Chapter Summaries

Zhang Rongfang fought the Sea Dragon God inside the Doubtful Cloud Mist, overcame her divine might, and destroyed her statue. He found unfamiliar symbols on a fragment and left the Underground Palace with new questions about the Gods and Buddhas.

• The Sea Dragon God ambushed Zhang Rongfang underwater, but Enemy Anticipation helped him evade her attacks.
• The Sea Dragon God froze the surrounding water, so Zhang Rongfang summoned the Blood God, the Wish Woman, and White Scale to battle her.
• Zhang Rongfang used Blood River to clash with the Sea Dragon God's seawater until the Doubtful Cloud Mist dispersed.
• Zhang Rongfang dodged a final Red Spirit Thread attack and watched the Sea Dragon God statue shatter into bronze fragments.
• Zhang Rongfang found symbols on a fragment, hid it in his blood robe, and left the Underground Palace while White Scale questioned him.

Zhang Rongfang left the Underground Palace, entered Great Capital, and visited the Su Muda Clan’s Changxin Building to test his elder sister’s information. An ambush followed, and he killed Sang Lan before confronting Ai Fu.

• Zhang Rongfang ordered Black Daoist to take the rescued Beauty Slaves for assessment, then headed toward the Su Muda Clan.
• At True Buddha Temple, two men searched for a hidden item and decided to stay two more days before leaving if they could not find it.
• Zhang Rongfang entered Great Capital in disguise with Ran Xin Yue and went to Changxin Building, carrying a jade pendant as proof of his connection to the shopkeeper Hengsha.
• After Hengsha’s blood aura fled, attackers bombarded the shop with explosive arrows and firearms, but Zhang Rongfang escaped with Ran Xin Yue and charged through the soldiers.
• Sang Lan attacked Zhang Rongfang with Fleeting Moon Finger, but Zhang Rongfang swiftly tore out and shattered his Spirit Core, killing him as Ai Fu watched.

Zhang Rongfang killed Xu Mengyan and Ai Fu with ease, then fled the Great Capital with Ran Xin Yue when Divine General Auduna confronted him. Auduna pursued him across the plains, and White Scale explained that Divine Generals were far stronger than ordinary Spirit Generals.

• The Spirit Army surrounded Zhang Rongfang, but he killed Xu Mengyan and Ai Fu almost instantly when they attacked him together.
• Zhang Rongfang fled the city with Ran Xin Yue, killing dozens of soldiers as he broke through the encirclement.
• Auduna confronted Zhang Rongfang outside the city, and he chose to flee rather than fight her head-on.
• Auduna pursued Zhang Rongfang across the plains while Ran Xin Yue struggled to endure the speed and sudden turns.
• White Scale told Zhang Rongfang that Divine Generals were far stronger than ordinary Spirit Generals.

Zhang Rongfang fought Auduna in the Great Capital, but her Spirit-Locking Formation overwhelmed him and forced him to escape. Yue Dewen then appeared and killed Auduna, while Zhang Rongfang fled to recover from his injuries.

• Zhang Rongfang activated his Final Form and fought Auduna, who matched his speed with her own Final Form.
• Auduna trapped Zhang Rongfang in Doubtful Cloud Mist using four Earth Mother Spirit Threads and repeatedly wounded him.
• Zhang Rongfang used Blood River to engulf Auduna in blood and break the Spirit-Locking Formation, then escaped at full speed.
• Zhang Rongfang withdrew from the Great Capital and told White Scale that he would replenish the blood he had lost.
• Yue Dewen appeared behind Auduna and killed her by drawing in her Spirit Threads.

Zhang Rongyu left Wu Mountain with her family while Zhang Rongfang accepted the Confucian Sect’s campaign against him and focused on his abilities. He and Tong Zhang discussed the incompatibility of Human Immortal Dao records and Demon Weapons, then agreed to exchange information as she prepared to leave; months later, Emperor Ling Xin announced a world-shaking reform.

