Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao and Shi Yi began a battle in the Western Mausoleum Realm, with Shi Hao wielding the Heaven Desolate Battle Halberd and Shi Yi using a willow branch to unleash the Nine Leaf Sword Grass technique. Shi Hao’s strongest attack failed to hit Shi Yi, and the chapter ended as Shi Yi’s sword qi locked onto Shi Hao.

• Shi Hao revealed his original Supreme Bone and told Shi Yi he wanted to prove he could become his right-hand man.
• Shi Hao drew the Heaven Desolate Battle Halberd that Shi Yi had given him, and Shi Yi chose a willow branch as his weapon.
• Shi Hao entered Limit Sublimation and attacked Shi Yi with the True Dragon Precious Technique and his halberd, tearing open a crack in the Western Mausoleum Realm.
• Shi Yi evaded the strike with Kirin Steps, and Shi Hao’s halberd blasted a huge crater that awakened the realm’s undead and resentful souls.
• Shi Yi swung the willow branch and unleashed Nine Leaf Sword Grass sword qi that locked onto Shi Hao, who resolved not to flee.

Shi Hao and Shi Yi fought for ten days and nights across the Western Mausoleum Realm, with Shi Hao’s Hand of Heaven briefly contending against Shi Yi’s Grass Character Sword Secret before Shi Hao exhausted himself and lost again. Shi Hao remained cheerful and promised to keep working until he could stand beside his brother, while the ancient relics discussed the brothers’ exceptional talents and bond.

• Shi Hao summoned the Hand of Heaven from his Supreme Bone, and it clashed with Shi Yi’s Grass Character Sword Secret before Shi Yi withdrew some of his power.
• The Crystal Skull, Golden Hand Bone, and Bloodstained Eyeball discussed the brothers’ techniques and foundations, and the Bloodstained Eyeball explained the importance of cultivation methods.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yi battled across the Western Mausoleum Realm for ten days and nights, leaving the realm devastated before Shi Hao finally ran out of strength.
• Shi Hao smiled and told Shi Yi that he would work hard to catch up so his brother would not be lonely, and Shi Yi accepted his sincere words.
• The Crystal Skull asked what made the brothers different, and the Bloodstained Eyeball observed that Shi Yi was steady, Shi Hao was pure-hearted, and the brothers were harmonious.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao discussed the Three Kings of Western Mausoleum Beast Mountain and learned that the White Tiger King’s recovery had driven his bid for sole rule. The White Tiger Woman arrived badly injured, and as Shi Yi prepared to leave with her, Shi Hao attacked the ferocious beasts that had surrounded them.

• Shi Yi told Shi Hao that the White Tiger King’s healed injuries had disrupted the balance among the Three Kings and spurred his ambition to rule alone.
• Shi Yi explained that the White Tiger Woman had found the treasure medicine that healed her father, and Shi Hao understood why the kings were fighting.
• Shi Yi finished cooking ferocious beast meat in the Black Cauldron, and Shi Hao devoured the meal.
• The badly injured White Tiger Woman staggered to Shi Yi, called him the Human Emperor, and fainted before she could explain what had happened.
• A group of ferocious beasts surrounded Shi Yi, Shi Hao, and the White Tiger Woman, threatening to kill them.
• Shi Yi lifted the unconscious White Tiger Woman to leave the Western Mausoleum Realm, while Shi Hao turned one attacker into a cloud of blood mist.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao learned that the Three Kings of Western Mausoleum Beast Mountain had killed one another, then moved to restore order in the Second Territory and bring the mountain under the Yan Huang Empire. After completing the Myriad Spirits Diagram, Shi Yi considered deriving a new cultivation method and discussed using the artifact in That Plan with Willow Deity.

• Shi Yi revived the White Tiger Woman with the Mending Heaven Technique, and she explained how the Three Kings had died and the beasts had turned against their descendants.
• Shi Yi allowed Shi Hao to lead the Yan Huang Empire's army into the Second Territory and suppress its disorder.
• Shi Hao's army pacified the Second Territory, while the White Tiger Woman reclaimed her father's forces, became Tiger King, and incorporated Western Mausoleum Beast Mountain into the Yan Huang Empire.
• Shi Yi completed the Myriad Spirits Diagram and realized it contained the bloodline charts of every race across All Heavens Myriad Realms.
• Shi Yi considered whether to derive a new cultivation method, then told Willow Deity that he wanted to use the Myriad Spirits Diagram in That Plan and needed her help refining it.

