Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye returned to his human kingdom and launched a swift campaign to cleanse Western Aparagodanīya of demons. After three days of devastation, he went to Pillar of Heaven Mountain to meet the Immortal Demon God, revealing himself as the force behind the calamity.

• Shen Ye returned with Shaozai and Xifeng, fulfilled his promise to lead the people to the pinnacle of the world, and inspected their cultivation.
• Shen Ye decided to conquer Western Aparagodanīya quickly and summoned one hundred million peak World Lord Machine Race warriors from his Inner World.
• Shen Ye’s armies divided into forces and swept across Western Aparagodanīya, destroying demon forces and driving survivors toward Pillar of Heaven Mountain.
• Demons begged the Immortal Demon God for help, but his attendants said their king would let them hide without intervening.
• Shen Ye arrived at Pillar of Heaven Mountain and admitted to killing demon gods and causing the devastation; the demons fled as artillery barrels aimed at them.

Shen Ye learned that the Immortal Demon God was Guanyin and received her Fish Basket to subdue King Linggan. He used it to capture Linggan after arriving at his palace, leaving the demon kings terrified.

• Shen Ye told the Immortal Demon God about the Human Sovereign and asked for a way to restrain King Linggan.
• The Immortal Demon God gave Shen Ye a Fish Basket and learned that the Successor of Yuanshi had emerged.
• King Linggan agreed to help a group of demon kings after they praised him and offered him captives.
• Shen Ye split Linggan’s lake and Crystal Palace with his sword, frightening the demon kings who recognized him as the Blood Calamity Black Hand.
• Shen Ye used the Fish Basket to collect King Linggan despite Linggan’s protests.

Shen Ye traveled to the East Sea after slaughtering demons and confronted the East Sea Dragon King about the dragon clan’s ties to demons. He secured the dragon clan’s agreement to a contract with humanity and ordered an investigation into demons that had never harmed humans.

• Shen Ye left the bloodied lake and crossed Southern Jambudvipa to reach the East Sea.
• Shen Ye announced himself as Human King to the Sea Patrol Yakshas, and the East Sea Dragon King hurried out to welcome him.
• Shen Ye admitted he had unleashed the slaughter in Western Aparagodanīya and displayed King Linggan’s undamaged Nine-Petal Red Copper Hammers.
• Shen Ye asked whether the dragon clan belonged to the demon clan, and the Dragon King denied it before offering to purge demons near the East Sea.
• Shen Ye demanded a contract between the dragon clan and humanity, and the Dragon King agreed after seeing the Human Sovereign Sword.
• Shen Ye instructed the Dragon King to identify demons across the Four Great Continents that had never harmed humanity, and the Dragon King promised to investigate.

The Third Princess exposed the Dragon King’s imprisonment of Xu Xuan, and Shen Ye secured Xu Xuan’s release and the return of the Ginseng Fruit Tree before recruiting him to the Immortal Dynasty. After subduing the Enlightened Monkey King and building the Han Court into a nation of over fifty million, Shen Ye faced a coalition of demons preparing to invade Western Aparagodanīya.

• The Third Princess asked Shen Ye to save Xu Xuan, prompting the Dragon King to claim that he had imprisoned Xu Xuan only to test his affection for her and to return the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Ao Zhen brought Xu Xuan and the Ginseng Fruit Tree to Shen Ye, and Xu Xuan explained that he came from Wusheng Heaven, founded by Wusheng Laomu.
• Shen Ye invited Xu Xuan to serve as an official in the Immortal Dynasty, and Xu Xuan accepted.
• Shen Ye fought the Enlightened Monkey King in Eastern Purvavideha and subdued him with the Demon-Summoning Banner.
• Two weeks later, the Han Court had grown to over fifty million people, and demon forces across the Three Continents began organizing against humanity.
• The Ocean-Overturning King led a demon army into Western Aparagodanīya, hesitated after sensing the bloody sea breeze, then ordered his troops to continue forward.

