Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai prepared Lingxiao City to confront Li Province and the Nine East Sea Islands, relying on newly modified Blackbird fighters and summoning allied sects to witness the battle. As the observers boarded Xin Tianqi’s small fleet, he predicted the allied fleet might already be defeated by the time they arrived.

• Gu Jinlai learned that fifteen factions from Li Province and the Nine East Sea Islands had assembled fourteen Primordial Spirit True Lords under the pretext of negotiating trade.
• Gu Jinlai ordered the allied sects to watch the battle, told Xin Tianqi to focus on capturing prisoners, and revealed that Lingxiao City would use Blackbird fighters.
• Gu Jinlai departed for River Province with eight Blackbird fighters while Lu Zhanxian, Liu Jingtang, Youquan, Wuyou, Sansheng, Fang Linghai, and Leng Ningshuang traveled there as observers.
• Lei Jie withdrew from personally joining the operation, reducing the opposing force from fourteen Primordial Spirit True Lords to thirteen.
• Xin Tianqi welcomed the observers at Yulong City Harbor and led them aboard the fleet, saying Gu Jinlai would not fight in person and that the enemy fleet might already be defeated by their arrival.

The allied fleet prepared to face Lingxiao City's Blackbirds, confident that their numbers and countermeasures would overwhelm Gu Jinlai's forces. Before the Blackbirds came into view, an over-the-horizon missile strike killed Black Crystal and two other True Lords, leaving the fleet stunned at the battle's opening.

• Ouyang Yue told the allied True Lords that Jiangzhou had fewer than a hundred warships and more than two hundred merchant ships, prompting them to mock Lingxiao City's fleet.
• Dragon Ao and the other commanders discussed Gu Jinlai's weapons and planned how to defeat the Blackbirds and seize Jiangzhou's coastal cities.
• Yuan Zhenhai reported that the vanguard had spotted a Blackbird, and the True Lords organized their forces into groups to meet the attack.
• Black Crystal sensed danger and tried to intercept the incoming projectiles, but their speed overwhelmed his defenses.
• The missiles blasted Black Crystal and the two True Lords in his group apart before they could mount a counterattack.
• The allied fleet's remaining True Lords were stunned when they realized three of their leaders had died at the start of the battle.

Gu Jinlai led eight Dark Phoenix warplanes in a devastating surprise attack on the overseas coalition, whose Primordial Spirit True Lords could not withstand the railgun shells. The coalition’s fleet descended into chaos as its ships were shattered and its leaders were killed or fled.

• Yuan Zhenhai sounded the alarm after Black Crystal and two other Primordial Spirit True Lords were killed by Lingxiao City’s first strike.
• Eight Dark Phoenix warplanes launched another volley, killing an island lord and forcing the coalition’s True Lords to debate whether to defend or attack.
• Long Ao recognized the eight warplanes’ strength and ordered the True Lords to retreat toward the fleet.
• Gu Jinlai used radar to locate the True Lords’ true bodies and fired railgun shells at their warships, killing three more True Lords and leaving two alive.
• The overseas coalition panicked and split between fleeing and attempting to form a defense while Gu Jinlai continued destroying its ships.

Xin Tianqi revealed that Lingxiao City’s fleet was not intended to fight the Eastern Sea coalition, and the assembled True Lords witnessed eight Blackbird fighter jets destroy the coalition’s fleet. The chapter ended with the Blackbirds killing Yuan Zhenhai, leaving the visiting factions shaken by the jets’ power.

• Liu Jingt ao and Fang Linghai questioned Xin Tianqi about Lingxiao City’s small fleet, and he explained that the Blackbird fighter jets would fight the Eastern Sea coalition.
• Xin Tianqi sent his Primordial Spirit toward the battlefield, and Liu Jingt ao, Fang Linghai, and Ancestor Wuyou followed while the other True Lords investigated with their divine senses.
• The True Lords saw the Blackbird fighter jets destroy warships and attack the coalition’s cultivators, realizing that the Eastern Sea coalition had been routed.
• Yuan Zhenhai emerged from the ocean to escape a sea beast, but two Blackbird fighter jets shot him down.
• Lu Zhanxian, Leng Ningshuang, Ancestor Youquan, and the other True Lords from the three sects recoiled at the weapon’s power.

Gu Jinlai’s eight Xuan-niao fighter jets routed the East China Sea coalition, prompting the southern sects to obey his command and cementing his dominance south of the Heavenly River. In Li State, Lei Jie learned of the defeat and ordered a crackdown on the factions that had conspired against Jiang State, confident their True Lords would not return.

