Chapter Summaries

After the system upgraded, Chu Jiang learned that the demon king vanguard would arrive in 28 days and the main army in 73, then used an Enlightenment Fruit to master more of a powerful Heaven Tier saber art. He set off for the Great Chu Dynasty to suppress its internal strife and pursue the system’s reward of a World Origin Remnant.

• Chu Jiang converted demon lifespan into Heavenly Lifespan and paid to activate Demon Realm Rift perception, learning the demon king vanguard would arrive in 28 days and the main army in 73.
• Chu Jiang extracted the Heaven Burning Nine Tribulations Saber and advanced his Saber Intent to the Eighth Turn.
• Chu Jiang used an Enlightenment Fruit to comprehend the fourth and fifth tribulations of the saber art.
• The system assigned Chu Jiang a mission to suppress Great Chu’s internal strife within three years, offering Star Qi and a World Origin Remnant that could help him form a Divine Grade Heavenly Gate.
• Chu Jiang erased his aura, entered a Space Rift, and headed for the Great Chu Dynasty.

Fu Yunxuan rejected the Grand Secretariat’s order to send Yunzhou’s troops away, imprisoned Liang Bao and his guards, and prepared for an Earth Fiend Hall attack. The Earth Fiend Hall’s forces arrived over Yunzhou City as a monstrous shadow began slaughtering people outside its walls.

• Liang Bao arrived at the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Bureau and demanded that Fu Yunxuan send the Yunzhou Demon Suppressing Guard and the Regent’s troops to quell rebellions.
• Fu Yunxuan burned the imperial edict, declared that the Yunzhou Demon Suppressing Guard obeyed only the Regent, and defeated Liang Bao’s three hundred guards.
• Fu Yunxuan ordered Liang Bao and his guards imprisoned, then learned that the Earth Fiend Hall was probing Yunzhou and might soon attack.
• An Intelligence Hall deputy reported Earth Fiend Hall forces appearing throughout Yunzhou, while the city’s formation began to tremble.
• The Heavenly Rooster Star led Earth Fiend Hall forces and branch masters toward Yunzhou City as a huge shadow slaughtered people outside the city.

The Earth Fiend Hall and its allies attacked Yunzhou City while Chu Jiang was away, but Fu Yunxuan unleashed the Brahma God Edict to repel their strongest fighters. After the edict’s power ran out, a vast saber strike emerged from a spatial rift and slew the Fiend God, leaving the attackers’ fate uncertain.

• Heavenly Rooster Star led the Earth Fiend Hall’s forces in attacking Yunzhou City, and Fu Yunxuan killed the Ox Demon Hall Master with the Purple Mountain Seal.
• The Fiend God fought Fu Yunxuan, Snow Phoenix, and Omen Star, overpowering them before the Yuwen Family’s Old Ancestor Hua Ji and the Zhao Family’s Black Mountain Old Ancestor joined the assault.
• Fu Yunxuan invoked Chu Jiang’s Brahma God Edict, whose attacks fatally struck Black Mountain Old Ancestor and brought down Old Ancestor Hua Ji.
• After the edict’s power was exhausted, the Fiend God transformed into a giant demon and prepared to attack again.
• A spatial rift opened, and a blazing saber strike tore through the Fiend God, burning half his body to ash and killing him.

Chu Jiang crushed the Earth Fiend Hall, Zhao Family, and Yuwen Family forces outside Yunzhou City, then ordered a purge of demonfolk across the counties. As he fled Baishi County, Gu Jian encountered Chu Jiang again.

• Chu Jiang appeared after killing the Fiend God and slaughtered the Earth Fiend Hall, Zhao Family, and Yuwen Family fighters who had attacked the provincial government.
• Chu Jiang ordered Heavenly Rooster Star and other captured leaders tortured and displayed on Yunzhou City's walls, then commanded the Demon Suppressing Guards to purge demonfolk and hunt the Zhao and Yuwen families.
• The people of Yunzhou City praised Chu Jiang, who vanished after issuing his orders.
• Gu Jian fled Baishi County after Tian Huo annihilated dozens of Earth Fiend Hall members, believing the Hall had already conquered Yunzhou City.
• Chu Jiang appeared before Gu Jian and greeted him, while Gu Jian recognized him with fury and killing intent.

