Chapter Summaries

Song Changming took command of the depleted Second Division Heavenly Army and ordered it rebuilt from the ground up. While developing the Natural Saint Body on Changming Star, he learned that something had happened to the Fire God in the south.

• Song Changming reorganized the Second Division Heavenly Army and told Old Chi to oversee the work.
• Song Changming appointed Li Zicheng chief general, and Li Zicheng proposed dissolving the remaining four armies as well.
• Bao Da and the other Battalion Commanders supported Li Zicheng, so Song Changming ordered the entire division reorganized.
• On Changming Star, Song Changming continued developing his Natural Saint Body, but its seed consumed nearly all his immortal pills and medicines.
• Su Qingqing hurried to Song Changming and reported that something had happened to the Fire God in the south.

Evil Demons invaded the Fire God Temple while the Vermilion Bird Supreme God prepared for Nirvana. Inside the temple, a woman watched over Little Phoenix, who remained within a small fireball.

• A fire-fish couple saw the Evil Demons gathering to attack the Fire God Temple, and the husband urged them to flee with their newborn children.
• Countless fire spirits fled as Evil Demons entered the sea of fire and advanced toward the temple behind Four-horned Giant Demons.
• Immortal fire spirits attacked the invaders, but the Evil Demons crushed them and continued onward.
• An Evil Demon revealed that the Fire God was undergoing Nirvana, making the temple especially vulnerable.
• A woman inside the Fire God Temple watched Little Phoenix curled within a small golden fireball.

The Evil Demon army attacked Fire God Mountain while the Fire God was in Nirvana, and the Five-horned Giant Demon swallowed the Goddess who emerged to defend it. After destroying much of the mountain and exposing two Nirvana Eggs, the demon faced the Saint Buddha, who claimed their agreement allowed it to take only one.

• Fire Sprites and Fire-Bathed Divine Birds resisted the Evil Demon army, but the Four-horned Giant Demons drove them back and battered Fire God Mountain.
• The Fire God’s divine fire briefly annihilated demons, but the Giant Demons continued their assault as the Fire Sprites feared the mountain would fall.
• The Goddess appeared and unleashed divine fire, killing several Four-horned Giant Demons before the Five-horned Giant Demon arrived and swallowed her.
• The Five-horned Giant Demon collapsed Fire God Mountain and damaged the Fire God Temple, revealing two Nirvana Eggs inside.
• The Saint Buddha shielded both eggs and told the Five-horned Giant Demon it could take only one, prompting the demon to prepare to seize them by force.

After learning that Little Phoenix was endangered during the Fire God Vermilion Bird’s Nirvana, Song Changming rushed to Fire God Mountain ahead of the Immortal Court’s reinforcements. He called for help as the Saint Buddha attacked him, and Song Changming prepared to counter with Treading the Nine Heavens.

• King Jiuchen reported that Evil Demons had attacked Fire God Mountain while the Fire God was undergoing Nirvana, and the Immortal King sent Heavenly Kings Jiuyou and Qingyun to reinforce the south.
• Song Changming realized Little Phoenix was in danger and left the Celestial Venerable Hall alone to reach Fire God Mountain.
• Song Changming caught up with the Immortal armies, explained that he had something to retrieve, then used Space Shrinking to arrive ahead of them.
• At the sea of fire, Song Changming crushed many Evil Demons with a palm strike and spotted a Five-horned Giant Demon and a Saint Buddha near Fire God Mountain.
• The Saint Buddha and the Five-horned Giant Demon turned their attention to Song Changming, who called for three Heavenly Kings before the Saint Buddha restrained him with a Buddhist hand.
• Song Changming invoked the Nine Heavens Divine Canon’s Treading the Nine Heavens to counter the Saint Buddha’s attack.

Song Changming helped the Heavenly Kings trap Saint Buddha, but Saint Buddha wounded him and prepared to escape with the two Nirvana Eggs. Song Changming summoned his master, the Nine Heavens Goddess, to confront Saint Buddha and recover the egg carrying Little Phoenix’s aura.

