Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai reviewed plans for Demonic Refining Pearls and selected soul secret arts to study while considering how to gain more Pure Light. When Flame Province’s thirty-six factions offered to join the Soaring Firmament Palace, he ordered an advance deployment to judge the province before accepting their surrender.

• Gu Jinlai, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Lihuo discussed improving the Demonic Refining Pearl and assigned related tasks to Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, and others.
• Zhou Yi presented sixteen soul secret arts, and Gu Jinlai chose the Wall of Nothingness and Heart-Burning Like Fire to study while awaiting the Aries Star Palace inheritance.
• Gu Jinlai noted that peace had slowed his Pure Light gains and decided to study demonic god techniques before restoring Flame Province in three months.
• Gu Qingmei relayed Xin Tianqi’s report that Flame Province’s thirty-six factions had sent a delegation to submit allegiance and join the Soaring Firmament Palace.
• Gu Jinlai ordered troops to enter Flame Province ahead of schedule and conduct a judgment, bringing Lu Zhanxian, other Primordial Spirit True Lords, and ten thousand demonic god guards.

Gu Jinlai led the Soaring Firmament Palace into Western Yan Province to judge its rulers and purge those stained by grave crimes. After Zhao Xiao was killed while fleeing, Gu Jinlai ordered his forces to spread into the other Yan Provinces and cleanse the region.

• True Lord Nether Spring explained Yan Province’s barren lands, scattered tribes, and weakened city-states as Gu Jinlai’s group crossed the Black-and-White Sea of Sand.
• Gu Jinlai’s Demon God Guards routed a band of sand bandits, and his group reached Western Yan City within a day.
• Zhao Xiao of the Divine Eagle Tribe welcomed Gu Jinlai and presented the tribe’s cultivators for inspection.
• Gu Jinlai identified forty-three cultivators as guilty and ordered the others to disperse; Zhao Xiao fled and was killed by a Blackbird fighter jet.
• Gu Jinlai sent Lu Zhanxian, True Lord Nether Spring, and Zhang Liefeng toward the other three Yan Provinces with troops and Blackbird fighter jets.

Gu Jinlai swept through Yan Province, incorporated the Thirty-Six Tribes into Lingxiao Palace, and returned to cultivate. He chose to improve the Chaos True Demon Body, hoping to use the Eternal Furnace to solve its fatal flaw of accumulating undigested power.

• Gu Jinlai and his forces used Xuanniao fighter jets, Primordial Spirit True Lords, and divine fiend guards to clear cities across Yan Province.
• Gu Jinlai visited the ruins of Mount Kalou with True Lord Sansheng and learned about the Black and White Sand Sea and the powerful Yinglong Sacred Land.
• After spending a month sweeping Yan Province, Gu Jinlai received the Thirty-Six Tribes' delegation, which submitted to Lingxiao Palace without repeating its demands to preserve its traditions.
• Gu Jinlai returned to Lingxiao City and found 209 rays of clear light in his spiritual world.
• Gu Jinlai used dozens of rays of clear light to improve the Chaos True Demon Body and identified its tendency to cause sudden death when practitioners could not digest accumulated power.
• Gu Jinlai considered using the Eternal Furnace to digest the incompatible energies that made the Chaos True Demon Body dangerous.

Gu Jinlai devised the Chaos Thunder-Origin Body, a body-refinement method that combined electromagnetic force with the Eternal Furnace, and strengthened his physique to the Demon King level. He then perfected two soul secret arts and considered how to spend his remaining clear light.

• Gu Jinlai realized that the Chaos True Demon Body could digest heavenly treasures and use their properties to develop abilities resembling divine abilities.
• Gu Jinlai chose Thunder-Magnet Origin Gold and electromagnetic force as the foundation for a new technique to make the Eternal Furnace's power controllable.
• Gu Jinlai named the technique Chaos Thunder-Origin Body, invested clear light in it, and cultivated it to Minor Accomplishment, raising his physique to the Demon King level.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that further progress required more Thunder-Magnet Origin Gold and that completing the techniques needed to match Saints would take a very long time.
• Gu Jinlai spent clear light to master Void Wall and Burning Heart Like Fire at Perfection, leaving one hundred and forty-nine strands.

