Chapter Summaries

Jiang Tianji resisted his ministers’ attempt to seize Gu Jinlai’s “Sword” cannon design and impose a low price, while they sought to limit Star King Jiang Chongshan’s influence. In Yuntian City, Gu Jinlai accepted Yellow Heaven Sect’s adamant and promised to withdraw his troops, then confronted Fang Yichen and Xie Xiaowan.

• Wang Yizhi, Zhang Hanhai, and Long Tuyuan urged Jiang Tianji to reclaim the “Sword” refining method and restrict the power of Jiang Chongshan and Gu Jinlai.
• Jiang Tianji rejected forcibly taking the design, challenged Zhang Hanhai and Long Tuyuan to pacify the four Mu Provinces, and defended a paid deal with Lingxiao City.
• Wang Yizhi proposed paying only three portions of indestructible adamant for the cannons, despite Jiang Tianji’s objection to the steep reduction.
• Yu Jin delivered thirty portions of indestructible adamant to Gu Jinlai, who promised to withdraw from Yellow Province within half a month and return to Star Province.
• Gu Jinlai visited the guarded Fang Yichen and Xie Xiaowan, then challenged Xie Xiaowan over her claim to face death bravely.

Gu Jinlai punished Xie Xiaowan and Fang Yichen for betraying him, then returned to Star Province with more than a million civilians and celebrated his victory over the Tianhe Demonic Beasts. He headed to the Demon Refining Hall to see whether the battle spoils could earn him a Dao Artifact, while Blue Star announced a successful nuclear fusion engine ignition experiment.

• Gu Jinlai offered Xie Xiaowan her life if she crippled her cultivation and challenged Fang Yichen to kill her; Xie Xiaowan instead took Gu Luocheng's sword and killed herself, and Gu Yunxin struck Fang Yichen dead.
• Gu Jinlai kept his promise to leave Huang Province, but several hundred thousand people from Yuntian City and nearby cities followed his army, swelling its numbers to more than 1.3 million.
• Gu Jinlai returned to Starlight City to a jubilant welcome and said the victory ceremony should honor the artillery unit and Demon God Guards; he also asked Gu Changfeng about selecting recruits for the growing force.
• Gu Jinlai went to the Demon Refining Hall to see whether the Demonic Beast spoils, especially King Crocodragon, could be exchanged for a Dao Artifact.
• On Blue Star, researchers celebrated the successful ignition experiment for a nuclear fusion engine and announced that their nation had mastered controlled nuclear fusion technology.

After controllable nuclear fusion was verified, Xie Yusheng was promoted and recruited to help the Middle Kingdom develop advanced weapons through his South Heaven Gate Chronicle, as international tensions threatened to erupt into war. Meanwhile, Gu Jinlai exchanged his accumulated merit for a spirit armor and spirit swords in Starlight City.

• Zhao Shanhe told Xie Yusheng to develop electromagnetic-cannon and laser-cannon concepts from South Heaven Gate Chronicle so the nation's experts could prepare theories for the Qianxing person.
• Zhao Shanhe warned Xie Yusheng that the Star Brilliance Federation, Flame Dragon Kingdom, and Sunset Empire were preparing to act against the Snowfield Empire, while the Blue Star Federation sought to unify the world ahead of contact with another world.
• Xie Yusheng agreed to provide the weapon concepts within three days and set out to make contact with the Qianxing person.
• Gu Jinlai arrived at the Demon Refining Hall in Starlight City and asked the master to exchange his Universe Talisman for a spirit armor with Size As You Will, Toughness, and Thousand Jun.
• Gu Jinlai directed that all remaining merit be exchanged for spirit swords with Toughness and Boundless.

Gu Jinlai exchanged for powerful Spirit Armor and swords while learning the limits of the Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram. In Wood Province, Spirit Venerable Dali completed a partial crossing into the world and learned that Jiale had gone north toward Star Province, while Starfire City celebrated Gu Jinlai’s victory over the Demonic Beasts.