• Saint Buddha seized the two Nirvana Eggs and joined forces with the Five-horned Giant Demon as Heavenly King Jiuyou attacked him.
• Heavenly King Qingyun used the Azure Heaven Pagoda to capture the Evil Demons, while Song Changming emerged from space and time to stop Saint Buddha from fleeing.
• Saint Buddha struck Song Changming down, then summoned the Buddhist Sect’s River of the Underworld to threaten everyone’s lifespan.
• Song Changming realized one Nirvana Egg carried Little Phoenix’s aura and used the blue silk his Goddess master had given him.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess appeared, saw Song Changming’s injuries, and promised to stand up for him.

The Nine Heavens Goddess arrived to aid Song Changming, suppressing the Saint Buddha while the three Heavenly Kings attacked the Five-horned Giant Demon. As Song Changming recovered and explored the ruined Fire God Temple, he revived its dying fire spirits with Natural Origin and discovered the Fire God Stele’s inherited divine arts.

• The Nine Heavens Goddess overwhelmed the Saint Buddha, while the three Heavenly Kings wounded and restrained the Five-horned Giant Demon.
• Song Changming recovered from his injuries and entered the half-destroyed Fire God Temple while he waited for his master to retrieve Little Phoenix.
• A dying Fire Essence divine general asked the Immortal Court to recover Lord Fire God and the young Lord Fire God before dissolving.
• Song Changming revived the divine general and other fire spirits with his Natural Origin, prompting them to call him the Natural Holy Lord.
• Song Changming touched the Fire God Stele, learned that it contained the Fire God lineage’s divine arts, and placed his hand on it again to explore its powers.

Song Changming mastered countless fire arts from the Fire God Stele and joined the battle against the Five-horned Giant Demon. The Nine Heavens Goddess returned with both Nirvana Cocoons, while the Immortal Court continued suppressing the demon.

• Song Changming used his divine eyes and Natural Origin body to master thousands of divine fire arts from the Fire God Stele.
• Song Changming rose to the heavens and blocked a surge of demonic energy with the Fire Seal.
• Heavenly Kings Qingyun, Jiuyou, and Jiuchen restrained the Five-horned Giant Demon, which revealed that the Buddhist Sect had sought two Nirvana Cocoons.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess returned with both Nirvana Cocoons after the Saint Buddha escaped, and Song Changming placed them in a space filled with divine fire.
• Song Changming left the Giant Demon to the Immortal Court, and Heavenly King Jiuchen severed its head while Heavenly King Qingyun sealed its limbs in the Azure Heaven Pagoda.

Saint Buddha Due reported that two Nirvana Eggs had appeared during the Fire God’s Nirvana and that the Nine Heavens Goddess had taken them, prompting warnings of an approaching Immortal-Buddha cataclysm. Song Changming retained custody of the two Nirvana Cocoons, including Little Phoenix’s, and returned to his star to protect her and study the Fire God’s arts.

• Saint Buddha Due returned to Outer Heaven grievously wounded and told the Buddha Ancestor that two Nirvana Eggs had appeared in the Fire God Temple and the Nine Heavens Goddess had seized them.
• The Buddha Ancestor warned that the Heavenly Mandate had changed and that a great cataclysm would bring tribulations upon the immortal and Buddhist paths.
• The three Heavenly Kings and Song Changming reported their mission to the Immortal King, who entrusted Song Changming with the two Nirvana Cocoons.
• Song Changming showed Little Phoenix’s Nirvana Cocoon to Su Qingqing and confirmed that Little Phoenix was safe inside it.
• Song Changming secured Little Phoenix’s Cocoon in his Divine Fire Space, then entered seclusion to study the Fire God’s arts while Heavenly King Jiuchen guarded the damaged Fire God Temple.

The destruction of the Fire God Temple threw the southern region into a devastating Fire Essence disaster, while the Black Tortoise and other divine beings sensed a great calamity beginning. Song Changming tried to restore the ruined temple with his Natural Origin power, and it began to revive under his Seven-Colored Divine Flame.