• Zhang Rongyu traveled away from Wu Mountain with Suda Heqi and Little Huan Qing, while considering how to manage the consequences of her relationship with Zhang Rongfang.
• Zhang Rongfang read the Confucian Sect’s Righteous Lineage’s denunciation of him and reviewed his Life Force and Blood Clan Progenitor abilities.
• Tong Zhang visited Zhang Rongfang, said Master Yuan had escaped, and explained that Human Immortal Dao records and Demon Weapons could not coexist.
• Zhang Rongfang planned to investigate Gods, Buddhas, and Divine Generals, and Tong Zhang offered to share the Reverse Time Society’s information before departing for a purge of the Western Sect’s remaining forces.
• More than three months passed as the Great Sect Alliance purged Buddhist School members from its posts, and Emperor Ling Xin announced a sweeping reform at the end of September.

While searching for White Scale’s temples, Zhang Rongfang reunited with Wan Yanlu and learned how he might enter a God or Buddha’s Void to kill its true body. He also heard that Great Ling had reopened the Imperial Examination after Confucian scholars won seven debates, and the chapter left him asking what had prompted the sudden decree.

• Zhang Rongfang met Wan Yanlu and her five Chongyang Academy companions in an abandoned temple, and Wan Yanlu recognized him from their time in Tanyang.
• Zhang Rongfang and White Scale discussed assembling White Scale’s Core Statue so it could try to draw him into its Void.
• Zhang Rongfang overheard the Academy group discussing the new decree and asked them about it.
• Wan Yanlu and Zhang Shuoyang told Zhang Rongfang that the Confucian Sect had been separated from Great Ling’s ten ranks and that academic examination institutes and the Imperial Examination had reopened.
• Zhang Shuoyang explained that Confucian scholars had won all seven debates against Buddhism and Daoism, prompting Zhang Rongfang to ask whether anything had happened before the debates.

Zhang Rongfang learned that the Confucian Sect had regained standing and reunited with Wan Yanlu before assembling White Scale’s Core Statue and entering the Void. He passed through a glowing exit and opened a door into a vivid landscape.

• Zhang Rongfang questioned the group about the Confucian Sect’s new prominence and suspected someone was deliberately pushing it forward.
• Wan Yanlu told Zhang Rongfang she had studied martial arts at Chongyang Academy, and he gave her a black jade pendant before returning to his campfire.
• Zhang Rongfang assembled White Scale’s Core Statue behind the temple, and mist enveloped him until he vanished.
• Wan Yanlu searched the backyard for Zhang Rongfang but found only the statue and returned to the temple.
• Zhang Rongfang fell through the darkness of the Void, emerged in a metal passage, and opened the door marked with a One-Eyed White Python.
• A powerful pull dragged Zhang Rongfang through the doorway and left him standing on a flower-filled slope.

Zhang Rongfang explored White Scale’s Void and learned how its space and powers worked, then returned to the mysterious gap passage to investigate it. The passage’s crushing pressure forced him back to White Scale Temple, but the experience strengthened his suspicion about the Gods and Buddhas.

• White Scale showed Zhang Rongfang her flower-filled Void, explained that it had once shrunk to coffin-size, and described how Gods and Buddhas could alter their surroundings there.
• Zhang Rongfang showed White Scale the symbol-covered fragment and asked her to watch for similar markings before asking her to send him back to the gap passage.
• White Scale fought Zhang Rongfang in her Void, using her enhanced strength and a transformation into a giant white python, but he struck her after she disguised herself as Heavenly Maiden Tong Zhang.
• Zhang Rongfang returned to the metal passage and tried to walk down its left side, but immense pressure pinned him until he was sent back to White Scale Temple.
• Zhang Rongfang recovered with a medicine pill and concluded that the gap passage supported his unsettling theory about the Gods and Buddhas.

Zhang Shuoyang followed Zhang Ying into the forest, where he witnessed him execute an enemy and fled in terror. After Zhang Rongfang explained that he had killed members of the Injustice Gang, he discussed the limits of mortal martial arts with White Scale and considered what path could let him grow stronger.