Gu Jinlai learned that the Great Qian royal family would provide materials for Chengying mechs and that Jiang Chongshan had agreed to return to the capital. After Zhang Yukun found the Aries Star Palace near Island Province, Gu Jinlai flew there and prepared to attempt the Hidden Dragon Trial.

• Xin Tianqi told Gu Jinlai that the Great Qian royal family had agreed to secretly send Jiang Yinlong with materials for forging an Immortal Saint Body, and that Jiang Chongshan had agreed to return with him.
• Zhang Yukun and Zhang Lihuo reported that they had found the Aries Star Palace near Island Province, and Gu Jinlai decided to go there for its final trial.
• Gu Jinlai asked Zhang Lihuo to receive Jiang Yinlong if he arrived before Gu Jinlai returned, then flew toward Island Province in the Chengying mech.
• After searching for a day, Gu Jinlai found the Heavenly Dragon Wood and the Aries Star Palace on a large island.
• Ziyang agreed to activate the Aries Star Palace for Gu Jinlai, who confirmed that he would challenge the Hidden Dragon Trial.

Gu Jinlai passed the Aries Star Lord’s trial of withstanding spiritual impacts and qualified to receive the complete inheritance. Ziyang prepared to take him through a Star Gate to the inheritance site, while Gu Jinlai left his Qiankun Ring behind and learned that hundreds of Demonic Spirits were nearby.

• Ziyang subjected Gu Jinlai to increasingly intense spiritual impacts, and Gu Jinlai endured them until his crystallized True Spirit began to crack.
• Ziyang stopped the trial, gave Gu Jinlai Pure Heart Jade Dew to heal him, and confirmed that he had passed and qualified for the Aries Star Lord’s complete inheritance.
• At Ziyang’s request, Gu Jinlai removed his Qiankun Ring, which contained the Chengying Battle Armor and Divine Mountain Sword, and Ziyang secured it in a treasure chest.
• Ziyang used Aries Star Palace’s control room to locate a Demon Realm rift that would open in three days and revealed that its detection system had found 283 Demonic Spirits and 26 Celestial Masters within ten thousand li.
• The Heavenly Dragon Wood celebrated Gu Jinlai’s success, and Ziyang sent it the rift’s location so they could travel through the Star Gate to the inheritance site.

Gu Jinlai entered the Aries Star Lord’s inheritance site through the Star Gate, but realized the so-called inheritance was meant to provide the lost Star Lord with a beacon back to reality. The chapter left him confronting the projected woman after she sent him into the True Spirit World.

• Ziyang explained that Land True Immortals wield the Dao, and Mu demonstrated its Thunderstorm ability by destroying the Demonic Beasts on an island.
• Ziyang opened the Star Gate at a forming Demon Realm rift and urged Gu Jinlai to enter the Aries Star Lord’s inheritance site.
• Gu Jinlai arrived in a vast valley of overgrown ruins and saw a tower projecting an energy barrier across the area.
• A projected middle-aged woman called Gu Jinlai another inheritor and sent him into the True Spirit World.
• Gu Jinlai deduced that the site sought a beacon to help the lost Aries Star Lord return to reality.

Gu Jinlai discovered that the Aries Star Palace’s inheritance was designed to find anchors for the lost Aries Star Lord, and that the trials and its thousand-year reputation had concealed this purpose. As Yuxin restored the Star Lord’s memories and he began to awaken, Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit cracked under the force of the Star Lord’s return.

• Gu Jinlai broke free of the altar’s soul-binding effect briefly, but Yuxin powered it up again and explained that he was meant to serve as an anchor for the Aries Star Lord.
• Gu Jinlai realized that the Aries Star Palace had used its inheritance trials to select anchors and that Ziyang had likely intended to keep him from revealing the truth.
• Yuxin summoned the Aries Star Lord, whose immense Spirit World form was drawn toward Gu Jinlai’s spiritual light and began to receive starlight that battered his True Spirit.
• Yuxin showed the Aries Star Lord spiritual memories of his life, and Gu Jinlai tried to study them for a way to escape.
• The Aries Star Lord remembered that he was the foremost of the Twelve Sacred Domain Seats, while Yuxin identified herself as Bai Ze Palace’s twelfth-generation palace master; the Star Lord’s spiritual impact cracked Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit.

