightning, and shattered two of its fangs with the God Devourer Blade.

Song Changming returned to Fox Mountain, killed Chong Er with a spatial technique, and turned the tide as the fox clan faced the insect and Thunder Tiger clans. He began pursuing the fleeing Tiger Kings while the Insect King called for reinforcements.

• Su Qingqing rescued the badly wounded Xi Yanxue from Chong Er and used Cicada Step to evade his attacks and return to Fox Mountain.
• Song Changming emerged from a light gate, immobilized Chong Er with spatial power, and killed him with a single blow.
• Fox Immortal Granny fought the Insect King while he learned of Chong Er’s death and summoned Demon Kings from other provinces.
• Song Changming left the Insect Kings to rescue Hya, whom five Tiger Kings had been attacking.
• Kannan Gray led the Tiger Kings in retreat, but Song Changming pursued them and struck one with his four-colored lightning and God Devourer Blade.

Song Changming slaughtered two Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings and wounded the other Great Demon Kings, leaving the Fox Clan convinced that allying with humanity was the right choice. As the Eight-Eyed White Hairy Worm King faced him, powerful newcomers arrived, including an ancient-blood giant moth.

• Song Changming killed a Thunder Wheel Tiger King after shattering its fangs and driving it underground.
• Song Changming combined his blade intents to scatter the nine Great Demon Kings' aura and wound all nine with one strike.
• Song Changming expanded his Star Domain, destroyed the White Hairy Worm King's body, and killed Tiger King An after An detonated his Thunder Pool.
• An old Fox Clan Demon King apologized to Fox Immortal Granny and agreed that befriending humanity was the right choice; she ordered the wounded sent back to the mountain while watching the White Hairy Worm King.
• Mu Ye, Fox Immortal Granny, and Song Changming sensed powerful auras approaching, and a giant gray-white moth with an ancient aura appeared on the horizon.

The White Hairy Worm King assembled Ancient Blood Demon Kings from across the provinces to confront Song Changming, whose power was linked to the Primordial Era. After the fox clan evacuated Fox Mountain, Song Changming trapped the assembled demons in his Star Domain and attacked the Divine Spirit Rabbit, which survived his powerful strike.

• The Veil Moth and several other Ancient Blood Demons sensed Primordial Era energy in Song Changming's Shaman Seal and recognized him as a major threat.
• The White Hairy Worm King revealed that he had gathered Ancient Blood Demon allies from across the provinces to kill Song Changming if he came to Fox Mountain.
• Fox Immortal Granny ordered Mu Ye to evacuate the fox clan, and Song Changming sent her and the other old foxes away as well.
• The Ancient Blood Demon Kings mocked Song Changming and discussed dividing up his body, while the Nine-headed Beast argued with itself over its dead brother's name.
• Song Changming expanded his Star Domain, suppressing the demon kings, but the Divine Spirit Rabbit absorbed his Starlight Moonlight Energy.
• Song Changming appeared before the Divine Spirit Rabbit and struck its head with the God Devourer Blade, but its three-colored light resisted the blow.

Song Changming fought the Ancient Blood Demon Kings, badly wounding the Divine Spirit Rabbit, the Sky Measuring Ant, and the Veil Moth despite their combined attacks. The fox clan fled toward human territory as the battle destroyed Fox Mountain’s sacred lands, and Song Changming stood amid the demon blood while the remaining Demon Kings hesitated to approach.

• Song Changming unleashed his Human King Statue’s Thunder Blade and nearly killed the Divine Spirit Rabbit with a single strike.
• The Sky Measuring Ant blocked Song Changming’s follow-up attack, but his thunder punches cracked its head and forced it to retreat.
• The Veil Moth’s hurricane battered the fleeing fox clan, while Hya stopped falling boulders and Su Qingqing urged the young foxes onward.
• Song Changming charged the Veil Moth through its moth swarm and carved deep wounds into its body as the Ancient Blood Demon Kings joined the attack.
• Song Changming left his weakened Human King Statue and used thousands of blade auras to destroy half of the Veil Moth’s wing, bringing it crashing down and crushing Fox Mountain’s sacred lands.