• Wan Yanlu watched for Zhang Rongfang while Zhang Shuoyang grew jealous and followed Zhang Ying out of the temple.
• Zhang Shuoyang found blood scattered across the forest and saw Zhang Ying crush a man's neck, then ran away in fear.
• Zhang Rongfang discarded the corpse of an Injustice Gang member and told White Scale he had killed the group after learning their identity.
• White Scale explained that mortal martial arts had reached their limit and that Heavenly Light, Worship God, or the Extreme Realm could allow further progress.
• Zhang Rongfang declined to Worship God for now and noted that he had ninety-eight Attribute Points saved.

In He Country, King Mu Li’s forces and the Blood Immortal Path struggled against the Mo Sang Sect’s powerful Spirit General. After Daoist Hong Xian called on the Blood Immortal Old Ancestor for help, Zhang Rongfang received the message and decided to go to He Country to confront the threat.

• King Mu Li and Daoist Hong Xian waited outside the Mo Sang Sect’s stronghold while their forces fought its followers, and Hong Xian worried after thirteen cavern masters lost contact inside.
• A Mo Sang Spirit General burst from the stronghold and defeated Daoist Hong Xian and General Feng, but Hong Xian’s Ten Thousand Blood Array forced it to retreat.
• King Mu Li considered seeking aid from Ling Ting, but Hong Xian said they should summon the Blood Immortal Old Ancestor instead.
• Zhang Rongfang received Hong Xian’s Blood Echoes while climbing a snowy mountain and learned that a Secret Teaching threatened the Blood Immortal Path in He Country.
• Zhang Rongfang decided to abandon his search of the mountain ruins and travel to He Country to test his power against the threat.

Zhang Rongfang gained the Steel Skin Trait Talent by spending Attribute Points on his Life Attribute, then continued toward Wu Mountain while considering how to strengthen his mind and will. At the Mo Sang Sect headquarters, King Mu Li’s forces fought the sect’s Worship Gods as Xing Tong emerged to challenge them.

• Zhang Rongfang raised his Life Value to 1130, endured a painful transformation, and gained the Steel Skin Trait Talent.
• Zhang Rongfang tested Steel Skin by striking his arm, then reconnected with White Scale and resumed his journey.
• King Mu Li, Daoist Hong Xian, and General Feng discussed the siege of the Mo Sang Sect headquarters and awaited the Blood Immortal Old Ancestor.
• The Mo Sang Sect’s Worship God Spirit Guards charged out, and He Country’s Blood Descendants, Earth Mother Spirit Guards, and Spirit Vein commanders met them in battle.
• Xing Tong emerged from the Mo Sang Sect headquarters and challenged the opposing forces to fight him.

Zhang Rongfang arrived on the battlefield and killed Xing Tong with a single strike, rescuing King Mu Li and the He Country forces. After revealing his Daoist title, Qiankun, Zhang Rongfang learned that his fearsome reputation as Qiankun Zi had spread throughout the region.

• General Feng and Daoist Hong Xian fought Xing Tong, but Xing Tong defeated them and incapacitated the surrounding Blood Daoists with divine might.
• Xing Tong charged King Mu Li, but Zhang Rongfang appeared and destroyed Xing Tong with a blood-corroding strike through his heart.
• Daoist Hong Xian and the gathered forces recognized Zhang Rongfang as the Blood Immortal Old Ancestor and cheered his arrival.
• Zhang Rongfang greeted King Mu Li, who recognized him as the Hermit Mountain Man they had met years earlier.
• Zhang Rongfang introduced himself as Qiankun, prompting General Feng and others to connect him to the infamous Crimson List figure Qiankun Zi.

Yue Dewen searched Five Round Snow Mountain for the vanished Spirit Flight Teaching and revealed how the growing momentum was straining him. In He Country, Zhang Rongfang secured King Mu Li’s support and led his companions into the Mo Sang Sect headquarters to test whether Gods and Buddhas could be permanently destroyed.

