Chapter Summaries

Xia Fan accelerated the attack on Moonshadow Temple after seeing a pillar of light and suspecting Seven Stars had activated a powerful artifact. As the Heavenly Gate opened, Luo Yunzheng left to confront the Jinxia forces attacking the southern hill.

• Xia Fan ordered the Sorcery Art unit to seize the southern hill and deploy a Dongfeng-2, fearing the pillar of light signaled a danger that could not wait another day.
• The Staff Department revised the plan, and Xia Fan, Li, Chi, Yu Linglong, and Olina flew toward Sunrise Mountain under cover of night.
• Inside Moonshadow Temple, Luo Yunzheng used the An Clan’s Soul Gathering Talismans and mindless slaves to power the immortal artifact and ordered the Heavenly Gate opened toward Yongding City.
• A general reported that Jinxia forces had attacked the southern hill by flying up the mountain, and Luo Yunzheng went to face them while ordering the artifact controllers to continue their work.

King Yong and Ning Qianshi seized the temple and began using the immortal artifact to usher in Eternal Night, but Luo Yunzheng returned with powerful sorcerers to confront them. The two sides faced off inside the temple.

• Dai the Sentinel entered the temple and questioned the progress of opening the Heaven Gate while the immortal artifact was being prepared.
• The temple official recognized that Dai was an impostor and attacked him, but the Sentinel released Abyss Ghosts that killed several sorcerers before his decaying body fell into Chaos.
• King Yong and Ning Qianshi entered the temple, and King Yong killed the official with a black-light attack while the Abyss Ghosts fawned on him.
• King Yong took control of the platform and declared that the Great Desolation Evil Night would begin Eternal Night.
• Luo Yunzheng returned with Dai the Sentinel and three other powerful sorcerers, accusing King Yong of guiding events to claim the immortal artifact.

Ning Qianshi turned against King Yong, revealing that he was a Painting Person while his real body headed toward the temple. As Kaiyang Envoy attacked King Yong, Xia Fan and Li spotted someone who looked like Ning Qianshi signaling in the forest below.

• Ning Qianshi revealed his identity as the Second Prince of Qi State and warned that King Yong was controlling an incarnation.
• Ning Qianshi rejected King Yong's promise to restore the Tianshu Envoy, saying he would save her himself.
• King Yong ordered the grafted woman to fight, but Ning Qianshi revealed that he was a Painting Person and said his real body was heading to the temple.
• Kaiyang Envoy attacked King Yong while preparing to deal with the Jinxia Army afterward.
• Li spotted a person signaling with a torch in the forest, and Xia Fan lowered their flight so she could identify him as someone who looked like Ning Qianshi.

Xia Fan met the infected Ning Qianshi, learned that King Yong planned to open the Outsideworld Gate, and hurried to Moonshadow Temple. There, the Kaiyang Envoy fought King Yong and ordered Xia Fan to stay out of their battle.

• Xia Fan and Li found Ning Qianshi near Moonshadow Temple, and he revealed the temple's true entrance and warned that King Yong intended to open the Outsideworld Gate.
• Ning Qianshi explained that King Yong believed the world would collapse when the gate opened and that he planned to contain humanity in the Heavenly Court; he then vomited blood as King Yong's influence affected him.
• Xia Fan and Li flew to Moonshadow Temple, where Seven Stars troops surrounded the grounds, but a blast from underground hurled the temple and soldiers into the air.
• Xia Fan saw the injured King Yong, whom Ning Qianshi had called Fei Nian, facing the Kaiyang Envoy in the crater beneath the temple.
• The Kaiyang Envoy recognized Xia Fan as the Nine Heavens Thunder Envoy and a Jinxia traitor, then told him to stay out of the fight while he dealt with King Yong.

After King Yong’s attack nearly killed the Seven Stars soldiers, Xia Fan helped rescue the wounded while Luo Yunzheng overwhelmed King Yong in combat. King Yong’s phantom escaped and activated the immortal artifact, and a surge of seawater and fish burst from the pit.

• Xia Fan carried Li and the severely wounded to safety, then urged the Seven Stars soldiers to help them.
• Luo Yunzheng used Formless Reality and Illusion to trap King Yong and crush half his body with a cube of condensed qi.
• King Yong claimed his body was only an incarnation, but Luo Yunzheng crushed his head when the immortal artifact began to activate.
• King Yong’s phantom escaped toward the clouds and declared that he would live forever as an immortal.
• Xia Fan saw a fish in the artifact’s blue passage before seawater and a school of fish erupted from the pit.

