Chapter Summaries

The Outer Realm Evil Race launched a desperate full-scale assault on the Northern Barren Hills while the Great Thousand World’s strongest experts erased the Heavenly Evil God’s life imprints. The Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor resurfaced and corrupted Qin Tian, then revealed a second threat as the Western Heaven War Emperor turned on his allies.

• The Outer Realm Evil Race committed its forces to the Northern Barren Hills, leaving other fronts under attack as the Great Thousand World’s defenders struggled against the demonic tide.
• Yan Qingchen and the Futuo Ancient Clan fought among the defenders while Lord of Immortality urged them to hold on until the array’s work was complete.
• The Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor appeared, and Qin Tian recognized him and asked Lord of Immortality and the Azure Robe Sword Saint to suppress the black energy affecting him.
• The Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor pointed out that Qin Tian was not the only one who had encountered him, and the Western Heaven War Emperor began attacking his allies in a frenzied state.

Western Heaven War Emperor and other infiltrators destroyed the spirit array’s defenses, allowing the Heavenly Evil God to break free. Lin Dong and Qin Tian fought to contain him, but Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor sacrificed the Evil Race army to restore the god, who emerged in a white robe with five eyes.

• Western Heaven War Emperor, Ghost Emperor, Venerate Zilei, and other experts exploded, tearing a hole in the spirit net and funneling demonic power and blood essence underground.
• The Heavenly Evil God broke through the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array as Martial Ancestor Lin Dong and Demon Slaying King Qin Tian ordered the array to suppress him.
• Lin Dong shattered the Heavenly Evil God’s first demonic shadow, then battled his renewed attack with the array’s power.
• Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor and the Evil Race forces sacrificed their army, including Devil Emperors, to help the Heavenly Evil God recover.
• The Heavenly Evil God absorbed the blood sacrifice and emerged as a white-clad young man with five eyes.

Lin Dong invoked the Firmament Ranking during his battle with Heavenly Evil God, allowing Yan Qingshan to inscribe his name and emerge with power beyond the Saint-grade level. Yan Qingshan overwhelmed Heavenly Evil God, who began devouring the Outer Realm Evil Race to restore his strength.

• Lin Dong blocked Heavenly Evil God's attacks and summoned the Firmament Ranking, which purified the devilish energy around the Northern Barren Hills.
• The Firmament Ranking revealed the names Ye and Yan Qing as Yan Qingshan arrived and successfully ascended the ranking.
• Yan Qingshan challenged Heavenly Evil God, then used the Profound Thunder Golden Dragon to crush and injure his World-Devouring Evil Beast.
• Realizing he could not win in his weakened state, Heavenly Evil God devoured the blood essence and energy of the Outer Realm Evil Race to recover his strength.

Heavenly Evil God sacrificed lower-ranked Outer Realm Evil Race experts to restore his strength and fought Yan Qingshan, but Yan Qingshan overwhelmed him. Heavenly Evil God opened his sixth eye, split the realms with Boundary Demonic Light, and withdrew, promising to kill Yan Qingshan within ten years.

• Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor ordered all experts below the Heavenly Devil Emperor rank to be sacrificed, and Heavenly Evil God absorbed them to recover.
• Heavenly Evil God opened five eyes and attacked Yan Qingshan with Evil Waterfall, but Yan Qingshan’s spiritual energy ocean destroyed it.
• Heavenly Evil God formed a Demonic Spear and then unleashed the Five-Eyed God-Slaying Scroll, but Yan Qingshan defeated both attacks and destroyed the scroll’s five eyes.
• Yan Qingshan explained that inscribing two characters of his true name on the Firmament Ranking gave him power beyond Heavenly Evil God’s five-eyed state.
• Heavenly Evil God opened a sixth eye and used Boundary Demonic Light to divide the Great Thousand World from the outer realm before withdrawing with Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor and the others.

After the Heavenly Evil God escaped, Yan Qingshan pursued him while Lin Dong led the Great Thousand World in a campaign to exterminate the Outer Realm Evil Race. With the Demon Domain nearly purged, Yan Qingshan tracked the Heavenly Evil God to a Lower Plane and attacked him.

