Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai studied Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s cultivation inheritances and brought a group ahead to Wind and Rain City to prepare for millions of refugees. He refused to report to Chief Steward Luo Bing before finishing his purge and set his sights on the Mountain Range Heavenly Works Pavilion.

• Gu Jinlai examined Liyang Grotto-Heaven’s divine abilities and Dao artifacts, deciding to focus on perfecting the Chaos Starlight Body before cultivating great divine abilities.
• Gu Jinlai sent Zhao Yushu, Qi Yunxiao, Zhuo Chunqiu, and thirty Martial Ancestor-level experts ahead to Wind and Rain City to arrange for the refugees’ arrival.
• Gu Jinlai told Qiao Muqi that he would not report to Chief Steward Luo Bing, since the outer-city purge remained unfinished and Luo Bing had no authority over him.
• Gu Jinlai abandoned his plan to summon the district lords and ordered his people to continue the thunderous operation by heading to the Mountain Range Heavenly Works Pavilion.

Gu Jinlai targeted Mountain River Heavenly Works Tower, using lightning to execute its Tower Lord and dozens of people despite the Yue Family’s backing. After Martial Saint Yue Qunshan turned back instead of intervening, Gu Jinlai ordered a search of the tower and moved on to the Mu Family’s Peaceful People's Medicine Hall.

• Gu Jinlai told Qiao Muqi that Mountain River Heavenly Works Tower was their next target and ordered him to keep the operation secret.
• Yue Qiuming dismissed warnings that Gu Jinlai would attack, but Gu Jinlai surrounded the tower and announced Yue Qiuming’s arrest.
• When Yue Qiuming tried to cooperate, Gu Jinlai killed him with a thunder sword and executed dozens of red-named Yue Family members and guests with his Domain of Lightning.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Qiao Muqi to search and seize Mountain River Heavenly Works Tower, while Martial Saint Yue Qunshan turned back without intervening.
• Gu Jinlai split the force and led the rest toward the Mu Family’s Peaceful People's Medicine Hall.

Gu Jinlai raided the Great Earth Carriage Firm despite orders from the City Lord Mansion and killed Cao Tiangang, the Cao Family heir, after learning the firm was implicated in major crimes. Luo Bing fled to report the killing, while Gu Jinlai ordered his forces to raid the firm.

• Gu Jinlai brought Qiao Muqi and his forces to the Great Earth Carriage Firm, an industry of the Cao Family, after attacking several other major powers.
• Cao Tiangang confronted Gu Jinlai and declared that the city lord would strip him of his position, while Cao Family experts joined him in resisting.
• Luo Bing arrived with the city lord’s command for Gu Jinlai to report to the City Lord Mansion, but Gu Jinlai refused to pause the raid.
• Gu Jinlai’s thunder swords killed the gathered Red Names, and he blasted Cao Tiangang into ashes despite Luo Bing’s warning.
• Luo Bing fled toward the City Lord Mansion, and Gu Jinlai ordered his forces to raid the Great Earth Carriage Firm.

Zhao Hua and the city’s Martial Saints learned that Gu Jinlai had killed Cao Tiangang and ordered a coalition to ambush him at the Demon-Slaying Hall. Gu Jinlai arrived at the hall to register his Demon-Slaying Envoy identity and claim contribution points, unaware that the city’s leaders were coming for him.

• Yue Qunshan and Mu Changsheng warned Zhao Hua that Gu Jinlai might be a powerful Martial Saint tied to Liyang Grotto-Heaven and might be trying to take control of Wind and Rain City.
• Luo Bing reported that Gu Jinlai had destroyed the Zong Clan Martial Arts Academy and killed Cao Tiangang while sweeping through the outer city’s factions.
• Zhao Hua summoned the leaders of the city’s major powers and ordered an ambush on Gu Jinlai at the Demon-Slaying Hall.
• Zong Yan arrived and learned that Gu Jinlai had entered the inner city, prompting the group to head for the Demon-Slaying Hall.
• Gu Jinlai flew into the Demon-Slaying Hall and asked to register his kills and exchange them for contribution points.
• A top Celestial dismissed Gu Jinlai’s request to see Palace Master Jin and assigned Jin Haifeng to help him record his kills.

Gu Jinlai submitted footage of his battle against tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts, and the Celestia Scope revealed his overwhelming power to the Demon-Slaying Hall. The chapter ended with Wind-Rain City's leaders witnessing the footage and realizing Gu Jinlai could defeat even top-tier demon emperors.