A sudden flood destroyed the Seven Stars Army’s defenses, but Kaiyang Envoy discovered a black statue at the bottom of the pit that trapped him in a slowing field. Xia Fan recognized the Great Demon and attacked it with lightning and explosive projectiles, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Gate’s opening unleashed a seawater column that crushed the temple and killed many of the Seven Stars Army, while Xia Fan, Li, Chi, Shanhui, and Yu Linglong escaped into the air.
• Luo Yunzheng lost over half his forces and headed toward the pit to reactivate the immortal artifact despite Xia Fan’s warning.
• Kaiyang Envoy found a black statue surrounded by motionless, living fish and became trapped in its slowing field when he tried to attack it.
• Li recognized the statue as the Great Demon summoned by a Western Pole mage, and Xia Fan told her to stay away from it.
• Xia Fan flew above the pit and struck the statue with Heavenly Thunder and explosive projectiles, revealing ripples in its slowing field.

Xia Fan and the others watched the Evil Spirit drain the dark clouds, restoring the temple and freeing Luo Yunzheng from its slowing domain. After Luo Yunzheng shattered the statue, a powerful girl emerged from it, while an emergency shelter order reached Thought Control in Jinxia City.

• The Evil Spirit raised its head and drew the dark clouds into a pillar, sweeping away Xia Fan's attack and the water in the temple.
• The statue turned pale, its domain faded, and Luo Yunzheng recovered as the imprisoned fish lay in shallow puddles.
• Luo Yunzheng used Formless Reality and Illusion to smash the statue's head, but a black-haired girl emerged from the broken shell.
• Luo Yunzheng raised barriers and retreated as the girl examined her hands, while he recognized her immense power.
• Thought Control received an emergency shelter notice and learned that the Escape Tower had entered wartime defensive status.

Thought Control revealed that an emergency shelter notice had been issued despite the Escape Tower’s missing Escape Committee, and explained that such warnings were most often prompted by chaos entity invasions. Meanwhile, Luo Yunzheng fought an Evil Spirit that appeared to wield Immortal Art and turned his own attack against him.

• Mo Yun asked how the Escape Tower could issue a shelter notice without knowing about it, and Thought Control explained that only the Escape Committee had once been authorized to do so.
• Thought Control said shelter notices were issued for hazards above level six and that chaos entity invasions were their most common cause.
• Luo Yunzheng faced an Evil Spirit and, despite feeling afraid, attacked it with Formless Reality and Illusion.
• The Evil Spirit stopped Luo Yunzheng’s crushing qi constructs with a distorted pillar, revealing that it could use Immortal Art.
• The Evil Spirit pointed at Luo Yunzheng and struck him with an invisible blade, cutting his forehead and shattering his jade crown.

Xia Fan and Luo Yunzheng joined forces against an evil spirit that could imitate Fangshi arts, while Li volunteered to help create an opening. The chapter ended with the three preparing to risk a single coordinated attack.

• Xia Fan struck the evil spirit with rounds, then warned Chi and the others to stay back after it displayed an art resembling Luo Yunzheng’s.
• The evil spirit copied Xia Fan’s Zephyr technique, using a shattered round to slaughter charging Seven Stars soldiers and hurling a flaming halberd at Xia Fan.
• Luo Yunzheng told Xia Fan that his Formless Reality and Illusion art could briefly nullify the air barriers protecting the evil spirit.
• Xia Fan agreed to coordinate with Luo Yunzheng, who ran toward the temple to create an opening for Xia Fan’s attack.
• Li volunteered to use illusion art to help, trusting that the evil spirit would not know how to wield it effectively if it copied her technique.

Xia Fan, Luo Yunzheng, and Li combined their arts to ambush and badly wound the Evil Spirit. Luo Yunzheng beheaded and destroyed its head, but the creature stood up again, leaving him horrified.

• Li transformed into a fox and hid in the ruins while Xia Fan used Chameleon Camouflage to watch the Evil Spirit from above.
• The Evil Spirit broke the Seven Stars Army, and Luo Yunzheng used the chaos to approach within fifty paces.
• Luo Yunzheng merged his qi barrier with the Evil Spirit’s, seized its hand, and called for Xia Fan to attack.
• Li used Kan Technique: Soul-Seizing to freeze the Evil Spirit with an illusion of hundreds of Xia Fans, allowing Xia Fan’s projectile to tear open its back.
• Luo Yunzheng severed the Evil Spirit’s neck and smashed its head, but it stood up again with its wound still open.

Kaiyang Envoy used a Xun Technique to destroy the Evil Spirit’s body, but the blast left him mortally wounded. After Xia Fan and Li reached the temple, they discovered that the Evil Spirit had survived and was examining Kaiyang Envoy.