• Yue Dewen and Kexiwo found Five Round Snow Mountain’s temple deserted, and Yue Dewen shattered its giant statue with a casual strike.
• Yue Dewen warned that he had to weaken the Spirit Flight Teaching before the boundary transition, while privately suffering from the pressure of Great Ling’s momentum.
• Zhang Rongfang met King Mu Li at the ruined Mo Sang Sect headquarters, and King Mu Li offered him the title of National Preceptor and one hundred jin of Heavenly Metal Bronze.
• Zhang Rongfang explained that the Human Immortal Path sought freedom and encouraged King Mu Li to question the rule of Gods and Buddhas.
• Zhang Rongfang set out to test whether Gods and Buddhas could be eradicated in the Void, and Daoist Hong Xian, King Mu Li, and General Feng joined him.
• Zhang Rongfang blasted open the Mo Sang Sect’s stone gate and entered the headquarters with the others following.

Zhang Rongfang led King Mu Li, General Feng, and Daoist Hong Xian through the Mo Sang Sect hall, subduing its followers with a Daoist scripture before Xing Tong emerged in Great God Descent and trapped them with divine might. Zhang Rongfang revealed the auras of four Remnant Gods, seized Xing Tong, and entered the dark green Void as White Scale held it open, leaving the others behind.

• Zhang Rongfang recited a Daoist scripture that weakened the Mo Sang Sect followers and made many kneel and shed bloody tears, while he ordered Daoist Hong Xian to preserve those who could still be saved.
• Zhang Rongfang warned that Xing Tong had already come out, and King Mu Li noticed green patterns spreading across the hall floor.
• Xing Tong burst through the wall in Great God Descent and used the formation to amplify his divine might, pinning Zhang Rongfang, King Mu Li, General Feng, and Daoist Hong Xian in place.
• Xing Tong sensed four Remnant God auras on Zhang Rongfang and tried to retreat into the Void, but Zhang Rongfang enlarged himself and seized him before he could escape.
• Xing Tong exploded into Spirit Threads as Zhang Rongfang dragged him upward; White Scale bit the Void's edge to keep it open, and Zhang Rongfang plunged inside, leaving King Mu Li, General Feng, and Daoist Hong Xian behind.

After escaping Mo Sang God's Void, Zhang Rongfang entered it again to confront the god in its own domain. He fought through Mo Sang God's defenders and faced a giant Wooden Figure, learning how dangerous the god's home ground was.

• King Mu Li and General Feng realized Blood Immortal Old Ancestor had likely used Mo Sang God's opening of the Void as a planned opportunity, while Daoist Hong Xian celebrated the Founder’s power.
• Zhang Rongfang discussed Heart Force with White Scale and saw a new Heart Force entry appear on his Attribute Panel.
• Zhang Rongfang opened the green door and entered Mo Sang God's intact forest domain, where he scattered hundreds of attacking cultists with a sound wave.
• Zhang Rongfang advanced toward a giant umbrella-shaped tree and evaded its barrage of vines by charging at it as a Bloody Figure.
• Mo Sang God emerged from the tree as a colossal Wooden Figure and knocked Zhang Rongfang back with a powerful punch.
• White Scale warned Zhang Rongfang that they could only withstand Mo Sang God's divine might for a limited time, and Zhang Rongfang assessed the god's strength.

Zhang Rongfang destroyed Mo Sang God’s Red Spirit Threads by sacrificing nearly all the blood in his body, causing the Void to collapse. He escaped into the passageway but remained trapped there, and White Scale fell silent.

• Zhang Rongfang used his hardened body to smash apart Mo Sang God’s Wooden Figure, then fought its Red Spirit Threads with a spreading Blood River.
• Mo Sang God summoned Spirit Threads from its remaining believers, forcing Zhang Rongfang to attack its core before his blood and strength ran out.
• Zhang Rongfang detonated nearly all his flesh and blood around the Red Spirit Threads, destroying Mo Sang God and destabilizing the Void.
• White Scale urged Zhang Rongfang through a crack in the collapsing Void, and he returned to the passageway as the Mo Sang Sect emblem faded from the door.
• Zhang Rongfang found himself severely depleted, received no answer from White Scale, and remained in the passageway after more than ten minutes without being expelled.