• Gu Jinlai examined the Dragon General Armor and six Spirit Swords he had obtained through the Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram, noting the limits of its artifact-refining ability and the Great Qian treasury’s supply.
• A Demonic Spirit forced part of itself through a rift in Wood Province and entered a spider-like Demonic Beast, transforming it into Spirit Venerable Dali with an Indestructible Demon Body.
• Fani told Spirit Venerable Dali that Jiale had gone north toward Star Province, where a Heavenly Lord had raised the banner of a Celestial Master, and Yafan explained that Jiale intended to draw the northern experts’ attention.
• Spirit Venerable Dali warned that it would punish Jiale if its actions endangered the descent, and Fani assured it that Jiale would not interfere with its plans.
• Starfire City held a victory ceremony after Gu Jinlai’s forces routed the Demonic Beasts at Yuntian City, and the displayed corpses strengthened public confidence in Star Province and Lingxiao City.

Gu Jinlai weighed a dangerous expedition to Lan Province against the need to gather Undying Mithril, then returned to Lingxiao City to strengthen his forces and weapons. Meanwhile, Dr. Harriman sought funding from the Starshine Federation to reach the other world, warning that someone there might already be ahead of them.

• Shang Zhenbei bought thirty Sharp Sword Heavy Cannons from Gu Jinlai for ninety portions of Undying Mithril, bringing Gu Jinlai's shortfall for the Chengying Mecha to around forty portions.
• Gu Jinlai decided to investigate the Cold Moon Sect's situation before considering a trip to Lan Province, after noticing the Demonic Beasts' fortune had surged and suspecting another Demonic Beast King had emerged in Mu Province.
• Gu Jinlai returned to Lingxiao City with more than ten thousand Demon God Guards and discussed improvements to the Sharp Sword Heavy Cannons and Blackbird Fighter Jets with Zhang Lihuo.
• Dr. Harriman presented a plan to the Starshine Federation for detecting and connecting with the other world, citing observations of two flashes resembling small-yield hydrogen bombs.
• Councilor Dennis asked Dr. Harriman what he needed to proceed, and Dr. Harriman answered that he needed a lot of money.

After strengthening his body and assessing the powers that ruled Great Qian, Gu Jinlai prepared to reinforce the Cold Moon Sect in Lan Province. He also learned that the Demonic Beasts were recovering quickly and planned to investigate Tianhe before launching an attack on its Demon Realm rift.

• Gu Jinlai reached the strength of a high-ranking Warlord and considered the limits of fighting flying-sword cultivators and Saints without the Chengying Mecha.
• Gu Chifeng told Gu Jinlai that Cold Moon Sect envoy Fang Yumian had offered twenty-two portions of indestructible refined gold in exchange for support in Lan Province, and Gu Jinlai ordered preparations for a force of sixteen thousand guards to depart in three days.
• Gu Jinlai visited the military workshop, where Zhang Lihuo struggled to visualize the Blackbird fighter engine, and encouraged him to keep studying it.
• Zhang Lihuo asked why Gu Jinlai had not occupied Tianhe after the Cloudsky City battle, and Gu Jinlai revealed that Demonic Beast providence had recovered to sixty or seventy percent.
• Gu Jinlai decided to send people to investigate when Tianhe's Demon Realm rift would open and planned to take troops to Lan Province for training before a later attack.

Gu Jinlai prepared to lead troops to Blue Province while awaiting new weapons that could transform his Blackbird fighters. Meanwhile, Di Luo and Wu Tiandi pursued Profound Heaven Venerable in Moon Province and decided to summon the Ten Great Demon Sects with the promise of studying the True Explanation of the Celestial Immortal.

