Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan offered three Tong Shen Pills to draw testimony about the Punishment and Reward Courtyard. Ying Suxue accused Shi Daozhen and his faction of corruption, but Song Heng and many others denounced her, leaving Ji Haoyuan poised to take control.

• Ji Haoyuan produced three Tong Shen Pills, alarming Shi Daozhen, Divine Monarch Lin Yuan, and Divine Monarch Bai Hai and tempting the Stewards to speak.
• Ying Suxue stepped forward and told Ji Haoyuan that Shi Daozhen and his faction had made the Punishment and Reward Courtyard their private domain.
• Song Heng defended Shi Daozhen, accusing Ying Suxue of retaliating against him out of personal resentment.
• Ying Suxue accused Song Heng and others of withholding resources and worsening the courtyard's reputation.
• Many Stewards condemned Ying Suxue, while Sun Mingcheng, Su Yaqin, Meng Wan, True Person Leixia, and the others looked on gravely.
• Ji Haoyuan remained calm and considered the Stewards' factional divisions an opportunity to reclaim control.

Ji Haoyuan demanded that Shi Daozhen, Divine Monarch Lin Yuan, and Divine Monarch Bai Hai surrender their Vice Head of the Court seals, stripping them of their authority in the Punishment and Reward Courtyard. When they tried to delay, Ji Haoyuan made clear that he was issuing an order, not negotiating, and left the three to face his ultimatum.

• Ji Haoyuan told Shi Daozhen and the other two to hand over their Vice Head of the Court seals.
• Divine Monarch Bai Hai objected, and the three Vice Heads decided they could not surrender the seals because they relied on them for authority and the Morality Sacred Sect's support.
• Divine Monarch Bai Hai asked Ji Haoyuan to give them time, intending to stall until others challenged him.
• Ji Haoyuan said they were not in a position to negotiate and gave them one final chance to hand over the seals.
• Song Heng and the other stewards turned to Shi Daozhen, Divine Monarch Lin Yuan, and Divine Monarch Bai Hai as the confrontation grew tense.

Ji Haoyuan attacked Shi Daozhen, Divine Monarch Lin Yuan, and Divine Monarch Bai Hai after they refused his request, overwhelming them until Yue Tianhua of the Morality Sacred Sect intervened. Ji Haoyuan accused Yue Tianhua and his Dao Lineage of luring his subordinates away and threatened to kill them as a warning.

• Shi Daozhen refused Ji Haoyuan’s request, and Ji Haoyuan struck at him, Divine Monarch Lin Yuan, and Divine Monarch Bai Hai with his Pure Yang Primordial Great Capture.
• The three men unleashed their Void Domains, but Ji Haoyuan’s power broke them, and purple heavenly lightning blasted Shi Daozhen into the ground.
• Yue Tianhua arrived and used a small white-jade sword to intercept Ji Haoyuan’s attack, then introduced himself as a direct disciple of the Xuantian Dao Lineage of the Morality Sacred Sect.
• Ji Haoyuan accused Yue Tianhua or his Dao Lineage of tempting Shi Daozhen and the others to change masters.
• Yue Tianhua argued that disloyal subordinates should be granted freedom, while Ji Haoyuan threatened to kill them to warn others.

Ji Haoyuan killed Divine Monarch Lin Yuan and Divine Monarch Bai Hai and gravely wounded Shi Daozhen with three sudden attacks. Shi Daozhen bowed his head, admitted his wrongdoing, and died without securing Ji Haoyuan’s promise to spare the Stone Array Sect; Ji Haoyuan then demanded an explanation from Yue Tianhua, but an unseen voice interrupted.

• Ji Haoyuan struck Divine Monarch Lin Yuan with the Five Elements Divine Light, killing him, and engulfed Divine Monarch Bai Hai in Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, killing him as well.
• Ji Haoyuan’s Nirvana Dark Light destroyed the right half of Shi Daozhen’s body, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Shi Daozhen admitted he had been led astray by greed and asked Ji Haoyuan to spare the Stone Array Sect, but Ji Haoyuan gave no promise.
• Shi Daozhen bowed to Ji Haoyuan and then scattered like fading starlight until his aura vanished.
• Ji Haoyuan turned to Yue Tianhua and demanded an explanation from him or the Xuantian Dao Lineage for their treatment of Taicang Grotto-Heaven.
• An unseen speaker interrupted Ji Haoyuan, saying that his master should come speak instead.

