Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi worried that Shi Hao’s brutal campaign to unify the Eight Regions would turn the Flood Domain into a slaughterhouse, while Qin Yining argued that fear would make its ferocious beasts accept human rule. Shi Yi was left uncertain as his brother continued the massacre and gained the name of Butcher.

• Qin Yining warned Shi Yi that the Upper Realm was full of deadly dangers and urged him to remember those waiting at home if he traveled there.
• Seven days later, Shi Hao took command of a million human soldiers and a million ferocious beasts and led them into the Flood Domain, launching a massacre to force its inhabitants to submit to human laws.
• Shi Hao told Little Pagoda that the beasts would only want to become human after they feared him, and explained that the other domains had not been intimidated by Shi Yi’s reputation alone.
• Shi Yi asked Qin Yining to stop Shi Hao before he wiped out the Flood Domain, but she argued that the beasts lacked humanity and that they would value the right to become human only after fighting for it.
• Qin Yining reminded Shi Yi that the massacre would prevent retaliation against humans in the Flood Domain and that Shi Hao’s reputation was already ruined, leaving Shi Yi troubled and unsure whether the killing was justified.

Shi Hao massacred the Flood Domain’s powerful beings after negotiations collapsed, while his soldiers and the ferocious beasts argued over whether his actions were justified. A human soldier who had condemned the slaughter learned how humans were treated beyond the Wild Domain and offered to enter the Human Emperor Banner to protect Shi Hao, who refused and explained how the Form and Will Method had changed the soldier’s life.

• Shi Hao reasoned that Qin Yining had prompted Shi Yi to bring him back, and reflected on Shi Yi’s efforts as Human Emperor to help ordinary people.
• After negotiations failed, Shi Hao killed the Flood Domain’s mid- and high-level fighters, and the Wild Domain’s armies began slaughtering the domain’s people.
• A human soldier challenged Shi Hao for acting without Shi Yi’s orders, while several ferocious beasts defended the massacre by describing the Flood Domain’s oppression of humans.
• The soldier, realizing how little he had known about life beyond the Wild Domain, offered to enter the Human Emperor Banner if Shi Yi punished Shi Hao; Shi Hao refused.
• Shi Hao told the soldier that the world’s vastness had limited his understanding and credited the Form and Will Method with allowing him to join the Yan Huang Empire’s army.

Shi Yi’s policies in the Yan Huang Empire drew the attention of the Nine Spirits King, who approved of the ideals behind uniting different races. As Shi Hao’s slaughter in the Flood Domain raised fears of wider conflict, Yun Menglan set out to visit Yun Xi while grieving for her missing lover.

• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion asked the Nine Spirits King whether Shi Hao might bring his slaughter to Ancient God Mountain, and his grandfather judged Shi Hao’s actions a warning rather than indiscriminate killing.
• The Nine Spirits King discussed Shi Yi’s rules for becoming human and recognized that they were meant to unite different races under a shared identity.
• After deciding Shi Yi’s integration efforts were not a bad thing, the Nine Spirits King sent the Nine-Headed Golden Lion to rejoin Shi Hao.
• Yun Xi’s grandfather urged Yun Menglan to visit Yun Xi and discreetly ask whether Shi Hao planned to attack across the Eight Regions.
• Yun Menglan agreed to go, but remained consumed by grief for her missing lover and paid little attention to her brother’s concerns about Shi Hao.

Shi Hao’s massacre in the Flood Domain frightened lifeforms across the Eight Regions, while Shi Yi’s reputation led many to consider submitting to Human Law and becoming human. In the Seventh Vast Region, Shi Yi’s followers found humans who had been raised as livestock, and the chapter ended as they discussed the protection—and limits—of a Human Registry.

• The White Tiger King rejected the Black Elephant King and Azure Lion King’s questions about its ties to Shi Yi, then worried about Shi Hao’s slaughter and its daughter Bai Gang’s safety.
• Lifeforms in the Third Profound Domain, abandoned by Upper Realm forces, discussed seeking Shi Yi’s protection and becoming human.
• Lifeforms in the Yellow Region dismissed Shi Hao as a bully whose reputation had been arranged by Shi Yi, while plants in the Cosmos Region praised Shi Yi and welcomed Human Law.
• Terrified by the nearby massacre in the Flood Domain, lifeforms in the Universe Domain considered kneeling to Shi Yi and begging to be human.
• In the Seventh Vast Region, Shi Yi’s followers discovered caged humans who had been raised as livestock and debated their rescue and their rights under the Human Registry.

