Chapter Summaries

Ba Shan Chou swore to take revenge on Ye Zhen while Tu Men Chang Yin revealed that he had hired a powerful Dao Realm expert to kill him. Ye Zhen escaped the Azure Winged Wind Kite by diving into the North Sea, but the kite overcame its fear of water and launched after him.

• Ba Shan Chou thanked Tu Men Chang Yin for rescuing him and declared that he had abandoned his old identity to be reborn as Ba Shan Chou.
• Tu Men Chang Yin told Ba Shan Chou that he had hired a Mid Dao Realm expert, renowned for killing powerful opponents, to take Ye Zhen's head.
• Tu Men Chang Yin said Ba Shan Chou could return to the Barbarian Spirit Hall and join his elder brother in confronting Changle after Ye Zhen was dealt with.
• Ye Zhen plunged into the North Sea, where the Black Water Spirit Pillar responded to the water as he swam away from the Azure Winged Wind Kite.
• The Azure Winged Wind Kite recalled its debt to Tu Men Chang Yin and transformed into azure lightning as it dove after Ye Zhen into the North Sea.

Ye Zhen fled beneath the North Sea, but the Azure Winged Wind Kite pursued him and forced him out of his water evasion. Ye Zhen escaped inside the Battle Soul Blood Banner, and the Azure Winged Wind Kite vanished with him.

• The Azure Winged Wind Kite carved a waterless passage through the sea and pursued Ye Zhen along the seabed.
• Ye Zhen used his water affinity to dive deeper, but the Azure Winged Wind Kite caught up and attacked him.
• Ye Zhen instinctively used Innate Five Elements Divine Evasion to disappear into the water spirits.
• The Azure Winged Wind Kite blasted away the surrounding seawater and used azure Spiritual Light to force Ye Zhen out of hiding.
• Ye Zhen activated the Battle Soul Blood Banner and vanished inside it, while the Azure Winged Wind Kite accidentally plunged into its blood light and disappeared with him.

Ye Zhen and Feng Kui were pulled together through the Battle Soul Blood Banner’s Spatial Channel into the Demon Soul Realm, where Ye Zhen used the banner to send Feng Kui a million miles from the Demon Soul Hall. He discovered that relocating Feng Kui consumed enormous energy, leaving his plan to keep the Great Sage at bay uncertain as Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu welcomed him back.

• Feng Kui revealed that he was the Startling Wind Great Sage and said he had been entrusted to kill Ye Zhen, though he refused to name the person behind the order.
• As they reached the Demon Soul Hall, Ye Zhen struck Feng Kui with Evil Slaying Divine Thunder, then used the Battle Soul Blood Banner to transport him a million miles away.
• Ye Zhen discovered that moving Feng Kui consumed roughly a thousand times more energy than shifting Hei Er and a ten-thousand-man legion, undermining his plan to keep relocating the Great Sage.
• Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu appeared before Ye Zhen and knelt to welcome the Marshal back.

Ye Zhen learned that the Demon Soul Army recognized him as Marshal through the Battle Soul Blood Banner and prepared to face Feng Kui, the powerful Azure Winged Wind Kite. As the army assembled, Ye Zhen distracted Feng Kui across the Demon Soul Realm until he remembered a possible source of help and returned to the Demon Soul Hall.

• Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu knelt to greet Ye Zhen as Marshal because he held the Battle Soul Blood Banner.
• Ye Zhen learned that the three legions had not unified the Demon Soul Realm and asked about their strength and their ability to fight Feng Kui.
• Hei Er and Hei Qi warned that the Demon Soul Army could not reliably defeat Feng Kui unless Ye Zhen restrained him for much longer than he could manage.
• Hei Jiu reported that Feng Kui had nearly destroyed a ten-thousand-man unit, so Ye Zhen ordered the army's elite forces to assemble and went to confront Feng Kui.
• Ye Zhen repeatedly vanished to evade Feng Kui and buy the army time, then created several avatars to distract him and returned to the Demon Soul Hall after remembering a possible source of help.

