Chapter Summaries

Wei Fan destroyed the Qin Family’s last resistance, killed Emperor Qin Sheng, and took control of the Great Ying Dynasty’s capital and realm. He refused the throne and urged Long Xueyi to become empress before he left the Wasteland.

• The Qin Family’s second ancestor activated the Half King Weapon, but Wei Fan shattered it barehanded and killed him with its fragments.
• Three Guangling Sect Martial Venerables ambushed Wei Fan with a King Weapon, but he seized it barehanded and killed all three with one palm strike.
• Wei Fan dragged Qin Sheng before him and killed him after the emperor begged for mercy.
• Wei Fan ordered Shentu Bao and his allies to take control of the capital and hunt down the remaining Qin Family members.
• Wei Fan announced the Qin Family’s crimes, and Shentu Bao resumed control of the Demon Suppressing Division and captured the family’s remaining members.
• Wei Fan declined the throne and suggested that Long Xueyi become empress.

After Wei Fan wiped out the Qin Family and killed Guangling Sect disciples, he helped Long Jianying establish Dragon Country and forced its sects to join the fight against demons or leave. The chapter ended with Wei Fan preparing to study the palace formations and Long Jianying beginning to find people to train as Dragon Country’s own experts.

• Song Yi learned Wei Fan had returned and ordered the Song Family to seek Gongyang Bo’s mediation, but the Demon Hunter Organization refused to interfere in their feud.
• Wei Fan received Huo Tianzheng’s report on Dragon Country’s sects and ordered every sect to send disciples into the Demon Suppressing Division or leave within seven days.
• Long Jianying held his enthronement ceremony, and the Great Ying Dynasty officially became Dragon Country.
• Nine supreme factions relocated, while the remaining sects began sending disciples to fight demons, greatly strengthening the Demon Suppressing Division.
• Wei Fan told Long Jianying that Dragon Country needed to cultivate its own experts, and Long Jianying agreed to find promising people for training.
• Wei Fan returned to his palace to study and modify its formations.

Wei Fan established the Cloud Gathering Spirit Array in Dragon Country and left to resolve the Yunhua Sect’s resettlement, deciding that destroying the Song Family might give its disciples a home. He attacked the Chu Kingdom’s imperial palace, killing most of the Song Family’s Martial Venerables, and sealed the capital as he approached.

• Wei Fan completed the Cloud Gathering Spirit Array and gave Long Jianying its control flag so Dragon Country could train elite disciples there.
• Wei Fan left Dragon Country with Li Yunfei and Xie Cailin, saying he needed to find a place for the Yunhua Sect’s seventy or eighty thousand disciples.
• Wei Fan considered taking the Chu Kingdom from the Song Family, while Xie Cailin suggested that a Demon Suppressing Division expert could become emperor and grant the Yunhua Sect territory.
• Song Yi rejected a proposal to abandon the throne and scatter the Song Family, then Wei Fan’s lightning arrow devastated the palace hall and killed eight of its eleven Martial Venerables.
• Wei Fan ordered the people of the Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Capital not to enter or leave as golden figures sealed the city and he flew toward the palace.

Wei Fan destroyed the Song Family’s remaining Martial Venerables and exposed its betrayal of the Ning Family Ancestor and its failure to protect the people. He chose Deng Yuchang as the Chu Kingdom’s new emperor and began setting conditions for the succession.

• Wei Fan sealed the Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Capital and confronted Song Yi, accusing the Song Family of joining demons to murder the Ning Family Ancestor and targeting the Yunhua Sect for the Human-Demon Devouring Art.
• The people of the capital condemned the Song Family and rejected Song Yi’s claim that his family had sheltered them.
• Wei Fan challenged Song Yi to name a Song Family expert who had sacrificed himself against demons, then killed Song Yi and the two other surviving Song Family Martial Venerables.
• Wei Fan summoned the Demon Suppressing Division’s Guardian Envoys and asked Deng Yuchang to become the Chu Kingdom’s new emperor.
• Deng Yuchang asked whether there were conditions, and Wei Fan required him to lower taxes and treat the people well.

