Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xian returned to his physical body and challenged the Central Great World, where Xu Wuyi met him for a final, life-or-death duel. Xu Wuyi barred the others from interfering, hoping the battle would push him toward Shattering the Vacuum.

• Xiao Xian slaughtered the remaining experts in the Yama Great Array, absorbed their artifacts with the Severing Life Blade, and planned to attack the Central Great World and seize the Imperishable Stele.
• Xiao Xian observed that Hong Yi had built a powerful following and advanced to the Human Immortal realm, then sent his soul back to his physical body.
• Xiao Xian attacked the Central Great World, and Xu Yi and ten other figures arrived to surround him.
• Xiao Xian recognized that Xu Wuyi had advanced to the late stage of Thousand Transformations, and Xu Wuyi declared he would fight to the death.
• Xu Wuyi ordered the others not to interfere in his one-on-one battle with Xiao Xian, intending to use the fight to approach Shattering the Vacuum.

Xiao Xian and Xu Wuyi fought a devastating battle in the Star River, with Xiao Xian breaking Xu Wuyi’s ultimate martial path and surviving his peak attack. Both fighters touched the gateway to Shattering the Vacuum, leaving them on the verge of a breakthrough.

• Xiao Xian and Xu Wuyi exchanged world-shaking punches, and their collision destroyed a planet.
• Xu Wuyi unleashed three punches embodying Fate, Primordial Chaos, and Calamity Fortune, revealing his path to the other shore.
• Xiao Xian struck the weak point in Xu Wuyi’s broad road and shattered it, causing Xu Wuyi’s body to explode and forcing Xiao Xian back.
• Xu Wuyi reassembled his body and realized his extreme battle had brought him to the gateway to Shattering the Vacuum.
• Xiao Xian’s body absorbed vast amounts of universal vital energy, and he sensed that he was one step from Shattering the Vacuum.

Xu Wuyi launched a suicidal final attack on Xiao Xian, but Meng Wuhen and Xu Yi joined the battle, triggering Xiao Xian’s hidden power. The three attackers were swallowed into an Ink Wash World, where Xu Wuyi still vowed to destroy Xiao Xian.

• Xu Wuyi manifested countless selves and unleashed a fatal attack on Xiao Xian, determined to complete his transformation even at the cost of his life.
• Meng Wuhen and Xu Yi decided to strike Xiao Xian, fearing he threatened the Central World, and joined the battle with their strongest powers.
• Xiao Xian revealed a King of Divine Artifacts and an ink wash scroll as a vast vortex swallowed the fighters and Xu Yi’s Yang God Thought.
• Xu Wuyi, Xu Yi, and Meng Wuhen found themselves inside an Ink Wash World, where Xu Wuyi roared that he and Xiao Xian would still meet in mutual destruction.

Xiao Xian used the King of Divine Artifacts and the power of the Ink Wash World to overwhelm Xu Wuyi, Xu Yi, and Meng Wuhen, revealing that he had comprehended Shattering the Vacuum. Xu Wuyi died in a final suicidal attack, while Xu Yi prepared to burn his Yang God Thoughts under Xiao Xian’s suppression.

• Xu Wuyi, Xu Yi, and Meng Wuhen launched a coordinated attack against Xiao Xian in the Ink Wash World.
• Xiao Xian brought the collapsing Small Thousand World’s power down through the Severing Life Blade, shattering their attacks and revealing his Shattering the Vacuum power.
• Xu Wuyi burned away everything he possessed and turned himself into a Martial Dao Divine Spear to challenge Xiao Xian.
• Xiao Xian destroyed Xu Wuyi’s spear with one blade flash, killing him utterly.
• Meng Wuhen recognized the gulf in power, while Xu Yi prepared to burn his Yang God Thoughts as Xiao Xian’s force pinned them down.

Xiao Xian killed Xu Yi and Meng Wuhen, then emerged to face the eight ministers of the Central Great World. He trapped them with the World Suppressing Tower, leaving them to prepare for a desperate fight.

• Xiao Xian severed Xu Yi's connection to the Yang God Thought, defeated Xu Yi and Meng Wuhen, and told Xu Yi that Hong Yi was the true hope of the era.
• The Severing Life Blade devoured Xu Yi and Meng Wuhen's Nine Tribulation Primordial Spirits and grew stronger.
• Xiao Xian resolved to kill the eight ministers and destroy the Central Great World's power, then appeared before them in the starry sky.
• The War Minister realized the three leaders were dead and urged the eight ministers to flee.
• Xiao Xian used the World Suppressing Tower to trap the eight ministers, and the War Minister rallied them to fight rather than surrender.