Chu Jiang captured Gu Jian after letting him flee, then gave him another chance to run as Gu Jian headed toward Huozhou. At Buddha Mother Temple, Yang Huo and Shi Qingxuan sought a cure for Black Blood Disease and witnessed the Buddha Mother demand worshippers sacrifice their flesh and blood.

• Gu Jian tried to escape Chu Jiang, but Chu Jiang shattered his void-transmission talisman and offered to let him flee ten thousand li before pursuing him.
• Chu Jiang caught Gu Jian after ten thousand li, revealed he had marked him for tracking, and gave him another chance to run forty thousand li.
• Gu Jian fled toward Huozhou while Yang Huo brought Shi Qingxuan to Buddha Mother Temple to seek a cure for Black Blood Disease.
• The monks forced hundreds of believers to kneel before the Buddha Mother, while Demon Suppressing Guards watched and considered reporting the temple to headquarters.
• The Buddha Mother said the sick could cleanse their karmic obstacles only by feeding their flesh and blood to her Bright King Dharma Body.

At the Buddha Mother Temple, Gu Jian surrendered his possessions and became the novice monk Ku Ji to escape Chu Jiang. Chu Jiang arrived, killed two monks and severed a third’s arm, then smashed through the temple’s defenses and attacked the Buddha Mother.

• The Buddha Mother cured a lame old woman with Merit Water, causing the believers and hidden Demon Suppressing Guards to take notice.
• Gu Jian arrived seeking shelter from Chu Jiang and gave the monks his valuables in exchange for entering the Buddhist order.
• Xuan Ji inducted Gu Jian as the novice Ku Ji, and Gu Jian believed the Buddha Mother would protect him.
• Chu Jiang arrived on the Xuanming Throne and accused the temple of harboring a fugitive, while Shi Qingxuan and Yang Huo tried to leave.
• Chu Jiang killed Xuan Chen, pierced Xuan Chi’s chest, and severed Xuan Ji’s arm after the monks challenged him.
• Chu Jiang broke through the Buddha Mother’s defenses, seized her, and slammed her into the ground.

Chu Jiang killed the Buddha Mother and uncovered Bright Temple’s role in spreading Black Blood Disease, then cured Shi Qingxuan and gave Wan Lang his blood to treat the infected. He left Huozhou for Yunzhou with Gu Jian.

• Chu Jiang rejected the Buddha Mother’s offer to divide control of the world, invaded her memories, and killed her after she tried to self-destruct.
• Chu Jiang destroyed Xuan Ji’s hall and learned that the Buddha Mother had spread Black Blood Disease while using Merit Water and the Blood Soul Jade Bracelet to drain victims’ life essence and faith.
• Wan Lang told Chu Jiang that Black Blood Disease had infected about two hundred thousand people across three Huozhou commanderies.
• Chu Jiang purified Shi Qingxuan’s infection and told her she could attempt to break through to the Golden Core Realm after half a month of secluded cultivation.
• Chu Jiang gave Wan Lang a bottle of his blood to dilute and administer against the disease, then seized Gu Jian and departed for Yunzhou.

Chu Jiang strengthened and reorganized Yunzhou’s Demon Suppression Division, preparing its forces for a campaign to pacify the realm. With the Regent’s return and news of major defeats in Yunzhou spreading, the wider land began to stir.

• Chu Jiang ordered Wang Chao, Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu to take the three thousand elite guards to the back mountain for enhancement, and gave Left Commander resources to strengthen Yunzhou and the Western Seven Prefectures.
• Chu Jiang declared that Yunzhou would suppress internal unrest within a year and pacify all nations within three, prompting the officials to swear allegiance.
• Chu Jiang expanded the Yunzhou Demon Suppressing Guards to thirty thousand and formed three armies under Zuo Qiuming, Shen Tian, and Sun Chengtian, distributing funding and appointing veteran guards.
• Chu Jiang instructed Chen Shi'an to accompany him to the capital in three days to reform the world.
• The three thousand elite guards went to the back mountain as Yunzhou’s expansion began, while news spread that the Regent had returned and the Earth Fiend Hall, Zhao Family, and Yuwen Family had suffered severe defeats in Yunzhou.