• Lu Zhanxian realized the eight Xuan-niao fighter jets could overpower even peak True Lords and concluded that the south of the Heavenly River was about to change hands.
• Gu Jinlai asked the Purgatory Sect, Cold Moon Sect, and Yellow Springs Sect to stop the East China Sea coalition’s fleeing Spirit Transformation and Spirit Refining fighters.
• Fang Linghai and Leng Ningshuang agreed first, followed by Old Ancestor Youquan and the Yellow Springs Sect’s True Lords, while Lu Zhanxian and Liu Jingtao joined after Lu accepted Gu Jinlai’s authority.
• A fleeing Spirit Refining True Person told Lei Jie that the coalition’s fleet and nearly all thirteen Primordial Spirit True Lords had been defeated by eight powerful Xuan-niao fighter jets, before the transmission ended.
• Lei Yuan identified the Ouyang household, the Ding household, the Storm Sect, and the Heavenly Ocean Gang as conspirators against Jiang State, and Lei Jie ordered their leaders captured and said he would act personally.

Gu Jinlai’s forces crushed the Eastern Sea coalition, capturing its fleet and cheering crowds in Yulong City. He prepared to lead an expedition to Lizhou while assigning Xin Tianqi and several Primordial Spirit True Lords to secure the region and hunt down surviving enemies.

• Jiang Province’s forces captured hundreds of surrendered warships after Xuanniao fighter jets broke the Eastern Sea coalition’s resistance.
• News of the victory reached Yulong City, where residents celebrated the defeat of the coalition and the return of a thousand-ship fleet.
• Gu Jinlai ordered the captives guarded and prepared to take four tier-one warships and four thousand men to Lizhou.
• Gu Jinlai told Xin Tianqi to remain in Yulong City and oversee the situation.
• Fang Linghai, Old Ancestor Youquan, and Lu Zhanxian offered to help subdue Lizhou’s surviving enemies, and Gu Jinlai assigned them to pursue surviving cultivators while he went after Provincial Lord Lei Jie.

Gu Jinlai entered Li Province, accepted Lei Jie's surrender, and led the defeat of the factions responsible for attacking Gu Chifeng and others. After ordering the remaining factions destroyed, he received an Empty Mirage Pearl from Lei Jie, a rare material for refining Heaven and Earth treasures.

• Gu Jinlai flew to Li Province and learned from Lei Jie which eight factions had attacked Gu Chifeng and the others in Jiang Province.
• Lei Jie offered to cooperate, and Gu Jinlai spared Li Province while ordering the destruction of the three Aristocratic Clans and two major gangs.
• Gu Jinlai used Blackbird fighter jets to kill the factions' leading cultivators, while Lei Jie withdrew his forces from the fighting.
• Gu Jinlai arrived in Li Province and ordered Gu Chifeng to lead the Demon God Guards in wiping out the factions' remnants.
• Lei Jie presented Gu Jinlai with an Empty Mirage Pearl, which Gu Jinlai identified as a rare material used to refine Heaven and Earth treasures.

After the East Sea islands fell under Lingxiao City’s control, Gu Jinlai outlined how the three cultivation paths would serve his people and arranged Lizhou’s defenses. He then invested all 244 of his pure lights into the Eternal Furnace.

• Gu Xiliu, Gu Yunxin, and Gu Chifeng reported the East Sea campaign’s victories and captured supplies to Gu Jinlai, who noted that overseas forces were poorly equipped.
• Gu Jinlai explained that Lingxiao City would promote cultivation alongside Demon God martial arts and the Heavenly Master path, assigning each according to talent and long-term potential.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Xin Tianqi to govern Lizhou, tasked Gu Xiliu with staying there with three thousand Demon God Imperial Guards, and instructed them to build the Yaoguang Terrace.
• After the others left, Gu Jinlai focused on the Eternal Furnace and poured all 244 of his pure lights into it.

Gu Jinlai perfected the Eternal Furnace, gaining a dangerous but powerful killing move that could threaten Saints and Earthly True Immortals, and began planning to seize Mu Province for its gold. In the Starlight Federation, Dr. Harriman proposed testing whether human consciousness could reach the overlapping cultivation world, and received approval to begin experiments with selected subjects.