Ocean-Overturning King's demon army faced a succession of attacks as it traveled west, and fear and desertion steadily weakened its ranks. Shen Ye broadcast the demons’ struggles to humanity, hoping to restore the confidence of the people they had oppressed.

• Enlightened Monkey King struck Ocean-Overturning King's army, warned the demons that further trials awaited, and left after Ocean-Overturning King rallied them to continue.
• Ghost God Linggan unleashed a tidal wave against the army before withdrawing, and Ocean-Overturning King avoided pursuing him to prevent the alliance from fracturing.
• Wild Dog Ancestor God swallowed one hundred thousand demons, then vanished, as Ocean-Overturning King's army continued to suffer attacks along the route.
• Lesser demons fled in growing numbers, and by the time the army reached the heartland of Western Aparagodanīya, only half remained.
• Shen Ye broadcast the demons' defeats to humanity, and he saw the crowd in the Han Court Capital begin to show signs of life again.

Shen Ye crushed the demon army’s advance and killed Ocean-Overturning King, turning the battle into a rout. As humans and dragon kings watched the victory at the Human King's Palace, the dragon race’s doubts about its pact with humanity disappeared.

• Ocean-Overturning King’s demons continued toward the humans despite mass desertions, until Shen Ye appeared as a giant and stomped through their ranks.
• Ocean-Overturning King attacked Shen Ye’s ankle, but his strike barely wounded him, and Shen Ye continued devastating the army until it broke and fled.
• Shen Ye returned to his normal size and used the Demon-Summoning Banner to weaken Ocean-Overturning King as he tried to escape.
• Ocean-Overturning King begged to submit, but Shen Ye learned he had eaten humans and killed him with the Human Sovereign Sword.
• Xu Xuan praised Shen Ye’s livestream, while Ao Zhen and the other sea dragon kings watched the demon defeat and embraced the pact with the humans.

After gaining preliminary Legendary characteristics, Shen Ye heard reports of major developments and received an invitation from Golden Ao Island. He accepted it and revealed that the island’s Celestial Immortals were fabricated through a terrifying method.

• Shen Ye formed a Human Dao Projection that could let him revive as long as humanity in the Journey to the West World endured.
• Shao Yu reported that Lu Da and Su Wuming were regarded as the strongest sword immortals, Guldo might have returned, and Su Meng was suspected of attaining the Dharma Body.
• A Celestial Immortal envoy from Golden Ao Island invited Shen Ye to a winter-solstice banquet at the end of the Eastern Sea.
• Shen Ye stabilized the envoy’s fragile world-bearing leaf and wrote “Accepted” on it, frightening her into fleeing.
• Shen Ye explained that the envoy was formed from one of Yuan Hong’s white hairs, and told Shao Yu that Golden Ao Island’s method of creating Celestial Immortals was even more terrifying than he imagined.

At a gathering celebrating Meng Qi’s attainment of the Dharma Body, he learned that Luo Shengyi’s Death Mission had been diverted from the Journey to the West World and went there himself to investigate. He found a human settlement and a statue honoring Shen Ye, whose campaign had driven the demon race into hiding, while Shen Ye wondered why Meng Qi had arrived early.

• Meng Qi told his companions that he had escaped reincarnation through a special combination of karmic arts, external aid, and opportunity, and gave Luo Shengyi a token to summon his remote descent.
• Luo Shengyi reported that the Six Paths had canceled his mission to the Journey to the West World and reassigned him, prompting Meng Qi to suspect that something had changed there.
• Meng Qi descended into Western Aparagodanīya and found blood-soaked land, a human settlement, and a statue of Shen Ye.
• Meng Qi learned from the statue’s inscription that Shen Ye had slaughtered the demon kings and gods, driving the demons into secret realms.
• Shen Ye noticed Meng Qi’s arrival and wondered whether Lu Ya had moved the Journey to the West events forward to test what he knew.

