Chapter Summaries

After more than six months of secluded cultivation, Bai Ze broke through to the Void Return Realm Early Stage and learned that Holy Heaven Pavilion had destroyed demons in three regions with a Demigod Artifact. He headed for one of the two remaining demon regions to earn points and consolidate his new realm.

• Bai Ze emerged from secluded cultivation after breaking through to the Void Return Realm Early Stage with the aid of Void Spirit Pills and his Ninth Layer Sword Intent.
• Bai Ze reviewed the requirements for reaching the Saint Realm and recognized that he needed to cultivate Saint Power and comprehend Intent's Profound Meaning.
• Bai Ze overheard inn guests say that Holy Heaven Pavilion had destroyed demons in three regions using a Demigod Artifact.
• Bai Ze left the city and sped toward one of the two remaining demon regions to earn points and consolidate his strength.

Bai Ze arrived at Nine Howling Nether City as Holy Heaven Pavilion and the Five Sects Ten Gates began their assault, then joined Lü Ruoxue in slaughtering demonic humans. As a battle raged deeper in the city, a black afterimage charged at Bai Ze, who activated King Ming Domain.

• Bai Ze reached Nine Howling Nether City and met Lü Ruoxue, who revealed that she had reached the Void Return Realm Late Stage.
• Chen Tianyang and the Heaven Saint Realm experts broke the city's formation, and martial artists rushed inside to attack the demonic humans.
• Bai Ze and Lü Ruoxue unleashed their techniques, killing thousands of demonic humans as they entered the city.
• A battle in the city's depths sent a demonic dragon crashing into the ground, and Bai Ze continued fighting near the outskirts.
• A black afterimage charged at Bai Ze, who formed King Ming Domain around himself.

Bai Ze fought his way through Nine Howling Nether City and tried to escape as the demonic men were sacrificed to empower the City Lord. The City Lord broke through to the Demigod Realm, and Chen Tianyang stayed behind to face him while the others fled.

• Bai Ze killed many demonic men, consolidated his realm, and decided to leave after failing to find Lü Ruoxue.
• The demonic men across Nine Howling Nether City exploded into demonic qi and streamed toward the city’s center, prompting Bai Ze to flee.
• The City Lord devoured the demonic qi and reached the Demigod Realm despite Chen Tianyang and the others’ full-force attacks.
• The City Lord seized and absorbed one of the fighters, while Chen Tianyang told the others to escape and chose to hold him back.
• The City Lord demanded Chen Tianyang’s top-grade Demigod Artifact Moonlight Slash, but Chen Tianyang refused and attacked.

Chen Tianyang burned his blood and lifespan to drive back a Demigod Realm demon in Nine Howling Nether City, but vanished along with the Moonlight Slash after the clash. Bai Ze returned to the Sword Sect amid emergency security measures and learned that the sects feared the surviving demon had reached the Demigod Realm.

• The demon tried to seize Chen Tianyang’s Moonlight Slash, but Chen burned his blood essence and lifespan to shatter the demonic dragon and attack.
• Chen’s strike badly injured the demon, while Chen and the Moonlight Slash disappeared; Nine Howling Nether City was left nearly destroyed, and Holy Heaven Pavilion suffered heavy losses.
• Bai Ze received news of the defeat and the order recalling disciples, then headed back to the Sword Sect.
• Half a month later, Bai Ze returned to find the Sword Sect protected by a massive formation and guarded by two Heaven Saint Realm Supreme Elders.
• Bai Ze met Lü Ruoxue, and they concluded that a Demigod Realm demon had likely stood against the gathered Heaven Saint Realm experts.

The Sword Sect closed its mountain gates after learning that the demon from Nine Howling Nether City had reached the Demigod Realm, leaving the sect to prepare for three years of isolation. During that time, Bai Ze focused on cultivation and perfected his Sword Intent.

• Shangguan Fengyun told the peak masters that the injured demon remained too powerful for Heaven Saint Realm cultivators, and that a Demigod Realm senior from the Central Domain would come in three years.
• Shangguan Fengyun ordered the disciples to remain inside the sect, and the Sword Sect activated its protective formation to close the mountain gates.
• Hong Yan relayed the news at Misty Peak, where Lü Ruoxue said she would use the three years to reach the Saint Realm and challenged Bai Ze to keep pace.
• Bai Ze planned to improve his cultivation, Sword Intent, Saint Power, and martial techniques, then spent the following months training at the Scripture Pavilion and Sword Mountain.
• Half a year later, Bai Ze used the Sword Heart Stone to reach the Perfection Realm in Sword Intent, then returned to Misty Peak to collect his cultivation resources.