• Jin Haifeng brought Gu Jinlai to the Celestia Scope so it could analyze his video stone and calculate his contribution value.
• The Celestia Scope projected Gu Jinlai fighting hordes of Demonic Beasts and blasting demon emperors to ashes, stunning Jin Haifeng and the Demon-Slaying Hall staff.
• Jin Fantian arrived intending to confront Gu Jinlai, but the footage made him recognize Gu Jinlai's strength and change his approach.
• Zhao Hua, Cao Wudao, Wu Tianya, Yue Qunshan, Mu Changsheng, and Zong Yan arrived and watched Gu Jinlai annihilate a top-tier demon emperor with devastating energy.
• The projection ended as Gu Jinlai's lightning struck and pulverized the fourth demon emperor, leaving the gathered leaders shocked.

Gu Jinlai received an enormous Demon-Slaying Hall bounty for slaughtering four Demon Emperors and exchanged it for the status of a Titular Demon-Slaying Envoy. When Zong Yan accused him of provoking a beast retaliation, Gu Jinlai denounced him as a traitor and attacked, leaving Zhao Hua and the others to intervene.

• The sky-gazing instrument awarded Gu Jinlai sixty-two billion nine hundred and fifty million two hundred and forty thousand contribution points for his kills.
• Zhao Hua, Cao Wudao, and Wu Tianya approached Gu Jinlai but avoided challenging him, and Zhao Hua claimed they had come to witness his achievement.
• Gu Jinlai exchanged his contribution points for three thousand shares of thunder-magnetite gold and advanced directly to Titular Demon-Slaying Envoy.
• Zong Yan warned that Gu Jinlai had broken the tacit understanding with the Demonic Beasts and could bring attacks upon nearby cities, while Zhao Hua backed his concern.
• Gu Jinlai rejected the unwritten rules, accused Zong Yan of colluding with Demonic Beasts, and unleashed his thunder-light domain as Zhao Hua tried to stop him.
• Gu Jinlai formed the Thunder Sword and pointed it at Zong Yan, declaring that the law demanded his execution.

Gu Jinlai shattered Zhao Hua’s attempt to restrain his power with the Void-Anchor Pearl, then killed Zong Yan and forced the assembled Saints to accept his judgment. After Gu Jinlai left with Jin Fantian, Zhao Hua and the others discussed the threat of Demon Emperor Dragoncry and considered using Wind and Rain City’s protective formation against him.

• Gu Jinlai’s Eternal Furnace broke through the Void-Anchor Pearl’s spatial seal, and he stopped its power from devastating Wind and Rain City after Zhao Hua begged him to spare the city’s people.
• Gu Jinlai killed Zong Yan with his lightning sword, while Zhao Hua used the Void-Anchor Pearl to release the remaining energy into the sky.
• Gu Jinlai declared that Zong Yan had plotted against the Sacred Dynasty and demanded to know whether anyone objected; Cao Wudao, Jin Fantian, and Zhao Hua all agreed.
• Jin Fantian escorted Gu Jinlai to another palace as Zhao Hua, Wu Tianya, and Cao Wudao stayed behind and argued over why they had not attacked him together.
• Wu Tianya identified the destroyed Chi Dragon Territory as the domain of Demon Emperor Dragoncry and warned that a demonic tide might follow.
• Wu Tianya suggested that the city-protecting formation could give them a chance to seize Gu Jinlai’s inheritance, and Zhao Hua and Cao Wudao welcomed the idea.

Gu Jinlai used his victory over Zong Yan to press ahead with purging Wind-Rain City, while seeking authority and resources to prepare for the expected demon tide. After executing nine Fang Family members backed by evidence, he left for the Mu Family estate.

• Jin Fantian told Gu Jinlai that the Demon-Slaying Hall would deliver three thousand portions of Thunder Magnetic Origin Gold within several days and agreed to relay his request for a higher rank to Zhao Hua.
• Gu Jinlai returned to the outer city, learned that his followers had seized 1.6 billion in resources from Great Earth Carriage House, and ordered the purge to continue.
• As faction leaders fled into the inner city, Gu Jinlai went to the Fang Family estate and demanded the people on his list of proven criminals.
• Fang Yan handed over nine Fang Family members, including his daughter Fang Qingge, and Gu Jinlai killed them with lightning.
• Gu Jinlai declined to accuse Fang Yan without evidence and headed to the Mu Family estate, where other wanted disciples had taken refuge.

Gu Jinlai consolidated his control over Stormwind City's outer district after conquering the Chiron Territory, while the city raised its protective formation amid signs of Demonic Beast activity. Ding Zhongyuan visited Gu Jinlai and invited him to join the Immortal Nation, leaving Gu Jinlai to consider the faction's appeal.

