Vol. 5The Pitch-Black Tower

Wang Zhifan defended the Calamity Realm, ended the Demon Realm invasion, and expanded the Celestial Venerable’s influence across other worlds. After completing new trials and exploring strange worlds, he descended the Pitch-Black Tower at Tigerhead Town as a Demon Gate force arrived.

  • Wang Zhifan earned the title Martial Venerable, established his hall, and tested young candidates in the Holy Tower.
  • Wang Zhifan entered the Calamity Realm, fought Demon Venerables, and led defenders as the invasion continued.
  • Wang Zhifan selected disciples through the Black Towers and prepared them for the foretold Demon Realm invasion.
  • Wang Zhifan fought demons after Shuyue City fell, destroyed a hidden transport array, and witnessed Daoists clash with foreign players.
  • Wang Zhifan helped defeat the demons and the outsiders who summoned an Unspeakable Ancient God, then asked Sage Master to revive Qingyangzi and Huayangzi.
  • Wang Zhifan returned to other worlds to build the Celestial Venerable’s following and inspected Yilin and Yali’s discoveries on Gaia Planet.
  • Wang Zhifan completed the K54 Prison Planet instance, explored Phantom-Phase Planet and Ringworld, and expanded his resources on Earthstar.
  • Wang Zhifan deployed the Pitch-Black Tower at Tigerhead Town, trapped suspected Demon Gate agents in its trials, and saw a Demon Gate ark arrive.
Chapters 403–502 Read from ch. 403

Arc 17The Martial Venerable Hall

Wang Zhifan helped the Calamity Realm repel the Demon Realm’s forces, earned the title Martial Venerable, and established a hall to train disciples. As the invasion continued, he recruited a demon-slaying squad and began testing young candidates in the Holy Tower.

  • Wang Zhifan brought the Holy Tower to Tigerhead Town, where Liu Er gathered believers, including Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing, who cleared its trials and secretly began worshipping the Celestial Venerable.
  • Wang Zhifan entered the Calamity Realm, learned about the Demon Realm’s infiltration, and joined the defenders in fighting demon generals and Demon Venerables.
  • Wang Zhifan killed two Demon Venerables in his dream realm while Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade broke through to the Transcendent Xiantian realm and defeated another.
  • The Confucian Sect’s Master bestowed the title Martial Venerable on Wang Zhifan, and Qingyangzi, Zhenxuzi, and Huayangzi persuaded him to establish a hall and train disciples.
  • Wang Zhifan built the Martial Venerable Hall, recruited two players into Xuanzhenzi’s demon-slaying squad, and created an image of Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade’s Azure Dragon True Spirit for her clan.
  • Wang Zhifan gave Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade four Excellent Tier Elf Blades to test and led one hundred youths into the Black Towers for trials to select his disciples.
Chapters 403–427 Summaries Read

Arc 18The Demon Realm Invasion

Wang Zhifan recruits and trains disciples while preparing for a foretold invasion, then joins the fight as the Demon Realm and hostile Otherworld Players attack. After Shuyue City falls, he hunts scattered demons and destroys a hidden transport array, while a clash between foreign players and Daoists leaves Qingyangzi confronting a mysterious Asian player.

  • Wang Zhifan chose Qin Quan, the slight youth, and the richly dressed young woman as disciples, then recruited dozens more through the Black Towers.
  • Qingyangzi warned Wang Zhifan of an approaching Demon Realm invasion, and Wang Zhifan accepted He Kuang as a disciple while preparing for war.
  • Wang Zhifan learned that more than two hundred enemies from beyond the realm would join the invasion, and Master introduced the Demon-Sealing Ranking and its war functions.
  • Wang Zhifan trained his disciples, strengthened his Limitless Golden Body Technique, and learned that the battle was imminent as the Mieyue Clan prepared to defend its territory.
  • Demon forces attacked Heavenly Origin City and then besieged Shuyue City, where the Demon Empress rejected negotiations and the human defenses were overwhelmed.
  • Wang Zhifan retreated with Moon-Extinguishing Dragon Blade, stabilized Zhenxuzi and helped Huayangzi, then hunted scattered Demon Venerables and destroyed a hidden demonfolk array node.
  • Demon Tathagata transformed into Black Buddha to defeat several Demon Venerables, while Wang Zhifan helped kill the others and learned how the demons had suppressed teleportation.
  • Otherworld Players attacked three foreign players in Heavenly Origin City, but Daoists interrupted them, Qingyangzi struck the short Asian player down, and the Martial Venerable Hall players watched.
Chapters 428–452 Summaries Read