Shi Yi discussed his ambitious plan for the Eight Regions with the Willow Deity, then visited the Lunar Jade Rabbit and White Kirin at the Human Emperor's Palace. After jokingly frightening them about eating them, he freed them to come and go from the palace.

• Shi Yi told the Willow Deity that his plan was suited to the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm and playfully embraced her.
• The Lunar Jade Rabbit worried that Shi Yi had forgotten them and proposed escaping, while the White Kirin said they were comfortable at the palace and trusted him.
• Shi Yi visited the two girls and found that they had taken human forms; the White Kirin and Lunar Jade Rabbit hugged and licked him, explaining their closeness and instincts.
• Shi Yi asked whether they had learned from stealing his Solar Divine Liquid, and both admitted they had been wrong.
• Shi Yi pretended he planned to fatten them up and eat them, frightening them before reassuring them that he did not eat people.
• Shi Yi granted the Lunar Jade Rabbit and White Kirin permission to enter and leave the Human Emperor's Palace freely.

Shi Yi helped Yu Yuexian prepare to Ignite the Divine Fire, with Undying Divine Spring agreeing to serve as her Immortal Seed Divine Material. After Shi Yi guarded her through three days of cultivation, Yu Yuexian succeeded and gained a transformed appearance visible only to him.

• White Kirin and Lunar Jade Rabbit celebrated Shi Yi's promise to let them freely enter the Human Emperor's Palace and clung to him affectionately.
• Shi Yi visited Yu Yuexian, who said she was nearing the Divine Fire Realm and planned to use Undying Divine Spring as her Immortal Seed Divine Material.
• Undying Divine Spring transformed into a little Dragon Girl and agreed to help Yu Yuexian Ignite the Divine Fire.
• Shi Yi reassured Yu Yuexian that the process would be safe and agreed to guard her while she cultivated.
• Yu Yuexian spent three days Igniting the Divine Fire as Shi Yi watched over her, and she succeeded without danger.
• Yu Yuexian's appearance changed after her breakthrough, though only Shi Yi could see her clearly.

After Yu Yuexian ignited the Divine Fire, Shi Yi visited Qin Yining and discussed his plan to reform the Eight Regions while relying on her to manage the empire. As the Yan Huang Empire prepared to conquer the remaining Heaven Domain, its inhabitants debated surrender, Ancient God Mountain leaned toward supporting the empire, and Ancient Peng Mountain argued over whether to fear Shi Hao.

• Yu Yuexian reunited with Shi Yi after igniting the Divine Fire, and he then went to see Qin Yining.
• Shi Yi told Qin Yining that the Earth Domain had been pacified and explained that he intended to replace the old system with a new one across the Eight Regions.
• Shi Yi and Qin Yining spent three days and three nights together before she recovered with wolfberry tea.
• The people of the First Heavenly Region discussed the Yan Huang Empire's conquest of seven regions and debated whether to surrender.
• The elders of Ancient God Mountain concluded that they should support the Yan Huang Empire's unification of the Eight Regions.
• At Ancient Peng Mountain, an older Golden-Winged Great Peng warned that Shi Hao ate vicious beasts, while a young one rejected the idea of obeying Human Law.

Shi Yi allowed Lower Realm lifeforms to choose whether to become human or seek opportunities in the Upper Realm, while the Heavenly Human Race decided to align with the Yan Huang Empire. At court, Shi Yi considered proposals to recruit talent and govern the Eight Regions, leaving the military examination under discussion and other reforms in progress.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng left the young Golden-Winged Great Peng to decide what to do, as ferocious beasts in the Lower Realm debated whether to become human or move to the Upper Realm.
• The Heavenly Human Race patriarch and Yun Xi's father agreed that their clan should place its bets on the Yan Huang Empire rather than go to the Upper Realm.
• Shi Yi held court in the Yan Huang Empire and heard officials praise him before a minister proposed establishing martial examinations to recruit talent.
• A military official warned that six regions lacked governance, and Shi Yi supported considering martial examinations without approving the plan outright.
• Shi Yi dismissed a minister who accused Qin Yining of bringing ruin upon the state, then assigned another minister to revise Human Law for his review.

