Chapter Summaries

Chu Jiang shattered the Elder Council’s Mountain Protection Grand Array, killed Wu Tiange, and caught Yin Jiuli after she tried to flee through Yin Liyue. Yin Jiuli realized Chu Jiang had refined most of the Ten Great Strange Gu and grown stronger, leaving her schemes in ruins.

• King Taishan attacked the Mountain Protection Grand Array while Wu Tiange offered to surrender and tried to buy time for Yin Liyue’s escape.
• Chu Jiang destroyed the array with one Cold Star Finger and devoured Wu Tiange with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Chu Jiang found Yin Liyue near the Ancient Teleportation Array, but Yin Jiuli’s soul escaped her ring with the Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Chu Jiang used the Human Emperor Banner to pin Yin Jiuli in place before she could reach the array.
• Yin Jiuli sensed that Chu Jiang had refined most of the Ten Great Strange Gu and realized they had strengthened him instead of harming him.

Chu Jiang killed Yin Liyue after extracting useful fragments from Yin Jiuli’s memories, then left the Sacred Mountain with her treasures. As the battle against the Elder Council neared its end, Snow Phoenix summoned the surviving spectators to meet her master, Chu Jiang.

• Chu Jiang used Blood Pupil Heart-Capturing Art to search Yin Jiuli’s memories, but her split soul detonated itself before he could fully read them.
• Chu Jiang rejected Yin Liyue’s offer to serve him and killed her, then seized her treasures, cultivation methods, jade cauldron, and spirit stones.
• Chu Jiang left the Sacred Mountain carrying the Human Emperor Banner and turned his attention to the battlefield, where the Elder Council’s army was nearly defeated.
• Xuan Ku and Xuan Ming prepared to leave with the other spectators, but Snow Phoenix appeared and announced that her master invited them.
• The faction leaders and spectators agreed to go with Snow Phoenix, and Xuan Ming decided that he and Xuan Ku would go as well.

Chu Jiang forced the major powers who had watched the battle to offer treasures in exchange for safe passage, then continued suppressing the rebellion and collecting spoils. He left with Snow Phoenix to refine the Golden Crow Sky Burning Gu, which he believed could help him break through to the Heaven Merging Realm.

• Chu Jiang accused the assembled major powers of standing by during the battle and suspected them of colluding with the rebels.
• The Moon Demon Sect's Saint Son offered a Fifth-grade Sky Blood Pill and received a seat, prompting the other factions to offer treasures as well.
• Chu Jiang let the representatives depart, leaving Bright Temple without a seat, and ordered Fu Yunxuan to continue purging rebels across the three provinces.
• Chu Jiang sent Wang Chao, Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu to gather and inventory valuables from the Three Mountains and Nine Ridges.
• Chu Jiang collected Weapon God Chi You and the other weapon gods, then felt the Golden Crow Sky Burning Gu burning through his meridians.
• Chu Jiang asked Snow Phoenix to take him somewhere quiet so he could refine the Golden Crow Sky Burning Gu.

Chu Jiang refined the Golden Crow Sky Burning Gu and triggered a ninefold heavenly tribulation, battling a white-haired heavenly general in its final wave. After surviving, he advanced to Heaven Fusion Ninth Level and opened eighty-one heavenly veins.

• Chu Jiang refined the Golden Crow Sky Burning Gu with Snow Phoenix’s help, causing a Pure Yang Flower to bloom and his aura to surge.
• Chu Jiang faced successive waves of heavenly lightning, using his Heavenly Thunder Body, Heavenly Net Umbrella, and magic treasures to withstand them.
• A white-haired heavenly general emerged from the tribulation clouds and shattered Chu Jiang’s Demon Suppression Starfall.
• Chu Jiang wounded the heavenly general with the Hand of the Heavens and fought him for a hundred exchanges until he dissipated.
• After the tribulation ended, Chu Jiang advanced to Heaven Fusion Ninth Level, opened eighty-one heavenly veins, and greatly strengthened his mana and soul.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, Chu Jiang discovered that his physiques had become King Physiques and his comprehension had risen to eight stars. He fused the Brahma True King Skill with the Myriad Poison Gu Scripture to create and perfect the Heavenly Witch Brahma Scripture, then set out with Snow Phoenix as a mysterious man sensed the tribulation and learned that another Heaven Merging Realm cultivator had appeared.