Shi Yi discussed the limits of his rule and worried about how to bring Heaven Domain’s ancient clans under the Human Law without harming Yun Xi’s family or the Nine-Headed Golden Lion’s kin. Qin Yining challenged his plan to grant Heaven Domain autonomy, warning that he was about to surrender far more power than he realized.

• Shi Yi reflected on the Human Registry, the Human Law, and the Yan Huang Empire’s efforts to give its citizens security and freedom.
• Shi Yi and Qin Yining discussed the dangers and powerful factions in Heaven Domain and Earth Domain, while Shi Yi worried that Shi Hao might slaughter too many people.
• Qin Yining pointed out that Shi Yi had close ties to many powerful clans and teased him while asking how he would persuade Heaven Domain’s ferocious beasts and Pure-Blooded Lifeforms to follow the Human Law.
• Shi Yi proposed negotiating and offering benefits to the clans, but Qin Yining warned that he was proposing to sacrifice the empire’s interests by granting Heaven Domain autonomous governance and self-rule.
• Qin Yining explained that autonomy and self-rule could include control over economics, military affairs, livelihoods, courts, and political systems, and told Shi Yi that those powers could not be handed out carelessly.

After a month of slaughter in the Flood Domain, Shi Hao oversaw the surviving creatures’ admission into the Yan Huang Empire as people under the Human Registry. With the Seventh Vast Region conquered, the Sixth Cosmos Region surrendered and begged for the same chance.

• Qin Yining warned Shi Yi that giving excessive power to successors could lead to rebellion, and Shi Yi admitted that his earlier plan was naive.
• Shi Hao told the surviving Flood Domain creatures that only the Human Emperor could grant their request to become people, and Shi Yi issued a decree approving it.
• Shi Hao led the creatures through the procedures, making them swear before the Human Emperor Sword to speak human words, do human deeds, and obey Human Law.
• Shi Hao invoked the Human Emperor Banner and Human Emperor Seal, which recorded the Flood Domain survivors in the Human Registry and raised the Yan Huang Empire’s population to 1.38 billion.
• After Shi Hao conquered the Seventh Vast Region, the beings of the Sixth Cosmos Region knelt and begged for the chance to become people.

Shi Yi learned about the Earth Domain’s Western Mausoleum Realm as the White Tiger Woman asked him to intervene in a dispute over its control. Meanwhile, Yun Xi tried to help her heartbroken grand-aunt Yun Menglan find the man she had waited five hundred years for.

• Shi Hao subdued the Sixth Cosmos Region without resistance, avoiding the slaughter Shi Yi had hoped to prevent.
• Yun Xi found Yun Menglan consumed by grief over a lover who had promised to return within five hundred years, but Yun Menglan did not know where he had gone.
• The White Tiger Woman Bai Gang visited Shi Yi and said the White Tiger King feared Shi Hao would slaughter the Earth Domain.
• Bai Gang explained that the Earth Domain’s Western Mausoleum Realm held an altar that sometimes returned treasures after sacrifices, and warned Shi Yi not to seize it hastily.
• Bai Gang told Shi Yi that the Azure Lion King and Black Elephant King opposed sharing the Western Mausoleum Realm, and said the White Tiger King wanted to serve as Shi Yi’s subject and manage it for him.

Shi Yi rejected the White Tiger King’s plan to use him against his own people and corrected Qin Mengyao after she complained about Shi Hao borrowing the Human Emperor Sword and Banner. He then met Yun Xi and Yun Menglan, who hoped he could find the man Yun Menglan loved, as someone knocked at the door.

• Shi Yi told the White Tiger Woman that the White Tiger King had to prove he could govern the Western Mausoleum Realm before Shi Yi would help him.
• Qin Mengyao complained that Shi Hao had borrowed the Human Emperor Sword and Human Emperor Banner, and Shi Yi explained that they belonged to the Yan Huang Empire.
• Shi Yi admitted that he had told Qin Yining about Shi Hao’s actions, but Qin Mengyao blamed Shi Hao anyway and misremembered Shi Yi’s lesson as “the greater the ability, the smaller the responsibility.”
• Shi Yi met Yun Xi and Yun Menglan, who asked whether he could find the man Yun Menglan loved in the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm.
• Yun Xi reassured Yun Menglan that Shi Yi would help find him, and someone knocked at the door.

