Chapter Summaries

Soul Thirteen attacked Wang Xian with soul techniques, and each hit gave Wang Xian additional brains that issued conflicting commands. After Wang Xian beat Soul Thirteen down, Nangong Wu and the others asked what was wrong, and Wang Xian told them about the strange effects.

• Soul Thirteen extracted the soul of Apocalypse Fifteenth Generation and revealed that it could be refined for soul power, skills, and memories.
• Soul Thirteen tried to grab Su Jin's fox ears, so Wang Xian struck him and endured his soul attacks without being seriously harmed.
• Wang Xian discovered that the soul attacks gave him extra brains, whose conflicting commands made his body stagger and stop when he tried to dodge.
• Soul Thirteen formed a soul spear and hit Wang Xian, giving him two more brains; Wang Xian then beat Soul Thirteen until Nangong Wu stopped him.
• Nangong Wu, Su Jin, and Xuan Ming asked Wang Xian what was wrong, and he told them about the extra brains.

Wang Xian and his companions pursued the abducted Cheng Yao to a ruined planet, where they discovered the Protagonist Alliance’s grisly trap. After a blood-lit teleport carried them into space and a horde of Heavenly Demons appeared, Wang Xian’s group took refuge in the Ring of Immortality while Yang Chan stayed to help him.

• Wang Xian explained that six new brains had appeared in his mind, and Xuan Ming and Xuan Yue reassured him that the change was beneficial.
• Wang Xian examined his spoils from Soul Thirteen, then agreed to pursue Cheng Yao rather than seek help taking Apocalypse City away.
• Wang Xian and Yang Chan entered a ruined planetary world and found that all its inhabitants’ corpses had been gathered elsewhere.
• Su Jin sensed that Cheng Yao had stopped moving, and Wang Xian’s group reached her, only to find her bound to a pillar by ropes they could not cut.
• The ground trembled, revealing vast piles of tortured corpses and blood-red pillars that teleported everyone into space as Heavenly Demons approached.
• Wang Xian sent everyone into the Ring of Immortality, but Yang Chan remained outside to help him face the Heavenly Demons.

Wang Xian and Third Holy Mother Yang Chan escaped a Celestial Demon swarm, but found themselves stranded outside Yaochi's Great Thousand World behind its solidified World Crystal Wall. After devouring the demons inside him and unlocking Celestial Demon True Body, Wang Xian realized he could cross the barrier and prepared to gather more demons before returning to Blue Star.

• Third Holy Mother Yang Chan used the Lotus Lantern to destroy Celestial Demons while Wang Xian let them enter his body, where he devoured them.
• Wang Xian froze the demons inside himself with Space-Time Power, then used Space Power to escape with Third Holy Mother Yang Chan.
• Wang Xian discovered he had reached the Myriad Worlds and found Yaochi's Great Thousand World surrounded by Celestial Demons behind a solidified World Crystal Wall.
• Wang Xian waited three days, devoured the demons inside him, increased his attributes, and unlocked Celestial Demon True Body.
• Wang Xian realized Celestial Demon True Body could pass through the solidified World Crystal Wall, then exposed himself to the surrounding demons to gather more before heading back.

Wang Xian was swallowed by the Seventh Celestial Demon King, but fought back by biting off pieces of its body to strengthen Demon Lord. After escaping into the Ring of Immortality, he joined Nangong Wu’s investigation into Yaochi, and she questioned whether the protagonist with the “Space-Time Travel” system had truly intended to harm him.

• Wang Xian transformed into a Celestial Demon, discovered he could control nearby Celestial Demons, and encountered the Seventh Celestial Demon King.
• The Seventh Celestial Demon King bit off part of Wang Xian’s head, but Wang Xian retaliated by biting its head and using Blink to tear off another chunk.
• The Seventh Celestial Demon King swallowed Wang Xian, who found himself with Third Holy Mother Yang Chan inside a small space and used Space Power to reach its fleshy wall.
• Wang Xian bit and swallowed two chunks of the Seventh Celestial Demon King’s stomach wall to increase Demon Lord’s Growth, then entered the Ring of Immortality with Third Holy Mother Yang Chan.
• Nangong Wu told Wang Xian’s advisory group about her suspicions regarding Yaochi and the protagonist with the “Space-Time Travel” system, wondering why that protagonist had sent Wang Xian into the Celestial Demon Race.