• Kaiyang Envoy realized the Evil Spirit had copied his Formless Reality and Illusion technique and trapped him beneath a falling mass.
• Kaiyang Envoy charged the Evil Spirit and thrust his fist into its mouth, using the opening to unleash Xun Technique: Chen, Forest Crusher inside its body.
• The wind burst the Evil Spirit apart and dispelled its barrier, but the blast also badly wounded Kaiyang Envoy.
• Kaiyang Envoy looked west and thought of his master before losing consciousness.
• Xia Fan and Chi were thrown by the second explosion, and Xia Fan found Li unharmed behind a low wall.
• As the dust cleared, Xia Fan saw the cracked Evil Spirit examining the unconscious Kaiyang Envoy and sinking a lock of hair into his forehead.

Xia Fan called in artillery support against the Evil Spirit, which had absorbed the Kaiyang Envoy’s qi and could regenerate from severe injuries. The bombardment wounded and then tore the creature apart, but its fate remained unresolved.

• Li warned that the Evil Spirit had absorbed qi from the dead, and the group realized it could grow stronger by consuming everyone on Yama Island.
• Xia Fan ordered Chi to take Yu Linglong away while Li stayed to help him prepare a spell, then asked the Evil Spirit its name and learned it had taken the Kaiyang Envoy Luo Yunzheng’s name.
• Xia Fan asked Olina to have the cannons bombard the temple and use the explosions to cover his attack.
• The first barrage blasted the Evil Spirit, which rapidly regenerated its missing arm and scorched body.
• The Evil Spirit raised a qi barrier against the second barrage, but the cannon shells detonated against it and shattered the barrier, slicing the creature into several pieces.

Xia Fan prepared the Sunflame Saber while the Evil Spirit adapted to the artillery barrage and counterattacked the Jinxia Army. With Li distracting it using Soul-Seizing, Xia Fan brought the immense blade down on the Evil Spirit.

• Xia Fan watched the artillery’s later volleys fail to penetrate the Evil Spirit’s strengthened air barrier as the mountaintop guns began to slow.
• Xia Fan began constructing his Sunflame Saber, a powerful plasma technique that could vaporize steel but required time and qi to form.
• The Evil Spirit reassembled its body and launched a halberd toward the southern mountaintop, prompting Xia Fan to accelerate his casting.
• The Evil Spirit noticed the Sunflame Saber and aimed its weapons at Xia Fan, but Li transformed into her Giant Fox form and used Soul-Seizing to disrupt its attacks.
• Xia Fan endured a sword’s shockwave and slashed the Sunflame Saber down at the Evil Spirit.

Xia Fan destroyed the Evil Spirit with the Sunflame Blade, but discovered that part of it had survived by hiding its true form. The Evil Spirit trapped Xia Fan and Li inside Moonshadow Temple and prepared to kill them.

• Xia Fan used the Sunflame Blade to destroy the Evil Spirit's visible body, leaving a smooth pit in the temple grounds.
• Xia Fan and Li headed toward Moonshadow Temple's core, where they noticed a seemingly living paper crane.
• The Evil Spirit emerged from the ground and attacked Xia Fan, but Li intercepted it with a Flowing Light Spell.
• Xia Fan realized the Evil Spirit had hidden part of itself and could absorb abilities from fallen Seven Stars sorcerers.
• The Evil Spirit sealed Moonshadow Temple behind invisible barriers, trapping Xia Fan and Li, then formed a blue-white longsword in its hand.

Xia Fan and Li prepared to face the Evil Spirit together, but Luo Qingqing and Taxisis arrived in time to break through the barrier and rescue them. Taxisis explained how she had traveled from the Holy Wing Islands to find Xia Fan, while the Evil Spirit remained their enemy.

• Li offered to hold off the Evil Spirit so Xia Fan could escape, but Xia Fan chose to fight beside her.
• Xia Fan told Chi to withdraw the troops and escort the princess to Jinxia City, then learned that an unknown dragon was heading toward the temple.
• Luo Qingqing and Taxisis crashed through the barrier, attacked the Evil Spirit with a golden sword and dragon breath, and freed Xia Fan and Li.
• Luo Qingqing asked Taxisis to protect Xia Fan and Li while she prepared her Dragon Scales to fight.
• Taxisis explained that she had traveled to Jinxia City seeking advice on founding a new nation, then followed Xia Fan to Yama Island and met Luo Qingqing on the way.

Xia Fan and the others discovered that qi threads from a black mass in the air were sustaining the Evil Spirit, and Luo Qingqing led an assault to sever its supply. Their attacks began to weaken the creature, though the source of its qi remained beyond their direct reach.