Song Changming killed the Veil Moth and the Divine Spirit Rabbit while battling the Ancient Blood Demon Kings, using his Spatial Eyes and other techniques to overcome their attacks. The fight continued as the Sky Measuring Ant challenged him at close range and a Sea Covering Whale tried to swallow him.

• The Ancient Blood Demon Kings unfolded their domains, weakening Song Changming's Star Domain and freeing themselves from its suppression.
• Song Changming immobilized the Veil Moth's core with his Spatial Eyes, then cut it out and destroyed its soul.
• Song Changming evaded the demons' barrage by phasing through another layer of space, then used Dream Invasion to distract the Divine Spirit Rabbit and kill it.
• The Sky Measuring Ant transformed into a humanoid form and traded powerful blows with Song Changming, briefly suppressing him in close combat.
• A Sea Covering Whale tried to swallow Song Changming, but he escaped its devouring force with the Thunder Seed and Martial Law · Cicada Step.

Song Changming defeated and killed the mad Sky Measuring Ant after a battle that crossed several provinces, then killed the Wind Demon Spider when it tried to steal the ant’s remains. The surviving Ancient Blood Demon Kings feared his strength and stayed back as he refined the two demons’ flesh and blood.

• The Sky Measuring Ant drove off the Nine-headed Beast and the other Ancient Blood Demon Kings before charging Song Changming alone.
• Song Changming fought the Sky Measuring Ant across Yuanzhou and into Frost Province, where he battered it until he severed its head with the God Devourer Blade.
• The Wind Demon Spider tried to seize the Sky Measuring Ant’s flesh, blood, and core, but Song Changming escaped its web and attacked it.
• The Flame Demon refused to help the Wind Demon Spider, and Song Changming killed it after it tried to flee.
• The remaining Ancient Blood Demon Kings kept their distance while Song Changming refined the Wind Demon Spider’s flesh and blood.

Song Changming defeated the Ancient Blood Demon Kings in Frost Province, driving several away and killing the Rock Dragon and Sea Covering Whale with the Human Emperors’ help. He spared and bound the defeated Nine-headed Beast as his servant, then claimed the slain demons’ cores and flesh for cultivation.

• Song Changming discovered that Ancient Blood Demon flesh granted far more strength than ordinary Great Demon Kings’ flesh and chose to keep fighting for the chance to refine it.
• Cloud Emperor, Miao Emperor, Pei Xinyuan, and Empress of Fengzhou found Fox Mountain destroyed and hurried north after spotting signs of battle.
• Song Changming overpowered Flame Demon and the Nine-headed Beast; Flame Demon detonated his Demonic Flame to escape, and E Dou and the Innate Fire Essence fled as the other demons retreated.
• Song Changming cut off eight of the Nine-headed Beast’s heads, then accepted its surrender and placed a God Binding Seal on it.
• Cloud Emperor and the other Human Emperors intercepted the Rock Dragon and Sea Covering Whale, and Song Changming killed both after they refused to submit.
• Song Changming stored the two demons’ core nuclei and savored the abundance of flesh and blood available for his cultivation.

Song Changming defeated the Ancient Blood Demons, killed a Silver Snow Fish Female Demon King seeking revenge for Tiger King An, and learned why the Nine-headed Beast had joined the war. As Song Changming set out to hunt the White Hairy Worm King, the Worm King reached the Abyss and called to the sealed being below.