Wang Xian escaped seven Celestial Demon Kings, crossed the World Crystal Wall, and reunited with Yaochi after her disciple Fu Yao attacked him. Yaochi asked him to help protect the Great Thousand World from the hidden Celestial Demon Kings, and Wang Xian said he would decide after returning to Blue Star.

• Wang Xian fled when seven Celestial Demon Kings appeared and then traveled to the solidified World Crystal Wall.
• Wang Xian spent five days crossing the World Crystal Wall before Fu Yao stabbed him with a sword that was lethal to Celestial Demons.
• Wang Xian dodged Fu Yao's attacks, but Yaochi struck him apart before he revealed his identity and explained his Celestial Demon transformation.
• Wang Xian gave Fu Yao Mythical Grade earrings that could reverse time for one second and carry her away from danger once.
• Wang Xian told Yaochi about the seven Celestial Demon Kings, and Yaochi asked him to help stop them from attacking others.
• Wang Xian said he would consider Yaochi's request and return to Blue Star before giving her an answer.

Wang Xian brought Yaochi and Fu Yao to his small world to seek help for Fu Yao’s slow cultivation and withering. The other Pure World White Lotus healed Fu Yao by revealing that she needed impure energy to grow, and Yaochi recalled finding her in a blood pool.

• Wang Xian realized Fu Yao’s power against Heavenly Demons came from her, not her sword, and learned she was a Pure World White Lotus suffering from slow growth and withering.
• Wang Xian took Yaochi and Fu Yao to his small world, where his Third-Grade Pure World White Lotus purified the blood sea and nourished the world.
• Fu Yao approached the other lotus and plunged into the blood sea without being contaminated.
• Fu Yao told Yaochi and Wang Xian that her withering had ended and her strength was rising rapidly.
• Fu Yao explained that Pure World White Lotuses needed filthy, impure things rather than heavenly treasures to grow, and Yaochi remembered finding her in a sacred-land blood pool.

Wang Xian helped Yaochi’s disciple Fu Yao recover in his small world, then returned to Blue Star as war erupted between the Sea Clan and cosmic races. He learned that a palace in Kunlun Mountain was releasing green gas that transformed powerful beings, drawing the Dragon Kingdom’s sects, the Immortal Clan, and cosmic forces into battle.

• Yaochi thanked Wang Xian for helping Fu Yao, and Fu Yao began restoring her damaged origin essence in his small world.
• Yaochi gave Wang Xian a storage bag of treasures, while his advisory group suggested he become Dao Companions with her to secure an alliance.
• Wang Xian gathered the Immortal Palace disciples and returned to Blue Star, where Elder Long told him that the Sea Clan and cosmic races were fighting.
• Wang Xian set out for the ocean battlefield and read Long Yu’s account of recent events on Blue Star.
• Wang Xian learned that green gas from the Kunlun Mountain palace had transformed an Epic BOSS into a Mythical Grade BOSS, triggering a battle among the Dragon Kingdom’s sects, the Immortal Clan, and cosmic forces.

Wang Xian watched the ocean battle between the universal races and the Sea Clan, noticing that the Holy Race member’s rune strengthened the Giant Octopus’s strange power inside those it supposedly cured. He followed the retreating universal races to Mars and saw the Holy Race member leave with several dozen Mythical Grade BOSSES.

• Wang Xian reviewed Long Yu’s reports about the forces gathering at Kunlun Mountain, the expansion of Lighthouse Country and Pharaoh Country, and Dragon Kingdom guilds becoming Dynasties with universal-race backing.
• Wang Xian reached the ocean battlefield and saw the Evil God Church’s Giant Octopus battle the universal races, while the Sea Race High Priest and Divine Dragon Palace’s sea serpent also displayed formidable strength.
• Wang Xian identified Atlantis’s armed platform and noticed that the Holy Race member’s rune only suppressed the Giant Octopus’s transformation temporarily while making its strange power grow stronger inside the affected Mythical Grade BOSSES.
• The Holy Race member ordered the universal races to retreat, and Wang Xian secretly killed an Epic Grade member, took its appearance, and followed them through a Space Rift.
• Wang Xian arrived with the main force on Mars, where the Holy Race member dispersed the troops and departed with several dozen Mythical Grade BOSSES.