After destroying the Song Family and handing Chu Kingdom to Deng Yuchang, Wei Fan imposed rules requiring the imperial family to fight demons and the sects to join the Demon Suppressing Division or leave. His challenge forced the Wasteland Martial Alliance and Guangling Sect to decide how to respond, and Guangling Sect ordered the Big Dipper Sword King to confront him.

• Wei Fan required Deng Yuchang to send every member of the Deng imperial family to fight demons, make sects enter the Demon Suppressing Division or leave Chu Kingdom, and rebuild the Yunhua Sect there.
• Deng Yuchang and the two Guardian Envoys accepted Wei Fan's conditions, then mobilized troops to arrest the Song Family and announced Deng Yuchang's coming ascension.
• News of Wei Fan's demands spread across the Wasteland, leaving Gongyang Bo and the Wasteland Martial Alliance unsure whether Wei Fan acted alone or had a Martial King supporting him.
• Guangling Sect's elders debated how to respond to Wei Fan, who had killed Guangling Sect disciples and challenged the alliance's authority.
• Guangling Sect's Sacred Master ordered the Big Dipper Sword King to end his seclusion and, with Starfall Pavilion's help, resolve Wei Fan within two days.

Wei Fan turned the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron into an elementary king weapon while preparing for the Wasteland Martial Alliance and remaining wary of Feng Hua. After Deng Yuchang reported that most Great Liang sects had rejected Wei Fan’s demands, Wei Fan drew out the Alliance’s challenger and faced the Big Dipper Sword King in the sky.

• Wei Fan used his cultivation power and formation-array knowledge to inscribe Dao Marks on the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron and raise it to an elementary king weapon.
• Ji Qingyue and Dongfang Ye gathered Yunhua Sect’s scattered disciples, and Wei Fan helped rebuild their mountain gate before attending Deng Yuchang’s coronation as ruler of Great Liang.
• Deng Yuchang told Wei Fan that only five of Great Liang’s twenty-six top sects had agreed to send disciples to the Demon Suppressing Division, while two had relocated and nineteen remained defiant.
• Wei Fan left the capital and flew toward an uninhabited region, where he sensed an observer and met the Big Dipper Sword King, who had cultivated a Demonic Cultivation Art.
• The Big Dipper Sword King challenged Wei Fan and threatened to kill him with one sword, so Wei Fan flew upward and called for them to fight in the high sky.

Wei Fan revealed that he had become a Martial King and fought the Big Dipper Sword King, who had cultivated a Demonic Cultivation Art. Wei Fan shattered the Sword King's domain and pressed in with a killing punch, but the Sword King met him with his sword-like body and mind.

• Wei Fan challenged the Big Dipper Sword King to fight in the sky and revealed his Martial King aura, shocking the Sword King.
• The Big Dipper Sword King admitted he had underestimated Wei Fan, then decided he could not let Wei Fan reveal his Demonic Cultivation Art.
• The Big Dipper Sword King summoned the Big Dipper Sword Codex and attacked with sword lights empowered by the stars, but Wei Fan used his domain and will to halt them.
• Wei Fan and the Big Dipper Sword King collided their domains, and Wei Fan's stronger Primordial Spirit let him suppress the Sword King's domain.
• Wei Fan used Purple Realm Rift to tear apart the Big Dipper Sword King's domain, then struck with the Great Sun Collapse Fist as the Sword King countered with a sword-like palm.

Wei Fan fought the Big Dipper Sword King, forcing him to draw the Starfall Sword before revealing his own king weapon and matching its power. As the duel intensified, Wei Fan unleashed his Golden Nascent Soul’s hidden ability to bypass the Big Dipper Sword King’s domain and appeared at his side to strike.

• Wei Fan shattered the Big Dipper Sword King's sword attack and domain with his strength and Solar True Fire Palm, driving the Sword King to use the Starfall Sword.
• Observers sensed the battle from afar, and Deng Yuchang contacted the Demon Hunter Organization while Great Liang's top sects identified the Big Dipper Sword King as Wei Fan's opponent.
• Wei Fan revealed the king weapon saber he had seized from a Guangling Sect disciple, and the two kings' weapons collided, damaging both their domains.
• The Big Dipper Sword King unleashed the Big Dipper Demon Slaying Sword, drawing down the power of the stars, and Wei Fan decided to stop suppressing his Golden Nascent Soul.
• Wei Fan vanished despite the Big Dipper Sword King's domain and reappeared at his left, striking with a Martial Venerable divine weapon.

