Chapter Summaries

After killing five Demon Venerables, Wei Fan became the focus of alarm across Great Gan Kingdom and the Extreme Martial Sect. He healed from his wounds and advanced to the Golden Body Eighth Refinement, while the Extreme Martial Sect abandoned its plan to seek revenge and prepared for his possible attack.

• Wei Fan’s victory over Niu Ding Tian and He Jiu Ling spread across Great Gan Kingdom, and Li Yunfei warned him that the Xuanhe Sect might retaliate.
• Jiang Li prepared to lead the Extreme Martial Sect against Wei Fan for Jiang Yi’s death, but Jiang Long reported that Wei Fan had killed five Demon Venerables and reached the Golden Body Seventh Refinement.
• Jiang Li called off the expedition, recalled the sect’s disciples, and ordered the elders to prepare the mountain-protecting formation in case Wei Fan attacked.
• Wei Fan recovered his injured hands, then used 400 years of Golden Body Cultivation Power to complete the Golden Body Eighth Refinement.

Wei Fan forged a powerful arrow, accepted the Zhou royal family's apology and gift, and left Hezhou after allowing Zhou Wenli to remain as its Commander-in-Chief. He traveled to the Extreme Martial Sect with Ji Qingyue, where the sect activated its grand formation upon his arrival.

• Wei Fan completed the merger of the Demon Horn Arrow and Dragon Sunset Bow into a new weapon, and demons avoided retaliating against Hezhou after witnessing his strength.
• Zhou Chengqian presented Wei Fan with Spirit Jade on behalf of the royal family and asked him to spare Zhou Wenli for fleeing the battle against Niu Ding Tian.
• Wei Fan allowed Zhou Wenli to remain in Hezhou as Commander-in-Chief, warning that he would hold the Zhou royal family responsible if Zhou Wenli fled again.
• Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue left Hezhou and headed toward the Extreme Martial Sect, while Li Yunfei and Xie Cailin parted ways with them.
• Wei Fan condemned the Extreme Martial Sect for leaving commoners unprotected and approached its mountain gate with Ji Qingyue.
• The Extreme Martial Sect recognized Wei Fan and raised its grand formation to shield the sect.

Wei Fan confronted the Extreme Martial Sect and demanded that it disband or be destroyed, while sect master Jiang Li relied on the Martial King formation to defend it. After the formation repelled Wei Fan’s first attacks, he prepared to test it with the Dragon Sunset Bow and three arrows.

• Wei Fan approached the Extreme Martial Sect’s grand array while its disciples watched in alarm.
• Jiang Li tried to stop Wei Fan, but Wei Fan demanded that the sect disband or he would destroy it.
• Jiang Li refused, and the elders and disciples strengthened the formation and readied its counterattack.
• Wei Fan revealed his Golden Body Eighth Refinement and struck the barrier, but his punch failed to break it.
• The formation’s blade shadow overwhelmed Wei Fan’s saber strike and forced him backward.
• Wei Fan put away the Tiger Soul Saber and drew the Dragon Sunset Bow and three arrows, declaring that he had not used his full strength either.

Wei Fan aimed the fully charged Dragon Sunset Bow at the Extreme Martial Sect’s grand array, but redirected it when Wasteland Martial Alliance envoy Li Guiping arrived and tried to intimidate him. Wei Fan killed Li Guiping and his escorts with one arrow, leaving the Extreme Martial Sect terrified.

• Wei Fan drew on heaven-and-earth essence energy to charge the Dragon Sunset Bow, alarming Jiang Li and forcing the Extreme Martial Sect to pour its strength into the grand array.
• A war chariot bearing the North Alliance banners arrived with Li Guiping of the Big Dipper Sword Sect, whom Jiang Li hoped would restrain Wei Fan.
• Li Guiping accused Wei Fan of attacking Wasteland Martial Alliance sects and demanded that the Extreme Martial Sect crush him.
• Wei Fan turned his arrow toward Li Guiping and declared that he was killing Wasteland Martial Alliance envoys.
• Wei Fan fired and vaporized Li Guiping, the war chariot, and its Divine Martial Grandmaster escorts, leaving only Li Guiping’s black greatsword behind.