• The Black Tortoise sensed that the Four Extremes were out of balance and warned the sea beasts that a great calamity was coming, while promising to protect them.
• Several years later, uncontrolled Fire Essence sent volcanoes, magma, and fiery meteors across the south, forcing spirit-beast clans to flee as the Southern Immortal Army watched.
• Song Changming asked Jiuchen Heavenly King about stopping the disaster and learned that restoring the Fire God Temple required the Fire God's divine power.
• Song Changming returned to the Fire God Temple ruins and used his Natural Origin power to form a Seven-Colored Divine Flame.
• The temple drew in Fire Essence and began rising from the ashes, prompting the Fire God generals and fire spirits to worship Song Changming.

Song Changming rebuilt the Fire God Temple, calmed the southern earthcore fire, and received coordinates from Heavenly King Jiuchen to a secret Dao heart cache. Seeking powerful fighters for his Immortal Army, he found Flame-Floss Spirit Child and confronted him at a volcano, where the spirit attacked.

• Song Changming restored the Fire God Temple with his Natural Origin power and mastery of fire arts, suppressing the southern fire riot.
• Song Changming returned the two Nirvana Cocoons to the temple, left a teleportation mark, and accepted Heavenly King Jiuchen's coordinates to a Dao heart cache.
• Song Changming decided to recruit powerful fighters from the lower realms to strengthen the Second Division Immortal Army.
• Song Changming found Flame-Floss Spirit Child at a volcano and questioned him about stirring up trouble during the southern chaos.
• Flame-Floss Spirit Child recognized Song Changming as an Immortal Court general and attacked him with towering flames.

Song Changming defeated the Flame-Floss Spirit Child with his Seven-Colored Divine Flame and bound him with a God Binding Seal, then set out with him to recruit more attendants. The Flame-Floss Spirit Child led Song Changming to the Myriad-Wood Heaven-Devouring Python, which refused to submit and attacked him.

• Song Changming overwhelmed the Flame-Floss Spirit Child’s fire arts with the Seven-Colored Divine Flame and reduced him to his childlike true form.
• Song Changming branded the Flame-Floss Spirit Child’s soul with a God Binding Seal, and the Spirit Child accepted him as master.
• Song Changming asked for recommendations for attendants, and the Flame-Floss Spirit Child led him away from the volcano.
• The Flame-Floss Spirit Child brought Song Changming to the Myriad-Wood Heaven-Devouring Python, which accused him of setting it up.
• The Heaven-Devouring Python recognized Song Changming’s power of the Natural Origin, refused to serve him, and charged at him.

Song Changming arrived at Black Lion Forest with the subdued Myriad-Wood Heaven-Devouring Python and Flame-Floss Spirit Child to confront the Suanni Clan. The Python and the Suanni King began fighting, and Song Changming sent the Spirit Child to reinforce it as the Suanni descendants joined the battle.

• The Myriad-Wood Heaven-Devouring Python brought Song Changming and the Flame-Floss Spirit Child to Black Lion Forest, where the Suanni King emerged from a bone cave.
• The Suanni King rejected the Heaven-Devouring Python’s warning to choose a side in the coming Immortal-Buddha Conflict.
• At Song Changming’s permission, the Heaven-Devouring Python attacked the Suanni King, and the two fought to a standstill.
• Song Changming ordered the Flame-Floss Spirit Child to reinforce the Python, prompting the Suanni descendants to attack with black baleful qi.

Song Changming defeated the Black Lion Suanni King and secured the allegiance of the king and his clan, then brought three Profound Immortal spirits back to the Northern Immortal Army headquarters. As heavenly soldiers and generals gathered to inspect them, Song Changming permitted anyone who wished to test the newcomers to do so.

• The Heaven-Devouring Python and Flame-Floss Spirit Child fought the Black Lion Suanni King for several days until he was defeated.
• The Suanni King agreed to submit to Song Changming to protect his clan, and Song Changming placed a God Binding Seal on him.
• The Suanni King could not name another suitable target, so Song Changming returned to the heavens with him and the other two spirits, leaving the Suanni Clan in the lower realm.
• Song Changming gave the three spirits nominal posts in the Northern Immortal Army's Second Division and ordered them to keep a low profile.
• Li Zicheng said he could not see through the three spirits, and Song Changming gave the gathered commanders permission to test them.

