Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen completed the Spiritual Storm vortex in his Hum aperture and escaped the collapsing First Heaven. After leaving the Space Channel, he was confronted by Gong Bao and his armed men, but Zhang Chen neutralized Gong Bao’s wind powers and immobilized him.

• Zhang Chen completed the Spiritual Storm vortex in his Hum aperture as the storm accelerated, then transformed into a Vampire Bat and fled toward the spatial entrance.
• Zhang Chen left the Space Channel and sold a bundle of wild grass to a Sun Family Steward for ten taels of silver.
• Gong Bao stopped Zhang Chen, demanded his identity, and ordered his men to search him despite Zhang Chen claiming ties to the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion.
• Zhang Chen fought off Gong Bao's armored Martial Warriors, using one as a weapon and preventing the others from drawing their crossbows.
• Gong Bao attacked Zhang Chen with Wind Blades and a Gale Wind barrier, but Zhang Chen's Wind Immobilization Pill dispersed both attacks.
• Zhang Chen seized Gong Bao's shoulder and used a Body Immobilization Talisman on him.

Zhang Chen killed Gong Bao and his guards, then was confronted by the god Gong Li, Gong Bao’s relative, who wielded the deadly Bi Wind. As Gong Li attacked, Zhang Chen pretended to beg for mercy while readying the Pangu Stone.

• Zhang Chen immobilized Gong Bao, forced his guards to lay down their weapons, and drained Gong Bao after he pleaded for his life.
• The guards charged Zhang Chen to avenge Gong Bao, but he killed them all and drained their bodies before leaving.
• Gong Li arrived too late to save Gong Bao, tracked Zhang Chen through the forest, and confronted him over the killing.
• Gong Li revealed his Bi Wind power and attacked Zhang Chen with a wind blade, while Zhang Chen prepared the Pangu Stone and feigned terror.

Zhang Chen killed Gong Li with the Pangu Stone, gained five million Experience Points, and upgraded several skills before hiding at Yellow Dawn Temple. As the Spiritual World approached collapse, Xie Lingyun visited with news of the Gong Family’s unrest and her promotion, while thunder signaled that the First Heaven had likely been destroyed.

• Zhang Chen smashed Gong Li’s Divine Body, harvested his remains for five million Experience Points, and upgraded the Invisibility Talisman, Body Immobilization Talisman, and Penetration Transformation.
• Zhang Chen returned discreetly to Yellow Dawn Temple, found the Faith Pool dry, and discussed the fallen Ba Serpent and Ascension Pool with the Great Sovereign Demon King.
• Xie Lingyun visited Zhang Chen and explained that the Gong Family was using a major figure’s death as a pretext for unrest while pursuing the Longevity Tree Coffin and regional fortunes.
• Xie Lingyun told Zhang Chen she had been promoted and would leave for the capital, but Zhang Chen declined to go with her because of his identity.
• Thunder sounded in the winter, and Zhang Chen suspected that the First Heaven of the Spiritual World had been destroyed.

A winter thunderstorm accompanied the collapse of the Spiritual World’s First Heaven, severing Wu Changming’s connection to the Spiritual World and forcing the Ba Serpent into the Material World. Zhang Chen reached the fallen serpent and devoured its essence for points, then prepared to upgrade Soul Hooking Plunder as its three-day duration neared its end.

• Zhang Chen warned Xie Lingyun to keep her Yin Spirit inside as a vast thunderstorm erupted and he explained that the First Heaven of the Spiritual World had collapsed.
• Wu Changming saw a Dark Mouth erase the Spiritual World and lost his connection to it as the thunderstorm swept across the northern lands.
• Zhang Chen sensed the Ba Serpent shrinking under the Material World’s laws, left Xie Lingyun at the Daoist Temple, and raced toward the serpent’s landing place.
• Zhang Chen hooked out the Ba Serpent’s remnant soul and began devouring its body, while the serpent’s soul started consuming its own essence to preserve it.
• After three days, Zhang Chen remained beside the Ba Serpent and chose to upgrade Soul Hooking Plunder as its duration approached its end.

Zhang Chen upgraded several skills while the Ba Snake remnant soul departed and the world’s order slowly recovered. As soldiers and martial artists searched for fallen fortune, Chen Xu arrived to harvest the Ba Snake’s blood, and Zhang Chen drew some for him.