Xiao Xian fought the eight ministers of the Central Great World and overwhelmed them despite their supreme artifacts and coordinated attacks. After they burned their essence blood to strengthen their defenses, he unleashed the full power of his blade and killed all eight.

• The eight ministers attacked Xiao Xian with their supreme artifacts, but he struck them back and left them badly injured.
• Xiao Xian slashed at the ministers eight times, worsening their injuries and making them suspect his blade was the King of Divine Artifacts.
• The War Minister and the other seven ministers burned half their essence blood to bolster themselves and their artifacts.
• Xiao Xian poured his blood energy into the eight blade lights and unleashed their full power.
• The eight blade lights cleaved the ministers in two and extinguished their life force.

After killing the eight ministers, Xiao Xian sought Divine King Gou Li in the Central Great World's Silent Sky Prison to learn where Xu Yi had hidden the Imperishable Stele. He reached Silent Star and found twelve Desolate God Puppets guarding its imprisoned experts.

• Xiao Xian fed the eight ministers' divine artifacts and corpses to the Severing Life Blade, strengthening it with millions of runes.
• Xiao Xian recalled that Divine King Gou Li was imprisoned in the Silent Sky Prison and might know where Xu Yi had hidden the Imperishable Stele.
• Xiao Xian sensed Divine King Gou Li's spiritual energy and followed it to Silent Star, where he destroyed the star's tens of thousands of protective formations.
• Xiao Xian found twelve mountains imprisoning Creator-level experts and twelve Desolate God Puppets forming the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation.

Xiao Xian broke the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation, captured all twelve Desolate Gods, and reached the lowest level of the Silent Sky Prison. There he confronted Divine King Gou Li, who recognized that his strength matched the Immortal God King at his peak and far surpassed her own.

• Xiao Xian overwhelmed the twelve Desolate Gods and their formation with his Half-Step Shattering the Vacuum strength.
• Xiao Xian captured all twelve Desolate Gods within moments, stunning the prisoners held in the Silent Sky Prison.
• Xiao Xian crossed the prison's layers of space and arrived at a cell on its lowest level.
• Xiao Xian found Divine King Gou Li, the sole female Divine King among the Five Great Divine Kings.
• Divine King Gou Li sensed Xiao Xian's overwhelming power and realized she could not defeat him even at her former peak.

Xiao Xian recruited Divine King Gou Li as his subordinate and restored some of her strength with Life Essence Liquid. He then destroyed the Silent Sky Prison’s seals while keeping its prisoners restrained, intending to use them in his conquests.

• Divine King Gou Li asked Xiao Xian whether he had come to free her or attack her, and Xiao Xian offered to save her in exchange for her service.
• Divine King Gou Li agreed to become Xiao Xian’s subordinate and serve as guardian of his future nation.
• Xiao Xian gave Divine King Gou Li Life Essence Liquid, which restored much of her physical strength.
• Xiao Xian carried Divine King Gou Li out of the Silent Sky Prison and shattered the runes on its twelve mountains.
• Xiao Xian restrained the prison’s Human Immortal and Creation-level captives, sealing their strength as he considered using them in his conquests.

Xiao Xian searched beneath Divine Wind Country and used the Severing Life Blade to devour three sealed ancient God Kings. He confronted the Immortal God King, who mocked Gou Li for serving a human and remained confident in his own strength.

• Xiao Xian and Divine King Gou Li entered Divine Wind Country and searched underground for the Imperishable Stele.
• Xiao Xian devoured the Terror God King and his sealing stele with the Severing Life Blade.
• Xiao Xian ordered Gou Li to locate the other God Kings, then devoured the Absolute Life God King and the Great Extinction God King.
• Xiao Xian found the Immortal God King, who had escaped with half his soul thoughts and refined the Imperishable Stele.
• The Immortal God King mocked Gou Li for submitting to Xiao Xian, while Gou Li urged him to think about escaping.

Xiao Xian used the Twelve Desolate God Puppets to battle the weakened Immortal God King, who escaped his seal during the fight. Xiao Xian then unleashed two Kings of Divine Artifacts and killed him.