Gu Jinlai resisted the White Ram Star Lord’s attempt to overwrite his True Spirit and searched the Star Lord’s memories for a way to escape. After destroying a Spirit-Guide Jade, he entered an unstable astral gate, though the Star Lord planted spiritual power in his True Spirit and vowed to keep tracking him.

• The White Ram Star Lord began transforming Gu Jinlai into his incarnation by flooding his True Spirit with his consciousness.
• Gu Jinlai repeatedly raised Void Walls to resist the Star Lord while using Perception and clear radiance to search his memories for a weakness.
• Gu Jinlai learned that Spirit-Guide Jades directed the astral gate and that the Immortality Altar’s connection depended on one.
• Gu Jinlai used Burning Heart Like Fire and Eternal Heavenly Curse to break free, then struck a weakened spot in the altar and destroyed its Spirit-Guide Jade.
• Gu Jinlai rushed through the unstable astral gate as the White Ram Star Lord planted spiritual power in his True Spirit and declared that he would always be able to perceive him.

Gu Jinlai escaped into the Demon Realm to avoid the White Ram Star Lord, then discovered that an Endless Spiritual Seed was guiding the Star Lord to him. He used Demonic Spirits to consume the seed and left the Demon Realm with his True Spirit strengthened, though only twenty-two streaks of clear light remained.

• Gu Jinlai emerged from a Demon Realm rift and realized the White Ram Star Lord was tracking him through a spiritual seed.
• Gu Jinlai entered the Demon Realm to hinder the Star Lord's descent and learned the seed could survive nearly any attempt to destroy it.
• Gu Jinlai deduced that Demonic Spirits could devour the seed's spirituality and lowered his True Spirit's defenses to draw them in.
• Gu Jinlai endured repeated attacks from Demonic Spirits and used clear light to keep his True Spirit intact as they stripped away the seed.
• A Spirit Venerable consumed the last of the Endless Spiritual Seed, leaving Gu Jinlai's True Spirit more stable but his clear light nearly exhausted.
• Gu Jinlai left through the rift while the satiated Demonic Spirits watched him warily.

Gu Jinlai escaped True Person Baiyang’s trap and gained his memories, including the Celestial Master inheritance and forbidden crafting methods. As he considered how to use that knowledge, he learned how the Creators’ struggle for control of the spirit realm had destroyed their civilization.

• Gu Jinlai sensed True Person Baiyang’s danger recede and realized that Baiyang had failed to capture him, while leaving him access to nearly all of Baiyang’s memories and secrets.
• Gu Jinlai decided to avoid using his True Spirit for three to five years, gather enough Clear Light, and try to become a Creator before Baiyang lost himself in the spirit realm.
• Gu Jinlai learned from Baiyang’s memories that Creators refined Void Beasts with spirit-realm lifeforms and had originally forged Divine Weapons as anchors to keep themselves connected to the real world.
• Gu Jinlai discovered that the Creators had spread Divine Weapons to control cultivators and restrict their paths after the Immortal Kingdom found a route beyond True Immortals.
• Gu Jinlai recalled that the first Devil Master’s birth prompted Creators to seek a path beyond Creatorhood, but their competing claims to the spirit realm sparked a civil war.
• The Creators’ civil war shattered the spirit realm’s balance, and a spiritual tide swept away the Creators, bringing the Celestial Master civilization to ruin.

Gu Jinlai recovered memories of the Spirit World Tide and discovered Blue Star’s projection in the sky before emerging in a wilderness filled with Demonic Beasts. After rescuing a caravan, he learned that he had arrived in a human refuge known as the Holy Land.

• Gu Jinlai learned from the Aries Star Lord’s memories that the Spirit World Tide had swept away the Creator Gods and helped bury the Celestial Master civilization.
• Gu Jinlai saw Blue Star projected above him and recognized its continents and cities, including places from his former life.
• Gu Jinlai traveled through the wilderness, avoiding Demonic Beasts until he encountered a human caravan fighting a larger group of them.
• Gu Jinlai killed or drove off the Demonic Beasts and saved the caravan, then asked its members about their location and its rulers.
• Zhao Yang told Gu Jinlai that the area was the Holy Land, the only free land where human civilization still held hope.