• Zhang Chen upgraded Soul Hooking Plunder and used heavenly lightning to deter the Ba Snake remnant soul while they both absorbed fortune.
• After six days, the Ba Snake remnant soul left, and Zhang Chen spent points upgrading Second Heaven, the Invisibility Talisman, the Body Immobilization Talisman, and Divine Water Transformation.
• Zhang Chen continued absorbing the Ba Snake’s fortune as soldiers and martial world figures searched the mountains for what had fallen from heaven and earth.
• Chen Xu tried and failed to cut the Ba Snake’s hide, and Zhang Chen revealed himself and explained that only divine weapons or sharp artifacts could pierce it.
• Zhang Chen used the Innate Mosquito’s proboscis to draw Ba Snake blood for Chen Xu.

Zhang Chen drained the Ba Snake’s blood while Ma Zhou arrived to claim its fortune and was overwhelmed by the serpent’s lingering will. Zhang Chen summoned Fox Immortal NanNan and sent her to alert Xie Lingyun, leaving the Ba Snake’s blood as a dangerous opportunity.

• Zhang Chen gave Chen Xu purified Ba Snake blood, then devised a way to pierce the Ba Snake’s scales and rapidly drain its blood to raise his Blood Control Technique.
• Ma Zhou arrived, used a mysterious golden rune to pierce the Ba Snake’s eye, and drank its blood.
• The Ba Snake’s lingering will invaded Ma Zhou, drawing its eyeballs into his body as the Great Sovereign Demon King explained the danger.
• Zhang Chen learned that his Innate Mosquito’s mouthparts had purified the blood he gave Chen Xu, preventing the Ba Snake’s will from affecting him.
• Zhang Chen summoned Fox Immortal NanNan, stopped her from diving into the blood, and told her to deliver news of the Ba Snake’s fortune to Xie Lingyun.

Zhang Chen continued absorbing the Ba Snake’s blood while Ma Zhou and Fox Immortal NanNan cultivated within it. Chen Sanliang and the Demon Race arrived to claim the Ba Snake’s remaining fortune, and martial world figures began reaching the site as the corpse shrank.

• Zhang Chen sent Fox Immortal NanNan to deliver his message to Xie Lingyun, while Ma Zhou’s body became a blood cocoon and NanNan later withdrew to attempt a bloodline awakening.
• Chen Sanliang arrived with Bai Cang and a large group of demonic beasts, but the Demon Race could not break the Ba Snake’s scales.
• The demons found the eye wounds and began bathing in and drinking the Ba Snake’s blood, while Zhang Chen secretly continued devouring it.
• Chen Sanliang decided to cultivate the Celestial Demon Transformation and jumped into the blood pool.
• After two days, Li Donglai and Wu Minger arrived and entered the Ba Snake through its nostril and mouth as Zhang Chen continued cultivating.

Zhang Chen watched as humans gathered to harvest Ba Snake’s blood, until the growing Bear Demon King emerged and challenged them. After Bear Demon King trapped Xie Lingyun, Xie Xuan’s voice interrupted his attack, but Bear Demon King dared him to strike and threatened to claim Xie Lingyun.

• Zhang Chen absorbed Ba Snake’s blood and fortune while the gathered martial artists failed to damage its scales and gained only a little nourishment from its vital essence.
• Xie Lingyun arrived with five thousand Inspection Directorate soldiers, found Ba Snake’s blood pool, and distributed its blood to help her troops transform.
• The Pacifying Border Prince’s forces and members of great Lineages began taking blood too, disturbing the demons inside the blood pit.
• Big Dog Bear emerged much larger and stronger, frightened the crowd, and declared Ba Snake’s fortune belonged to the Demon Race.
• Xie Lingyun attacked Bear Demon King with her grass sword, but he trapped her Yin Spirit with Earth Gravity as the armies’ attacks failed to stop him.
• Xie Xuan’s voice warned Bear Demon King to spare his daughter, and Bear Demon King challenged him to attack while threatening to taste Xie Lingyun.

