Chapter Summaries

Jiang Dao tested the Evil Zone with the Emperor Sky Bow, then used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to absorb most of its rebounding yin qi. He realized the technique could eventually let him devour the zone and left to search for nearby Malevolent Spirits or ferocious oddities.

• Wang Daoling told Jiang Dao that people usually fled spreading Evil Zones and that even ordinary Night Watchers could be killed by them.
• Jiang Dao fired a spear from the Emperor Sky Bow into the Evil Zone, dispersing its gray mist before it surged back with a wave of yin qi.
• Jiang Dao threw Wang Daoling out of danger and used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to absorb roughly eighty to ninety percent of the rebounding yin qi.
• Jiang Dao checked his status and saw that Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer was only at five percent, leaving room to improve it.
• Jiang Dao made sure Wang Daoling was unharmed and told him to investigate nearby Malevolent Spirits or ferocious oddities as they returned.

Jiang Dao left Qianyuan City to hunt powerful Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters, beginning with the hauntings at Box Town. As he reached the town, seven Spirit Eliminators were using villagers as bait, and they encountered Jiang Dao instead of the corpse puppets they expected.

• Wang Daoling gave Jiang Dao records of seven dangerous Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters, and Jiang assigned him to monitor the Evil Zone and falling meteors.
• Jiang Dao secretly tasked the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend and Jing Huang with watching Wang Daoling before setting out for Box Town.
• Jiang Dao traveled to Box Town, where its dead residents had become corpse puppets and Spirit Eliminators had gathered to capture them.
• Seven Spirit Eliminators drove frightened villagers toward the town as bait, but found no corpse puppets or other Spirit Eliminators and sensed an unusually powerful yang energy.
• A burly, green-robed Jiang Dao stepped out of Box Town, startling the Spirit Eliminators.

Jiang Dao killed Spirit Eliminators who had taken villagers hostage, then traveled to Coffin Ridge and destroyed the White Zombie Ancestor. He left the Fang Family members burning after they had delivered children as offerings.

• Jiang Dao killed seven Spirit Eliminators and opened a path through the forest so the villagers could escape.
• Jiang Dao headed for Coffin Ridge, where the Fang Family was bringing thirty-six children to the White Zombie Ancestor as offerings.
• The White Zombie Ancestor emerged from its coffin and reached for a child before noticing Jiang Dao on the altar.
• Jiang Dao killed the White Zombie Ancestor with one punch and set the Fang Family members ablaze with his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes.

Jiang Dao raised Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to 35% while hunting monsters, as the Xiao Family Patriarch descended to the lower realm and set out to eliminate him. The chapter ended with Jiang Dao sensing a terrifying presence approaching from the direction of the Spirit-Exorcising Xiao Family.

• The Xiao Family summoned their Patriarch through a blood-red formation, and he emerged in a towering form before shrinking to human size.
• The Xiao Family Patriarch learned that Jiang Dao was in the Southern Domain of the Great Ye Dynasty and decided to eliminate him, taking the Xiao Family head and elders along as he traveled.
• Jiang Dao killed a ferocious monster near the Ten Thousand Mountains in the Great Yu Dynasty and used two modification attempts to raise Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer from 29% to 35%.
• Jiang Dao sensed a vast pressure and lightning in the distance, recognized it as coming from the Spirit-Exorcising Xiao Family's direction, and stopped in surprise.

Jiang Dao returned to Qianyuan City and discovered that the Evil Zone had spread farther, swallowing much of Changle Town and drawing Alliance disciples inside with a woman's supernatural crying. He used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to absorb the Evil Zone as he advanced, but the Millennial Malevolent Spirit appeared and attacked him.

• Wang Daoling told Jiang Dao that the Evil Zone had swallowed more than half of Changle Town and that dozens of disciples had been lured inside by a woman's crying.
• Jiang Dao transformed into Celestial Desolation: God-Slaying Form, compressed his yang fire, and entered the Evil Zone.
• Jiang Dao used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to withstand and absorb the Evil Zone's yin aura, causing the surrounding buildings to regain their colors.
• The Millennial Malevolent Spirit appeared before Jiang Dao and unleashed a shrill cry and a surge of yin aura at him.
• Jiang Dao pushed Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to its limit to defend himself from the Millennial Malevolent Spirit.