Shen Ye and the other powerful figures were summoned to Golden Ao Island, where he suspected the island’s appearance in the True Spirit Realm could offer a chance to grow stronger before the great calamity. A new group of Dharmakayas assembled aboard the tower ship, and the envoy’s fear of Shen Ye made clear that Golden Ao Island’s forces had reason to dread him.

• Shen Ye boarded the tower ship with Shao Yu and discussed with Chonghe how Golden Ao Island might have been separated from the True Spirit Realm.
• Han Guang realized he had returned to the True Spirit Realm and told Huo Lishang he had come to the Seven Seas from another world.
• Guldo boarded the ship, explained that Shen Ye had destroyed his body and Han Guang’s true body, and declared he would seek revenge with the Heaven Punisher Axe.
• The Seven Seas Dharmakayas reacted to Guldo’s earth immortal strength and celestial-level Peerless Divine Weapon.
• The celestial envoy warned Guldo to behave on Golden Ao Island, and her fearful reaction suggested Shen Ye had already defeated a celestial from the island.

Central Plains and overseas Dharmakaya masters arrived at Golden Ao Island, where Su Daji demanded they submit and take pills that would bind them to the island. After Shen Ye challenged her over the death of Zhu Wu, Su Daji mentioned the Azure Emperor and a mysterious azure-robed man appeared, claiming to be him.

• Han Guang, Guldo, and the Central Plains masters met on Golden Ao Island and discovered that several Central Plains masters had advanced to Earth Immortal.
• The two groups crossed Golden Ao Island and entered Biyou Palace, where Su Daji welcomed them.
• Su Daji warned that a great calamity was coming and offered the guests protection if they submitted to Golden Ao Island and took Nine Revolutions Separation Profound Pills.
• Su Daji asked Shen Ye to take the first pill, then revealed that Zhu Wu had been the Azure Emperor of Golden Ao Island and demanded that Shen Ye fill his vacant position.
• Su Daji said the real Azure Emperor could not return yet, but an azure-robed man entered the hall and left her stunned by asking whether he was the Azure Emperor.

Shen Ye raced through the collapsing Biyou Palace to claim the Green Duckweed Sword while the Azure Emperor confronted Yuan Hong and Han Guang. The sword was retrieved, but freeing it unleashed a mass of savage black blood that the Demonic Blood Peach began absorbing.

• Han Guang met Yuan Hong in Biyou Palace, but the Azure Emperor's sudden arrival alarmed them both.
• The Azure Emperor's clash shook Golden Ao Island, and Shen Ye struck down and soul-searched Su Daji to learn where the Green Duckweed Sword was hidden.
• Shen Ye, Chonghe, and Meng Qi hurried through the palace, and Shen Ye told Meng Qi that he intended to obtain the sword for his divine weapon mission and give it to Chonghe.
• As Golden Ao Island broke apart, Shen Ye used his Human Dao Projection to pull the Green Duckweed Sword from a mass of black blood and throw it to them.
• The released black blood overwhelmed Shen Ye's projection, but the three wielded Peerless Divine Weapons to hold it back until Meng Qi's Demonic Blood Peach emerged and began absorbing its aura.

Shen Ye was hurled into the distant past when Yuan Hong, the Azure Emperor, and the Eastern Emperor Bell fragment unleashed a collision of forces. He realized he had arrived in antiquity, joined the Human Sovereign's army, and wondered which Beyond-the-Worldly one had arranged his journey.

• Little Peach restrained the great fiend beneath the Green Duckweed Sword, but Yuan Hong rang a fragment of the Eastern Emperor Bell and drew the fiend's flesh and blood toward himself.
• The Azure Emperor regained a trace of himself, and the collision of the bell, the flesh and blood, and his power hurled Shen Ye and the others into the River of Time.
• Shen Ye awoke in a vast wilderness, discovered a Demon King attacking a city, and killed the Demon King and its army.
• Qin Ye told Shen Ye that the Human Sovereign was leading humanity against the demon race, and Shen Ye agreed to join the Human Sovereign's army.
• After entering the city, Shen Ye considered the possible schemes behind his journey and suspected he might be the only one sent to antiquity.