Zhang Chen secretly saved Xie Lingyun by striking the Bear Demon King with the Jade Brick, but the awakened bear repelled the experts who attacked it. The assembled humans could neither harm the Ba Snake nor subdue the demons, and the Pacifying Border King agreed to help Xie Lingyun while hiding his own role in letting the beasts enter the north.

• As the Bear Demon King moved to destroy Xie Lingyun's soul, Zhang Chen hit its head with the Jade Brick, stunning it long enough for Xie Lingyun to return to her body.
• The Pacifying Border King and Gong Nan rallied experts from the great lineages to attack the unconscious Bear Demon King, but it awakened, shattered their attacks with Earthly Yuan Magnetism, and drove them off.
• Gong Nan told the Pacifying Border King that only a Yang Spirit expert could kill the bear, while Xie Lingyun proposed opening another wound in the Ba Snake to draw out its blood.
• Experts tried flames and lightning against the Ba Snake's scales but failed to damage them, so the group waited and absorbed the essence qi nearby.
• Atop the mountain, the injured Bear Demon King called Old Ma for help, and the horse healed its eyes with Horse Milk.
• Xie Lingyun urged the Pacifying Border King to help kill the demons, and he agreed while concealing that he had let them through the White Bone Great Wall.

Zhang Chen continued devouring Ba Snake’s essence while the Bear Demon King remained beyond the human experts’ ability to defeat. As Ba Snake shrank and the laws of Heaven and Earth stabilized enough for eighth-rank gods to act, the gods confronted the Bear Demon King, and Zhang Chen watched their power from concealment.

• The Bear Demon King shrank, cursed the unseen attacker who had struck him, and returned to the blood pit beside Old Ma.
• After Ba Snake’s body shrank by a li overnight and continued to diminish, Xu Wei told the Pacifying Border King that eighth-rank gods could now act.
• The Pacifying Border King summoned eight gods and ordered them to drive the demon beasts away from Ba Snake.
• Zhang Chen noticed the gods approaching and relied on his eighth-rank Invisibility Talisman to remain hidden.
• One of the gods challenged the Bear Demon King, who grew to nearly seventy meters tall and attacked.
• The god summoned a lightning whip that pierced the Bear Demon King’s protective magnetism and set his fur ablaze, while Zhang Chen judged the gods far stronger than himself.

Zhang Chen watched the Bear Demon King fight a force of deities, while the Pacifying Border King’s allies sought reinforcements and planned to kill Zhang Chen. The Bear Demon King was driven toward defeat and called on the other demons to help him retreat to the blood pit.

• The deities trapped the Bear Demon King in a flame dome, but he broke free and fought back against their combined attack.
• The Pacifying Border King ordered ten more eighth-rank deities to reinforce the battle, while Xu Wei explained the limits on cultivating more deities in the northern lands.
• Five Six Teacher directed the deities to target the Bear Demon King’s eyes, then asked Xu Wei to arrange Zhang Chen’s murder; Xu Wei agreed.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained to Zhang Chen how deities’ Natal Magic Items embodied their authority, and Zhang Chen resolved to learn combat techniques.
• After one eye was scorched and the deities pressed their advantage, the Bear Demon King called for help, and six great demons emerged from the blood pit urging him to retreat there.

The Northern Lands’ gods and the Demon Race’s great demons battled over Bashé’s blood pool while Zhang Chen watched from Bashé’s body. Ma Zhou awoke with Bashé’s eyes and used their Illusion Technique to turn the fight against the demons, leaving Bai Cang facing a mind-controlled Bear Demon King.

• Bear Demon King retreated into the blood pool, where dozens of great demons emerged and confronted the human gods.
• Pacifying Border King summoned eighth-rank gods from across the Northern Lands, and they fought the demons while Zhang Chen observed from Bashé.
• Chen Sanliang told Bai Cang that Bashé’s Essence Blood had changed him, and the two discussed the fortune gained by the Demon Race.
• Ma Zhou surfaced amid the battle, used his Illusion Technique to make the toad demon attack the centipede demon, and revealed that Bashé’s eyes had granted him the ability.
• Bai Cang tried to kill Ma Zhou, but Ma Zhou controlled Bear Demon King and set him on Bai Cang, who called for the other demons to help.