• Luo Qingqing explained that qi threads connected the Evil Spirit to a black mass in the air and that severing the threads could weaken its regeneration.
• Xia Fan realized King Yong might have used the deaths on Yama Island to nourish the Evil Spirit and questioned how the Bureau of Military Affairs obtained its intelligence.
• Luo Qingqing launched her Dragon Scales at the Evil Spirit and the black mass while Xia Fan, Taxisis, and Li joined the fight.
• Taxisis carried Xia Fan into the air and attacked the Evil Spirit with dragonfire as Luo Qingqing and Li harried it with blades, lightning, and illusions.
• Luo Qingqing formed spinning barriers with the Dragon Scales to cut the qi threads, then severed half of the Evil Spirit's arm, which failed to regenerate quickly.

Luo Qingqing used her Dragon Scales to drive the Evil Spirit into a desperate transformation, but it unleashed a weakened Stagnation Domain and attacked her allies. The chapter ended with Luo Qingqing engaging the transformed Evil Spirit in a fierce aerial sword battle while Li and Taxisis lay wounded.

• Luo Qingqing summoned ten Dragon Scales and pressed the Evil Spirit into retreat, sensing its personal hatred toward her.
• The Evil Spirit absorbed the black mass of qi, restored its Stagnation Domain, and charged at Luo Qingqing through an illusion.
• The Evil Spirit appeared beside Li and pierced her with two qi blades, but Taxisis carried the wounded Fox Demon away after Xia Fan shouted for help.
• The Evil Spirit struck Taxisis with a black sword, badly injuring her wing and sending her crashing to the ground with Li and Xia Fan.
• Luo Qingqing attacked the Evil Spirit with all ten Dragon Scales, forcing it to defend itself with three black swords.

Luo Qingqing reached the limit of her power while fighting the Evil Spirit and accepted the white door’s offer to become part of order, choosing to keep Xia Fan within the future she sought. As a dazzling aura surrounded her, she removed her blindfold, and Xia Fan, Li, and Taxisis witnessed her transformation.

• Luo Qingqing’s twelve Dragon Scales failed to break through the Evil Spirit’s Black Sword defenses, and her qi and consciousness began to collapse.
• A white door appeared before Luo Qingqing and offered her complete power if she cast aside irrelevant consciousness and became the incarnation of order.
• Luo Qingqing hesitated over the price, then accepted after deciding she could still help Xia Fan and placed her hand in the figure’s palm.
• A white light engulfed Luo Qingqing, and she thought that the future had changed.
• Taxisis told Xia Fan and Li that Luo Qingqing had fallen, then realized she had stood back up amid an aura greater than that of a Seven-Star Envoy.
• Xia Fan saw Luo Qingqing bathed in light as she removed her blindfold and golden light poured from her eyes.

Xia Fan used the power of the White Gate and Luo Qingqing’s Dragon Scales to destroy the Evil Spirit, but Luo Qingqing entered the gate and disappeared. After the battle, Ning Qianshi asked to activate Moonshadow Temple’s immortal artifact, saying he had found a way to save the Tianshu Envoy.

• A mysterious voice in Xia Fan’s mind asked for his help, and the White Gate restored his energy as Luo Qingqing’s Dragon Scales restrained the Evil Spirit.
• Xia Fan unleashed the Sunflame Saber, obliterating the Evil Spirit and carving a vast, lava-filled ravine through Sunrise Mountain.
• Luo Qingqing walked through the White Gate, which closed and vanished despite Xia Fan and Li calling after her.
• The Jinxia Army arrived and captured the fleeing Seven Stars soldiers, while Xia Fan and his companions questioned whether the woman who entered the gate had truly been Luo Qingqing.
• Ning Qianshi told Xia Fan that freeing himself from King Yong’s control had left him dying, then asked to activate Moonshadow Temple’s immortal artifact to save the Tianshu Envoy.

Ning Qianshi used Moonshadow Temple in an attempt to return to Shangyuan City twenty years in the past, then died, leaving Xia Fan and his companions unsure whether he had succeeded. As Jinxia prepared to leave Sunrise Mountain, Xia Fan found Luo Qingqing’s blindfold and a teardrop-shaped glass piece containing a Dragon Scale, which began to glow.

• Ning Qianshi told Xia Fan he wanted Moonshadow Temple to take him to Shangyuan City twenty years earlier, before the Tianshu Envoy inherited her authority.
• Xia Fan helped Ning Qianshi reach the suspended stairs, where Ning used the Evil Spirits’ qi to activate the immortal artifact and recalled meeting Qian and a young girl in his childhood.
• Ning Qianshi’s breath vanished; Xia Fan carried his body from the pit and ordered that he be taken to Qi State for burial.
• Jinxia decided to leave one thousand soldiers at Sunrise Mountain with Yamato Kingdom to guard Moonshadow Temple, while the rest prepared to return because Seven Stars was advancing toward Leizhou.
• Xia Fan found Luo Qingqing’s blindfold in the dirt, unwrapped a teardrop-shaped glass piece with a Dragon Scale inside, and watched the Dragon Scale begin to glow.