Song Changming’s Second Division Immortal Army joined an Immortal King’s decree to escort the Five-horned Giant Demon from the Thunder Department to the Cape of the Sea Divine Prison. The chapter ended as Song Changming saw the giant demon imprisoned in the Thunder Marsh.

• The Flame-Floss Spirit Child and the Heaven-Devouring Python easily defeated Bao Da and an Auxiliary Army General, revealing their immense strength to the heavenly soldiers.
• Several months later, Heavenly King Shenxiao received an order to escort the Five-horned Giant Demon to the Cape of the Sea Divine Prison, and he selected Song Changming’s Second Division Immortal Army for the mission.
• Song Changming and Heavenly King Shenxiao arrived at the Thunder Department, where Lei Xiao explained the Thunder Pool’s power to strip cultivation and immortal standing.
• Star Lord Lei Xian greeted Heavenly King Shenxiao but declined to join them, directing the group to retrieve the demon from the Thunder Marsh.
• Song Changming saw the enormous Five-horned Giant Demon imprisoned in the Thunder Marsh.

Heavenly King Shenxiao transported the captured Five-horned Giant Demon toward the Divine Prison with Song Changming and a large escort. The Buddhist Sect prepared to intercept the convoy, and a powerful Evil Demon attacked as the group traveled.

• Heavenly King Shenxiao captured the weakened Five-horned Giant Demon in a black iron cage and led the escort out of the heavens toward the North Sea.
• Song Changming traveled with the Flame-Floss Spirit Child, Heaven-Devouring Python, Black Lion Suanni, and five thousand heavenly soldiers among the larger convoy.
• The Buddha Ancestor sent Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha, Golden Lotus Holy Buddha, and other volunteers to intercept the convoy, entrusting Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha with the God-Striking Stone.
• As Song Changming reflected on how traveling through the lower realm could aid his cultivation, he sensed an Evil Demon approaching and warned the escort.
• A Great Heavenly General flew to confront the Evil Demon, and a fierce clash of immortal and demonic energy erupted below.

Heavenly King Shenxiao learned that Evil Demons had been tipped off about the escort mission and suspected the Buddha Ancestor had revealed their route. The party continued north through repeated attacks, then found the Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha and the Golden Lotus Holy Buddha waiting to seize the prisoner above the North Sea.

• The Mushroom Spirit confessed that Evil Demons knew of the escort and that he had been reporting the party’s coordinates, and Heavenly King Shenxiao suspected the Buddha Ancestor had exposed their journey.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao bound and silenced the Mushroom Spirit despite promising to spare his life, then ordered the escort to continue after reporting the situation to the Immortal King.
• Song Changming’s generals helped the party defeat wave after wave of Evil Demons, while Lei Xiao asked how Song Changming had recruited such powerful subordinates.
• Song Changming sensed demonic energy near the Starfall Sea and warned the party, which soon found itself surrounded by Evil Demons and Giant Demons rising from the seabed.
• The Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha and the Golden Lotus Holy Buddha appeared above the North Sea, their Buddha Light revealing that they had come to seize the prisoner.

The Buddhist army and a vast horde of demons attacked the Immortal Army guarding the North Sea, and Song Changming led his troops into battle. He slaughtered demons with the Witch Emperor Seal and Demon-Slaying Blade as Heavenly King Shenxiao fought the two Saint Buddhas overhead.

• The Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha and Golden Lotus Holy Buddha arrived with a Buddhist formation, and the Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha summoned demons from the sea to attack the Immortal Army.
• Song Changming and other Great Heavenly Generals led their troops against the demons, while the Flame-Floss Spirit Child, Myriad-Wood Heaven-Devouring Python, and Black Lion Suanni King fought through the horde.
• Song Changming used the Witch Emperor Seal to summon an Ancient God's phantom and killed several four-horned giant demons, driving the surrounding demon tide back.
• Song Changming continued slaying demons and used the Sorcery Refining Method to strengthen his Witch God Body, while the Immortal Army held its defensive formation.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao confronted the Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha and Golden Lotus Holy Buddha, trading Shenxiao heavenly thunder against the Wandering Earth Free Saint Buddha's golden Buddha palms.