Chapter Summaries

Bai Ze, Li Lüer, and Su Yan reached Wangtian City, where Bai Ze commissioned Ouyang Shan to forge a longsword using rare materials and Li Lüer’s payment. After agreeing to accompany Li Lüer to a secret realm once she reached the Saint Realm, Bai Ze waited for the sword while facing the pressure of his remnant divine soul and limited time to reach the Divine Realm.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer returned to their original appearances, and Su Yan was surprised to discover that Li Lüer was a beautiful woman.
• Bai Ze entered the Sword Pavilion and asked Ouyang Shan to forge him a longsword.
• Ouyang Shan required five hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, Youming Grass, and forging materials, so Bai Ze persuaded Li Lüer to pay in exchange for a favor.
• Ouyang Shan examined Bai Ze’s rare materials, agreed to forge a top-grade Saint Realm longsword, and told him to return with his token in one week.
• Li Lüer asked Bai Ze to accompany her to a secret realm after she reached the Saint Realm, and Bai Ze agreed to go with her after collecting his sword.
• Bai Ze considered the urgency of breaking through to the Divine Realm before he had to forcibly remove part of his soul.

Bai Ze received the Dragon Soaring Cold Light Sword from Ouyang Shan and set out with Li Lüer and Su Yan for the secret realm. At the gorge, Su Yan used her blood to break the entrance formation, and the three entered before the other martial artists followed.

• Ouyang Shan gave Bai Ze the Dragon Soaring Cold Light Sword, a top-grade Saint Realm weapon forged with Void Stone.
• Bai Ze returned to the inn, restrained the sword’s presence, and left with Li Lüer and Su Yan for the secret realm.
• Bai Ze and the women found more than ten martial artists gathered at the gorge, unable to open the secret realm.
• Li Lüer guided Su Yan to cut her palm and press her blood against the entrance, forming an array diagram that shattered the formation.
• Bai Ze, Li Lüer, and Su Yan entered the secret realm, and the waiting martial artists rushed in after them as the entrance disappeared.

Bai Ze and the others entered the Place of Inheritance, where Su Yan received the Dream God's inheritance from the Inheritance Crystal Stone. After the other martial artists attacked her for it, Bai Ze and Li Lüer escaped through a spatial crack, while Su Yan trapped her attackers in endless nightmares.

• Bai Ze and the other martial artists experienced scenes from their pasts before appearing on an altar beside the Inheritance Crystal Stone.
• Li Lüer explained that the crystal held the Dream God's inheritance for someone with a Dream Body, and Su Yan successfully received it.
• The figure in the crystal warned that the inheritance could not be forcibly retained, then vanished as the crystal shattered.
• The martial artists tried to force Su Yan to surrender the inheritance, and Bai Ze and Li Lüer sensed danger.
• Bai Ze tore open a spatial crack, and Li Lüer enlarged it so they could escape.
• Su Yan used Nightmare to trap the attacking martial artists in endless nightmares.

Dream God Shen Lan revealed that the inheritance was a body-snatching trap and began merging with Su Yan’s body. After escaping through a spatial rift, Bai Ze and Li Lüer became stranded in the Land of Divine War, where Li Lüer revealed she came from the Xuan Cang Realm and prepared to show Bai Ze a special cultivation method.

• Dream God Shen Lan watched Bai Ze and Li Lüer leave, then entered a dream to cultivate while fusing with Su Yan’s body.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer were swept through a Spatial Storm and awoke in a desolate place filled with Divine Power and ruins.
• Li Lüer identified the place as the legendary Land of Divine War after examining a broken divine artifact.
• Bai Ze’s sword strike failed to break the space, and he demanded to know who Li Lüer was.
• Li Lüer told Bai Ze she had been reborn from the Xuan Cang Realm and said they needed to cooperate to escape.
• Li Lüer began releasing a powerful soul force as she prepared to reveal a special way to cultivate amid the Divine Power.

Bai Ze swore not to harm Li Lüer or reveal what happened between them, and they used the Yin Yang Fusion Complementary Technique to refine Divine Power and grow stronger. After three years, they reached the Earth Saint Realm and prepared to practice together so they could tear open a spatial rift and escape.

