Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai received the Son of Heaven Sword and the imperial family’s annotated Balance Sacred Canon before setting out to defend Wood Province. As demonic beasts poured into Southern Wood Province, Profound Heaven Venerable headed north to attack the True Immortal Hall, while Emperor Qian’s ministers challenged his decision to empower Gu Jinlai.

• Gu Jinlai received the high-grade Son of Heaven Sword and an annotated copy of the Balance Sacred Canon from Emperor Qian’s Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram.
• Profound Heaven Venerable watched life in White River City, then chose to attack the True Immortal Hall rather than join Lingxiao Palace or fight demonic beasts.
• Jiang Tianji defended giving Gu Jinlai the Son of Heaven Sword when Wang Yizhi, Zhao Riyue, and Long Yuantu questioned the decision and raised the issue of vindicating Wu Shi True Person.
• Gu Jinlai stopped at the Autumn Mountain base to send Blue Star a request for laser cannon and repulsion shield technology, then hurried toward Wood Province.
• As Gu Jinlai reached Eastern Wood Province, reports arrived that large numbers of Demonic Beasts had entered Southern Wood Province from the Three Thousand Great Marshes.

Zhao Qilin replaced Xie Yusheng as the communicator with the Qian Star person, while Gu Jinlai reached Muxizhou and ordered South Muxizhou evacuated ahead of the demonic beast threat. He prepared to scout the Three Thousand Great Marshes using aircraft and new bombs.

• Zhao Qilin took over communication with the Qian Star person, and the Nantianmen Project Team discussed his powerful family connections and Xie Yusheng’s impending removal from the core team.
• Gu Jinlai arrived in Muxizhou and observed that the Three Thousand Great Marshes’ demonic beast destiny was formidable, though his side’s military destiny was stronger.
• Gu Jinlai ordered a full evacuation of South Muxizhou and temporarily abandoned the region.
• Fang Linghai proposed allying with Cangshan Holy Land, but Lu Zhanxian warned that the holy land might exploit their weakened position.
• Gu Jinlai decided to scout the Three Thousand Great Marshes and test the new aviation bombs, then sent his true spirits piloting fighter and bomber aircraft toward South Muxizhou.

Demonic Lord Damo led the Demonic Beasts toward East Muzhou, intending to use the humans of Muzhou as an example to force Qiantian to submit. When Gu Jinlai’s Vermilion Bird fighter jet attacked, Yulian destroyed it, and Damo ordered a full offensive to end the battle within a month.

• Damo and his Demonic Beast commanders discussed why humans resisted and considered exploiting divisions among them, but Damo decided to make Muzhou the example that would demonstrate the Demonic Beasts’ power.
• A Greater Demonic Beast reported that Gu Jinlai was approaching in a Vermilion Bird fighter jet, and Damo sent Yulian to intercept it.
• Yulian sensed Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit and was struck by the fighter jet’s electromagnetic cannon, but the injury only enraged it.
• Yulian fired hundreds of iron feathers, damaging the Vermilion Bird before blasting it apart and causing Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit to vanish.
• Damo dismissed the fighter jet’s combat strength and ordered a comprehensive offensive against East Muzhou, demanding that the battle end within a month.

After a Blackbird fighter was shot down and injured Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, he learned that three Demonic Beast Emperors and thirty-four Demonic Beast Kings were leading an enormous invasion of Wood Province. He planned to make Lingxiao Palace hold off the lesser forces until the Emperors entered the battle, but the chapter ended with Gu Qingmei volunteering to face every attack.

• A Blackbird fighter was shot down, injuring Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, and he used a streak of pure light to recover.
• Gu Jinlai revealed that three Demonic Beast Emperors were advancing, and Zhou Yi warned that Cangshan Sacred Domain might already have fallen to the Three Thousand Great Lakes.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that Lingxiao Palace had to defeat the invading forces without relying on reinforcements and devised a plan to draw all three Emperors into battle.
• Gu Jinlai reported that thirty-four Demonic Beast Kings and more than a million Demonic Beasts were approaching, and said he must stay off the battlefield until the Emperors acted.
• Gu Qingmei vowed that Lingxiao Palace would hold back every Demonic Beast attack.

Gu Jinlai and the Sky Soaring Palace tried to lure out and destroy the Demonic Beasts’ aerial forces before the main battle at Dragonfall Ridge. When the Demonic Beast Emperor Yu Lian entered the fight, Gu Jinlai moved to restrain him, while Great Mill Venerable Lord and Kalong prepared to attack Gu Jinlai together.