Bai Ze trained in the Sword Tower before entering closed-door cultivation, while Demigod Realm Demonic Beings spread across the Southern Region. Three years later, Bai Ze had reached Void Return Realm Late Stage and come within twenty-two thousand Talent Points of upgrading his talent.

• Bai Ze saw that Lu Bu Ruoxue ranked twenty-first among the True Disciples and had reached Void Return Realm Late Stage before entering the Sword Tower.
• Bai Ze defeated Fierce Beasts through the sixth floor, using the battles to improve his martial techniques, then left rather than face three Void Return Realm Late Stage beasts.
• Bai Ze exchanged for cultivation resources and began closed-door cultivation as Demigod Realm Demonic Beings broke formations, blood-refined cities, and occupied roughly a quarter of the Southern Region.
• After more than two years in closed-door cultivation, Bai Ze broke through to Void Return Realm Late Stage, perfected his Sword Intent, and transformed over half his power into Saint Power.
• Bai Ze checked his system interface and found that he needed fewer than twenty-two thousand Talent Points to upgrade his talent.

After three years, Lü Ruoxue returned as an Entering Saint Realm expert and told Bai Ze she would head to the Central Domain. The Sword Sect and other Southern Domain factions lifted their formations and mobilized against the demons under Old Ancestor Qingsong’s leadership.

• Lü Ruoxue reunited with Bai Ze, confirmed her breakthrough to the Entering Saint Realm Early Stage, and said she planned to go to the Central Domain.
• Bai Ze wished Lü Ruoxue well, and she said she would wait for him in the Central Domain.
• The Sword Sect’s formation dissipated, and Shangguan Fengyun ordered its disciples to eradicate the demons in the Southern Domain.
• The other Five Sects Ten Gates also lifted their formations and sent experts toward demon-occupied regions.
• Old Ancestor Qingsong took the Moonlight Slash from Chen Tianyang and ordered the Southern Domain sects to follow him against the demons.

Old Ancestor Qingsong fought the Blood Demon God while the Five Sects Ten Gates launched a campaign to wipe out the demons. The Blood Demon God used Blood God Disintegration to scatter into crimson threads, but Old Ancestor Qingsong hunted down and destroyed them with Moonlight Slash.

• The Blood Demon God blood-refined over a million martial artists and confronted Old Ancestor Qingsong, who had come to kill him.
• Old Ancestor Qingsong and the Blood Demon God clashed with their domains and powerful attacks, destroying the city below and battling across the region.
• Chen Tianyang ordered the Five Sects Ten Gates to spread out and kill the demons, and Bai Ze joined the Sword Sect's forces in slaughtering them.
• Old Ancestor Qingsong gained the upper hand with Moonlight Slash, prompting the Blood Demon God to use Blood God Disintegration and scatter into countless crimson threads.
• Old Ancestor Qingsong used Moonlight Illumination and Moonlight Slash to destroy the scattered threads one by one.

After the Southern Region’s demon calamity ended, Bai Ze sought help for the strange sensation he had felt during the fighting. The Drunkard discovered that a residual divine soul had entered and begun devouring Bai Ze’s soul, leaving them without a safe way to remove it.

• After the Demigod Realm demon’s defeat, Bai Ze continued fighting demons to earn points and noticed something enter him.
• More than half a month later, the Southern Region’s demon calamity ended, and Bai Ze exchanged resources at the Holy Heaven Pavilion before returning to the Sword Sect.
• Bai Ze asked Hong Yan to examine him, but she found nothing and went to fetch the Drunkard.
• The Drunkard examined Bai Ze and discovered a residual divine soul fused into his soul, replacing part of it.
• The Drunkard warned that removing the residual soul could damage Bai Ze’s talent and block his path to the Divine Realm, while leaving it alone could let it devour half his soul within twenty years.

Elder Jiu brought Bai Ze to Old Ancestor Xuanjian for help with the divine soul eroding his soul. After examining Bai Ze, Old Ancestor Xuanjian concluded that only a true God Realm expert could remove it without damaging Bai Ze’s soul.

• Elder Jiu explained the possible ways to address the damage to Bai Ze’s soul, and Bai Ze rejected cutting away part of it.
• Hong Yan suggested asking Old Ancestor for help, and Elder Jiu agreed to take Bai Ze to him.
• Elder Jiu brought Bai Ze into the Sword Sect’s depths and left him waiting outside the grand hall while he went in to meet Old Ancestor Xuanjian.
• Old Ancestor Xuanjian examined Bai Ze with his divine sense and identified the remnant as a true divine soul fused with Bai Ze’s soul.
• Old Ancestor Xuanjian said that removing the remnant without harming Bai Ze would likely require a true God Realm expert.