• Gu Jinlai invested his remaining clear light to raise the Eternal Furnace from Great Accomplishment to Perfection, making its power dangerously difficult for his body to contain.
• Gu Jinlai realized the perfected Eternal Furnace could unleash a killing strike in a single thought and might threaten even Saints or Earthly True Immortals.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that his new strength and completed Chengying battle armor made him ready to pursue control of Mu Province and its gold mines.
• Dr. Harriman presented evidence that the Starlight Federation's opponents had secretly developed a communications plan and selected people with unusual traits.
• Dr. Harriman proposed using particle collisions and the thoughts of special individuals to contact the other world, and Dennis agreed to report the plan.
• Dennis returned with news that experimental subjects would be provided and that a major figure would observe the experiment.

Gu Jinlai returned to Lingxiao City after conquering the Eastern Sea and discussed the clan’s expanding responsibilities, the looming threat from Wood Province, and his plans to attend the Divine Sword Conference. Meanwhile, Profound Heavenly Venerable became a Heavenly Being in secret and resolved to strike at the Three Pure Ones Palace, leaving Jiang Tianji wondering whether he sought to become the Number One Under Heaven.

• Gu Jinlai returned to Lingxiao City and reunited with Gu Qingmei, Gu Changfeng, Su Nanxing, and the Gu Clan, whose descendants had grown to number in the hundreds.
• Gu Changfeng reported that the Cold Moon Sect had submitted and predicted that the Purgatory Sect and Yellow Springs Sect would follow, while Gu Jinlai warned that Wood Province and the Divine Sword Conference still threatened Lingxiao City.
• Gu Jinlai explained that he planned to attend the Divine Sword Conference to study the Heavenly Demon True Solution and said he would begin expanding Lingxiao City's industrial development.
• Jiang Tianji watched Profound Heavenly Venerable use the Pan of All Living Beings to become a Heavenly Being, then concealed the breakthrough with the power of fortune.
• Profound Heavenly Venerable told Jiang Tianji that he intended to kill the Three Pure Ones Palace, prompting Jiang Tianji to wonder if he meant to claim the title of the Number One Under Heaven.

At Purgatory Sect, Lu Zhanxian and the others learned that Redleaf had become a Celestial, but her despairing account of the Demonic Beasts left them worried about the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, Gu Jinlai tested the Chengying Mecha in Lingxiao City and pushed it to several times the speed of sound.

• Lu Zhanxian and Liu Jingtiao discussed how Lingxiao City's eight Blackbird Warplanes could threaten even some Celestials.
• Zhang Liefeng told Lu Zhanxian and Liu Jingtiao that Redleaf had become a Celestial and was returning to Qiantian.
• Lu Zhanxian contacted Redleaf, who concealed her injuries, mourned the Demonic Beasts' devastation, and asked whether humanity still had hope.
• Lu Zhanxian told Redleaf that Qiantian had driven the Demonic Beasts from the regions south of the Heavenly River, and she resolved to return to Purgatory Sect.
• Gu Jinlai entered the Chengying Mecha and activated its systems using the Eternal Furnace.
• Gu Jinlai accelerated the Chengying Mecha past the sound barrier and flew into the clouds at several times the speed of sound.

Gu Jinlai tested the Chengying Mecha, discovering that directional energy release let him unleash nuclear-fusion-strength sword strikes while the armor protected him. After returning to Lingxiao City, he declared the mecha capable of challenging a Saint and proposed building a large railgun and a Heaven-and-Earth Ring.

• Gu Jinlai flew at six times the speed of sound and used the Chengying Mecha to direct a series of powerful sword strikes, flattening a forest while testing the armor's limits.
• After more than a dozen strikes drained the Eternal Furnace's resources, Gu Jinlai flew back toward Lingxiao City and climbed to forty thousand meters before descending.
• Gu Jinlai told Zhang Lihuo, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, Zhang Yukun, and the others that the mecha exceeded his expectations and that he would dare face a true Saint with it.
• Gu Jinlai explained that the Chengying Mecha could be mass-produced, unlike divine weapons, though it remained inferior to them in power.
• Gu Jinlai said the next projects were a large railgun capable of harming a Demon Beast King and a Heaven-and-Earth Ring that could store the Chengying Mecha and eight Blackbird fighter jets.

Gu Jinlai refined the Empty Mirage Pearl into a Qiankun ring and encountered an elderly Heavenly Lord in the True Spirit World, who urged him to find him. After learning how rare such practitioners were in Qiantian, Gu Jinlai decided to improve the old man's projection technique so he could track him down.

