Chapter Summaries

Great Emperor Ziwei ordered Su Changqing and a vast force of heavenly immortals to march on the Six Desires Demon Realm, while Su Changqing recognized that the campaign served Ziwei’s plan to bind them all to the Investiture of the Gods. He left the Ziwei Star’s legendary lotus treasure untouched and arrived in Thunder City to find the Thunder Division assembled for war.

• Great Emperor Ziwei ordered one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals to attack the Six Desires Demon Realm and assigned Su Changqing to join the Thunder Gods.
• Su Changqing saw in Ziwei’s Life Script that the emperor intended to put him and countless others on the Investiture of the Gods, and he suspected the campaign would cause mass deaths.
• Feng Jiuge and Feng Libo asked Su Changqing for permission to return to the First Heaven, and Nezha escorted them toward the Second Heaven.
• Su Changqing considered the Eternal Green Lotus on Ziwei Star but chose not to risk obtaining it and headed to Thunder City instead.
• Su Changqing arrived to find more than ten thousand Thunder Division immortals and gods assembled, and they saluted him as the Three Divisions gathered to greet the Purple Heaven Department Master.

Su Changqing prepared to lead the Thunder Department in the expedition against the Six Desires Demon Realm, while the Heavenly Venerate of Thunder Punishment warned him about the Investiture of the Gods and backed his plan to kill the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate. The Heavenly Court’s vast army set out through the South Heaven Gate, and Su Changqing waited for a chance to take revenge.

• The Heavenly Venerate of Thunder Punishment warned Su Changqing not to record his true spirit in the Investiture of the Gods and advised him to delay killing the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate until the expedition.
• After discerning Su Changqing’s strength, the Heavenly Venerate of Thunder Punishment promised that the Thunder Department’s thirty-six courts would help him kill the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate, and Nezha arrived to join the campaign.
• Three days later, one hundred thousand Heavenly soldiers and generals gathered at the South Heaven Gate, where Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li announced their plan to enter Qingyun Realm and attack the Six Desires Demon Realm.
• Su Changqing searched for the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate and resolved to kill him after leaving the Nine Heavens World, while Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li led the army through the ancient ascension altar.
• A Spirit Roaming Earth Immortal witnessed the Heavenly Court’s immense host crossing the sky and feared that its soldiers would overwhelm anyone who joined them.

The Barefoot Heavenly Venerate went to True Lord Changqing's Mansion to free Ku Zhu, while the Human clans gathered to protect Su Changqing's estate. Ji Xingyue stopped the rescue attempt and hurled the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate to the South Heaven Gate, where Su Changqing and the others saw him crash down.

• Great Emperor Ziwei allowed the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate to leave and rescue Ku Zhu from True Lord Changqing's Mansion.
• The Xuanyuan, Suiren, Shennong, and Fuxi clan patriarchs agreed to guard Su Changqing's mansion and learned that Su Changqing's Dao companion was pregnant.
• The Barefoot Heavenly Venerate arrived at the Fourth Heaven and stomped toward Ku Zhu's water prison, but the Xuanyuan Sword wounded his foot.
• Ji Xingyue summoned the Taiyin Long River and hurled the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate through the sky into the South Heaven Gate.
• Su Changqing, Nezha, and the others saw the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate crash into the gate, while Ji Xingyue looked on from the Fourth Heaven.

Su Changqing, Nezha, and the heavenly forces arrived in the Qingyun Realm to confront the Six Desires demons, whose invasion had driven Qingyun Heavenly Venerate into hiding. As the assembled immortals prepared for battle, Su Changqing proposed sending Barefoot Heavenly Venerate in first to blunt the demons’ attack.

