Arc 64War and Dragon’s Return

As the Three Realms descended into war, Zhen Bei emerged as a fearsome warrior and reunited with his brothers, while Bai Yujun faced an ancient enemy and intervened against forces threatening her Dragon Palace. The stretch ended with Bai Yujun pursuing the wider threat and Zhen Bei setting out with his brothers toward divine service.

  • Bai Yujun learned that the Dragon Court’s Empress had ordered the Six-Winged Strange Snake to leave behind the stone tablet, then returned to her ice-sealed body as cracks shook Sky Pillar Mountain.
  • The allied immortal armies attacked the South Heavenly Gate, and the escalating wars across the Three Realms stirred the Military Fiend Aura and summoned Zhen Bei onto the battlefield.
  • Zhen Bei joined the battle beside Monkey Brother, routed Immortal Domain forces with his Military Fiend Aura, and later reunited with his fiancée and old companions in the Immortal Realm.
  • An ancient enemy infiltrated Bai Yujun’s ice cave, revealed his role in the dragons’ destruction, and used Black Filth chains to delay the melting ice.
  • Bai Yujun’s Dragon Palace faced a siege by cultivators, but she arrived, exposed the upper-realm influence behind the attack, killed the hidden Primordial Spirit, and sent the worst offenders to the Six-Winged Strange Snake.
  • Bai Yujun tracked an upper-realm cultivator seeking ancient evil creatures, captured him, and let the Six-Winged Strange Snake drain his faith power as she examined his memories.
  • Zhen Bei welcomed his newly ascended brothers and a Wyvern, then offered them a choice between becoming divine generals or taking easier work.
  • Zhen Bei’s brothers chose to follow him, while Monkey and Little Phoenix headed to persuade the comic author to resume updating.
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Ch. 1578Earthquake

Bai Yujun left the underground world after learning that Dragon Court beasts still survived across the cosmos, then returned to Sky Pillar Mountain. Her accelerated consumption of the sun weakened the ice sealing her, causing an earthquake and raising questions about the future.

  • Bai Yujun questioned the Six-Winged Strange Snake, which panicked after sensing the Dragon Court's Empress and revealed that the Empress had ordered it to leave the stone tablet behind.
  • Bai Yujun sent Monkey Brother and Little Phoenix away, then departed the underground world with Fat Tiger and warned the Tu household cultivators to leave before the portal sealed.
  • Bai Yujun removed remnants of a Demonic Beast's soul from two Tu household cultivators and demanded payment, then teleported the cultivators and indebted visitors back to the giant pit to collect their assets.
  • Bai Yujun returned to her true body in Sky Pillar Mountain, where cracks in her ice seal caused the mountain to tremble and an earthquake to alarm its inhabitants.
  • Bai Yujun calculated that learning of surviving Dragon Court beasts had accelerated her consumption of the sun, while her body's vitality returned and the ice's sealing effect weakened.

Ch. 1579Enemy Attack

At the South Heavenly Gate, the monkey watched a battle-worn fleet return from the Gods and Demons Battlefield before spotting an allied army from hostile immortal domains approaching. He raised the alarm as the Heavenly Court mobilized, leaving the enemy commanders facing the freshly returned army and the monkey's growing strength.

  • The monkey studied the Immortal Bridge formation and suspected the Heavenly Court barrier would open when Bai Yujun broke free.
  • More than a thousand damaged warships returned from the Gods and Demons Battlefield and docked at the immortal island.
  • The monkey and Little Phoenix spotted the allied armies of the various immortal domains approaching the South Heavenly Gate.
  • The monkey shouted an enemy alert, and the Lishi beat the war drum as the Sky Patrol Mirror located the enemy fleet and the Immortal Bridge halted transport.
  • The monkey donned his armor and raised the Snake Demon Army's fighting spirit while the enemy commanders worried about the returned fleet and the demon monkey's strength.

Ch. 1580War

The immortal domains and the Snake Demon Army assembled outside the South Heavenly Gate, and the monkey led the allied forces into battle against the immortal lords. As the war spread across the Ninth Heaven, a girl watched from Little Broken Ball World while a small white dragon told her they would soon part.