Yang Yuntian and the other rebel lords assessed the threat posed by Chu Jiang and made plans to avoid confronting him. The chapter left Yang Yuntian preparing to enter the Black Dragon Secret Realm while the injured Old Ancestors evaded further demands from the Heavenly Demon Palace, and Prince Yan showed a brief, unsettling change in his eyes.

• Heart Devourer Demon told Yang Yuntian that Chu Jiang was a major threat, and Yang Yuntian agreed to halt his expansion and enter the Black Dragon Secret Realm with most of his forces.
• Marquis Ruyang worried that Chu Jiang would soon suppress the rebellion, and he asked the Liu Family to send a Heaven Merging Realm Old Ancestor to protect him.
• Old Ancestor Hua Ji concealed the severity of his injuries and said he would enter seclusion rather than answer another summons from the Heavenly Demon Palace.
• The Zhao Family and the Black Mountain Old Ancestor also feigned death to avoid being summoned again by the Devil Palace.
• A trace of blood-red light flashed in Prince Yan's eyes in the imperial capital before fading.

Wu Xuanji failed to steal Great Chu’s national fortune and negotiated a possible alliance with the Destiny Observatory in exchange for a Destiny Divine Artifact. Lin Qingyao also instructed Liu Rushuang to siphon the empire’s fortune and drug the emperor, while Chu Jiang examined two Demon God Crystals.

• Wu Xuanji discovered that his Heaven Stealing Compass could not detect Great Chu’s national fortune and decided to test the eerie fortune crystals on the young emperor.
• Lin Qingyao offered Wu Xuanji a share of Great Chu’s fortune and a chance to rule a new dynasty, but he agreed to cooperate only if he received a Destiny Divine Artifact.
• Lin Qingyao told Liu Rushuang to use a bracelet and formation disk to divert Great Chu’s fortune and gave her Yin Yang Powder to control the emperor.
• Liu Rushuang reluctantly agreed to Lin Qingyao’s plan after Lin warned that the emperor might resist and the Destiny Observatory’s elders would disapprove.
• In Yun Province, Chu Jiang took out two Demon God Crystals condensed around the Nether Abyss Demon God Blood and opened his panel.

Chu Jiang completed the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture, unlocked the Pure Land of Gods, refined Bodhi Pure World Thunder, and forged a new demon war god named Old Nine. After strengthening the Demon Suppressing Guards, he set out with his personal guard on an expedition, leaving Yunzhou City aboard the Sky-Piercing Warship.

• Chu Jiang opened enough heavenly elephant particles to advance the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture into its transformed state and unlock the Pure Land of Gods.
• Chu Jiang refined the Bodhi Pure World Thunder, though he failed to break through the Heaven Transforming Realm.
• Chu Jiang forged the Witch King of Demons into a demon war god called Old Nine, who wielded the Heaven Settling Bow.
• Chu Jiang found that all three thousand Demon Suppressing Guards had reached the Golden Core Realm and that many had advanced to higher realms.
• Chu Jiang departed Yunzhou City with Fu Yunxuan, his officers, Old Nine, Old Ten, and three thousand personal guards aboard the Sky-Piercing Warship.

Tongzhou's officials feared Prince Zhennan's advance while his army brutalized civilians in occupied Fengtian County. Shui Yunji and the Demon Suppressing Guards began the Regent's counterattack, ending with over a thousand guards attacking Prince Zhennan's main camp.

• Tongzhou's officials learned that Prince Zhennan had stopped expanding and entered seclusion, while nearby provinces offered little help beyond Cangzhou.
• In Fengtian County, Master Liu beat Steward Li and tried to assault his pregnant daughter-in-law over hidden food.
• Shui Yunji killed Master Liu and his men, then announced that the Regent's forces had come to reclaim Fengtian County and would distribute food.
• Shui Yunji's forces fought to retake Fengtian County as Prince Zhennan's troops continued to suffer heavy losses.
• At the Xuanyou County camp, over a thousand Demon Suppressing Guards attacked Prince Zhennan's eighty thousand troops under the Regent's edict to exterminate the rebels.