Feng Kui discovered that Ye Zhen was using a treasure to control a genuine blood-red Small World and decided to kill him and seize it. Inside the Demon Soul Hall, Ye Zhen summoned Divine Archer Yi Lie, learned that the realm-spanning distance weakened Yi Lie’s power, and discovered another battle spirit had recovered enough to fight.

• Feng Kui confirmed the blood-red realm was a genuine Small World and reasoned that Ye Zhen possessed a treasure granting him limited control over it.
• Feng Kui changed his goal to killing Ye Zhen at any cost and claiming the Small World.
• Ye Zhen used Five-Clawed True Dragon essence blood to summon Divine Archer Yi Lie, while Princess Changle sensed a battle spirit’s power diminish at Sacred Spirit Peak.
• Yi Lie explained that the distance and separation between realms limited him to forty percent of his usual strength.
• Yi Lie told Ye Zhen that another battle spirit had recovered and could fight, and instructed him to summon it.

Ye Zhen summoned a third war spirit, another divine archer, while Princess Changle realized he was in grave danger and mobilized Barbarian Spirit Hall. Her Star Gathering Bell drill threw Ancestral God Hall into chaos, but she defended it as necessary preparation and persuaded Grand Priest Bai Xiang to endorse drills for every hall.

• Ye Zhen summoned an ape-like Barbarian Race divine archer, who explained that two archers could make evasion far more difficult than one.
• Princess Changle discovered Ye Zhen had summoned three war spirits and could not contact him, so she feared he faced a deadly threat.
• Princess Changle ordered the Barbarian Spirit Star Gathering Jade Bell rung one hundred and eight times, summoning Barbarian Spirit Hall's priests and disrupting Ancestral God Hall.
• Grand Priest Bai Xiang and Second Grand Authority Priest Tong Na's faction demanded an explanation after learning there was no immediate threat.
• Princess Changle argued that the drill exposed Ancestral God Hall's lack of readiness and urged every hall to practice, and Bai Xiang approved her proposal.

Ye Zhen gathered Divine Archer Yi Lie, Divine Archer Dai Qin, and Yu Lei to confront Feng Kui, learning that Yu Lei’s Barbarian Armor could withstand several full-force strikes. He brought them to the battlefield and launched a coordinated attack, leaving Feng Kui trapped as Yu Lei’s hammer and Ye Zhen’s sword struck.

• Ye Zhen summoned Yu Lei and learned that his Barbarian Armor could endure three to five of Feng Kui’s full-force attacks.
• Ye Zhen used the Battle Soul Blood Banner to bring Yi Lie, Dai Qin, and Yu Lei to the battlefield, where Feng Kui had already killed thousands of Demon Souls.
• Ye Zhen ordered the gathered Demon Soul army to fire a full-saturation volley at Feng Kui.
• Yi Lie and Dai Qin launched two spiritual arrows as Ye Zhen’s power immobilized Feng Kui.
• Yu Lei appeared above Feng Kui and swung his stone hammer down while Ye Zhen’s Purple Spirit Immortal Sword flashed beneath him.

Ye Zhen and his summoned war spirits launched a coordinated attack on Startling Wind Great Sage Feng Kui, but Feng Kui broke free and turned the fight against them. As Dai Qin unleashed a powerful arrow, Feng Kui recognized it as the Sunset Divine Shot.

• Ye Zhen trapped Feng Kui with the Battle Soul Blood Banner and attacked with Yi Lie, Dai Qin, Yu Lei, and the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword.
• Feng Kui broke the soul-force cage, deflected the sword and Yu Lei’s hammer, and was struck by both archers’ arrows before charging Ye Zhen.
• Ye Zhen evaded Feng Kui’s attack by shifting himself and the archers, while Feng Kui unleashed the Azure Wing Heavenly Net against them and the Demon Soul Army.
• Ye Zhen ordered the Demon Soul Army to spread out as Feng Kui pursued him, Yi Lie, and Dai Qin with the expanding heavenly net.
• Dai Qin fired a dark azure arrow that shook the Demon Soul Realm, and Feng Kui cried out in terror as he recognized it as the Sunset Divine Shot.

