Chapter Summaries

Ding Zhongyuan told Gu Jinlai that Wind and Rain City's rulers were branding dissenters as out-of-control ones and Demonic Beast Cultists while preparing to flee the world, and he urged Gu Jinlai to join their cause. Gu Jinlai withheld judgment, then continued his purge before leaving for Haifeng City to arrest the Ouyang family's criminals.

• Ding Zhongyuan warned Gu Jinlai that the people who would eventually kill him were Zhao Hua, Wu Tianya, and other leaders, not the Demonic Beast Cultists.
• Ding Zhongyuan claimed many out-of-control ones had been persecuted for opposing the Sacred Dynasty's corrupt rulers, who planned to escape to Blue Star with their resources.
• Ding Zhongyuan gave Gu Jinlai documents alleging persecution and collusion with Demonic Beasts, along with a jade-like object he could activate to contact the cultists, then vanished.
• Gu Jinlai judged Ding Zhongyuan's Karma to be unusually low but remained cautious about accepting his claims without decisive evidence.
• Gu Jinlai found little clear light from his latest purges, instructed Qiao Muqi and the others, and left with Zhao Yushu for Haifeng City to arrest the Ouyang family's criminals.

Gu Jinlai flew to Haifeng City with Zhao Yushu, destroying Demonic Beast gathering grounds along the way, then completed a major trade with Qi Yunxiao and sought Thunder Magnet Essence Gold from the Cloud Sea Merchant Association. The association had enough stock to meet his request, but Gu Jinlai suspected the sudden demand for the material was connected to him.

• Gu Jinlai used the Primal Chaos Starlight Body to fly with Zhao Yushu and blasted groups of Demonic Beasts with powerful energy attacks along the way.
• Gu Jinlai and Zhao Yushu reached Haifeng City and met Qi Yunxiao and Qi Sheng at Manifest Saint Tower.
• Qi Sheng inspected Gu Jinlai's eight quasi-dao artifacts, and Qi Yunxiao paid forty gold-jade tokens worth four billion silver taels for them.
• Gu Jinlai went to the Cloud Sea Merchant Association and requested two hundred portions of Thunder Magnet Essence Gold.
• A Primordial Spirit True Lord told Gu Jinlai the association had two hundred and sixty portions available, and Gu Jinlai suspected the outer-ring demand was related to him.

Gu Jinlai bought 200 portions of thunder-magnet gold in Haifeng City and stayed there to cultivate rather than return to Stormwind City. After refining 138 portions, he brought the Chaotic Starlight Body to great mastery and began undergoing a profound transformation.

• Gu Jinlai accepted Cloudsea Commerce's price of eleven million per portion and purchased 200 portions of thunder-magnet gold from Yun Haoran.
• Yun Haoran recognized the gold jades as currency withdrawn from the Sacred Dynasty Bank and ordered the transaction kept secret.
• Gu Jinlai rented a secure courtyard at the Manifestation Tower and told Zhao Yushu that he still intended to arrest someone in Haifeng City.
• Gu Jinlai refined the thunder-magnet gold in the Eternal Furnace, and after the 138th portion his body began evolving and formed a wondrous connection with heaven and earth.
• The information sphere in Gu Jinlai's mental world changed the Chaotic Starlight Body from minor mastery to great mastery.

Gu Jinlai mastered the Chaos Starlight Body and discovered that its Child of the Stars trait let him merge with a star’s magnetic field, sense information, and eventually control stellar forces. After using purifying light to locate the Ouyang Household in Haifeng City, he ignored a warning to leave and attacked their courtyard.

• Gu Jinlai mastered the Chaos Starlight Body and gained the Child of the Stars trait, which let him deepen his connection to a star and control its magnetic field.
• Gu Jinlai used a wisp of purifying light to overclock his brain and find the Ouyang Household hiding at Courtyard 282, Street Three, in Haifeng City’s South District.
• Zhao Yushu waited outside Gu Jinlai’s cultivation chamber, and he told her to rest while he handled his affairs.
• A messenger delivered a note warning Gu Jinlai to leave Haifeng City, but he burned it and flew toward the inner city.
• Gu Jinlai identified himself to a Primordial Spirit True Lord and headed to the Ouyang Household’s courtyard, where he unleashed the Thunderlight Domain and struck with more than a dozen bolts of lightning.