Wei Fan tested the Extreme Martial Sect’s Martial King Grand Array, then used Form Follows Will to enter it and attack Jiang Li. When Jiang Li unleashed the array’s full power, Wei Fan brought out the Seal God Seal, leaving their clash poised to escalate.

• Wei Fan’s Dragon Horn Arrow nearly pierced the grand array, but its barrier recovered, and Jiang Li ordered the disciples to channel their strength into it.
• Wei Fan endured the array’s blade shadows long enough to test their power, then vanished among them and reappeared behind Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li’s array-protected body stopped Wei Fan’s punch, and he drove the grand array’s full force at Wei Fan.
• Wei Fan dodged Jiang Li’s banner and produced the Seal God Seal.

Wei Fan seized the Martial King array flag and destroyed the Extreme Martial Sect after sealing Jiang Li’s Primordial Spirit with the Seal God Seal. He decided to give the intact sect grounds to the Zhao Kingdom Demon Suppressing Division, and Guardian Envoy Lu Yongnian set out to meet him.

• Wei Fan used the Seal God Seal to seal Jiang Li’s Primordial Spirit, causing him to drop the array flag.
• Wei Fan took control of the Martial King Grand Array, killed the Extreme Martial Sect’s Martial Venerables, and drove the remaining disciples away.
• Wei Fan spared the fleeing disciples, withdrew the array, and took Jiang Li’s storage gourd.
• Wei Fan proposed giving the Extreme Martial Sect grounds to the Zhao Kingdom Demon Suppressing Division so they could train Demon Suppressing Guards.
• Lu Yongnian learned that Wei Fan had destroyed the sect alone and flew to the Former Site of the Extreme Martial Sect to meet him.

Wei Fan found the Extreme Martial Sect’s Martial King inheritance and a formation array manual, then arranged for Lu Yongnian to turn the sect into a training ground for human warriors. After Lu Yongnian departed, the mysterious woman from Jade Wave Lake appeared and revealed that Wei Fan was the person she had been searching for.

• Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue studied the Purple Profound Martial Codex’s martial skills, and Wei Fan discovered the Martial King-level Purple Realm Rift Fist.
• Wei Fan found a hidden Formation Array Primer and was interrupted by Lu Yongnian, Guardian Envoy of the Zhao Kingdom’s Demon Suppressing Division.
• Wei Fan offered the Extreme Martial Sect to the Demon Suppressing Division on the condition that it train human warriors who would fight demons and monsters, regardless of their dynasty or faction.
• Wei Fan gave Lu Yongnian the banner controlling the Martial King Grand Array and told him to take over the sect and protect its resources.
• After Lu Yongnian left, the mysterious woman who had killed the Flying Cloud Stronghold’s Martial Venerables appeared behind Wei Fan and said she had finally found him.

Feng Hua revealed that the Wasteland was isolated from the outside world by the remnants of Qi Daozhen’s collapsing martial Dao, which had also made cultivation there incomplete. She asked Wei Fan for help, and the chapter left Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue eager to see the far more advanced world beyond the Wasteland.

• Feng Hua introduced herself and told Wei Fan she had come to ask him for a favor that would benefit him as well.
• Feng Hua took Wei Fan high above the Wasteland and showed him the pressure of the collapsing Dao surrounding it.
• Feng Hua explained that the aftermath of the collapse formed the lifeless desert barrier, trapping the Wasteland and preventing even Martial Kings from crossing it.
• After Ji Qingyue joined them, Feng Hua revealed that Qi Daozhen’s Dao had collapsed when he died, leaving the Wasteland’s martial Dao incomplete.
• Feng Hua described the stronger cultivators and extraordinary constitutions found outside the Wasteland, stirring Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue’s desire to leave.

Feng Hua explained how Qi Daozhen’s death had caused the Wasteland’s Dao collapse and offered Wei Fan a way out in exchange for helping her. She revealed that she only wanted him to accompany her somewhere, leaving her true goal undisclosed.