Old Ancestor Xuanjian sealed the remnant divine soul inside Bai Ze for fifty years, leaving him to find a permanent solution before the seal expired. Bai Ze resolved to reach the Divine Realm within that time and gained free access to Misty Peak’s Scripture Pavilion to improve his talent.

• Old Ancestor Xuanjian warned Bai Ze that sealing the remnant divine soul could awaken it, then sealed it for around fifty years.
• Old Ancestor Xuanjian sent Bai Ze to the entrance of the Sword Sect, where Bai Ze decided to become a true Divine Realm expert before the seal expired.
• Bai Ze went to Misty Peak and told Hong Yan that Old Ancestor Xuanjian could not permanently resolve his soul problem.
• Hong Yan reassured Bai Ze and agreed to search for soul-repairing secret arts while advising him to focus on raising his realm.
• Hong Yan gave Bai Ze the Peak Master Token, allowing him unrestricted access to Misty Peak’s Scripture Pavilion, and Bai Ze planned to use its techniques to gain Talent Points and improve his talent.

Bai Ze left Misty Peak for the Central Domain after memorizing its martial skills, aiming to strengthen his talent and reach the God Realm within fifty years. As he departed, Qin Fu learned he was traveling alone and prepared to avenge his younger brother, unaware of how much Bai Ze had advanced.

• Bai Ze spent over a month memorizing Misty Peak's martial skills while Hong Yan quietly worried that the remnant divine soul in his soul could not be removed safely.
• Bai Ze found Lü Ruoxue's letter saying she had already gone to the Central Domain, and decided to follow her early so he could cultivate the skills he had memorized.
• Hong Yan agreed to let Bai Ze leave and replenished the powerful attack she had placed in his mind; Bai Ze promised to return within fifty years before bidding her farewell.
• After Bai Ze left the Sword Sect, Hong Yan watched him depart from concealment.
• Qin Fu learned that Bai Ze had left the Sword Sect alone and resolved to kill him to avenge Qin Shou, believing Bai Ze could not match his Void Return Realm Mid Stage cultivation.

Bai Ze killed Qin Fu, who had come seeking revenge, then traveled from Shadow City to Ao Tian City in the Central Domain. After learning about the region’s powerful Lineages, the demon threat, and the upcoming True Dragon List, Bai Ze focused on finding resources and a chance to enter the Void Dragon Pool.

• Qin Fu tracked down Bai Ze and threatened revenge for his younger brother, but Bai Ze killed him with a few sword strikes.
• Bai Ze reached Shadow City and used the Fulai Chamber of Commerce’s Teleportation Array to travel to the Central Domain.
• Bai Ze arrived in Ao Tian City, where he observed the city’s powerful formation and settled into an inn.
• Bai Ze paid the waiter to explain the Central Domain, learning about its great Lineages, the demons occupying several regions, and the recent battle between Hao Tianchen and the Black Fiend Demon God.
• Bai Ze decided to seek resources to increase his strength and noted that the True Dragon List would soon open, offering entry to the Void Dragon Pool.

Bai Ze learned that the True Dragon List would open in True Dragon City in half a year and traveled there. On the way, he killed four pursuers who attacked him after Li Lüer falsely called him her husband, then held her at swordpoint as she tried to deceive him.

• Bai Ze overheard that the True Dragon List would open in True Dragon City in half a year and set out for the city.
• More than a month later, Li Lüer fled from several men and called Bai Ze her husband to draw him into the fight.
• Bai Ze attacked Li Lüer and her pursuers, then killed four Void Return Realm peak warriors with his sword technique.
• Bai Ze caught Li Lüer as she tried to escape and demanded to know who she was.
• Li Lüer pretended that her family had been killed and pleaded for Bai Ze to spare her, but he saw through her act.

Bai Ze forced Li Lüer to hand over a Saint Stone and take him to retrieve another in exchange for her life. They reached Dongjiang City, where he guarded against her escape, and Li Lüer secretly plotted to turn the retrieval into a chance to recover her losses.

• Li Lüer offered Bai Ze a Saint Stone and promised to lead him to another one, so he spared her and took the first stone.
• Bai Ze gave Li Lüer three days to recover, then brought her toward Dongjiang City.
• Li Lüer disguised herself with a human-skin mask, but Bai Ze marked her so he could track her through any disguise.
• Bai Ze followed Li Lüer into Dongjiang City, where portraits of her former appearance were posted by the gate, and rented one room at an inn.
• Li Lüer began treating her injuries while secretly planning to use the Saint Stone retrieval to turn the tables on Bai Ze.

