Chapter Summaries

Su Yi and Cui Chang'an faced seven Emperors who tried to force the Cui Family into submission by holding its captured members hostage. Su Yi unleashed the Demon Emperor Tianji, who killed Tantai Yue, and the chapter ended as the Night of the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival plunged the Netherworld into darkness.

• Qu Bohou and six other Emperors showed Cui Chang'an an image of captured Cui Family members and pressed him to negotiate.
• Su Yi warned the Emperors that their clans would pay if the captives died, then summoned the Demon Emperor Tianji from the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp.
• The Demon Emperor Tianji killed Tantai Yue by tearing out his heart and burning him to ash, while the other Emperors fled.
• Su Yi recalled the Demon Emperor Tianji and told Cui Chang'an that winning the coming battle would keep the captured family members safe.
• The sky went completely dark, marking the arrival of the Night of the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival.

As the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival brought total darkness and a vast army of evil spirits to Violet Luo City, Su Yi and Cui Chang'an relied on the Golden Crow Extinguishing Calamity Array to defend the city. When a powerful Skeleton Evil Spirit destroyed one of the array’s Golden Crows, Su Yi summoned Old Poor Scholar and gave him the All Heavens Blood Furnace to capture it.

• Su Yi ordered Cui Chang'an to light the Great Dao Heavenly Lanterns, revealing a vast army of evil spirits surrounding Violet Luo City.
• Su Yi activated the Golden Crow Extinguishing Calamity Array, which annihilated waves of spirits but faced increasingly powerful attacks as the night went on.
• Su Yi unleashed four Golden Crow manifestations from the array, burning countless evil spirits outside the city.
• A Skeleton Evil Spirit appeared and shattered one Golden Crow with its black bone spear, alarming Cui Chang'an and drawing Su Yi's attention to its sinful-karmic power.
• Su Yi summoned Old Poor Scholar with the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp and gave him the All Heavens Blood Furnace to capture the Skeleton Evil Spirit.

As Violet Luo City faced a siege, Su Yi’s summoned allies battled several powerful evil spirits outside the East City Gate. When the Black Hell Evil King arrived, Su Yi sent out the Nether River Dragon Lord, who effortlessly seized and devoured the Netherworld Demoness.

• Mu Yunqi captured the Skeleton Evil Spirit with the All Heavens Blood Furnace, but the Netherworld Demoness wounded him and attacked.
• The Sinful Demon Monk and Sinful Demon Child joined the battle, prompting Su Yi to summon Demon Emperor Tianji and Fei Kongtong to aid Mu Yunqi.
• The three summoned fighters battled the Netherworld Demoness, Sinful Demon Monk, and Sinful Demon Child as the rest of the evil spirit army stayed back from the city.
• The Black Hell Evil King advanced toward the city, and Su Yi ordered the gaunt Old Crawler to suppress it.
• The Nether River Dragon Lord seized the Netherworld Demoness, crushed her body, and swallowed the vengeful souls within her.

The gaunt old man defeated the Netherworld Demoness and Black Hell Evil King, but Nine Netherworld Crow arrived with a Dark Night Underworld Guard. Su Yi ordered a retreat, allowing the attackers to breach Violet Luo City's East City Gate as the stone statues of Xiezhi and Bi'an vanished.

• The gaunt old man transformed into a blood-red flood dragon, defeated the Black Hell Evil King, and sealed him in an orb for Su Yi.
• Nine Netherworld Crow appeared with a Dark Night Underworld Guard atop a blood-red mountain and demanded that the gaunt old man stand aside.
• The gaunt old man refused Nine Netherworld Crow's demand, while Su Yi ordered Demon Emperor Tianji and the others to withdraw.
• Su Yi decided to retreat with Cui Chang'an, leaving the East City Gate undefended against the approaching attackers.
• The blood-red mountain smashed through the East City Gate, and evil spirits flooded into Violet Luo City as the stone statues of Xiezhi and Bi'an disappeared.

The evil spirit army breached Violet Luo City while powerful clans moved to exploit the Cui Family’s apparent defeat. As rival emperors converged on the family estate, Xue Huaining remained confident, and Su Yi ordered Fei Kongtong to confront his own clan.