• Bai Ze swore an oath to protect Li Lüer and keep their situation secret, or lose the chance to reach the Divine Realm.
• Li Lüer explained that their combined techniques could let them tear open a spatial rift once they reached the Earth Saint Realm, and showed Bai Ze the Yin Yang Fusion Complementary Technique.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer merged their souls and refined the surrounding Divine Power, which also corroded the remnant divine soul sealed within Bai Ze.
• After three years, Bai Ze reached the middle stage of the Earth Saint Realm, and Li Lüer advanced from the Void Return Realm to the same realm.
• Li Lüer urged Bai Ze to master his new power and practice the Mysterious One Qi Art and Dragon Phoenix Merging Palm with her so they could escape.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer escaped the Land of Divine War by tearing open a spatial rift, but the effort left them badly weakened. They reached Dongjiang City in the Eastern Region and learned that the strange, fearful locals were hiding a dangerous secret.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer used the Dragon Phoenix Merging Palm to open a spatial rift and escaped the Land of Divine War.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer emerged with less than one-tenth of their strength and decided to find a city where they could recuperate.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer arrived in Dongjiang City and noticed its residents watching them strangely.
• Bai Ze paid a waiter ten High-grade Spirit Stones to learn why the city was dangerous, and the waiter asked them to rent a room before explaining.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer discussed the locals' fearful behavior while waiting for the waiter to reveal what terrifying presence threatened Dongjiang City.

A waiter told Bai Ze and Li Lüer that a terrifying being in the river trapped Dongjiang City, forced martial artists to fight, and granted a wish in exchange for a hundred Void Realm corpses. After the waiter left, Li Lüer explained that the being’s feats resembled the power of laws in the Upper Realm, but questioned how such power could exist in the Lower Realm.

• The waiter warned Bai Ze and Li Lüer that a river-born being appeared every ten years, flooded Dongjiang City, and forced its martial artists to kill one another for a wish.
• The waiter said nobody could leave Dongjiang City because those who traveled more than five kilometers beyond it exploded and died, and revealed that the next ten-year deadline was less than two months away.
• The waiter admitted that he had urged Bai Ze and Li Lüer to leave so he could test whether the curse still worked, then left the room.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer discussed the waiter’s claims, and Li Lüer said that only powerful Divine Realm experts with mastery of laws could perform similar feats in the Upper Realm.
• Li Lüer questioned why a being capable of such power would appear only once every ten years and refrain from acting directly in the Lower Realm.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer investigated the rumored curse that killed anyone who left Dongjiang City. After Bai Ze forced a martial artist beyond the city’s boundary and the man exploded, Li Lüer sensed a faint trace of something and returned to the inn with Bai Ze to discuss it.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer recovered their strength while ominous black clouds gathered over Dongjiang City.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer went to the city boundary to investigate the curse, but they could not detect anything unusual.
• A martial artist urged them to cross the boundary, and Bai Ze subdued him and threw him outside it.
• The martial artist rapidly swelled and exploded, confirming the rumors to the watching crowd.
• Li Lüer sensed a faint trace of something during the man’s death and took Bai Ze back to the inn to talk.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer discovered that a formation trapped Dongjiang City, then witnessed a river entity demand sacrifices from its martial artists. After the entity announced that the chosen would enter the Land of the Gods, they decided that place held the key to escaping.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer concluded that a formation prevented people from leaving Dongjiang City and resolved to wait for the entity behind it to appear.
• A river giant surrounded Dongjiang City, while martial artists above the Void Realm slaughtered one another to gather sacrifices.
• Li Lüer detected black energy and traces of Divine Power in the river giant and suspected its true body was in the great river to the east.
• After one hundred Void Realm martial artists died, the giant consumed their corpses and chose an Entering Saint Realm man to enter the Land of the Gods the following day.
• Bai Ze secretly marked the chosen man with Sword Qi, and he and Li Lüer decided to investigate the Land of the Gods to find a way out.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer followed a martial artist to the long river, where Heiyun Tian killed him with Soul Fire. Li Lüer confronted Heiyun Tian as a divine soul and demanded a way out of Dongjiang City, leaving him to weigh her threat.