  • The armies gathered outside the South Heavenly Gate as immortal generals returned, and the Four Seas Dragon Kings joined the Snake Demon Army.
  • An arrogant ascender was executed for his crimes, while the other newly arrived immortals received Ascension Handbooks.
  • The immortal lords failed to seduce the monkey with beautiful women, and he mocked them for sending women without fur.
  • The monkey and the Little Phoenix charged into battle, while the Four Dragon Kings, Mu Duo, and Gan Wu engaged the immortal lords.
  • The armies clashed across the Ninth Heaven as their Military Fiend Aura gathered, and Little Broken Ball World mobilized troops, supplies, and medical evacuations.
  • A girl watched the battle from a pavilion beside a quiet lake as the small white dragon on her shoulder said they would soon be separating.

Ch. 1581Military Fiend Aura

The Dragon Girl explained that she had fulfilled her destiny as the girl's guardian and transformed into an independent dragon, then joined the girl on the way to the South Heavenly Gate. As the war intensified, Old Hui Xian and the Bamboo Spring Temple group went to fight, while hidden Saints sensed that a major event was approaching.

  • The Dragon Girl told the girl that her fiancé was about to ascend and that she no longer needed to remain by her side, then solidified into an independent dragon.
  • The Dragon Girl reassured the girl that they would reunite and took her toward the South Heavenly Gate to witness the Military God emerge.
  • Qiao Jin mobilized troops as the battle outside the South Heavenly Gate spread across the surrounding immortal islands and grew increasingly bloody.
  • Old Hui Xian rang the Ancient Bell, then led Little Stone, the Long-faced Strongman, and the Snake Demon Boy toward the South Heavenly Gate to fight for a friend.
  • The Long-faced Strongman and Little Stone charged into battle, while Old Hui Xian meditated on the Immortal Bridge and deterred enemy troops from approaching.
  • Hidden Saints watched the war's growing Baleful Intent and sensed that something momentous was about to happen, but Calamity Qi obscured the Heavenly Secrets.

Ch. 1582War Across the Three Realms

The Human Emperor’s forces invaded Dragon Country while the Snake Demon Army and newly mobilized defenders fought back with modern weapons. As war spread across the Three Realms, a crack opened in hell and released millions of evil ghosts, while the Military Fiend Aura in the Ascension Platform began to tremble.

  • The Human Empire launched coordinated invasions into Dragon Country, prompting emergency conscription and the mobilization of aircraft, medical ships, and air-defense towers.
  • Zhang Xiaoyuan led three thousand Snake Demon Soldiers against the invading cultivators while the Profound Immortal heavenly general attacked the enemy commander.
  • More than ten thousand concealed fighter craft revealed themselves and bombed the invading army, suffering crossbow fire as they struck the enemy’s forces.
  • A new crack opened in hell, and millions of Hellish Evil Ghosts escaped as the Netherworld’s gods and soldiers struggled to contain them.
  • Two girls revealed their flood dragon forms and fought the escaping ghosts as the underworld descended into chaos.
  • War spread across the Three Realms, and the Military Fiend Aura within the Ascension Platform trembled faintly.

Ch. 1583Black and White

As the War Drums awakened the Killing Intent accumulated across the Three Realms, the Ascension Platforms formed a mysterious array and summoned an armored figure from a desolate world. Bai Yujun’s translucent image appeared behind the figure, leaving the Immortal Lords and Saints stunned.

  • A young man in the wilderness sensed the distant Military Fiend Aura, while Feng Ying, Bai Yujun, and other girls also turned toward the gathering Killing Intent.
  • The Ascension Platforms outside the South Heavenly Gate rearranged themselves as the monkey and the other leaders paused their duel and withdrew.
  • The War Drums stirred fear and bloodlust across the Primordial Land, and Bai Yujun saw visions of the wars from the Dragon Court’s rise to its destruction.
  • The blood-soaked platforms formed an array that gathered the Three Realms’ Killing Intent, prompting the Saints to recognize Bai Yujun and a newly born god as variables.
  • The monkey called for Brother Bei, and the vortex revealed an armored, faceless figure standing amid the corpses of ancient gods and beasts.
  • Bai Yujun’s translucent figure appeared behind the Mysterious Person, astonishing the watching Immortal Lords and Saints.