Shi Yi ended court and returned to the palace, where Qin Mengyao jokingly demanded that he abdicate the throne to her. After Qin Yining sent Qin Mengyao away, she and Shi Yi discussed a martial examination and how the Yan Huang Empire could win the talents of all the Eight Regions.

• Shi Yi sat through hours of court debate before the officials praised him and the session ended.
• Qin Mengyao clung to Shi Yi and asked when he would abdicate so she could become Human Emperor, but he refused.
• Qin Yining pulled Qin Mengyao away and sent her back to rest before reuniting with Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi asked Qin Yining about holding a martial examination, and she said it should wait until the empire took the Heaven Domain and unified the Eight Regions.
• Qin Yining advised Shi Yi to recruit talent from every race in the Eight Regions, not just the human race.

Shi Yi learned from Qin Yining which Upper Realm factions had helped exploit the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, while Shi Hao handled the growing unrest caused by the newly opened passage to the Upper Realm. Shi Hao accepted several clans that chose to remain and become human, as another month passed without him attacking the Heaven Domain.

• Qin Yining told Shi Yi that the Western Church, Demon Sunflower Garden, Immortal Hall, Netherworld, Heavenly Kingdom, and Immortality Mountain had been behind the Eight Regions Cataclysm, while Heaven Mending Sect and Heaven Intercepting Sect had stayed detached.
• Qin Yining urged Shi Yi to call Shi Hao back from the Earth Domain, but Shi Yi realized she did not trust her son and did not agree to summon him.
• Shi Hao ordered deserters in his ranks dealt with while refusing to interfere with the Heaven Domain's residents who chose to leave for the Upper Realm.
• Nine-Headed Golden Lion told Shi Hao that Nine Spirits King and the Golden Lion Clan would remain in the Lower Realm and become human.
• A silver-haired envoy told Shi Hao that the Upper Realm branch of the Heavenly Human Race would stay and obey the Human Emperor's decree to become human.
• Shi Hao told the silver-haired envoy to learn human speech, conduct, and law, and another month passed without him attacking the Heaven Domain.

Shi Yi reassured Yun Menglan and helped her find the will to keep living even if she never saw her lost love again. After consolidating the First Heavenly Region’s forces, he sent Shi Hao to begin the Yan Huang Empire’s invasion, and its million-strong army overwhelmed the region’s resistance.

• Shi Yi visited Yun Menglan, who said she wanted an answer about the man she had waited five hundred years for, and promised to live for Shi Yi and Yun Xi if the answer was painful.
• Shi Yi concluded that Yun Menglan was becoming emotionally stronger and left after spending time with her.
• Half a month later, Shi Yi sent word to Shi Hao, who ordered the million-strong Yan Huang Empire army to cross into the First Heavenly Region.
• Shi Hao led the army into the First Heavenly Region, where local clans and factions panicked as the Empire advanced.
• The First Heavenly Region’s attempted resistance was crushed because its powerful Pure-Blooded Lifeforms and ancient ferocious beast clans were absent.

After the Yan Huang Empire conquered the First Heavenly Region, Shi Hao visited the Battlefield of Hundred Clans to claim it for the empire, while Shi Yi returned to the Void God Realm’s Deep Root Bottom Layer to speak with a chained Dark Immortal King. The chapter left open the possibility that the imprisoned beings might one day be freed.

• The Yan Huang Empire conquered the First Heavenly Region with the combined efforts of its million-strong army and its leaders.
• Shi Hao and Little Pagoda discussed the desolate Battlefield of Hundred Clans, the origins of the Eight Regions, and Shi Yi’s ambition to carry out a great reckoning.
• Shi Hao revealed that he had come to take control of the Battlefield of Hundred Clans and fill the First Heavenly Region’s final vacancy.
• Shi Yi visited the Deep Root Bottom Layer and calmly faced a gaunt Dark Immortal King who warned him about the danger of darkness.
• Shi Yi asked what the imprisoned old man would do if he escaped, and the old man vowed to kill those from the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Yi suggested that the day of the old man’s escape might come, prompting the prisoner to notice his use of “maybe.”