• Three days after marking the martial artist, Bai Ze and Li Lüer followed him from Dongjiang City to the long river.
• Heiyun Tian promised the martial artist invincible strength, then burned his body and soul with black Soul Fire.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer deduced that Heiyun Tian was restricted, and Li Lüer suspected he was a remnant divine soul.
• Li Lüer sent out her Earth Saint Realm divine soul and learned that Heiyun Tian had set up the formation around Dongjiang City.
• Li Lüer demanded that Heiyun Tian tell her how to leave and threatened to prevent him from obtaining future sacrifices; Heiyun Tian fell silent to consider her offer.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer fought a powerful soul being near the long river, then escaped to Dongjiang City, where its power weakened. After recovering at the inn, they decided to build their strength before confronting it again.

• The soul being attacked Li Lüer with the Soul Sea, and she struggled to defend herself despite her Earth Saint Realm strength.
• Bai Ze joined the fight with his Longevity Sword Art, helped Li Lüer escape, and was injured as they fled toward Dongjiang City.
• As Bai Ze and Li Lüer moved away from the river, the soul being weakened and eventually retreated when they fought back together in the city.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer discussed the being's strength and agreed they needed to recover and grow stronger before investigating the river or trying to capture it.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer set up several arrays in their inn room and used the Mysterious One Qi Art together to recover.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer recovered but remained trapped in Dongjiang City, while Bai Ze rejected the sealed divine soul’s offer to sacrifice the city for power. Meanwhile, the Sacred Alliance and Demonic Beings attacked across the Central Continent, and the Sacred Alliance launched an assault on the Vajra Sect to break a seal.

• Li Lüer wondered why the mysterious enemy had stopped attacking, and Bai Ze warned that he might be waiting for a better chance to strike.
• The sealed divine soul urged Bai Ze to merge with it and sacrifice everyone in the city, but Bai Ze refused and resumed cultivating.
• The Sacred Alliance and Demonic Beings swept across the Central Continent and attacked sects guarding the Demonic Beings’ seals.
• The Sacred Alliance’s black-cloaked leader ordered his followers to break the Vajra Sect’s formation and release the Demonic Beings while he held back the old Lion King.

The Sacred Alliance attacked the Vajra Sect to force open the seal containing the Demonic Beings, and Lion King confronted its leader, Black Wind Ancestor. The battle left the Vajra Sect overwhelmed, with its protective formation shattered and several elders dead.

• Lion King and more than twenty Vajra Sect elders faced the Sacred Alliance, whose members revealed they had transformed themselves into demonic beings.
• Black Wind Ancestor offered Lion King greater strength and a longer lifespan if he broke the seal, but Lion King refused.
• The Vajra Sect's Second Elder betrayed his comrades and killed two elders before Lion King blasted him apart.
• Black Wind Ancestor and Lion King began fighting as the Sacred Alliance and Vajra Sect clashed around them.
• The Sacred Alliance killed several Vajra Sect Heaven Saint Realm experts and shattered the sect's protective formation, injuring disciples inside.

Black Wind Ancestor destroyed the Vajra Sect and shattered the seal imprisoning the Innate Demonic Beings. After learning about the continent from Black Wind, the released Demonic Beings set out to break other seals and prepare for their Demon God's descent.

• Black Wind Ancestor defeated Lion King as the Sacred Alliance's experts slaughtered the Vajra Sect and destroyed it.
• Three days later, Black Wind Ancestor used his Divine Power to shatter the seal, releasing countless Innate Demonic Beings.
• The strongest Innate Demonic Being recognized the Sacred Alliance and asked Black Wind to explain what had happened across the continent.
• Black Wind told the Demonic Beings about the events of the past hundreds of thousands of years.
• The strongest Demonic Being ordered his followers to sweep through the region, break the other seals, and prepare for the Demon God's descent.

As demons swept across the continent, Ancestor Wan Qing used the Divine Name Mirror to expose and kill Acquired Demonic Beings hiding among the experts. Meanwhile, Bai Ze and Li Lü'er remained trapped in Dongjiang City, unaware of the wider crisis and facing a mysterious enemy whose power continued to grow.

• Ancestor Wan Qing gathered the experts at Holy Heaven Pavilion and called for the Divine Name Mirror to inspect them for Acquired Demonic Beings.
• The Divine Name Mirror exposed several traitors, including Ancestor Xia Peng, and Ancestor Wan Qing sealed the space as they tried to flee.
• The assembled Demigod Realm ancestors attacked and killed the exposed traitors, then used the mirror to find and eliminate more Acquired Demonic Beings among Heaven Saint Realm experts.
• Bai Ze and Li Lü'er remained trapped in Dongjiang City and knew nothing of the demons' return across the continent.
• A mysterious enemy erupted with Heaven Saint Realm strength in Dongjiang City, but Bai Ze and Li Lü'er joined forces from opposite sides of the city and drove him back.