• The Immortal God King used Two Realms Division to isolate the battlefield, but Xiao Xian formed the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation with the Twelve Desolate God Puppets and shattered it.
• The Immortal God King fired the Three Realms Essence Qi Cannon from the Three Realms Primordial Qi Pool, but the puppets struck down the attack and Xiao Xian seized the artifact.
• The clash broke apart the space sealing the Immortal God King beneath the Imperishable Stele, allowing him to escape and attack the puppets.
• The Immortal God King blasted apart the formation, but Xiao Xian stored the injured puppets and confronted him directly.
• Xiao Xian used the World Suppressing Tower and Severing Life Blade to split the Immortal God King's body and extinguish his life.

After devouring the Immortal God King's corpse, Xiao Xian entered seclusion and achieved Shattering the Vacuum, shaking the Great Thousand World. Yang Pan identified Xiao Xian as the one who broke through and changed his plans, hoping to use the restored Creation Boat and Hong Xuanji's power to fight him.

• Xiao Xian swallowed the Immortal God King's corpse and ordered his companions to guard him while he refined it in seclusion.
• Xiao Xian shattered his acupoints and transformed his cells, connecting his body's inner universe to the outer universe as he achieved Shattering the Vacuum.
• Heaven and earth celebrated Xiao Xian's breakthrough, and powerhouses across the Great Thousand World sensed the emergence of a Shattering the Vacuum expert.
• Yang Pan sensed the oppressive aura, ruled out Hong Xuanji, and concluded that Xiao Xian had broken through.
• Yang Pan abandoned his plan to build strength gradually and decided to advance toward the Ninth Thunder Tribulation, relying on the nearly restored Creation Boat and Hong Xuanji to challenge Xiao Xian.

After obtaining the Heavenly Human Five Declines ability, Xiao Xian traveled to Heaven Pillar Mountain and took possession of its Divine Stone Spirit Embryo, leaving it to mature. He then set his sights on Mysterious Heaven Pavilion, intending to seize Dark Star and destroy the pavilion.

• Xiao Xian received the Heavenly Human Five Declines ability, which had been cultivated to perfection.
• Xiao Xian found the Divine Stone Spirit Embryo on Heaven Pillar Mountain and learned that it would eventually mature into a powerful lifeform.
• Xiao Xian placed part of his divine soul in the embryo and fed it Essence Qi Liquid, raising it to peak Human Immortal strength.
• Xiao Xian left the embryo to gestate naturally, estimating that it would be born in about three years with Thousand Transformations cultivation.
• Xiao Xian headed for Mysterious Heaven Pavilion to claim Dark Star and destroy the pavilion.

Xiao Xian attacked the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion during its master Nalan Dark Emperor’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony, capturing the gathered Yun Meng Empire elite and entering the pavilion’s central hall. He discovered the entrance to the Dark Mysterious World and drew two intelligent spirits, Auspicious Heaven and Excellent Bliss Heaven, from their statues before entering.

• Xiao Xian found the Yun Meng Empire’s leading experts gathered at the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion for Nalan Dark Emperor and Xing Mou’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony.
• Xiao Xian used the Black Tower to seal and capture the assembled experts, grinding their bodies and souls into pure origin.
• Xiao Xian crossed the pavilion and located the Dark Mysterious World’s entrance inside the statue of Xuan Heaven Daoist Lord.
• Xiao Xian sensed souls inside the statues of Auspicious Heaven and Excellent Bliss Heaven and summoned them out.
• Auspicious Heaven and Excellent Bliss Heaven emerged from a ring as two girls and asked Xiao Xian not to attack.

Xiao Xian frightened Auspicious Heaven and Excellent Bliss Heaven into leaving the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion and joining him. After destroying the two evil gods and merging their divine thoughts into the sisters, he took them into the Small World.

• Auspicious Heaven and Excellent Bliss Heaven appeared before Xiao Xian and pleaded with him to spare them.
• Excellent Bliss Heaven recognized that Xiao Xian was testing them and offered for the sisters to leave the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion and serve him.
• Xiao Xian accepted the sisters' submission, and both gods agreed to follow him.
• Xiao Xian destroyed Mahakala and the God of Destruction, then fused their divine soul thoughts into Auspicious Heaven and Excellent Bliss Heaven, raising their cultivation to the level of Fifth Thunder Tribulation experts.
• Xiao Xian reopened the Small World entrance, brought the two gods inside, and entered after them.

Xiao Xian entered the Dark Mysterious Realm to take the Dark Star and kill the Dark Emperor Taoist. After the Dark Emperor Taoist attacked with the Tomb Dark Radiance Heavenly Heart Great Magic Seal, Xiao Xian answered with a bell formed from his thoughts.

