Chapter Summaries

Xu Kun and Shen-bao destroyed the replica Soul-Guiding Lantern to free Senna, releasing more than eight hundred thousand souls that devoured Thresh. A terrifying demon emerged from the resulting Bloodfiend Power, reclaimed the souls, and left Senna convinced they would all die.

• Xu Kun and Shen-bao realized the replica Soul-Guiding Lantern could be dismantled to free Senna, though doing so would release its remaining souls.
• Trusting his intuition, Xu Kun ordered Shen-bao to destroy the lantern, and the freed souls surged toward Thresh.
• The dead souls broke through Thresh’s defenses and devoured him, freeing Senna as the replica lantern disappeared.
• Senna thanked Xu Kun and asked to deal with Thresh, but collapsed when she saw the released souls and learned what had happened.
• A wave of Bloodfiend Power erupted from Thresh’s location, and a withered hand gathered the dead souls into a blood-patterned greatsword.
• Senna recognized the demon feared by the myriad races as it returned.

Xu Kun and the others witnessed the sealed soul of Bai Qi awaken, and learned that he served a Qin King named Ying Zheng. After Bai Qi clashed with the unseen final boss and vanished, Xu Kun decided to enter the newly appeared teleportation gate after Senna woke up.

• Bai Qi awakened from his seal, overwhelmed Xu Kun, Senna, and Shen-bao with his presence, and asked what year it was and where his king, Ying Zheng, was.
• Xu Kun recorded Bai Qi in the Myriad Races Bestiary and learned that he was a human soul, an SSS-tier Human Butcher who had died 249 years earlier.
• Bai Qi identified himself as Lord Wu'an, a general serving the Qin King, and denied being the Qin Emperor.
• Bai Qi challenged an unseen presence in the direction of the final boss, was wounded, then bowed and promised Xu Kun a favor before vanishing.
• A teleportation gate appeared, and Xu Kun said they would enter after Senna woke up so he could ask her a few questions.

Senna told Xu Kun that the Age of Gods had plunged humanity into centuries of internal warfare, weakening the human race as part of a likely Titan Race conspiracy. She began describing how a terrifying tyrant from the Huaxia Nine Provinces later spread devastation across humanity.

• Senna woke after escaping the Soul Lamp and discovered that the Haotian Pagoda had restored her physical body.
• Xu Kun explained that his Undying Body buff had saved her and asked what she knew about the being sealed inside Thresh.
• Senna said she had lived in the Age of Gods, when Zeus ruled and divine punishments fueled wars among human kingdoms and city-states.
• Xu Kun concluded that the gods had encouraged internal conflict to exhaust humanity's strength, and Senna confirmed that armies dwindled as the wars continued.
• Senna said the Huaxia Nine Provinces had suffered the least during the century of wars, but that a tyrant and his cavalry later brought a nightmare across human lands.

Xu Kun learned from Senna about Qin King Zheng's unification of humanity and Bai Qi's role in Great Qin's campaigns, then suspected a connection between Bai Qi's disappearance and Senna's death. After Bai Qi's soul was released, Xu Kun wondered whether he might return, but turned his attention back to the opened portal and asked Senna about its final boss.

• Xu Kun and Senna discussed whether the Qin King Ying Zheng in Bai Qi's words was the tyrant who unified humanity, and Senna explained Qin's rise through six generations of rulers.
• Senna described Bai Qi's devastating campaigns under Qin King Ji and later Qin King Zheng, including the destruction of her tribe and foreign invaders.
• Xu Kun admired Great Qin's unification of humanity and questioned why its achievements and era had disappeared from history.
• Xu Kun connected Bai Qi's disappearance 249 years ago with Senna's death 250 years ago and doubted the theory that Qin King Zheng had killed Bai Qi out of jealousy.
• Xu Kun anticipated Bai Qi's possible return after his soul was released, then asked Senna what the final boss beyond the portal was.

Xu Kun and Shen-bao were pulled into King Yama’s Hall despite having no Yama Summons, where Xu Kun found himself cut off from his usual powers and allies. A hooded figure approached and greeted him as someone he had met before.