• Nezha teased Barefoot Heavenly Venerate about ramming into the South Heaven Gate, then Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li called Nezha to join the others.
• Su Changqing led the Thunder Department into the Qingyun Realm, where Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li asked where Qingyun Heavenly Venerate was and learned that Six Desires demons had invaded.
• Qingyun Heavenly Venerate emerged and greeted the arriving immortals, while Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li promised the Thunder Department would drive out the demons.
• Nezha told Su Changqing he had saved flat peaches to share after the battle, then reluctantly noticed Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li glaring at him.
• Barefoot Heavenly Venerate arrived boasting about crushing the demons, and Nezha mocked the bump on his head.
• Su Changqing proposed that Barefoot Heavenly Venerate attack first while the other forces held formation, and Nezha agreed before Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li told him to stop fooling around.

Yin Shi King prepared to trap the Heavenly Court’s army in Qingyun Realm, while Su Changqing recognized that Qingyun Heavenly Venerate had betrayed them. The army advanced toward the Qingyun Heavenly Sea, where the passage to the Six Desires Demon Realm lay.

• Yin Shi King revealed that he had allied with Great Emperor Ziwei and planned to use the immortals’ bodies and magical power to restore his strength, while sending their true spirits back onto the Investiture of the Gods.
• Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li led the Heavenly Court’s forces into Qingyun Realm and arranged them in the Ziwei Great Formation, with Su Changqing’s Thunder Department holding formation and Nezha and Barefoot Heavenly Venerate serving as the vanguard.
• Purple-Faced Thunder Duke warned Su Changqing that Qingyun Heavenly Venerate was near the end of his lifespan and might be untrustworthy, and Su Changqing acknowledged that he already knew of the Heavenly Venerate’s betrayal.
• Su Changqing’s knowledge of Qingyun Heavenly Venerate’s Life Script revealed that he had opened the passage to the Six Desires Demon Realm, leading to the army’s defeat and his own death.
• Purple-Faced Thunder Duke and Divine Firmament Thunder Duke resolved to protect Su Changqing, while Su Changqing located the passage at the Qingyun Heavenly Sea.

The immortals and gods destroyed the altar at Qingyun Heavenly Sea and freed the wronged souls, but the demons of the Six Desires Demon Realm remained hidden. Water Virtue Star Lord tried to absorb the sea, discovered it was packed with demons, and fled while calling for Su Changqing to save him.

• The Nine Luminaries Star Officials shattered the altar and dispersed the vortex, allowing the trapped souls of Qingyun to reincarnate.
• Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li called for someone with the Heavenly Eye, but Water Virtue Star Lord volunteered to drain the sea instead.
• Chong Yingbiao and the other Nine Luminaries Star Officials rejected Su Changqing’s authority and returned to the heavens above.
• Water Virtue Star Lord used his azure sphere to draw the Heavenly Sea into his treasure, draining nearly a third of it and nearing a breakthrough.
• Su Changqing saw through the sea and warned everyone after revealing countless Six Desires demons surrounding Water Virtue Star Lord.
• The demons surged toward Water Virtue Star Lord, who fled in terror and shouted, “Director, save me!”

Su Changqing and the Heavenly Court forces battled the Six Desires Heavenly Demons in the Qingyun Heavenly Sea, where his lightning proved especially devastating. As the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate considered making peace with Su Changqing, the Dharma King crept up behind him.

• Su Changqing rescued the Water Virtue Star Lord by killing a Six Desires Heavenly Demon with heavenly thunder.
• The Barefoot Heavenly Venerate crushed a demon, then retreated when a swarm overwhelmed him, while Nezha mocked his rivalry with Su Changqing.
• Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li led the heavenly forces into battle as Su Changqing and the Thunder Department destroyed demons with powerful lightning.
• Su Changqing killed three demons attacking a Star Lord and warned the wounded immortal to avoid close combat with them.
• The Barefoot Heavenly Venerate considered asking Great Emperor Ziwei to mediate his grudge with Su Changqing, while the Dharma King approached him unseen from beneath the sea.

Su Changqing struck Barefoot Heavenly Venerate and the Six Desires Heavenly Demon with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, but the arrival of the other Demon Kings let them escape. As the Heavenly Court fought to hold the line, Qingyun Heavenly Venerate revealed his betrayal and accused Li Jing of hypocrisy.