Shi Yi asked the eight dark figures imprisoned in the Void God Realm whether they wanted freedom and proposed cooperating with them, while defending his own understanding of right and wrong. The chapter also showed Shi Hao slaughtering ancient ferocious beasts that had sold the Eight Regions’ inhabitants to the Upper Realm, and ended with the imprisoned figures arguing among themselves.

• Shi Hao crushed a black bear that begged for mercy and left a battlefield strewn with the bodies of ancient ferocious beasts.
• Little Pagoda told Shi Hao that the beasts had sold living beings from the Eight Regions to the Upper Realm as mounts and livestock.
• Shi Yi asked the eight imprisoned dark figures whether they longed for the outside world and offered them a chance to cooperate with him.
• Cosmic Calamity, Cosmic Evil, and Profound Nether questioned Shi Yi’s intentions, while Yellow Flame challenged him over standing against the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Yi cited Willow Deity and Azure Moon True Immortal’s suffering at the hands of their own people, and rejected judging good and evil by darkness and light.
• Huang Sha cackled at Earth Calamity, prompting the dark figures to mock one another before falling silent.

Shi Yi persuaded the eight Dark Immortal Kings imprisoned in the Eight Regions Prison to sign blank documents and promised them divine positions at the Yan Huang Empire’s Investiture of the Gods Ceremony. Afterward, the Willow Deity confirmed that those positions would control them unless they became Emperors, and Shi Yi asked whether he had done the right thing.

• Shi Yi invited Heaven Slaughter, Earth Calamity, Profound Nether, Yellow Flame, Cosmic Evil, Cosmic Calamity, Great Deluge, and Huang Sha to guard the Eight Regions, arguing that labels of darkness and evil did not determine their true nature.
• Heaven Slaughter and several others agreed to cooperate, and Shi Yi had all eight sign documents stating, “I agree willingly.”
• Shi Yi told the Dark Immortal Kings that the Yan Huang Empire would grant them divine positions at an Investiture of the Gods Ceremony in one month, allowing them to travel through the Eight Regions.
• The eight Dark Immortal Kings speculated about the ceremony and whether their divine positions would restrain them after Shi Yi left.
• Shi Yi asked the Willow Deity whether the divine positions would control the eight kings, and she said they could escape that control only by becoming Emperors, a possibility their long imprisonment had taken from them.
• Shi Yi asked the Willow Deity whether his decision was right, and she trusted him without condition.

Shi Yi prepared to open the Eight Regions to the wider realms and announced an Investiture of the Gods Ceremony, while reassuring Willow Deity that he would pursue his ambitious plan carefully. News of the ceremony spread across the Eight Regions, where people debated who could receive godhood and whether Shi Yi’s rule was preferable to the Upper Realm; the chapter left the regions divided in their views.

• Shi Yi told Willow Deity that the Investiture of the Gods Ceremony would open the Eight Regions to outsiders and establish eight public shields, and she worried about the scale of his plan.
• Shi Yi reassured Willow Deity that he would proceed carefully and continued preparing for the future despite his carefree appearance.
• Shi Yi ordered the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy to distribute fifteen billion Essence Wall among the people and threatened execution for anyone who stole the funds.
• News of the Investiture of the Gods Ceremony spread across the Eight Regions, where inhabitants speculated about the kinds of gods Shi Yi would appoint.
• Creatures across the regions compared Shi Yi’s rule with the Upper Realm, while some embraced Human Law and others still regarded ascending as the better choice.

Shi Yi learned that the God-Devil Wall could be controlled by earning the recognition of the Spiritual Wills behind its 108 stone gates. Since the wills would match his cultivation realm, he confidently prepared to challenge them, while the Willow Deity indulged his reluctance to be pushed.

• The Willow Deity explained that the God-Devil Wall held 108 stone gates representing ferocious beasts, divine birds, and the human race, with Spiritual Wills guarding inheritances and sealing the Darkness Creatures in the Eight Regions Prison.
• Shi Yi recalled how he had defeated the Upper Realm's prodigies in a seven-day arena challenge after they looked down on him as Sin Blood.
• Shi Yi realized that the God-Devil Wall might help protect the Eight Regions when he opened them, but the Willow Deity said its original purpose would end once the Darkness Creatures were released.
• The Willow Deity said Shi Yi could gain the wall's recognition by defeating all 108 Spiritual Wills, which would fight at his cultivation realm.
• Shi Yi declared that he feared no opponent at the same realm and interrupted the Willow Deity's attempt to persuade him, asking whether she was teaching him how to do things.

