Chapter Summaries

Shen Wuming led military forces and researchers into Bi Luo Mountain’s Underground Palace to reach Bi Luo God’s sealed site, despite warnings that the palace was deadly. After the expedition lost researchers to the entrance seal, Bi Luo High Priest’s Master revealed that she planned to let the intruders find Bi Luo God and then kill them all.

• Bi Luo High Priest’s Master warned Shen Wuming that the Underground Palace was dangerous, and he brought troops and researchers inside after summoning reinforcements.
• Phoenix Emperor and Phoenix Emperor’s mother joined the expedition, and Phoenix Emperor said Bi Luo God’s man would protect her if he was alive.
• More than a dozen researchers died when they touched the sealed door, and the research institute’s leader contacted officials who ordered that Bi Luo be secured for the institute.
• Military experts dismantled the door’s restrictions while Shen Wuming assessed the ancient seal and called for additional experts.
• The group entered a passage carved with old martial marks, and Shen Wuming discovered that his own fist left a shallower mark than those on the walls.
• Bi Luo High Priest’s Master admitted that she wanted the outsiders to uncover Bi Luo God so her followers could kill them and worship Bi Luo.

The group found a throne and a platform deep in the Underground Palace, where a talking Head Relief revealed that Bi Luo lay farther below and demanded a bribe. When Shen Wuming’s group touched a guarded gate, the platform transformed into a Steel Giant, which crushed Shen Wuming and declared itself Bi Luo’s First Gatekeeper.

• The researchers found an empty hidden compartment in the throne, while Phoenix Emperor’s Mother questioned the enormous platform beside it.
• The Head Relief announced that Bi Luo was at the deepest part of the Underground Palace and demanded a cartload of Exotic Flowers and Herbs to reveal the way forward.
• Phoenix Emperor told the Head Relief that a hundred eras had passed and the forbidden zones were gone, leaving it disbelieving and frustrated.
• Two stone women at the gate cried out that Shen Wuming’s group had touched them, and the Head Relief transformed the platform into a Steel Giant.
• Shen Wuming attacked the Steel Giant, but it threw him to the ground and stomped him into the earth while identifying itself as Bi Luo’s First Gatekeeper.

Shen Wuming’s forces attacked the Underground Palace, but its gatekeepers and Steel Giant destroyed their battleship and drove them back. Shen Wuming called for reinforcements, and a Great Figure ordered the Starry Sky Thirteenth Sequence Fleet to support the excavation of Bi Luo.

• Shen Wuming ordered a Starry Sky Battleship to fire on the Steel Giant, but its first attack only cracked the underground ceiling.
• The battleship’s secondary main cannon struck the gate, and the Steel Giant blocked the beam before charging into the sky to attack the battleship.
• Shen Wuming’s experts fought the two Stone Demons while Phoenix Emperor and the Bi Luo High Priest’s group waited for a chance to enter the palace.
• The Stone Demons seized the Steel Giant’s head and fled after it destroyed the battleship, leaving Shen Wuming’s forces amid wreckage and casualties.
• Shen Wuming contacted a Great Figure for support, and the Great Figure dispatched the Starry Sky Thirteenth Sequence Fleet and threatened to mobilize a Star Fortress.

Over a hundred thousand people poured into the Underground Palace to reach Bi Luo, only to encounter gatekeeping Stone Demons who turned victims into reliefs and sent them into chaotic fights. The crowd still wanted to press on, and Shen Wuming threw a man who had urged them forward into the fray.

• News of Bi Luo spread, drawing adventurers, powerful scions, and thrill-seekers to Bi Luo Mountain despite warnings about the Underground Palace.
• More than a hundred thousand people crowded into the palace passage, pushing Shen Wuming's military personnel aside and advancing to the gates.
• Stone Demons and a mechanical head became reliefs on the gates, and the Stone Demons dragged an attacker inside, where he was beaten and transformed into a relief.
• The transformed man revived and charged the crowd, while Stone Demons abducted female and male warriors and brought them through the gates to be turned into reliefs.
• Some newcomers considered retreating, but others urged the crowd to charge onward, and Shen Wuming grabbed one instigator and threw him toward the gates.