• Xiao Xian illuminated the Small World and saw the Dark Star, the Dark Emperor Taoist’s divine artifact.
• The Dark Emperor Taoist appeared and assessed Xiao Xian’s strength, while Xiao Xian demanded the Dark Star and the Daoist’s head.
• The Dark Emperor Taoist flew into a rage and attacked Xiao Xian with the Tomb Dark Radiance Heavenly Heart Great Magic Seal.
• Xiao Xian formed a bell from tens of thousands of thoughts and struck it, sending a powerful chime through the Small World.

Xiao Xian overwhelmed the Dark Emperor Taoist with the Severing Life Blade, destroying the Dark Star and leaving the ancient expert mortally wounded. The Dark Emperor Taoist realized he might die and roared in disbelief.

• Xiao Xian and the Dark Emperor Taoist’s divine abilities clashed, then the Dark Emperor Taoist merged with the Dark Star and sent it crashing toward Xiao Xian.
• Xiao Xian struck the Dark Star with the Severing Life Blade, shattering the Dark Mysterious World and sending both fighters into the turbulent void.
• The Dark Emperor Taoist saw that Xiao Xian wielded a complete King of Divine Artifacts and decided to flee, even at the cost of the Dark Star.
• Xiao Xian struck again and split the Dark Star apart, inflicting grievous injuries on the Dark Emperor Taoist through their linked minds.
• The Dark Emperor Taoist feared that he was about to die and roared that he had survived God of War Shang’s final attack, only to face death now.

Xiao Xian survived Dark Emperor Taoist’s self-destruction, slew him, and devoured Dark Star with the Severing Life Blade. He returned to the leaderless Yun Meng Empire, declared it renamed Chu Country, and took the throne as its first emperor.

• Dark Emperor Taoist merged with Dark Star and detonated his soul thoughts in a desperate attack, but Xiao Xian emerged unharmed as the Severing Life Blade devoured the artifact.
• Xiao Xian returned to the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion and found the Yun Meng Empire in chaos after its emperor and most of its leaders had vanished.
• Xiao Xian appeared in the imperial palace, claimed the throne, and declared that the Yun Meng Empire would become Chu Country.
• The Imperial Guard commander Zhang Cong challenged Xiao Xian and demanded the emperor’s release.
• The deputy commanders seized Zhang Cong, sealed his blood and qi, and knelt before Xiao Xian to ask how he should be dealt with.

Xiao Xian consolidated his rule over the Great Chu Empire through sweeping purges and military reforms. During the Awakening of Insects, he claimed the Wild Wastes’ best tribulation site and entered the Ninth Thunder Tribulation, where he grasped its purpose as he absorbed the lightning essence.

• Xiao Xian crushed rebellions across Yun Meng, renamed it the Great Chu Empire, and declared himself its first Chu Heaven Emperor.
• Xiao Xian raised an army, purged officials and powerful clans, and destroyed sects to gather their fighters and resources.
• After three months, Xiao Xian had united the Great Chu Empire under his rule and made it the strongest nation under heaven.
• At the Wild Wastes, Xiao Xian ordered other cultivators away from his chosen tribulation ground, and they dispersed rather than challenge him.
• Xiao Xian sent his soul into the clouds and advanced to the Ninth Thunder Tribulation, absorbing the surging lightning essence.
• As he absorbed the lightning, Xiao Xian realized that the ninth tribulation required understanding life, death, and the cycle of heaven and earth, then resolving to break free of that cycle.

Xiao Xian passed the Ninth Thunder Tribulation and gained a Pure Yang Primordial Spirit, bringing him one step closer to becoming a Yang God. As Great Chu’s soldiers returned home, Ghost Immortals recognized the impending upheaval and began considering pledging allegiance to him.

• Xiao Xian released his anguish in a punch that pierced the Ninth World, completing the Ninth Thunder Tribulation and transforming his divine soul into a Pure Yang Primordial Spirit.
• Xiao Xian realized his primordial spirit could eventually grow flesh and blood, and planned to become a Yang God before entering Origin Land to devour the powerful experts there.
• Xiao Xian returned to his body, received the soldiers’ congratulations, and departed while the Great Chu army began its journey home.
• Ghost Immortals sensed the soldiers’ killing intent and concluded that Great Chu’s drive to unify the world would bring a great purge.
• A Ghost Immortal proposed that the group pledge allegiance to the Great Chu Imperial Court, and most of the others agreed.