• Gu Jinlai learned that forty Demonic Beast Kings, including six avian ones, were approaching Dragonfall Ridge and planned to eliminate their aerial advantage with the Chengying Mecha and Blackbird fighters.
• Zhang Lihuo and Zhou Yi flew the Blackbird fighters while Hong Ye, Lu Zhanxian, and other True Lords joined the attack, killing scouting avians and engaging four Demonic Beast King-level avians.
• Great Mill Venerable Lord ordered Yu Lian to join the fight and target Hong Ye, prompting Gu Jinlai to tell his allies to hold their ground while he restrained the Demonic Beast Emperor.
• Gu Jinlai charged Yu Lian in the Chengying Mecha, and Great Mill Venerable Lord recognized him as the human Heavenly Lord behind the powerful War Spirit Artifact.
• Great Mill Venerable Lord decided to kill Gu Jinlai, and Kalong urged him to attack alongside him; the two prepared to strike together.

Gu Jinlai used himself as bait to draw the three Demonic Beast Emperors into a coordinated attack, then turned their plan against them and feigned a desperate charge. He escaped upward instead, and the Great Mill True Lord realized the deception and ordered pursuit.

• Yu Lian attacked Gu Jinlai with iron feathers, but Gu Jinlai’s Panwu Spear released a powerful blast that melted Yu Lian’s feathers and sent them both flying.
• The Great Mill True Lord restrained Gu Jinlai with his devouring power while Kalong struck the Chengying Mecha with a flame breath, tearing open its shoulder.
• Gu Jinlai realized the three Demonic Beast Emperors wanted to kill him before attacking the other forces in Qian Heaven, so he decided to use himself as bait.
• Gu Jinlai pretended the Chengying Mecha was failing, allowing Yu Lian’s iron feathers to strike him while the Great Mill True Lord and Kalong prepared to finish him.
• Gu Jinlai appeared to plunge toward the Great Mill True Lord, then feinted and shot upward; the Great Mill True Lord recognized the trick and ordered the others to pursue.

Gu Jinlai used the Eternal Furnace to charge the Panwu Spear and unleashed a Great Divine Ability that wiped out the Demonic Beast Emperors attacking him, though the blast nearly destroyed the Shadowless Mecha and forced him to flee in energy form. Zhou Yi recognized the strike as power on the level of an Earthly True Immortal, leaving the survivors stunned by what Gu Jinlai had unleashed.

• The Great Mill Venerable used its Devouring Divine Ability while Yu Lian grabbed the Shadowless Mecha and tried to bring Gu Jinlai down to the ground.
• Gu Jinlai broke free, hurled Yu Lian toward the Great Mill Venerable, and then threw the Panwu Spear as Kalong fired a charged beam of flames at him.
• The Panwu Spear erupted in a devastating blast that reduced Yu Lian and Kalong to ash and left the Great Mill Venerable as a charred remnant.
• The explosion nearly melted the Shadowless Mecha, so Gu Jinlai entered his energy form and escaped the inferno.
• Zhou Yi identified Gu Jinlai’s attack as an Earthly True Immortal’s Great Divine Ability, while Zhang Lihuo and Lu Zhanxian reacted in disbelief.

Gu Jinlai’s devastating strike annihilated three Demonic Beast Emperors and many of their followers, forcing the surviving Demonic Beast Kings to retreat from Qiantian. The human cultivators recognized that Palace Master Gu had driven the enemy back and moved forward to confirm the retreat.

• Gu Jinlai’s strike created a vast explosion that burned and crushed Demonic Beasts across the battlefield, killing Venerable Great Millstone and two other Demonic Beast Emperors.
• Yafan survived in a fissure but emerged badly burned and realized that the strike was comparable to an Emperor-level attack.
• A demonic ape Demonic Beast King blamed Yafan for misleading them, while other survivors feared Qiantian’s power and called for a retreat.
• The surviving Demonic Beast Kings withdrew toward the Three Thousand Great Marshes, and the great Demonic Beasts followed them.
• Lu Zhanxian and the other human cultivators noticed the retreat and credited Palace Master Gu with driving the Demonic Beasts back.
• Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo flew across the sea of fire to confirm the enemy’s movements as they celebrated the victory.