Shen Wuming and the others attacked the palace complex, but it transformed into a Golden Core Fortress that resisted their bombardment. Realizing the nine-level Underground Palace could hold even greater dangers, Shen Wuming decided to bring in more forces while the researchers became eager to capture the fortress.

• Shen Wuming and the attacking forces charged the Stone Demons, and the palace’s animated carvings awakened to defend the forbidden zone.
• Shen Wuming summoned support from War Fortresses, whose secondary main cannons bombarded the palace complex as the Bi Luo Mountain group prepared a sneak attack.
• The palace absorbed the distant cannon fire and transformed into a Golden Core Fortress, whose radiance weakened nearby fighters.
• Phoenix Emperor's Mother explained that the fortress was an External Dao Golden Core, and the High Priest of Bi Luo said the Underground Palace had nine levels.
• Shen Wuming learned they were on the first level and decided to bring in more cannon fodder rather than abandon the expedition.
• Researchers studied the fortress’s defenses and resolved to capture it even if they could not excavate Bi Luo.

Shen Wuming’s Alliance uncovered the Underground Palace beneath Bi Luo Mountain, but their Star Fortress’s attack awakened the Bull Devil King, who declared that he was guarding the sleeping Eternal Bi Luo. Faced with a Ninth Abyss Sovereign and the unknown power behind Bi Luo’s titles, Shen Wuming realized the excavation had become far more dangerous than expected.

• The Star Fortress repeatedly jumped through space and vaporized Bi Luo Mountain, exposing the first layer of the Underground Palace.
• Shen Wuming ordered the Star Fortress to fire on the Golden Core Fortress and press deeper into the Underground Palace.
• The Golden Core Fortress split the ground and summoned an enormous Abyssal Creature, which revealed itself as the Ninth Abyss Sovereign, the Bull Devil King.
• The Bull Devil King swallowed the Golden Core Fortress and warned the Alliance that it had disturbed Eternal Bi Luo’s resting place.
• The Bull Devil King’s voice killed many people and injured the Phoenix Emperor, while Shen Wuming recognized that Bi Luo’s many titles and unnamed ally signaled grave danger.

Shen Wuming alerted the Alliance Council to the Ninth Sovereign, the Bull Devil King, guarding Bi Luo, and the Alliance sent its Star Fortress and warships to attack him. As the battle raged, Shen Wuming urged a group to enter the Underground Palace and dig up Bi Luo so they could use her against the Bull Devil King.

• Shen Wuming reported the Bull Devil King's presence to the Alliance Council, which decided to capture the Sovereign and study him.
• The Bull Devil King charged the Star Fortress, whose main cannon blasted him from the sky and crushed tens of thousands of people when he fell.
• The Star Fortress and arriving warships attacked the Bull Devil King, but his wounds healed quickly and his Abyssal Creatures destroyed multiple warships.
• Phoenix Emperor grew more determined to summon Chu Qing and considered telling him about the current era's events.
• Shen Wuming urged the gathered adventurers to dig up Bi Luo and use her to control the Bull Devil King, and they charged into the Underground Palace.

The Golden Fur Monkey awakened after Shen Wuming stole an inch of Time, and it pursued him across the battlefield. Shen Wuming entered the monkey’s mouth to attack it from within, but its body proved too powerful, and he was dissolved in its stomach.

• The Phoenix Emperor and the High Priest's master remained in place as a massive eruption destroyed ships and killed fleeing fighters.
• The Bull Devil King swallowed the magma, revealing the Golden Fur Monkey, which demanded to know who had disturbed Lord Bi Luo and stolen its Inch of Time.
• Shen Wuming fled from the monkey and realized the stolen Time could preserve life, soul, and memories through countless eras.
• The Golden Fur Monkey cornered Shen Wuming and demanded that he return the Time, but he jumped into its mouth to attack it from within.
• Shen Wuming found that the monkey’s flesh and organs were stronger than his own, failed to damage them, and was pulled into its stomach and dissolved.