Ch. 1584Zhen Bei

Zhen Bei awakened the power of a Military Soul and entered the battle in the Primordial Immortal Realm, where his presence terrified the Immortal Domain’s forces. He helped the monkey gain the upper hand and left thousands of enemy soldiers and immortals fleeing.

  • Zhen Bei endured the flood of memories and Military Fiend Aura as Bai Yujun’s Dragon Scale Clone used dragon qi to keep his mind clear.
  • After the Dragon Scale Clone merged into his helmet, Zhen Bei recognized the monkey and surveyed the brutal battlefield around the South Heavenly Gate.
  • A Heavenly Immortal charged Zhen Bei, but his battle cry paralyzed the man, and Zhen Bei calmly pierced him with his blade.
  • Zhen Bei advanced toward the monkey’s opponent, gathering Military Fiend Aura and weakening the Immortal Lord’s will and fighting ability.
  • Zhen Bei charged the Immortal Lord’s carriage and kicked it apart, then roared at the Immortal Domain forces, driving many soldiers and immortals to collapse or flee.

Ch. 1585Meeting

Bai Yujun watched a powerful enemy emerge from the Hell Abyss and enter the ice cave where she was sealed. The visitor revealed his role in the slaughter of the dragons and his failed scheme to destroy the Three Realms, leaving Bai Yujun determined to face him when she was free.

  • Bai Yujun sensed an intruder as black, corrupt blood seeped into the ice cave and formed a man.
  • The man fought against hell’s pull and the dragon aura, then reached a spot three zhang from Bai Yujun’s ice prison.
  • Bai Yujun recognized him as the dragon race’s mortal enemy, and he remarked on their shared imprisonment.
  • The man explained that he could disguise his appearance by reflecting what others expected a powerful being to look like.
  • The man admitted that he had planned to use the Sun Star to destroy the primordial wilderness, break the Three Realms’ barrier, and escape hell, but Bai Yujun had eaten the star.
  • The man revealed that he had destroyed Dragon Gates and arranged killing calamities to exterminate dragons, while Bai Yujun resolved to finish their ancient conflict after escaping the ice.

Ch. 1586Iron Chains

Bai Yujun watched an ancient man use Black Filth to bind her ice prison with iron chains before retreating to Hell Abyss. Her hint that she had seen the future unsettled him, and she remained in the ice as the battle at South Heavenly Gate continued.

  • Bai Yujun reflected on the friends she had left behind and the fate-bound gods who had followed her through calamity.
  • The man admitted he had come with ulterior motives and used Black Filth to form iron chains around Bai Yujun’s ice pillar, slowing its melting.
  • Bai Yujun mocked the man’s history and condemned the decaying schemes of the Immortal Realm, while he focused on delaying her.
  • Bai Yujun told the man he was afraid, and he silently accepted that his spell had left him vulnerable to the mountain’s power.
  • As the man retreated into the Black Filth, Bai Yujun said she had watched the future repeat itself, alarming him before dragon qi scorched the filth away.
  • Bai Yujun continued observing the battlefield at South Heavenly Gate.

Ch. 1587Rusty Saber

Feng Ying dreamed that black iron chains had appeared around the ice sealing the Dragon Girl, and Yu guessed that her rusted saber might be destined to cut them. At South Heavenly Gate, the Snake Demon Army and the immortal domains ended their bloody battle without either side securing victory.

  • Feng Ying awoke from a dream of black chains binding the ice inside Sky Pillar Mountain and told Yu that something had changed.
  • Yu suggested Feng Ying's saber might be meant to sever the chains rather than break the ice sealing the Divine Dragon, and Feng Ying sensed the guess was right.
  • At South Heavenly Gate, the Snake Demon Army and the immortal domains withdrew after an intense battle left both sides badly damaged.
  • Gan Wu, Mu Duo, Zhen Bei, and Monkey Brother stopped fighting as the immortal lords recalled their artifacts and departed.
  • Zhen Bei joked to Monkey Brother about arriving in the Immortal Realm and immediately finding a job through battle.