Gu Jinlai’s nuclear blast annihilated three Demonic Beast Emperors and forced the surviving beasts to retreat, but it severely damaged the Chengying Mecha. After ordering a pursuit, he learned that repairing the mecha would require up to 210 strands of Immortal Gold, leaving Soaring Firmament Palace without Saint-level combat strength for at least a year.

• Lu Zhanxian, Leng Ningshuang, and True Lord Youquan praised Gu Jinlai’s victory and worried about his condition as Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo went to find him.
• Gu Jinlai regrouped with Zhang Lihuo and Zhou Yi, then ordered the Primordial Spirit True Lords and Demon God Guards to pursue the retreating Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai returned to the command center, where Zhang Lihuo, Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, and others confirmed he was unharmed and saw the badly damaged Chengying Mecha.
• Zhang Yukun estimated that repairing the Chengying Mecha would take 200 to 210 strands of Immortal Gold, which could leave Soaring Firmament Palace without Saint-level combat strength for a year.

The Star Radiance Federation sent six volunteers into a spiritual vortex during its second experiment to reach the Eternal Life Realm, but received no immediate feedback. Back in Lingxiao City, Gu Jinlai decided to ask Emperor Qian for help repairing the Chengying Mecha before Mu Province was fully reclaimed and his deterrent against the Demonic Beasts weakened.

• Harriman explained to Senator Jonas that the Eternal Life Realm attracted Blue Star’s living beings and that experiment subjects were most likely to arrive in Zone Thirteen.
• Jonas approved the experiment, and the particle collider’s space-time disturbance swept six of the three hundred participants into a spiritual vortex without sending back any feedback.
• Zhang Lihuo warned Gu Jinlai that obtaining enough immortal gold from the Great Qian imperial family could reveal the Chengying Mecha’s damage and invite an attempt to reclaim Heavenly South.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that he had to repair the Chengying Mecha before the battle for Mu Province ended, or the Demonic Beasts might launch another attack.
• Gu Jinlai decided he would rather yield Heavenly South to Emperor Qian than lose it to the Demonic Beasts and ordered Zhang Lihuo to contact the emperor for help.

Jiang Tianji learned that Gu Jinlai had driven back the southern demonic beast army by killing three Demonic Beast Emperors, while the Three Pure Hall had united under True Person Wunian and issued an ultimatum. The chapter left Jiang weighing how to contain the Three Pure Hall as Great Qian prepared to fight the True Immortal Hall.

• Zhou Ji reported that Gu Jinlai had used his Aries Star Palace trump card to kill three Demonic Beast Emperors and force the demonic beast army to withdraw.
• Jiang Tianji praised Gu Jinlai as the guardian of Qiantian’s southern reaches and rejected Zhou Ji’s suggestion to approach him for Chengying Mecha materials.
• Jiang Tianji learned that True Person Wuzhong had submitted to True Person Wunian, who could use the unmastered divine weapon Starheart.
• Zhou Ji told Jiang Tianji that the Imperial Preceptor planned to join Profound Heaven Venerable against the True Immortal Hall and advised temporarily accepting some of the Three Pure Hall’s demands.

Jiang Tianji met Gu Jinlai through a projection after the King of Tiannan requested a direct audience to trade his war merits for undying adamantine. Although Qin Yujing urged the Emperor to exploit Gu Jinlai’s weakened state, Jiang Tianji agreed to send him two hundred portions of undying adamantine through the Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram.

• Jiang Tianji grew angry that True Person Wuzhong and True Person Wunian might inherit True Person Wushi’s prestige, but set aside his frustration when Duke Qin Yujing requested an audience.
• Qin Yujing told Jiang Tianji that Gu Jinlai had requested a direct meeting, and Jiang Tianji agreed to speak with him through the Imperial Tower’s Dao Artifact.
• Gu Jinlai asked Jiang Tianji for undying adamantine, and Qin Yujing privately argued that Gu Jinlai’s Chengying Mecha had been damaged and urged the Emperor to consider reclaiming Tiannan.
• Jiang Tianji rejected the idea of attacking Gu Jinlai, warning that it could turn a potential ally against Great Qian and drive him to oppose the empire.
• Gu Jinlai offered the merits of killing three Demonic Beast Emperors and twelve Demonic Beast Kings in exchange for two hundred portions of undying adamantine.
• Jiang Tianji approved the exchange and ordered Qin Yujing to transmit the undying adamantine through the Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram.