• Shen-bao showed Xu Kun the guide explaining that only holders of a Yama Summons could enter King Yama’s Hall, and they learned that just 107 of 1,444 invited survivors had lived.
• Senna warned Xu Kun that the being behind the final door seemed alive and had defeated Bai Qi, then left the secret realm as it began rejecting her.
• Xu Kun and Shen-bao approached the portal, but it suddenly sucked them in together despite their lack of an invitation.
• Xu Kun found his detection and summoning abilities unavailable as a hunched figure descended the torchlit stairs toward him.
• The hooded figure pulled Xu Kun to his feet, revealed an eerie smile, and said, “Little one, we meet again!”

Xu Kun met Grandpa Yan, who revealed that he had survived the underworld’s destruction and had been waiting to give Xu Kun the first page of the Human Book. After Grandpa Yan left Guanjiang Ghost Manor, Shen-bao warned Xu Kun that the manor’s trials may have served their purpose now that all the Human Book pages had been distributed.

• Xu Kun discovered that the final boss of Guanjiang Ghost Manor was Grandpa Yan, whom he knew from Longjing Cemetery.
• Grandpa Yan explained that the underworld had fallen in a great calamity, and that Yang Jian had used Guanjiang Ghost Manor to keep him alive.
• Grandpa Yan gave Xu Kun the first page of the Human Book and told him to seek the Netherworld Ghost Fire to help recover its other 107 pages.
• Grandpa Yan said he could return to Longjing Cemetery now that he had completed his task, and Xu Kun happily watched him leave.
• Shen-bao pointed out that Guanjiang Ghost Manor had been meant to find wielders for all 108 Human Book pages, leaving Xu Kun alarmed about what would happen to the manor.

Yang Yao and Zhan Rourou defeated the Darkborn Frost Demonic Dragon and recovered its core, which revealed a dangerous chance for Zhan Rourou to combine light and darkness. Meanwhile, Xu Kun and Mirage cleared Guanjiang Ghost Manor, whose collapse triggered crises across the human race and City of Sin, before escaping through the river vortex.

• Yang Yao and Zhan Rourou slew the Darkborn Frost Demonic Dragon, and Zhan Rourou risked diving into the abyss to retrieve its dark-element core.
• Zhan Rourou discovered that she could attempt to absorb the core and gain a Light-Dark Body, but the one-percent success rate made her hide the possibility from Yang Yao and Xu Kun.
• Yang Yao and Zhan Rourou learned through a race-wide announcement that Xu Kun and the Mirage team had irreversibly damaged Guanjiang Ghost Manor, and three days later Uncle Yang confronted Xu Kun as City of Glaciers began melting.
• Foreign factions in City of Sin united against the Beggar Clan and Qiao Feng as they sought to drive out the human race and punish Xu Kun.
• Xu Kun and Mirage defeated King Yama, earned an SSSS-tier trial rating, and escaped Guanjiang Ghost Manor as the collapsing secret realm flooded.

After Xu Kun accepted Sky Eye’s impossible compensation demands for destroying Guanjiang Ghost Manor, he learned that the Sea of Fire Ravine threatened the City of Glaciers and that rival forces were attacking the Beggar Clan in the City of Sin. He gathered his companions to defend the Beggar Clan and sweep through the City of Sin.

• Sky Eye publicly demanded that Xu Kun return five SSS-tier secret realms and pay five hundred SSS-Rank Spirit Stones, and Xu Kun promised to meet the terms within two months.
• Xu Kun learned that the Sea of Fire Ravine had formed from his Peerless Strike and other lingering power, producing fire-element treasures while putting the City of Glaciers at risk of collapse.
• Yue Yun warned Xu Kun that the City of Glaciers might have to be relocated and that its destruction could leave him facing the human race’s military court.
• Qian Manlou relayed Sky Eye’s message that rival racial forces were besieging the Beggar Clan in the City of Sin and that Xu Kun should help Qiao Feng.
• Zhan Rourou told Xu Kun she was heading to the Beggar Clan headquarters, and Xu Kun ordered his companions to gather there and sweep through the City of Sin.