Gu Jinlai learned from Zhao Yang that the Holy Land united humanity under the Human Sacred Dynasty and protected billions of people in its great cities. Zhao Yang invited Gu Jinlai to settle in Wind and Rain City, and Gu Jinlai agreed to look around before deciding.

• Zhao Yang explained that people in the Holy Land welcomed refugees from beyond its borders and urged humanity to unite against Demonic Beasts.
• Zhao Yang said the six great grotto-heavens had founded the Human Sacred Dynasty, which governed forty-nine great cities and protected four billion people.
• Zhao Yang explained that the Holy Land relied on Demon God martial artists, whose system could advance to Martial Saints and might eventually reach the Human Immortal realm.
• Zhao Yang invited Gu Jinlai to settle in Wind and Rain City and offered him a residence if he joined the Yellow Dragon Household as an Attendant.
• Gu Jinlai accepted Zhao Yang's invitation to visit Wind and Rain City before making a decision.

Gu Jinlai reached the City of Wind and Rain and learned about its immense population, military strength, strained resources, and the Sacred Dynasty’s martial system. After entering the city, he faced registration and assignment to the Heavenly Martial Camp, where he would be expected to fight demonic beasts.

• Zhao Yang explained that the City of Wind and Rain’s population exceeded one hundred million, with most residents living in its unfortified outer city, where demonic beasts sometimes attacked.
• As the caravan approached the city, Zhao Yang described the Sacred Dynasty’s policies of public safety, free martial education, and medical support, while Gu Jinlai observed the hardship and hope among local residents.
• At the city walls, Zhao Yang told Gu Jinlai about the fortress’s defenses and forces, then explained that scarce resources limited the number of people able to become Demon God martial artists.
• Zhao Yang said Gu Jinlai had to register as an outsider martial artist and would be assigned to the Heavenly Martial Camp to fight demonic beasts.
• Gu Jinlai entered the City of Wind and Rain with the caravan after observing the high admission fees and taxes.

Gu Jinlai registered in Wind and Rain City, where Martial Registry official Chen Xuan recognized his Primal True Demon Body and discovered that he had reached the Martial King realm. Chen Xuan arranged for him to study at the Martial Saint Academy, and Gu Jinlai then accepted Zhao Yang’s invitation to visit the Yellow Dragon Merchant Association and receive a residence.

• Zhao Yang guided Gu Jinlai through Wind and Rain City and explained its strict rules for martial artists and residents.
• At the Sacred Dynasty Martial Registry, Chen Xuan asked Gu Jinlai to attend annual observations of his cultivation, and Gu Jinlai agreed.
• Gu Jinlai revealed that his strength had reached the Martial King realm, prompting Chen Xuan to recommend him to the Martial Saint Academy.
• Vice president Yan Lie welcomed Gu Jinlai to the Martial Saint Academy, completed his enrollment, and told him about its upcoming Martial King gatherings.
• After leaving the academy, Gu Jinlai accepted Zhao Yang’s invitation to take an attendant position with the Yellow Dragon Merchant Association and asked to see the residence offered to him.

Gu Jinlai visited the Yellow Dragon Chamber of Commerce and learned how the Sacred Dynasty used Celestial Masters and Demon-Refining Divine Crystals to protect its cities. At the mall, he recognized Feng Yushu’s Blue Star-inspired style and tested whether she shared his origins, leaving her stunned by his question.

• Gu Jinlai and Zhao Yang walked through Wind and Rain City as news and public campaigns urged people to unite against Demonic Beasts and gather Celestial Masters at the imperial capital.
• Zhao Yang explained that Celestial Masters attracted Demonic Beasts and described the Demon-Refining Divine Crystals that defended cities, while Gu Jinlai noticed their limited range left parts of the outer city uncovered.
• Zhao Yang brought Gu Jinlai to the Yellow Dragon Mall, where Gu Jinlai asked to meet its designer rather than discuss the Feng Family’s offer.
• Feng Leiming welcomed Gu Jinlai and tried to recruit him while they waited for his niece, Feng Yushu.
• Feng Yushu arrived wearing a Blue Star-style outfit, and Gu Jinlai asked whether she had designed the mall.
• Gu Jinlai asked Feng Yushu, “Odd numbers remain unchanged?” and she answered, “The symbols look at the quadrants?”