Shi Yi and Yun Xi learned that Yun Menglan’s beloved, Kong Qiu Ji, had vanished after promising to return in five hundred years, and they tried to reassure her that he might be in the Upper Realm. After Yun Menglan left, Yun Xi confronted Shi Yi about his own flirtations.

• Yun Menglan told Shi Yi and Yun Xi about her love for Kong Qiu Ji, a flawed-bloodline Five-Colored Peacock who had vanished while seeking nirvana.
• Shi Yi pieced together that Kong Qiu Ji had caused a disturbance at Heavenly God Mountain and disappeared before fulfilling his five-hundred-year promise to Yun Menglan.
• Shi Yi offered to seek help from an Upper Realm Five-Colored Peacock, but Yun Menglan panicked because the Upper Realm clan might endanger Kong Qiu Ji.
• Yun Xi and Shi Yi reassured Yun Menglan that Kong Qiu Ji might have gone to the Upper Realm and been unable to return to the Lower Realm.
• After Yun Menglan left, Shi Yi promised to search for Kong Qiu Ji, then angered Yun Xi by suggesting he might have fallen for someone else and defending his closeness with the White Tiger King’s daughter.

Shi Yi and Yun Xi discussed his relationships and his role as the Human Emperor, while Huo Ling'er and the Sixteenth Princess considered the Yan Huang Empire’s rapid growth and the fate of the Stone Emperor and Fire Emperor. After soothing Yun Xi, Shi Yi was stopped by Yu Zimo, who reported that he had results concerning the matter Shi Yi had asked him to investigate.

• Yun Xi admitted she envied Yun Menglan’s past but preferred her own family life with Shi Yi, and Shi Yi conceded that he had given in to temptation.
• Shi Yi reflected on how his public reputation and the faith of ordinary people strengthened his authority as Human Emperor, while Qin Yining governed the Yan Huang Empire and protected his image.
• Huo Ling'er and the Sixteenth Princess discussed the Stone Emperor and Fire Emperor’s departure for the Upper Realm and the Yan Huang Empire’s rapid expansion.
• Huo Ling'er questioned how the empire prospered while Shi Yi neglected affairs, and the Sixteenth Princess credited Shi Yi’s actions and Qin Yining’s ability.
• After Shi Yi soothed Yun Xi until she fell asleep, Yu Zimo stopped him and said he had found results concerning Shi Yi’s inquiry.

Shi Yi asked Yu Zimo to foresee the consequences of his plan to bind the Eight Regions and Upper Realm through shared interests, then asked whether the Five-Colored Peacock Kong Qiu Ji was alive. Yu Zimo’s divination showed a strange egg, leaving Yun Menglan with an uncertain answer after five hundred years of waiting.

• Yu Zimo foresaw that Shi Yi’s plan could transform the Eight Regions and eventually draw the Upper Realm into a shared community of interests.
• Shi Yi told Yu Zimo to keep his plan secret and explained that he needed time, the Eight Regions’ independence, and more Faith Power before acting.
• Shi Yi denied involvement in the Eight Regions’ recent changes, then asked Yu Zimo to determine whether Kong Qiu Ji, the Five-Colored Peacock, was alive.
• Yun Menglan overheard Kong Qiu Ji’s name and stayed to learn his fate, despite Shi Yi’s attempts to send her away.
• Yu Zimo activated the One Lifetime Scroll and revealed an image of a strange egg, which Shi Yi, Yu Zimo, and Yun Menglan all saw.

Shi Yi and Yu Zimo realized that Yun Menglan’s egg was already lifeless, while the Human Emperor Seal registered 1.67 billion beings in the Sixth Cosmos Region as human. Shi Yi later visited Little Red Bird to ask about nirvana, but she mistook him for part of a dream and began explaining how the Vermillion Bird Plume could merge bloodlines.

• Yu Zimo told Shi Yi that the egg Yun Menglan believed was undergoing nirvana had become a dead egg, and Shi Yi wondered how the Five-Colored Peacock had vanished.
• The Human Emperor Seal registered 1.67 billion intelligent beings in the Sixth Cosmos Region as humans, astonishing Yu Zimo.
• Shi Yi left the Human Emperor’s Palace and found Little Red Bird asleep in her nest above a volcanic crater.
• Little Red Bird transformed into her human Law Body while dreaming, and Shi Yi entered the nest beside her.
• Little Red Bird woke up believing she was still dreaming and told Shi Yi that outsiders could use the Vermillion Bird Plume to merge bloodlines and learn nirvana.