After nearly twenty years trapped in Dongjiang City, Bai Ze and Li Lüer reached the early Heaven Saint Realm, but Bai Ze realized secluded cultivation alone would not help him advance much further. They prepared to face the next sacrificial slaughter and search for a way out, while the sealed divine soul continued trying to tempt Bai Ze.

• In the nineteenth year of their imprisonment, Bai Ze and Li Lüer broke through to the early Heaven Saint Realm.
• Bai Ze assessed his limited progress in sword techniques and physique, and refused the sealed divine soul's offer to merge with him.
• Bai Ze continued practicing the Longevity Sword Art to strengthen himself while his realm remained unchanged.
• More than two months later, Bai Ze sensed that Li Lüer had also broken through and planned to face Dongjiang City's next sacrificial slaughter with her.
• After stabilizing her realm, Li Lüer emerged with traces of Divine Power from fusing her divine soul with herself, and Bai Ze acknowledged the change.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer trained together for months before confronting the water giant that appeared during Dongjiang City's sacrificial slaughter. They trapped and defeated its avatar, refusing its offer to help them escape in exchange for freedom.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer sparred for several months, improving their techniques and mastering the Dragon Phoenix Merging Palm together.
• The sacrificial slaughter returned, and a colossal water giant appeared over Dongjiang City and focused on Bai Ze and Li Lüer.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer attacked the giant together, using their domains to block its waves and trap its avatar as a black figure.
• The black figure offered to open a gap in the formation if they released it, but Bai Ze and Li Lüer refused to free it before escaping.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer launched another combined attack, and the black figure cried out as they struck it down.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer killed the black figure’s avatar, then confronted its master, Blood Hand Evil God, at the long river. Heiyun Tian refused to lift the formation over Dongjiang City unless one of them stayed behind, and the two began fighting him.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer destroyed the black figure with a sword array and Bai Ze’s Longevity Sword Art, though their attack devastated part of Dongjiang City.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer headed for the long river, while nearby martial artists followed to see whether Dongjiang City’s curse had been lifted.
• At the river, Blood Hand Evil God revealed himself as Heiyun Tian and threatened the pair for killing his avatar.
• Bai Ze demanded that Heiyun Tian lift the formation over Dongjiang City, but Heiyun Tian refused unless one of them stayed behind to be devoured.
• Li Lüer and Bai Ze decided to fight, and Heiyun Tian summoned towering blood-red waves with Blood Sea Surging.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer fought Heiyun Tian, whose blood sea grew stronger after he devoured the martial artists nearby. With their temporary power waning, they unleashed their ultimate techniques, and Bai Ze burned four hundred years of his lifespan to strike with the Longevity Sword Art’s strongest form.

• Bai Ze and Li Lüer used the Mysterious One Qi Art and Dragon Phoenix Merging Palm to clash evenly with Heiyun Tian.
• Heiyun Tian seized and devoured the nearby martial artists, absorbing their blood and growing stronger.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer attacked with their strongest techniques as Heiyun Tian pressed them and warned that their secret arts would soon end.
• Li Lüer released a sacred aura and Divine Power while Bai Ze burned his lifespan to strengthen his sword.
• Bai Ze unleashed Eternal Longevity as Li Lüer used Divine Might Nine Cries and Heiyun Tian countered with Blood Hand Suppresses Heaven.

Bai Ze and Li Lüer wounded Heiyun Tian's Soul Body and escaped, then returned to recover while planning to kill him once they had regained their strength. Heiyun Tian launched an early assault on Dongjiang City to devour its martial artists, and Bai Ze and Li Lüer rushed to stop him.

• Bai Ze struck Heiyun Tian's Soul Body, and Li Lüer helped them break free from the sea of blood.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer fled to their cave dwelling, where they assessed Heiyun Tian's injuries and began recovering.
• Heiyun Tian decided to attack Dongjiang City early and devour its people to replenish his damaged divine soul.
• Heiyun Tian's river-water giant pinned and swallowed the city's martial artists, killing dozens.
• Bai Ze and Li Lüer arrived above Dongjiang City, recognized Heiyun Tian's blood sacrifice, and charged to attack him.