Bai Ze pressured Li Lüer to reveal that the Saint Stones belonged to the Wu family and prepared to sneak in with her to steal them. After agreeing to split the stones, they set out to act under cover of night.

• Bai Ze sealed their inn room with a formation and spent three days cultivating while Li Lüer recovered from her injuries.
• Li Lüer broke the formation when she tried to leave the bed, and Bai Ze dispersed it before demanding that she take him to the Saint Stones.
• Li Lüer said they had to wait until night to go, and Bai Ze agreed while warning her not to deceive him.
• Bai Ze put on night-traveling clothes, revealing that he suspected the Saint Stones were not Li Lüer's to begin with.
• Li Lüer admitted that the Wu family had at least two more Saint Stones and proposed stealing them together and splitting them evenly, which Bai Ze accepted.

Li Lüer and Bai Ze infiltrated the Wu Family to steal its Saint Stone, using a fire and an attack on the young master to draw guards away. They found the storage place empty and were surrounded by Wu Haitian, who pursued them as they fled.

• Li Lüer showed Bai Ze her map of the Wu Family and explained that she had worked as Wu Hao’s maid and believed the Saint Stone was still stored in his residence.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer entered the Wu Family separately at night, avoiding patrols because the city’s Anti-Air Formation prevented them from flying in.
• Bai Ze used the Phantom Needle Technique to injure the young master again while Li Lüer’s fire at the technique tower drew guards away.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer regrouped and searched Wu Hao’s residence, but found the Saint Stone missing.
• Wu Haitian and the Wu Family guards surrounded the pair, and Bai Ze and Li Lüer fled in opposite directions as Wu Haitian took pursuit.

Bai Ze fled the Wu family with Wu Haitian in pursuit, while Li Lüer evaded the guards using her deceptive movement technique. Outside the city, Bai Ze was forced to fight Wu Haitian and wounded him with a powerful sword strike.

• Li Lüer split into afterimages to escape Wu Haitian and the guards as Bai Ze fled across the rooftops.
• Wu Haitian pursued Bai Ze toward the city outskirts, deliberately keeping him in sight until they left the city.
• Li Lüer’s movement technique confused the guards, while a middle-aged man watched and revealed that she was known as the Thousand-Faced Fox.
• Wu Haitian caught up to Bai Ze outside the city and used his domain to suppress Bai Ze’s King Ming Domain.
• Bai Ze turned to fight with Heaven-Defying Three Forms: Slay Heaven and Earth, and his sword strike wounded Wu Haitian’s palms.

Bai Ze used a power left within him by his master to kill Wu Haitian, an Earth Saint Realm expert, and took Wu Haitian's Storage Bag. After traveling for more than two months, Bai Ze reached True Dragon City and prepared to advance his cultivation before the True Dragon List began.

• Bai Ze fought Wu Haitian and realized he could only contend with a Saint Realm expert briefly, even with his perfected Sword Intent and partially converted Saint Power.
• When Wu Haitian attacked, a force within Bai Ze unleashed an icy domain that froze Wu Haitian and shattered him into pieces.
• Bai Ze took Wu Haitian's Storage Bag and headed for True Dragon City, leaving Li Lüer behind and acknowledging that his claim of being able to track her had been a lie.
• After more than two months of travel, Bai Ze arrived near True Dragon City with plentiful cultivation resources but no Saint Stones in Wu Haitian's Storage Bag.
• Bai Ze rented an inn room and planned to reach the peak of the Void Return Realm before the True Dragon List began, hoping to enter the True Dragon Pool and break through to the Saint Realm.

As the True Dragon List Contention Battle approached, Bai Ze reached the peak of the Void Return Realm and resolved to win a place in the True Dragon Pool. The True Dragon City Lord opened the True Dragon Secret Realm, where the Heavenly Prides began competing for tokens needed to enter the pool.

• Heavenly Prides from across the Central Continent arrived in True Dragon City, where Earth Saint Realm True Dragon Guards enforced a strict ban on fighting.
• Bai Ze absorbed his Saint Stones, reached the peak of the Void Return Realm, and vowed to obtain a place in the True Dragon Pool.
• The True Dragon City Lord announced that competitors could gather True Dragon Tokens in the secret realm, with ten tokens required to enter the True Dragon Pool when it opened in three days.
• The Heavenly Prides entered the True Dragon Secret Realm using their King's Marks, and Bai Ze charged inside after condensing his Sword Mark.
• Martial artists without King's Marks tried to enter but were shattered by the secret realm's entrance.