• Zhang Lihuo told Gu Jinlai that the Great Sun Heavenly Sect had grown to sixteen hundred disciples, including two hundred and nine Core Forming cultivators seeking the Celestial Master path.
• After receiving news from Qiushan, Gu Jinlai learned that electromagnetic cannon and laser cannon files were being transmitted and decided to leave for Blue Province the next day.
• Gu Jinlai examined the new weapon designs and resolved to drive the Demonic Beasts from Blue Province, recover the Cold Moon Sect's refined gold, and complete the Blackbird fighters' attack systems.
• Di Luo and Wu Tiandi found Gui Chi's corpse and learned that Profound Heaven Venerable had escaped their pursuit in Moon Province, where True Person Wushi made their operations dangerous.
• Wu Tiandi identified the Violetcloud Sword Sect as a possible channel into Moon Province, and Di Luo proposed convening the Divine Sword Assembly by inviting the Ten Great Demon Sects to study the True Explanation of the Celestial Immortal.

Gu Jinlai led Lingxiao City's army from Star Province to reinforce the Cold Moon Sect in Blue Province, where the sects’ leaders welcomed him and acknowledged his strength. He proposed using Gourd Valley as bait for a decisive battle against the invading Demonic Beasts, and the assembled forces agreed to follow his plan.

• Di Luo told Wu Tiandi he would use the True Explanation of the Celestial Immortal to attract the Ten Sects of the Demonic Path to the Divine Sword Conference and said he had his own way to secure their obedience.
• Gu Jinlai brought six thousand Demon God Guards, ten thousand reserve guards, and one hundred and eight Spirit Cannons from Star Province toward Blue Province.
• Gu Jinlai rested his forces for a day on the way, then reached the Cold Moon Sect’s southern border after crossing three thousand miles in ten days.
• Fang Linghai, Leng Ningshuang, Liu Jingtao, and Wuyou welcomed Gu Jinlai and explained that nine Primordial Spirit True Lords were defending Blue Province from the Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai proposed drawing the Demonic Beasts into the dead-end Gourd Valley for a decisive battle, and the assembled leaders agreed to fight alongside him.

Gu Jinlai prepared Hulu Valley as a trap for Wood Province’s Demonic Beasts while the Great Qian army transported Lijian heavy cannons across the Tianhe River. A Demonic Beast King led a sudden assault that devastated Shang Zhenbei’s force, and the chapter ended with the bird questioning a Black Tortoise-like beast about its defeat in a human ambush.

• Gu Jinlai arranged cannon bombardments and defenses in Hulu Valley as Fang Linghai prepared to abandon Lengfeng Fortress and lure the Demonic Beasts there.
• Liu Jingtao warned Gu Jinlai about Wood Province’s powerful Demonic Beasts, and Gu Jinlai stationed the Demon God Guards at the narrow passage between the valleys.
• Shang Zhenbei and Ding Luoyang escorted thirty Lijian heavy cannons across the Tianhe River while arguing over Lingxiao City’s price for the weapons.
• Hundreds of demonic birds and waterborne Demonic Beasts attacked the crossing, and Shang Zhenbei and Ding Luoyang fled when a Demonic Beast King revealed itself.
• The Demonic Beasts slaughtered the remaining Zhenbei soldiers, and their leader questioned a Black Tortoise-like beast about being lured into a human trap and attacked from both sides.

The demons planned to retaliate against the Yellow Heaven Sect while concealing their intentions from the north. At Gourd Valley, Gu Jinlai used his Xuan Bird fighter to lure the pursuing demon horde into range of the defenders’ weapons.

• The demonic bird ordered the demons to attack the weakened Yellow Heaven Sect and sever the Heavenly River while keeping the north from reacting quickly.
• Gu Jinlai arrived in his Xuan Bird fighter as the Cold Moon Sect and its allies retreated toward Gourd Valley, surprising the Primordial Spirit True Lords with the aircraft’s speed.
• Gu Jinlai strafed the pursuing demons, killing more than ten great demons and convincing the True Lords that the fighter could threaten even powerful opponents.
• The retreating forces reached Gourd Valley, and Gu Jinlai drew the demons into range of its defenses.
• Gu Jinlai ordered the defenders to open fire with everything they had.