As the Alliance attacked Bi Luo’s Underground Palace, Phoenix Emperor and her companions entered its third level to awaken the guardian and seek help against the Star Fortresses. The Gatekeeper White Snake awakened, revealed she had once pulled Lord XXX’s carriage, and vanished after directing them to the fourth level.

• The golden-haired monkey attacked a Star Fortress while the Bull Devil King held back another, and Phoenix Emperor proposed awakening all the Underground Palace guardians to defend Bi Luo.
• Phoenix Emperor, the High Priest of Bi Luo, Phoenix Emperor’s Mother, and their companion entered the third level and used an ancient seal to seek an audience with Bi Luo.
• A Stone Demon carried the group to the altar where the Third Gatekeeper slept, and Phoenix Emperor touched her crystal staff to awaken her.
• White Snake absorbed the treasures around the altar, rose to a new realm, and told the group to lift the altar to reach the fourth level.
• White Snake said she had once pulled Lord XXX’s carriage, then vanished and told them to tell the fourth-level Gatekeeper she would wait outside.

Phoenix Emperor and the others descended through the Underground Palace, awakening Mystic Tortoise on the fourth level and discovering a vast Stone Kingdom on the ninth. The Stone Demon inhabitants pointed them toward the gatekeeper in the kingdom’s center.

• Phoenix Emperor realized someone had read her memories, and the group found a passage beneath the altar leading to the fourth level.
• The White Snake swallowed a fortress transformed into a golden pellet and confronted the Star Fortresses as more forces joined the battle.
• Phoenix Emperor awakened Mystic Tortoise, who introduced himself as the First Charioteer and charged into battle alongside the White Snake.
• Phoenix Emperor and the others reached the ninth level, where Stone Demons revealed they lived in a vast Stone Kingdom beneath an artificial-looking sky.
• As the Stone Kingdom’s heavens shook, the Stone Demons panicked and began reproducing; Phoenix Emperor asked for the gatekeeper, and a Stone Demon pointed to the kingdom’s center.

Phoenix Emperor and her companions found the ninth level’s enormous chariot and awakened its petrified Stone Demons. The First Maidservant revealed that Lord Bi Luo remained asleep on the tenth level, and Phoenix Emperor gained the authority to activate the chariot as they prepared to face the Alliance.

• A horn summoned the Stone Demons to battle, and they formed an army and vanished across a bridge of stars and moonlight.
• Phoenix Emperor and her companions traveled to the center of the ninth level and discovered a thousand-mile chariot surrounded by petrified great demons.
• Phoenix Emperor touched the crystal staff, awakening the chariot, its demons, and the beings inside its palaces as nearby treasures fueled their power.
• The First Maidservant emerged and explained that Lord Bi Luo was still asleep on the tenth level, then asked Phoenix Emperor to lead the chariot against the Alliance.
• Phoenix Emperor received the Bi Luo Authority and activated the chariot, transforming the Stone Demons into dragons that settled across it.

The carriage’s enhancements raised Phoenix Emperor and the others’ Four Great Realms beyond the Gold level as Lord Bi Luo described an ancient Great Terror that had capped cultivators’ potential. Meanwhile, the Star Fortresses attacked the eight great demons on Extreme Joy Continent, and a fortress core smashed the Bull Devil King’s weapon and arms.

• The carriage’s ornaments strengthened Phoenix Emperor and the others, and Phoenix Emperor’s Mother noticed their Four Great Realms and Three Great Limits improving beyond the Gold level.
• Lord Bi Luo, the High Priest, explained that an ancient Great Terror had permanently reduced cultivators’ reserves and locked the Four Great Realms’ upper limit at Gold.
• As the carriage sped through the Underground Palace, the levels’ buildings, mountains, and rivers transformed into Golden Cores that pursued the carriage and strengthened its passengers.
• Across Extreme Joy Continent, Star Fortresses attacked the eight great demons while the Alliance ordered them captured to uncover how they had survived self-sealing for a hundred eras without their spirits collapsing.
• The Alliance ordered the Star Fortresses to ram the demons with their fortress cores, and one sphere shattered the Bull Devil King’s steel fork, tore apart his hands and arms, and hurled him tens of thousands of li away.