• Qin Beisheng and the other Human Emperors celebrated Song Changming's victory but agreed the war against the demon race had only begun.
• Song Changming washed in an icy pool, then killed the Silver Snow Fish Female Demon King when she attacked him to avenge Thunder Wheel Tiger King An.
• Song Changming ordered the Nine-headed Beast, whose old head was named Mingji, to carry him around the Nine Provinces in search of the White Hairy Worm King and the remaining Thunder Wheel Tiger Kings.
• Mingji told Song Changming that the White Hairy Worm King had promised the Ancient Blood Demons a path to the Primal World if humanity was destroyed, and described what little it knew of that world and the Qiong Realm.
• The White Hairy Worm King returned to the Abyss, evaded its strange beasts, reached the enormous seal, and called for the being within to come out.

The White Hairy Worm King agreed to help the Star Devouring Dragon weaken its seal, but Song Changming arrived before they could proceed. Song Changming destroyed one wisp of the dragon’s divine sense, then captured another hidden inside a distant Abyssal Strange Beast.

• The Star Devouring Dragon contacted the White Hairy Worm King through an Abyssal Strange Beast and asked him to weaken the seal using human blood and talisman masters.
• The White Hairy Worm King agreed to help the Star Devouring Dragon escape and destroy Song Changming and the human race.
• Song Changming and the Nine-headed Beast arrived, and Song Changming recognized the Star Devouring Dragon’s wisp of divine sense possessing a strange beast.
• The White Hairy Worm King fled as the Nine-headed Beast pursued him, while Song Changming used a Mind Slash to destroy the Star Devouring Dragon’s exposed wisp.
• Song Changming slaughtered the Abyssal Strange Beasts nearby, but discovered another beast carrying the Star Devouring Dragon’s voice farther away.
• Song Changming caught the second possessed Abyssal Strange Beast and restrained it with his Grandmaster power.

Song Changming hunted down the White Hairy Worm King and learned that the Star Devouring Dragon had given it instructions to break the seal, but another strand of the Dragon’s divine consciousness had already possessed a soldier named Liang Liufeng. Song Changming killed the Worm King and turned his attention to stopping the Star Devouring Dragon before it escaped.

• Song Changming destroyed a second Abyssal Strange Beast possessed by the Star Devouring Dragon and realized the Dragon had split off multiple strands of divine consciousness.
• The White Hairy Worm King fled into Yunzhou, where one of its insects carried a strand of the Dragon’s divine consciousness into the body of Liang Liufeng.
• Yuan San held back the White Hairy Worm King in the Land of Nine Nether until Song Changming arrived and struck it down.
• Song Changming trapped the Worm King’s Demon King Core, learned what the Star Devouring Dragon had instructed it to do to break the seal, and erased its soul.
• Song Changming worried that the Star Devouring Dragon’s escape was drawing closer and resolved to cultivate faster than it could break free.

Song Changming rescued Qin Beisheng from the Stone Statue King and swiftly destroyed Rock Province’s mountain god statues. He then went to Yanzhou, where the King of Hundred Fires learned that Song Changming had arrived at its doorstep.

• Yuan San told Song Changming that his avatar was nearly exhausted, and Song Changming planned to examine the seal on Yuan San’s true body after the war.
• The Stone Statue King led the mountain god statues into Miao Province and fought Qin Beisheng, trapping him with Five Mountains Lock.
• Song Changming arrived, broke the mountain prison, killed the Demon King-level statues, and destroyed the Stone Statue King.
• Qin Beisheng thanked Song Changming, who then opened a gate of light and traveled to Yanzhou.
• The King of Hundred Fires learned that the White Hairy Worm King and Stone Statue King had died, and Song Changming announced himself inside its palace.

Song Changming destroyed the King of Hundred Fires and purged demons across Yanzhou before searching Frost Province with Yuan San for Yuan San’s sealed true body. They found traces of a stable seal beneath an ancient frozen sea, though its exact location remained unknown.

• Song Changming defeated the King of Hundred Fires with his Thunder Seed and saber arts, then took its life core and purged Yanzhou’s demon lords.
• Song Changming traveled through Dark Province and Frost Province, killing hostile demons and collecting more than a hundred portions of Demon King remains and life cores.
• Song Changming and Yuan San reached Frost Province’s far north, where Song Changming sensed that Yuan San’s true body lay somewhere beneath the ice.
• Song Changming searched beneath the glaciers while Yuan San’s clone looked for the seal, and they discovered a regular, stable energy fluctuation beneath the frozen sea.