• Feng Hua told Ji Qingyue that the demons outside the Wasteland retained terrifying powers that their Wasteland kin had lost.
• Feng Hua explained that Qi Daozhen’s Dao collapse might last another one to two thousand years and that the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Desolate Empire had nearly inherited his Way of All People by uniting the Wasteland.
• Feng Hua said the Battle of the Fallen Saint had accelerated the Dao collapse and allowed the Demon Hunter Organization to send experts into the Wasteland.
• Wei Fan asked Feng Hua to share her means of leaving the Wasteland if he succeeded in helping her, and she agreed.
• Feng Hua revealed that her sect’s secret treasure could take only one person out, but offered to seek more treasures from her sect for Wei Fan later.
• When Wei Fan asked what she wanted him to do, Feng Hua said she only wanted him to go somewhere with her.

Feng Hua asked Wei Fan to join her in opening a secret place once he reached the Martial King realm, while Wei Fan continued preparing for his breakthrough. When Xuanhe Sect’s forces surrounded Yunhua Sect to lure him into a trap, Wei Fan set out to help, and Dongfang Ye prepared the sect for a possible massacre.

• Feng Hua gave Wei Fan a token and asked him to contact her after reaching the Martial King realm so they could open a secret place together.
• Wei Fan studied the Formation Array Primer, then chose to save his cultivation power for his own advancement.
• Lu Yongnian brought the first group of young cultivators to the Extreme Martial Sect for training and sect duties.
• Ji Qingyue told Wei Fan that demons and monsters had surrounded Yunhua Sect, and Gongyang Bo warned that Xuanhe Sect’s Demon Kings were keeping him at bay.
• Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue flew toward Yunhua Sect despite the ambush risk.
• Dongfang Ye identified nearly twenty powerful Demon Venerables surrounding Yunhua Sect, including He Wushuang, Holy Son of Xuanhe Sect, and told Li Qingmeng to prepare everyone to flee.

The demons forced Wei Fan to appear by threatening Yunhua Sect, and he killed one Demon Venerable with the Dragon Sunset Bow before driving the others away from the sect. As Yunhua Sect’s people fled, the demons formed the Myriad Demon Array to fight him.

• The Five-Colored Demonic Ox Demon Venerable attacked Yunhua Sect, but Wei Fan arrived and killed him with an arrow from the Dragon Sunset Bow.
• Wei Fan wounded a red-haired Demon Venerable with another arrow and vaporized a demon who attacked Yunhua Sect, warning the demons not to harm the sect.
• The Young Lion King, Young Ape King, and Xuanhe Sect Holy Son advanced on Wei Fan while Dongfang Ye ordered Yunhua Sect’s disciples to flee.
• The demons gathered around Wei Fan and formed the Myriad Demon Array as he waited for Yunhua Sect’s people to escape.

Wei Fan completed the ninth refinement of his Golden Body while fighting sixteen Demon Venerables united by the Myriad Demon Array. He used the Human King Bell and Form Follows Will to slaughter their ranks, while the Xuanhe Sect's Holy Son struggled to bring out a borrowed King weapon.

• The Xuanhe Sect's Holy Son led the Demon Venerables in a combined attack and used their power of will to suppress Wei Fan's speed.
• Wei Fan completed the Golden Body Ninth Refinement, reaching perfection in the Martial Venerable realm.
• The Young Lion King called for the borrowed King weapon, and the Xuanhe Sect's Holy Son began opening its box.
• Wei Fan used the Human King Bell to block the Demon Venerables' power of will, then charged into the Myriad Demon Array with Form Follows Will.
• The Xuanhe Sect's Holy Son severed his connection to the array and warned the Demon Venerables to disrupt Wei Fan's power of will, but their efforts only caused chaos among themselves.
• Wei Fan killed seven or eight Demon Venerables with the Solar True Fire Palm as the Young Lion King and Young Ape King demanded that the King weapon be used.