• Yan Qingshan broke the Boundary Demonic Light, pursued the fleeing Heavenly Evil God, and ordered Lin Dong to lead the allied forces against the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Lin Dong ascended beyond the Saint grade and rallied the Great Thousand World to eradicate the evil races.
• The Great Thousand Alliance launched a campaign that slaughtered the Outer Realm Evil Race and began purifying the Demon Domain.
• Half a year later, Lin Dong's forces had nearly cleared the Demon Domain and began hunting the evil race leaders who had fled to Lower Planes.
• Yan Qingshan found the Heavenly Evil God in a Lower Plane and attacked him, but the Heavenly Evil God struck back before Yan Qingshan's Thunderfire Clone overwhelmed him.

Yan Qingshan confronted the six-eyed Heavenly Evil God in the void while Lin Dong’s forces fought to wipe out the Outer Realm Evil Race in a threatened Lower Plane. The two battles erupted at once, and Qin Tian killed Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor as the conflict continued.

• Yan Qingshan confronted Heavenly Evil God and declared his intent to kill him and end the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Heavenly Evil God sensed Lin Dong attacking his clansmen and revealed his sixth eye, while Yan Qingshan and his two clones prepared to fight him.
• Heavenly Evil God unleashed Demonic Sun World Annihilation, and Yan Qingshan’s sword, lightning, and flame attacks met it in a clash that shook the void.
• Lin Dong stabilized the Lower Plane as his allied forces overwhelmed the Outer Realm Evil Race and shattered the inheritances of its thirty-two great clans.
• Qin Tian defeated Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor, who exploded in a final burst of demonic energy and threatened the Great Thousand World.
• Qin Tian suppressed Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor’s demonic energy and vowed that the Outer Realm Evil Race would be exterminated first.

Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor’s blood sacrifice brought Heavenly Evil God to the Demon Domain, where the surviving Outer Realm Evil Race gave their lives to restore his Nine-Eyed Evil God body. As the Firmament Ranking began to appear, Heavenly Evil God emerged stronger and threatened the Great Thousand World, while Yan Qingshan learned that Yan Qingchen was undergoing a major cultivation transformation.

• Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor’s ritual sent a blood-red pillar toward the Demon Domain, and Lin Dong destroyed the Lower Plane but failed to stop it.
• Lin Dong warned the Demon Domain’s defenders to retreat as the blood pillar arrived and transformed hidden Outer Realm Evil Race members into a vast blood sacrifice.
• Lin Dong and Qin Tian tried to destroy the Blood Sacrifice Demon Wheel, but Heavenly Evil God arrived, seized it, and absorbed its power.
• Yan Qingshan appeared beside Lin Dong, dismissed his apology, and heard that Yan Qingchen was advancing rapidly in seclusion.
• The Firmament Ranking began to form, but Heavenly Evil God emerged with all nine eyes open and declared that he would destroy the Great Thousand World.

Yan Qingshan fought the Heavenly Evil God while Lin Dong stayed back to protect Yan Qingchen as he wrote on the Firmament Ranking. As the Heavenly Evil God opened his ninth eye and gained the upper hand, Yan Qingshan trapped him with the Dragon Phoenix Heavenly Sound and prepared a killing strike, but the Heavenly Evil God unleashed the Nine Eyes, World Annihilation Curse.

• Yan Qingshan refused Lin Dong's offer to join the fight and told him to protect Yan Qingchen as he wrote on the Firmament Ranking.
• Yan Qingshan and his avatars clashed with the Heavenly Evil God, whose strength surged when he opened his ninth evil eye.
• The Heavenly Evil God shattered Yan Qingshan's Spirit Array and sent him flying, then threatened his family and demanded his submission.
• Yan Qingshan transformed his flame and lightning avatars into a Fenghuang and a Nine-Headed Thunder Dragon and used the Dragon Phoenix Heavenly Sound to immobilize the Heavenly Evil God.
• Yan Qingshan prepared a killing strike, but the Heavenly Evil God invoked the Nine Eyes, World Annihilation Curse and formed a destructive demonic word.