• The Six Desires Heavenly Demon overwhelmed Barefoot Heavenly Venerate, while Li Jing and Nezha rushed to help him.
• Su Changqing unleashed Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, nearly annihilating Barefoot Heavenly Venerate and the Dharma King before five more Six Desires Heavenly Demon Kings appeared and drove him to retreat.
• The Nefarious Dragon King ordered the demons to wipe out the Thunder Division as their forces poured from the Qingyun Heavenly Sea.
• Li Jing led one hundred thousand Heavenly soldiers and generals into the Ziwei Great Formation while questioning how Qingyun Heavenly Venerate had defended the realm for nearly ten years.
• Qingyun Heavenly Venerate admitted he no longer cared whether heaven and earth survived and accused Li Jing of betraying the people of Chentang Pass when he turned against the Great Shang.

Qingyun Heavenly Venerate destroyed Qingyun Realm to merge it with the Six Desires Demon Realm, leaving the immortals and gods to face a massacre. Su Changqing chose to fight the Six Desires Heavenly Demon Kings and opened the battle by beheading the Dharma King with one slash.

• Qingyun Heavenly Venerate broke the Ziwei Great Formation and caused Qingyun Realm to collapse into the Six Desires Demon Realm, while Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li urged the heavenly soldiers to flee.
• Su Changqing rejected the Thunder Department's plan to retreat and vowed to defeat the demons and overcome his Life-and-Death Tribulation.
• Su Changqing left the Thunder God Tree and confronted the six Six Desires Heavenly Demon Kings at Qingyun Heavenly Sea.
• Su Changqing summoned the Frost Snow Saber and beheaded the Dharma King with a single slash.

Su Changqing used the Five Kings to temper his blade Dao, killing several of them with his saber techniques and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder. The Nefarious Dragon King fled, and Su Changqing killed the Fragrance King as the remaining opponents broke and ran.

• Su Changqing killed the Dharma King with a brilliant blade strike and charged the Five Kings with Frost Snow Saber and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• The Five Kings attacked together, but Su Changqing severed the Nefarious Dragon King's claws and struck down the Sound King.
• Su Changqing wielded Flower Burial and Frost Snow together, declaring that he was using the kings to temper his blade Dao.
• The Nefarious Dragon King fled, and the Fragrance King and Touch King also turned to escape.
• Su Changqing pierced the Fragrance King's head with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and killed her.

Su Changqing helped the Heavenly forces defeat the Six Desires Demon Realm, but Qingyun Heavenly Venerate and Yin Shi King escaped. As the Qingyun Realm collapsed, Su Changqing discovered Barefoot Heavenly Venerate hiding in the Heavenly Sea and began stomping on him.

• Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li praised Su Changqing and ordered the immortals to hunt down the Six Desires Demon Realm's survivors.
• Su Changqing searched the collapsing realm, found Barefoot Heavenly Venerate hiding in the Heavenly Sea, and failed to locate Qingyun Heavenly Venerate or Yin Shi King.
• Yin Shi King told Qingyun Heavenly Venerate that he had avoided fighting Su Changqing because Su Changqing still had hidden power, and revealed his plans to restore the Grand Luo Emperor and seize the power of Order.
• Nezha warned that the ruined Qingyun Realm was merging into the Six Desires Demon Realm as the Heavenly Sea boiled.
• Su Changqing stomped on Barefoot Heavenly Venerate, whose screams prompted Nezha to ask to join in.

Su Changqing and Nezha disguised Barefoot Heavenly Venerate as a powerful Six Desires Heavenly Demon and rallied the assembled heavenly forces to attack him. Barefoot Heavenly Venerate remained trapped beneath the sea as the Thunder Department prepared to strike him with the Five Thunders.

• Su Changqing and Nezha stomped Barefoot Heavenly Venerate, while the Four Heavenly Kings realized who was beneath the seabed.
• The Nine Luminaries and Seven Luminaries Star Lords arrived to thank Su Changqing and seek his favor.
• Su Changqing claimed a powerful Six Desires Heavenly Demon was below, and the Star Lords and heavenly soldiers hurled their treasures into the sea.
• Nezha summoned the forces at the South Heaven Gate to suppress the supposed demon, and the Thunder Department gathered the Five Thunders to strike it.