The Xuanhe Sect Holy Son and the Young Ape King and Young Lion King used the King-Slaying Mace to attack Wei Fan, but his Golden Bell proved even stronger and shattered their strike. As Wei Fan seized the mace and moved to kill the Holy Son, a protective treasure summoned the Xuanhe Sect Demon King.

• The Young Ape King and Young Lion King helped the Xuanhe Sect Holy Son activate the King-Slaying Mace, whose ripples killed the nearby Demon Venerables and restricted Wei Fan's Form Follows Will.
• The three Demon Venerables noticed Wei Fan remained unharmed, and he revealed his Golden Bell, which destroyed the mace's attack and knocked them away.
• Wei Fan took the King-Slaying Mace from the Xuanhe Sect Holy Son and swung it at him.
• A divine jade on the Xuanhe Sect Holy Son cracked and summoned the Xuanhe Sect Demon King, who appeared as the Holy Son called for him to kill Wei Fan.

Wei Fan destroyed the Xuanhe Sect Master’s will incarnation and killed the Xuanhe Sect Holy Son, Young Ape King, and Young Lion King after they tried to escape and fight back. With a Demon King approaching, Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue split up to flee.

• Wei Fan used Form Follows Will and the Seal God Seal to destroy the Xuanhe Sect Master’s will incarnation.
• The Xuanhe Sect Holy Son, Young Ape King, and Young Lion King tried to flee, but Wei Fan caught and killed them.
• Young Lion King used Purple Eye Soul Capture, but Wei Fan’s Golden Bell blocked it; Wei Fan then killed Young Ape King and Young Lion King.
• Wei Fan gained cultivation power from the fallen Demon Venerables and warned Ji Qingyue that a Demon King was coming.
• Ji Qingyue flew toward Dongfang Ye while Wei Fan erased his aura and fled in another direction.

Wei Fan was pursued by the newly revealed Azure Demon King, who sought revenge for the deaths of the Xuanhe Sect's Holy Son and the Demon Race's elites. Wei Fan used the Human King Bell to withstand the Demon King's strike and break through his King's Domain with lightning, leaving the Azure Demon King struck and screaming in terror.

• Wei Fan fled through the mountains but the Azure Demon King tracked him down and revealed that Wei Fan's Ninth Refinement Seven-Colored Golden Body made him too dangerous to let live.
• The Azure Demon King said he had wanted to enslave Wei Fan but would kill him for killing the Xuanhe Sect's Holy Son, the Young Ape King, and other Demon Race elites.
• Wei Fan summoned the Human King Bell, which blocked the Azure Demon King's attack and knocked his palm back with a burst of golden light.
• Wei Fan turned the bell toward the Azure Demon King and unleashed a massive blast of lightning.
• The Azure Demon King activated his King's Domain and restrained Wei Fan, but the Human King Bell tore through the domain and struck him.

Wei Fan killed the Azure Demon King with the Human King Bell after defeating the demons sent against him, though humans did not know he had survived. The demons and human Martial Kings clashed as the Xuanhe Sect Holy Master sought revenge, while rumors left the wider world believing Wei Fan was dead.

• Wei Fan killed the Azure Demon King with the Human King Bell, gained cultivation power, and escaped without revealing his aura.
• The Xuanhe Sect Holy Master learned that eighteen Demon Venerables and the Azure Demon King had died, then headed toward Yunhua Sect to kill Wei Fan and the human Martial King he blamed.
• Wei Zhenwu blocked the Xuanhe Sect Holy Master and attacked him, beginning a fierce battle near Xuanhe Sect.
• At the Great Gan Kingdom border, Gongyang Bo fought the retreating Sky-Propping Demon King to prevent him from reaching Wei Fan.
• King-level battles shook the Wasteland, and rumors spread that the demons had trapped Wei Fan, while people across the kingdoms assumed he had been killed.

After surviving the demons’ ambush, Wei Fan hid in a cave to break through toward Martial King. He confirmed that Golden Body Ninth Refinement was the limit, then began the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm’s second transformation, which left his Primordial Spirit wrapped in a golden cocoon.