Yan Qingshan severely wounded the Heavenly Evil God by combining the Dragon Phoenix Heavenly Sound with the Three-foot Green Edge, but the demon sacrificed his nine eyes to create a temporary, more powerful Tenth Eye. As darkness spread, Yan Qingshan hinted that he had gained divine power from the Heavenly Evil God’s Divine Bone Origin.

• The Heavenly Evil God’s nine curses failed to stop Yan Qingshan’s combined attack, which pierced the evil eye in his chest and left him gravely injured.
• The Heavenly Evil God realized he would need at least a hundred years to recover and feared Yan Qingshan, Lin Dong, and a future Ruler-level expert could defeat him.
• The Heavenly Evil God sacrificed his nine eyes in the Demonic Sacrifice, Nine Eyes ritual and formed the Tenth Eye, temporarily surpassing his peak power.
• The Tenth Eye unleashed darkness that devoured spiritual light as the Heavenly Evil God challenged Yan Qingshan to submit.
• Yan Qingshan admitted he could not currently match the ten-eyed Heavenly Evil God, then revealed he had studied deities and obtained crucial power from him.
• The Heavenly Evil God recognized that Yan Qingshan had taken part of his Divine Bone Origin nearly a hundred years earlier and doubted it could transform him into a god so quickly.

Yan Qingshan revealed that he planned to use the Heavenly Evil God’s threat to defy the Great Thousand World’s laws and transcend the Firmament Ranking. With Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen suppressing the Ranking’s backlash, he began to face a devastating heavenly tribulation, leaving the Heavenly Evil God to decide whether to interfere.

• Yan Qingshan explained how Divine Bones and the Firmament Ranking offered different paths to godhood, then revealed that he intended to force his way beyond the world’s laws.
• The Heavenly Evil God realized Yan Qingshan had released him so the threat of his ten-eyed form would make the Great Thousand World tolerate Yan Qingshan’s attempt at transcendence.
• Yan Qingshan challenged the Heavenly Evil God to act, but the Heavenly Evil God refused, recognizing that interfering could draw him into the tribulation.
• Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen helped suppress the Firmament Ranking’s backlash, while the Great Thousand World’s will urged them to stop Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan declared that he would use one Dao to suppress the myriad Dao and charged into the lightning-filled tribulation, forcing the Heavenly Evil God to weigh the danger of intervening.

Yan Qingshan endured a world-shaking Path-Creating Tribulation, shattering the imprints and calamities sent to stop his transformation. He continued climbing toward the thinning tribulation clouds as Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen held the Heavenly Evil God at bay, while the heavens’ final response remained unknown.

• The heavens summoned ancient experts, divine beasts, and countless tribulations to attack Yan Qingshan, but their assaults strengthened his spiritual body instead of harming him.
• The Heavenly Evil God considered interfering but held back because Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen could delay him long enough for Yan Qingshan to return and trap him in the tribulation.
• Yan Qingshan erupted through the tribulation light and shattered the imprints and clouds as he ascended toward the highest heavens.
• Peak Saint Grade experts discussed how Yan Qingshan had effortlessly suppressed their life imprints, while others wondered whether the shrinking tribulation clouds meant the ordeal was ending.
• Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen maintained their standoff with the Heavenly Evil God as they waited for Yan Qingshan to complete his tribulation.

Yan Qingshan endured the lightning tribulation and defeated ancient experts’ Dharma Body imprints as the Great Thousand World watched. After transforming through the trials, he faced nine exceptionally powerful Dharma Bodies, one bearing an aura like the Fennel Art.

• A divine sea of lightning engulfed Yan Qingshan, but he absorbed its power and used it to temper his body and primordial spirit.
• The tribulation summoned ancient life imprints and a meteor shower, which Yan Qingshan dispersed with a single punch.
• The Maha Yin-Yang Bottle and legendary Dharma Bodies, including those of Luoshen, the Ancient Heavenly Emperor, and the Ancient War Emperor, appeared and attacked Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan swiftly suppressed the manifested Dharma Bodies, using the imprints to undergo another transformation.
• The tribulation changed again, revealing nine powerful Dharma Bodies that made Yan Qingshan solemn; one carried an aura resembling the Fennel Art.