Xuan Yi Divine Monarch confronted Ji Haoyuan with the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Four Symbols Seal, forcing Ji Haoyuan to evade its formation and counterattack with Red Lotus World Destruction. Xuan Yi then unleashed the seal’s Black Tortoise power, extinguished Ji Haoyuan’s flames, and sent a White Tiger claw striking at him from behind.

• Xuan Yi Divine Monarch appeared before Ji Haoyuan and challenged him after Ji mocked his demand for Ji Haoyuan’s master.
• Xuan Yi summoned the Four Symbols Seal, whose divine beasts formed a grand formation that suppressed Ji Haoyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan escaped the formation and unleashed Red Lotus World Destruction against Xuan Yi.
• Xuan Yi transformed the seal’s power into a colossal Black Tortoise, whose surging waters extinguished Ji Haoyuan’s flames.
• Ji Haoyuan evaded the Black Tortoise’s roar and reappeared eight thousand miles away, where a White Tiger claw struck toward his back.

Ji Haoyuan used the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation, the Water-Fire Dragon Scissors, and the Spirit Binding Lock to defeat and capture Xuan Yi Divine Monarch. He spared Xuan Yi’s life to avoid provoking a war between sacred lands, but intended to make him pay for his actions.

• Ji Haoyuan used the Thunder-Fire Golden Light Shield to withstand the Four Symbols Seal’s White Tiger attack and escaped through the void.
• Ji Haoyuan transformed into a Kui Ox and drove back Xuan Yi Divine Monarch’s White Tiger with a storm of lightning and rain.
• Xuan Yi recalled the Four Symbols Seal as a Black Tortoise to block Ji Haoyuan’s golden lightning, but the Water-Fire Dragon Scissors wounded and weakened it.
• Ji Haoyuan’s golden lightning struck and severely injured Xuan Yi Divine Monarch, allowing the Spirit Binding Lock to restrain him.
• Yue Tianhua abandoned his attempt to intervene after Ji Haoyuan warned him off, while Ji Haoyuan spared Xuan Yi to avoid triggering a war.

Ji Haoyuan subdued Xuan Yi Divine Monarch, took the Four Symbols Seal, and demanded that Yue Tianhua repay the Punishment and Reward Courtyard tenfold. He had Xuan Yi hung from the courtyard sign and planned to send him to Taixu Bai; after reorganizing the courtyard and promoting Ying Suxue, Ji Haoyuan awaited the arrival of two Early Void Refinement cultivators.

• Ji Haoyuan suppressed the Four Symbols Seal and took it from Xuan Yi Divine Monarch, who was bound by the Spirit Binding Lock.
• Ji Haoyuan demanded that Yue Tianhua return tenfold of what he had taken from the Punishment and Reward Courtyard, and Yue Tianhua agreed to deliver it within three days.
• Ji Haoyuan hung Xuan Yi upside down from the courtyard sign and said he would send him to Taixu Bai, prompting Yue Tianhua to leave.
• Ji Haoyuan entered the Punishment and Reward Courtyard with Ying Suxue and ordered her to explain its situation.
• Over the next half month, Ji Haoyuan cleaned up the courtyard and promoted Ying Suxue to Vice Head of the Court.
• About half a month later, two Early Void Refinement cultivators arrived at the Punishment and Reward Courtyard.

Ji Haoyuan warned the new Vice Heads of the Punishment and Reward Courtyard to keep their conduct within bounds, then spent several years restoring the Courtyard and refining spirit treasures. He returned to the Taicang Grotto-Heaven to meet Taixu Bai and presented him with the Evil-Punishing Whip, beginning a discussion of two matters.

• Ji Haoyuan received Cloud Crane Divine Monarch and Han Qianshan, who pledged to manage the Punishment and Reward Courtyard impartially.
• Ji Haoyuan warned Cloud Crane Divine Monarch and Han Qianshan that he would show no mercy if they crossed the Courtyard's limits.
• Over the following years, Ji Haoyuan restored the Courtyard's credibility, made the Four Symbols Seal recognize him as its master, and refined two more restrictions on the Water-Fire Dragon Scissors.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to the Taicang Grotto-Heaven and met Taixu Bai, who praised his work in the Courtyard.
• Ji Haoyuan told Taixu Bai that he had two matters to discuss and presented him with the Evil-Punishing Whip.