Gu Jinlai arranged to exchange Qian’s stockpile of immortal adamant for a Chengying Mecha and chose to enter the Qiushan Demon Realm rift to repair his own. Meanwhile, True Immortal Hall decided to join forces with Wuzhong True Person to attack Xuantian Venerable and seize his divine weapon.

• Gu Jinlai praised Jiang Tianji’s support for Tiannan and offered to return a Chengying Mecha within a year in exchange for the immortal adamant in Qian’s treasury.
• Gu Jinlai chose the Qiushan rift rather than the upcoming Zhongzhou rift, then returned to Lingxiao City and began surface repairs on the Chengying Mecha with Zhang Lihuo and Zhou Yi.
• Dilu and the True Immortal Hall elders discussed the danger posed by Xuantian Venerable and Taiyuan, while Stormwind proposed gathering their strength to kill Xuantian Venerable.
• Wu Tiandi reported that Wuzhong True Person wanted revenge on his rival and was willing to cooperate against Xuantian Venerable.
• Dilu agreed to contact Wuzhong True Person and pursue Xuantian Venerable, hoping to claim the Heavenly Extreme Sword and possibly the World Sword.

Gu Jinlai and his companions repaired the Chengying Mecha and discussed reclaiming Flame Province while studying the path from Heavenly Lord to Creator God. As the Autumn Mountain passage neared its opening, Gu Jinlai exchanged electromagnetic cannon technology for the laser cannon and repulsion shield technology he had requested, and made further demands.

• Gu Jinlai, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Lihuo finished repairing the Chengying Mecha and noted that the Demonic Beasts were withdrawing from Southern Wood Province.
• Zhang Lihuo expected the Lingxiao Palace to reclaim Flame Province easily, while Gu Jinlai worried about Heavenly South's large population and Great Qian's internal divisions.
• Gu Jinlai, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Lihuo studied the Balance Sacred Canon and the Book of Nature, clarifying the stages from Heavenly Lord to Great Heavenly Lord and Creator God.
• Gu Junxiu told Gu Jinlai that the other side had sent the laser cannon and repulsion shield technology and had asked about the Blackbird fighter jet's electromagnetic cannon.
• Gu Jinlai transmitted the electromagnetic cannon technology through the observatory and put forward his own requirements.

Xie Yusheng designed the Star-Slayer mecha while Zhao Qilin took over communications with the Qian Star person and arranged to request controlled nuclear fusion information. After the Autumn Mountain Rift opened, Gu Jinlai entered the Demon Realm with Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo to hunt Demonic Spirits and repair the Chengying mecha.

• Xie Yusheng planned a neutron-based material and extreme-speed engine for the Star-Slayer mecha, setting aside scientific difficulties as game design.
• Zhao Qilin successfully received electromagnetic cannon technology and proposed sending the Qian Star person broad information about controlled nuclear fusion in hopes of receiving useful feedback.
• Gu Jinlai assigned Zhou Tianjun and himself to enter the Demon Realm while Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, and the others stayed outside to handle threats.
• Gu Jinlai destroyed the first Demonic Spirit emerging from the rift with Great Sun Eternal Radiance, and the others extracted its spirituality for a Blackbird fighter.
• Gu Jinlai crossed into the Demon Realm with Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo, brought out the Chengying mecha, and found an invading force without any calamity-level Demonic Spirits.

Gu Jinlai entered the Demon Realm to gather spirituality for repairing the Chengying Mecha, but discovered a city of civilization and drew the attention of a vast force of Demonic Spirits. After he and his companions gathered enough spirituality to repair the mecha, a Spirit Venerable emerged from the mountain wall as they prepared to leave.

• Gu Jinlai burned the Demonic Spirits in the cavern for spirituality, then went to scout when they scattered and the Chengying Mecha still needed repairs.
• Gu Jinlai saw a strange city in the Demon Realm and spotted more than five Spirit Venerables approaching with a huge host of Demonic Spirits.
• Gu Jinlai returned to the cavern and told Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo to prepare to retreat while he held off the attackers and they gathered spirituality.
• Gu Jinlai weakened and killed disaster-level Demonic Spirits with the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique as Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo collected their spirituality for the Chengying Mecha.
• Zhang Lihuo confirmed the repair was complete, but a Spirit Venerable over ninety meters tall emerged through the mountain wall beside Gu Jinlai.