Cold Moon Sect leaders watched Lingxiao City’s artillery devastate the Demonic Beasts and concluded that their sect needed a way to survive Lingxiao City’s growing dominance. Meanwhile, a massive demonic tide swept toward Yellow Heaven City, catching the Yellow Heaven Dao off guard.

• Fang Linghai and Leng Ningshuang discussed how Lingxiao City’s weapons could threaten even top-tier True Lords and learned that the city might possess eight of them.
• Leng Ningshuang warned that Lingxiao City was using the Demonic Beasts to weaken rival factions and said the Cold Moon Sect must discuss its future.
• The four factions held Gourd Valley against Demonic Beasts, while the Demonic Beast King stayed away and the attackers suffered heavy losses.
• An avian demon lord led nearly fifty thousand Demonic Beasts out of the Tianhe and advanced rapidly through Crocodile Dragon Marsh toward Yellow Heaven City.
• Yellow Heaven Dao disciples reported the approaching horde, throwing the sect into an uproar.

The Yellow Heaven Sect faced an airborne Demonic Beast King and decided to seek Gu Jinlai’s aid rather than risk using the dangerous Supreme Peace Heavenly Scripture. Meanwhile, Lingxiao City and its allies routed the Demonic Beasts at Gourd Valley, but Cheng Lixue suspected their retreat concealed a conspiracy.

• Zhang Taiping warned that the Yellow Heaven Sect had to use the Supreme Peace Heavenly Scripture or ask Gu Jinlai for help, and the elders chose to invite Gu Jinlai.
• At Gourd Valley, sharp-sword heavy cannons killed several upper-rank great Demonic Beasts and forced the Wood Province Demonic Beasts to retreat.
• The Cold Moon Sect, Yellow Springs Sect, Purgatory Sect, and Demon God Guards pursued the retreating Demonic Beasts and collected spoils.
• Ancestor Wuyou and Fang Linghai acknowledged Lingxiao City’s overwhelming military strength, while Cheng Lixue noted that no Demonic Beast King had appeared and feared a conspiracy.
• Cheng Lixue concluded that hope for restoring Wood Province might lie with Lingxiao City rather than the Cold Moon Sect.

Gu Jinlai prepared to take the Blackbird fighter jet to aid the Yellow Heaven Sect against an avian Demonic Beast King and ordered Lingxiao City and Starlight City to prepare an advance into Yellow Province. He secured Jing Yunshan and Cheng Lixue’s commitment to join Lingxiao City and help pursue a future campaign to reclaim Wood Province, while learning they had fifty-one portions of Immortal Gold.

• Gu Jinlai considered the Blackbird fighter jet’s limits against Heavenly Beings and concluded that a mature model would take at least a year to produce.
• Zhang Yukun reported the Yellow Heaven Sect’s distress call, and Gu Jinlai recognized that an avian Demonic Beast King threatened its Primordial Spirit True Lords.
• Gu Jinlai ordered preparations to fly to the Yellow Heaven Sect and told Zhang Yukun to gather forces from Lingxiao City and Starlight City to enter Yellow Province.
• Gu Jinlai asked Jing Yunshan and Cheng Lixue for leads on Immortal Gold, and they revealed that they had brought some from Wood Province.
• Jing Yunshan and Cheng Lixue agreed to join Lingxiao City after the Demonic Beasts withdrew from Blue Province, and Cheng Lixue said they possessed fifty-one portions of Immortal Gold.

Gu Jinlai obtained fifty-one portions of indestructible refined gold from Cheng Lixue and Jing Yunshan, enough to begin forging the Chengying Mecha, which he expected could defeat a Demonic Beast King. He arranged to aid Yellow Province against a flying Demonic Beast King, then returned to Lingxiao City and set the workshop to building the mecha's main framework.