• The Dark Night Underworld Guard and the Nine Netherworld Crow entered Violet Luo City, aiming for the Judgment Division Ruins.
• Emperors from Ancient Clan Qu, the Hong Family, the Tantai Family, and the Demon Hou Clan set out to overthrow the Cui Family after the city fell.
• Xue Huaining reassured the Cui Family that the evil spirits and opportunistic forces would suffer heavy losses, despite the siege of the Clan Protecting Forbidden Array.
• Qu Changhen, Hong Zhiwen, Tantai Ye, and Fei Yanzhi arrived with more than ten sovereigns and demanded the Cui Family surrender.
• Su Yi told Fei Kongtong to make the Demon Hou Clan members leave or kill them himself, and Fei Kongtong leaped away to act.

Su Yi released the Clear Shadow Sword’s sealed power and revealed his former-life might as the factions attacked the Cui Family and the Dark Night Underworld Guard moved against the Judgment Division Ruins. His sword light purged the evil spirits across Violet Luo City, and he prepared to fight before the borrowed power faded.

• The Nine Netherworld Crow revealed that it had allied with major factions to attack the Cui Family while it and the Dark Night Underworld Guard reclaimed a treasure in the Judgment Division Ruins.
• As the factions assaulted the Cui Family’s defenses, Fei Kongtong worried that Fei Yanzhi and the other Demon Hou Clan Emperors were walking into a trap.
• Su Yi ordered the gaunt old man, Demon Emperor Tianji, and the man in Confucian robes to guard the East City Gate, then gave Cui Chang'an the Strategy Array Chessboard and assigned him control of the city’s defenses.
• Su Yi summoned the Clear Shadow Sword, whose song and light startled the emperors and alerted the beings near the Judgment Division Ruins.
• Su Yi used the Bearing Dao Stone to unleash part of his former-life cultivation, eradicating the evil spirits throughout Violet Luo City and beyond its walls.
• Su Yi drained his wine and told the Clear Shadow Sword that they would kill to their hearts’ content.

Su Yi annihilated nearly all the emperors attacking the Cui Clan with three sword strikes, leaving Fei Yanzhi alive. He then appeared at the Judgment Division ruins, where the Dark Night Underworld Guard was still attacking the hall’s forbidden array.

• Su Yi’s first sword slew seven emperors and forced the remaining attackers to evade.
• Su Yi used “Draw Star River” to devastate the combined assault, leaving only four grievously wounded Profound Darkness Realm experts.
• Su Yi’s third sword killed Qu Changhen, Hong Zhiwen, and Tantai Ye, sparing only Fei Yanzhi among the fourteen emperors.
• The Nine Netherworld Crow urged the Dark Night Underworld Guard to retreat, but he refused to abandon his attempt to break the forbidden array.
• A tall, imposing figure appeared in the darkness near the Judgment Division ruins.

Su Yi used the Clear Shadow Sword’s borrowed power from his past life to defeat the evil spirits attacking Violet Luo City, though the Nine Netherworld Crow escaped through a mysterious taboo technique. After the Bearing Dao Stone shattered and that power faded, Su Yi accepted that he would surpass his past self through cultivation in this life.

• The Nine Netherworld Crow recognized Su Yi and ordered the Sinful Demon Monk and Sinful Demon Child to stop him, but Su Yi killed them with one sword strike.
• The Dark Night Underworld Guard attacked Su Yi with the blood-red mountain and the Law of Calamity, but Su Yi destroyed it and sealed the guard in the All Heavens Blood Furnace.
• Su Yi tried to capture the Nine Netherworld Crow, but it used a taboo technique to escape after he trapped it with the Grand Five Elements Domain Suppression Sword.
• Su Yi recovered the Nine Netherworld Crow’s shattered life-bound true feather and deduced that a powerful existence might stand behind the bird.
• The Bearing Dao Stone shattered after ten finger-snaps, ending Su Yi’s past-life power, and Su Yi walked away resolved to surpass his former strength in this life.

Su Yi ended the assault on Violet Luo City by using power left from his former life to defeat the invaders, then contained the surviving enemies and told Cui Chang'an to conceal his role. After the evil spirits withdrew at dawn, Cui Chang'an told the Cui Family that the mysterious savior had been a trace of Su Yi’s former power, leaving them disappointed while he and Xue Huaining kept Su Yi’s reincarnation secret.