Ji Haoyuan received the Evil-Punishing Whip and a sixth-rank Golden Armored Chariot Canopy from Taixu Bai as he prepared to return to the Southern Wasteland Domain. With companions and attendants aboard, he opened a Void Passage and departed for the domain.

• Taixu Bai returned the Evil-Punishing Whip to Ji Haoyuan as a Guardian Treasure and warned him not to use it unless necessary.
• Ji Haoyuan told Taixu Bai he wished to return to the Southern Wasteland Domain and bring his fellow disciples to the holy land.
• Taixu Bai gave Ji Haoyuan a sixth-rank Golden Armored Chariot Canopy and ordered Chongming Hall to provide attendants and Golden Armored warriors.
• Ji Haoyuan received ten Golden Armored warriors, thirty Daoist attendants, and fifty palace maidens, then invited True Person Leixia, Ji Qingfei, Nangong Jin, and others to travel with him.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned the enormous chariot canopy, and his Silver Dragon mount Ji Yinchuan appeared to pull it.
• Ji Haoyuan opened a Void Passage, and the chariot canopy carried the group through it toward the Southern Wasteland Domain.

Ji Haoyuan brought True Person Leixia, Ji Qingfei, and the others from the Central Divine Continent back to the Southern Wasteland Domain in a Sixth-Order Golden Armored Chariot Canopy. At the Yanfa Sect, True Monarch Yanfa warned the exhausted leaders that their defeat was near, and True Monarch Xuanyuan asked him to say what he had planned.

• Ji Haoyuan explained how Void Refinement Divine Monarchs traveled through Void Passages and how his chariot crossed the void at extraordinary speed.
• Void Beasts attacked the Golden Armored Chariot Canopy and were swiftly destroyed by its power.
• The chariot returned to the Southern Wasteland Domain, where its passengers noticed how mixed and impure the spiritual energies felt after their time in the Central Divine Continent.
• Ji Haoyuan opened the void and took the group toward the sect.
• At the Yanfa Sect, True Monarch Yanfa told True Monarch Xuanyuan, True Monarch Baihua, True Monarch Fuguang, and Ice Fire True Person Jiang Miaoran that the war had become impossible to recover from, especially after Four Symbols Pass fell and Wuji Hall was destroyed.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan accepted that the Yanfa Sect might soon fall and asked True Monarch Yanfa to speak plainly.

True Monarch Yanfa proposed that the Yanfa Sect prepare an escape to the Eastern Heaven Domain, with himself staying behind to draw the Demon Race’s attention. Before they could make arrangements, three Demon Emperors and two Human Race Spirit Transformation cultivators attacked the sect’s Branch Courtyard.

• True Monarch Yanfa told True Monarch Xuanyuan, Ice Fire True Person, True Monarch Baihua, and True Monarch Fuguang that the sect had to prepare a way out before it was too late.
• True Monarch Yanfa said he would remain behind as bait while the other leaders guided selected disciples and Golden Core Elders into the Eastern Heaven Domain.
• Three Fifth-Order Demon Emperors—the Mountain-Moving Ape Emperor, the Azure Phoenix Fire Emperor, and the Ink Flood Dragon Emperor—arrived outside the Branch Courtyard alongside Seven Stars Venerable and Heavenly Fiend Venerable.
• Seven Stars Venerable and Heavenly Fiend Venerable urged True Monarch Yanfa to surrender, then attacked the Mountain Protection Array with their Primordial Spirit Manifestations.
• True Monarch Yanfa rebuked the two Human Race cultivators and summoned a black-and-white Taiji Diagram to reinforce the array and contest their control of the Spiritual Energy.

As the three Demon Emperors joined Seven Stars Venerable and Heavenly Fiend Venerable in attacking the Yanfa Sect, Ji Haoyuan arrived in a radiant chariot and erased their assault. After seeing the devastation and Human Race collaborators across the Southern Wasteland Domain, Ji Haoyuan erupted in fury, and the sky exploded around him.

