Chapter Summaries

Wei Fan triggered the mark within him and obtained the complete Nine-Nine True Skill when Thunder Mountain exploded. He left the ruined site with Feng Hua and Zhi Hua, confirming to them that he had comprehended the Leishan Heavenly Skill and attributing his success to luck.

• During the thunderstorm, Wei Fan watched the eighty-one images reveal their movements and realized they still showed only an incomplete Nine-Nine True Skill.
• Wei Fan activated the mark in his consciousness, causing Thunder Mountain to shake, crack, and explode amid a burst of light.
• A second mark flew from Thunder Mountain into Wei Fan, and a majestic figure revealed the name of the Nine-Nine True Skill: Nine Revolutions to Godhood.
• After Thunder Mountain vanished, Wei Fan saw that his panel listed the Nine-Nine True Skill as not initiated, then left the site with Feng Hua and Zhi Hua.
• Feng Hua asked whether Wei Fan had comprehended the Leishan Heavenly Skill, and Wei Fan confirmed it, saying his success came from luck.

After Thunder Mountain exploded, Wei Fan explained that he had obtained the ancient Nine-Nine True Skill and left Yinchuan City with Feng Hua and Zhi Hua to find a place to cultivate. Zhilan Sect ambushed them on the road with three powerful Martial King Ninth Layer experts, and Wei Fan and Feng Hua rose to fight them while Zhi Hua protected the horses.

• Wei Fan told Feng Hua and Zhi Hua that Thunder Mountain's mark had given him the Nine-Nine True Skill, though he could not recall most of its mysteries.
• The three returned to Yinchuan City, then left for Yunjin City so Wei Fan could find a place to cultivate and avoid trouble after Thunder Mountain's destruction.
• Three Martial King Ninth Layer experts from Zhilan Sect attacked Wei Fan's group from the sky, threatening travelers on the road.
• Zhi Hua intercepted one giant hand to shield the travelers, while Feng Hua charged at another and Wei Fan attacked the third.
• Wei Fan's Great Sun Collapse Fist was repelled by Fang Nanfei, but his strike also stopped Fang Nanfei's giant hand from reaching the ground.

Wei Fan used the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron to defeat Fang Nanfei, Sun Yongyi, and Zhang Yongxiang, the three Zhilan Sect Martial King Ninth Layer experts. After he put the cauldron away, the onlookers and Feng Hua were left stunned by its power and his secrets.

• Wei Fan battled Fang Nanfei, who revealed the Zhilan Sect's Void Condensing Sword Art and wielded a Martial Saint-grade martial skill.
• Wei Fan summoned the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron and crushed Fang Nanfei to ash with a single strike.
• Wei Fan told Feng Hua to move aside, then struck Sun Yongyi and Zhang Yongxiang with the cauldron, shattering their weapons and killing Sun Yongyi.
• Wei Fan pursued the badly wounded Zhang Yongxiang and crushed him to ash, wiping out all three Zhilan Sect experts.
• Wei Fan put away the cauldron as the spectators stared in shock, while Feng Hua wondered how it had grown into a weapon nearly as powerful as a Sacred Weapon.

After Wei Fan killed three Zhilan Sect elders with the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron, Sun Tao worried that the sect’s false information about Wei Fan could anger Black Nether. On the road, Feng Hua explained why Sacred Sects had far fewer Martial King Ninth Layer experts than expected: attempts to reach Martial Sainthood often killed or crippled them.

• Sun Tao learned that Fang Nanfei, Sun Yongyi, and Zhang Yongxiang had died, then discovered Wei Fan had killed them with a great cauldron.
• Sun Tao left Zhilan Sect to warn Black Nether that Wei Fan was stronger than reported and possessed a powerful cauldron.
• Wei Fan asked Feng Hua why Zhilan Sect had sent only three elders and why it had so few Martial King Ninth Layer experts.
• Feng Hua explained that Holy Sons could be replaced after a century and that Sacred Sects’ elders often died or suffered lasting damage while attempting to become Martial Saints.
• Wei Fan realized that most Martial King Ninth Layer experts he had encountered were weakened by failed breakthrough attempts.