Gu Jinlai discovered that Feng Yushu was actually Zhao Yushu, a fellow Blue Star native who had debated at Xiayu University before arriving in this world. After they reunited and discussed her difficult life, Gu Jinlai asked whether other Blue Star people had crossed over, and Zhao Yushu said she believed there were.

• Gu Jinlai used a coded phrase to test Feng Yushu, and she answered correctly, so they went to her private office to talk.
• Gu Jinlai and Feng Yushu exchanged their Blue Star identities and realized that Zhao Yushu had competed in a debate at Xiayu University while Gu Jinlai was a student there.
• Gu Jinlai recognized Zhao Yushu from the debate and teased her about crushing Xiayu University's team, prompting her to remember her life on Blue Star and become emotional.
• Zhao Yushu told Gu Jinlai that she had arrived in this world at twelve, suffered under her father and the Feng family, and had been there for three or four years.
• Zhao Yushu asked Gu Jinlai for help, and he recognized that she had initially been using their shared origins to seek his support; she apologized and said her happiness at meeting him was genuine.
• Gu Jinlai asked whether other Blue Star people had arrived in this world, and Zhao Yushu agreed that there were.

Gu Jinlai learned about the Feng Household’s power and agreed to help Zhao Yushu seize control and avenge her maid. After settling into Wind and Rain City, he planned to become a Martial Sage so he could eventually return to the southern reaches and face the Heavenly Dragon Tree.

• Zhao Yushu suggested that someone from Blue Star might advise the Sacred Emperor, and Gu Jinlai agreed they should watch for other people from their world.
• Zhao Yushu explained the Feng Household’s connections and limited roster of experts, then asked Gu Jinlai to help her take control and avenge Qingzhu.
• Gu Jinlai agreed to support Zhao Yushu and requested information on Shangguan Zhi and Wind and Rain City’s strongest experts.
• Zhao Yang brought Gu Jinlai to an upscale courtyard, where he learned he would receive special Attendant benefits and Zhao Qiao’s assistance.
• Gu Jinlai decided against seeking help from the Celestial Master Hall and resolved to return to the southern reaches within two years, after gaining the power to oppose the Heavenly Dragon Tree.
• Looking forward to visiting the Martial Sage Academy in three days, Gu Jinlai set himself the goal of becoming a Martial Sage.

Gu Jinlai studied Wind and Rain City's powerful figures and learned that several devices and ranking systems might point to other Blue Star people, including Chao Jiuyin and the World Tower's creator. At a Martial King exchange, he noticed a surrounded man whose Karma was black and dark red.

• Zhao Yushu showed Gu Jinlai a combat-power detector and explained how it supported martial training, then told him about Chao Jiuyin and the deceased Star Farewell as possible Blue Star people.
• Gu Jinlai and Zhao Yushu connected the World Tower's strength rankings and the Celestial Master Hall's devices to possible Blue Star creators, and Gu Jinlai planned to investigate the World Tower in Midnight City.
• Gu Jinlai reviewed Wind and Rain City's rulers and learned about its Saints, Martial Saints, and the Martial Saint path toward Human Immortality.
• After two days of studying the city's forces, Gu Jinlai attended a Martial King exchange at the Martial Saint Academy and spotted a man surrounded by four Martial Kings whose Karma appeared black and dark red.

Gu Jinlai attended a gathering of Martial Kings at the Martial Saint Academy, where he encountered several formidable figures and the Nation-Guarding Martial Saint Wu Tianya. The chapter left him horrified by the immense Karma surrounding Wu Tianya, which seemed to contain the tormented remnants of countless people.

• Jin Yuhai greeted Gu Jinlai, but Gu Jinlai ignored him after noticing the dark Karma surrounding him, prompting Ximen to criticize Gu Jinlai.
• Dong Yuji arrived, followed by the towering Pan Dali, whose vicious provocation toward Gu Jinlai was interrupted by Vice Palace Master Yan Lie.
• Yan Lie announced that Wu Tianya had returned and moved his lecture forward, causing Pan Dali and the other Martial Kings to settle down.
• Wu Tianya entered the courtyard, and Gu Jinlai felt the Martial Saint's will affect his heartbeat.
• Gu Jinlai saw black, flame-like Karma surrounding Wu Tianya and realized its scale surpassed even the Karma of Jin Yuhai and Pan Dali.