• Su Yi returned to the East City Gate and sent Demon Emperor Tianji, the man in scholar's robes, and the gaunt old man into the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp.
• Su Yi ordered Fei Yanzhi to atone in the Judgment Division's prison and suppressed her and Fei Kongtong in the lamp.
• Su Yi told Cui Chang'an not to reveal that he had caused the night’s victory, then left after explaining that his former life and present self were not the same to others.
• At dawn, the evil spirits withdrew, and the Cui Family celebrated surviving the calamity without casualties.
• Cui Chang'an confirmed to the Cui Family that the mysterious swordsman was Master Su, then said it was only power from Su Yi’s Dao Xing left in the Clear Shadow Sword.
• The Cui Family mourned that Master Su had not returned, while Cui Chang'an and Xue Huaining were relieved that they had concealed his reincarnation.

The Daoist Robe Old Man hunted down the Emperors who had attacked Violet Luo City, revealing himself as the long-lost Black Annihilation Demon God. After collecting their heads, he headed toward Violet Luo City to report to Fellow Daoist Su.

• Qu Yunzhong, Hong Tianhe, and Tantai Zhe realized their companions had likely been killed and prepared to retreat together.
• A towering phantom appeared, and Tantai Zhe screamed before vanishing into the darkness.
• The Daoist Robe Old Man trapped Hong Tianhe inside a forbidden formation and killed him after revealing Tantai Zhe's severed head.
• The Daoist Robe Old Man identified himself as the Black Annihilation Demon God, who had escaped after being trapped in the Bitter Sea for tens of thousands of years.
• The Daoist Robe Old Man killed Qu Yunzhong, gathered all three heads, and set off for Violet Luo City to give Fellow Daoist Su an account.

After the Cui Family's victory, Su Yi went to the Judgment Division Ruins with Cui Chang'an, learned that the Judge's Brush had been the Nine Netherworld Crow and Dark Night Underworld Guards' target, and reinforced the seal beneath Heaven Cauldron Mountain. He later met Po Suo in the Golden Luo Secret Realm and asked her to examine a fragment of the Nine Netherworld Crow's feather.

• Su Yi dismissed Old Blind Man and Cui Jingyan's praise of the Xuan Jun Sword Master before leaving with Cui Chang'an for the Judgment Division Ruins.
• Cui Chang'an gave Su Yi a jade slip and reported that the Daoist Robe Old Man had delivered the severed heads of Qu Yunzhong, Hong Tianhe, and Tantai Zhe.
• Su Yi learned that the Daoist Robe Old Man and Wang Ting had gone to seek the Ten Yama Kings Ruins, and told Cui Chang'an that the old man was the Black Annihilation Demon God.
• Cui Chang'an guessed that the Nine Netherworld Crow and Dark Night Underworld Guards had sought the Judge's Brush to help the Nether King escape Unjustly Dead City.
• Su Yi suppressed the old monsters beneath Heaven Cauldron Mountain again, replanted the Clear Shadow Sword, and reassured Cui Chang'an that his father would return safely.
• Su Yi met Po Suo beneath the Myriad Dao Tree and asked her to see whether the source power in the Nine Netherworld Crow's feather fragment could be refined.

Su Yi and Po Suo uncovered a trace of the Wheel of Destiny in the Nine Netherworld Crow’s feather, while news of the Cui Family’s victory at Violet Luo City spread across the Netherworld. The chapter ended as a purple-robed man arrived at the city, remarking that his sect’s Grandmaster’s power had appeared in the battle.

• Po Suo found a faint imprint of the Wheel of Destiny in the shattered black feather, and Su Yi speculated that the Nether King might still be alive in Unjustly Dead City.
• Su Yi gave Po Suo the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp to refine its evil powers and said he would leave for Ghost Region to visit the Ghost Snake Clan.
• News spread that the Cui Family had survived the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival, fourteen emperors had fallen, and the Xuan Jun Sword Master’s power had turned the battle in their favor.
• The Qu Clan, the Hong Family, the Tantai Family, and the Demon Hou Clan received Cui Chang'an’s demand to return detained Cui Clan members, pay compensation, and comply within ten days or face retaliation.
• A purple-robed man arrived outside Violet Luo City and noted that his sect’s Grandmaster’s Dao Xing power had helped the Cui Family defeat its enemies.

Su Yi recognized that the Profound Abyss Alliance had come to Violet Luo City seeking Old Blind Man, and he accompanied Cui Chang'an to meet them. Tao Qianqiu invoked Bi Mo and Su Xuanjun to press for information, leaving Cui Chang'an laughing at his audacity.