Wei Fan killed the Big Dipper Sword King, whose death coincided with a brief acceleration in the Wasteland’s Dao Collapse. He returned to the Great Liang Capital, where Gongyang Bo learned that Wei Fan had become a Martial King.

• Wei Fan used Form Follows Will to ambush the Big Dipper Sword King, severed his arm, and killed him by splitting his head and Primordial Spirit.
• The Wasteland’s Dao Collapse suddenly accelerated, alarming Martial Kings across the region, before returning to its normal pace.
• Feng Hua reflected that the Dao Collapse could end within a few hundred years and that outsiders tainted by its aura could share the native inhabitants’ benefits.
• Wei Fan suspected the Big Dipper Sword King’s death had triggered the change, collected his storage gourd and Starfall Sword, and returned to the Great Liang Capital.
• Gongyang Bo met Wei Fan and discovered that Wei Fan had killed the Big Dipper Sword King and broken through to Martial King; Wei Fan sensed Gongyang Bo was at Martial King Second Layer.

Wei Fan told Gongyang Bo that he had killed the Big Dipper Sword King, while the Guangling Sect Holy Master learned of the King’s death and chose to abandon the alliance’s Great Liang members rather than risk confronting Wei Fan. As the Holy Master prepared to notify the Crimson Sun King, the collapsed Dao accelerated again, giving him hope that the Wasteland would return to normal.

• Wei Fan explained that Martial Kings struggled to advance because the collapsed Dao suppressed them, and Gongyang Bo questioned how he could have killed the Big Dipper Sword King.
• Gongyang Bo asked whether Wei Fan had also killed the Azure Demon King at Yunhua Sect.
• The Guangling Sect Holy Master learned that the Big Dipper Sword King’s soul tablet had shattered after he went to kill Wei Fan.
• The Holy Master ordered an investigation into the King’s death and refused to protect the Martial Alliance’s member sects in Great Liang.
• The Holy Master prepared to inform the Crimson Sun King, but the collapsed Dao accelerated and filled him with hope that the Wasteland would return to normal.

Wei Fan learned that the accelerating Dao Collapse would attract outside experts and throw the Wasteland into chaos, then prepared an array for Yunhua Sect from the Big Dipper Sword King's belongings. After news spread that the Sword King had died, Wei Fan demanded that the remaining nineteen Great Liang sects surrender their life plaques and accept restraint.

• Gongyang Bo explained that the Dao Collapse's end would draw powerful outsiders into the Wasteland and disrupt its order, then warned Wei Fan to stay cautious before returning to Great Gan Kingdom.
• Wei Fan searched the Big Dipper Sword King's storage gourd, found no Martial King-level martial arts, and began refining materials into array flags for Yunhua Sect.
• News spread that the Big Dipper Sword King had been killed while trying to ambush Wei Fan, leaving Guangling Sect silent and alarming sects and royal families across the Wasteland.
• Deng Yuchang told Wei Fan that the nineteen remaining sects had agreed to join the Demon Suppressing Division and fight demons.
• Wei Fan ordered the nineteen sects' Divine Martial Grandmasters and stronger experts to hand over their life plaques and accept restraint, or face him in person.

Deng Yuchang told Wei Fan that the Wasteland Martial Alliance had splintered after the Big Dipper Sword King's death and Starfall Pavilion's withdrawal, while Great Liang's Demon Suppressing Division gained the strength of nineteen sects. Wei Fan fortified the Yunhua Sect with a Martial King Grand Array and left for the Demon Hunter branch, as Ji Qingyue resolved to cultivate the Human-Demon Devouring Art despite expecting him to leave the Wasteland.

• Deng Yuchang told Wei Fan that nineteen sects had handed over their life tablets and joined Great Liang's fight against demons and monsters.
• Deng Yuchang explained that the Big Dipper Sword King's death, Starfall Pavilion's departure, and other sects' defections had divided the Wasteland Martial Alliance into four factions.
• Wei Fan concluded that the Guangling Sect still had to be dealt with, then traveled to the Yunhua Sect and apologized to Ji Qingyue and Dongfang Ye for its lost mountain gate.
• Wei Fan installed a Martial King Grand Array at the Yunhua Sect and gave Dongfang Ye its control flag and the Big Dipper Sword King's remaining possessions.
• Wei Fan left for the Demon Hunter branch, and Ji Qingyue turned down Dongfang Ye's suggestion to follow him but decided to cultivate the Human-Demon Devouring Art.