Wang Xian discovered that the Heavenly God Son used a mysterious black tentacle on bound Mythical Grade BOSSES, then returned to the Immortal Palace and decided to help Yaochi and investigate the protagonists. After finding Ning Wudao and his allies in a Lesser Thousand World, Wang Xian learned they had been tricked into attacking a sealed demon lair.

• Wang Xian waited five days for the Heavenly Race member to leave a dimensional space, then secretly followed him to camp and saw a black tentacle bite several dozen bound Mythical Grade BOSSES before they pledged to attack the Sea Clan.
• Wang Xian returned to the Immortal Palace, checked on its members and territories, and decided to help Yaochi kill the seven Celestial Demon Kings when they appeared.
• Wang Xian returned to the Protagonist Dungeon, reunited with the advisory group, and confirmed that Fu Yao was safe in his small world.
• Wang Xian contacted Ning Wudao and the other villains, learned their attacks had failed and cost them heavily, and traveled to their world after warning them not to pursue the protagonists.
• Wang Xian found Ning Wudao, Su Yu, Hong Luan, and their allies in a miserable state, and Su Yu explained that they had attacked fake protagonists and accidentally struck a sealed demon lair.

Wang Xian took Hong Luan to the demon den to rescue her mother and fight the Ancient Demons. He revived Hong Luan’s mother with a willow branch, killed a level 980 Ancient Demon, and turned his attention to another demon.

• Wang Xian offered to enter the demon den and save the elders, and Hong Luan chose to go with him to rescue her mother.
• Wang Xian and Hong Luan traveled through a spatial passage to the demon den, where they found Hong Luan’s mother impaled by a one-horned demon.
• Wang Xian pulled Hong Luan’s mother off the demon’s horn, and Hong Luan charged the demon while her mother begged Wang Xian to take her daughter away.
• Wang Xian used a willow branch to revive Hong Luan’s mother after her Health Bar reached zero, and Hong Luan embraced her.
• Wang Xian beat the one-horned Ancient Demon to death, collected its loot and corpse, then attacked a bird-like Ancient Demon with the Heavenly Dragon Spear.

Wang Xian fought the Ancient Demons, turning the battle around with God Slaying and driving them to flee. He killed two fleeing demons and accepted a bovine Ancient Demon as his mount, demanding its True Spirit Mark.

• Wang Xian killed a bird-like Ancient Demon with Heavenly Dragon City Breaker, then lamented that its remains could not be grilled into wings.
• The enraged Ancient Demons swarmed Wang Xian, while Hong Luan’s mother urged her to pursue him as a prospective partner.
• As the Ancient Demons’ divine abilities pushed Wang Xian near death, he activated God Slaying, killed a snake-like Ancient Demon, and restored his HP.
• Wang Xian instantly killed a goat-like Ancient Demon, frightening the survivors into fleeing in different directions.
• Wang Xian chased down and killed a fast-fleeing bird-like Ancient Demon, then caught a slow bull-like Ancient Demon that offered to become his mount.
• Wang Xian agreed to take the bovine Ancient Demon as his mount and demanded its True Spirit Mark.

Wang Xian forced the blue ox to offer up its True Spirit Mark, then learned that it had once been an Emperor Realm expert called Qingming Tian. After naming it Big Qing and returning to Hong Luan, he was thanked by her mother for saving her life.

• Wang Xian threatened the ox-like Ancient Demon until it offered up its True Spirit Mark, binding it to him.
• The blue ox told Wang Xian that it had once been an ordinary farm ox, gained a Heavenly Dao Mark, and reached the Emperor Realm.
• The blue ox recounted how the former Heavenly Dao slaughtered powerful cultivators in an attempt to turn their Great Thousand World into a Supreme World, before being torn apart and sealed.
• The blue ox explained that a woman in white had suppressed it after it tried to abduct her, and Wang Xian named it Big Qing.
• Wang Xian returned to the battle site with Big Qing and reunited with Hong Luan and her mother, who thanked him for saving her life.