Zhang Rongfang explored a strange abyss after losing contact with the Remnant Gods and discovering he could no longer return through the passageway he came from. He found another passageway and reached a rusted, patternless door, where a hidden Locked Script inscription began to emerge.

• Zhang Rongfang found that none of his Remnant Gods answered and cautiously entered the metal passageway.
• After the entrance vanished behind him, Zhang Rongfang emerged onto a vast abyss and marked the area with Blood Spots.
• Zhang Rongfang climbed hundreds of meters up the cliff and reached another metal passageway covered in Locked Script messages left by despairing people.
• Zhang Rongfang followed the passageway to a rusted door without patterns, which he could neither turn nor push open.
• When rust fell from the door, Zhang Rongfang spotted a hidden Locked Script inscription and began deciphering it.

Zhang Rongfang followed the messages left by Emperor Earth and Chen Junchen in Great Abyss, discovered how to return, and learned that White Scale feared the place. Elsewhere, men in Sunrise discussed Yue Dewen, the Reverse Time Society, and Emperor Earth, whom they believed might still be alive in the Forgotten Abyss.

• Zhang Rongfang read the messages Emperor Earth and Chen Junchen had left in the passage and inferred that he should not touch something there.
• Zhang Rongfang leaped from the edge with his eyes closed and fell through to a forest in reality.
• White Scale told Zhang Rongfang that Great Abyss had caused her Void to shrink and warned that staying there longer might have killed them both.
• In Sunrise, an old man and a long-haired man discussed Yue Dewen's endurance and their plan to wait until his node was complete.
• The old man said the Reverse Time Society was seeking Emperor Earth, then suggested Emperor Earth might still be alive in the Forgotten Abyss.

Zhang Rongfang learned how the Forgotten Abyss and the rebirth of Gods and Buddhas worked, then returned to He Country and declared the Mo Sang God permanently defeated. With his allies safe and He Country’s secrets gathered, he settled into seclusion at the Human Immortal Temple to cultivate and investigate the Great Abyss.

• White Scale explained that a God or Buddha could be reborn as a new being if remembered again, and that destroying its Void source truly ended its former self.
• Two scouts brought Zhang Rongfang to King Mu Li’s camp, where King Mu Li, Daoist Hong Xian, and General Feng welcomed him after his return from the Void.
• Zhang Rongfang ordered the destruction of the Mo Sang God’s believers and records, then asked King Mu Li to compile the Imperial Clan’s knowledge of Gods and Buddhas.
• After three days of questioning King Mu Li in He Country, Zhang Rongfang returned to Wish Woman Canyon and chose to remain secluded, while monitoring reports confirmed his allies were safe.
• Zhang Rongfang resumed practicing Blood Manipulation and planned to explore the Great Abyss as he advanced toward perfecting the Blood Clan Progenitor form and Five Energies Merge to Origin.

A year later, Thousand Leaves Princess Ye Bai and her bodyguard Lu Luo tried to flee Great Ling by sea, but the White Ten Sect attacked Ci Tong Port. After helping Sun Chaoyue escape, they headed toward Shan Province together and were pursued by God Worshipping Great Knights.

• At Ci Tong Port, Ye Bai and Lu Luo watched Sun Chaoyue bargain with shipowner A Sa Luo for medicinal materials and considered leaving Great Ling aboard his fleet.
• The White Ten Sect fleet bombarded the harbor as Hu Xi rebels attacked the docks, forcing Ye Bai and Lu Luo to fight their way ashore.
• Ye Bai and Lu Luo joined Sun Chaoyue and her companions in battling the White Ten Sect attackers, then escaped from the port together.
• Sun Chaoyue invited Ye Bai and Lu Luo to travel with her group to the merchant association's headquarters in Dinghe Road, Shan Province, and Ye Bai agreed.
• God Worshipping Great Knight An Duo La detected the fugitives' evil demon aura and ordered his knights to pursue them.