Gu Jinlai killed the Ouyang family fugitives in Haifeng City and departed with their supplies, while the Sacred Dynasty Bank and Lei Yuan connected him to Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s inheritance. Lei Yuan decided to send the city guards to apprehend him, setting up a confrontation.

• Gu Jinlai killed the five Martial Kings, eight Martial Ancestors, and Primordial Spirit True Lord with thirteen Thunder Swords, then collected the Ouyang family’s supplies and left for the Manifestation Tower.
• The city guards’ Celestials questioned the Primordial Spirit True Lord about Gu Jinlai’s cross-border pursuit and reported the incident to Vice Army Lord Lei Yuan.
• Yun Haoran told Lei Yuan that Gu Jinlai’s group had sold Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s standard-issue Spirit Artifacts and suggested Gu Jinlai had concealed his true strength and role.
• Lei Yuan questioned the witnesses, learned that Gu Jinlai possessed more than a hundred pieces of gold jade, and ordered the city guards to apprehend him.

Gu Jinlai fled Haiswind City with Qi Yunxiao, Qi Sheng, and Zhao Yushu after learning that powerful figures were pursuing them over their gold-jade trade. When Lei Yuan caught up with them in the wilderness, Gu Jinlai stopped running and challenged the Martial Saint to a fight.

• Qi Yunxiao admitted that his trade with Gu Jinlai had drawn suspicion and urged him to leave Haiswind City, explaining that he and Qi Sheng had tested Gu Jinlai’s character.
• Gu Jinlai agreed to leave with Qi Yunxiao, Qi Sheng, and Zhao Yushu, and Qi Sheng used the Heaven-Muddling Pearl to conceal them as they fled.
• Gu Jinlai sensed Lei Yuan and his followers pursuing them, so he ordered Qi Sheng to speed up despite the traces they left behind.
• After the group traveled far from the city, Gu Jinlai stopped and told Qi Yunxiao, Qi Sheng, and Zhao Yushu to keep their distance while he faced the pursuers.
• Gu Jinlai rose into the air and challenged Lei Yuan, demanding that the Martial Saint use all his strength or die for his evil deeds.

Gu Jinlai used his Thunder Light domain and Sword of Thunder to kill Lei Yuan, a martial saint who had attacked him. He then turned on Lei Yuan’s fleeing followers and unleashed a rain of thunder swords upon them.

• Lei Yuan launched a surprise Thunder Dragon Flash at Gu Jinlai, but Gu Jinlai stopped it with his Thunder Light domain and sent the attack back at him.
• Lei Yuan charged through the clash of lightning, but Gu Jinlai slowed him with his domain and prepared the Sword of Thunder.
• Lei Yuan tried to flee, but Gu Jinlai’s Magneto-Divine Light trapped him, and the Sword of Thunder killed him.
• Lei Yuan’s followers panicked and fled toward Scarlet Wind City after seeing him die.
• Gu Jinlai pursued the fleeing heavenly men and martial kings and summoned thunder swords to strike them down.

Gu Jinlai defeated Lei Yuan and the other pursuers, then learned that Qi Sheng and Qi Yunxiao were remnants of the destroyed Liyang Grotto-Heaven seeking his help to attack a Demonic Beast territory. Qi Sheng revealed that the Sacred Dynasty had failed to protect their people and that more than ten million humans were imprisoned in the Chilian Territory.

• Gu Jinlai killed Lei Yuan and the pursuing Heavenly Beings and Martial Kings, rescuing Qi Sheng, Qi Yunxiao, and Zhao Yushu.
• Qi Sheng offered Gu Jinlai a supreme storage treasure as compensation, then asked him to help attack a Demonic Beast territory in exchange for Dao Artifacts, divine abilities, and immortal inheritances.
• Qi Sheng revealed that he and Qi Yunxiao belonged to the Liyang Grotto-Heaven, which Demonic Beasts had destroyed thirty-six years earlier.
• Qi Sheng explained that the Chilian Demonic Beast Emperor had captured nearly all the more than ten thousand refugees from Liyang Grotto-Heaven, leaving only a few survivors.
• Qi Sheng told Gu Jinlai that the Sacred Dynasty was no refuge for humanity and that over ten million people were imprisoned in the Chilian Territory.

After learning that Liuhuo City had abandoned Liyang Paradise’s people and helped send captives to the nearby Chilong Territory, Gu Jinlai promised to rescue them. He set out to attack the territory, confident his Eternal Furnace could overcome its vast demonic army.