Shen Ye learned about humanity’s precarious position after Spirit Mountain’s fall and joined Bai Yue on a journey toward the Human Sovereign. They passed a city destroyed in the demon attack, while Shen Ye wondered about the Human Sovereign’s injuries and asked about the Demon Lord.

• Qin Ye told Shen Ye that the demon race had nineteen Legends while humanity had only the Human Sovereign and the Demon Lord, who had once been defeated by the Human Sovereign.
• Bai Yue arrived with materials to reinforce Luo City’s formation and invited Shen Ye to travel with him toward the imperial court.
• Bai Yue explained that the demons had attacked while fifteen Great Saints restrained the Human Sovereign, causing 737 cities to fall before the Human Sovereign killed four Great Saints and drove the demons back.
• Shen Ye and Bai Yue flew over a ruined city, and Shen Ye vowed that the demon race deserved to die.
• Shen Ye asked about the Human Sovereign’s injuries and the Demon Lord, and Bai Yue said the Human Sovereign would recover while the Demon Lord was too afraid to threaten them.

Shen Ye and Bai Yue were ambushed by three demon gods, but Shen Ye killed two with a fiery trick and overpowered the White Tiger Demon God. The White Tiger revealed that demon gods were also lying in wait for the other human Celestial Immortals.

• Bai Yue gathered the fallen humans’ corpses, then three demon gods appeared and threatened him and Shen Ye.
• Bai Yue pretended Shen Ye was carrying something for the Human Sovereign, allowing Shen Ye to flee while the Peacock Demon God pursued him.
• Shen Ye used Immortal Fire to kill the Peacock Demon God and then the Giant Python Demon God.
• Shen Ye attacked the White Tiger Demon God and smashed apart its Ancestor True Body, stunning Bai Yue.
• The White Tiger Demon God revealed that demon gods were ambushing human Celestial Immortals in other directions.

Bai Yue returned to the human capital and reported that Shen Ye had destroyed three Demon Gods, prompting the leaders to consider him a possible Demon Race spy. The chapter left them preparing to meet Shen Ye while remaining wary of his intentions.

• Bai Yue asked Tian Yi to show Shen Ye around Human Sovereign City before he went to the palace.
• Four Heavenly Immortals and a young Earth Immortal discussed the Demon Race’s attacks and decided they could not disturb the recovering Human Sovereign.
• Bai Yue returned and learned that Old Luo and Yue Shuang had fallen to a Demon Race ambush.
• Bai Yue told the others that Shen Ye had killed three Demon Gods, using Immortal Fire against two and his own strength against the last.
• The young Earth Immortal suspected Shen Ye might be a Demon Race spy, and the leaders decided to meet him cautiously.

Shen Ye taught cultivation techniques suited to the Human Race, earning their gratitude and convincing the Heavenly Immortals he was no Demon Race spy. Facing the threat of a Demon Race Great Saint, His Highness Cheng prepared to break through to the Heavenly Immortal realm and use a formation that could raise its core to legendary strength, while the chapter ended with Bai Yue introducing Shen Ye to the Human Race’s leaders.

• Tianyi told Bai Yue and the five Heavenly Immortals that Shen Ye was teaching the Human Race techniques he had created for his former tribe.
• The Heavenly Immortals confirmed that Shen Ye’s techniques suited the Human Race and agreed he could not be a Demon Race spy.
• The young Earth Immortal revealed a formation that could raise its core to legendary strength and decided to break through to the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• The Heavenly Immortals proposed that Shen Ye fill the formation’s final position because his strength was comparable to a Heavenly Immortal.
• After Shen Ye’s three-day lecture, the Human Race respectfully called him Teacher, and Bai Yue introduced him to Tyrant Blade Heavenly Immortal, Tianshu, Qinfeng, Hongye, and His Highness Cheng.