The Bear Demon King helped the human gods regain their footing, and both sides stopped fighting to divide Ba Snake’s blood. As Ba Snake’s body continued to shrink, the Pacifying Border King proposed marrying Xie Lingyun’s into his family in exchange for the snake hide.

• Bai Cang urged the Demon Kings to target Ma Zhou, so the human gods joined forces to protect him and helped turn the battle around.
• The Pacifying Border King agreed to divide Ba Snake’s fortune, and the humans and demons began collecting and distributing its blood.
• Ma Zhou spotted Zhang Chen, whom no one else could see, and quietly warned the gods before pretending he had only been joking.
• After a day and a night, Ba Snake’s body had shrunk by a full li, and Xie Lingyun urged the Pacifying Border King to keep its hide from the Demon Race and offer it to the imperial court.
• The Pacifying Border King refused to give the hide to the court and proposed it as a bride price if Xie Lingyun married his son; Xie Lingyun replied that she could not decide the matter herself.

Zhang Chen upgraded his Blood Control Technique by draining the Ba Serpent, then escaped the encircling army while staying nearby to watch for dropped skills. As the Demon Race fled and other factions remained trapped around the serpent’s remains, the Pacifying Border King began recruiting Ma Zhou.

• After three more days of draining the Ba Serpent, Zhang Chen upgraded Body of Blood Light to Blood Influence, which let him affect the flow of an opponent’s blood.
• Fearing Ma Zhou and the encircling troops, Zhang Chen turned into a droplet of water, escaped through the soil, and watched the Ba Serpent from a distant mountain.
• Bai Cang refused to fight the human forces, and the Bear Demon King carried the Demon Race experts away; the Pacifying Border King declined Xie Lingyun’s request to stop them and considered killing Xie Xuan.
• Chen Xu, Li Donglai, and Wu Minger hid inside the Ba Serpent’s skeleton and planned to escape amid the coming scramble for its remains.
• Ma Zhou joined the Yellow Heaven Dao camp, and the Pacifying Border King invited him to serve in the prince’s mansion.

After the Ba Serpent’s scales were claimed by the crowd, Zhang Chen collected a skill fragment and used his points to strengthen Devouring Space and Dragon Qi. He returned to Yellow Dawn Temple and received a message suggesting Chen Xu had located the Pacifying Border King’s ancestral tomb.

• Ma Zhou told the Pacifying Border King he would consider joining him after completing his assignment at Qingcheng Mountain, while the crowd scrambled for the Ba Serpent’s scales.
• After everyone left, Zhang Chen found a Skill Fragment at the Ba Serpent’s remains and gained Mystic Space, which he upgraded into Devouring Space.
• Zhang Chen spent points upgrading Dragon Qi, gaining the ability to imbue wild beasts with fortune and plant Life Imprints in demon beasts.
• Zhang Chen returned to Yellow Dawn Temple and found that the Faith Pool remained empty.
• A disciple delivered Zhang Chen a letter signed Xu that said, “It’s done!”, and Zhang Chen suspected Chen Xu had found the Pacifying Border King’s lair near his ancestral tomb.

Zhang Chen investigated a mysterious array nourishing the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion's ancestral vein and learned that Five Six Teacher planned to use a person as a living vessel to strengthen the Little Prince. The chapter ended when Five Six Teacher named Zhang Chen as the ready-made candidate for the scheme.

• Zhang Chen met Chen Xu, who showed him a mysterious array surrounding the Pacifying Border King's ancestral grave.
• Zhang Chen spotted the Pacifying Border King and Five Six Teacher inspecting the ancestral vein and secretly listened to their conversation.
• Five Six Teacher explained that a fallen object was releasing mysterious energy into the ancestral vein and strengthening the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion.
• Five Six Teacher proposed using a person with a fate like the Little Prince's as a cauldron to transfer the mysterious power and nourish the Little Prince.
• Five Six Teacher told the Pacifying Border King that Zhang Chen was the candidate for the Substitute Life Nurturing Dragon scheme.

Zhang Chen discovered the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion and Yellow Dawn Temple were plotting to send him into danger, but he chose to play along and turn their scheme against them. As he prepared to report to Five Six Teacher, he warned Little Bean to stay cautious and gave her an Invisibility Talisman.