While riding with Feng Hua and Zhi Hua, Wei Fan learned why attempts to become a Martial Saint were so dangerous and heard about rare arts and treasures that could protect him. He was left with no practical lead to obtain them, and Feng Hua advised him to perfect his cultivation and prepare carefully before attempting the breakthrough.

• Feng Hua explained that failed attempts to become a Martial Saint often killed or crippled cultivators, and that even demons faced similar risks.
• Wei Fan asked how to improve his odds, and Feng Hua described the Heaven Mending Technique, which could heal Dao injuries and allow repeated breakthrough attempts.
• Feng Hua and Zhi Hua told Wei Fan about Dao Bones and the Heavenly Saint Flower, both of which could protect or help a cultivator attempting to become a Martial Saint.
• Feng Hua described the Dao Protecting Pill and Saint Blood Fruit, while Wei Fan realized that such treasures were too rare for him to know where to seek them.
• Feng Hua advised Wei Fan to strengthen his foundation, cultivate his Martial King Realm to perfection, and wait until he was prepared before attempting the breakthrough.

Wei Fan settled beside a lake with Zhi Hua and Feng Hua, then began cultivating the Nine-Nine True Skill to strengthen his foundation for a dangerous breakthrough to Martial Saint. As he advanced through its images, the skill tempered his body and revealed signs of a supreme killing technique, but reaching the thirty-seventh image engulfed him in lethal lightning.

• Wei Fan chose a scenic lakeside location for seclusion, and Zhi Hua said she was nearing a breakthrough to Martial King Eighth Layer.
• Wei Fan prepared an array to conceal their presence, but the Dao Collapse shook his Primordial Spirit from more than a million li away; Feng Hua explained Qi Daozhen's power and warned the end was approaching.
• After the three built huts and ate, Wei Fan began cultivating the Nine-Nine True Skill because a failed Martial Saint breakthrough could kill him.
• The skill's imprint awakened Wei Fan's Golden Nascent Soul and guided lightning through his body as his cultivation power was consumed.
• Wei Fan advanced to the eighteenth and then the thirty-sixth image, strengthening his body and sensing that the movements were also evolving into a powerful offensive martial technique.
• When Wei Fan reached the thirty-seventh image, the lightning turned violently against him and swallowed his form.

Wei Fan cultivated the Nine-Nine True Skill, enduring a painful transformation that replaced his flesh, bones, and blood and raised his strength to the peak of the Martial King realm. After his uncontrolled aura shattered the formation and overturned the huts, Feng Hua and Zhi Hua realized how dangerous his power had become.

• Wei Fan completed the thirty-seventh through forty-fifth diagrams, purged impurities from his body, and woke feeling much stronger.
• Wei Fan ate grilled fish with Feng Hua while Zhi Hua remained in seclusion, then resumed cultivating the Nine-Nine True Skill.
• After spending seven hundred and ten thousand years of Ordinary Cultivation Power, Wei Fan reached the fifty-second diagram and gained a lifespan of three thousand years.
• Wei Fan's body endured explosive lightning that destroyed and remade his flesh, bones, and blood, while his physical strength began nourishing his Primordial Spirit.
• Wei Fan failed to control his new power, shattering his formation and overturning the huts; Zhi Hua recoiled in fear, and Feng Hua recognized the threat of his strength.

Yuan Jie, a Qilin Ape Clan holy son, trapped Wei Fan and Feng Hua inside the Nine Palaces Sky Locking Formation and challenged them. Wei Fan revealed his strength and prepared to test his newly cultivated Nine-Nine True Skill, leaving Yuan Jie enraged and ready to fight.

• Wei Fan sensed an intruder as Yuan Jie destroyed his formation, and demons raised the Nine Palaces Sky Locking Formation around the valley.
• Yuan Jie identified himself as a Demon King Eighth Layer holy son and revealed that the Five-Colored Demonic Ox Clan and Dragon-Horned Deer Clan had hired him to kill Feng Hua and Wei Fan.
• Zhi Hua explained that Yuan Jie was born with Demon Saint blood, while Yuanie dismissed and slapped one of his Demon King allies for interrupting him.
• Yuan Jie attacked Feng Hua with a blade of demonic power, but Wei Fan crushed it with his bare hand and challenged Yuan Jie.
• Wei Fan insulted Yuan Jie's mixed bloodline and told Feng Hua and Zhi Hua to step back so he could test his Nine-Nine True Skill.