• Gu Jinlai learned that Cheng Lixue and Jing Yunshan had fifty-one portions of indestructible refined gold and promised to reclaim Wood Province once the Chengying Mecha was ready.
• Gu Jinlai told Cheng Lixue and Jing Yunshan he would go to Yellow Province to protect its thirty million people from the Tianhe Demonic Beasts, and they agreed to join him in Lingxiao City afterward.
• Gu Jinlai informed Fang Linghai, Leng Ningshuang, Liu Jingtao, and the other Cold Moon Sect leaders that he planned to support Yellow Province; they accepted his decision and agreed to let Cheng Lixue and Jing Yunshan leave with him.
• Gu Jinlai collected the refined gold, ordered Gu Chifeng to return to Lingxiao City with the demonic god guards, and traveled ahead with Zhang Yukun, Guan Xingyun, and a small escort.
• Gu Jinlai gave Zhang Lihuo and Si Tianyan the task of forging the Chengying Mecha's main framework and entrusted them with the warehouse keys.

A top Demonic Beast King led an assault that overwhelmed Yellow Heaven City and drove the Yellow Heaven Sect’s leaders to flee. After learning that the city had fallen, Gu Jinlai ordered Star Province’s forces to occupy Yellow Province.

• The swift falcon Demonic Beast King broke through Yellow Heaven City’s defenses, destroyed Zhang Taiping’s flying sword, and killed Zhao Danqing and Tao Changle.
• Zhang Taiping and Zhang Lingjian fled, and Yellow Heaven City fell after the Yellow Heaven Sect’s forces collapsed.
• Gu Chaoyang reported the city’s fall to Gu Jinlai as his army advanced through Yellow Province.
• Gu Jinlai learned that Yellow Heaven City held more than eight million people and ordered Star Province’s elite forces to take over every city in Yellow Province.

Gu Jinlai sent troops to defend Yellow Province after the Yellow Heaven Sect abandoned its central cities, then ordered reinforcements toward Haitan City when the Demonic Beasts bypassed Yuntian City. As Gu Chifeng’s force crossed Jiang Province, Cheng Lixue warned of danger, and a flying sword struck Gu Chifeng amid an ambush.

• Gu Jinlai entered Yuntian City, learned the Yellow Heaven Sect had withdrawn to Haitan City, and ordered his forces to shelter refugees and prepare to intercept the Demonic Beasts.
• When the Demonic Beasts bypassed Yuntian City and advanced toward Haitan City, Gu Jinlai dispatched troops to preserve the cities along their route and reinforce Haitan City.
• Gu Chifeng led returning Demon God Guards through Jiang Province toward Haitan City, accompanied by Cheng Lixue, while Jing Yunshan escorted sect disciples, relatives, and spoils to Lingxiao City.
• Cheng Lixue sensed an ambush and intercepted one of two flying swords, while the other pierced Gu Chifeng after breaking through the close-in defense cannons.
• Gu Chifeng grabbed the sword lodged in his body and shouted for his troops to fire.

Li Province and the Twelve Overseas Islands launched a surprise raid on the Sharp Sword Heavy Artillery Corps, killing hundreds and capturing dozens of cannons and machine guns. Gu Chifeng sent the wounded to Longxiao City and ordered the remaining Demon God Guards to join the Haitian City battlefield, while the Yellow Heaven Sect prepared to fight the Demonic Beasts with borrowed providence.