Ye Zhen and his allies cornered Feng Kui, using Dai Qin’s Sunset Remnant Arrows and their combined attacks to bring the Great Wind descendant to the brink of death. Feng Kui then unleashed the Blood Refining Azure Feather Flame, beginning a transformation that could evolve him into the Primordial Fierce Beast Great Wind.

• Dai Qin wounded Feng Kui with two Sunset Remnant Arrows as Ye Zhen brought the pursuers before the fleeing Great Sage.
• Dai Qin fired his third arrow, while Yi Lie, Yu Lei, Yu Shi, and Zi Ling attacked Feng Kui and inflicted severe wounds.
• Ye Zhen released Xiao Mao and the Nine-Headed Worm to join the assault as Feng Kui cried out that the Great Wind bloodline could not be defeated.
• Feng Kui ignited the Blood Refining Azure Feather Flame, burning Yu Lei’s foot and prompting Dai Qin to warn that it could evolve Feng Kui into Great Wind.
• Ye Zhen watched Feng Kui’s appearance and aura rapidly change as the flames burned around him.

Ye Zhen and his allies prepared an ambush while Feng Kui underwent the Blood Refining Azure Feather Flame, with Ye Zhen gathering power for a devastating lightning attack. As Feng Kui emerged with his Great Wind bloodline awakened, the assembled fighters readied themselves to strike.

• Feng Kui transformed within the Blood Refining Azure Feather Flame, while Dai Qin warned that the group would have to attack when the flames ended.
• Yi Lie, Dai Qin, and Yu Lei sensed their strength and recovery increasing through a large-scale Essence Blood Sacrifice, which Ye Zhen linked to Changle and the War Spirit Sacrifice Formation.
• Ye Zhen summoned the Three Saints of Sky Wing Island, Ling Qianbi, and the Demon Soul Legion's Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu to prepare a coordinated assault.
• Ye Zhen transformed using Kui Ox origin power and formed an immense Eye of Thunder, replenishing his spiritual power with Nine Heavens Spirit Marrow Liquid as its lightning grew stronger.
• Dai Qin announced that Feng Kui's flames were dispersing, and Feng Kui opened his eyes, roared, and threatened to kill everyone.

Ye Zhen and his allies fought Startling Wind Great Sage Feng Kui as his Great Wind bloodline grew stronger and healed his injuries. After Feng Kui unleashed a devastating counterattack, Ye Zhen sent Xiao Mao and Nine-Headed Worm into his abdominal wound and killed him.

• Ye Zhen struck Feng Kui with repeated Lesser Five Elements Primordial Divine Thunders while Dai Qin and Yi Lie fired arrows at his eyes, but Feng Kui's bloodline power kept growing and healing his wounds.
• Ling Qianbi's illusion concealed the others from Feng Kui, and the Eye of Thunder vanished after Ye Zhen's twenty-seventh thunder strike.
• Yulei impaled Feng Kui's abdomen with a stone spear and used Stone Armor as One to weigh him down, while Ye Zhen's Geomagnetic Force Field further slowed him.
• Nie Ting's Sonic Boom interrupted Feng Kui's cry, allowing the others to bind and attack him; Ye Zhen then cut open Feng Kui's abdomen with the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword.
• Feng Kui's Monster Core unleashed Wind Blades that destroyed the Sea Covering Command Flag and wounded the Great Sages, while Ye Zhen sent Xiao Mao and Nine-Headed Worm into Feng Kui's abdominal wound.
• Xiao Mao's tiger claw burst through Feng Kui's throat, and Ye Zhen stabbed the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword into his skull, sending Feng Kui's body falling from the sky.

Princess Changle strengthened the war spirits at Sacred Spirit Peak after Ye Zhen summoned them away, then learned they had returned safely. In Great Wind Marsh, Feng Yiqian saw a descendant’s Great Wind bloodline awakening, only for it to fade and die, leaving him demanding to know who was responsible.

• Princess Changle ordered the Barbarian Spirit Hall to sacrifice Monster Beast essence blood and activate the War Spirit Sacrifice Formation at Sacred Spirit Peak.
• Princess Changle sensed that all three war spirits had returned without serious damage and ordered the formation withdrawn while the sacrifices continued.
• Yu Lang warned Princess Changle that the sacrifices had depleted beasts reserved for the Moon Sacrifice, and she agreed to cover the cost herself.
• Feng Yiqian saw a feather cluster on the Great Wind Ancestral Feather show a descendant awakening as Great Wind and celebrated the clan’s hoped-for revival.
• Feng Yiqian watched the crimson veins recede, the feather cluster turn gray and fall, and roared through Great Wind Marsh to demand who had caused it.