The Human Alliance’s Star Fortresses overwhelmed the great demons with coordinated attacks, leaving them badly wounded. Then more than ten thousand chained great demons emerged from the earth, followed by a mysterious being who declared herself the Phoenix Emperor before her mother interrupted her.

• The Star Fortresses analyzed a great demon’s blood and used their combined firepower to injure several great demons.
• The Bull Devil King attacked a Star Fortress, but its core’s radiation weakened him and left him unable to rise.
• White Snake lamented that she had too little time to deduce the New Realms of the present era.
• More than ten thousand powerful, chained great demons emerged from the magma, pulling taut chains toward something beneath the earth.
• A mysterious voice announced that it had been imprisoned for ten thousand eras, identified itself as the Phoenix Emperor, and was interrupted by her mother.

Phoenix Emperor used the carriage and its protections to battle the Alliance’s Star Fortress army, but the Alliance’s Vertical Eye formation overwhelmed her forces. As the formation prepared another attack, a mysterious scroll arrived, and Phoenix Emperor opened it.

• Phoenix Emperor taunted the Alliance from the carriage as its canopy blocked the Star Fortresses’ cannon fire and the restored great demons battered away their fortress cores.
• The Alliance released tens of thousands of fortress cores, and the carriage’s golden liquid strengthened Phoenix Emperor and the demons; Phoenix Emperor’s Mother pierced a sphere with an arrow.
• The fortress cores combined into a Vertical Eye that vaporized more than ten thousand great demons, while the carriage’s canopy blocked its beam and the demons revived.
• First Maidservant warned Phoenix Emperor that she could withstand only a few more attacks, and Phoenix Emperor admitted she did not want to die.
• A vortex delivered a scroll into Phoenix Emperor’s hands, and she opened it as the Vertical Eye prepared to strike again.

After a hundred years of slaughter, Chu Qing overwhelmed the Great Terror summoned by the Four Directions and proclaimed himself the terror above all others. He awakened the title Jue, which strengthened his other titles, and the chapter ended with its self-destructive power revealed.

• The Overlords expected the century of killing to summon a Great Terror that would kill Chu Qing.
• Red wind and red-haired monsters appeared, calling on everyone to join them, but Chu Qing’s killing intent swept over them and blackened the Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Qing declared himself the Great Terror and said the place where he stood was the true Forbidden Zone, killing or terrifying most creatures within ten million miles.
• The Four Directions announced the birth of the Great Terror called The Forbidden’s Contempt and gave all living beings a scripture with a tiny chance of summoning it.
• The Four Directions announced that Forbidden Qing had independently condensed the title Jue, which increased the power of his other titles by one-third and could be sacrificed to envelop the world with a designated title.

Chu Qing used his Ultimate title to improve his abilities and continued slaughtering creatures in the restricted zone as Qingzhou’s forces advanced. With battlefield casualties threatening to outpace population growth, Zhao Hongxiu ordered people brought from other continents and sent to the front after they turned twenty-five.

• Chu Qing discovered that Ultimate strengthened his title abilities and could spread one chosen trait across the world if he self-destructed the title, while allowing designated people or races to remain unaffected.
• Chu Qing ignored the Twilight Overlord’s threat and resumed killing in the Black Tide, joined by Cui Moyang, Nangong, and the other human martial artists.
• Qingzhou’s forces advanced into the restricted zone behind expanding Modular Fire Pits, while Stone Ridge Mountain’s resources and the continent’s martial-artist population continued to grow.
• Qingzhou’s leaders worried that rising front-line deaths would soon exceed births and sought ways to increase the population.
• Mingyue questioned why births had not risen despite ample provisions, and Zhao Hongxiu ordered people brought from other continents and sent to the battlefield after age twenty-five.