• Gu Jinlai spent a month and forty-two strands of clear light carving the Empty Mirage Pearl into a ten-meter spherical space and refining a Qiankun ring.
• An elderly stranger contacted Gu Jinlai through the True Spirit World, taught him a projection technique, and asked him to capture his scattered spirituality and seek him out.
• Gu Jinlai asked Zhang Lihuo and Xiang Fengyun about Qiantian's Heavenly Lords, and they said only three were publicly known, none of whom had reached the True Spirit World.
• Gu Qingmei reported that Lizhou's fleet had swept nine more islands and delivered over two hundred prisoners, so Gu Jinlai ordered the fleet to return and executed 120 prisoners.
• Gu Jinlai took up the stranger's projection technique alongside the Great Sun Heavenly Sect's version, intending to master it and locate the mysterious Heavenly Lord.

Gu Jinlai developed the Void Projection Technique, a new method of communication and projection that used traces of spiritual contact as coordinates. He discovered its mastery was a golden skill and spent most of his remaining clear light studying it, but its enormous cost left him apprehensive.

• Gu Jinlai reviewed the history of the True Spirit Projection Technique and set a direction for a new technique based on contact, searching, tracking, and projection.
• Gu Jinlai reasoned that spiritual contact left traces that could serve as coordinates, but thinking too deeply while overclocked made him dizzy and caused his nose to bleed.
• Gu Jinlai devised a receiving device to record the profiles of beings that had contacted him and use those traces to locate them through the True Spirit Realm.
• Gu Jinlai named the completed technique the Void Projection Technique, and it appeared as a golden skill at mastery.
• Gu Jinlai used ten streaks of clear light to study the technique, but its progress stayed at mastery and its energy consumption exceeded that of the Eternal Furnace.

Gu Jinlai and the allied sect leaders traveled to Azure Province for the Divine Sword Assembly, learning that Imperial Preceptor Taiyuan was watching from the border. On the way, Ruin Truth Tower master Jin Hong revealed that True Person Wushi was likely still alive and that the Three Pure Sacred Hall's leaders were divided.

• Gu Jinlai joined Fang Daoqian, Youquan, Wuyou, and Lu Zhanxian in Starfall City, where the sect leaders agreed to follow Gu Jinlai's lead at the Divine Sword Assembly.
• Gu Jinlai's group crossed the Heavenly River and traveled north to Azure Province, where Jin Hong and the Ruin Truth Tower joined them on the way to Yangjian Peak.
• Jin Hong told Gu Jinlai that Imperial Preceptor Taiyuan had brought an army to the Azure Province border, creating a deterrent against the Earth Immortal Hall and Human Immortal Hall using force.
• Gu Jinlai asked Jin Hong about True Person Wushi, and Jin Hong said Wushi had not died because the Saints Wunian and Wuzhong could not bond with Wushi's divine weapons.
• Jin Hong suggested that Wushi, Wuzhong, and Wunian were not on good terms, leaving Gu Jinlai to suspect that the Three Pure Sacred Hall was weakened by internal conflict.

Gu Jinlai arrived at the Human Immortal Palace for the Divine Sword Assembly and learned how powerful its inheritors and the Earth Immortal Palace had become. After discussing unity against the Demonic Beasts with Kunwu, Gu Jinlai received Zhao Wuya, who offered the Demon God Cult’s Chaotic True Demon Body in exchange for access to the complete Great Sun Demon God Body-Tempering Method.

• Jin Hong explained that the Human Immortal Palace had three Heavenly Beings and twenty-four Primordial Spirit True Lords, while the Earth Immortal Palace had a Sage, three Heavenly Beings, and forty-three Protecting Palace Dharma Kings.
• Kunwu welcomed Gu Jinlai and urged the factions of Qian Heaven to unite against the Demonic Beasts, saying the Divine Sword Assembly would bring them together to study the Celestial Immortal True Explanation.
• Gu Jinlai agreed to pursue unity and said he looked forward to studying the Celestial Immortal True Explanation, while Lu Zhanxian warned that the two palaces meant to bring the demonic factions under their command.
• Lu Zhanxian left to learn the other factions’ attitudes, and Gu Lanxin announced that Zhao Wuya of the Demon God Cult had arrived.
• Zhao Wuya asked Gu Jinlai to share the complete Great Sun Demon God Body-Tempering Method and offered the Demon God Cult’s complete Chaotic True Demon Body in exchange.

Gu Jinlai exchanged the Great Sun Demon God Body-Tempering Method for the Demonic Spirit Cult’s True Demon Body of Chaos and considered how the technique might advance the God of War realm. On Blue Star, Harriman’s particle-collider experiment produced no initial results, then caused catastrophic brain damage among a group of quadruplets.