Yan Qingshan fought the nine ancient masters whose Original Dharma Bodies had been empowered by the heavenly tribulation, suffering grave injuries as he adapted to their attacks. He began breaking apart the Dharma Bodies and erasing their imprints, gaining the upper hand in his struggle against the myriad Daos.

• Nine ancient figures appeared before Yan Qingshan, and the Heavenly Sovereigns identified their Nine Original Dharma Bodies and recognized several legendary ancestors and divine abilities.
• Yan Qingshan battled the nine empowered imprints, using two spiritual-light clones to withstand their combined attacks.
• The Futuo Ancient Pagoda struck Yan Qingshan repeatedly, shattering many bones, while the other Dharma Bodies and their attacks kept him under pressure.
• Yan Qingshan recovered from his injuries as he fought, grew stronger, and continued challenging the nine Innate Dao Principles.
• Yan Qingshan blasted apart one Sovereign Dharma Body, sensed that its Innate Dao Marks had briefly vanished, and began destroying and refining the other imprints.

Yan Qingshan endured a renewed heavenly tribulation and fought the imprints of powerful figures from across history, including Lin Dong, Yan Qingchen, and the Immortal Great Emperor. At the summit, he rejected the World Will’s offer of supreme status and continued to defy heaven to attain the Dao.

• Yan Qingshan broke through the Nine Great Dharma Bodies’ imprints, but a fiercer heavenly tribulation appeared and forced him onto the Heavenly Path.
• Yan Qingshan entered the final punishment, where eight powerful auras awaited him in three grand halls.
• Yan Qingshan easily destroyed the imprints of Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen, revealing that he had prepared against their techniques.
• Yan Qingshan defeated the Immortal Great Emperor’s imprint and continued toward the palace above the three halls.
• Yan Qingshan saw that the World Will had offered him a position beneath only the heavens, but he rejected it because he had already chosen to defy heaven.

Yan Qingshan stopped Heavenly Evil God from escaping the Great Thousand World and killed him while refining the gathered demonic energy. The calamity ended, and Yan Qingshan kept the resulting Source of Demonic Power as he considered transforming the Great Thousand World.

• Heavenly Evil God shattered the Ten-Eyed Demonic Idol and sent demonic currents toward the Great Thousand World as he fled.
• Yan Qingshan used the Firmament Ranking and the power of all beings to repel the demonic currents, then left Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen to purify the remaining energy.
• Heavenly Evil God fled through the Chaos Outer Region toward the World Barrier, but Yan Qingshan intercepted him and restrained him.
• Yan Qingshan forced the gathered demonic energy into Heavenly Evil God to test whether it could be refined for his newly attained Dao, causing Heavenly Evil God to explode and die.
• Yan Qingshan compressed the remaining darkness into a Source of Demonic Power, erased Heavenly Evil God's final traces, and announced the end of the calamity to the Great Thousand World.
• The Great Thousand World celebrated its peace, while its powers began competing over territory and resources.

Yan Qingshan fought the Heavenly Dao’s replicated version of himself during his tribulation, then broke through the Great Thousand World’s myriad laws to confront its will. The battle ended in chaos, leaving his fate unknown.

• Yan Qingshan entered the heavenly hall and fought the Dao Self, which replicated his techniques and ideas.
• Yan Qingshan overcame the Dao Self by refusing the Heavenly Dao’s offer of supreme status and striking it with a final punch.
• Yan Qingshan absorbed the tribulation’s power, recovered, and faced the Heavenly Net formed by the Great Thousand World’s myriad laws.
• Yan Qingshan broke through the myriad laws and rose above them, abandoning his pursuit of a place on the Firmament Ranking.
• Yan Qingshan confronted the sentient will of heaven and earth and charged into chaos to destroy its emerging sentience.
• After an unknown length of time, heaven and earth grew tranquil and the myriad laws stopped trembling.