Wang Xian learned about Hong Luan’s powerful sealed bloodline and agreed to bring her along as he headed to the Protagonist Alliance. During their journey, Hong Luan told him that becoming a god required overcoming a Heart Tribulation, then refused to reveal a secret method that could evade it.

• Wang Xian shared grilled meat with Hong Luan and her mother, who told him that Hong Luan was a Red Luan with a sealed, exceptionally powerful bloodline.
• Hong Luan’s mother asked whether Wang Xian had a Dao Companion, and he said that he already had Dao Companions.
• Wang Xian said he planned to confront the protagonists, then promised to visit the Heavenly Demon Dynasty, where he hoped to find the sleeping white snake Xiao Bai wanted to see.
• Hong Luan insisted on accompanying Wang Xian to the Protagonist Alliance, and he reluctantly took her with him.
• While they flew toward their destination, Hong Luan explained that cultivators had to overcome a Heart Tribulation before entering the Spirit God Realm, and Wang Xian pressed her about a secret method to evade it.
• Hong Luan denied having the method and refused to tell Wang Xian anything more.

Wang Xian and Hong Luan searched a modern city on Destiny World for its protagonist and discovered a hidden room containing more than a thousand prisoners who feared Wang Xian. He learned that the little girl who spoke to him was a protagonist and a System holder, leaving him to face the mystery of who the prisoners were.

• Hong Luan refused to give Wang Xian the secret technique but told him to ask the Yaochi Holy Lord for it.
• Wang Xian and Hong Luan arrived on Destiny World, where Wang Xian chose to investigate a modern city and its missing protagonist.
• Wang Xian found that the city's mortals took pride in unpaid overtime and discovered its enormous skyscraper was made of gold.
• Wang Xian and Hong Luan entered a hidden room containing more than a thousand people in glass tanks, all of whom reacted to Wang Xian with fear.
• Wang Xian spoke with a little girl in a tank, promised not to kill her, and used Heaven's Eye to discover that she was a System-holding protagonist.

Wang Xian learned from Chen Ran that Zhao Hao had captured more than a thousand system-bearing protagonists and began questioning them to find useful systems. After releasing more than five hundred captives, he found the Wine God System, which could brew spirit wine.

• Chen Ran told Wang Xian that Zhao Hao and Shen Yuan had captured the protagonists, and explained Zhao Hao's nine-level classification based on potential.
• Chen Ran revealed that she was a Level 9 protagonist with the Grand Minister of Agriculture System, and Wang Xian decided to keep her alive for her farming abilities.
• Wang Xian freed a young man in brocade robes and discovered his cashback system only produced ordinary Gold Coins, so he removed the system and absorbed it into the damaged Mysterious Yellow Disc.
• Wang Xian broke open more glass jars, questioning the protagonists and extracting their systems; some who attacked him were killed.
• After freeing more than five hundred protagonists, Wang Xian found a useful Wine God System that could brew spirit wine with effects determined by its ingredients.

Wang Xian finished taking the protagonists’ systems and offered to help them, leading many to choose to become players while others returned to their worlds. As he set out to send them home, Chen Ran explained that protagonists were hard to kill because they carried their worlds’ fortune and suspected Wang Xian was the protagonist of his Great Thousand World.

• Wang Xian used the Check-in System as repair material and offered the protagonists one request in return for taking their systems.
• A woman who had created an entertainment golden age asked to become a player, and Wang Xian explained that she would need to become a player’s follower; she asked for a female player and he agreed to find one.
• More than nine hundred protagonists chose to become players, while the others asked to return to their original worlds; Wang Xian stored the former with Du Kang and took Chen Ran and Hong Luan to escort the latter home.
• Wang Xian asked Chen Ran why Zhao Hao and Shen Yuan had captured rather than killed protagonists, and she explained that protagonists carried fortune and could only be killed after it was exhausted or by someone with greater fortune.
• Chen Ran suggested that Wang Xian had greater fortune and might be the protagonist of his Great Thousand World, and Wang Xian knocked her on the head for flattering him.