Shen Ye agreed to join a formation intended to protect the healing Human Sovereign, while learning that its diagram might have come from Ghost Emperor Cheng Tang. In a demon grotto-heaven, Yuan Hong learned the Human Sovereign was gravely wounded and considered attacking him despite his fear.

• Hongye, Cheng, and Bai Yue apologized to Shen Ye for doubting him and asked him to join a six-Celestial Immortal formation to protect the Human Sovereign.
• Cheng explained that the Hexagram Formation would draw power from the land, the people, and the True Spirit Realm to help its leader fight a legend.
• Bai Yue and the others speculated that Ghost Emperor Cheng Tang had left the array diagram, and Shen Ye wondered whether the Human Sovereign had disciples.
• The demon Great Saints urged Yuan Hong to kill the Human Sovereign, revealing that their forces had gravely wounded him at the cost of four Great Saints.
• Yuan Hong suspected that he had returned to the past to stop the Human Sovereign from attaining the Dao, and weighed the danger against the benefits of defeating him.

The Peerless Demon Lord attacked Human Sovereign City while the Human Sovereign was injured, and Cheng used a grand formation to drain humanity’s resentment and sacrifice the weak for power. Shen Ye disrupted the formation, leaving Cheng furious as the attack unfolded.

• The Peerless Demon Lord arrived at Human Sovereign City seeking revenge while the Human Sovereign remained injured.
• Bai Yue, Hongye, Tianshu, and the others prepared to activate the grand formation against the Demon Lord.
• The formation drew on the people’s resentment instead of the Power of All Beings, and Cheng admitted he had knowingly set it up to reach the Legendary Realm by sacrificing half the population.
• Cheng rejected the others’ objections, arguing that the weak should contribute to humanity’s survival, while the Demon Lord praised his willingness to sacrifice them.
• Shen Ye dimmed the western blood pillar and disrupted the formation, prompting Cheng to accuse him of endangering humanity.

Shen Ye wielded the fully awakened Human Sovereign Sword against the Demon Lord, whose Demon Emperor’s Claw awakened and took control of him. As the weapons clashed before the assembled demon race Great Saints, Yuan Hong realized the Human Sovereign had reached the Other Shore.

• Shen Ye drew the Human Sovereign Sword and challenged the Demon Lord, startling the five Celestial Immortals and Cheng.
• The Demon Lord summoned the Demon Emperor’s Claw, but Shen Ye’s sword split the Nine Nether Blood Sea and sent him flying into the chaos.
• The Demon Emperor’s Claw overwhelmed the injured Demon Lord and dragged him back toward the battlefield as demon race Great Saints arrived at Human Sovereign City.
• The Human Sovereign Sword and Demon Emperor’s Claw clashed again, with the latter draining the Demon Lord while the demon race legends watched in alarm.
• Yuan Hong recognized that the Human Sovereign Sword had fully awakened and understood that the Human Sovereign had reached the Other Shore.

The Human Sovereign revealed his Other Shore power, rewrote history to restore the dead, and erased the Demon Lord. After dismissing Cheng and accepting Shen Ye as his disciple, he bestowed on him the title Qi, leaving Shen Ye to realize he might become Saint Emperor Qi.

• Yuan Hong tried to flee, but the Human Sovereign sealed the space and appeared before the demons.
• The Human Sovereign restored those killed by the formation by rewriting history, then erased the Demon Lord with a distant sword strike.
• Cheng defended his choice to sacrifice his clansmen, but the Human Sovereign let him leave, and Cheng vowed to return.
• Shen Ye rebuked Cheng for deceiving the human race and sacrificing others, then accepted the Human Sovereign's offer to become his disciple.
• The Human Sovereign bestowed the title Qi on Shen Ye, who realized he might become the future Saint Emperor Qi and that Cheng might become Great Emperor Hentian.