• Wei Fan parted from Ji Qingyue and avoided meeting the Yunhua Sect, deciding to find a place to advance to Martial King.
• Feng Hua found Wei Fan using the paired communication token and learned that he had killed the eighteen Demon Venerables in the ambush.
• Wei Fan left Feng Hua and entered a secluded cave, where he examined his cultivation panel and spent over a thousand years of Golden Body Cultivation Power with little effect.
• Wei Fan concluded that Golden Body Ninth Refinement was the limit and turned to cultivating the second transformation of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm.
• He immersed himself in the heavenly melodies as his Primordial Spirit changed and became wrapped in a great golden cocoon.

Wei Fan completed the second transformation of his Primordial Spirit, gaining a golden Primordial Spirit and a stronger connection to heaven and earth. While he explored his new abilities, the Great Ying imperial Qin Family began arresting people close to him, believing he was dead.

• Wei Fan completed the second transformation of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm, and his silver Primordial Spirit became golden.
• Wei Fan discovered that he could travel a thousand meters with a thought and revive animals whose injuries were not too severe.
• Long Jianying worried about Wei Fan's disappearance, but Long Xueyi believed Wei Fan was alive and cultivating somewhere.
• Qin Heng arrived with Inspector Envoys, arrested Long Jianying on charges of neglecting his duties, and ordered Long Xueyi arrested as well.
• Long Xueyi warned Qin Heng that Wei Fan might return, but Qin Heng declared that Wei Fan was as good as dead and threatened everyone connected to him.
• The Great Ying imperial family arrested Wei Fan's associates across Qingzhou and Tongzhou, including You Qingfeng.

Wei Fan broke through to the Martial King realm, learned that the Great Ying Dynasty had imprisoned his friends and the Chu Royal Family was pursuing Ning Xiaoye, then returned to confront the threats. The chapter ended as Long Jianying, Pei Shinan, Shentu Bao, and others were brought to the execution grounds, where Li Yunfei and Xie Cailin prepared to rescue them.

• Wei Fan comprehended heaven and earth, entered the first level of the Martial King realm, and gained the power of a domain.
• Wei Fan decided to postpone improving the Human King Bell and learn Purple Realm Rift before seeking more cultivation power.
• At a tavern, Wei Fan learned that the Great Ying Dynasty had imprisoned his friends and that the Chu Royal Family had clashed with the Yunhua Sect over Ning Xiaoye.
• Wei Fan asked whether any factions were targeting him as he learned that several Martial Venerables had helped the Yunhua Sect escape the Chu Kingdom.
• At the Great Ying Dynasty's execution grounds, Li Yunfei and Xie Cailin discussed rescuing Wei Fan's friends and the Hall Master's authorization to destroy the Qin Family if necessary.
• Prison carts carrying Long Jianying, Pei Shinan and his family, Shentu Bao, and others entered the execution grounds.

The Qin royal family executed Wei Fan’s friends and relatives to avenge its humiliation and lure him out, but Wei Fan appeared and killed Qin Chao and the executioners with his Dragon Sunset Bow. After Xie Cailin and Li Yunfei freed the captives, Wei Fan confronted the Qin Clan as its Second Ancestor charged him with the ancestral artifact.

• Qin Sheng oversaw the executions while Qin Chao explained that the Qin Family intended to draw out Wei Fan and strike while he was injured.
• Xie Cailin and Li Yunfei intervened, and Xie Cailin told Qin Sheng that Wei Fan was still alive.
• Qin Chao revealed his Six-Colored Golden Body and challenged Wei Fan, but a lightning arrow killed him before he could react.
• Wei Fan’s arrows killed the executioners and royal Martial Venerables, allowing Xie Cailin and Li Yunfei to free Long Jianying, Long Xueyi, Shentu Bao, Pei Shinan, and the others.
• Wei Fan appeared on the execution platform with the Dragon Sunset Bow, and the Qin Clan’s Second Ancestor charged him with the ancestral artifact.