• Zhang Chen overheard the Pacifying Border King and Five Six Teacher discuss a scheme against him, then told Chen Xu that a mysterious object in the mountains had delayed their plan to dig up the mansion's ancestral graves.
• Zhang Chen granted destiny and imprints to his queen bee and falcon, then discovered the Eight Trigrams Furnace's flames had become Colored Realm Fire and were rapidly burning away the sphere's restrictions.
• Zhang Chen gave Cheng Yu Ba Snake blood for body tempering and considered learning combat techniques while waiting for the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion to act.
• Xu Wei assigned Zhang Chen to report to Five Six Teacher, claiming the task would reconcile him with the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion, while Five Six Teacher told Xu Wei that Zhang Chen would die only after Xie Lingyun.
• Zhang Chen told Little Bean he intended to play along with the mansion's scheme, warned her to avoid its people and remain in the Daoist Temple, and gave her an Invisibility Talisman for protection.

Zhang Chen arranged for Xie Lingyun to take Little Bean somewhere safe before he faced the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion. In Hook Blue County, he watched Yellow Heaven Dao use food, staged miracles, and deception to recruit and manipulate the desperate, ending as its followers began another public healing spectacle.

• Zhang Chen asked Little Bean to leave Yellow Dawn Temple with Xie Lingyun, then went down the mountain to Hook Blue County.
• Xie Lingyun agreed to protect Little Bean and arrange a safe place for Zhang Chen's family, but Zhang Chen refused to leave the northern lands with her.
• Yellow Heaven Dao disciples lured commoners into worshipping Zhu Ming by offering supplies and staging discoveries of silver and pearls.
• Zhang Chen watched Yellow Heaven Dao begin a second recruitment drive, this time promising medicine and healing through the God of Medicine.
• Zheng Bolun begged a Yellow Heaven Dao strongman to save a sick child whom Zhang Chen recognized as a former temple disciple, while Zhang Chen realized the supposed healing water was ordinary water.

Zhang Chen went with Five Six Teacher to the Pacifying Border Prince's ancestral grounds, where five gods carried a Daoist Temple into place. Five Six Teacher installed Zhang Chen there to pray, unaware that Zhang Chen was watching for the Feng Shui Array meant to sacrifice his lifespan for the Little Prince's fortune.

• Zhang Chen visited Five Six Teacher at the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion and refused to return the flying sword or accept his offer of reconciliation.
• Five Six Teacher took Zhang Chen and more than three hundred soldiers to the ancestral grounds, where laborers had cleared space for a new Daoist Temple.
• Five gods carried the He Lu Temple onto the cleared ground, and Zhang Chen restrained himself from attacking Five Six Teacher while his yin spirit was away.
• Five Six Teacher assigned Zhang Chen to live in the temple and offer incense and recite scriptures for three years, while secretly planning to use its Feng Shui Array to sacrifice Zhang Chen's lifespan for the Little Prince.
• After Five Six Teacher left and the temple gates closed, Zhang Chen searched the temple with his Dharma Eye and Devouring Eye but detected no array.

Zhang Chen learned that the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion was using the Ascension Pool's leaked power to nourish its Dragon Vein, while Chen Xu divined an opportunity connected to the Immortal Dao at the mansion's ancestral tomb three months later. Zhang Chen suspected the opportunity would coincide with Zhang Shicheng's dragon transformation and resolved to investigate the Second Heaven and prepare for what was coming.

• Zhang Chen summoned the Great Sovereign Demon King, who identified the hidden treasure in the Pacifying Border King's ancestral vein as the Ascension Pool and explained that Zhang Shicheng's Dragon Vein was absorbing its leaked power.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King told Zhang Chen to wait until the Ascension Pool's energy weakened, and Zhang Chen learned that the mansion's Feng Shui Array and Dragon Vein concealed the pool's aura.
• Zhang Chen escaped the Daoist Temple, which three thousand armored soldiers surrounded, and found Chen Xu calculating the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion's fortune.
• Chen Xu said he had divined an opportunity to become immortal at the mansion's ancestral tomb three months later, and Zhang Chen connected it to the Ascension Pool and Zhang Shicheng's likely dragon transformation.
• Zhang Chen told Chen Xu the opportunity might be real, then began to give him an assignment.