Chu Jiang crushed Prince Zhennan’s rebellion and began organizing the aftermath, but the shortage of troops threatened to slow the wider campaign. He proposed the Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact as a possible solution.

• Chu Jiang’s forces shattered Andashan’s formation, defeated the eighty thousand rebel troops, and captured Andashan alive for questioning.
• Chu Jiang searched Andashan’s memories for Yang Yuntian’s whereabouts, then ordered him hung from the warship’s stern; fifty thousand rebels were killed and thirty thousand surrendered.
• Li Yun and Gan Feng learned of the Regent’s victories and sent most of Tongzhou’s remaining troops and Demon Suppressing Guards to assist.
• Chu Jiang ordered the surrendered rebels assigned to death row camps, while Fu Yunxuan warned that too few troops remained to handle the rebellion and its aftermath.
• Chu Jiang asked the officials whether they had heard of the Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact.

Chu Jiang ordered the renewal of the Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact and mobilized Imperial forces to suppress rebellions, forcing the martial powers to choose whether to support Great Chu. As Imperial armies marched, several great clans rejected his edict and gathered to resist, while the Demon King’s imminent arrival made neutrality impossible.

• Gan Feng and Prefect Li explained that the Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact had become ineffective, and Zhao Hu criticized the martial forces for failing to aid Great Chu.
• Chu Jiang announced that he would renew the pact and ordered the great clans and sects to provide experts for Imperial deployments.
• Chu Jiang mobilized the Kirin Army to join the southern campaign and ordered Azure Dragon Army and Demon Suppressing Guard forces to suppress rebellions in the Eastern Ten Prefectures.
• Qin Lie led one hundred thousand Kirin Army soldiers south, while Liu Yuan and Lu Qian led their forces out of Qingzhou.
• The Liu Family and several other great clans refused Chu Jiang’s order, and representatives gathered at the Yuwen Family to discuss resisting him.
• The Yuwen Family head declared that Chu Jiang’s edict forced the great powers to choose between Great Chu and the approaching Demon King.

Sima Lu and Old Ancestor Sima decided that the Sima Family must side with Great Chu and seek allies, while Ximen Feixue refused Yuwen Hu’s offer to join the demons. Sima Yi reached the Ximen Family’s Sword God Tomb and found someone had arrived before him.

• Sima Lu told Old Ancestor Sima that the family had to support Great Chu and fight the demons, and Old Ancestor Sima agreed there was no other viable path.
• Old Ancestor Sima left the Sima ancestral grounds to seek the Ximen Family’s support, while Sima Lu hoped his mission would succeed.
• Yuwen Hu tried to persuade Ximen Feixue to side with the demons, but Ximen Feixue refused and declared that a sword cultivator must never bend.
• Yuwen Hu left with members of other great clans to approach the Sima Family, while Ximen Feixue detected Old Ancestor Sima’s arrival.
• Sima Yi introduced himself to Ximen Feixue and followed him into the Sword God Tomb, where he noticed someone had arrived before him.

The Ximen, Lei, and Sima families formed an alliance against the Great Chu Dynasty, while four Orthodox Sects debated whether to obey Chu Jiang’s order. In Lingzhou, the rebel army under Marquis Ruyang was driven back, and the Liu Family ancestor was killed before he could join the fight.

• Lei Wujiu joined the Ximen and Sima families, and they formed an alliance while discussing which sects might support them.
• Overlord City abstained from the vote at the Four-Party Summit, leaving the other three sects to agree to send troops rather than openly defy Chu Jiang.
• Liu Yuan led the Azure Dragon Army and troops from other provinces against Marquis Ruyang’s rebel army in Lingzhou.
• Wang Chao, Ma Han, and Fu Yunxuan struck down rebel soldiers as Marquis Ruyang’s forces were pushed back.
• Liu Sanjiang arrived to aid Marquis Ruyang, but an Iron Blood Battle Spear pierced and killed him before he could act.

Chu Jiang crushed Marquis Ruyang’s rebellion and turned his attention to King Zhongshan, the last major rebel lord in the Eastern Ten Prefectures. As armies gathered at Yongzhou, major orthodox and demonic factions arrived to honor Chu Jiang’s Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact, leaving the realm poised for a decisive confrontation.