Zhan Rourou explained the Beggar Clan’s history and its Clean Faction–Dirty Faction conflict to Xu Kun, revealing that the Clean Faction was trying to remove Qiao Feng by accusing him of being a Wolf Race orphan. With outside factions also threatening the clan, Xu Kun agreed to join Shen-bao and help at Apricot Woods.

• Zhan Rourou described how the Beggar Clan grew into a vast human organization with powerful inherited techniques and strict leadership rules.
• Zhan Rourou explained that the Clean Faction had gained influence within the clan while Qiao Feng, a Dirty Faction member who mastered all eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, became clan leader.
• Zhan Rourou told Xu Kun that the Clean Faction wanted to remove Qiao Feng by claiming he was an orphan of the Wolf Race.
• Zhan Rourou said Zhan Yuye suspected outsiders were exploiting the accusation to divide the Beggar Clan while major factions encircled it over Xu Kun’s destruction of a secret realm.
• Xu Kun agreed to go with Shen-bao to Apricot Woods, where the Beggar Clan’s conflict was unfolding.

Xu Kun and Shen-bao traveled to the Beggar Clan’s assembly at the Apricot Woods, where the nine major factions gathered amid a plot against the humans. They rescued Qiao Feng from the Joyous Union Sect, and Xu Kun killed the attackers while Shen-bao immobilized them.

• Xu Kun explained the power and history of the nine major factions as he and Shen-bao rode toward the Apricot Woods.
• Lord White Elephant of Lion Camel Ridge vowed to exploit the humans’ distraction and the Beggar Clan’s internal strife to seize the Subduing Dragon Stone.
• Xu Kun and Shen-bao found Qiao Feng surrounded by the Joyous Union Sect, whose leader demanded to know where a girl Qiao Feng had protected had gone.
• Xu Kun severed the white snake leader’s fang with Chengying, while Shen-bao used her purple-eyed power to make the sect members obey her commands.
• Xu Kun told Qiao Feng that he had come at Old Zhan’s request, then burned the white snake and the Joyous Union Sect attackers to ashes.

Xu Kun and Qiao Feng reached the Apricot Woods, where rival factions demanded that the Beggar Clan surrender Xu Kun and Shen. As Qiao Feng’s own elders refused to support him, Quan Guanqing announced that the Beggar Clan would abandon him.

• Xu Kun spared the Joyous Union Sect’s drugged maidservants, swore brotherhood with Qiao Feng, and met Qiao Feng’s fellow trial-taker Guo Jing, whose talent was Taming Tiger.
• Xu Kun and Qiao Feng raced to the Apricot Woods while carrying Shen-bao and eventually tied; Guo Jing struggled to keep up.
• At the Beggar Clan gathering, Qiao Feng stopped a fight between Feng Bo'e and a rhinoceros, then questioned the clan elders about the absent leaders.
• The Five Venoms Sect demanded that Qiao Feng reveal Xu Kun and Shen’s whereabouts, and the Corpse Control Sect and Wind Eagle Gate joined the threat.
• Xiao Zhan arrived with the Joyous Union Sect and threatened the Beggar Clan, but Qiao Feng’s elders refused to form the Dog-Beating Formation.
• Quan Guanqing declared that Qiao Feng no longer had any connection to the Beggar Clan and that it would not help him.

Quan Guanqing and Nightshade accused Qiao Feng of being the Wolf Clan’s imperial descendant, turning the Beggar Clan and gathered factions against him. As a battle was about to begin, Xu Kun intervened and severed Xiao Zhan’s arm for challenging him.

• Quan Guanqing accused Qiao Feng of being a Wolf Clan remnant, and the Beggar Clan’s four great elders backed him and called for evidence.
• Lord of Nightshade arrived and claimed his Golden Eyes technique had revealed Qiao Feng’s Heavenly Wolf Bloodline, identifying him as Xiao Feng, descendant of the Wolf Clan’s imperial Xiao Clan.
• Qiao Feng rejected the accusation, struck Quan Guanqing, and faced the Beggar Clan’s Dog-Beating Formation as the factions prepared to join the fight.
• Nightshade explained that he had told Quan Guanqing about the bloodline after confirming it in ancient records, and Qiao Feng attacked him but missed.
• Xiao Zhan urged the crowd to attack Qiao Feng, so Xu Kun stepped forward and warned everyone to stay back.
• Xiao Zhan challenged Xu Kun, who used Beacon Fire Barrage to drag him close and cut off his arm.