Su Changqing exposed the Barefoot Heavenly Venerate as a Six Desires Heavenly Demon in disguise, and the immortals killed him after he survived their attacks with Great Emperor Ziwei’s decree. The story left the demon dead in the Celestial Sea, with Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li relieved and grateful to Su Changqing.

• The Thunder Dukes unleashed divine lightning on Barefoot Heavenly Venerate, and Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li followed by striking him with the Exquisite Pagoda.
• Barefoot Heavenly Venerate used Great Emperor Ziwei’s decree to shield himself, then claimed he was the Heavenly Emperor’s Special Envoy.
• A huge foot infused with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder kicked Barefoot Heavenly Venerate into the Celestial Sea again.
• Su Changqing told the immortals that Barefoot Heavenly Venerate was dead and that the man was a Six Desires Heavenly Demon in disguise.
• The immortals broke the decree’s barrier and joined forces to beat Barefoot Heavenly Venerate to death.
• Nezha asked whether the demon was dead, and Su Changqing confirmed it as Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li thanked him.

Su Changqing dealt with Barefoot Heavenly Venerate’s death and prepared to return to the Ziwei Heavenly Court, while Feng Jiuge chose to leave the Nine Heavens World and wander the cosmos. The chapter ended with Su Changqing heading back to the Fourth Heaven to cultivate.

• Su Changqing ordered Barefoot Heavenly Venerate’s corpse hung above the South Heaven Gate, and the Nine Luminaries Star Lords and Seven Luminaries Star Lords searched for his remains.
• Chong Yingbiao urged his brothers to follow Su Changqing, and they found Barefoot Heavenly Venerate’s corpse reduced to a swollen mass of flesh and blood.
• Su Changqing reflected on the vanished Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man and vowed to avenge Barefoot Heavenly Venerate’s death if the chance arose.
• Feng Jiuge told Su Changqing he was leaving the Ziwei Heavenly Court, then departed on foot for the depths of the cosmos; Feng Libo remained with the court.
• Su Changqing decided to return to the Ziwei Heavenly Court and enter secluded cultivation in the Fourth Heaven.

At the An Tian Grand Ceremony, Great Emperor Ziwei praised Su Changqing for the victory over the Six Desires Demon Realm, while Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li reported that Barefoot Heavenly Venerate had died. Su Changqing proposed honoring Barefoot Heavenly Venerate by hanging his body at the South Heaven Gate, and the gathered immortals rallied behind the motion.

• Great Emperor Ziwei celebrated the victory over the Six Desires Demon Realm and held a ceremony to reward the immortals.
• Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li reported Barefoot Heavenly Venerate's death, and Great Emperor Ziwei questioned who had killed him.
• Great Emperor Ziwei asked Su Changqing about his cultivation, and Su Changqing said he had reached the Mid-stage Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate realm around twenty years earlier.
• Su Changqing proposed hanging Barefoot Heavenly Venerate at the South Heaven Gate as a model of loyalty.
• Nezha, the Thunder Department, the Nine Luminaries Star Lords, the Seven Luminaries Star Lords, and Heavenly Venerate of Thunder Punishment Wen Zhong seconded Su Changqing's motion.

At the An Tian Grand Ceremony, Great Emperor Ziwei ordered Barefoot Heavenly Venerate hung above the South Heaven Gate for three thousand years. Su Changqing discovered that Ji Wuhen was destined to find a Green Lotus Dao Fruit on Ziwei Star and sought a reason to stay there.

• Grand White Golden Star urged Great Emperor Ziwei to win over Su Changqing, who had killed the Five Kings and befriended the Myriad Immortals and Gods.
• Great Emperor Ziwei ordered Barefoot Heavenly Venerate hung above the South Heaven Gate for three thousand years.
• Three days later, Su Changqing spotted Ji Wuhen at the ceremony and saw that he would find a Green Lotus Dao Fruit in the core region of Ziwei Star and become a Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate.
• Su Changqing decided he needed to stay on Ziwei Star to seize the opportunity, though his mansion was far away in the Fourth Heaven.
• Great Emperor Ziwei offered to have Ji Zi escort the drunken Su Changqing to rest, but Su Changqing refused her help and said he already had a Dao companion.