• Chu Jiang learned that the Pure Yang Immortal Seed had raised his comprehension to eight stars and enhanced his ability to master high-level martial arts and divine abilities.
• Chu Jiang fused the Brahma True King Skill with the Myriad Poison Gu Scripture and cultivated the resulting Heavenly Witch Brahma Scripture to perfection, unlocking four new abilities, including Brahma God Edict.
• Chu Jiang discovered that incomplete laws prevented further progress in the Pseudo-Heavenly Martial Art and decided he needed to deal with the Heaven and Earth Ancestral Veins.
• Chu Jiang left with Snow Phoenix, intending to launch an expedition against the Ancestral Demon Domain and suppress anyone who opposed him.
• A mysterious middle-aged man arrived at the mountain, sensed the heavenly tribulation, and concluded that a new Heaven Merging Realm cultivator had appeared; he left to report the news to his lord.

After Chu Jiang reportedly killed Yin Jiuli and Tian Kui, people across Great Chu argued over his strength as the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion prepared to rank him first. His growing reputation alarmed his enemies and led powerful factions, including the Sima Family, to reconsider how they would deal with him.

• News spread that Chu Jiang had killed Yin Jiuli and Tian Kui, prompting both praise and claims that Great Chu had fabricated his achievements.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion unanimously approved Chu Jiang for the top spot on the Heavenly Ranking and rated his talent eight stars.
• At the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Bureau, Left Commander, Commander Shen, and the other commanders praised Chu Jiang’s rise and the reforms in Yunzhou.
• Gu Jian lamented the widening gap between himself and Chu Jiang, then vowed to wait for Chu Jiang’s downfall.
• Prince Yan received the news and continued a ritual against the Chu Emperor’s statue, while Old Ancestor Sima warned the Sima Family never to offend Chu Jiang.
• At the Eternal Life Alliance headquarters, a kneeling middle-aged man reported the situation to the shadowed figure on the bone throne.

Azure Dragon Guardian sent the Man in Plain Clothes with three Heavenly King Demon Puppets to capture Chu Jiang and the person who underwent tribulation, suspecting Chu Jiang was the one who broke through. After Great Chu restored order in three prefectures, Chu Jiang promised to awaken Yue Xuanji’s younger sister and spent the night with Yue Xuanji.

• Azure Dragon Guardian ordered the Man in Plain Clothes to capture Chu Jiang and the tribulation survivor, giving him three Heavenly King Demon Puppets for protection.
• Azure Dragon Guardian suspected Chu Jiang had undergone tribulation and secretly sent Vermilion Bird and White Tiger to follow the mission.
• Great Chu pacified Dian, West, and Thunder Prefectures, abolished the chieftain system, and placed the regions under central court rule.
• Chu Jiang reassured Yue Xuanji that her younger sister would awaken within three years after he refined a Great Yin Soul Gathering Pill.
• Chu Jiang and Yue Xuanji spent the night together.

Chu Jiang reached Heaven Fusion Tenth Level, repaired the Azure Dragon Mech with Tiankui’s demon essence blood, and claimed rewards for quelling unrest in three provinces. Meanwhile, the Demonic Sacred Land abandoned its plan to suppress him and relied on the Destiny Observatory and a mysterious person to carry out a backup plan.

• Chu Jiang completed his heavenly veins, broke through to Heaven Fusion Tenth Level, and unlocked the Heavenly Human Body.
• Chu Jiang used Tiankui’s demon essence blood to repair the Azure Dragon Mech to seven percent.
• Chu Jiang claimed a Fire Nine Revolutions Obstacle Breaking Pill, a demon Weapon God Manufacturing Method, and three sets of Heaven Fusion Weapon God Materials as mission rewards.
• Chu Jiang planned to visit Medicine King Valley and enter the Thunder Fire Abyss to gather demon lifespan and repair the Azure Dragon Mech further.
• The five great Heavenly Venerates discussed Chu Jiang’s rapid rise and the Sima Family’s refusal to lend them the Nine Li Divine Map.
• The Nine-headed Demon Dragon ordered the Heavenly Venerates to abandon their plan to suppress Chu Jiang and wait for the Destiny Observatory and a mysterious person to act.