Shi Yi opened the Kun Peng Gate and tried to warn Kun Peng King that the Eight Dark Immortal Kings would soon escape the Eight Regions Prison. Kun Peng King mistook Shi Yi for a Darkness Creature, but recognized the Willow Deity Method and learned that Shi Yi was the Willow Deity’s disciple.

• Shi Yi opened the ninety-seventh stone gate and entered the Kun Peng Gate.
• Shi Yi told Kunpeng that the eight Dark Immortal Kings would escape the Eight Regions Prison within a month.
• Kunpeng accused Shi Yi of falling into darkness and attacked him after he revealed eight strands of Darkness Origin aura.
• Shi Yi used the Willow Deity Method, causing Kun Peng King to recognize the Ancestor Offering Spirit’s art.
• Kun Peng King asked whether Shi Yi was the Willow Deity’s disciple and questioned why he seemed unchanged after supposedly falling into darkness.
• Shi Yi denied having fallen into darkness.

Shi Yi reunited with Kun Peng King, learned that the Eight Regions had suffered oppression from the Upper Realm, and heard that Kun Peng King's younger sister might still be alive. After promising to keep watch for her, Shi Yi left the Kunpeng Gate and entered the True Dragon Gate.

• Kun Peng King confirmed Shi Yi's identity when he answered its questions about Azure Moon and the Ten Evils.
• Kun Peng King learned about the Eight Regions' history and became enraged and disheartened by the Upper Realm's treatment of its people.
• Kun Peng King explained that its younger sister's two-body Kun Peng Technique might have allowed her to survive, and asked Shi Yi to find her beyond the Eight Regions.
• Shi Yi agreed to keep an eye out for the Female Kun Peng but made no promise to search for her.
• Shi Yi suppressed Kun Peng King with his Double Pupils, left the Kunpeng Gate, and entered the True Dragon Gate.

Shi Yi defeated the True Dragon’s Spiritual Will, learned that the Eight Regions’ people had been betrayed and branded descendants of Sin Blood, and took possession of the World Extinction Incense. After the True Dragon Gate began closing, Willow Deity admitted she wanted Shi Yi to grow strong enough to avenge her.

• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils and overwhelming power to beat the True Dragon’s Spiritual Will until it acknowledged him as the true best in the world.
• The True Dragon awakened, learned that the Eight Regions had become the Lower Realm and its descendants had been branded Sin Blood, and proposed using World Extinction Incense for revenge.
• Shi Yi confirmed with Willow Deity that the incense could destroy a great world, then took it and stored it in his Cavern Heaven.
• The True Dragon explained that the incense had been kept as a final measure against the Darkness Creatures, while Shi Yi promised that a reckoning would come.
• As the True Dragon Gate closed, Willow Deity told Shi Yi she wanted him to grow strong and punish the people who had betrayed her.

Shi Yi met the Five-Colored True Phoenix and Little Thunder Spirit in their God-Devil Gates, then learned from Willow Deity what became of the ancient Ten Evils. At the Heaven Horn Gate, he encountered Yu Niang, who said the gate had acknowledged him and began to ask for his help.

• Shi Yi entered the True Phoenix Gate, where the Five-Colored True Phoenix greeted him as her brother-in-law and talked about the True Dragon’s rivalry with Little Dragon Dragon.
• The Five-Colored True Phoenix told Shi Yi that her true body had joined the Foreign Domain, and he said he did not blame her for surviving there.
• After Shi Yi left the gate, Willow Deity explained that most of the Ten Evils had died, while the True Phoenix and God Cricket had survived in the Foreign Domain and the Nine Nether Hound might still be alive.
• Shi Yi entered the Thunder Emperor Gate and reunited with Little Thunder Spirit, who asked if he would disappear again; Shi Yi assured it that he belonged to the present.
• At the Heaven Horn Gate, Shi Yi met Yu Niang, who said the gate had acknowledged him and began to make a request.