Shi Yi learned that his nirvana with Little Red Bird had fused their bloodlines and greatly improved her talent, but the Vermilion Bird could offer no hope of reviving Kong Qiu Ji. Meanwhile, Shi Hao finished conquering the Sixth Cosmos Region and prepared to lead his army onward.

• Shi Yi and Little Red Bird underwent seven days of bloodline-fusion nirvana, which strengthened her bloodline and revealed a new nirvana method to Shi Yi.
• Little Red Bird urged Shi Yi to keep their relationship secret from Huo Ling'er, then told him that Kong Qiu Ji's dead egg could not be revived.
• Shi Yi explained Yun Menglan's love for Kong Qiu Ji, and Little Red Bird concluded that Kong Qiu Ji had died after an almost certainly doomed attempt at nirvana.
• Shi Hao conquered the Sixth Cosmos Region, summoned the Human Emperor Sword, Human Emperor Banner, and Human Emperor Seal, and began reorganizing his army for the next campaign.
• Shi Hao's ferocious beasts complained that the Sixth Cosmos Region had surrendered too easily, and he accepted the surrender and gave its people a chance to become human.

Shi Hao held back his army after taking the Sixth Cosmos Region, waiting for its resistance to be cleared and giving its inhabitants the chance to join the Yan Huang Empire peacefully. After five months of anxious waiting, an envoy from the Fifth Cosmos Region arrived to meet him, while Shi Yi prepared a heart-blood baptism for Qin Mengyao.

• Shi Hao rejected calls to attack the Fifth Cosmos Region immediately and ordered his forces to pursue submission rather than slaughter where possible.
• The Fifth Cosmos Region's inhabitants feared invasion but grew hopeful after the Sixth Cosmos Region was incorporated without harm, and they discussed the protections offered by Shi Yi's rule and the Human Emperor Banner.
• Five months after the Sixth Cosmos Region was pacified, Shi Hao's army remained at the border while the Fifth Cosmos Region's people anxiously awaited his decision.
• Shi Yi prepared a True Blood Baptism using a drop of his own heart's blood for Qin Mengyao's sixth birthday.
• An envoy from the Fifth Cosmos Region arrived in the Sixth Cosmos Region to request an audience with Shi Hao, who said they had finally come.

After the Fifth Cosmos Region surrendered, Shi Hao ordered the Yan Huang Empire’s armies to invade the defiant Fourth Yellow Region. He confronted its six strongest ferocious beasts, who mocked his strength and refused to become human, as the battle began.

• The Fifth Cosmos Region submitted, increasing the Yan Huang Empire’s population to more than 4.13 billion.
• Shi Hao weighed the limits of Human Law and decided that the Fourth Yellow Region’s refusal to negotiate justified military action.
• The Fourth Yellow Region’s leaders rejected becoming human, while its people dismissed Shi Hao as a fraud who depended on Shi Yi.
• Shi Hao ordered his million-strong human army and million-strong ferocious beast army to attack the Fourth Yellow Region.
• Shi Hao faced the region’s six strongest ferocious beings, who taunted him and challenged his power.

Shi Hao faced six ferocious beings in the Fourth Yellow Region, called for Shi Yi’s help, and was knocked unconscious by a bolt of divine lightning before the Glistening White Little Tower protected him. Meanwhile, Shi Yi learned from the Willow Deity why the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm was a Forbidden Ground and why its history had become the Eight Regions Cataclysm.

• The Bone Dragon explained that its body was made from its sacrificed brothers and sisters, who died during the Eight Regions Cataclysm, and Shi Hao shouted for his Brother to save him.
• The Two-Headed Monstrous Bird and Ten Thousand Meter Giant Python attacked Shi Hao as the heavens halted beneath a purple Double Pupil, which vanished after finding him unharmed.
• Purple Firmament Divine Lightning pierced the Glistening White Little Tower’s protection and struck Shi Hao unconscious, while the tower shielded him from the ferocious beings’ continued attacks.
• Shi Yi asked the Willow Deity whether the Western Mausoleum Realm held three Immortal Kings, and she confirmed that three not fully dead Immortal Kings were there.
• The Willow Deity explained that the Eight Regions Prison had been built to contain Dark Immortal Kings and True Immortals, but the original harvesting of their power had turned into the exploitation known as the Eight Regions Cataclysm.
• Shi Yi asked whether his sparring with the imprisoned beings helped weaken them, and the Willow Deity said he was only strong enough to fight them fairly under the Void God Realm’s restrictions.