• Su Yi told Old Blind Man he would give him a secret talisman the next day and later travel to the Ghost Region to return Ye Xun to the Ghost Snake Clan and reclaim Three-Inch Heavenly Heart.
• Cui Chang'an informed Su Yi that Ran Tianfeng had arrived with experts from the Profound Abyss Alliance, and Su Yi deduced they were looking for Old Blind Man.
• Su Yi and Cui Chang'an received Ran Tianfeng, Tao Qianqiu, and the Divine Mountain Sword Court experts at North Gazing Pavilion.
• Tao Qianqiu asked Cui Chang'an to hand over the heir of the Ghost Lantern Picks Stone Coffin lineage, claiming Bi Mo wanted to see him.
• Cui Chang'an said Old Blind Man had already left, but Tao Qianqiu pressed him for the man's whereabouts and invoked Su Xuanjun's connection to the Cui Family.
• Cui Chang'an burst into laughter, while Tao Qianqiu grew angry and wondered why his words amused him.

Cui Chang'an rejected Tao Qianqiu’s demand to hand over the Ghost Lantern Picks Stone Coffin lineage inheritor, and Su Yi revealed that Bi Mo was searching for the inheritor to learn whether Su Yi was alive. After Cui Chang'an escorted the group out of Violet Luo City, Su Yi intercepted them and began attacking, leaving their treasure ship in ruins.

• Cui Chang'an rebuked Tao Qianqiu’s group, ordered them out of Violet Luo City, and refused to surrender the inheritor.
• Su Yi explained that Bi Mo wanted to confirm whether he was alive and told Cui Chang'an he would not let the Cui Family be dragged into the matter.
• Ran Tianfeng identified Old Blind Man’s aura in the Cui Family residence as Tao Qianqiu’s group sailed away from the city.
• Su Yi intercepted the treasure ship and told Tao Qianqiu’s group he had come to kill them, while Cui Chang'an stood by to prevent their escape.
• A Divine Mountain Sword Court cultivator was reduced to ashes by Su Yi’s sword qi, and the attack severed a crimson-robed Old Man’s arm before destroying the treasure ship.

Su Yi fought Tao Qianqiu, Ran Tianfeng, and two other emperors using only his Spirit Wheel Realm cultivation, killing two Divine Mountain Sword Court emperors and grievously wounding the survivors. As Cui Chang'an pursued the fleeing Tao Qianqiu, Su Yi revealed to the dying Ran Tianfeng that he had once been known as the Xuan Jun Sword Master, then killed him.

• Su Yi cleaved apart the treasure vessel, killed five Spirit Dao cultivators, and severed the red-robed emperor’s arm with one strike.
• Su Yi battled Tao Qianqiu, Ran Tianfeng, and two other emperors, overwhelming their coordinated attacks while Cui Chang'an watched.
• Su Yi killed the red-robed emperor and another Divine Mountain Sword Court emperor, leaving Tao Qianqiu and Ran Tianfeng badly wounded.
• Tao Qianqiu fled, and Cui Chang'an pursued him.
• Ran Tianfeng asked Su Yi who he was, and Su Yi revealed that he had once been called the Xuan Jun Sword Master.
• Ran Tianfeng expressed relief at learning Su Yi’s identity, and Su Yi killed him with a strand of Sword Qi.

Cui Chang'an captured Tao Qianqiu and brought him to Su Yi, who interrogated him about Bi Mo and the Profound Abyss Alliance. After learning that Bi Mo had sent six inheritors to the Netherworld to gather intelligence, Su Yi headed for Violet Luo City, especially concerned that Jiang Yingliu was probing the Ghost Snake Clan for information about Little Yezi.

• Cui Chang'an subdued Tao Qianqiu with the power of the Great Dao and brought him before Su Yi.
• Su Yi questioned Tao Qianqiu, learning that Bi Mo led the powerful Profound Abyss Alliance under Su Xuanjun's name.
• Tao Qianqiu insisted that Bi Mo was loyal and blamed Empress Qingtang for betraying their sect, while Su Yi recognized that Bi Mo's followers had been misled.
• Su Yi learned that Bi Mo had sent five other inheritors—Gu Ziming, Shangguan Jie, Cheng Tiankun, Ni Shuang, and Jiang Yingliu—to the Netherworld with support from the Six Great Dao Gates.
• Su Yi became intent on stopping Jiang Yingliu from using the Ghost Snake Clan to investigate Little Yezi, then set out with Cui Chang'an for Violet Luo City.
• Cui Chang'an knocked Tao Qianqiu unconscious, and Su Yi suggested that Xue Huaining erase his memories.