Ch. 1588South Heavenly Gate

After ascending to the Immortal Realm, Zhen Bei learned about Bai Yujun’s sacrifice and the realm’s strange wonders, then discovered he could bring his old brothers up by accepting a divine post and filing an official request. The monkey also told him that the person he most wanted to see was waiting beneath the divine tree.

  • Zhen Bei watched the Immortal Realm’s advanced forces clean up the battlefield while the monkey and Little Phoenix showed him its vastness.
  • Zhen Bei mistook Sky Pillar Peak, Bai Yujun’s transformed body, for a gigantic statue, and the monkey explained how she had sealed the falling sun to save the Primordial Land.
  • The monkey introduced Zhen Bei to his companions and showed him the South Heavenly Gate, explaining that Bai Yujun alone could pass through the Heavenly Court’s barrier.
  • Zhen Bei asked how to bring his mortal brothers to the Immortal Realm and find the rulers responsible for his old friends’ deaths; Little Phoenix confirmed those rulers had already perished in hell or the Netherworld.
  • The monkey told Zhen Bei he could bring his brothers by accepting a divine post and submitting an official document, then revealed that the person he most wanted to see was waiting beneath the divine tree.

Ch. 1589Pear Tree

Zhen Bei and his fiancée met Bai Yujun’s Dragon Scale Clone, who had gained independence and planned to start a new life in the Immortal Realm. They traveled to the Nine Provinces Four Seas Grand Hotel for Zhen Bei’s ascension celebration, where he found his friends gathered and one long-empty seat by the window.

  • Zhen Bei and his fiancée met the Dragon Scale Clone at a dessert shop in the imperial city, where she explained that she had left the Ancient Desolate Battlefield and intended to become a dragon king.
  • Zhen Bei congratulated the Dragon Scale Clone and offered his help as an old friend before she left to play in the Virtual Illusion.
  • Zhen Bei’s fiancée explained the Virtual Illusion, and the two took a floating train to Old Pear Tree Station.
  • Zhen Bei and his fiancée climbed to the Nine Provinces Four Seas Grand Hotel, passing an old pear tree in full bloom.
  • Zhen Bei entered the hall and saw Monkey, the old monk, Little Phoenix, Gan Wu, and others gathered around the table, with an empty seat by the window.

Ch. 1590The Second Day

Tu Yue guarded the sleeping Mysterious Girl in Dragon Palace as a violent sect besieged the mountain, while the sect’s young master plotted to break its formation for rumored immortal treasures. In the surrounding camp, Thousand-Household Officer Ge attacked the sect’s cultivators for their crimes and revealed that his blade, The Second Day, could kill even powerful cultivators.

  • Tu Yue worried over the sleeping Mysterious Girl and the Tu household while Dragon Palace remained surrounded by a sect whose attacks vanished at the mountain gate.
  • The sect master ordered his people to stop sending investigators after more than fifty members disappeared, and the young master resolved to break the formation for the treasures he believed were hidden inside.
  • Elder Ku proposed using an Earth-Shaking treasure to damage the mountain’s earth veins, and the young master offered his Earth-Shaking Treasure Pearl.
  • Thousand-Household Officer Ge entered the sect’s temporary camp and killed Foundation Establishment Cultivators he accused of abusing and murdering civilians.
  • A Golden Core Cultivator attacked Ge, but Ge pinned him with his blade and announced that it was called The Second Day and existed to kill evildoers.

Ch. 1591Encircling the Mountain

Thousand-Household Officer Ge fought two Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators and killed the Deer Demon, while one opponent escaped. As the sects continued besieging the Dragon Palace, an owl carried a captive from the archway secret realm to a vast farming realm where their spiritual energy began to drain.