After killing Feng Kui, Ye Zhen absorbed the Great Wind’s essence and used its power to strengthen his spirit pillars and dantian. He began another attempt to break through to the Mystic Palace Realm, hoping his strengthened foundation could withstand his powerful spirit.

• Ye Zhen destroyed Feng Kui’s fleeing spirit and began absorbing the Great Wind’s essence, which formed a Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl in the Mirage Dragon Pearl.
• Ye Zhen used the refined power to strengthen his Earth Spirit Pillar and then his other spirit pillars, expanding his spirit mansion and dantian.
• Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu guarded Ye Zhen while the Three Saints of Sky Wing Island healed and marveled at his forces and territory.
• Xiao Mao and Nine-Headed Worm devoured Feng Kui’s organs, then turned to his scattered blood when the remaining organs became tasteless.
• After the Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl condensed, Ye Zhen redirected the excess power and began charging at the Mystic Palace Realm.

Ye Zhen failed once again to break through to the Mystic Palace Realm because his powerful Primordial Spirit destabilized his Seven Mystic Spirit Palace. After recovering, he examined the incomplete Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl and prepared to discover what ability it could grant him.

• Ye Zhen forged a dazzling Seven Mystic Spirit Palace, but it cracked and collapsed when his Primordial Spirit tried to suppress it.
• Ye Zhen's released soul-wave aura shocked the Three Saints of Sky Wing Island, Ling Qianbi, Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu as they recovered nearby.
• Ye Zhen safely contained the collapsing palace, opened his eyes, and realized his Primordial Spirit was preventing him from advancing beyond the ninth level of the Spirit-Connecting Realm.
• Ye Zhen inspected the Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl in his Mirage Dragon Pearl and noticed that its soul phantom was incomplete.
• Ye Zhen sank his Divine Sense into the incomplete Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl to learn what innate divine ability it could provide.

Ye Zhen discovered that the incomplete Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl let him use Great Wind’s inherited wind abilities and tested the immense speed it granted him. After finding he could outrun Little Cat over short distances, he uncovered an irreparable flaw in the pearl.

• Ye Zhen used the incomplete Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl to sense wind and access Feng Kui’s inherited knowledge, but its incompleteness cut off the experience.
• Ye Zhen tried the pearl’s power and moved so quickly that Ling Qianbi and Great Sage of Sea Quelling could barely see him.
• Ye Zhen raced Great Sage of Sea Quelling, Ling Qianbi, and Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao, discovering that he could run dozens of times faster than before and outrun Little Cat over short distances.
• Ye Zhen realized during repeated speed contests with Xiao Mao that the incomplete Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl had an irreparable flaw.

Ye Zhen named his short-range speed ability Wind Flash Dash, dealt with Instructor Liao Feibai’s anger, and left the Demon Soul Realm with reinforcements to return to North Sea Commandery. The Mother-Child Conch began trembling as he set off, warning him that something might have happened there.

• Ye Zhen discovered that the Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl’s speed ability weakened over distance and named its powerful short-range burst Wind Flash Dash.
• Worried about Xi Qiangu and the five-year deadline, Ye Zhen prepared to leave the Demon Soul Realm and sent his allies back into the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space to cultivate.
• Instructor Liao Feibai confronted Ye Zhen for leaving her behind during the fight with Feng Kui, and he promised not to do so again.
• Ye Zhen ordered Hei Er, Hei Qi, and Hei Jiu to conquer the Demon Soul Realm, then left with ten World King Realm generals and five hundred Mystic Palace Realm officers.
• After exiting the Demon Soul Realm, Ye Zhen mounted Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao and set off, but the Mother-Child Conch began trembling with an emergency signal from North Sea Commandery.