Tao Qianqiu woke with part of his memories erased and suspected the Cui Family, while Su Yi used him to send a delayed warning to Bi Mo. After preparing to leave Violet Luo City, Su Yi set out alone and arrived ten days later at Peach Capital to obtain peachwood.

• Tao Qianqiu remembered leaving Violet Luo City aboard a treasure ship, realized someone had erased part of his memory, and resolved to report the incident to his master.
• Su Yi told Cui Chang'an that Tao Qianqiu was bait for the Profound Abyss Alliance and said Bi Mo would not dare return while Qingtang remained alive.
• Po Suo gave Su Yi the Power of Sin and the Black Hell Evil King's origin power, then declined to travel with him because she needed to protect the Cui Family.
• Su Yi gave the Old Blind Man a secret talisman and a jade slip about proving the Dao, promised to avenge his master, and revealed that he was the Xuan Jun Sword Master.
• Su Yi left Violet Luo City alone after saying he would investigate Cui Longxiang's whereabouts in the Bitter Sea, and Cui Jingyan watched him depart.
• Ten days later, Su Yi reached Peach Capital in the southeastern frontier of the Six Paths Royal Region to obtain a section of peachwood.

Su Yi traveled to Mount Tao Capital to find the Mount Tao Capital Lord, whom he called Old Rooster, and obtain more divine wood for a Non-Drowning Boat. He discovered the mountain had become a deadly ghost domain, and as he entered Old Rooster’s ruined temple, an unseen attacker struck at him.

• Su Yi found Mount Tao Capital covered in Blood-Colored Evil Mist and learned from Xie Yunyan that it had become a notorious ghost domain eighteen years earlier.
• Su Yi asked about the Mount Tao Capital Lord, then warned Xie Yunyan and the Azure Firmament Sword Sect cultivators not to enter the mountain before heading inside alone.
• Xie Yunyan led her group toward the mountain to search for the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood, while Su Yi continued deeper under the protection of the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp.
• Su Yi reached Vast Sun Peak, Old Rooster’s abandoned refuge, and found its ruined temple strangely silent and free of ghosts.
• As Su Yi approached the temple’s main hall, a flash of sharp light shot toward the space between his brows.

Su Yi entered the Peach Capital Secret Realm and met the black-robed girl, a sentient spirit born from the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood. When violent disturbances announced the arrival of their enemies, he led her back to the ruined hall to face the trouble.

• Su Yi entered the ruined hall, dispelled the Blood-Colored Evil Mist with the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp, and opened a hidden doorway to the Peach Capital Secret Realm.
• Su Yi found that evil energy had corrupted the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood and was attacked by its roots before a black-robed girl approached him.
• Su Yi escaped the root cage and recognized the girl as the tree’s sentient spirit, but she refused to say where her Master, Old Rooster, had gone.
• When the girl attacked to stop Su Yi from taking heartwood, he easily gathered the Pleiades Sun Divine Flame and explained that her control of its True Meaning was limited.
• As the Peach Capital Secret Realm shook, Su Yi persuaded the hesitant girl to follow him out and told her to watch without interfering.
• Su Yi and the girl returned to the ruined hall as blood-colored Killing Intent filled the night and ghost howls echoed across Peach Capital Mountain.

Xie Yunyan and the wounded Azure Firmament Sword Sect cultivators took shelter in the ruined Sunburst Shrine, where Su Yi and the black-robed girl Lingzhen were waiting. As powerful ghosts surrounded Vast Sun Peak and demanded the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood, Lingzhen prepared to face them to protect the others.

• Xie Yunyan led her injured group to the ruined Sunburst Shrine and found Su Yi relaxing by a bonfire with a black-robed girl.
• Junior Brother Yue extinguished the bonfire, and Xie Yunyan ordered the cultivators to conceal their auras and prepare to defend the hall.
• Su Yi told Xie Yunyan that she and the others should watch while he handled whatever came, but Junior Brother Yue dismissed his claim.
• The Azure Blood Ghost King, Blood Demon Madam, One-Eyed Ghost Monarch, Ancient Corpse Scholar, and Bloodthirsty Bat King gathered outside Vast Sun Peak.
• Blood Demon Madam and the Azure Blood Ghost King demanded that Lingzhen hand over the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood, and Lingzhen stepped forward to protect Xie Yunyan’s group.