Wei Fan crushed Yuan Jie, the Qilin Ape Holy Son, in a single strike and killed him despite the Demon Kings’ attempt to save him. After tricking the three Demon Kings into kneeling and drawing them close, Wei Fan launched an attack on them.

• Yuan Jie charged Wei Fan, confident that his physical strength could defeat the Body Refining Warrior, but Wei Fan’s palm strike nearly tore him apart.
• The three Demon Kings rushed to save Yuan Jie, and Wei Fan seized him by the head and demanded that they kneel.
• The three Demon Kings knelt, and Wei Fan threw Yuan Jie toward them before exploding Yuan Jie’s head in midair.
• Wei Fan revealed that he had only drawn the Demon Kings closer to prevent them from escaping, then charged at them while they stood stunned.

Wei Fan killed the Winged Serpent Demon King and the Five-Colored Demonic Ox, then faced the Dragon-Horned Deer’s Nine Palaces Sky Locking Formation. He unleashed his strongest strike, the Five Emperors Fist, and the Dragon-Horned Deer recognized it as Xuanyuan Peak’s martial art.

• The Winged Serpent Demon King attacked Wei Fan, but Wei Fan punched through his emerging divine weapon and killed him in one blow.
• The Five-Colored Demonic Ox and Dragon-Horned Deer struck Wei Fan with their weapons, but his fleshly body withstood their attacks and knocked their weapons aside.
• The Five-Colored Demonic Ox empowered his spiked club with Five-Colored Divine Light, but Wei Fan shattered the weapon’s attack and killed him.
• The Dragon-Horned Deer used the Nine Palaces Sky Locking Formation to blast Wei Fan back and explained that his attacks strengthened the formation.
• Wei Fan stopped suppressing his power and unleashed the Five Emperors Fist, combining his strongest martial arts into one strike.
• The Dragon-Horned Deer recognized Wei Fan’s Five Emperors Fist as Xuanyuan Peak’s martial art.

Wei Fan shattered the Nine Palaces Sky Locking Formation with the Five Emperors Fist and killed Yuan Jie and the other Demon Kings. As Feng Hua and Zhi Hua reported the deaths and prepared for retaliation, they warned that the ancient Qilin Ape Saint might launch a Saint-level war.

• Wei Fan broke the Nine Palaces Sky Locking Formation with one punch, then killed the Dragon-Horned Deer Demon King and the other Demon Kings, including Yuan Jie.
• Feng Hua told Wei Fan that Yuan Jie’s corpse could earn a bounty, and Zhi Hua revealed it had risen to 100,000 merit points and more than 100,000 Spirit Crystals.
• Feng Hua and Zhi Hua reported the killings and warned Daxu to prepare for retaliation from the four demon clans.
• Wei Fan agreed to help defend Daxu while the group continued toward its foremost military stronghold against demons.
• Feng Hua and Zhi Hua warned Wei Fan that the Qilin Ape Saint, who had lived for more than four thousand years, might retaliate or advance beyond the Demon Saint realm.

Sun Tao arranged for Zhilan Sect to keep up appearances while relying on Black Nether to kill Wei Fan, and Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua encountered a desolate city under Vajra Gate’s control. The White Horse Trio began investigating what had happened there, but found no Demon Suppressing Division and no sign of demons.

• Sun Tao dismissed Zhilan Sect disciples’ calls for revenge, raised Wei Fan’s bounty, and sent word to Huoyun Cave about Tian Qiuping’s death and Feng Hua’s appearance.
• Wei Fan praised the Yang Family’s governance of Daxu Kingdom, while Zhi Hua explained that Vajra Gate exploited the people in its territory and that her family would not risk destroying it.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua entered Xiao Meng City and found it desolate, with few people on the streets and almost no strong young men.
• Feng Hua questioned an old woman, who panicked and refused to speak, leading the trio to suspect that the residents had been threatened into silence.
• Feng Hua found no demons in Xiao Meng City, and Zhi Hua explained that Vajra Gate had barred the court from establishing a Demon Suppressing Division there.