Su Changqing avoided Great Emperor Ziwei’s attempt to send him onto the Investiture of the Gods and agreed to visit Shangyao Star with its Star Lords. On his way out, he comforted Ji Wuhen over his stalled apprenticeship and secretly placed a strand of golden hair on him.

• Su Changqing accepted the sixteen Star Lords’ invitation to visit Shangyao Star, and Great Emperor Ziwei let them leave.
• The Star Lords praised Su Changqing’s physical cultivation and achievements, then compared him favorably with Ji Wuhen, darkening Ji Wuhen’s expression.
• Su Changqing approached Ji Wuhen and recalled their earlier conversation about the Splendid Mountains and Rivers Map.
• Su Changqing urged Ji Wuhen not to lose heart over Qiankun Dao Ancestor choosing Xuanyuan Qingfeng, saying Ji Wuhen could still become a Heavenly Venerable or Great Emperor.
• Su Changqing collapsed onto Ji Wuhen and secretly left a golden strand of hair on him.

Su Changqing fell asleep drunk after Ji Wuhen caught him, while Great Emperor Ziwei planned to bind the immortals to his rule through the Investiture of the Gods. Taiyi Savior Heavenly Venerate reported that Su Changqing seemed unlikely to leave and that the woman at his mansion might be a Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate.

• The Nine Luminaries Star Lords and Seven Luminaries Star Lords carried the sleeping Su Changqing toward Shangyao Star, while Ji Wuhen resolved to cultivate and surpass him.
• A golden monkey hair on Su Changqing's back flickered with light after he patted Ji Wuhen.
• Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate told Great Emperor Ziwei that Yin Shi King was contacting other realms and planning to invade the Nine Heavens World.
• Great Emperor Ziwei said he would reopen the Investiture of the Gods and have the immortals' names placed on it to secure his core fighting force.
• Taiyi Savior Heavenly Venerate said Su Changqing showed no intention of leaving and suggested the woman at True Lord Changqing's Mansion might also be a Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate.

Su Changqing arrived at Shangyao Star, where the Nine Luminaries and Seven Luminaries Star Lords schemed to win his favor. After waking in their palace, he focused on the dangerous struggle for fortune around Ji Wuhen and prepared to rely on one of Sun Wukong's hairs.

• Great Emperor Ziwei dismissed Taiyi Savior Heavenly Venerate and reflected on Su Changqing and other powerful figures.
• The Nine Luminaries and Seven Luminaries Star Lords agreed to unite and arrange an extravagant palace and banquets to keep Su Changqing on Shangyao Star.
• The sixteen Star Lords escorted Su Changqing into the palace and stood guard outside while he rested.
• Su Changqing woke, saw through the palace to the Star Lords, and recalled how they had once treated him with arrogance.
• Su Changqing considered Ji Wuhen's search for the Eternal Green Lotus and recognized the danger of the struggle for fortune.
• Su Changqing produced one of the three hairs Senior Brother Sun Wukong had given him.

Su Changqing used his last monkey hair to create a sleeping false body, then traveled to Ziwei Star and watched Ji Wuhen train. He waited in concealment for three days, while Ji Wuhen continued tempering his body with Ziwei Heavenly Fire.

• Su Changqing used a golden monkey hair to make a lifelike false body and transformed into green smoke to leave his hall.
• Su Changqing traveled through the Nine Heavens toward Ziwei Star, hoping to use Ji Wuhen to gain access.
• Ji Wuhen returned to Taiyi Daoist Temple and began tempering his physical body with Ziwei Starlight and Heavenly Fire.
• Su Changqing hid less than a hundred zhang from Ji Wuhen and judged that Ji Wuhen's physical body was far weaker than his own.
• Su Changqing cultivated above Ziwei Star for three days as a faint black canopy of starlight spread across the sky.