Song Changming and Yuan San uncovered Yuan San’s sealed true body inside an ancient black fish, but the Black Witch Clan’s Witch King Seal guarded it with the deadly Death Sleep Wind. Meanwhile, news of Song Changming’s victories reached Cloud Palace, where the human court celebrated the demon realm’s collapse and the chance to reclaim the Nine Provinces.

• Song Changming and Yuan San cut through ten thousand meters of ice and found an ancient black fish containing a Black Box that held Yuan San’s true body.
• Yuan San identified the seal on the Black Box as the Black Witch Clan’s Heavenly Capital Wind Whistle Seal and realized they had betrayed him tens of thousands of years earlier.
• The seal activated when Yuan San touched the Black Box, releasing Death Sleep Wind that disintegrated his hand and forced him to retreat.
• Song Changming tested the Black Box and found that brute force could not break it, while energy triggered the deadly wind that destroyed even a Heaven Stabilizing Essence Stone.
• Reports reached Cloud Palace that Song Changming had slain demon kings across several provinces, and Cloud Emperor’s ministers rejoiced at the prospect of a human counterattack and reunification.

The human forces launched a sweeping counterattack across the demon provinces after Song Changming crippled the demon leadership, while he focused on the Black Box, the Abyss seal, and helping the fox clan. The human revival gained momentum, but Song Changming remained wary of the Star Devouring Dragon and planned to strengthen the Abyss’s defenses further.

• The Cloud Emperor called for an expedition against the demon race, and human forces from across the provinces mobilized to capture demon cities and strongholds.
• In Yanzhou, Wang Tianshuang, Xu Yuan, Yang Zhen, Meng Kunlun, Hu Zhong, and the Yunzhou armies surrounded and slaughtered fleeing demons whose Demon Kings were too frightened of Song Changming to appear.
• Song Changming failed to damage the Black Box despite using his rune tool, put it away for later, and left the far north with Yuan San.
• The human counteroffensive began yielding vast mineral wealth, while Song Changming returned to White Peak Realm and reunited with Su Qingqing and the fox clan.
• Fox Immortal Granny thanked Song Changming for saving the fox clan and securing White Peak Realm for them as compensation for the destruction of Fox Mountain.
• Song Changming spent more than a month repairing and reinforcing the Abyss seal, adding warning runes and formations before deciding the Abyss needed constant patrols.

Fifty years after the Nine Provinces were united, Song Changming returned to Cuibai Main City and sat with Song Ping'an as he died, then mourned him with Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix. Song Changming left the city after reaffirming his companions’ promise to keep cultivating with him, while far away in Frost Province Yuan San’s battered Black Box emerged from the ice.

• King Cui announced the establishment of an Imperial Temple honoring the Martial Emperor, and a youth learned that the title belonged to the former Human King, Song Changming.
• At Song Manor, the dying Song Ping'an asked Lan Jin to care for the family and recalled how Song Changming had given him a home and a life.
• Song Ping'an died with Song Changming, Su Qingqing, and Little Phoenix beside him, and his family buried him on the mountain he had chosen.
• At the gravesite, Su Qingqing and Little Phoenix promised to keep cultivating alongside Song Changming for as long as they could.
• Song Changming met old friends in Cuibai Main City, then left without visiting the Imperial Temple.
• In Frost Province, Yuan San knocked the battered Black Box containing his true body loose from deep within the ice.

Song Changming failed to break Yuan San’s Black Box despite reaching immense physical strength, while a strand of the Star Devouring Dragon’s divine consciousness, disguised as Liang Liufeng, attacked the Abyss seal. The Cloud Emperor sensed danger and ordered an urgent check on the Abyss as Liang Liufeng prepared to use his accumulated Soul Power against the seal.