Wei Fan killed Xu Guang and the yamen runners who were forcibly sending Xiao Meng City residents to a dangerous Vajra Gate mine. After learning that miners had died following the discovery of a stone coffin, Wei Fan and his companions faced a group of bald men who surrounded them.

• Zhi Hua challenged the runners for seizing young men, but the head runner rejected her royal token and threatened to arrest her group.
• Wei Fan attacked the head runner and killed the other runners when they charged him.
• Wei Fan killed Xu Guang after the captured men revealed that the runners were sending them to the mine, then questioned one of the young men.
• The young man explained that miners had died after someone unearthed a stone coffin, and that no workers sent to the mine had returned.
• Feng Hua said mines sometimes uncovered dangerous evil entities, and Wei Fan suspected the mine was still unsafe.
• A group of bald men in identical uniforms flew over and surrounded Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua.

Wei Fan’s group uncovered the truth about Vajra Gate’s mine and confronted its elder, Liu Qingsong, whose panel identified him as raising humans to cultivate a Demonic Cultivation Art. Wei Fan challenged Liu Qingsong’s Great Strength Vajra Palm, and their clash began.

• Yang Xun and three Vajra Gate disciples attacked Wei Fan’s group, but Wei Fan swiftly defeated them and captured Yang Xun.
• Wei Fan controlled Yang Xun’s mind and learned that miners had unearthed a stone coffin before more than ten thousand people at the mine died without a sound.
• Yang Xun revealed that Vajra Gate’s elders had supposedly dealt with the coffin, while the mine continued operating and captives were sent there without being allowed to return.
• Liu Qingsong, a Martial King Ninth Layer Vajra Gate elder, arrived, and Wei Fan’s panel revealed that he raised humans to cultivate a Demonic Cultivation Art.
• Wei Fan killed Yang Xun and fought Liu Qingsong, who attacked with the Great Strength Vajra Palm; Wei Fan recognized the technique and met his palm strike.

Wei Fan defeated Liu Qingsong and uncovered Vajra Gate’s secret Spirit Crystal mine, then took a share of its crystals and exposed the discovery. He and his companions arrived in Yunjin City, where Zhi Hua’s elder brother, King Zhenbei Yang Tao, awaited them.

• Wei Fan crushed Liu Qingsong in a palm strike and stomped him into submission after Liu Qingsong claimed his failed attempt to enter the Sacred Realm had weakened him.
• Wei Fan and Feng Hua questioned Liu Qingsong about the miners seized in Xiao Meng City, but Liu Qingsong refused to reveal the truth, so Wei Fan knocked him unconscious.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua entered Vajra Gate’s mine and discovered that its miners had unearthed a Spirit Crystal deposit.
• Wei Fan took several hundred thousand Spirit Crystals from the storeroom, and the trio left after killing Liu Qingsong and revealing the mine’s discovery to the martial world.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua split their spoils and traveled to Yunjin City, where they met attendants waiting outside the City Lord’s Manor with Yang Tao, King Zhenbei, among them.

Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua met with King Zhenbei Yang Tao in Yunjin City and learned that peak Demon Kings were gathering there. Yang Tao revealed that the Golden Lion Clan planned a Holy Son selection after the Young Lion King's death, and Feng Hua identified Wei Fan as the killer, leaving the group facing a likely threat from the Golden Lions.