• Qi Sheng and Qi Yunxiao told Gu Jinlai that Liuhuo City’s lord had tried to kill them for their treasures and that the Chilong Territory held more than ten million humans captive.
• Qi Yunxiao explained that Liuhuo City concealed disappearances to preserve stability, leaving Zhao Yushu shaken about the corruption of city rulers.
• Gu Jinlai reassured Zhao Yushu that he would enforce the law in Fengyu City and promised to take responsibility for rescuing the people of Liyang Paradise.
• Gu Jinlai decided to leave for Liuhuo City immediately and told Qi Sheng to prepare for an attack on the Chilong Territory.
• Qi Sheng agreed to gather the remaining survivors, while Gu Jinlai trusted the Eternal Furnace to sustain him against hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts.

Heavenly Sovereign seized control of the True Immortal Hall and set out to unify Qian Heaven in honor of Wushi. On Blue Star, the Tianqi project achieved a major transmission breakthrough, and President Edward approved preparations to build the Star Spirit Platform.

• Heavenly Sovereign killed Storm, took over the True Immortal Hall, and ordered its leaders to restore order in Orange Province and Qing Province within a month.
• Heavenly Sovereign planned to unite Qian Heaven himself, beginning with Orange Province and Qing Province and then recovering Sun Province to fulfill Wushi's wish.
• The Tianqi project team reported that ninety-two of four hundred trainees had successfully transmitted, raising the success rate to twenty-three percent.
• Harriman and Lawrence told Edward that their evidence suggested the other world was feudal and that its cultivators could be assessed through further transmissions.
• Robert asked whether construction of the Star Spirit Platform could begin, and Edward approved launching the project despite lingering uncertainty about its risks.

Gu Jinlai met the survivors of Liyang Paradise near Flowing Fire City and learned that Chi Dragon Territory held millions of humans captive. He proposed destroying the territory alone and left the group to prepare for the operation, with Qi Yunxiao backing his claim that his weapons could defeat the Demonic Beasts.

• Gu Jinlai inspected the spoils from Hai Wind City and discussed why Martial Saints had little use for quasi-Dao Artifacts.
• Qi Sheng led Gu Jinlai and his companions to a courtyard near Flowing Fire City, where Liu Feiyun and other Liyang Paradise survivors thanked him for his help.
• Liu Feiyun explained that Chi Dragon Territory lay south of the city, held millions of humans, and was being watched by 104 people seeking to rescue their relatives.
• Gu Jinlai declared that he would level Chi Dragon Territory and kill its Demonic Beasts alone, while asking the survivors to organize a safe reception for the captives.
• After Liu Feiyun doubted that one Martial Saint could defeat four Demon Emperors and a vast army, Gu Jinlai asked Qi Yunxiao whether several thousand small-yield hydrogen bombs could destroy the territory.
• Qi Yunxiao affirmed that the weapons could do it, and Gu Jinlai urged the group to set out.

As Gu Jinlai’s group advanced toward the Chi Dragon Territory to rescue its people, he refined a new divine ability to prepare for the Demon Emperors he expected to face. The chapter left him with an explosive-speed technique formed by combining the Lightning Domain, the Chaotic Starlight Body, and electromagnetic propulsion.

• Liu Feiyun questioned Qi Yunxiao about whether Gu Jinlai’s hydrogen-bomb-like attack could kill Demon Emperors, and Qi Yunxiao assured her it could.
• Zhao Yushu asked Gu Jinlai how he had created the energy attack, and he said he could teach her once she reached the Core Forming realm.
• Gu Jinlai considered the Blue Light Society’s potential and decided to learn more about its situation before acting.
• Gu Jinlai reviewed his remaining clear light and chose to cultivate Heavenly Dragon Movement so he could escape powerful Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai combined Heavenly Dragon Movement with the Child of the Stars trait, then added the Lightning Domain and Electric Current Propulsion to create a divine ability built for explosive speed.

Gu Jinlai advanced his Thunderlight Transformation into a Dragon Art, gaining near-teleportation speed within the Thunderlight Domain. He entered the Chiron Territory to draw out its Demonic Beasts and began his assault by annihilating an outer Demon King with a fireball.