• Gu Chifeng and Cheng Lixue were caught off guard when nearly a hundred armored attackers stormed the artillery position, killed gunners and guards, and seized war Spirit Artifacts.
• Gu Xiliu destroyed his close-in defense cannon, but the attackers took another cannon and escaped under the cover of flying swords.
• Gu Lanxin reported 403 dead, including 312 Demon God Guards, 89 Celestial Master Apprentices, and two Celestial Masters, as well as the loss of 60 Sharp Sword Heavy Artillery cannons and 12 “Thunder” machine guns.
• Cheng Lixue identified the attackers as forces from overseas Li Province and the Twelve Overseas Islands, and Gu Chifeng blamed the losses on poor vigilance and failure to form an encirclement.
• Gu Chifeng ordered one group to take the wounded to Longxiao City and sent the rest to reinforce their ancestor at the Haitian City battlefield.
• At Haitian City, Zhang Lingjian, Zhang Taiping, and Yu Xuanjing learned that Demonic Beasts were coming and resolved to use the Yellow Heaven Sect’s providence to fight them.

Zhang Taiping used the Peaceful Heavenly Tome to draw on Yellow Province's fortune and the will of its people, killing Flashhawk and turning toward Yuntian City to kill Gu Jinlai. Gu Jinlai sensed the fortune being consumed, entered the True Spirit World, and began to awaken the spirits of all things across Yellow Province.

• Zhang Taiping fused his Primordial Spirit with the will of the Yellow Heaven Sect's core members and the people of Yellow Province, gaining power comparable to a Heavenly Being.
• Zhang Taiping formed a thousand-meter sword ray, split Flashhawk in two, and slaughtered more than a thousand demonic beasts before his Primordial Spirit began to tire.
• Zhang Taiping decided to kill Gu Jinlai and flew toward Yuntian City, believing Gu Jinlai's death would throw Lingxiao City into chaos and preserve Yellow Heaven Sect's rule over Yellow Province.
• Gu Jinlai sensed Yellow Province's fortune being rapidly consumed and realized the Yellow Heaven Sect was using the Peaceful Heavenly Tome.
• Gu Jinlai spent one of his stored streams of pure light to enter the True Spirit World, sensed the disturbed spirits throughout Yellow Province, and awakened the spirits of all things.

Gu Jinlai triggered a backlash against Zhang Taiping’s use of Huangzhou’s destiny, killing him and grievously injuring the Yellow Heaven Sect leaders who supported his ritual. With nearly forty thousand Demonic Beasts closing in on Haitan City, Zhang Lingjian rallied the surviving defenders to hold out for Gu Jinlai’s reinforcements.

• Zhang Taiping accused Gu Jinlai of plotting to seize Huangzhou and attacked him with a massive sword of condensed heavenly power.
• Gu Jinlai unleashed a wave of awakened spirituality that overwhelmed Zhang Taiping’s mind and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• The backlash from Huangzhou’s destiny injured the Yellow Heaven Sect cultivators gathered at the Tianhai City altar, killing some outright.
• Nearly forty thousand Demonic Beasts advanced toward Haitan City after Zhang Taiping’s death.
• Zhang Lingjian rallied the injured Yellow Heaven Sect disciples and city defenders to hold Haitan City until Gu Jinlai arrived, and the battle began.

Gu Jinlai’s forces turned the battle for Haitian City in favor of Lingxiao City and the Yellow Heaven Sect, then he confronted the sect’s leaders over Zhang Taiping’s attack on his reinforcements. He used the crisis to justify taking Yellow Province, and Zhang Lingjian collapsed and died after Gu Jinlai blamed him for the sect’s downfall.

• Gu Jinlai directed artillery fire from the Blackbird fighter jets, helping stabilize the battle in Haitian City as the Demon God Guards engaged the retreating Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Chifeng arrived with more than ten thousand guards, securing victory for Lingxiao City and the Yellow Heaven Sect.
• Gu Jinlai confronted Yu Xuanjing over Zhang Taiping’s attack on Lingxiao City’s reinforcements and had Gu Qingmei take him away.
• Gu Jinlai told Zhang Lingjian that Lingxiao City would occupy Yellow Province, arguing that the Yellow Heaven Sect had given him a reason to destroy it.
• Zhang Lingjian denied that he had ruined the Yellow Heaven Sect, but Gu Jinlai mocked him until he spat blood and fell dead.