• Cao Wudao announced that Stormwind City's protective formation would enter preactivation because Demonic Beasts had gathered in Dragoncry Valley, and Gu Jinlai left for the General District Lord's Estate.
• Stormwind City appointed Gu Jinlai as its fourth vice city lord and put him in charge of the outer district after his forces swept it and prepared to receive ten million refugees.
• Gu Jinlai assessed the pure light he had collected and decided he could not risk attacking the inner district while Zhao Hua was on guard and the Dragoncry Demon Emperor remained a threat.
• Ding Zhongyuan appeared in Gu Jinlai's office and praised his actions in the Chiron Territory and Stormwind City.
• Ding Zhongyuan identified himself as representing the Immortal Nation and invited Gu Jinlai to join its effort to overthrow the corrupt Sacred Dynasty and restore humanity.

Ding Zhongyuan explained that the Demonic Beasts had focused on the Immortal Kingdom, where the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss threatened to let Devil Master Cangming descend, while the Sacred Dynasty’s leaders refused to seize an opening to counterattack. He invited Gu Jinlai to join the Immortal Kingdom’s decisive battle, but Gu Jinlai declined.

• Gu Jinlai questioned Ding Zhongyuan about abandoning the Sacred Dynasty, and Ding explained that the Demonic Beasts’ main target was the Immortal Kingdom.
• Ding Zhongyuan revealed that the Immortal Kingdom had an Immortal Lord but lacked Creators, leaving it vulnerable to Demonic Spirits and the expanding Blood Marsh Demon Abyss.
• Ding Zhongyuan said the Demonic Beasts had moved most of their Demon Gods away from the Sacred Dynasty to defend the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss, but the Sacred Dynasty’s leaders would not counterattack.
• Ding Zhongyuan invited Gu Jinlai and other cultivators above the Heavenly Human realm to join the Immortal Kingdom’s battle for the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss.
• Gu Jinlai declined Ding Zhongyuan’s invitation, saying he was unsure he could make a difference as a Martial Saint.

Gu Jinlai refused Ding Zhongyuan’s invitation to join the Immortal Kingdom, choosing instead to unite the Sacred Dynasty against the Demonic Beasts. After learning how the Immortal Kingdom planned to use the spiritual nexus to nurture a Heavenly Dao, Gu Jinlai realized that collecting it could also damage the Spirit World and threaten the Heavenly Master Lineage.

• Gu Jinlai told Ding Zhongyuan he would remain in the Sacred Dynasty and try to rally its strength against the Demonic Beasts before sending support to the Immortal Kingdom.
• Ding Zhongyuan guessed that Gu Jinlai had advanced from a Void Immortal to a Martial Saint and explained how cultivators could move between those paths.
• Ding Zhongyuan gave Gu Jinlai a booklet about gathering and using the spiritual nexus, which he said could strengthen battles and eventually nurture a Heavenly Dao.
• Gu Jinlai accepted the booklet but declined to go with Ding Zhongyuan to the Immortal Kingdom, and the two promised they would fight side by side someday.
• After Ding Zhongyuan left, Gu Jinlai concluded that collecting spiritual nexus drew power from the Spirit World and could eventually cause it to collapse and endanger the Heavenly Master Lineage.

Gu Jinlai studied spiritual energy and used clear light to combine his insights, memories, and techniques into a new method for transforming into a life-form of the Spirit Realm. He named the still-incomplete technique Three Realms and realized he needed to master the Spiritual Energy Art to control spiritual energy.

• Gu Jinlai compared spiritual energy with aura, providence, and the Spirit Realm as he considered how population and location affected cultivation.
• He spent clear light to sharpen his inspiration and reviewed Baiyang Star Lord's memories of the Celestial Lord, Great Celestial Lord, and Creator paths.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that an innate divine beast could serve as the foundation for a miniature Spirit Realm, allowing him to transform safely and retain a way back.
• His techniques began forming a new, incomplete light sphere combining the Chaos Starlight Body, Creator inheritance, and Spiritual Energy Art.
• Gu Jinlai named the technique Three Realms and decided to raise the Spiritual Energy Art to minor mastery so he could control spiritual energy.

Gu Jinlai mastered the Spirit-Infusion Art enough to understand how his Chaotic Starlight Body could gather spiritual inspiration, confirming his path toward becoming a Creator. Meanwhile, as Xu Tianzun threatened the Great Qian Dynasty, Jiang Tianji chose to risk seclusion in pursuit of Sainthood and prepared for Jiang Chongshan to succeed him if he failed.