The Twilight Overlord revived his true body and went to kill Chu Qing, while Chu Qing sent Nangong and Cui Moyang away and advanced alone into the forbidden zone. The Twilight Overlord’s Black Sun froze everything across thirty million li as he called for Chu Qing.

• The forbidden-zone overlords urged the Twilight Overlord to kill Chu Qing before he grew stronger, and the Twilight Overlord decided to use his true body.
• The Twilight Overlord’s true body revived from its muddled old-man state into a vigorous youth, and he told his steward to prepare tea for his return.
• Chu Qing sensed a threat worse than the Great Terror and told Nangong and Cui Moyang to flee if danger came.
• Chu Qing chose to face the enemy alone, while Nangong and Cui Moyang led the vanguard away and watched from a distance.
• The Twilight Overlord’s Black Sun rose and froze the forbidden zone within thirty million li as he called, “Chu Qing... where are you?”

Chu Qing confronted the Twilight Overlord and launched his strongest attack, the Liuli Phenomenon, after resisting the Overlord’s opening assault. The Overlord recognized the woman manifested by the attack and froze in terror as memories of her past rampages returned.

• The Twilight Overlord tracked Chu Qing through the forbidden zone, but Chu Qing survived the Black Sun’s blasts behind hundreds of Reflection Barriers.
• Chu Qing gathered his strength and faced the Twilight Overlord, who boasted that one strand of his hair could kill Number Eighteen.
• Chu Qing destroyed the Overlord’s hair attack and mocked him, then answered his threat with the words, “Twilight falls here!”
• Chu Qing unleashed the Liuli Phenomenon with a One-Way Pass, and the Twilight Overlord recognized the woman within it.
• The Twilight Overlord recalled the woman’s past slaughter of Heavens and his own humiliating encounter with her, then froze as the Black Sun moved to shield him.

Chu Qing fought the Twilight Overlord with the Liuli Phenomenon, but he could barely injure the veteran overlord and their fusion began to fail. He crushed Liuli’s essence blood to make the phenomenon clearer, while the Twilight Overlord shrank the Black Sun and hurled it at him.

• The Twilight Overlord realized Chu Qing’s Liuli Phenomenon was only a blurry image and confidently blocked Chu Qing and the phenomenon’s attacks.
• The Liuli Phenomenon embraced Chu Qing, fusing with him and raising the limits of his inner realms as she became clearer.
• Chu Qing used his titles, abyss, and other abilities against the Twilight Overlord, but his attacks weakened as the overlord adapted and tried to separate the fusion.
• Chu Qing crushed a teleportation gemstone, then recognized the colorful gemstone the phenomenon had brought as Liuli’s essence blood and crushed it.
• The Liuli Phenomenon separated from Chu Qing and rapidly became clearer, while the Twilight Overlord hurled a Black Sun bead at Chu Qing; it passed through her hand and continued toward him.

The Twilight Overlord attacked Chu Qing with the Black Sun pearl, but Liuli crossed time and space and killed him with a finger strike. Her appearance alarmed the forbidden zone’s overlords and Kings, while Chu Qing realized that the Liuli before him was real.

• The Twilight Overlord repeatedly hurled the Black Sun pearl at Chu Qing, but it failed to harm him, so the Overlord suspected Chu Qing was Heaven in disguise.
• Liuli emerged clearly from the vortex and revealed that her distant figure was her true body while the image before them had crossed time and space.
• Liuli struck the Twilight Overlord through the air, and he died after warning her that Heaven was searching for her.
• The Overlord’s death caused black snow to fall across the forbidden zones, and the overlords and Kings reacted to Liuli’s projection with fear.
• Chu Qing recognized that Liuli had projected her entire body into his era, and Liuli remarked that his era was dazzling before asking why he had taken so long to find her.