  • Little Hedgehog swept the Stone Slab Path while Cheng Su watched the fighting below the mountain.
  • The Nascent Soul Cultivator called in a green-robed man, who admitted to slaughtering the town beneath the white mountain rock and absorbing its people’s Qi and Blood.
  • Thousand-Household Officer Ge fought both cultivators, exposed the green-robed man as a Deer Demon, and killed it with Chuer, which obliterated its soul.
  • The Nascent Soul Cultivator fled, and Ge took the Deer Demon's corpse and disappeared into the woods after killing several low-level cultivators.
  • The sects continued their siege of the Dragon Palace while Tu Yue worried that she could not contact her Lineage.
  • An owl took a captive from the archway pillar’s secret realm to a vast farming realm, where their cultivation began to decline and a Jade Slip gave them farming instructions.

Ch. 1592Divine Statue

The Lishan Sect advanced its attack on the mysterious mountain after discovering a carrying pole with an extraordinary balancing ability. As Thousand-Household Officer Ge watched the cultivators prepare to strike, the Divine Dragon Statue in the Dragon Palace came alive and stopped their attempt to overturn the earth veins.

  • A tall cultivator demonstrated that a carrying pole redistributed and reduced the weight of liquids without using spells, prompting the Great Cultivators to hasten their plan to seize the mountain.
  • Thousand-Household Officer Ge reviewed closed cases, reflected on his pursuit of justice, and watched the Lishan Sect cultivators gather above the mysterious mountain.
  • Earth-yellow light spread through the forest as the Lishan Sect began its attack, and one cultivator’s overwhelming aura suddenly vanished, leaving him stumbling in the air.
  • Cheng Su and Tu Yue watched the Divine Dragon Statue raise a foreclaw and stamp, causing the cultivator controlling a jeweled orb to vomit blood and the strange phenomena to disappear.
  • The Divine Dragon Statue returned to stillness, while one of its claws remained slightly shifted beside the burning incense.

Ch. 1593Immortal Artifact

Elder Ku’s failed attempt to break the mountain’s formation leaves the attackers ready to retreat, but the General Store Pavilion reveals an imitation Dragon Spear that spurs them into a prolonged assault. After they pause, the pavilion displays an immortal artifact paper umbrella, prompting the cultivators to attack the mountain again.

  • Elder Ku suffers a severe backlash while using the treasure pearl, and the cultivators grow suspicious and consider abandoning the assault.
  • The General Store Pavilion’s living artifacts carry an imitation Dragon Spear outside, and the Lazy Young Master and the other cultivators rush to attack the mountain.
  • Cheng Su and Tu Yue watch the attackers bombard the Dragon Palace’s formation for nearly twelve hours while its residents remain safe and the master sleeps.
  • The exhausted cultivators stop their attack and return to the high platform to reconsider their plans.
  • A cloud carries an immortal artifact paper umbrella out of the General Store Pavilion, and the cultivators begin another wild bombardment of the mountain.

Ch. 1594Mosquito

Bai Yujun secretly infiltrated Sky Pillar Mountain as a mosquito while, in an underground immortal city, a masked girl with a roadside shop intervened in the pursuit of a brutal young boy. She offered him goods in exchange for saying one sentence for her in the future, and he stared at the merchandise as the chapter ended.

  • Bai Yujun remained asleep in the Dragon Palace while a mosquito she had created slowly drilled into Sky Pillar Mountain, evading its defenses.
  • A battered boy killed a gaunt monster in the underground district, looted storage bags from the corpses, and escaped through the shadows.
  • A masked, pointed-eared girl found traces of the boy, sent a rat carrying his aura down one path, and followed the boy herself as five cultivators and two feather-robed pursuers chased the false trail.
  • The girl tracked the boy to a ruined house, transformed her book chest into a roadside shop, and appeared before him.
  • The girl offered the boy weapons, cultivation techniques, pills, or poison in return for promising to say one sentence for her in the future, and the boy eyed the goods.

Ch. 1595Digging a Hole

Dragon-faced Mask Girl made a deal with a street punk, killed the powerful young man he named, and gave him a Spirit Pill in exchange for a future sentence. Meanwhile, the Variant Mosquito reached the White Dragon’s hiding place beneath Sky Pillar Mountain and realized she was concealed inside the ice rather than trapped in dragon form.