Yan Qingshan revealed that his apparent defeat during the tribulation had been a ploy to draw the Heavenly Evil God away from the Great Thousand World, then used his new power to overpower him. The Heavenly Evil God unleashed his strongest techniques, but Yan Qingshan remained in control as the Ten-Eyed Demonic Idol began to fade.

• After the heavenly tribulation ended, Yan Qingshan fell from the firmament gravely wounded, alarming Lin Dong, Yan Qingchen, and the experts of the Great Thousand World.
• The Heavenly Evil God rushed to kill Yan Qingshan, but Yan Qingshan healed instantly, struck him, and revealed that he had lured him away from the Great Thousand World to fight in isolation.
• Yan Qingshan tore apart the Heavenly Evil God's attacks and ripped his body into pieces, while the Heavenly Evil God regenerated with his strength diminished.
• The Heavenly Evil God summoned the Ten-Eyed Nether Demonic Spear and clashed with Yan Qingshan's sword, but Yan Qingshan drove him back.
• The Heavenly Evil God summoned the Ten-Eyed Demonic Idol and fired a beam of demonic light, which Yan Qingshan erased with a sword stroke and turned against the weakening idol.

After years of recovery and the rise of the Azure Heaven Imperial Court, Yan Qingchen and Lin Dong inscribed their names on the Firmament Ranking and gained complete World Authority. Yan Qingshan summoned them afterward and said their breakthroughs meant he could leave without worry.

• The Azure Heaven Imperial Court became the Great Thousand World's foremost power while Yan Qingshan pursued a new path using the gathered faith.
• The Firmament Ranking appeared above Heavenly Net City, revealing the names Yan and Lin as Yan Qingchen and Lin Dong approached it.
• Yan Qingchen and Lin Dong broke through the Ranking's mist and inscribed their complete names, gaining World Authority and becoming guardians of the world.
• The Firmament Ranking vanished, and Yan Qingchen and Lin Dong answered Yan Qingshan's summons to the city's restricted grounds.
• Yan Qingshan told his son and student that their breakthroughs meant he could leave without worry.

Yan Qingshan traveled through the Chaos Void to the Heavenly Origin Realm, hoping to perfect his Dao after finding the small worlds along his route ravaged or newly formed. He arrived near Cangxuan Sect as its new disciples gathered, and began recovering his strength with the Saint Devil Flame.

• Yan Qingshan used the Heavenly Evil God's memories to seek the Heavenly Origin Realm and found that the small worlds along the route had been destroyed or stripped of vitality.
• Yan Qingshan abandoned his search for opportunities in those worlds and continued toward the Heavenly Origin Realm, thinking of Yuan Zun Zhou Yuan.
• Cangxuan Sect prepared to receive its new disciples as a strange streak of light approached its mountain range.
• Yan Qingshan stopped beyond Cangxuan Sect's Origin Rune grand formation and revealed himself to the sect's wary experts.
• Yan Qingshan found that the Heavenly Origin Realm's source qi was difficult to absorb with Great Thousand World techniques, then used the Saint Devil Flame to refine it.

Yan Qingshan arrived above Cangxuan Sect, where Quasi-God Chu Qing mistook him for a Sacred Race enemy and attacked. Chu Qing’s first powerful strike was reflected back and destroyed his Seven-Colored Heaven-Severing Gourd, but he prepared a final technique to learn more about Yan Qingshan’s strength for Zhou Yuan.

• Yan Qingshan’s arrival stirred a terrifying Genesis Qi storm above Cangxuan Sect, awakening Chu Qing from the sect’s rear mountains.
• Chu Qing recognized the Saint Devil Flame around Yan Qingshan and accused him of returning to avenge the Sacred God.
• Chu Qing entered his battle form and summoned the Seven-Colored Heaven-Severing Gourd to unleash seven sword lights at Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan remained unharmed, sent the sword lights back, and caused the gourd to explode, blasting Chu Qing away.
• Chu Qing resolved to probe Yan Qingshan further for Zhou Yuan and prepared his final technique with a short golden shuttle.