Chu Jiang ambushed a plain-clothed man and defeated three Heavenly King Demon Puppets with ease, then prepared to refine them into new helpers. The Vermilion Bird Guardian and White Tiger Guardian arrived to reclaim the puppets, and Chu Jiang faced their attack.

• Snow Phoenix warned Chu Jiang that four powerful auras were approaching, and Chu Jiang left Fu Yunxuan to confront them.
• The plain-clothed man sent his Heavenly King Demon Puppets against Chu Jiang, but Chu Jiang’s palm grievously wounded one puppet and the others could barely harm him.
• Chu Jiang used World in Palm to suppress the three puppets, intending to refine them into helpers with the Blood Fiend Puppet Heart Art.
• The Vermilion Bird Guardian and White Tiger Guardian revealed themselves as members of the Eternal Life Alliance and demanded the puppets back.
• Chu Jiang sealed the area with the Human Emperor Banner and said he would refine the Guardians into Weapon Gods, so the two attacked him together.

Chu Jiang defeated White Tiger Guardian and Vermilion Bird Guardian, capturing White Tiger while Vermilion Bird escaped using a divine feather. He put White Tiger, the Heavenly King Demon Puppets, and the guardians’ weapons into the Purple Gold Gourd to refine them and uncover the Eternal Life Alliance’s secrets.

• White Tiger and Vermilion Bird attacked Chu Jiang together, but his Poison Buddha Hand Seal crushed them and sent them flying.
• White Tiger and Vermilion Bird tried to flee, but Chu Jiang’s World in Palm captured White Tiger despite his Blood Shadow Nine Escapes technique.
• Vermilion Bird used a Vermilion Bird Feather to break through the Human Emperor Banner’s blockade and escape Snow Phoenix’s pursuit.
• Chu Jiang found White Tiger sheltered by a Third-Rank Lotus Platform, then put him into the Purple Gold Gourd to refine the lotus and search his soul.
• Chu Jiang swept the three Heavenly King Demon Puppets, the Golden Cudgel, and the Fire Spirit Greatsword into the gourd before vanishing.

Chu Jiang strengthened his personal guard and declared his intention to wage war beyond Great Chu. Little White, Long Teng, and Hua Junzi returned from treasure hunting with gifts, but they had only explored the outer layer.

• Chu Jiang had more than a thousand Demon Suppressing Guards cultivate in Chi You's blood pool, and hundreds of them broke through.
• Chu Jiang ordered Wang Chao to expand his personal guard to three thousand by transferring the former First Army and adding a thousand men from headquarters.
• Little White, Long Teng, and Hua Junzi returned from treasure hunting, and Little White gave Hua Junzi a High-grade Spirit Stone.
• Little White gave Fu Yunxuan Poison Dragon Treasure Blood and gave Yue Xuanji a Nine Tribulation Bone Flute, urging her to help bring Dan Chen closer to Chu Jiang.
• Long Teng presented Chu Jiang with a lightning crystal, and Little White offered to split the group's many treasures seventy-thirty while admitting they could not enter the inner layer.

Chu Jiang set out for King Qing Xuan Gu's tomb after giving Little White and Long Teng treasures, while the Poison King Sect entered the tomb and faced the deadly Three Corpses Knocking Gate Formation. Their disciples died despite trying different answers, and Mysterious Toad True Lord sent Xuan Yi in as his trump card.

• Chu Jiang gave Little White and Long Teng cultivation resources, handed Little White the re-refined Golden Cudgel, and flew with the group toward King Qing Xuan Gu's tomb.
• Spider King and Mysterious Toad True Lord led Poison King Sect disciples through the tomb's outer layer to the entrance of the inner layer.
• Xuan Liu answered the Robe Corpse's question incorrectly and died when Soul Devouring Maggots consumed his brain marrow.
• A frightened disciple failed to answer and was corroded to bones, while Xuan San passed the first trial but died after answering the armored corpse's question.
• A female disciple passed the first trial but was killed after answering that she would not kill one person to save ten thousand.
• Mysterious Toad True Lord sent the fearless Xuan Yi into the Three Corpses Knocking Gate Formation.