Jiang Dao absorbed the Millennial Malevolent Spirit’s Yin Energy and fought her at close range, using Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer’s Myriad Unifying Threads to drain her power. As Wang Daoling watched, the Xiao Family Patriarch arrived and hurled a blood spear at Jiang Dao with Asura Blood Eyes.

• Jiang Dao absorbed the Millennial Malevolent Spirit’s Yin Energy, strengthening his body as she intensified her attack.
• Jiang Dao used Myriad Unifying Threads to drain the spirit’s Yin-attribute origin and battled her with his physical strength.
• The Millennial Malevolent Spirit wounded Jiang Dao with her poisonous claws, but he struck her face and continued fighting.
• Wang Daoling noticed the Xiao Family Patriarch and several elders arrive nearby.
• The Xiao Family Patriarch identified the opponent as a Millennial Malevolent Spirit, manifested Asura Blood Eyes, and hurled a blood spear toward Jiang Dao.

Jiang Dao survived the Xiao Family Patriarch’s Asura Blood Spear and confronted him after learning he had come to kill him for defying the Higher Will. Jiang Dao struck the patriarch down with one blow, leaving the Xiao Family Head and elders terrified as the battle continued.

• The Xiao Family Patriarch pierced Jiang Dao with the Asura Blood Spear while Jiang Dao was fighting the Millennial Malevolent Spirit, but Jiang Dao healed and resisted the spirit’s attacks.
• Jiang Dao confronted the Xiao Family Patriarch, who admitted he had come to kill Jiang Dao for defying the Higher Will.
• Jiang Dao pulled the spear from his chest, crushed it, and healed his wound as the Xiao Family Patriarch recognized his progress toward an Undying Body.
• The Xiao Family Patriarch charged Jiang Dao, but Jiang Dao struck him with one palm and sent him crashing away.
• The Xiao Family Patriarch rose from the ground while the Xiao Family Head and elders trembled in shock.

The Xiao Family Patriarch trapped Jiang Dao in the Asura Blood Eyes, but Jiang Dao countered with the Blazing Sun Demon Eyes and destroyed the blood-red illusion. The Patriarch then ensnared Jiang Dao with transparent threads, only to discover that Jiang Dao had bound him with the power-draining Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer.

• The Xiao Family Patriarch used the Asura Blood Eyes to make Jiang Dao face a monstrous beast and a sea of blood visible only to him.
• Jiang Dao unleashed the Blazing Sun Demon Eyes, burning away the blood sea and destroying the beast, which injured and shocked the Xiao Family Patriarch.
• The Xiao Family Patriarch evaded Jiang Dao's pursuit before restraining him with dozens of transparent threads and trying to dismember him.
• Jiang Dao revealed that he had bound the Xiao Family Patriarch with the Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer and began draining his power.
• The Xiao Family Patriarch struggled to break free, and Jiang Dao charged in with a palm strike as his threads began to tremble.

Jiang Dao nearly killed the Xiao Family Patriarch, but a sinister Eerie Youth emerged from the patriarch’s body and revealed overwhelming power. As their fight escalated, the youth coiled around Jiang Dao and reached for his eyes.

• Jiang Dao pierced the Xiao Family Patriarch’s head and battered him while absorbing his essence.
• A bizarre indigo youth tore his way out of the Xiao Family Patriarch’s abdomen, and Jiang Dao withdrew his Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to avoid its backlash.
• The Eerie Youth attacked Jiang Dao with a hand blade, shattering his arms and freezing them with yin energy.
• Jiang Dao burned away the invading yin energy and tried to crush the Eerie Youth, who transformed into flowing water and wrapped around him.
• The Eerie Youth reached for Jiang Dao’s eyes, and Jiang Dao activated his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes.

Jiang Dao used his Blazing Yang Domain and Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to overpower the Eerie Youth, then swallowed and refined him despite being struck by a blood spear. After the Eerie Youth died, Jiang Dao’s attributes surged, and he declared that complete gods were no match for him.

• Jiang Dao’s Blazing Yang Domain suppressed the Eerie Youth’s Yin power as he battered him and drained his strength with the Myriad Unifying Threads.
• The Eerie Youth fired a blood spear into Jiang Dao’s face, but Jiang Dao seized him and swallowed him whole.
• Jiang Dao trapped the Eerie Youth in his stomach and refined him with the Blazing Yang Domain and Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer until his movements stopped.
• Jiang Dao finished refining the Eerie Youth, laughed, and checked his greatly increased attributes.