• True Monarch Yanfa struggled against Seven Stars Venerable and Heavenly Fiend Venerable while weakened from years of battle and maintaining the grand formation.
• Mountain-Moving Ape Emperor, Azure Phoenix Fire Emperor, and Ink Flood Dragon Emperor agreed to destroy the Yanfa Sect and unleashed mountains, Azure Luan Divine Fire, and Netherworld Heavy Water against its formation.
• Seven Stars Venerable and Heavenly Fiend Venerable blocked True Monarch Yanfa from reinforcing the formation as the three Demon Emperors' attacks approached.
• A radiant chariot emerged from an opening in the void, and its surrounding field made the Demon Emperors' attacks vanish.
• Ji Haoyuan surveyed the Southern Wasteland Domain and found it largely ruled by demons, with Human Race cultivators enslaved and Flying Star Palace and Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect cultivators aiding their pursuers.
• Ji Haoyuan's fury surged, bringing lightning, flames, and storms as the sky exploded above everyone.

Ji Haoyuan returned to Yanfa Branch Courtyard and annihilated the attacking forces with overwhelming power. He revealed that he had reached sixth-order Void Refinement and promised to take his fellow cultivators to the Central Divine Continent.

• A single strike from Ji Haoyuan’s carriage canopy wiped out tens of thousands of demons and cultivators around Yanfa Branch Courtyard.
• True Monarch Yanfa and the others recognized Ji Haoyuan and were stunned by his power.
• The three Demon Emperors, Seven Stars Venerable, and Heavenly Fiend Venerable fled, but Ji Haoyuan drew them back and crushed them with his palm.
• True Monarch Yanfa asked about Ji Haoyuan’s cultivation, and Ji Haoyuan confirmed he had reached sixth-order Void Refinement.
• Ji Haoyuan offered to take everyone to the Central Divine Continent and said Myriad Laws Sacred Land could help Senior Brother Fuguang rebuild his physical body.

Ji Haoyuan returned to the Yanfa Branch Courtyard as a Sixth-Order Void Refinement cultivator and revealed his powerful attendants and Heavenly Lord master. After hearing about the Southern Wasteland Domain’s worsening war, he planned to summon the surviving Human Race forces and consider visiting the Demon Race.

• Ji Haoyuan told True Monarch Yanfa and the others that Dharma Body Nascent Souls in the Central Divine Continent could reshape their bodies and resume cultivation, and revealed that he had reached Sixth-Order Void Refinement.
• True Monarch Baihua asked about Ji Haoyuan’s companions, and he explained that his attendants included ten Sixth-Order golden-armored warriors and others no weaker than Nascent Soul cultivators.
• True Person Leixia revealed that Ji Haoyuan was the Chief Personal Disciple of Taicang Grotto-Heaven in the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, whose lord was a Heavenly Lord.
• True Monarch Yanfa and the others described how the Human Race had declined while the Demon Race grew stronger, with traitors helping collapse the Human Race defensive line.
• Ji Haoyuan asked True Monarch Yanfa to summon every surviving Human Race force to the Yanfa Branch Courtyard so he could speak with them, and considered visiting the Demon Race himself.

Ji Haoyuan appeared inside Thousand Saints Mountain, where the Demon Emperors were investigating the deaths of three of their peers, and demanded to borrow their heads. He imprisoned everyone present, but several powerful elders arrived and asked him to release the younger demons.

• The Demon Emperors gathered at Thousand Saints Mountain and debated how to investigate the deaths of Mountain-Moving Ape Emperor, Azure Phoenix Fire Emperor, and Ink Flood Dragon Emperor.
• Thunder Mountain Demon Emperor proposed visiting the Yanfa Sect, but the others questioned who would dare go.
• Ji Haoyuan appeared inside the palace without triggering the mountain’s protective array and told the Demon Emperors to stay put.
• Ji Haoyuan said he had come to borrow their heads and imprisoned the Demon Emperors, their magical power, and their treasures.
• Several powerful elders appeared and asked Ji Haoyuan to withdraw his power and spare the younger demons while they offered to resolve any offense.

Ji Haoyuan dismissed Thousand Saints Mountain’s strongest formations and erased its Demon Emperors without effort. Afterward, he sensed something on a nearby mountain peak and used a transparent talisman to open a door in the void.