Xuan Yi passed the Three Corpses Knocking Gate Formation by choosing longevity, swallowed a pill granting ten thousand years of life, and escaped into a dangerous tomb illusion. After Mysterious Toad True Lord was killed and Chu Jiang attacked the Poison King Sect’s fleeing disciples, Chu Jiang entered the formation and destroyed its first corpse by force.

• Xuan Yi answered the final trial by seeking longevity, received a Longevity Pill, swallowed it, and vanished through the teleportation formation.
• Xuan Yi found himself trapped in a tomb, where a monster lured him into a coffin and made his screams disappear.
• Mysterious Toad True Lord entered the formation seeking eternal life, but the greedy answer triggered a sword attack that killed him despite his power.
• Spider King fled the tomb, collided with Chu Jiang’s protective aura, and was crippled; Chu Jiang’s Snow Phoenix killed the fleeing Poison King Sect disciples.
• Chu Jiang charged into the Three Corpses Knocking Gate Formation, ignored the first corpse’s question, and pulverized the Robe Corpse before entering the second trial.

Chu Jiang smashed through the Three Corpses Knocking Gate Formation and discovered that the tomb was controlled by the Extreme Yin Ghost King, who had used it to lure in victims. Chu Jiang killed the Ghost King and claimed the tomb’s treasures.

• Chu Jiang rejected the Armored Rotting Corpse’s question, destroyed him, and entered the third trial.
• Chu Jiang killed the white-haired old rotting corpse, seized the formation plate, and discovered its Top-grade Spirit Stone power source.
• The Extreme Yin Ghost King revealed how he had used the formation to lure powerful experts into the tomb, then sent hordes of rotting corpses after Chu Jiang.
• Chu Jiang and his allies fought through the horde, and Chu Jiang pierced the Extreme Yin Ghost King with the Sky Splitting Spear.
• The Extreme Yin Ghost King begged for his life and offered the tomb’s treasures, but Chu Jiang crushed him and claimed them.

After defeating the forces in King Qing Xuan Gu’s tomb, Chu Jiang uncovered the Poison King Sect’s plan to create a Poison God and prepared to strike back. He then helped Fu Yunxuan begin her breakthrough and was promoted to King Chu Jiang, unlocking the King of Hell Hall’s highest permissions and new rewards.

• Chu Jiang searched the Gu King’s tomb, gathered its treasures, and read the Spider King’s memories, learning of the Poison King Sect’s experiments and its alliance with Poison Dragon Pool.
• Chu Jiang vowed to destroy the Poison King Sect and Evil King Pavilion, then gave his followers resources and ordered them to prepare to march in three days.
• Chu Jiang gave Fu Yunxuan a Nine Revolutions Obstacle Breaking Pill and sealed the mountain while she refined it to break through to the Heaven Merging Realm.
• King Qinguang told Chu Jiang that the Weapon God crisis was resolved and promoted him to one of the Ten Kings of Hell; Chu Jiang chose the title King Chu Jiang.
• Chu Jiang received thirty million Contribution Points and access to the King of Hell Hall’s highest permissions, prompting the system to offer him Nine Yin Heavenly Thunder and a Replica of the Book of Life and Death.

Chu Jiang spent Contribution Points on powerful cultivation methods, martial arts, and black mirrors, then learned that Ye Lingkong had entered the Tianlan Sacred Realm. After Fu Yunxuan broke through to the third level of the Heaven Merging Realm, Chu Jiang received his purchases and fused movement techniques into Stars Shift and Constellations Turn Steps.

• Chu Jiang bought the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture, movement and saber techniques, pills, beast feed, and black mirrors, then searched the marketplace for Ye Lingkong.
• Chu Jiang learned that Ye Lingkong was in the Sun Moon Kingdom and had entered the Tianlan Sacred Realm half a month earlier.
• Fu Yunxuan endured four layers of lightning tribulation and advanced to the third level of the Heaven Merging Realm with help from the Nine Revolutions Obstacle Breaking Pill.
• King Taishan delivered Chu Jiang's purchases and invited him to meet King Qinguang at headquarters, which Chu Jiang agreed to do.
• Chu Jiang fused Blood Shadow Escaping Heaven Technique and Nine Heavens Cloud Treading Steps into Stars Shift and Constellations Turn Steps.