Shi Hao subdued the Fourth Yellow Region and received the Third Profound Domain’s surrender, while Shi Yi arrived to explain that the Western Mausoleum Realm held unusual significance. Shi Yi invited Shi Hao to visit three half-dead Immortal Kings there, leaving Shi Hao eager to go with him.

• Shi Yi encouraged Shi Hao to cultivate harder, while Shi Hao awoke in the Fourth Yellow Region and revealed his Heavenly God Realm cultivation.
• Shi Hao killed three of the Fourth Yellow Region’s six great ferocious creatures, crippled two, and spared the Bone Dragon; ten days later, the region’s war subsided.
• The Third Profound Domain surrendered after the destruction of Immortality Mountain’s Lower Realm Dao Lineage left it without a leader capable of resisting Shi Hao’s army.
• Shi Yi met Shi Hao in the Second Territory and explained that he had come to visit three half-dead Immortal Kings in the Western Mausoleum Realm.
• Shi Hao asked to accompany Shi Yi, who agreed to bring him along.

Shi Yi brought Shi Hao to the Western Mausoleum Realm, where he traded Solar Divine Liquid with a Lightning Tree for its fruits instead of taking them by force. After Shi Hao ate a Lightning Fruit and gave another to Little Pagoda, the group prepared to continue their journey.

• Shi Yi and Shi Hao entered the Western Mausoleum Realm and found an ancient altar and a Lightning Tree bearing rare fruits.
• Shi Yi offered the Lightning Tree three drops of Solar Divine Liquid in exchange for its Lightning Fruits, and the tree gave him all fifteen it had.
• The Lightning Tree offered its Lightning Worms too, but Shi Yi refused and told it to keep them for protection and save fruit for a future trade.
• Shi Yi gave Shi Hao a Lightning Fruit, and Shi Hao ate it, beginning to comprehend the Lightning Array.
• Shi Hao asked for another fruit and gave it to Little Pagoda, which absorbed its lightning laws and promised to protect him.

Shi Yi offered Willow Deity’s leaf at the altar and revealed her as his teacher, earning the three relics’ eager gratitude. He asked only for the Myriad Spirits Diagram, but they urged him and Shi Hao to take all three treasure bones.

• Shi Yi and Shi Hao reached the altar, where Shi Yi recognized the final fragment of the Myriad Spirits Diagram among the precious bones.
• Shi Yi placed a glowing Willow Leaf on the altar as an offering, and Willow Deity appeared to chastise the Crystal Skull, Golden Hand Bone, and Bloodstained Eyeball for ignoring her disciple.
• The three relics recognized Willow Deity as the Ancestor Offering Spirit and learned that Shi Yi was her disciple before she vanished.
• Shi Hao asked about the disturbance in time and space, and Shi Yi told him his teacher had visited.
• The three relics offered Shi Yi any recompense he wanted, and he requested the Myriad Spirits Diagram.
• The Crystal Skull, Golden Hand Bone, and Bloodstained Eyeball insisted that Shi Yi and Shi Hao take all three treasure bones.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao collected treasures in the Western Mausoleum Realm, where Shi Yi also spoke with three Immortal Kings about his plan to unify the Eight Regions. After half a month, the brothers prepared to spar under new rules, while the three Immortal Kings watched their exceptional talents with growing alarm.

• Shi Yi accepted the Myriad Spirits Diagram and three precious bones from the Crystal Skull, Golden Hand Bone, and Bloodstained Eyeball, then gave Shi Hao two bones containing incomplete True Dragon and True Phoenix Precious Techniques.
• Shi Yi told the three Immortal Kings that he planned to unify the Eight Regions and asked whether his actions would disturb their seclusion; they told him to proceed as he wished.
• Shi Yi spent half a month discussing the Dao with the three Immortal Kings and repeatedly defeated Shi Hao, who asked him not to begin their next spar by glaring or using his full strength.
• Shi Hao proposed that they compare only combat techniques and battle experience, and the three Immortal Kings agreed to witness the match.