Ye Zhen returned safely to North Sea Commandery after surviving an attempt by Startling Wind Great Sage Feng Kui, leaving Tu Men Chang Yin to fear that Feng Kui had been lost. Ye Zhen secured his command by vetting and reorganizing officials, but Xi Qiangu still made no move more than a month after the five-year agreement expired.

• Ye Zhen contacted Gu Tieqi and Liu Feng, learned that Princess Changle had been worried about him, and sent her a message confirming he was safe.
• Ye Zhen traveled back to North Sea Commandery, while Tu Men Chang Yin learned that Ye Zhen had returned and feared Startling Wind Great Sage Feng Kui had met with an accident.
• Ba Shan Chou waited for news of Ye Zhen's death, then accepted Tu Men Chang Yin's orders to report to the Ancestral God Hall and later transfer to the Barbarian Spirit Hall.
• Ye Zhen personally questioned more than a thousand officials and military leaders, investigated potential risks, and spent nearly a month reorganizing North Sea Commandery.
• Ye Zhen discovered that Xi Qiangu had still made no move more than a month after the five-year agreement expired.

Ye Zhen stayed alert after learning that Xi Qiangu planned to wait before moving against him, but decided his stalled cultivation required urgent attention. He sought help from Mountain God Yi Xun, who returned from consulting his master with news that a solution existed.

• Ye Zhen learned from Ma Yuanjin that Xi Qiangu had chosen to wait until Ye Zhen let down his guard before acting against him.
• Ye Zhen lowered North Sea Commandery's high alert while instructing officials to watch for trouble through official duties and intelligence communications.
• Ye Zhen contacted Mountain God Yi Xun about his inability to forge a Mystic Palace because of his powerful primal spirit.
• Ye Zhen traveled to Five Immortal Island and failed again to break through in front of Mountain God Yi Xun.
• Mountain God Yi Xun consulted his master at Heavenly Fortune Hall and returned with news that Ye Zhen's cultivation problem had a solution.

Mountain God Yi Xun explained why Ye Zhen could not break through to the Mystic Palace Realm and revealed that the Myriad Bones Samsara Seal could suppress his primordial spirit without damaging his soul’s origin. He told Ye Zhen that one seal was held by the Heaven Temple and another was in the Battle Soul Hall of the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall.

• Mountain God Yi Xun said Ye Zhen’s powerful Four-Colored Primordial Spirit was preventing him from breaking through to the Mystic Palace Realm.
• He described two ways to suppress the primordial spirit, warning that damaging Ye Zhen’s soul’s origin was dangerous and could ruin his martial path.
• Mountain God Yi Xun identified the Myriad Bones Samsara Seal as a treasure capable of restricting primordial spirits without harming their origins.
• He explained that the rare seal formed from Myriad Bones Samsara Blood Fiend gathered on battlefields and that three seals had existed.
• Mountain God Yi Xun said the Heaven Temple held one seal, likely through either the Nine Sun Divine King or the Evil Slaying Thunder King, while the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall’s Battle Soul Hall possessed another.

Ye Zhen learned that he needed the Myriad Bones Samsara Seal to break through to the Mystic Palace Realm, so he returned to Luoyi to seek the seal kept by the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall. He also planned to raise the strength of his forces by training elite followers in the Mirage Dragon Pearl, and chose Southern Barbarian Divine Envoy attendants as candidates to become ascetic priests.

• Mountain God Yi Xun explained that Ye Zhen needed to cultivate within five li of an activated Myriad Bones Samsara Seal to break through, and identified the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall's seal as his best option.
• Ye Zhen left Five Immortal Island and returned toward Luoyi, stopping at his territories so his leaders could attend to affairs and reassure their subordinates.
• Ye Zhen and the Three Saints of Sky Wing Island agreed to select elite followers for cultivation inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl, with each Saint choosing a hundred people and Ye Zhen choosing two hundred.
• Ye Zhen decided to train Barbarian Spirit Hall priests to reinforce war spirits and serve as powerful fighters, but worried that using his assigned sacrificial guards would expose the Mirage Dragon Pearl's secret.
• Ye Zhen recalled the thousand fanatical Southern Barbarian Divine Envoy attendants he had taken in on the True Profound Continent and chose them as the best candidates to become ascetic priests.