• Chu Jiang killed the Liu clan ancestor with the Sky Splitting Spear, and Liu Yuan’s forces routed Marquis Ruyang’s army.
• The Demon Suppressing Guard crippled Marquis Ruyang and Zhao Hu whipped him, while his strategists and generals were executed, imprisoned, or sent to the death row camp.
• Nine days after Chu Jiang ordered the rebellion suppressed, the rebel lords across the Eastern Ten Prefectures had been subdued, leaving only King Zhongshan of Yongzhou.
• Chu Jiang deployed hundreds of thousands of troops around Yongzhou and Yuzhou, preparing to settle the rebellion in one battle.
• Major sects and clans gathered under the Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact, including Medicine King Valley, the Xuanqing Sect, Vajra Zen Monastery, Illusionary Sound Pavilion, and Overlord City.

Chu Jiang gathered representatives of the Orthodox Sects, Demonic Sects, and Great Clans to ask for their support in restoring peace to Great Chu. Several major factions pledged their aid, and the chapter ended with Chu Jiang asking the Illusionary Sound Pavilion to declare its position.

• The Ximen, Sima, and Lei Families arrived alongside four Demonic Sects and seven Orthodox Sects, forming an unprecedented gathering watched by King Zhongshan’s spies.
• Netherworld Cult, Black Fiend Sect, and Bright Temple representatives discussed the factions’ allegiances and compared Chu Jiang’s Gu King Cauldron with Bright Temple’s Demon Subduing Pestle.
• Chu Jiang appeared before the assembled factions with Fu Yunxuan and his personal troops, whose cultivation and resources drew the crowd’s attention.
• Chu Jiang called on the factions to help suppress demons, end internal unrest, defend the borders, and restore Great Chu’s peace.
• Medicine King Valley, Xuanqing Sect, Vajra Zen Monastery, Overlord City, and the Ximen, Sima, and Lei Families pledged to support Chu Jiang.
• Chu Jiang asked the Illusionary Sound Pavilion to state its position.

The Empress revealed her blood tie to the Chu Emperor as Chu Jiang sought support from the martial factions, but Imperial Advisor Wu Xuanji arrived with an edict stripping Chu Jiang of military authority. Chu Jiang rejected the decree by punching Wu Xuanji, and the Imperial Advisor’s eight Heaven Merging Realm Corpse Puppets surrounded him.

• The Empress of Phantom Sound Workshop revealed that she was the Chu Emperor’s sister, and the Corpse Yin Sect pledged to assist Chu Jiang while other sects delayed their decisions.
• Chu Jiang gave the undecided factions three days to answer, warning that he would visit them if they refused to help.
• Wu Xuanji arrived with eight Heaven Merging Realm Corpse Puppets, and the Empress identified him as the master of Xuan Tian Pavilion and Great Chu’s Imperial Advisor.
• Wu Xuanji read an imperial edict revoking Chu Jiang’s authority to deploy troops and placing the provinces’ military forces and the Heavenly Martial Alliance Pact under Xuan Tian Pavilion.
• Chu Jiang struck Wu Xuanji with a punch that broke several ribs, and the eight Corpse Puppets formed the Heavenly Corpse Demon Formation around him.

Chu Jiang fought Wu Xuanji after defeating eight Heaven Merging corpse puppets, but Wu Xuanji revealed power and a physique that let him withstand Chu Jiang’s attacks. The Empress suspected Wu Xuanji had ties to the Destiny Observatory.

• Chu Jiang destroyed the eight corpse puppets and rejected Wu Xuanji’s claim of authority as Imperial Advisor.
• Wu Xuanji unleashed the Martial Emperor True Body and attacked Chu Jiang with the Hegemon Emperor Fist.
• Chu Jiang struck Wu Xuanji with the Heaven Collapse Fist and injured him despite his enhanced strength.
• Wu Xuanji healed his wounds and continued fighting, prompting the Empress to identify his recovery as the Immortal True Phoenix Body.
• The Empress said Wu Xuanji was connected to the Destiny Observatory, shocking the major factions.