• Gu Jinlai used clear light to develop the Thunderlight Transformation into a Dragon Art, which let him move almost as fast as lightning anywhere in the Thunderlight Domain.
• Gu Jinlai and Liu Feiyun approached the Chiron Territory, and Gu Jinlai ordered her group to stay behind while he drew the Demonic Beasts' attention.
• Gu Jinlai charged into the territory, killing ranged and flying Demonic Beasts as he advanced and attracted the attention of an outer Demon King.
• Gu Jinlai hurled a fireball at the Demon King, and the resulting blast incinerated it and nearby Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai steadied himself after the shock wave and continued deeper into the territory, recording the Demon King's death with his Purger Token as proof for the Demon Slayer Hall.

Gu Jinlai advanced into Chiron Territory, repeatedly unleashing attacks powerful enough to astonish the humans following him. The four Demon Emperors debated whether to negotiate or exploit his invasion as a pretext for war, and one volunteered to lead the effort to exhaust and capture him.

• Liu Feiyun, Qi Yunxiao, and Zhuo Chunqiu witnessed the distant devastation from Gu Jinlai's attacks, while Qi Yunxiao argued that his power could rival Blue Star's strongest nations.
• Qi Yunxiao urged the group to catch up with Gu Jinlai, and Liu Feiyun considered making him a backer for the people of Liyang Grotto-Heaven.
• Gu Jinlai pressed toward Chiron Territory as waves of Demonic Beasts, including Demon Kings, surrounded him on the four Demon Emperors' orders.
• Six-Head suggested returning any humans the Demon Emperors had captured, but the Great Commander and the giant-ape-like Demon Emperor favored resisting Gu Jinlai and using the conflict to justify a larger war.
• The giant-ape-like Demon Emperor set out to gather forces, exhaust Gu Jinlai, and capture him alive.

Fang Yan warned Wu Tianya that Gu Jinlai might realize he was being used and flee Stormwind City, but Wu Tianya claimed the situation was under control. After learning that Gu Jinlai was suspected of killing a Martial Saint and might be tied to Liyang Grotto-Heaven, Stormwind City’s leaders decided to delay acting against him and investigate the grotto-heaven’s possible trump card.

• Fang Yan told Wu Tianya that Gu Jinlai might recognize he was being used to clear the outer city and leave with the seized resources.
• Wu Tianya said Gu Jinlai was delayed by a minor incident in Haifeng City and that the City Lord had sent people to resolve it.
• Zhao Hua summoned Wu Tianya, Cao Wudao, and Jin Fantian, then informed them that Haifeng City suspected Gu Jinlai was a cultivator from Liyang Grotto-Heaven and had killed Martial Saint Lei Yuan.
• Wu Tianya questioned whether Gu Jinlai had killed Lei Yuan himself or whether Haifeng City was using the accusation as an excuse to target him.
• Zhao Hua and the other leaders considered that Liyang Grotto-Heaven might possess a trump card capable of killing a Martial Saint.
• Stormwind City’s leaders agreed to keep observing Gu Jinlai and postpone their plans to deal with him while they investigated Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s inheritance and possible trump card.

Gu Jinlai battled the Demonic Beast army in Lichilong Territory, using apparent exhaustion to lure the Demon Emperors into range and kill two of them with charged nuclear-fusion attacks. The remaining Six-Headed Demon Emperor and rhinoceros Grand Commander fled after seeing Gu Jinlai strike down Flame Blade.

• Gu Jinlai realized a Demon Emperor was directing the Demonic Beast army to exhaust him, so he feigned weakness and a retreat to draw out the ape-like Demon Emperor.
• Gu Jinlai charged the ape-like Demon Emperor and killed it with an amplified nuclear-fusion blast, though the explosion injured him and left him looking nearly spent.
• The Six-Headed Demon Emperor persuaded the rhinoceros-like Grand Commander and Flame Blade Demon Emperor to attack Gu Jinlai together and capture him alive.
• Gu Jinlai pretended to swallow a pill, then used the Lightning Transformation Dragon Art to close on Flame Blade and kill it with another charged nuclear-fusion attack.
• The Six-Headed Demon Emperor and the rhinoceros Grand Commander turned and fled when Gu Jinlai asked whether they believed he was truly exhausted.

Gu Jinlai lured Chilong Ridge’s Demonic Beasts into exhausting themselves before revealing that his apparent weakness was a trap. He destroyed the rhino-human Demonic Emperor and pursued the six-headed Demonic Emperor, leaving Chilong Ridge’s remaining forces facing annihilation.