• Yang Tao welcomed Zhi Hua, Wei Fan, and Feng Hua to the City Lord's Manor and learned of Wei Fan's feats against demon progeny and powerful Martial Kings.
• Yang Tao reported that the demon army had tested Yunjin City's defenses and that Niu Yue, a peak Martial King of the Five-Colored Demonic Ox Clan, and other peak Demon Kings were nearby.
• Yang Tao said the Golden Lion Clan planned to hold a Holy Son selection in Yunjin City, apparently because the Young Lion King had fallen.
• Feng Hua revealed that Wei Fan had killed the Young Lion King, shocking Zhi Hua and Yang Tao and raising fears that the selection would be tied to revenge.
• Wei Fan and Feng Hua concealed their identities and settled into a courtyard in the City Lord's Manor as two days passed without the Demon Kings acting.
• News arrived that Zhilan Sect and Yunxiao City had demanded Vajra Gate surrender its Spirit Crystal mine, and Vajra Gate had resisted despite losing a Martial King Ninth Layer elder.

Wei Fan raised his body-refining cultivation to the Martial King Eighth Layer as Feng Hua advanced to the Ninth Layer, and the Demon Kings arrived outside Yunjin City to challenge the human Martial Kings. After killing an ambushing dog demon in one strike, Wei Fan found Shi Yuan, a Golden Lion Demon King, eating a slain Demon Hunter.

• Wei Fan used two thousand years of Martial King Cultivation Power to complete the fifty-third diagram of the Nine-Nine True Skill and reach the Martial King Eighth Layer.
• Feng Hua broke through to the Martial King Ninth Layer, and Wei Fan congratulated her after she left her room.
• Demon Kings gathered outside Yunjin City and challenged the human Martial Kings, who left the city to fight them away from its residents.
• Wei Fan killed a weakened Ninth Layer dog demon with one slap and gained cultivation power from its death.
• Wei Fan followed another Demon King's aura to the mountains and found Shi Yuan eating a dead Demon Hunter.

Wei Fan killed Shi Yuan, a peak Golden Lion Demon King, and revealed his identity to him. Two more Demon Kings attacked Wei Fan, who effortlessly repelled their divine weapons, leaving them to rely on their domains.

• Shi Yuan attacked Wei Fan with a giant palm and a Primordial Spirit-shattering roar, but Wei Fan blocked both attacks and seized Shi Yuan's claws.
• Wei Fan revealed that he was the Wei Fan Shi Yuan had heard about, tore off Shi Yuan's jaw, and killed him as he tried to flee.
• Wei Fan gained cultivation power from Shi Yuan's death and judged the peak Demon King too weak to challenge him.
• A Qilin Ape Demon King and a Golden Lion Demon King ambushed Wei Fan with a bronze staff and nine-ring saber.
• Wei Fan punched the Qilin Ape's staff away and caught the Golden Lion's saber barehanded, prompting the Qilin Ape to shout for them to use their domains.

Wei Fan killed the Golden Lion and Qilin Ape, then discovered and slew two Golden Lion elders who were overseeing their clan’s Holy Son Selection. Using the elders’ soul plaques to track the surviving young Demon Kings, he set off to hunt them down.

• Wei Fan shattered the Golden Lion’s domain, killed it, and shot down the fleeing Qilin Ape with the Dragon Sunset Bow.
• Two Golden Lion elders watched the battle from a concealed mountain peak and realized that several of their clan’s young Demon Kings had died.
• The elders prepared to call the remaining participants back, but Wei Fan found their hiding place and destroyed their concealment array.
• Wei Fan resisted the elders’ Lion’s Roar, killed both of them, and collected their soul plaques.
• Wei Fan used a soul plaque to track its owner and vanished into the night to pursue the Golden Lion Clan’s surviving young Demon Kings.

Wei Fan rescued Yang Tao from Niu Yue and killed the Five-Colored Demonic Ox with a single punch. As the surviving Demon Kings retreated from the battle, Wei Fan and Yang Tao prepared to pursue the fight.

• Niu Yue nearly killed Yang Tao, but Wei Fan arrived in time and caught the demon's spiked club.
• Wei Fan identified himself as the killer of Niu Jiang and Yuan Jie, then withstood Niu Yue's Five-Colored Divine Light without injury.
• Wei Fan killed Niu Yue with one punch and collected his body and weapon.
• Wei Fan asked whether Yang Tao could still fight, and Yang Tao eagerly agreed to continue.
• Demon Kings across the mountains began retreating after their forces suffered heavy losses, and Wei Fan halted as the survivors fled.