• Gu Jinlai spent thirty-six strands of clear light to master the Spirit-Infusion Art and realized the Child of the Stars trait could gather spiritual inspiration.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that cultivating the Primordial Divine Beast and Celestial Master paths together would lead him toward becoming a Creator.
• Wang Yizhi, Long Yuantu, and Zhao Riyue warned Jiang Tianji that Xu Tianzun had conquered Qing Province, Orange Province, and Ri Province, and urged him to unite powerful allies against the advancing army.
• Jiang Tianji asked Taiyuan whether the All-Beings' Disc could help him defeat Xu Tianzun, and Taiyuan estimated he would need to become a Saint to have a strong chance.
• Jiang Tianji announced that he would enter seclusion atop the Emperor Tower to pursue Sainthood, leaving Jiang Chongshan to oversee the state.
• Jiang Tianji ordered Zhou Ji to prepare an edict naming Jiang Chongshan as his successor if he failed and summoning the King of the Southern Heavens to serve as Grand Preceptor and Grand General Pacifying the State.

Gu Jinlai perfected Lightning Domain and the Dragon-Transforming Lightning Art, then entered Windstorm City to collect the Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold. He discovered Zhao Hua’s plan to trap him had been thwarted, and the Sixth Princess, Duanmu Shan, offered him a position as her Guard Commander in exchange for his allegiance.

• Gu Jinlai perfected Lightning Domain and the Dragon-Transforming Lightning Art, improved Lihuo Divine Light, and invested his remaining Clear Light in the Chaotic Starlight Body.
• After the Demon-Slaying Token alerted him that his Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold had arrived, Gu Jinlai entered Windstorm City and headed for the Demon-Slaying Hall.
• Zhao Hua and Zhao Liang considered activating the city-protecting formation to kill Gu Jinlai, but discovered someone had taken control of it away from them.
• Jin Fantian welcomed Gu Jinlai at the Demon-Slaying Hall and introduced the Sixth Princess, Duanmu Shan, who had arranged the delivery of three thousand portions of Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold.
• Duanmu Shan invited Gu Jinlai to become her Guard Commander and promised to arrange support for the people from Liyang Grotto-Heaven and provide more Thunder-Magnetic Origin Gold.

Gu Jinlai took the three thousand portions of Thunder Magnetic Origin Gold Duanmu Shan had gathered and refused her demand that he become her Guard Commander. As Duanmu Shan warned that a demonic tide was coming, she activated Wind and Rain City's protective formation and brought Saints and Martial Saints against him.

• Duanmu Shan presented three thousand portions of Thunder Magnetic Origin Gold, and Gu Jinlai swept the chests into his storage ring.
• Gu Jinlai demanded another three thousand portions before agreeing to become Duanmu Shan's Guard Commander, then stalled her by citing his responsibilities in Wind and Rain City.
• Duanmu Shan threatened Gu Jinlai and urged him to pledge himself to her, warning that Demon Emperor Dragoncry had led a demonic tide toward the cities.
• Gu Jinlai rejected Duanmu Shan's blame for the demonic tide and said he would focus on protecting Wind and Rain City.
• Duanmu Shan activated the city's protective formation as Cao Wudao, Mu Changsheng, Yue Qunshan, Bai Di, Fang Yan, and other Saints and Martial Saints gathered to hold Gu Jinlai in place.

Duanmu Shan and Jin Fantian used the city-protecting grand array to trap Gu Jinlai and empower the gathered sages and martial sages. Gu Jinlai attacked before the array could overwhelm him, but the chapter ended as his enemies prepared to rush him under its protection.

• Jin Fantian gathered Cao Wudao, Fang Yan, Mu Changsheng, and seven martial sages at the Demon-Slaying Palace while Duanmu Shan activated the city-protecting grand array.
• Fang Yan demanded revenge for Fang Qingge, and Gu Jinlai defended killing her by recounting her crimes against ordinary people.
• Duanmu Shan asked whether Gu Jinlai regretted rejecting her invitation, but he drew Chengying Sword and urged everyone to attack before the people from Chi Dragon Ridge arrived.
• Gu Jinlai unleashed eleven thunder swords at the four sages and seven martial sages, but Gu Silian's golden bell shattered the weakened attacks as Duanmu Shan empowered her allies and suppressed Gu Jinlai's thunder domain.
• Cao Wudao attacked with his Vermilion Bird Flame Wings, and Gu Jinlai endured the strike and shattered its remaining power with a punch.
• The gathered sages and martial sages felt their strength rise under the array and prepared to attack Gu Jinlai together.