• Ji Haoyuan saw the hidden elder Demon Emperors and recognized that their lifespans were nearing their ends.
• An elder in brocade robes warned Ji Haoyuan and activated Thousand Saints Mountain’s formation, but its runes and crimson-gold chains vanished at once.
• Ji Haoyuan began erasing everyone in the palace, and the Demon Emperors begged him to spare them and offered to serve him.
• Ji Haoyuan left the palace, and every Demon Emperor inside vanished from the world.
• Ji Haoyuan followed an unusual aura to a nearby mountain peak, took a transparent talisman from a Storage Ring, and opened a door in the void.

Ji Haoyuan entered the Demon Race’s treasure vault, recovered the missing blade of the Sun Star Sword, and restored it into a Sixth-Order Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure. After refining part of its restrictions, he tested its power by destroying Thousand Saints Mountain and the Demon Race members there.

• Ji Haoyuan swept the vault’s treasures into his storage space and found the Sun Star Sword’s missing blade.
• The sword hilt and blade reunited, and the Sun Star Sword absorbed sun- and star-aligned materials, including two Sixth-Order spirit items, to restore its full power.
• Ji Haoyuan refined twenty-seven of the Sun Star Sword’s forty-three restrictions over more than ten days.
• Ji Haoyuan left the vault and swung the Sun Star Sword, whose golden Sword Light erased Thousand Saints Mountain and the Demon Race members around it.

Ji Haoyuan and the Human Race cultivators agreed that the Yanfa Sect would rebuild the Southern Wasteland Domain while he left behind powerful safeguards. He then brought Senior Sister Ice Fire True Person, True Monarch Yanfa, and the others back to the Central Divine Continent, where their arrival drew attention and the local prefectural lords came to meet them.

• Ji Haoyuan revealed his Sixth-Order Void Refinement cultivation to the Human Race cultivators, who agreed that the Yanfa Sect would lead the Southern Wasteland Domain's recovery.
• Ji Haoyuan stayed for more than half a year as new Nascent Soul cultivators emerged, then prepared to leave with Senior Sister Ice Fire True Person, True Monarch Yanfa, True Monarch Xuanyuan, Ji Bochang, and the Ji Family members.
• Ji Haoyuan explained the Void Passage to Senior Sister Ice Fire True Person as they traveled, and he resolved to find treasures to improve her comprehension and aptitude.
• The Golden Armored Chariot Canopy emerged in Youyue Prefecture, where onlookers marveled at its true dragon mount and Sixth-Order attendants and guessed that its master was an extraordinary Sacred Land true disciple.
• The prefectural lord and several deputy prefectural lords approached the Golden Armored Chariot Canopy.

Ji Haoyuan met the Youyue Prefecture Lord and two vice prefecture lords, who sought to win his support against pressure from a Taichong Sacred Land disciple. He accepted their gifts and offer of a future meeting, then received intelligence about them from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.

• The Youyue Prefecture Lord, Lan Siyun, and Ge Qianshan greeted Ji Haoyuan and invited him to visit them as their guest.
• Ji Haoyuan declined their invitation for now, gave the Youyue Prefecture Lord his identity jade token, and accepted their Storage Bracelet.
• Lan Siyun offered to escort Ji Haoyuan, and the three leaders accompanied his chariot to the edge of Youyue Prefecture.
• After Ji Haoyuan departed, the Youyue Prefecture Lord, Lan Siyun, and Ge Qianshan discussed whether he might accept them and their concerns about a Taichong Sacred Land disciple seeking the Youyue Spirit Spring.
• Ji Haoyuan received Jade Slips containing intelligence about Youyue Prefecture and its leaders after sending a message to the sect.

Ji Haoyuan returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land with True Monarch Yanfa, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and Ice Fire True Person, arranging a place for the former group to stay. After bringing Jiang Miaoran to meet his master, Taixu Bai, he heard Taixu Bai ask whether she would also take him as her master.

• Ji Haoyuan learned that He Cangyun of the Ice Grotto-Heaven was targeting the Youyue Spirit Spring and decided not to meet the Changting Prefecture Lord personally.
• Ji Haoyuan and his companions arrived at the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, where he settled True Monarch Yanfa, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and the others at Ganyang Peak.
• Ji Haoyuan took Ice Fire True Person to Nanhua Peak in the Taicang Grotto-Heaven and learned that Taixu Bai wished to meet them.
• Ji Haoyuan introduced Jiang Miaoran to Taixu Bai, who asked whether she was willing to take him as her master.