Chu Jiang mastered the Star Shifting Step, strengthened his body by cultivating the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture, and advanced to the Half-step Heaven Transforming Realm. He ordered his Demon Suppressing Guards to destroy the Evil King Pavilion and Poison King Sect, then left the campaign to them unless a powerful enemy appeared.

• Chu Jiang perfected the Star Shifting Step, gaining the ability to shift anywhere within ten thousand miles beneath the stars.
• Chu Jiang fused the Formless Demon Suppression Body into the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture and used demon corpses to open one hundred particles.
• Chu Jiang refined the Nine Yin Heavenly Thunder and advanced to the Half-step Heaven Transforming Realm.
• Chu Jiang ordered Fu Yunxuan to lead five hundred Demon Suppressing Guards against the Evil King Pavilion, giving her the Brahma God Edict for emergencies.
• Chu Jiang ordered Wang Chao, Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu to take the remaining guards and two thousand Great Qin puppets against the Poison King Sect.
• The Demon Suppressing Guards and their forces boarded flying vessels and departed Dian Prefecture as Chu Jiang vanished.

Fu Yunxuan led the Demon Suppressing Guards to destroy Evil King Pavilion after Chu Jiang ordered its eradication. She shattered its defenses with one slash and ordered her forces to kill everyone, leaving the battle's outcome unresolved.

• Fu Yunxuan sent Zhang Huan with a hundred Demon Suppressing Guards to Qingzhou City to request help wiping out Evil King Pavilion's other branches.
• Xie Sandao arranged to hand the new Evil King over to Bright Temple's Joyful Lineage in exchange for protection, while the Evil King resented the terms.
• Hei Ri arrived to collect the Evil King, but Demon Suppressing Guards attacked Evil King Pavilion and slaughtered its outer mountain patrols.
• Xie Sandao activated Evil King Pavilion's layered defensive arrays and tried to bind Bright Temple to the fight by promising Hei Ri half the treasury.
• Fu Yunxuan refused Hei Ri's request to withdraw, shattered the defensive arrays with a slash, and killed him.
• Fu Yunxuan ordered the Demon Suppressing Guards to leave no one alive.

Fu Yunxuan led the Demon Suppressing Guards in annihilating the Evil King Pavilion and taking its resources. The massacre’s aftermath spread across Qing Province and the Eastern Ten Prefectures, leaving major forces to reckon with the Demon Suppression Division’s power.

• Fu Yunxuan ordered the Demon Suppressing Guards to storm the Evil King Pavilion and kill its defenders.
• The pavilion’s Grand Elder emerged from seclusion, but Fu Yunxuan killed him with a single slash.
• Xie Sandao rallied the surviving disciples to fight to the death, but the guards slaughtered them all and absorbed their souls into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Fu Yunxuan’s forces looted the pavilion and departed, leaving more than eight thousand dead and the sect in ruins.
• Zhao Sanjin and other cultivators discovered the devastation and read a stele naming Fu Yunxuan as the one who destroyed the pavilion by Chu Jiang’s decree.
• News of the Evil King Pavilion’s destruction spread throughout Qing Province and the Eastern Ten Prefectures, prompting major forces to report and discuss the Demon Suppression Division’s strength.

Chu Jiang entered Poison Dragon Pool to harvest demons for the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture and wiped out its inhabitants, including the Nine Yin Poison Monarch. His slaughter triggered the system’s fifth major upgrade, which would last seventy-two hours.

• Poison Dragon Venerable emerged from seclusion and summoned the Poison King Sect’s ancestral statue to defend against Wang Chao, Ma Han, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, and their forces.
• The Heaven Fusion Puppet broke the Poison King Sect’s formation, and the Demon Suppressing Guards and Mechanical Puppets charged into battle.
• Chu Jiang entered Poison Dragon Pool, killed a group of demons, and drew the Nine Yin Poison Monarch and his followers to him.
• Chu Jiang killed Nine Yin Poison Monarch with one punch, then slaughtered every demon in Poison Dragon Pool and collected more than three thousand corpses.
• The system announced that Demon Lifespan had exceeded ten million years and began a seventy-two-hour major update.