Gu Jinlai disrupted Wind and Rain City's city-protecting grand formation and unleashed the Eternal Furnace against the Demon-Slaying Hall. He annihilated the hall and its defenders, leaving the area in ruins.

• Gu Jinlai sensed the city-protecting grand formation's use of spiritual energy and tried to prevent Duanmushan from draining Wind and Rain City's reserves.
• Jin Fantian activated the Demon-Slaying Hall's Demon-Binding Grand Formation, while Duanmushan supplied it with power from the city-protecting formation to trap Gu Jinlai.
• Gu Jinlai dispersed the spiritual energy sustaining the Demon-Binding Grand Formation, broke its golden chains, and removed the formation's suppression on himself.
• Jin Fantian realized Zhao Hua was interfering with Duanmushan's control of the city-protecting grand formation, but Gu Jinlai struck before they could resolve the crisis.
• Gu Jinlai killed Jin Fantian with the Eternal Furnace's scorching energy, then repeatedly released its power to destroy the Demon-Slaying Hall and kill the Saints and Martial Saints inside.
• Gu Jinlai stopped the Eternal Furnace after the Demon-Slaying Hall had been leveled and the area around it had become purgatory.

Gu Jinlai fought Sixth Princess Duanmu Shan inside the Demon-Slaying Hall, stopping his attack on its formation to protect Wind-Rain City but then besieging her with lightning. Outside, Zhao Hua recruited Wu Tianya and prepared to seize control of the aftermath; Duanmu Shan called on Zhao Hua to attack Gu Jinlai, threatening to curse him through an imperial blood contract.

• Zhao Hua, Zhao Liang, and Wu Tianya watched the Demon-Slaying Hall's energy shake Wind-Rain City's protective formation, while Zhao Hua hoped his rivals would die in the conflict.
• Zhao Hua confronted Wu Tianya about his ties to Demonic Beasts and offered an alliance, showing him the Void-Sealing Pearl as he plotted against the Sixth Princess.
• Gu Jinlai stopped striking the Demon-Slaying Hall's formation to prevent damage to the city-protecting formation, then discovered Duanmu Shan was surviving inside a golden bell strengthened by a divine weapon and Gu Siliang's sacrifice.
• Duanmu Shan threatened Gu Jinlai and offered compensation, but he kept attacking her golden bell with his lightning domain.
• Duanmu Shan called out to Zhao Hua, urging him to kill Gu Jinlai and warning that her imperial blood-contract curse would target him too.

Zhao Hua rejected Duanmu Shan’s demand that he die fighting Gu Jinlai and defected to the demons, while Gu Jinlai destroyed Duanmu Shan’s divine weapon and killed her. Her blood contract curse triggered Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, drawing the attention of the Aries Star Lord before Gu Jinlai sealed it again.

• Wu Tianya persuaded Zhao Hua to defect to the demons by offering protection and a chance to remain a city lord.
• Duanmu Shan threatened Zhao Hua, but he denounced her, reinforced the Slaying Demons Hall’s formation, and ordered his people to flee Wind-Rain City.
• Gu Jinlai used Lihuo Divine Radiance to melt Duanmu Shan’s golden bell despite her pleas for mercy.
• Duanmu Shan exploded into blood mist and placed a blood contract curse on Gu Jinlai, but his True Spirit’s light destroyed the curse.
• The Aries Star Lord noticed Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit and began seeking to descend, so Gu Jinlai sealed his True Spirit and suppressed its fluctuations.

Gu Jinlai prepared to confront the Aries Star Lord in the Demon Realm and rejected a divine weapon that conflicted with his cultivation path. As the demonic tide approached Wind and Rain City, he seized control of the city and ordered it sealed for three days.

• Gu Jinlai entered the Son of the Stars state and planned to use a powerful Void Beast in the Demon Realm to counter the Aries Star Lord.
• Gu Jinlai examined the damaged Golden Bell Dao Artifact and diamond-shaped divine weapon, but rejected the weapon because it conflicted with his Primal Chaos Starlight Body.
• Gu Jinlai used the stars to uncover Zhao Hua and Wu Tianya's dealings, then concluded that Zhao Hua, Duanmu Shan, and Wu Tianya deserved to die.
• Gu Jinlai told Wind and Rain City's guards that Zhao Hua and Wu Tianya had fled and that the Sixth Princess had died after being attacked by city officials.
• When Liang Liang objected to Gu Jinlai taking over as city lord, Gu Jinlai killed him and ordered the city-protecting formation maintained while Wind and Rain City was sealed for three days.