Wang Xian learned that Zhao Hao had gathered the system-bearing protagonists so Wang Xian could destroy their systems and concentrate their fortune on the remaining protagonists. After warning Yaochi, Wang Xian accompanied her to Soul Refining Island, where she attacked the island after its spies fled inside; an enraged voice called her name as the island stabilized.

• Chen Ran told Wang Xian that Zhao Hao had shown the protagonists a video of Wang Xian killing Lin Feng two years earlier and was waiting for him to destroy their systems.
• Chen Ran explained that destroying the systems redirected the protagonists’ share of the world’s fortune to new vessels, potentially benefiting Zhao Hao.
• Wang Xian told Yaochi what he had learned, and Yaochi advised against hunting Zhao Hao before agreeing to accompany Wang Xian to Soul Refining Island.
• Yaochi brought five suspected spies from her holy land to Soul Refining Island, where they fled inside after she confronted them.
• Yaochi struck Soul Refining Island with a spatial handprint, devastating its buildings and mountains before an invisible ripple stabilized the island.
• An enraged voice roared Yaochi’s name from Soul Refining Island.

Yaochi destroyed Soul Refining Island and seized its Soul Tower, but probing the tower's contents left her seriously injured. Wang Xian took the tower into his Sea of Consciousness, where it triggered its transformation into a world, then escaped Soul Source as the island master ordered his disciples to hunt him down.

• Yaochi confronted Soul Source, shattered Soul Refining Island, and demanded its Soul Tower as compensation for his spies infiltrating the Yaochi Holy Land.
• Yaochi took the Soul Tower from Soul Source, discovered it held the Soul Scriptures of three Yaochi Holy Lords, and fainted after trying to retrieve them.
• Wang Xian caught Yaochi, placed her in his Ring of Immortality, and grabbed the Soul Tower before Soul Source attacked him with Soul Spears.
• Soul Source's Soul Spears gave Wang Xian two new consciousnesses, and the Soul Tower entered his Sea of Consciousness and accelerated its evolution into a world.
• Wang Xian examined the transforming Soul Scriptures, returned to his body, and escaped using a jade talisman as Soul Source ordered his disciples to find him.

Wang Xian brought the gravely wounded Yaochi to Blue Star, where Nie Xiaoqian healed her soul over ten days. After Yaochi recovered, Wang Xian returned with her to the Protagonist Dungeon and learned that her holy land remained protected, though some people there had developed improper intentions.

• Wang Xian took unconscious Yaochi to the Ring of Immortality's space, where Cheng Yao's healing skills had no effect on her soul injury.
• Nie Xiaoqian entered Yaochi's body and said she could heal her within ten days, then denied meeting someone called Sister Bai.
• During those ten days, Wang Xian learned that Heavenly Demons were invading the Great Thousand World, Soul Refining Island had surrounded Yaochi Holy Land, and five powerful Dragon Country players had appeared and vanished.
• Nie Xiaoqian announced that Yaochi had awakened, and Wang Xian urged her to return to her world to deal with the invasion and Soul Refining Island.
• Yaochi returned with Wang Xian to her holy land, learned it had suffered no major harm but that some people inside had improper intentions, and invited Wang Xian to look around.

Wang Xian visited Yaochi Holy Land and showed Yaochi the transformed world inside his Sea of Consciousness, where the Soul Tower had become the “Soul” Heavenly Book and its stored souls had turned into strange eggs. He met Mumu, the Spirit of the Divine Tree, and learned that Yaochi had injured herself nurturing the holy fruits; Mumu then became fascinated by his Innate Stones.

• Yaochi asked Wang Xian for the souls of three former Holy Masters, and Wang Xian explained that they had transformed inside his Sea of Consciousness.
• Yaochi entered Wang Xian’s Sea of Consciousness, saw the Soul Tower and the eggs, and could not explain the changes.
• Yaochi introduced Wang Xian to the divine tree, where Mumu appeared and called him a pervert when he touched it.
• Yaochi persuaded Mumu to give Wang Xian two Yaochi Holy Fruits, but Wang Xian noticed Yaochi was weak from losing blood essence to nurture them.
• Yaochi revealed the Innate Stones Wang Xian had given her, and Mumu excitedly asked to have one, saying they could help spirits grow and let acquired lifeforms return to the innate state.