• Gu Jinlai blasted a path through the Demonic Beasts with a sweeping fusion-energy attack, convincing the Demonic Emperors that he could outrun them if they fled.
• The rhino-human Demonic Emperor ordered the Demonic Beasts to encircle Gu Jinlai, while the six-headed Demonic Emperor offered three million human subjects to spur the Demonic Kings into attacking.
• Gu Jinlai feigned exhaustion as the Demonic Beasts and Demonic Kings charged him, killing more than twenty Demonic Kings and tens of thousands of other beasts before retreating into a sinkhole behind a shield.
• The rhino-human Demonic Emperor rushed to finish Gu Jinlai, but Gu Jinlai swallowed a useless pill and instantly restored his strength, then killed the rhino-human and nearby Demonic Kings with a vastly intensified blast.
• The six-headed Demonic Emperor fled and threatened that Demonic Emperor Longqi would retaliate, but Gu Jinlai caught up and killed it with a lightning strike.

Liu Feiyun and the Liyang Grotto-Heaven experts crossed the burning ruins of Chilong Territory and confirmed that Gu Jinlai had slain all four Demon Emperors. They joined Gu Jinlai in defeating the remaining Demonic Beasts and rescuing prisoners, then learned how many Liyang experts had died or lost their cultivation during six months of imprisonment.

• Liu Feiyun, Qi Sheng, Xi Bainian, Zhuo Chunqiu, and the others advanced through Chilong Territory’s burning ruins, killing the few Demonic Beasts that still attacked them.
• The experts speculated that Gu Jinlai’s overwhelming power might come from a divine weapon, while Zhuo Chunqiu reported that the All-Seeing Mirror could no longer detect any Demon Emperor and sensed almost no Demon Kings.
• Liu Feiyun announced that Gu Jinlai had killed all four Demon Emperors and urged the group to hurry onward and rescue the imprisoned humans.
• The newcomers reached a city where Gu Jinlai and the prisoners were fighting the remaining Demonic Beasts, then joined the battle until the monsters were swept away.
• The rescued prisoners thanked Gu Jinlai, who told them to clear the Demonic Beasts and maintain order.
• Liu Feiyun told Gu Jinlai that most Liyang Grotto-Heaven experts had perished or lost their cultivation during the invasion and six months of imprisonment.

Gu Jinlai and Liu Feiyun discussed how to manage the 10.4 million people rescued from Chiron Territory, whose cultivation had been weakened and whose society had been manipulated by the Demonic Beasts. Gu Jinlai decided to settle them in Wind-Rain City and insisted that its officials were legally obliged to protect them, leaving Liu Feiyun to cooperate with his plan.

• Liu Feiyun reported that the rescued population included nearly ten thousand Core Formers whose cultivation system had been deliberately weakened by the Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai considered letting the cultivators pursue the Heavenly Master path, but Liu Feiyun warned that doing so could provoke a devastating response from the Demonic Beasts.
• Liu Feiyun described how the Demonic Beasts had divided the humans into obedient subjects and resistance factions, while propaganda had convinced some people that the Demonic Beasts were their saviors.
• Gu Jinlai asked Liu Feiyun to support his decision, and she pledged Liyang Grotto-Heaven's full cooperation.
• Gu Jinlai ordered the 10.4 million people to be taken to Wind-Rain City, declaring that Zhao Hua and the city's officials had a duty under Sacred Dynasty law to protect them.

Gu Jinlai led Liyang Grotto-Heaven in integrating millions of people rescued from the Chilong Territory, while Liu Feiyun and the others reconsidered their old ruling order. After they offered him Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s inheritances and invited him to become Supreme Elder, Gu Jinlai accepted on the condition that the sect uphold his principles.

• Gu Jinlai helped integrate more than ten million people and punished humans who had sided with demonic beasts.
• Liu Feiyun and the others recognized that demonic beasts prevented humans from slaughtering one another, while their own privileged system had alienated ordinary people.
• The migrants crossed out of the Chilong Territory after ten days without suffering a large-scale demonic attack.
• Liu Feiyun gave Gu Jinlai Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s inheritances and invited him to become its Supreme Elder.
• Liu Feiyun and Zhuo Chunqiu agreed that human disunity and unjust order had contributed to the Sacred Domain’s defeat.
• Gu Jinlai accepted the position after warning that he would show no mercy to sect members who oppressed ordinary people.