  • Dragon-faced Mask Girl offered the punk a treasure for signing a contract, then agreed to kill the city lord’s direct-line sixth-generation grandson as an extra.
  • Dragon-faced Mask Girl teleported the punk to his enemy, killed the young man, and brought the punk back before the city’s grand formation sealed the core district.
  • The punk signed the contract and received the Spirit Pill he had watched most closely, while Dragon-faced Mask Girl left the immortal city to seek an ordinary town and open a shop.
  • A fishing girl on Sky Pillar Mountain noticed a hidden crevice, caught and swallowed a crucian carp, then continued fishing.
  • The Variant Mosquito spent a year digging through rock and dragon-qi-rich metal before breaking through to pale blue ice.
  • The Variant Mosquito concluded that the White Dragon had deceived the Myriad Worlds by hiding inside the ice instead of being trapped in her true dragon form.

Ch. 1596Gambler

The mosquito chose to gamble his resources and cultivation on drilling through Sky Pillar Mountain’s Extreme Yin Cold Ice to reach the heat source. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun inspected her besieged Dragon Palace, found signs of a hidden force behind the evil cultivators, and watched Thousand-Household Officer Ge fight on as rain fell.

  • The mosquito weighed retreating against risking everything to reach the white dragon, then began corroding the ice and carefully rationing his Spirit Materials.
  • Bai Yujun projected her consciousness to her avatar’s Dragon Palace and ordered its unruly sentient household objects back to the General Store Pavilion.
  • Bai Yujun saw that evil cultivators were besieging the Dragon Palace and refining captives into pills while Thousand-Household Officer Ge fought them.
  • Bai Yujun used Gaze into Past and Future and found that someone behind the unrest was obscuring the demons’ backgrounds.
  • Bai Yujun noticed Thousand-Household Officer Ge close another case after killing an evil cultivator, then let the rain gather over the mountains.

Ch. 1597Heavy Rain

During a supernatural downpour, Bai Yujun exposed the upper-realm power manipulating the cultivators at the Dragon Palace and destroyed its messenger. She captured the remaining sinners and sent them toward the Six-Winged Strange Snake, then left to investigate another hidden Ancient Desolate Fierce Creature.

  • Bai Yujun arrived on Fat Tiger at the Dragon Palace and froze the rain and evil cultivators with her power.
  • Bai Yujun searched the young master's past and found that upper-realm power had manipulated his mind and infused him with cultivation.
  • Bai Yujun seized the golden Primordial Spirit hidden in Elder Ku, searched its memories, and dissolved it.
  • Bai Yujun learned that the golden figure had been developing two Small Worlds and seeking to recruit an Ancient Desolate Fierce Creature.
  • Fat Tiger ate one evil cultivator, while Bai Yujun used the Immortal Artifact scroll to capture the sect members and disciples.
  • Bai Yujun bound the worst sinners with lightning, sent them into the secret realm for the Six-Winged Strange Snake, and left to investigate the hidden fierce creature.

Ch. 1598Dharma Manifestation

A cultivator from a distant sect investigated a mysterious death and traveled toward the Savage Small World, while Bai Yujun relaxed at the Dragon Palace and prepared to intercept him. The chapter ended as a golden Dharma Manifestation appeared above the world and drew the attention of Cheng Su and the Divine Dragon Statue.

  • A fair, plump cultivator investigated the death of a man connected to important secrets, took a Glazed Lotus Lantern, and crossed the void toward two Small Worlds.
  • Fat Tiger returned a painting scroll to the General Store, and Bai Yujun told him to watch over Thousand-Household Officer Ge and protect him.
  • Bai Yujun noticed that her human shell was developing dragon scales and used a spell to slow its transformation.
  • Bai Yujun sensed an intruder approaching the Savage Small World and decided to disguise herself as a fortunate person favored by its Heavenly Dao before capturing him.
  • A golden Dharma Manifestation appeared above the Savage Small World, startling Cheng Su as the Divine Dragon Statue briefly raised its head and gazed at it.