Gu Jinlai burned and restored his True Spirit to unleash ten overpowered Eternal Heavenly Curses, killing the Spirit Venerable trapped in the mountain wall. He took the Demonic Soul Crystal and escaped through the Qiushan Rift with Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo.

• Gu Jinlai struck the Spirit Venerable with an Eternal Heavenly Curse as it ground its way out of the mountain wall.
• Gu Jinlai burned his True Spirit and fired repeated Eternal Heavenly Curses while Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo held back the other Demonic Spirits.
• The Spirit Venerable emerged and tried to flee, but Gu Jinlai pursued it and struck it with a tenth curse, destroying it.
• The Spirit Venerable’s collapse sent out a spiritual shock wave that cracked Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, which he repaired with a stream of clear light.
• Gu Jinlai collected the Demonic Soul Crystal, cleared a path through the Demonic Spirits, and escaped through the Qiushan Rift with Zhou Yi and Zhang Lihuo.

Gu Jinlai returned from the Autumn Mountain Rift after killing a Spirit Venerable, then repaired the Chengying Mecha and helped drive the Demonic Beasts from Southern Mu Province. Lingxiao Palace recovered all four Mu Provinces, and Gu Luochén asked whether their next target lay to the north.

• Gu Jinlai, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Lihuo emerged from the Autumn Mountain Rift, where Zhou Yi revealed that Gu Jinlai had killed a Spirit Venerable.
• Gu Jinlai attributed his strength to his Dao of All Beings and Dao of Slaying Demons, and the others accepted his explanation.
• Gu Jinlai and his allies repaired the Chengying Mecha in three days, then he returned to Southern Mu Province and killed a King-level demonic bird.
• Gu Jinlai, Zhang Lihuo, Zhou Yi, and their allies drove the Demonic Beasts from Southern Mu Province and pursued them into the Three Thousand Great Marshes, where Gu Jinlai killed three more Demonic Beast King-level wraiths.
• On the return journey, Liu Jingtiao and Cheng Lixue assessed Lingxiao Palace's victory and the recovery of all four Mu Provinces, and Gu Luochén asked Gu Jinlai about their next target to the north.

Gu Jinlai ordered the Lingxiao Palace to rest and recuperate while it rebuilt its forces and prepared for future threats. As the demonic beasts withdrew from Mu Province, Daoli Spirit Venerable chose to travel to the Chen Domain to study ways of manipulating human nature.

• Gu Jinlai told his followers that the Lingxiao Palace would focus on defense and recovery for the next two or three years, while considering the Three Thousand Great Lakes, Flame Province, and the Eastern Sea as possible future priorities.
• Gu Jinlai recognized his dependence on the Chengying Mecha and Eternal Furnace, and resolved to focus on tempering his body along the Demon God martial artist path.
• Daoli Spirit Venerable recalled the power of the war Spirit Artifact and abandoned plans to attack Mu Province again.
• Daoli Spirit Venerable decided to go to the Chen Domain to learn refined techniques for exploiting human nature, and Yafan agreed to accompany it.
• Daoli Spirit Venerable and Yafan left the border of Mu Province as the demonic beasts withdrew, ending the battle for the province.

After Gu Jinlai’s victory in Wood Province, Jiang Tianji weighed how to respond to the threats posed by True Immortal Hall and Three Pure Ones Palace. A month later, Gu Jinlai oversaw the growth of his Demonic God Guards and learned that Demonic-Subduing Pearls could make cleansing demonic nature far more efficient.

• Wu Tiandi and Diluo learned that Gu Jinlai had destroyed three demonic spirit emperors and twelve demonic spirit kings, and Wu Tiandi speculated that Gu Jinlai’s decisive attack required a Dao Artifact.
• Jiang Tianji declined to summon Gu Jinlai and Taiyuan against True Immortal Hall, then called ministers to discuss recalling the Star King.
• Over the next month, Gu Jinlai and Zhang Huohuo expanded the Demonic God Guards to forty thousand while cleansing the guards’ demonic nature.
• Gu Jinlai visited Zhou Yi and Zhang Huohuo, who explained that Demonic-Subduing Pearls made with Demonic Soul Crystals could extract demonic nature and condense it into demonic spirits.
• Zhang Huohuo said the process might enable the mass production of ordinary Spirit Artifacts through cooperation between Demonic God martial artists, Demonic-Subduing Pearls, and Heavenly Masters.