Xu Kun intervened to protect Qiao Feng from the City of Sin’s factions and the Beggar Clan elders, insulting their leaders and challenging their accusations against Qiao Feng. As Quan Guanqing rose to oppose him, a dragon’s roar and scorching heat announced a new arrival.

• Xu Kun stopped Succubus Owl Station’s attack on Qiao Feng, identified himself as Kun of the Human Race, and challenged the gathered faction leaders.
• Xu Kun called the leaders trash and stopped Niu Dali’s charge with one hand, leaving the assembled factions wary of confronting him.
• Xu Kun rebuked Song Qingxi and the other Great Elders for turning against Qiao Feng, arguing that bloodline did not determine a person’s loyalty or character.
• Quan Guanqing recovered and told Xu Kun he had no right to interfere in the Beggar Clan’s affairs.
• A dragon’s roar sounded overhead as the air grew scorching, and an unseen speaker agreed that the conflict was an internal matter of the City of Sin.

Xu Kun rejected the Beggar Clan’s offer to make him their leader but declared that he would protect them from City of Sin’s factions. As Lion Camel Ridge’s three powerful demons gathered to kill him, Sikong Ting and the rest of Xu Kun’s squad arrived, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Yan Fuhai urged Xu Kun to leave City of Sin, while Song Qingxi asked Xu Kun to join the Beggar Clan and become its new Clan Leader.
• Xu Kun refused the leadership offer, revealed that Zhan Yuye had sent him, and challenged the factions to fight if they wanted to target him or the Beggar Clan.
• Lion Camel Ridge’s white elephant arrived and warned Xu Kun that its Azure Lion and Golden-Winged Great Peng brothers would soon join him.
• The three demons assembled and threatened to kill Xu Kun, but Sikong Ting, Su Xiaoxiao, Hao Jian, Yang Yao, and Zhan Rourou arrived to join him.
• Xu Kun’s squad gathered behind him, and he challenged the Golden-Winged Great Peng to repeat his threat.

Xu Kun challenged the Golden-Winged Great Peng and declared that he would take charge of the Beggar Clan’s affairs, prompting the eight major forces of City of Sin to unite against him. After Sikong Ting annihilated over ten thousand enemies with one lightning attack, the factions formed a war alliance, and Xu Kun calmly asked what their plan was.

• Xu Kun refused the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s demand to leave and insulted City of Sin’s leaders, who surrounded Apricot Woods with their forces.
• Sikong Ting struck first and used Myriad Thunder Prison Pull to destroy everything within several kilometers, killing over ten thousand beings, including Niu Dali’s clansmen.
• Xu Kun asserted that City of Sin was a human main city and challenged the foreign factions’ right to rule it.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng called on the leaders to unite against Xu Kun, and the Corpse Control Sect and Mighty Divine Ox Sect joined, followed by the Joyous Union Sect, Wind Eagle Gate, Five Venoms Sect, Yan Fuhai, and Ape Nightspirit.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng declared that Xu Kun had waited too long to regret his decision, but Xu Kun remained calm and asked the alliance to explain its plan.

Xu Kun secured Qiao Feng and the Beggar Clan’s support, then negotiated a wager with the Golden-Winged Great Peng that could decide who ruled City of Sin. The first duel was set to begin with Feng Bo Ting facing Hao Jian.

• Zhan Rourou revealed that she was Zhan Yuye’s granddaughter and urged the Beggar Clan not to believe the rumors against Qiao Feng, prompting the elders to seize Quan Guanqing and reconcile with their leader.
• Qiao Feng joined Xu Kun’s side, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng brought out the Vajra Lotus Platform as the arena for the eight duels.
• Xu Kun wagered that his side would leave City of Sin if any member lost, but demanded that the eight major forces submit if his team won all eight matches; the Golden-Winged Great Peng accepted.
• The two sides agreed to take turns choosing fighters after the first match, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng sent Feng Bo Ting to fight first.
• Xu Kun chose Hao Jian to face Feng Bo Ting, and Hao Jian agreed to battle.