Ch. 1599This General

Bai Yujun seized an upper-realm cultivator who was investigating the Small World and brought him to an underground secret realm. There, the Six-Winged Strange Snake immobilized him and drained his faith power as Bai Yujun began examining his memories.

  • The upper-realm cultivator tried to recruit the fortune-blessed Bai Yujun, then attacked her with a Karma Fire red lotus when she ignored his warnings.
  • Bai Yujun discovered that the golden phantom was a decoy, seized the cultivator in the Outer Void, and carried him through the Small World's barrier.
  • Bai Yujun released the cultivator in an underground secret realm, where the Six-Winged Strange Snake agreed to serve her and prepared to deal with him.
  • The Six-Winged Strange Snake immobilized the cultivator and attacked his Primordial Spirit, triggering the dangers of his faith-based cultivation technique.
  • The cultivator's attempt to become a demon failed as the Six-Winged Strange Snake drained his faith power, and Bai Yujun watched fragments of his past.

Ch. 1600Collection

Bai Yujun learned that the religious order was gathering faith power and searching for ancient evil creatures, then considered how the coming Great Calamity might be more devastating than any before it. After deciding to seek out a wounded ferocious being, she dealt with the Glazed Lotus Lantern’s Weapon Spirit and left the secret realm, while the Six-Winged Strange Snake remained convinced the Empress was watching it.

  • Bai Yujun examined the memories of a cultivator chief and discovered his mission was to collect believers’ faith power and locate hidden ancient evil creatures.
  • The Six-Winged Strange Snake swallowed the chief after Bai Yujun finished probing his memories.
  • Bai Yujun suspected that the coming Great Calamity would be exceptionally fierce, given the many powerful beings and ancient creatures already entering the conflict.
  • Bai Yujun decided to approach a wounded ferocious being and consider bringing it under her command.
  • Bai Yujun stopped the Glazed Lotus Lantern from sneaking away and forced its Weapon Spirit to abandon the lamp and reincarnate.
  • Bai Yujun collected the Glazed Lotus Lantern and left the secret realm, while the Six-Winged Strange Snake bowed repeatedly, believing the Empress was still watching.

Ch. 1601Gathering

Zhen Bei waited at the South Heavenly Gate for his mortal comrades to ascend, remembering the soldiers he had lost and planning to give his brothers a home in the Immortal Realm. After they and his wyvern arrived, he gathered them up and led them toward the sacred tree to celebrate.

  • Zhen Bei reflected on the child soldier killed in battle and calmed himself after his grief and anger overwhelmed him.
  • An Immortal Clerk confronted a newly ascended immortal who tried to bribe him, and Heavenly Soldiers intervened in their scuffle.
  • Zhen Bei welcomed his newly ascended brothers, including a devil who had defected to his side, and stopped one of them from cooking on the Ascension Platform.
  • A winged Wyvern ascended, recognized Zhen Bei, and quietly joined his group after sensing the power of the Immortal Realm.
  • Zhen Bei signed the Wyvern's document, rode on its back, and led his brothers aboard a transport ship toward the sacred tree.

Ch. 1602Bathhouse

Zhen Bei took his brothers to a bathhouse, then asked them whether they wanted to pursue a dangerous future as divine generals or settle into peaceful lives. They all chose to follow him, while the monkey and Little Phoenix set off to find the author of a comic that had stopped updating.

  • Zhen Bei and his brothers relaxed at the bathhouse, reminiscing about their six years in the Immortal Realm and celebrating their roughneck ways.
  • Zhen Bei offered his brothers a choice between joining him to become divine generals and taking easy work for a stable life.
  • Second Brother and the rest of the brothers declared they would follow Zhen Bei, and Zhen Bei decided to bring along their Wyvern mount.
  • The monkey and Little Phoenix heard the brothers celebrating as they passed the bathhouse on their tricycle.
  • At Yang Mu's request, the monkey and Little Phoenix disguised themselves and headed to the comic author's residence to persuade the author to resume updating.
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