Arc 19War’s End and New Paths

Wang Zhifan helped turn the tide of the Calamity Realm war, defeated a dangerous Demon Venerable, and asked Sage Master to revive Qingyangzi and Huayangzi before returning to Blue Star. He then began developing the Celestial Venerable’s following in other worlds and ended by inspecting Yilin and Yali’s discoveries on Gaia Planet.

  • Wang Zhifan joined the Four True-Spirit Clans’ defense, destroyed the Demon Lord artifact empowering the demons, and learned that Qingyangzi and Huayangzi had died at Ultimate Origin Mountain.
  • Wang Zhifan attended a meeting where experts saw the Demon-Subduing Elder’s memories of an Unspeakable Ancient God destroying the cultivators, then helped lead a campaign against the outsiders who had summoned it.
  • Wang Zhifan fought Zhang Siqian’s family’s killers alongside him, gave him control of the Sirius mech, and buried him after he died from his injuries.
  • Wang Zhifan tracked down the Scholar Demon Venerable, killed it with the Blade of Time, and learned that a Demon Lord had pulled it back to the Demon Realm.
  • Zhang Taiqing attained Sagehood, defeated the Demon Empress, and ended the war, after which Wang Zhifan chose the Azure Emperor Saber, True Spirit Protection, and the Eternal Freedom Profound Canon of All Time and Space as rewards.
  • Wang Zhifan used his first-place wish to have Sage Master revive Qingyangzi and Huayangzi, then was pulled back to Blue Star before he could finish promising to return to Mieyue Xi.
  • Wang Zhifan returned to the Limitless Sect’s world and sent Wu Xun, Yang Qingqing, and Old He to promote their town, then created a hidden refuge for his seven believers in the Witcher World.
  • Wang Zhifan returned to Gaia Planet, where Yilin and Yali showed him a specimen that imitated speech and a nut that caused visions.
Chapters 453–477 Summaries Read

Arc 20The Pitch-Black Tower Descends

Wang Zhifan completed the K54 Prison Planet instance, fought foreign players, and explored Phantom-Phase Planet and Ringworld while expanding his resources on Earthstar. He returned to Wind-Snow Tower and deployed the Pitch-Black Tower amid a growing crowd, trapping suspected Demon Gate agents as a Demon Gate force arrived.

  • Wang Zhifan lent Ying his spacecraft to search for survivors, then traveled to Purgatory and practiced influencing its unstable Space Law.
  • Wang Zhifan entered the K54 Prison Planet instance as a security captain, supervised miners, fought underground monsters and a rebellion, and rejected the Interstellar Freedom Organization’s offer to cooperate.
  • Wang Zhifan forced the silver-haired leader to take him and the other players to the orbital station, where the group stopped its shutdown and completed the mining mission for settlement.
  • Wang Zhifan chose Phantom-Phase Planet, Ringworld, and a Superpower Awakening Device as his rewards, then returned to Earthstar and helped the Administration defeat foreign outlaw players.
  • Wang Zhifan explored Phantom-Phase Planet’s repeating spaceship disaster and Ringworld’s Hershian civilization, then let Little Red migrate into his smartwatch and helped Catherine awaken a Force-type superpower.
  • Wang Zhifan used Faith Power to tell Liu Erya that the Holy Tower would descend, drawing believers and martial world figures to Tigerhead Town as he prepared to investigate it with Wu Xun and Yang Qingqing.
  • After a Demon Gate assassin’s poison darts failed to harm Liu Erya, Wang Zhifan lowered the Pitch-Black Tower early and sent believers and other visitors into trials while trapping suspected Demon Gate agents in deadly ones.
  • A Demon Gate woman watched the tower descend as a huge ark carrying Demon Gate experts appeared behind her.
Chapters 478–502 Summaries Read
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