Wei Fan returned to Nanchuan City to seek Martial King martial skills and learned about the Demon Hunter Organization’s founder, Xuanyuan Peak, and his Five Emperors Fist. He opened the technique’s sealed chamber and began studying it, leaving its potential still unknown.

• Wei Fan met Gongyang Bo and learned that Martial Kings could study the Demon Hunter Organization’s techniques without spending merit points, though the organization possessed only a few.
• Gongyang Bo explained that Xuanyuan Peak had founded the Demon Hunter Organization before leaving the Wasteland, and that he had left behind the Five Emperors Fist.
• Wei Fan learned that only Martial Kings under thirty could even comprehend the Five Emperors Fist, and Gongyang Bo led him to the chambers holding the organization’s techniques.
• Wei Fan opened the Five Emperors Fist chamber with his Martial King will and found its manual, forged from divine iron and covered with a special formation.
• Wei Fan read the manual, saw the technique appear on his panel as not initiated, and recognized its profound power.

Wei Fan studied the Five Emperors Fist and gauged the cultivation power needed to advance as a Martial King, while the Dao Collapse grew more violent. He decided to prepare to leave the Wasteland, as Feng Hua worried that outsiders might soon enter and disrupt her plans.

• Wei Fan read the Five Emperors Fist manual, which destroyed itself, then chose to cultivate the Heaven-Piercing Saber Codex and Southern Bright Flame Palm.
• Wei Fan used up one hundred years of Martial King cultivation power and concluded that reaching First Layer perfection required five hundred years.
• Wei Fan realized that limited King-level experts and the Dao Collapse made leaving the Wasteland increasingly necessary.
• The Dao Collapse accelerated again, disrupting the Demon Hunter branch hall and leading Gongyang Bo to estimate that it could end within a dozen years.
• Feng Hua was injured by the Dao Collapse and feared outsiders would enter within days, but she chose to wait rather than contact Wei Fan.

The Black Scale Flood Dragon King tried to cross the Dao Collapse Barrier but was badly injured when the Dao collapse accelerated. In the Demon Hunter Branch Hall, Wei Fan cultivated the Five Emperors Fist to the entry level and learned that advancing it further required higher cultivation.

• The Black Scale Flood Dragon King entered the Dao Collapse Barrier to return to his ancestral land, but an acceleration of the Dao collapse shattered his domain and blasted him underground.
• The Black Scale Flood Dragon King survived and emerged battered after the acceleration ended, while others crossed the barrier using a token.
• Wei Fan perfected the Heaven-Piercing Saber Codex and the Martial King chapter of the Solar True Fire Palm, then began cultivating the Five Emperors Fist.
• Wei Fan reached the entry level of the Five Emperors Fist, and Gongyang Bo was astonished by its overwhelming fist intent.
• Wei Fan discovered that his Martial King First Layer cultivation limited the Five Emperors Fist to the entry level, so he would need to raise his cultivation to advance it further.

Wei Fan learned that the Purple-Eyed Demon King had sent his army to attack Dragon Country in revenge for the Young Lion King, and he set out to confront him. He arrived at Shuo City as its defenders faced defeat, and his attack and reinforcements turned the battle’s tide.

• Wei Fan realized the Purple Profound Martial Codex could not properly support the Five Emperors Fist and resolved to seize a Martial Saint inheritance from the Guangling Sect.
• Gongyang Bo warned Wei Fan that the Purple-Eyed Demon King’s army was marching on Dragon Country, and Wei Fan set out to kill the Demon King.
• Long Jianying prepared to lead Dragon Country’s forces into battle when the demon army threatened Shuo City.
• Wei Fan’s strike devastated the demon army outside Shuo City, killing thousands and prompting the human soldiers to cheer.
• Wei Fan arrived with more than a hundred reinforcements and sent them to join the battle against the demons.