• Zhao Wuyai explained the Demonic Spirit Cult’s determination to seek a way beyond the limits of Demon God martial artists, and Gu Jinlai agreed to exchange techniques with him.
• Gu Jinlai and Zhao Wuyai traded the Great Sun Demon God Body-Tempering Method and the True Demon Body of Chaos, then agreed to answer each other’s questions before the Divine Sword Assembly.
• Gu Jinlai took the True Demon Body of Chaos to study whether it could address the God of War stage’s combat-power weakness or reveal a path to the Middle God of War realm.
• Harriman began a particle-collider experiment in the Xingyao Federation, using twelve groups of experimental subjects positioned around the collider.
• The experiment showed no initial effect, but four quadruplet brothers suffered extreme brainwave spikes; Harriman shut down the transmitters, yet one brother died, another became a vegetable, and the fourth murmured about eternal life before collapsing.

In the Endless Mountain, a wounded Xuanji Sect elder told Hongye and Yunling that he had contacted a life-form in another stable world through the True Spirit World and sent it instructions for building a Stellar Spirit Platform. He hoped the platform and a Star Gate could eventually provide a refuge, while the three continued toward Qiantian with Demonic Beasts pursuing them; elsewhere, Gu Jinlai focused on the Chaos True Demon and developed a new concept for his body-tempering method.

• Hongye and Yunling hid with their gravely wounded Martial Uncle as Demonic Beasts closed in, and he urged them to leave him behind.
• Hongye revealed that Qiantian possessed divine weapons recognized by a land celestial immortal, convincing the elder it might be defended.
• The elder described Xuanji Sect records about other worlds and said he had shared the Stellar Spirit Platform construction method with a life-form in a stable world.
• The elder explained that a Star Gate might let them reach that world, though building one would be difficult and its success uncertain.
• Hongye, Yunling, and the elder continued toward Qiantian through the Endless Mountain as Demonic Beasts pursued them.
• Gu Jinlai, unaware of events in the Endless Mountain, studied the Chaos True Demon and formed a new concept for his Great Solar Demon God Body-Tempering Method.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Gu Jinlai studies the Chaos True Demon Body, understanding its breadth and potential for nurturing divine abilities.
• The Earth Mother God Cult arrives late but makes a grand entrance, signaling their intent to stand against the Earth Immortal Hall and Human Immortal Hall.
• The Divine Sword Assembly commences, with Wu Tiandi, the Hall Master of the Human Immortal Hall, present. The leader of the Earth Immortal Hall, Diluo, reveals the Heavenly Immortal True Explanation.

Character Developments

• Gu Jinlai gains insights into the Great Sun Demonic God Body Refining Method's evolution, planning to develop a divine ability.
• Diluo, the leader of the Earth Immortal Hall, is revealed to have ambitious plans beyond absorbing the seven major sects.

Significant Themes

• The path of bloodline cultivators (Demon God Cult) vs. demonic body cultivators (Great Sun Demonic God Body Refining Method).
• The power of divine abilities and their connection to divine beasts.
• The potential threat and ambition of the Earth Immortal Hall.

Character Interactions

• Gu Jinlai meets Wu Tiandi, the Hall Master of the Human Immortal Hall, for the first time.
• Diluo's reveal of the Heavenly Immortal True Explanation sparks anticipation and wariness among the attendees.

Emperor Luo revealed the Immortal Revelation of the Celestial, and Gu Jinlai and the gathered experts studied its teachings on cultivation from the Celestial Being realm to Earthbound True Immortals. Gu Jinlai sensed that the scripture’s power was dangerously addictive and pulled away, but Lu Zhanxian ignored his warning and kept reading.

• Emperor Luo allowed the Primordial Spirit True Lords to examine the Immortal Revelation of the Celestial, and Mu Yun and Gaia eagerly began reading it.
• Gu Jinlai studied its methods for becoming a Saint, including forming the Furnace of Heaven and Earth and cultivating an indestructible will.
• Gu Jinlai learned that the scripture linked different kinds of indestructible will to corresponding Daos and explained the path to becoming an Earthbound True Immortal.
• As Gu Jinlai comprehended the scripture, he realized its visions of will and Dao were dangerously compelling and withdrew his spiritual sense.
• Gu Jinlai shoved Lu Zhanxian and warned him to stop, but Lu Zhanxian dismissed the warning and returned to studying the scripture.