• Song Changming tried another punch against the Black Box, which still held, and considered how a stronger God Devourer Blade might help him free Yuan San.
• Liang Liufeng moved through the Land of Great Fog, devouring demon beasts and bypassing the Witch Clan’s runic traps near the Abyss.
• Liang Liufeng commanded the Abyssal Strange Beasts, then killed Old Li and the other Human Grandmasters who confronted him at the Abyss.
• Liang Liufeng descended to the Abyss’s bottom and gathered his Soul Power to unleash a divine ability against the reinforced seal protecting his true body.
• The Cloud Emperor sensed that something was wrong, learned that Old Li guarded the Abyss, and ordered his attendant to check on it immediately.

Song Changming rushed to the Abyss after Liang Liufeng, possessed by the Star Devouring Dragon’s divine consciousness, weakened the seal and attacked it with the Swallowing Star ability. Song Changming destroyed the dragon-head manifestation and preserved the seal, but Cosmic Qi dragged his soul inside, where he came face-to-face with the Star Devouring Dragon’s enormous true body.

• Song Changming sensed trouble with the Abyss seal and arrived to find Cosmic Qi disrupting the Abyss energy and Liang Liufeng using Human blood to weaken the array.
• Liang Liufeng summoned a colossal dragon head that swallowed the sealing array, but Song Changming shattered Liang Liufeng’s remaining head and divine consciousness.
• Song Changming attacked the dragon head with his God Devourer Blade while its Ferocious Beast Blade Spirit absorbed the scattered soul power, restoring the seal when the manifestation broke apart.
• Cosmic Qi leaked through the damaged seal and seized Song Changming’s soul, disrupting his Heavenly God Art of Lifting and pulling him into the sealed space.
• The Star Devouring Dragon rose from the black water before Song Changming, revealing its immense true body.

Song Changming was trapped inside the seal with the Star Devouring Dragon, but a divine thought of Emperor Abyss intervened, restored the formation, and sent him back to his body. Emperor Abyss revealed that he had gone to the Primal Continent and was still alive, leaving Song Changming stunned by the truth behind the historical accounts.

• The Star Devouring Dragon dragged Song Changming’s soul into the seal and attacked him, but Song Changming wounded it with Mind Slash.
• As the Star Devouring Dragon moved to destroy Song Changming, the sealing formation activated and a figure of light restrained the dragon.
• The figure sent Song Changming’s soul back to his body and restored the worn sealing formation.
• Song Changming recovered in the Nether Sea, then waited outside the seal until the figure of light appeared again.
• The figure identified itself as a divine thought left behind by Emperor Abyss to repair the seal and suppress the Star Devouring Dragon.
• Emperor Abyss told Song Changming that he had gone to the Primal Continent and was still alive, contradicting the historical accounts Song Changming knew.

Song Changming learned that Emperor Abyss had become an immortal in the Primal World and received a light that could contact him there. After surviving the Star Devouring Dragon’s threat, Song Changming discovered a chance to advance his Witch God Soul, while the Nine Provinces reorganized under his rule and an immortal in the stars noticed a new Immortal Seedling from his homeland.

• Emperor Abyss told Song Changming that he had traveled to the Primal World and become an immortal, then gave him a light for contacting him and warned him to kill the weakened Star Devouring Dragon if possible.
• Song Changming told the Cloud Emperor and the Grandmasters about Emperor Abyss and the Primal World, then realized his Witch God Soul’s fourth bottleneck might finally be broken.
• The Cloud Emperor reported that the provincial rulers had agreed to become provincial kings, and Song Changming approved the change and ordered stronger defenses around the Abyss before entering seclusion in Frost Province.
• A white-robed Heavenly Venerable on an emerald star learned that the Immortal Worship Hall had opened and remarked that another Immortal Seedling had emerged from his old homeland.
• The Nine Provinces announced the abolition of provincial emperors, the creation of Emperor Day, and a martial competition held every ten years.