Wei Fan reached the battlefield at Shuo Prefecture, slaughtered two groups of demons for cultivation power, and challenged the Purple-Eyed Demon King. As their fight intensified, the Sky-Propping Demon King joined in, but Gao Wanfu intercepted him, leaving Wei Fan and the Purple-Eyed Demon King to continue their battle.

• Wei Fan used two long-range palm strikes to wipe out demon armies and gained hundreds of thousands of years of ordinary cultivation power.
• Wei Fan’s arrival raised the human soldiers’ morale, and Situ Ying, Zhang Xianlong, Li Fengyi, and Long Xueyi fought with renewed courage.
• The Purple-Eyed Demon King confronted Wei Fan over his slaughter of ordinary demons, and the two exchanged powerful blows.
• The Purple-Eyed Demon King called on the Sky-Propping Demon King to help kill Wei Fan, and Long Xueyi warned Wei Fan to flee.
• Gao Wanfu intercepted the Sky-Propping Demon King, who turned to fight him, while the Purple-Eyed Demon King continued battling Wei Fan.

Wei Fan fought the Purple-Eyed Demon King and finally triggered the Five Emperors Fist, killing him with one punch. He was left stunned by the fist art’s power as the battle around Shuo City continued.

• Gao Wanfu told Wei Fan to leave the Sky-Propping Demon King to him and focus on the Purple-Eyed Demon King.
• The Purple-Eyed Demon King spread his domain, but Wei Fan countered with his own and tried unsuccessfully to trigger the Five Emperors Fist.
• The Purple-Eyed Demon King transformed into his true form and used Purple Eye Soul Capture, but Wei Fan’s golden Primordial Spirit resisted it and inflicted backlash on him.
• Wei Fan finally triggered the Five Emperors Fist, whose fist intent shattered the Purple-Eyed Demon King’s domain.
• The Purple-Eyed Demon King used his protective power and Lion’s Roar, but Wei Fan’s punch shattered both and blasted him apart.

Wei Fan killed Purple-Eyed Demon King with the Five Emperors Fist, forcing Sky-Propping Demon King to flee and turning the battle outside Shuo City into a decisive human victory. After the armies cleared the battlefield, Long Jianying proposed taking Purple-Eyed Demon King's territory, and Gao Wanfu advised Dragon Country to share it with Wei Country and Great Liang.

• Wei Fan killed Purple-Eyed Demon King with the Five Emperors Fist, while Gao Wanfu realized Wei Fan had mastered the legendary martial art.
• Sky-Propping Demon King fled after Wei Fan rushed to join Gao Wanfu, and he sent word to the Sacred Master of Xuanhe Sect that the Demon Race was in peril.
• Wei Fan and Gao Wanfu abandoned their pursuit when they realized they could not catch Sky-Propping Demon King, then returned to the battlefield as the human armies routed the demons and monsters.
• Long Jianying reported that Dragon Country planned to seize Purple-Eyed Demon King's territory, and Gao Wanfu recommended dividing it among Dragon Country, Wei Country, and Great Liang.
• Long Jianying agreed that Dragon Country lacked the strength to occupy the entire territory alone.

After Wei Fan killed the Purple-Eyed Demon King and exposed his Martial King strength, Guangling Sect and Xuanhe Sect discussed using their Sacred Weapons against him. Wei Fan began upgrading the Human King Bell as Dao Collapse’s suppression worsened and he prepared to leave the Wasteland.

• The Guangling Sect Holy Lord learned that Wei Fan had killed the Purple-Eyed Demon King and decided to join forces with Xuanhe Sect to eliminate him using a Sacred Weapon.
• The Sky-Propping Demon King told the Xuanhe Sect Holy Lord that Wei Fan had used the Five Emperors Fist, while the Holy Lord explained that Wei Zhenwu’s own Sacred Weapon prevented Xuanhe Sect from attacking him.
• The Xuanhe Sect Holy Lord received a request from Guangling Sect to speak and agreed to take the communication token.
• Wei Fan and Gao Wanfu reached the Purple-Eyed Demon King’s empty city, then split up to support the armies occupying the demon territory.
• Wei Fan considered the worsening Dao Collapse and the threat from the Sacred Sects, then used his Martial King Cultivation Power to improve his strength and began adding Ordinary Cultivation Power to the Human King Bell.