After surviving the Xiao Family’s attack, Jiang Dao killed the Xiao Family Patriarch and the elders, but the patriarch’s consciousness appeared to have survived inside him and caused hallucinations. Jiang Dao summoned the Demon God in his sea of consciousness, where it found and seized the patriarch’s Blood Cocoon.

• Jiang Dao ripped the blood spear from his face and killed the kneeling Xiao Family Patriarch and elders with a yang-fire-infused throw.
• Poison left Jiang Dao dizzy, and he saw the Xiao Family Patriarch’s face on Wang Daoling, claiming he would take over Jiang Dao’s body.
• Jiang Dao suspected the patriarch’s consciousness had fused into him and began visualizing the Demon God.
• The Demon Shade found a red Blood Cocoon bearing the Xiao Family Patriarch’s face and seized it as the patriarch cried out in terror.

Jiang Dao devoured the Xiao Family Patriarch’s soul, recovered from his injuries, and returned to confront the Millennial Malevolent Spirit. He began absorbing its Yin Force and struck it with a powerful punch.

• Jiang Dao’s Demon Shade swallowed the Xiao Family Patriarch’s Blood Cocoon and completely devoured his consciousness and soul.
• Jiang Dao recovered his composure and confirmed that the Evil Zone had stopped expanding after he used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer.
• Jiang Dao told Wang Daoling to guard him while he healed near the Evil Zone for more than half a day.
• Jiang Dao returned to the Evil Zone and ordered Wang Daoling to stay back as he approached the Millennial Malevolent Spirit.
• Jiang Dao absorbed the Millennial Malevolent Spirit’s Yin Force, punched it in the chest, and grabbed its hair as it flew backward.

Jiang Dao absorbed the Millennial Malevolent Spirit’s power, killed it, and burned the corpses and remains in Changle Town. Back in Qianyuan City, he questioned Wang Daoling about the Celestial Punishment Seal, then released the infant sealed in a jade bottle to ask it about the inheritance.

• Jiang Dao drained the Millennial Malevolent Spirit’s Yin Force, strengthened his body, and crushed its head, causing its body to dissolve.
• Jiang Dao modified Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer, raising it to 47% and unlocking the Law Breaker function.
• Jiang Dao found the people in Changle Town dead and burned the town with his Blazing Yang Domain before leaving with Wang Daoling.
• Jiang Dao asked Wang Daoling about the Celestial Punishment Seal and learned that its inheritance required entering a secret realm.
• Jiang Dao returned to his secluded chamber, removed the jade bottle’s seal, and released the infant, which begged him to spare its life.

Jiang Dao learned that the Celestial Punishment Seal’s hidden inheritance site might appear within months and suspected his black jade bracelet could grant entry. As he continued hunting Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters, his growing strength drew the attention of powerful evil gods and death gods toward the Southern Domain.

• Jiang Dao questioned Han Lei, who revealed that the Celestial Punishment Seal’s inheritance site also held the Celestial Punishment Halberd and might appear within the next few months.
• Han Lei told Jiang Dao that the Xiao Family Patriarch had been Heavenly Dao Palace’s overseer in the lower realm, making retaliation from above likely.
• Jiang Dao suspected his black jade bracelet was the Inheritance Bracelet needed to enter the hidden site.
• Jiang Dao ordered Wang Daoling to search for Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters while the Evil Zone and Death Zone expanded and devastation spread.
• Jiang Dao slaughtered Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters, raising his Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer from 47% to 62%.
• Powerful evil gods and death gods focused their attention on Jiang Dao’s Southern Domain because of his attacks and the region’s prosperous mortal atmosphere.

Four evil gods attacked the Southern Domain, slaughtering people and destroying cities as they spread their Evil Zones. Jiang Dao sensed the invasion and rushed to stop one of them, whose rampage ended with Jiang Dao appearing before it and shouting, "Die!"