Hao Jian defeated Feng Bo Ting in the opening match of the tournament, revealing the strength of the skills and treasures he gained at Severed Heavens Cliff. Xu Kun then chose Sikong Ting for the second match, leaving the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s side facing another opponent they dreaded.

• Feng Bo Ting introduced himself as the leader of the Wind Eagle Gate and challenged Hao Jian, who answered with a taunting introduction.
• Sikong Ting and the Golden-Winged Great Peng doubted Hao Jian could defeat the higher-level flying ranged fighter, but Hao Jian endured Feng Bo Ting’s attacks behind his shield.
• Feng Bo Ting unleashed his thirty-six-revolution Wind Eagle Pierce, but Hao Jian stood firm with his shield and the Immovable as a Mountain trait.
• Hao Jian immobilized Feng Bo Ting, forced him to charge forward, and struck him down with his Mountain Splitting Chop.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng stopped the fight and surrendered for Feng Bo Ting, and Xu Kun chose Sikong Ting for the second match.

Sikong Ting faced Niu Dali in the second round and revealed his Wind-Thunder combat abilities, overwhelming the ox despite his powerful bloodline. As Sikong Ting prepared to finish the fight, Niu Dali dropped to his knees and begged him to spare his life.

• The leaders of the remaining seven factions hesitated to challenge Sikong Ting until Golden-Winged Great Peng persuaded Niu Dali to fight him.
• Sikong Ting and Niu Dali entered the arena, where they revealed their levels and dual-element combat styles.
• Niu Dali awakened his Divine Ox Body and attacked with Demonic Ox Trample, but Sikong Ting transformed with Wind-Thunder Battle Form and stopped the technique.
• Sikong Ting struck Niu Dali with Wind Surge Thunderclap: Myriad Forgings, breaking both of his treasured horns while remaining unharmed.
• Sikong Ting gathered power for another attack, and Niu Dali slid forward on his knees, clasped his hooves, and begged, "Grandpa, spare my life!"

After Niu Dali surrendered to Sikong Ting, Xu Kun's side faced the Five Venoms Sect's five freaks in the third round. Qiao Feng fought their Five Element Poison Array and was overwhelmed by poison, but as his Heavenly Wolf Bloodline seemed close to awakening, reinforcements arrived and threw him an object.

• Niu Dali surrendered to Sikong Ting, and the Mighty Divine Ox Sect celebrated his survival as a victory.
• The Five Venoms Sect sent Old Freak of the Five Venoms to fight in the third round, and Xu Kun learned the five freaks could combine their Five Element talents into a poison array.
• Qiao Feng volunteered to fight the five freaks despite admitting the matchup was against him.
• The five freaks trapped Qiao Feng in their poison array and inflicted several poisons, including the Black Gold King Scorpion's lethal natal venom.
• Qiao Feng kept fighting and badly injured the five freaks, but his condition worsened and his Heavenly Wolf Bloodline seemed close to awakening.
• A group arrived, and its leader called Qiao Feng their Clan Leader before throwing him an object that he caught with Dragon Claw Hand.

Qiao Feng used the Dog Beating Staff to defeat and kill the Five Venoms, securing the third victory for Xu Kun’s side. Xu Kun sent Su Xiaoxiao to fight the Succubus Xiao Zhan next, and both combatants took the lotus platform.

• Xu Kun stopped the Golden-Winged Great Peng from attacking and identified the Dog Beating Staff that Bai Shijing had brought for Qiao Feng.
• Qiao Feng wielded the staff and its thirty-six moves to overwhelm the Five Venoms, kill them, and shatter their poison formation.
• Xu Kun caught the collapsing Qiao Feng, gave him healing and antidote pills, and heard the Golden-Winged Great Peng concede the third round.
• The Divine Wood King Cauldron absorbed the Five Venoms’ corpses, while the other factions attacked the Five Venoms Sect’s followers and drove the survivors away.
• Xu Kun chose Su Xiaoxiao for the fourth round and told her to make Xiao Zhan suffer; she challenged him, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng ordered him to win or die before he flew onto the lotus platform.