• Four evil gods agreed to attack the Southern Domain, kill Jiang Dao, and devour its people before powerful figures descended from the Void Realm.
• The evil gods split up and ravaged cities, killing residents, turning their bodies into corpse puppets, and forcing Spirit Eliminators to flee toward Qianyuan City.
• Jiang Dao emerged from a mountain forest after resolving a Millennial Malevolent Spirit incident and sensed the spreading yin qi.
• Jiang Dao sped toward the invasion because the Southern Domain was the foundation of his power and his forbidden ground.
• One evil god continued slaughtering towns and mocking Jiang Dao until Jiang Dao arrived in a flash of golden light and shouted, "Die!"

Jiang Dao attacked an evil god that had slaughtered a town, suppressing it with his Blazing Yang Domain and burning it with his true fire. After swallowing his defeated enemy, he turned on the other evil gods, leaving two fleeing in terror.

• Jiang Dao transformed into Celestial Desolation: God-Slaying Form and struck the evil god, collapsing its Evil Zone and burning it with yang fire.
• Jiang Dao sensed several more Evil Zones and pinned the first evil god in place with his Blazing Yang Domain.
• Jiang Dao pierced the evil god's head, then swallowed it alive as the other three evil gods arrived.
• Jiang Dao flattened another evil god with his palms, and the remaining two fled in fear.

Jiang Dao defeated three evil gods who had attacked the Southern Domain, draining their vital essence with his threads and Blazing Yang Domain. After killing them, he sensed several strange figures watching him from far away.

• Jiang Dao used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to drain the first evil god while chasing the other two.
• Jiang Dao caught the second evil god, tore apart its human skin, and drained its vital essence.
• The last evil god escaped Jiang Dao’s Blazing Yang Domain and tried to open a passage to the Void Realm, but Jiang Dao struck it down.
• Jiang Dao expanded his Blazing Yang Domain, sealed the space around the last evil god, and crushed it while rejecting its pleas for mercy.
• Jiang Dao sensed strange auras and vague figures watching him from a distant region.

Jiang Dao confronted the evil gods threatening the Southern Domain and pursued one that fled into the Void Realm. He used his Myriad Unifying Threads to drag it back out and seized it, leaving its fate in his hands.

• Jiang Dao warned the evil gods not to bring disaster to the Southern Domain and swallowed an evil god that claimed to serve the Black Mountain God of Death.
• An evil god threatened to report Jiang Dao to the Black Mountain God of Death and vowed to slaughter the Southern Domain's inhabitants.
• Jiang Dao charged after the taunting evil god, but it fled into the Void Realm before he could reach it.
• Jiang Dao sent his Myriad Unifying Threads through the void, pierced the fleeing evil god, and drained its life force while dragging it back out of the Void Realm.
• Jiang Dao seized the terrified evil god by the skull and mocked it as it begged for mercy.

Jiang Dao tore apart an evil god, drove the others back, and forbade monsters from entering the Southern Domain. A blood-red infant and two evil gods then plotted to recruit him for the Night Watcher’s inheritance, revealing that Jiang Dao possessed one of four Inheritance Bracelets.

• Jiang Dao used Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer to drag an evil god out of the Evil Zone, then tore it apart and burned it to ashes.
• Jiang Dao warned the remaining evil gods not to enter the Southern Domain and left for the region.
• A blood-red infant told two evil gods that they should bring Jiang Dao into their group to help them enter the Night Watcher’s inheritance site.
• The blood-red infant revealed that Jiang Dao had one Inheritance Bracelet and that a person from the Upper Realm held the last one.
• The woman offered to use her skin-mask technique to enter Qianyuan City and try to meet Jiang Dao.

As refugees fled Great Yu for Great Ye, a mysterious half-withered woman devoured an advancing Evil Zone and its evil god. Later, a Paper Effigy infiltrated the Blazing Flame Sect to bring Jiang Dao news about the Night Watcher's treasure, and he seized it to question it in secret.

• News of Jiang Dao's slaughter of the evil gods spread, prompting Spirit Eliminator Lineages to debate whether to seek refuge with him while commoners fled toward Great Ye.
• A half-withered woman appeared before an Evil Zone, drained its evil god of life, and swallowed the zone with her seven-colored radiance.
• A Paper Effigy slipped into the Blazing Flame Sect headquarters and followed a maidservant to Jiang Dao's room.
• Jiang Dao caught the Paper Effigy and demanded to know why it had come.
• The Paper Effigy claimed it knew about the Night Watcher's treasure, and Jiang Dao carried it to a secret chamber.